Thus it was written in the epistle of Douglas Becker,
>
> He set a SYSTEM wide UDC as follows:
>
> AAAAASYSTEMEQ
> OPTION LOGON,NOBREAK
> BYE
>
> Can anyone tell me why he was reloading the System Monday morning from the
> Friday Night backup tape?

Because he got so concerned about that he turned enforcelogonudcs on (or
perhaps because he didn't know how to plan an invasion :-).  I trust that you
didn't know the manager personally . . .

> And one wonders whether or not to "cook a tasty meal" comes immediately
> after the "pitch manure".

Nope, programming the computer comes in between.  Then handwashing is even more
higly recommended :-).

> Then there is "comfort the dying"; is the hog that is dying by your hand to
> be comforted during the whole ordeal?

That or to be taught to die gallantly . . .

> I protest that no one could clearly define what it means to "fight
> efficiently"; someone there with a stop watch to take measurements? Or
> collect quantum statistics?

My definition is that if you got killed, you weren't efficient enough.

(and now a bit more seriously)

> As for "die gallantly", it hardly makes any difference how you die--you are
> dead and it makes absolutely no difference after that.

It does make a difference how you die.  Perhaps it makes no difference to you,
but if you are the only person to whom your death and manner of death are
important then you are already living a pretty impoverished life and I'd
definitely recommend learning to write a sonnet and cook a tasty meal and plan
what might well be termed an invasion.  Then you might someday need to know how
to change a diaper ;-).

Ted "back to programming a computer" Ashton
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