Dear John,
What kind of commie subversive are you?? Suggesting that we will all
be using UT or IT???
Don't you realise that UT is the last gasp of an almost dead British
Empire to retrieve a fraction of the dominance it once had. As for
IT, obviously a plot hatched by the US military-industrial complex
in league with the IMF-World Bank hegemony as an integral component
of their dastardly plot to achieve a New World Order run by the
gnomes of Zurich, monitored by Big Brother tapping into the phone
lines, and enforced by the capitalist running dogs of the
Euro-currency imperialist neo-colonial whatevers. (I think that you
get the general idea!)
Get real!!!!
It will be GATES TIME!!!!
(Can't call it "Bill Time", because some might confuse that with one
yclept WJ Clinton, and think that "Bill Time" is time for we all
know what!)
Yep, it will be GATES TIME, dawn of a new era.
Some features of the all new bells and whistles time:
a) it will need regular upgrades and patches to keep it working and
accurate (in your dreams!) and linear
b) probably will be monotonically positive (gotcha with that one
didn't I!!) but don't hold your breath,
c) will have the abbreviation GT,
d) after the introduction day (preceded by world-wide saturation
advertising which will cost more than the GDP of many countries),
all years will rezeroed and years will be known as AD (anno domini)
in deference to Bill,
e) the new GT will be available to all (for a price! But it will be
discounted if you trade in your old disks.) Of course it will fully
integrated and inextricably linked to Windows 00GT and Netscape will
be unusable. No, it is certainly not an attempt to dominate the
world, it is just in the name of computing effeciency (Yeah Bill, we
trust you!)
Of course, all those social deviants and misfits who insist on using
Macs, will be excluded, and doomed to live a timeless existence.
Seriously, the Swatch Internet Time watches are for sale here in
Australia. I didn't look at the price as they seemed like a piece of
yuppie BS. (sorry, male bovine faeces)
Cheers, John
PS: Have you heard the rumour that the offensive cutesy little Office
Assistant is being replaced with an icon of Bill (now there's a scary
thought: an icon of Bill) and any attempts at hiding it, or killing
it will cause your PC to die???
Dr John Pickard
Senior Lecturer, Environmental Planning
Graduate School of the Environment
Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia
Phone + 61 2 9850 7981 (work)
+ 61 2 9482 8647 (home)
Fax + 61 2 9850 7972 (work)
