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voidmain:
Ever notice how over the last year or so nearly every press release by Bill Gates or anyone else at M$ include several instances of the word "rich"?  "feature rich", "richly extensible", "rich user interfaces", ... I just about have to kneel down and puke all over myself every time I see this word used it occurs so often. It annoys me enormously, but I just can't quite figure out why.

Occasionally since then I've seen a few other companies use it.  It is obvious that the word is intentionally inserted into their speech and way too many times. Is it some sort of subliminal message?

Centurian:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Ever notice how over the last year or so nearly every press release by Bill Gates or anyone else at M$ include several instances of the word "rich"?  "feature rich", "richly extensible", "rich user interfaces", ... I just about have to kneel down and puke all over myself every time I see this word used it occurs so often. It annoys me enormously, but I just can't quite figure out why.

Occasionally since then I've seen a few other companies use it.  It is obvious that the word is intentionally inserted into their speech and way too many times. Is it some sort of subliminal message?
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Hey,

Absolutely the word RICH conjures up imagery in the same way that the words FREE and SEX do. Microsoft uses that imagery as a major selling point for its products.

Even programming is effected by it ever hear of RICH text, in reality it is a very limited editor/wordprocessor but people use it continually I guess because it is RICH text.

Later
Centurian

[ January 18, 2002: Message edited by: Centurian ]

Calum:
Maybe it pisses you off because Bill Gates and his cohorts are too damned... RICH!

FuckMSTillTheyDie:
could be some code, if you play the message backwards RICH becomes:
HCIR
as in How Can I Ream [you]
or forwards
Redmond Is Controlling Humanity

i don't know, something like that.

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