Chapter 149: New Life
Computer practitioners throughout the United States and the world are disgusted by Tommy Hawke, the bastard who has made the major moment of the century when the two Germanys officially merged into a Super Bowl-like advertising feast, and the live broadcast of VOX News often shows Compaq laptops and laptops with AmigaOS installed.
Everybody knows that this bastard is advertising, but you can only call AmigaOS disgusting, but you can't directly point out that it's an advertisement, because that would constitute slander.
With the official demolition of the Berlin Wall, a large number of German people poured into West Germany, without a West German mark, without a West German legal identity, without telephone, blocked by the East German wall for decades, almost lost contact with their relatives in West Germany or elsewhere, children did not know where to go to continue their education, and the elderly did not know where to buy the medicines they often take, how should all this be solved?
The Peace Corps of America, which has been rooted in West Germany for decades, is here to help.
Although many countries define the American Peace Corps, an independent volunteer organization, as an American spy organization, and even the American Peace Corps does not deny that they provide the federal government with certain information about the country in which they operate, it has to be said that even if everything is for intelligence or cultural infiltration, it is very good at superficial work.
The initial goal of the American Peace Corps was to be heavily influenced by France, and it was hoped that a large number of fresh college students who were absolutely loyal to the United States would go to various African countries to do volunteer work, such as teaching English in local schools, or engaging in medical, religious and cultural work, and gradually influence the citizens of those countries in terms of culture and language.
The first batch of 7,000 outstanding American college graduates were recruited, and Sargent hoped that at least half of the first batch of volunteers would be black, so that it might be easier to integrate into black-dominated African countries, but at that time, the status of black people in the United States was low, and few blacks could become college students, so he finally found a few black college students, and when he heard that he was going to Africa to help his ancestors, black college students chose to refuse Sargent without hesitation.
In the end, almost all of the 7,000 people were white, and 40% of them were brainwashed, and the white girls of Our Lady of America, who were full of desire to help the poor and teach, were fooled by Sargent and Kennedy into going to Africa, and as a result, within three years, nearly 3,000 female volunteers of the Peace Corps encountered more than 2,000 XX cases in the land of Africa.
The most exaggerated one is that a female American Peace Corps volunteer was supposed to help the other party's wife deliver the baby, but the other wife's child has not yet been born, and when the mother's amniotic water breaks and the official delivery, the American female volunteer was injured by the male of the family......
Even though this has happened many times, the two parties in the United States have rarely been unanimous, and for many years they have firmly promoted this peace corps volunteer program around the world, and gradually developed from Africa to South America, Asia, Europe, and even in the past two years, have broken into some of the Soviet Union countries that have not taken a firm position.
Many of the female relatives of the President of the United States have volunteered with the Peace Corps as a sign of the importance of these volunteers, and today the Peace Corps has sent more than 100,000 American "volunteers" to more than 50 countries that it feels in need.
These volunteers cannot make a profit in the local area, and their food, lodging, and basic living expenses are specially allocated by the U.S. Congress to the Peace Corps, all of which is to convince those countries that the Americans are genuinely helping them without expecting anything in return.
Most of the volunteers genuinely consider themselves doing a selfless and great job, teaching the locals English, imparting more advanced agricultural knowledge, and even treating the locals for free, similar to ascetics in religion.
A few years ago, after a careful investigation, the US Drug Enforcement Administration finally found that a big drug lord in Colombia they were staring at was actually just a puppet, and the boss behind the real control of the entire network was only a male US Peace Corps volunteer in his thirties.
After graduating from college and joining the Peace Corps, he was sent to Colombia to teach the local people agricultural knowledge, but the old brother started from scratch, used the pitiful funds given to him by the Peace Corps to buy a few cheap weapons in the local area, distributed them to the villagers, led the villagers to beat away another group of drug dealers who oppressed the villagers, and led the villagers to turn over and become bigger and stronger, teaching the locals how to grow coca leaves reasonably, how to use chemical fertilizers to increase production, and how to standardize the processing of cocaine leaves, which successfully allowed Americans to successfully enjoy higher purity cocaine, It has also allowed Colombian villagers to live a good life, killing two birds with one stone.
And this American brother who took the initiative to apply for a postponement of his departure from the team and continued to shine in the Peace Corps for many years actually abides by the rules of the Peace Corps, and has not shared a penny of money earned by the villagers from drugs, he still lives on the meager funds allocated by the Peace Corps, lives in a wooden house built by the villagers and himself, travels in tattered pickups, still regularly teaches English lessons to children, spreads the faith in Christ Jesus, occasionally returns to China to visit relatives during holidays and buys discounted air tickets, and by the way, he brings back a bunch of old clothes donated by parishioners from the domestic church and sends them to the poor, not greedy or corrupt. Like a saint.
He was spontaneously respected as a godfather by thousands of local villagers, and there was even a news that a young man was directly tied up to the church after being heard by his father because he scolded him behind his back, and wanted to shoot the rebel son in front of the godfather, which shows his local prestige.
If it weren't for the undercover agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who witnessed this plainly dressed and decent old brother standing on the pulpit of the church to hold a meeting in the church for the backbone of his gang, teaching everyone how to ship goods to the United States, how to build a sales network from scratch in a new city in the United States, asking them not to forget their hometown after settling in a big city after earning money, and to raise funds to build hospitals, schools, and roads, and the drug lords who were afraid to do it, and the photos were hung on the whiteboard of the Drug Enforcement Administration's office, they sat under the stage and listened obediently like disciples of Jesus. No one believed it to be true.
When the intelligence came back, the US Drug Enforcement Administration even felt that this was a deliberate framing of drug dealers and exonerated the crime, because many drug dealers in this gang had been arrested before, but no one had ever mentioned the name of this old brother.
Had it not been for the fact that the Peace Corps of America, believing that the scandal had seriously affected its international image, had refused to license it to several film studios, Hollywood would have adapted this legendary experience into a movie.
However, the life of the peace corps in West Germany is not as hard as that in Africa or South America, and the total number of peace corps members in West Germany is about 2,300, and they are basically engaged in cultural dissemination, education, and youth development and counseling.
On the one hand, the American Peace Corps and these devout ascetic volunteers showed the good virtues of not being greedy for fame and fortune and selfless dedication, and on the other hand, the hairy beasts of the American army could make West Germany produce thousands of single mothers a year.
Therefore, Germans who are generally well-educated and have been with Peace Corps volunteers have a very good impression of the United States because of the indoctrination of the other party, and think that it is the real Garden of Eden, and everyone is civilized.
The low-income Germans living near the barracks had the opposite impression of the United States, probably because the Peace Corps had no poverty alleviation options in West Germany.
When a group of East Germans who had been carefully selected before the East German wall was torn down, they were warmly greeted by the Peace Corps, and the Vox News Network followed the whole process, and those people were helped by the Peace Corps to relocate their homes, contact schools, provide small amounts of cash, etc., and most importantly, find their relatives who had been missing for many years.
Then VOX's global paid subscribers were forced to pinch their noses to see AmigaOS ads, in which members of the Peace Corps turned on their computers, opened their browsers, and went to a message board that Susie had set up in advance to find their relatives and help East Germans leave messages to find their relatives abroad.
In fact, the relatives of those East German people began to contact in advance as early as when Susie asked people to choose actors, and it was displayed in the news, which is the embodiment of efficient technology and American humanistic care.
Smart people can tell at a glance that this is fake, but fortunately, there are many emotional fools in the world, and these warm news are used to make those fools remember AmigaOS, remember Midas, a graphical web browser software developed by Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center, and remember the message board of the American Peace Corps in Europe.
The most exaggerated advertisement comes from Zoe's live interview with Hans-Joachim Meyer, the last East German Minister of Education, in order to get the East German Minister of Education and Art Minister to help with an advertisement, Tommy needs to ask the American company MCI, which provides telecommunications services in West Germany, to pull a special line into East Germany, and also to buy several of the other party's collection of art and the other party's published books A full 20,000 copies, because the other party is worried about the livelihood of his family after the merger, after all, he may have to lose his job after the merger, No longer the high-ranking Minister of Education.
This is already the most senior figure in Tommy's public relations, because this position is barely regarded as the Qingshui Yamen, those more popular such as the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Labor, the Minister of Construction, the Minister of Energy, the Minister of Health, etc., do not look down on Tommy's gift, after all, many industrialists in the United States have long been eyeing the East Germany, which is about to open the door to the market, what General Motors, Chevrolet, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson and other large companies, as early as last year after the night of the fall of the Berlin Wall, He began to generously show goodwill in various ways to those East German bigwigs who wanted to make the last money, and to seek various interests in East Germany through the time-limited rights in the hands of the other party.
Tommy can only get access to and negotiate cooperation with poor roles that large companies can't look up to, such as the Minister of Education, the Minister of Sports, the Minister of Family and Women, etc.
Education Minister Hans said in a live interview that his biggest headache at present is that with the merger of the two Germanys, a large number of primary and secondary school students in East Germany will instead usher in the suspension of classes, because the German Joint Education Committee jointly established by the two Germans has not yet given the curriculum arrangement after reunification, and the children and teachers in East Germany do not know what courses to take from tomorrow, where the textbooks are, and where the teaching aids are, and according to the plan, a group of students who graduated from high school this year should have gone to Moscow and other places to study at university, but now it is obvious that the wishes of the students must be considered. They wanted to go to university in West Germany or other non-Soviet countries, but they were not sure if their previous high school grades would be recognized.
Then, another American actor arranged by Charles, Al Gore's personal friend, former president of Tennessee State University, and current deputy secretary of education of the United States of America, Ted Sanders, appeared on the stage, he asked the secretary to call VOX News Network, and asked VOX to help him contact Zoe, and Zoe had a phone call, saying that he watched the news and discussed the current problems in East Germany with Mr. Minister, and Mr. Minister and he were very willing to show the goodwill of the United States, The U.S. Department of Education is considering providing accreditation and pre-accreditation of transnational higher education to students in East Germany who are at risk of school closure or even dropping out of school, which means that as long as these East German high school students pass the certification, their results can be recognized by major universities in the United States, and after recognition, they can apply to study in the United States and may be admitted to American universities.
Then he sent the cumbersome certification requirements in the United States to Zoe in Germany through an e-mail, Zoe asked the assistant to print it out and handed it to Hans, Hans was very moved, he was a little choked, on behalf of those students, he thanked the United States for its help, thanked the magic of American technology, asked why Zoe's laptop could do all this, and finally envied the children in the United States who are so happy that they can use such convenient technology to spread news and knowledge.
Zoe then contacted the Vox headquarters with the same emotion, and the Vox headquarters offered to buy 1,000 laptops with AmigaOS to give to the other party, and the Peace Corps members present also expressed their willingness to set up a computer training school.
At this point, the advertisement ends, and the reason why this interview is an advertisement is that on the surface, it seems that the help given by the United States sounds good, after all, it is the vice minister of education of the world's largest country who personally called in the live broadcast, and it is impossible to deceive people, but in fact, those words have no effect, they are just taking the opportunity to move a wave of American people watching the news.
There is no formal commitment other than a fake email that appears to have sent a bunch of information that needs to be prepared for the certification of transnational education.
As for when the certification will be passed, it depends on the mood of Mr. Minister, but the tone and statement of Mr. Vice Minister of Education on the live phone call look like East German high school students can come to the United States to enjoy a free university life as soon as they fill out a form, which makes the audience in front of the TV have a little more favor for the United States.
A little understanding can understand that even high school students in the United States have to take out loans to study in college, how can a group of guys from East Germany easily enjoy this kind of welfare, let alone whether there are East German spies in it.
Similar advertisements continued to appear in the next few days, including but not limited to a large number of photos of East German beauties were put on the website in the name of family searching, looking for those relatives who went to France, Italy, the United States and other places, and then the website could also ask the East German Minister of Family and Women's Affairs to help stand on the platform, to be honest, the website was a family search website, more like a transnational matchmaking network, figure, height, contact information were all published.
Then there is the love story of a newcomer and an unaccompanied East German beauty and a gentle, kind, and helpful American Peace Corps male college student, which was reported in the United States, and the parties even deliberately returned to the United States to register their marriage.
These constantly emerging news,Suddenly made Americans realize that AmigaOS is much more practical than ordinary game consoles,Buy an AmigaOS,You can have the opportunity to marry a gentle and virtuous,East German beauty who is not picky about ordinary American pastoral life,Many young white people in rural America or young people at the bottom of the city deliberately bought AmigaOS and MCI's telecommunications services with this wonderful idea,Just to log in to the family search website, Even the subsequent chain reaction led to the fact that people in other member countries of the Soviet Union saw the happy life of young girls in East Germany and realized that technology could change their fate, so they began to spontaneously learn to use AmigaOS and Stanford Midas browsers, and try to log in to the network to change their lives, but it is very difficult, because those countries basically do not have access to the public node network dominated by the United States, and they may not have the opportunity to access the Internet until the first lady of the Soviet Union and the first lady of the United States get it.
And those in the United States who initially stepped into the world of the Internet just wanted to experience it as a curiosity, and only realized that it would be more difficult to quit it than to quit smoking after they had mastered the art of surfing.
Open the Midas browser, the software will pop up the navigation page, although there are not many websites on it, but the variety is complete enough, up to art and culture, the world situation, political news, down to supermarket discounts, star lace, pimp prices, as long as you have hobbies, want to find someone to communicate, you can find where you should go, there is always a website message board that someone is willing to discuss with you why a roadside girl in Queens, New York, a single charge of 50 yuan, but in Brooklyn a single charge of 70 yuan.
There are always fans in two different cities who leave a BBS on a website to discuss the performance of their favorite singers when they hold a concert in their city.
AmigaOS sales began to gradually recover after using historical events to attract users' attention.
When 44% of the latest million computers sold in the United States were purchased by home users, and AmigaOS installations accounted for a staggering 63%, Microsoft decisively abandoned its overseas layout in the United Kingdom, and submitted a detailed report to the U.S. Congress and the Federal Department of Education on Stanford University's malicious holding of various patents on graphics browsers and suspected of hindering the development of the industry.
The content can be summed up in one sentence, Stanford University must hand over the keys to the Internet, the Internet is free.
Stanford will definitely lose this game, but if it drags on slowly, it can probably drag on for two or three years, Microsoft obviously can't wait that long, it, or they will definitely do some very hidden behaviors to enter the Internet as soon as possible, such as finding a few small overseas companies, a few small domestic companies regardless of patent rights, to develop browser software for free reasons to provide users.
However, it is no longer Tommy's job to deal with Microsoft, because he also officially announced his resignation from his current position on the board of directors on the day Microsoft submitted its report to Congress, only retaining his status as a director and equity, and completely handing over the management of the company to Susie and Jason.
Tommy likes Susie's decisiveness and unscrupulous means, Microsoft's commonly used tricks, Susie has already considered it, and arranged countermeasures, in fact, it is very simple, some Stanford University and companies hold graphics browser patents and some more cutting-edge patents bundled and licensed to military research and development institutions under the Ministry of Defense, those companies infringe, wait for the special forces to damage or leak the military's secret technology and other reasons to kick the door, if the military finds out that those companies are instructed by Microsoft, Those people in the Pentagon know better than Susie what extortion is.
As for Tommy Hawke, there is something more important waiting for him, and the Hawke family is about to usher in a new life.
(End of chapter)