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  1. I can see the ads now:"aHA!", "HA HA" or "HALinux" on Motorola Releases HA Linux · · Score: 3

    Sorry I don't have anything serious to add to this discussion. But how about some possible advertisements for HA Linux:

    "Argh! The Blue Screen of Death again! Where can I get an OS with 99.999% uptime? aHA! HA Linux."

    Or

    "Laugh at the competition: HA HA HA. Use HA Linux."

    Or

    "After seeing 2001 Space Odyssey: So that's what H.A.L. stands for: High Availability Linux"

    Now back to your regular scheduled posts.

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    "I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when
    I had put the last touches to it, I discovered
    that it was orthodoxy." G.K. Chesterton in
    Orthodoxy
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  2. Now using computers instead of people or animals on 'I Was a Human Crash-Test Dummy' · · Score: 1
    They refer to these issues in the article. The 2nd to last paragraph of the article reads:

    "By now, of course, the tolerance limits of the human body have long ago been worked out, and dummies and computers stand in for corpses and lab animals."

    Speaking of Wayne State cadaver's (WSU is my alma mater) I remember a high school basketall game where my coach was ripping on some of my teammates during halftime. I believe his exact quote (minus the 4-letter words) was: "How many rebounds have you gotten? Zero? Son, I could of put a Wayne State cadaver out on the floor and he would of got as many rebounds as you did." I guess to update the insult he could say "Son, I could put a computer simulating a live person out on the floor and it would of got as many rebounds as you did".

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    "Jo an of Arc was not stuck at the crossroads, either by rejecting all paths like Tolstoy, or by accepting them all like Nietzsche...She beat them both at their antagonistic ideals; she was more gentle than the one, more violent than the other...It was impossible that the thought should not cross my mind that she and her faith had perhaps some secret of unity and utility that has been lost. And with that thought came a larger one, and the colossal figure of her Master had also crossed the theatre of my thoughts." G.K.Chesterton in "Orthodoxy"