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Re: [Rival] Hallelujah: Microsoft finally defeated by EU

Verily I say unto thee, that Ramon F Herrera spake thusly:
> On Oct 22, 9:40 am, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [H]omer wrote:

>>>> "It is a victory for the consumer", she said.
>> 
>> huh?  The consumer wasn't fighting Microsoft.
> 
> Year 2030. An international team successfully derails an asteroid 
> which had planet earth in its crosshairs, making it miss by, well, a 
> hair.
> 
> After the team leader triumphaly said: "this is a victory for human 
> kind" some guy on Usenet claimed:
> 
> "huh? Human kind was not fighting that asteroid. You were.".
> 
> The NYT reporters, tried to get some background info on the sole 
> naysayer, and identified him as DFS the same individual who wrote in 
> 1969 to Neil Armstrong:
> 
> "huh? Man was not trying to make a small step or a giant leap on the 
> moon. You were".
> 
> This is the very same guy who, when told that I lost my car keys, 
> vehemently replied: "to whom did you lose them?".

Bravo!

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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