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A computer can't function without an operating system

A total lie usually mentioned in computer textbooks when talking about operating systems. Older computers sometimes do not have an operating system, so this is totally a lie because these computers can still function. Also, even modern computers can make use of the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) to do some basic tasks such as viewing and changing the date.
School textbooks: "A computer can't function without an operating system!"
1930s computer operator: "wtf is that"
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Operation Piss Monkey

When you have a plan
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Trucking Company Operations Manager

A fake title glorified dispatchers give themselves to feel important
Jimmy Hamlet is out Trucking Company Operations Manager... so you know what that really means
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fresh operation

A code for "jerking off" by british spies during the 1940s.

Semen is a very effective invisible ink. Like other invisible inks, semen is undetectable when it dries out, but it has one big advantage over its competitors it doesn't react to iodine vapor. Since iodine vapor was the main detection method for invisible ink during the war, writing code in semen meant that even if a message was intercepted, its secrets most likely wouldn't be revealed.

This technique was actually used in the field, where only one flaw was found: its distinctive smell. While fresh "ink" apparently didn't give off too malodorous a scent, one spy in Copenhagen stored his jam in jars, causing his letters to "stink to high heaven," and was told that a "fresh operation" was necessary for each communique.
Spy 1: We need to send a secret message to our allies

Spy 2: ..but we're all out of iodine

Spy 1: Just do a fresh operation
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Operations' Special Attack

NYPD's Operations Unit usually alerts dispatch (central) of shots being fired at a specific location by utilization of ShotSpotter technology, which detects gunshots. If operations calls into Central and they don’t answer, Operations is just going to disappear. This is known as the “Operations Special Attack” because when Operations comes over the radio, everyone gets excited for a possible man with a gun call, then they disappear, making everyone more disappointed than my mother when I left her womb.
They just did an Operations' Special Attack on the Citywide 1 channel.
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operating

When one operates, tactically

To navigate a situation with precision and learned technique, generally operationally

Derived from a meme originating from 4chan's /k/ board
I was operating operationally inna woods one day
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