Every so often, a computer shoots an Electric Death Ray through the keyboard, killing the user. Bam! No more population problem.-- AfroAssault, Sep 14 2000 Ahh, but the people in the areas of the world with the worst population problems don't even know what a computer is, let alone what to do with one. All this would accomplish is a random assassination of computer users who are usually too busy on the PC to reproduce anyway.
So I think that, 'ZAP' ------------------------------------ Alcin, Sep 14 2000 Better than a 'Pocket Pool Cue'...<grin>-- StarChaser, Sep 14 2000 How about reserving the use of this device for Tech Support professionals only- and just for use against their more difficult customers? That way you'd *know* that it's a complete idiot on the other end of the line that's getting fried.
Bingo- instant world IQ jump of 20 points!-- BigThor, Sep 15 2000 Fitted to beer cans, the Death Ray would cull out a different segment of our enlightened western 'civilization'. Oops, I like both computers and beer, better sip carefully from now on!-- jetckalz, Sep 15 2000 BigThor: YesYesYes! I want one! I want two! I want a button on my phone that'll do that...
StarChaser the TechSupport Tyger.-- StarChaser, Sep 16 2000 HooRay! *So there I was, checking to see what catches my eye, cig danglin' and beer by my side. I thought .o0O (I wonder if that's my ol' pal Afro?) Yup. *Update-- thumbwax, Sep 18 2000, last modified Sep 29 2000 Bad idea! The only people who'd be left alive would be the rubber fetishists.
Also, my tech support people would probably wipe themselves out trying to install it.
Then again...-- DrBob, Sep 29 2000 wow...Alcin landed right on his - key...I don't think I've ever passed out on my keyboard and landed on the - key before.-- nick_n_uit, Feb 23 2001 come on triple fishbone....-- AfroAssault, Apr 11 2001 which really seems less-than-complete, eh, Peter? But, then again, this is the HALFbakery, so I suppose that was deliberate.-- absterge, Apr 11 2001 It is. It's not actually two and a half stinkfish, it's five half-fish.-- StarChaser, Apr 11 2001 I like this idea. It should be put into tvs and designed so that if they're left on the golf, fishing, soap, wrestling, dirtbiking, etc channels for too long-- ZAP! ::evil grin::-- Galileo, Sep 24 2001 Oh, this is too much work. Let's just build Carousel, and give everyone those little jewel things on their hands.
"Last day, Pisces 2's, year of the city, 2002... Carousel begins." ;)-- cpt kangarooski, Feb 20 2002 Once more in English?-- StarChaser, Feb 21 2002 Welsh translation please-- po, Feb 21 2002 Never watched Logans Run?? For shame!-- rbl, Feb 21 2002 this is golden.-- redundantly_redundant, Nov 16 2002 This is a good-ZAP!-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!-- subkat, Jan 14 2003 I always notice that the people most concerned with population control don't seem to care quite enough to kill themselves. It's always "the other guy".-- lumpy, Jan 14 2003 Considering that the average american uses 13 times the resources of the average third worlder, It follows that it is 13 times more efficient to zap Americans than anyone else.-- dbsousa, Jul 25 2003 Please don't assume I'm British.
I'm from NEW Britain.
Connecticut.-- dbsousa, Jul 25 2003 ... in New England!-- waugsqueke, Jul 25 2003 "Putting them in computers would tend to kill off the more technically savy people in the world"
Hahahaha, rotfl, lol etc etc - good joke !-- pjd, Sep 12 2003 halfbakery