fictional interlude [actually completely fictional] ANTICODING CONCENTRATION CAMP
the ex-coders were placed together in the 'computer dump' and forced to whip each other with rubber hoses, each ex-coder equipped with a rubber hose of their very own. obedient workers were given shocking imagery such as kernel panics, blue screens of death, and completely 'rm -rf /' command lines. whenever the ex-coders considered coding, or refused to whip each other with the rubber hoses, they were forcibly exposed to the shocking imagery. ex-coder 3: "oh my god i deleted all my files" ex-coder 7: "oh no i have to join the linux mailing list how do i talk to them" ex-coder 4: "i'm using windows again? did windows take over the world again? omigod i'd rather be in a concentration camp!" soon, the ex-coders learned to whip each other only when they tried to code, seeing this as a harmful behavior. some would see the face of bill gates or steve jobs or [oops i'm having amnesia as i try to think of popular villains among hacking] flash onto the faces of their friends, and rubberhose away, having been stirred into a brainwashed violent frenzy by the experience, believing they were ridding the planet of evil. on the end of the enclosure was a set of doors. when sufficiently trained, the ex-coders would first pass the doors emblazoned with the great image of a penguin, and this would then open to a hell where penguins were everywhere, and would torment them ...
