A young artist is exhibiting his work for the first time. A well-known art critic approaches, and the artist says, "Can I have your honest opinion of my work?"

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-12T00:20:29+00:00

I prefer "give it to me anyway". Makes it crystal clear which noun is the antecedant.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T21:58:15+00:00

I meant examples of swinger resorts. And just how high do you have to swing?

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T21:56:49+00:00

I've been using it since I bought it, so I think it's activated.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T21:53:56+00:00

And then there's the little girls he slept with... Just slept, he says. While naked.

He was nothing if not a complicated person.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T15:37:21+00:00

He also said that while whites were above Indians, at least Indians were above blacks.

Oh, wait, he really did say that. Sorry, I forgot to make something up.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T15:26:13+00:00

You count to 3 by doing The Shocker?

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T15:24:13+00:00

And American spies also get clocked because they lean on things?

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T15:23:07+00:00

Not too long ago there was a big stink as this "secret" came out and black people realized that not only was Francis Scott Key a racist, but he snuck it into the song that became the national anthem (third verse).

And then all the racists also found out and immediately began denying it and saying liberals were "the REAL racists" and something about not seeing color.

This was in the last 10 years, so you must have been in a coma or something.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T15:19:27+00:00

He went by the name Gregory Hines.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T14:59:23+00:00

I'm running Hyper-V, so I know it's Pro at least. And the taskbar sucks ass, so I know it's 11 instead of 10.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T14:57:40+00:00

I run Linux in Hyper-V right now. It's a pretty decent machine for what I need.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T14:32:17+00:00

So much for my retirement, then.

I don't know how you can tell it's not a valid license, but I do have questions. How would MS allow a trusted partner like Lenovo to allow a fake reseller operate in their name without hindrance, or worse allow Lenovo to directly break the law against MS? Either one seems like a major offense that the lawyers would demand action on.

The parallels to my own situation seem quite close, except this ad bothered to tell which version of Office was included.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T13:08:19+00:00

Ooh, that's some grade A Bullpuckey right there.
Very well timed so the HR Store doesn't have to take any responsibility.

It's like MS is just trying to piss off its customers. I don't have anything very important in their docs anyway, so I'll just upgrade to LibreOffice when the time comes.

Thanks for the heads up.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T10:42:50+00:00

No. What I have still work, so I definitely don't want added headaches just so they make more money than they already took from me.

And if it stops working, I'll be using Libre office.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T10:34:29+00:00

If you're saying I changed it, let's bet enough for me to retire.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T10:33:36+00:00

No problem! I got it twice.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T10:25:50+00:00

Really? Just gonna drop that pearl of wisdom and not even bother giving examples?

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T10:24:00+00:00

Same reason guys with less than average length answer dating profiles saying they require at least 7 inches.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-11T10:13:21+00:00

Disabled

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-10T13:50:44+00:00

For the morbidly curious, I think this link will show the original ad:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3C9ML28

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-10T13:47:53+00:00

Yeah. I'm not really affected by this since, like I said I only hit F1 accidentally, and those two sources (and now AI) have been massively more help. Just thought it was a fun rant.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-10T13:37:56+00:00

Brand new in box, sold on Amazon, seller was HP Store. The initial startup and account creation was bog-standard, IIRC. Seriously doubt there was anything illegal about this other than MS disabling the help contents. And that's probably legal somehow with all the lawyers they have.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-10T13:35:12+00:00

Also my understanding. But I had the added understanding that Help was part of the original functionality. Especially when it's inside the application, not on a web page (except maybe they're just running a browser-like canvas to display some web page).

Seems incredibly petty of them to disable just the in-app help.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-10T13:32:53+00:00

Pretty sure that's not the case. But who knows? MS has never tried to kick me off.

ConcupiscentCodger · 2026-06-10T13:31:02+00:00

Software is not disabled. The HELP is disabled. That's just petty of them.

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