From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:06:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c7cc8dac9c245698d5793ff3448df9e@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EC9D5C.3070509@village.com>
On Fri Feb 10 09:04:57 EST 2006, wes@village.com wrote:
> ...
> But once in a while something happens that shows that it doesn't have to
> be that way. Read _Action This Day_ about how WWII was really won by the
> very smart folks at what is now Britain's GCHQ, including many from
> allied countries. The thing is, somewhere there has to be a Churchill
> directing people to be led by people who are smarter than themselves.
> ...
Yes. This has come up in many conversations recently.
The people who are smart and should know better about
computery thingies really dropped the ball and didn't
step up to say the direction was misguided. For whatever
reason, it doesn't matter now, it's all gone pear-shaped
and the wheels are about to fall off.
--jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-11 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-10 12:28 Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 12:51 ` Dave Lukes
2006-02-10 14:04 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 16:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-10 17:22 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 17:41 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-10 18:21 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 20:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 4:36 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-11 4:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 5:06 ` jmk [this message]
2006-02-11 6:52 ` lucio
2006-02-10 15:17 ` uriel
2006-02-10 17:42 ` Bakul Shah
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-24 13:36 quanstro
2006-02-24 13:49 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2006-02-24 14:24 ` Gabriel Ivanes
2006-02-24 0:55 quanstro
2006-02-24 3:46 ` yard-ape
2006-02-24 4:40 ` Lucio De Re
2006-02-25 7:43 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-04-24 18:05 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-02-11 4:48 quanstro
2006-02-11 11:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-11 3:40 quanstro
2006-02-11 0:10 quanstro
2006-02-11 3:01 ` jmk
2006-02-10 16:49 quanstro
2006-02-10 15:22 quanstro
2006-02-10 14:09 quanstro
2006-02-10 14:15 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 15:17 ` John Stalker
2006-02-10 13:44 quanstro
2006-02-10 13:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 4:34 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 5:29 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 5:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:14 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 6:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:46 ` geoff
2006-02-08 6:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 17:31 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 18:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-10 9:47 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 10:45 ` Steve Simon
2006-02-10 14:40 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-10 22:53 ` lucio
2006-02-23 22:52 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-02-10 11:05 ` uriel
2006-02-10 12:59 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 18:20 ` uriel
2006-02-08 19:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 21:35 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 21:43 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-08 22:57 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:03 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:17 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:26 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:43 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-09 1:47 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:56 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-09 2:35 ` Federico Benavento
2006-02-09 7:34 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-09 20:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-09 16:06 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-02-09 22:44 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-09 23:06 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-10 1:37 ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-08 22:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-09 13:04 ` LiteStar numnums
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