On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:45:03AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 5/20/2016 10:08 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote: > >>That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's characters > >>saying "It means whatever I want it to mean." > > > >No, Lewis Carol, Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through The Looking Glass. > > > >“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means > >just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said > >Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The > >question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” > > > >Lisi > > > > *ROFL* Thank you. > "Alice Through The Looking Glass" is a more suitable metaphor for 'nix > documentation ;/
Remember: 1) Unix is user friendly, it's just picky on who its friends are. and 2) Would you expect a tractor manual to give instructions on how to grow carrots? -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
