After enjoying more than half a millennium of existence in Heaven (about seven-hundred years, by his own count), Nasreddin Hodja came to Allah, complaining:
"Dear God, forgiving and merciful, please do something to Earth, so that more people would end up here. Without newcomers from down there, existence in Heaven is becoming, well, boring. I would suggest to bring more justice and laughs to the people of Earth."
Allah contemplated Nasreddin's advice for a brief moment, then answered smilingly:
"You are quite right, Molla Nasreddin. I shall load your donkey with a hefty luggage of justice and laughs and send it down to Earth."
In less than a blink of an eye, Nasreddin Hodja found himself riding his donkey along a dusty gravel road on Earth.

In order to earn some money, Nasreddin Hodja took up a construction job in far-away Minsk.

He encountered the following poster on the wall:

Dear migrant worker gentlemen,

The residents of this building kindly ask you to abstain from wall-art, leastwise for the fact that this avenue of self-expression was characteristic of bronze-age people and has since somewhat lost its importance and currency.

Thank you for your understanding!

"What is good for General Motors is good for America."
-- Charlie Wilson, CEO of General Motors Corp., 1955

Footnote:
Today, GM declared bankruptcy.

By sirmapur

The answer is 42.

1. Remotely configuring the only network interface of a web server.
2. Doing a WiFi router's firmware upgrade over WiFi.
3. Remote kernel upgrade.

Anything similar in your experience?

Instead of a copyright notice or a license, Nasreddin Hodja found the following blessing for the source code of SQLite database:

May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

As Nasreddin Hodja was eating a chicken leg, a beggar asked Hodja to give it to him.
"It is not mine to give," said Nasreddin, "it is owned by my wife."
"But you are eating it!" protested the beggar.
"Well, that's what my wife told me to do with it." replied Nasreddin.

Hodja took up the duties of a molla in a small village. During a drought, people asked him to pray that Allah send some rain for the crops. Hodja prayed dutifully, but the rain failed to materialize. After a while, people started grumbling that the new molla's prayers do not reach the Heavens.
"My prayers reach the Heavens for sure," protested Nasreddin Hodja. "they just seem to have encoding problems up there."

Paraphrased from here.

May your stationary satellites recover from the blackout without a glitch, may your receivers remain unharmed by direct sunlight, may your days be longer and brighter!

Happy Navrouz, everybody!

"Despite what the media might tell you, Jews and Muslims can and do live together in peace", said Nasreddin Hodja to his friend, Doniyor Kattaev. "I have seen it with my very own eyes! When I visited Prophet Daniel's tomb in Samarqand, I have seen two elderly men, a devout Muslim and an equally devout Jew, praying together in the mausoleum. From catching a few words of their conversation afterwards, I concluded that they were very close friends and had been for a very long time."

"And what is it that made them very close friends?" — asked Doniyor.

"Well, two things." — replied Nasreddin — "Obviously, their deep belief in God. But also the thirty years spent together in the ranks of the Communist Party of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic."

One day, Abdullah Jaffarov, the secretary of the Copyright Holders' Association reprimanded Nasreddin Hodja for downloading music recordings off file-sharing networks:
"This is unfair, Nasreddin. These musicians, they are working hard, and you're listening to them playing without paying. You know, they also need to pay their bills."
Nasreddin contemplated Jaffarov's argument for a while, then told him: "You are quite right, what I have been doing was unfair to all those musicians. How can I right my wrong?"
"Oh, that is no problem," responded Jaffarov. "you just pay the Copyright Holders' Association, and we shall distribute your payment to all the recording studios and they will pay the musicians."
Nasreddin Hodja immediately agreed to this proposal.

The next day, when Nasreddin Hodja went to the bazaar to buy some groceries, he asked his friend to record a video of him paying the vendor. "Why do you want me to record how you pay?" asked Nasreddin's friend.

"Oh, I must correct a horrible injustice," replied Nasreddin. "I shall send the recording to Mr. Abdullah Jaffarov, so that he can distribute it to all the studios he represents. See, it is only fair that if I can listen to the recordings of their musicians playing music, they can also watch the recording of me paying money."

Doniyor Kattaev promised to show Nasreddin Hodja how goods and letters are being shipped these days.

Instead of heady tales and rumors passed on by travelers along the Great Silk Road, all involved parties can now rely on instant electronic reporting, when it comes to figuring out what has befallen certain goods or documents shipped around the world.

While it took a fortnight for the Great Khan's mounted messengers to take a letter from one end of the Silk Road to the other, DHL now offers to deliver a letter from Central Europe to Central Asia (in particular, from Budapest to Tashkent) in three business days, using jet-powered airplanes.

As promised, DHL duly reported on where the letter was along its adventurous journey to the sunny city of Tashkent. However, it took a little more than the promised 3 business days. Looking at the itinerary of the letter, it is not difficult to see why:
( View DHL's report )
Moral of the story:

1. While the airplane with jet engines has the power of thousands of horses, it can still travel in the wrong direction.


2. To err is human, but to make a really big mess, you need computers.

Nasreddin's friend, Rashid, approached Nasreddin calling out enthusiastically:
"Hodja, Hodja, have you heard the latest news from the Ukraine?"

"No." replied Nasreddin. "What happened there?"

"Why, general elections have been called!" enthused Rashid.

"That's no news," said Nasreddin. "The real news would be that they aren't preparing for general elections in the Ukraine."

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"When elephants fight, grass gets trampled."
-- Indian proverb