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Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete
bahamat writes "This article explains how Microsoft was forced to yank a magazine ad by the Advertising Standards Authority. In the ad MS claims that they'll make the hacker extinct. The tagline reads "Microsoft software is carefully designed to keep your company's valuable information in, and unauthorised people and viruses out. Which means that your data couldn't really be safer, even if you kept it in a safe. Which is great news for the survival of your company. But tragic news for hackers." Does MS really think that people are too stupid to remember what happened less than 2 months ago? My favorite quote from the article is "Clarke described Microsoft's claim as "laughable". "
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I'm not from the US.. amazing.. there's people not in the US... fuck you still though... american suv oil pig
Rather than reinventing the wheel, I will post this...
The Marquis de Lafayette who came here to fight in our Revolution said, "The welfare of America is closely bound up with the welfare of mankind." Today, however, I suspect he would reverse that to say that the welfare of mankind is bound up with the welfare of America.
In a recent column about Europe, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, wrote of "the new anti-Americanism, a blend of jealousy and resentment of America's overwhelming economic and military power." One German editor calls it the "Axis of Envy." The bottom line, said Friedman, is that "Many Europeans today fear, or detest, America more than they fear Saddam."
For some time now, whenever we have read or heard a news story about Europe, it is usually about its refusal, nation by nation, to cooperate with the United States, to berate the United States, and to cling to some very outdated and unrealistic notions. We used to think the Europeans were our allies, but they are really more like our spiteful, poor relations.
The resentment Europeans feel reflects the fact that America is the future and Europe is the past.
This is brought into sharp focus in a brilliant analysis, "Old and In the Way", by Karl Zinsmeister. It appears in the December edition of The American Enterprise (www.TAEmag.com). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine and has the happy facility of taking very complicated subjects and clarifying them. The magazine is published by the American Enterprise Institute and is devoted to politics, business, and culture.
"If Europeans want to ban the death penalty," writes Zinsmeister, "that's fine with Americans; but don't ask us to follow the same dictate. If Europeans think selling military technology to North Korea and Iran, and helping Libya and Iraq with their oil industries is a good idea, expect not a shred of support from the US. If Europeans believe their determination to send billions of dollars to Yasser Arafat is likely to speed peace in the Middle East, we won't stop them."
This is, of course, precisely what the Europeans have been doing in the face of every indication that the nations with whom they are doing business want an Islamic Europe or, in the case of North Korea, have demonstrated once again that no Communist nation can be trusted.
Zinsmeister points out that the elites who run Europe have an exaggerated belief in the power of diplomacy. This is odd considering the last century's history in which European diplomacy failed to deter two World Wars. If war is simply a different form of diplomacy (we've tried talking to Saddam) then we are soon to apply it to the one man who has given the United Nations the opportunity to prove beyond any doubt its utter impotence and irrelevance. The UN is the world's epicenter of blather.
A number of key factors have consigned Europe to stagnation and most of them reflect its love affair with Socialism. Its embrace of statism was undeterred by the long years of the Cold War when the then-Soviet Russia threatened to impose Communism on the whole of Europe. It had seized or was ceded Eastern Europe after World War II and it took nearly fifty years for the Poles to cast them out. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, its captive states rapidly breathed free air again, but then decided to create its own Soviet in the form of the European Union, thinking that was the way to compete with the United States.
The EU is a bunch of bureaucratic elites and Europeans have little or no say in their dictates. Socialists to the core, they think they will be able to compete with the US if they just pass a few more thousand rules, regulations, and, of course, trade restrictions.
The Europeans, however, cannot compete with Americans and Zinsmeister tells us why. "The locomotive of Europe is the German economy, which has been in a serious mess for more than a decade. Germany's annual growth rate over the past ten years has been a limp 1.4 percent." The answer is just too obvi
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Dammit! I already used up my mod points!
from the because-they're-too-stupid-to-use-two-buttons dept.
this isn't a troll, I just don't know why they have only one button. Can anyone fill me in on why?
YOU SUCK BALLS!
This reminds me of the time Ari Fleischer insisted at a press conference that "Nobody, but nobody, is more reluctant to go to war than President Bush." (source, emphasis mine)
Apparently, people think that saying something enough makes other people believe it, even if it's 180 degrees from the evidence.
Don't forget the blowjob.
I know, I know....you can switch right over from the "collateral damage" arguments to the "I guess the oil companies behind this war felt they needed someone to man the oil fields, so they didn't want that many killed" argument....
Put a sock in it frenchie
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Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:15 AM
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It only takes 2 seconds to forward this on. If it was your child,
you would want all the help you could get.
Thank you for your kindness. Hopefully you can help us.
witty remark, i must say (not!)
I'll take the safe any 0day Hussein.
You know, your intellectual credibility pretty much went out the window when you managed to so egregiously mispell a word as simple as "phrased".
oh great, I finally would have gotten some karma, and I'm not logged in.
Sad part is your comment shows as (+3, Interesting).
I'm sure your mom probably still has some of your high school pictures around.
Where was your outrage when the Khmer Rouge butchered 3.5 million Cambodians? Where was your outrage when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan? Where was your outrage when Slobodon Milosovic did his "ethnic cleansing" thing? Where is your outrage for the bloodbaths occurring in Africa? Go fuck yourself, you hypocritical little bastard.
You are not the "baddest motherfuckers". I bet you can't name a single war in the last 200 years you've won because you were the better fighters. You usually win because you join the war when it's nearly over anyway (WW1/WW2) or because you are fighting some pathetic 3rd world country (Iraq I/II). And even when you fight some jungle monkeys (Vietnam) you don't always win.
You're crappy fighters and you know it. Look at how you wussies cried when you lost your pathetic twin towers. I really laughed my ass off when I saw that on TV.
We beat the Germans when Europe proved unable in WWI. We saved the world in WWII. We stopped China and North Korea from taking the peninsula. We killd millions in Vietnam while losing about 45k. We brow-beat the Soviet Union into submission. Be careful, or you might be next, pussy.
It's funny, but it's not so funny that you need to post it twice within 5 minutes.
Dyolf Knip
In the real news, if America were not the dominant power to ever walk the Earth, your stupid ass would be wondering why the KGB was busting down your door when you posting your opinions on a web site. Dumb ass. We own you - deal, you stupid pussy.
At least this jerkoff has enough bandwidth
I need it to, if someone finds one to print I need it at work as well. :-)
Your Average Joe
A few *thousand*? Better bring more than that if you plan on taking us on. Only France falls to that weak a force. Hell, the Polish put up a better defense than you did, even though most of their army got confused when the Germans put them in a round room and told them to piss in the corner.
Sad thing is, last time I was in Paris, the locals heard some guy with a German accent and started running.
Oh, you want bravery against the Germans, go meet the Russians. France should have had the glory of a Stalingrad.
You pathetic Americans need a real war IN YOUR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY again.
You're welcome to come try. Notice I don't see any takers. You want pathetic? We're more willing to defend you than you are to defend yourselves. We're the only reason your last post wasn't auf Deutsch.
BTW, wasn't Texas (the home of the super-brave cowboys) among the states that LOST the American civil war? So I guess I can call them surrender monkeys then?
Among being the key word. Texas didn't have much of a population then. But they still whipped some Mexican ass on their own. And the US was the ones who beat them - now, Texas could take Frogland on their own. And hey, I'm glad you candyasses finally got used to that "surrender monkey" nickname. You should try fighting back next time.
by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21, @08:57PM
Anyone surprised a Frog surrender monkey posted as an AC?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Why don't you come over to France and try to invade us? You probably would succeed, given the sheer numbers of "yes, sir, this recruit has no brain, sir" guys you would bring with you, but be prepared to have a few of your big cities nuked as a response.
Try to reply to the correct comment, and since you're going to be a dick about spelling, you should have used "its", not "it's."
My favorite Iraqi is the guy known as "Chemical Ali". You gotta love that name.
Especially when the text currently reads:
/inc/copycode.asp, line 264"
"Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'Ubound'
HACKERS make MICROSOFT extinct
this sig steers like a cow. and i can prove it
No no,
In Soviet Russia Microsoft makes hackers extinct!