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raddevus wrote: Ivory Tower
There's a collection of stories, Aesop's Fables, which once were quite well known.
One of them is about "The Fox and the Grapes".
Or, in this case, the "Ivory Tower" is the grapes. You decide who the clever fox will be.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: The Fox and the Grapes".
For the lesser educated among us.
Aesop said: The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
That Aesop was a pithy dude, he.
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Well, it's a fact that the cost of higher education in good universities is beyond most people. To end up with a 120K loan for a 4 year under-grad degree is a little harsh considering they would be 22-23 at most when they graduate.
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In my opinion, the high cost of college in the US is caused by the same thing that causes the high cost of healthcare:
It's the fact that we ourselves don't outlay the money for it. It's paid for by somebody else and we get an installment plan. That's a perfect recipe for outrageous prices.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Quote: 87% of millennials engage in password reuse
⇒⇒⇒Every time you reuse a password, a hacker gets his wings ⇐⇐⇐
This is just the latest example of a remark that made me actually LOL.
I've been getting the Daily News for years now and I just want the people involved in its production to know they are appreciated.
That's all. Just thanks. 
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Seconded - mostly the work of the brilliant Kent Sharkey - always starts my day with a chuckle.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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You're going to give me a big ego, and that cannot be! Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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I reuse my password each time I log in, not sure how to do otherwise.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Agreed! Kent's really good with the snarkasm! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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In fact his username is a typo, he's called Kent Snarkey. He misspelled it, it stuck.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Careful. I have it on good authority that it's really Kent, Clarkey -- and he might not be as nice as the comic-books make out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That will definitely change my lifestyle.
TTFN - Kent
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In particular, the order in which you don your clothes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My secret has been found out! Now I'll start getting bills and everything.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now I'll start getting bills
DUCK!
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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OK, this is getting out of hand. I demand that someone tell me I'm an unfunny mean Forth-shill. Or equivalent.
(Thank you! )
TTFN - Kent
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You're an unfunny mean Forth-shill.
You're welcome, it's well deserved 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I demand that someone tell me I'm an unfunny mean Forth-shill. Or equivalent.
OK.
You're equivalent.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You are too kind. Thank you! 
TTFN - Kent
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My coworkers were complaining because we ran out of Starbucks coffee and are now drinking Folgers. I can't taste much of a difference between the two and its free! Personally I would rather be hooked on the cheap stuff anyway!
Hogan
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Yes, and Starbucks is like dishwater.
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Good dishwater with lots of soap bubbles, or the used water with chunks of food after a long cleaning session?
Hogan
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All coffee tastes like that, so that does not mean so much.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Starbucks is just about all dark roast, which although not inherently evil, often allows cheap coffee to be used (and in their case sold for excessive prices). Unfortunately, Trader Joe's tends toward dark roasts as well; unfortunately, because some of theirs are good and reasonable (others, not so much; don't bother with their Kona, but if they ever have Jamaica Blue Mountain again, it was good and a reasonable price for that, even if not top-notch; and their "Smooth and Mellow Blend" is decent).
ftp> get |fortune
377 I/O error: smart remark generator failed
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True. Sadly my better half likes it. I prefer CBTL.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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