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Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:26 -0400, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <5ngq69-of2.ln1@news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:25:06 -0500, Matthew Lybanon wrote:
>> 
>> > In article <fmoore-52AF84.12181325042012@news.eternal-september.org>,
>> >  Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Supposedly Google's corporate motto is 'Don't be evil'. As we all
>> >> know it violated that a very long time ago by stealing and selling
>> >> every bit of information it can compile about you.
>> >> 
>> >> In it's latest bid to expand it's online evil empire, it has
>> >> launched Google Drive, an online data storage service to compete
>> >> with Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive.
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> > ...
>> > 
>> > RULES FOR BETTER WRITING
>> >
>> > 26.  Use the apostrophe in it's proper place, and omit it when its
>> > not
>>                              ^^^^
>> > needed.
>> 
>> <snigger>One of Murphy's Usenet rules kicks in again:
>> 
>> "Any Usenet post which points out grammar or spelling mistakes in a
>> previous post will contain grammar or spelling mistakes in the
>> correction."
> 
> I'm pretty sure he did it on purpose, for ironic reasons.  Notice that
> the second clause has the reverse mistake.

Ah. I didn't spot the second one.



-- 
Paul Sture

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Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-25 12:18 -0400
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-25 13:09 -0400
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-04-25 13:44 -0400
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-25 13:59 -0700
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-25 23:03 +0200
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-26 11:29 +0200
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-26 07:41 -0700
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 19:21 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-27 13:27 -0600
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 12:15 -0400
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-26 09:35 -0700
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 14:45 -0400
          Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 17:43 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-05-17 16:40 +0200
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2012-04-26 08:25 -0500
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 10:03 -0400
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 19:25 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 22:31 -0400
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 11:56 -0400
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 12:14 -0400
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-27 14:40 +0200
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-27 10:46 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-27 11:25 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-27 17:51 +0200
          Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2012-04-27 15:59 -0700
            Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-27 18:58 -0700
              Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-28 10:03 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-28 12:06 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-28 13:33 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-30 10:47 -0400
              Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-28 12:32 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-28 22:46 +0200
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-30 10:35 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-05-01 09:37 +0200
            Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-28 12:53 +0200
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil "Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris@this.is.invalid> - 2012-04-27 10:14 -0500

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