Live fast, die old. He who dies with the most spawned processes wins.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams ("Mostly Harmless")
-- Leo Tolstoy
Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc., for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lighting storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lighting was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as "A penny saved is a penny earned." Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office.
-- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"
"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."
--J. Edgar Hoover
"Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful woman; in English, a deadly poison. A startling example of the essential identity of the two languages."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"If at first you don't succeed-so much for skydiving." --Launegayer
We are Microsoft. Unix is irrelevant. Openness is futile. Prepare to be assimilated. -Bill Gates
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of Unix, telnet, ftp; of protocols and pings.
We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. ...
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. ...
"Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget.
"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for thee."
The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.
-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition
All you have to do to see the accuracy of my thesis is look around you. Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs -- bank vice presidents, insurance salesman, auditors, secretaries of defense -- and you'll realize they all dress the same way, essentially the way the mannequins in the Sears menswear department dress. Now look at the real successes, the people who make a lot more money than you -- Elton John, Captain Kangaroo, anybody from Saudi Arabia, Big Bird, and so on. They all dress funny -- and they all succeed. Are you catching on?
-- Dave Barry, "How to Dress for Real Success"
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"A system admin's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over Emergency Room doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards!" -Michael O'Brien
Christ walks into a bar. Says: I am Jesus, and I have returned." Nobody believes. Goes to a table with three guys, first guy is blind. Jesus passes his hand over the blind guy's eyes. Suddenly, the guy can see! Second guy has a wooden leg. Jesus touches the leg and it becomes a real one! Third guy has a shattered wrist. Jesus takes a step toward third guy, who jumps back and screams, "Don't touch me, Jesus! I'm getting worker's comp!"
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-Goethe
What the great philosophers have said vis-a-vis LOVE:
"Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell" - Bertrand Russell
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine-gun" - Kierkegaard
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." - Nietzsche
"As others have said, handguns are a good defense against bears, as long as you shoot yourself with it. Just make sure you don't accidentally shoot the bear; you'll make him mad!"
-Callison@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
[There are] unhealthy consequences of rewarding citizens according to their skills, when so many have so few skills...
Secretary of Labor R. B. Reich NY Times, Oct 27, 1994, p. B3 From each according to his ability...
"WARNING: DO NOT add 1 tsp of yeast and 4 cups of sugar to the contents of this
bottle, as an illegal alcohol will result in 15 to 20 days"
- a 1923 grape juice label
"Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others."
- Bill Clinton
Sen. Bob Kerry (D, Nebraska)
"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans..."
"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities."
-Bill Clinton
"CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE - An ultimate goal of the United States is a world which is free from the scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments; .... Is is the purpose of this chapter to provide impetus toward this goal by creating a new agency of peace to deal with the problem of reduction and control of armaments looking toward ultimate world disarmament."
US Code Annotated, 1990 ed, page 110, Title 22, Section 2551
"The first problem is to slow down the number of hand- guns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and handgun ammunition ... illegal."
Peter Shields, Founder, Handgun Control Inc. (HCI) _New Yorker_ Magazine
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..."
- President Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)
And we should -- then every community in the country could then start doing major weapon sweeps and then destroying the weapons, not selling them.
-- Bill Clinton, 10/1/93
"1935 will go down in History! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead to the future!"
--- Adolf Hitler
"History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall"
-- Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
- David Hume
The authorities had nine shots at O.J. for wife beating. They either held fire or missed every time. Second, the 911 call took 13 minutes. When Nicole hung up, the police had still not arrived. Conclusion: Ordinary citizens don't need guns for protection. We have the police. They should be here any minute.
Nicolo Machiavelli
columnist Nicholas von Hoffman (The Washington Post, 11/12-94)
....THE LAW, by Frederick Bastiat
Along came two social workers who looked at his wounds and said "The man who did this needs our help."
Dick Francis (the British Horse Racing Mystery Writer)
- L. Neil Smith
- Robert K. Dixon
Pyotr Filipivich (pyotr@halcyon.com)
--Larry O'Brien
< Steve_Kilbane@cegelecproj.co.uk>
"I prefer a small government which may permit some evil to a large government that promotes evil at my expense." - Unknown
"One heartening factor for which the wife can be grateful is the fact that the husband's home, school, church and social environment have been working together all through his life to instill in him a deep sense of guilt in regards to his sexual feelings, so that he comes to the marriage couch apologetically and filled with shame, already half cowed and subdued."
"Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride" by Ruth Smythers (1894)
Just think what would happen if you spent as much time writing your elected officials as you do surfing the net...maybe things would change.
gt1972b@prism.gatech.edu
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
Jules Renard
No Work Ethic, No Peace.
Julie Cochrane (jrcosby@prism.gatech.edu)
Not even the future is what it used to be... Sven Geier (sgeier@bootes.astro.umd.edu), on rec.org.mensa
The American man marries early, and the American woman marries often; and they get on extremely well together.
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THE TRUTH There are certain truths that are true, no matter how much we may deny them. For instance, you cannot legislate the poor into independence by legislating the wealthy out of it. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. Government cannot give to people what it does not first take away from people. And that which one man receives without working for, another man must work for without receiving.
Kenneth W. Sollitt
"Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is."
John Lydon.
"The way to a man's heart is through his chest" Iain M. Banks, _Use of Weapons_
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be willing to pull his weight." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere." -- Abraham Lincoln
After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
- PJ O'Rourke
"Miss Manners has been accosted by a variety of people who do missionary work under the pretense of friendship, generously spreading their newly acquired insights in the hope of making others as attractive as themselves. There are those who offer to explain to Miss Manners how to deal with her guilt. As you know, Miss Manners doesn't have any guilt. Others want to teach her to be free of her inhibitions. Miss manners does have a few inhibitions, as it happens, but she need them and is, if anything, hoping to develop a few more. People have even offered to help Miss Manners find God, Who Miss Manners hadn't known was lost."
Judith Martin, "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior."
Bureaucracy is as wrong as cancer, a turning away from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and differentiation and independent spontaneous action, to the complete parasitism of a virus
William S. Burroughs, "Naked Lunch"
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If ignorance is bliss, shouldn't more people be happy?"
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw -
"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."
- Jean Paul Sartre (quoted in _Harpers_, Jan. 1995 p. 25)
"There is one thing that will keep a man in everlasting ignorance and poverty. That one thing is contempt prior to investigation."
- Herbert Spencer
"It is better to be a flawed diamond than a perfect brick!"
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue."
- Winston Churchill
W. Churchill
The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out, it's just a tired feeling - Paula Poundstone
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
The value of science remains unsung by singers, so you are reduced to hearing - not a song or a poem, but an evening lecture about it. - R. Feynman
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
-- Vannevar Bush
"The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government,one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
Senator Hubert Humphrey
"The very purpose of the First Amendment is to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind. ... In this field every person must be his own watchman for the truth, because the forefathers did not trust any government to separate the truth from the false for us."
...Thomas v Collins, 323 U.S. 516 (1945)
If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place? To be armed is to secure one's right to representation.
Thomas Mincher
As far as nudity being responsible for arousal, it simply isn't true. Actually, arousal is often responsible for nudity
75% of men kiss their wife good-bye before leaving their house. The reverse is also true.
"Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence."
"The defendant's objections to the evidence obtained by wire-tapping must, in my opinion, be sustained. It is, of course, immaterial where the physical connection with the telephone wires leading into the defendant's premises was made. And it is also immaterial that the intrusion was in aid of law enforcement.
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 479 (1928)
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place"
Frederic Bastiat
"See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."
Frederic Bastiat
"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, where the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."
- L. Neil Smith, _The Probability Broach_
-That which does not destroy me makes me stronger-
Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols, 1888)
"Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep only if it cannot see to the bottom; it is too timid to go into the water."
Frederick Nietzsche, Aphorisms.
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"You'll get further with a smile and a gun than just a smile"
Al Capone
"Only in America where a homeless veteran sleeps in a cardboard box and a draft dodger sleeps in the Whitehouse" UNKNOWN AUTHOR
It is a poor parent who tries to child proof the world, instead of world proofing the child. UNKNOWN AUTHOR
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
--George Eliot
50 Years of Progress - 1943-1993 - Warsaw to Waco
"In 5 of the 7 cases, the government that implemented the gun control was NOT the government that implemented the genocide."
-JFPO
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
-Robert A. Heinlein, through his character Lazarus Long
--Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
"You can have Peace, or you can have Freedom. Don't ever count on having both at the same time."
Robert A. Heinlein
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures that you want to vote for...but there are certain to be ones that you want to vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.
If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that truly intellingent exercise of the franchise requires."
Robert A. Heinlein
"I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence I would advise violence."
Mohandas Gandhi
"Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life."
Daniel Polsby, "The False Promise of Gun Control" The Atlantic, March 1994
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
--Ayn Rand
-- Ayn Rand, "Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors"?
The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1952
Ayn Rand
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one *makes* them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on the guilt."
Ayn Rand, _Atlas_Shrugged_
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-- Galileo Galilei
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and then applying the wrong remedies."
- G. Marx
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
If pro-choice means choice after conception, does this apply to men too? If choice is made solely by the woman, then shouldn't the responsibility be born solely by the woman? With choice comes responsibility.
"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
-Second Amendment, United States' Bill of Rights
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust man less on the same amount of income."
The Republic,(Book 1)Plato
"aid to foreign lands must be curtailed, ... the mobs must be made to work for their sustinance..."
Ciscero addressing the Roman Senate
"when the government fears the people,it is called democracy- when the people fear their government it is called tyranny"
Thomas Paine
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Ben Franklin (Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759)
"To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other bestow it on favored individuals... is nonetheless robbery because it is done under the form of law and is called taxation."
United States Supreme Court
Loan Association v.Topeka (1874)
St. George Tucker, in his edition of Blackstone's _Commentaries_
Sam Adams opposed ratification unless accompanied by a provision that "the said Constitution be never construed... to prevent the people, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms," and, "arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the nation, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense."
Samuel Adams
If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams, 1776
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."
--- Samuel Adams
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
--- George Mason, 3 Elliott, Debates at 425-426
"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them"
(George Mason, 1788)
"Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that exists among the people, or which they can command; otherwise, this force would be annihilated on first exercise of acts of oppression. Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
Noah Webster
Curt Phillips (cphillips@interpath.com)
"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and the keystone under independence... The rifle and pistol are equally indispensable... The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
George Washington
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."
--- Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution
"We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of untemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bonds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded"
-- Abraham Lincoln 12/18/1840
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the Body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!" -Sen. Barry Goldwater-
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Madison, 1788
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Thomas Jefferson 1812
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
--- Thomas Jefferson
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson
"I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude If we can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."
Thomas Jefferson
"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
--- Richard Henry Lee writing in letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic (1787-1788)
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them... It is true, the yeomanry of the country possess the lands, the weight of property, possess arms, and are too strong a body of men to be openly offended (but) they may in twenty or thirty years be, by means imperceptible to them, totally deprived of that boasted weight and strength. This may be done in great measure by Congress, if it disposed to do it, by modeling the militia. Should one-fifth or one-eighth part of the men capable of bearing arms be made into a select militia, as has been proposed... and all others put upon a plan which will render them of no importance, the former will answer all the purposes of an army, while the latter will be defenseless... The constitution ought to secure a genuine, and guard against a select, militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed and disciplined [well regulated], and include, according to the past and general usage of the States, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations to render this militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men not having any permanent interests or attachments in the community, to be avoided..."
Richard Henry Lee
