No, the parent was correct. He posted a link to the joke that American Express was complaining about, not the one which Mastercard was complaining about. There were two incidences of this, one with each company.
Wouldn't mediocrity imply that the food was somewhat good? The iTunes songs wouldn't make me buy food from McDonalds; I would rather buy the songs directly from iTunes and not go to McDonalds at all, though this may be a good thing for people who like to eat there.
Tolkein said that in part because he based many aspects on mythology from various cultures. He had wanted to spread older literature that he had discovered so that it wouldn't be lost.
In Notes From The Underground, he discussed tables (now would be computers) which would show and calculate the response to evertything and what people would do. People would not want to see that, if they did see it, they would rebel that and choose crazy decisions, just to rebel. This doesn't exactly relate to the article, but the article reminded me of this.
This is like me making a knife and then the tire companies suing me for tons of money because, had I sold these knives, they could've been used to destroy their tires. That might not be the best example since the tire companies could make money from those knives being used. If people had their tires slashed, they would need to buy more tires from that company, or another company
Do you mean this MSNbot? If MSNbot becomes the name for the MSN search, maybe Microsoft should try to get that domain from the current owners. Or just sue them.
Slashdot Mirror
Is this the first time that a Microsoft site has been Slashdotted? What is the world coming to?
Numerous times have Israeli attempts to eliminate Palestinian terrorists resulted in the deaths of innocent bystanders.
Perhaps those innocent bystanders would not have died if they were not standing in front of Israel's targets.
1. Use civilians as shields when the army comes
2. ?????
3. Profit! (by world's opinion when the enemy kills the bystanders)
No, the parent was correct. He posted a link to the joke that American Express was complaining about, not the one which Mastercard was complaining about.
There were two incidences of this, one with each company.
Wouldn't mediocrity imply that the food was somewhat good? The iTunes songs wouldn't make me buy food from McDonalds; I would rather buy the songs directly from iTunes and not go to McDonalds at all, though this may be a good thing for people who like to eat there.
Tolkein said that in part because he based many aspects on mythology from various cultures. He had wanted to spread older literature that he had discovered so that it wouldn't be lost.
In Notes From The Underground, he discussed tables (now would be computers) which would show and calculate the response to evertything and what people would do. People would not want to see that, if they did see it, they would rebel that and choose crazy decisions, just to rebel.
This doesn't exactly relate to the article, but the article reminded me of this.
This is like me making a knife and then the tire companies suing me for tons of money because, had I sold these knives, they could've been used to destroy their tires.
That might not be the best example since the tire companies could make money from those knives being used. If people had their tires slashed, they would need to buy more tires from that company, or another company
Do you mean this MSNbot?
If MSNbot becomes the name for the MSN search, maybe Microsoft should try to get that domain from the current owners. Or just sue them.
The google translation/cache is here