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I've been the same way for years. Nice to hear I'm not alone.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I don't see why a professional would need crap like that on their system
Agreed. 
/ravi
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Maybe because of my Age I'm maybe to conservative. I still use Sophos on all of my machines....ok, maybe because it is sponsored by my Company 
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I agree with you in general, but i think its better to keep a little safer those blunderers, which, though professional, are not professional/careful enough (in 2014, i still saw attached executables reaping their victims...  )
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Preferably ones with more money than brain cells?
There is a UK TV advert for a magazine giving you all the parts you need to build a 1:1 scale replica of the original movie prop Millennium Falcon : http://www.buildmillenniumfalcon.com/[^]
Nice one, yes? Only two drawbacks: each piece comes with a weekly (or monthly, I neither know nor care) magazine, and it's complete in 100 parts.
Did I mention that each issue is £8.99? So that model will cost you the thick end of £900, or nearly $1400. 
Are there really people out there stupid enough to do that? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are there really people out there stupid enough
Look around you ...
I guess in this specific instance the answer is a definite yes. These magazines pop up in the TV ads every year, often post-Christmas. I'd be interested to know how many people have stayed the course long enough to get even half way finished.
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Even half way is £450! 
I'm guessing "pester power" is the driving force, but it sounds like the same people who run "Wonga" and suchlike are behind it...
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I think only DD has a suitable storage facility readily available.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are there really people out there stupid enough to--
This is one of the few questions that, no matter how the sentence is completed, always has the same answer: YES.
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In all fairness, if they have that kind of money to throw around, they can't be that stupid. Unless they inherited it or use rent money to pay for it, but if it's extra cash just hanging around I say go for it if you got it. Life's too short to not be a little crazy - even if it's really nerdy and will scare away every chick on the planet.
Jeremy Falcon
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It would be a real deal if it really were 1:1 scale[^]. The original was made of wood and probably was destroyed after they shot Star Wars.
Edit: The picture actually looks like they were building a new falcon for The Empire Strikes Back.
Looks like the original Star Trek shuttle prop[^] survived, but it did not age very well.
By the way, that company has been selling that kind of stuff for years. I remember them featuring a kit of the Titanic, the battleship Bismarck and a functional robot kit. It's always the same: The first issue costs one buck and then you have to buy each issue at full price the next two years.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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It's not for me, but you're forgetting one little fact: people are buying the magazine, not the free gift. Lots of people buy magazines -- you can tell, because there are lots of magazines out there.
Because interest fades in these things, what they'll probably do, after a comparatively short while, is a "buy all the rest now for $nn.99" offer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What you need is a collective with access to a 3-D scanner and printer.
Oh, and plenty of patience; even if it's weekly, it's going to take a couple of years at one part every edition.
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You'd notice it is brighter later into the evenings these days, eh?
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Yes! It's almost summery1 out there at the moment! 
1: i.e. grey, dank, and drizzling...
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In Wales how can you tell?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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If the ice has melted, it's summer.
Probably.
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Why the elephant do Quality Street have the blue ones in there? You know the ones, texture of chocolate coated cardboard, taste of stale coconut.
Does anyone like them? Certainly not round here...
We have a family rule: a "blue one" counts as "minus one sweetie" - so when the tin is offered round, you can take a sweet (more and be thought piggy) or a "blue one" and two others to take the taste away. 
And why are the "purple ones" so rubbish these days? It used to be a nice big Brasil nut in there...
OK. Back to coding...
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Reason #298 to stay on this side of the Atlantic...
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Reason #298 to stay on this side of the Atlantic...
... And eat Hersheys?
I know the process for that:
1. Put a Hershey's product in your mouth.
2. Gag
3. Puke
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You have actually put that stuff in your mouth!
I get as close as walking past the door of a Hershey's shop (we have them in underground malls where you cannot avoid them), gag and leave - quickly. The smell of all that sugar is revolting.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I suppose it's handy if you want to leave work early: just Hershey-puke all over your keyboard.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why the elephant do Quality Street have the blue ones in there?
Another coded message to your bot-net minions ? I bet some folks at NSA, GCHQ, FSB, Unit 8200, etc., are scratching their heads over this one, right now.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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The people at GCHQ love Quality Street.
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It's Jaffa cakes according to my cameras...
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