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Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the well-that-didn't-end-as-planned dept.

gzipped_tar writes to tell us that The Codeweavers "Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge" has ended in surprise and free software all day Tuesday (October 28, 2008) at the Codeweavers site. A while back Codeweavers gave President Bush a challenge to meet one of several goals before he left office. One of these goals was to lower gas prices in the Twin Cities below $2.79 a gallon, which has since transpired. "How was I to know that President Bush would take my challenge so seriously? And, give the man credit, I didn't think there was *any* way he could pull it off. But engineering a total market meltdown - wow - that was pure genius. I clearly underestimated the man. I'm ashamed that I goaded him into this and take full responsibility for the collapse of any savings you might have. Please accept our free software as my way of apologizing for the global calamity we now find ourselves embroiled in."

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  1. Retards by Bryan+Ischo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What kind of retard thinks that one of the responsibilities of the president of the United States is to control the price of gasoline?

    And, what kind of retard actually believes that it's a good thing for the government to try to artificially alter the price of a commodity like gasoline, probably the commodity with the most negative impact on the environment and the world in general, rather than letting market forces dictate the price?

    If the price of gas is such a big deal for you, I would like to humbly suggest that you cancel your cable TV service, thereby recovering all of the money that higher gas prices are costing you, and instead read some books. And if you don't already subscribe to cable TV, well then ... think of some other frivolous expense that you can cut out. It is a very, very rare person who can't easily find some small sacrifice of modern excess to make to compensate for high gas prices.

    1. Re:Retards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      How about instead of doing some worthless token thing like getting rid of Cable TV, your Sirius subscription or canceling your lifetime subscription to hustler you suggest a REAL alternative?

      Buy a bike, ride to work. It's free and also allows you to get rid of that Health club membership you never use. Sell your escalade XLT and buy a smartcar or other high MPG non hybrid car? Quit being a whiney baby and use public transportation?

      Finally sell your 3800sq foot McMansion and all your useless crap and move your family into a 680 sq foot apartment/condo. Only the incredibly stupid need 3800SQ feet and all that useless shit.

      Basically fellow americans... hate your gas prices? Quit being douchebags!

  2. Libs are stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Doesn't this kinda help clue-in some of you idiots that the president has an extremely nominal factor in the economy?
    Whatever, not like i'd pay for their crappy software anyway.

  3. Re:News for nerds? Stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mod this up.. No wonder this site is circling down the drain. Can the editors even really explain how this story fits into the nerd news genre? It's nothing but a political attack with no news value at all.

    It's pathetic when the editors use the site as a political soapbox. This is why sites like this, and digg are going down the toilet.