Just had a quick scan of ICIDH draft, at least the final 130 pages in
reverse order (I never do things the right way round)
It is indeed taxonometric madness, never since the book of numbers, and
levicticus, the code of Hammurabi, or the necronomicon has there been such
an insane attempt to give everything a number and category. Even Noah
checking his animals onto the ark could not have made such a list.
Does anyone recall the walkers crisp packets of yore and the useless
snippets of information they contained on the back? particularly the one
about the european regulation for the designation of ground nuts? that were
transparent compared to this burocrats accounting frame.
If you go to the toilet and it takes you three minutes instead of four, then
give it a number or category.
If your boss doesn't like you but the milkman does, give it a classification
and a name.
How many hours were spent in the compiling of this. It makes Dr Johnson the
harmless dictionary druge look benign.
Linnaus where art thou?
Dewey and your decimals, come back all is forgiven.
Sono non numero sono uno houmo liberte (or something like that)
Larry
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