From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Manifest Density [Was: Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64]
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131120132949.GO2936@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528CB0CF.3080406@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
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On Nov 20 07:53, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 5:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Nov 19 16:08, Warren Young wrote:
> >>On 11/19/2013 10:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>How dense is that?
> >>
> >>Manifest Density.
> >>
> >>(American joke.)
> >
> >...which I don't get. Care to explain on cygwin-talk?
>
> Manifest Destiny was a philosophy prevalent in the 1800's in
> America, that it was fore-ordained by God that the United States was
> destined to eventually settle and incorporate territory from the
> Atlantic to the Pacific. It was going to happen, it was right and
> just that it happen, and all it would take was time and a little
> American perseverance.
>
> Never mind those pesky Plains Indians^WNative Americans. How
> important, really, are the ancestral homelands and beliefs of a
> bunch of "savages" when compared to God's Plan for America?
>
> So it's a play on words: Manifest Density vs. Manifest Destiny.
Got it. Thanks!
Corinna
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2013-11-20 12:53 ` Charles Wilson
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2013-11-21 1:53 ` Warren Young
2013-11-21 11:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
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