Apparently, though unproven, at 13:14 on Thursday 16 December 2010, Peter 
Humphrey did opine thusly:

> On Thursday 16 December 2010 07:24:27 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 03:33 on Thursday 16 December 2010,
> > 
> > Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> > > On Thursday 16 December 2010 01:01:27 walt wrote:
> > > > Every new generation of unix users *must* read it.
> > > 
> > > I get very tired of people telling me what to do.
> > 
> > Then don't read it but where else are you going to get the
> > information from?
> 
> I don't object to what Walt said, just the way he said it.
> 
> In this country we've had a long spell of a government bent on
> regulating every detail of our lives. Nowadays even the road signs tell
> me what to do, instead of what to expect. In fact it's worse than that -
> they've even started telling me what to think!
> 
> During my time in Minneapolis 20 years ago I was nostalgic about the
> freedom from petty restrictions back home. That's all changed now.

Nanny state. Now I see where you are coming from.

This is why I live in Africa, down here we can't be bothered with shit like 
that.

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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