HOMER: Would you look at those morons... I paid my taxes over a year ago!
LISA: You have to do your taxes every year, dad.
Homer: Ahh! Marge! How many kids do we have? Oh, no time to count, I'll just estimate! Uh...nine!
Marge: Homer, you know we don't h--
Homer: Shut up, shut up! If I don't hear you it's not illegal! OK, I need some deductions, deductions... ah!! Business gifts!
[Homer grabs the boat painting from above the couch and hands it to Marge.]
Here you go, keep using nuclear power!
Marge: Homer! I painted that for you!
Homer: OK, Marge, if anyone asks, you require twenty four hour nursing care, Lisa's a clergyman, Maggie is seven people, and Bart was wounded in Vietnam!
Bart: Cool!
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Er, how exactly can anyone be "contractually bound" when they haven't signed a contract?
Mr. Blackley was a main character in an internal Microsoft insurgency that convinced Mr. Gates to spend an estimated $5 billion to $6 billion to enter the video game business.
I believe virus distribution should be illegal, but distributing the code should not be (the title of the article is somewhat misleading). If someone wants to spread a virus, MS makes it easy for them with macros. If they aren't that computer literate, they probably aren't going to want to spread a virus in the first place.
Posting the code should be legal because there are always new methods of attacking someone's computer, and people/companies working against this should have access to methods of distributing viruses that other people have thought of, the better to protect themselves/their customers.
An apt analagy is that people are allowed to buy guns, despite the fact that they can kill people--they also help protect people from being killed.
The crux of this is: Did Microsoft embed Internet Exploder into Windows? Yes. Is it mandatory to use this? NO!
I don't want it taking up hard drive space. I also don't want the IE icons anywhere on my desktop, and I don't want IE to continually make itself the default browser.
Start talking softer and softer and softer... The telemarketer will turn up the volume on his/her headset. Then you pull out your airhorn and blow it for about 10 seconds into the phone. If they stay on the line, talk about how you had too much chili last night. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Also, when I get asked for my address, I make the clerk explain why them having my address "serves me better". I don't relent. This is especially fun with a long line behind me--the clerk will call his/her manager out, who, most of the time, will say that they require an address. I argue with him for awhile, then set my books down and leave.
Maybe this "Wrigley Field" thing will give me something else to do in this situation. I'll pretend to relent in the end and give them that address.
BTW, this happened at a local bookstore that shall only be known as B&Noble. No wait, that's too obvious--how about Barnes&N.
I remembered back when Amazon.com changed its privacy policy, saying that if they needed (or wanted) to, they would sell their customers out. Granted, this isn't to the government, but very few small town bookstores would sell customer info.
And we don't have the right to play CD's in computers either. What's next, DVDs that can't be played in a DVD player that allows writing to DVDs? VHS tapes that won't play in VCRs?
I think the government should stop with all of this sh*t and have police snipers pick people off as they try to leave stores like Circuit City, CompUSA, etc. That would make more sense.
Ahh, I have heard of goto.com, I just haven't been there in awhile. I remember not liking their search features (Google was/is better), and now I truly hate them.
According to the article, Overture should be suing every search engine that uses targeted ads, but they chose only Google. Perhaps they're envious of Google's reputation (I hadn't even heard of Overture until now).
I don't really understand prOn, but it still seems to me that they should respect the decision of people who don't want to see it, and not try to fool them (anyone whose accidentally typed in whitehouse.com should agree with me [if you really want to go there, you have to type it in yourself]).
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So you also fail to see the usefulness of the Internet Movie Database? I, personally, visit the IMDb almost as much as I visit /.
HOMER: Would you look at those morons... I paid my taxes over a year ago!
LISA: You have to do your taxes every year, dad.
Homer: Ahh! Marge! How many kids do we have? Oh, no time to count, I'll just estimate! Uh...nine!
Marge: Homer, you know we don't h--
Homer: Shut up, shut up! If I don't hear you it's not illegal! OK, I need some deductions, deductions... ah!! Business gifts!
[Homer grabs the boat painting from above the couch and hands it to Marge.]
Here you go, keep using nuclear power!
Marge: Homer! I painted that for you!
Homer: OK, Marge, if anyone asks, you require twenty four hour nursing care, Lisa's a clergyman, Maggie is seven people, and Bart was wounded in Vietnam!
Bart: Cool!
It could be put in the EULA of the plugin.
Isn't $5-$6 billion pocket change for Gates?
The crew find stone ruins: CITY OF ATL[rest is obscured by seaweed].
Professor: Could it possibly be? Are the old legends true?
[Leela clears the seaweed, revealing the rest of the city's name]
All: Oooh.
Professor: It is! It's the fabled lost city...of Atlanta!
I believe virus distribution should be illegal, but distributing the code should not be (the title of the article is somewhat misleading). If someone wants to spread a virus, MS makes it easy for them with macros. If they aren't that computer literate, they probably aren't going to want to spread a virus in the first place.
Posting the code should be legal because there are always new methods of attacking someone's computer, and people/companies working against this should have access to methods of distributing viruses that other people have thought of, the better to protect themselves/their customers.
An apt analagy is that people are allowed to buy guns, despite the fact that they can kill people--they also help protect people from being killed.
At "Microsoft Certified" classes.
Is the telemarketer half decent or half filthy?
In other words, your life is The Truman Show.
Therein lies the problem.
Start talking softer and softer and softer... The telemarketer will turn up the volume on his/her headset. Then you pull out your airhorn and blow it for about 10 seconds into the phone. If they stay on the line, talk about how you had too much chili last night. Lather, rinse, repeat.
In other news, professor Andrew Appel is America's newest multi-millionaire.
I will.
Also, when I get asked for my address, I make the clerk explain why them having my address "serves me better". I don't relent. This is especially fun with a long line behind me--the clerk will call his/her manager out, who, most of the time, will say that they require an address. I argue with him for awhile, then set my books down and leave.
Maybe this "Wrigley Field" thing will give me something else to do in this situation. I'll pretend to relent in the end and give them that address.
BTW, this happened at a local bookstore that shall only be known as B&Noble. No wait, that's too obvious--how about Barnes&N.
I remembered back when Amazon.com changed its privacy policy, saying that if they needed (or wanted) to, they would sell their customers out. Granted, this isn't to the government, but very few small town bookstores would sell customer info.
And we don't have the right to play CD's in computers either. What's next, DVDs that can't be played in a DVD player that allows writing to DVDs? VHS tapes that won't play in VCRs?
I think the government should stop with all of this sh*t and have police snipers pick people off as they try to leave stores like Circuit City, CompUSA, etc. That would make more sense.
Oh no, I better buy quickly to get that free year of AOL included at no extra charge!
Maybe they should spend their money on Google-bombing...
Ahh, the Alan Parsons Project is back. Watch out for Mr. Bigglesworth.
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Ahh, I have heard of goto.com, I just haven't been there in awhile. I remember not liking their search features (Google was/is better), and now I truly hate them.
I'm reminded of this frivolous lawsuit: British Telecom's Hyperlink Claims To Reach U.S. Court.
According to the article, Overture should be suing every search engine that uses targeted ads, but they chose only Google. Perhaps they're envious of Google's reputation (I hadn't even heard of Overture until now).
"We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine..."
I don't really understand prOn, but it still seems to me that they should respect the decision of people who don't want to see it, and not try to fool them (anyone whose accidentally typed in whitehouse.com should agree with me [if you really want to go there, you have to type it in yourself]).