god I'm a nervous wreck with all this password stuff! everytime I sign up for something I go through the same traumas - do I use the same one I've used for all the other things that I need passwords for, which I am led to believe is not very secure, but at least that way I'll remember the damn thing, or do I think of some other random word and use that, and then promptly forget it!!
I know, I'll write them all down on post-its and stick em on my monitor here. that'll do the trick...
Besides pushing products, television influences our beliefs about the "real world".
As an aside:
It could be argued that the products television pushes aren't the commercials etc, but us - we, the audience, are the product, constructed by the networks to be sold to the advertisers...
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The only unwanted noise in my office is the incessant babble from my cow-orkers.
No, hang on a minute. Cancelling out people? I should be on alt.mafia.requests
So if Guinness doesn't use them, does he get them back? I think if Guinness now has them they should be forced to use them.
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god I'm a nervous wreck with all this password stuff! everytime I sign up for something I go through the same traumas - do I use the same one I've used for all the other things that I need passwords for, which I am led to believe is not very secure, but at least that way I'll remember the damn thing, or do I think of some other random word and use that, and then promptly forget it!!
I know, I'll write them all down on post-its and stick em on my monitor here. that'll do the trick...
(shudders)
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oh but then you'd have something less to moan about, and that's not on.
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As an aside:
It could be argued that the products television pushes aren't the commercials etc, but us - we, the audience, are the product, constructed by the networks to be sold to the advertisers...
How this helps this debate I don't know, but there you go.
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missed out again... I wanna be a /. quickie!! /file.html is surely a contender.
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but it's just a tool, not a thing-in-itself. no reason to get so uptight and defensive and PCs vs. Macs again.
sheesh.