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Sitalkes wrote: Not that there is anything wrong with that
I'm feeling some ambiguity in that sentence.
Are you referring to the fact that they're not really Bulgarians, or that they might be moving? 
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Nope, I meant that the most mobile and likely group to move in large numbers would be the Roma minority. They have different cultural traditions, not that there is anything wrong with that.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Leroy The Redneck Reindeer[^]
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Pure gold!
With mullet an'all
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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To answer properly, it's probably "O come Emmanuel". (That's probably not the official name). You can sing / hum it in an echoey chamber and it's amazing.
Someone mentioned the Pogues, but there's an anemic SV set of lyrics to the same tune. I can't imagine it translating to Kirsty berating the toothless croaker about his faults.
I bought the Sanna Nielsson Christmas CD a few days ago - Some really good singing, mixed with the odd murdered cover. She just can't do high notes.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Christmas Eve in Sarajevo
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A Christmas Carol[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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See this[^]
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I really hope not. Copyright law I think protects it as much as it possibly can, if we get into patents then where does it stop? Patenting an "if" statement?
I can't see this going very far. How would the reviewer check the validity of the patent? They would have to be programmers themselves.
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It's about damn time.
Hopefully something useful will come about from the decision rather than something to complicate software patents even further.
To know and not do, is not yet to know
http://www.codeofthedamned.com
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Software patenting has it's uses but like everything else has been taken to extremes.
I wonder if this has anything to do with trying to put a stop to patent trolling?
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Lawyers and judges don't know enough about this stuff to render decisions that are sound.
They get SuperAntiSpyware and wonder why. 
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No; it's a written work, not an invention.
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That hasn't stopped Apple yet - "Rounded rectangles" anyone?
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That's comparing Apples to oranges though - you can't say the physical design of an iPad has anything to do with software patents.
That said, Apple did a great job popularising tablets, but they hardly invented them. And I think the word "bevel" goes back to pre-Jobs days too. I was very surprised that case did not get laughed out of court.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Easy solution; disabandon patents completely.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Great, a bunch of people that probably have no knowledge about or interest in technology are going to tell us what we can and cannot do with that technology...
Of course it has been that way for a long time.
And not only in technology.
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Actually, not really. They'll tell USians what they can and cannot do.
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But who is going to decide what Dutch people can do with US software in Germany? 
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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