From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 9 9:57: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop01.globecomm.net (pop01.globecomm.net [206.253.129.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C6A152E8 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r15.bfm.org [208.18.213.111]) by pop01.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id MAA07325; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:56:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990609114002.0097d490@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:40:02 -0500 To: Kevin McCarthy , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Star Wars and Microsoft In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 14:37 08-06-1999 -0700, Kevin McCarthy wrote: > >I just realized that the "trade empire" on The Phantom Menace refers to >Microsoft. It makes perfect sense! > >Fear leads to Microsoft > Miscrosoft leads to anger > Anger leads to hate > >Bill Gates is the Grand Emporer, and Darth Maul is Windows 2000. Go back >and keep this in mind! I think it refers to any such empire, past, present and future. Especially considering that any such pearls of Jedi wisdom (in the entire series) simply paraphrase similar pearls said by Siddhartha Gautama 2500 years ago. This particular one derives from his dictum "Ignorance leads to desire, desire leads to suffering." Mutatis mutandis, you get "Ignorance leads to Windows, Windows leads to suffering." Adam --- Visit Count Gracula's Gallery: http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/gallery/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message