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... Relative Importance[^]
Seems about right, except for the lack of BACON. 
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Got an earlier version with toilet paper peaking, I find the drop back to normal in April in your graph even better.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Seems about right, except for the lack of BACON.
and patience!
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
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I dunno - round here patience appears to be improving.
I went food shopping this morning, and nobody seemed to have a problem with an orderly queue to get in, or with slow people who browse the shelves instead of taking a shopping list. (Though one lady who decided that the "direction arrows" in no way applied to her wasn't popular)
And the lack of queues to pay and leave was good.
In some ways, it's better - it slows down the whole "experience" and makes it a lot more relaxing. Odd but true.
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I was more referring to the posts that say; "You can stay shut up in your house afraid to come out but I'm not going to be shut in any longer"!
and of course the ones that won't stay in because it's a way for the government to control them.
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Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
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Or because they are too stupid to put the health / lives of others ahead of their need for a belly load of beer in the sun ...
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Yep
The beaches here reopened on a limited basis; for a few hours in the morning and evening for; walking, running, surfing, but you can't lay can't he beach. And the beaches were packed the first day.
You can do anything you want but you pay for everything you do!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Seems about right, except for the lack of BACON.
They also forgot: chocolate, cakes, biscuits, crisps and nicotine.
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That's because it's a constant, so why bother including it?
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Perhaps cola is boogieing around its modern interaction? (6, 10)
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Oh very good 
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Is the correct answer:
Perhaps (ang)
cola is COLAIS
boogieing DANCING
around its ITS modern interaction?
SOCIAL DISTANCING
COLAIS
D ANCING
ITS
I was beginning to think it would go unsolved...
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Quite creative.
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Everyday has become the Monday of my life and I'm basically hating everything in here 
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Deep breath...
It is a common feeling of first/new job - you practically know nothing... but you will learn, and fast...
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First job: Realizing that what you learned at school doesn't have so much to do with reality.
Second job: realizing that most of what you learned at the first job was specific for the first job.
Repeat...
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I needed a license for my windows 10 machine and during activation it took me to microsoft's official site.
Price : $339 .
I googled a bit and there are copies available for lot less. Finally I found one on ebay for $8. Yes that is saving of $331 and the key worked perfectly. I had a voucher for $5 so ultimately it costed me $3. That is the price I am happy to pay.
Very happy to save few $$ in this time of no job.
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virang_21 wrote: ultimately it costed me $3. That is the price I am happy to pay.
For windows 10?
It's still $153 too much.
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Watch out with those mega cheap licenses. It is a gray zone.
Those usually are not normal licenses, they are a re-sell of unused corporate licenses. And it is not clear yet, if legal or if there will be consequences.
M.D.V. 
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I thought so too but it is for my personal home dev machine so not much bothered. At max Mickysoft can take the OS away and I will be left with Ubuntu only.
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Can you resell a book you've bought?
A TV? A car?
Good luck to them trying to enforce some clause or codicil that says otherwise, which is tucked away and hidden in 950 pages of software-license verbiage. It would certainly create a lot of new haters.
AFAIK, only the government of the country where the user lives can add such restrictions, and then only by passing an ad-hoc law.
If the intent is not to defraud the buyer, you can sell anything you've paid for.
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Maybe I have chosen the wrong words. I have read about it a couple of months ago. Could look for the article (written in German).
To resell things is legal, that's the main argument of the sellers of these licenses. But in this case is not guaranteed to be "valid".
The licenses are part of a corporate bulk, that didn't get fully used. The problem is... if the company that purchased these licenses had "problems" with Microsoft, and Microsoft does something with that bulk of licenses.... then the private people that have bought these cheap licenses would be affected too and can have problems with an unlicensed Windows after X time working fine.
If Microsoft ever "cancels" such a license bulk, or if the private people then get "reactivated" after that cancellation... is another point.
EDIT: Economically speaking... Probably still worth the try / risk
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modified 20-Apr-20 6:39am.
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That is how it goes: The company buys what is named a volume license = a large (sometimes even unlimited) amount of licenses that may or may not be limited in time, for a certain price. The volume licensing service is explicitly stating the company as future owner of these licenses.
The company then uses only part of these, and then sells other license-IDs to a very small amount of money in regards to what such a license normally costs on the market. Here are the problems: Is the company allowed to resell the license that was issued from a deal between the license provider and the company with explicit limitation ? IF yes, is it allowed to resell it to such low a price ? And this is regulated differently in different parts of the world - the globalization makes it even more complicated to handle.
Plus, very few company owners know about this, and it is happening that the IT guys profit from this "un"knowledge by selling the extra licenses as a side remuneration; so when buying such a license, it is hard to tell if you are not profiting of stolen goods (not due to the resell of licenses, but of the stealing from the volume license).
Even if done with the company's consent, it can be a conflict to sell a product for a price largely below the market. If this is really legal, I could create a building company, buy one million MSOffice licenses for my "development team" for $5,000,000 and sell them each for $8 to $10. The selling process is mostly automated (auctions, automatically generated emails with keys after auction completion,...), so limited effort required.
modified 20-Apr-20 7:28am.
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Setting up a company for the purpose of trading the way you say would would likely be in breach of fair-trading regulations, and microsoft could sue parties who did so, but that would have no effect on the validity of any licenses sold.
The only criminals you've mentioned are "IT guys". I've just done a search and found no-one charged with this crime, so we can assume it appears to be a theoretical postulation only (read: "FUD"), and I'm sure that many IT guys who own baseball and/or cricket bats would love to discuss the validity of your accusation.
It doesn't matter whether you own one copy of a book or fifty; you are perfectly entitled to sell them on.
What is almost certainly not legal is the binding of licenses to MAC addresses, but companies that do so also unbind them, when requested, so there haven't been any lawsuits about that, either.
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