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I just found this on Mercola's BLOG and I was ROFL --

10 Problems With Microsoft

Many of you know that I enjoy computers and technology and I suspect many of

you do also. Most of us are using Microsoft Windows. Microsoft can tend

toward evil actions as demonstarted by its actions against a Canadian

teenager Mike Rowe who tried to register the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. They

immediately sought to muscle the teenager out of the domain.

This reminds me of a recent conference in which Bill Gates reportedly

compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, " If GM had

kept up with the 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:

For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new

car.

Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have

to pull over 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.

Occasionally, executing a maneuver 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.

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.

The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be

replaced by a single " This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation " warning

light.

The airbag system would ask " Are you sure? " before deploying.

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.

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.

You'd have to press the " Start " button to turn the engine off.