L'arrobase, a commercial, arrobe, arobas, arrobas. L'arrobase est un logogramme formé d'un a écrit en minuscule dont la patte du coin bas-droit est prolongée jusqu'à faire le tour de la lettre en revenant au coin bas-droit : @.
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Le nom arrobase vient du castillan arroba (portugais arroba, catalan arrova), qui désigne une unité de mesure de masse et de capacité en usage en Espagne et au Portugal, de grandeur variable selon les régions. Ce terme, attesté en Espagne depuis 1088, vient lui-même de l'arabe ' (ar-rubʿ), « le quart », un quart de quintal, soit .
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A joke is a story with a humorous twist. It can be in many different forms, such as a question or short story. To achieve this end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous.
A practical joke or prank differs from a spoken one in that the major component of the humour is physical rather than verbal (for example placing salt in the sugar bowl).
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Jokes are typically for the entertainment of friends and onlookers. The desired response is generally laughter; when this does not happen t...
If you try Jeff's link above, and everything reports OK but it still doesn't work, please let me know. In the interim, there is a ghetto login route:
http://{some site}/users/chat-stackexchange-login
for example: http://stackoverflow.com/users/chat-stackexchange-login
A friend of mine posted a riddle on Facebook involving adding money and then subtracting money. It ended with a question asking where $1 went, but the trick was that there was no discrepancy, so the $1 didn't exist.
The question: Three guys walk into a
hotel, and they're going to split the
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Where I'm living now, the internet connection (wired) shows the following weird symptoms. They seem to be independent of whether I use host names or IP addresses.
Pinging works
Skype works
Wget connects, but never receives a response. (Keeps waiting at "HTTP Request sent, awaiting response" unt...
I refer to the following citation, which is hanging on my office wall at work:
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sit...Transcript for
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