I was sent this today as an example of how the modern economy works. Sorry duno what the original source was.
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I found the following online a few days ago – or did someone send it to me? Anyway it sums up the current state of the new media at present.
This is brilliant – A line from PR put out by the group wanting to abolish MMP (proportional voting system in use in NZ) can be read in a way that says completely the opposite thing.
Its been a long time since the Politically Incorrect radio show was heard but it turns out that a lot of the thoughts aired there are coming true.
Everyone else seems to be putting their 50c worth in for this whole Whanganui verses Wanganui thing that I thought I might as well add my voice as well.
I finally got a replacement media disk from Microsoft and eventually did a clean install – it worked perfectly.
I’ve often wondered about the usefulness of anti virus software & whether we really need it. Yes I have collected a few viruses over the years (starting in 1984 with the famous Stoned virus) but except for Stoned none of them has done any damage and all (except stoned) were caught by me and not my anti virus software.
And now after moving me to a new technical expert – Guess what? We go back over the same old ground we’;e already covered. I can sympathise with their point of view. The probably feel that anyone contacting them because SP1 wont install probably knows very little about computers.
After being asked too many questions about how Vista works from numerous people I decided to take the plunge & buy a copy a few months ago. Personally I like XP and understand how it works but it seems that its become inevitable that sooner or later we’ll all be using Vista whether we want to or not. If I had my way I’d use Linux but that’s another story.