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Gates tried to Blackmail Danish Government
mocm writes "The Inquirer has a story about how Bill Gates tried to pressure the Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen into accepting the European Union's proposed directive on software patents by threating to terminate the 800 jobs at Navision, which had been acquired by Microsoft." Update: 02/16 00:41 GMT by T : cfelde points out a CNET story which says that "The European vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions, Klaus Holse Andersen, denied on Tuesday that the jobs at Navision were ever at risk." Believe who you'd like.
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First post.
From danquayle.com: Potatoe
Smeghead every day of the week.
You can't justify bad things just because they have happened before. That makes me want to shoot someone! After all, Hitler caused millions of deaths, so any murder I commit will just be a drop in the bucket.
"Homer quiet. Acquire the deal."
No, it's "you'll queer the deal". A colloquialism meaning, as you may infer from the context, "you'll fuck things up".
Don't feel bad, I don't get British humor, so it all balances out.
What, no "soviet"?
and not with reason.
Typcial registered user mentality.
What I've always wondered is, do Brittish people have cheque-boxes and cheque-marks and cheque-points? Or are all of those check-*'s?
No, they have ticks instead of checks. For fun, try giving a British person a questionairre that uses checkboxes and tell them to check their answers. After hilarity ensues, replace check with tick and repeat.
Actually, the two 'official' languages in Europe are English and ... French (/proud ^^). French is the "diplomatic language" because it allows a lot of subtelties (sp). ie: 10 words can have the same meaning to different degrees, whereas in English one word can have 10 different meanings. That's a global statement of course, and I'm sure exceptions can be found, but it's true.
That's only because they can't spell,
when enough people can't spell a word properly,
they just change the word to match.
Woohoo, spelling by democracy.
Ah, yes, the Simpsons, that delightfully droll British cartoon.
What an ass.
Look it up, Americans out number the rest of the English speaking world. Give it a week, and you'll be using American spelling or being laughed out of school. Give it another week and we'll tell Tony Blair to spell his name "Toni Blare" and he'll like it.
Hey, does that mean I'm not a geek?
Do not be alarmed. This is only a test.
With our higher population density 57 million british out number each other much more, droning out the sickly sweet american 'culture'
Sounds like something he would try to have for breakfast.
When you put as much effort writing in a second language as I'm putting right now, then you might come and critisize me. For the time being, stop feeling special because you found a typo.