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You assume there was something there to be lost in the first place.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This is true.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Hmmmm.
It had always been my impression that expression one-man, one-wife were party of the safety instruction that all men should take due notice of.
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But it's not clear on which man, or whose wife.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I just don't get invited to those sort of parties.
That reminds me, I have a brilliant idea about using a piping hot cup of tea as a Brownian motion generator.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I just don't get invited to those sort of parties
There are websites for that.
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Everyone gets so mad about not buying local. So riddle me this batman (and Bat Ladies) What the heck is the difference between buying from Sears via the Mail from 1900 and buying from Amazon via the mail/ups of today? I don't see the difference all that much. I would much rather give the business to Amazon than Walmart? Just saying. and I do support local when I can. But seriously. I can shop from home in my underwear instead of going to Walmart and seeing people shoping in their underwear. Discuss???
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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you make this post sound like a exam question
my answer is Starbucks
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: my answer is Starbucks
Mine CL's answer is 42
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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modified 29-Sep-14 10:02am.
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Corrected
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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All H2G2 references get automatically up-voted!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: my answer is Starbucks
Then the question would have to be "What is that vile liquid?"
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I couldn't comment having never tasted it, I can, however confirm that the smell that emanates from the establishment does induce nausea
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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The concept of "local" is itself sorta fuzzy these days.
On one side you hear - increase minimum wage.
On the other side you hear - local labor is expensive, hence the Chinese goods.
Increase in globalization will always hurt the first world more than the developing nations. The one way to fight that is to improve efficiency, find better energy sources, minimize waste, reduce population etc. Easier said than done.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: reduce population
What?
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It's a pretty easy concept. The first three things he listed, "improve efficiency, find better energy sources, minimize waste", are more easily approached and solved with a smaller population.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
modified 29-Sep-14 11:36am.
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Thanks.
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And so, uh... who is he implying we "reduce"? Or maybe there is a demographic of undesirables?
Must that part of history repeat?
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Noo... reducing the ones that are already there is not a good idea and you probably won't get away with it... history should tell us.
Uhm... how to reduce... forced vasectomy?
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Pualee wrote: Or maybe there is a demographic of undesirables?
Well, we could start with VB programmers.
Jeremy Falcon
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Or stop consuming like there's infinite resources?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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there's no difference between mail order then and mail order now.
but, in 1900 you simply could not get everything locally. mail order was the only way to get a lot of things.
that's not the case for most people, today.
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Chris Losinger wrote: but, in 1900 you simply could not get everything locally.
Still can't get everything locally. Not even close. And I live in a moderately large size town and have not one but two walmarts relatively close to where I live.
Probably because there are far more choices now.
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Me think that in the 1900, the US industrial base was a lot more varied than what it is right now and most of the stuff we bought back then was made "locally" in the US; today, most of the stuff we buy comes from abroad.
One could argue that neither is good (amazon vs. walmart vs. other big box store) from a "buy local" and "buy sustainable" point of view.
There is a culture in America (and getting there elsewhere) that you need to buy often, buy cheap and buy in large quantity to show that you are participating in the economy.
It is my opinions that we need to buy less often, in less quantity and in better quality and as local as possible, even if that means skipping over organic food produce that comes from across the globe for locally grown produce even if not organic (for example)
And that it is preferable to skip meat (I'm not a string vegetarian/vegan) if there are meatless alternatives; I will eat fresh fruits and vegetables and nuts and grains and cheeses instead of meat if I can and if the produces are in season.
I prefer spending more (and sometimes a lot more) for a really nice dry aged prime rib roast than eat crappy meat every day.
I'd rather be phishing!
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