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| Watsisname | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 01:54 | Message # 886 |
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| Quote Also, I feel like those White House petition things exist mostly to give people the illusion that they have a say in what happens.
My thoughts, exactly. Most of the petitions fail to reach the requirement (or are stupidly-written / trollish requests anyway), and even if they do get the required votes all it means is somebody has to look at it and reply with something along the lines of "Lol, not gonna happen, here's why."
Maybe there are a few petitions that get taken seriously, but I imagine they are exceedingly rare.
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| NovaSilisko | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 06:41 | Message # 887 |
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:31 | Message # 888 |
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| As it is now April 1st, I thought I'd share my personal favorite April Fools joke of all time: the joint Google/Virgin prank from 2008 dubbed "Project Virgle". Its purported goal: to colonize and terraform Mars. Richard Branson and the Google Guys were personally in on it and each made videos about the "project". It had its own Google website like any other major Google project, which you can still access by clicking on the logo below.
bah-midts-vah (n.) - how one would pronounce "bar mitzvah" with a Boston accent 
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:32 | Message # 889 |
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| When I was in the Czech republic this week someone gave me this bottle:
(champagne)
What more appropriate occasion to open it than the release of 0.97...?
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:32 | Message # 890 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) When I was in the Czech republic this week someone gave me this bottle:
(champagne)
What more appropriate occasion to open it than the release of 0.97...?
What does the bottle say?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:32 | Message # 891 |
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| Quote (Billy_Mayes) What does the bottle say?
It says "learn to read Russian" 
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:32 | Message # 892 |
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| Quote (Billy_Mayes) What does the bottle say?
Rossijskoe igristoe, meaning Russian sparkling [white wine] I suppose, but I don't know the language. My level of understanding is only that I can read most of the letters just because many are like the Greek ones, and recognise some words because they are similar to Czech (my mother-in-law is Czech, so I often hear Czech, but I've never got around to learn it beyond vaguely understanding the topic of a conversation).
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| NovaSilisko | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:32 | Message # 893 |
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| Bah midts, I just spent 10 mins painstakingly transcribing it letter-by-letter and you just have to come in and ruin it
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| gvlada | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:32 | Message # 894 |
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| Buddy_McFlurry | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:33 | Message # 895 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) When I was in the Czech republic this week someone gave me this bottle:
Being a Czech, I still can't read a single word on it...well except 'registered trade mark' 
Btw. I hope the development of 0.97 version is going well, I'm really looking forward to those auroras.
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:33 | Message # 896 |
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| Quote (Buddy_McFlurry) Being a Czech, I still can't read a single word on it...well except 'registered trade mark'
If you can read the letters, I'm sure you can work out the meaning of "rossijskoe". You are to young perhaps to have learned Russian in school? Still, I assume that if you hear spoken Russian, you can understand bits and pieces.
Oh, you're from Zlín. We visited Zlín zoo this week. A somewhat cold and windy experience.
To get on topic again, if SE announces 0.97 tomorrow, will anyone visit the download link, not wait a day to be sure?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:33 | Message # 897 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) not wait a day to be sure?
To be sure of what? You know that as soon as he says it's released people are going to spam the download link with their cursor 
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:33 | Message # 898 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) To be sure of what? You know that as soon as he says it's released people are going to spam the download link with their cursor
Precisely, so he can have some fun with that.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:33 | Message # 899 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) You do have a calendar?
I have Windows, so naturally I have a calendar, if that's what you mean.
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| Buddy_McFlurry | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 09:33 | Message # 900 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) If you can read the letters, I'm sure you can work out the meaning of "rossijskoe". You are to young perhaps to have learned Russian in school? Still, I assume that if you hear spoken Russian, you can understand bits and pieces.
Oh, you're from Zlín. We visited Zlín zoo this week. A somewhat cold and windy experience.
Yeah, we didn't learn Russian in school and I can't read those letter, but I can understand some words when I hear that language.
Good to hear you visited my town  I'm amazed that we still got plenty of snow here, it's really unusual here at this time.
Quote (midtskogen) To get on topic again, if SE announces 0.97 tomorrow, will anyone visit the download link, not wait a day to be sure?
I'm not going to download anything this day I'll just stay at home, playing Richard Burns Rally. I'm pretty sure a co-driver won't make april jokes.
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