--------- START OF FORWARDED MESSAGE --------- From System ....: Internet From Conference : comp.sys.amiga.misc MessageID ......: <335537a6.698065905@news.jersey.net> Originally from : Dave Haynie <608921974> Subject ........: Re: Amiga born under a bad sign On 15 Apr 1997 00:09:29 +0500, Mr. Unknown wrote: >Amiga was a great machine even if it was born under >a bad sign and run by jerks. gates has won but by >winning it all he has killed creativity in computers. oh well, so it goes. let it happen >who cares anymore. computers suck, the gov'/t sucks >our jops suck, the food sucks, movies suck, You clearly need to listen to some good rock music. And drink some American beer, which, at least in terms of registered breweries, has gotten incredible lately, once you look past the top 25 or so breweries, volume-wise. As far as computers go, stagnation eventually breeds complacency. That's when the underground pulls one over on the establishment. It will happen. It nearly did with the net -- MS reacted quickly, but they weren't just caught with their pants down, they were caught naked with the neighbor's underage daughter. They were off building a AOL-clone dinosaur, the Microsoft Network, even as dinosaurs like AOL and CI$ were at least attempting small mammal-hood by incorporating the real internet in their proprietary systems. This kind of many not happen this year, or next, but it will again, and they're likely to be even less prepared than this time around. Remember, IBM used to rule the computer world, far more completely at the time than MS today. >sometimes death seems to be relief from all the >things on earth that suck the root. >so amiga die knowing you are leaving a cruel world >filled with morons who don't deserve you. >after me the deluge, You should immediately run out and get some Nine Inch Nails CDs. They should cheer you up just fine :-) Start with "The Downward Sprial" and "Pretty Hate Machine". The go see David Lynch's "Lost Highway"... Dave Haynie V.P. Hardware Engineering PIOS Computer haynie@pios.de "...no RISC, no fun" ---------- END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE ----------