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My fiancé asked me in a disturbed tone of voice:
"In your 35yrs of #computer virus hysteria ... how did you ever *recover* from it?"
I took a long pause.
"We returned to 'normalcy'," I began.
"People went back to their old ways of computer hygiene..."
My fiancé asked me in a disturbed tone of voice:
"In your 35yrs of #computer virus hysteria ... how did you ever *recover* from it?"
I took a long pause.
"We returned to 'normalcy'," I began.
"People went back to their old ways of computer hygiene..."
2/4 "...while those who parroted fear wound up with some new software tools, maybe snuck in a new server for the farm.
"No one in power got fired for their panicked reactions. Lower-downs who got fired 'out of an abundance of caution' remained fired..."
"No one in power got fired for their panicked reactions. Lower-downs who got fired 'out of an abundance of caution' remained fired..."
3/4 "...and we collectively rationalized ALL our self-inflicted damages by chanting 'it was all worth it if it saved even just one computer performing a critical function."
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My fiancé blurted "so all the [self-]destruction didn't matter?!?"
And I was forced to admit...
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My fiancé blurted "so all the [self-]destruction didn't matter?!?"
And I was forced to admit...
4/4 "...It only mattered that we stopped the imminent destruction of our computing society. Each time we destroyed ourselves, we did it to avoid a fate worse than death.
"That's why you keep hearing me say with such #sarcasm:
'IT WASN'T DUE TO A VIRUS ATTACK SO I DON'T CARE'."
"That's why you keep hearing me say with such #sarcasm:
'IT WASN'T DUE TO A VIRUS ATTACK SO I DON'T CARE'."
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