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Microsoft Du Jour - Talks, Upgrades, Salaries
Jeff writes: "CNN is reporting 'In a dramatic move, the new judge in the Microsoft case Friday ordered the government and the software maker into five weeks of intensive settlement talks, until Nov. 2.'" Other MS submissions coming in today: USAToday discovers the new upgrade scheme, designed to milk every last cent out of those who've locked themselves into Windows; tech-report.com goes a bit more in depth on the same subject; ZDNet hoists the black flag; MS discusses its plans to control how you compute (by the way, the license agreement for Windows Media Player now allows Microsoft to disable any software on your computer - you do read those license agreements, don't you?); Gates got $666,000 last year but won't have to apply for welfare just yet.
Bill Gates earned $666,000 last year?
Devil: Ok, Bill, you did a great job this year. We are going to give you a raise to the standard 'Evil' salary of $666K.
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Heck no.
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Neighbor of the Beast
I've seen that one as a sig here.
I like fire ants. They are very spicy!
I've been trying to "Windows Update" a couple of new computers all day, and it seems the Microsoft home page isn't responding. Period.
Does that mean that Redmond is a smoking pile of debris too? God forbid. No, really.
Since all the penguins are native to the Southern Hemisphere, I can only imagine that those particular birds are following you, perhaps listening in on your phone calls and reading your mail. I'd suggest a fresh foil wrap for your head.
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
How many people know that George Orwell was just his pen name?
Who cares? No serious who cares? I know two things: Someone publishing under the name George Orwell wrote two absolutely brilliant books - 1984 and Animal Farm. Here in Canada at least when I was in Grade 9 it was required reading (and rightly so). However the real life of the person who wrote it, and whether their name was Kooky Deedooky or they ate monkey butter on their bagles means absolutely, positively nothing to me. A parallel is people who read People magazine to know whether Brad Pitt and Scooby Doobie are back together, etc: Who gives a shit? Either they can act or they can't, and beyond that I don't care. I'm not looking for a cult of personality.
Did you know that in 1998, in Texas, a women cleaning the house of a 71 year old man unplugged his life support to plug the vacuum cleaner. The man died.
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http://www.hawkmoon.dircon.co.uk/archive/1998.h
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
Ok,I guess it's still not that clear.
ahem, (clears throat)
JUST SAY NO!
I've thought about tinkering w/Linux before, but this latest iteration of MS bullying just might get me going...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
irony:
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
It has been an urban legend since 1996 BUT a similar story happened in 1998.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
I've been trolled? Who's yelling, "Shut the fuck up!" at whom?
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander