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Defense Attorney: Will you please state your age?

Little Old Lady: I am 86 years old.

Defense Attorney: Will you tell us, in your own words, what happened the night of April 1st?

Little Old Lady: There I was, sitting there in my swing on my front
porch on a warm spring evening, when a young man comes creeping up on
the Porch and sat down beside me.

Defense Attorney: Did you know him?

Little Old Lady: No, but he sure was friendly.

Defense Attorney: What happened after he sat down?

Little Old Lady: He started to rub my thigh.

Defense Attorney: Did you stop him?

Little Old Lady: No, I didn’t stop him.

Defense Attorney: Why not?

Little Old Lady: It felt good. Nobody had done that since my Abler died some 30 years ago.

Defense Attorney: What happened next?

Little Old Lady: He began to rub my breasts.

Defense Attorney: Did you stop him then?

Little Old Lady: No, I did not stop him.

Defense Attorney: Why not?

Little Old Lady: His rubbing made me feel all alive and excited. I haven’t felt that good in years!

Defense Attorney: What happened next?

Little Old Lady: Well, by then, I was feeling really “spicy” that I just laid down and told him “Take me, young man. Take me!”

Defense Attorney: Did he take you?

Little Old Lady: Hell, no! He just yelled, “April Fool!” And that’s when I shot him, the little b*stard.

This really grinds my gears…As reported here in the past, Mass Effect for PC
contains a new type of SecuROM which will be present in all future
EA/Maxis games.

What does it do? Not only does it install itself to your computer
without a word of notification as well as disable your firewall, dvd
drives and cd/dvd burning software. It limits you to installing your
game on your PC up to 3 times.

This can be triggered via using up your 3 activations and each time
you change a piece of hardware, reformat your computer or
install/upgrade a new operating system, it takes up one of the
activations.

This is proven to be true by a guy over at the Mass Effect forums.
He registered and started to play the game (Activation #1). Well, when
he tried to play the game he had strange artifacts on his screen.
Thinking it was an OS-related issue, he reinstalled XP and reinstalled
the game (Activation #2). Finding out that it didn’t help the problem,
he soon figured out it was his graphics card struggling. Well, he
bought a brand new card and that solved the problem (this triggers
Activation #3). Game ran fine for a short period of time (2 days) and
he played thru it and completed the game. Well, a week after that, he
decided he wanted to run thru the game again. This is where he
stumbles upon this error:

“The game can not start. For security reasons, only a
limited number of machines can ever be licensed by a single purchase.
This limit has been reached. Please purchase another registration code, reinstall, and then try again.”

There is no doubt that EA will try to include this new version of
SecuROM on Spore and possibly The Sims 3….and if it is, we are going to
encounter some very serious problems. Heck, I can’t even count the
times I had to reinstall the games, upgrade my hardware and reformat…

You know, come to think of it…EA is doing this to prevent piracy of
their games, but it’s only hurting us legal customers. Look at this:

If you are a Pirate:

• BAD: You do have the same bugs that those with legal copies have, plus new ones depending on how the cracked copy was programmed.
• GOOD: Unlimited Activations!
• GOOD: No SecuROM to deal with
• GOOD & BAD: It’s free, but illegal

If you are a Legal Customer:

• BAD: Limited to 3 Activations
• BAD: Your computer is plaqued with SecuROM
• BAD: Game contains errors and bugs
• GOOD & BAD: You support Maxis by purchasing the game, but you are also supporting EA, and if you support them, you support SecuROM

Honestly…what looks better to you?

ET breaks the news that comedian George Carlin has
died from heart failure. The man who made famous the “seven words you
can never say on television” passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint
John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, his longtime publicist said. He was 71.

Carlin,
who has had several heart attacks and a history of cardiac issues, went
into the hospital this afternoon after complaining of heart problems.

Carlin
has more than 20 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, numerous TV and movie
roles, and three best-selling books to his credit. Last year, he
celebrated his 50th year in show business, and he had just finished his
last HBO special in March, “It’s Bad for Ya.”