Me vs Bill Gates

If the MoCo built bikes like Bill makes Windows then my Ultra would be
bigger than a Boss Hoss, loaded down with all kinds of junk I'd never
use, wouldn't even start up until I registered my gonads with Microsoft
and I'd have to navigate through 6 menus just to sound the horn.

PLUS, the ignition would be liable to cut out right in the middle of
freeway traffic while it did an on-line "security upgrade requiring
an automatic restart of your motorcycle."

After the viruses and Trojans staged a gang-bang on my puter last week
I re-installed Win2k on a new hard drive with McAfee... which turned out
to be a big hassle in its own right (resource hog with nag screens).

So I buy another new h/d and install XP. Well Bill G. must stay awake
nights thinking up new ways to make things difficult, because after
install there was no "My Computer" or "My Network Places",
just a trash can.

Back I go to the dealer for a few minutes of basic support, and it turns
out the solution to this is *totally* non-intuitive -- you have to
right-click the Start button, select properties, and so on yadda yadda.

I'm sure Microsoft has a special (and highly paid) group named
The Dept of Putting Important Settings In Obscure Menus.

Meanwhile I got Norton anti-virus but haven't installed it yet. I wonder
if it's as bad as McAfee.

Don't the Hopi have some kind of prediction that the Earth will get
enmeshed in some giant web and then we're all for shit? I suppose after
the whole place has become so uninhabitable with pollution that we've
all buggered off at warp speed for Planet X and all life here is finally
extinct including cockroaches and telemarketers, there'll still be some
artificial intelligence in the form of a system showing a prompt message
that no one will ever read, saying:

"Your computer needs to be restarted for these changes to take effect.
[restart now] [restart later] [restart when pigs have wings]"

.... and then Windows will finally Rule the World. It's enough to make
Bill G. pee all over himself for joy.

Sean_Q_

ps Believe it or not, Windows keeps track of time by counting
the (100's of) nanoseconds since Queen Elizabeth the FIRST
ruled England. Well it's in a pretty big register but in a zillion years
or so it's gonna overflow and wrap around to zero, at which point
a lot of software is gonna crash.
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