From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8171 invoked by alias); 18 Jun 2005 06:49:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 8142 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jun 2005 06:49:31 -0000 Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (HELO mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net) (204.127.131.116) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:49:31 +0000 Received: from dfw5rb41 (h-68-165-46-205.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net[68.165.46.205]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with SMTP id <2005061806493011200b83pse>; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:49:30 +0000 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: An interesting observation from the FreeBSD FAQ Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:00:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00458.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20050618140000.lMmmHlMMAAbogNP8mP7Vfay4qLGHZN7pj2W-pchbYxc@z> > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com > [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