Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Torvalds Slams Theoretical Security Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:33:52 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <_OmcnZpYmdE-PYX6nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@earthlink.com> <20241025153958.0000222f@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:33:52 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7c6466bfaa8c0e1cbe8706a34f544f37"; logging-data="978246"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19V+SzcmHswVAJGtLwF6URaEGDt+YRkLVU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ydnkEwqEf71aZ30KHqyIS/jECNY= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2800 On 28/10/2024 01:46, Physfitfreak wrote: > On 10/26/24 00:45, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:37:52 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 01:08:05 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>> Welcome to the problems of metaphysics >>> >>> Next stop: that wonderful fallacy known as “you can’t prove a negative” >>> ... >> >> About the time Heidegger asked 'Why are there beings at all rather than >> nothing?' in 'Introduction to Metaphysics' my head started to hurt. That >> was sentence 1, chapter 1. It didn't get better from there on. > > > Nobody still knows if there's anything. The whole thing has been a > conspiracy among life forms. I was once a neighbor to a philosophy major > in same school. Her thesis was based on the same theme. She was telling > me I was only one among the three in her life that listened and > understood what she was talking about. > > I fucked her of course. She was a cro-magnon of Czech background. One of > those feminists I fucked hard! The Nietzschean approach. Much to recommend it. -- "Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it." - Stephen Vizinczey