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Marc Clifton wrote: We speak of passion for software development, but where is the passion for doing something well? I don't mean perfect, but the code I so often encounter just screams "I clearly don't give a sh*t."
I find more of a "I clearly have no damned clue" often being screamed by some outside code.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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Phantom of the Opera - Sierra Boggess & Ramin Karimloo (Classic BRIT Awards 2012) - YouTube[^]
I discovered I truly love opera (only if it is powerful though) and that my love for soprano voices was not confined to Traja Turunen.
This rendition of the main song is my favourite both for his voice, probably the best Phantom ever, and for hers. Those acutes make me melt - and probably my ears would melt too in close proximity.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Bloody awful. She's barely got control of her voice, and is just shouting, half the time. That comes from living underwater, I suppose.
This[^] is soprano, as perfect as it gets.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh no, you and I just posted the same song and I even called it my favorite!
Surely, the world is coming to an end? 
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The thing with me is that if I pay for music, code, or even a bloody toilet, it had damned well better be made by people who are well trained and highly competent at their jobs.
Very little in the entertainment field is made by people with any level of competence at all. If no-one would pay an incompetent coder or plumber, why the Hell are so many people so happy to pay incompetent "entertainers"?
The little mermaid, there, is not, by any stretch of the imagination, competent at her job.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mostly agreed... Sometimes creating something beautiful is not about being the best at it.
I generally don't like guitar "virtuoso's" like Yngwie Malmsteen or Steve Vai.
I'm not into Dream Theater, a band with some of the most skilled rock musicians around.
A friend of mine is into that stuff.
With music, and arts in general, you just have to like it, feel it, or you don't.
Most people don't like Mozart, but they do like Niki Minaj, even though they'd probably admit Mozart has quite a bit more skills.
People are paying for a feeling, not for skills, and that's highly subjective.
Just look at my SOTW's, how many did you actually like and how many did you consider skilled musicians, yet I loved them for one reason or another 
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Sort of followup to nand's sport question...
I've found myself NOT watching broadcast media (in particular free-to-air TV) at all, except for live sports (even then normally via stream.)
- don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want)
- don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit
- don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt)
Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L)
yep, the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports
(of course only sports I care about, tour de frogolia drugs, wimbledork, even the ollielimpdicks can suc...).
we have a TV, latest digital [free-to-air] receiver dingus... hasn't been switched once on in the last 3 months, probably longer. (even broadcast sport is better via stream)
in fact just remembered few months back the missus mentioned the TV was not working well, weird colors or summat.... phhht, who cares
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I watch sports on tv and that's it.
Otherwise YouTube my own programming for entertainment.
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Italian TV is trash, with a few exceptions. I watch it about once a year, me and my wife have a sort of ritual of zapping the whole Christmas night on those network that have usually half a dozen viewers.
All the rest is on demand, on blue ray or on streaming.
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I'm pretty much the same as you only ever watch it for sports.
However dad watches for news and mum for her dramas, both not comfortable with new tech.
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I tend to stream stuff, occasionally watch something live if I am in front of a TV at the time it's on so rarely.
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Excluding when I'm away from home and someone else's TV is on, never.
I pulled the plug on all things follyweird around a decade ago in all forms (broadcast, cable, optical disc and never bothered trying this new fangled streaming thing the kids on my lawn are going on about - it's still the same crap in a different package).
Nothing I've seen since then has made me regret doing so in the least.
Not giving an elephant about sportsball in any form definitely made doing so easier. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: Not giving an elephant about sportsball in any form
I never have.  I don't see the point in it.
Reality TV is unreal - so I've heard; I never have watched it.
News TV is unreal - so I've heard; I only used to watch the BBC and no longer even that since the 80's.
I can't sit through sitcoms since they are not com at all.
I could go on but my favourite show isn't on TV anymore.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I don't have a television and have't had one for over 11 years.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I haven't watched broadcast TV in some 20 years, at least. Not even sports (not into sports.)
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No TV, No Movies, No Serial.
Only Sports, That I pay & get it streamed to my phone.
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I watch broadcast TV all the time. I guess you're just better than me.
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It seems I'm the only old fashioned TV watcher here, a lot of Dutch television but that's more because the wife watches it, personally Dutch soaps and series always disgusted me 
During our vacation in Denmark we even watched some German television, yes no subtitles, everything dubbed in German !
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lopatir wrote: in particular free-to-air TV)
There is no such thing! 30% of air time is commercial therefore a 30 min. sitcom is 10 minutes of ads and if you got paid for the time that you sit through these mind numbing ads would it be worth your time. Not mine!
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I stopped watching broadcast TV 6 years ago. I occasionally will stream something, but I am usually busy doing other things.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Nope. We dumped our cable TV a year or so ago, reducing our monthly bill from $185 to $65 (Internet only now). Mrs. Wife still watches one broadcast channel occasionally. I watch Netflix or Blu-Ray/DVD.
Software Zen: delete this;
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