Re: Barclays advert - What are they selling?



Bill P. Godfrey <Bill.P.Godfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bank worker brings in a robot. They plug it in and ask it help out with
> investments. It refuses to co-operate with the other bank workers who try
> and switch it off. The robot runs off, unplugging itself.

It's a steal from a very old joke...

"A computer's attention span is only as long as its power cord."


--
Geoff Lane

Today's Excuse: OS swapped to disk
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