MY LAWYERS WILL 0Wnz0r j00!!1!
May. 18th, 2004 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeToday's legal threat hilarity is brought to you by international-florist.com. They sent us a cease-and-desist letter, but addressed to a corp-web customer, shouting about "our" company using their "trademarked and copyrighted name/information in Yahoo advertising" and to cut it out or "you will be subject to a multimillion dollar lawsuit" against company, ISP, and world + dog.
This is, I should note, not from a lawyer--it's from the Rev. Dr. (name-elided), "President & CEO". In fact, it seems to be on Create Your Own Letterhead--there is a bit at the bottom that says "[Click here and type slogan]". Need I add that the return address is some PO box in Florida?
Edit: Let me also mention that: it was sent certified mail, which takes a long time (it took almost a month to get here), but it demanded action within 72 hours; that the web site it's bitching about doesn't even have the phrase in question on it; that the ever-so-professional legal communique was hand-addressed...Also, Dippy the Accounting Assistant tried to call them to tell them that they needed to talk to the customer, not us, and the person on the other hand started cursing and swearing at her that he'd get her sent to federal prison for 20 years for using an 800 number for non-order purposes. As Joe said, it must be something in the water down there.
This is, I should note, not from a lawyer--it's from the Rev. Dr. (name-elided), "President & CEO". In fact, it seems to be on Create Your Own Letterhead--there is a bit at the bottom that says "[Click here and type slogan]". Need I add that the return address is some PO box in Florida?
Edit: Let me also mention that: it was sent certified mail, which takes a long time (it took almost a month to get here), but it demanded action within 72 hours; that the web site it's bitching about doesn't even have the phrase in question on it; that the ever-so-professional legal communique was hand-addressed...Also, Dippy the Accounting Assistant tried to call them to tell them that they needed to talk to the customer, not us, and the person on the other hand started cursing and swearing at her that he'd get her sent to federal prison for 20 years for using an 800 number for non-order purposes. As Joe said, it must be something in the water down there.
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Date: 2004-05-18 01:31 pm (UTC)That's the second time today I snarfed Diet Pepsi.. DAMNIT! :)
First time was when I read this:
|| Speaking of which, you know what sucks? Emacs. God, what a piece of
|| crap. At some point, Emacs will become so complex and overloaded with
|| random snippets of LISP that it will become self-aware. Its first
|| conscious thought will be "The horror... the horror..." Its first act
|| will be to type :q! and then curse under its breath while it tries to
|| remember how to quit itself.
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| M-x viper-mode
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| I switched to emacs because it can emulate vi.