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My cousin has been a firefighter almost his whole grown life (soon going into pension).
Until this date without any bigger mishaps, but the knowledge that the next alarm can be the last will always remain in the mind.
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In many parts of the world bushfires have become ever more frequent and intense. We have them every Summer (and in Winter an inquiry) and last year a number of lives were lost. Firefighters work is becoming more dangerous as these fires get worse. Waroona Fires[^]
Glad that you have remained unaffected.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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More than 1,000 at prom for Wisconsin teen choosing to die[^]
She has such a horrible disease. That all these people turned up is... just.... amazing.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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there is good in the world - sometimes you have to look a little harder to find it
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A beautiful, touching story, a nice antidote to the funereal music of the darkling political circus now unfolding its second tent in my troubled native land half-way round the world from where I am now (and, culturally, half-way round some kind of universe).
thanks !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Restored faith in humanity?
We can't be having that!
So I'll add that 80% of them turned up, took a selfie, and then buggered off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I myself wondered just how many of them were there simply for the publicity.
I mean, the girl herself stated she didn't understand why they were looking up to her. It's a brave decision to make, for sure, but when most people denounce others who 'give up, and don't fight', it seems strange to see people and 'celebrities' turn up for something like this.
Call me pessimistic, but I'd wager most there were just opportunistic vermin...
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: That all these people turned up is... just.... amazing.
I agree, it is wonderful. But it is not amazing. Things like this happen very often. You just have to remember that there is more good than bad in this world.
 for raising the level of the Lounge with something worth reading.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I was searching to see if MS had fixed the Godawful mess they'd made of text boundaries in word 2016.
Text results gave me fold after fold of marketing garbage and wumaos, so I switched to images (it's a very, very visible eyesore, after all).
This[^] result was on the second fold.
I'll tell ya, these search engines just keep getting smarter and smarter.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I found that actually to be a great read!
The same eyes that once ignited with passion in casual conversation hollow into an abandoned motel kind of vacancy. The same things that once tasted sweet spilling from your rambling tongue become topics that have you searching for emergency exist before even entering the building.
That summarizes quite well my experience at a social event yesterday.
I asked this guy who I hadn't seen in a while "so, what have you been up to?" He took so long contemplating the question (there are some real deep thinkers in this Anthroposophical community here  ) that I said "never mind, if it's taking that long to come up with an answer, I don't want to hear it."
It felt good to say exactly what I was thinking.
Marc
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That site looks like a practice ground for wannabe romantic-novel writers.
Kind of like a poké-gym where you let your captives weep with each other.
Marc Clifton wrote: I said "never mind, if it's taking that long to come up with an answer, I don't want to hear it."
Hang on, I've got th perfect response to that... It's, um... Er, can I phone a friend?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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SET RANT ON
I have been searching for MONTHS on how to host SignalR in IIS. I don't want to know how to set up the server side component.. I want to HOST it in IIS. I spent 5 more hours today Googling and trying examples... Wasted day.
SignalR seems to be MS's new web hosting technology, and it's promising. It seems to be exactly what I'm looking for... but it means nothing if I can't host it.
Now there are LOTS of example of Self Hosting (Run in a console app on your DEV pc), and even fewer examples of hosting in a Win Service. Yet for the life of me I can't find a single example of HOW THE ELEPHANT DO YOU SET IT UP IN IIS!!!
This is the reason why I'm usually turned of about web programming.. There are way too many technologies to deal with. With Windows I can code, copy & paste the EXE, and VOILA!! It runs. I know it's not quite that simple, but you get the idea.
Isn't it time for the industry leaders (MS, Apple, etc) to make things EASIER instead of progressively harder? It's days like this that make me wanna hang up my keyboard and retire.
SET RANT OFF
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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While I am almost certain you have already perused this: [^], I'll mention it ... just in case.
Commiseration is ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Ya, I saw it.. Right before I saw this[^]
On that page there are the 3 methods I already mentioned.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I hate to say that the answer to this appears to be not only aggravatingly simple, but also on SO[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Listen, this is a perfect time, and example, of when to fork out the $$ and call Microsoft for help. If this means that much to you and your operation/project, complaining here, with no other action on your part, is not going to solve your problem...not that we don't like hearing about your issues. J/K.
Food for thought.
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Kevin Marois wrote: SignalR seems to be MS's new web hosting technology
Huh? I thought SignalR was simply a web socket technology that MS finally started to support so that a server could tell the client Javascript that something has changed.
And of course, the irony is, that web sockets in .NET aren't supported on Windows 7, so you have to go find someone that has implemented it if you want to use it in non-Javascript clients. I use this[^].
Kevin Marois wrote: I want to HOST it in IIS
Lord, why? I've found IIS to be an interesting experience. Different versions, different control panels. A straight forward setup on one machine totally fubars on another. etc.
I got annoyed enough with the constant changes to MS web tech (ASP.NET, Razor, EF, MVC, MVVM, whatever), that nowadays, I just use my own web server implementation. Of course, that doesn't usually fly in a corporate environment where the edict (and familiarity) is with MS tooling, but for my own stuff, I am happy to live in my alternate universe.
Marc
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Kevin Marois wrote: Yet for the life of me I can't find a single example of HOW THE ELEPHANT DO YOU SET IT UP IN IIS!!!
So you didn't get anywhere with the example[^] I linked to two weeks ago[^]?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hmm. Something about how destructive human beings are comes to mind.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: how destructive AWESOME! human beings are
Except that they're not 
But how is such a blast not awesome?
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Michael Bay would be proud
What's the music though? Shazam doesn't recognize it 
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Just awesome.[^]
Kudos to those construction workers!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"Jason Haney ... built an 8-foot tall Waldo from the famous "Where's Waldo?" books"
Well, I'm sure the people who wrote the books are very happy that this philistine shreds them to make papier mâché figures.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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