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Shooting down those trial balloons. Glitch Tybalt writes with an update to the report that German ISP T-Online might acquire AOL: "This just in from The Register: apparently the buyout wasn't really going to be a buyout, only 70%, and there haven't been any confirmed reports on this. One spokesman for T-Online said '[Such a deal] is more unlikely than likely,'"
On a similar note, gletham writes "A flurry of reports [like this one] over the past day indicated that Nokia was talking with Psion and was seeking to buy the company. This latest piece from Reuters confirms that the topic was merely a rumor and speculation gone rampant. Mind you, with Psion's stock jumping 10% and discussion on Nokia lists and forums quite brisk, you can't help but speculate that Nokia may in fact consider this in the future. The timing is very good, particularly considering Motorola's recent selloff of Symbian ownership. I can't wait to here an official report from Nokia on this one! If all works out, we may even witness a rebirth of the Psion handheld using Series 90!"
Hey, maybe they just hadn't thought of it yet ... wo1verin3 writes "Previously reported was that Fox News Considered Suing Fox's 'The Simpsons' for using a news ticker spoofing the news service. Apparently this was only satire and an apology has been issued.
'Nonetheless, "The Simpsons" (the show, not the characters) issued an apology yesterday: "Matt was being satirical and certainly there was never any issue between the show and Fox News. We regret any confusion.'"
At this rate, it'll be #1 by March! An anonymous reader writes "According to the latest round of leaked information to reach The Register, the Virginia Tech Big Mac has reached 10.28 teraflops. A solid #3 win, 'This places it behind the 5,120 processor Earth Simulator system - 35.9 teraflops - and the 8,160 processor ASCI Q system - 13.8 teraflops.'"
Hold tight, though: Elysdir points to a AP article, pointing out that "the Top 500 list will be officially announced Nov. 18, so it's not clear to me whether the #3 ranking is official or not."
A Droid You Can Build From Downloadable Plans. In this article, LinuxDevices checks out OAP, an open source droid. OAP shares the same VIA Mini-ITX mainboard as the VIA-Roboteq "PC-bot" featured in an earlier Slashdot story, but OAP's project goals seem a little more ambitious. According to the FAQ, OAP will eventually be able to 'Read your favourite news web pages or blogs aloud to you.' A personal droid that reads Slashdot aloud to you -- what more could you ask for?"
(A girlfriend?)
Uh, excuse me but ALL these stories have been posted before. (I would look up the links but I'm too lazy). Slashdot editors have hit a new all-time low with this one... and you guys are actually paying for this stuff?? Please.
how is that?
zero comments!
If you can't handle people poking a little fun at you, you're in the wrong business!
If you're in the public view, you're going to have people that want to poke fun at you. if a show as insanely popular as the Simpsons is making fun of you, I'd say it's a good thing.
Pretty Pictures!
According to the FAQ, OAP will eventually be able to 'Read your favourite news web pages or blogs aloud to you.' A personal droid that reads Slashdot aloud to you -- what more could you ask for?"
(A girlfriend?)
Now that's a little mean-spirited. Link to the story, praise the guy for putting together a perfectly interesting project, and then backhand him for (presumably) not having a girlfriend. Not only is it extremely hackneyed, it's kind of an undeserved slap in the face.
Slashdot: News for Nerds, Mocking the Hand that Feeds Us!
SHOVE A BIG DICK UP MY EAR!!!
Now I can have the worlds most powerful "Hello World" ever!
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
As soon as the burly guard unshackled him he made his move. Exhaling a feminine "hmmph" he weakly slapped the guard. He was quickly taken to the ground, receiving a swift kick to the ribs before being restrained. As he was dragged to the solitary confinement cell he felt nothing but relief. "At least in solitary," he thought "I'll be safe." Unfortunately for CmdrTaco he had picked the wrong guard to mess with.
The next few days were uneventful. The time in his cell he spent evenly between sleeping, reading a "Perl for Dummies" book he had gotten from the book cart, and masturbating furiously. His self-flagellation was interrupted on the fourth day. The burly guard he had attacked earlier stepped into his cell. The gleam in the guards eye and the mean grin on his face made CmdrTaco's pecker quickly shrivel in his hand. "You fucked with the wrong man when you fucked with Michael Simms," said the guard. "The inmates here call me The Asshole for a reason. Now come with me, punk."
The guard led him down the hall to one of several empty shower stalls. He roughly threw CmdrTaco in the stall and locked the door. CmdrTaco was petrified. His mind raced as he imagined the myriad of different tortures that could be in store for him. His worst fears were confirmed when the guard returned. In his hands were a short black dress, black stilleto heels, and a curly blonde wig. "Strip down and put this on, bitch." CmdrTaco did as instructed and was pleased to notice that the dress fit well and the heels gave him a nice slimming effect. The burly guard admired the drag queen. "The GNAA is gonna love you!"
The guard left the shower stall, only to return minutes later. He opened the door and led 20 large black men into the stall. "CmdrTaco, meet the Gay Nigger Association of America. GNAA, meet CmdrTaco. I'm sure you all will get along fine." With that the guard slammed the shower door closed and walked away laughing.
The men approached CmdrTaco, backing him into a corner. The apparent leader stepped forward. "No matter what I'm gonna fuck that purdy lil' ass of yours. Now I can fuck it dry or you can lube it up for me." CmdrTaco knew he had no choice. He kneeled in front of the leader, who began to slap his face with his 10 black inches. Puss from syphilictic sores quickly covered CmdrTaco's cheeks. When the leader was sufficiently aroused he placed his throbbing cock up to CmdrTaco's lips. As soon as CmdrTaco opened his mouth the leader violently shoved his manhood to the back of CmdrTaco's throat and exclaimed "Swallow my shit you cracker bitch!" CmdrTaco gagged as he was violently face fucked.
Just when he was about to pass out the leader pulled out, turned him around and shoved his cock into CmdrTaco's ass. CmdrTaco began to scream in agony but his cries were quickly muffled by one of the other gang member's cocks. They rode him like that for the better part of an hour. When one man finished another quickly took his place. Just as CmdrTaco was getting used to the throbbing pain in his anus the men stopped. One man lay down on the floor and CmdrTaco was told to get on top of him and take his dick inside him. Exhausted and humiliated, CmdrTaco had no will left to fight. As soon as he inserted the penis another man came up behind him and began to force his cock into CmdrTaco's already filled anus. Again his screams of agony were muffled, this time by a smelly black anus.
For another hour he was violated in this way. When the men were finished with him he couldn't walk and his mouth was filled with dingleberries and ass hairs. Before they all left the leader had some parting words for CmdrTaco: "Thanks for that sweet piece of ass, punk. We'll see you again tomorrow. Oh by the way, we all have AIDS." It was going to be a long ten years for CmdrTaco.
Previously reported was that Fox News Considered Suing Fox's 'The Simpsons' for using a news ticker spoofing the news service. Apparently this was only satire and an apology has been issued.
I live in the UK, and until I started watching The Simpsons, I had never even heard of Fox. Advertisers would pay good money for this sort of publicity.
Sueing them? Only in America!
All I Want For Christmas Is My Constitutional Rights
here
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
As the only "fair and balanced" news source we have left here in the US, FoxNews deserves to be treated with respect.
Not only are they unbiased, they have the FINEST news babes. Kiran Chetry, Juliet Huddy, Heather Nauert, etc.
I agree but does it help anyone?
Fortress of Insanity
Blogzine
OAP shares the same VIA Mini-ITX mainboard as the VIA-Roboteq "PC-bot" featured in an earlier Slashdot story
/. story required a $500 motor controller. Forget that. Just give me the text to speech components and any important access components (i.e. web parsers, etc) and I forgo the motors. I can actually carry the computer from place to place and let it read me the stories wherever. Or mount the computer on an rc car and drive it around.
But the robot in that
Specific project goals include:[of the robot, from the sourceforge page]
Design a coherent set of modular components (hardware and software) that conform to standards (where possible)
Minimize cost to $1,500 - $2,000, about the cost of a good PC
Develop a low-cost real-time vision system for use as the primary spatial sensor.
Thousand dollars for a robot? No thanks.
There's only one way to find out: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*...
Remember about your daily mare trolls!
Don't sue, don't threaten, don't make yourself an international farce by responding in a knee-jerk litigous manner.
Perhaps you could even learn from something (it is hard to satire a logical and reasonable issue)...
Q.
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"Previously reported was that Fox News Considered Suing Fox's 'The Simpsons' for using a news ticker spoofing the news service. Apparently this was only satire and an apology has been issued.
'Nonetheless, "The Simpsons" (the show, not the characters) issued an apology yesterday: "Matt was being satirical and certainly there was never any issue between the show and Fox News. We regret any confusion.'"
Does anyone really believe that?
I live in a giant bucket.
I like robots, because they taste yummy. Here's a great recipe that goes really well with robot!!!
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
4 cups whole, 2 percent fat, or 1 percent fat milk
1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
7 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup fresh mango puree (1 small mango, peeled, pitted, and pureed in a food processor)
Chocolate brownie base
Chocolate Brownie Base:
6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
Pour 2 cups sugar into the center of a deep saucepan. Carefully pour the water around the sugar, trying not to splash any sugar onto the sides of the pan. Do not stir; gently draw your finger through the center of the sugar twice, making a cross, to moisten it. Over medium-high heat, bring to a boil without stirring. Reduce the heat to a fast simmer and cook without stirring until amber-caramel in color, 10 to 20 minutes. Immediately remove from the heat. Meanwhile, set 6 (1-cup ramekins or shallow coffee cups nearby. When the caramel is cooked, quickly pour about 1/4 cup caramel into each ramekin and swirl to coat the sides. Set aside to cool.
In a saucepan, bring the milk and vanilla bean to a boil over medium heat. Immediately turn off the heat and set aside to infuse. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, additional egg yolks and the remaining 1 cup sugar. Whisk about 1/2 cup of the hot milk into the egg mixture. Whisk the remaining hot milk into the egg mixture. Whisk in the mango puree until smooth. Strain the mixture into a pitcher to smooth it and to remove the vanilla bean and mango fibers. Pour the mixture into the caramel-lined ramekins and arrange in a hot water bath. Bake in the center of the oven until dry and set in the center, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from the water bath and let cool. Tightly cover each ramekin with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 2 hours, or refrigerate until ready to serve, up to 24 hours.
Chocolate Brownie Base: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 by 13-inch baking pan and line it with parchment or waxed paper, pressing into the corners. In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer), cream the butter until fluffy. Mix in the sugar. Mix in the eggs and vanilla and mix until light and fluffy. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Add to the butter mixture and mix just until combined. Mix in the chocolate chips. Pour into the prepared pan, smooth the top, and bake until the cake is firm in the center and the surface is dry and shiny, 15 minutes. Let cool in the pan. Run a knife around the edges of the pan and turn out the whole cake onto a work surface. Peel off the waxed paper. Using a ramekin as a guide, use a sharp knife to cut out 6 brownie circles the same size as the ramekins.
To serve, place a brownie circle on each serving plate. Turn a flan out on top of the cake (you may need to dip the bottom of each ramekin in hot water to loosen the caramel, and/or run a knife around the edge of the ramekin). The caramel will pour out and serve as the sauce, and will also soak into the brownie.
Dear Father O'Day:
Thanks for your letter. Being Catholic myself, I know exactly what you're talking about! It has always been our plan here at Apple Computer Inc to revolutionize personal computing with our high-quality and highly gay products.
I'm happy to answer your letter by letting you know that YES we will be releasing an entire hLife ("homo-life") software line. You'll be able to recognize it in stores by the small stylized logo depicting a large cock entering a tight anus with an Apple logo on it. ("Suddenly it all comes together" indeed!).
Anyway, I hope you and other members of our community will join us on our mission, and purchase the exciting new hLife boxed set. Only the boxed set comes with translucent cock rings!
Sincerely,
Harry Rodman
Vice-president
Homosexual Liaison Services
Apple Computer, Inc.
In Britain + Ireland, anyway, OAP means Old Age Pensioner. Not the image you want to associate with your robot?
Mod parent +1 Delicious!!!!
This is like one of those newspaper stories that procliams COMMANDER TACO A MURDERER! on the front page in 48 point type, and then three days later there's a little correction in a box at the bottom of the last column on A-42 that reads "the story about Commander Taco being a murderer on the front page of Tuesdays Daily Slasher was in error. Another man named Commander Taco was convicted of penguin murder in American Samoa in 1969. The Slasher regrets the error."
Or, to bring the point home more closely to the topic at hand, it's like when Homer got slimmed for Sexual Harassment by a TV tabloid, when all he really did was peel the gummy Venus DeMillo off his companion's ass, then when the station issued an apology, they ran it as one of hundreds flashing by on the screen at the end of the program.
I guess Slashdot just isn't willing to admit that their dislike of Fox News lead them to post a false story, and now prevents them from posting a correction anywhere "above the virtual fold" for casual viewers to see without having to click the link...
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
So Fox didn't threaten to sue itself, but is the new rule against fake news crawls real, or was it part of the joke as well?
Lasers Controlled Games!
HAHA - Rupert "Nelson" Murdoch
Homer:
[reading screen] "To Start Press Any Key". Where's the ANY key? I see Esk ["ESC"], Catarl ["CTRL"], and Pig-Up ["PGUP"]. There doesn't seem to be any ANY key. Woo! All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. I think I'll order a TAB. [presses TAB key] Awp...no time for that now, the computer's starting.
Blatanly stolen from Simpsons episode 3f05.
70% ownership would be a controlling interest, effectively a buyout.
By being so ridiculous, satire is impossible.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
Mmmmmmh, babies . . . I could eat a truckload!
suck my big fat hairy balls
If they had problems with the simpsons parody imagine the fit they would have over this show
I guess Slashdot just isn't willing to admit that their dislike of Fox News lead them to post a false story, and now prevents them from posting a correction anywhere "above the virtual fold" for casual viewers to see without having to click the link...
Yeah, that's it Mulder. SlashDot and its partners the Freemasons are out to destroy the One True Source of information, namely Fox News.
Alternately, this could just be old news. Remember how there was a correction (another article) on the front page of SlashDot (yes, the front page) one day after the original article? Remember? One day later? Front page?
Nobody's out to get anyone here. It's just that the extended details of the cleanup are less interesting than the original leak.
this isn't redundant motefucker!! this is the first time this has been posted and it ain't fucking redundant you communist liberal pigs!!
mitch
This is like one of those newspaper stories that procliams COMMANDER TACO A MURDERER! on the front page in 48 point type, and then three days later there's a little correction in a box at the bottom of the last column on A-42 that reads "the story about Commander Taco being a murderer on the front page of Tuesdays Daily Slasher was in error. Another man named Commander Taco was convicted of penguin murder in American Samoa in 1969. The Slasher regrets the error."
You know, I think a more appropriate comparison would be from the Simpsons:
Homer and Marge are asleep in their darkened bedroom when Lisa opens the door and pulls in Bart, who is laying still on a red wagon.
Lisa: "Mom! Dad! Bart's dead!"
Parents scream. Then Bart sits up.
Bart: "That's right -- dead serious about going to 'Itchy & Scratchy Land.'"
Karma whoring AC, y0!
Give the OAP a '70s bowl haircut, spray it silver and call it Twiggy
*beedeebeedeebeedee* Hey, Buck, I'm open source!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
...when I picture applications for a personal droid, having it read /. to me is not the first one that springs to mind.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
....reads Slashdot aloud to you -- what more could you ask for?
A girlfriend?
Hahahahaha!
ha ha ha...
[cries]
in the related links section?
Apparently this was only satire and an apology has been issued
Stating the amazingly obvious there about it being satire. What's more likely to have happened:
The bastards at FAUX News have absolutely no sense of humor and wanted somebody from the Simpsons to be fired over this issue. Because disrupting the show would in the long term cost them more money than they make from it (finding a replacement writer or a new helmsman to direct the show, etc), they had the show issue an apology and banned them from making fun of their own news network ever again.
Don't you just love the bland corporate conformity that is seeping into all areas of everything? Satirical programs are no longer allowed to do what they do best for fear of offending their corporate masters.
They should have said "bite my shiny metal ass" and made fun of FAUX more often.
FoxNews must have a giant bug up its butt if it's willing to sue the people that saved it's own sister network over something that (if possible) is even more obviously satire than Al Franken's book title. I guess when you have the name "Fox" attached to the title of your company, you have to fight to the death for every litte bit of credibility you can get your hands on.
Of course I get all my news from A Bare and Balanced News Source.
>I guess Slashdot just isn't willing to admit that their dislike of Fox News lead them to post a false story
Led to post a false story? Every media outlet was reporting the same thing. Nice conspiracy theory you've got there, but fark, metafilter, googlenews, etc were running the same story. The truly say part is after Fox's REAL intimidation lawsuit against Al Franken no one thought Fox suing the Simpsons was at all suspicious.
Normally, Groening's joke would have been as a understood as one, but Fox's well-earned reputation as childish bullies diluted the satirical joke itself. Scary.
Considering Fox's reputation is in the garbage can anyway, complaints regarding 'over the fold' are silly and if people can't be bothered to click on the Read More link then they deserve to wallow in ignorance. It isn't Taco's job to make a flash presentation and embed it on the front page becaus e a news channel you like was subjecedt to a prank.
reads Slashdot aloud to you
...."'
Robot: Story: 'Linux Kernal 2.6 Released'
Robot: 'Subject: "First Post", By: Anonymous Coward, Body: w O O t'
Robot: 'Subject: "Frost Prist", By: Anonymous Coward, Body: I roxor exclamation point'
Robot: 'Subject: "Re: Frost Prist", By: Anonymous Coward, Body: Yuo Fail IT explamation point.'
Robot: 'Subject: "GNAA Own Z yuo" By: Anonymous Coward Body: GNAA (GAY BAD WORD ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY BAD WORD from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY
Robot: 'Subject"Re: GNAA Own Z yuo", By: Anonymous Coward, Body: "STOP POSTING THIS SHIT.'
You should check out Akbar & Jeff's *DIPLOMACY HUT*!
Red Hat Linux 9 was installed using mostly default installation options (you can download the ISO images for this GNU/Linux distribution free of charge from redhat.com). The exceptions to the default installation choices are listed here:
* Custom (as opposed to Personal Desktop) installation type.
* Automatic Partitioning.
* System Clock uses UTC.
* No Firewall.
All your robot are belong to me, baby. Oh, I'm sorry, you didn't want to be woken up at 2am to learn about the new FDA approved, no prescription needed Viagara alternative?
So sorry. Won't happen again. At least not for another hour...
-Adam
Given that this is /., I'd think that the answer would be obvious:
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
The costs have to be kept low to free up capital for the forthcoming case mod .
I haven't seen one of these in ages, but from memory I remember them using an 8088 processor.
I think it would be a neat project to retrofit this old robot with a modern ITX mobo. Has anyone actually tried it?
-- what more could you ask for?" (A girlfriend?) ;)
Nah, governments would ban it straight away as it would negatively influence a population growth
braindumps.info - well, braindumps in
7. I, for one, welcome our new linux robot slashdot reading overlords
Fox News is lying stupid shills for the propigation of lazy thinkers in this country. Read Al Franken's book to discover just how fatuous and misleadable the american people are.
The book goes a long way to explaining how screwed up this country is just now, and why. It draws nice lines between us everyday americans and the evil, out-of-control, butt-heads running our country just now. The connection to and with Fox news and the daily atrocities that are our Bush-era "forign policy" is nicely laid out there.
A good chunk of the book is about just how fragile Fox News is. They lie so much and slant so much more that if they were to ever really lose the eisteme of the un-informed right in this country they would flounder and die immediately.
They (Fox News) must be desperate to prevent the first/next pinhole in the blow-up-doll of thier a-moral veneere.
Pitty really...
I wish I lived in a free country just now. Or at least in one smart enough to know that just which wool is being pulled over whos eyes and how.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
Is this another one of those posts that attempts to prove the point that moderators like the old, stale jokes by putting them all together?
I know I've seen a few posts before, all of whom soon have replies from the author that it was an experiment to show that "mods are fools" or something like that.
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
Matt was being satirical and certainly there was never any issue between the show and Fox News.
Yeah, but it's funny, cuz it's true.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
"RMS and FSF are seeking power, not freedom."
-Steve Dimse
That from a guy who can't even spell the name of his alma mater. Either that, or he was suckered into getting a degree from a copy-cat diploma mill in malibu.
"what more could you ask for?"
(a girlfriend?)
ha, take this.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Sure, as soon as Fox News retracts at least 1% of the lies they put forth.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
The reason we run Slashback is to collect corrections and updates, for instance the one here about M. Groenig / Simpsons / Fox News.
If a story is still on the front page, we try to get a correction in there as an update. For stories that have rolled off the front page, though, more people will see the correction here than there, simply because readership for particular stories drops off a very steep cliff once they're in the Older Stories list instead of right there on the homepage.
I don't watch Fox News enough to particularly like or dislike it, though I will admit to liking the Simpsons. It's nearly as good as Futurama.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
the Virginia Tech Big Mac has reached 10.28 teraflops
This is a bit like Formula 1 - great PR for the company. Except Ferrari and the rest pay for their supercars.
Might this not be FOX News' problem for issuing news that might be confused with a satyrical cartoon? Maybe FOX News' content is about as believeable as "Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple... Do Democrats Cause Cancer?" (from the Yahoo! article). Well, if they are anything like CNN, that sounds about right.
All data is speech. All speech is Free.
Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news.
People THAT confused should stay away from "The Simpsons" in the first place. It might change the way they see their american south.
Do you really think that Bugs Bunny's company (CNN parent Time Warner) could buy out Mickey Mouse's company (ABC parent Disney) or vice versa? Not within the next Life Plus 70.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Faux News is the foe of the left.
Will I retire or break 10K?
> I think it has less to do with the right-ward
> slant and more to do with it being more
> entertaining to watch.
Perhaps that's why more people get their news from The Daily Show than the Fox News network. At least they make the line between news and fiction clear, and they're certainly the most entertaining. Anyone who sees it as just a comedy show probably doesn't understand South Park either. Oh sure, Savage is funny for about 15 minutes, but then an overwhelming sense of "AAAARRRGGH!" kicks in.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20030505
WMBC freeform/independent online radio.
If Fox News thinks people can't tell the difference between a cartoon and their news broadcast then either they think that their audience is incredibly stupid or they realize that Fox News is no different than a cartoon.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Fox News' concern was that the channel is also called "Fox" and that seeing a news ticker like that of "Fox News" running at the bottom would make people believe there was a real connection.
The normal Fox channel HAS run Fox News' news ticker in the past, particularly during the 9/11 attacks and also during the war with Iraq. So that was the reason behind the issue.
I think if Groening had just run it by Fox News first, there wouldn't have been a problem.
"Sufferin' succotash."
it has a link to pr0n!
If Fox really DID want to sue for things like this, there would be plenty of evidence to be brought to the stand:
Simpsons swipes at Fox
I wouldn't try to get out of jury duty for that case.
how in the world is parent offtopic? he comments on fox and the simpsons. this is exactly ontopic.
i sell illegal drugs
I, for one, well come our new beowulf cluster of natalie portman petrified droids covered in hot grits Overlords. And as an anonymous coward, would like to remind them I could be usefull for reading slashdot out loud to them in soviet russia.
(ok, maybe my tone *was* a little flame-baitish but one wonders if the moderators had read the book before forming their opinion of my opinion... 8-)
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press