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I'm at a complete loss for words on this one. Buy, download, install... and be told my copied & pasted license is no good?

OK we'll call that a forgivable glitch, since all I have to do is call that handy 800 number and... wait... what do you mean there is no 800 number?!?!?!

Ok, cool, I'm an IT guy... I can modify the registry in order to... wait the OOBE key is missing? Oh awesome. Now I really do need to call Microsoft.

An unnamed Facebook friend in New York thought his apple was a little too big for Mother Nature to take.

I'd like to take a moment and remind Giants fans that the 2010 team, at this point in the season, was similarly awful to the 2012 one. There is hope, so long as you don't focus too hard on the fact the LA Dodgers legitimately have "magic inside"

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May 15th, 2010 would be the comp date for today (May 12th) That year the Giants were 20-15 at this point but they were about to tank hard. The lineup against the Astros was:

#sfgiants

Today, Giants pitcher Guillermo Mota was suspended for 100 games for using the banned steroid, Clenbuterol. He's a cheater, right?

Well, he may be, since he can't prove he has allergies or asthma, but not all athletes who use Clenbuterol are doing it because they want to drop a little fat.

If Mota was cheating then, as Grant Brisbee puts it, I hope to hell he kept the receipt. Mota is an innings eater but he's no ace.

But I digress, I have a little story about Clenbuterol:

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Growing up, I had the most awesome swimming coach I’ve ever known, Rick DeMont.

Rick won a gold medal in the Munich Olympics in 1972, only to have it stripped from him for use of Clenbuterol. Sounds fair, right? Well, not really.

You see, Rick wasn’t cheating. In fact, during the allergy season he had to move to Arizona for months on end in order to avoid life threatening allergies that plagued him in the Bay Area. Clenbuterol was what he used to control severe asthma. I remember this well - it's a very clear childhood memory when your favorite coach has to split for Arizona a couple of times a year during the critical offseason and preseason training period.

I suppose Clenbuterol did enhance his performance a bit, I mean, it let him compete.

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To conclude, I suppose Rick DeMont, Guillermo Mota, and others could pick a non-steroidal asthma inhaler. I don't know that Rick could have back in 1972. Either way though, the reactions to this particular steroid have been totally overblown for about 50 years.

#sfgiants