@Aqua-Letifer Oh, I don’t mean from that, just somewhere in the room.

Notice no one has ever SEEN Siri. There's a reason for that.

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Awesome! I played Round #1 on Sunday, first time since October.

Thanks Kluurs, I disabled the 'best offer' feature. I just don't want to deal with it all week.

@Jolly said in No 💵 for you:

Ax is the free market guy. I'm the town square guy.

You know I give up. I just can't keep up with 2020 anymore.

If you need me, I'll be back in 1989 with Dee Snider and my Game Boy.

@wtg said in Fig Leaf?:

@Loki https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/16/ahmaud-arberys-relatives-other-families-meet-trump-policing/3197473001/

Love the headline, don't you?

Contentious' or 'compassionate'? Ahmaud Arbery's relatives, other families meet with Donald Trump to talk police reform

That was a nice puzzle. Initially I made it way more complicated than it needed to be. I'm a little proud I found a solution that doesn't require Pythagoras or, for that matter, any formula at all 🙂

@jon-nyc said in Why you need cops:

Come on, Jolly, say it......

Nah, but we would have a place for him. He'll get lots of sunshine and exercise, with trained staff to watch over him.

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@Jolly said in Face the Music:

@Copper said in Face the Music:

Keanu Reeves John Wick movies are terrific.

The guy who taught Reeves tactical shooting is very good.

Those movies are what the Matrix were 20 years ago.

You know what else? Like the Bourne movies before them, they showcase Kali instead of Wushu, the old Hollywood standby. (The director and fight coordinator are/were both Inosanto students.)

I've very little understanding of Kali except to say that the empty-hand distance is the same as in Wing Chun, and the flow drills of the two are very compatible. And being a Philippines thing, it's historically taught with no ceremony or grandeur whatsoever: they're endlessly pragmatic folks, to the point where it's completely okay to drop some techniques or modify others depending on how you can make it work for you.

Lotta U.S. police training either features or outright nicks standard Kali techniques.

Very cool it keeps showing up in the movies these days. Guru Dan must be beside himself.

In my way and for different reasons, that's already an implemented strategy. I ask a lot of questions and then adamantly insist it's because I'm so dumb. But really it's of course so that I can get as many things on record as I can.

Yep. I will get relief from the sewer bill which is based on water usage.

@89th said in Wokeness in the Software Development World:

It's all so dumb. Although I do admit when I'm working on a system and I refer to the slave (e.g., database replication).

The Danish database company, FrontBase, uses Replication Master and Client.

When setup in a cluster, they are simply called nodes.

I suppose the word Master could come under fire.

Whatever. None of this bothers me in the least. Let the language evolve. It's probably going to no matter what I think anyway.

Looks clearly like a murder to me.

Would certainly love to have another Ross Perot around.
Maybe we do in some respects, but I can't name anyone current that would fit in Perot's shoes, so to speak.

@Klaus said in Still need anti-virus software?:

all the virus did was to replicate.

Sometimes that is enough

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@Catseye3 said in The worst:

Movies: Believe it or not, Saturday Night Fever. Hated it, though I can't remember why.

It was all Disco music.

There was a very large community of Disco haters.

You might remember the Disco Demolition nights sponsored by some Rock radio stations.

The only reason they want to become a state is to add 2 black, democrat senators.

Won't they be surprised when Mr. Trump converts the district residents to republican?