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There’s no medicine for stupidity
Saturday, August 30th, 2008 | Funny, Random | 86 Comments
From the ad:
“I’ve just bought my favourite movie of all time on DVD from a shop. Now I’ve got to sit through an unskippable anti-piracy advert every single time I put the disc into my DVD player, even though I own a legit, shop-bought copy…”
Unfortunately the domain referenced in the ad isn’t active anymore.
It seems to me like the people who came up with those anti-piracy ads follow the same kind of reasoning as people who say that limiting legal firearm ownership will reduce violent crimes involving illegal firearms (so far, most American school shootings have happened in gun-free zones), or that abstinence is the only good form of sex education (President Bush’s current policy, proved wrong by several studies showing that people taught abstinence-only tended to have just as much sex as people who weren’t, but are less likely to use a condom when they do).
Yes, female coders do exist…
Friday, August 15th, 2008 | Coding, Random | 3 Comments
…and they use Emacs.
Top 10 Magazine Stand
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 | Random, Science | 2 Comments
I went shopping for the latest edition of Scientific American in Canal Walk the other day, and was met by this sad sight. Half of the magazines in the “Top 10″ section were gossip rags, and magazines like Scientific American were nowhere to be found…
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