Category: Business
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Young insurance executives beat Minesweeper
In a moment that resembled a scene out of The Hurt Locker, three insurance executives at have cracked Microsoft’s Minesweeper game.
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Software licenses contain secret damnation clauses
Mary Migworth, a 26-year-old single mother, lost her soul after agreeing to some small print for her 3-year-old son’s Reader Rabbit game. “It included a line about how I was subject to 29A,” said Migworth. “It wasn’t until later that I discovered that 29A is computer code for 666. It’s the hexadecimal number of the…
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Your Money
YOUR MONEY Having trouble deciding if some money is yours? Money expert Ryan Neeswahl is here to help in our regular column. Dear Ryan: I have just started work at a major insurance company. At the end of my first two-week stint, I was handed a check for several thousand dollars. The check looked official,…
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African prince shares millions with builder
SPARTA, Wisconsin – After many years of sending emails around the world to good people he hoped would help him, deposed Nigerian Prince Arthur Eze finally found builder Al Espensen of Sparta, Wisconsin. With Espensen’s assistance, Eze has secured his once locked fortune of 96.6 million dollars. Mr.Espensen found out that being a Good Samaritan…
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US moving to China
President Obama announced today that the United States will pack up and move to China at the end of next month. Citing America’s economic woes, with spiralling costs and falling demand, Obama said the nation had “no choice” but to make the 7,000-mile move. He added, “We will miss the old United States. But we…