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    realJSOP
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    Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

    ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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    You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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    When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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      Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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      Johnny J
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      ...or Repetitive Training And Readiness Database (RETARD)... :doh:

      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
      Anonymous
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      The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
      Winston Churchill, 1944
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      Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
      Mark Twain

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        Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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        You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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        Mark_Wallace
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        #realJSOP wrote:

        forked

        Pretty sure that's a typo.

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

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          Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

          ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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          You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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          When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          So, then my encryption suite CRIP...?

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            ...or Repetitive Training And Readiness Database (RETARD)... :doh:

            Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
            Anonymous
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            The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
            Winston Churchill, 1944
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            Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
            Mark Twain

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            realJSOP
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            REquired Training And Readiness Database

            ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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            You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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            When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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            • R realJSOP

              Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

              ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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              You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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              When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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              honey the codewitch
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              Some people are allergic to life.

              When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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              • R realJSOP

                Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                megaadam
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                Training Unique Readiness Database

                "If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

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                • R realJSOP

                  Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                  ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                  You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                  When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                  Chris Quinn
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                  I once worked on a system written for the UK Prison Service that allowed prisoner relatives to claim assistance towards the costs of prison visits. This usually involved a spouse/partner and at least one child. To begin a claim, the first screen was entitled "Enter the Claimant". You could the choose to "enter a child". One of the system users refused to go anywhere near it as they considered that it was encouraging paedophilia! We were asked to change the system to read "Enter Child Details"

                  ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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                    ...or Repetitive Training And Readiness Database (RETARD)... :doh:

                    Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                    Anonymous
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                    The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                    Winston Churchill, 1944
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                    Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                    Mark Twain

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                    Daniel Pfeffer
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                    PErsonalized Training And Readiness Database (PETARD) How many peoplesnowflakes will be 'triggered' because of the similarity? :laugh:

                    Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                    • R realJSOP

                      Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                      -----
                      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                      Brisingr Aerowing
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                      People are idiots.

                      What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                      • R realJSOP

                        Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                        -----
                        You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                        -----
                        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                        Keith Barrow
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                        I almost got an internal banking app accidentally named after a Japanese sexual practice, whose name I won't utter here. I was jokingly "code-naming" with friends as the relevant parties were shooting requirements at me from all directions. Then someone (who frankly should have known better) repeated the name to the boss, who didn't know what it meant and he started using it. I didn't fancy explaining it to him (because cowardace) - and he had no idea I'd been calling it that. Luckily a team lead came in and immediately renamed it.

                        KeithBarrow.net[^] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!

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                        • M Mark_Wallace

                          #realJSOP wrote:

                          forked

                          Pretty sure that's a typo.

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

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                          Gary R Wheeler
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                          Now, now. John's being polite. Let him practice.

                          Software Zen: delete this;

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                            Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                            ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                            -----
                            You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                            -----
                            When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                            David ONeil
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                            Doing things like that make it easy to glimpse the real mental gimp.

                            The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

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                              Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                              ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                              -----
                              You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                              -----
                              When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                              Member 9167057
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                              The whole concept of SJW is IMHO the absurdity of the decade.

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                                I once worked on a system written for the UK Prison Service that allowed prisoner relatives to claim assistance towards the costs of prison visits. This usually involved a spouse/partner and at least one child. To begin a claim, the first screen was entitled "Enter the Claimant". You could the choose to "enter a child". One of the system users refused to go anywhere near it as they considered that it was encouraging paedophilia! We were asked to change the system to read "Enter Child Details"

                                ========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================

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                                Leo56
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                                If you think that's nuts how about this - "San Francisco board re-brands 'convicted felon' as 'justice-involved person'" and how about 'juvenile “delinquent” will now be called a “young person with justice system involvement,” or a “young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.”' Is that faint hysterical laughter in the background George Orwell and Aldous Huxley? These fruit-loops need to realise that 1984 and Brave New World were warnings NOT instruction manuals...

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                                  Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                                  ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                                  You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                                  When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                  grralph1
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                                  Futuristic Unencumbered Client Knowledgebase Training And Readiness Database.

                                  "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980

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                                    Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                                    ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                                    -----
                                    You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                                    -----
                                    When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                    Slow Eddie
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                                    Words and names CAN hurt. For as much as you and all of the other people replying to your post (thread?) got picked on growing up and in school, I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact. Maybe the person wanting the change is more sensitive to the fact than you are. I have a daughter who is mentally retarded, as are many, many other people around the world. She could do nothing about the way she was born. People are also born with cerebral palsy or deformed limbs, or injured in accidents. ("gimps"). To turn the description of a medical condition into a joke in the lounge is puerile. You folks are better than that. :mad::mad:

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                                      Words and names CAN hurt. For as much as you and all of the other people replying to your post (thread?) got picked on growing up and in school, I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact. Maybe the person wanting the change is more sensitive to the fact than you are. I have a daughter who is mentally retarded, as are many, many other people around the world. She could do nothing about the way she was born. People are also born with cerebral palsy or deformed limbs, or injured in accidents. ("gimps"). To turn the description of a medical condition into a joke in the lounge is puerile. You folks are better than that. :mad::mad:

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                                      realJSOP
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                                      It's a f*ckin acronym. Only triggerable liberal snowflakes bring it up or care. When I was in school, if people picked on you, you learned to handle it (in whatever way you deemed to be appropriate).

                                      Slow Eddie wrote:

                                      I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact.

                                      You must be new here...

                                      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                                      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                                      -----
                                      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                        Someone has forked GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) just so they can change the name (to Glimpse), because they were triggered by the acronym. This app has been call The GIMP since 1996. I guess I should rethink my name suggestion for a new app we're going to develop - Training And Readiness Database (TARD).

                                        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                                        -----
                                        You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                                        -----
                                        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                        rnbergren
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                                        What the Elephant. Some people need a swift (fill in the blank)

                                        To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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                                        • R realJSOP

                                          It's a f*ckin acronym. Only triggerable liberal snowflakes bring it up or care. When I was in school, if people picked on you, you learned to handle it (in whatever way you deemed to be appropriate).

                                          Slow Eddie wrote:

                                          I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact.

                                          You must be new here...

                                          ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                                          -----
                                          You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                                          -----
                                          When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                          rnbergren
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                                          agreed, My brother is a Down's person. HE is mentally retarded. My Dad had polio could not walk without some canes. HE was a gimpy person. He never asked for anything and I guarantee he would not have taken any offense to this at all. I just don't understand people. On a further note. You can make ANYTHING offensive if you want too. Holy Elephanting Sh!# We have made the word Elephant offensive inside this group here.

                                          To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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