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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: A good speaker of Irish can go a whole day without using the same word twice. An expert speaker can go their whole life without any repetition.
I work with an Irish guy and having a conversation with him is exhausting because he uses so many words, almost all of them superfluous, that you have to concentrate so hard to make sure you don't miss the important bits.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: You can only leave the pub after a number of rounds that is a prime number and also a binomial of two primes. If you don't get out very early this becomes messy
No, you leave after your round. In theory.
The Irish Round is protected by the Republic's Constitution and any infraction is, AFAIK, punishable by going out for a Guinness.
The system works as follows. On arriving at a bar the first man is in the chair and stands for anyone who walks in until someone who he's stood needs a refresher. Then the chair is passed and ya new man stands for everyone once in the chair.
If someone stands you, you stand for them. This might mean taking a few short cuts [Paddys, Jamesons, ya Bush] to get ahead to take the chair. Unless the chair says feckit and stands the sides and the stouts.
Novices can get caught by the system as once they've taken the chair and stood for all, they think they're clear. However, ya man's just stood for eighteen man and he'd be total langer to leave with out letting them all stand for him. Then the problem starts that as they've stood for him, he must stand for them.
It is not unusual for a round to carry on past closing time and be restarted the next day. Ferfecks, death doesn't even get you out of the obligation. The only difference between an Irish wedding and a funeral is that there's one less drunk at the funeral.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The only difference between an Irish wedding and a funeral is that there's one less drunk at the funeral.
This is the best Irish joke I ever heard! 
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It's not a joke!
Before my parents got married, ma's da took me da out for a glass before lunch and they got back just in time for the Sunday Roast. Problem was they went out on Saturday.
When he, my grandfather, died the wake was four days. You read it well, four days. Ma's baby brother had open house from the day before the funeral for all to pay their respects. Ladies had tea and sandwiches in the kitchen and men had whiskeys and more whiskeys in the sitting room. The day of the funeral was begun with a wet breakfast and a stiffener at the pub before the service. It was damned cold so they had a short on the way back from the cemetery and then the wake began.
veni bibi saltavi
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In Ireland the official sunscreen is the Pub
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... and we use a lot of sunscreen. 
veni bibi saltavi
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In the netherlands we can relate to the third point
#region(start signature)
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
#endregion
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In looking at the business side of my software efforts, it's obvious that I need to trabsition from selling software to a subscription based system. To do that I need to generate a license file for each customer and ghsve thesoftware check to see if the license is valid before running.
Does anyone know of a reasonable system for doing that?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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We are using Sentinel LDK for that, not as a SaaSoftware, but as a standalone usb (and software)license dongles.
LDK support SaaS (Sentinel Cloud Licensing); if we decide to do SaaS, we should be able to do it with minimum effort.
I do not know if it is reasonable for you and your business ($$$), but it works for us.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I've toyed with Activatar[^] before. It works quite well, and is open-source.
There are various others, such as InstallKey[^].
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Tjhanks for that link, it looks like it should give me a good start. Thanks!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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No problem. Activatar is quite powerful, and is quite easy to work with. If you want multiple use product keys, it shouldn't be too hard to extend the library to support that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Here[^]
I blame QA
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Good Grief!, The stuff I worked on was so heavily reviewed any 'funny behavior' would be have been logged and either removed or as I think here ignored...
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What a cheezy ass thing to do.. Anyone with any form in intelligence knows this came from the top.
Now they're going to have to find new programmers after their IT department jumps ship.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Apparently the VW head office got raided by the police today as the prosecutors office in Braunschweig got indications of a massive coverup happening.
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Yeah, I guess the programmers should have reported it rather than implementing it... 
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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And never get a job again. Oh wait, that's gonna happen now too
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I watched the video and I think he is fibbing.
Someone, high up, somewhere probably said "don't ask any questions" when the test for emissions came back from the labs.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Quote: VW Blames The Programmers!!!
What a pile of BS! The top management of any company may delegate responsibilities to underlings, but they can never escape accountability. They remain accountable for ALL actions of their underlings.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Well...I never thought management would gets it's hands dirty and code it themselves!
But it's a big company, with (I would assume) heavy duty reviews and QA procedures - if only to avoid lawsuits if there was a software glitch and someone in the USA crashed as a result.
So I can't see something like this getting through the system unless it was instigated, supported, and specified by management through the whole chain of command.
(And no, I don't want to get into a "German programmers were just obeying orders" argument!)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I wonder if VW will make the judgement that is cheaper to abandon the US market than fix the cars and pay the fines.
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A couple of problems with doing this:
- That would still not prevent class action suits by VW purchasers. If they can't get at VW directly, they might go after the assets of any company wholly owned by VW.
- The U.S. government would certainly go after the assets of any company owned by VW.
To summarize, this would involve stopping any and all U.S. activity by VW or its subsidiaries. Given today's world, I doubt that it is even possible, let alone desirable.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Just speculating.
1: a civil class action suit could not be applied overseas. Same as going bankrupt in the USA would leave your assets intact and untouchable in France.
2: I'm suggesting that they may take the view to completely abandon the US market; completely! Nothing for the govt to take.
I agree it is probably unlikely, just wondering if it had crossed their minds and how serious the train of thought might have been.
In any case, they make decent if boring vehicles and it's been mooted that they are not the only manufacturer doing this. I think there was an article (Telegraph, possibly) that stated that other manufacturers are going to get dragged into the melee.
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What nonsense.
I further suspect that this thing is going to spread a lot further and will include VW gas engines as well.
I know a few people with Volkswagons and even the fanboys complain about how difficult it is to get them serviced if there is something wrong with the computer. The fact that so many had problems with the computer is equally troubling.
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