On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:26:22 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> Hmm... 1994... So I was 14? Yeah, that would explain why I was stupid.
>>>> _<
>>
>> I would say "young and inexperienced".  Unless you still think that's a
>> valid value? ;)
> 
> I was a very stupid child.
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure that much has improved. :-(

You have a hunger to learn things.  Stupid people don't do that.  Stupid 
people are content with what they know and aren't curious about anything.

Jim

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On 9/27/2011 12:45, Alain wrote:
> For about 3 centuries, it was a prety common pastime to hunt down and
> execute christians just about everywhere. Things started to change around
> the 4th century when the first Roman Emperor actualy converted to
> christianity.

... at which time christians started hunting down and executing everyone 
else. ;-)

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   How come I never get only one kudo?

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>> I was a very stupid child.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I'm not sure that much has improved. :-(
>
> You have a hunger to learn things.  Stupid people don't do that.  Stupid
> people are content with what they know and aren't curious about anything.

Even stupid people can be enthusiastic about stuff.

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On 9/30/2011 2:58 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> I was a very stupid child.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I'm not sure that much has improved. :-(
>>
>> You have a hunger to learn things. Stupid people don't do that. Stupid
>> people are content with what they know and aren't curious about anything.
>
> Even stupid people can be enthusiastic about stuff.

Jim's right, you know. You are not stupid. You've supplied plenty of 
evidence to the contrary here.

Stupid people don't talk about calculus, haskell, pov-ray and other 
things. Stupid people sit and stare at the TV, watching to see whether 
[insert current attractive celebrity here] is gonna show it all or not 
or marry [insert other idiot celebrity who's gone through 25 marriages 
already], or had sex with [insert random person] or just plopped out a 
baby while flying on their own private lear jet. etc ...

Stupid people don't concern themselves with such banalities as quantum 
theory, integration, derivatives, signal processing or information theory.

Stupid people just want to push the shiny red button and see the sparkly 
things.

You, sir, are not a stupid person.


-- 
~Mike

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>> Even stupid people can be enthusiastic about stuff.
>
> Jim's right, you know. You are not stupid. You've supplied plenty of
> evidence to the contrary here.
>
> Stupid people don't talk about calculus, haskell, pov-ray and other
> things. Stupid people sit and stare at the TV, watching to see whether
> [insert current attractive celebrity here] is gonna show it all or not
> or marry [insert other idiot celebrity who's gone through 25 marriages
> already], or had sex with [insert random person] or just plopped out a
> baby while flying on their own private lear jet. etc ...
>
> Stupid people don't concern themselves with such banalities as quantum
> theory, integration, derivatives, signal processing or information theory.
>
> Stupid people just want to push the shiny red button and see the sparkly
> things.
>
> You, sir, are not a stupid person.

We do occasionally get ex-Java programmers turn up on the Haskell IRC 
channel who've read about Haskell, are really excited about it, and also 
have the attention span on a goldfish.

Required Bash quote: http://bash.org/?22094

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On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:18:41 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:

> On 9/30/2011 2:58 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> I was a very stupid child.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, I'm not sure that much has improved. :-(
>>>
>>> You have a hunger to learn things. Stupid people don't do that. Stupid
>>> people are content with what they know and aren't curious about
>>> anything.
>>
>> Even stupid people can be enthusiastic about stuff.
> 
> Jim's right, you know. You are not stupid. You've supplied plenty of
> evidence to the contrary here.
> 
> Stupid people don't talk about calculus, haskell, pov-ray and other
> things. Stupid people sit and stare at the TV, watching to see whether
> [insert current attractive celebrity here] is gonna show it all or not
> or marry [insert other idiot celebrity who's gone through 25 marriages
> already], or had sex with [insert random person] or just plopped out a
> baby while flying on their own private lear jet. etc ...
> 
> Stupid people don't concern themselves with such banalities as quantum
> theory, integration, derivatives, signal processing or information
> theory.
> 
> Stupid people just want to push the shiny red button and see the sparkly
> things.
> 
> You, sir, are not a stupid person.

What Mike said. :)

Jim

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On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:50:10 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> Even stupid people can be enthusiastic about stuff.
>>
>> Jim's right, you know. You are not stupid. You've supplied plenty of
>> evidence to the contrary here.
>>
>> Stupid people don't talk about calculus, haskell, pov-ray and other
>> things. Stupid people sit and stare at the TV, watching to see whether
>> [insert current attractive celebrity here] is gonna show it all or not
>> or marry [insert other idiot celebrity who's gone through 25 marriages
>> already], or had sex with [insert random person] or just plopped out a
>> baby while flying on their own private lear jet. etc ...
>>
>> Stupid people don't concern themselves with such banalities as quantum
>> theory, integration, derivatives, signal processing or information
>> theory.
>>
>> Stupid people just want to push the shiny red button and see the
>> sparkly things.
>>
>> You, sir, are not a stupid person.
> 
> We do occasionally get ex-Java programmers turn up on the Haskell IRC
> channel who've read about Haskell, are really excited about it, and also
> have the attention span on a goldfish.
> 
> Required Bash quote: http://bash.org/?22094

Short attention spans are not an indicator of one's intelligence.  Ask 
anyone who has ADD or ADHD.  My son went to a school that specialized in 
working with highly intelligent students with learning disabilities - 
which is ADD/ADHD.  Some incredibly bright kids - Ken among them - who 
just couldn't focus.

One of the most fascinating discussions I've ever had was with one of his 
classmates - Will described what it was like living in his head, and how 
frustrating it could be to not be able to focus on one thing.  What he 
said was one of the most eloquent ways I'd ever heard it put.

Jim

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> Worst.
>
> Dream.
>
> EVER.
>
>  >_<

Several people have commented on how you might or might not survive a 
catastrophy like this. What nobody seems to have much to say about is 
what would happen to your sanity if you were faced with a thousand 
million glassy lifeless eyes staring at you.

I feel almost certain that you would not remain sane for very long.

Also, I can't begin to tell you how disturbing this dream was while it 
was actually happening to me! o_O



Coincidentally, I just saw somebody on a random web forum ask people 
what they'd do if the human race suddenly vanished. Being a gaming 
forum, most people claimed that they'd play computer games until the 
power went down, and then comit suicide. Others suggested they would 
collect as many guns as possible and find a large defensible building to 
live in. Still others claimed that they would learn farming. Several 
people wanted to visit Area 51 to see if they really have aliens there. 
And some people said they would learn enough science to create new 
lifeforms. (Er, right.)

Interestingly, several forum users appear to be female. (I know, it's 
quite surprising really.) And most of them claimed they would find the 
nearest sperm bank and "hope my birthing hips are adaquate to repopulate 
the Earth". Man, that's one *hell* of a lot of work, right there! o_O

I rather suspect that no matter what your plans, in reality most typical 
humans wouldn't last more than a year or two if the rest of humanity 
vanished from around them. But hey...

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On 9/30/2011 10:50 AM, Invisible wrote:

>
> We do occasionally get ex-Java programmers turn up on the Haskell IRC
> channel who've read about Haskell, are really excited about it, and also
> have the attention span on a goldfish.

...?

> Required Bash quote: http://bash.org/?22094

It sucks that I can't see that at the moment.
-- 
~Mike

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>> We do occasionally get ex-Java programmers turn up on the Haskell IRC
>> channel who've read about Haskell, are really excited about it, and also
>> have the attention span on a goldfish.
>
> ...?

You know. People who are insanely excited about stuff, but don't have 
enough attention span to actually, you know, LEARN ABOUT IT. They ask a 
question, and half way through the answer ask another, unrelated 
question, and before you finish answering that they start flipping out 
about something else...

(Not, of course, that it's always ex-Java programmers...)

>> Required Bash quote: http://bash.org/?22094
>
> It sucks that I can't see that at the moment.

This is going to be such an anticlimax...

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