[nukkad] Where Do Deleted Characters Go ?

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    Most likely, at least once a day you delete a letter, number, or
even
whole words and paragraphs from your documents on the computer. It's a
simple matter for you, but have you ever thought about the
consequences of your action? Do you have any idea where you're sending
those characters that you so casually rejected? The answer varies
depending on whom you ask.

MICROSOFT'S EXPLANATION:

The deleted characters are shipped to Battle Creek, Michigan, where
they're made into Pop-Tart filling; this explains why Pop-Tarts are so
flammable, while cheap imitations are not as flammable.

STEPHEN KING'S EXPLANATION:

Every time you hit the delete key you unleash a tiny monster inside
the cursor, who tears the poor unsuspecting characters to shreds,
drinks their blood, then eats them, bones and all.

IBM'S EXPLANATION:

The characters are not real. They exist only on the screen when they
are needed, as concepts, so to delete them is merely to de-
conceptualize them.

THE BUDDHIST EXPLANATION:

If a character has lived rightly, and its karma is good, then after it
has been deleted it will be reincarnated as a different, higher
character. Those funny characters above the numbers on your keyboard
will become numbers, numbers will become letters, lowercase letters
will become uppercase. If a character's karma is not so good, then it
will move down the above scale, ultimately becoming the lowest of
characters--a space.

THE 20TH-CENTURY BITTER, CYNICAL NIHILIST EXPLANATION:

Who cares? All characters are the same, swirling in a vast sea of
meaningless nothingness. It doesn't really matter if they're on the
page, deleted, undeleted, underlined, etc. It's all the same. More
characters should delete themselves.

ENVIRONMENTALIST'S EXPLANATION:

You've been DELETING them? Can't you hear them SCREAMING? Little
innocent characters and baby lowercase letters have rights too!

THE MAC USER'S EXPLANATION:

All the characters written on a PC and then deleted go straight to PC
hell. If you're using a PC, you can probably see the deleted
characters, because you're in PC hell also.

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Cheers

Sameer
mailto:sameer.upadhye@ae.ge.com
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