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If you ever want to ship something outside of the First World, good luck!
I have to get a windscreen out to Mrs Wife for the car. I am trying to find a shipper/courier to take it; quotes are around £500-£1,000.
I think I'll call BA and see if I can take it as check-in luggage. It'll be a damned sight cheaper to fly out for the weekend with the bonus of seeing the girls!
veni bibi saltavi
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Get her to get Amazon Prime and the delivery is free! 
Or...buy a whole car and drive it out there...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Amazon don't deliver.
DHL say it's too big.
Parcelforce won't collect.
BA don't answer the phone.
Bow Locks.
veni bibi saltavi
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She just needs to find someone to go out in the dead of night, find a same-model car, and. . .
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Grand idea except there are only 4 of them in the country. Two of the other three are owned by friends and the fourth is in the south, about 1,000km away.
veni bibi saltavi
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Since it's going outside the first world, you can probably get by with the repair using plastic wrap.
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Can somebody explain to me what the new shipping method is at Amazon. I ordered a book today and just got the notification that it Shipped. It appears to be shipping from inside the US to a US address. Supposed to arrive on Feb 7 (three weeks and a day). Did the US Post office actually implement snail mail?
Hogan
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If you have an internet-enabled 3D printer then just make sure it is turned on and connected. Your book will start printing shortly. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's the new Amazon Drone Delivery service.
It has to stop every hour for a recharge, which takes 12 hours...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds to me like the USPS shipping times have vastly improved.
".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, it looks fairly good: here shipments get buried in the local post offices.
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I know what you mean. The Israeli postal (dis)service has become so disorganized that Amazon only ships to Israel via other couriers nowadays. This increases the cost significantly, but at least stuff arrives.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Same in the UK.. only use Royal Mail if you don't want your item delivered 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Be glad it is not from China. It would start today and leave the dock on Feb. 7
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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...has shipped. Should have it by Friday/Monday.
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: has shipped. Should have it by Friday/Monday.
Thank you for the update. I'll be sure to watch for it.
Next time, just email me directly. No need to tell everyone else. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So it's nearly Christmas!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did you get on of these
Hogan
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Remember, pics or it doesn't exist. 
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I just read an article here on CP where the author says "For many years I've been building a library themed "things that should be built into the .NET framework, but aren’t"."
I too have been compiling things I use regularly into my own framework. Everything from logging, registry stuff, app security, WPF things, Data related stuff, ZIP, messaging, etc.). In my WPF library I even subclassed the standad WPF controls and then in my WPF apps I use my version of the controls.
For the most part, when I find myself using code repeatedly I start thinking about where in my framework to put it so that I can re-use it again later.
So I'm curious... Do you do this? Create a library/framework of reusable code? If you, how do you put it all together? If not, how do you handle using/reusing common code?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I do for my embedded software/firmware, makes life a lot simpler.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Kevin Marois wrote: Do you do this?
Constantly 
We're embarking on a full rewrite in part because lots of what we've done over the years has finally been implemented in the BCL. Though not as well as we did it, natch'
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So if the BCL now contains a function that you created in the past do you then go back & refactor to use the BCL version?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Sometimes, but not as often as we should. In some cases we've grown the system around our methods in a way that's different enough that using the BCL methods (or entire patterns) that are now available would mean more work than it's worth.
Hence the rewrite. It's actually rare that a rewrite actually ever makes sense, but in this case it does.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I can see the pro's and con's of both. For one, you KNOW you've written. It's tested and working, whereas new framework code could be troublesome. While on the flip side having framework code would mean less source you've got to maintain.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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