Quote of the Day

“Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns”

Mitch Ratcliffe

Dave76 said:

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

John Perry Barlow

A whole lot of truth in that!

"You can trust the government; just ask any American Indian."

zigzag3143 said:

The First Poem Written for Computers

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For you somewhat cybernetically challenged, it goes something like this (using the proper cyber-names):

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH

Excellent!

zigzag3143 said:

The First Poem Written for Computers
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From International Herald Tribune's poetry critic:

This poem is clearly written by an exhausted soul, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after too many emotional crashes, Blue Screens Of Death. The poem tells us a story of a very controversial, even paradoxical personality; on the other hand there's this deep buried need to serve the master, to do what it's created for, on the other hand the arising need to show the user who really is the master: Me, The Computer.

"Not luck. It's what you do that makes a hero."

~Joshua~

"Dream as if you'll life forever,life as if you'll die today"
James Dean ~

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
~Mohandas Gandhi

A Guy

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer