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THE PATENTED NEXT GENERATION OF ANODIZING
[Micro-Arc Anodizing]

Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-- May 21, 2001

The Microplasmic Corporation, a research and development company, developed a unique ceramic coating technology, called the Microplasmic Process, for which the company has just received an US patent. The Microplasmic Process creates a thick ceramic coating that exhibits excellent resistance to wear, heat, and aqueous corrosion. Furthermore, the coating is an excellent electrical insulator. Light and inexpensive aluminum, magnesium and titanium, or other alloy parts coated with the Microplasmic Process can replace the heavier steel, or the more expensive composite materials required by many industries - including transportation, medical, process, electronic, chemical, and others. 

Other reactive metals, such as zirconium, vanadium and tantalum, can also be coated by the microplasmic process for specialty applications.
"The Microplasmic Process utilizes electrochemical micro-arc anodizing to produce an extremely hard ceramic coating," states Jerry Patel,
President and CEO. "Any desired coating thickness can be achieved with all aluminum, magnesium, titanium and zirconium alloys. Moreover, in looking at the entire process itself, production is fast, uses inexpensive equipment and raw materials, and produces no hazardous wastes, thus making the Microplasmic Process attractive and highly viable alternative to the traditional anodizing processes." for more information click here

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GM Closes The Gates

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT," but then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "general protection fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same-sized butt.
9. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying.
10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the cars performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd have to press the "start" button to turn the engine off.

Surely Not ?