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Chimps Found Making Own Weapons to Hunt for Food
Pojut writes "The Washington Post has an article involving chimps and weapons. Apparently, there have been direct observations of chimps in the west African savannah modifying sticks to create spears. They then use these spears to kill small mammals and eat them. It is the first time that an animal other than a human has been directly observed in crafting a weapon for the purpose of hunting or killing."
These same chimps also have a complete IT staff and developers working on a Linux distro called CHIMPUX.
The Head of the Chimpux architecture team said, "We'd like to see Linux evolve to something useable. Since chimps are one step higher than your typical linux geek on the evolutionary ladder, who better than us to bring it to the masses."
Chimpux International is in trouble on several fronts for their company motto, "Chimpux for the rest of us, So easy a caveman can use it." Riled Apple and GEICO execs are considering action. The cavemen are torn, they'd really like to see a useable form of Linux so they don't want to stir Chimpux's pot.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Cue flamewar about evolution vs. intelligent design