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Re: Lego Hackers
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:59:59 GMT
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JSPROAT@IOantispam.COM
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Tom McDonald wrote:
In lugnet.general, Tom Stangl writes:
Don't know if this has been posted yet, but...
http://www.forbes.com/Forbes/99/0809/6403122a.htm
For the most part a good article, though "freak" is heavy-handed.
It's too bad that magazines feel they have to make up their readers' minds
for them.

It's perfectly understandable when you consider the intended audience --
mainly drooling misogynist marketing-dregree droids in terminally
uncomfortable business suits who buy the magazines to look at the pretty
artwork cluttered by all those long words before allowing the decision to
give in to the Microsoft BackOffice sales rep to be made for them.  I tend
to go into ego-protected mode when I read "financial news"
rags^H^H^H^Htabloids^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdrivel anyway.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives



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  Re: Lego Hackers
 
(...) Them's fighting words, Sproat. Forbes is in my top five mag list and the one I will snatch out of the hands of flight attendents when I get on airplanes. Now if you want to slam Fortune, fine. It's infected with the Time Warner reality (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Lego Hackers
 
(...) -Tom McD. when replying, it was actually a huge wooden spamcake rolled into Troy.. (1) It's too bad that magazines feel they have to make up their readers' minds for them. (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)

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