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- From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Commodore proposes new environmental strategy!!
- Date: 17 Sep 1993 16:56:43 GMT
- Keywords: environment, mountains, nookers
-
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- (Dedicated fondly to S.W., wherever you are....)
-
- COMMODORE BUSINESS MACHINES TAKES ON
- THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS
-
- WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- September 19, 1993 -- Commodore Business Machines,
- makers of the powerful "Omega" line of personal computers, announced today
- that they will be taking steps in a bold and unexpected new direction:
- cleanup of the world's ineffective nuclear waste dumps.
-
- "Commodore is always ready and willing to address the concerns of our
- Amiga-using friends on USENET," said Lew Eggebrecht, Vice President of
- Ecological Engineering. "We know that Amigans are concerned about nuclear
- waste, so we're going to devote our full attention to this problem."
- Eggebrecht, who reads comp.sys.amiga.advocacy religiously every day, said
- that Commodore's new manufacturing plant in the Phillippines will be
- diverted from its current task of manufacturing 20,000 CD^32 "Multimedia
- System Thingers" per second to the new problem of nuclear waste disposal.
-
- Commodore has recently hired several environmental experts to help implement
- their new environmental program, which has three stages. The first stage
- will be a massive political advertising campaign, run by well-known
- political commentator David "jazz" Navas. "I know this stuff better than I
- can possibly make clear," said Navas at his first press conference, "so I
- won't." Rumor has it that Navas and Commodore's intrepid marketing
- department will team up for a massive advertising and public awareness media
- blitz. "You've never seen anything else like it before," promised
- Eggebrecht. "We are even considering doing a TV commercial."
-
- The second stage will be supervised by Jack Radigan, author of the popular
- Amiga telecommunications package, "TextCraft." Radigan will be building the
- first "lowtek" rocket that will carry nuclear waste directly to the sun,
- where it will be destroyed. "Some people say that this method of disposal
- is impractical because it costs too much, but these people are discounting
- inflation," argued Radigan. "You see, if you inflate ten or twelve *really*
- huge balloons, you can carry that waste all the way to the sun for only a
- few pennies at most!" Radigan has also volunteered to pilot the rocket
- during its plunge into the sun.
-
- Stage three -- risk-free burial of the world's nuclear waste -- will be
- headed by the famous Professor Dan Stephenson, Ph.D., M.D., P.D.Q., of the
- University of Drilling Nice Big Safe Holes In Mountains. Thanks to Dr.
- Stephenson's brilliant, ground-breaking research in the field of ecological
- stasis theory (also known as the "Nothing Ever Changes Nope Nope Nope"
- Hypothesis), nuclear waste burial has finally become a realistic option.
-
- Stephenson's detractors claim that even mountains are not sufficient for
- containment of waste, and that people in the future may accidentally open up
- the mountains and release deadly radiation. To combat these claims,
- Stephenson has volunteered to be buried in the mountain right alongside the
- dump. "I will guard this waste carefully for as long as necessary, even if
- it takes 50,000 years," vowed Stephenson with a tear in his eye. "Everything
- will be perfectly safe. I'll be standing by that door the whole time."
- Stephenson also promised to watch out for powerful, violent forces of nature
- such as earthquakes, volcanos, and Jerry Kuch.
-
- Industry reaction to Commodore's new strategy has been mixed. "I think
- it's a great idea," said Dan Barrett, chief propagandist at BLAZEMONGER
- INCORPORATED. "In fact, my company has been contracted to provide the
- guidance software for Jack's rocket. When it hits the sun, there is going
- to be one HECK of an explosion!! The effects will be only temporary, so
- don't worry: a new Sun will undoubtedly wander into our solar system
- sometime during the next few billion years and heat up the planet again."
-
- But not all observers are quite this enthusiastic. "This sucks," said Peter
- Sinclair, prominent consumer advocate and columnist for The Iowa Hog-Jowl.
- When asked to explain his position, however, Sinclair merely quoted several
- thousand lines of other people's text. And noted public avenger Marc
- Barrett was quoted as saying: "What's the point? The Earth is DOOMED
- anyway."
-
- Only time will tell whether Commodore's new direction will lead to real
- results. See you in 50,000 years!
-
- Dan
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- Copyright 1993 by Daniel J. Barrett. All rights reserved.
- This article may be freely distributed as long as it is distributed in its
- entirety. It may not be included in any publication without the written
- permission of the author. So nyaaah.
-