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Lucky you, I had a co-worker who lost an arm when his quad fell over.
He did hardware too, but continued working at the company in the same function, so that's pretty cool.
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I went snow mobile driving in Norway and ran off the track and parked the machine on a rock on a hill with the tail pointed down into 10ft of packed snow. It took 3 hours in a blizzard to get it out, thankfully we had the right clothing on if not the correct gear to drag it out.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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And it isn't me, in case you are wondering: New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing - BBC News[^]
I can't think of a more appropriate person: the work he pioneered lead directly to the shape of the world today. Pity the establishment treated him so terribly badly at the time.
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This always fascinates me. I have some old French and German currency from when we visited there shortly before their transitions to the euro and they had Planck on one bill and Gauss on another and I thought that was very cool. In the US all of the bills have various presidents on them and that's kind of boring except for Benjamin Franklin on the 100 who is a notable exception. Why some of those were chosen is beyond me like Jackson on the 20. Why? He really wasn't that notable as a president. I think it is much better to have prominent inventors on them so Nikolas Tesla should be on one although they would probably choose Edison instead.
Anyway, Turing is a great choice. Maybe they can have Steven Hawking on one someday.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I totally overlooked Hamilton. Maybe because I rarely get tens. Above a hundred, I have seen thousand dollar bills once but that was quite a while ago. They had Grover Cleveland on them. For a while McKinley was on the 500. Again, why? They were really not notable presidents.
A little more homework : no bills above the hundred are produced or circulated today.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: no bills above the hundred are produced or circulated today.
But you never know.
When I was a little tyke, $2's, although uncommon, were generally available. Certainly at banks. Then they weren't. Then they started them up again.
They could, of course, change the image for any of them. More than anything else, I think it depends upon inflation - and so I'd like them to remain historical (w.r.t. printing) a while longer. When that day arrives, you'll likely receive $100's at your ATM.
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Is this just virtue signalling? There were a handful of others equally pivotal in the role of breaking Enigma.
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Hear, hear, there should be a group portrait on the £50 note 
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Yeah, right, and, because you're Dutch, you want to print colour to be yellow.
Bluddy pervs.
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Yes, a handful, and can anyone name any of the others? I seriously doubt it. I even watched a movie about it and I still can't.
THAT is why he is on it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Because he was gay, or because he killed himself, or because he gave his name to a computer test? 
I read a book some time back on it, the Poles did a heck of a lot before the war, and Turings machine just sped up the process, a process which had already been arrived at by others.
He was just part of the effort.
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So you think this is a real bill - not an artificial one?
You're sure this isn't just a Test?
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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Churchill only got the fiver, so this must be, yet again, more LGBT cr@p, that says that there are ten times more gays than straights.
Joking aside, what I say above might just bear a whisker of truth.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Pity the establishment treated him so terribly badly at the time.
I'm positively surprised that you, British guy, aknowledge that. 
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He does have his moments
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Hi all!
Following this post about a set of speakers that allow bluetooth connections while in standby...[^]
At the end KEF told me no way they can solve my issue... So be warned wonderful sound, great value, but all your neighbors around can control them for free.
Once this said, those loudspeakers come with a IR remote...
I could buy an IR plug[^] to plug and unplug the loudspeakers comfortably from that remote without having to move half my desktop to reach the plugs there...
2 questions:
1. Have you used a plug like that? (I truly had no idea they existed).
2. Plugging and unplugging each day a set of powered speakers can be bad for them?
Thank you all...
modified 15-Jul-19 13:18pm.
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Joan M wrote: Thank you all...
You are more than welcome!
Just one question: what the heck are you talking about? 
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Oops I've updated the original post...
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It shouldn't be any different from switching the power on and off via a power strip or similar, which is what I've been doing since the 80s. Monitors, speakers, printers, scanners, MODEMs, whatever.
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Jeeze, Joan, ditch the things, and buy some that use wires or wifi dongles.
bluetooth has never not sucked.
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400€ for a pair of loudspeakers!
They won't replace them in the shop...
I'm stuck with them... the good part is that they sound wonderful... the bad part is that they need to be powered off.
I'm thinking on putting a smart plug to power them and then put a shortcut in my PC to connect/disconnect it...
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Sell the #internetofshit garbage on fleabay/craigslist/whatever your local equivalent is and buy some plain ordinary dumb speakers that would work just fine 50 years ago and have no vulnerabilities in them with the money you get back.
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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Oh, but those are no ordinary by any means, integrated 24 bit DAC that works as sound card if you connect them by USB to your computer, a special arrangement of the speaker parts which gives a terrific sound in a very small space, an optical connection in case you want to plug a subwoofer, a 3.5 jack and Bluetooth (which is not needed at all), for 400€they are one of the best loudspeakers you can connect to a computer.
The only problem is the Bluetooth thing that the manufacturer of the loudspeakers did terribly wrong... it's clear they are speakers manufacturers... and that they don't use their heads to think a little when it's about remote connections...
But today I've found a good solution, I've even prepared a small tip/trick about it... I've put a smart socket to power the loudspeakers and I can control it from my computer using POST messages to the socket company cloud... that way I have programmed an automatic shut down task in the socket at night and I can start or stop them double clicking a shortcut in my desktop.
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