Argh, saith I. Anyone else out there already sworn to programme their
TV to not even display this cable network, no matter if it's the last
news station in the world? Crikies...
I was a Microsoft holdout. I didn't install Windows on my machine until
a year ago (3.11), I used WordPerfect (still do), I took back my
"3-D sidewinder MicroSatan joystick" that I got for Christmas...I refused
to put Win95 on my machine until I had to for work (a mere 2 weeks ago).
I apologized to Hal (my computer, renamed) when I did it...
I can't get away from the friggin company now that I'm working in the
industry...Win95 is going to be installed on every desktop and laptop
at Acadia...the standard wordprocessor is Word (coupled with MSatan
Office), one of our two "lowest common denominator" courseware
development packages is PowerPoint (the other is NS Gold 2.02).
We have Micro$atan keyboards (argh) and mice (I really hate 'em).....
I still want to be an M$ holdout, but I can't...I CAN'T! Do you know
how much that bothers me? DOS? Heh...yeah, right. I have to ask
my computer *permission* to get a goddamned DOS prompt (yeah, I know
it's MS, but it's not *windows*)...I have to ask my computer's permission
to turn it off...I'm terrified of accidentally hitting the "OnLine
Registration" button...
I DON'T WANT TO GIVE BILL GATES MY MONEY, AND I CAN'T BLOODY AVOID IT!
Now he, and his NewsNetwork, are going to be on my TV.
I managed to "mute" or change the channel everytime one of the Win95
propaganda-moments came on...but I just can't keep up anymore...
I swear I will programme my TV so it won't go to M$-(friggin)NBC.
On the graves of my ancestors, this I swear.
So be it.
> He has bought _A_ news channel. not all of them. yet.
>
Yet. Someone will stop him first, right? I know he's the very embodiment
of the American Dream realized, but someone will stop him. Right?
> :gives deb a teady bear and a security blanket. Both made by Hasbro of
> course. Welcome to cyberpunk.
Where I live, we can get fresh churned butter from the local dairy. We
can buy daily fresh-baked bread at the locally-owned supermarket. People
still ride horses on the highways. We have an annual festival to celebrate
the coming of the apple blossoms (the whole valley will smell of them
soon). Go a little farther north and have your car break down...knock
on any door and you will find a place to sleep, a hot meal, and an
evening's worth of conversation...*any* door (Newfoundland rocks ;)
Yet we have the largest number of modems per capita in the world.
I *live* at the Mystical Crossroads ;> I'm not giving up my (small)
optimism just yet...there is a chance that we will survive....
- Deb (not cyberpunk yet...stubbornly)
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