"When I was 14, my parents were the most ignorant people in the world. When I turned 21, I was amazed at how much they had learned in the last 7 years."
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for my DNA, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me because they were all too busy pontificating on Slashdot.
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me
"There are extraordinary situations which require extraordinary interposition. An exasperated people who feel that they possess power are not easily restrained within limits strictly regular." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. ME 1:196, Papers 1:127
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Explaining jokes on the internet is like competing in the special olympics...only retards do it.
(Note: This old chesnut is recycled from the archives of This old chesnut. But then again, that's what makes them old chestnuts.)
"When I was 14, my parents were the most ignorant people in the world. When I turned 21, I was amazed at how much they had learned in the last 7 years."
-- Mark Twain
"If you are not a liberal when you are 20 you have no heart, if you are not a conservative when you are 30 you have no brain."
--Winston Churchill
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. That split second is now."
-- Perl Buck, 1843
Explaining jokes on the internet is like competing in the special olympics...only retards do it.
Blogs are like assholes, they are full of shit and everyone has one.
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has"
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me."
-- Abe Simpson
Reading arguments on Slashdot is like watching the Special Olympics - it's retards all the way down.
"You can shovel more shit on the pile, but in the end you still just have a pile of shit."
- Martin Luther, circa 1542
"It has become appallingly obvious that our blabology has exceeded our technology."
- Albert Einstein, circa 1827.
The singular of data is not anecdote.
More is less.
Security through proximity is not security at all.
If keystroke logging is outlawed only outlog strokers will have keys.
"Those willing to give up a little security by using a little obscurity deserve neither security nor root privileges".
-Benjamin Franklin
"It is better to let 100 spammers spam, than to block one innocent person's IP address"
-Saint Thomas Aquinas, circa 1423
"For the Greater Good", by Cat Stevens, 1936:
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for my DNA,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me because
they were all too busy pontificating
on Slashdot.
"For the Greater Good", by Cat Stevens:
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me
If encryption is outlawed only 99fe3301efbe195773b82b116f9cfb0b1de7b5bbc610b76f.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
--Benjamin Franklin, 1759
1. Become giangantic multinational corporation.
2. ???
3. Profit!!!!
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"There are extraordinary situations which require extraordinary interposition. An exasperated people who feel that they possess power are not easily restrained within limits strictly regular."
--Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. ME 1:196, Papers 1:127
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me --
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.