Helen Borrie wrote:

>At 10:12 AM 3/08/2004 +0200, you wrote:
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>>>disk's physical surface or its heads from damage when people (or Acts of
>>>God) do this kind of thing. If the heads were left on the disk surface at
>>>
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>>Acts of God?? Did you watch "The Man Who Sued God"?
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>
>Ach, I spent a recent weekend repairing a database that got corrupted when
>a thunderstorm outage fzappt-ed a chunk of hard disk where a couple of
>pages of the company's database pages happened to be. Thunderstorms sans
>rain, natch, in a place that's locked in a three-year drought...company
>does backups in wet years...the Lord doth work in mysterious ways, his
>wonders to perform...
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>

Please Helen! This sort of religious talk is at least off-topic here,
and could be downright offensive to any who do not share your religious
views...

If I were to post something on a religious topic in this list, everyone
would tell me I'm off-topic -- and rightly so. I therefore never post
anything on this list that is of a non-technical (religious) nature. I
think others should use the same self restraint. Poking fun at and
joking about God are both dangerous for yourself and offensive to
others, as well as very childish.

Enough.
Jonathan Neve.


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