From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 29 12:10:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (rh5.bfm.org [208.18.213.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2244C1575A for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:10:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA00239; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:09:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:08:37 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jordan exists Message-ID: <19990729140837.A223@whizkidtech.net> References: <199907281524.LAA61875@dean.pc.sas.com> <199907281539.LAA09614@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <379F4390.950D08FA@newsguy.com> <19990729125245.A224@whizkidtech.net> <37A09679.88910EFD@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <37A09679.88910EFD@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 02:59:22AM +0900 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Expediently moved to chat.] On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 02:59:22AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > Jordan exists. > > Don't go there. This whole existance-of-perl-scripts thingy is > dangerous territory. Jordan's existence is beyond reasonable doubt, which means legally he exists. I can present two arguments for his existence: 1. I once received personal email from Jordan. That would not mean much as of itself. But the *contents* of that email could not have been conjured up by any software except that running inside a human brain. 2. The mere lack of existence of Jordan's Witnesses, or any other proselytizing group, shows that anyone who claims he/she has actually met Jordan in person is telling the truth, as they, obviously, have no psychological need to prove it to themselves first. (I never met him personally.) So, why do I go beyond *reasonable* doubt rather than having *absolute* certainty? Because there is one tiny detail that may raise small doubts: Any photograph I have ever seen that purported to be of Jordan, was actually a picture of Keanu Reeves, just touched up to make him look younger. BUT! The pictures were touched up under FreeBSD, therefore Jordan exists. QED. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message