From: jcd12@ozemail.net
Subject: Rasterized!
Date: August 24th 2004 11:13:50 AM
To: reports@vilewatch.com

Hi!

This is a desperately urgent vile alert! Why has nobody drawn attention to the danger? It's happening every day around the world, yet the victims never speak out! Is it shame? Is it the fear of not being believed? Perhaps the victims still can't fully believe it themselves?

Enough of this silence! Enough of the taboo! It's time to say it loud and clear: your computer is NOT the respectable, straight-thinking machine you always assumed!

Yes, I'm talking about rasterization!

How many naïve computer users have been rasterized? How many victims have seen that telltale message appear on their screens: 'Starting to rasterize'? At home or in the office, in private or in public, the victims stare at their monitor as if hypnotized, unable to resist.

All they can do is sit there-rasterized!

Another Victim of Rasterization

Let me tell you my older brother's story, exactly as he told it to me. Until it happened, P---- was an ordinary, happy-go-lucky graphic designer. He was successful in his job, had a steady girlfriend. Jenny, and they'd just put down the deposit on a smart new unit in Richmond. Until -

"It was a day like any other day. I was working with Illustrator and needed to stretch and bend a headline caption. I okayed a dialogue box, leaned back and waited for the font to become manipulable. Then I saw a message on my screen: 'Starting to rasterize.'

"No-one had told me about rasterization. In my innocence, I supposed it was some technical term for a necessarysoftware operation. I was daydreaming about Jenny when a second message appeared: 'Rasterization 25% complete'

"In that moment, I understood-it was gloating! Vaunting in its domination, revelling in its pleasure! Such cold contempt! I had been 25% rasterized, and I'd never even realised!

"I fought it then. I was half caught in a terrible helplessness, an overpowering sense of inevitability. But the other half of me was very, very angry. I struggled to get my finger on the power button. My muscles had turned to water, I was sweating and panting. Inch by inch, I forced my arm across the desk, reached the button and pressed.

"The computer went off with rasterizing still incomplete. It let out a soft breathy 'Aaah!' of disappointment. I escaped-one of the lucky ones."

That was P----'s story. He didn't want to tell me, but I could see something was wrong and eventually managed to drag it out of him. He told it shamefaced and staring at the floor, like a confession, as though he felt guilty and somehow responsible in himself. I noticed how he avoided his computer for days afterwards, and when he finally turned it on, he never went beyond the simplest operations. In fact, he's been a changed person ever since, nervous and lacking in confidence. It may take years to rebuild his trust in the world.

Trust is what your computer plays on and abuses. Helpful and obedient, it comes to seem like a faithful friend. But behind the mask of that relationship, it has its own agenda. While it lulls you with colourful graphics, quirky sound effects and amusing animations, in its hard cold heart it pursues always the one desire: to rasterize.

The older, smaller computers can only dream of satisfaction, restrained not by morality but a lack of RAM. Newer models, with their much larger RAM, can carry out the vile act itself. Male or female, young or old, no computer user is safe from their undiscriminating lusts.

Advanced Computer Hiding Its Intention to Rasterize	Old Incapable Computer Dreaming of Impossible Rasterizations

What can you do? Although there is no absolute protection, there are many practical precautions. For example, never sit at your computer after drinking alcohol or while under the influence of drugs. Never sit at your computer when tired or drowsy. Never slouch on your computer chair, but maintain good posture with upright back and knees together. If possible, ask a friend to sit beside you with one finger resting on the power button.

Keep up your guard, and even the most powerful computer may be reluctant to reveal its true intentions!

Josh D

Read major case reports in
Report from Stravignano v Report from St. Benedict's
v Report on Rasterizing v Canberra:The Appalling Truth v The Thing in the Sewer v Perturbed in Uruguay v Viola v Vibrators

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