People Mistake Opera Browser for Oprah Winfrey

[quickmana]

The 9 year old is understandable but there's no excuse for a 17 year old to do this.

 

[alphadark]

[citation][nom]ReggieRay[/nom]I stand corrected #4 and I assume you are a liberal/Marxist Obama lover so go watch some more CNN?MSNBC propaganda and I do have a college degree.[/citation]

You both are idiots the whole reason we are in this mess is because of a two party system that has segregated this country into two extreme views that are usually both incorrect. Our forefathers warned us about this type of system. Neither side is interested in the needs and wants of the people. If we stop calling ourselves liberal/democrats conservative/republcans we might be able to start actually getting stuff done.

Like education reform and deficit reduction.

 

[Anaxamenes]

Actually I think it is kind of nice for the company to write back. Most companies won't be bothered to even write their own customers back, so props to Opera!

 

[dread_cthulhu]

Haha... It's cool that these guys have such a good sense of humor. What's sad is people write to Oprah like she's Santa...

 

[sliem]

"yea if you can send me 4 tickets that would be cool"
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"yea if you can send me 4 tickets that would be cool"
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"yea if you can send me 4 tickets that would be cool"
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"yea if you can send me 4 tickets that would be cool"

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]eyeklops[/nom]Talk about a huge run on sentence. Since when did they stop teaching kids about punctuation in school?[/citation]
Probably about the same time they decided to stop teaching cursive handwriting and replace it with "L33t speak". I read something about that not too long ago. Hey, kids absolutely HAVE to know what things like LOL, ROFL, ROFLMAO, KYSO, , , and so forth mean, right? It's so damn "essential" I'm sure.

/sarcasm

 

[Repelsteeltje]

[citation][nom]eyeklops[/nom]Talk about a huge run on sentence. Since when did they stop teaching kids about punctuation in school?[/citation]
It's sad that non-native speakers have to get irritated about the lack of language skills of (supposedly) native English speakers. It spells trouble for the US education system, pardon the pun.

 

[whysobluepandabear]

[citation][nom]soccerdocks[/nom]The fact that a 9 year old girl has a cell phone disturbs me the most. The parents who refuse to teach their children hard work through discipline (rather than spoiling them with a cell phone) are what is wrong with this country.[/citation]

It's not exactly blasphemy either.....


Imagine the kid getting kidnapped.....she could use her phone to call for help, or they could track her phone signal to locate her.


Or she witnesses her friend little sally getting kidnapped....she whips open the phone and dials 911 like her parents told her.


I doubt she's rocking an iPhone or Thunderbolt....probably just a basic cell phone to keep in contact with her parents.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]Maxor127[/nom]I'm assuming you're Republican and a Bush lover, in which case I don't know how you're making the correlation between Democrats and education. Sounds like education didn't help you much, and you're just a typical ignorant, blind follower of a political party. So I knew your claim that the U.S. spends more per child than any country was BS, and I looked it up myself. The U.S. is ranked #4, close to #3. Denmark is #1. You also must not know that George W. Bush was the Education President and passed No Child Left Behind among other programs. Go watch some more FOX News and believe whatever they tell you.[/citation]


if my teachers didnt lie to me, no child left behind program implemented a intensive based bonus plan where schools get less if kids do poorly. my teachers actively had students get other students to stop taking sats.

i grew up in a good area, but kids are retards. i had 4 who got pregnant while in school, 1 expelled for drugs, and 10 others who didn't even graduate for whatever reasons. something needs to be done, but throwing money and policies at education does nothing.

i think that we should force people to either get a highschool diploma, or a ged otherwise half of their pay that isn't already taken in taxes, gets taken and goes straight to education funding.

it only effects people who didnt care in school and give them massive incentive to get a ged or graduate highschool

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]WhySoBluePandaBear[/nom]It's not exactly blasphemy either.....Imagine the kid getting kidnapped.....she could use her phone to call for help, or they could track her phone signal to locate her. Or she witnesses her friend little sally getting kidnapped....she whips open the phone and dials 911 like her parents told her. I doubt she's rocking an iPhone or Thunderbolt....probably just a basic cell phone to keep in contact with her parents.[/citation]

but even basic cellphones, things under 100$ off contract have cameras in them now. so she makes a bad decision to take a nude photo and now she is being charged with producing child porn, and anyone who seen it (she sent it to) now has to register as a sex offender even if its another 9 year old.

this crap happens all the time, but barely makes news anymore.

 

[joshyboy82]

I laughed when I saw the headline because I've had people ask me why I had an Oprah program on my computer.

Hair battle letter was epic.

posted through Opera on my Druid phone

 

[joshyboy82]

stupid Droid auto-correct.

 

[Maxor127]

[citation][nom]alphadark[/nom]You both are idiots the whole reason we are in this mess is because of a two party system that has segregated this country into two extreme views that are usually both incorrect. Our forefathers warned us about this type of system. Neither side is interested in the needs and wants of the people. If we stop calling ourselves liberal/democrats conservative/republcans we might be able to start actually getting stuff done. Like education reform and deficit reduction.[/citation]
Isn't that exactly what I said? Blind followers of political parties.

 

[liveonc]

I got confused too, but I never watched Op(rah), so I didn't know how to spell her name. But maybe Oprah would like to sue Opera, just like McDonalds sued Danish McAllan sausage-stand-man. ;-)

 

[fir_ser]

These letters are funny and the requests to Oprah are even funnier, and the replies from Opera Software staff are hilarious.

 

[Guest]

Well to be fair who has heard of Opera. Its not like you would find their software on more then 1 pc in every thousand!

 

[randomizer]

At least I now know how to pronounce it. I was never sure if it was pronounced this way or the same as the word referring to loud solo singers.

 

[legacy7955]

The only thing I care about is WHEN the "Princess of Annoying" Oprah is going ro disappear from the airwaves.

 

[ojas]

cool ppl, these opera ones

 

[Guest]

You would think that as much as kids text, email, and tweet that their writing skills would rival that of any educated adult. What good is technology if it only serves to dumb down society when it could make us so much more intelligent?

 

[taintsauce]

[citation][nom]Ant1matter79[/nom]You would think that as much as kids text, email, and tweet that their writing skills would rival that of any educated adult. What good is technology if it only serves to dumb down society when it could make us so much more intelligent?[/citation]
The problem isn't with with technology, but with the people that use it. It doesn't matter so much the language used (languages will change over time), but the ideas conveyed. The ideas that are being conveyed are generally about as deep as a mud puddle, and half as clear. The fallacy is that people are inherently intelligent. If our society is already dumb, technology only serves to ease the conveyance of stupid sentiment.

 

[aaron88_7]

+1 to Opera Software makers for recommending real musical talent to the Hannah Montana fan

 

[Guest]

Haha fantastic read xD

 

[sweatlaserxp]

Is it an Oprahn source browser?

 

[dkant1n]

fantastic ansewers, I can't imagine a warmer response for a mistake like that