WARNING: MAJOR NEW Windows VIRUS - NOT a hoax

[Craig3410]

You have just received the Amish virus.

Since we have no electricity or computers, you are on the honor system.

Please delete all of your files on your hard drive. Then forward this message to everyone in your address book.


We thank thee.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. I know someone I could send this to,

who'd give me hell for sending it and explain why it had to be a hoax.
He's a really fun guy. :eyes:

[Radio_Lady]

2. Hi, Goddess... just sent you a PM about a scaly anteater!

... and a link to a drawing of a PANGOLIN!

[Ladyhawk]

3. Pangolins are tres kewl. n/t

[Radio_Lady]

6. Ladyhawk, I never knew they existed before tonight!

Here's a great image:

[Ladyhawk]

8. The documentary set "The Life of Mammals" has some great footage

of pangolins. They sure are strange!

I finished that DVD set. Now I'm on "The Life of Birds." I wish I had enough money to afford all the documentaries I'd like to have. :)



Edited to add pic.

[Radio_Lady]

9. Neat picture. Thanks for the info on this program.

Our son's in-laws have a HDTV about 60 inches wide, which cost them about $5,000 a few years ago.

When we were on vacation last week, we watched some travel programs -- one on Morocco, and the other was an African production. Absolutely amazing! Wish I had the money to get an HDTV set, but they are still very costly. Should be amazing when all programs are in this new dimension.

In peace,

Radio_Lady in Oregon
(I volunteer for the Public Broadcasting Station in this area -- KOPB-TV & FM -- they seem to be leading the way in HDTV)

[Ladyhawk]

11. The only reason I'd want HDTV is for documentaries, really.

I absolutely ADORE nature documentaries. Of course, the occasional movie would be worth a big HDTV screen, too, but I love nature docs.

Unfortunately, when I moved I could no longer get DISH Network and the local cable company doesn't carry Animal Planet (or Comedy Central, for that matter). It just wasn't worth the money. I didn't want to pay for a lot of crappy channels when I couldn't get the ones I really wanted. :cry: I've been without TV (except Netflix) for nearly a year and a half now. One thing I've noticed is that I have more time to practice my music, which is more fulfilling than television. I still miss Animal Planet and get upset if I think about it too much, but hey, I try not to think about it. I watch Netflix documentaries and some documentaries I own.

Blue Planet is an excellent series if you like the ocean. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced some of the discs of that series...pisses me off! I've watched the first disc of "The Life of Birds" and it's even more interesting than "The Life of Mammals" to me, but of course, I'm a big fan of parrots and there was some really interesting parrot footage, including the flightless kakapo of New Zealand. That is a very strange parrot! It's flightless, nocturnal and hollows out bowls in the earth to produce a deep boom to attract mates. Only the male does this last bit. :) What an odd bird!

[Ladyhawk]

12. To the OP: Sorry this thread got so off topic.

I just re-read your title and realized we've totally gone off on a tangent.

Yes, that's a funny joke. I believe I've heard it before and yes, I know some people who wouldn't get it, either. I believe they all vote Republican. ;)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Ooo!

It's like some sort of ankylosaur...

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. Actually there is a new vulnerability for Windows on the loose..

Did someone post about it and this is a parody?

This one looks really nasty..
See:
http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=994
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/02/1153244&tid=201&tid=218

[Radio_Lady]

5. OT: I just had to look up your screen name... I love it!!!!

"Learn something new every day," especially today January 3, 2006!

OMPHALOSKEPSIS
Contemplating one’s navel as an aid to meditation.
This word seems to be relatively new, at least the Merriam-Webster “Word of the Day” column claims it to have been invented only in the 1920s. It turns up in only a few dictionaries and seems to be a word that survives more for the chance to show off one’s erudition than as a real aid to communication. If so, this article is a further perpetuation of its unreal status. It is formed from two Greek words, omphalos, “navel, boss, hub”, and skepsis, “the act of looking; enquiry”. The former turns up in words such as omphalotomy, “cutting of the umbilical cord”, in the related omphalopsychic for one of a group of mystics who practised gazing at the navel as a means of inducing hypnotic reverie, and omphalomancy, an ancient form of divination in which the number of children a woman would bear was determined from counting the knots in her umbilical cord at birth.

[madeline_con]

7. I ran a scan a little while ago.

Seems I had a virus. Anyway, the symantic site said it would make the computer link to porn sites.

Is that the best some people can do for shock value???