28 August 2002 - strictly accountable

In my economy, corporate executives will be held strictly accountable, and not only for the accounting. The most serious offense will be manufacturing unreliable hardware, for which the punishment will be a free test drive as a crash test dummy—or smartie, whichever is appropriate. As a side benefit, the cost of those little instruction booklets will plummet, because all of them will say the same thing: “Keep sealed. Do not transport. Store in a pure, dry nitrogen atmosphere at 0 Celsius. To use, stay in bed.”