Category: Humor
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Quote from Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
It (the income tax law) was, however, subjected to a succession of rate reductions and amendments, one of them being the elimination, in 1865, of its progressive rates, on the arresting ground that collecting 10 per cent on high incomes and lower rates on lower incomes constituted undue discrimination against wealth.
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Excel in 2017: The same problems as 20 years ago
After relying on Open/LibreOffice (and Latex) for roughly ten years, I am forced to use Microsoft Office again. Sadly enough, it’s still not possible to undo deleting sheets, or to open two files with the same name. Sad state of affairs.
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Beatiful Typsetting with LaTex… not
Very funny – via Dirk Riehle:
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Edward #Snowden Bust in Brooklyn Park (just for a few hours…)
Very cool: Activists erected a Snowden-Memorial in a park in NYC – police is furious and took it down quickly.
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Java & Files, IFiles, Resources, … (or: how standards proliferate #xkcd)
There are just too many implementations of File, Resource and whatnot abound in the Java/Eclipse/EMF ecosystem. Reminds me of this xkcd. And yes, I am just venting my pain:
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Fliegende Pinguine!
Wer hätte das gedacht – Pinguine können doch fliegen:
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Userfriendly.org meets Marvin the Martian
This is too funny!!! If you don’t get it, check out Marvin the Martian and the Editor war.
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Apple’s 1984 Advertisement with iPod
This is so weird – for whatever reason I was looking for Apple’s 1984 Commercial. I found it – and was amazed to see that the girl was carrying an iPod. Turned out that this is a 2004 remake for the 20th anniversary of the ad. Weird.
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Spinning green dot
This Optical Illusion is really amazing!
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Poodle disguise for Dobermans
Disguise your Doberman as a Poodle!Â