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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:34
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On 2018-07-17, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On 17 Jul 2018 16:11:11 -0400 > Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: > >> Gareth's Downstairs Computer >> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes: >> >> > On 15/07/2018 20:00, Peter Flass wrote: >> >> Gareth's Downstairs Computer >> >> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> On 15/07/2018 11:03, Huge wrote: >> >> >>>> I find the word "ripoff" problematical. Virtually everything in >> >>>> computer science is based on something else. Thinking "that's a good >> >>>> idea" and re-using it in a new and interesting way is hardly >> >>>> "ripping off". >> >> >>> ISTR that it was Isaac Newton who said that we stand on the shoulders >> >>> of giants. >> >> >> Or, midgets are standing on my shoulders. >> >> > Larger fleas have smaller fleas >> > Upon their backs to bite 'em. >> > Smaller fleas have lesser fleas, >> > And so ad infinitum. >> >> Swift. > > That they are, and they jump a lot. > > Brownian motion? Hey, driving through Newbridge yesterday evening, very good looking lady on pavement, walking along, it was the second glance when I noticed that she was talking into a Gemini. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Will Rant for Food.
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