If Microsoft engineered people...

[roland.g]

With all the movies like the Terminator series and Bladerunner or the Island or Gattaca in which we look forward to a future in which technology and biology become more entrenched, or simply thinking of the hideous prospect of what if Bill Gates had been God, it makes me think that if Microsoft had engineered or had anything to do with the biomechanics of our future evolution, we'd all have Aids or Cancer.

 

[mkrishnan]

True, but the little paperclip in our minds would always be there to cheer us up....

 

[sushi]

I wonder how CRTL-ALT-DEL would be implemented?

 

[Queso]

...we'd all have Aids or Cancer.

Can I just point out that there may well be people on this forum living with cancer or HIV/AIDS? Do you not maybe think this thread could be in extremely poor taste?

 

[gavd]

Can I just point out that there may well be people on this forum living with cancer or HIV/AIDS? Do you not maybe think this thread could be in extremely poor taste?

Agreed. I'm not one to normally take offence to throw away comments, but I don't think that was the best comment to put out there.

 

[Abstract]

OK, then can we change it to: "If MS engineered people, we'd always be sick and full of viruses."

I wonder how CRTL-ALT-DEL would be implemented?

With a gun to the head.

 

[Queso]

OK, then can we change it to: "If MS engineered people, we'd always be sick and full of viruses."

Much better. Hey roland.g, get editing!!

 

[Andrew D.]

Just go watch the "get a mac" videos.. that is probably what will happen.

 

[roland.g]

Can I just point out that there may well be people on this forum living with cancer or HIV/AIDS? Do you not maybe think this thread could be in extremely poor taste?

Yes, I understand that terminal diseases are serious. And I am truly sorry for anyone facing one. However, I'm sure anyone in that situation is glad there aren't more people stricken too.

It's just a thread. It's not even really a punchline. And I didn't make a joke at their expense. It's okay for things like that to come up in conversation, and they don't have to be serious ones. I chose those as examples of things that are more serious, hence the analogy. That said, my apologies to anyone without enough levity to let this slide.

 

[sushi]

With a gun to the head.

Probably a little hard to boot after that!

 

[ghall]

Everyone in the world would have brains like me.....that would be scary.

 

[CorvusCamenarum]

Spooky.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Would we all have to push "Start" first before we could to go to sleep?

 

[patrick0brien]

In attempting to wake from sleeping every morning we'd all freeze, crash, and dump.

 

[sushi]

In attempting to wake from sleeping every morning we'd all freeze, crash, and dump.

But we would get used to it and consider it normal!

 

[MongoTheGeek]

In attempting to wake from sleeping every morning we'd all freeze, crash, and dump.

And that's different how?

 

[patrick0brien]

And that's different how?

-MongoTheGeek

Well, I tend not to freeze, and there is significantly more gas involved.

 

[sushi]

Well, I tend not to freeze, and there is significantly more gas involved.

I hope the CPU fan works!

 

[patrick0brien]

I hope the CPU fan works!

-sushi

Looooud rattle.

 

[Father Jack]

Perhaps that's why the world is the way it is.

FJ

 

[Abstract]

If Microsoft built the Matrix.....

 

[ToddW]

I wonder how CRTL-ALT-DEL would be implemented?

right nipple - left nipple - belly button whooo 500th post

 

[sushi]

right nipple - left nipple - belly button

Seems reasonable.

Just thinking what it would look like for a roomful of folks reseting themselves. It would be quite a site to see.

 

[mkrishnan]

Just thinking what it would look like for a roomful of folks reseting themselves. It would be quite a site to see.

It's much more pleasant to reset someone else than to reset yourself. Although I think I've been traditionally going to the left nipple before the right nipple. Then again, the warm boot that comes after the reset is even nicer than the reset.

 

[sushi]

Although I think I've been traditionally going to the left nipple before the right nipple.

You could always have a soft key approach so that you could program the sequence to suit your individual desires!