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Microsoft Vandalizes NYC
Brooklyn Bob writes "The New York Times (free registration etc.) is reporting that New York Tells Microsoft to Get Its Butterfly Decals Out of Town. Sure, it's "corporate graffiti", but the butterfly looks pretty good on the subway entrance." The story only covers a small part of their efforts to promote MSN, the "Microsoft operating system required" internet service. The first submission we got about the campaign described another part of it: Latent IT writes "I wish I had a link to submit with this, but strange things are afoot in New York City. At 61st and Broadway, 30-40 guys and gals in butterfly suits colored in the Microsoft colors, and carrying MSN banners just rollerbladed by, screaming at the top of their lungs down the middle of Broadway. Interestingly enough, this took them right near the under construction AOL Time Warner building. It seemed worth jotting down, but they were literally gone and down the street before I could reach my digital camera. (Place all bug on windshield jokes here.)"
*splatt!*
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I refuse to use
You clearly aren't aware of Michael's apparent opinions on freedom of speech.
no wait... that's not right.
Friday October 25, 2002 1:30 PM
NEW YORK CITY (AP) - The top New York City Anti-Graffiti official Friday guaranteed the lives of MSN advertisers holding hostages in a New York City theater if they release their estimated 600 captives - including 30 children and 75 foreigners.
It was New York City's first known offer to the advertisers since they took the hostages as they watch a popular musical production Wednesday night. The advertisers, including women who claimed to be widows of ethnic insurgents, freed eight children Friday, but negotiations broke down over the promised release of the foreign captives, including three Americans.
Nikolai Patrushev, head of the New York City Anti-Graffiti division, made the offer after a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg, Russian news agencies reported. "We are conducting talks and will conduct talks, hoping that they will bring positive results in freeing the hostages," Patrushev was quoted as saying by the Interfax agency. Details of Patrushev's statement were not immediately available and it was not clear if the guarantee had been transmitted to the approximately 50 armed MSN advertisers.
The advertisers have demanded that New York City withdraw its troops from the sidewalks of Broadway. Earlier, a Web site linked to the advertisers said they would blow up the theater if the New Yorkers did not withdraw in seven days.
Speak truth to power.
...probaly due to some incredibly large security holes
I meant positive karma...
why do you want to fuck that Dell idiot? I'd give Ellen a shot, she's not really my type, but she seems pretty funny and she's YOUNG...
That was classic intercourse!
It's funny to watch the rhetoric that comes out when a drunk, enraged, (wealthy) person injures *16* people, (one at least with a broken hip!) and gets 60 days. What's the minimum sentence for a marijuana possession charge?
Anyhow, go back to your butterflies.
Wah!
Whenever you see such an elaborate and literate defense of Microsoft here think Astroturfing.
Whenever you see such a claim posted by an Anonymous Coward, it's probably Joe Barr posting it.
Simon
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