Dilbert: Humans Are Meat
https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-20

Oh my, definitely a red flag.

Lynn

In article <tqetna$27cjj$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dilbert: Humans Are Meat
> https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-20
>
> Oh my, definitely a red flag.
>

I wonder if Scott Adams has heard of Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of
Meat"?

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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:21:11 -0800, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

>In article <tqetna$27cjj$1@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dilbert: Humans Are Meat
>> https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-20
>>
>> Oh my, definitely a red flag.
>>
>
>I wonder if Scott Adams has heard of Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of
>Meat"?

[https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-16] is on the same page as this
one.

Note the interesting thing about the strip titles: they all end with
"A". It is tempting to think that they actually end in "A.I." but the
software displaying them is too stupid to get past the first ".".

Is that a characteristic, by any chance, of Linux?
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development was the disintegration, under Christian
influence, of classical conceptions of the family and
of family right."

Paul S Person wrote:

> Note the interesting thing about the strip titles: they all end with
> "A". It is tempting to think that they actually end in "A.I." but the
> software displaying them is too stupid to get past the first ".".
>
> Is that a characteristic, by any chance, of Linux?

No, of Windows. Windows is the OS with the user interface that
hides file extensions (well, what it thinks are stanrdard file
extensions) so that crackers can send your colleages files called
"lottery_win.pdf.exe" and they only see the "lottery_win.pdf".
(Well, unless you forbid it to.)

-is

On 21 Jan 2023 19:55:07 GMT, Ignatios Souvatzis <u502sou@bnhb484.de>
wrote:

>Paul S Person wrote:
>
>> Note the interesting thing about the strip titles: they all end with
>> "A". It is tempting to think that they actually end in "A.I." but the
>> software displaying them is too stupid to get past the first ".".
>>
>> Is that a characteristic, by any chance, of Linux?
>
>No, of Windows. Windows is the OS with the user interface that
>hides file extensions (well, what it thinks are stanrdard file
>extensions) so that crackers can send your colleages files called
>"lottery_win.pdf.exe" and they only see the "lottery_win.pdf".
>(Well, unless you forbid it to.)

Good point.
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"In this connexion, unquestionably the most significant
development was the disintegration, under Christian
influence, of classical conceptions of the family and
of family right."

On 21 Jan 2023 19:55:07 GMT, Ignatios Souvatzis <u502sou@bnhb484.de>
wrote:

>No, of Windows. Windows is the OS with the user interface that
>hides file extensions (well, what it thinks are stanrdard file
>extensions) so that crackers can send your colleages files called
>"lottery_win.pdf.exe" and they only see the "lottery_win.pdf".
>(Well, unless you forbid it to.)

With respect, shouldn't this be the first thing you do after getting
your machine with a spanking new Windows install?

I'm pretty sure Windows had this "feature" as early as 3.0 and it
seems they change the dialogue to this option (which for my money
should be the default) so there's a bit of hide and seek involved but
for at least the last 5-6 years that's the first thing (after looking
at Windows Explorer to verify that my drives are the size I expect
them to be and that nobody has been stupid enough to change my
partition sizes to "help" me)

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
> Dilbert: Humans Are Meat
> https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-20
>
> Oh my, definitely a red flag.

Relevant SF stories:

Assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing! (if that's the
right story from the Draco Tavern).

The Hail Mary Project (well, a tiny little bit, towards the end)

War of the Worlds.

["Followup-To:" header set to rec.arts.comics.strips.]
Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
>> Dilbert: Humans Are Meat
>> https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-20
>>
>> Oh my, definitely a red flag.
>
> Relevant SF stories:
>
> Assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing! (if that's the
> right story from the Draco Tavern).
>
> The Hail Mary Project (well, a tiny little bit, towards the end)
>
> War of the Worlds.

The Tommyknockers.

-is

Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to rec.arts.comics.strips.]
> Thomas Koenig wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
>>> Dilbert: Humans Are Meat
>>> https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-01-20
>>>
>>> Oh my, definitely a red flag.
>>
>> Relevant SF stories:
>>
>> Assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing! (if that's the
>> right story from the Draco Tavern).
>>
>> The Hail Mary Project (well, a tiny little bit, towards the end)
>>
>> War of the Worlds.
>
> The Tommyknockers.

Hm, and actually there ia a relevant webcomic.
Let me find the right strip...
--time passes--
http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=513

-is