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Which is worse, Microsoft or AOL?
Ctrl Alt Del 123:
I still vote AOL is worse. AOL is everywhere, they distribute AOL CDs to my house, my e-mail, and add all kinda crap to my PC with AIM. Atleast with MS, you can go with another OS and they don't bother you as much.
pkd_lives:
Ever heard of return to sender. Just send it back as undelivered, they pay for it's shipment again, and it has to be dealt with back there.
I did this once with an insurance company, because I was getting tons of crap, and after a few months, the stuff stopped coming.
EVERYONE SHOULD DO THIS WITH ALL PERSONALLY ADDRESSED JUNKMAIL, unless it comes from a company you wish to be dealing with.
A little proactivity can go a long way. Spread the word. The more people who do it, the more companies may stop this practice, however it can also tell them they have received a valid address - it's up to you.
P.S. Don't reply to e-mails, it only gives them verification of another address they can sell. You don't want to be appearing in that CD for sale of 60 million e-mail addesses.
Actually - does anyone get M$ Junkmail? I'm not sure I've ever seen any.
Seeking000:
I have never been bothered by AOL in my entire internet life. I have recieved the AOL CD's in the mail, on the cereal box, between the toilet paper ply's, in the candy bar, taped to the back of bottled water containers etc ... just like everyone else; but I toss them.
Microsoft OTOH keeps me bound by the fact that I play a variety of high-end MMORPG's, which only work with that OS. Microsoft also keeps me bound by the advent of MS (explorer) only veiwable websites. Microsoft used extremely false practices for intimidating all Quest (formerly USWest) subscribers to switch to them after Quest dropped their residential ISP services. I was one of the ones who believed that I actually _had_ to switch to MSN.net, like many, many thousands more. The local newspaper and news stations even had an article on the issue 4 months later, blasting Microsoft!
One of my favorite parts of my old Quest account was the news reader servers. Microsoft laughed in my face when I inquired about theirs. It has been a dismal switch from a robust server based e-mail system to a web based e-mail system without news reader servers. Don't get me started on cookie hell! There is something _SO_ illegal about Microsoft's internet practices; it's creepy to think about. I have the IE6 trojan horse *sigh*. Is it of absolute necessity that Microsoft take that extra step of immorality and social terrorism on top of making those bucks?
Although, maybe the point of a major media conglomerate like AOL Time-Warner tops it off in a generalized sense (I get so tired of watching the CIA channels, which constitute about 100%).
We're basically in a situation in the US where big business keeps the 'gubmint' in tact as a public relations firm. It's a gross network littered with the logical corruption of 'sub-humans'. How 'dumb' do you have to be to render indentured system axioms in favor of violating the trust of another human being? You might as well commit suicide or die of dehydration / starvation ... the binary derivations do not prove inherent for the logical structures' potentialities in accordance with the actions taken.
-Seeking000
Chooco:
i think AOL is MUCH MUCH worse than MS
MS makes a product which is easy to use and for not that bad a cost (the NT series of OSes meaning NT4, 2k and XP)
AOL makes an easy to use product but their internet sucks balls. Windows NT series OSes are fairly good in terms of speed (they don't need to be reset every day i mean) and they are still easy to use. AOL on the other hand calls itself 56lag internet but it's really SLOWER than 26k. a friend of my dad at work got AOL because his daughter insisted that they needed AOL to use AIM. they got AOL which costs 26 dollars per month, that is the same cost as my 1.5mb ADSL connection, and they said it was just brutal how slow it was. after the daughter found out they can still have AIM on a different ISP, they went to Juno which is only 10 dollars per month and they said the speed increase was just HUGE. they also said they got dropped less.
MS = easy to use, sort of reliable, and easy to work with
AOL = easy to use yet slower than crap and costs more than DSL
iustitia:
quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:
evil rankings:
1.The Government
2.Microsoft
3.AOL/Time Warner
4.Record Company scum (all of them are evil)
5.Brilliant Digital
6.NBC
7.The Telephone Company
8.Cable/Satelite provider
9.Sony
10.FORD
11.Honda
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This Jones Soda is good. Jones Soda Co.
--- End quote ---
NBC is the child of GE, now I don't perticularly like NBC, but if they were seperated companies, I would say GE is 100x worse. I noticed they didn't appear on the list
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