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Reply #475 –
While looking for something I found, I found something I wasn't looking for: This version was new to me…
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
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Reply #477 –
…a click is too hard? :)
BTW: I'm old and tired… Your software is pretty good. Your "frienzi-ness" is something I've long appreciated.
(I remember when Lehrer's records came in brown paper through the U.S. Mail! — Yes, some of my progenitors were as perverse as me!)
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts!" - Richard Feynman
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Reply #478 –
Records through the mail? Hm, sounds dangerous. They're pretty fragile.

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Reply #479 –
The mail, back then, was handled by people… :)
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts!" - Richard Feynman
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Reply #480 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL on
…a click is too hard? :)
Yes, if the post around it is incoherent drunken babble. However small an effort, a click is still an effort and when there's no reason to make the effort, hardly anybody will make it.

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Reply #481 –
I'm not pleased to open mail messages whose subject does not make clear what it is all about.
Likewise, clicking on links that I don't know where they point at, is beyond me.
Playing videos with unknown content is a challenge to me.
You know... May brain was made up in times when download was waaaay too expensive.  :psmurf:
"This content is about XYZ which interests you" works way better than "Click here".

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Reply #482 –
Quote from: Barulheira on
You know... May brain was made up in times when download was waaaay too expensive.   :psmurf:
Where I grew up you paid for a dial-up connection by the second as if it were a regular phone call, not by volume. But yeah, on mobile I wouldn't click anything.

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Reply #483 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
But yeah, on mobile I wouldn't click anything.
This was the case around the turn of the century when wap (wml) was a thing. I worked for a mobile phone service provider and my employer gave some devices to me and I could surf (and make phone calls) to my heart's content. I felt soooo superior to the rest of the world.

Now for many years I have a private mobile unlimited internet plan. There's so much junk on the net that I don't feel like surfing much, but I can handily update my computers through my phone.

Amazing progress. All good news. Fantastic.

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Reply #484 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Where I grew up you paid for a dial-up connection by the second as if it were a regular phone call, not by volume.
Here we had to pay for a pulse each 3 minutes. After all, volume mattered. :)

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Reply #486 –
I start a new job on Monday.

It's a non-union (most unfortunately) factory job, but I am looking at $40,000 in year 1 and full benefits, and a 401k that they will match up to 6%.
 

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Reply #487 –
Now that sounds positive and in the future give you the chance to holiday somewhere outside which is civilised...... :whistle:
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #488 –
Quote from: rjhowie on
Now that sounds positive and in the future give you the chance to holiday somewhere outside which is civilised...... :whistle:
Indeed. In the one week paid holiday that I get, half will be spent in Germany, and the other half in the UK. :cheers:

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Reply #489 –
Good for you Southern laddie!  :wine: (diet version of Irn Bru)
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #490 –
Quote from: Colonel Rebel on
In the one week paid holiday that I get, half will be spent in Germany,
You must hurry up!
The world's biggest beer festival aka Münchner Oktoberfest is starting on September 17.
Get involved!  :cheers:

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Reply #491 –
The colonel will be dribbling just at the thought of one of those big glasses.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #492 –
Nah! I think it's the hooters behind them… :) (They used to advertise such! Very subtle. And appreciated.)
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts!" - Richard Feynman
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Reply #494 –
Quote from: krake on
Quote from: Colonel Rebel on
In the one week paid holiday that I get, half will be spent in Germany,
You must hurry up!
The world's biggest beer festival aka Münchner Oktoberfest is starting on September 17.
Get involved!  :cheers:


lol, Well, I have to have been employed by the company for 6 months before the one week paid vacation kicks in.

Next year, however, there is a good chance I'll make it!

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Reply #495 –
Well I got 6 weeks holidays annually. On top of that the Queen's Birthday, May Day, Easter weekend and of course a short break at the Festive time. Will be another opportunity for the colonel to get a break and pick the right places to go!
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #497 –
Not sure if these are good news but the UN has a new Secretary-General, Portuguese António Guterres, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

I don't have a very good impression about him but one thing is certain, he managed to do a miracle by having non opposition by any of the five Security Council members. It was also a very good and astute move by the Portuguese diplomacy.
He's a socialist (by European standards) and his Catholic faith it's publicly known.

Future will tell if he can do more miracles.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #498 –
Heard about that and maybe will make jimbro groan?.....!
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #499 –
Quote from: Belfrager on
Not sure if these are good news but the UN has a new Secretary-General, Portuguese António Guterres, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

He's a socialist (by European standards) and his Catholic faith it's publicly known.
As socialist as the British Labour Party or the German Social Democratic Party (SPD).
So far I wouldn't call it a miracle ...
Quote from: Belfrager on
Future will tell if he can do more miracles.
You mean miracles like Baroso did? If you ask me, he has best chances. ;)