At a recent computer exposition (COMDEX), Bill Gates stated that if General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has that we would be driving $US25 cars that get 1000 miles to the gallon. In response those comments GM issued a press release stating that if they had developed technology like Microsoft we will 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 motorway for no reason and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, 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, reliable, five times as fast etcetera but only have about 2.5% of the accessories, like gold-plated clutch pedals. 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 hips. 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 back 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 cars performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the justice department. 12. Every time GM introduced a new model car, buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 13. You would press the start button to shut the engine. Stop me if youve heard any of the above.

Yeah I've heard that one a few years back :o) Why do you call this post "The AIRLINE joke part 2"? Where's the airline and where's part 1? =o) (Oh and what has it to do with Poser ;o) )

I just heard this today (yeah, I'm a bit slow) . Poser? No,it should have gone into another forum but I couldn't think of one before I had to log off. Admin please feel free to move this to another forum.

LOL, good one. I have seen some other characteristics in a similar listing: 14. The steering wheel would be replaced with a mouse and you'd need to memorize the keyboard short-cut for "BRAKE" 15. The radio would be computerized, but you'd need to to install 512 Meg of RAM, a new sound card, a game card, a new video driver, a CD drive, and type C:radiotalkrush*.* to get it to play. 16. We would all have to switch to Microsoft Gas. 17. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car. 18. People would get excited about the new features of the latest Microsoft cars, forgetting that these same features have been available from other car makers for years.

Ah, the old "Bill Gates at COMDEX" urban legend that never actually happened. Bill Gates never made these comments, people at GM (or Ford) never made these comments, but it makes a decent joke. And I like how you related it to Poser. So that's why it belongs in the POSER forum and not the OT forum.

1. Even if you paid cash for the car, it's gonna quit running after the first 30 days of ownership, unless you have the 'registration module' installed.

1. When you run out of fuel, a message appears: "Not enough resources left - please drive to a MS garage for refuling. Attention: Refueling shall only be done by sepcial retrained, experiencend MS technicians"

1. Gods help you if you contract a virus while cruising at 65 mph on the Information Superhighway. 22. The windshield is completely obscured by popups whenever you pass an exit ramp. 23. Unexpected driver incompatibilities prevent you from reaching the steering wheel, and you're forced to hire a chauffeur.

1. One out of five times, you find that you can't shut down the engine the normal way, you have to use "ctrl-alt-delete"...

1. You're sitting on the side of the road and some smartass driving by yells, "Get a Mac!"

also broadband with a download limit - like owning a porche but only able to drive it to the end of the street

yeah tell me about it, marc970 :o( you've just described my connection :o/