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I agree, looks wrong (well really everything looks right except those links)
it really is a legitimate looking message
(even the spelling / grammer is spot on, and it's correctly personalised)
was briefly tempted to click one of the links to see what happens
but no, been doing this too long to even do that just for fun
(no banking/shopping passwords are saved in my browser anyway, but...)
as mentioned:
if "paypal" et.al send me a message that sounds important I'll log on to paypal.com directly (not even via bookmark), NEVER via an email link, NEVER
...even when I can see that link address in the email status bar
... - dunno if for instance they can pad those with say <bs> chars etc, don't wanna find out.
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Microsoft is notorious for doing this. Just this hour I had to go to Microsoft.com to get something work related, and it redirects me to "login.microsoftonline.com". Now I have to stop what I'm doing and verify that "microsoftonline.com" is actually "microsoft".
Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid? Why do you do that?
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Oh, and in addition to microsoftonline.com, the page loads stuff from "office.com" and "mem.gfx.ms" and "s-microsoft.com".
Apparently these teams were not aware that Microsoft already has a domain "microsoft.com" for them to use.
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I get regular email from Microsoft and I think they are legit, but I'm not sure.
They're mostly about some Azure service.
GMail puts them straight into the spam folder.
But I still think they're legit 
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Basildane wrote: Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid?
Doesn't the question answer itself?
As I see it, Microsoft today is a company that couples incredible technical sophistication with best practices that would shame a Mom-and-Pop programming shop. For example, the idea of letting your customers (AKA Windows 10 Home users) perform the QA on your software is one of the most hare-brained ideas ever to come out of a marketing droid's mouth, and I hope that they change course before it's too late.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I guess you’re regretting signing up to that midget porn site now.
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You matter! (Unless you multiply yourself by c2, then you energy)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, relatively speaking.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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huh?
I'm gonna need a momentum to figure that one out
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You don't have to be Einstein to figure it out... or maybe you do?
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Looks like someone needs a spacetimeout to think about the gravity of the situation!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Don't wait too long or you might become one with the Force singularity.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But maybe then I'd go out with a big bang!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's a theory.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Is that what Scotty says when he pushes a cadet into the warp core?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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if the force is 'with/in the jedi'
and force increases with velocity
how cool it must be to be a jedi traveling at (or as near as possible) light speed?
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lopatir wrote: how cool it must be to be a jedi traveling at (or as near as possible) light speed?
Not for very long, I would imagine. Unless said jedi is traveling through interstellar space. In which case I hope he/she's got the right equipment.
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That Jedi probably was the first to say 'I have a bad feeling about this!' 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'll spin on that one.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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The thief! He plagiarised it before I thought of it! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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look on the bright side,
instead of only repeating your own messages by repeating others' you'll have a lot more "new" material.
Cheer up, OG. You know what they say. Some things in life are bad. They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble. Give a whistle. And this'll help things turn out for the best. And...
always look on the bright side of li...
oh, wait!
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And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As I get older I find I'm losing energy does that mean I'm also losing mass or am I just moving slower?
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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