For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way
computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo
(COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the
auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the
computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got
1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release
stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be
driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to
buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You
would have to pull to the ! side of the road, close all of the windows,
shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could
continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause
your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would
have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable,
five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only
five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all
be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation"
warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door
handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn
how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate
in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
 
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Welcome to Smoke Signals. We will try to offer information that is timely about

thing in general and our planet/home also. Some will be about politics and what

we the people (could be you) see in our future. I will say that one of the things

we should all look at is NAFTA and the millions of dollars/pesos that have been

paid to folks with their hand out. (Ya, i'm talking about you Bill Clinton)...

Now the next step is CAFTA (which stands for Central American Free Trade

Agreement.), another SCAM. Did you know that a couple of thousand women in

Mexico, working at NAFTA plants have gone missing? So far, over 800 bodies

have been found around one town in northern Mexico, Juarez. Make you wonder or

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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking - the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

 A human being is a part of a whole, called by us - universe -, a part limited
in time and space. He/She experiences himself/herself, her/his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of
her/his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty.
                                        Albert Einstein