INTERVIEWER: Did you think women wouldn't be attracted to you after you were diagnosed as having ALS?

HAWKING: I didn't know.

INTERVIEWER: Do you ever feel frustration, rage at being disabled?

HAWKING: No.

INTERVIEWER: Does your work help you to deal with these feelings?

HAWKING: Yes. I have been lucky. I don't have anything to be ( Read more... )

"You're thinking about this too much Justin".

WTF?  Aren't you people always calling people "stupid"?!  So over-analyzing isn't an antidote!  Well WHAT the fuck do you want?  It's 'thinking too much' versus 'everyone (else) is stupid'.  Think about it.  And don't give me that instinct/innate crap.

Hard; long and hard.  *ugh*

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I'm usually anti-ageist but there are too many damn kids on here.  I feel like we're living in this spectrum:

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I'm so massive no one can escape my immense stupidity. Sounds bad for the illuminating philosophers.

It's just too transparent to be fun anymore.  They easily admit their insidious intentions to undermine philosophy on LJ in back alley journals.  Mendy says:

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Two maddening experiences in one day -- and they were both over cars.

The first happened when a Floridian "gentleman" on vacation bellowed that he had circled the parking lot many times and there was "NO WHERE" to park, and that he was not going to park next door (where it was too dark for his 'GPS enabled Lexus'); so he finished those ultimatums ( Read more... )

... or its failure.  So I'm sinning for going back through philosophy posts but this one is directly related to computing.

"... I foresee the next Great Work as some systematic representation of [knowledge] OR the failure of every such attempt, where the latter result will not rest kindly in the minds of philosophers who expect structure and order ( Read more... )

1st webcam!  It's show and tell time ... :)

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Wow.  I was embarrassed at first but the bright light and audio echoes got things rolling. 

We know they’re wrong. Yet how do we avoid that cliche idiom, “I respectfully disagree.” The quotes speak for themselves.

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