Re: No future for DB2

bka apparently said,on my timestamp of 31/07/2005 8:11 AM:

> Nothing like lots of capital letters to advance a technical argument!
>
> You must practise Llap-Goch
> (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8456/Llapgoch.htm):
>
> " ... the Secret Welsh ART of SELF DEFENCE that requires NO
> INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH or PHYSICAL courage
>
> The FANTASTIC SECRETS of the SECRET world-famous method of SELF
> DEFENCE, kept secret for centuries because of their DEADLY POWER to
> MAIM, KILL, SMASH, BATTER, FRACTURE, CRUSH, DISMEMBER, CRACK,
> DISEMBOWEL, CRIPPLE, SNAP and HARM are now revealed to YOU in the
> English Language by a LLAPGOCH master AT HIS OWN RISK, PROVIDED you
> promise to MAIM, CRUSH, DISEMBOWEL and so on ONLY in SELF DEFENCE.*
> * This is just to cover ourselves, as you will understand.
>
> WHO IS THIS MAN?
> This is the LLAP-GOCH MASTER who will reveal to YOU ONLY the
> SECRETS of LLAP-GOCH. He is a fully qualified leek coloured belt first
> dai master and cares nothing for penal reform.
>
> WHY 'At his own risk'?
>
> BECAUSE if his fellow masters of LLAPGOCH DISCOVER his IDENTITY, they
> will PUNISH HIM SEVERELY for revealing the DEADLY secrets he had
> promised to keep SECRET, without giving them a piece of the ACTION, and
> also BECAUSE of the TERRIBLE risk of PUNISHMENT he runs under the
> Trades Description Act.
> WHAT is LLAP-GOCH?
>
> IT is THE most DEADLY form OF SECRET self-DEFENCE that HAS ever been
> widely advertised and available to EVERYONE.
>
> WHY ALL the CAPITALS?
>
> Because THE most likely kind OF person TO answer THIS sort OF
> advertisement HAS less trouble under-STANDING words if they ARE written
> in BIG letters. ..."
>

WTF CARES?

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Nuno Souto
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