Re: OT: The Geek defense

"tim" <TimJ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Pete Dashwood wrote:
>
>>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR2008022300693_pf.html
>>
>> What I'd like to know is exactly HOW you can establish yourself as a
Geek,
>> so you can claim this defence. If writing a file system for Linux is
all  it
>> takes (a weekend's work for a COBOL programmer...), then there are a
lot
>> more Geeks around than many people may suppose.
>>
>> Did he do it?  (Jo Brand, referring to O. J. Simpson: "Course he did
it;
>> he's a bloke...")
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Pete.
>
> You must be pretty good if you can write 15,000 lines of
> multi-processing kernel code in a weekend. This is the size of the ext3
> file system which is the predominant file system used in Linux.
>
> His attorney's tactics smack of desperation I think. But I have no idea
> whether he did it.
>
> Tim

Let's just hope people don't start getting off for such nonsense. It's
unlikely the guy is smarter than Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein or Stephen
Hawking, all of whom were/are good citizens, as were many other notable
geniuses through history. Being a weird nerdy jerk and murderer is about
character, not I.Q. Being very smart is another way of being different,
and
being different is always a challenge. A person's character determines how
they deal with it.
-- 
Judson McClendon       judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems     http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."