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I like this one
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas
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Madam, I'm Adam.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Visa will now accept "dollar-backed" cryptocurrency.
In other words, it won't fly unless you factor in the dollar ... you know, the "obsolete" currency.
I'd go for a salami-backed cryptocurrency ... which inevitably would still be priced by the dollar.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Unsurprising, as Visa statements are in dollars. If they took payment in anything else, they'd have to deal with the equivalent of forex exposure. But there are "stablecoins" pegged to the dollar, and even the Fed wants to float them, so Visa is just prepping for bigger days ahead.
The dollar isn't obsolete. Nor would seashells be obsolete, if I told you that you had to pay my bill--for very few services rendered--in seashells. And that if you didn't pay with them, some of my "boys" would pay you a little visit. Meanwhile, on the side, I'm creating seashells at will and giving them to my toadies.
But hey, back in the day I'd definitely have gone for a salami-backed crypto too! As long as it was good salami, which most of them aren't. I lived in Dallas for 12 years, and you have no idea how long it took me to find decent salami and rye. There are vast wastelands in the US that have no concept of anything like Dimpflmeier's rye or Piller's salami. And it ain't just TX. NH and CA, same shite.
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Many years ago in a land far east of where I now live, when I was a very small child, my mother would make me "buy" sodas and other snacks from her ":Little Brown Chest®" cooler with sea shells.  A soda might be six clam shells (they were plentiful), while a small bag of potato chips might be three conch shells. She was teaching me about nature and economics, and how to count.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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I found that salami at a Polish market here in Michigan. It seemed pricey, but looked so good. After I ate some I thought I should have bought much more as the market is 50 miles away. It changed my view of salami.
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Phew!! When I saw the word lunacy, I thought this was going to be a political rant.... 
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Quote: I'd go for a salami-backed cryptocurrency
I don't think so. But bacon backed currency - Now that's a different matter! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Bacon and salami seem like different denominations of the same currency. Greasymeatcoin. 
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With extremely rare (and short-lived) exceptions, lunacy is always at its maximal value.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Use a fine cheese or wine in place of salami. It is a better hedge against inflation
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A timely topic, but only because of something in Insider News.
Has anyone ever made an easter egg in one of their programs? I always want to do it but never have enough creativity (or time) to actually make one.
Although, I still think I need to create a kill switch in every program I make.
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Actually, when I worked at CompuServe, that was documented in the forums. We had our own Easter Eggs and that was part of the relief of putting in long hours.
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We used to have a "snake" game in one of our html view (it was removed eons ago).
A kill switch is stupid and probably illegal in most places.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: A kill switch is stupid and probably illegal in most places.
Why would an application need a kill switch? Is your application that unstable that you need to kill it before it over heats and interferes with the space time continuum?
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Maximilien wrote: A kill switch is stupid
It's awesome and fun. And yes, probably illegal. 
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As long as it's in the contract that the software will stop working if you don't pay then it's legal.
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I disagree. If you have well-behaved customers they are entirely unnecessary. I had some friends who formed a company that made a ticketing system for ski resorts and their lifts. It had an automatic kill switch that tripped if they did not disable it and they were going to disable it when they were paid. They weren't paid and it tripped. It brought the lifts to a screeching halt for a few hours until the owner decided to pay the bill. One could call that ransom-ware. I and they consider it to be subscription-ware and that resort's subscription had expired after the trial period had elapsed.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: subscription-ware
That's going to be my go-to term for any service that removes the products that you've previously paid for if you stop paying - And used extremely negatively
-= Reelix =-
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I don't know where you got the idea that products previously paid for were removed. That is NOT subscription-ware at all. In my friend's case, their software just stopped working and that was because it wasn't paid for. Nothing was removed.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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SeanChupas wrote: Has anyone ever made an easter egg in one of their programs?
Yes. One is sitting under your nose.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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...no, that is my moustache!
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Just the same for me like Rusty.
Nothing under my nose except for a moustache.
Please reveal thy eggs for us.
It is Easter Eve after all.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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