From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 01:29:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478F637B401 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out.comcast.net (smtp-out.comcast.net [24.153.64.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD10F43FB1 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsimmons77@comcast.net) Received: from NiY.niynet (pcp400229pcs.parkvl01.md.comcast.net [68.34.21.85]) by mtaout10.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HDF009VBGXTYQ@mtaout10.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 04:29:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:25:17 +0000 From: "Timothy R. Simmons" In-reply-to: <20030416120449.A477.JOEL@alpsgiken.gr.jp> To: Joel Rees , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200304160025.17674.tsimmons77@comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <47079.207.200.3.5.1050420464.squirrel@otter.centtech.com> <200304150930.02216.tsimmons77@comcast.net> <20030416120449.A477.JOEL@alpsgiken.gr.jp> Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:29:55 -0000 You have my agreement on all three points. On Wednesday 16 April 2003 03:17 am, Joel Rees wrote: > > Okay, I'm sorry, I promised myself I wouldn't do this. > > Breaking a promise to yourself is a good way to weaken your moral > foundations. > > > But after thumbing > > through 165 e-mails this morning, most from this discussion group, I got > > a little tired of reading these. So, I figured I'd just throw in my two > > cents. I'm pagan. I'm proud to be pagan. I'm ordained non-denom pagan. On > > behalf of all the heathens out there using FBSD, I'd like to say... we > > like the daemon. Not because of any ocultist reitualistic 'I wanna go > > sacrifice a goat' BS, but because for once, a major contribution to the > > computing world is using something from our history correctly. Daemons > > were around long before Christianity. > > Many Christians would disagree with that. > > > They weren't bad then, they aren't bad now. Just my two cents. > > No argument with that. Wouldn't really want a "demon" (in the sense of > "evil spirit") in my computer, but "daemons" are no problem. > > Shoot, MSWindows has daemons, too. Microsoft just calls them something > else.