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"I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not"
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Originally posted by DivineOb View PostI said "a least" you idiot.
When you're calling somebody an idiot, it's always good to make sure you cross your t's and dot your i's.
(yeah, personal experience )The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by seer View PostStupid is as stupid does..."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by mossrose View PostI've been hearing on the news for several weeks now about these "covid parties", where a person with covid is invited to a party and money is put into a kitty and the first person to get covid after the party gets the money.
I wonder if they get enough money to pay for a funeral.
Let's face it. People are stupid."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostSomebody sent me a video of the "5G / Bill Gates / vaccine / face mask wire" thing the other day - I was astounded.
And, no, didn't send it to me because he took it seriously, he was showing me how nutty people can be."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostHence the aphorism that "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostHence the aphorism that "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."
You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the Dragon. Now suppose I went about telling everybody that this was only a corruption of King George and the Dragoon. Scores of people would believe it, without any inquiry, from a vague feeling that it's probable because it's prosaic. It turns something romantic and legendary into something recent and ordinary. And that somehow makes it sound rational, though it is unsupported by reason. Of course some people would have the sense to remember having seen St. George in old Italian pictures and French romances, but a good many wouldn't think about it at all. They would just swallow the skepticism because it was skepticism. Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostAnd nothing is idiot-proof to the sufficiently motivated idiot.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostLinus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, was once raging against the Gnome desktop interface because of it's over simplicity that prevented people who actually knew what they were doing from accomplishing anything useful. He told the developers in one of his famous rants, "If you design something so simple that an idiot can use it, then only an idiot will use it."
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Originally posted by DivineOb View PostHe's not wrong. Unfortunately Apple has taken this to an extreme by not only making their interface designed for idiots but also making it extraordinarily difficult for non-idiots who actually know what they want to do to do what they know they want. The amount of hours I wasted just managing to get mp3s onto their phones is... way too high.My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19
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Originally posted by oxmixmudd View PostNothing is more frustrating that to try to find a way to do what one wants on a windows box that is just a simple set of pipes through some combination of ls, cat, grep, sort, awk or other simple filters in linux. Most of the time one has to write a program in perl or python to get the job done. Cygwin can help but it's permissions model doesn't always work well, as does native linux (if your IP department doesn't block it for security reasons). I just keep a linux VM around with my windows partitions mounted as shared folders so I can work on a windows box but have my linux too. Not to mention having simple and free access to c and c++ compilers.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostActually that quote sounds like a hoax. Folks uttering their last breath don't say things like that unless it's in a movie.
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Originally posted by Ronson View PostI agree, there is something fishy about it. Like someone who died of heat stroke, their last words to a climatologist "I was an idiot. Climate Change is real."
It would be the most cheesiest line ever in probably one of the worst Hollywood movies ever. And the fact it's based on a so-called premise -- "covid parties" -- that's likely a hoax itself, makes it even more absurd.
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