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Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement
aoteoroa writes "Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AOL on behalf of its subsidiary Netscape last year, the companies said Thursday.
At first blush the deal looks good, but I can't help but wonder how a deal that ties AOL to IE again will negatively impact my favorite web browser." Here's a news.com story that also covers it. Is the browser war over? If so, it sure was anticlimactic.
I'm not even a subscriber!
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Do you know me? Well, if you've been to an orgy in the greater Cincinnati area in the past 17 years, you've probably seen me (or at least part of me). My name is Hank Wetzel, and I am the king of the Cincinnati group-sex scene. You may have heard a story or two--and believe me, there are hundreds--about my legendary carnal exploits. Yet as renowned as I am, and as much fun as I've had, few people realize that it's not easy being the life of the orgy.
Anytime four or more people decide to get naked together in Cincinnati, someone inevitably says, "We need Hank. Hank should be here." Why? Because they know that once I get there, I'm going to blow the roof off the joint. Everybody who likes to swap, group-grope, or rut around on protective plastic sheets is sure to light up at the mention of my name. But do any of them know the real me? I'm not so sure.
They see my mastery of countless freaky positions, my vast collection of latex outfits, and my skillful use of the Polynesian fuck-swing, and they think they know Hank. Well, they don't know Hank. They're too distracted by my way with writhing piles of flesh to see the sadness beneath all the sucking and fucking.
It's not that I don't enjoy what I do. The daisy chains, the S&M dungeon parties, and the round-robin clusterfucks are still fun, but the pressure to always be "on" can be exhausting. Remember: There's a person with hopes and dreams behind that nine-and-a-half-inch cock.
People should know that when I'm alone or out of my group-sex circle, I'm basically a shy, simple guy. It's only when I pick up the scent of K-Y that I transform from Hank the Coca-Cola bottling-plant supervisor to Hank the Fuck Machine.
Sometimes, I think this is slowly killing me.
It's harder than you'd think to keep up the positive orgy attitude. If I don't meet and exceed someone's expectations, I'm no longer the top fuck dog in town. As great a group lover as I am, that kind of reputation can be hard to live up to. Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
You may be wondering why I do it. Why do I pleasure four people at once when two would suffice? Why do I bring my partners to such heated climaxes that they unleash a symphony of frenzied shrieks? And why do I always have to be the last one standing at the orgy, still humping away while the others are collapsed in post-coital bliss? I used to think it was just because I like getting people off. Now I know the truth: that being the life of the orgy is all I have.
I can't just lay back and let a girl blow me on a couch like everyone else. I have to put on a whole sex show, to be the center of a whole crowd, whether I'm in the mood or not.
I know I won't be able to keep this up forever. Eventually, a younger, better-looking, more flexible young buck is going to come along with a bigger dick and more tricks, and I'll be brushed off to the side room. Either that, or I'm simply going to lose my edge. I've seen it happen. I've seen people who've slowly lost it. Like Clara Mascara. Antonio. Dirty Ben. I don't want to go out like that. I don't want people to whisper, "What happened to Hank? He used to fuck like a champ."
If I have to leave the scene, I want to go out on top like my mentor, Frank Fourteen-Inch. Frank hung up his anal beads in his absolute prime, and people still talk about him like he could fuck no wrong. That's the way to go.
I'll never forget the last thing Frank told me just before he walked away from the game. He said, "If you want to make people fuck like there's no tomorrow, you must remember the pain of yesterday."
Back then, I didn't understand what he meant. I do now. I've come to realize that even when you're face-deep in hair pie while simultaneously coating someone else's belly with your steamy man-butter, being Orgy King can be awful lonely.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
does it run linux?
...does anyone else here want to suck on Jennifer Connolly's jugs?
AOL PAYS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
There is, logically enough, people actually pay money for :p
opera, you know.. they dont simply use it because its nonfree haha
why you should use opera and not firebird
-half the size, and quicker and slicker
-customizable smart & fast mouse gestures Firebird
plugins only can hope to match
-slicker tabs implementation with visual changer
and better keyboard operability
-thoughtful window management whether you browse
MDI, SDI, tabbed or a combination thereof
-superb sidebars that ought to make Firebird ashamed
-better, more extensive options for GUI customization,
and unlike Firebird it's of course fully drag-and-drop
-spatial navigation & excellent customizable keyboard
shortcuts for easy keyboard-only control & navigation
-more customizable for end-users out-of-box, and for
the more experienced users there are simple ini files
-status bar can auto-hide away from sight when not needed,
and as all bars in opera more customizable than those in FB
-customizable multiple adress bar and field web searching
-easy skinning with user customizable colour schemes
-more accessible zooming and unlike Firebird also works
on images and other elements
-contextual functionality like lookups in search engines &
dictionary, translation, paste & go, go to URL, and more
-Session management with crash recovery which can also be
used for multiple homepages
-notes functionality that is handy for a number of things
& integrated with mail client
-customizable cache handling
-innovative & unique light-weight mail client with quick-reply
-a little better download manager with quick-download function
-multiple user style sheets with good built-in accessibility
options, and uhm, commodore 64
-fast forward & rewind
-can display photo files on the Web in a slideshow
-quick-deletion of all sorts of private data
-supports w3c compliant web navigation bar functionality
-customizable auto-reload coupled with good reload options
-Great fullscreen mode, and also includes small-screen rendering
-offline, more accessible documentation, and not some hack from a third party site
-can turn images on and off on-fly through button or keyboard
-scroll bars can be turned on and off
-can show links in tooltips and toolbars, handy when status bar is on auto-hide
Otherwise it does what Firebird does.. it has good privacy options, good cookie and popup handling, a password manager, good standards support etc.. etc.. the only things I feel Firebird does better is type-ahead find (that opera lacks, although it does have an option for in-line find but it's not the same), and that you can schedule notifications for bookmarks.
Actually you only have to take a look at the menus of both programs.. Firebird's look deserted, and it looks much like a raped version of Mozilla if you ask me.. Mozilla has much better functionality and customizability than Firebird, but unfortunately, it's a complete pig to use.
Hello,
I've been posting on Slashdot for quite some time. I have 315 comments, in fact.
But lately Slashdot has been getting to me. It's not the news - Slashdot has plenty of cool stories about new technologies. It's the bias. The Slashdot editors never claimed to be unbiased, but frankly they've gone overboard lately. Slashdot has become nothing but an anti-MS praise everything that Apple does pile of garbage.
I'm sick of it. I want the old Slashdot back.
This used to be a place where you could engage in interesting technical discussions with knowledgeable folks - nowadays it's just filled with lame 14 year olds who feel 1337 because they post inane jokes about 'Windoze'. And of course, crackhead moderators with agendas.
Sad, really.