Yeah, we write letters to our Congressional representatives, and the RIAA sends big packages of the long green to our Congressional representatives. Which form of communication gets the most attention, do you think? Hint: What does it take LOTS of to get reelected? Second hint: the answer is NOT "votes."
The scariest thing about this purported Valentine email is the depressing level of ignorance it reveals about the author. If this is NOT a hoax, and actually represents the sort of intelligence that reigns at the highest levels of Microsoft, the company ought to be out of business any day now.
Yeah, go knock on your Congressman's door and get blown away by his security team! The only way to BE ABSOLUTELY SURE your Congressman reads your letter is to attach $50,000 in "return postage"....
And the vast majority of tech support people are too stupid to comprehend the fucking manual even if they bothered to read it. Most tech support calls to even middlin'-sized ISPs are handled by pimple-faced weens who couldn't hold down a job at McDonald's, reading from a screen of pre-prepared stock answers. I once spent an hour-and-a-half (no exaggeration) with a so-called "tech-support specialist" from SNET, trying to explain to him that NO, *I* didn't have a problem, SNET's news server was down. FInally he said to me, "Well, this has reached the stage where I'm going to have to have you talk with one of our tech people." (!!) A WEEK later, one of their tech people called me and told me the problem was that there news server was down, and THEY didn't know it.
Bill! Shuck off that "Anonymous Coward" handle and just come out and say what you want, OK? You just tell those Euro-Trash whiners to bend over, drop them Beltramis, and take it like men -- you know, like American Corporate Zipperheads have been doing for ten years.
Yowza! If you REALLY want to get noticed and have your 15 nanoseconds of fame like Braxton Anderson, hike on over to Ebay and annoy them -- they're biting!
When you make a small, shallow (however enjoyable) movie out of a large, deep book, I guess it gives you a license to change the characters to whatever you like. For anyone who HASN'T read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," without which I daresay Ridley Scott would hardly have had the wit to put together the "Blade Runner" story, I urge you to do so. Judge for yourself who the master storyteller really is. BB
You're an ass. Don Martin worked until the day he died (more than can be said for you, obviously), and he helped warp an entire generation, me included, thank God. Mad magazine had a greater influence on my generation than any other single publication or TV swill or educational "institution" like the one *you're* taking up space in. It's typical of people who live like parasites in some protected gooniversity environment and contribute absolutely nothing but exhaled CO2 and methane to denigrate those whove REALLY made a difference in society. After you complete your education -- another seven or eight years, I suppose, on daddy's money -- don't forget to memorize this phrase: "Would you like fries with that?" -- it's the only education *you're* ever gonna use.
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Yeah, we write letters to our Congressional representatives, and the RIAA sends big packages of the long green to our Congressional representatives. Which form of communication gets the most attention, do you think? Hint: What does it take LOTS of to get reelected? Second hint: the answer is NOT "votes."
The scariest thing about this purported Valentine email is the depressing level of ignorance it reveals about the author. If this is NOT a hoax, and actually represents the sort of intelligence that reigns at the highest levels of Microsoft, the company ought to be out of business any day now.
Yeah, go knock on your Congressman's door and get blown away by his security team! The only way to BE ABSOLUTELY SURE your Congressman reads your letter is to attach $50,000 in "return postage"....
And the vast majority of tech support people are too stupid to comprehend the fucking manual even if they bothered to read it. Most tech support calls to even middlin'-sized ISPs are handled by pimple-faced weens who couldn't hold down a job at McDonald's, reading from a screen of pre-prepared stock answers. I once spent an hour-and-a-half (no exaggeration) with a so-called "tech-support specialist" from SNET, trying to explain to him that NO, *I* didn't have a problem, SNET's news server was down. FInally he said to me, "Well, this has reached the stage where I'm going to have to have you talk with one of our tech people." (!!) A WEEK later, one of their tech people called me and told me the problem was that there news server was down, and THEY didn't know it.
I'm NOT making this up.
BB
Lawsuits are absolutely essential for the growth of lawyers' disposable incomes.
Bill! Shuck off that "Anonymous Coward" handle and just come out and say what you want, OK? You just tell those Euro-Trash whiners to bend over, drop them Beltramis, and take it like men -- you know, like American Corporate Zipperheads have been doing for ten years.
Don't be shy, now!
They call me the Spark
Yowza! If you REALLY want to get noticed and have your 15 nanoseconds of fame like Braxton Anderson, hike on over to Ebay and annoy them -- they're biting!
When you make a small, shallow (however enjoyable) movie out of a large, deep book, I guess it gives you a license to change the characters to whatever you like. For anyone who HASN'T read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," without which I daresay Ridley Scott would hardly have had the wit to put together the "Blade Runner" story, I urge you to do so. Judge for yourself who the master storyteller really is.
BB
You're an ass. Don Martin worked until the day he died (more than can be said for you, obviously), and he helped warp an entire generation, me included, thank God. Mad magazine had a greater influence on my generation than any other single publication or TV swill or educational "institution" like the one *you're* taking up space in. It's typical of people who live like parasites in some protected gooniversity environment and contribute absolutely nothing but exhaled CO2 and methane to denigrate those whove REALLY made a difference in society.
After you complete your education -- another seven or eight years, I suppose, on daddy's money -- don't forget to memorize this phrase: "Would you like fries with that?" -- it's the only education *you're* ever gonna use.
BB