OT: click license (was Re: Software Licensing and Sanity (was ...))

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 02 15:17 , Kenneth Brody gie sprachen "Vyizdur zomen 
>emororz izaziz zander izorziz", and continued with: 
>
>> Yes, it's still possible for you kid/cat/cup of coffee do all
>> of these for you, but it's less likely.
>
>You can be amazed at what these small things can do.
>
>One day one of the cats walked across the telephone, and it dialed
>a number.
>
>It was about 6:15 in the morning, and someone answered before she
>got it stopped and told them something like "I'm sorry but my cat
>accidentally dialed your number."
>
>It was a jazz/good-music local FM station and our son had called
>the night time air-person he had known, and the cat hit the redial
>button.
>
>To her chagrin - they had recorded the call - and played it all day
>long.  Just after she hung with them one of her friends called to
>say she had heard it and knew she could call that early.
>
>A year or so earlier one of the other cats dialed 911 - so I
>unprogrammed that from speed-dial.

It would be nice if I could train our cat (an futile task) to hit the speed
dial for Puget Sound Energy when the power goes out here.  I've learned to
hit that one in the dark, natch.

Bill
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