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British To Release UFO Files
Sean Stidman writes "Looks like the Brits are planning to release their secret files on many UFO sightings, including the famous Rendlesham Forest incident. These files should be ready for download by the end of this week, which I guess means by tomorrow. Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?"
"Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?"
/. editors can refrain from duplicating this story tomorrow then nobody will remember the link.
If the
Does anyone think that this will actually _change_ anything ?
I would assume any actual ET sightings would be "redacted out", as the Brits would say.
Bill Gates' birthday video will be available by the end of this week...
Are their servers going to be able to handle the load? No.
What they will finally admit that the royal family is actually from some distant star system? I knew it!
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The truth is out there, mate!
Now if I can only get this blasted server to pick up these files...
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the UFO is the one that's flying out the window as i've discovered the suckitude that is linux
That "famous Rendlesham Forest incident" wasn't that the one with the UFO with the mysterious blue/red flashing lights. And with the red(!) flashing lighthouse a couple of clics away? :-)
Supposed the be the British "area 51", says a lot 'bout UFO loons
Do you think for a second that the NSA and the Alien Studies Administration (a secret, classified offshoot of the CIA) will ever let this come to light and compromise the Roswell coverup and numerous other incidents throughout the decades that have helped the government implant thought-tracking devices in the heads of key international figures in exchange for allowing the aliens to abduct a fixed quota of non-desirable citizens each year? Fat fucking chance! They are still out there, in their black helicopters and UFO-saucers, aiming their laser rifles at all the fuckers who think they have them beat. I can block their radiation brain wave modifiers with a special metal I concocted in my basement.
I can't prolong this transmission because they are getting a fix on my location. Please, please, listen to me and believe me when I say that you need to steal this for the short time it is up before THEY realize it is there. Fight the power!
--sdem
Youve been caught again hemos
Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?
only if it's an x-fileserver.
Letting the Americans have one last turkey feast before announcing the alien invasion.
Shortly followed by the next UFO sighting of their server flying out of the server rooms window in pain and anguish. Actually what am I saying, when the hell was the last time you heard of a server room with a window, let alone enough people paying any attention to it at all to notify of a new UFO sighting.
We can learn the secret to phoning home.
Next time i'll temper the sarcasm, sorry.
you're thinking of that seizure inducing pokemon cartoon
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"Not after we've slashdotted them."
.gov.uk will be a bit more stable than the usual slashdot [then suddenly dead link] linkage. Sorry to disappoint you.
Somehow I expect
I am going to be off-topic for a moment to gives thanks to all of the hardworking guys and gals at Slashdot. I am so addicted that I have to check even on Thanksgiving and lo and behold, there is new content here as if it was any ole Thursday!
Damn, Sam, THANK YOOOOOOOOOU!
But you people deserve to take Christmas off!
In Russia, is is belongink, nyet are belonging, comrade. Am Thinking you no Russian...
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
The aliens land,
taking all the hot women.
Slashdotters are greived.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
http://www.rendlesham.comh tml
http://www.io.com/~nelson/rendlesham.htm
http://www.debunker.com/texts/RidpathRendlesham1.
Tape Transcript: http://www.skiesare.demon.co.uk/bentwatr.htm
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I believe it's not just other countries that have UFO-coverup stories; other planets have them, too.
- This side of the river is intentionally left bank.
Does this means we'll be able to download all those UFO episodes????
This will definitely be interesting to see, but as always with governments releasing "secret files," I am skeptical. Certainly these files, if they are legitimate, are not the complete collection, but rather very carefully selected tidbits from the massive archives of British intelligence.
I wish people would stop thinking "UFO! OMG! Aliens!"..
A UFO is exactly that... an Unidentified Flying Object. It doesn't mean it's from another planet, it just means there was an object in the air, and some bystander with a fuzzy camcorder at best couldn't work out what it was.
right here
Which version are they releasing?
- Carpal Diem - My wrist hurts today
We'll see. They're building up towards a full on attack on their servers by allowing /. to have a run at them first!
WE are the first wave!
Imagine for a moment a world without hypothetical situations...
I'd like to see just how much money Universal / USA Network / SciFi Channel have put in to promoting Mr. Spielberg's upcoming 20 hour mini-series. So far I've seen:
1. Bombardment of ads for the show.
2. Ads for freedomofinfo.org (checkout the whois)
3. The Abduction Diaries ???
4. A Geraldo style show about Roswell
5. And now, paying off the Brits to unleash their hype^H^H^H^Hinfo.
It all seems pretty expensive to me.
the release will consist of ...
- footage of brightly coloured aliens with CRT screens embedded in abdominal area
- chemical analysis of 'moon' wenslydale
- a police box
When I was a kid I overheard my dad talking about how my mom was applying for citizenship because she was an alien. Of course when I heard "alien" I assumed the outer space kind (or as I said back then, "out of space") because I had no knowledge of the foreign kind. The next day at school I told everyone I knew that she was an alien, it went over quite well. :)
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but were successfully repelled by the local cuisine.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Finally this is NOT not off-topic :) Here's an analysis of the slashdot effect. In the UFO files case, I believe the effect will be tens of times powerful in terms of distinct visitors than the case I analyzed and hundreds of times stronger in sense of data transferred, as they are probably going to serve fat media. I believe they will go down.
From, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ ldhansrd/vo981217/text/81217w03.htm:
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Gilbert): Thirty-eight files are held at the Public Record Office for release under the terms of the Public Records Acts 1958 and 1967, the 30-year rule applying:
AIR 2/18564 & 18565 UFO Reports--due for release 2002.
AIR 20/12067, 12297 to 12306 Unidentified flying objects-due for release 2001.
AIR 20/12399 to 12411 UFO reports--due for release 2003.
AIR 20/12544 to 12555 UFO reports--due for release 2004.
BJ 5/311 UFO: Met aspects--due for release 2001
Four files are held by the MoD records management branch pending acceptance and transfer to the PRO, PRO references and transfer arrangements awaiting confirmation:
AF/7463/72 UFO reports--provisionally assigned to PRO reference AIR 2/18831 for release in 2003.
AF/7464/72 UFO reports--provisionally assigned to PRO reference AIR 2/18872 for release in 2004.
AF/7464/72 Pt. II UFO reports--provisionally assigned to PRO reference AIR 2/18873 for release in 2005.
AF/7464/72 Pt. III UFO reports--provisionally assigned to PRO reference AIR 2/18874 for release in 2006.
In the absence of a thematic index of files stored in MoD's archives the identification of files has, of necessity, been limited to those created by the Air Staff Secretariat and predecessor branches. The following files have been identified and are earmarked for review by MoD at future dates, at which point they will be assessed for their suitability for preservation at the PRO. It is possible that some files created by other Headquarters divisions or establishments may contain papers on this topic. These could only be identified at disproportionate cost:
AF/S4f(A)/422--one file--UFOs, BBC Radio Oxford Programme.
AF/S4f(Air) U/506--one file--Statistical Analyses of UFOs.
AF/3459/75--one file--UFOs: Policy and Policy statements--1970.
AF/584 to 595--12 files--UFO reports.
AF/596 to 602--seven files--UFO reports.
AF/447--one file--UFO reports.
AF/607 & 608--two files--UFO reports.
AF/610 to 613--four files--UFO reports.
AF/616 to 619--four files--UFO reports.
AF/419--one file--BBC 2, Man Alive Programme: UFOs.
17 Dec 1998 : Column WA178
D/DS8/75/2/1--six parts--UFO reports, correspondence.
D/DS9/75/2/2--12 parts--UFO correspondence.
D/DS8/75/2/3--six parts--UFO reports, edited copies.
D/DS8/75/2/4--three parts--UFO reports.
D/DS8/75/2/5--two parts--UFO reports.
D/DS8/75/3--one part--UFO, Parliamentary Correspondence.
D/DS8/75/6--one part--UFO, TV discussion.
D/DS8/75/7--one part--UFO, satellite debris.
D/DS8/10/209--seven parts--UFO briefs, reports and correspondence.
D/DS8/10/209/1--three parts--general briefs, reports, UFO correspondence
they will have an Unidentified Slashdotted Server on their hands...
The Brits has bought Duke Nukem's digital DNA from 3D Realms. "We needed people who could protect our women from the aliens. Therefore we'll clone a bunch of human embryos with Duke's digital DNA, and get us some superhumans." said the British Defense Secretary, Geoff Hoon.
Now you all know that 3D Realms has been marketing Duke Nukem's DNA instead of working on Duke Nukem Forever... Well, it's coming "When it's done"... *yawn*
Okay, so I read the Colonel Halt (love the name) transcript, looked at the photos, looked at the interviews and . . .
/.er,
What a pile of self-deluding baloney!
Read the transcript. None of those guys knew how to use their gear, they couldn't even find enough flashlights, they didn't know the territory. I wouldn't trust those guys to tell me how many buttons were on their shirtfronts.
Stuff hovering over Mexico City? Maybe.
Weird sh*t at Roswell (even beyond it's being a military test site)? Yes, something seriously hinky was going on.
Pilots saying that there's a lot in the sky that looks UFO-ish to them? I'm not in a position to judge.
But this thing? Yeah, right. I'll trade ya my secret decoder ring for your deed to the Brooklyn Bridge and then we'll go investigate.
Posting while I eat, like a true obsessive
Rustin
Data is the lever, rigor the fulcrum, brains the force that drives it all.
Come back and get this one please! www.strangecosmos.com/view.adp?picture_id=7064
release from British Freedom of Information Act excerpt: "According to witnesses ---- ------ ----- there ------- ---- --- are --- ---- ---- -- no ---- such ---- ---- -- thing ---- as ----- ----- -- UFOs.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
hahahahaha.... ode business-profit troll.
yep theyll just black out anything sensitive. Or are the british better than the U.S.?
...server abduction? {twighlight zone theme goes here}
Then again if Hemos hasn't warned the admin, "UFO" could mean the /. effect: Unidentified Fscking Overload.
Ali
Ph33r m3!!!
I didn't notice a particular site where they were releasing this info. Yet another conspiracy ;)
The British press will have a field day!
http://www.tributefilms.com
But what if he does understand, or what if he's expressing his opinion based on what he's experienced or read? Many people do understand how America is run and are not 100% happy with everything. Furthermore, his criticism of America is quite similar to views I hear about other counties from americans. He is right to challenge the notion of America being the land of the free, freedom allows you to do that.
The British don't eat British cuisine(s) any more...or at least the infamous parts of it. They're too busy munching curry ... :)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
..They'll have footage of Elvis returning home.
</MIB reference>
Because we already have everything we need out in the open:
NUFORC has many reports of high strangeness and high quality.
UFOSkeptic a must read for all "science types", written by Dr. Bernard Haisch.
Science Logic and the UFO debate. Once you read this, you will have no doubts left.
And finally, all the arguments of the skeptics were completely demolised single handedly by a man called Brian Zeiler on USENET circa 1996. Essential reading, if you have the patience.
Essentially, the arguments about this subject are over. The interesting discussion is centered around what is to be done about this problem... if anything.
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That's why they want to invade Iraq. Saddam Hussein is an alien.
Bored on a sunny day? Get a huge tank of helium, and about a thousand oblong silver balloons.
Then drive around following them, pointing "What's THAT?!!".
Great fun.
Is Russian, is no "is" or "are" or "am." Impostor revealed!
Load wont be an issue seeing as the juicy bits will end up somewhere upon the bbc site and you can just cover it then as the daily BBC link. Is this the new trend in /. posting effects or will we see a return of the old yesterdays stories again syndrome, I wonder.
You should check out http://www.hessdalen.org/ where they have an automatic measurement station. There have been many sightings of lights. So they have a Sun box controlling some cameras, taking pictures etc,,,, well look for yourself.
Even if you are not info spooky lights, it is still an interesting project from a technical perspective.
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Have you read this transcript and report? This is a military report, drawn from multiple eye witnesses, and includes scientific measurements of depressions, abrasions, and radiation levels.. this is not some hick in a trailer park trying for 15 minutes of fame.
... But, I think this is pretty damn interesting.
Furthermore, I think it's a bit dismissive in this case to call it "just some object in the air", like it could be a weather balloon or swamp gas or something. This is an object that moves and behaves like no known terrestrial phenomenon.
What do you think it could be? Ball lightning? Its movements seem too deliberate. Secret American or Russian aircraft with magnetic/gravitic propulsion and stealth tech? About as hard to swallow as aliens.
I'm not saying OMG! Aliens!
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
if the ufo aliens post their story about earth on the intergalactic equivalent of slashdot, will earth be slashdotted by hundreds of millions of ufo's?
Okay, so the government is going to release its files. But I don't see any announcement that the aliens are going to release _their_ files about the incident. What are they trying to hide from us?
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
I have a different spin on "government secrecy". I suspect that governments don't really know much more than the average citizen.
The real reason for all the secrecy is that governments are ashamed to reveal what they DON'T know!!! After all, the military, in particular, owe their jobs to being "in control"!
This is not to suggest that UFO's are not real in some sense, just that we really don't know what they are. Some government agencies may pretend to their superiors that they do "know", but a little thought must suggest that they can't know more than the common person.
There are two possibilities:
1/ UFO's are really operated by aliens who have mastered the speed of light and have technology thousands or millions of years beyond us. In this case, the aliens won't reveal anything about themselves that is remotely connected to the "truth" and all of those mighty government agents must know exactly nothing! Everything we think that we know is just a virtual reality, multi-media, sound and light show completely orchestrated by those highly advanced aliens.
2/ UFO's are some subtle and unknown natural phenomenon. In this case their is nothing interesting for government agents to know!!! It will be of interest only to a few specialized scientists.
At least I will know what I am looking for when I read these British "UFO Reports".
I should say the same to you.
I have news for you friend, but I work from within the system you so boldly claim I know nothing about. I know more about it than you will ever hope to, because I see it from the inside out every day of my life.
If you had any idea what was going on behind closed doors with regard to the people who are making decisions and passing laws in this country, you would be disgusted.
Link url to blackvault, the largest UFO site on the web, among other things contains thousands of US freedom of information act documents, and yes, there's a boatload of redacted out content, as in "nothing to see here, we just blacked this out because... uhhh... ya see.. I mean..., well because we can!" This site is BIG, well done, and thorough, I recommend it to serious researchers and enthusiasts AND skeptics.
http://www.bvalphaserver.com/
the Black Vault
The web master started this site I *think* when he was 16, I've been visiting off and on for years.
Here's my disclaimer. Some of ya'all might have noted my frequent reference to "government" as more or less a pack of liars. One of the two primary reasons (initially that is) I have held this position most of my life is because of "ufos". when I was a teenager some friends and I saw one very close up, very close. Nope, no drugs or booze involved to dispel any trolling. It was not swamp gas, nmoon on a ducks back, some helicopter, or any other explanation other than -no explanation. Some seriously advanced flying "something'. To describe it , it was a large glowing oval shaped whatever, it flew down the block just above the houses, stopped over a house closeby, hung out, then slowly went down the block, toward the end it started to climb then WHAM took off like mach bignumber and was gone. Tell ya whut you just do NOT forget things like this. So, I start reading about UFOs,and I notice the government more or less says they don't exist except as various lame reasons. Well, too bad, 'cuz I know this is a whopper. Score one for destroying a yong man's trust in government, already shaken by the kennedy whack, then oswalds rubout which was obvious to anyone with an iq above 50 as "eliminating some embarassing evidence".
government=liars when it comes to certain things. This is IMO of course, but in the decades since I have seen no evidence to persuade me otherwise, in fact,I'd say the evidence FOR ufo's as being something "other" is better than for "honesty in government".
Exactly what they are, no idea, demons to secret nazi craft, time travellers to interstellar visitors, angels to secret gov blackops-no idea, none. I tend to more think the correct answer is "all of the above".
Yes. Yes they are.
maybe I should put it on the level they understand...
1) UFO
2) ???
3) Profit
Belgium had a nice incident involving UFO's being spotted by people on the ground, by radar, and by pilots in planes - including military pilots scrambled to intercept the UFO's.
As far as I know they never found out what exactly they were chasing...
Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?
Of course. They all run on advanced alien technology.
Incident #4232:
Kook claims that aliens raped him in his sleep. Kook as has affinity to carrots and sleep walking.
Incident #3222:
Kook claims she was abducted off her couch after a long night of drinking, claims she woke up while being probed by aliens. When asked what the aliens looked like she said "James Bond"..
Incident #2234:
Kook in a trailer park claims he was abducted. Wife reports he was passed out the entire day and night while he slept through his alcohol poisening.
The simple fact is that people are delusional and stupid.
These are probably similar whackjobs who believe in "Twin Flam Energies" and all that hippy bullshit.
Fuck Pseudoscience.
I was gonna say that maybe 'you' had been visited by aliens and had your funny bone removed... but then I realised you're a pommie so that's an anatomical impossibility. ;)
- I am made of meat.
forgive me for asking... I really want to know.
Why is it in this 'free' land I'm assumed guilty until proved innocent if I forget the key to my encrypted documents? Not to mention the ever growing panopticon which is the streets of England.
Me-thinks you need to read up a lot more on the state of freedom in these countries...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Free secret decoder ring!
That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn! -NJ CoolBreeze
So will UFO be in tape or DVD? It may be difficult to find extra bits for bonus discs...
"These first steps mark important progress toward changing the culture of government and extending the public's right to know what is being done in their name" Freedom of Information Minister Yvette Cooper said in a statement
Okay... seriously.. what DID them brits do to thiese poor aliens? And in the name of the british people! did they force them to play soccer and drink ale or something??
The second they release their files, people are going to be reporting sightings of strange lights from where the server room used to be...
boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse
...none of the target audience of these documents will ever believe them for a second.
Anyone else hear more about this? CNN has a story about an unidentified contrail being investigated by NORAD. Didn't know they tracked these things -and how does one tell one is special? Was it glowing green or something?
... the documentary book entitled The Philadelphia Experiment?
No, I'm not talking about the movie (well I guess I am sort of), but this was a documentary on possible US Navy research into invisibility, just as in the movie.
Most of the book is about that (I think; I haven't read it all yet), but in line with the "government conspiracy" angle there was a very interesting UFO sighting and subsequent follow-on (or is that redundant?) .
I might post it here tonight when I get back home if anyone's interested; it's about 2 pages, which from a typical novel is probably little enough for fair use.
(Then again, maybe it's online somewhere...)
Can't find examples of evolution? No matter, neither could Dawkins
[b]2008[/b]: Aliens land on Earth. People of all races give up their petty bickering and fighting among and with each other and unite together in harmony to fight off the hostile Aliens.
[b]2010[/b]: The Aliens from outer space have been beaten. The few remaining aliens jump in their spaceships and take off, vowing never to return. All of humanity rejoices over their united victory.
[b]2011[/b]: Most of humanity returns to their petty nature, choosing to bicker and find problems with those who look different, act different, etc. Humans fight humans again and the whole ball of dung starts rolling again.
The British do have a Constitution. It is oral not written.
Grievance for women?
Only on one condition:
Natalie Portman.
The best footage ever, which you never see anymore, was on a show years ago which showed this glowing orb actually carving out crop circles. This was happening in broad daylight with the camera guy going nuts in the background and trying to follow it but it was all VERY clear. Then as if this wasn't weird enough suddenly one or two black military helicopters start buzzing the orb and the cameraman. The orb goes off from the field and hovers a few feet above the field at which point the helicopter gets real close and hovers too as if they can't believe what they are seeing and want to get a really good look.
I'm not sure of the program now but the footage was absolutely real. I've never seen anything like it before or since that is so amazing, save maybe the face on Mars. The fact that you don't see this footage at all anymore makes me think it may have been squelched by someone.
Atleast you have a properly implemented legal system, however bad it maybe.
In most Asian countries, the laws are what the politicians and the police define. If you have money, power and status, there's nothing that you cannot do. Your complaints fall on deaf ears, even the simplest of ones.
Just as an example, there is an anti-smoking law in India which prohibits smoking in public places, when a friend of mine questioned a cop for smoking in a public place, the cop said that my friend was the one smoking and dragged him off.
I've lodged complaints against people who've mugged me, with details of their appearance and vehicle reg. numbers. So far, I've not even had a single response.
Cops and government officials ask for bribes at every stage, even if you are law abiding. The politicians set the rules. My father had to quit his job because he wanted to name some corrupt people in his organization.
Almost every politician is either from the Entertainment industry or has a criminal record, or both. What does the judiciary do? Absolutely nothing. Cases are lodged, and dropped with no charges and an apology.
We fail to understand how govt. employees with meagre salaries buy cars and properties that even the richest cannot afford.
I do not know abt UK, but I've been in the US, and have heard abt UK. Yes, to the dot perhaps it's a little bad, but not until you've lived the way we have. This is HELL.
there are some pictures of that party in the UFO report. you know, the borg cube with the disco lights on?
Free as in mason.
Actually the lack of flexibility is nothing to do with the US constitution.
;) ).
Haven't you noticed that most US people quote their constitution mainly by its _amendments_?
1st amendment, 2nd, 5th blahblahblah. (most people seem more familiar with the amendments than the document which was amended
While their constitution is definitely flexible and has changed with time, ironically most US-folk seem to quote the amendments as if they are eternal and cast in stone.
Link.
What's this got to do with the original article?
I live in Otley, a village about 3 miles from RAF woodbridge (ive been camping on base since it was 'closed down' and they started building houses where all the support huts used to be.)
There werent any UFOs at Rendlesham, but, for an abandoned air base with no military personelle on it, there was a large number of helicopters flying real low, at night, with no lights on??? Three LYNXs with TOWs on them.
Also, there were these guys walking round the runway the next morning, in a black jeep wearing black outfits, i kid you not.
Not UFOs, but still a bit odd!
Seb
CHICAGO--In a report with dire implications for the intellectual future of America, a University of Chicago study revealed Monday that the nation's uneducated are breeding twice as soon and twice as often as those with university diplomas. "The average member of the American underclass spawns at age 15, compared to age 30 for the average college-educated professional," study leader Kenneth Stalls said. "America's intellectual elite, as a result, is badly losing the genetic marathon, with two generations of dullards born for every one generation of cultured literates." Added Stalls: "At this rate, by the year 2100 there will be five smart people on Earth, swallowed whole by more than 12 billion mouth-breathers incapable of understanding the binary exponentiation that swamped the Earth with their like." High-school dropout Mandi Drucker, 16, said of the findings, "All I know is, we're in love."
People - if you are early, and manage to get the documents from the site before it falls apart, please share those documents using gnutella, fasttrack, freenet etc. P2P networks scale to much higher bandtwidths than even a massive server park.
Stop the brainwash
A brilliant post.
As I said in another thread, the arguments about UFOs are over. The preponderance of evidence makes the nature of UFOs abundantly clear.
The interesting discussions are now centered around what is to be done about this problem, how it is developing, and what use we can make of it for our own benefit.
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The ET's have been trying to keep themselves secret as long as possible. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, they have been covertly prepping us politically and psychologically for an invasion. Once their existence becomes official they will cut their losses and commence the invasion.
Oh no! Silver balloons! Run for the hills!
Just release them from a silver derigible and pretend you're the mothership.
Isn't that a misnomer?
Very interesting way to put it. I notice that this is exactly what all those people who profess evolution to be a fact rather than admit that it's still just a theory (and a poor one at that imo) do.
There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors. "Look at
how well off I am here," he said to a mainframe programmer who came to visit,
"I have my own operating system and file storage device. I do not have to
share my resources with anyone. The software is self-consistent and
easy-to-use. Why do you not quit your present job and join me here?"
The mainframe programmer then began to describe his system to his
friend, saying: "The mainframe sits like an ancient sage meditating in the
midst of the data center. Its disk drives lie end-to-end like a great ocean
of machinery. The software is a multi-faceted as a diamond and as convoluted
as a primeval jungle. The programs, each unique, move through the system
like a swift-flowing river. That is why I am happy where I am."
The microcomputer programmer, upon hearing this, fell silent. But the
two programmers remained friends until the end of their days.
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