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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome day the Marketing Dept of Sirius Cybernetics Corp will be the most hated org in the universe
Till then, there's Facebook.
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Some day the Marketing Dept of Sirius Cybernetics Corp will be the most hated org in the universe (Original Post)
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Jan 2020
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Salviati
(6,009 posts)1. I guess the facebook execs will have to to settle for being the second up against the wall...
BlueTsunami2018
(3,503 posts)2. Odd that you should mention this.
No one believes me but a freak wormhole opened up in my proximity recently and out popped a chesterfield with a history book on its cushion stating that Zuckerberg and his cronies were indeed first against the wall when the revolution came in 2031.
Amazing.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)3. A short primer for us Douglas Adams dummies......
regarding The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series:
(skip to 2:50 mark for info on the Marketing Dept.)
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
According to his autobiography read in the Secondary Phase of the radio series, Marvin was constructed much against his own wishes by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation to prototype human personality artificial intelligence. In his own words:
I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell. My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there...
Douglas Adams, from Fit the Twelfth (radio series)
I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell. My first and only true friend was a small rat. One day it crawled into a cavity in my right ankle and died. I have a horrible feeling it's still there...
Douglas Adams, from Fit the Twelfth (radio series)
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