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Re: Kernel upgrade time



On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting
> to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we
> know we know.  We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we
> know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown
> unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
> 
> - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, Winner of British Plain
>   English Campaign's 2003 "Foot in Mouth" award.

Why doesn't this statement make sense?

known known = square root of 4
known unknown = how many fingers am I holding up?
unknown unknown = the color of gilligan's shirt, to Shaka Zulu...

if you're gonna bitch don't be boring :-)



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