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Sadly, they were not 'buying' a product but 'investing' to get something made. Investments can go down as well hit the floor gasping for breath before finally keeling over with a massive coronary brought on by overindulgence.
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In Italy these kind of initiatives enjoy very little success - we are used to con arists selling the Fountain of Trevi to unsuspecting foreigner rich men, firms that get money and then disappear and so on. Either you give something upfront or you don't get any buck.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Last time I was in Roma, I wanted to put my hands into the pockets and already found another hand in there. Looks like some people in Italy simply skip the part with the scam and reach into your pocket directly.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Don't you know the Public Place Dance? It's the repeated compulsive act of checking all of our own possession every 3-5 minutes or when we are touched by someone (in the bus for example) when in public places.
Also I heard of some italians abroad ashamed to have treated with the utmost suspicion a couple of girls that was gifting sunglasses as a part of sponsor campaign for a big company (Manzotin or Simmenthal, can't remember) because this kind of approach in Italy often ends up with a scam, a theft or a robbery if unlucky.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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And in Napoli they simply make an offer which you can't refuse (unless you want to take your new overshoes for a swim in the bay). 
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Pointless precisation: the quote and the behaviour you described is the depiction of Sicilian criminality, which is pretty far from Napoli 
As far as I saw in other nations people are much more relaxed, to the point that in London's Burger King (Piccadilly or Leicester Square, can't remember precisely) there were tens of warnings all over the walls that encouraged people to not put phones, wallets, house/car keys in plain sight over the table and to keep in check ersonal belongings. That comes so obvious and natural in Italy I was pretty amused that there is the necessity to actually tell it!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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It's probably a branch office!
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A competitor, actually. Sicilian Mafia, Campany's Camorra, Calabria's 'Ndrangheta, Puglia's Sacra Corona Unita and others I'm not aware of are very different between each other and act as competitors. In these "civilized" times they can even cooperate but always as distinct entities and with formal procedures with liasons, ambassadors and such. Basically they are autonomous States inside the State.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?
Which movie?
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The Elephant man
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Boo-Lander
Regards,
Palash
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Der Neinsager[^]
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Susan Boyle - A Life
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I think I'd rather have someone who can sing (but looks like she was dragged through a hedge backwards after the plough had run her over a few times) than some of these plastic cookie-cutter morons that can't sing, but do. (Who should be run over with a plough a few hundred times, and then recycled as firelighters)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Simon doesn't like your thinking.
Simon will be upset.
Simon must be avenged.
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Simon can kiss my ...
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Maybe, but he'd rather you turn around. Allegedly.
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Star Trek: The Worth of Kirk
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Eugoogly[^]. Or did you think I'd be too stupid to know what a eugoogly was?
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Software Zen: delete this;
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Just reading through a job spec I've been sent by a recruiter and got to this line;
Quote: • Possess excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on verbal and written skills
An emphasis on verbal and written communication skills.
As opposed to what?
Mime?
Interpretive dance?
Semaphore?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Body language, obviously.
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I'm getting good at reading female body language.. for example if her arms are around your neck, I'm pretty sure that's meant to express anger.
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