[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Mar 22 12:08:31 UTC 2011


Joe Zeff:
>> I found myself, more and more, finding things obvious that nobody
>> else understood or knew, simply because none of the other techs had
>> anywhere near my experience.

Christopher A. Williams:
> ...And for those of us on the list who have been running Linux pretty
> much exclusively since Red Hat Linux 4 and earlier (and who use sudo
> properly):
> 
> def. Hubris (World English Dictionary)
> 
> hubris or hybris ('hju:bris)
> -n
> 1. pride or arrogance
> 2. (in Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition, pride, etc, ultimately
> causing the transgressor's ruin

Now was this pride before the fall, or after?

(Refer to the datestamps of the other big thread, today.)

;-)

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