Hard News: London's Burning
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
What? No personality test?
We're not as picky as we used to be.
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As Marx wrote, please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.
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Islander, in reply to
As Marx wrote, please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members
Hence that rather odd & pompous little literary club, "Groucho's". I was invited to join but declined for the eponymous actor's reason...
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We don't do personality tests any more but let me sell you a few communication courses and explain about our evil alien overlord Lord Xenu ...
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Hebe, in reply to
Muriel Newman; On The Smell of An Oily Old Bag.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Sure, if you look around at the financial markets or at the state of social services in this or most other developed nations, we are muddling through just splendidly, aren’t we?
You know, Gio, please go lecture my next door neighbours on what a shithole New Zealand is. They’ll patiently explain why they’re in no great rush to go back to Iraq. They have family who are more concerned about securing clean drinking water than the state of the Dow-Jones.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
You know, Gio, please go lecture my next door neighbours on what a shithole New Zealand is. They’ll patiently explain why they’re in no great rush to go back to Iraq.
Wow, really? Have you discussed with them the role of the Western countries that New Zealand has been consistently allied with since it has had a foreign policy in making Iraq the place that it is?
But you've given me a great idea. I'm going to go over to my neighbours, who come from Somalia, and lecture them on what a great place my country is compared to theirs. I'm sure they will be far too polite to remind me of the relevant chapters of Italian history.
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
please go lecture my next door neighbours on what a shithole New Zealand is. They’ll patiently explain why they’re in no great rush to go back to Iraq. They have family who are more concerned about securing clean drinking water
Do tell me where the intermediate point is between here and Iraq where I can worry with your blessing.
NZ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Iraq
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Russell, can we please have tags for monospaced font so that ASCII art is possible? Ta.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Russell, can we please have tags for monospaced font so that ASCII art is possible? Ta.
That is quite honestly the geekiest bloody thing I've read all year.
I'll see what I can do.
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Sacha, in reply to
though I accept a mono tag would be easier to implement, wouldn't you rather have tables? seems more generally useful
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Also, could we have a spellchecker, and a debugger that checks comments for internal logical consistency?
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David Hood, in reply to
wouldn’t you rather have tables?
With a mono tag
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(Actually, I don't think tables are such a good idea, because of the limited horizontal space. For tables of figures, monospace would be a functional replacement) -
Stephen Judd, in reply to
If you have monospaced fonts, laying out tables is child’s play. For me, anyway. Sorry. I try to think like normal people but it really is difficult, especially today. I have been playing Speaker To Non Technical People all day and my Normality Feigning Reserve is completely exhausted.
Edit: thank you, Brother David. Also, snap.
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I s’pose you all know the joke that goes, “A web designer walks into a bar….and walks out again as soon as he realises they’re using tables.”
a debugger that checks comments for internal logical consistency?
Gio! How could we have arguments then?!
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Sacha, in reply to
the limited horizontal space
width = 100%
#sorted(and yes it would rely on posters only trying for a few columns of numbers, not a matrixed treatise)
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I suspect there are more pressing features anyway, for non-geek and geek alike.
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You know what would be nice? If you got an email if somebody replies to one of your posts (so long as you’ve registered your email address in the system, obviously). That way if you’ve dropped out of the conversation you can still pick it up if you’ve been addressed directly.
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Sacha, in reply to
if you’ve been addressed directly
sounds like an @reply function..
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
|I could make my own tables|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
I would recommend using a mortice and tenon joint for attaching the rails to the legs, preferably foxed with a soft wedge to accommodate changes in humidity and temperature.
As for the table top itself. Care must be taken in this exercise as larger widths of timber are more susceptible to warping. Therefore plywood is recommended as a suitable base for an attractive finish, such as paint.
There are, of course, other joints that could be considered, such as the Biscuit Reinforced Butt Joint
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So, high youth unemployment, abandoned youth busymaking programs, recently limited youth opportunities for self-betterment, endless police powers used to constantly harass youth, and a youth holiday period, => riot!
Do any of these austerity countries have a plan for the future of intermittent oil supplies, with modern growth being a function of fossil fuel burn rates? Maybe this is the plan, divide and conquer.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Do tell me where the intermediate point is between here and Iraq where I can worry with your blessing.
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And in Yet More Weird, Bureaucratic Social Control news, David Cameron is proposing banning people from social media if they might be plotting criminal activity.
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merc, in reply to
Ah, thought crime.
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recordari, in reply to
“A web designer walks into a bar….and walks out again as soon as he realises they’re using tables.”
Another man walks into the bar. "Hey, there's this hairy chested guy outside blabbering and making obtuse gestures in the air".
Bartender "yeah, he just walked in, saw our nest of tables in the corner and then ran out".
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<tr><td>Don't</td><td>try</td></tr>
<tr><td>this</td><td>at</td></tr>
<tr><td>home</td></tr>
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