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We all know that Gmail scans your email messages for key words to display related ad links right next to your correspondence if you use the browser to access your Gmail account. Now, it looks like the ad giant might be doing more than just scanning your email messages.
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Previously on LinuxTag Comes to Springfield: Part I and Part II
The following evening at the Simpsons’. The family is watching TV when a newsflash cuts in.
Brockman: This is Kent Brockman, we interrupt Paris in Prison: the Reality Show to bring you this breaking news. LinuxTag received a bomb threat in writing this afternoon. A bomb would be placed at the LinuxTag fair should LinuxTag refuse to revoke Mr. Schaeuble’s patronage. Drastic means or empty threat? Arnie Pie talks to Mr. Schaeuble:
Camera cuts to Arnie in the Sky, together with Schaeuble flying in a helicopter.
Schaeuble: (singing to the tune of Don’t Cha) Doncha wish your Minister was tough like me? Doncha wish your Minister was strict like me? (stops singing) Jawohl, what do I tell you people? Terrorists are here, there, and everywhere! Only by bugging your phones and reading your email can we snuff out these criminals! Please, my dearest American friends, do yourself a favor, do world peace a favor, download and install this Federal Trojan, made in Germany! keep reading… »
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Previously on LinuxTag Comes to Springsfield (Part I)
3 days later. The Simpsons are having breakfast when the door bell rings. Homer goes to get the door. It’s the mailman.
Homer: What do you want.
Mailman: What does it look like?
Homer: You selling insurance?
Mailman: I got a registered letter for Lisa Simpson.
Homer: Registered letter. Must be important.
Mailman: Whatever.
Homer: Can I read it before giving it to her?
Mailman: Like I care.
Homer: Do you have a registered letter for me?
Mailman: No.
Homer: Why not.
Mailman: Dunno.
Homer: Why are you so snappish.
Mailman: You’re annoying the hell outta me!
Homer: (shocked and offended) I never want to see you again! (slams the door and cries all the way back to the kitchen) keep reading… »
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At the Springfield Elementary.
Krabappel: OK class, can someone tell me what Linux is? Yes Ralph.
Ralph: You use it to blow yellow liquid out of your nose and block red liquid from coming out of your nose.
Bart: Don’t you mean “Kleenix”, Ms. “Rabappel”?
Class giggles.
Krabappel: Shut up Bart. Yes, Milhouse?
Milhouse: I saw it on the laptop of my dad’s divorce lawyer once: it’s some sorta penguin that likes to eat kernels of the Debian plant.
Krabappel: Milhouse! Why didn’t you tell me your dad’s getting a divorce! I want your father to call me after 10 o’clock tonight so we can discuss your academic dishonesty problem. As for the rest of the class, watch and learn!
Krabappel dims the room and puts a VHS in the VCR.
McClure: Hi! I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from educational films such as Amoeba: What You Don’t Know Might Not Kill You and memorable blockbusters such as Snakes on the Rollercoaster. In the next 20 minutes we’ll be learning about this revolutionary operating system called Linux. keep reading… »
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