Just wait until all the sweatshop MMORPG labor jobs are shipped to India...
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This is probably what I consider the top non-search related feature on Google.
It allows me to virtually mash the keyboard in the general vicinity of what I meant, and then follow the suggestions.
The reason that all of these expensive precautions are taken is to prevent lawsuit...not because of some lobbyist.
If County Hospital uses non-sterile instruments on you, odds are you're going to sue. If not, the next bozo would. I'm sure the hospital would love to buy cheap stuff too, but the cost of paying off all of those malpractice and negligence lawsuits might get to them.
Perhaps he is afraid of hard drive failure as well as fire/flood/pet's teeth.
I would be tempted to use gmail...just continuously replying to the same thread and archiving.
Actually, artists like The Grateful Dead, Phish, and John Mayer have created very large fan bases in part because they ALLOW file sharing.
These artists are generous enough to allow (and encourage) fans to trade and share all live recordings. Because of this, loyalists are very willing to report people selling/trading copyrighted material.
I modify the namea/dates/amounts/etc, and fire this off:
Dear DR.ONORIODE BOBOLO,
It is so good to hear from a fellow-countryman, having been raised and lived for many years in our most beautiful homeland, Nigeria. I want to send you my sincere thanks and gratitude for your kind offer of USD$25,000.000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) for taking part in this funds transfer transaction.
However, I am a businessman too, and I make my living transferring large sums of money from and to my friends, relatives, and business associates in Nigeria. Therefore, I know that you would agree, that in order to participate in this wonderful opportunity, I must have an advance monetary commitment from you -- a good faith gesture on your part -- in order to proceed.
Therefore, I ask that you deposit just 10% ($2,500,000) of the $25M into my PayPal account as an indication that you truly possess the funds and are actually authorized to release them. Using the online PayPal service is a very convenient and secure way to transfer funds. All you need do is access the PayPal web site -- http://www.paypal.com -- open a PayPal account, deposit the funds into your new account, and then transfer the money into my existing account, which has already been set up to receive the $25M.
You only need my email address, which you already have, to transfer the funds into my account. Therefore, the complete safety of your account, as well as mine, is guaranteed and insured unconditionally. You have asked that this matter be handled with the strictest confidentiality, and I will agree to that condition, provided that the transfer takes place in a reasonable period of time, say by Friday, 5 October.
If the money has not been received by that time, I must assume that you are not making a legitimate offer, and that you might be someone other than who you say you are -- although I can tell by the exceptional language of your email, that is probably not the case. However, if that is the case, then I will be forced to embark upon a most unpleasant course of action that I would prefer not to undertake.
Because I have so many loyal friends in the Government of Nigeria and the Military, and many close ties within the Security Service where you work, it would be quite easy to locate your office and your home, as well as learn the identities of your friends and relatives.
I truly don't believe that you would want to jeopardize their health and well-being, and your own future. I will access my PayPal account on next Saturday to verify that your good-faith payment has been made. Once that takes place, we can move forward with the final transfer.
I trust that you will not disappoint me in this matter, since the consequences for non-compliance could be quite severe. I look forward with great anticipation to working with you.
Yours faithfully,
Issa Gidada, JD, MMB,
President & CEO
U.S./Nigeria Funds Transfer Organization
Beverly Hills, CA
It just goes to show that there are a lot of nice sounding reasons for us to give up some freedom and have it nickled and dimed to death, but there is one main reason to keep freedom and that is freedom. Unlike these other things, liberty is an end in itself - it derives from the fact that people are creatures of choice and not like the animals. There is no such thing as too much liberty... it would be like saying that science is too rational.
This was a decent service and was in some ways a superior "eshopping cart" service. Many small websites or discount hardware websites use Yahoo stores and used the PayDirect service...I wonder if Paypal will, indeed, take it's place.
I don't know. Think about this. PVR's piss off hollywood because you FF through commercials. But, even though you WILL FF through commercials on this also, the commercials will be permantntly burned into a DVD. What sales company wouldn't like the idea of permanent commercials on a DVD?
2) There are no odorants added to the natural gas and so it has no smell to tell you that you have a gas leak. I ended up in the hospital once because of that when a natural gas heater went out and let the room fill with natural gas.
Is anyone else reminded of National Lampoon's Vacation with Chevy Chase, where the kids and wife are shown peacefully sleeping...and then the camera pans to Chevy Chase - also peacefully sleeping (and driving).
Chase then proceeds to plow through anything and everything, finally landing in a parking space for a hotel. "We're here!"
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I still remember free dial-up email from Juno.
Just wait until all the sweatshop MMORPG labor jobs are shipped to India...
This is probably what I consider the top non-search related feature on Google. It allows me to virtually mash the keyboard in the general vicinity of what I meant, and then follow the suggestions.
I know they having really been
Talk about batting a thousand...
If the only reason companies like Yahoo!, Google, MS, etc. are entering the desktop search arena is in order to generate...revenue
Why else would a publicly traded corporation release a product?
Are you new to the world?
Most college students can't afford 6 cents, let alone 6 cents a minute!
Perhaps the service providers / hosting companies removed them before you got a chance to check out their products.
The reason that all of these expensive precautions are taken is to prevent lawsuit...not because of some lobbyist.
If County Hospital uses non-sterile instruments on you, odds are you're going to sue. If not, the next bozo would. I'm sure the hospital would love to buy cheap stuff too, but the cost of paying off all of those malpractice and negligence lawsuits might get to them.
Heh, no kidding
Though I doubt the $12 million figure includes all the "I'll buy you dinner" offers we all get (and accept).
Am I the only one unimpressed by the $12 million figure?
Perhaps he is afraid of hard drive failure as well as fire/flood/pet's teeth. I would be tempted to use gmail...just continuously replying to the same thread and archiving.
It's the law here in NJ
Couldn't they just air-drop the monitoring equipment? Parachutes, the whole nine yards. Almost like they do/did with the Mars rovers.
Sure does. Fan recordings are available at a number of 'net locations, such as:. php?f=8
http://bt.etree.org/?search=&cat=92
http://www.starwoodevents.com/forums/forumdisplay
http://tracker.score1more4me.com/browse.php
Additionally, officially-released soundboard recordings are available on iTunes.
Actually, artists like The Grateful Dead, Phish, and John Mayer have created very large fan bases in part because they ALLOW file sharing.
These artists are generous enough to allow (and encourage) fans to trade and share all live recordings. Because of this, loyalists are very willing to report people selling/trading copyrighted material.
The new search engine's name will be Mooglesoft.
I modify the namea/dates/amounts/etc, and fire this off:
Dear DR.ONORIODE BOBOLO,
It is so good to hear from a fellow-countryman, having been raised and lived for many years in our most beautiful homeland, Nigeria. I want to send you my sincere thanks and gratitude for your kind offer of USD$25,000.000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) for taking part in this funds transfer transaction.
However, I am a businessman too, and I make my living transferring large sums of money from and to my friends, relatives, and business associates in Nigeria. Therefore, I know that you would agree, that in order to participate in this wonderful opportunity, I must have an advance monetary commitment from you -- a good faith gesture on your part -- in order to proceed.
Therefore, I ask that you deposit just 10% ($2,500,000) of the $25M into my PayPal account as an indication that you truly possess the funds and are actually authorized to release them. Using the online PayPal service is a very convenient and secure way to transfer funds. All you need do is access the PayPal web site -- http://www.paypal.com -- open a PayPal account, deposit the funds into your new account, and then transfer the money into my existing account, which has already been set up to receive the $25M.
You only need my email address, which you already have, to transfer the funds into my account. Therefore, the complete safety of your account, as well as mine, is guaranteed and insured unconditionally. You have asked that this matter be handled with the strictest confidentiality, and I will agree to that condition, provided that the transfer takes place in a reasonable period of time, say by Friday, 5 October.
If the money has not been received by that time, I must assume that you are not making a legitimate offer, and that you might be someone other than who you say you are -- although I can tell by the exceptional language of your email, that is probably not the case. However, if that is the case, then I will be forced to embark upon a most unpleasant course of action that I would prefer not to undertake.
Because I have so many loyal friends in the Government of Nigeria and the Military, and many close ties within the Security Service where you work, it would be quite easy to locate your office and your home, as well as learn the identities of your friends and relatives.
I truly don't believe that you would want to jeopardize their health and well-being, and your own future. I will access my PayPal account on next Saturday to verify that your good-faith payment has been made. Once that takes place, we can move forward with the final transfer.
I trust that you will not disappoint me in this matter, since the consequences for non-compliance could be quite severe. I look forward with great anticipation to working with you.
Yours faithfully,
Issa Gidada, JD, MMB,
President & CEO
U.S./Nigeria Funds Transfer Organization
Beverly Hills, CA
It just goes to show that there are a lot of nice sounding reasons for us to give up some freedom and have it nickled and dimed to death, but there is one main reason to keep freedom and that is freedom. Unlike these other things, liberty is an end in itself - it derives from the fact that people are creatures of choice and not like the animals. There is no such thing as too much liberty ... it would be like saying that science is too rational.
This was a decent service and was in some ways a superior "eshopping cart" service. Many small websites or discount hardware websites use Yahoo stores and used the PayDirect service...I wonder if Paypal will, indeed, take it's place.
I don't know. Think about this. PVR's piss off hollywood because you FF through commercials. But, even though you WILL FF through commercials on this also, the commercials will be permantntly burned into a DVD. What sales company wouldn't like the idea of permanent commercials on a DVD?
2) There are no odorants added to the natural gas and so it has no smell to tell you that you have a gas leak. I ended up in the hospital once because of that when a natural gas heater went out and let the room fill with natural gas.
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No mercaptan? Ever hear of a natural gas meter ? I would invest in one
Is anyone else reminded of National Lampoon's Vacation with Chevy Chase, where the kids and wife are shown peacefully sleeping...and then the camera pans to Chevy Chase - also peacefully sleeping (and driving).
Chase then proceeds to plow through anything and everything, finally landing in a parking space for a hotel. "We're here!"
When was the last time you heard of a Democratic initiative?
The draft?
That would be a small list of ads, indeed...