> > > From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> > To: lubuntu user list <lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [lubuntu-users] Apart from this I'm using syslinux > instead of grub2. > Message-ID: <20200730022816.0dfa7ea2@archlinux> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:03:51 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 3:51 PM Ralf Mardorf <kde.li...@yahoo.com> > >wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:34:54 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > >> >got a good laugh out of the "Hal 9000" line . . . classic geek humor > >> >there > >> > >> Using a computer without a sense of dark humour is really dangerous! > >> > > > >Indeed it is . . . and the reference to Hal 9000 is "the stuff of the > >dark web" . . . i.e., extra dark stuff . . . . : - )))) > > The relativity of real-time. > > The shooter sees the target by speed of light. > > The target hears the shot by speed of sound, if the shooter (even by a > ricochet) did miss the target. > > Even if the projectile should be slower than the speed of > sound, the speed of the awareness of the sound, is way slower than the > projectile. > > If the shooter didn't miss the target, then the target did not hear the > shot. > > Many people believe in noticing computers becoming dangerous, > before computers could harm. This guess is as infantil. > > Hiding behind a car door, as shelter against a projectile, gains > nothing. At best it blocks the view, but not the bullet. > > We also could hide behind car doors trying to ensure privacy and > security of data. > > >
> > A starting point: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux > > > @Ralf: Thanks for that link to the wiki . . . . On the previous allegorical data . . . well stated, it looks like something I myself could have written . . . to the usual "?" response. A couple weeks back I did a short keynote presentation to a group of mental health acupuncturists on the topic of "Connecting with Our Nature in nature for higher understanding" . . . I thought it was pretty "clear" what I was saying . . . . But after the talk the facilitator said, "Thanks for the presentation, of course for the most part not many people will understand what you were saying . . . but, thanks for saying it." So, Ralf, thanks for saying it . . . I still think "Hal 9000" is an apt metaphor for today's society . . . but mostly "self-inflicted" or "pilot error" on the part of the "carbon units" who don't understand their great blessings . . . and they let the synth units "run the show" . . . . We "didn't hear the shot" . . . etc. etc. : - )))) F
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