- Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
- The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
- Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end,” said Cerf, who helped develop the Internet’s basic communications protocol. “My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers’ ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.”
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Even as big teleco try to sell us that THEY are the internet and that we should pay them we must remind tham that they are mearly taxi drivers and as such thier only job is take us where we want to go. Paying extra to be dropped off at Penn Station will not be accepted.
Show consistancy or shut the hell up.
Ed Brown calls for critics of Sen. Clinton’s “Plantation” remark to to be more consistant.
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And I am sure there are MANY more examples of the right using race bating rhetoric and references to slavery than what Ed shows. But I never ever ever ever EVER here of the someone one the right taking there own to task for such comments.
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Anyway Ed scores todays QOTD for saying what needs to be said.
UPDATE:oops ! forgot the link
sometimes the limitations we face give us unintentional assistance in creating things we would never have made, or thought to have attempted if we had things as we wanted them.
“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.”
Ain’t it the truth !!!
NEVER EVER should a black man look at another black man and feel embarrassed because of what ‘white’ people say about him. That is inferiority complex at the highest level and has no place amongst our race.
True that !!!
I haven’t done a QOTD in minute so I put together medley of choice quotes courtesy of Quotes of the Day
“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
“Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.”
“At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.”
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.”
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”
“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
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