An interesting observation from the FreeBSD FAQ

An interesting observation from the FreeBSD FAQ

[Christopher Faylor]

I just saw this on the gcc mailing list.  It's spot on.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING

Re: An interesting observation from the FreeBSD FAQ

[Cary Jamison]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I just saw this on the gcc mailing list.  It's spot on.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING

Some of the examples remind me of how things are done in third-world 
countries.  Try picking something up at a post-office in Egypt.  You take 
your paper to the first window, where the person behind the window looks at 
it, and tells you to go to another window.  The next guy stamps it and sends 
you to another.  He checks to make sure it is properly stamped and sends you 
to another.  Finally you get to someone who will retrieve your package for 
you.

Repeat this process at any government office in the country.  We figured 
this is how they keep the masses employed :-)


Cary

RE: An interesting observation from the FreeBSD FAQ

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Cary Jamison
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 7:06 PM
> To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: An interesting observation from the FreeBSD FAQ
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I just saw this on the gcc mailing list.  It's spot on.
> >
> > 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHE
> > D-PAINTING
> 
> Some of the examples remind me of how things are done in 
> third-world countries.  Try picking something up at a 
> post-office in Egypt.  You take your paper to the first 
> window, where the person behind the window looks at it, and 
> tells you to go to another window.  The next guy stamps it 
> and sends you to another.  He checks to make sure it is 
> properly stamped and sends you to another.  Finally you get 
> to someone who will retrieve your package for you.
> 
> Repeat this process at any government office in the country.  
> We figured this is how they keep the masses employed :-)
> 
> 
> Cary

Well just imagine what would happen if your stamps weren't in order: Fire
and brimstone coming down from the sky.  Rivers and seas boiling.  Forty
years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes.  The dead rising from the grave.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

A guy of Vietnamese extraction I used to work with had similar stories to
yours about Vietnam.  He said that as long as you have plenty of US
Greenbacks to "lubricate the cogs", many of those sorts of hassles simply
evaporate.

Not sure if that still works now that the US Greenbacks have been changed
into US Looks-Like-Somebody-Spilled-Coffee-On-The-Backs.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle