#1 2017-09-22 13:37:54
Review of pages intentionally left blank
...The Office of the General Counsel at the US General Accounting Office, acutely aware of the distress caused, purported in 2001 to have resolved the conundrum in its Principles of Federal Appropriations Law...reads “This page is intended to be blank. Please do not read it.”
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/22/revie … nally.html
Last edited by Smudge (2017-09-22 14:27:03)
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#2 2017-09-23 08:54:13
Eh. This is de rigueur with IBM Red Book manuals since time immemorial.
Last edited by whosasailorthen (2017-09-23 08:58:00)
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#3 2017-09-23 11:00:02
Sure.
But I think we can all agree that it was a significant advancement when they modified the phrase to include the instruction "Do not read." That doubled the number of paradoxes (paradox squared). No small feat for a blank page.
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#4 2017-09-23 13:27:34
This is the one instance where UNIX is superior. It comes with so many manuals, you can't help but to dump them all in the trash and just figure it out by yourself.
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#5 2017-09-24 16:37:13
This was a DOD thing from back when some pages wouldn't be printed. The back side of a page would be labeled "This page is intentionally blank" to let the reader know it wasn't a printing error.
Refers back to the card reader days etc., printing errors were very common back then.
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