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rnturn 11-30-2019 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by trademark91 (Post 4370671)
way to go, i clicked the link, went to xkcd, and read backwards from the latest one all the way to 681, wasting my entire night.

Yeah... I think twice before clicking on links to that site. ``Do I have an entire evening to kill?''

Geist 12-04-2019 03:33 AM

Peaceful people are usually merely harmless, since peace is a decision only reserved for those with power.

Unknown source, and probably somewhat paraphrased, too.

Pastychomper 12-05-2019 04:17 AM

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— one of Robert Heinlein's characters, Time Enough for Love.

dc.901 12-05-2019 09:39 AM

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt

jsbjsb001 12-05-2019 09:43 AM

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I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
--Marilyn Monroe

Funny :p

jamison20000e 12-06-2019 07:21 PM

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The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
...

scasey 12-06-2019 07:46 PM

TANSTAAFL - another Heinlein word, I think by the same character as in #2163, which I suspect was Jubal Harshaw.

(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)

Bapun007 12-07-2019 04:47 AM

"The difference between gods and daemons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time." - Some character from Warhammer 40k

ondoho 12-09-2019 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by scasey (Post 6065444)
TANSTAAFL - another Heinlein word, I think by the same character as in #2163, which I suspect was Jubal Harshaw.

(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)

A much used phrase, esp. when it comes to online service providers.

But the analogy doesn't work for me, at all.
There is such a thing as free lunch. Charity and hospitality have always been part of human society. And while the former might be largely institutionalised and the latter on the decline, they definitely still exist.

I guess what most people really want to say when they use that phrase is sth like: "Please do look the gift horse in the mouth!" Being free doesn't necessarily mean there's no strings attached.

dc.901 12-11-2019 12:32 PM

If you cannot add days to life why don't we add life to days

jamison20000e 12-13-2019 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by dc.901 (Post 6066889)
If you cannot add days to life why don't we add life to days

Because we're idiots, teaching the children with old folks... generations behind what they may be!
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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
—*James Baldwin
...Edits.
Not to complain without some part of a fix: first-graders, some fraction of the day,,, should do projects or tutoring with the kindergarteners and so-on progressively to 12th and!
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... Making students into proper members of society has usually been of much greater concern than developing students who are creative thinkers. ...
http://www.engines4ed.org/hyperbook/...r-outline.html

jamison20000e 12-13-2019 05:37 PM

I love being vulgar with something so sweet,,, I won't miss that when I'm dead!

Michael Uplawski 12-22-2019 05:00 PM

“For me, it is always important to go through all the possible options for a decision.“

And she got caught in a loop somewhere in the process.

“Hatred, racism and extremism have no place in this country”

Definitely... she has been occupied with other things for a while, now. Angela Merkel.

jsbjsb001 12-23-2019 03:40 AM

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A chair with three and a half legs is more stable than Windows...
--me

Although, I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the Linux V Windows megathread... :shrugs:

Michael Uplawski 12-27-2019 01:41 AM

Women hold up half the sky” (Mao Tsedong)

I could say I found the only quote from Mao that is worth to post, here. But it is (of course) more complicated. This sums up about all my reactions to the daily flux of
-) murder stories from France
-) assumed machismo driven retarded behavior
-) “habit” that they use to call “tradition” or worse which restrains the human brain and conscience.

Did I explain already, that „Mao” was the very first word that I learned to write.., at age 4 or so (probably rather MAO)? It is true!
One of my then long-haired brothers taught me, not without mentioning that it can serve to write „Mama“, „Oma” (Grandma), ”Omo” (a laundry detergent; the picture shows Omo and two men from the Omo) and, most important... “Maoam” (a delicious, soft candy).

strstr and strcat, in short.


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