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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">HI all,</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#FF0000 "><b>At 12:53 on 7/06/2011 Paul wrote </b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>I was in Villa, Vanuatu visiting with the Red Cross there once and</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>was introduced in a Duty Free shop (should have perhaps been called an</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>'ethics free shop') to a pack for $50 USD which identified itself as</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>being from mainland China which had every piece of modern software and</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>drawing/audio/visual producing software then current ex-USA</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>(including Delphi etc!). I was fascinated at the lengths the pirates</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>had gone to, and could only detect a few obvious visual flaws in the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>re-production of it all.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>The shop owner himself appeared and was equally fascinated in my not</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>wanting to buy it all even if he knocked a few more vatus off it!</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">David Intersimone told me of one day he was in Singapore at a similar shop, and found Delphi there on sale for $5.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">He flashed his Borland business card on the counter, and the lady picked it up, looked it over, handed it back and said, "sorry, cannot give you discount".</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">kr</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Gary</span></span><p>
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<font size=2 color="black">Gary Benner </font>MNZCS ITCP<br>
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