Maybe there are those that are courteous, but do I have to ask everywhere I go? Do I have to ask the guy that arrives at the train station and stands beside me not to blow smoke over me? Do I have to ask the people in the local curry house if they wouldn't mind not smoking after their meal as I've only just started my main course?
Surly the courteous thing to do is not smoke in public?
My wife has asmatic problems. She cannot travel on trains in peak hours and takes a chance waiting for one off peak that she can stand somewhere smoke free. She cant go anywhere near a pub and we had to give up on our meal in one restraunt because smoke doesnt know where the smoking section ends.
Even if everyone that doesnt like smoke starts asking smokers to put it out when its effecting them, there will always be those that dont for selfish reasons. Take the train for example. One guy sparks up just before the train gets into the station. Had he waited 2 or 3 minutes, he wouldnt have upset so many people, but he decided to light up on the train and refused to put it out when asked. It wouldn't have hurted him to wait those 2-3 minutes, but it did hurt others.
Can you name another past time that is so dangerous to those arround you?
So I have to put up with damage to my system so you can have fun?
Nothing is going to damage you when you have to breath smoke free air for a few hours.
Someone admits to be addicted to acloholl, they get invited to AA. Someone admits to a addicted to hard drugs, they get invited to rehab. Someone admits to a addicted to smoking, they get invited to take another ciggy.
they use correctly spelled words in the junk mail. It would get a higher score than an e-mail from me for spellings.
and what about those that sent e-mails that look like their text messages?
NNE F THM WLL GT THRU.
Sounds like a good idea just for that.
You would have to run it through a grammer filter to tell if the strings of words made valid sentences.
It would probably filter out half the posts here.
There is a solution to driver problems with Linux.
If everyone went for the hardware that has Linux drivers then there wont be any problems. Eg, not all software modems have linux drivers, only buy the ones that do (or the hardware controled ones), then the manufacturers that don't supply Linux drivers will have to do something or lose out on a share of the market.
Borland were selling their C compiler cheep to students. When they sent me out a copy of it, it came with a card saying that it was just for a licence covering me when I was a student. I had to uninstall it when I finished.
So, of course, they were sent back with a note saying they could poke the disks up their bum (or words to that effect).
Went back to the higher ripped off version that I got from Uni (which I stopped using when I left there anyway)
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This may be starting to drift off topic but...
I did set up someones autocorrect to change "the" to "the f***ing" (without the politeness filter) so that the guy's typing matched the way he spoke when drunk.
Always looking for a bargin.
is there anywhere free for this?
(although this request is probably been made at the bottom of other threads hidden away somewhere)
Re: point 5 Its not just children that it can offend. When I first started to get some in my home account, it looked like they were from someone I had been having an afair with. My wife saw my inbox and freeked. Took quite quite a bit of explaining before she understood that it was junk. Bet there are some split up couples out there where a partner hasn't been able to get their head round the idea of spam.
As for spam filters. You buld a better filter and someone makes more advanced spam that gets past it. They will become more and more like real mail (with their advert hidden inside) untill it will be hard for even a human to tell. Need to stop them at the source.
Didn't one place want the greeting HELLo changed to HEVENo? I'm sure the root of "hello" was to do with banquising hell, so "heveno" would actually be more satanic.
If companies dont change then there will be no more stupid items like this being spread arround as the ones doing so wont have any usable hard disks or cable connectors.
If you want some non-PC terms, try looking at the offshore oil drilling industry.
Its not a very nice trick. I've crashed out PC like that. You may have autosaved the file to the harddisk (we didnt get room on that lab's server so we had to use floppys), but when it reboots, its all gone. Several hours worth of work up in smoke.
Lots of angry words left my mouth that day.
But all thats besides the point. If they needed a bit of software that had this junk inside it, that solution wouldnt save them as it would be loaded up every time.
A mate of mine works for a company with a firewall checking incoming mail. It doesnt just block mail with fowl lanuage, but also has some other 'non-work related' words and will bounce back the whole message.
Got a few ways round it. 1)Remove vowels. Yu cn gt mst f mssg tht wy. 2)Replace some characters. m@k&s 1t l00k h0r1bl& th0. (wrote a macro to do it when sending to him) 3)Stick it in powerpoint
A bit like Billy Connolly's one about areoplanes
The stewardess warns everyone the plane is about to crash and tells them to put on their life vests. They are above land. "Its wont save you, but when the archologists dit it up in a few years, they'll think a river ran through here"
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someone will circomevent the patent by using down for on instead.
Maybe there are those that are courteous, but do I have to ask everywhere I go?
Do I have to ask the guy that arrives at the train station and stands beside me not to blow smoke over me? Do I have to ask the people in the local curry house if they wouldn't mind not smoking after their meal as I've only just started my main course?
Surly the courteous thing to do is not smoke in public?
My wife has asmatic problems. She cannot travel on trains in peak hours and takes a chance waiting for one off peak that she can stand somewhere smoke free. She cant go anywhere near a pub and we had to give up on our meal in one restraunt because smoke doesnt know where the smoking section ends.
Even if everyone that doesnt like smoke starts asking smokers to put it out when its effecting them, there will always be those that dont for selfish reasons. Take the train for example. One guy sparks up just before the train gets into the station. Had he waited 2 or 3 minutes, he wouldnt have upset so many people, but he decided to light up on the train and refused to put it out when asked. It wouldn't have hurted him to wait those 2-3 minutes, but it did hurt others.
Can you name another past time that is so dangerous to those arround you?
So I have to put up with damage to my system so you can have fun?
Nothing is going to damage you when you have to breath smoke free air for a few hours.
Someone admits to be addicted to acloholl, they get invited to AA.
Someone admits to a addicted to hard drugs, they get invited to rehab.
Someone admits to a addicted to smoking, they get invited to take another ciggy.
they use correctly spelled words in the junk mail. It would get a higher score than an e-mail from me for spellings. and what about those that sent e-mails that look like their text messages? NNE F THM WLL GT THRU. Sounds like a good idea just for that.
You would have to run it through a grammer filter to tell if the strings of words made valid sentences. It would probably filter out half the posts here.
There is a solution to driver problems with Linux.
If everyone went for the hardware that has Linux drivers then there wont be any problems. Eg, not all software modems have linux drivers, only buy the ones that do (or the hardware controled ones), then the manufacturers that don't supply Linux drivers will have to do something or lose out on a share of the market.
Reminds me a little of when I was a student.
Borland were selling their C compiler cheep to students. When they sent me out a copy of it, it came with a card saying that it was just for a licence covering me when I was a student. I had to uninstall it when I finished.
So, of course, they were sent back with a note saying they could poke the disks up their bum (or words to that effect).
Went back to the higher ripped off version that I got from Uni (which I stopped using when I left there anyway)
This may be starting to drift off topic but...
I did set up someones autocorrect to change "the" to "the f***ing" (without the politeness filter) so that the guy's typing matched the way he spoke when drunk.
Always looking for a bargin. is there anywhere free for this?
Always looking for a bargin. is there anywhere free for this? (although this request is probably been made at the bottom of other threads hidden away somewhere)
Re: point 5
Its not just children that it can offend. When I first started to get some in my home account, it looked like they were from someone I had been having an afair with. My wife saw my inbox and freeked. Took quite quite a bit of explaining before she understood that it was junk. Bet there are some split up couples out there where a partner hasn't been able to get their head round the idea of spam.
As for spam filters. You buld a better filter and someone makes more advanced spam that gets past it. They will become more and more like real mail (with their advert hidden inside) untill it will be hard for even a human to tell. Need to stop them at the source.
Going slightly OT
Didn't one place want the greeting HELLo changed to HEVENo?
I'm sure the root of "hello" was to do with banquising hell, so "heveno" would actually be more satanic.
If companies dont change then there will be no more stupid items like this being spread arround as the ones doing so wont have any usable hard disks or cable connectors.
If you want some non-PC terms, try looking at the offshore oil drilling industry.
eg: Rat hole, Dog house and Cow c*nt.
So much care and understanding in the world.
(Glad I dont carry a bat arround when I visit customers tho)
Sounds like they were too busy looking for a reason to be insulted to actually listen to explanations.
Thought "Thrush" would be better for a bunch of irritating c*nts
They did get to be the first company to back down from them and get extra publicity for their site. (and probably /.ed in the process)
Someone else said that they hadnt heard of them before. Well lots of us do now. Bit of a marketing trick.
Any exta info as to help pin down 'uninstalled' copies of the program.
Need a large chunk of people to mail back the files to the owners.Not that I condone flooding them with their own junk
Its not a very nice trick.
I've crashed out PC like that. You may have autosaved the file to the harddisk (we didnt get room on that lab's server so we had to use floppys), but when it reboots, its all gone. Several hours worth of work up in smoke.
Lots of angry words left my mouth that day.
But all thats besides the point. If they needed a bit of software that had this junk inside it, that solution wouldnt save them as it would be loaded up every time.
A mate of mine works for a company with a firewall checking incoming mail. It doesnt just block mail with fowl lanuage, but also has some other 'non-work related' words and will bounce back the whole message.
Got a few ways round it.
1)Remove vowels. Yu cn gt mst f mssg tht wy.
2)Replace some characters. m@k&s 1t l00k h0r1bl& th0. (wrote a macro to do it when sending to him)
3)Stick it in powerpoint
Theres one in Stonehaven (near Aberdeen) that runs windows (I could tell as it crashed)
I managed to access some of the controls using the array of buttons, but unable to find a test mode to get it to churn out money.
I've noteced a lot of machines running windows, but only because it has crashed and popped up a "Click OK" box.
Looks like the caps lock key is broken after all these years
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but you wont get hospital staff trying to run the solitare app when everyones back is turned.
Just dont shout out "F*** me hard with with a dead albatross" in desperation.
A bit like Billy Connolly's one about areoplanes The stewardess warns everyone the plane is about to crash and tells them to put on their life vests. They are above land. "Its wont save you, but when the archologists dit it up in a few years, they'll think a river ran through here"
my old laptop is more virus proof than that.
No network or modem cards
no CD drive
and the floppy drive is broken
Try getting a virus on that one