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REDMOND, Wash., and EAST FISHKILL, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has entered into a semiconductor technology agreement with IBM Corp. Under the agreement, Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox® products and services to be announced at a later date.
Originally posted by gps777
The only conection with the swastika and xbox i can think of is
REDMOND, Wash., and EAST FISHKILL, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has entered into a semiconductor technology agreement with IBM Corp. Under the agreement, Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox® products and services to be announced at a later date.
www.microsoft.com...
connected to......
www.ibmandtheholocaust.com...
or does that go without saying?
anyway i find it disturbing that they would or could unintentionally make another mistake assosciating themselves with the like of Nazis.
Originally posted by BradKellBrrexkl
But wasn't Adolf Hilter... AUSTRIAN?
This may be a fundamental mistake... either by me or by the masses.
Originally posted by gps777
But they will shove it into the faces of children that dont have a clue and the people that get upset about it are the ones who remember,then the young ones get upset at the older because they veiw us as wanting to take away their play things and the hate and ignorance widens and grows,ignorance is bliss on some peoples part because they could care less just give them their toys and their happy,and all the time these corps,Gov,Agencies,laws are testing the waters to see what resistance is out there to further their goal,sad how these so called elite work eh?.
[edit on 22-12-2005 by gps777]
Originally posted by Agent47
So the 4th reich is going to be built on toys? Honestly how many kids are going to see a bunch of spinning controllers and automatically say "hey that looks like a swastika" or how many kids are going to want to stare at a screen while a broken Xbox displays a bunch of feedback which may or may not display swastikas.
Honestly its probably someones idea of a joke inside of microsoft. I'm going to have to say that the swastikas probably do exist but all the same its more than likely the result of bored programers.
Originally posted by gps777
If thats what you think i was saying i`m probably wasting time replying.
I disagree,i do not believe corps Govements etc allow these type of jokes to exist unless they wanted it to.
Originally posted by Agent47
Well maybe you could bless me the privilege of explaining what you were saying. Oh and if you could try to just cut back a little on the condescending nature that'd be great.
I don't think the Government or Microsoft wastes time running through every line of code just to make sure no one slipped in a practical joke. A) Its expensive in man hours and B) Those programmers are pretty good at what they do and it wouldn't be that hard for them to slip in a secret or two.
And besides the whole programming business part of this thread is about an image. And I still don't buy the image looks like a swastika.
Originally posted by Agent47
Honestly how many kids are going to see a bunch of spinning controllers and automatically say "hey that looks like a swastika" or how many kids are going to want to stare at a screen while a broken Xbox displays a bunch of feedback which may or may not display swastikas.
Honestly its probably someones idea of a joke inside of microsoft. I'm going to have to say that the swastikas probably do exist but all the same its more than likely the result of bored programers.
And if the 4th reich is going to be built on toys they sure are doing a bad job of it by making some of the opening product titles all about shooting nazis ala call of duty 2.
Originally posted by SouljahThe Problem is not IF they see or stare at it - they are watching it anyway, and the Subliminal part of this Message remains hidden. You think it was again an ACCIDENT that Swastikas are all over Microsoft?
First they ACCIDENTLY put the character for Swastikas, so that the Jewish community had to ask them kindly to remove it. And don't tell me that the programmers did not know - they know VERY WELL what they do, and they know every line of their Code. That is their Job.
Let me tell you, that if I was Jewish and saw the Advertisment for X-Box 360, I would not be a Happy Jew anywmore.
Everybody was Outraged when Prince Harry wore a Swastika on his costume for a "Fancy Dress Party" - so that he had to Appologise.
As well Microsfot appologised for the Swastikas in their Charaster Code.