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Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they're trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez' email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources."
Wikileaks plans to use the profits for a small but capable force of mercenaries to protect their collective asses.
IFYPFY.
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Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 07, @12:26PM
He's kicking himself for not using the same email backup system as The Whitehouse.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
It's a slippery slope that will eventually lead to something like this.
Journalists don't create stories, they document existing events. The problem is that wikileaks doesn't need to provide an incentive for people to create false documents.
http://www.lyricstime.com/dead-kennedys-stealing-people-s-mail-lyrics.html
"Dead Kennedys sue Wikileaks!"
Now that is a headline!
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Dear Castro,
Bush sucks. Thanks for the cigars.
Hugs,
Hugo.
PS: No you can't have my Hummer.
WTF.
worth of Hugo Chavez' email.
It's bad enough when people throw in an apostrophe for no reason when a word ends in s. I can at least see the logic. "Oh golly gee, this word ends in an s, I probably need an apostrophe." This is, obviously, not how you decide if an apostrophe is needed, but at least it's closer than what this person did.
For the uninitiated, the following is correct usage:
worth of Hugo Chavez's email.
At this point in the game of battling bad grammar and usage, I'll offer some extremely oversimplified rules for possessive apostrophe usage:
1. Regardless of what the word is or how it ends, if it's singular to make it possessive you add an apostrophe and an S. E.G. "the abacus's beads" or "the Nazi's obsessiveness".
2. Regardless of what the word is or how it ends, if it is pluralized by adding an S or ES, simply add an apostrophe to the end of the word to make it possessive. E.G. "all of the abacuses' owners" "the Nazis' collective obsessions".
Note: For my fellow Nazis who may try catch me on something: Abacus can be pluralized as abacuses or abaci. Also, please forgive any typos and use of passive voice.
Skiffy is Spiffy, but Ort is tort.
Hello, as a freelance Sun reporter, I'll quote you on that: 'Unnamed sources claim some of the emails were sexually explicit and addressed to a former Big Brother contestant'. Hope that's OK with you, and if it's not you can just piss off. Thank you.
> There are plenty of disreputable news sources around, but would their readership be interested in Hugo Chavez's email?
Well, the CIA is kind of a news source, whose very select readership is likely to be interested in any dirt they can put their spin on.
I guess the difference is that a photographer creates the photograph, but how is this different to paying for, say, the Hitler Diaries?
It's much more like paying for Hitler Diaries 2, which was "created" by the filmmakers. The first one, at least, was based on the book.
Contrast with Sisterhood of the Traveling Boots, which was entirely based on the.... oh, never mind.
You just need to yell, "My god! It's coming right for us!" and you'll be fine.
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Dude borrowed my car and I was all, like, okay, but no smoking in it. He brought back the car and it, like, totally REEKED of smoke. And I was all, dude, you smoked in my car, and he was like, no hablo. And I'm like, dude, I know you hablo because you asked me to borrow my car and he was like que? And I'm like, dude, whatever, you are suck a jerk.
All sorts of things come to mind thinking about "cross-species" email.
No, I'm sure you didn't really mean that...
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
of Chavez' connection to former officials in the Nigerian government! Wait'll that story breaks!!
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