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Microsoft Shuts Down Lik Sang
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has taken legal action, shutting down popular import gaming site Lik Sang for distributing X-box mod chips. Lik Sang is a popular import gaming site based out of Hong Kong. The full article (MSNBC) can be found here." Several people have pointed to the same story on news.com.
The companies who make those crappy CPU fans and cases that don't fit right and just cut your fingers
The people who make those really crappy NICs and video cards
The people who make those little screwdrivers that band or strip on the first thing you take apart with them
The companies that make those $2 keyboards and $1 mice I find at every company who's too cheap to buy decent stuff.
Borrowed from John McL.
:
Originally, proletaries were the class of
inhabitants of the Roman Empire
who did not serve the Impirium by
creative works or by other service,
but through their careless reproductive
habits. The word derives from the
Latin _proles_, offspring, and the word
proletariat literally means
"those with many offspring."
Ancient Rome was a slave society with
three slaves to every citizen, according to the
Tiberian Census of CE 30 or so, depending
upon the calendar you prefer.
The machinery of the Empire was literally
activated by human muscle, the battleships
of the Roman Navy being powered
by slaves and the very skeins of hair that
stored energy for the imperial _ballistae_
(artillery) grown on slaves fed for the purpose.
The slaves powering the Empire were derived from
conquered peoples and especially from the
nameless proletary class.
In modern times, the nearest equivalent
would be those who serve the corporate State
not through creative works, but through
the consumption of things they are
instructed to purchase by the media of
public information, and by their exposure of
their children to the advertisers of such things.
Well, I find that my milk usually stays quite usable up to a week and a half after the due date. Horizon Organic milk, and Lucerne, have always been quite robust milks, as far as I'm concerned. My local dairy produces some damn good milk, as well.
Now I need a freaking brownie, so I can get some milk... See what you've done?!
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
"Isn't that a cliche in and of itself?"
Does it matter? I wasn't solving your problem.
"Was I solving yours? :-)"
:D
Are you solving it now?