If you were gullible enough to follow the above link, you would now realize that the lusers decided that these things were neato, but then started trying to use the things for productive work. Of course, these things would crash right and left because that is what they were designed to do. The lusers didn't particularly like this, and now the geeks who came up with this whole scheme have ended up having to keep upgrading and fixing the suckers. The geeks now struggle continuously to try to create a way that even the most technologically declined of the lusers could figure out. The problem with this is that just when the geeks think that they have managed to dumb down the operating systems enough that even a rock would have enough brains to figure the things out, Along comes a new generatioon of lusers, with the sherr brainpower to make a rock look like Einstein in comparison. Not only this, but nature has decided to perform a stealth upgrade on all of the existing lusers so that none of them can think their way out of a soggy paper bag. This fact has prompted some of the geeks who came up with this thing to make forcible attempts to get the rocks to try and use the things, with some of them even throwing the rocks right at the computer. A small consolation to the geeks was then realized as they realized that the rocks had sufficient intelligence to realize what these computers are supposed to be good for.
Of course, the lusers aren't the only sources of stupidity in this situation. It is well known that the computers themselves, despite the attempts that have been made to make the things simlpe enough that even the lusers can use them, the computers still manage to find ways to be just as annoying as a herd of lusers. Besides the usual mix of GPFs, system faults, and other wonderful things in that vein. The big question that remains unanswered by society is this: When a typical computer that a luser ends up with meets the typical luser, which one is more intelligent? We at Sledgehammer labs have wondered about this for quite some time now, and have set up an experiment to test this out: We locked a luser we caught in the wild with a snare and a $20 bill, and locked him in a room with a Packard Bell computer (considered a hazardous substance in 12 states.) We also locked up several programs in the room, as well as a couple of other things. We then observed through a one-way mirror. We felt that this experiment would answer once and for all that perpetual question: "If a typical luser was locked in a room with a typical computer, which one would survive?"
At first, we assumed that the computer would be the one to survive, unless the user found one of the heavy objects useful for throwing at the thing. Sometimes, lusers have this tendency to be dependent on this invisible substance called oxygen, and we assumed that this one would be no exception. Long periods of oxygen deprivation tend to have ill effects on the lusers, from past research. Anyway, as soon as the luser was locked in the room, he proceeded to run around, knocking himself into the walls left and right until he was out like a light (at which point we decided to fire the guy who forgot to pad them. Then the user finally turned to the computer, but only after we sent Guido in to convince the user to do so. In order to test this particular luser's computer ability, we left the computer completely in the box. Finally, six hours and eleven calls to tech support later, the user managed to electrocute himself for the third time. As entertaining as it was to watch the whole thing, it was at about this time that the supply of pizza and Doritos was running out, so we all went for a little trip to the store. By the time we got back, somehow the computer was actually set up correctly. Guido claims that he had nothing to do with this, and judging from the size of the hole left in the wall by Damon's head, it probably wasn't a very giid idea to have tried to argue the point in the first place. After this ugly little incident, we decided to give Guido the benefit of the doubt, given that Guido's brain was composed of a high percentage of tapioca pudding.
The next challenge that we had in store for the user to try and somehow get onto the Internet. We realized that this was not helping the current state of the net nuch, but it was all in the name of science, wasn't it? For reasons that are still being investigated, an AOL disk somehow got into the room. Somehow the user found this. What we then saw was somethign that was never observed by any of us before. All this time we had assumed that upon seeing an AOL disk, the first instinct weould be to instantly reformat it, but in this case, the user typed "install" instead of "format a: /u". This result appears to have contradicted all of the previous research (in some cases I have even observed other geeks trying to reformat AOL CDs.) The worst was yet to come. At this point, the luser lapsed into what appeared to be somethign of a brainwashed state, the type you normally associate with a lobotomy patient. This has been documented, and this phenomenon only occurs in lusers gullible enough to believe the drivel that comes out of AOL's marketing department. Anyway, after the AOL software was put onto the system, the thing just blew up on the user (well, at least all of the software blew up.)
A week and 37 calls to tech support later, the user decided that at this point it may actually be a good idea to try to RTFM. Finding that the manual was a little beyond their comprehension (despite being written for a target audience with an IQ of 3) they then made about 32 more calls to tech support, and finally out of frustration, they just sent another computer (fi the thing can actually be called a computer.) We were surprised to fnid that lusers have some capacity for reason (as it only took 7 calls to tech support to get the thing set up this time) and of course, like a moth to a flame, the headed straight to the AOL disk once again. Obviously not learning any lesson from the past experience, they proceeded to repeat the same procedure as before, typing "install" on the AOL disk instead of "FORMAT A: /u" like any normal human would. This time, there was a difference. We made sure that this one was previously reformatted before the luser even got a hold of it.
Finally, after the luser tried to install the now missing software unsuccessfully for the 37th time, he just lost it. finding an axe (which was somehow conveniently located in the isolation chamber) the user picked it up and began smashing the computer into several million pieces. Unfortunately for this particular luser, he did not realize that computers tend to carry large amounts of electricity, and he was rather shocked to find out about this fact. For anyone who is interested, we are now selling one slightly blackened luser very cheaply... e-mail me for details.
Still, our experiment proved rather inconclusive. It appeared that neither the computer (once again, if a Packard Bell can even be called a computer) nor the luser survived our little experiment. It appears at this point that the world may never know whether the lusers or the computers themselves are worse...