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How much of a geek and how clever my boss actually is. Not only does he know his medicine but he has basically modernised the current workplace, massively improved efficiency as well as started several new business ventures. On top of this, he can use ubuntu and wants to run his new practice with Raspberry Pi computers! :shock: This is from a guy who doesn't look like a geek nor act like it (unless it's the new iPhone/iPad).

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Jonathan Bradis (played Lucas in Seaquest DSV) hung himself in 2003.

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ProfessorF wrote:
Jonathan Bradis (played Lucas in Seaquest DSV) hung himself in 2003.
Blimey.

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That I can finally get fibre broadband and so go from 2.5mb/s to about 69mb/s :shock:

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Apparently 'big room sexy house' is a musical genre, and not estate agent brochure speak.
It's as if they're just naming genres after the first four moves in a Scrabble game.
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"House" is the genre of music with the largest ratio of detritus to quality IMO.

With the possible exception of "Grime" which is approaching 100% [LIFTED].

Though I should say that you can have some great songs of any genre.


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"House" is the genre of music with the largest ratio of detritus to quality IMO.

With the possible exception of "Grime" which is approaching 100% [LIFTED].


If I may make so bold, virtually anything since about 1988 falls into the same category. However, I am officially an old fart, so can be ignored. :D

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Re Crispin Glover:

"There were things about the moral aspect of Back to the Future that frankly made me not want to do the sequels," he says. The film ends with Marty returning to 1985, and having changed the past, he discovers that his parents are now rich. "I said to [director] Robert Zemeckis that if the characters had a monetary reward, then the film had a bad moral to it. I felt that the characters should be happy with finding love at the end of the film, but it ended up that the moral of the story was that money can buy you happiness. Robert Zemeckis became very angry and that led to me not doing the sequels."

When Zemeckis used Jeffrey Weissman in the sequels, he was made to look and act exactly like Glover. So much so that Glover sued over the sequels abusing his image rights. Glover won the case and since then image rights have become an important component of participants in the entertainment business. He would later make up with Zemeckis and appeared in Beowulf.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 79049.html

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ProfessorF wrote:
Jonathan Bradis (played Lucas in Seaquest DSV) hung himself in 2003.

Hanged.

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He wasn't executed.

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Doesn't matter.


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I beg to differ - they were both interchangeable and it's only comparatively recently that this pointless differentiation has arisen.
Hanged, I'm lead to believe, is correct when someone is killed by someone else. Such as an execution.
This wasn't an execution, so hung is quite acceptable.

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It still doesn't matter if it was someone else doing it, hanged is the process of being strangled by a noose, that's a sufficiently different process to hanging a picture, so it's not strange that it has it's own word.


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