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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday
August 20, 2023 at 7:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2023 at 7:29 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 20, 2023 at 6:24 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(August 16, 2023 at 9:19 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: then 80% of the new cars must not need new license plates or would still remain unregistered. The notion that 20% of the new cars will actually get new license plates through the lottery depends on not just the new car buyers, but every last one of 1.4 billion people (infants included) in China entering the license plate lottery each year, and then 0.3% who wins the lottery somehow transferring the plates to the actual buyers of the new car. ![]()
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
at age 16 Steven Hawking built a computer using parts from mechanical clocks, telephone switchboard switches and other recycled parts.
From 1928 until 1989, the Eastman Kodak Company used a 13 month calendar.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
The suicide note of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, read: “to my friends, my work is done, why wait?”
That I don't like the ham salad from the local grocery store.
Actually, I knew that already, forgot it, and was reminded today. Damn it.
I'm your huckleberry.
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 24, 2023 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2023 at 3:22 pm by Bucky Ball.)
I learned two things yesterday.
1. Make a backup of anything you see in your computer systems you would be very pissed off if you lost. 2. Before you pay for assistance, (which fortunately I didn't do), use a simple air puff/blast from an air can to blow the dust out of a UBS drive. Better yet, use the damn caps on your UBS drives. Doh.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
![]() Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist (August 24, 2023 at 2:44 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: I learned two things yesterday. I got a vision of my son and his friends blowing in their Nintendo game cartridges. ![]()
I'm your huckleberry.
(August 24, 2023 at 3:14 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(August 24, 2023 at 2:44 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: I learned two things yesterday. It’s just amazing how many thing work better once they get blown. I’ll let myself out. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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