On 7/15/05, Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (As a practicing SubGenius, I like to think of the "ornery, cussing > Debian", up there with the Two-Fisted Jesus, and the Butting > Buddha. Others may have other views)
As a practicing Episcopatheist, I like to murmur, "There is no God, and debian-legal is her Prophet." >;-> > Helps. The British Army likes to send officers out in front - produces > lots of dead heroes in the upper classes, as well as reducing incidence > of fragging... Yes, indeed. Dead heroes are the safe kind, from a political point of view. The US, with a little help from its foes, is currently engaged in producing an alarming number of one of the unsafe kinds: living but multiply amputated and/or addled by massive brain trauma. Ooh -- I didn't notice your .sig before I wrote that. Synchronicity? :-/ > By the way, a spot of Google produces: > > Child (1984) cited A machine designed by geniuses to be run by idiots, > Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, on the organization of the wartime US > Navy. I do like a man who cites his sources. > I get asked from time to time by academics for interesting projects for > their students. I think I now have another: > > Implement a system capable of using standard AI techniques to process > the (a) existing judgements and (b) content of debian.legal such that it > can issue plausible analysis of a new software license... Plausible? No problem -- in the trade we call that a "pseudo-random number generator". Hard to implement without infringing some patent the USPTO issued last week, though ... Cheers, - Michael
