Fw: [alt.folklore.computers] Re: Programmer's unpaid overtime.

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

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Having worked with Windows, M-16's, Linux, and AK-47's, I couldn't
resist.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Wirchenko" <genew at mail.ocis.net>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:54 PM
Subject: [alt.folklore.computers] Re: Programmer's unpaid overtime.


> Subject: Re: Programmer's unpaid overtime.
> From: "Jack Peacock" <peacock at simconv.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
>
> "Morten Reistad" <mrr at via.reistad.priv.no> wrote in message
> news:7uudpb.i7a1.ln at via.reistad.priv.no...
> > Never trust civilians with handguns. It takes real skill and
experience
> > to handle a handgun. But any idiot with an AK47 ...
> >
> As one of those idiots with an AK47 (Finnish, not that cheap chinese
junk)
> I'd say it takes about the same amount of training as a pistol to make
good
> use of it.  As for trusting civilians with handguns I suppose it
depends on
> the locale.
>
> It's a credit to Mikhail Kalashnikov's engineering genius in making
the
> complex simpler and more reliable that an AK47 can be used and
maintained by
> any illiterate peasant from the Third World.  It seems most of the
world has
> discovered the Linux of rifles, cheap, simple, reliable, and easy to
> maintain, while the US and half of Europe struggle along with the
Windows
> version, expensive, complex, and prone to jam when needed the most.
>
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