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Once upon a time, there was a software engineer who used to develop programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He used to earn his bread and butter by selling those programs in the Sunday market.
One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and fell into the river. Encouraged by the Panchatantra story of his childhood (the woodcutter and the axe), he started praying the River Goddess. The River Goddess wanted to test him and so appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers. The engineer told her that he had lost his computer in the river.
As usual, the Goddess wanted to test his honesty. She showed him a match box sized computer and asked, "Is this your computer? " Disappointed by the Goddess' lack of computer awareness, the engineer replied, "No."
She next showed him a pocket-sized computer and asked whether it was his.
Annoyed, the engineer said "No, not at more...

>> >>> There was a software engineer, who used to develop programs on
>> his
>> >> Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He
>> >>used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday
>> market.
>> >>> One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table
>> and
>> >> fell in the river. Encouraged by his childhood story of the
>> >>lumberjack and axe, he started praying for the river Goddess. River
>> >>Goddess wanted to test him and so appeared only after one month of
>> >>rigorous prayers.
>> >>> The engineer told her that he lost his computer in the river. As
>> >>usual, the Goddess wanted to test his honesty.
>> >>> She picked up a match box and asked "Is this your computer? ".
>> >>Disappointed by the Goddess' lack of computer awareness, "No"
>> replied
>> >>the SWE. Then she picked up a pocket sized calculator and asked if
>> >>that more...

Had they spoken Computer lingo, this would be what the Sri Lankan political leaders might be saying:
Chandrika Kumaratunge: Why should I be the one who gets all the blaming whenever the computer goes down? UNP had misused it for 17 years and when given to me, it was in a real bad shape. See what I have done to improve its performance within just four years. Haven't I fixed a brand new screen filter? Haven't I given it a brand new mouse pad?
Ranil Wickremasinghe: She promised a Pentium and gave you a damn 286; She promised a 56k modem and gave only an outdated 14. 4k one; She promised 64MB RAM and now tells you to be satisfied with 8MB. So why don't you vote for me? I'll give everyone of you a brand new Pentium III with grand multimedia kits.
Anura Bandaranaike: That blue computer sucks. It has no processing power at all. The only working part it has is its' MOTHER BOARD'.
Wimal Weerawansa(JVP): As a party, JVP vehemently opposes violence. We do not even allow our more...