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William Windsor (goat)

William Windsor (known as Billy), a goat in the military, was a lance corporal in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Welsh, an infantry battalion of the British Army. He served as a lance corporal from 2001 until 2009, except for a three-month period in 2006 when he was demoted to fusilier, after inappropriate behaviour during the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations while deployed on active duty with the battalion on Cyprus. He retired to Whipsnade Zoo in May 2009. History The tradition of having goats in the military originated in 1775, when a wild goat walked onto the battlefield in Bos...

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> With some difficulty, a five-month old was chosen, and assigned army number 25142301—which represents regiment number 2514, 23rd Regiment of Foot (the original name of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers), and 01 denoting the 1st Battalion.[26] The new goat will also be called William Windsor, beginning as a fusilier whilst being trained for military life.[25] He will receive a ration of two cigarettes per day, which he eats, but will not be permitted Guinness until he is older.[25]

There's a goat in the English army. Which eats cigarettes. And beer when its a little older.

2:03 PM

3:42 PM

yawns

Being dead must be the infinitely fun.

Rationale:
1. If a thing is fun, you do it.
2. The more you do a thing, the less fun it becomes.
3. You can't stop being dead.

@badpssockpuppet Ah, but unless you commit suicide, you never 'do' being dead - at least not intentionally. This isn't a very formal presentation of the argument

it is however a great suicide ad.

@badpssockpuppet Only for people who can't think properly

@RebeccaChernoff Is your Chrome dev up-to-date?

3:48 PM

@YiJiang You'd be surprised how hard thinking actually is.

Rebecca Chernoff

@TimStone I'm on stable on the comp I'm on right now, I can look at another, why?

@RebeccaChernoff After the most recent update if I type '. (or various other combinations of character + period) in the Inspector console it crashes my tab.

@TimStone Uh... that's an odd bug

It's kind of annoying, and I wanted to know if it was somehow just me. :P

@YiJiang Yeah, I suspect that it's something to do with it trying to suggest autocompletions where it has no business doing so, or something. It seems to happen after quote-like characters (`,',") and closing parenthesis. Makes doing just about everything a bit problematic, heh.

Rebecca Chernoff

Heh, on my other comp Chrome is telling me to relaunch. I don't know if I want to. (;

3:53 PM

If you haven't done it recently, probably not, hahah.

Because now my omnibox is slow as hell too.

After they "improved" the string matching.

Oh, @badpssockpuppet, do you have a better unicode symbol for this in your bag of unicode magics?

4:12 PM

Time to start programming my first Android game.

Nifty, what kind of game?

Just a casual type game. It's one that I worked on with my cousin about 10-15 years ago in C, which he named "Aardvark Joe's Evil Game".

It's a bit of speed, a bit of memorization, and a bit of trying to confuse you.

sounds great

Now, if I can only get JRE to work on my new Win7 machine...

Ahh, didn't download JDK, there's my problem...

heh

4:21 PM

I've decided it's time to try and do something useful with SE rather than just have it be a massive time sink...

4:37 PM

Just took some time to read through the EU cookie guideline brief; the rules are ridiculous - how could anyone follow them without destroying the user experience either through using consent forms for every cookie they use or not use cookies at all and reduce site functionality?

"guideline"?

There's no rules in guidelines.

Law. I believe its not enforced yet, and the brief is a list of guidelines helping you comply with the cookie law

Q: Android SDK installation doesn't find JDK

Wow, SO actually saved me...

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I'm tying to install the Android SDK on my Windows 7 x64 System. jdk-6u23-windows-x64.exe is installed, but the Android SDK setup refuses to proceed, because it doesn't find the JDK installation. Is this a known issue? And is there a solution?

a good tip when searching on SO in the Android tag. Don't forget to filter by views. Starting from 2 to 5k views is not a bad choice :)

I actually googled it, it was the top link.

4:42 PM

well yea thats another possibility :p

I think I ran into SO a few times via google when I first started developing, but I didn't join it until a few months ago.

5:21 PM

Wow, the ADK has dramatically improved since I last upgraded...

when was that?

About a year ago.

oh well then you've missed A LOT!

I think when I last played with it, 2.2 was the new thing.

ManjotSingh

6:23 PM

hi

@octavian how r you?

Michael Mrozek

7:20 PM

I'm a fan

gaming.stackexchange.com/posts/23384/revisions

I still want reps from editing.

Michael Mrozek

I would've posted a separate answer in that case

@MichaelMrozek I'm not sure, because I don't fully agree with the answer.

Rebecca Chernoff

9:39 PM

(:

:o

=_=

What? Tis true!

\o/

yawns I am far too exhausted for it being only 18:00 on a Saturday.

Michael Mrozek

10:28 PM

@TimStone You should've slept till 14:00 like I did

lunch becomes awful then.

you should have respect for lunch.

wake up at 12, have breakfast, have lunch at 14 then go back to sleep till 19!

I inadvertently stayed up until 5:30 or so in the morning working on a userscript, which kind of threw my sleep schedule off.

11:22 PM

It happens.

11:50 PM

wah wah only 2 votes left :(

Guess it's good that the UTC is about to tick over, eh?

Hurry up and use the last two;-)

> Daily vote limit reached; try again in 5 minutes.

I feel like such an idiot... Sigh.

@MichaelMrozek oh I feel such the early bird, I woke at 1300. Then after walking the mutt, while I was fixing a bowl of granola and milk, I got a call that a friend was in an accident about five miles from here. So I'm really just getting home ... alas

and I was gonna rewrite my node router today :(

A: Putting a custom view into another View, using XML layouts for both.

Just solved the android problem I've been facing for a few hours... And it was so simple...

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It's so simple, I feel like an idiot... The problem was, the base layout was oriented horizontal. Simply adding a android:orientation="vertical" was enough to make it work right. Sigh.