[extropy-chat] Atheists launch inquisition...

Rik van Riel riel at surriel.com
Sat Nov 27 15:48:53 UTC 2004


On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

> Rewriting history, and rewriting science, are always first steps toward
> a totalitarian Orwellian system. Let's hope both types of talibanism are
> only temporary reactions to the overheated political climate.

The US became a world power because of risk taking.  You lose
some, but you win so much more.  Now it appears to be in decline,
thanks to risk avoidance...

Rik
-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan



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