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    In 1930, four men were arrested for appearing topless on Coney Island. In 1935, forty-two men were arrested in Atlantic City for doing the same thing in a flash mob.
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    If you present a position and an argument to defend it, then I point out how insanely absurd your position is by citing examples of how your argument is either …
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    How do you add the downloaded package to the project so that Dim cnt As New Vlc.DotNet.Forms.VlcControl actually works? As is typical, the package is provided with essentially no documentation. …
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    Replied To a Post in What is your favorite English word?

    The same word that came to my lips the last time I heard someone mention **superfood**.
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    Replied To a Post in What is your favorite English word?

    I'm going to go in the other direction here and say that if I hear the word **superfood** one more time I think I will go postal.
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    If there is no difference between tags and content text when searching, what is the point in duplicating the text via tags?
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    >no one is allowed to even draw a picture of the prophet nor allah/god At the risk of derailing this thread, you have the right to be offended. I have …
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    Replied To a Post in Do you feel old yet?

    The Amiga booted into an *actual* operating system, not an mmos.
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    http://www.daniweb.com/ http://www.alternet.org/ http://www.imdb.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and for s&g http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis http://www.bugmartini.com/ http://www.somethingpositive.net/index.html http://www.smbc-comics.com/ http://xkcd.com/ http://www.jesusandmo.net/ (unfortunately it updates only weekly) I frequently check out books at http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
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    Created Trying to embed VLC in vb.net app

    I created an app to view and tag all of my home movie files. To play back the video I embedded Windows Media Player in the form. It also allows …
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    Replied To a Post in Do you feel old yet?

    I bought an external hard drive for my Amiga 1000. It was a whopping 40 meg and cost me over $800. Mind you, when the OS fits in 720k, 40 …
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    Also guilty. I don't see the point in adding tags when posting in a specific forum such as vb.net.
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    Replied To a Post in No back doors in TrueCrypt

    Unsecure would be akin to "open to penetration". Insecure would be "unsure of oneself".
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    "Arguing that climate change isn't real because it's cold is like saying the sun doesn't exist because it's night." - Bill maher
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    Replied To a Post in No back doors in TrueCrypt

    In related news, [In baffling move, TrueCrypt open-source crypto project shuts down](http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248658/In_baffling_move_TrueCrypt_open_source_crypto_project_shuts_down?taxonomyId=245&pageNumber=1)
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    Several times a day I browse the vb.net forum (and a few others) to see what's new and to check if there are any questions for which I can provide …
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    Google [How to use the Windows 7 Task Scheduler](https://www.google.ca/search?q=how+to+use+the+windows+7+task+scheduler&oq=how+to+use+the+windows+7+task+scheduler&aqs=chrome..69i57.8684j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8)
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    Replied To a Post in An idea to prevent undergoing redundant medical tests

    The problem is, if the doctor works for the hospital, and the hospital profits from excessive tests, then the doctor may order these tests to generate revenue for the hospital.
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    >When I saw my first Amiga in 1985, and really started grokking the potential. I noticed the ball from the boing demo in your avatar ;-) I'm still waiting for …
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    Replied To a Post in An idea to prevent undergoing redundant medical tests

    Well, here in Canada the doctor does not get paid more for ordering more tests so I suppose the reasons for more tests would be more akin to 1, 2, …
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    Replied To a Post in ORDER BY query

    Just add more clauses to the ORDER BY as in ORDER BY fld1 DESC, fld2 ASC, fld3 ASC
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    Replied To a Post in Do you feel old yet?

    My first personal computer was a Commodore 64, followed ASAP by an Amiga 1000. The first computer I ran a program on was an IBM 1620.
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    Replied To a Post in Why does Windows XP refuse to die?

    I don't know if this works but... [how to receive XP security updates until 2019](http://betanews.com/2014/05/26/how-to-continue-getting-free-security-updates-for-windows-xp-until-2019/)
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    Contrary to popular belief, gun ownership in the US is actually declining. In the '70s, nearly half of all American households had a gun. Today it's closer to [34%](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/rate-of-gun-ownership-is-down-survey-shows.html?_r=1&).
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    Replied To a Post in i missed up with cacls command , i can't access my folder anymore

    Try downloading a linux livecd and booting off that. Copy the files to another folder/device then delete the bad folders.
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    Replied To a Post in My Dell Inspiron Beeps at Random Times

    No. There was no sound coming from the drive. It was a "boop" (sort of a mellow "beep") coming from the motherboard. And it was happening whether or not I …
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    My nephew had a tattoo done in 2009 that he said was extremely painful. The artist got halfway through and asked if he wanted to wait until the next day …
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    Replied To a Post in Best place to put the code in the textbox event

    The problem is that you are leaving the control to ask the user to enter a value and when you get back to the textbox the got-focus event fires again. …
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    Replied To a Post in My Dell Inspiron Beeps at Random Times

    Apparently the random sounds were trying to warn me of an imminent drive failure (something for which I still have not found documentation). My drive crashed for good on Monday …
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    Marked Solved Status for My Dell Inspiron Beeps at Random Times

    I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 running Windows 7 Pro. At random times throughout the day it says "boop" (a short, mellow toned beep). It is not associated with any …
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    >What I can't stand is empty-headed people, with nothing to offer but the urge to throw a dictionary at their faces. Now we're talking vocabulary. When it comes to vocabulary …
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    Marked Solved Status for saving changes in access using vb.net textbox

    hi...i am a new user of vb.net and i want to have a code where changes in my existing data could be save when i click the button "update"...can anyone …
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    Replied To a Post in saving and updating in one command button

    You do the INSERT when there is no value entered for locid. Is this really what you want? Also, why are you using ExecuteReader for the INSERT? Use ExecuteNonQuery instead. …
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    Replied To a Post in Export ListView to Excel Spreadsheet

    The link to the picture is broken.
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    I'm assuming you've never been bullied.
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    contrary to popular belief, most popular beliefs are wrong.
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    Replied To a Post in Which laptop should I buy?

    If you want the speed then you can always invest in an SSD.
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    Replied To a Post in Which language now??

    The one thing about most languages is even if you lose the indentation you can always recreate it. In Python, if you lose the indentation you are pretty much screwed.
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    Replied To a Post in saving changes in access using vb.net textbox

    If you are using OleDb then try access = "UPDATE tbl_location WHERE locid = ? SET locname = ?, locadd = ?"
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    >Everyone's chart looks completely different I didn't see anything on the page that said those were the numbers for me so I assumed it was a generic "this is a …
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    What exactly am I looking at? I see a graph and a pile of numbers with $12.63 at the bottom. Some of the months are tagged with an asterisk. Without …
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    Replied To a Post in Export ListView to Excel Spreadsheet

    You should be able to figure that out from the code. You can take sheet.Cells(row, col) = item.SubItems(i).Text and put headers/text in any cell you want. Just change the values …
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    Replied To a Post in VB6 complete code

    You mean you want us to do all the work for you even though you have shown no proof that you have put any effort into it yourself?
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    The outdoor set for the Star Trek episode, "Miri", is the same set used for Main Street, Mayberry in "The Andy Griffith Show" but with garbage and debris added.
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    Contrary to popular belief, captains of seagoing vessels have never had the legal authority to perform weddings.
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    Replied To a Post in Export Datatable to Real Excel not HTML

    You can find lots of good stuff in the [Code Snippets](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/_/58) section such as how to [Export ListView to Excel Spreadsheet](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/464769/export-listview-to-excel-spreadsheet)
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    Replied To a Post in Contrary to Popular Belief...

    And of course, the Flat Earth Society (of which Canadian Author, Farley Mowat) was a member. The Flat Earth Society is to geography what Pastafarians are to religion.
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    Replied To a Post in Is it possible to recover a "bad drive"?

    I can't say enough good things about [SpinRite](https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm)
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    Contrary to popular belief, Napoleon was not short. He was actually slightly above average height for a Frenchman of that era. He is unjustly believed to be short because the …
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    Contrary to popular belief, Mary Mary wasn't...

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