>----------------------------------------- > The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. -- Spock >----------------------------------------- > "Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with > confidence." >----------------------------------------- > "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and > the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." > -- Wernher von Braun >----------------------------------------- > RISK > You cannot discover new oceans unless you have courage to lose sight > of the shore. >----------------------------------------- > Visi˘n -> Misi˘n -> Prop˘sito -> Meta -> Objetivo -> Plan (de trabajo). >----------------------------------------- > letras -> palabras -> clausula -> frase -> > parrafo -> seccion -> capitulo -> libro. >----------------------------------------- > "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." > - Kurt Lewin >----------------------------------------- > "If you don't know where you're going, then any road will do." > -Paraphrased from Alice in Wonderland. >----------------------------------------- > It ain't that there's too many fools in the world, it's just > that the lightnin' ain't distributed right! -Mark Twain >----------------------------------------- > The shortest distance between two points is usually under repair > Johann Kainrath kainrath@edvz.tuwien.ac.at >----------------------------------------- > "Oh, to be one's own boss so that the views of one and one's > employer may coincide." - 'NETter's Lament (And mine !) >----------------------------------------- > "Shit doesn't >happen<, shit >is<..." - Nominalistically Me >----------------------------------------- > We are NOT all passengers on spaceship earth. We are crew members, and > if we don't all start doing our jobs better we are going to crash & burn. >----------------------------------------- > BTW = by the way. IRL = in real life. F2F = face to face. > L8R = leater. OIC = oh, I see. > b4 = before. IMHO = in my homble opinion >----------------------------------------- > " If you don't know why you hit your wife, > don't worry, she probably knows ! " > Confucius. >----------------------------------------- > Better to say nothing and be thought ignorant then to speak > and remove all doubt >----------------------------------------- > These opinions were packaged by volume, not by weight. > Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping.. >----------------------------------------- > We are all faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as > impossible situations. Bits and Pieces. >----------------------------------------- > Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a > thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy > the Master in: Anthony de Mello "One Minute Wisdom" >----------------------------------------- > computers run on smoke, it if leaks out they won't run >----------------------------------------- > "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into > practice with courageous impatience." --Admiral Hyman G. Rickover >----------------------------------------- > Clarence B. Johnson, Jr. ___ > ___ _____________________ ___..---'---`---..___ > ~~___ (_____________________) .-=========================- > \ \ ____/ :.::.:.---..___..---~~~' > \ \ (_||_)_____/ > ___ ----- .-----------/.::.:::.::-( ...to boldly go > ______ ;_____________________/ where no man has > gone before... > E-mail: johnsocl@sgate.com >----------------------------------------- > Found on fortune cookie: > "You are a poor, pathetic, gullible fool who seeks advice from > bakery products." >----------------------------------------- > Duty Hostmaster, Demon Internet. > This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, > you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where > to go. >----------------------------------------- > > \ o / __o __| \ / |__ o__ \ o / > | /\ ___\o \o | o/ o/___ /\ | > / \ | \ /) | ( \ /o\ / ) | (\ / | / \ > > ta-da! >----------------------------------------- > < > \\\|/// < > \\ ~ ~ // < > (/ @ @ /) < > ___oOOo-(_)-oOOo_______ < ("`-/")_.-'"``-._ > < . . `; -._ )-;-,_`) > < (v_,)' _ )`-.\ ``-' > < _.- _..-_/ / ((.' > < ((,.-' ((,/ > < > ___________Oooo._______ < > .oooO ( ) < > ( ) ) / < > \ ( (_/ < > \_) < > < >----------------------------------------- > > o o o o o o . . . ____======_T__ ___=======_T__ ___========_T__ > o _____ || | | | | | > .][__n_n_|DD[ ====____ | | | | | | | > >(________|__|_[________]_|____________|_|____________|_|_____________|_| > __/oo OOOOO oo` ooo ooo 'o^o o^o` 'o^o o^o` 'o^o o^o` > >----------------------------------------- > (( )) _______ (( > | [] | )) > _______ _______ _______ | | || > / 00 | | 10100 | | 10010 | | ** ---++-| > 10_______|-|_______|-|_______|-|__________|\ > 0 1 0 1 0 () () () () () () ()() ()()\\ >---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-< > > o __o > /\ -\<, ) > -\>, O/ O -\>' > O/ O O/ O > >------------------------------------------- > > @@@ @@@ > @("} {")@ > @(.(.)\__ __/(.).)@ > @@@) ( ) (@@@ > ( . ) ( . ) > \ ) / \ ( / > \\.-' ,' ', `-_// > // ~-~ '~ \\ > / \ > >----------------------------------------- > There is nothing so subtle as the obvious >----------------------------------------- > "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic." > -- Arthur C. Clarke >----------------------------------------- > "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from a > household appliance." -- me >----------------------------------------- > Speak softly and sweetly. If your words are soft and sweet, they won't > be as hard to swallow when you have to eat them. > Bits and Pieces >----------------------------------------- > "The really valuable thing is the Intuition. The intellect has little > to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, > call it Intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and > you don't know how or why." - Albert Einstein >----------------------------------------- > "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what > you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz >----------------------------------------- > I don't believe in intuition, but > I have feeling that someday I will. >----------------------------------------- > When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. >----------------------------------------- > "Remember, any tool can be the right tool!" Red Green >----------------------------------------- > "Women fly when men aren't watching" >----------------------------------------- > We cannot change the direction of the wind, > but we can adjust our sails. >----------------------------------------- > Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, > the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to hide > the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off. >----------------------------------------- > When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one > I've never tried before. -- Mae West >----------------------------------------- > If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. > -- Steven Wright. >----------------------------------------- > Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people > say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered > before. Lastly, they say they always believed it. >----------------------------------------- > It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which > use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation. >----------------------------------------- > I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything! >----------------------------------------- > "Blessed are those who have no expectations, > for they will never be disappointed." > Kautiliya Shakhamuni Sidhartha Gautama Buddha >----------------------------------------- > "I wanted to write something really profound, but I can't remember > what it was." >----------------------------------------- > Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, > for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. >----------------------------------------- > "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." --Tom Waits >----------------------------------------- > you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't even quit the game! >----------------------------------------- > If we do not find peace within ourselves, it is useless to seek it > elsewhere. Anon >----------------------------------------- > The only gift suitable for the man who has everything, is your > deepest sympathy. >----------------------------------------- > "It is arrogant of us as scientists to feel that because we cannot > precisely define a problem, it doesn't exist." >----------------------------------------- > "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of > today." Franklin D. Roosevelt >----------------------------------------- > Laugh and the whole world laughs with you , cry and you cry alone. >----------------------------------------- > "...the trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when > you set it seems absurd when it goes off." Rex Stout >----------------------------------------- > This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher > must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell >----------------------------------------- > "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this > is the beginning of wisdom." Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D. >----------------------------------------- > "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death > your right to say it." Voltaire >----------------------------------------- > "I've had all I can stand I can stand no more" Popeye ? >----------------------------------------- > "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants > to build, and nobody wants to do maintenance." Kurt Vonnegut >----------------------------------------- > "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, > and that is an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo >----------------------------------------- > Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of > the time he will pick himself up and continue on." >----------------------------------------- > "You'd be paranoid too if everyone was out to get you." LM >----------------------------------------- > "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out > how far one can go." dunno who said it >----------------------------------------- > "leaders are like eagles, they don't ever flock, you find them > one at a time" anon >----------------------------------------- > "I know what's wrong, dear fellow, but I don't know how to turn > it off" A. Einstein to his cat in the rain. >----------------------------------------- > "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its > original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes >----------------------------------------- > "Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures > into lessons, all sins into experiences." Katherine Tingley >----------------------------------------- > "Time's fun when you're having flies." Kermit The Frog >----------------------------------------- > "A WINNER knows what to fight for, and what to compromise on; > a LOSER compromises on what he shouldn't, and fights for what isn't > worthwhile fighting about." -Harris J. Sydney >----------------------------------------- > This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an > actual life-threatening emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you > would not have been informed. >----------------------------------------- > "Just remember: we all come into life the same way: terrified, screaming > and covered with blood......And it doesn't have to end there if you know > how to live." Some comedian >----------------------------------------- > "Men will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other > alternatives." J. M. Keynes >----------------------------------------- > "If your not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the > game you're playing just to give yourself something to do." > --anon >----------------------------------------- >----------------------------------------- > la política es demasiado importante para dejarla en manos de > los políticos. Jose Luis Rodriguez >----------------------------------------- > After all, lawyers are paid to achieve a satisfactory outcome for > their clients, not to establish the truth. "Nature 4/16/97" >----------------------------------------- > My name may not be added to any mailing lists without my express > authourization. Abuse this policy and I will report your unwanted > activity to your ISP! Thank You for your cooperation! >----------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ Folks, EDO is a joke, youv'e been sold a bunch of marking hype... ------------------------------------------ MEME: (pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. (Wheelis, quoted in Hofstadter.) ------------------------------------------ Robert Wright, author of "The Moral Animal:" writes "Understanding the often unconcious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decypher the logic of the puppeteer." ------------------------------------------ _Powershift_ by Alvin Toffler published by Bantam Books 1990 ISBN 0-553-29215-3 ------------------------------------------ >The Creationists are an example of a group that have as much credibility as The Flat Earth Society. They are supported through their ability to sell books and extract donations from gullible people. Their ideas have no scientific basis whatsoever. The fact that they have posted a few quotations from eminenet people means nothing. If you want to know what was truly said, read the source books. Creationism is outlawed completely in many schools because parents don't want their children learning such bunkem as "the world was created 10,000 years ago." Educated people know that there is enough fossil evidence, as well as radio-dating, to prove that the earth is much older. People are not as ignorant as they used to be, so that is why the churches are having such a difficult time nowadays. They can no longer torture and burn heretics, who have done scientific inquiry. ------------------------------------------ >As to all that literature you've sent me, every single one of those arguments are countered in the book "Evolution and the Myth of Creationism" by Tim M. Berra. Classic creationism arguments are listed and calmly countered with facts. >----------------------------------------- Now, what I am interested in is what, for me at least, goes under the heading of a "New Civilization". 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