Dan Kaminsky

Thu Jul 30 23:16:40 UTC 2009

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:48:18PM -0700, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> 
> On 29-Jul-09, at 9:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> >Ettore Bugatti, maker of the finest cars of his day, was once asked  
> >why
> >his cars had less than perfect brakes.  He replied something like,  
> >"Any
> >fool can make a car stop.  It takes a genius to make a car go."
> >
> >so i am not particularly impressed by news of children making a car
> >stop.
> 
> at the risk of adding to the metadiscussion. what does any of this  
> have to do with nanog?
> (sorry I'm kinda irritable about character slander being spammed out  
> unnecessarily to unrelated public lists lately ;-P )

At the risk of adding to the metadiscussion, I've never seen anyone die
from having a car that accelerated too slowly. Unfortunately I think
encouraging Randy to drive cars with bad brakes would be against the
NANOG charter. :)

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