Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BILL GATES vs GM.......
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.
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 $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.'
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:
'If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........Twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off.
H/T AJD
News....
Revenue investigates Barclays tax mole claims. Barclays Bank have always been dodgy.
Brown in new Iran nuclear warning. Negociations won't work. Iran knows that the West hasn't the will to stop them getting nukes.
The hospital where 'at least 400' could have died needlessly to be exposed in damning report. And Obama wants 'universal healthcare'. The NHS is a shambles and always has been.
More than three-quarters of Britons want to see jobless immigrants forced to leave UK. No s**t. Hopefully the depression will put an end to uncontrolled immigration. Immigrants are fine but not by the truck load.
Police release 'hero' arrested after teenage burglar is 'stabbed to death breaking into house'. So he should be. Everyone has the right to defend their property.
And the news is... there is no Newsnight: BBC journalists to strike over cuts. Sack them all. The BBC is not only biased but hugely over staffed.
The PC procession: Carnival queen scrapped for being sexist... now she's a 'community champion'. She should quit in protest.
Last surviving officer from daring World War II Pegasus Bridge operation dies aged 85. A sad loss.
Low prices? Piffle! The real reason for rampant drinking is Labour's 24-hour licensing free-for-all. That about sums it up.
UK 'locking out' Calais migrants. No we are not. Our borders seem to be wide open.
Family who are 'too fat to work' say £22,000 worth of benefits is not enough. Strip them of their benefits and throw them into the gutter where they belong.
Top 10 'innovations' that should have changed the world – but didn't manage it. Oh I don't know.
Five dead soldiers used 'unsafe' vehicle. More blood on the MoD's hands.
Sir Paul Stephenson wants police to walk beat alone. WTF! They are bloody useless in pairs. On their own they will be of no use. Might as well put cardboard cutouts on every street corner.
Barack Obama's campaign promise: Where is the family dog? Another broken promise.
Barack Obama no-show at top journalist society Gridiron Club event. He is losing support by the bucket load and this won't help.
US shot down Iranian drone over Iraq. About time. Iran wants Southern Iraq and must be dissuaded.
France honours Henry Allingham, 112, the veteran who cannot forget. The last of his kind.
Strewth! Briton Julie Dutton must take an English test to work in Australia. Australians speak English!!!!!!!!
Britain to seize control of Turks and Caicos Islands. Good. Now can we do it in Zimbabwe.
Avigdor Lieberman - branded Arab-hating racist - set to be Israeli foreign minister. This should get interesting.
Rico Writes.......
At one time in Athens the INDIVIDUAL was prized over the STATE.
Karl Marx and Obama see things very differently. BIG government and the STATE are all that matters. You as individuals matter not to them.
Can you guess what happens next?
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There's No One as Irish as Barack Obama......
...little did I know that when the Corrigan Brothers asked me to help publicise this song a year ago that Obama was going to end up in the White House.
Important Quotes......
'Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.' - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
'Genius does what it must; talent does what it can.' - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
'The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.' - Thomas Carlyle
'Man is what he believes.' - Anton Chekhov
'As always, victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.' - Count Ciano
'A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.' - Arthur C. Clarke
'The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes,
knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.' - James Fennimore Cooper
'Fraud and falsehood dread examination. Truth invites it.' - Thomas Cooper
'Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.' - Marie Curie
'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintained their neutrality.' - Dante
'He who allows oppression shares the crime.' - Erasmus Darwin
'Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, we readily believe.' - Demosthenes (350BC)
'A state is better governed if it has but few laws, and those laws strictly enforced.' - Rene Descarte
'Those in power want only to perpetuate it.' - William O. Douglas
'The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.' - Albert Einstein
'Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.' - Albert Einstein
'No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
'It is not the employer who pays the wages---he only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.' - Henry Ford
Monday, 16 March 2009
Waking the Giant.........by Rico
Admiral Yamamoto observed correctly after Pearl Harbor that he feared all they had accomplished was to wake a sleeping giant.
Rick Santelli's televised call for a "Tea Party" may have been THIS centuries shot heard around the world...a shot that has woken a sleeping giant, the American TAXPAYER.
We'll soon see if the American POLITICIAN is as perceptive as the Admiral was and can recognize the sentiment: LIBERTY not DEBT!!!
Team Obama had better pay attention.....
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