[OT] Re: Is it possible to make an AppleScript application a URL handler?
[OT] Re: Is it possible to make an AppleScript application a URL handler?
- Subject: [OT] Re: Is it possible to make an AppleScript application a URL handler?
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:00:52 -0400
"Errol Sayre" wrote:
> I'm trying to find a solution for my parents... They have a Yahoo email
> account and don't want to switch to anything else
Do what I did: Make a very scary story [1] about every manner of web menace
and financial danger and sell that story like you're a barker at the
Hell-Fire and Brimstone Booth at Apocalypse-Con South [2].
Convince them with all manner of fear tactic. (This works for sovereign
governments as well as individuals, by the way and P.S. People are easily
scared into switching web services, just as they are into giving up their
Civil Rights, or even joining a terror-inspiring war in a Middle Eastern
nation. It's quite an old tactic and has lasted, I presume, because of its
effectiveness and relatively low-cost. Functional theories of Sociology
should support this notion.)
I have weaned my sister and my aunt from Yahoo by using such tactics. They
are happy and have not looked back (they're too afraid). (Also, I stopped
accepting any mail from a Yahoo address, and so this helped. It's as much
political [3] as it is techno-protection, but on either grounds the argument
is sound.)
[1] These "stories" do not have to be lies. Your soul is safe. Now, that
said, since the soul is debatable, I would stretch these "possibilities" to
their science-fiction limits, and really scare the piss out of them. (Not
hard if ones parents are elderly. It Depends.)
[2] Perhaps the most revealing booth at Apocalypse-Con is the 'Revelations
Insurance: Your Broker Until the End of Days' booth, where you can cover
your family and self with an affordable apocalypse policy. I take no real
issue with the stated coverage, it's just that filing a claim should prove
quite difficult. It is advisable, given the likely difficulty of finding a
claims agent after a "Judgment", that one look into the services offered at
the 'Four Horsemen Pre-Paid Legal' booth (located adjacent to the Microsoft
pavilion.)
[3] Yahoo's continued censorship, particularly in China, should not be
supported by any right-thinking individual who enjoys the notion of
"freedom", something that is globally diminishing in recent years. The U.S.
has no lock on the lead in this regard, but even if it's a
middle-of-the-field contender for the Gitmo Cup, it's a clear leader in
innovative ways to apply technology to curtail freedom, and so may at least
be assured of an Honorable Mention at 2010's "We're White and We're Right
Big Brother Awards" (scheduled to be aired on television by Fox with
show-time audience metrics by the NSA, under contract with AT&T and Nielsen
and their PatriotScore joint venture.)
A Real Analysis...
Yahoo sucks.
--
Gary
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