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Skriven 2004-12-10 23:00:50 av Greg Sears (1:153/307)
     Kommentar till en text av George Pope
Ärende: Re: What We All Want. . .
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Funny on 09-Dec-2004 21:20

 GS> GP>Good on YAS, mate!  I see you've got a dictionary!
   >   >I'm guessing it's the WordWeb freebie, am I right?
   >
   > Well as usual you were listening when i told you my fav-free-dick! '-)

 -=[George Pope wrote IN a message to GREG SEARS]=-

 GP> I don't recall you telling me, but I've been using it for some time
   > and find it to be very convenient & helpful (& FREE!!) and I know all
   > three of those are qualities you, too, appreciate in good software!

  G-day George Pope, another ~free~ tool I've just found and am using now
                     for virus protection on-board the machine as well in
                     and out bound e-mails is called...AVG free edition:
                     available @  http://www.grisoft.com


> OBJoke: for our Moderator and all-round friend/servant

   Here is an article from the Toronto Star about five years ago.  It is
a history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, as compiled
from essays submitted to Anders Henriksson by his freshman classes here
at McMaster University and at the University of Alberta.  Spelling is as
written.

   History, as we know, is always bias, because human beings have to be
studied by other human beings, not by independent observers of another
species.
   During the Middle Ages, everybody was middle-aged.  Church and state
were co-operatic.  Middle Evil society was made up of monks, lords and
surfs.
   After a revival of infantile commerce slowly creeped into Europe,
merchants appeared.  They roamed from town to town exposing themselves
and organizing big fairies in the countryside.  Mideval people were
violent. Murder during this period was nothing.  Everybody killed
someone.
   England fought numerously for land in France and ended up winning and
losing.  The Crusades were a series of military expaditions made by
Christians seeking to free the hold land (the "Home Town" of Christ)
from the Islams.
   Finally, Europe caught the Black Death.  The bubonic plague is a
social disease in the sense that it can be transmitted by intercourse
and other etceteras.  It was spread from port to port by inflected rats.
The plague also helped the emergance of the English language as the
national language of England, France and Italy.
   The Middle Ages slimpared to a halt.  The renasence bolted in from
the blue.  Like reeked with joy.  Italy became robust, and more
individuals felt the value of their human being.
   Man was determine to civilise himself and his brothers, even if heads
had to roll!  It became sheik to be educated.  Europe was full of
incredable churches with great art bulging out their doors.  Renaissance
merchants were beautiful and almost lifelike.
   The Reformnation happened when German nobles resented the idea that
their tithes were going to Papal France or the Pope thus enriching
Catholic coiffures.  An angry Martin Lutehr nailed 95 theocrats to a
church door. Theologically, Luthar was into reorientation mutation.
Calvinism was the most convenient religion since the days of the
ancients.
   The Popes, of course, were usually Catholic.  Monks went right on
seeing themselves as worms.  The last Jesuit priest died in the 19th
century.
   After the refirmation were wars both foreign and infernal.  Louis XIV
became King of the Sun.  He gave the people food and artillery.  If he
didn't like someone, he sent them to the gallows to row for the rest of
their lives.
   The enlightenment was a reasonable time.  Voltaire wrote a book
called Candy that got him into trouble with Rederick the Great.
Philosophers were unknown yet and the fundamental stake was one of
religious toleration slightly confused with defeatism.
   The French revolution was accomplished before it happened.  The
revolution evolved through monarchial, republican and tolarian phases
until it catapulted into Napolean.
   Great Brittian, the USA and other European countrys had demicratic
leanings.  The middle class was tired and needed a rest.  The old order
could see the lid holding down new ideas beginning to shake.  Among the
goals of the chartists were universal suferage and an anal parliament.
Voting was to be done by ballad.
   A new time zone of national unification roared over the horizon.
Nationalism aided Itally because nationalism is the growth of an army.
Here, too, was the new Germany:  Loud, bold, vulgar and full of reality.
   Culture fomented from Europe's tip to its top.  Wagner was master of
music and people did not forget his contribution.  Other countries had
their own artists.  France had Chekov.
   World War I broke out around 1912-1914.  Germany was on one side of
France and Russia was on the other.  At was people get killed and then
they aren't people any more, but friends.  Peace was proclaimed at
Versigh, which was attended by George Loid, Primal Minister of England.
President Wilson arrived with 14 pointers.
   In 1937 Lenin revolted Russia.  Communism raged among the peasants,
and the civil war "team colors" were red and white.
   Germany was displaced after WWI.  This gave rise to Hitler.  Germany
was morbidly overexcited and unbalanced.  Berlin became the decadent
capital, where all sorts of sexual deprivations were practised.  A huge
Anti-Semantic movement arose.
   Germany invaded Poland, France invaded Belgium and Russia invaded
everybody.  War screeched to and end when a nukuleer explosion was
dropped on Heroshima.  A whole generation had been wipe out ... and
their forlorne families were left to pick up the peaces.
   According to Fromm, individuation began historically in medieval
times.  This was a period of small childhood.  There is increasing
experience as adolescence experiences its life development.  The last
stage is us.


> OBJoke: for Mr. <+]::-{(} ("Cyberpope")

... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center.  When a
programmer used his new computer terminal, all was fine when he was
sitting down, but he couldn't log in to the system when he was standing
up.  That behavior was 100 percent repeatable: he could always log in
when sitting and never when standing.

Most of us just sit back and marvel at such a story; how could that
terminal know whether the poor guy was sitting or standing?  Good
debuggers, though, know that there has to be a reason.  Electrical
theories are the easiest to hypothesize: was there a loose with under
the carpet, or problems with static electricity?  But electrical
problems are rarely consistently reproducible. An alert IBMer finally
noticed that the problem was in the terminal's keyboard: the tops of
two keys were switched.  When the programmer was seated he was a touch
typist and the problem went unnoticed, but when he stood he was led
astray by hunting and pecking.

-- by Jon Bentley



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