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MS Calls On Kids to Stop Thought Thieves
theodp writes "Microsoft is calling all UK kids aged 14-17 to enter its Thought Thieves Competition. Remember kids, finalists must agree to formally license all intellectual property rights in their film on terms acceptable to Microsoft. And don't forget to download your free Thought Thieves Poster!"
That's Microsoft's job.
"Ms. PEEAAABODDDYYY!! Bobby is stealing my THOUGHTS!!"
Microsoft brings us Orwell's grand vision of 1984, but 21 years late. Slipped deadlines, that is so typical of Microsoft.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
(And not just for the 14-17 year old British girls).
I wonder if they'd like my entry "GPL Wars: Revenge of the Linksyth".
"Anakin, don't use that code! It's a trap!"
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
You think that's funny? Try this:
http://freetodd.org/MS-Poster.gif
This poster was stuck up all over my San Diego, California college campus.
If aspiration is a virtue, achievement cannot be a vice.
I thought of that first!
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When VCR's are outlawed, only outlaws will have VCR's.
Everyone has bought a porn tape that was just too disgusting to watch. Or you know someone with a box full of hermaphrodite and scheisse-pron.
How about we steam the labels off all of those and mail em to Microsoft?
.sig: Now legally binding!
Its funny because all the school kids will just log on to Kazaa right after this lesson...
Seriously you can't brainwash 14-17 year olds its too late by then, at this age they are already burning CDR's, smoking behind the wall and trying to use the colour laser to print fake ID's and £5 notes for the local off-license! Ah the good old days, when VCD's where as easy to come by as that slutty girl in your class, and everyone was discovering sharing, memories... Kids these days with their Napsters and Torrents, they have it easy!
If Microsoft seriously wants to brainwash then they're going to have to aim for the 8 year olds or lower. Do some classes where kids make macaroni and glitter pictures and then someone takes them and pretends they made them and then beats the kid to within an inch of their lives while playing Beethoven too loud, now that's brainwashing!
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Tony Blair announces that 1000 teenage thought criminals have been rounded up for thought crimes. They will be re-educated at the Ministry of Love and given a chance to repent for their crimes through death.
In further other news, Bill Gates has announced that Linux is unexist. Purge all memory of "Linux" from your brains now to prevent being labelled a thought criminal!
Online backup with Mozy, sounds like Ozzie, but more!
"Microsoft ruft alle BRITISCHEN kinder vom 14-17 an, um seine Gedankendiebkonkurrenz einzutragen.
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Erinnern Sie sich an Zicklein, finalists muß damit einverstanden SEIN, alle Rechte am geistigen Eigentum in ihrem Film auf den Bezeichnungen formal zu genehmigen, die für Microsoft annehmbar sind.
Und vergessen Sie nicht, Ihr freies Gedankendiebplakat zu runter-laden! Microsoft in errichness 2005 JAWHOL",
Sounds alot scaryer
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Unfortunately, this means you lose. Sorry.
I thought it was:
Think Different;
Otherwise you're Stealing from us.
EVERY web page made with FrontPage is a criticism of Microsoft...
This is even richer than when the MS Front Page license including a clause forbidding the use of Front Page to make web pages critical of Microsoft.
Ah!
So that's why all the anti-Microsoft sites seem to display correctly in Firefox.
Linux/Open Source/Anti Microsoft News
From Microsoft's poster:
"So how would you feel if you saw your hard work being passed off as the property of someone else?"
Gee, I don't know, maybe you could ask the guys who wrote the BSD stack?