On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:55 -0600, Von Fugal wrote: > Wow, what a thread. I started flagging posts that I wanted to respond > to specifically. Well, there were far too many. I might yet respond to > a few.
Sorry, you're too late to the party. This thread was retconed by the "external USB recommendation?" thread in which it was revealed that Jack the Ripper was cryogenically frozen in a Victorian ice house then revived during WWII to assasinate Hilter. When he failed to do so, MI5 discovered that the person revived was not in fact Jack the Ripper but merely a butler who had been hypnotized. The actual Jack the Ripper was in fact still living in Russia under the name Vladmir Lenin. And, in a shocking twist, had previously used the name Niccolò Machiavelli. Marx was just a patsy. As a personal challenge, Machiavelli/Jack the Ripper/Lenin decided to engineer the collapse of human society by using the eastern bloc to force western economic models toward exaggerated extremes. Thankfully Isaac Asimov foresaw the danger and, using Harry Seldon as a mouth piece, adjusted the trajectory of the collapse to instead produce the recent financial panic. Ayn Rand, daughter of Machiavelli/Jack the Ripper/Lenin, tried to counter this influence. Fortunately, while she did manage to disorient several generations of college sophomores, she never achieved the wholesale neural slaughter she targeted. And that is how Ernest Saved Christmas. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
