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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I was just about to say the very same thing.
A precise Modern English translation would be "Leave behind you every hope, you who enter" (no "abandon", no "all", and especially no "here" -- the last has always mithered me), but I've yet to see an English translation that isn't good enough, despite a lot of ridiculous nitpickerry about which translation is best.
It's like people who argue about quotes from the bible -- which bible, which interpretation of the bible, and which translation (of a translation of a translation) of the bible?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: mithered
Have 5 for a new word, I had to look it up to make sure it was not fictitious.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Quote: ridiculous nitpickerry
I love it! I must find a place to use that phrase myself somewhere.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's a safe bet that you'll find plenty of opportunities.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: Who lets the illiterate write articles these days?
Just about every damn editor in the fourth Estate.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."
Indeed, Lord David, what the Man dared to say so gloriously in Tuscan seven-hundred years ago let no Johnny-come-lately tech-head boffin-rag impugn by misuse.
If you are an acolyte of Brother Dante, don't miss:
http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.html
"Welcome to the Research Edition of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. This site features 27 full editions of the Divine Comedy online: the original Italian text, English translations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rev. H.F. Cary, and translations in German and Finnish. Annotations from the Cary and Longfellow editions are also available. The texts can be viewed in a variety of facing page, or parallel, formats. Graphics from Gustave Doré, Salvador Dali, and Sandro Botticelli are available to enhance your reading. There are also maps of the afterlife, and sample illuminated manuscript pages from printed versions of the Divine Comedy."
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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Dalek Dave wrote: Who lets the illiterate write articles these days?
And who thinks spellcheckers replace proofreaders? It's a rare day indeed when I can't spot a howler (often a homonym) before page 3 of the local "quality" fishwrap.
btw, re Dante, I live on Eunoe Street, just down from Dantes* Lane.
Geographic Names Board has outlawed punctuation in place names.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm pretty sure the original had it wrong.
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Maybe the author wasn't quoting Dante!
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Only reason I can think of for the email I just got from Google Play advertising Wand Erection "music" and videos... 
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That advertising is based on your online habits. 
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I told you I would succeed. 
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It's a known fact and an old piece of marketing trivia that one of the "hottest" cross selling offers with almost certain success is
music and videos from Wand Erection and sheep lovers paraphernalia like provocative lingerie for instance.
I'd a thunk you'd know that. 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Morally and ethically, your gmail account was hacked by Google.
| "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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It must have been Dolly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes to all of that, also Leslie Nielsen has died.
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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It wuz de choclet wot dun 'im in.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chuck Norris has never actuallty written a line of code. He just roundhouse kicks his computer until HDD head crashes and sets the bits to create the binary for him.
Yup, we're still good.
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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You can't beat a Chuck fact! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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OriginalGriff wrote: Well ... 
 Thought so! How's the moggy?
OriginalGriff wrote: You expected miracles perhaps?
Fair point! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Stressed. There is a new cat in the area (new neighbours) called Coco and there is "fun and games" going on over which bit of landscape belongs to whom. They'll sort it out, but at the moment he is rubbing his chin glands on everything he gets near so she knows it's his. 
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