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Shirt from my mother-in-law, slippers from my wife, chili chocolate bar.. all good.
Helping to serve up 452 Christmas meals... priceless.
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Nice one!
I had enough trouble cooking the meal for two ...
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Hi All,
I have a tradition, Don't Turn The PC On for Christmas day. Fine one day without email etc. ... Realised it's not what it once was as my phone gets emails/farcebook updates. Other news had an interview on the 23rd (still trying to get out of the PUB) which was quite good, the upside was the agent hadn't edited my CV too badly and left the link to the article I wrote which the interviewer had read and liked so :fingercrossed: (nuts)  I'm off for a drink now...
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: still trying to get out of the PUB
glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: I'm off for a drink now...
Some might say you aren't trying too hard to get out of the pub! 
Merry Christmas, and I hope the job hunt goes well!
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Quote:
Some might say you aren't trying too hard to get out of the pub! Laugh | 
Well it would be rude not use the facilities provided, wouldn't it 
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Are we talking about "recycling the Heineken"? 
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Well Heineken not so bad as Budweiser but...
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Ahhh, but did you also to take care to turn off all iot devices?
That toaster is still be watching you; it never sleeps and swaps secrets about you with the fridge down at the pub. Even the in-laws washing machine knows what you did last summer.
Sin tack ear lol
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IOT, or why I buy the cheapest toaster available, remeber the talkie toaster from Red Dwarf?
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Your headline made me think of the blues singer's tombstone
"Didn't wake up this morning..."
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I just unsubscribed (AGAIN) from paypal junk mail, and the unsubscribe page said it would take 10 days to take affect. Why does it take 10 days? It's all done by computers. This is f*ckin' absurd.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well ... if I was a cynical old fart - and I am - I'd suspect it's so that:
1) They can continue to send you adverts for another week and a half, and you might buy something.
2) They can hope that you forget and continue sending you rubbish for even longer.
Or the "unsubscribe" code is running on an Amstrad 1640...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 2) They can hope that you forget
This tactic works especially well with rebates.
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I imagine that if you open another e-mail from them in the interim, they take it to mean that you have changed your mind, and reactivate your subscription.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I imagine that if you open another e-mail from them in the interim, they take it to mean that you have changed your mind, and reactivate your subscription.
And simply clicking the close box also means you accept whatever they want to do for to you.
- but surely no honest company would ever try that sort of dirty tactic would they?
Sin tack ear lol
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Lopatir wrote: - but surely no honest company would ever try that sort of dirty tactic would they?
No honest company that I can think of would.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Close the account, block the SOBs.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Why does it take 10 days? It's all done by computers. This is f*ckin' absurd.
Could be...
Developers implemented quick update to actually remove it from persisted data.
QA validated update (ticket #1)
QA a week later (month later) noted that email still said 10 days. Open new ticket or bug.
Ticket went to triage.
Product owners prioritized for next sprint, but with low priority.
Ticket fell off that sprint
Prioritized twice more and fell off twice more.
Now ticket is way down list
Product owners forgot about it (back log is hundreds of thousands of tickets.)
QA sees same problem every couple of months, but search finds open ticket, so they leave it.
Variations of the above, but all based on product owners prioritizing it low and then it getting forgotten.
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If paypal need a developer to effect an unsubscribe then they we have bigger problems that waiting 10 days.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Just to f*** your mind.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Quote: It's all done by computers
It's all done with Java.
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They want to grab those last bits of money from their advert clients. At least it's only ten days - I've had place tell me "it might take thirty days" because they've already sent it out and it's to the printer.
I still have occasion to use my SMTP mailer to tell someone (with a repeated request) to stop sending emails. I usually start small - say 100 emails - and note to them that if 100 requests aren't enough, I can send a lot more.* It usually works the first time.
These days, however, I'm afraid they'll be perceived as "Likes" by the cellphone junkies.
* It has an option to change the sender and slightly vary the subject and content to disappoint the spam filter for a while.
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Yep. Same strategy works for phone calls. You call my number, I have a trunk. My system can make 50 simultaneous calls back you, repeatedly. I don't care if you remove me or not.
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Basildane wrote: My system can make 50 simultaneous calls back you, repeatedly.
I'm so elephanting jealous!
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