Fwd: Bullshit Epistemology (Was: Back to Windows...)

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:21:03 +0900
"Arwyn Hainsworth" <arwynh+ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/12/06, Cybe R. Wizard <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Oops!  Posted from the wrong account again.  See below.
> >
> > Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>  said:
> > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:17:51 +0900
> > > "Arwyn Hainsworth" <arwynh+ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 06/12/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:58:31 +0700
> > > > > Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ubuntu is for human beings.   So that excludes God, who most
> > > > > > likely doesn't need it anyway.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (Heard He used Slackware on the 10 commandments but couldn't
> > > > > > get the printer to work.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > Stone tablets have a way of jamming the works - and the drivers
> > > > > were proprietary, unfortunately.
> > > > >
> > > > > That was how the expression "hacking" was born....
> > > >
> > > > If you study the Texts closer, I'm sure you'll find the term "Hack
> > > > the Planet!", which obviously pre-dates the hacking of the stone
> > > > tablets.
> > > >
> > >  .... we still await bug fixes for the universe, but I guess
> > > they will only be released in a service pack, or perhaps in the next
> > > major version.   ;-)
> > >
> > Just consider, if the Author would only open source his work we
> > could /all/ be gods!
> 
> At the very least he could improve the Documentation...
 
Well , it's traditional for man pages to be written in ancient Greek,
ancient Hebrew and Aramaic  - or at least that's how they look to most
people. 

Unfortunately babelfish doesn't solve the problem, but the
Developer's view is that the interpretation is trivial, and left as an
exercise for the reader.

Peter