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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: RE: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erich Dollansky [mailto:oceanare@pacific.net.sg]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:39 PM
> To: Aryeh M. Friedman
> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; FreeBSD chat
> Subject: Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >> Beastie's Law:
> >>
> >>   Any demand of a modification of FreeBSD or it's website
> >> using political incorrectness as the justification is automatically
> >> wrong.
> > 
> > Political Incorrectness is very subjective though.   In some circles
> > for example immigrants are "foreign born" and using the correct term
> > is "wrong".
> 
> both terms are offensive here.
> 
> I am a foreign talent.
> 

Really?  Cool!  Which planet are you from?

> This brings up a new question: what is with the local talent.
> 

The Earthlings started going downhill about 60 years ago when they
dreamed up this device called a TV Set.  But there are signs that
they figured out what they did and are abandoning them - we are
seeing the IQ of the herd rising again and
there is a direct correspondence to average TV watching hours.

Ted