🚀 go-pugleaf

Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) wrote:
: David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

: > fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:

: > > In article <g4h107.3i.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>,
: > > Mark Evans  <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> wrote:

: > > > The USS Yorktown appears to be an example of what happens when MS sell
: > > > their product to admirals in their normal way. Just that it's a whole
: > > > lot more dangerous to put an unreliable computer system on a warship
: > > > than in an office block.

: > > That's only natural.  Office blocks aren't supposed to sail the high 
: seas!

: > It seems you don't know Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" (?, back
: > translated from the German title) then.

: That's the English title (you mean you watch Monty Python movies in German ? 
: Gasp, Choke).

AAAAARRRRGH!! (The expression of frustration, not the castle by the same
name.)  I just watched that movie again yesterday, and all day long today
I had that accountancy shanty song in my head and it wouldn't go away.
I had finally forgotten it about an hour ago, and now all my hard day's
work at forgetting it has been ruined by your posts.

A curse on you all.

: Of course, the important lesson to learn here is that the US Navy assumes 
: their ships are like office blocks - a very dangerous assumption, if you'd 
: ask me.

If they use the NT SmartShip on all of them, then they will move about
as fast as office blocks.

-- 
Steve Mading:  madings@execpc.com   http://www.execpc.com/~madings