M$ plan for world domination

crashmeister · 03-27-2002, 05:07 AM

http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html

What are they going to think of next?
Is this real?

Tried again to edit the link - I hope it is ok now!
Any way if there is an $ in there it should be a s

Bert · 03-27-2002, 05:10 AM

That's TheOnion.

Get a grip, course it's not real and the link doesn't work.

crashmeister · 03-27-2002, 05:14 AM

The link doesnt work because it put a $ instaed of a s in there.
Tried to edit it but it comes up wrong again.
What makes you think this might be not a 100% correct?

trickykid · 03-27-2002, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by crashmeister
What makes you think this might be not a 100% correct?

Theonion is like the National Enquirer on the net.. can't believe anything it publishes.

-trickykid

Aussie · 03-27-2002, 08:14 AM

Bah to the onion...I get all my tech news from the SPOT.

acid_kewpie · 03-27-2002, 08:58 AM

you thought that was real???

My favourite piece from there was about alcoholism...

Quote:

To be honest, I'm a bit of a chocoholic myself. Except for one small detail. You see, instead of being addicted to chocolate, I'm addicted to booze. Yep, from dawn to dusk, there's one thing on my mind: booze! Beer, liquor, wine, all that stuff!

http://www.theonion.com/onion3641/li...hocoholic.html

crashmeister · 03-27-2002, 11:29 AM

Hey, there are things that are better than true.
Besides I am just waiting for Microsoft to charge licensing fees everytime you look out a window.
I have to go and feed the easterbunny now

finegan · 03-27-2002, 04:45 PM

The $ is auto-added by the forum, but you can use the tagging like the geeks favorite. Also, the one about "Satan adds tenth circle to rapidly expanding hell"

Solidarity,

Finegan

fatgod · 03-28-2002, 05:15 AM

I can't believe that they can put in err quotes like they do! Is there not some sort of truth policy that the media is required to follow?
Funny reading, I can't believe that people would take that stuff seriously...

Like this...

Quote:

"Think of this as a partnership," Gates said. "Like the ones and zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are the zeroes."

How funny is that!

Thymox · 03-28-2002, 05:59 AM

I've just been reading some of their other 'articles'. There really is a lot of shit in there, isn't there? How do people get the funding to setup such things?