Re: Software Protection system...Any tester there ?

From: Evenbit (nbaker2328_at_charter.net)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: 21 Apr 2004 18:09:18 -0700

"Beth" <BethStone21@hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com> wrote in message news:<K2nhc.6$Zr5.2@newsfe1-gui.server.ntli.net>...
[SNIP]
>
> "Surely this can't go that far, can it?", you might be thinking to
> yourself...words are words and they mean specific things...you can't
> twist the semantics of a word that much, surely? Nope, sorry...you
> _really can_ do that...as a slightly twisted but most excellent
> example, which some will find highly amusing and / or offensive,
> consider _swear words_...how come you can say "sexual intercourse" in
> public and polite company without too much worry, yet should you use a
> particular four-letter synonym beginning with the letter "F" then you
> could cause great offence? One word is deemed "taboo" and "may never
> be spoken", the other words, though, are perfectly fine to be said
> pretty much anywhere at any time...they _are_, though, effectively
> referring to the same act...here's another interesting example of
> these quite inexplicable "taboo" words...you can happily refer to the
> male genitalia all you like by all manner of names considered
> "harmless": "you're a ***!", "you're making a *** of yourself!",
> "willy", etc....but you may do the same for female gentialia...so much
> so - as some of these words are the greatest "taboos" of the entire
> English language - it would be difficult to provide examples that
> would not cause certain "polite company" absolute total offence...to
> the point, in some cases, of "I shall never speak to a filthy-mouthed
> person like you ever again"...suffice to say, the "scientific" word
> "vagina" is the one that causes least offence BUT _still_ is deemed
> far worse a "taboo" than any of the male words like "penis", "***",
> "***" or whatever...at the other end of the scale is arguably the
> word that is the greatest "taboo" and most offensive word in the
> entire language...oh yes, even the four-letter "f word" has nothing on
> the four-letter "c word"...this word is such a "taboo" that even
> making such an indirect reference has a lady feeling very guilty for
> even going near it in any capacity...and this is in modern "liberal"
> times...I would have been burnt at the stake for even admitting I
> might know what such a word was in more oppressive times past...
>
> Anyway, I'm NOT trying to talk dirty with anyone

Wash your mouth out with soap, young lady! Dump the drugs out of your
purse, put on your Sunday best, go to Church, and MIND your P's and
Q's! Your curfue is 7:00 pm and no more playing with that white-trash
Billy on the other side of the tracks! Got that? ;-)