Microsoft vs. General Motors
Bill Gates is hanging out with the chairman of General
Motors.
"If automotive technology had kept pace with computer
technology over the past few decades," boasts Gates,
"You would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V-8, and
it would have a speed of 10,000 miles per hour. Or,
you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds
and gets a thousand miles with a gallon of gas. In
either case, the sticker price of a new car would be
less than
$50."
In response to all this goading, the GM chairman
replies, "Yes, but would you really want to drive a
car that crashes four times a day?"
M.R.F.
"War is a racket. Our stake in that racket has never
been greater in all our peacetime history. It may seem
odd for me, a military man, to adopt such a
comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent 33
years and four months in active service as a member of
our country's most agile military force - the Marine
Corps...
"I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for
American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti
and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank
boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of
half a dozen Central American republics for the
benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is
long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international
banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought
light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar
interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for
American fruit companies in 1903...
"Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al
Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate
his racket in three city districts. We Marines
operated on three continents."
--Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler.
Twice wounded in action and twenty times decorated,
Smedley Butler was also one of the few Americans
to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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