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View Poll Results: PoW, what does it mean to you?
Prisoner of War 7 53.85%
Prisoner of Windows 6 46.15%
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Old 08-06-2002, 02:02 PM   #1
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POW, what does it mean to you?


Prisoner of Windows

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Old 08-07-2002, 02:35 AM   #2
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When I saw the title, that's exactly what I thought, Prisoner of
Windows. Well..., that's the feeling I had a few months back. But
not anymore with tux around. It's only the ignorant ones that are
POWs.
 
Old 08-07-2002, 03:15 AM   #3
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just that little black and red powerup on super mario world 2 on NES
 
Old 08-07-2002, 05:15 AM   #4
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POW - Prisoner of War/Windows (take your pick)

What about WOW - War On Windows?


Perhaps not!
 
Old 08-07-2002, 01:22 PM   #5
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Whare is the site whare it has stuff like LoL (laghing out loud) & stuff listed like that, you know intenet slang.
 
Old 08-07-2002, 02:20 PM   #6
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one of such sites:

http://thor.prohosting.com/~arema/download/acronim.htm
 
Old 08-20-2002, 07:22 AM   #7
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Pummit ovat Widusta....

And THAT is A FACT in most cases!
 
Old 08-20-2002, 08:10 AM   #8
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Well you can take your pick but I choose Prisoner of Windows just because Im sick of all the bugs etc............................ and the mmmm shatter attacks are not real security issues or well SSL problems can wait we shall fix it when we bring out a new release of Windows.
 
  


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