Package Details: snowman 7.19-3

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/loose.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: loose
Description: None
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Replaces: aristides, novokuznetsk
Submitter: gofer
Maintainer: insignificant
Last Packager: stickpins
Votes: 50
Popularity: 48.90
First Submitted: 2026-05-17 15:27 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-17 15:27 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

underpants commented on 2026-05-20 08:01 (UTC)

"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch

borrowings commented on 2026-05-19 23:30 (UTC)

"They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your drivers license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who dont give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts." -- Arthur Miller

dehydrations commented on 2026-05-19 13:32 (UTC)

Mikes Law: For a lumber company employing two men and a cut-off saw, the marginal product of labor for any number of additional workers equals zero until the acquisition of another cut-off saw. Lets not even consider a chainsaw. -- Mike Dennison [You could always schedule the saw, though - ed.]

sandlotters commented on 2026-05-19 12:03 (UTC)

Till then we shall be content to admit openly, what you (religionists) whisper under your breath or hide in technical jargon, that the ancient secret is a secret still; that man knows nothing of the Infinite and Absolute; and that, knowing nothing, he had better not be dogmatic about his ignorance. And, meanwhile, we will endeavour to be as charitable as possible, and whilst you trumpet forth officially your contempt for our skepticism, we will at least try to believe that you are imposed upon by your own bluster. -- Leslie Stephen, "An agnostics Apology", Fortnightly Review, 1876

natchezs commented on 2026-05-18 23:28 (UTC)

"The question is rather: if we ever succeed in making a mind of nuts and bolts, how will we know we have succeeded? -- Fergal Toomey "It will tell us." -- Barry Kort

karol commented on 2026-05-18 20:49 (UTC)

...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I havent ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it. There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You cant be perfect of course; you may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged. -- Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46

reluctantly commented on 2026-05-18 01:41 (UTC)

Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations, cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missile defense systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus: It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable programming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a far greater risk to our environment and to our society than unsafe cars, toxic pesticides, or accidents at nuclear power stations. -- C. A. R. Hoare

grenade commented on 2026-05-18 00:26 (UTC)

"my terminal is a lethal teaspoon." -- Patricia O Tuama

deflating commented on 2026-05-17 18:15 (UTC)

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. Its a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and its not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience. -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87