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Free IBM Computers For UK Households

Posted by timothy on from the always-a-catch dept.

Albanach writes "The Scotland on Sunday newspaper is reporting that UK firm Metronomy are offering 200,000 IBM PCs free of charge to UK households. Of course, there is a catch - advertising. Accepting the terms and conditions will get users a free IBM PC running Windows XP, but they will also be required to watch three minutes of TV style advertising for every hour of computer use and undertake to use the PC for a minimum of 30 hours per month."

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  1. Why the U.K.? by mrshowtime · · Score: -1, Troll

    The economy in the U.K. is horrid right now. Nobody has any money or work and everyone is on welfare. What use is advertising to "poor" people if they can't buy most of the crap you are hawking? I would have picked Germany, at least they have money. Seig Heil! Oh, in case you are wondering I'm British. Why is it that nobody has yet realized that internet advertising is absolutely worthless?

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    "Jeremy, you need to get to an internet cafe and cut and paste some appropriate sentiments about me from the world wide
    1. Re:Why the U.K.? by mrshowtime · · Score: -1, Troll

      I tried living on credit, sooner or later my creditors figured out where I lived and sent hired goons to collect. :) Actually, come to think of it, the Germans would actually get really angry at forced ads, whereas the Brits are too polite to complain and the noisy yanks complain about everything. I won't even consider what the snooty French would think of such a "free" offer.

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      "Jeremy, you need to get to an internet cafe and cut and paste some appropriate sentiments about me from the world wide
    2. Re:Why the U.K.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Well, well my european brother. Here in GERMANY the Euro sucks. But at least we can afford PC's w/o shitty advertising. Sieg Heil (asshole)!

    3. Re:Why the U.K.? by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 0, Troll

      "Care to explain the offside law? Or tell us what top job a Swede holds in England? Want to tell us what's bigger over here, Frasier, Friends, Scrubs, Sienfeld or Will and Grace? Want to tell me what the most famous football terrace in Britain's called?"

      Oh my God! I thought all this time I had been living in the UK! Apparently I haven't because I'm not a sports-loving popular culture-guzzling idiot.

      (I couldn't answer any of the above questions. Well, not with correct answers anyway).

      graspee

    4. Re:Why the U.K.? by carndearg · · Score: -1, Troll

      I think if I had mod points I'd mod the parent as "Insightful" rather than "Troll".
      If the UK economy's in such good shape why cant I find a job? And why are all the people I went to university with (electronic engineering, 1993) either in the same position or dead scared of losing their jobs? And why can only criminals and lottery winners afford to buy houses leaving the rest of us living with parents or paying some parasite buy-to-let shared house landlord's mortgage? And why are taxes(direct and indirect) shooting up? The list goes on.
      My advice: get the free PC and flog it to pay the bills cos they'll have gone titsup within 6 months.

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      Oxford Dictionaries Online
  2. Invasion of Tet, we hate gooks & we knapped SA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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