[AccessD] [SPAM] Re: Error trying to install MzTools

Hey!  I happen to be an astrological Scientologist.

;)

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 11/27/2012 12:09 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Reminds me of a very old joke or three, and before you reply to this, let's
> start a new thread on the subject. The old joke (or more accurately,
> T-shirt or license-plate sticker, is this:
>
> *Real programmers don't use compilers; they write compilers.*
>
> Which excludes me and most of the people on this list, I suspect. But come
> next U of T semester, now that I have discovered that U of T allows senior
> citizens free tuition, I plan to enroll in a course in compiler
> construction. I have a bold old concept for a programming language.
> Tentatively it's called Chomsky, and it does what you meant, not what you
> wrote. Tough nut to crack, I admit, but as I grow Older I also grow Bolder,
> just like a waving flag! (A song by a Canadian called K'naan, which became
> the last World Cup (football) song; see
> https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&q=k%27naan+wavin%27+flag&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgw4HsxCnfq6-gVmRkUmlEheImZZtYWKYqyXoW1qcmexYVJJZXBKSH5yfl_5eM8j0pObbpfcbNhtxWcw-9pNpzwEAdRfLXUkAAAA&sa=X&ei=lfG0UI_kHKaFywGehoDACQ&sqi=2&ved=0CMMBEMQNMBU&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=6048e1ecd4849dfb&bpcl=38897761&ion=1&biw=1007&bih=834to
> hear it.
>
> For those unacquainted with Noam Chomsky, at the tender age of 26 he
> revolutionized the study of linguistics, and a part of that project was to
> issue the death-blow to Sknnerism. Historically, J.P. Sartre did it first,
> on a different level, in The Phenomenology of Mind, but his proof was
> widely ignored due primarily to its imprecision, and it remained for the
> young Chomsky to utterly demolish and leave devastated a
> philosophy/psychology that ruled for decades, but was a stack of cards
> erected upon falsehood after falsehood after falsehood.
>
> I think that in the current situation, virtually no one gives even the
> slightest credence to Behaviorism, but occasionally I do stumble upon
> vestiges of this arcane dogma. The feeling is rather akin to stumbling upon
> someone who actually subscribes to Scientology or Astrology. The baffling
> thing is that now and then these people otherwise exhibit a modicum of
> intelligence. Go figure.
>
> A.
>