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How many Pfennig does a sheep cost?
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Post by Kilmatead »

According to the size of Ireland's debt, you'll be getting them for free for the next 6,234 years.
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Yay - free sheep!
Now let's convince nikos to accept sheep for a license, and we all can live in peace. :)
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Post by Kilmatead »

Strangely enough, that was the original plan for V2 licenses, until he discovered PayPal wouldn't transfer them - plus it put some of our non-temperate climate users at a slight disadvantage.
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Maybe Irland also offers free shipping ("sheeping", that is)?
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Post by Kilmatead »

Weirdly, it was discovered that sheep can float all by themselves, so it proved difficult for us to capitalise on it by offering it for free.  The more pedantic receiver's took umbrage at our clever hubris.
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So all you need is another type of animal.
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Post by Kilmatead »

The hillbilly's tried exporting squirrel meat, but it never caught on, except in Vietnam and southern Asia.  It proved too small a market. :sad: Mad cow disease sort of put an end to our food exports anyway.  So, you get fleece.  Lots and lots of fleece.  (And I'll throw in a "slightly used" forklift just to sweeten the deal...)
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Isn't it a bit too hot outside for fleece?
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Post by Kilmatead »

Why do you think we're happy enough to export it all?  No one ever said economic sovereignty was practical for the end-user...
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So that's why you're almost bankrupt.
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Post by Kilmatead »

"Almost" is being charitable.  You see (to come back to the original topic), it's the same sort of semantic logic that bids Nikos to say "you get a free upgrade!" when the user has just bought lifetime assurance.  That and fractional-reserve banking are just two of the great mysteries in life...
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Well, the average "lifetime customer" did not buy an upgrade but a lifetime license. Two different kinds of things as far as I can see. While you can buy Windows upgrades, you can't buy Windows lifetime licenses, right?
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Post by Kilmatead »

There's no such thing as an average lifetime customer - we're each of us special in our own demented fashion.  As the "old" x2 licenses don't actually expire, you can still be a lifetime user of 1.8.1.14 or whatever the last official version was.  Why else would one purchase lifetime licensing if not to upgrade retro-progressively (to allow for the odd code regression that turns our docking panes unexpectedly pink in the future)?
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Well, the "why" is not the point here. Why does anyone buy xplorer² lifetime licenses? Why does anyone buy Lada Gaga recordings?

You see?
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