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An Amiga Round-up
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Even cooler, check this out...
"We are bringing out new punch cards which will be usable on the Imac and powerpurse.. errr, ibook. We know what you're thinking... those things suck. Well yes they do, but these new punch cards feature colors rejected by both crayola and volkswagon. What's better, we even have a new special colored punch-card reader"
Costing on punch cards are 1000 for about a buck,
or our new lame-colored cards for a buck each."
Where do I sign up?
Not to sound like an apologist for big brother, but these systems have lots of legitimate uses. Some actions are just not acceptable (rape, murder, car theft). So systems that could watch the streets and identify the person who committed such acts would be a huge deterrence. And if its not deterrence enough, then the perpetrators are caught.
So the question arises, what is an acceptable trade for security? What is a valid use of such a system? I don't like the scanning of crowds, I don't like the idea of the government (or anyone else) monitoring what I'm doing. However, a system that could pull-up footage to investigate a crime would help everyone... except the criminals.
Damn damn damn!
I wait all this time for the computer-enhanced DVD just so I can get that Jar-Jar replacement for Clippy in Office, and what do they do... ditch the office assistant!
Really, what else could be more helpful that Jar-Jar appearing and giving you advice:
Meysa thinksa yousa spella lika shitta
Oh, you wanta to fax? Jar-Jar will fax for you [and never arrives](covers up that nice fax-eating bug)
Oh, yousa wanna mail-merge? Isa don't think yousa should do that
Upon an illegal operation: "boomed da gasser, and crashed de boss's heyblibber, den banished."
Maybe even some cute little actions... people buy the software for the cute little actions (hell, people buy an imac because it looks like a yo-yo)
And let's not forget easter eggs:
"Isa tella what, Queen Amidala lika my tongue"
Jar-jar dances and sticks his tongue out while that macro virus trashes your files
And lastly: A quick image showing the true nature of evil - A pic of vader fading into a pic of the pengiun...
Stop Running! What are you, the French Army?
I've found things in toilets that are prettier than you...
Whatever flips your skirt
You're fruitier than a zima with a jolley-rancher in it
Is that your guts on the wall, or are you happy to see me?
I thought the stock market went down fast until I saw your lame ass being fragged
Nice lag, how's that pots doing?
What, BSD too hard for you linux boy? [okay, the last one is just personal experience]
Where's the courage here? Come on, we're sending 2002 technology full of geek dna... It'll be powered by linux, they'll think we're low-tech, chubby worshipers of retarded looking pengiuns.
Now that's where the surprise comes in...
We've got a couple of decades to get ready and trounce their little alien butts. Sure they might be friendly, but if we take them by surprise maybe we can get one of those zippy spacecraft they have...
And if not, well... ummm, at least it was a good try
Count
Long Live La Resistance!!!
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Even cooler, check this out... "We are bringing out new punch cards which will be usable on the Imac and powerpurse.. errr, ibook. We know what you're thinking... those things suck. Well yes they do, but these new punch cards feature colors rejected by both crayola and volkswagon. What's better, we even have a new special colored punch-card reader" Costing on punch cards are 1000 for about a buck, or our new lame-colored cards for a buck each." Where do I sign up?
So the question arises, what is an acceptable trade for security? What is a valid use of such a system? I don't like the scanning of crowds, I don't like the idea of the government (or anyone else) monitoring what I'm doing. However, a system that could pull-up footage to investigate a crime would help everyone... except the criminals.
I wait all this time for the computer-enhanced DVD just so I can get that Jar-Jar replacement for Clippy in Office, and what do they do... ditch the office assistant!
Really, what else could be more helpful that Jar-Jar appearing and giving you advice:
Meysa thinksa yousa spella lika shitta
Oh, you wanta to fax? Jar-Jar will fax for you [and never arrives](covers up that nice fax-eating bug)
Oh, yousa wanna mail-merge? Isa don't think yousa should do that
Upon an illegal operation: "boomed da gasser, and crashed de boss's heyblibber, den banished."
Maybe even some cute little actions... people buy the software for the cute little actions (hell, people buy an imac because it looks like a yo-yo)
And let's not forget easter eggs:
"Isa tella what, Queen Amidala lika my tongue"
Jar-jar dances and sticks his tongue out while that macro virus trashes your files
And lastly: A quick image showing the true nature of evil - A pic of vader fading into a pic of the pengiun...
I've found things in toilets that are prettier than you...
Whatever flips your skirt
You're fruitier than a zima with a jolley-rancher in it
Is that your guts on the wall, or are you happy to see me?
I thought the stock market went down fast until I saw your lame ass being fragged
Nice lag, how's that pots doing?
What, BSD too hard for you linux boy? [okay, the last one is just personal experience]
Count123
Hmmm, wonder if they'll keep the retro thing going and put an Amiga in the beatles?
Where's the courage here? Come on, we're sending 2002 technology full of geek dna... It'll be powered by linux, they'll think we're low-tech, chubby worshipers of retarded looking pengiuns. Now that's where the surprise comes in... We've got a couple of decades to get ready and trounce their little alien butts. Sure they might be friendly, but if we take them by surprise maybe we can get one of those zippy spacecraft they have... And if not, well... ummm, at least it was a good try Count Long Live La Resistance!!!