Comments on: On the Stupidity of People http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/01/08/on-the-stupidity-of-people/ Rants and opinion interspersed with awe-inspiring tales of heoric software engineering endeavours. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Wesley Hall http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/01/08/on-the-stupidity-of-people/comment-page-1/#comment-3444 Wesley Hall Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:08:10 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=347#comment-3444 Perhaps they were contracted by OPEC! Sounds perfectly spherical to me! Plus, the new threat of intergalactic terrorism would probably allow the governments of the world to raise the security level to "That special kind of red that you can't actually see without those funky night vision glasses", and just kill us all at birth to prevent the possibility of us doing anything subversive in the years that would follow. Anyone have the phone number for the editor of the sun newspaper? Perhaps they were contracted by OPEC! Sounds perfectly spherical to me! Plus, the new threat of intergalactic terrorism would probably allow the governments of the world to raise the security level to “That special kind of red that you can’t actually see without those funky night vision glasses”, and just kill us all at birth to prevent the possibility of us doing anything subversive in the years that would follow.

Anyone have the phone number for the editor of the sun newspaper?

]]> By: Dan http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/01/08/on-the-stupidity-of-people/comment-page-1/#comment-3437 Dan Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:53:10 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=347#comment-3437 Wez, probably more likely that a compiler bug broke the windmill than an alien spacecraft. The Register has a <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/12/ufo_crash_site_sealed/" rel="nofollow">follow-up story</a>. I think one of the commenters summed it up best: "Technologically super advanced aliens traveled light years across the reaches of space to visit earth and... crash their ship into a wind turbine?" Wez, probably more likely that a compiler bug broke the windmill than an alien spacecraft.

The Register has a follow-up story. I think one of the commenters summed it up best:

“Technologically super advanced aliens traveled light years across the reaches of space to visit earth and… crash their ship into a wind turbine?”

]]> By: Wesley Hall http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/01/08/on-the-stupidity-of-people/comment-page-1/#comment-3436 Wesley Hall Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:27:07 +0000 http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=347#comment-3436 Well....it *could* have been a compiler bug!! Well….it *could* have been a compiler bug!!

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