dukeofchutney

dukeofchutney

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Reply to Rapist wins the lottery in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"That's not a bad idea actually. Death to all rapists." In ancient times the punishment for rape was up there with the punishment for murder: death. So in this enlightened age where rapists serve time, we have to ask who changed? God certainly hasn't..."

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Reply to Bruce Horn GUI Interview in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Now that was an interesting read, and there was a reference to the original icon designer for Apple (Susan Kare) in the comments section which I googled and that led me off on another interesting read.

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Reply to The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Oh good grief karb0n (and the rest of you for that matter), give it a break. The guys' stated his case. There's a saying which applies here: "Live and let live". Sheesh, you've all got the long knives out - and for what!? I haven't read the article, yet, but as soon as I'm finished beating you lot over the head with this here wet fish I shall - it sounds news-worthy enough.

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Reply to Time Warner Cable "DVR" in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

There's a vacuum cleaner-like sound in the background of this thread, has anyone heard it? It's the sound of TV sucking brain cells. No more brain, no more pain, and not much else either. Give me a good book any day.

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Reply to Can Linux go mainstream? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Back in '99 I tried installing SuSe on a spare PC I had - after fiddling about with the installer I got the OS installed, well after a fashion, but that was it. I could SEE there was a truckload of apps to play with, but I had no obvious way of getting at them, as a "DOS-like" cursor was blinking on the screen in front of me insisting I input a password which I couldn't remember being asked to set up in the first place, plus there was no way I was going to figure out how to load a GUI (

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Reply to StyleXP: I need dissuading from buying it. in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

Hmmmmmmmm...I figure those are persuasive enough arguments - perhaps I'll cancel the raid I planned on the kids' Bob the builder piggy bank after all. As for hacked dll's - I've worked with controls long enough now to know I'm on a loosing wicket if I start tampering with them unnecessarily - especially when Windowblinds is doing a perfectly good job already... No slight meant Crazy Travis - I hear what you're saying, but bitter experience has taught me that if it ain't broke t

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StyleXP: I need dissuading from buying it. in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

I've been toying with the idea of purchasing Style XP for a while now. But I'm not convinced either way. One thing that apparently is true, is that the window blinds here on WinCusto appear to be of a higher standard than those on ThemeXP and other sites. Yes, no, maybe, personal opinion/preference? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle" ALT="Powered by Sk

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Reply to 10 Years of Stardock! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Wow, what a ride Brad, I wonder how the gray hair count is doing? Or are you too scared to start? Then again your boys are probably partly responsible too. I know in my case our 4 children certainly are.

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Reply to Attribution Theory: Do you know what it is? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This thing of being overweight - women, and men, from their 30's onwards almost can't avoid it - I call it "the way of all flesh" - it happened to my granddad, my dad, and now at 36 it's happening to me. I tend not to think that success is what it's showing, what it's showing is that our bodies get old and degenerate - some show it faster than others, but we all, almost without exception end up with our bodily figure becoming "distorted" over time. We have the media to thank fo

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Reply to Tension in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey now, if it's true we've got tension on this message board then I for one am really sorry it's gotten like that - I'm a Group 3er, I have a wife, 4 small children and a job that keeps me going FULL TIME - I come here (when I can) to relax, and read other peoples meanderings and thoughts - and to (very occasionally) add my own. So I'll be mighty sorry if the regulars have either gone away in disgust or have turned into ogre's. What's that expression, "Live and let live"...?<b

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