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RobJones wrote:
Never seen an 8 pack before, strange..
2 x 4 Stella Artios 440ml (Gold Tops) 
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norm.net wrote:
2 x 4 Stella Artios 440ml (Gold Tops)
mmmmmm stella.
i prefer Hoegaarden these days though....
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p daddy wrote:
i prefer Hoegaarden these days though....
Yeah white cloudy beer made with coriander, sounds revoluting, but tastes excellent (takes a few jars to get the taste) - Slurp ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Beer is the international form of currency  (ITS LEGAL TENDER)
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You're cetain right about that one, beer talk $$$ and that's right around world. 
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For a long time I have used a barter system with friends and others. I maintained a network at an auto body shop for around 5 years for return work on my car and bike. I would upgrade a server and have my car painted in return. Or install new workstations and have a timing belt replaced. It worked out real well for both of us and we didn't have to bother with those damn 1099's.
Brett Slaski
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Usually friends won't pay you money out right. They're more likely (and it's more natural) to treat you a meal/drink or return you the favour via some other aspect where they're more skilled than you.
Of course, i absolutely understand from first hand experience how irritating it can be for a person to repeatedly ask your help on the same issue over and over without _ever_ wanting to bother to solve him/herself despite the frequency.
The melody of logic will always play out the truth. ~ Narumi Ayumu, Spiral
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Family stopped asking me about 10 years ago.
They started asking my older son (who was 10 at the time).
Took another 2 years to get the neighbors to ask him first.
Now that my younger son is about to start college, I'm moving, 'cause I'm not about to start helping everyone again!
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I actually got the opposite idea, I pass them on to my dad now. Sure he knows less about computers and is more likely to f*ck their hardware/software/life up. But he is at least willing to do so.
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman
blog.nonny.com [^]
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Jonny Newman wrote:
But he is at least willing to do so.
Where there's a will there's a way! 
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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Great isn't it! I've found exactly the same - funny thing is, my Dad loves it! I have to leave the room however, as some of the things he comes out with are pretty scary, or would be if it was my pc he was talking about  . I keep my laptop well away from him now!
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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It is sooooooooo anoying!!!
Always the same questions:
- My computer doesn't boot, why?? And what shall I do now??
- My computer always shuts down after x minutes, why?? And what shall I do now??
An my favourite question:
- Do you know how I could do this in microsoft word??
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Ungi. wrote:
My computer doesn't boot, why?? And what shall I do now?
Tell them to try plugging in the power cord.
Ungi. wrote:
Do you know how I could do this in microsoft word??
Yes, but why should I tell you?
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
My Articles
While much is too strange to be believed,
Nothing is too strange to have happened.
- T. Hardy
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oh yes, you are right. i think i am really too kind and too nice and read the f**** manual and do it for them in long evenings...
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>> Always the same questions:
>> - My computer doesn't boot, why?? And what shall I do now??
>> - My computer always shuts down after x minutes, why?? And what shall I do now??
My brother in law lives half a world a way, and he still calls me ....
= distance is irrelevant
>> An my favourite question:
>> - Do you know how I could do this in microsoft word??
My favourite answer, yes, but not in this old version.... (They always got the wrong version...)
And one more thing... When I say: just click here, and here and it's fixed... thats when the screen goes black, or the harddisc goes eeeeeeeeeeek! or this funny smoke poors out the back of the computer.
Why would one volontarily submit to such risks, with no insurance and no pay.. no way.
Gupta Team Developer 3.1
VC++ 2003
Oracle 8i
W2K-XP
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1. I was once called by my fathers friend to install editplus.
2. I was once called by my friend who lives 45 min drive from my place to setup his desktop wallpaper (apperently he had not activated his active desktop)
3. I was once called to format her floppy coz she was afraid that data on the floppy will be lost (because of the message that pops up) apparently she needed nothing that was on the floppy.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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 Don't ya just luuuv computer illiterate people?
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
My Articles
While much is too strange to be believed,
Nothing is too strange to have happened.
- T. Hardy
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Aaron Eldreth wrote:
Don't ya just luuuv computer illiterate people?
no! 
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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I'd hate them too, but my mother is computer illiterate. 
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
My Articles
While much is too strange to be believed,
Nothing is too strange to have happened.
- T. Hardy
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I don't mind having fixing people's machine if I have the time, but it's the "help us do our homework" request that I'm tired with. I have an uncle who's working with kids, and every now and then, I get a request from them to help his protege's with their programming homework. I always hope for the best (as in help with parts of the program) but usually it's the worst (as in help me write the program)
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
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I know what you mean. I got friends that call me up and want me to do their programming homeworks for them. there's no shame in people. Isn't they supposed to do their homeworks to actually learn something?
Patrik Svensson
E-mail: patrik.svensson@home.se
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Sometimes, I have even been asked to do their homework but getting pay out of it, and in most of the time you know what, I accepted such offer. Am I bad or what? :-P
Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio
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To each his own, I suppose. I've been offered payment now and then to do their project, but I just can't stand these people passing, so I usually reject their offer.
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
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Kinda understand,it is their carrier ahead that they are screwing up though.
Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio
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In high school I was taking a programming class (VB ) and the teacher assigned a little project (choose one out of two) due a week later. I could program then, but nobody else could, so everybody started asking me to "help" them (help=do it all for me.)
So I decided I would charge about $10 US for the easier and $15 for the more difficult. I said I would have no mercy even with those who were very close friends of mine. One project, I remember, was filling a combo box with a list of colors, and changing the form background as the list selection changed. Each project took me around 15 minutes at most.
I made over $200 that week! A very close friend of mine refused to pay me and said he would find someone else to help him. Half an hour before turning in the project, he came to me, 10 dollars on his hand, and ask me to do it for him. 
-- LuisR
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Luis Alonso Ramos
Chihuahua, Mexico
www.luisalonsoramos.com
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