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From: orn@rsp.is (Orn E. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help...
Message-ID: <143@.rsp.is>
Date: 14 Oct 89 16:59:48 GMT
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In article <18227@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, jas@postgres.uucp (James Shankland) writes:

> Why don't you try slaughtering a goat over your terminal, and letting the
> blood drip into the keyboard?   I had problems once, and *that* solved it.
>
If people BELIEVE that will solve there problem, who are we to say
othervise?

> 
> Randomly trying things, in the absence of an understanding of what's
> really going on, is no way to solve a computer problem.
>
Randomly trying things gives you a multiple perspective to observe a single
point.  Sometimes called SCIENCE, and used to gain new ways and methods to
help humanity on it's path through life.

How would you othervise come to know, what isn't known?  to understand what
is misunderstood?