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Thank GNUs! We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation, but we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have donated $500 or more in the last month.    http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2012supporters.html 2012 Supporters Corporate Patrons are listed on the Corporate Patronage area of our website.    Corporate Patrons at $50,000 Corporate Patrons at $30,000 Corporate Patron at $25,000 Corporate Patrons at $15,000 and below People Patrons   Patrons ($5000 or more) Sustaining Contributors ($1000 to $4999)   Contributors ($500 to $999) I think this list fucking sucks..... I figure that some people can afford to give that much - like over $500.... but for many people, what little that they do give, maybe all that they have to give. And this listing process, makes you a bunch of cash kissing, arse licking cretins. http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2012supporters.html IF there is going to be a list, either put everone's names on it,. and only the total donate

The  Gnome Thumbnail Factory is a fun program that takes unlimited amounts of all the images / directories / files and  file types / etc., and lists them as thumnails in your directories. This is good - sort of. OK - The Gnome Thumbnail Factory is a great thing... but like most great things, it has some dumb fucking functions. The main one being it's unchecked, unlimited and never ending expansion - being that the program will file away hundreds of thousands of "thumbnail images" in it's own little directory. And the directory keeps on just growing and growing and growing away in the dark like mushrooms - until the folder size and file numbers are just fucking HUGE... For instance the USR directory in Ubuntu has about 400,000 files in it... so if one were to go file searching in that, then the thumbnail factory would then go add 400,000 thumbnails to it's directory. So the folder grows to 3, 4, 500, 600 meg and expanding into the Gig range - with hundreds of thous

Olympus Australia - You must be fucking kidding. There really are people who give bullshit service that is THIS bad.... OK the story goes I wanted to by a dictation machine, to dictate long notes, lectures etc... and I settled on one of these. The Mighty Olympus VN-8600 Dictation Machine.  Let me let you in on a secret. It's a piece of shit and so is the customer service from Olympus Australia. I picked it up around the 20th of August 2011 - for $73... (remember that price) Not much use...  mainly stashed away for the needful moments. The damned thing started to go into haywire mode.... Locking into the "set the date" function without any of the keys responding and not being able to get out of or terminate the function.   Contacted the "fabulous folks" (Urrrrk) in the customer service dept in Australia and sent them this email. VN-8600PC - fairly new, not much use, looked after... Started to give erratic messages, like the date popping up and the controls not

This email came across my desk...... I was reading all these articles on the peramfrost across all of the planet is melting, the oceans are rampantly acidic from all the dissolved carbon dioxide, severe droughts, floods, storms, the oceans are filled with plastic and giant dead zones, our entire life style is FED with cheap energy from oil... including the food we grow and eat..... In short - we are fucked. No oil - civilisation as we know it stops more or less immediately. Using oil - our civilisation chokes to death on it's own poison - even faster. And what do these and LOTS of other companies do? They email you to tell you that if you place an add with them, you can go in the draw for a $100 fuel voucher...... Just how fucking stupid can some people be? A truly fist worthy reply:   Why don't you OFFER a bicycle of your choice, from any bike shop near you, to the value of $500.....   Pollution, heart disease, climate change etc.. Don't you people EVER think? I mean...