I had some fun yesterday.

[Spinaroonie]

So Yesterday I'm walking back to the dorm after my last class and I walk past a table that said "Win a Free X-box". Now, there's not much allure in the X-box perse, but the allure was that it was a Microsoft sponsored event.

So I went and filled out one of their surveys, adding in my politics of MS's evil aand stuff, writing in comments about their tasteless program and how .NET and Hailstorm are inheriently evil. So I get all signed up and then the woman started looking through it, and she asked me if I had ever used .NET (which, wasn't directly mentioned on the survey)

So that's when I took off No, I didn't run I laid the gosepl on them

I told them about how .NET went against the ideals of the internet, the community of interaction, by trying to creat a warring MS net and an AOL net.

I later told them that people in fact, DO notice when things like the Kodak deal emerge in the papers.

I then finished off with my rant about Smart-Tags. They didn't know what they were. So I explained to them what it was and how it was wrong... and what happened was amazing.

There was a look in their eyes that said "Maybe MS DOESN'T have all the answers" but their mouths said nothing, becuase they knew that they couldn't.

So they bid me goodbye. Nice people. I bet a meeting with their supervisor suppressed all of those thoughts about MS not doing the right thing.

 

[horny_giraffe]

That'll teach them not to discuss weather with the weatherman...

 

[SINthysist]

So I take it you didn't win a free X-box?

 

[Spinaroonie]

They haven't drawn for it yet, I think.

I'm thinking it either killed my chances or reallly helped them. Or maybe they stayed the same, who knows.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Wish I could do that with the Creationists. But they're like rubber ducks, "no matter how many holes you shoot in them, they still float." (Amazing Randi)

 

[Marxist]

Wish I could do that with the Creationists. But they're like rubber ducks, "no matter how many holes you shoot in them, they still float." (Amazing Randi)

Try melting one and report back.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Right. I just made a lunch date with Todd. I told him to bring some kerosene. He thinks we're going to Barb-B-Que. I'll get back to you.

 

[patient1]

Thanks for speaking out against smart tags.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Np, I joined the uproar and even still belong to the yahoogroup about them (Just no msgs come down) We were all pleasantly shocked when MS said they were dropped.