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I tend toward agreeing.
I don't want google to be part of my life, to be my (oh-so-fake-moronic-marketing-style) *friend*; I just want them to provide the goods and services they purport to provide.
They, on the other hand, seem to think that they should act as if they were part of my family, constantly sending me messages and talking to me in far-too familiar tones about what browser, etc, I should use, how nice they are about my privacy, and so on.
It's because they talk to me as if we were buddies that I use Yahoo search. They never pop up messages, or add them to the top of search results, and nor to they continually spam me with "Hey, Buddy!" e-mails; they just do their job.
So I never even see the doodles/Easter eggs that these oh-so-lovely "friends of mine" make, and e-mails from them are redirected to a look-in-here-when-you-feel-like-getting-p1ssed-off-with-marketing-morons directory (which I usually only check after logging in on new android devices).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Odd - I play the google games and visit the various celebratory creations they make.
Never get anything from them. I don't have a gmail account, or for that matter, no social network connections (except CP - is/isn't that pathetic?). I don't even like sending email to gmail accounts as they can still profile me via the TOS agreed to by those with such accounts.
Maybe helpful? I use firefox with an ad-blocker, flash-cookie killer, and Ghostery's blocking of all those other little nasties. I'll often open/click/follow CP Offers - gotta do my bit.
Maybe you need to up-your-counter measures-game ?
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I didn't play the games yet but my friend said it was fun games.
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11,590
Only the one try (i.e., "go") at it.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Goddammit, I had work to do today....
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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Just beaten it - 92,220.
Now I'm off to apply an ice-pack to my wrist.
"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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Time to get ready...[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm dressing up as Crystal Reports this year, I have yet to find a scarier costume
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And your friend will be VB6 calling for the Crystal Report? Spooky.
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Oh? How about the Internet of Things?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Unless those "things" are Crystal Reports
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Scarier? Can do ... this[^]
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Sander Rossel wrote: I have yet to find a scarier costume Win 8, The ghost of Win 9, Win 10? The undead Windows Phone?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The scariest part about Crystal Reports is that it's not a ghost nor undead, it's very much alive!
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Windows ME
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Mickeysoft was sometimes scary in the past, but at some point in the last ten years they finally went over the edge for good.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: but at some point in the last ten years
until windows 10
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You know nothing of CR until you try some RTL language...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Unfortunately true.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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How about a Crystal Reports Clown with VB6 ballons? (Not sure what it would look like, and I likely DON'T want to know!)
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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Oh, I think it's plenty scary.
If you'd like to up the scares though, how about Lotus Notes?
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Go as a team Bloatus and CR, now that is going to curl the toes of any self respecting developer over the age of 30.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I had to work with blotus goatse once. I ran away screaming and so fast I bet you Usian would have been second if it were a race. Then I ended up half the way across the world in a continent that calls itself an island.
Now here's box jelly fish, cone snails, blue ringed octopus, mammals that mainly move around by jumping!?!, spiders the size of a tennis ball, man eating crocodiles, sharks, 9000 types of venomous snakes and a craptillion poisonous insects and sh*t. But none of them as chilling as blotus goatse. Not one.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Now here's box jelly fish, cone snails, blue ringed octopus, mammals that mainly move around by jumping!?!, spiders the size of a tennis ball, man eating crocodiles, sharks, 9000 types of venomous snakes and a craptillion poisonous insects and sh*t. But none of them as chilling as blotus goatse. Not one. While I agree with you on Bloatus I grew up in Oz and I have trouble understanding new arrivals attitude towards our fauna.
box jelly fish - only in queensland and they have nets during the season
blue ringed octopus - I once saw one after spending 2 days hunting for them in rock pools
jumping mammals - bloody tasty beasties done in a red wine sauce
spiders - the other use for a thong (flip flop)
crocodiles - yet another use for a thong Google[^] - and poached in a white wine sauce is delicious
sharks - yah you got me there, nasty bastards.
snakes - used to catch then for pocked money when I was a nipper
insects - see spiders.
We don't have bears, tigers and other monstrous beasties that will eat you!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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