From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 07:13:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C373516A41C for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:13:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@hyperreal.org) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz3.hyperreal.org [209.237.226.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F12A43D48 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:13:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 26329 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Jul 2005 07:13:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20050705071336.26328.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <20050703215922.GA9626@kongemord.krig.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: mike@hyperreal.org From: Mike Brown X-Whoa: whoa. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL119 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Linux move to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:13:32 -0000 Bob Hall wrote: > The belief that guys with red skin, horns, pointy tails, and pitchforks > represent the devil is a European superstition, not a Christian > doctrine. There's no support for it in the Bible or the writings of the > church fathers. There is also no support, except among BSD fans, for horned, pointy-tailed, red-skinned creatures with pitchforks representing anything other than a li'l devil. Saying it represents an invisible, oft-benevolent 'daemon' has very little credibility when the mascot was clearly intended to look like what two-thirds of humanity would recognize as _el diablo_, albeit an awfully harmless, cartoony one. I think I will give one of my favorite input & control devices, the 'mouse', a mascot. It'll look a lot like this guy: http://images.google.com/images?q=mickey%20mouse ...but if anyone complains I'll just tell them it's clearly not an animate rodent, but is rather a stylized, anthropomorphic interpretation of a computer accessory. I'm sure the lawyers at Disney will see my point of view. Hey, if it works for Beastie the "daemon"... On a more serious note, am I the only one who has been getting hiccups of freebsd-questions mail from last year? I just got a bunch of traffic (including one of the previous incarnations of this abysmal Beastie logo non-debate) from late December, all posts that I had seen before.