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Two wrongs make a wrongwrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Two wrongs make a wrongwrong.
I'm not sure about that but I do know that two Wright's made an airplane. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, to be honest, I'd believe Trump slapped someone for disagreeing with him as well.
What's more sad, the fact that this is fake news or the fact that so many people believe a world leader would do such a thing?
Honestly though, a president slapping someone seems ridiculous, even for Trump, but it's very hard to tell real news from fake news sometimes.
It's dangerous though, it can (, has and will) spark fear and hate among people who believe such "news".
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The New Year attacks in Cologne were suppressed for weeks across British (and I believe German) media. Apparently the German Government has been working with Facebook to remove "fake news" posts and many of the people posting about these attacks had their posts taken down by Facebook.. so under the guise of "protecting the public from fake news" real serious news was suppressed.
I think it was one of the alt-right news sites in the UK that eventually broke the story. They were ignored, then vilified as "purveyors of fake news" but when the enormity of the story finally broke through, they started putting up their own massaged versions..
Scary times indeed, it's almost impossible to know who to trust (safest to trust none of them).
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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These [^] new year attacks?
Who to trust, eh?
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No, I was talking about the ones in Cologne^ (like I wrote!)..
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Oops - my bad - I'd seen a link earlier about Cologne-style attacks & read Cologne attacks - looks like it's my eyes/brain that can't be trusted.
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Fake eyes! 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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This is particularly interesting..
Quote: Criticism of late media reporting[edit]
Several media outlets at first did not cover the story and, according to Jörg Luyken, only started reporting on the incidents on 5 January, after a wave of anger on social media made covering them unavoidable.[49] This delay was criticised by several politicians, including Hans-Peter Friedrich.[203] The public television channel ZDF later acknowledged that they had failed to report on the incidents despite having sufficient knowledge to do so.[204][205]
ZDF later called the delay in reporting a "clear misjudgment", and said since then, it has been "over-whelmed with hate and anger".[187] This has reinforced discontent previously held by parts of the German public with news coverage relating to the European migrant crisis, as well as a readiness to support the idea of the "Lügenpresse" (literally lying press).[187][206]
The delay in reporting on the assaults in the media lead to accusations that the authorities and the media attempted to ignore or cover up the attacks to avoid criticism against the current asylum and migration policy of the government.[1][207][208] The BBC's Gavin Hewitt wrote, "What has fuelled the sense of crisis is the suspicion - now widely held - that the German establishment is not telling the truth."[187]
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Hmm,
I believe you should post that kind of stuff in the soapbox next time.
When they wake up on the other side of the pond it might get out of hand a bit.
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... couldn't resist[^] 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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'E' for "Edge" I suspect...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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or maybe "F" for "All of the above"
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Since when are all answers correct? Browsers. Put them all in a sack and then beat the sack with a club. You will always hit one that deserves it.
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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That's a bit unfair - Chrome and Firefox do the best they can with the source material. But the HTML / Jabascript "solution" is well past it's sell by date, methinks.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Indeed. I just can't bring up any enthusiasm for overrated things that fell short of their goal before having even reached the dumb masses. With luck we only have to endure a few more years of this before they all will start to look for the next one and only way that's sooooo easy and new and makes everything right.
The only problem is that they are persuing an untamed ornithoid without cause[^] and never learn that 'soooo easy' always has a price.
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 thing is, say for HTML, it's essentially a subset of XML. Is it XML, too, you think is past its freshness date?
If not - what do you really see in the HTML?
- Pre-compile it a bit to shrink it (not really a change)?
- Create yet another extensible markup language*
- Another language altogether - modeled as C-like or what?
- Rely totally on emoticons
Hmmm?
*Insanity is repeating the same thing and expecting different results - Clever Albert
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The last emo was as close as I could get to "I'll get my coat."
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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W∴ Balboos wrote: HTML, it's essentially a subset of XML
Technically, they're both subsets of SGML[^]. It's quite possible to have perfectly valid HTML that doesn't even come close to being valid XML.
XHTML[^] was a subset of XML, but we all know how well that worked out. 
That's why you can't use an XML parser to read HTML. You need tools that were designed for HTML, like AngleSharp[^] or the Html Agility Pack[^].
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: But the HTML / Jabascript "solution" is well past it's sell by date, methinks.
Oh nos, even the Hutts use Javascript!
No wonder they couldn't capture Han without help, he's strongly typed and throws a casting error 
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I have been tinkering for the last week trying to swap out the spinning disk in my laptop with a new SSD. After a couple of failed attempts at cloning with Acronis True Image, I got some great advice from members here in the lounge. Following that advice, I tried again, this time moving the new drive to the 0 main bay before cloning, and removing the spinner afterward. This time, something different happened...just a few seconds after powering on it just powered off...no beeps, just off. 
OK, maybe I've just got a bad SSD...good thing I bought 2! So I start all over and clone to the second new drive. After an hour, give it a go and...same thing...it just powers off with no indication that there is a problem.  I decide to get out a Win7 installation disk and see if I can launch a repair utility or something...Well, that's strange, I can't boot to the DVD...some kind of error that the software image couldn't be verified...hmmm, here's a hint!
I go back to the bios again and find a setting named 'Secure Boot'. Turn this off and the machine boots up no problems! (and much, much faster!!!) I'm still not sure why the Secure Boot function was triggered if the drive was cloned...unless it looks at the original disk size???
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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its interesting to read on the net what some of the features of Secure Boot are, but yes, you can live without it
well done
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Number one troubleshooting rule - always look for a simple solution first, then get complicated after that.
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