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 twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon".

In response to Bill's comments GM issued a press release stating "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to start, in which case you would have to re-install the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought Car95 or CarNT. But, then you would have to buy more seats.
6. 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 only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature 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. 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.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary) even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine. 

If you mail that to ten people in 24 hours, you will receive good luck for a week! 

just two map reviews for heresp2 and scragbait's hhouse, the latter of which i enjoyed quite a bit.

http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/quakerev031105.html 

My map should be in your mailbox. 

Mine too! 

my map is already there 

I promise, no more attempts at humour. 

In general, don't paste a large block of text into func, unless you wrote it. Especially when you can just post a link, like one of these:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22twenty-five+dollar+cars%22 

yeah, almost already have a full blown pack and we havent even run the week's event yet! :D

thanks guys :D 

/me goes to seek the power of the google 

Just to let peeps know (as if you care or it matters), I'm supposed to be gone until the 17th. I'll still be checking my e-mail, though. I've sent sm56_rpg and sm57_rpg to scampie, so be sure to check that stuff out when it's released. I think sm56_rpg is particularly cool.

http://rpg.spawnpoint.org/ 

just thought I'd mention it since he seems to be in func_msgboard denial mode. 

http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

Yes yes, I know it's old news and been done before blah blah yadda yadda shut up, I haven't seen the results from Qmappers okay??

Meh: 5.9..... - Poser heh 

almost forgot to annouce sm56!

theme is medivel/episode 2 and the time limit will be your standard 100 mins. sp or dm are allowed, most people seem to be making sp maps.

we'll be meeting at 4pm est in #speedq1 on irc.gamesnet.net to map... almost wonder what the turnout will be like, seeming as I already have 4 maps submitted to me by email (and 1 for sm57 next week!). If you want to email me a map, scampie@spawnpoint.org is my email. 

15.9% 

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Happy 19th Birtday man!!! :D 

Stop using Bert's name in vain! >< 

Phait: I think everyone stopped paying any attention to you long ago... so please just go away. 

I honestly do not understand you. I can only assume you don't favor my presence simply because of my revelation some time ago that I never felt like voting. Grow the hell up. 

I don't favor your presence because you're a complete retard who doesn't map, and has 'quit' this community at least twice without adding anything except your own attention whoring idiocy (see GA post #2547 as a prime, recent example) for the year you've been around.

Go map, or go away. 

You come off as this immature little prick, which is fine by me. It suits you, I think. I'm laughing at you right now, actually. I have already contemplated what I am even contributing to this place. It's not been a priority for awhile. I have the fucking right to post here, read here. Metl is the owner - if he desires me to leave, so be it. Get over yourself, over me, and ignore me. 

Tell him to bring two king-size buckets. 

Yeah, well my brush count's bigger than your's 

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