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Ditto. Hint time?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We don't normally hint the CCC - the idea is that the clue is the hint - but what the heck - I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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I like to drop a hint if people are really struggling.
Either an alternative clue for the same answer or just a general push towards how the clue is broken between definition/wordplay. Nothing to give it away but enough to reduce the chances of having the same person setting it for days on end.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: enough to reduce the chances of having the same person setting it for days on end
That's why I added the "three day rollback" to the original rules.
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I think the two can work perfectly well together.
A hint here might have been something like "the state is not in America" - not a giveaway by any stretch but one that would have got me (and I dare say,one or two others) away from being stuck with the idea that it was going to start with a two letter U.S. state abbreviation.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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 there are rules?? Any link?
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BTW ... it's four hours, not three. Posting late doesn't shorten the time, just move the end time.
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75 minutes 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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75 "still no idea"s! 
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What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idea.
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Still no idea.
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What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a swimming pool?
Bob.
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He's not a man - he's a buoy.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Encrypted?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Nope
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On word 'YUCK!', I seem to remember a Mythbuster episode where they do something akin to that...
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Some research has suggested that creating ownership can lead to increased responsibility and to people doing the right thing. This might include team ownership of different aspects of the work environment such as schedules for cleaning the kitchen.
And weho decides what is the "right thing"? Can each employee able to decide or is it an arbitrary mandate?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Randal nails it again: xkcd: Voting Software[^] - wear gloves! 
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He definitely nailed it !
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How to write voting software in 9 easy steps!
1. Create a new WinForms application.
2. Drag two buttons on the form.
3. In the click events type counterX += 1; and counterY += 1;
4. Call it an early access version, but also never work on it again.
5. It takes like five minutes, but because it's a government job bill them €1.200.000,-
6. They'll keep on using paper voting forms because "it's safer".
7. A newspaper writes a story about it and people speak shame of it.
8. Everybody gets ignored.
9. Repeat in approx. five years.
Bam! Voting software
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But ... but ... you haven't copy'n'pasted any code from SO, or asked for CODEZ PLZ!!!! in QA
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You think they can bill the government for 1.2 M EUR?
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There is no profit in crashing a plane, or an elevator; there's no financial incentive that makes an elevator-designer go "lets add a backdoor here".
Then take a look at software; most people will have seen ads in their browser for some malware that claims to protect you from virusses.
It is not because we are bad at what we do; but a small change is hardly noticeable, and there's a lot of money involved.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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