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    07/05/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Where's Barak when you really need him? Sigh.
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    07/05/09

    @gzumwalt: He's trying to fix nonexistent global warming by cap and taxing the jobs out of the US and raising my electric bill by $200 a month.
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    07/05/09

    @FireZingr: As opposed to the good old laissez-faire capitalists sending all the jobs out of the US and getting melamine from China in return?
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    I really, really hated those crappy CDs back in the day. Nightmares... >_<
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    07/05/09

    @AnalysisDialysis (and a MudkipNDS): Those things make dandy Christmas decorations. Tie them back to back (shiny side out) with some kind of decorative cord, and festoon your balcony or your yard. We've done that for years. What makes me laugh is that just about every year someone steals some of them off our trees out front. I chose the most ridiculously dead-end, no-chance CDs for the project, so what they're getting is trade show catalogs from the 90s, mis-burned data disks from my daughter's roommate's Masters project, AOL CDs, DOS based software from the DAK catalog, etc etc etc. I wonder what the thieves thought they were getting?
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    I was just wondering if AOL was still around, sounds like they're still up to their same old tricks.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    I didn't realize AOL was still around. Have they moved to "high-speed" yet?
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    07/05/09

    @Anrkist: They're still around, although they pulled the plug on the Compuserve classic service at the end of June. Because that's what smart companies do, give their longest-term subscribers the summary heave-ho. Yeah.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Who would have guessed AOL would die not by a bang, but by a whimper.
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    07/04/09

    @jboy06: Just about everyone who threw away those stupid free trial discs they used to spam everyone with.
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    07/05/09

    @tehdorkz: In hind-sight, yes. In the latter years of their dial-up days, yup. But in the beginning they were the company that brought the internet to the masses - and we are all the poorer for it.
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    07/05/09

    @tehdorkz: Who threw them away? Free disks are free disks. Of course, I'm old enough to have been carpet bombed by AOL floppy disks, which were reusable. CDs were a step backwards in this case. :)
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    07/05/09

    @AnonJr: AOL got its start as QuantumLink, which licensed proprietary software from PlayNet, a Commodore 64 only, 300 baud only, nighttime only network. That's where all the ridiculous limitations and feeble design choices came from, and nobody bothered to do much to change them.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    They should have try and exploit someone working in Faux News.
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    07/05/09

    @UltimateIdiot - Imperfection at Best: When I read that I wondered if you were somewhat kidding, since they're both owned by News Corp. However, it's my understanding that anyone who uses the phrase "Faux News" this many years after some clever guy thought of it is an idiot, as your name suggests, and you likely had no idea they were related.


    Keep riding the "don't think for yourself" bandwagon, though; it's working for you.

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    07/06/09

    @theirishcreme: Well said.
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