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  • R Rage

    Wanted to answer with sheep emoticon, but damn, I have again forgotten how many e and w's...

    ~RaGE();

    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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    OriginalGriff
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    :baaaa!: = : baaaa! :

    This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      ...it's difficult to decide what to vote for: "Accept" or "Needs help". But I've just met one that gave me the same problem, but in a different direction. 1) The article is rubbish. :thumbsdown: 2) The article is spam. :thumbsdown: 3) The article is plagiarised.:thumbsdown: So what should you vote when someone has taken a badly written advert and copy'n'pasted it as his own article? :laugh: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... Triple fail!

      This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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      S Houghtelin
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      This would be the one case that I would agree with ridicule as an consequence. 0) The internet sees all, you will not get away with plagiarism, especially in a forum populated by pedants. 1) You need to be publicly shamed for even thinking for a moment that it is OK to do something like that. 3) In some cases it could be construed as a criminal offense.

      It was broke, so I fixed it.

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        ...it's difficult to decide what to vote for: "Accept" or "Needs help". But I've just met one that gave me the same problem, but in a different direction. 1) The article is rubbish. :thumbsdown: 2) The article is spam. :thumbsdown: 3) The article is plagiarised.:thumbsdown: So what should you vote when someone has taken a badly written advert and copy'n'pasted it as his own article? :laugh: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... Triple fail!

        This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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        CPallini
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        :mad::mad::mad: :laugh:

        Veni, vidi, vici.

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          :baaaa!: = : baaaa! :

          This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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          Nagy Vilmos
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          ... and you didn't even need to check.

          Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow

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            ... and you didn't even need to check.

            Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow

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            Mark_Wallace
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            He's Welsh, you know. Probably got a wardrobe exclusively for wellies.

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            • C CPallini

              :mad::mad::mad: :laugh:

              Veni, vidi, vici.

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              Nagy Vilmos
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              Can't be yours mate, OG said he read it.

              Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                ...it's difficult to decide what to vote for: "Accept" or "Needs help". But I've just met one that gave me the same problem, but in a different direction. 1) The article is rubbish. :thumbsdown: 2) The article is spam. :thumbsdown: 3) The article is plagiarised.:thumbsdown: So what should you vote when someone has taken a badly written advert and copy'n'pasted it as his own article? :laugh: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... Triple fail!

                This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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                Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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                he should be taken out and publically humilliated, abused, subjected to inhuman treatment and inflicted with painfull symptoms and after the night with Dave and Nagy.....

                You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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                • C CPallini

                  :mad::mad::mad: :laugh:

                  Veni, vidi, vici.

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                  OriginalGriff
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                  #13

                  My hands are perfectly clean! I washed then, what, last Tuesday?

                  This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                  • S S Houghtelin

                    This would be the one case that I would agree with ridicule as an consequence. 0) The internet sees all, you will not get away with plagiarism, especially in a forum populated by pedants. 1) You need to be publicly shamed for even thinking for a moment that it is OK to do something like that. 3) In some cases it could be construed as a criminal offense.

                    It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                    Rage
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                    S Houghtelin wrote:

                    especially in a forum populated by pedants.

                    That is highly exaggerated.

                    S Houghtelin wrote:

                      1. In some cases

                    FTFY

                    ~RaGE();

                    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                    • R Rage

                      S Houghtelin wrote:

                      especially in a forum populated by pedants.

                      That is highly exaggerated.

                      S Houghtelin wrote:

                        1. In some cases

                      FTFY

                      ~RaGE();

                      I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                      S Houghtelin
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                      ;) I was wondering any of the pedants were going to catch that. +5! :laugh:

                      It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                      • S S Houghtelin

                        ;) I was wondering any of the pedants were going to catch that. +5! :laugh:

                        It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                        Rage
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                        It was just too tempting.

                        ~RaGE();

                        I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                          Septimus Hedgehog
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                          Shameel wrote:

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            ...it's difficult to decide what to vote for: "Accept" or "Needs help". But I've just met one that gave me the same problem, but in a different direction. 1) The article is rubbish. :thumbsdown: 2) The article is spam. :thumbsdown: 3) The article is plagiarised.:thumbsdown: So what should you vote when someone has taken a badly written advert and copy'n'pasted it as his own article? :laugh: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... Triple fail!

                            This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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                            Gary Wheeler
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                            We need another option: 4) The author should be run through a leaf shredder as a service to mankind.

                            Software Zen: delete this;

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                            • N Nagy Vilmos

                              Can't be yours mate, OG said he read it.

                              Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow

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                              CPallini
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                              ;P

                              Veni, vidi, vici.

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                ...it's difficult to decide what to vote for: "Accept" or "Needs help". But I've just met one that gave me the same problem, but in a different direction. 1) The article is rubbish. :thumbsdown: 2) The article is spam. :thumbsdown: 3) The article is plagiarised.:thumbsdown: So what should you vote when someone has taken a badly written advert and copy'n'pasted it as his own article? :laugh: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... Triple fail!

                                This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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                                Roger Wright
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                                Why is this causing you anguish, Griff? This is a no-brainer - trash it. Anyone can write a bad article- we all have off days. But to steal a bad article and claim it as one's own is a new low on the Class Act scale, and deserves only the least of accolades. Stoning would be appropriate, but I suspect that shunning is going to be our only effective recourse. Chris is still clinging to his belief that sharing the technology he's developed to selectively send crippling electric shocks to specific keys on selected users' keyboards is morally wrong. I happen to believe that sharing this technique with a few million of his closest fans and followers would do much to clean up the ether as we know it, and make it safe again for children to explore. But he's the boss; what can I hope to do to change his usually superior mind?

                                Will Rogers never met me.

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                                  Why is this causing you anguish, Griff? This is a no-brainer - trash it. Anyone can write a bad article- we all have off days. But to steal a bad article and claim it as one's own is a new low on the Class Act scale, and deserves only the least of accolades. Stoning would be appropriate, but I suspect that shunning is going to be our only effective recourse. Chris is still clinging to his belief that sharing the technology he's developed to selectively send crippling electric shocks to specific keys on selected users' keyboards is morally wrong. I happen to believe that sharing this technique with a few million of his closest fans and followers would do much to clean up the ether as we know it, and make it safe again for children to explore. But he's the boss; what can I hope to do to change his usually superior mind?

                                  Will Rogers never met me.

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                                  pkfox
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                                  Who's the perp here ?

                                  We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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                                  • S S Houghtelin

                                    ;) I was wondering any of the pedants were going to catch that. +5! :laugh:

                                    It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                                    jsc42
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                                    0, 1, 3 is a perfectly acceptable counting system. The number is the decimal version of the binary value of the base 1 representation of the natural numbers. Viz: 0 [b10] = 0 [b2] ==> 0 [b1] = 0 (dec) (special case as base 1 has no representation for zero) 1 [b10] = 1 [b2] ==> 1 [b1] = 1 (dec) (fairly obvious) 3 [b10] = 11 [b2] ==> 11 [b1] = 2 (dec) 7 [b10] = 111 [b2] ==> 111 [b1] = 3 (dec) etc

                                    function decimalVersionOfBase1Number(naturalNumber)
                                    {
                                    return naturalNumber ? (1 << (naturalNumber - 1) - 1) : 0;
                                    }

                                    Or

                                    n => 2^n - 1

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                                    • G Gary Wheeler

                                      We need another option: 4) The author should be run through a leaf shredder as a service to mankind.

                                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                                      William Clardy
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                                      >We need another option: > >4) The author should be run through a leaf shredder as a service to mankind. Why a leaf shredder instead of a chipper? Or are chippers only for friends?

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                                        >We need another option: > >4) The author should be run through a leaf shredder as a service to mankind. Why a leaf shredder instead of a chipper? Or are chippers only for friends?

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                                        Gary Wheeler
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                                        Shredders generally produce a finer-grained result than chippers. The idea here is to reduce each piece of the spammer below growth viability. A chipper would be overkill in any case, since spammers are invertebrates and don't have an endoskeletal structure to be broken up.

                                        William Clardy wrote:

                                        Or are chippers only for friends?

                                        Who have you been talking to :suss:? Friends help you hide. Good friends help you hide bodies. Great friends don't ask why. Best friends make suggestions.

                                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                          ...it's difficult to decide what to vote for: "Accept" or "Needs help". But I've just met one that gave me the same problem, but in a different direction. 1) The article is rubbish. :thumbsdown: 2) The article is spam. :thumbsdown: 3) The article is plagiarised.:thumbsdown: So what should you vote when someone has taken a badly written advert and copy'n'pasted it as his own article? :laugh: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... Triple fail!

                                          This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.

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                                          patbob
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                                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                                          So what should you vote when someone has taken a badly written advert and copy'n'pasted it as his own article?

                                          Can you have their article posting privileges banned for a while? If its truly spam or plagiarized, there's no sense in letting them keep retrying until they find a moderator that accepts their efforts. If not, then can you at least flag their account for extra scrutiny by future moderators for a while?

                                          We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

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