Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All 433
gzipped_tar writes to tell us that The Codeweavers "Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge" has ended in surprise and free software all day Tuesday (October 28, 2008) at the Codeweavers site. A while back Codeweavers gave President Bush a challenge to meet one of several goals before he left office. One of these goals was to lower gas prices in the Twin Cities below $2.79 a gallon, which has since transpired. "How was I to know that President Bush would take my challenge so seriously? And, give the man credit, I didn't think there was *any* way he could pull it off. But engineering a total market meltdown - wow - that was pure genius. I clearly underestimated the man. I'm ashamed that I goaded him into this and take full responsibility for the collapse of any savings you might have. Please accept our free software as my way of apologizing for the global calamity we now find ourselves embroiled in."
Re:And the web site was already slow this morning. (Score:5, Funny)
Slow??!? It's dead Jim.
Re:And the web site was already slow this morning. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Retards (Score:1, Funny)
And, what kind of retard actually believes that it's a good thing for the government to try to artificially alter the price of a commodity like gasoline, probably the commodity with the most negative impact on the environment and the world in general, rather than letting market forces dictate the price?
I believe.
Irony deficiency (Score:5, Funny)
Implied Conversation (Score:5, Funny)
Bush: Hank, we still need to get gas down below $2.79. The economies are tough. What can we do?
Palson: Mr. President, I'm with you on this. As you know, we are having severe margin calls with some of the investment banks. Rather than save a Wall Street's CEO's ass like we did with Bear Stearns and AIG we could just let them fry in the hot sun. The public hates them anyway. Let's see, overnight accounting data shows that Lehman Brothers is close to the edge. I won't do anything and let them slip into the beyond.
Bush: Hank, I knew I got the right man for the job. Bit what does this do with oil?
Paulson: This will be a real kick in the pants to the arabs. The commodities bubble will deflate like the Hindenburg. They won't be able to give the stuff away. All this "peak oil" talk will be shown for the scam that it is
Bush: Sounds great Hank. What could go wrong?
Paulson: Nothing really. A week later everyone will forget Lehman Brothers even existed.
Re:Irony deficiency (Score:3, Funny)
No, real geeks brag about watching failed pilots, just to make sure there's no chance of the show ever going mainstream
Re:Slashvertisement (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, it worked on me.
a) Good software.
b) For free.
c) Because Bush is an idiot.
That's three for three, Jim.
Go figure (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory Bushism please (Score:3, Funny)
I clearly misunderestimated the man
Fixed.
Market Forces (Score:5, Funny)
And, what kind of retard actually believes that it's a good thing for the government to try to artificially alter the price of a commodity like gasoline, probably the commodity with the most negative impact on the environment and the world in general, rather than letting market forces dictate the price?
Market Forces? That's a euphemism for the troops in Iraq, right?
Re:And the web site was already slow this morning. (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotted? We wish. Right now on the low bandwidth page they are blaming the meltdown on digg. Oh for the good old days when they automatically would have assumed it was us. Let's rally around and hit their site a couple of times to show that our dentures still have bite and a slashdotting is to be feared!
Re:And the web site was already slow this morning. (Score:4, Funny)
Ergo, your analogy is flawed. And it's not about cars, so it's doubly flawed.
Well, he gets points for comparing Bush to a monkey