-- How many
light bulbs
-- does it take to screw Netscape?
Four. One for employees of non-profit organisations, one for
students and educators, one for people who can read a license
agreement, one for people who expect a company to keep its
word.
Note: Refers to Netscape Corp., which distributed betas of
their Web browser for free, announcing that the final version
will be free also. Once the final version was out, they changed
their mind. Only for students, educators and employees of
non-profit organisations does it remain free.
How many
municipal employees
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Seven - two to administer the Civil Service examination for the
Light Bulb Administrator position, the Commissioner of Public
Works, who ends up hiring his brother for the position anyway,
one to plow the mayor's driveway, a Summer Youth student to
actually screw it in, and a Union steward to protest that its
the electrician's job to screw in light bulbs....