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Malgas

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Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

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Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

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It’s guns all the way down.

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I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

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It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.

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There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.

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Well, it is where everybody gets off…

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As Norwegian race driver Petter Solberg once said, “it’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell”.

“Smell”, of course, being Norwegian for crash.

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