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Annual Plagiarism for today:
Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.
This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.
The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.
The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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:groan: 
I've deleted your Lesley - I assume it went to moderation...
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Thanks
finger check. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Seconded - :groan: 
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Shocking, did not know that, but Wikipedia says Hellmans was made in New York.
Like Hellmans btw, over here we put it on French fries 
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I prefer it to homemade mayo.
And not only because it cuts the time to make a sandwich down from half an hour to something reasonable...
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RickZeeland wrote: btw, over here we put it on French fries
no worries putting it on french crap, maar niet op je frietjes, euuuuw
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Dammit! They canceled the Alderaan flight! I'd better call Aunt Padmé Amidala and tell her I'll be late...
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I have a bad feeling about this...
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Pre-Twitter, Disney would already have filed the lawsuit.
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Flight duration now less than 12 parsecs
Unfortunately, somebody doesn't know that a parsec is a measure of distance, not time. 
a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.26 light years (3.086 × 1013 kilometers). One parsec corresponds to the distance at which the mean radius of the earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc.
Although bizarrely, a parsec has time in its definition.
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Quote: Although bizarrely, a parsec has time in its definition
No, an arcsecond is just a 3600th of a degree. Just like an arcminute is a sixtieth of a degree, which happens to be part of the definition of a nautical mile.
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These days at the office I'm in charge of emailing license activation keys to customers who request them if, say, their machines can't access the internet to do automatic activation after a new install.
We have a dialog box that shows users their license key, a unique machine code, and a text field in which they're expected to paste the activation key we generate for them. There's clear instructions on that dialog box that they need to email us their license key and machine code, and there's a button to copy those values to the clipboard.
Every once in a while someone will send us a screenshot of the dialog box showing the key/machine code. Which means we have to type in those values. Neither are exactly short strings, so there's always a risk of us mistyping something - this is why there's a "copy to clipboard" button, so we can copy them from a plain text source.
When interacting to customers, I always go out of my way to be a nice guy, but sometimes I'm very tempted to respond in kind, by taking a screenshot of our licensing software showing the activation key they have to paste, with the note, "now you know why that Copy button is there".
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A picture is worth a thousand wrong keystrokes.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: A picture is worth a thousand wrong keystrokes.
That's brilliant. I may actually use that one with customers I know have a sense of humor. I can't think that's too passive-aggressive.
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dandy72 wrote: by taking a screenshot of our licensing software showing the activation key they have to paste
That's like the guy who got a ticket mailed to him with a picture by one of those automatic camera systems of him speeding.
So he mailed in a picture of his money.
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I remember that one. And then the cops mailed him a picture of handcuffs.
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And a colleague faxed a photocopy of the floppy disk with his weekly status report on to our boss.
(That was back in the 90's - I feel old now)
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excuse my dumbness, but
1. you have a button the user presses to copy the info to the clipboard,
2. and then the user creates and email, pastes the clipboard, and emails that to you,
why not have the button send the email as well?
- problem solved
- user only see magic.
next step: take it to a web api
... user presses the button, minute later everything is done for them.
= less work all around, isn't that what computers are supposed to be used for??
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Well, he writes in the first paragraph that it's for the machines that can't register over the internet. I would assume a mail client need internet as well.
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Jorgan has it right. This is for those people who can't have the software automatically activate itself because their machine is isolated or locked down in some fashion that prevents it from accessing the internet.
The best we can do under those circumstances is prepare all the information they need to send to us.
Otherwise, what you're suggesting is already in place. The user only sees magic, as you put it.
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I still don't understand. If their machine can't access the internet then they have to use another machine to see your instructions and email you back with numbers displayed on their machine. If you don't specifically tell them not to send a screenshot then it's reasonable for them to take a picture, so that they don't have to write down the numbers to type into to the other machine.
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