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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar3-Jun-14 2:34

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

3-Jun-14 2:34

Blue Waffler wrote:
Einstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet[^] states this:

The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstien[^] states his timeline as

14 March 1879 to 18 April 1955

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You can not step into the same river twice.

OriginalGriff3-Jun-14 2:46

OriginalGriff

3-Jun-14 2:46

What? you believe everything you read on Wiki? You do realize that DD can edit it, don't you?

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Nagy Vilmos3-Jun-14 2:47

3-Jun-14 2:47

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
You can not step into the same river twice.

True, but once your feet are wet no-one will care which river it's from.*

* Queen Marie-Antoinette as she was led to meet the Guillotine.

Blue Waffler3-Jun-14 2:54

Blue Waffler

3-Jun-14 2:54

That's definitely wrong, and is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet.

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar3-Jun-14 2:56

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

3-Jun-14 2:56

Blue Waffler wrote:
is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet

Perhaps it recursively provides an affirmation on the original quote too. Smile | :)

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You can not step into the same river twice.

Blue Waffler3-Jun-14 3:19

Blue Waffler

3-Jun-14 3:19

The original quote WAS Winston Churchill, the bit about Lincoln is just Americans trying to claim it for themselves.

chriselst3-Jun-14 3:25

chriselst

3-Jun-14 3:25

Churchill was American, I've seen the film[^]

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

cvogt614574-Jun-14 8:31

cvogt61457

4-Jun-14 8:31

Churchhill's mother was an American.
His father was the duke of Marlborough.
Winston was the second son so he did not inheret the title.

_Maxxx_3-Jun-14 16:31

_Maxxx_

3-Jun-14 16:31

Blue Waffler wrote:
you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet.

I don't believe you.

Blue Waffler4-Jun-14 0:42

Blue Waffler

4-Jun-14 0:42

_Maxxx_ wrote:
I don't believe you.

I don't believe this.

JMK-NI3-Jun-14 2:42

JMK-NI

3-Jun-14 2:42

Well at the moment you are correct, but if time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in time and get Winston Churchill or Abraham Lincoln to say these things for irony's sake.

Kenneth Haugland3-Jun-14 2:46

3-Jun-14 2:46

Quote:
time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in

Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future. This means that instead of changing lets say WWI or WWII or any other mischief, we are saying that it was the best that could have happened? D'Oh! | :doh:

OriginalGriff3-Jun-14 2:48

OriginalGriff

3-Jun-14 2:48

Well, yes.
Without WWII and WWIII and the impetus it gave to research, we wouldn't have been able to stop that asteroid from hitting the planet.

Or was that next year? I always forget.

Kenneth Haugland3-Jun-14 2:54

3-Jun-14 2:54

I think we have invented modulus[^] planning algorithm. (That is also often mislabeled as a clock though)

Nagy Vilmos3-Jun-14 2:53

3-Jun-14 2:53

Whenever I am presented by the notion that travelling through time at anything other than 1 s/s is even remotely possible I offer the following - if at any time in the past or future of life on this, or any other, planet, a being should invent time travel then we would have known about it since before the earliest records.

I think that was said by George VII.

Kenneth Haugland3-Jun-14 2:55

3-Jun-14 2:55

Now you are just making sh*t up Laugh | :laugh:

Nagy Vilmos3-Jun-14 2:57

3-Jun-14 2:57

Well? You started it!

JMK-NI3-Jun-14 3:01

JMK-NI

3-Jun-14 3:01

One sure fire way to entertain a forum of nerds is to bring up time travel Laugh | :laugh:

Kenneth Haugland3-Jun-14 3:02

3-Jun-14 3:02

THere must be a quote somewhere on the internet saying you started it. Big Grin | :-D

Nagy Vilmos3-Jun-14 3:10

3-Jun-14 3:10

"It was Vilmos! He started it!"

There you go.

Kenneth Haugland3-Jun-14 3:21

3-Jun-14 3:21

Ah, finally I can bend the Internet to my will :evil laugh:

Nagy Vilmos3-Jun-14 3:23

3-Jun-14 3:23

Bend the internet to your WHAT?

Kenneth Haugland3-Jun-14 3:26

3-Jun-14 3:26

will1
wɪl/Submit
verb
modal verb: will
1.
expressing the future tense.
"you will regret it when you are older"
expressing a strong intention or assertion about the future.
"come what may, I will succeed"
2.
expressing inevitable events.
"accidents will happen"
synonyms: have a tendency to, are bound to, have a habit of, do
"accidents will happen"
3.
expressing a request.
"will you stop here, please"
expressing desire, consent, or willingness.
"will you have a cognac?"
4.
expressing facts about ability or capacity.
"a rock so light that it will float on water"
5.
expressing habitual behaviour.
"she will dance for hours"
(pronounced stressing ‘will’) indicating annoyance about the habitual behaviour described.
"he will keep intruding"
6.
expressing probability or expectation about something in the present.
"they will be miles away by now"
Origin

Old English wyllan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch willen, German wollen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin velle ‘will, wish’.

Nagy Vilmos3-Jun-14 3:51

3-Jun-14 3:51

Ah! I thought you said willy.

Kenneth Haugland3-Jun-14 3:56