The Back Room

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: But I doubt my hate for Java correlates with my taste for classical music. No, but perhaps programming in Java has improved your taste for culture. Who knows? Perhaps next you'll be going to the Opera. Go back to C++ though, and you'll be back on the razz with your mates... ;) "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."

OK, Get Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens - one of my favourites. The Socreror's Apprentice is also excellent by PAul Dukas and you can often find the two on the same CD, with Night on Bare Mountain (Mussorgsky) if you're really lucky! The Moonlight Sonata is played best by Daniel Chorzempa - take it from me! Another amazing Beethoven piano sonata is the Pathetique, Opus 13 if I remember correctly. Incredible drama, speed and one of the most beautiful pieces of piano music ever written in the middle. Pachabel's Canon in D Major and another great piece (absolutley fantastic in fact) Scherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov. I could go on and on though... "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."

Stan Shannon wrote: How would you have liked to be the guy trying to do the arresting? If I had chosen that to be my profession, I doubt I'd have a problem with it. Do you also think the local police should shoot all suspects first because it's safer than apprehension? Stan Shannon wrote: And has it occured to you that arresting them would have been no more legal than blowing them up? Any such arrest would have been thrown out of any international court. Who said anything about legal or illegal? Who said anything about international courts? I said capture, try, convict and punish. As far as I'm concerned the trial, conviction and punishment can be done on US soil by our courts (either civilian or military). We have a theory in this country that says everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I really don't give a damn about the UN or world opinion. If we can't look in the mirror and know we did things by our standards, all is lost. Mike Mullikin :beer: You can't really dust for vomit. Nigel Tufnel - Spinal Tap

benjymous wrote: they obviously haven't heard of google image search ... which is the perfect tool for the competition. I am pretty sure the DJ knows about it as he seems pretty web savvy. The odd thing is that my radio broadcast was 30 seconds delayed (buffering on WMP), plus I was sending the email from SA, yet I still beat all the other contestants... I reckon he saw the South Africa bit and chose me based on that. Add a bit of international flavour, shaken, not stirred :rolleyes: Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Ray Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

Shog9 wrote: Just out of curiousity, where is Mr Walton from? His bio lists UK, of which Wales is certainly a part... Your question answers itself. Wales, UK. It's a lovely country if you ever want to pop along. Much better than ghastly England. We have hills and sheep, all they have is people with bowler hats and umbrellas. Yes, the stereotypes are true! Don't listen to David, he's biased! I have been here a year and this is probably the best signature I've ever had.

Megan Forbes wrote: This was in the lounge last night Ok, i actually sleep sometimes (and occasionaly im awake but not here :wtf: ) so i missed that. Megan Forbes wrote: What I can't understand is why they didn't just transfer him to the dev dept! Seems like a waste. Yes, probably some people there who wouldn't mind to swap. :) Personally i think i would get sick of watching it quite fast. /Magnus - I don't necessarily agree with everything I say

:punch: :punch: :punch: ;) David Wulff wrote: I don't know what you are talking about? I seem to get this reply more often lately.... :confused: skulls don't kiss  for an explanation - wait for the vacation photos!   [sighist]

It sounds kind of cool. I often feel western culture is missing on the basic elements on spiritual life. By this I don't mean organized religion, but rather just a deep connectedness with life. We are often so removed things, we have no grasp on ourselves. Remembering the dead is way to remember our own past, and share it with those around us. I haven't heard of anything like this, but my knowledge is pretty limited in this. BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson

Paul Watson wrote: No relationships. No primary keys. No identity seeds. Virtually all fields allow nulls (but not all, be consistent damnit!.) Many unused fields, some only a character in difference to a used field... You forgot to add, that the database file just happens to be on magnetic tape. Now that's a database. Too many years ago, I worked on a stock allocation system, where basically you had to figure how many items from inventory would be allocated to an open order. All of the data came from flat files stored on mag tape. A requirement for being an operator in those days, was being able to run from the console to the tape library, find a tape, skip over to the half a dozen readers, mount the tape and return back to the console to restart the program. If you could do this in under 30 seconds, you were given the job :) Chris Meech

Including those that have time to look for this stuff ? ;P Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?

Stan Shannon wrote: BTW, I have not found that anything gets easier with age Oh come now, have you forgotten? Forgetting gets easier with age... ;) Stan Shannon wrote: It is easy to avoid hypocricy when you believe in nothing. That is a very good point actually. Often us non-religious types feel superior to religious types because we think we are not breaking morals or are not as bound. Yet that is simply because many of us start at nothing and end at nothing, which is no good at all. Anyway, thanks for the other thoughts :) Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Ray Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

peterchen wrote: I still think we should start with lawyers. Q: Do you know what a lawyer and a sperm cell have in common? A: Both have a 1 in 10 million chance of becoming a human life. :) Mike Mullikin :beer: You can't really dust for vomit. Nigel Tufnel - Spinal Tap

Roger Wright wrote: December 19921. Never found a decent job since... Yuck :wtf: :mad: X| , what a bunch of bad luck !!! Roger Wright wrote: I sincerely hope that you have better luck Thank you Roger :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9

Stan Shannon wrote: merely rounding up all the guns. FYI, Moore doesn't suggest this. he's actually an NRA member. -c “losinger is a colorizing text edit control” -- googlism Smaller Animals Software

Shog9 wrote: it's symmetrical That's one of the worst features about the Logitech I have: it's only for right-handed people. Granted, because it's designed for the right hand, it will (or should!) fit better. However, I pity all those left-handers out there or would have to special order (does Logitech make left-handed mice?) or learn "to deal with it." That's why I ramble so much. If you're short and quotable, there's a much greater danger of ending up in a sig. [Christopher Duncan on how to prevent yourself from ending up in a sig]

Shog9 wrote: And this has been going on for countless generations, with no improvement what so ever! Pretty f**king sad, huh? BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson

Megan Forbes wrote: Feeling better yet lol. Yep. :-) Regards, Brian Dela :-)

forbes is steve's platform now :wtf: forbes is now the spoiler because he has tons of money and plans to spend as much as necessary to get elected forbes is pretty goofy and sort of phony looking himself (errr.. herself?) and finally... ... forbes is :-D Deploying a web application without understanding security is roughly equivalent to driving a car without seatbelts - down a slippery road, over a monstrous chasm, with no brakes, and the throttle jammed on full. Hacking Exposed - Web Applications.   Joel Scambray & Mike Shema

Stan Shannon wrote: I would be very dubious about a peaceful revolution here. We are a violent people. That I don't disagree with, But a revolution could be entirely Social or Cultural or even Political. Personally I think the "two party system" has become to entangled into the heart of US politics. The fact that various states last century started making laws about the timing and mechanisms of the primaries, was an error. As it legitimized party politics to a level it hadn't been at before. ----- About 4 yrs ago at a General election we had two referendums that were voted for by over 90% of the electors and our elected Politicians have so far ignored them. As far as I'm concerned this makes our current government a criminal government. So if someone were to topple them in a coup they would be within their rights. ----- Regardz Colin J Davies Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.

peterchen wrote: Isn't a Soapbox perfect for deodo-rants, rather than off-topic ones ROFLMAO. I do love a good bad joke, thanks man. Michael "I've died for a living in the movies and tv. But the hardest thing I'll ever do is watch my leading ladies, Kiss some other guy while I'm bandaging my knee." -- The Unknown Stuntman