The Usenet Oracle: win95 = lose$95 It seems to me that hoping for Netscape to `defeat' Microsoft is like|driving the devil away with Beelzebub.| -- Anselm Lingnau Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. The answer is no. Vinea: Hey!! No fair using "copy" and "paste" Anarion!!! I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. Don't talk to God using MS-Mail; you'll get to see him in person long|before the message arrives. Supplicant: "Freedom!"|Oracle: "Finally deleted Windows95 from your hard drive, eh?" When cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have cryptography. What if there were no hypothetical questions? If a country wide [cryptographic key] escrow database of any size|were compromised, it would make Fort Knox look like a jewelry store.| -- Jeremy Bradley When we're discussing these things precision is kind of like a good idea,|sort of, more or less.| -- David Ullrich Goldragon: Well, I tend to use Linux to do anything but play Ultima. "Any sufficiently stupid card game is Indistinguishable from Magic." People on the Internet come in two flavors -- those who care about|interoperability, and those who haven't figured out they care yet.| -- Mike Meyer Hans-Joachim: rm -rf /app/useless/microsoft/would-be-os/windows95 Governments that don't trust citizens with weapons deserve no trust. Intel: Quality is job 0.999999993458 Rob Pike: Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Borg virus detected. (A)ssimilate? (Y/y) >Vs lbh ernq guvf, lbh'er n hfrarg nqqvpg. "Your compiler does not have to convert c to int, but it must successfully|pretend that it does."| -- Dan Pop, explaining the "as-if rule" of the C programming language In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend. I assimilate therefore I am. -- Descartes of Borg Welcome to GEEK MEDIA. (Warning: May contain strongly typed language.) Statistics are like bikinis: what they reveal is suggestive, but what|they conceal is essential.| -- Irving Levine Time travel into the future was possible in the past, so by symmetry|time travel into the past will be possible in the future.| -- John Baez On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,|Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right|answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of|confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.| -- Charles Babbage A computer without Microsoft products is like a chocolate cake without a|layer of mustard. Throw away that apple. No, the computer! That's a perfectly good fruit. I'm not really surprised that my requests might look really outrageous to|windows users -- MS has never really been able to compete with the work|produced by a few talented programmers in their spare time.| -- Mike Meyer It is better that a program obviously have no errors than have no|obvious errors.| -- Hoare Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light.| -- U.K. LeGuin White hats are the people who strengthen a site's security by probing it|for weak spots, and revealing the ones they find so they can be plugged up.| -- Ron Hunsinger Security through complexity is even less useful than security through|obscurity.| -- Brian Hurt Never trust anyone who wishes you were dead. Jurgen Lerch: Never disturb a dragon, for you will be crunchy and|taste good with ketchup! If there were a whistle to blow, why not blow it? Isn't that the duty of|every good citizen?| -- Ron Hunsinger Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected|without, I thought, proper consideration.| -- Stan Kelly-Bootle Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs but never|their absence.| -- Edsger Dijkstra This is a technique only for people who enjoy a good walk on the wild side|of the fast lane without a safety net.| -- Peter van der Linden The only Emacs you need to know: C-x C-c v i "Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword." VM/CMS fortune: "Man falls in vat of molten optical glass; Makes spectacle|of self" Never forget that the authors of compilers, run-time systems, operating|systems and libraries are often incompetent, sadistic, perverse, legalistic,|dogmatic and just plain insane.| -- Nick Maclaren I'm glad you asked this question, because it's part of my Ph.D. research|and I know the answer and get to show off a bit.| -- Vaughan Clarkson What it says: "Installing Windows 95. Press ENTER to continue."|What it means: "Abandon all hope, ye who press ENTER here." The single biggest mistake made by a computer standards|committee was ASCII not specifing an end-of-line character. The problem with making dragonscale armour is getting the dragonhide.|Dragons are not that easy to kill. The Intel 80x86: Putting the "backwards" in backwards-compatible. C has some of the best things in a programming language, and some of the|worst. However, they are the same things.| -- Luke Weisman Capitalism is a wonderful idea, but not if you look at market forces as a|way to make profit, instead of as a way to create goods.| -- Thomas A. Tucker It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're headed. Well, you know me and memory...we're like water and...and that|thing that doesn't mix with water...you know, you use it in cars... Jason M Pierce: What would be really interesting is if the Borg ran|across Voyager, distroyed [sic] it and ended that horrible series.|One can only hope... If at first you don't succeed, skydiving just isn't for you. If you are arguing with a fool, chances are that he is also. The only freedom of speech which is worth a damn is the freedom to express|controversial ideas.| -- Gerald L. Hurst Knackers, that's the fucking United cunting States bollocking government|for you. Wankers. They sodding have a pissing written shagging constitution,|(unlike us poor shits) then arsing well titting ignore it if it doesn't|buggering suit the rogering tosspots.| -- Gary Barnes A mathematician named Klein|Thought the Mobius strip was divine.| He said, "If you glue| the edges of two,|You get a wierd bottle like mine."| -- Anon If you have to cheat, try to find an elegant way of doing so.| -- H. Peter Hofstee "Why do they say `Never play chess with a dragon'?"|"Perhaps it is because of the tradition."|"Tradition?"|"That the winner gets to eat the loser."|"Ah." The soul afraid of dying never learns to live. -- Amanda McBroom "It would be interesting to see Jesus Christ come back and see what had|been wrought in his name."|Reply: "You'd have to have a trauma team available." Whenever thing look bad, I say to myself, "Things could be worse."|And sure enough, things get worse. The difference between psychoLINGUISTS and PSYCHOlinguists:|You don't mind having psychoLINGUISTS perform experiments on you.|You don't have a mind after PSYCHOlinguists perform experiments on you. The Future: FBI agents break down your door and hustle you downtown for|interrogation. Seems you've been using cryptography to exchange information|about--well, they're not exactly sure, because you used cryptography, but|they know it must be sinister because, hey, you used cryptography. One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen|these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding|fathers used in the struggle for independence.| -- Charles A. Beard They want us to be well rounded. What's up with that? If I wanted|to be well-rounded, I'd eat more cookies.| -- Karen Bruner There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to|understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will|be no humanity.| -- Isaac Asimov "I didn't give any Incompletes last term, but that was because no one|had dug themselves in as deep a hole as you have."| -- Anonymous professor I've seen Mandelbrot sets, but I don't really know what they look like.| -- J.D. A pretty face can hide an evil mind| -- Johnny Rivers Disturb a dragon, for they are kinky, and taste good with peanut butter. Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses|the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.|But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.| -- The Tao of Programming The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,| And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,|Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-| The paths of glory lead but to the grave.| -- Thomas Gray (1716-71) Davros: "If you want a job done right, do it yourself. If you want a job|to dissappear, just ask a dragon..." Even Occam cut himself shaving some days. Granted, INTERCAL is pretty evil, but it's a clever, fiendish kind of evil,|not a stupid, microsoftian kind of evil.| -- Calle Dybedahl Jamie Mason:| They call me the swapper.| I've been searching low and high.| Unix won't run out of memory| Till the day I die. There is no empirical evidence that the harmonic series diverges. YKYBHTLW: YKWYKYBHTLW means A pretty face can hide a dirty mind. Thank god. Fatal Error: Out of coffee. Anything worth having is worth stealing. If you think you know what all of this code is doing, you are|probably very mistaken. There be serious and nasty dragons here.| -- DEC, in a disclaimer on the xterm source Openwindows' slowness helps the user adjust to the complex windowing|environment he has been set into, and since my desk in real life is very|cluttered and takes a long time to move stuff around, I find the slowness of|olwm to be refreshing.| -- Art Clarke "Math doesn't exist? When did I say that?"|Baxil takes his glasses off and peers line-by-line at the equations on|his blackboard.|"Whoops. Proved it, right here on line 16."|He thinks for a moment.|"That's bad. It puts me out of a job."|He looks around to make sure nobody is watching, and surreptitiously|erases line 16 completely. INTERCAL is a programming language like no other. This is good, or at|least, it is good that other languages are as unlike INTERCAL as|possible.| -- Louis Howell ncurses, buffered again! With INTERCAL, you no longer need Windows to slow your PC to a crawl!| from _Computer Shopper_ You just kill people! You don't care who they are!| -- Joe Kiniry "You are not a worthy adversary. I wish there was someone here who was| as wrongheaded as you, but smart" "Your problem is you think while you're in the UGCS lab."| -- Luke Weisman to me (jlm) Removed "braindead" and "lame" from my descriptions of SunOS's implementation|of the C library at management's insistance.| -- an RCS log The Internet deals with censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.| -- John Gilmore "Beautiful!"|"What? It crashed!"|"Yes, but it took off!" Tad Ramspott: If you want to bring someone up to your level, you can't forbid|them to be any lower. It doesn't work that way. No, it's not unusual... it's baaad.| -- Presto Michael's corollary to Murphy's Law:| If something can't go wrong, it will. C code. C code run. Run code, run. Please! "He who asks questions is a fool for a moment.| He who doesn't ask is a fool forever." Structural engineering is the art of moulding materials we do not wholly|understand into shapes we cannot precisely analyze, so as to withstand|forces we cannot really assess, in such a way that the community at large|has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.| -- Dr. A. R. Dykes. UNIX, it's a gas|Grab that Vax with both hands and make it crash.|UNIX, it's a hit|Don't give me that PC-DOS bullshit.|I'm into well benchmarked POSIX Open Systems|I think I need a RISC chip.|UNIX, jmp back|I'm all niced now|Pop your frame off my stack. Error: Error Encountered During Error Processing "AAAAAHHHH!!! Dragons!"|"Dragons?"|"You know, dragons...big creatures, wings, breathe fire, don't wanna make| them mad...dragons." Unix assumes you know what you're doing, even when you don't.|MacOS assumes you don't know what you're doing, even when you do.|MS just doesn't know what it's doing. travc: Aaaaaauuuh! *VILE* sunlight! Hey this is Unix - the simple things are difficult but the complex things|are simple!| -- Neil W. Rickert I can swear in English, but that doesn't make it an obscene language!| -- Craig Franck I am in the process of making a homepage. I have decided to use|Netscape's frames to make everything easier to overlook. This is (no offense meant) just plain stupid. -- Peter Seebach Producing to consume. Comsuming to produce.| -- The BBC, regarding California's economy Do you think a warning buzzer goes off when the maximum weight of the elevator|is reached, or do you just plummet to the basement? I'm a computer and I know my place, forever a servant to the human race. Sacramento -- People drive through us to get somewhere else It's good to have a disappointment right at the start of the day.| -- Mary Myers A powerless system is a secure system.| -- Seth LaForge GUI's are great unless you try to do something useful.| -- Art Clarke I owe, I owe,|So it's off to work I go| With a heavy sigh| Cause the bills're piled high|I owe,|I owe, I owe, I owe Athelind: Boredom is for those who lack imagination. Raistlin: A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy|of everything before he destroys it. "There's safety in numbers... Large prime numbers." -- John Gilmore Few things are as sexy as a Satanic orgy.| -- Prof. Adrian Johns "Run NetBSD: Free the Daemon in your machine from the Gates of Hell"| -- Skandranon "He presses [his] body close to hers.. Giving her a long sweet kiss..|After thier lips parted, he quickly said, "Oh! BRB! Potty Emergency!" " C is an acronym for "C". Yes, it's one of those wierd recursive acronyms. Alec David Muffett:| I'd like to be| under the sea,| in a CRAY1-S's coolant in the shade|| This freon gas| will freeze my ass,| in a CRAY1-S's coolant in the shade... Don't do anything as root that you can do as a mortal.| -- Joslin Paul "It's never too late to recode everything." Yes, profit is a GREAT metric. But of what, exactly?| -- nyet@ugcs "This doesn't work, but it almost works. But the amount by which it|doesn't work goes to zero, so it really works." Microsoft -- not an incurable disease, but an amazing simulation| -- Thomas Tucker If you are forced to comment your code, then borrow comments from|somebody else's code and sprinkle them throughout yours. It's quick,|easy, and fun to watch people's expressions as they try to figure it out. Being picky is great, but it works a little better if you are right.| -- Michael M Rubenstein The network is down... BUT I FEEL BETTER!! S: . . . . fungee . . .|Me: That's "fungi"|S: I never remember how to pronounce that.|Me: Simple. Just remember, "Jacob is a real FUN GUY."|S: [looks at me strangely] Prepare to appear in my quote file, Mwuahahaha!| -- eli@alpha.NetUSA.Net Noise is, in fact, just one of three potentials for a state of nature.|The other two are chaos and regular. Only noise is defined to be|unpredictable, and that only because, from a physicist's perspective,|the expense in time of collecting the necessary variables to render it|chaos instead of noise would fail to justify the deviation in result.| -- Bevan Schroeder How many read the Dickens piece on public readings?|Ah, nobody.|Such a bunch of scum.| -- Prof. Adrian Johns Microsoft: We don't play fair, because we don't have to. "Bones, this man needs medical attention!"|"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a --- Oh, right." Humans: An endangerous species.| -- Tom Toles I hope my achievements in life shall be these --|| that I will have fought for what was right and fair,| that I will have risked for that which mattered,| that I will have given help to those who were in need ...|| that I will leave the earth a better place for what I have done| and who I have been. Christmas is the day when all the retailers dance around the cash|register singing "What a friend we have in Jesus"| -- Christopher Sherman Heisenberg may have slept here. Dan Egnor:| In the particular instance I was complaining about, the compiler|wasn't _lying_ to me so much as being duplicitous. I ended up having|to work through two or three layers of compiler bugs, with some of my|own bugs interspersed, to get at, uh, the linker bugs. In no case were the|error messages even vaguely helpful. "That's not weird. That's UNIX."| -- Karen Bruner You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a rocket scientist. "The Word Macro Virus ... makes things slower, pops up annoying dialogs,|generally irritates."|"How is that different from Word's normal behaviour?" Tip: Never name a machine "dead", in any language. Rule 1: Don't sweat the small stuff.|Rule 2: It's all small stuff. My `Cabbage Patch Snack Time' doll ate my `Tickle me Elmo'.| -- Gable, Toronto Globe YKYBPTMAW: When a bunch of hoodlums attack you on the street, you run into a| dead-end alley instead of trying to blend into the crowd.| -- Wei-Hwa Huang Karen Bruner:| Of course they redid it. I though Sharon Stone as Princess Leia was|not the greatest choice, but Keanu Reeves rocked as Obi-Wan. I am a veritable epitome of eloquence and -- umm, other stuff. Tip: If you want to melt chocolate, use a real double boiler.| If you try to fake it with a smaller pot in a larger, and| it boils over getting hot water in the chocolate, then| the chocolate will de-emulsify into oil and a powdery paste,| which though tasty, is useless for baking. Windows isn't all bad... It has a really cool startup logo. Parallel computation: Because it's more fun with more than one. This space intentionally has nothing but text explaining why this|space has nothing but text explaining that this space would otherwise|have been left blank, and would otherwise have been left blank.| -- H. Peter Anvin You can always tell when AOL goes down.. Everything on the net goes| back to the way it should be.. :> The I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! "Ha ha, Scotty, very funny. Now beam down my uniform." C++: Proof that not all bad ideas in CS come from Microsoft.| -- Dan Egnor If God had meant for humans to be philosophers he would have given them brains.| -- Greffindel the Plaid The insignificant have a history of accomplishing the impossible. Love is blind.|Friendship closes its eyes.| -- French proverb "The compiler does not check for balanced brackets; they better be."| -Urban Mueller I don't know if this is dark grey or light gray, but it is definitely|not black or white.| -- Martin J. Duerst Never mess with anyone who knows how to use a grenade launcher properly.| -- Andy Waniuk The Windows NT mantra:| Retry, Reboot, Reinstall, Reformat.| -- Preston Pfarner Are you badmouthing random web hype? The Web is clearly the|greatest thing sinced sliced bread! Or any bread! Or the|wheel made of sliced bread that caught on fire! I have to|browse the web now.| -- andrewc "It would certainly be nice to find some Extra (pause) Terrestrial| intelligence. There seems precious little of it about." -Edwin Young Apply ye not logic to the english language, for that way leads to|madness and dispair!| -- Ben Hanson Once I fix the bugs I put in last night, I'll fix the ones they put in.| -- Heath Hunnicutt "It is near some really tall thing that I never looked at much. I think other|people like architecture a lot more than I do." "Don't you 'mister' me, young lady! Why, when I was your age I|had a total disrespect for my elders. Kids today... I don't know!" -- batty Red meat isn't bad for you, fuzzy blue-green meat is bad for you Life is hard, but it's a lot harder when you're stupid. He who lives in glass houses should not invite he who is without sin. Samantha: How do we know when we fall in love?|Ms. Krabapple: Oh, don't you worry. Most of you will never fall in love| and marry out of fear of dying alone. *chuckle* The heart has its reasons that the mind cares nothing for.| -- Variation on Blaise Pascal ACHTUNG!!!|Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy|schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit|spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das|rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets.|Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!! "You're too easily distracted."|"No I'm no- Ooh, shiny!" Jesse Rosenstock:| C++ is not slow. Great pains were taken so it would suck, but suck quickly. "New envelope pushes envelope envelope." -- The Onion He's often a very intelligent, highly observant, and correct pompous arrogant|windbag, but he remains a pompous arrogant windbag. All it takes is one summer of working on NT, and you'll love every single|idiosynchratic feature of any Unix out there.| -- Blake A. Jones Q: Does anyone have a C compiler test suite I can use?|A: Yes. Unfortunately, it's probably broken. It's hard to tell.| -- Peter Seebach If we knew what it was we were doing it would not be called research, would it?| -- Albert Einstein Einstein walked with his feet on the ground and his head in the clouds.|However, most of us are not so tall, and so must choose. It takes at least two weeks to get three weeks behind. In CS 20 you just prove that you can write flawless code, you don't|actually write any.| -- Wesley Tanaka. "He got his head stuck in a mechanical rice picker" -- Captain Kirk| in "The City on the Edge of Forever", referring to Spock's ears. Backgammon is like chess, except the pieces are all the same, and the board|is different, and there's dice, and the rules are simpler. CS 1 TA: "Your TA's a human being. Well-- more or less." A casino is a living, breathing predator... and it feeds on money.| - Robert Asprin (paraphrased) A school is a building with four walls -- that holds the future inside.| -- Joann M. If God had meant for us to use the metric system, he would have given us|ten fingers. "I used to bicycle 10 miles to my girlfriend's place every day; the exercise|improved my cardiovascular system a surprising amount."|"I bet the bicycling helped too." I have been totally missing many double entendres recently, even some that|I have utterred. Something has rendered me thick as a brick.| -- Heath Hunnicutt Headline: EARTH SWINGBY PUTS SPACECRAFT ON FINAL APPROACH TO EROS| "I wish _I_ were on final approach to eros."| "Hey, girls, let's go solve some n-body problems." I think we should just elect a President who's an avowed sex maniac|and get all this idiocy out of our (collective) system.| -- Kurt Revis "Sex is like cards. If you don't have a good partner,|you'd better have a good hand." "I'm not much of a combatant, but many's the time I have rescued a|trivial fact from the clutches of ignorance."| -- Minutia Master, Superhero Data: "Captain, this device appears to have been used to attach pieces of| cloth together. Should I attempt to activate it?"|Picard: "Make it sew, Data." Pilot's Jargon:| Landing: a controlled mid-air collision with a planet. UNIX is the worst operating system in the world -- except for all the others.| - M. Ranganathan Quantum physics was developed in the 1930's, as a result of a bet between|Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, to see who could come up with the most|ridiculous theory and still have it published. [Computer program] documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is|very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.| -- Dick Brandon "I am Ginsu of Borg. You will be assimilated. -- But, wait! There's more!!" If you are good, you will be assigned all the work.|If you are really good, you will get out of it. INTERCAL is a programming language unlike any other, partly due to the|efforts of the designers of INTERCAL, and partly due to the efforts of|the designers of every programming language created since. WWwwhhhheeennn ttthhee kkkeeeyysss rreepppeaatt tthhouuugghh yyoouuu|dddoonn't't hhoolldd tthheeemm ddoowwwnn iitt''s's ttoooo mmmuucchh|ccaaffiieeennnee "I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race.| They simply don't want to change."| -- August Dvorak Roughly 500 years before Galileo died, blind and under house arrest, a|supernova lit the sky. Observers in China, Iraq, and what's now Arizona|wrote about it. European records make no mention. The age was dark not|because no lights shone-- but because no one looked at the light there|for everyone to see. I was obviously smoking crack last night, because as far as I can tell, I|was arguing that immature, tactless people woudn't be able to produce|programs that would be enjoyed by the general populace. It must have been|really good crack, because I forgot entirely about Bill Gates. In the opening a master should play like a book, in the middle game|like a magician, in the ending like a machine| -- Spielmann Real programmers use functions for scratch space when they are|done calling them.| -- Kaz Kylheku But one would hope that life is more rewarding than porting VMS code.| -- Kurt Revis "See ya, guys, gotta run-- I've got a date tonight!" -- Jerry,|three seconds before being unanimously banned from the chess club for life.|[Bizarro, by Dan Piraro] "Do you know how bad it is to shut off the power to this bulding| without telling anyone?"| "The notice said Tuesday, sir."| "Look at the goddamn notices on the wall! It says Thursday!"| "No, sir, Booth is going down on Thursday."| "Well, I'm Peter Schroeder... and I'm your worst nightmare."*|| * last sentence fabricated|as reported by John Reese This is a circular argument, that is true because it is.| -- Chris Sloan I think my problem is more with the voters, than with the|law. But I have a problem with the law. It's a stupid law.|It's stupidly written. It's stupid when held up against other|felonies. It's stupid when held up against the Bill of Rights.|It's stupid when held up against common sense ("some people|like to eat pigs. some people think they make cute pets. therefore,|it should be illegal to eat pigs.")||Plain and simple, it makes it illegal to be different.| -- Connie-Lynne, on the Initiative making horsemeat a felony "This is going out to Sheryl, who's studying statistics|at Cal Tech [yes, you could hear the space. -ed.]. Let's|see ... Chinese water torture, statistics, I'm not sure|which is worse." --Y107 DJ And thistle, and plum, and salmon.|And, er, "orange".|I shouldn't look at the color table while hungry.| -- Dan Egnor > I think there should be more places like Caltech--to lure in people who|> are really sure they're incredibly smart, and then to take a few years and|> completely crush their egos and teach them some humility. (Sheesh, I sound|> like some kind of ex-Marine or something.)||} i think caltech should be bulldozed||> ...and at the same time, I agree with you :) Junkyard guy: Can I help you?|> Yes, hi. I'm an artist, and...|} Aaah, an artist. Bless you.|> And I'm looking for raw material for some sculpture I'm doing;|> sort of vaguely automotive or robotic pieces, you know?|} Well you've come to the right place. We do try to take care of our artists.|} Feel free to wander around and find what you want, but lemme tell you,|} it's really dangerous out there, and dirty, and these guys who work|} for me are all crazy. So be very, very careful. "Who or what would you like to be stranded on a desert island with?"|[...]|> No one picked the "I'd like to be stranded with a fully fueled and|> working boat" option?||Dude, sometimes it is cooler to be stranded with something awesome than|not stranded with this sucky world. In the "war of the sexes", the adage that there are no winners in war,|only losers, is even more true. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies,|in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,|those who are cold and are not clothed.||This world in arms in not spending money alone.||It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the|hopes of its children.||The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more|than 30 cities.| ...|This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of|threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.| -- Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 Programming God: "All the languages out there suck. I can write a better| one." and actually does it.|Wizard: "All the languages out there suck. I can write a better one." and| makes another sucky language. :) "There's nothing wrong with having lots of different guns..."|"No, dude, that's poly*armory*. You're looking for the newsgroup down the|hall and to the left." I personally am very disgusted by people who advocate inferior products|for purely political reasons. If it's inferior, you should work on|making it better, but advocating it only because it happens to have the|copyright of your choice is WRONG.||That kind of advocacy just makes all GPL projects look bad. If a GPL|project cannot hold its own on technical terms, there is _no_ excuse for|using political means to try to further it in the minds of people. The|GPL is supposed to inherently result in better products - it is not|supposed to be used as a weapon against the competition.| -- Linus Torvalds "As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." -Ellen Perry Berkeley "GaAs is the future of semiconductors, and always will be." YKYAUJW: You can decipher "TANBH. HTH. HAND." Reagan and Bush could run drugs [and arms] without being impeached,|and lie about it [...]. But those offenses aren't NEARLY as bad as|fucking around on your wife.| -- Connie-Lynne Sigh. Y'know, our kids are going to read about this in history classes,|then come ask us what it was like to be alive when this happened...|"Well, Son, we all thought it was stupid at the time. It seems even more|stupid now.[...]"| -- Heath Hunnicutt on the Clinton impeachment trial When night does not give way to day,|And children are too scared to play,|Abandon hope, embrace despair,|You're destined for my Dragon's lair.| -- Bullfrog's "Dungeon Keeper" What if the religion you adhered to all your life was playing by the|WRONG RULES?| "Thou shalt spend all eternity in Hell for contributing to the| overpopulation of My beautiful planet."|-- Action Girl Comics How about some slogans for the political parties?| Democratic Party: "Our Pants May Fall, But Your 401(K) Value Won't!"| Republican Party: "The New GOP -- Now with Black folks!" The thing is, no-one wants to use x86 processors in embedded solutions;|they're too big, too expensive, and take too much power. Processors such as|the ARM or the M-Core can beat them on just about every point except|compatibility with existing binaries, and that's not an issue for embedded|platforms.||Most people seem to miss the fact that x86 processors aren't, in fact, very|good...||-- David Given Galdalf revealed the One Ring as being able to absorb the heat of a fire|without growing warmer, thus revealing the reason why Sauron wanted it back|so badly... It's the heat sink for mordor.org's CPU. I think kids ought to be free to look at "porn". Maybe I belong in a|nudist colony but what is wrong with naked people?|[...]|I think what would be more beneficial would be to expose kids to|open, honest discussions of sexuality as early as possible. Take some|of the mystery out of it so they aren't all itching to go get some|as soon as possible to find out what it's like. Then hopefully they'll|at least be mature and prepared enough to protect themselves when|they do go have sex.| -- jheiss When you're crawling through the desert, desperate for just|something to keep you going, and you see those golden arches rising above the|sand... some sacrifices of personal dignity are necessary. -- Carlton You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on|freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave|the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc. Seth LaForge on buttons with dynamic LCD labels:| I've seen those in an electronics catalog.| They were expensive ($50+, I think) and big (.75"x.75"?).| I could see using one as a Big Red Button.| "Self destruct?"| "Are you sure?"| "This isn't part of some cheesy movie, is it?" Australian, hitting the nail on the head about why so much is wrong with the US:|"Thank God we got the convicts and they got the Puritans." Man: A creature that cannot possibly make a worm, but makes gods by the dozen. Eh, us [Canadians] never had any such ritual when we went to school.|Though come to think of it, I vaguely advocate BC's seceding from Canada, so|maybe that's not such a hot example.| -- Andrew Chang, on the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.| -George Bernard Shaw "Those who think God works in mysterious ways should see the Bourne shell."| -- Chris Sloan 2.5 years away from DC has trained me out of claiming to be from "Washington".|the last year has trained me out of admitting to being from DC, period.| -- Wren Montgomery "Happy marginally religious gift-wrapping Day!" For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them. Last week I used a new ear thermometer to check the temperature of a|squirming grandchild. The handy device is based on metal coatings technology|developed for space helmets. Smoke detectors, handheld vacuum cleaners,|water filters and ergonomic furniture are just some of the many household|items first developed for use in space. The highly efficient foam insulation|used in new homes was first used to insulate fuel tanks on liquid-fueled|rockets. Portable X-ray machines, programmable pacemakers and many surgical|tools were all pioneered as part of the space program.| -- Jim Lovell The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so|certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.| -Bertrand Russell First a man takes a drink.|Then the drink takes a drink.|Then the drink takes the man.| -Japanese proverb FLAG, a fiber-optic cable now being build from England to Japan, is a skinny|little cuss (about an inch in diameter), but it is 28,000 kilometers long,|which is long even compared to really big things like the planet Earth. Alexandria was founded in 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great, which makes it a|brand-new city by Egyptian standards. I was thinking how funny it would be if I got really fat from all these|food rewards [for keeping a sensible sleep schedule], and then I would have|to go on a dieting plan and reward myself by letting myself stay up late.| -- eggplant A technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. -Samuel Johnson A watched quantum computer gets the wrong answer. Sparc 450's ... Plus some uber-duber 8-CPU machines with a few gig of RAM and a few terabytes of disk, but that's not for serving purposes.|> My goodness, what's the superbox for?|} Heating. Doing "nice" OOP in C++ is like carefully handling eggs with a bulldozer.| -- Tudor Bosman Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.| -Christian Furchtegott Gellert Reverend, I'm, uh, I'm afraid something terrible has happened. ... Well, I,|I think I may be coveting my own wife.| -- Ned Flanders, "The Simpsons" For every man who's won his love, another's heart did break. Tip: Never underestimate the revivifying potential of a hot cup of tea.| Particularly when poured into your lap. Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Is it not true that nobody finds it impossible to believe that a|double negative isn't bad grammatical form? I promised this guy in L.A. I'd derive the stability of a Klemperer rosette|before I did anything else. Which is why I have to pee so bad.| -tomy. I just microwaved some food. When I opened the door, I saw a spider|frantically trying to get out. It then dropped onto the fridge and|started walking back, underneath the uwave, to relative safety.||But this means that my house now contains an irradiated spider.||And the most likely organism in the house to be bitten, and hence|develope super powers, is probably my cat (as it attempts to consume|said spider).||The next question is this: am I really ready for a web-slinging,|wall-walking feline?| -- Preston Pfarner Actually, if you like a scenic drive, I recommend getting out a map and finding|interesting looking roads to explore near the 101. There are hundreds of|these, and it's a lot of fun. What I do NOT recommend is turning off the 5 at|Buttonwillow to head to the 101, taking the wrong turn in the rain, driving|around all sorts of weird little roads, seeing aliens landing, getting way|lost, and finally, 2 hours or so later, finding yourself in [San Luis Obispo].| -- Connie-Lynne Ah, but hate is different; that weapon you weild by the blade. "Some countries have too much history. Canada has too much geography." You know, there's a difference between using math and letting math|guide your actions.||"No mystical number field controls *my* actions."|"Use the Math, Luke."||"He is more geek than man now, twisted and nerdish. Do not underestimate the|power of the dark side of the Math."||"Math is a mystical algorithm that surrounds us. Quantifies us. Simulates us." "Take this medication on an empty stomach."|"Does it say that on the label?"|"Yes, on the sticker, next to the drawing of a stomach."|"Ewww, gross!"|"You should see what we put on the suppositories. Next!" When there is going to be a filter that will leave Discovery channel|with any degree of nudity, but block tele-evangelists, baseball,|X-files, soap operas and other stuff that really wastes and corrupts|young minds, filling them with perverse perceptions of the world and|ridiculous values? Pah...in my day all we had was a gas-powered mower that you had to push around|the yard...erm...that'll sound more impressive in a couple decades, really it|will... The impact of priests on young children would be much less|harmful if they limited it to the occasional abuse of their|bodies, rather than persistent mutilation of their minds... When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up|with a handful of mud either. -- Leo Burnett NASA: Making your tax dollar go farther! Physics is like sex: sure it may give some practical results, but that's not|why we do it. -- Richard Feynman Cancer cures smoking. Campaigns to bearproof all garbage containers in wild areas have been difficult|because, as one biologist put it, "There is a considerable overlap between the|intelligence levels of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on|aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book|would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.| -- James Lovelock "Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls|off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing|for the Padres."| -- Jerry Coleman, Padres broadcast announcer We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic|of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, "here and now," without any|possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.| -- Ortega y Gasset Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference|between a mermaid and a seal.| -- Mark Twain The American People have spoken! Senator Tweedledum has defeated candidate|Tweedledee by one vote -- the only vote cast!||"I was really just looking for the bathroom -- but I figured, heck! I'm here!|Why not vote? So -- who is this Tweedledum guy, anyway?"| This Modern World "You have Windows NT running on a pile of computer parts?"| -- cds to me, about my putting a computer together before I got a case "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web|page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you|had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer,|another word processor, or another network."| -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 I really hated this movie, but unfortunately, I didn't write the review prior|to seeing "Inspector Gadget," and now it's like the part of my brain that|retains films has packed up and moved to Toledo.| -- Mr. Cranky How many roads must a man walk down|Before they call him a man|How many seas must a white dove sail|Before she sleeps in the sand|How many times must the cannonballs fly|before they are forever banned?|The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind|The answer is 42.| -- MegaHAL AI Engine Which Cabal? There are several. Uh, I mean there *aren't* several. Yeah.| -- Aaron Denney When I hear the question `How many people can the earth support?,'|what I hear is `What level of environmental degradation and human|suffering are we willing to put up with?'| -- Brian Halweil Gah! You actually overran my screen buffer. My 3000 line buffer! Nooo!| -- Damien Skef rides in a jeeplike thing which lacks doors. Or walls. Or a roof. It|has a nice roller-coaster like metal bar for the passenger to grip in sheer|terror.| -- Damien Well, I finally found the documentation which tells me what kind of SCSI card I|have - PEL-V1600. I did a search for this and got one result, a review of this|card on Win95 and the conclusion was: buy a new SCSI card.| -- ay2b Everyone should just pretend that| (a) I let fly with a really clever and humorous remark| (b) That I intelligently argued whichever side you like best.|There, now I seem all smart and clever and politically in the know.| -- Briar Rose Faith means not wanting to know what is true. -- Nietzsche As we replace CRTs with LCDs and light bulbs (e.g. traffic lights) with LEDs,|it occurred to me a few days ago that the technology surrounding me has slowly|changed from one whose fundamental underpinnings I basically understand|(electromagnetic fields, flying particles, hot wires that glow) to one whose|basic physics remain more or less completely mysterious to me (quantum wells,|liquid crystals, thin-film transistors). I guess obsolescence feels like this. I think the following:|| while the "sites" of recombination, unlike those in a| conventional crystalline laser medium (which are atomic centers),| are eigenstates of identical momentum||has the largest interesting:confusing ratio. The winning team of the [New England Belt Sander Racing] Competition was|a bunch of engineering stoonts from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.|They had a belt sander with a two speed transmission -- I am *not* making|this up. The thing had a little metal sail sticking up in the air on a thin|metal rod. When it got to a certain speed, the air resistance would push the|rod back and it would shift into overdrive. On the good side, all the stupid initiatives were defeated.|On the bad side, all the horrible initiatives were passed.| -- Bruce Bell, on California politics The funny thing in this case is that the first world created this ``resource''|in the first place in the spirit of global equity, then bought it back in the|spirit of global capitalism.| -- Dan Egnor, on the purchase of the entire .tv TLD Before CD's, back when record companies issued "singles" on small black|plastic disks known as "45's", the speed (in revolutions per minute) at which|the disk was to be played on a "typewriter". Sorry, on a "phonograph" -- with|all the newly obsolete technology we've got these days, it's easy to get|mixed up. sendmail.cf does not resemble line noise. It resembles the result of|somebody banging his head on the keyboard. Anybody who has worked|with it will understand why. "Well, son, time to hit the sleeping bags. It's been a long day in the great| outdoors."|"But, dad, it's starting to rain."|"That's not rain, it's bat urine. These night skies are teeming with millions| of bats."|"Bats?! What if they bite us?"|"Don't worry, they won't fly down here. Those bats are just as afraid of the| giant mulch ticks and pine leeches are we are."|"Dad, I don't like camping."|"No time for whining, son. We still have to check our sleeping bags for| spiders." You're correct, all that food would be expensive. It'd be much cheaper|to run monkey simulators on a big beowolf cluster.|(I can't believe I just said that.) We are number one! We are second-to-none! Our cheerleaders flash much thigh!|GO WESTWOOD HIGH! Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal. Chocolate shakes with burgers, Vanilla shakes with Chicken McNuggets|and Fillet-o'-Fish. Peter Seebach on C99:|"For the most part, features were added, not removed. This sounds| great until you try to carry a full-sized printout of the standard| around for a day." void swap( Thing &leftHand,Thing &rightHand )|{| try| {| throw leftHand;| }| catch( Thing inTheAir )| {| leftHand = rightHand;| rightHand = inTheAir;| }|}|// Risto Lankinen It's the same sort of "the fun's over" feeling I had when banner ads started|showing up on the net. Pizza hut doesn't care about space exploration, they|just see a very visible surface they can put an ad on.| -- David Shaw (Of course, it's entirely possible that there's a command line option to|do this, but Bryan actually found it quicker to hack the code than to|check the man pages. This says something about something, but I'm not|sure what.) I know [actress Elisabeth Shue] was accepted to Harvard and all, but she's|still working on the degree and it's probably in Theater anyway, which|explains why she doesn't have it yet.| -- Mr. Cranky English dishes have really earned a reputation for being inedible. The truth|is that many English dishes are quite good; in fact some of these dishes|taste better than the food served on them. I consider my trick knee to be an advantageous adaptation.|It's hereditary, and it kept my father out of Vietnam.| -- Presto So, I was studying the feldspar diagram (it's a triangle), trying to remember|that Anorthite is CaAl2Si2O8, Orthoclase is KAlSi3O8, and Albite is NaAlSi3O8,|when XR looks at the paper and says: "Look, it's the Aluminati" To joint-rippingly stretch an already badly abused metaphor, then, rampant|gullibility is the arterial system through which the torrent of lies courses,|greed the tissue it nourishes, and cynicism and post-consumption guilt the|veins through which it returns to the, ah, lungs of advertising for|reinvigoration. In childhood, / I thought that pain meant / I was not loved; / It meant I loved.| -- Louise Gluck, "Childhood" If you dread Valentine's Day, you're not alone. Well, actually, you are|alone, that's the point. Erm, hmm, give me a sec... If you don't love it but just work hard, you become one of the legions of|really skilled bad programmers out there.||I deal with them all the time. Having made ugly designs, they execute them|flawlessly, never seeing why they are ugly or why they could have been so much|better.| -- Perry E. Metzger Grumble. I answered "Are dams alive?", but it was apparently|"Are clams alive?". Got to get those fonts fixed.| -- Preston Pfarner Enter a query on "sexual reproduction", and you'll get a pornography site.|Enter a query on "recombinant DNA", and you still get a pornography site.| -- Karl Thiel, on Internet search engines Or maybe it's that the father of their missile program was a 'techer (he was)|and had some lasting grudges, so he hardwired the missiles to only strike|the LA area.| -- Preston Pfarner, regarding reports that Chinese ICBMs can reach| L.A. but not Seattle Computer engineering is the art of finding the right wrench to pound in the|correct screw. Except that if you ignore the lyrics to the theme song, I think there's|evidence that the Flintstones is actually set in a later time period than|the Jetsons.||Note that the Jetsons are pretty much the peak of mechanical tech, while|the Flintstones have biological engineering that's just amazing; remember|all those semi-intelligent animal appliances? Not to mention having|revived dinosaurs and sabre-tooth tigers, presumably via cloning techniques.|And then there's that great power source for Fred's car; just a couple of|pushes with his feet and it gets amazing speed and apparent mileage without|any sign of emissions. Non-DC'ers seem to have this conception that the US government is a monolithic,|sprawling, evil hive-mind entity.||Well, it's not monolithic.| -- Wei-Hwa Use an eyedropper to add a few drops to all the crusty areas, run it under hot|water, and voila, super shiny sparkly clean. No sponge needed. In fact,|definitely don't use a sponge, since it will dissolve.| -- Dan Egnor, on concentrated HCl > Gandalf makes some remark about how the Elven smiths, when they were|> experimenting with the whole ring idea, cranked out a bunch of rings|> that were, so far as they were concerned, basically toys; "but still,|> to my mind," Gandalf adds, "perilous to mortals."|An unadorned silver ring, which -- if you hold it in fire for a moment --|begins to show runes of flame, spelling out, in Elvish: "HELLO WORLD".| - Andrew Plotkin Ginger is good. Does it contain a hint of ginger, or an "oh shit my mouth is|on fire" of ginger? >> The six-letter explanation isn't plausible because the brain|>> simply doesn't store words that way.||>Speak for your own brain, dude.||Maybe I should be more specific. The *human* brain. 8P I want a world where sex isn't simultaneously snickered about, joked about,|used to sell car wax, and held up as something dirty and evil.| -- MrMikey I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science|keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun.|Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after|a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as|if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use|of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for|stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in|the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of|fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if|you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you|know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to|successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think|and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than|when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.||Alan J. Perlis By giving Evian six distinct moods, each with its own unique (and frequently|contradictory) likes and dislikes, developer Seed Nine has become the first|game designer to accurately capture the tone of interactions with a normal|human female. Never challenge a hacker to do anything you would regret him/her actually doing. I can't afford a mistress, I have five chinchillas to take care of.|Speaking of which, does anyone want a chinchilla?| -- John Meacham > Are you addressing a human or a computer?|} My adivsor. Opinions vary. I could shake my tiny fist and swear I wasn't wrong, but what's the sense in|arguing when you're much too busy returning to the lavatory.| -- MegaHAL AI engine MegaHAL: Not that tunnel, the other one in quick. Just slap it in hard, it| likes abuse. Now, pull the bolt.|User: This sounds like some s&m-stuff.|MegaHAL: Sounds like a goddamn town meeting.|User: You must live in a strange town, you... The program *will not* work unless you install the brain. -- Jason Hutchens "Only nominee..." Hang on... maybe the honor isn't as prestigious as I|thought it was.| -- Howard Tayler That's part of my family motto: "Oppress, Repress, Depress!" Our coat of|arms features a lion impaling himself on the horn of a unicorn while the|oblivious unicorn watches Jerry Springer on a television sinister. "Our god's the fun god! Our god's the sun god! Ra ra ra!" In what is undoubtedly a stunning but dubious achievement, the makers of Final|Fantasy have succeeded in mastering the artificial reproduction of bad acting. "If you venture down close to the water's edge, there|is an undeniable eeriness associated with the power and beauty|of the swift, cold, deep, and merciless waters of Deception Pass." "Shakespeare porn varies widely in production quality and in faithfulness to|the original texts."| -- Andrew Hearst > I don't get airline economics.|} When do you want to go? It'll be expensive then. Most women in our society are taught, saturated in the belief, that women|are more likely to be victims of violence than men, that men are safe by|their ability to beat up the average thug, but that women are inherently|defenseless when confronted by that same thug. All three of these beliefs|are utterly false, and yet most women firmly believe all three and teach|or preach them to each other far more vigorously than men could imagine.| -- John Schilling Actual ad:| High Power Plasma| Cutting Systems|| Order any Plasma Cutter and get a FREE At-2000 alcohol| breath tester| $99 VALUE|| For a limited time Note: Godwin's Law does not apply to discussions of German history. You cannot preserve freedom by eliminating it. -- Perry Metzger You can't spray Cheese Whiz on the body of Christ! Tai: ... The true Viking way.|Grangaard: I hereby take offense on this slander of my people|Tai: I hereby apologise.|Grangaard: Nope, too late. My honor must be avenged! I shall conquer and|pillage your lands. The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first|half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and|pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who|hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice|for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time|during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it|but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.| -- Anonymous winner of 1986 Bulwer-Lytton contest Isn't it not true that no one finds a double negative isn't hard to not|misunderstand? Oh, you guys are having that this year? And no riots? Sheesh, what is NYC|coming to? It used to be the riot capitol of the US! See what the terrorists|have wrought? Peace and love in New York! LA, for example is often mistakenly referred to as a desert when it's actually|just highly arid.| -- Connie-Lynne When a moth flies into a candle flame presumably it is responding to the|candle flame as if were a celestial object at optical infinity and acting|appropriately to that situation, not the one it is in fact currently facing.|It frequently happens that the real world evolves faster than an animal's|cognitive map of it.|Human beings are completely surrounded by the equivalent of "candle flames."| -- Richard Dawkins Such a spectacle would also tend to increase the funding of Earth-crossing|asteroid searches. Well, the lunar impact. The terrestrial impact would|tend to dramatically lower such funding.| -- Preston Pfarner There's a lot of brawn working with J2EE, though. "Silly peg, fit in hole!"| -- Preston Pfarner At the top of the scores, where it usually gives directions such as "softly|and sweetly" or some other description of tone, this says "get pissed" in one|place, followed by "very pissed indeed."| -- Meredith Alden, on the score of "Beautiful" by Joydrop That version appears to have the dirty words replaced by rows of asterisks|-- a rather useless form of editorial restraint, since in this particular|case it means the song now contains more asterisks than normal alphabetic|characters.| -- Leo Breebaart, regarding "The Ball of Kerrymuir" Of course, using potato vodka for fuel probably wasn't the *best* idea.| -tomy. Microsoft Vacuum -- at last a product that doesn't suck. Linux people I know are only rabid about keeping their ability to use what|they use, not to go changing the Windows folks. It's the noncooperative|Windows systems that are trying to force people to convert against their will.| -- Preston Pfarner I envision millions of XP Home Edition users all over the country sitting|in front of their computers gnashing their teeth, furious, but afraid to|call MS tech support, afraid to file bug reports, utterly convinced that|MS will say, "That's not a critical issue", which, in fact, given the list|of security vulnerabilities I understand have been discovered, may be true.| -tomy., on Windows XP's clock running slow while the system is loaded > Reason was, they were made with very cheap glass. Glass made from|> sand which has not had all of the iron compounds washed out of it.|> But the pale green colour became very significant for Coke, hence|> today even the replica glasses are made in the same style.||"Back in the old days, our Coke glasses were genuine shoddy|workmanship; not that imitation crap you young'uns get today." Cluemeter Technician: "Negative readings now, sir. I believe this lifeform|is actively attempting to suck intelligence from the surrounding area."| -- Howard Taylor I suddenly think of the life extension movement warcry: "Join us or die!"| -- Damien Raphael [A]pparently, the theives broke into one of the lower apartments. And they|were there when the cops arrived. But they ran out the back while they were|out front. Who knew the old "out the back door" trick really worked?| -- Andrew Grangaard No yard. But it does have a moat.| -- Dan Egnor The system was a C++ port of a Lisp system, with FORTRAN back-end packages.|It had all the elegance that you might guess.| -- Preston Pfarner > The sex industry is technically illegal in Vegas. Now, live porn, OTOH.|Only in Vegas would 'live porn' not be 'the sex industry'. I'm still amazed that they made a Flaming Carrot movie. And without FC! If you think paranoia is what-if, you aren't paranoid enough. I think that nonlinear value is apparent in the way that free software, which|is mostly developed by hobbyists, is rivalling and in some ways exceeding|well-funded commercial software development efforts. That's an economic|miracle which, I think, shows the supermarginal value of free software is high.| -- Dan Egnor [Atypically for Hollywood], the depiction of VX gas in The Rock was extremely|accurate. Only thing that was really off is that atropine does not need to|be injected into the heart.| -- Meredith Alden Judging by residual smoke smell, it's either the bridge chipset or the CPU.|Not sure which.| -- Nicholas Breen, after shutting down a smoking SGI Octane "The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry|is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains|made by the computer hardware industry..." -- Henry Petroski Guinness please...|Gav! You're on fire!|Guinness and a water, please. Someone wanna tell me why there's an empty file named "Episcopalian-Lutheran"|in my ofb homedir?| -- wren Is it bad to say you like sex if you're a girl? I want the rules to be|different so I can get laid. Oh, shit, I just had a scary vision...||We withdraw from South Korea, North Korea hints through diplomatic channels|that it might invade the south and we don't object, then they invade and we|put together a coalition to liberate South Korea. We invade North Korea and|drive the troops back, but not to the point of total victory. We withdraw,|but put a disarmament treaty in place. For a while, we don't find anything,|but then we're convinced that North Korea is ignoring their treaty obligations.|We're all set to invade again. About this time, Iraq reactivates their|civilian reactors and sets up to produce a nuclear weapon...| -- silly@ugcs ((me)) I'm not from the future yet.| -- silly@ugcs ((me)) When investors are actually being told lies, [the market] naturally breaks|down. When they're insane, it also fails.| -- Preston Pfarner What a strange game. The only way to enjoy it is not to watch.| -- Joe Wasson, on baseball Unix is the operating system of Big Weird Mysterious Deep Things, and everyone|knows it.| -- Dan Egnor This may have been for evolutionary mimetic reasons: anyone who was aware of|schools other than Caltech transferred quickly.| -- Preston Pfarner You rarely see LOST FISH REWARD signs on telephone poles.| -- Dan Egnor|I have an incredible urge to put some up now that you've mentioned it.| -- Wren Montgomery "It's hard to believe but in fact no law was broken with the intercourse on|the motorway. It's a situation lawmakers never thought about."| -- Juergen Mannebeck Damned virtual destructor problems. Damn this language and all its|obfuscated badness. Damn its useless error messages, hideous syntax.|Damn the way it gives you a glimpse at what a decent language would be|like, and then shatters your spirits, as you slowly realize that you are|stuck in some unknown level of "language feature creep by committee but|we didn't really think about it" hell.| -- Shannon Stewman, extolling C++ The robot grew out of his head because the big evil corporation was using the|interdimensional warp zone created between the lobes of his brain as a|transport system. Any other confusion points?| -- Abe Egnor, explaining anime Massive ignorance is no good until combined with brute force.| -- Aaron Denney Dude, e^i(pi) + 1 = 0 is rad on so many levels, all of which are totally|sweet.. It's got the two totally awesome real numbers that are fully|irrational and can flip out at any moment... it's got i, which isn't even|real, man, it's imaginary... it's got the multiplicative identity and the|additive identity, which are basically super secret ninja identities.||I think I just crapped my pants.| -- pat@dfmm Beer is the essence of grad school thought. Through the goggles of beer, new|worlds are openned, new theories beaten like a dead horse, and|interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary dialog flows. It is the currency of|science.||It helps you deal with your singleness, too, which doesn't suck.| -- stew||Notably, grad school is what finally drove me to drink.| -- wren And you thought I was mad! Bwahahahaha.| -- mad@ugcs > Wow. I just found $11,076.17 worth of uncashed checks from ...|Dude, you were supposed to cash the checks, not cache the checks. one time I made cornbread, but I forgot the eggs... and the oil....|So basically, it just cornmeal and water - it was pretty bad.| -- Jason Stone Okay. About to go mess with router. Don't be surprised if I die.| -- Dan Moniz > So, why are IR spectra of formic acid at 225C interesting?|to see if you can get funding for burning ants with a magnifying glass. whuang: I just did a George Bush.|jtr: Immediately tell us what you mean by that before someone speculates| unfunnily.|jtr: Oh, god, I hope I'm not too late.|kevinb: You got arrested for drunk driving?|sarah: 3 week coke binge?|jonathan: Almost die from pretzel-choking?|wtanaka: "you bombed north korea?"|jtr: Aaaaagh! I don't know why you say there's no documentation. You can just read|command.c.| -- John Reese It has the side benefit that you don't accidentally touch the hot metal part|and burn your hand, screaming so loud the wolves hear it and figure out where|you are.| -- John Reese "Tonight's my your yesterday."| -- Dan Moniz to Chris Sloan,| as their waking schedules overlap in the wee hours "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."| -- Savielly Tartakower Going from San Jose to Redwood City shouldn't take too long, right?| -- Dan Egnor It's a booby-trapped, man-eating horse of doom! No way.| -- Kevyn, in "Schlock Mercenary" by Howard Tayler The monocle chain attaches to your nose ring.| -- Heath Hunnicutt I have to say there's a certain irony in having a Mexican corporate giant|coming in, setting up major manufacturing operations with highly automated|equipment and displacing domestic mom-and-pop outfits. Next they'll say|they're just using our cheap labor and exporting all the profits.| -- Dan Egnor, on Gruma,| which produces nearly half of the USA's tortilla supply Directors are like modern-day priests, interpreting the text of the books|in a medium better understood by the illiterate masses.| -- clynne Oh, I forgot about my career. I was still stuck back on the lesbian orgies.| -- clynne Look, dragons are fucking cool, all right? They're big and breathe fire and|are magic and will fucking kill you and eat you if you piss them off.| -- Pat Cahalan Several spam e-mails are getting past spamassassin, but they seem to have no|actual payload. It's just a bunch of random words.| -- silly|That's what the spammers have been driven to... random words. Maybe they'll|start creating impressionistic blank verse poetry that makes you want to go to|their website somehow.| -- jtr The thing that sort of weirds me out about Apollo is how dramatic the scaling|factors are. To get from Earth to the Moon takes enormous tall rockets that|shoot to the sky on pillars of flame and are generally Massive Feats of|Engineering. To get from the Moon back to Earth takes a tin can and a tank of|gas. (I know why that is, but it's still funny.)| -- egnor I accidentally read some of the press releases from aynrand.org. Ow.| -- andrewc Yeah, most of the crazy people I know are much saner than she was.| -- Jill Lundquist [Perl is] more like the real world -- we have laws that say how things "should|be", but we also have organized crime and backdoors to making the system work|more efficiently.| -- Todd Kaufmann Blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple expedient of|discouraging rational inquiry. It was a bit odd to see one senator (Boxer), one rep (Schiff), one state|senator (Scott), and one state assembly member (Liu) as "options", immediately|followed by "PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE".| -- Preston Pfarner I'm not even going to consider removing my old mail backup until people with a|"G" after their disk usage clean up.| -- pat@dfmm If you need a mental picture, cross "Sex and the City" with Martha Stewart|Living.| -- "Knitty", a knitting magazine| (how about no more mental pictures, please?) I got a 2-day rush passport issued once when I was three years in arrears on my|taxes, had a suspended DL, and had two bench warrants out for my arrest. My|confidence in the US gov'ts ability to keep criminals from fleeing the country|seriously eroded. Gotta love Berkeley. Where else could I walk around town with a Kleenex in my|ear and not get a second look? Since we're talking about statistics and politicians at the same time, it seems|unlikely that anything we're discussing is actually true.| -- David Richerby As the years go by, you tend to forget about the unhappy memories and only|retain the cheery ones. That is why I only have one memory of college--well,|that and it was the only time I was actually sober. Logic sucks. It's just not how the world works. There's no such thing|as a predicate or an object or a postulate or a variable. These are all wrong|abstractions we plaster over the world. It's this fun little chess game we've|invented for ourselves. The difference is that chessmasters know they're only|good at chess; logic masters think they know something real. But the logic|masters build a world full of grey bricks and blocks that are well aligned with|the wrong abstractions, so now everyone has to learn chess just to cross the|street.| I mean, just look at that. "Cross the street". As if the street were some|sort of geometric line and there were some sort of group theory operator where|you just pop from one side to the other in some kind of ideal bitspace of|states. And then a truck runs you down, did you cross the street or not?|Where's your Manhattan routing now? Eat rubber squishing death, math geeks.| -- Dan|| Dan, there's decaffeinated brands on the market that taste just like the|real thing.| -- Sarah As with everything else in nethack, it's probably either funny, fatal, or|both...| -- Chris Sloan What happens when an impotent force meets a completely tractable object? rolling with 2-3 cars and 10 guys with AK-47s is a minor deterrent to going|out for fun.| -- Ryan Lackey, not getting out much in reconstruction Iraq I want default arguments. Java's all about not doing things from C++ that|reduce redundancy. Copy and pasting large blocks of code and changing little|things, it's what Java's all about. Java programmers probably all have worn|out C and V keys, except of course for vi users who have worn out y and p keys|and emacs users all of whose keys are worn out because every operation|manipulates the gigantic 25-dimensional cut and paste buffer space in ways that|you need the calculus of many variables to understand.| -- jtr on Java and stuff So I see all these commercials for baby life insurance on TV. which seems like|an utterly ridiculous thing to have, and I loose all respect for companies that|push such things. A baby is a financial liability, not asset. What would make|more sense is reverse insurance, where it pays out if the baby lives so you can|pay to take care of it, and if it dies, you pay the insurance company the money|you had marked for the baby but no longer need to spend.| -- john|Note to self: never let [john] run the marketing dept at any insurance|company I am on the board of directors of.| -- jill It's supposed to be a metaphorical "bridge to the 21st century"... but it's|truncated; it doesn't go anywhere; it's missing the other half. I wonder if|that's also intentional.| -- Dan, on the Clinton Presidential Library's architecture AIUI, they're not only still running informix, but can't upgrade it because|they let the license expire, and in order to re-up the license, they have to|pay for all the back years that they owe on the license, and if they contact|Informix about getting the license informix will transmit some kind of "melt|your database into slag" code across the internet and yeah.| (anonymous) Yeah, the stock market is sorcery, but even in sorcery you don't jump out the|window without your broomstick.| -- John Meacham > Now he's conjugating verbs for some reason.|} That's the disadvantage of having a house Latin-head. When you burn a flag, you're pissing on all those guys who gave up their lives|for the team, and that makes you a dumbass. But whatever, people are allowed|to be dumbasses in this country. The proper response to that sort of|dumbassness is to shake your head and say, "That guy is a fucking dumbass"...|not waste thousands of manhours of time of senators and representatives and|their aids and and legal teams and all those other people that make a shitload|of money (and who are actually supposed to be working on things like balancing|budgets and helping out the commonwealth and all that other stuff that actually|makes a substantitive difference in our lives) WRITING A GODDAMN AMENDMENT TO|PROTECT THE FLAG.| -- Patrick Cahalan The grass is just as green on the other side of the Moebius lawn. 2005. it is 2005. and this language gives a 'Card not found' error (with no|other explanation) if you go past 256 columns. (meaning punchcard not found)||for the love of god. never ever use SAS.| -- john meacham Another example of this sort of thing would be those idiotic Ten Commandments|monuments and how hard people fight to defend them instead of, you know,|actually reading the parts of the Bible where Jesus says how you shouldn't be a|total dick.| -- Anna lately, I've been looking at the number of calories in a "serving" (ie,|tablespoon) of oil and thinking that that's probably about as calore dense as|you can get. when I build my bomb shelter, there's gonna be a giant vat of|olive oil and, like, some vitamins. that should keep us going for, like,|years and years....| -- jason|May I recommend extensive potty facilities in your shelter, should you|implement this plan?| -- clynne Welsh is the world's coolest language. Because, they don't actually have|*words*, just random strings of consonants which are not pronounced like they|are spelled (fortunately).| -- orion Oh, and the vertical-distance monitor in my hover-car is shot, so I need to|get that replaced. I have to keep it under blocks or the damn thing floats|away.| -- James Anchower (2056) "no.. really. I have a team of russian scientists I imported from the former|USSR working on it right now.". I just nod and he says he'll prove it. At which|point he brings me into the back room and there are 4 friggin stereotypical|russian scientists speaking russian at a whiteboard drawing ballistic curves.|They stop talking, look at us for a moment, then go back to whatever it was|they were doing. It was perhaps the most surreal moment of my life. You have to trust me to only set appropriate stuff on fire at our house, baby.|I was drunk at New Year's and I didn't burn the house down.|In fact, I have NEVER burned the house down. I've never even come close. It's|been like 19 years or so since I even *almost* set a house on fire.| -- clynne You'll have to accept it, because it's the way nature works.|If you want to know the way nature works: We looked at it carefully,|that's the way it looks. If you don't like it, go somewhere else.|To another universe, where the rules are simpler, philosophically more|pleasing, more psychologically easy. ... So I'm going to tell you what|it really is like, and if you don't like it, that's too bad.| -- Richard Feynman also, what fucking year is this that we still have to cope with buffer|overruns? haven't they fixed that shit yet? where's my haskell-based|mailer, huh? yeah, okay, we'll have to upgrade treehorn to fifty gigs|of ram, but it'll be so smart that it will read my mail for me, right?| -- jason I wasn't allowed to make popcorn at the nuutz because of setting the microwave|on fire once.| -- CLV Anyways, long story short, I think you're being unreasonable, but then again,|no reasonable person ever changed the world. I never got beat up for playing chess in high school. Of course, I didn't|start playing chess until college.| -- Stan Chao It's sort of strange that one can wake up on a tropical Pacific island (on|Tuesday) attempt to launch a rocket, fly to Hawaii and then to Los Angeles,|sleep for 12 hours, wake up and shop for Christmas presents, and still get home|before Tuesday ends...| -- cds But I don't want to be mayor of DC. That's a sucktastic job. Hell, if I|wasn't snorting crack and buying whores *before* I took office, I'd definitely|have to start. Wasn't that thing like ultra-mushy?| - D|Mine was all tight. I wouldn't be surprised if there was huge variance, though.| - C On the other hand, if you keep all of your work information in a single place,|you can hand it off to someone else when you quit and say, "Everything you need|to know is in that folder".||If you plan ahead and buy the proper incendiaries and timing devices, it can|catch on fire and burn up approximately 3 seconds later, giving you the|opportunity to cackle like a maniac and caper around your workspace.| -- pat Back in the twentieth century (I love saying that) ... DO NOT CRASH AGAIN. I am running out of expletives.| -- wren, to Microsoft Windows UCSD does not have a football team, although the subject is raised almost|annually. One year, in the early 70's, a team actually got as far as uniforms|and a schedule, but this attempt was nipped when [Caltech] ended its 14-year|losing streak by beating the UCSD team. I'm so... uh... non-well-read that I can't even think of the better adjective|for that.| -- jason No matter how good an idea it may seem at the time to eat an entire pound|of dried fruit, it's actually not.| -- jason This is the part where I say, "I told you so" and then you say, "Shut up|asshole, I'm buying a house now" and I say "Finally you listen to me" and 6|months from now Israel nukes Iran, the stock market crashes, and housing prices|in So Cal drop to pre-1985 numbers, and you get to kick my ass.| -- pat To me, the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict has long since come to resemble a|war between lunatics, and one doesn't pass moral judgments on the behavior of|the insane.| -- billmon sudo needs to be equipped with a breathalyzer. I think I've determined that the traffic in LA actually gives me the much|needed alone time with music that I seem to miss out on here in SF. I'm also pretty sure that, if I say "Wow!", the most likely words to follow are|"that sucks".| -- silly, on Microsoft's "Wow!" campaign I'm fairly sure this won't be as bad as my previous employer.| -- famous last words Look. Rumsfeld resigned. But not because of any problems or dissatisfaction|with his performance. We all just woke up one morning and he was gone. It's|the flipside of "accepting responsibility" without consequences. Sometimes,|you get consequences when you're not responsible. DUH!||Good god, I think I just figured out the secret to Republican Political|Thinking.| -- clynne Yay! $8 tax refund. I am totally buying a value meal at jack in the box with|that.| -- john I'll admit to not being a biologist, but I'm pretty sure that chickens mating|have never resulted in eagles.| -- sarahliz, regarding a rumored Microsoft/Yahoo! merger I can use Date::Format to output a date in all sorts of formats and languages,|including Amharic, Afar, Gedeo, and three kinds of Tigrinya. But if I want to|use Spanish I'm SOL. Times like this I can't tell if perl is for reals.| -- silly TECO was more like a mix of m4 and dc. Editing files was just a side effect.| -- mec The majority of the 300 townspeople live in a single 14-story concrete building|with dark, narrow hallways. The grocery store is on the first floor and the|medical clinic on the third. The rest of the people live in one other building.| -- Matthew We're in El Segundo now and the new building is in Hawthorne. It's a huge|(did I mention huge?) hanger next to the airport. It used to be used for|building 747s, I believe. (Did I mention huge?)| -- cds For instance, when I see a picture of what looks like a Mars lander above|the text "Ethiopia's Supreme Court" I boggle slightly for a moment. "Can God create a rock so heavy even He could not lift it?"|"Can theologians create an argument so nebulous even they can not reason|sensibly about it?" "By contrast, there's also a certain calm from the Fed and Treasury Dept.,|but it's more the calm voice of the seasoned airline pilot, informing ground|control that his second engine is now also on fire." Yeah. A combo sledgehammer/loaded-gun-to-foot setup so that if you do it|right, you're just laying about with the sledgehammer, but every once in a|while, you forget or make a mistake and blamo, you get a nice new hole in your|foot.| -- cds, critiquing a particularly dangerous hack Let primes be but a finite list|So their product must thus exist| Make it one bigger| And now this figure|does all factorization resist. The meaning function is a homomorphism from the syntactic monoid onto the|semantic monoid. Design doesn't have to be new, but it has to be good.|Research doesn't have to be good, but it has to be new. To Asmodeus’s amazement, Satan actually smiled. “The Liberation of Hell.|I fought for that once. And won. And now the humans fight me for the same|thing.” It would be nice if you would directly explain your proposal, instead of|making me draw it out slowly through questions.| -- Ben Pfaff > give donut to bureaucrat|The bureaucrat rejects your offering. "Please fill out form 37-B, 'Request|to Bribe a Government Employee' before you try that."| -- The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game The biggest [security] problem for Linux on the desktop is that it's|entirely unnecessary for somebody to actually root your system to do|very significant damage to you. The /home/username/ and user account is|a soft target. It is were all your passwords are stored, were you carry|out online commerce, were you communicate, etc etc. Your only line of|defense is not your OS, but your applications. Firefox or Chrome is the|software that keeps you safe, not the Linux kernel.| -- drag @ LWN Treasure it all. Treasure the adventures, the fights, the love-making, the|moments on the couch, the idle days in the sun. The wind blows, and one day|you will come to the Lands of Dream and not return.| -- Jonas Kyratzes The less reliable type is a ZIF socket, with spring pinchers that grab the|balls. This does not work well, especially if the balls are small.| -- Wikipedia ("Ball grid array") Science is the wellspring of modern civilization. It is not just "another way|of knowing", to be equated with religion or transcendental meditation.| -- E. O. Wilson Despair is when you're debugging a kernel driver and you look at a memory|dump and you see that a pointer has a value of 7.| -- James Mickens There’s a sort of recurring trope in religious debates, which is that sooner|or later, someone asks why people who don’t believe in God don’t just murder,|rape, etcetera. And this always struck me as pretty stupid. Seriously, if|you’re trying to decide between going to work and collecting a paycheck, and|wandering out and killing people, and the big deciding point is that someone|told you an invisible man will set you on fire later if you pick the wrong one,|I don’t really feel a lot safer knowing that you believed them.| -- seebs By the way, if you’re trying to watch the BBC’s "Merlin" and decide it’s not|set in the past but on a terraformed asteroid populated by vat-cultured|artificial people who have been given a 20th century moral education and then|a book on medieval society and told to follow its advice, everything suddenly|makes perfect sense!| -- Ada Palmer You can’t make other people do shit they should do. You can make you do shit|you should do. You treat a man as a criminal and you give him no reason not to be one. "I can't figure out this JavaScript."|"It's in a special Javascript dialect called 'asked me to do something at the|last minute-script'." If you are a programmer, you will be familiar with a sense of wonder,|gradually transforming into utter stupor, as you stare at some perfectly|reasonable code that couldn't possibly fail, and yet somehow it does. English spelling is hard: it can be understood through tough thorough thought,|though. Of course software is eating the world. Wheels ate the world. Fire ate the|world. Written language ate the world. Plumbing ate the world. Electricity|ate the world. Radio communications ate the world.| -- geofft on Hacker News Ignoring your derisive tone, the statement "most people get through their daily|lives just fine without it" applies to every new technology. Yet here we are,|typing away on the internet.| -- j2kun (Jeremy Kun) on Hacker News Worrying about sentient AI as the ice caps melt is like standing on the tracks|as the train rushes in, worrying about being hit by lightning.| -- Bret Victor C# has the dynamic keyword (not to be confused with type inference via the var|keyword), which basically allows to break out to dynamic typing. I find this|to be significantly saner than the other way around.| -- _pmf_ on Hacker News Everyone I know with iOS blocks ads now. Ads are far more intrusive on mobile|than they are desktop. Those full page takeovers that come up as you scroll|and the ads that bind to any touch event to auto play a video are the reason|that push most over.| -- dawnerd on Hacker News xmpp is like...tcp over xml over tcp| -- Mark Laws "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and|the ones nobody uses."| -- Bjarne Stroustrup A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid having to exercise|his superior skill. > I really wish people would stop [saying some task] is "hard". [That task]|> is not hard.||At some point, after enough people tell you that they can't figure out|how to do something, one should admit that it is difficult.| -- HackerNews user "empath75" responding to "fbonetti" > I just had the horrible realization that java will still exist in 2118.||They'll be running the JVM in a Docker container in Linux written in JS in|the browser compiled to web assembly running on a Rust WebOS. But it will be|okay, because it the hardware will be a 1024 core quantum processor.| -- HackerNews user "goatlover" responding to "greydius" Beware of taking impossibility proofs too seriously. They should always be|interpreted to mean "you cannot achieve this goal in this model," rather than|"you cannot achieve this goal."| -- Albert Einstein "A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid having to exercise his|superior skill." "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,|in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."| -- Carl Sagan But the brilliant thing of the English is she has excellent at withstand|error.| -- HackerNews user "sjwright" Don't worry, tomorrow's rain won't be toxic, meteorologists say| -- top headline of the San Francisco Gate (not The Onion) on 20th Nov 2018 Can you explain it to me like I have a masters degree in comp sci but am|otherwse uneducated? "There are two roles in the system: proposer, candidate, follower and client."| -- a bad way to start an algorithm post "... Now, if we introduce a second object with mass m₂, then we must sum over|all values of 2." Connection to localhost closed by remote host.| -- many, many programs This is the architectural equivalent of beating someone over the head with a|wrench while shouting, “Look out for the metaphor!”| -- Aphyr (Kyle Kingsbury) ATC: What's your airspeed?|Student pilot: One thousand one hundred and ten. [Actually the engine RPM.]|ATC: Sir, try to slow down, you're at Mach 2.|Student pilot: The Cessna wasn't available so the instructor said we could| use the SR-71. This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill!|This is a nut runner. This is not a drill! "As much as conservative economists claim to love efficient markets that|reach agreement on fair prices, real businesses do everything in their|power to avoid them."| -- "dm" at scottaaronson.blog When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled|by criminals.| -- Edward Snowden The advantages of a regulation-free environment adhere mostly to the people|with the least ethics.| -- Anne I do think Haskell is an interesting experiment in trying to find the edges|of what “going too far” means.| -- Ted Kaminski