From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 26 13:26:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23848 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23826 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from serv.net (dialup445.serv.net [207.207.70.46]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04965; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35940285.4C7C@concentric.net> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: fewtch@serv.net From: Tim Gerchmez To: ML Duke Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" Cc: Rick Hamell , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, simon mendoza Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This stuff is interesting and controversial, but completely off-topic in freebsd-newbies. On 26-Jun-98 ML Duke wrote: >> > 1) have you all read Victor Orwell's "1994"? > > Its neccessary to interject on this one. From what I've seen, 90% of > the people on this list know more BSD than I do, but awareness is sure > lacking elsewhere which I guess is normal. > > It was "1984" and it was "George" Orwell, but those are unimportant > errors. The serious error is to think our current society is not > related to Orwell's "fictional" one. But Orwell's "double speak" has > been renamed: Its called "political correctness." ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez Date: 26-Jun-98 Time: 13:25:28 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message