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Dell Extends Gateway Amnesty
As a person who's owned no less then four GW machines, two Dells, and now have two VA, one DIYS, and one IBM Thinkpad, I found the SatireWire about the Dell-Gateway Amensty pretty amusing.
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If I had to stop a three machines total, ever . . . *shudder*
If you replace "Dell" with "Democrat/Republican" and "Gateway" with "Republican/Democrat", you get the level of discourse in Washington today.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
Yeah, I know what you mean. If I want to read BBSpot, I can go there.
I'm gonna set up a script to scan other news sites and submit their articles to Slashdot. Then maybe at least I'll get karma for it.
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I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
I mean SatireWire of course.
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I have a laptop. I have a work computer and I have a home computer. My brother uses my home computer more than I do. My laptop gathers dust when I'm not on the road. Exactly why do you need that many computers? Surely you know a few deserving people who cant afford a PC. Surely you know someone with kids who slaves to pay the bills. You have the power to get someone (or his kids) started on the track out of poverty.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Still, ocassionally the heart does cry for humor. In a world of ever doubtful stocks, burdened IT workers, and just general scariness of it all ;)... it is nice to just laugh at something every once in a while.
And after all, a little break from the way of things is sometimes what we need to regain our focus.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Heh, anyone notice that comment at the end of the article about Dell helping IBM with it's exploding Thinkpads? This would sound like further scaremongering, had this exact same thing not been happening to Dell laptops!
Brilliant example of exactly how carefully phrased and worded, innocent sounding lies can completely whip up public craze. You know, ones like "Any company who uses GNU software has to give away everything else they ever write for free!".
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Of course, that's only because the public is so gosh darn easy to manipulate. .
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That is such a load of crap.
I've never seen a PC from a large manufacturer whose price I couldn't beat by going down to my local distributor or swap-meet and buying the parts myself.
What, me worry?
Exactly!
if you substituted all the terms so that it was MS giving amnesty to users of Linux, the MS freaks would complain that it was too mean spirited. and it would be just a bit chilling, since it would expose the inherent evil in the action a little too forcefully.
Flipping it around so that Linux users would be giving amnesty to MS users would be funnier as a satire.
You realize that with Linux would force MS to innovate. This is an admission that MS has not innovated in the past. a tragic slip of the tongue that reveals the truth
;-)
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I remember a time (not too long ago) when segfault, satirwire, the onion, and suck all made me laugh until I peed myself.
Did I change or did they?
I make no excuses for the worst of these sites which, I admit, has always sucked in its own charming way.
...the "Linux is a cancer" comment that Ballmer made yesterday...oh wail, that wasn't satire...
That depends on whether Microsoft extends their amnesty program towards Linux....
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Remember, pot is a Gateway drug, Dell owners perfer crack for some reason.
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M0571y H@rml355.
Even more common is the mistake of saying no less than four when you mean no fewer than four.
Proper grammar really matters in the job world. You may have perfect syntax in C++, Java and XML, but misusing words like it's, their/they're, to/too and than/then can quickly make you look like an idiot.
I think that everyone should get a copy of the Bedford Handbook or at least bookmark the online version. Also, put any writing awards and recognitions you've received on your resume.
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