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We only have to bury the bits the bears leave, happily. And that consists mainly of a few buttons and buckles, and those fancy whistles they sell at the souvenir shop to scare away bears.
Will Rogers never met me.
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The poor child possibly had the bad luck to be born to irresponsible morons. It's not hard to safely secure a firearm, even in a campground, if the owner of that gun is a responsible, safety-minded person.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the parents and friends shoved the children into a tent, proceeded to sit around the campfire getting poo-faced drunk, and never with any thought about where the guns are stashed - quite likely in the babysitting tent. Or worse, perhaps, the owner of the gun wore it to bed, in the same tent as the child, and never felt it being lifted from the holster. Who knows the details? But it will be something similar, I'm certain.
To grant a bit of slack to the parents, though, bad things do happen to kids, quite often in fact. But only when a gun is involved does it make headlines... My little brother, for instance, was quite keen at that age on stuffing assorted objects into any available orifice of his body. He got birthday cards from the Emergency Room staff at the hospital, so regularly was he in residence to have something or other removed or cut off an appendage. Any of these items could have killed him, and few of them could have been prevented by our very responsible parents, but they happened, and nobody put them in the paper, or on TV, nor demanded that pussy willows be outlawed or licensed because kids might stuff them into small, easily infected orifices.
Luckily, none of these events killed him; it took a drunk driver to do that. Oddly enough, though 35 years have passed, no one has yet proposed to take away our automobiles, nor ban ethanol. Funny ol' thing, life...
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Roger Wright wrote: Funny ol' thing, life...
I so want to quote Marvin now, but I'll forebear.
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Marvin was one of the clearest thinkers I've known in my life, and he is fictional. Lazarus Long was another, and one whose life I intend to emulate to whatever extent reality allows.
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Roger Wright wrote: no one has yet proposed to take away our automobiles
Don't give them any ideas.Roger Wright wrote: nor ban ethanol
Hasn't that already been done?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Of course, and like any attempt to legislate moral behavior, it was an utter failure. This is a Law of the Universe, and no amount of political wishful thinking will ever change that fact.
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I am sorry that happened to your brother.
Reminds me of a freshman at my high school that got hit by a drunk driver going almost 100 MPH in a school zone and was sent flying about 500 feet away onto asphalt. There was an ambulance there for a demonstration on the hazards of drunk driving (ironically, the drunk driver was the student government officer that organized the event), and it was able to get him to a hospital nearby. He survived the incident, and the (quickly former) student government officer was arrested after the car stopped working and the brakes seized up.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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It's starting to be quite the cracker! Longest rally 50 something shots. Some pretty ferocious hitting on display.
Wout
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Wall of text! Didn't bother to ready, but we'll see if he's another armstrong in 20 years I guess.
Wout
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The jist is his links to that Spanish Doctor who was recently in court and his cycle of injury/ returns stronger/injury/returns stronger. Didn't fully understand it but when players are injured they are allowed an injection of oxygenised blood cells, it appears nadal is abusing this by faking injuries. Also he regularly misses drugs tests , apparently you don't get in trouble until you miss three in a row. So he misses two in a row and then takes the third. It's a very interesting read, with links to support, shame about the formatting, as you point out.
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The Pledge[^]
Great film, cerebral not action, and with some brilliant performances from an all star cast.
Nicholson is mad of course.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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I never heard of it either but it made Roger Ebert's[^] list as #252 all time greats.
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Dalek Dave wrote: an all star cast
The only all star cast worth a darn was in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
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Amen on that!
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With both Jack Nicholson and Benicio Del Toro, you can't go far wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nicholson is utterly daft or drunk, but brilliant nonetheless, and that's reason enough to recommend it. Do you suppose he's secretly Irish? That would explain so much...
Thanks for the review, Dave; I hadn't heard of the flick, but I'll be certain to pick it up if I see it.
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It is a good film. Caught it a long time back, but couldn't remember the name.
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His response[^] to an online petition.
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TTFN - Kent
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Not sure about poet, blunt is more like it. A programmer-poet would have written the response in code
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On the Penguin OS most finest
Prepare your nads to be minus
If you're part of non-fandom
And criticizing /dev/random
You're going to be neutered by linus
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Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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(disclaimer, I'm not a linux user/developer, I've installed linux once not long after it was released, a long, long time ago; and I've not followed the linux drama)
Linus is a bully; He did something technically quite wonderful when he first build linux and release that to the masses, but he's not the person to be put in front to market it (even to developers);
People like Miguel De Icaza (gnome, ...) did more for the Linux brand than Thorvals ever did.
Linux (kernel) will die from a internal civil war when he either quits or die of old (r)age.
(I have the same feeling about Stallman, a bitter old man, notwhistanding his computing skills)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Linus is a bully; He did something technically quite wonderful when he first build linux and release that to the masses...
In that regard, he is a little like Jobs, in that he was somewhat of a visionary and was able to get other people to build on what he had done, and there is a significant empire there now after all these years. One difference though is that his product was always free. I think if he charged for it he would be a rich guy, perhaps on the order of Jobs or even Gates.
FWIW, Shuttleworth is somewhat doing it the other way around.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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I think Bjarne Stroustrup would be a more appropriate comparison.
When you look at conferences/keynotes done by Stroustrup, you see that he is as passionate about is language as is Linus is about his OS, but the way he present the product and the way he surrounds himself with great people that will continue the legacy (Herb Sutter, Scott Meyer, Alexandrescu, ... )
But maybe I'm not just as interested in Linux as I am about C++.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Interesting discussion. You are probably comparing apples with bananas. It seems Linus is like Gates without the money. Stroustrup is the real visionary.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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