Australia is set to be the first nation to do just that with legislation about to be passed. Expect plenty more nations to follow our lead. Musk is already jumping up and down.
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I always finish off a text message with an icon, otherwise it seems emotionlessI once kissed the Blaney stone Jessica.
I could talk the spines off a hedgehog.
Sometimes I like to express some emotion by an icon rather than words. Not always. I feel an icon can often express better and more succinctly than words. And even be deliberately ambiguous.
When teaching I loved drawing pictures with lots of colours on my black and white boards. I taught the "kinkiness" of the graphs of polynomial functions with slender, smooth and colourful curves, for contrast to other powered polynomials, of course. Go Pollys. For my Seniors I explained with a deliberate straight face the more powerful a polynomial function, the more kinkiness it could have and all the possible roots it could have. I expected and ignored the sniggers and chuckles that followed but knew the general rule had sunken in, even snippets in year books..
They were shocked to attention the day I told them I was going to teach them all about "Sets".
Language and communication is more than just words. It takes many forms and styles. Body and facial expressions, the visual in many ways, the voice including its tone, eye contact, ... like even the way one dresses and appears, .... smell, ... status, ... gold chains, .. MAGA hat, ...
More importantly, I keep in touch regularly with my two east state wonderful daughters by Messenger with many an icon.and funnie.
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As you guys have probably noticed, I do short posts here, mainly because my spare time is limited, I do read all your posts though!
I've heard of people kissing the Blarney Stone, did you have to lean backwards to do it?
Grier
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I did lean backwards Jessica. It was a bit scary as a boy.I always finish off a text message with an icon, otherwise it seems emotionless
As you guys have probably noticed, I do short posts here, mainly because my spare time is limited, I do read all your posts though!
I've heard of people kissing the Blarney Stone, did you have to lean backwards to do it?
I couldn't stop talking about it afterwards!
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Did this happen to you Terry.
Did this happen to you Terry.
Woke too early today so knew it was gonna be one of those days. Not wrong. Firstly Bonnie did a crap on the decking as it was raining overnite and I walked on it with bare feet. Then my pool filter did not prime until I found the problem 100s of tiny palm seeds had clogged the filter and skimmer boxes caused by the violent storm Then to top off my bag of pool salt sprung a leak as I was carrying it to be applied. All this before 9am. ggrrrr. It is so bloody humid too so closing windows and doors.
Jeez I hope the rest of the day improves.
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Zman
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Do you live there Ritchie?Sydney is in for a warm end to spring with mid to late 30s predicted.
Zman
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Need some help?PS. No improvement as PC trouble. Bloody nuts and bolts.
Grier
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Yes it seemed to Craig. I talked my head off for years teaching and love discussion groups.
Grier
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I hate days like that Craig, when everything goes wrong.
I think it was Van Morrison who sang "..there'll be days like this."
How true and one catastrophe seems to encourage others to happen.
..gift of the gab and pen old mate.
Terry after reading about you and the Blarney Stone I had a dream where I traveled to Blarney Castle to kiss the stone but no one wanted to hold my legs. Just as I finally found someone I woke. Hows silly is that.
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Thanks for the offer mate. My son says he does not know why I am unable to shut down the usual way so I am now using the button on the hard drive. Failing that turn off at the power point.
Zman
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There might be two reasons for that, you might have a computer virus that's preventing you from shutting down. May I suggest you Google and download an antivirus software like Norton's and use their two free trial then run it after you install to see if that's the issue. The other reason might be that your on/off switch is faulty, and it might need replacing, that's a hardware problem.
Thanks for advice, but my son built my computer so he'd know if that was the case and would've told me..
Zman
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Ok try an antivirus software then and see if that helps.
looker-on
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That is the question. Only via the normal PC procedure as I can shut down by pressing the button on the hard drive for about five secs.
Already mentioned that to my son. Yet to here if he has acted on it.
Zman
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If you don't. have anything important you need on your hard drive you might consider doing a total reset and wiping it clean and starting all over again. It's most likely an adware virus you picked up whilst surfing the net, lots of rubbish internet sites put advertising pop up viruses on your pc without you knowing it. Or you can try an antivirus software as I suggested before
