If I went into a poor neighborhood and built five houses for five families, and then bulldozed the rest of the neighborhood and sent hundreds of other families out freezing and starving into the streets, well, give a good PR team like Gates has and I guess the newspapers would call me a philanthropist, too.
I can see DirecTV defending itself... "Oh, no, they weren't telemarketing calls... those were all people that we suspected had purchased smartcards over the internet, and we were just calling to threaten them..."
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A significant portion of the posts are ones that insinuate that the term "podjacking" is related to gratifying oneself sexually. Seems to be hovering around the 4% mark.
Bad news for the Cancer Industry, so they'll just quietly make sure that any treatments that arise from this discovery, just like every other cancer treatment developed from every other discovery made in the last thirty years, never see the light of day. Nothing to see here, folks, just keep doing that incredibly expensive chemo, radiation, and surgery; the medical establishment's got yachts and mansions to buy. </rant>
People of Green Pastures Trailer Park, I will unleash the fury of my tornado machine unless you hand over all your commemorative Nascar plates and pro wrestling magazines!
Oh, and what a shame it would be if good shows didn't get cancelled. Imagine how a show like Firefly would've done if a lot of people were paying money to download it.
Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase blue screen of death, doesn't it? Ba dum bum! Thank you very much, I'll be here all week! Remember to tip your bartender!
The answer is that I didn't say it like that because that isn't my website.
I work for a university art department on the other side of the country from those people. I talked to a couple of them in a chatroom a few times. They're nice. I like their games.
Oh, and it isn't "a galaxy," it's the same galaxy.
I don't know why I said it, except that there's this big map of the galaxy that goes with that supplement and I was like, "Oh, geez, the shape of the galaxy has been found to maybe be different, now."
If anyone was enticed into going to that website, buying the game, and playing it, I humbly apologize.
I think fellow used fedex.com to order a whole lot of boxes with no intention of using them to actually ship stuff in. It's a bit like someone taking an enormous number of ketchup packets from a Burger King in order to have ketchup in his house, rather than using them on the fries he didn't buy there. So I can see why FedEx would take umbrage at his using the boxes they're paying for to make furniture, and then turning around and showing everyone in the world how what a bunch of suckers FedEx is for giving boxes away for free.
I can't help but think that the people at Google would be able to find the sarcasm dripping from ZDNet UK's "apology" insightful, funny, and apropos, perhaps enough so that they'll lovingly buy them out and fire them all.
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When you're done pickin' Gates' pubic hairs outta your teeth you outta brush 'em, your breath smells like ass.
Bill Gates is not a philanthropist at all. In fact, he is making the problems of the world that he pretends to be helping to solve much, much, much worse.
If I went into a poor neighborhood and built five houses for five families, and then bulldozed the rest of the neighborhood and sent hundreds of other families out freezing and starving into the streets, well, give a good PR team like Gates has and I guess the newspapers would call me a philanthropist, too.
Memory
Writing programs in BASIC
Saving files to a tape drive
We were patient back then...
Well, we'll just see about THAT, eh?
So, in essence, this Rogers company is aiding and abetting terrorist groups by forcing their customers to sponsor cell phone usage by those groups.
Sounds like just the sort of thing the USA PATRIOT Act was meant to stop, but somehow I doubt that the FBI is going to step in.
Mod my comment up or I'll leave you with negative feedback!
I, for one, welcome our upcoming Google Auction Overlords.
I can see DirecTV defending itself... "Oh, no, they weren't telemarketing calls... those were all people that we suspected had purchased smartcards over the internet, and we were just calling to threaten them..."
A significant portion of the posts are ones that insinuate that the term "podjacking" is related to gratifying oneself sexually. Seems to be hovering around the 4% mark.
Bad news for the Cancer Industry, so they'll just quietly make sure that any treatments that arise from this discovery, just like every other cancer treatment developed from every other discovery made in the last thirty years, never see the light of day. Nothing to see here, folks, just keep doing that incredibly expensive chemo, radiation, and surgery; the medical establishment's got yachts and mansions to buy.
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People of Green Pastures Trailer Park, I will unleash the fury of my tornado machine unless you hand over all your commemorative Nascar plates and pro wrestling magazines!
Wait, people are still using IE?
Since when?
I mean, c'mon, how can you call it "What's New" and not have Phil & Dixie hosting it?
Can't... type... reply... too... much... schadenfreude...
I wish Audible the best of luck in this utterly doomed venture.
Just as long as no-one uses this technology to make me do something gross, like eat a tarantula (a la Red Dwarf...)
Oh, and what a shame it would be if good shows didn't get cancelled. Imagine how a show like Firefly would've done if a lot of people were paying money to download it.
I mean, it might go like this:
1. Develop technology patented by someone else
2. Sell pirated technology to government for classified project
3. ???
4. Profit!
You don't have the words "utilizes" or "plurality" in your description, so sorry, no patent for you.
Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase blue screen of death, doesn't it? Ba dum bum! Thank you very much, I'll be here all week! Remember to tip your bartender!
I work for a university art department on the other side of the country from those people. I talked to a couple of them in a chatroom a few times. They're nice. I like their games.
Oh, and it isn't "a galaxy," it's the same galaxy.
I don't know why I said it, except that there's this big map of the galaxy that goes with that supplement and I was like, "Oh, geez, the shape of the galaxy has been found to maybe be different, now."
If anyone was enticed into going to that website, buying the game, and playing it, I humbly apologize.
I hear the galaxy is being sued by Russian astrologers.
Well, dammit, I guess I'm going to have to rethink my entire Star Hero Terran Empires roleplaying campaign.
I'm glad to see someone patenting an actual invention instead of just claim-jumping someone's idea for a website layout.
I think fellow used fedex.com to order a whole lot of boxes with no intention of using them to actually ship stuff in. It's a bit like someone taking an enormous number of ketchup packets from a Burger King in order to have ketchup in his house, rather than using them on the fries he didn't buy there. So I can see why FedEx would take umbrage at his using the boxes they're paying for to make furniture, and then turning around and showing everyone in the world how what a bunch of suckers FedEx is for giving boxes away for free.
I can't help but think that the people at Google would be able to find the sarcasm dripping from ZDNet UK's "apology" insightful, funny, and apropos, perhaps enough so that they'll lovingly buy them out and fire them all.