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We watched the first two episodes last night and quite enjoyed it. Visually appealing, filling in a bit of the lore in LOTR, it was alright.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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I have watched the first two episode and my assessment so far is that "it's ok".
What I wasn't too keen on was that the elves dialogue appeared to be in, what I would describe as, something attempting to mimick Shakespearean English - although that seemed to reduce in the second episode, or I became familiar with it.
I am not too keen on the 3 or more storyline threads running at the same time, I would rather they stick with one thread without too many cuts - maybe even dedicating each episode to a thread.
The cinematography is at least fairly good.
#OpinionatedGuy
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I’m going to watch a few episodes and decide. What bugged me most was that episode one had no resemblance to anything from LOTR or the Silmarillion except for a few of the names.
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I bought an old version Excel 5.0 on Windows 3.1 from eBay.
Can it be running on Windows XP?
diligent hands rule....
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It should run on Windows XP through Windows 10, as long as you're using the 32 bit version of Windows. It won't install or run on any 64 bit version of Windows.
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thank you for the info!
I do have several old Dell laptops such D450 etc...
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Quote: I do have several old Dell laptops such D450 etc...
Why not a VM? I've got old software that will never be updated, will not run on anything newer than Windows 7, IE9, .NET from 2009 and has activex dependencies, version specific SQL Express dependencies (and more). Getting all the specific software set up took a week p/time, mostly hunting for specific versions of things that don't exist anymore.
With a virtualbox VM, I simply run the image on whichever computer is most convenient. For example, last night I ran the image on a Linux laptop. In 10 years, that software will still be working because the image is effectively read-only and will never change.
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I happen to have several such old laptops...
diligent hands rule....
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I have many too.
I just find it more convenient to use whichever laptop is available rather than hope that the laptop I left in storage 3 years ago still works. Using a VM lets me use whatever is available.
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There's a simple way to find out.
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what is it?
diligent hands rule....
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yes, I really expect to see your tricks...
diligent hands rule....
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I think I understood your meaning, but I do want to figure out some good ways to test my Excel version 5.0.
my floppy disks come in this weekend...
diligent hands rule....
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Install DosBox and install Windows 3.1 on it - it runs, I did it for a very old Decision Management Software for my wife. You can also prepackage it so you can have it running everywhere, even on Linux and Mac.
GCS/GE 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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this is great info! this is the way for me to go...
diligent hands rule....
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Carrots may be good for your vision...
But whiskey can double your vision.
🥃🥃🥃🥃
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
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truth. But you can lose your eyesight completely when your wife brains you for being two-faced.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Every time I come across some discussion about social justice warriors and "wokeness" I come to the conclusion this is 100% against a simple but fundamental value I was taught about when I was a kid: Tolerance.
I don't see how these can co-exist. Am I wrong?
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The only thing to intolerate is intolerance itself.
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Well, I mean, we shouldn't necessarily tolerate things like crime*
*assuming we're talking about just laws, applied evenly.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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The problem is that even "just" laws, and "crime" in general, is highly culturally dependent.
Lots of laws that we today call "unjust" were highly "just" for as little as fifty to hundred years ago, in our own country. In other countries, they may still be "just" in lots of other cultures. It goes the other way as well: Laws that we call "just" are in other societies considered extremely "unjust".
To stay clear of the laws of one specific country, you may take a look at the UN bill of human rights, and consider how it applies to completely different cultures. Say, the right to regular vacations, with pay: How will you enforce that in a hunter-gatherer society void of any sort of 'employment' and void of money? In a region populated by nomadic tribes roaming the continent along irregular paths, how will you enforce the right to leave your country and to return to it? And so on.
If all your neighbor countries allow some action (in the sense: no laws forbid it), but lawmakers in your country have decided to forbid it, can you still argue that the law in your country is "just"? Do you expect people from your neighbor countries to agree? If you go to the neighbor country to do that action, is that "unjust" for you, but not for those you visit? Are you performing a crime, in a country where no law forbids it?
In our laws, we are extreme culture imperialists. Let me take one example: Parts of the Norwegian criminal law applies to "crimes" committed in other countries where the action is perfectly legal, done by a citizen of that country when he was living in his homeland. If he has later moved to another Nordic ountry, and comes on a temporary visit to Norway, he can in principle be thrown in jail in Norway for what was a perfectly legal action when and where it was performed, the "criminal" is not a Norwegian citizen or living here, and the action did not take place in Norway.
I don't know of any case where tourists have been prosecuted in Norway for earlier actions that are illegal here, but it certainly has happened for refugees who have had to flee their homeland and settled in Norway. If they, before they had to flee, lived according to the customs of their culture, they have had to answer to Norwegian laws for it, after arriving here. Even though the UN declaration of human rights say that anyone has a right to leave their country, there has been several cases of Norwegian authorities confiscating the ID documents of refugees to make it impossible for them to visit their old homeland, because Norwegian authorities believes that there is a great risk that back in their old country they might do actions that are still allowed there, but illegal here.
So, "just"ness and "fair"ness and "criminal actions" are all defined by culture. Claiming "universal" value to any such question is very likely to fall under 'cultural imperialism'. (You may of course think that cultural imperialism is both "just" and "fair", but those being culturally imperialized might disagree!)
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It's all sausage making. In democracies it tends to follow popular will, aside from checks that are put in place to prevent tyranny of the majority, but usually what those are based on is also ultimately decided by popular will. For example, in the US we have constitutional amendments that effectively (through legal rulings) carve out our right to privacy, our right to autonomy (currently under attack, but there it is), and helping to ensure equal treatment under the law - those are amendments that are bulwarks against legislative foolery. It's far from perfect - no system is, and no system can perfectly contain the potential for revolt.
In countries like Hungary, one man and his party backing decide for everyone else what's "just". I'm not endorsing that, just calling it like I see it.
But if you really want to get down to it, is what's just is decided by those who win the wars.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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