[My original answer to Mr. Skinner seems to be caught in the filters
somewhere.]
>Jennifer,
>
>Apologies for Mr. Skinner's personal attack; it was uncalled for, and I was
>angered when I read it. Please do not take Mr. Skinner's remarks to heart;
>after reading this message, you will feel some measure of sympathy for him.
>
>I recently tracked him to his current location at the Lower Primate House at
>a well-known zoo. Mr. Skinner was hooting and hollering with the his
>comrades, but took the time out to talk to me about his post.
You realize, Charles, that the control of propagation of hooting and
hollering is one of the essentials of scalable networking. Mr.
Skinner's implementation seems to be that of bad NetBEUI code:
broadcasting rather than multicasting, and sending redundant frames.
>
>He explained that in addition to his tire swing, they had also given him an
>Internet Device, and he figured out how to reach groupstudy.com.
Have you observed the structural similarity between a tire swing and
a token ring?
>... I knew that if I used "big words" , he
>would not understand why it was wrong, so I choose an analogy he could
>understand: tires.
>
>I expained that what he had done was akin to stealing the tires from the
>truck that delivered his bananas, and giving them to the arrogant chimpanzes
>the next cage over. He got excited until I explained that his bananas was
>still coming. I told by that while giving can be a nice thing, he should
>make sure he owned what he gave away, and that he would hurt himself and his
>species in the long wrong because without the "tires", the bananas would not
>get delivered. See, by taking the tires without paying, he reduced the
>incentive of the tire company to produce tires, and in fact, cuts into their
>capital and ability to make more tires. The end result is that the tire
>company could go bankrupt, and the world would be short of tires...and tire
>swings.
I'm still meditating on the relevance of "Old Man River" to
this...there must be some:
(from memory)
"...tired of living
And scared of dying
But Old Man IP
He just keeps rolling along
>
>I think Mr. Skinner now understands, but I am not sure. When I left, he was
>fling dung at the tourists, and hooting. He was also pounding on his
>internet device with his buttocks, so I imagine a heated post will soon
>follow.
>
>
There does seem a certain parallel between protuberant red primate
buttocks and the root of a spanning tree. Perhaps you are referring
to a thrashing in the root election process.
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