Although I believe a later edition of the Guide that
fell through a
 temporal vortex described the Marketing Department of the Sirius
 Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who
 _were_ the first
 up against the wall when the revolution came".
 Now where did I leave my Peril Sensitive Sunglasses? 
Right next to your SEP field generator....  :-)
-dq