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Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm:
Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor
[...] Microsoft is right now groaning under the weight of a 52,000-person internal Reply-All email storm.
The Register understands this one started with a new offer from Microsoft's internal store about discount software deals. While that offer was generous, it didn't apply to all Microsoft staff everywhere, which prompted an early Reply-All message asking why not. And then the snowball started rolling, and nothing could stop it.
We understand the mail went throughout Microsoft – enterprise, cloud and even Xbox folks found it in their inboxes.
Our Microsoft sources tell us staff are now hitting Reply All for the sheer fun of it, posting frivolous messages that celebrate the ridiculousness of the situation.
Laughter is the best medicine?
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday March 28 2020, @12:18PM
It surely is nice to hear about something besides the youknowwhat and 20 other reasons doom is inevitable.
If that early "reply-all" was intentional, is that now terrorism? Or sabotage?
Or thought crime, as it gives people ideas for what they could do in other contexts?
How many people would it take to create a reply-all storm on some other server of some other company that is ruining the world?
Is this question illegal? Is there even law anymore or is it just everything that angers any rich person will result in the end of anything enjoyable in your life?
Is the alternative to opposing big data simply accepting that the "Devs" and "Westworld" scenarios are *both* inevitable, and that supercomputer ai and quantum buggery are going to enable loss of human control over any aspect of reality at all?
Which is to say, if the only way to stop the singularity from reaching into your brain and changing the way you masturbate is to create an email reply-all storm in its cloud, would you do it even if it meant you had to share a cell in the colorado supermax for the rest of your life?
Please tell me, a friend of mine wants to know. He is a sci fi writer without representation who needs to know if his book idea is thought crime.
Warning: having read this comment disqualifies you from any government job for the rest of time.
Note: I find this comment one of the most hilarious things I have ever written, but I am afraid to hit submit. Will you write me if I go to the prison where you arent allowed to correspond with the outside world for years at a time and your every movement is meticulously recorded so your entire personality can be copied, tortured, modified for use, and studied for laughs for a trillion years?
https://medium.com/@barrettbrown/inmate-marty-gottesfeld-wrote-about-prison-corruption-then-the-prison-silenced-him-d7de0349dc02 [medium.com]
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(sure would be nice to earn money for a thousand hours of work and being followed everywhere I go, but what do I know about the free market, right?)
Is it illegal now to think this meme? Is this idea to be erased from history?
https://archive.is/9CAwI [archive.is]
ps this is what a real comment looks like. maybe you want to up your game before thrive capital israels can use their gtld admin powers to erase you at will.