Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 10, 2021

God does not roll dice with the universe.

Pratchett/Gaiman

Clause 10001.23-A There will always be politics, no matter how much people complain about it

Dies irae.

So we are here because apple existed before google?

So your bible is a EULA?

And the snake is Steve Jobs?

Adam, the worst that could happen is trapping all of humanity in a computer simulation. And nobody knows it. Trust me you don’t want to know what happens when the safety measures don’t work…

Is that the “Patience my a$$. I’m going to kill something” vulture ?

Which does Wiley use? From my experience he could be referring to either

“I want to speak to someone in ‘Customer Service’.”

I experienced three iterations of upgrade, failure, and rollback just this past weekend. Windows doesn’t like my software defined radios.

But thunder rolled. It rolled a six. – Pratchett

With a gorgeous, naked woman in arms reach, why would one even bother?

“What’s the worst that can happen?”

Answer: Mitch McConnell

OK, I give up. Is Eve wearing a leaf, a boa, or a reptile? Or is she just very strangely constructed? :)

Windows 11?

Like the Bible, nobody really reads the terms, they just scroll to the bottom and click “I agree”.

Show of hands, how many people have read through the ELUA of any software program?

I’d think that it would have been Lucifer pushing them on this. And wouldn’t he have used an Apple operating system?

Q. What’s the worst that could happen?

A. Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries. . . .

(With apologies and thanks to Ed Robertson and the Barenked Ladies for the theme song of The Big Bang Theory.)

The Devil is, literally, in the details. That is exactly why they make the licensing agreement a mandatory thing for software. A simple “Use at your own risk.” is not exactly, precisely, perfectly vague enough.

Wondering how it may have turned out if they rejected the terms …….

It’s no more ridiculous than the story as it is in that book.

Lawyers! THATS why we have EULAs!

God may not play dice, but I bet he sure plays a mean hand of Texas Hold’em…

Where’s Phil Collins?

I’ve always loved the “Dilbert” cartoon where Dilbert agrees to the terms and finds out he signed up to be Bill Gates’ pool towel boy.

Wiley sure hit the jackpot with this one!!

The whole universe system crashing, everything!

Love the vulture on the cactus.

God does ‘’roll dice’’ it’s called evolution.

Adam never did learn the lesson: “Never Ask That Question”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSD75pPsquM

Ah, the modern version — no direct warning not to eat the apple, He just put it in the fine print where they wouldn’t see it. Either way, the story portrays Him as a con artist who sets them up to fail, and His behavior as underhanded. Never thought it was a very flattering portrait of God.

It may be true that we are all descended from Africa but to say that the original ancestors were black is an assumption. That long ago we really do not know what color they were. We only make educated guesses from studies at what the climate and all other variables were 10, 20 or 30 thousand or million years ago. A lot has changed since then.

I feel like this with my phone, they do not tell you it’s an actual android update until you open it, by then it could have been malware.