From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 20 14: 1:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A396937B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:01:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7150B43E6E for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:01:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from george.reid@oriel.oxford.ac.uk) Received: from sobek.lan ([80.6.30.227]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020820210117.CEUT23840.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan> for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:01:17 +0100 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7KL1KS03348 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:01:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from george.reid@oriel.oxford.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to george.reid@oriel.oxford.ac.uk using -f Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:01:19 +0100 From: George Reid To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why did evolution fail? (Was: Re: Why did FreeBSD fail?) Message-ID: <20020820220119.A3231@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020820113908.90626.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com> <200208201952.g7KJqCrT084796@apollo.backplane.com> <89704062.1029859719@[10.1.3.2]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <89704062.1029859719@[10.1.3.2]>; from ipswitch@apk.net on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:08:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:08:39PM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: > Yes, it's just hard to find a decent troll these days. They just don't make > 'em like they used to. Indeed. All of the trolls that I've seen this year appear to be suffering from some kind of textual dysentery combined with a truly amazing ability to regurgitate parrot-fashion things that they've read elsewhere. I am sure that there are those less cynical than I who would view these as _incredible_ intellectual feats of memory and wit. Unfortunately, the recent trolls have all the intellectual content of a mentally retarded sheep[0] with a $500/day heroin habit. How nice it must be to life in a world so simple that you can obtain self-gratification simply by masturbating your own ego when people read and are incensed by your posts. Perhaps you could inform the list how many brain cells need to be killed to achieve this blissful state of ignorance? I am positive that there are many intelligent people on the list (along with myself) who would love to know just how you crawled out of the Clue Sea and beached yourself. As for the calls from various people for the troll to reveal himself or herself, you probably haven't considered this may be an extremely difficult course of action for the troll. Self-awareness is usually only a feature of evolved life forms. As an aside, if you wish to "credit" me in your next little diatribe, I suggest "George 'faggot' Reid" or "George 'arrogant wanker' Reid". Hopefully this will save you those extra few minutes in digging around on Google and perhaps the saving this will afford you in energy expended by both of your synapsing neurons will help you to remember to breathe for a little longer. Ooops. Did I just killfile this thread? -- George C A Reid WWW: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~greid/ Mob: (07740) 197460 FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk [0] - Apologies to Jordan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message