Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdcc6!icogsci1!cg108fep From: cg108fep@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: The IBM PC... Keywords: JUNK Message-ID: <11398@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 12 Jun 90 04:05:19 GMT References: <5781@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Reply-To: cg108fep@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 41 In article <5781@helios.TAMU.EDU> jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) writes: }For the fortieth time in my life I had the pleasure of sitting down at }another wonderful IBM PC. This one had a mouse and color and everything! }Oh boy what fun... I just wanted to say that anybody who thinks that }the IBM pc is anything but a suped-up apple II is out of their minds. }It is an example of the kind of stupidity that Mayor Koch has been }accused of presiding over. There is nothing in the slightest bit }natural about using a PC. There is nothing logical about it either. }Every system is different. No system is failsafe. I have never }been so pissed off as when I sit down on one of these pieces of junk }to look at a new program, an expensive program, the best out, and find }that it has as much charisma and agility as a dead rat. YOU PEOPLE }just don't understand the power of freedom. You are the victims of }cybercrud. You may be intelligent but you are as misguided as lemmings. }May you get the most out of your software but realize that your eyes }are closed. I look at the IBM pc as the defunct concept of communism in }a world where capitalism is winning out plain and simple. The longer }you keep one hand on your pants and one on piece of junk keyboards, }you'll go through a real catharsis one day when your jobs dry up... } }Later.... } }James Saxon } } }-- } ---- \ / ---- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ }| O| | O| | "I aught to join the club and beat you over the club and beat you | }| | | | | over the head with it." -- Groucho Marx | } ---- ---- <----------------------------------------------------------------------/ DON'T RESPOND TO THIS GUY!!! He probably won't see it anyway. He's got a .edu extension, so his account is probably dead by now due to school letting out! -- Dennis "Still looking for a job" Lou | DISCLAIMER: Disclaimers don't work! pa1568@sdcc13.ucsd.edu | or cg108fep@icogsci1.ucsd.edu | icogsci1 = flaky; sdcc13 = best bet;