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... carry a chainsaw or wear a hockey mask ... 
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Guy picks up a hitchhiker and the hiker asks: When you picked me up how did you know I was not a serial killer?
Driver responds: What are the odds of two in the same vehicle?
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... carry a chainsaw _or_ wear a hockey mask ...
Is that an _or_, or should it be an _and_? 
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Where are the yellow stripes1? The green ones2? The little pink flowers3? The brown stains4?
Which - exactly - is "the other end"5?
1: High in protein
2: Vitamin B and C complexes
3: Wheatgerm extract
4: Bar-B-Q sauce
5: Anti-depressants
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modified 24-Jun-20 16:30pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where are the...
I'm not sure, but I was able to wrap it around my head to protect myself from the Bugblatter Beast of Traal. So I assure you, this is an authentic hitchhiker's towel. 
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OMG!
I want it now!
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Do 100 centipedes make a dollarpede?
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What the hecto are you talking about?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Not with the currency exchange rate, it ain't.
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Arachnid my brain but, webber you believe it or not, I couldn't come up with a reply.
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One milliHelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
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No. They make one pes.
(In Spain, they make one peso )
(I'll get my coat)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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modified 24-Jun-20 14:29pm.
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100?!?!
You should infest that somewhere!
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Well, I think I've a response for this, but the situation in the Roman Empire was not too different from the 18 century in Europe, but curiously this did not lead to a Industrial Revolution, a knowledge explosion an so on. The reason, for me, was a tiny actor they lacked, one of the two main characters in computing.
What do you thing could be the reason?
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Probably, they didn't need technology as they had a very, very cheap labour force: slaves.
Both the Greeks and Romans knew of the steam engine* for example, but they didn't use it (except to make the gods look more exciting) as slaves did a better job, cheaper.
* Or at least, a "starter engine": Aeolipile - Wikipedia[^]
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Good try, he, he.
Well some modern banks like Lloyd's made great part of his wealth from slavery, till late 18 century.
Some people could argue their job is slavery nowadays ...
Now seriously speaking, I think the actual reason was the lack of "0", half of our binary system.
This one came from India, like software stuff nowadays. I can´t image Oliver Heavyside building some foundations of engineering without a good supply of zeros.
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"OK, so you have invented a zero. And what did you get in return for that? Nothing!"
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OriginalGriff wrote: Both the Greeks and Romans knew of the steam engine* for example, but they didn't use it (except to make the gods look more exciting) as slaves did a better job, cheaper.
They lacked the metallurgy needed to make the large pressure vessels needed for steam engines with useful power densities. At best they'd've been limited to low pressure models with performance ratings of IIRC less than a ton/horsepower that used so much coal they were only capable of being ran onsite at coal mines.
And the industrial revolution began using water wheels, so arguments pointing to the ancients not taking advantage of steam power are totally blaming the wrong thing to begin with.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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It's obvious: Their number system lacked a zero. So they had no way to terminate their C programs.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I think so. It came from India. Can you imagine the speed of light represented in roman digits?
Is is philoshopically interesting that an item devoid of existence, in fact it represents the opposite of existence, has such importance:
"Please, add some zeroes to my wage !!!"
"No,no the opposite side"
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What about ‘NVLL’?
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I don't know about NVLL, but they certainly had NIL. Could it be that the Roman Empire collapsed because they wrote all their programs in PASCAL?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: the Roman Empire collapsed because they wrote all their programs in PASCAL
No - if that were the case they wouldn't have collapsed - they would have gone out in a Blaise of glory!
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