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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: 14 July 1789
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 00:17:27 -0400
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Paul Heslop wrote:
>
> elag wrote:
>
> > > Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of
> > > useful things like...love!"
> >
> > That reminds me of a tv lottery commercial in which there is a song
> > which goes: "If I had a million dollars I would buy you a house..."
> > which I changed to "If I had a million dollars I could spit in your
> > eye... I could spit in your eye... I could spit in your eye..."
> >
> > It's really rather catchy.
>
> You've probably heard of our national lottery and its poor performance
> re sales,
No, Merkin news is myopic in terms of the world... a story usually has
to be BIG! in order to be worth jamming in between the sport and
entertainment "news".
> mainly because it's run by a profit making organisation and
> should be run by a charity, any road up, many people refuse to get
> involved in the mid week draw because the top prize is only about
> Poor dears.
It's the same here... "when are they gonna have a really big prize? A
million is chump change... why a barely acceptable mansion would run at
least 10 million.".
Gamblers are always a bit addled... they insist that they've "won" money
when a running tally of losses and gains would show that nearly all of
them are net losers.
Personally, I'd rather fold the $ up into paper airplanes and sail them
out of a 10th floor window... er, how big is the jackpot this week?
>
> > > > I don't even own one yet... I'm having too much fun w/ all the cheap VHS
> > > > equipment & tapes... these days the bargains are everywhere... One of
> > > > these days I'll have to convert but until then, 87 cent tapes are not
> > > > to sneeze at.
> > >
> > > You're like me then. Actually you can pick dvd players up here for like
> >
> > Yes, but the DVDs are not so cheap. The Image quality is a great leap
> > forward compared to VHS, though. It's like going from super 8mm to 70mm film.
>
> And then there's the none chewing factor. The one sickening thing about
> vhs is its habit of self destructing.
Yes, it's ugly... the library toon tapes I love so much have very dodgy
tracking problems. Once, I had to manually force the source tape into a
better position so I could dub it onto another tape... well, beggars
can't be choosy.
>
> > > > > I found a website but it made me install the latest flash player and I
> > > > > have to reboot before I can see it, so I'll just give you the addy
> > > > > http://www.monkey-dust.co.uk/
> > > >
> > > > Ah!!!... I can't see it either... I'll have to come back to it... I'm
> > > > sick of upgrading every diddling piece of software every 10 minutes...
> > >
> > > Bloody annoying isn't it. The worst ones are 'your browser is out of
> > > date blah blah you must update to see the site..' oh, well I won't
> > > bother then.
> >
> > I definitely boycott anything that tries to force me to use Micr0s0ft products.
>
> :O) And there are many of them. Worst still is MSUpdate, which actually
> has a quick look at your hard drive for illicit goodies etc, aswell as
> checking out what equipment you have. I don't know how serious that is
> to a joe schmo like me, but it really pigs some people off.
Count me among them... I'll resist spyware, automatic garbageware,
crippleware, and vaporware as long as I'm able. I'll switch to Linux if
I have to.
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