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I thought yesterday[^] was that day...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Well now I know why I am not a programmer. I do not drink coffee. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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I noticed Starbucks wasn't on the customer appreciation list, no surprise!
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
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To me, coffee is a poisonous, disgusting brew. I generally drink a good English Breakfast tea, although I have been known to forget it, microwave it, and drink it the next day. I prefer my tea 'stewpid', which affronts my English friends no end.
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I like coffee and English tea. When I am done poisoning myself with coffee, I drink English tea as an antidote.
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To avoid the coffee craving, just keep drinking it! Simple!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I don't avoid a coffee craving, since I have never had one. The stuff tastes horrible. I was once handed a cup after being up for four days straight fighting a small forest fire. That was worse than the actual fire, and I threw it away after getting a smell 
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I understand. But diversity makes the world interesting. To each his own: You like tea and I drink coffee (too much of it).
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Do clowns hold the door open for you as a nice jester?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They can't make up their minds, they keep running in circus.
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
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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It's hard to big top that.
/ravi
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Make up your mind! Last time[^], you were holding the door open for them! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Did OG just rip-off his own joke? 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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He Leslied himself - and that definitely sounds like a euphemism!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: He Leslied himself
No that one he repeated for non native like me to give also us a Chance
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Get in your car (with the 27 others).
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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They could only be doing it because of pierrot pressure.
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Naw, they just do it for laughs...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Here 3
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Hear ye, here comes the sun of a gunboats and trains and plain and tall woman in a black avenger of the Spanish Main Traveled Road less Travels with Charley McCarthy hearing aid and abetcha by golly wow did you hear
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Adobe[^] has a decent high level summary of how NASA scientists use their software to assemble the images we love from collections of grayscale images, or dozens of non-aligned snapshots.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Interesting. So all these APOD photos really wouldn't be "that" special without an human artist to help. Interesting.
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As are many citometric views of cells. It's saddening, at least for me, because I do not like lies. I like fiction, not lies.
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
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Lies? Not taking sides but giving a food-for-thought that I had to grapple with.
I was scanning negatives from family outings. Some were taken in a forest. Now in those days, film didn't have a white-balance setting: you had either indoor film or outdoor film, almost invariably, the latter, balanced for tungsten filament or sunlight.
Well - photos taken with a tree canopy were always rather greenish. So, when scanning them, how do I balance the color: what the films sees, with it's bias towards coloration lit my standard sunlight or what my eyes saw, which had adjusted to the greenish light and thus perceived items in their 'normal' colors? Which is correct - at least philosophically? The light was, in fact greenish . . . but that's not what I saw.
I finally opted for balancing the images to normal colors, where normal is the white-balance magic done by our eyes.
So, apply the above to the images from space: is it lies? fiction? or possibly even closer to the truth then the photos show? The answer could depend upon the attitude and instructions given to the one recomposing the images - but a 3-dimensional reality projected into two dimensions, with colors lit by light other than the standard 'sol' source: not really an obvious answer.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "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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I like your point of view. The difference between the representation and the object, or "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" as a more relevant individual said before me.
Thanks for sharing your insight 
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
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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