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Microsoft Money Leads To Street-Legal Porsche 959s
Ken Greenebaum writes "Soon there will be a 'new' Porsche 959 racing down highway 520 in Redmond. This
article in autoweek describes how Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Ralph Lauren teamed up with Bruce Canepa to make the 959 street legal. Best quote: Gates 'suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."' They modernized and increased the performance of the already super car to: 575HP making the 15 year old cars race to 60 in 3.3 seconds with a top speed of 215MPH."
suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."
How about spending that crashing and testing time on windows instead???
they'd have been crash testing Fords.
Microsoft Money doesn't help me buy anything. It does tell me that I'm way over budget and will be bankrupt within 3 months of the start of the fiscal year.
Bill Gates in a Vin Diesel like role? The influence, the respect, the mystery...
Robert Love as the guy undercover as the Porshe employee investigating Microsoft's under-the-table dealings with Porshe, to see if more than "Microsoft Money" is involved...
Natalie "Hot Grits" Portman as his love interest who is also a Porshe racer...
Steve Ballmer, who screams "On your mark, get set, go" over and over like the crazed monkey he is...
Darl McBride running around, making sure the cars are using street-legal parts else pay him a special fee to make sure their cars don't "have problems" before a big race?
Who knows... It wouldn't be any worse than if Hollywood tried to make this!
John Carmack is seen hastily building a new rocket, loaded with weapons-grade plutonium, mumbling something about being "one-upped" about his Ferrari and some reference to a "last laugh".
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Once they heard Ford was switching to Linux they figured they had to do something to compete in the auto market.
If Gates drives his Porche like his software drives my computer, get your children inside and stay of the roads...
Suddenly all those jokes about gas guzzling speed cars making up for an inadequate penis seem so much more obvious.
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I'd rather get a Honda Civic and cover it in Type-R stickers... With each one adding 5 extra horsepower, I'd surely end up with a faster car!
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Is it me, or does is there something really wrong when a company that is world famous for CRASHING gets involved in the automotive industry?
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Well, we could have a Cannonball Run 3. We even have a modern day Dom DeLuise. Sorry Balmer, you brought it on yourself. I guess Gates could be Burt Reynolds, but I doubt he can grow a mustache.
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Sure, Bill, the brakes look great! Drive faster!
So, will Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Bruce Canepa or Ralph Lauren also volunteer to be crash test dummies? I don't think we should accept all four of them a couple will suffice. After all, you can't have a accurate crash test without end-user testing.
This should be a slashdot poll questions: Who should be the first CTD?
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Gates 'suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."'
...so I assume they'll be installing Windows on them?
Oooo... now I like rotary engines as much as the next guy... but wanton destruction of sports cars is something that I generally frown upon. Whether they're Porsches or not.
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I had no idea MS Money was that good. Is anyone going to patch gnucach for this? Will I have to wait for Quicken to do it first?
I mean, just think how useful it would be if I could have bills introduced into the Senate from my OSS program anytime I couldn't legally use (or afford) something. Hell, maybe they could implement it for the EU as well. That would be kick ass.
"Soon there will be a 'new' Porsche 959 racing down highway 520 in Redmond."
Speeding down 520? When? With all the traffic on that highway I think top speed is 15mph.
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making the 15 year old cars race to 60 in 3.3 seconds
A Kawasaki Z1000 will do 0-60 in 3.15, costs only $8500, and comes street legal. Once again there's a faster, cheaper alternative to the Microsoft Solution...
I'll never be able to afford one of these...but, now I at least have hope of seeing one up close someday. Wow...always dreamed of this car....Porsche...there is no substitute!!
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