[Tfug] Thank goodness for Bill Gates!

[sitkaa at email.arizona.edu]

Once more I am delving into the world putting together a dual boot IBM T42. I
will be asking for help as soon as I fugure out enough to ask a cogent
question.






Quoting sitkaa at email.arizona.edu:

> Whether or not the angry wildcat is piloting the hovercraft matters far less
> than the its crafty feral ways. A wildcat needs no hovercraft to be crazed,
> setting off a storm of excitement, rather than letting sleeping dogs lie (and
> lie, and lie, and lie). The hovercraft is only useful in destroying
> infrastructure, about which any wildcat would care less. This cat is just
> pissed.
>
> As I sat in class tonight, supposedly learning, and attempting to take
> notes on
> my Microsoft based laptop, I just got angrier and angrier at Bill
> Gates, not to
> mention the people behind him. Not only does he enforce a monopoly at every
> chance, buy politicians like all the major corporate elite, and quash
> innovative ideas lest they compete, not only that but his programs just suck.
> They are expensive, don't work right, are loaded with bugs, spyware,
> backdoors,
> and they just suck.
>
> I just wish everyone used a Unix based system so I could too. Yes, thank
> goodness for Bill Gates, the man who most exemplifies this century of
> unchecked
> competitive greed.
>
>
>
> Quoting "Bowie J. Poag" <bpoag at comcast.net>:
>
>> You know, i'm not sure. Feral or not, they're still a formidable threat.
>>
>> I would imagine that any bobcat behind the wheel/stick/yoke of a
>> hovercraft is either angry, or frightened. The way I picture it, the
>> "angry" version sort of knows in a weird non-human but feline way that
>> what it's doing amounts to an act of agression, and as such, is capable
>> of guiding or controlling the hovercraft albeit in a haphazard manner,
>> guiding it toward it's target--my home.. You know, bouncing off of trees
>> and stuff, hissing and meowing, but still capable of minimal control. In
>> the other version, the bobcat is totally freaked out since it's totally
>> out of it's element. To a bobcat, there's nothing natural about a
>> neighborhood, or homes, a hovercraft, or controls..So, it's just
>> flailing around on the controls, hissing, meowing, and randomly hitting
>> things and turning in different directions..including toward my house,
>> up onto my lawn and hitting my house.
>>
>> I think we have stumbled upon one of the most frightening "feral animal
>> + special-purpose vehicle" scenarios we are likely to ever encounter.
>> I've thought about it....Bear + Blimp, Walrus + Ornithopter, even Bruin
>> + Space Shuttle.....but nothing terrifies me more than Bobcat +
>> Hovercraft. Nothing.
>>
>> Have the FreeBSD folks ever had to deal with this scenario? :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bowie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> John Gruenenfelder wrote:
>>
>>> Are bobcats still considered feral when piloting hovercraft?  That
>>> would seem
>>> to indicate a certain amount of domestication.  When you help them, that
>>> doesn't involve vehicle training, right?
>>>
>>> (Not to belittle you very good point, it's just that, well, bobcats +
>>> hovercraft = funny)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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