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From: shaver@neon.ingenia.com (Mike Shaver)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 16 Jul 1996 17:53:54 GMT
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Chuck Cranor (chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu) wrote:
: Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
: >"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."  I felt then, and feel now, that
: >working on *BSD is basically a waste of time.  
: 
: If people are having fun and enjoying working on a project (be it BSD,
: Linux, or whatever) who are you to judge?    That is an extremely arrogant 
: position for you to take.

Hello?
Thinking something is a waste of time is _arrogant_?
Either you're a bloody _saint_, or you didn't think before you wrote
that.

I think watching `Beavis and Butthead' is a waste of time.
I think my high school physics class was a waste of time.
I think programming for DOS 1.0 is a waste of time.

Mike
(arrogance abounds)

-- 
#> Mike Shaver (shaver@ingenia.com) Ingenia Communications Corporation <#
#> Paranoid for money.                            Sarcastic for kicks. <#
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#> "They already *KNOW* I am a whacko, Karen.                          <#
#>                  That doesn't mean I am *WRONG*." -- mjr@clark.net  <#