In fact, in 1997 the Gores gave a grand total of $353 dollars to charity. That's not a typo. Three hundred and fifty eight dollars, less than two tenths of a percent of their income.
Bzzt. "Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented 47 executions of child offenders in eight countries: China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Yemen."
"The USA and Iran have each executed more child offenders than the other six countries combined and Iran has now matched the USA's total since 1990 of 19 child executions."
That's right folks, Iran has caught up with the USA. CAUGHT UP!
I'm going to save people a whole lot of time reading this story.
Firstly, from the article:
Obviously my conclusion should be taken as a grain of salt but it's a definite possibility. Microsoft very well could be screen scraping Google (or maybe even using their API, LOL) and crawling the urls it finds.
When I read the "LOL" bit, I realised it was my kid brother who had written the article.
And as for a quick summary of the hundreds of comments that follow:
"IANAL but..." "M$ are poo, Google are ace" "M$ M$ M$ M$..." "I haven't read the article, but here's my opinion..." "Google and MSN don't obey my robot.txt." "That's because it's robots.txt..."
"We have it...on the authority of African explorers that many Hottentot tribes do not have in their vocabulary the names for numbers larger than three. Ask a native down there how many sons he has or how many enemies he has slain, and if the number is more than three, he will answer 'many.'" [ George Gamow, "One, Two, Three...Infinity" 1953 ]
It's really funny, Roy Keane of Manchester United once quoted this. For more info, and other useless facts and humour, visit topthetable.com.
Yep, troops fighting in Iraq deserve all the support they can get, which is why I created topthetable for those guys out there into football and laughs.
Wow, that's the longest reply to a blatent advert that I've ever seen, and now I'm almost compelled to reply to it.
Blacklisting all URIs with "ads" in it must be one of the laziest and stupidest solution to the "problem". Why? Because the guys serving the ads from "getpastithaha.server.com", and valid URIs (such as your example) get filtered. Who thought "Ah, we'll just filter out '*ads*' and bingo?" as a valid strategy?
Anyway, thanks for your post, hopefully more people will click on my (Completely non-commercial!) link because of it.
And here come the hypothetical examples. 3D Starcraft? Please don't! The graphics are cute enough as they are. 3D Civ? Would be awful!
As for a not-hypothetical example, how about Age Of Empires and Age Of Mythology? The graphics in AoM are much better, and give a whole bunch more flexibility and animation the AoE just doesn't have.
I'm all for a 3D version of Starcraft and Civ (Although I can't see any real benefit for the latter.)
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Are you sure it wasn't a typo?
Bzzt. "Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented 47 executions of child offenders in eight countries: China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Yemen."
Read about it here
"The USA and Iran have each executed more child offenders than the other six countries combined and Iran has now matched the USA's total since 1990 of 19 child executions."
That's right folks, Iran has caught up with the USA. CAUGHT UP!
Well said. it's going to be difficult for NASA to find lunar meteors given the Moon's lack of atmosphere.
Do you read TFA? You would need about 15,000 of our Polonium-210 needle sources
at a total cost of about $1 million - to have a toxic amount.
Yep, right in the astronauts' pants - "Hey Discovery, your ship is knackered." "Oh, poo."
Yep!
Old News, Baby!
You've not seen the latest one yet - I'm actually planning on getting finished before unleashing it!
I'm going to save people a whole lot of time reading this story.
:
:
..." ..." ..." ..."
Firstly, from the article
Obviously my conclusion should be taken as a grain of salt but it's a definite possibility. Microsoft very well could be screen scraping Google (or maybe even using their API, LOL) and crawling the urls it finds.
When I read the "LOL" bit, I realised it was my kid brother who had written the article.
And as for a quick summary of the hundreds of comments that follow
"IANAL but
"M$ are poo, Google are ace"
"M$ M$ M$ M$
"I haven't read the article, but here's my opinion
"Google and MSN don't obey my robot.txt." "That's because it's robots.txt
This post has been a free public service.
See, this is what happens when you use ISS. You should have used OSS. You get free and open oxygen that way.
No problem, enjoy it.
If you're the first person to click on this :
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...
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-df540b7d41-0abe57
Then you'll have a gmail account
The best concept I've ever seen, is producing a second-rate web-based game, and then blatantly plugging it on slashdot by putting it in a sig.
"We have it...on the authority of African explorers that many Hottentot tribes do not have in their vocabulary the names for numbers larger than three. Ask a native down there how many sons he has or how many enemies he has slain, and if the number is more than three, he will answer 'many.'"
[ George Gamow, "One, Two, Three...Infinity" 1953 ]
It's really funny, Roy Keane of Manchester United once quoted this. For more info, and other useless facts and humour, visit topthetable.com.
Yep, troops fighting in Iraq deserve all the support they can get, which is why I created topthetable for those guys out there into football and laughs.
Wow, that's the longest reply to a blatent advert that I've ever seen, and now I'm almost compelled to reply to it.
Blacklisting all URIs with "ads" in it must be one of the laziest and stupidest solution to the "problem". Why? Because the guys serving the ads from "getpastithaha.server.com", and valid URIs (such as your example) get filtered. Who thought "Ah, we'll just filter out '*ads*' and bingo?" as a valid strategy?
Anyway, thanks for your post, hopefully more people will click on my (Completely non-commercial!) link because of it.
Does AdBlock block ads such as, err, I dunno, the one in my sig?
Did you manage to make money selling disabilities? /obvious
In the UK, a pint is 568ml. Half a litre is (obviously) 500ml.
You may need to go out and find a programmable light dimmer.
This guy is a geek, probably best not getting anything that can be programmable, even a light dimmer!
I owned a vet once, and I put her to sleep. The judge was very angry about this, and made me stay in this nasty hotel for years.
Or, in English, forty two.
You Sir, have way too much time on your hands!
And here come the hypothetical examples. 3D Starcraft? Please don't! The graphics are cute enough as they are. 3D Civ? Would be awful!
As for a not-hypothetical example, how about Age Of Empires and Age Of Mythology? The graphics in AoM are much better, and give a whole bunch more flexibility and animation the AoE just doesn't have.
I'm all for a 3D version of Starcraft and Civ (Although I can't see any real benefit for the latter.)
Yes, sorry, I misunderstood you. You are right, there are no incentives for any site to limit their users to using one single sign-in system.
Also, if you did, your site wouldn't be much good if the third party was down for whatever reason.
As an aside though, thinking about the children for once, it would give the script kiddies a really good target for their DDOS of the month.