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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:02 AM
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Microsoft has a nuke!
REDMOND (BNN)--World leaders reacted with stunned silence as
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) conducted an underground nuclear test at a
secret facility in eastern Washington state. The device, exploded
at 5:22 am PDT (1222 GMT/8:22 pm EDT) today, was timed to coincide
with additional talks between Microsoft and the US Department of Justice over possible antitrust action.

"Microsoft is going to defend its right to market its products by any
and all necessary means," said Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. "Not that
I'm anti-government" he continued, "but there would be few tears shed
in the computer industry if Washington were engulfed in a bath of nuclear
fire."

Scientists pegged the explosion at around 100 kilotons. "I nearly dropped
my latte when I saw the seismometer" explained University of Washington g
eophysicist Dr. Whoops Blammover, "At first I thought it was Mt. Rainier,
and I was thinking, damn, there goes the mountain bike vacation."

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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:17 AM
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1. That's nothing new...
Windows ME was a bomb! :nuke:
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:24 AM
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3. DAMN, beat me to it...
Edited on Thu Apr-01-04 08:25 AM by JCCyC
...but Windows ME was a fission bomb (A-bomb).

THIS is a fusion bomb (H-bomb):

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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:37 AM
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4. ROFL
my thoughts exactly...
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-04 08:19 AM
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2. logical step
If new products blow up into Bill's face anyway, why not use that talent for greatness?
And should the test fail, i.e. a new product which does not self-destruct during it's presentation, then the know-how might be usable for future windows versions.
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