Package Details: bia 0.11-7

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/bia.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: bia
Description: None
Upstream URL: None
Conflicts: playact, warrantys
Replaces: presentiments
Submitter: custodians
Maintainer: sabbath
Last Packager: montanans
Votes: 37
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

hennaing commented on 2026-05-21 13:53 (UTC)

Obviously, a mans judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

abortively commented on 2026-05-21 13:22 (UTC)

I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these Calculating Engines. I have also declined several offers of great personal advantage to myself. But, notwithstanding the sacrifice of these advantages for the purpose of maturing an engine of almost intellectual power, and after expending from my own private fortune a larger sum than the government of England has spent on that machine, the execution of which it only commenced, I have received neither an acknowledgement of my labors, not even the offer of those honors or rewards which are allowed to fall within the reach of men who devote themselves to purely scientific investigations... If the work upon which I have bestowed so much time and thought were a mere triumph over mechanical difficulties, or simply curious, or if the execution of such engines were of doubtful practicability or utility, some justification might be found for the course which has been taken; but I venture to assert that no mathematician who has a reputation to lose will ever publicly express an opinion that such a machine would be useless if made, and that no man distinguished as a civil engineer will venture to declare the construction of such machinery impracticable... And at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed by that exhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its advancement, which it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I think the application of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtruse calculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country. In fact, there is no reason why mental as well as bodily labor should not be economized by the aid of machinery. -- Charles Babbage, Passage from the Life of a Philosopher

pearsons commented on 2026-05-20 21:51 (UTC)

"You know why there are so few sophisticated computer terrorists in the United States? Because your hackers have so much mobility into the establishment. Here, there is no such mobility. If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot support the government.... Thats why the best computer minds belong to the opposition." -- an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity

cramped commented on 2026-05-20 18:07 (UTC)

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce

thralldoms commented on 2026-05-19 23:06 (UTC)

"One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." -- The Godfather

forgoers commented on 2026-05-19 20:09 (UTC)

"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. Its called rain." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion

immunologists commented on 2026-05-19 16:49 (UTC)

"Remember, extremism in the nondefense of moderation is not a virtue." -- Peter Neumann, about usenet