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Don't just try and stop the smugglers - stop the Elephanting Sunshines that buy them once they have been smuggled! At the moment, even if the penalties are serious - see Rhino horn, Elephant Ivory - only the smugglers get kicked, the people supporting it get off scot free.
If nobody buys 'em, nobody smuggles 'em.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah but that would piss off China and I would guess that it is their officials are the one buying the stuff, they are the one who can afford it. Superstitious bunch of arseholes.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Anyone who does something like this needs to be [REDACTED]!
Not just the people who do that, include the people jerks who buy these birds. If there were no one willing to pay to have their endangered bird, the perpetrators wouldn't go through the effort.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Wow, how can we as humans not think this is wrong in every way?
I agree with OG on this, if no one buys them then there's no reason to hunt them.
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I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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The real problems are the people who buy that stuff. For what the heck is it good. A souvenir or a cocktail. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Seeing pictures like that makes me want to go and shove certain people into bottles. Yes, they will fit.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Signed! Words escape me.
Marc
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So was I correct about the company name? You did not reply to my email. I'm just curious is all. 
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: So was I correct about the company name? You did not reply to my email
Odd, I've checked my email and don't see anything from you. Try replying privately from this post?
Marc
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How did they get the birds into the bottles?
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Hope it isn't done anything like this[^]?
That's gotta suck! 
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I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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That has to hurt. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Yup, the holocene extinction continues 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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At least the Bonsai Kittens thing from the early days of the net was a fake...
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I need some help from the Indian CPians ( maybe I should have moved this to the dedicated forum, but I am maybe not the only one to struggle). We are collaborating quite a lot with colleague in India, and I still do not understand how the names are working there. For instance, I write an email to a colleague named Vikram Ashrivantan. The Outlook data of the contact says : First name : Vikram, Last name : Ahsrivantan*, so I write him/her an email starting with
Dear M.Ahsrivantan, etc...
And his/her answer is signed:
Best Regards,
Ahsri
 What the elephant ? What is this ? Do you guys answer to formal emails with an abbreviation of your last name ?
*Name is made up for the sake of the example, I hope it does not translate to something offensive.
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That just happens to be his nickname. My cousin Vikram goes by Vicky or Vickster. It's like someone by the name of Robert Ostrofski being called "Ski".
/ravi
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Yeah, just ask the 'Hoff. 
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So the first name you picked is mine just by coincidence? 
Given you're not using the real name, it's a little difficult to pinpoint the issue. However, in states like Tamil Nadu, there is no concept of a surname, so they use the father's name (as it is, not like the Norse habit of adding a -son) as a "surname". However, some choose to add the father's name as a first name  so their name is actually their "surname".
Eg:
This lady's name is Meenakshi and her father's name is Seshadri, she goes by the name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meenakshi_Seshadri[^].
This guy's name is Ashwin and his father's name is Ravichandran, but he goes by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravichandran_Ashwin[^].
So, the case you're referring to might be no different from Robert Smith signing off as "Bob".
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Hey, Vikram, I remember you got married a couple of years back and have been lying low since then, I can understand the reasons.
I hope this piece of advice is not too late for you.
Don't name a daughter Arpita.
No girl should go through life being called A Royal Pain In The Arse no matter how much she deserves it!![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: So the first name you picked is mine just by coincidence?
Are you not flattered ? But no, not after you especially (Please remind me: How many of your fellow citizen are named Vikram ?).
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Your sickly textile factory workers may be productive, but can you live with your ill cotton gains?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sure I can, but you would have known that if you satin on one of our meeting.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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