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vtec junkie
slave to the dark beat

Registered: Oct 2002
Location: In the zone, chief
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(True story)
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up
with
technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving
twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement "Yes,
but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
General Motors then gave the following 10 points about cars ala Bill
Gates:
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy
a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you
would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and
fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason,
you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable,
five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five
percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to
their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a
single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what
happened.
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Shad0wmaster
Returning TA

Registered: May 2002
Location: Montreal
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Dec-18-2003 19:40
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occrider
Traveladdict

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: New York
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| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
(True story)
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up
with
technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving
twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement "Yes,
but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
General Motors then gave the following 10 points about cars ala Bill
Gates:
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy
a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you
would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and
fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason,
you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable,
five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five
percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to
their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a
single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what
happened. |
Actually, it's probably not true ... funny though.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/autos.htm
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