Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!feed.xsnews.nl!fbe002.ams.xsnews.nl!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:03:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:03:25 +0100 From: Mike Perkins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.comp.borland-delphi,comp.arch,comp.games.development.design,comp.graphics.algorithms,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Shame on General Motors, what comes around goes around... you ll see. References: <3010d$534881ee$5419b3e4$6599@cache90.multikabel.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-3vcnnKuJpENYd4SCFnl82LkuazwI7LYo44jusEQxNUiyWQlnHcyohPp3hFkbEaph9i1GWh2VWlQiZz9!absUW8mxqjsii1Rqf0A0M9SDB6WIfK/OQbCAf/YzJrxdIWGs5FdsyC2rymb3Yo5AMlc/ZPlJwg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2111 Xref: csiph.com comp.arch:21334 comp.games.development.design:185 comp.graphics.algorithms:1266 On 14/04/2014 22:26, Spehro Pefhany wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:06:46 +0100, Mike Perkins > wrote: > >> On 12/04/2014 00:59, Skybuck Flying wrote: >>> GM, This SHIT company once had criticism on Microsoft's Windows START >>> button. Claiming that it would be illogical to use the "start" key to >>> shut down the system. >> >> When did GM make such a claim? Can you cite a reputable source? > > He's quoting from a joke. See point 10. > > http://mistupid.com/jokes/msvgm.htm That was my understanding, just wondered after all this time if there was any substance to Starbuck's claim. -- Mike Perkins Video Solutions Ltd www.videosolutions.ltd.uk