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

jack drawbridge jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 12:18:07 CST 2012


That's how you explain your 50 hour days, John.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:49 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> 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=**
>> H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgw4Hsx**Cnfq6-**gVmRkUmlEheImZZtYWKYqyXoW1qcme**
>> xYVJJZXBKSH5yfl_**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<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.
>>
>>
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