Now as you can see, our legal department consists of many people. After all we need a lot of man power to send out all those threathening letters.
Now, today, Sue here has a bad day. Tomorrow it will be Janet's turn, and the day after it will be Margaret's turn. See that chart over there? Yeah.. we are pretty well organised.
It just so happens that everybody has a bad day. And since our legal department is all women, what if they have a bad day once a month?
BURNS Oh, hello, friends. I'm Montgomery Burns, your next governor, and I'm here to talk to you about my little friend here, Blinky. (picks up fishbowl with Blinky in) Many of you consider it to be a hideous genetic mutation. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. But don't take my word for it. Let's ask an actor portraying Charles Darwin what he thinks. (actor enters)
DARWIN Hello, Mr. Burns.
BURNS Oh, hello, Charles. Be a good fellow and tell our viewers about your theory of natural selection.
DARWIN Glad to, Mr. Burns. You see, every so often, Mother Nature changes our animals, giving them bigger teeth, sharper claws, longer legs or, in this case, a third eye. And if the variations turn out to be an improvement, the new animals thrive and multiply, and spread across the face of the earth.
BURNS So you're saying this fish might actually have an advantage over other fish? It might actually be a kind of "Super Fish".
Those women will thrive and multiply, and spread across the face of the earth!
Well, apparently the space shuttle doesn't return to earth in one piece either. Load up the garbage and let it burn I say. (Lets put Bush in there too)
You are being awfully redundant. Bush is already garbage to start with.
I'd say marrying the UN and the net is really CRAZY. We are talking about an organization that can sit happily while people are dying and all the officials know is probably to sit in their nice offices and collect fancy paychecks.
What should be the best solution?
We, the users take the "cyberlaw" into our own hands! The only crime will be that against freedom of speech and the only recourse will be a permanent disconnection from the net!
Once the People have spoken, everybody on the planet (presumably we all will have one small client running) will start sending little packets to those turds.
That should teach them!
Spam from china?
Scam from nigeria?
Well, if nobody does anything, their entire nation's link is not going to live very long under the People's action!
I'm failing to see the perks behind this. Whatever you are gaining is instantly null and void the first time your main link goes down and no one on the face of planet earth can watch your movie for 12 hours 'till some underpaid tech goes and fixes the problem...
So what?
During the first showing of Matrix Reloaded, the cinema I was watching it at stuffed up the show when suddenly the sound starts coming 5 minutes after the image in the middle of the show.
Subsequently the image went out too. And they could not fix it.
It is not like those projectionists are any better than the underpaid tech.
Wait, in fact your underpaid techs ARE better, they belong to the newer generation, whereas those who can man the projectors are literally dying off.
ALso, You dont have the right to impose terms on them unless they agree to them seperately.. YOU are the customer, YOU bought the product, so YOU have to agree to THEIR terms..
Write a letter saying that regardless of what the EULA says, you do not accept it, will not read it and are not entering into a contract with the publisher. If they don't like it, they can arrange to collect their software from you at a convienient time and give you a full refund.
Send the letter off to them, THEN INSTALL IT.
Along the same vein.. but i believe that contracts do not apply to minors, since they are not legally allowed to enter into contracts.
Why not buy software in your kid's name instead!
Software publisher don't like it? Tough.
"This is my kid's computer, I'm just using his computer to do work"
"Yeah, this box of VS.net is bought for my 3 year old kid"
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Get Dimension 4.. from THINKING MAN SOFTWARE
Software for Geeks^H^H^H^H^HThinking Men!
Go back to watching Faux news you insensitive clod!
I think having independent media is very inportant for the world today.
It was supposed to be funny. But after reading it again, I guess I didn't word it well enough! Dang!
Now as you can see, our legal department consists of many people. After all we need a lot of man power to send out all those threathening letters.
Now, today, Sue here has a bad day. Tomorrow it will be Janet's turn, and the day after it will be Margaret's turn. See that chart over there? Yeah.. we are pretty well organised.
It just so happens that everybody has a bad day. And since our legal department is all women, what if they have a bad day once a month?
These errors are just due to human errors.
Instead of wasting tax payers' money, they should just use wired lans.
Why should the poor pay taxes to subsidize all these extra expenditure made for the sake of those who are wealthy?
I'm talking about those in the bottom of the scrap heap here. Those who don't even have computers, Joe Sixpacks.. like.. Homer!
Now, why would Homer have to pay more taxes so that Burns can have a safe wireless lan?
Those people who buy a wireless router should pay for a tax at time of purchase!
BURNS
Oh, hello, friends. I'm Montgomery Burns, your next governor, and I'm here to talk to you about my little friend here, Blinky. (picks up fishbowl with Blinky in) Many of you consider it to be a hideous genetic mutation. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. But don't take my word for it. Let's ask an actor portraying Charles Darwin what he thinks. (actor enters)
DARWIN
Hello, Mr. Burns.
BURNS
Oh, hello, Charles. Be a good fellow and tell our viewers about your theory of natural selection.
DARWIN
Glad to, Mr. Burns. You see, every so often, Mother Nature changes our animals, giving them bigger teeth, sharper claws, longer legs or, in this case, a third eye. And if the variations turn out to be an improvement, the new animals thrive and multiply, and spread across the face of the earth.
BURNS
So you're saying this fish might actually have an advantage over other fish? It might actually be a kind of "Super Fish".
Those women will thrive and multiply, and spread across the face of the earth!
Any chance that the ONE is Orin Hatch?
Erm...
I swear I saw this before.
Are you sure you own the IP to this post?
My siggy is just purfect for this!
That server's DNS was just put out this morning.. kinda toasty still =)
Don't take out their server!
Ok, where do I sign up?
Well, apparently the space shuttle doesn't return to earth in one piece either. Load up the garbage and let it burn I say. (Lets put Bush in there too)
You are being awfully redundant. Bush is already garbage to start with.
Any chance that 2005 is the year of Linux on the desktop? =)
I think Linux is almost there already
Almost =)
I'd say marrying the UN and the net is really CRAZY. We are talking about an organization that can sit happily while people are dying and all the officials know is probably to sit in their nice offices and collect fancy paychecks.
What should be the best solution?
We, the users take the "cyberlaw" into our own hands! The only crime will be that against freedom of speech and the only recourse will be a permanent disconnection from the net!
Once the People have spoken, everybody on the planet (presumably we all will have one small client running) will start sending little packets to those turds.
That should teach them!
Spam from china?
Scam from nigeria?
Well, if nobody does anything, their entire nation's link is not going to live very long under the People's action!
I'm failing to see the perks behind this. Whatever you are gaining is instantly null and void the first time your main link goes down and no one on the face of planet earth can watch your movie for 12 hours 'till some underpaid tech goes and fixes the problem...
So what?
During the first showing of Matrix Reloaded, the cinema I was watching it at stuffed up the show when suddenly the sound starts coming 5 minutes after the image in the middle of the show.
Subsequently the image went out too. And they could not fix it.
It is not like those projectionists are any better than the underpaid tech.
Wait, in fact your underpaid techs ARE better, they belong to the newer generation, whereas those who can man the projectors are literally dying off.
And your point being?
No technology is perfect.
Well, everything is digital nowadays, but our cinemas are still running on good ole mechanical and analogue technology.
While I kinda like the old stuff, but moving on to the new stuff does have its perks! Like this.
Erm, nevermind the UN, but the net...
Getting married with her sure sounds exciting!
**Maybe I can have flings with PCs and Macs when the net is busy transiting to IPV6 too!
Wrong.
According to a prediction in the Economist, that would be India.
USA would be.. not even in top 5 in 50 years time. Even USSR would have overtaken USA again.
We are talking about a negative country here. What "superpower" is that? One that doesn't produce but only consumes.
And I believe their prediction. Are you willing to bet all your possessions against that?
Move to USSR today!
Is it just me?
Or am I not the only one spooked by the words software agents?
ALso, You dont have the right to impose terms on them unless they agree to them seperately.. YOU are the customer, YOU bought the product, so YOU have to agree to THEIR terms..
Right.
I am the customer.
I paid them money for their said product.
What were you saying again? About their terms?
Write a letter saying that regardless of what the EULA says, you do not accept it, will not read it and are not entering into a contract with the publisher. If they don't like it, they can arrange to collect their software from you at a convienient time and give you a full refund.
Send the letter off to them, THEN INSTALL IT.
Along the same vein.. but i believe that contracts do not apply to minors, since they are not legally allowed to enter into contracts.
Why not buy software in your kid's name instead!
Software publisher don't like it? Tough.
"This is my kid's computer, I'm just using his computer to do work"
"Yeah, this box of VS.net is bought for my 3 year old kid"
To quit your job at google go to: {last 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e}.com
Wow, it is easier to get hired than to quit!
That's like so cool dude!
I'd say this really sparks off a lot of progress.
Imagine this:
- armor plated satelites!
- plasma shields!
When we get these, it will be a small step in protecting our satelites, a big step towards the future of Star Trek!
Bush doesn't care about the consequences of his actions. Mission Accomplished.
Fry: Stop the cloning. [Smashes up the Clonomat]
Farnsworth: Oh, sure. Smash the *smart* guy's machine.
That's what all idiots do.