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Skriven 2012-10-14 10:31:53 av Free Lunch
Ärende: Re: JC Penney starting fresh
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alt.atheism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.religion.christian,comp.os.os2.advocacy,talk.politics.guns

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On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:28:28 GMT, reports@scientology.org (Fred^4) wrote
in alt.atheism:

>MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
>>On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:22:20 +0000, Fred^4 wrote:
>>> MarkA <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>>>>On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:28:08 +0000, Legitimate Rape wrote:
>>>>> I also miss the Ohio Scientific Challenger III that I had and wish I
>>>>> had held on to all of them. I think I had a dozen of them at one time.
>>>>I just found a web site dedicated to preserving all the old manuals, etc,
>>>>from the Heathkit kits.  Talk about nostalgia!  It reminded me of the
>>>>hours I spent, trusty soldering iron in hand, building my computer in the
>>>>days when everyone would ask, "What do you want a computer for?"
>>> Yep, it was a useless toy. When I moved a data file from a CP/M Z80
>>> computer in one room to a CP/M computer in anoter room using the fiber
>>> optic cable under the carpet at just over 1 megabit a second, my father
>>> was like, "Um, why?"
>>It reminds me of Carl Sagan's story of when he was a kid, just getting
>>interested in astronomy.  After asking every adult he knew about the stars
>>you could see in the sky at night, none of them could answer his
>>questions.  But, what really struck him, was that nobody else seemed to
>>think that it was something worth being curious about.
>
>Yeah, it's a wonder any progress is ever made. Sucks getting old and
>finding one's comfortable rut in life.
>
>I remember my history teacher in High School totally confounded by bat
>echolocation. He got it all wrong, every bit of it. By the time I was
>through explaining it to him his response was "you failed this semester.
>The reason? You never argue with the man giving you your grade."
>
Any teacher who is so insecure as to do that needs to be fired and
forbidden to teach ever again.

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