From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 10 9:21: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237D815192 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:21:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id LAA12103; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:20:57 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200001101720.LAA12103@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: load spike strangeness In-Reply-To: from Brad Knowles at "Jan 10, 2000 2:15:14 pm" To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:20:57 -0600 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At 6:45 AM -0600 2000/1/10, Joe Greco wrote: > > We have a new existential proof, "I'm archived, therefore I am"! :-) > > Absolutely! I just may not be the person I'm claiming that I am, > although I believe that we have reasonably strong evidence that I am > the same person I've been claiming to be for ten to fifteen years > (I'm not sure how far back some of the reasonably reliable archives > go), and that in that time I haven't switched either humans or > claimed personas. ;-) And your proof of this is... your word? > > Seriously, Brad, I'm not convinced that you're anything more than a > > complex PERL program until I meet you in person. > > Pictures won't suffice? Attestations to my existence from some > notable individuals who've actually met me in person won't suffice? Your concept of "notable individuals" and mine probably differs substantially. > Or do they automatically get sucked into my hyper-real simulated > universe at the time they meet me, and therefore they're now > simulated constructs as well? ;-) > > If the latter is the case, then you had better watch out during May.... You have no proof that I'm not a high-level simulation of artificial forgetfulness and that you're not just a figment of my imagination (and therefore prone to being forgotten). In this event, I'll certainly be here in May, but you might not. > > Particularly since > > you seem to have more time and energy to spend posting to Usenet and > > mailing lists than anyone else I know. ;-) > > Oh, I can name more than a few "individuals" who have a lot more > time and energy on this subject than I do, and some of them seem to > be almost as verbose as I am! ;-) Key word: "almost". > Of course, this is totally off-topic for -current, so I'm moving > it to -chat. Of course. If it hadn't been the first message I wrote this A.M., I'd probably have done that myself. Who are you, again? ... :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message