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Old 03-10-2019, 02:05 PM   #2071
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Also worth distorting, taking advantage of and apparently for granite...

"At the center of all being
We know the answer;
We know who we should be
and we know what we want.

Paraphrased for all*: Lao Tzu

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Old 03-10-2019, 02:17 PM   #2072
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"In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: Religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told.

"Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man - living in the sky - who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

"But He loves you.

"He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!"
- George Carlin
 
Old 03-20-2019, 04:39 PM   #2073
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If you need to wear a hat, do it in the privacy of your own home” (Winston Groom / Forrest Gump)

This came up, as I was responding in the other thread about OOXML validation. I wonder ... If it is “open” and nobody cares, but me... I am either very powerful or a complete jerk.

I guess I shall generate OOXML in the privacy of my own home and not mention it any more.
 
Old 03-20-2019, 05:00 PM   #2074
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"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'"

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Old 03-21-2019, 01:36 AM   #2075
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Old 05-12-2019, 08:25 AM   #2076
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No quotes since 03-21-19 ? I've gotta change that...

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If their mouth charged a fee, they'd be bankrupt
I just made that one up myself (thinking of my neighbour who must love the sound of their own voice) - but someone else may have thought of it before, I donno.
 
Old 05-12-2019, 08:36 AM   #2077
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Rowan Atkinson: "Although the law under discussion has been on the statute book for over 25 years, it is indicative of a culture that has taken hold of the programmes of successive governments that, with the reasonable and well-intended ambition to contain obnoxious elements in society, has created a society of an extraordinarily authoritarian and controlling nature. That is what you might call The New Intolerance, a new but intense desire to gag uncomfortable voices of dissent. ‘I am not intolerant’, say many people; say many softly spoken, highly-educated, liberal-minded people: ‘I am only intolerant of intolerance’. And people tend to nod sagely and say ‘Oh, Wise words, wise words’ and yet if you think about this supposedly inarguable statement for longer than five seconds, you realize that all it is advocating is the replacement of one kind of intolerance with another. Which to me doesn’t represent any kind of progress at all. Underlying prejudices, injustices or resentments are not addressed by arresting people: they are addressed by the issues being aired, argued and dealt with preferably outside the legal process. For me, the best way to increase society’s resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it. As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed. We need to build our immunity to taking offence, so that we can deal with the issues that perfectly justified criticism can raise. Our priority should be to deal with the message, not the messenger. As President Obama said in an address to the United Nations a month or so ago: ‘…laudable efforts to restrict speech can become a tool to silence critics, or oppress minorities. The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech’ and that is the essence of my thesis; more speech. If we want a robust society, we need more robust dialogue and that must include the right to insult or to offend. As – even if as Lord dear says, the freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all."
 
Old 05-12-2019, 11:24 AM   #2078
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Old 05-12-2019, 03:43 PM   #2079
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Rowan Atkinson: "Although the law under discussion has been on the statute book for over 25 years, it is indicative of a culture that has taken hold of the programmes of successive governments that, with the reasonable and well-intended ambition to contain obnoxious elements in society, has created a society of an extraordinarily authoritarian and controlling nature. That is what you might call The New Intolerance, a new but intense desire to gag uncomfortable voices of dissent. ‘I am not intolerant’, say many people; say many softly spoken, highly-educated, liberal-minded people: ‘I am only intolerant of intolerance’. And people tend to nod sagely and say ‘Oh, Wise words, wise words’ and yet if you think about this supposedly inarguable statement for longer than five seconds, you realize that all it is advocating is the replacement of one kind of intolerance with another. Which to me doesn’t represent any kind of progress at all. Underlying prejudices, injustices or resentments are not addressed by arresting people: they are addressed by the issues being aired, argued and dealt with preferably outside the legal process. For me, the best way to increase society’s resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it. As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed. We need to build our immunity to taking offence, so that we can deal with the issues that perfectly justified criticism can raise. Our priority should be to deal with the message, not the messenger. As President Obama said in an address to the United Nations a month or so ago: ‘…laudable efforts to restrict speech can become a tool to silence critics, or oppress minorities. The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech’ and that is the essence of my thesis; more speech. If we want a robust society, we need more robust dialogue and that must include the right to insult or to offend. As – even if as Lord dear says, the freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all."
I never knew Rowan Atkinson being such an intelligent person!

Love it. Especially the part of the 'robust society', since this is what I'm doing for years and years not limited to the real life only: to call/name a "Depp" as a "Depp" (German term for a guy/gal doing stupid mistakes).
 
Old 05-14-2019, 04:20 AM   #2080
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I'd like to quote something Laurie Anderson said in one of her "songs".
Maybe it's easier if you just listen to it.
it's not.
 
Old 05-14-2019, 08:10 AM   #2081
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Ricky Gervais: "Is there any subject you shouldn't joke about?" is no less ridiculous a question than "Is there any subject you shouldn't talk about?"
 
Old 05-15-2019, 12:47 AM   #2082
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Rowan Atkinson:
good stuff.
but i doubt that he had linux forums or in fact any sort of online community in mind there...

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it's not.
Alright.
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Originally Posted by Laurie Anderson
If a sperm were the size of a whale, however, it would be traveling at 15,000 miles per hour, or Mach 20. Now imagine, if you will, four hundred million blind and desperate sperm whales departing from the Pacific coast of North America swimming at 15,000 mph and arriving in Japanese coastal waters in just under 45 minutes
How would they be received?
Would they realize that they were carrying information, a message?
Would there be room for so many millions?
Would they know that they had been sent for a purpose?
 
Old 05-15-2019, 06:45 AM   #2083
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Steve Wozniak: "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX."
 
Old 05-15-2019, 08:16 AM   #2084
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Steve Wozniak: "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX."
You already posted that one in this thread here.
 
Old 05-15-2019, 05:51 PM   #2085
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