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Why not open up a Docker container when opening up an email program, isolate it from the host OS, and then doing away with the container when done?
 
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I fancy a tandoori chicken masala with a peshwari naan, a tandoori mixed grill, pilau rice and meat samosas with mint sauce, but I'm fasting. I started 4 hours and 10 minutes ago.
 
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skyshrimp said:
I fancy a tandoori chicken masala with a peshwari naan, a tandoori mixed grill, pilau rice and meat samosas with mint sauce, but I'm fasting. I started 4 hours and 10 minutes ago.
Visualize roadkill to have your fasting go more smoothly.
 
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I'd say Kramer's idea of getting an (unpaid) intern to do things for him isn't so bad.
 
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Isn't the name ' Noel' ( No L) self-contradictory?
 
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WWGD said:
Isn't the name ' Noel' ( No L) self-contradictory?
It means Christmas in French (Noël)
 
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Why did I get an Asian language string in my search history?
 
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Mayhem said:
It means Christmas in French (Noël)
But Noel has an L.
 
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WWGD said:
But Noel has an L.
But neither Christmas nor French do!

Also consider nor; no "R".
 
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Last night I was dining with strangers and the discussion was a lot about personal growth, knowing oneself, and such. It then took a sudden turn towards astrology and numerology. :frown: You know "What's your number? Just add the ones from your birthday and find out who you are." There were some strong believers. Then you have people sort of agreeing with them (Are they just being polite?) and you just don't know how to get into that discussion without insulting everybody.

But I just thought of something.

With the decimal system, "your number" basically always ends up being between 1 and 9. (They apparently introduce complications with "master numbers" :rolleyes:)

What if I suggested using the binary system instead? Reducing any number by summing up its constituents will always lead to 1! Wouldn't it be great to all be unified by numerology? We are all number 1!
 
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jack action said:
Last night I was dining with strangers and the discussion was a lot about personal growth, knowing oneself, and such. It then took a sudden turn towards astrology and numerology. :frown: You know "What's your number? Just add the ones from your birthday and find out who you are." There were some strong believers. Then you have people sort of agreeing with them (Are they just being polite?) and you just don't know how to get into that discussion without insulting everybody.

But I just thought of something.

With the decimal system, "your number" basically always ends up being between 1 and 9. (They apparently introduce complications with "master numbers" :rolleyes:)

What if I suggested using the binary system instead? Reducing any number by summing up its constituents will always lead to 1! Wouldn't it be great to all be unified by numerology? We are all number 1!
I'm a Gemini, and we Gemini don't believe in Astrology.

I sometimes through such exchanges with bizarre questions that throw people of: " Cardi B, or Car Db? Is it a database of used cars? " or " Didn't cuba just invade Argentina?" Sometimes I just do it , though unintentionally.
 
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At nearly 103 years old, World War II veteran Joe Schott said he believes he has a lot of service ahead of him.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fanwood-wwii-veteran-103-shares-100142949.html

Schott remembers back to 1942, only a year or two after he finished high school. He was working with Western Electric in Kearny at the time, testing sound-powered telephones and other equipment to be used on Navy ships.

"Western Electric kept telling me that due to the nature of my work, I would be deferred from the draft. I'd be more valuable working at Western on the things I did. I would transfer that information to the man at the draft board, and I remember him saying to me, 'Don't believe them. You will go in!'

"So, sure enough I did get word that I would be drafted [into the Army]. I was just about to be. So on a Sunday morning I went to the Navy recruiting office station at the post office in Newark. They were open seven days a week. I remember going there, and I sat down at the desk. There was a man, and I showed him the letter I got about the draft, and I said, 'I'd rather go in the Navy.' And I remember he looked up at me and he said these words: He said, 'You're in the Navy now.'"

Well done, sir!
 
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Doing research on a vacation and saw a popular tourist area on Google Street View that was eerily empty with all of the stores closed. Then I looked at the image date and saw that it was June 2020 during the pandemic. Seems so long ago sometimes.
 
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Borg said:
Doing research on a vacation and saw a popular tourist area on Google Street View that was eerily empty with all of the stores closed. Then I looked at the image date and saw that it was June 2020 during the pandemic. Seems so long ago sometimes.
I've done searches for movies, just to get results from movies that had played years prior. Just who would be interested in any such thing? I've essentially given up google for ChatGpt. I guess SEO's don't help either.
 
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Borg said:
Doing research on a vacation and saw a popular tourist area on Google Street View that was eerily empty with all of the stores closed. Then I looked at the image date and saw that it was June 2020 during the pandemic. Seems so long ago sometimes.
When we bought our house its garage door was dark blue and in some disrepair, with one of the panels actually half out of place. We replaced the whole door with a white one fairly quickly after we moved in.

The garage looks along our road. When Street View next updated the photos must have failed at one spot or something, because for a while if you moved the viewpoint along our road you saw our shiny white garage door on a sunny day suddenly change into the old blue broken down door on a dark grey day, then flip back to white and sunny. It's updated again since, but it was surprisingly creepy while it lasted.
 
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I had a similar thing with the regular map view. I always parked a red SUV that I used to have in the garage. There was a single day once where I was working in the garage and parked it across the street. That was on the map for a few years until it updated.
 
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Ibix said:
When we bought our house its garage door was dark blue and in some disrepair, with one of the panels actually half out of place. We replaced the whole door with a white one fairly quickly after we moved in.

The garage looks along our road. When Street View next updated the photos must have failed at one spot or something, because for a while if you moved the viewpoint along our road you saw our shiny white garage door on a sunny day suddenly change into the old blue broken down door on a dark grey day, then flip back to white and sunny. It's updated again since, but it was surprisingly creepy while it lasted.
Wonder if google maps bleeps out security details from its maps.
 
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There are places where you go to see things new and places where you go to see things still just as before.
 
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I like a cold pint of Guinness. It's apparently good with a drop of blackcurrant cordial.
 
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I borrowed my friend's boots, walked around a mile in them. I still don't understand him any better than before.
 
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You should have opted for his boat instead.
Dunno if that helps with understanding, but more fun anyway.
 
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Rive said:
You should have opted for his boat instead.
Dunno if that helps with understanding, but more fun anyway.
" Rowing for a mile in his boot". Ok, I'm up for an update of the original.
 

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