From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 14:14:24 2003 Return-Path: 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 9EA4037B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B74F43F93 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (Ugrondar@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5ALELuD027466; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:14:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: (from Ugrondar@localhost)h5ALELsV027465; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:14:21 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: storm.FreeBSD.org.uk: Ugrondar set sender to mark@grondar.org using -f Received: from grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])h5ALDdHh073467; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:13:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) From: Mark Murray Message-Id: <200306102113.h5ALDdHh073467@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Paul Robinson In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:50:54 BST." <20030610165054.GK26444@iconoplex.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:13:39 +0100 Sender: mark@grondar.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,FROM_NO_LOWER,IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: Bill Moran cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:14:24 -0000 Paul Robinson writes: > > How about sharks, with lasers on their heads? > > Too Austin Powers, and no good out of water. The FreeBSD marketing > department tell me that 92.8% of the people we wish to destroy and/or mame > don't live in water. Sharks might be a problem. Hang on. A solution presents itself to me. 92.8% of people that I have a problem with (more or less) could have that problem solved at no fiscal detrement to them by my, er, fish pond! Sharks aren't the problem, sharks are (in) the solution! > They can go across land, under water, the whole thing! And how cool would > THAT be! "Hey, Linus, nice threading there, but have YOU got a drunken polar > bear with a laser gun? No? Well, FreeBSD has got LOADS of them! HA HA!". > Yes, I can picture it clearly... it's all making sense. Even Microsoft would > have to evacuate their campus when it got over-run with laser-touting polar > bears... Shark or Polar-Bear-With-laser? My money is on the bear until I can find a way to arm sharks. > > Robots > > are so passe (and anyway, we don't have a single laser guidance system > > driver in -CURRENT). > > Do we have any cybernetic hookups ready yet? It's just I'd like to control > the polar bears with a mixture of FreeBSD, beer and sealions (to eat). No pizza, chocolate and popcorn?? M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH