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elag wrote:
> > 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".
>
It has raised controversy over here as it's run by a profit making
company, where Richard Branson offered to run it for cost, which he has
tried to do twice and failed.
> > 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?
:O) Rubbish (ie, about 5-6 million quid) as it was a double rollover
last week.
> > 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 have a six head triple speed nicam video with a one minute rewind and
sometimes it can take half an hour to rewind a tape! It is a
temperamental beast.
> > :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.
:O) I have spyware finders etc on my machine, but my son doesn't think
we should bother, so he does things like switching Zone alarm off, and I
had to spend about thirty minutes cleaning his own pc of stuff like
Gator!
--
Paul. (Faces look ugly when you're alone)
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Not what it seems...
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