Choose IT

CHOOSE IT
by
Ben McGinnes

It's true that as soon as one enters tech support one begins to adopt a strange sense of humour, or develop an already existing one to new depths. The following is an example of what refused to shut-up in a dark corner of my brain during a quiet hour at work after re-reading the "Choose the Force" e-mail too many times and watching promotional and parody clips of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace...

Choose a computer. Choose a motherboard, choose a chip, choose a video card, choose a sound card, choose a fuckload of RAM, choose ergonomic keyboards, mice, speakers, subwoofers and a joy stick. Choose a 32-bit Operating System.

Choose an Internet Service Provider. Choose a fast modem. Choose a PR campaign. Choose AOL's Online Community and watch ping times climb into the hundreds of thousands of milliseconds. Choose a philosophy, choose to adopt Senator Alston's filtering legislation.

Choose the EFA and wondering why the fuck you're supporting a Bill to bribe a morality crusader. Choose supporting that moral crusade and watching a nation being forced to return to an intellectual Dark Age, while you're trying to filter everything according to a Harridine-sanctioned, Microsoft-standardised format.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable authoritarian Internet & media policy, nothing more than a dictator to the selfish little fucked-up brats you were trying to "protect".

Choose a future. Choose freedom. Choose Linux.

I chose not to choose freedom. I chose something else - I chose Microsoft Morality(tm).

Tuesday May 10th, 1999

Now you can either go back, go to the site contents or e-mail me (get my PGPi public keys here).