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    Song Name Game Part 3!

    Magic - Olivia Newton-John (from the Xanadu soundtrack)
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    Song Name Game Part 3!

    On The Radio - Donna Summer
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    Song Name Game Part 3!

    Detroit Rock City - Kiss
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    Site is slooooow

    Do these go away when everyone involved leaves the conversation?
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    A classic TV Show is returning

    Michael Dorn has always been an unqualified stud. SMG was never an Amazon.
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    Song Name Game Part 3!

    My Girl - The Temptations
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    Name a song that instantly reminds you of a movie or TV show...

    Mike Post seems to have pulled back from writing TV themes since his songwriting partner, Pete Carpenter, passed in 1987.
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    Site is slooooow

    Not speedy on the Left Coast. Posts take 3-4 seconds to come back.
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    Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

    The Salem Costco is $3.099 and $3.399. I think this happened last Friday. Redwood City is $4.099 and $4.459 so they still aren't getting hosed as badly as Rohnert Park. I imagine the political nonsense between the US and Canada has made for some pretty wild swings in petroleum futures -- the...
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    Why Dell? WHY?

    It's not the only way. It probably starts with transportation (fuel, insurance) and works its way up through manufacturing (raw goods, personnel, insurance) and then to retail (finished goods, distribution, personnel and insurance). Notice the word "insurance" popping up everywhere? It is...
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    Apple’s Commitment to the Vision Pro

    This after they announced that they were sidelining the Apple Glasses. I lost track of how many times they said the word "like".
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    Name a song that instantly reminds you of a movie or TV show...

    Their version of the song was a cover. They are one of the great bands to come out of the Pacific Northwet.
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    Song Name Game Part 3!

    You Can't Blame the Youth - Bob Marley & The Wailers
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    The Increasing Prices of Streaming

    Quite a whiney lament. Justified none the less.
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    Why Dell? WHY?

    My point is that hiring US employees is expensive because their cost of living is expensive. We need to figure out how to drive the cost of living down.
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    Song Name Game Part 3!

    Sugar Walls - Sheena Easton :biggrin
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    Site is slooooow

    The engines are sufficiently different that the configurations for one may not have the same (or any) impact on the other. Not having to worry about whether you should be using an Enterprise license or not makes MariaDB more attractive and thus favored by distro assemblers who don't want their...
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    Site is slooooow

    WordPerfect killed Wordstar. I used it for many years until too many of our business partners were using Microsoft Word and its ever-changing file formats. I remember being able to cold boot an 80286 machine and be ready to go in Word Perfect in around 12 seconds. WordPerfect was a real...
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    Why Dell? WHY?

    The big question is whether spending money on personnel is a better value than spending that same money on scripts and training. I think most have settled on going the knowledge-base route. One of my favorite examples is Xfinity where they have representatives that speak unaffected English but...
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    Site is slooooow

    Some of my earliest database projects were done using the Ashton-Tate product running on an Altos A580 multiuser Z80-based machine. You don't forget that. The customer also used Microsoft Multiplan and Wordstar from MicroPro.
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    Site is slooooow

    MariaDB has become more of a work-alike since it was forked 15 years ago. Think DBXL .vs. dBASE where they were substantially interoperable but independently optimized.
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    Why Dell? WHY?

    You may be overlooking the fact that health care and medicine in most other countries is much less expensive than it is here. The incidence of obesity, diabetes and heart disease are typically much lower.
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    6 more weeks of winter

    It isn't just you. That is the typical result of a La Nina weather pattern that we're currently experiencing.
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    Why Dell? WHY?

    For many companies, foreign call centers became a necessity because they couldn't find American workers who were willing and able to follow the scripts. Just because they are difficult to understand doesn't make the information they disseminate any less valid.
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    Site is slooooow

    MariaDB replaced MySQL in many Linux distros a few years ago. Whether the config hacks are tranferrable is unclear.
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