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Re: What does the Borg and Microsoft have in common?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rhett Creighton)
Wed Feb 7 21:32:16 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:16:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Rhett Creighton <rhett@MIT.EDU>
To: Matthew Schiller <matt2002@MIT.EDU>
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I have a more recent joke:
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To get to the other side!
Hi ho!
Rhett
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Matthew Schiller wrote:
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> >From: "Sally J Schiller" <salcatlady@mediaone.net>
> >To: "Michael" <hrdwyrd@hotmail.com>, "Steven Schiller" <schiller@jps.net>,
> > "Matthew" <matt2002@MIT.EDU>, "James and Kelly" <jklocke@tima.com>,
> > "Eric Scott" <eric@dustbunny.physics.indiana.edu>
> >Subject: Joke
> >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:19:33 -0800
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> >Reasons Microsoft is like the Borg.
> >===================================
> >
> >Borg: Travel from system to system assimilating culture after
> >culture.
> >Microsoft: Travel from culture to culture assimilating system after
> >system.
> >
> >Borg: "We will add your individuality and your distinctiveness
> >to our own"
> >Microsoft: "We will add your money and all of your productivity to
> >our own"
> >
> >Borg: There are sub parts of the Borg that are incompatible
> >with the rest of the collective for an undetermined
> >reason. (Hugh and his Borg)
> >Microsoft: There are parts of the Microsoft collective that are
> >incompatible with the rest of the collective for an
> >undetermined reason. (Microsoft Works)
> >
> >Borg: The Borg have a Queen that is evil and ambitious enough
> >to go back in time to enslave humanity.
> >Microsoft: The Microsoft Collective have Gates who is evil and
> >ambitious enough to, in the past, use a Basic
> >interpretor to begin the empire to enslave humanity.
> >
> >Borg: The Borg hunt down and absorb anything that is different
> >even from them, even if it is not a threat.
> >Microsoft: Microsoft hunts down and absorbs all Macintosh, UNIX,
> >and OS2 users, though they only make up ten percent of
> >the market.
> >
> >Borg: "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
> >Microsoft: "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
>
