Have you seen your user settings? There is
a Show quips on XP loss/gain messages option that
triggers such messages.
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Have you seen your User Settings? There is a Show quips on XP loss/gain messages option that triggers such messages.
D'Oh! I was aware of the quips. (I didn't really know I could disable them, although it was easy to suspect that, but that doesn't matter because they do not annoy me.) Only, I didn't realize this was one.
On a largely OT, I presume, basis: anyone care to explain it? I just can't make sense of it, possibly due to English not being my mother tongue. An USA/UK biased cultural reference, maybe? (Or am I just that ignorant?)
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It's a standard escape clause, especially in the United States of America, which ain't as united as you may have been led to believe - especially when it comes to laws applying in different states. Things like tax laws, driving rules and marriage laws vary to a fairly large degree from state to state in the US. It is common for packaging to say that the buyer of goods has no rights at all, except where that is prohibited.
So, just be carefull where you go to cash in those XP! Some places they may not be worth anything at all.
DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
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Marketeers of poor products and their lawyers love this phrase. It allows them to
- threaten their customers with all manner of sanctions, legal actions and related dire consequences;
- whilst disclaiming all responisibility for anything whatsoever;
without having to bother with minor inconsequentialities--like whether what they are threatening/disclaiming is actually legal; anywhere.
On it's own, this is powerful enough to dissuade a very large proportion of the mugs customers that buy their products from ever complaining or otherwise seeking recompense. When combined with a couple of their other favorites--footnotes and small print--it becomes a hugely profitable, secondary marketing tool.
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I used to hear this phrase all the time in super-fast-announcer-speak on radio advertisements. I always wondered what "voidware" was and why it was prohibited. | [reply] |
I always wondered what "voidware" was and why it was prohibited
Nice :-) It's a pity I could only ++ it once.
Reminds me of the little boy who figured out that God's first name was Peter ... because, in Church, he kept hearing the priest say "Thanks, Peter God".
Cheers,
Rob
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I always thought God's name was Harold. You know, Our father who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name....
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