All right...you drove me to it!!!!!!!
Then & Now...................
1970 Long hair
2000 Longing for hair
1970 The perfect high
2000 The perfect high-yield mutual find
1970 Acid rock
2000 Acid reflux
1970 Moving to California because it's cool
2000 Moving to California because it's hot
1970 Growing pot
2000 Growing pot belly
1970 Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your parents
2000 Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your grandchildren
1970 Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
2000 Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
1970 Popping pills, smoking joints
2000 Popping joints
1970 Our president's struggle with Fidel
2000 Our president's struggle with fidelity
1970 Paar
2000 AARP
1970 Keg
2000 EKG
1970 Killer weed
2000 Weed killer
1970 Hoping for a BMW
2000 Hoping for a BM
1970 The Grateful Dead
2000 Dr. Kevorkian
1970 Getting out to a new, hip joint
2000 Getting a new hip joint
1970 Rolling Stones
2000 Kidney stones
1970 Being called into the principal's office
2000 Calling the principal's office
1970 Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2000 Children begging you to get their heads shaved
1970 Take acid
2000 Take antacid
1970 Passing the driver's test
2000 Passing the vision test
1970 "Whatever"
2000 "Depends"
Microsoft vs General Motors
Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his success. He decided to measure Microsoft accomplishments against General Motors.
His comparison went like this:
If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the past few decades, you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V8, and it would have a top speed of 10,000 miles/hour (160,000km/hr). Or you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds (14 kilos) and gets a thousand miles to the gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker of the new car would be less than $50.00.
In response to all this goading, GM responded: "Yes, but would you really want to drive a car that crashes 4 times a day?"
GM also responded: If Microsoft built cars,
1. Every time they re-painted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this and drive on.
3. Occasionally, your car would stop and fail to restart, and you'd have to reinstall the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a Car95 or a CarNT. But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as fast, twice as easy to drive-but would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "General Car Default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.