June 18, 201510 yr Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
June 18, 201510 yr My current backgrounds: Edited June 18, 201510 yr by Sarex "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
July 10, 201510 yr http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/red-gate-woods# HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
July 11, 201510 yr Author Reminds me of this conundrum: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/05/14/_99_percent_invisible_by_roman_mars_designing_warning_symbols_for_the_nation.html Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
August 8, 201510 yr Two bullets that collided mid-air at Gallipoli "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
August 13, 201510 yr Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
September 16, 201510 yr In between all the misery and suffering of refugees from Syria, it's nice seeing some of those rare, heartwarming moments. No, they didn't solve the world situation, most likely they're probably still looking for a new place to call home, but dang, the little girls joy at a simple game of "guess the hand" with the police in the middle of the closed highway is infectious... More pictures and background story here “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
September 16, 201510 yr http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34210994 "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
September 23, 201510 yr Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
September 25, 201510 yr Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
October 1, 201510 yr Edited October 1, 201510 yr by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
October 5, 201510 yr Mission photos from the Apollo missions - https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/page1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
October 7, 201510 yr Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
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