[rescue] Legacy Sun SPARC server parts - disclaimer division

Brian Wheeler bdwheele at indiana.edu
Thu Apr 8 12:00:15 CDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:40 -0700, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Quoth Sridhar Ayengar ...
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:35 AM
> > To: The Rescue List
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] Legacy Sun SPARC server parts
> > 
> > Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > >> Please don't send these silly disclaimers to mailing 
> > lists.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > For that matter, don't send them *anywhere*.  Issuing 
> > demands/threats 
> > > to mail recipients is abusive and rude.
> > 
> > At work, I use:
> > 
> > ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my 
> > employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely 
> > coincidental.  Any resemblance between the above and my own 
> > views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of 
> > views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an 
> > exercise for the reader.  The question of the existence of 
> > the reader is left as an exercise for the second god 
> > coefficient.  (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral 
> > polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.)
> > 
> > I estimate that about half the people who see it have any 
> > idea of what I'm talking about.
> 
> "You know how dumb the average guy is?  By definition, half of them are
> dumber than that."

Wouldn't that be the median?



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