Thomas Jefferson 
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 07:16 PM - quoteFoo


"I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain its strength. 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be in reach of a central school in it."


-In a letter to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810


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I wonder what Al Gore's stance on Piracy is? 
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 04:21 PM - politiFoo




When I did a little research, I discovered Al Gore called for a crackdown on Piracy just after ceremonially signing Kyoto.


I report, you decipher.

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Winston Churchill 
Monday, February 4, 2008, 06:09 PM - quoteFoo

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.


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Ouch 
Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 03:33 AM - techFoo
A friend of mine switched to running RAID 0 on his main system. I tried to convince him that if he lost just one of the disks, he would lose Operating System, Files, and Settings; Everything. He replied, "It's nothing important, only Vista"

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From the Irony Department 
Monday, January 28, 2008, 05:22 PM - politiFoo
Why is a magazine devoted to Hollywood celebreties named "In Touch"?


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Tom Van Vleck
 
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 05:20 PM - quoteFoo

"Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."

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Ronald Reagan 
Monday, December 31, 2007, 06:06 PM - quoteFoo

"It isn’t that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so"



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Henry Spencer 
Monday, December 31, 2007, 12:58 PM - quoteFoo

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"


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Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 12:31 PM - quoteFoo

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

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A Mathematical Limerick 
Friday, December 14, 2007, 08:23 PM - techFoo


The integral z-squared dz
From one to the cube root of three
Times the cosine
Of three pi over nine
Equals log of the cube root of e.


Found here.



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The Inbox Of Nardo Pace, The Empire's Worst Engineer 
Friday, December 14, 2007, 08:08 PM - blogFoo
Continuing in the Star Wars vein..


Subject Trash Compactor
From Death Star Detention Level Janitor <oldroscoe@empiremail.com>
Date A Long Time Ago 7:46 PM
To Nardo Pace <npace@empiremail.com>

Hey, kid. That trash compactor you designed is up and running and I've got to say it looks great. Lots of grime, a magnetically sealed hatch that can't be opened from the inside, a tentacled garbage creature that practically serves no purpose at all. It's got everything a salty old janitor could ever want.

One thing, though. It takes an awful long time to flatten garbage. I'm talking a minute or more, depending on how many flimsy poles I toss in there. If our capital ships can boogie at faster than light speeds, why can't we make a few walls slide toward one another at a speed that outpaces a Hutt's leisurely stroll?


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Uncomfortable Questions: Was the Death Star Attack an Inside Job? 
Friday, December 14, 2007, 08:07 PM

We’ve all heard the “official conspiracy theory” of the Death Star attack. We all know about Luke Skywalker and his ragtag bunch of rebels, how they mounted a foolhardy attack on the most powerful, well-defended battle station ever built. And we’ve all seen the video over, and over, and over, of the one-in-a-million shot that resulted in a massive chain reaction that not just damaged, but completely obliterated that massive technological wonder.


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