butler

Advantage: It's available everywhere and you don't need to remember new commands if you SSH into another server where butler isn't installed.

Besides being great storytellers, Butler won the MacArthur Prize and Steve has written episodes for a variety of TV shows over the years.

Hell, you could be his personal butler for the rest of your life.

Browner jammed his receiver effectively which allowed Butler to sell out on jumping the route and then somehow hold on to the ball.

Lamport's colleague Butler Lampson evangelized the idea to the distributed computing community [19].

If you think about what a butler would do, that's the logical endpoint, it could mostly be done in software I think.

If Butler were still living I'm sure she'd have been interviewed as well.

Yeah it's not quite got enough to beat an alias or ctrl+r - Butler is another cool little tool I'm going to keep forgetting to use.

I've stopped working with people like that after the second time I had to tell one of them (banker guy) that I'm an engineer, not a butler or a babysitter.

I don't think either of my suggestions are particularly sensible (unless maybe you are in a situation to have your butler take care of it), but they are possible, which compares favorably to the idea of a maintenance free bike.

Still, it's easier for John Doe to empathize with a family that is struggling to pay for their ordinary-house-in-expensive-neighborhood, than it is for him to empathize with a family that is struggling to pay for their three Jags, butler, and Caribbean cruise.

For example, technically the Iraq War involved my country (our PM was the butler in the meeting in Azores where they declared war, and we deployed troops there), but it wasn't a fight for our country like the short version of the question implies.

Reminds me of the quote: "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." — William Butler Yeats.

Pilfered from Wikipedia entry: Butler developed " Darwin Among the Machines " and subsequent articles into The Book of the Machines, three chapters of Erewhon, published anonymously in 1872.

...and Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" testimony.

What I would say is that as a former Marine and a combat vet who tried to understand the "why?" behind the war(s), I consistently return to Smedley Butler and the attempted facist coup known as the business plot and Butler's testimony to the committee.

The American (anglosaxon?) categorization of poststructuralist philosophy (like Foucault or Butler) as critical theory is curious to (mildly educated) European readers.

Samuel Butler, a century ago contemplated that change and also foresaw that this would eventually happen to jobs requiring more brain work, as well.

There are two others, Steven Barnes and (the late) Octavia Butler.