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charlieg wrote: An armed society is a polite society.
Sounds like Robert Heinlein, either from Time Enough For Love (Notebooks of Lazarus Long), or possibly from Number Of The Beast.
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Heinlein for sure... wrong books though... no googling 
The Gunshops of Mars is the reference.
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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Hmm. It's been years since I did my last complete re-read. With Mars as the clue, it's either Stranger In A Strange Land (Jubal Harshaw has to be the character) or maybe Starship Troopers (Dubois in that case).
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you know, I might have to walk back a bit. This might have been a short story in one of the books you've mentioned. It's been a long time...
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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I get it. Heinlein is one of those authors I have to ration myself on, especially Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, which is my favorite of his.
One of the fortunate things about late middle age to early senior-hood is that I don't tend to remember as many plot details as I used to. Re-reading is therefore a lot more fun.
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Which new outlook? The thick client, or the web based version. I'm not a fan of either, but think the web based one is better for most things. Better still it's the same (mostly) for whatever OS you run.
Honestly though, I miss PC-Pine (now Alpine I think). . . but I'm weird that way.
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The thick client. It really is thick, in the British slang sense of the word.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: You can't start the new Outlook automatically.
Your post got me thinking...
I have a BAT file which runs at login. I forget which registry key I used, but probably:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun
And I have it calling:
CMD.EXE /C CALL "path\outlook.lnk"
So now Outlook starts when I log in each morning. 
Edit: Corrected the registry key.
modified 6-Aug-24 12:56pm.
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I will keep that in mind when the corporate IT yabbos decide we have to switch. Thanks! 
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Nintendo’s Light Gun - YouTube[^]
"Much becomes obvious in hindsight, ... Yet it is striking how in both physics and mathematics there is a lack of proportion between the effort needed to understand something for the first time and the simplicity and naturalness of the solution once all the required stages have been completed." - Giorgio Parisi, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics"
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Cool little trick.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I've known for a long time that the gun was actually a detector, but I had no idea how it actually worked. So its cool to finally have it explained.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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Said in Crocodile Dundee voice...
That's not a gun. That's a gun.
Safe for work.
Jeremy Falcon
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The third was wrong...
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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Greetings & Kind Regards
I just now completed viewing Dune II. It occurred to me two solutions exist which would solve the problem the Fremen have id est the domination of their home world. Neither involves the shedding of blood or war. It is merely a chemistry problem.
[edit Monday, July 22, 2024] Does no one here have an interest in chemistry or is it a trivial and obvious solution.
"Shut up and calculate." - apparently N.David Mermin possibly Richard Feynman
modified 22-Jul-24 22:39pm.
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