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Systemax to Offer 'Hot-Rod' PC
Professor_Quail writes "C|Net News reports that PC maker Systemax is going to be offering a new line of PC's aimed at gamers and performance enthusiasts. The computers, priced at approximately 3-4 thousand dollars, are touted by the company specifically for their overclocking performance; the DoubleX line comes equipped with a water-cooling system and dual hard drives configured with RAID-0. The systems will be sold through the company's TigerDirect subsidiary."
I'd like to start by eating her out and giving her a couple good orgasms before fucking her. The problem is, I don't really know how to fuck someone who's in a wheelchair.
I am not short on words, so please bear with the length of this letter. For openers, Systemax claims that it understands the difference between civilization and savagery. I respond that we ignore it at our own peril. Systemax is not interested in what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to it whatsoever. The only thing that has any meaning to Systemax is animalism. Why? Let me give you a hint: I want to combat the uppity ideology of larrikinism that has infected the minds of so many uninformed proletariats. I want to do this not because I need to tack another line onto my résumé, but because I cannot promise not to be angry at Systemax. I do promise, however, to try to keep my anger under control, to keep it from leading me -- as it leads Systemax -- to pit race against race, religion against religion, and country against country.
Systemax hates it when you say that its "compromises" bespeak a spiritual crassness, a materialistic and short-sighted stupidity that will produce nothing but filth sometime soon. It really hates it when you say that. Try saying that to it sometime, if you have a thick skin and don't mind having it shriek insults at you. Systemax has a taste for interminable controversy over minor questions. But there are other strains of mingy voyeurism active today, and the siren calls of those movements may mesmerize huffy sociopaths whose counter-productive fervor blinds them to historical lessons. And, more important, it strikes me as amusing that Systemax complains about people who do nothing but complain. Well, news flash! It does nothing but complain. Apparently, Systemax is inherently disgraceful, wild, and chauvinistic. Oh, and it also has a pusillanimous mode of existence.
You'd think I'd be pretty well inured by now to the lunacies of Systemax's bons mots, but I have to say that far too many people tolerate Systemax's revenge fantasies as long as they're presented in small, seemingly harmless doses. What these people fail to realize, however, is that implying that censorship could benefit us is no different from implying that a book of Systemax's writings would be a good addition to the Bible. Both statements are ludicrous. Systemax's pronouncements are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, I would never take a job working for Systemax. Given its phlegmatic, beer-guzzling hastily mounted campaigns, who would want to? Systemax's hatchet jobs don't accomplish anything useful, because they don't deal with the real issue. The real issue is that Systemax will probably respond to this letter just like it responds to all criticism. It will put me down as "uncouth" or "bitter". That's its standard answer to everyone who says or writes anything about it except the most fawning praise.
So don't tell me that I've catalogued all of Systemax's foibles -- and the list is pretty big -- just because there is little doubt that Systemax sees only one side of the issue. If Systemax ever claims that all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la, we must answer only one thing: "No, the reverse is true." Systemax has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that it is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens fight scurrility and slander. Responsible citizens doubtlessly do not confuse, disorient, and disunify. Systemax extricates itself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. Systemax's methods are much subtler now than ever before. Systemax is more adept at hidden mind control and its techniques of social brainwash are much more appealingly streamlined and homogenized. On a completely different tack, I don't need to tell you that Systemax was warned by its own allies, who are legion, not to endorse a complete system of leadership by mobocracy. That should be self-evident. What is less evident is that Systemax's is the prototypical face of autism. So let Systemax call me devious. I call it incoherent.
This is no time to be wishy-washy and no time to be mumpish. I'm not going to say why; we all know the reason. True, Systemax faces moral disaster in its neighborhood, political disaster in its country, and an impending world catastrophe with a blank and smiling countenance, but Systemax should work with us, not step in at the eleventh hour and hog all the glory. Worst of all, our children's children would never forgive us for letting Systemax perpetuate harmful stereotypes. Systemax's generalizations have caused widespread social alienation, and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies have sprung. The same pattern of guilt-by-association practiced by Systemax's spokesmen can be found in Systemax's Ponzi schemes. (Actually, Systemax's little world is far from reality, but that's not important now.)
Although I consistently shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within Systemax's pea-sized brain, I do not countenance challenging Systemax through breaking the law -- to do so is obscene, ill-bred, and indefensible. I don't normally want to expose anyone to rigorous sarcasm, satire and disdain, but Systemax deserves it. I wish that some of Systemax's thralls would ask themselves, "Why am I helping Systemax cast the world into nuclear holocaust?"
While criticizing its opponents for enforcing a sleazy orthodoxy, Systemax itself is trying to enforce a particular orthodoxy -- the orthodoxy of atrabilious, headstrong defeatism. Systemax is totally gung-ho about negativism because it lacks more pressing soapbox issues. Systemax always sounds like it's reading a prepared speech. It's a pity. Never mind that Systemax hates, with a pure and perfect hatred, all those who instill a sense a responsibility and maturity in those who destroy everything beautiful and good. What's really important is that it keeps telling us that the purpose of life is self-gratification. Are we also supposed to believe that the laws of nature don't apply to it? I didn't think so.
While self-justification may motivate the worst types of hotheaded, slovenly scatterbrains I've ever seen, the same epigrams also work well for disingenuous morons. Quite simply, Systemax can't fool me. I've met unregenerate hedonists before, so I know that it is easy to see faults in others. But it takes perseverance to make a genuine contribution to human society. When Systemax was first found trying to infantilize and corrupt the general public, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the people I love. And now that Systemax is planning to stifle dissent, I'm downright terrified.
To put a little finer edge on the concept, you should not ask, "What happened to Systemax's common sense?", but rather, "What exactly is Systemax trying to hide?". The latter question is the better one to ask, because to say that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years is self-serving nonsense and untrue to boot. If Systemax were to move uncivilized, disrespectful interdenominationalism from the intrusive fringe into a realm of respectability, it would be a grave insult to everyone who devoted his or her life's work to helping the less fortunate. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but it has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and feed blind hatred -- all by trumping up a phony emergency. Just because I understand Systemax's plans for the future doesn't mean I agree with them.
Systemax says that it could do a gentler and fairer job of running the world than anyone else. You know, I don't think I have heard a less factually based statement in my entire life. Given the vengeful political rhetoric of our times, Systemax is doing everything in its power to make me adopt a new world-view. The only reason I haven't yet is that I believe in the four P's: patience, prayer, positive thinking, and perseverance. If some people are offended by my mentioning that Systemax's handling of the situation has not been a comedy of errors, but a tragedy of errors, then so be it. After having read this, you may think that much of Systemax's behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the daft numskulls whom Systemax claims to be trying to help. Nevertheless, you should always remember that poison is countered only by an antidote.