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Your taxes at work: Three hours driving to turn on politician's PC

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Re: I was being replaced...

That reminds me of some time in high school. I was sent to an alternative high school for students with learning disabilities and attitude problems, for reasons which I maintain to this day are unfair and unjust, but also that's why AC.

Anyway, I was in the most normal group (again, unfair and unjust, I had neither learning disabilities nor a problem with authority; my peers, on the other hand, I had many problems with, which is why I question their decision to segregate me with the most violent of them,) and the student body could be somewhat wild. For a time we had free reign on un-locked-down PCs, which we were, surprisingly, mostly good with, since we knew that blatantly looking up porn would get us smacked down.

Eventually, the bubble burst for entirely unrelated reasons; one of our teachers, whom I'm to this day convinced was an undercover narcotics officer and not primarily a schoolteacher, was showing us a true classic of American cinema - Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles.

Now, all of us were in the 17-18 range, most of us swore like Longshoremen, and all of us understood the difference between actually swearing at someone, or using real vitriol, and mockery of those who do so. Anyway, we got to the "[town's] brand new... nigger." part, and in walks the school's guidance counselor.

Middle-aged African-American Church-lady. If anybody knows the states, you know the type. Of course the teacher paused the movie, and as most of us had seen it previously, we knew why and kept mum.

The counselor had NEVER seen Blazing Saddles... And insisted we not stop the movie on her account. The mortification on her face was almost worth the crackdown that ensued... But I digress.

Anyway, the school went overboard with their political correctness, and this included the euphemistic "IT guy" installing nannyware on our computers. I was irate at this, and complained about it in his presence. He smirked and said there was no way I could find porn now.

I pointed out that I hadn't, but I bet him my lunch money against his day's wages I could have the nannyware off the computer in ten minutes. He TOOK THE BET, in front of the teacher no less.

After about four minutes of poking at it, and four more minutes of trying to remove it through add/remove programs, I just browsed to the program directory and ran uninst.bat. It politely sodded off.

No, the jackass didn't pay me the money, but he did leave in rather an annoyed huff when I brought up the playboy frontpage and shrugged at him.

It's not always the "tech guy" who's the smart one. Usually. But not always.

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