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Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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Nice!
I have a complicated Excel workbook to automate something. I've added an extra few lines of code that run, but don't actually do anything useful, apart from I will see them in there if it gets copied.
(, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 9:34, 1 reply)
I have a website with some obscure technology history on it
I went to several large companies' websites, to check my facts. On two of them - Sony and JVC - I found that their official company history pages had lifted large sections - in one case without changing the wording even slightly - from my website.
(, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 10:32, closed)
Not surprised
A mate designs webpages for a charity. In the early days of the Web, his predecessors used to physically print out the pages and the underlying source and put them in a box which would then be posted recorded delivery to the charity archive. Recorded deliveries have the date of posting, and if they're unopened are accepted by the courts as a original copyright. They can be resealed in court and still qualify for further cases.

Apparently, if you submit stuff to Jeffrey Archer's publishers your agent will insist you do this.
(, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 11:50, closed)
Not concerned about copyright
More that any inane dribblings or woeful misunderstandings I might have scrawled while drunk or tripping have become official history since they are on apparently authoritative sources.

Still, I guess that's a pretty good definition of the internet, really...
(, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 12:16, closed)

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