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A History of (Computer) Violence: Wait. Before you whack it again, try caressing the mouse

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Re: Whacksing benefits

absolutely NOT!

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Re: Whacksing benefits

Brother L2375DW works like a charm over WiFi. Both me an my fiance can use it from Linux 18.04. The installation was no easy thing, but the result is stable and the printer is faultless after 2 yrs. I wrote some notes that may help (or mislead you) in case...

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gravity is a bitch but not nearly as bad as ppl creating "eng. change orders" (ECO:s)

I remember sitting on an island, hours away from the mainland, finding an ECO that ordered the service personnel to cut an etch connecting the input of an operational amplifier to ground, effectively creating an antenna to all and any radio signal happening to be around. That day's mobile phones included.

That took some work.

Those Dasher printers had some real problems...

Regards,

ex_Data General employee

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UK Court of Appeal settles reseller's question: Is software a good?

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the proper thing must be handing over the license on paper, Paper is a tangible good, "enough scarce in relation to demand to command a price". This "good" has properties, like any hammer has properties making it useful for different purposes, sheet steel, nails or as a geological pick. The important property in this case is to give access to some expensive intellectual property but, nota bene this property is not essential as seen by the UK Court of Appeal though, I'm just trying to argue for it's likeness to other tangible things

Refer to https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/153342/one-type-of-good-singular-or-plural

The OED 'goods' - meaning: C lll 7b would seem to suggest that the singular form is obsolete and (7a (b)) that the plural form, 'goods' is used for singular.

BUT:

"However, I recalled from Pure Economics that theoretical Economists, will often refer to an 'economic good'. I was delighted to discover that the OED has a separate entry on 'economic good' which appears below."

"economic good n.[oun] a commodity or service which is sufficiently scarce in relation to demand to command a price."

Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/153342/one-type-of-good-singular-or-plural

Lastly but not at all leastly: to this I can only say the words "or service" makes the UK Court of Appeal's decision rather shaky. The case all depends on which source of reference they use when deciding that a "good" is a tangible thing, their own beliefs or the community of theoretical economists...

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What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

xhosa

What the F...K!

another reason to just hate Microsoft and one more why I don't use them.

It's like they were a part of China. Xi JindiddeliPing sort of!

Well, I bought a windows 10 with my new pc for a few $ just to be able to abuse the stinkin' AI with my foulest language. Feeling depressed I can always change the disk in my laptop, start the bloody windows OS and abuse the AI without being prosecuted.

You know, to release pressure... everyone does it... change disks, i mean

Well! No more!

Arrrrgh!

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