Trees Falling (was: Modifying real fields in automatic)

[John Esak]

These are pretty funny, Mark... Yes they rise to the level of needing to be
sent around the net... :-  Is that very high of a level??  :-)

But, yes, funny... 

John
 

 
> With neither thought nor caution, Kenneth Brody blurted:
> > >> Nit: The user never _sees_ that they have left browse mode.
> > > If a tree fall in the forest...
> > 
> > The tree still fell, even if no one heard it.  :-)
> 
> Quantum Physics:  The state of the tree is indeterminate until someone
> observes its state.
> 
> Computer Gaming:  The tree was de-allocated to optimise 
> performance, and
> does not exist to fall or not fall, unless someone is 
> standing within the
> field of vision threshhold from the spawn point for the tree.
> 
> Computer Programming:  Unless it was a binary tree, I'm not 
> interested.
> Can't you see that I've been up for 18hrs debugging code?  I 
> mean, there's
> a clear count of Mountain Dew cans on the floor over there to tell you
> that.
> 
> Wall Street, as reported by CNN News:  Shares in paper 
> products suppliers
> plummetted disastrously today, on the news that a tree may 
> have fallen in a
> forest.  Industry analysts forecast that if trees keep falling over
> unaided, there will not be enough trees left to fuel this 
> multi-billion
> dollar industry.  A leading analyst at Gartner Research 
> predicts that all
> business and government functions will become unviable and cease to
> function within ten years if this trend continues.  The DOW 
> fell 700 points
> on the day as a result.
> 
> Environmentalism:  You cold-hearted bastard!  That poor, 
> innocent tree just
> DIED, and you not only did nothing, you wouldn't even respect 
> it enough to
> watch!
> 
> Politics:  The rate of falling trees is a serious problem for 
> our country.
> I propose we raise taxes 500% to subsidise the planting of 
> new saplings, so
> that our children, and our children's children might know the 
> beauty of
> seeing a tree standing upright.
> 
> The Military:  ELINT suggests that a tree fell over in the 
> middle of strike
> zone "forest", although HUMINT is unavailable at this time.  
> If ELINT is
> accurate, which we have no other choice but to assume, our 
> best course of
> action is a pre-emptive strike against the person or persons 
> unknown who
> may have caused the tree to fall.  The threat of Weapons of Mass
> Deforestation is simply too high to do otherwise.  Deadly force is
> authorised.
> 
> John Q. Public:  *yawn*  Hey, it's time for American Idol.
> 
> *** 
> 
> (Before anyone asks, as far as I know, these are all 
> original.  I typed
> them on the fly without reference to anything.)
> 
> mark->
> -- 
> Audio panton, cogito singularis.
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