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"unbelievable political reversal" ?
How about "putsurschitprise," a portmanteau of "putsch," "surprise," and "s**t" ?
I'm hunkering down here at latitude 18.7, taking sanctuary in poetry for the next four years; my friends did warn me:
Yeats: "The Second Coming"
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
Blake: "The Four Zoas: Night the Eighth"
“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
Jorge Borges: "Selected Non-Fictions"
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.”
with love, from Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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There's a very faint ray of hope.
He's such a lying SOB that maybe much of what he said he'd do is also a lie.
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The four horsemen do seem to be getting their tackle out of the barn...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Come on Bill, you know this should have gone into the Soapbox despite your literary excellence!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar, button up your stillsuit, and climb this dune, and take a look: [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Yeah, maybe. But he hid it in a clearly labelled message at the top of the forum! Who would expect that!
PS. Don't you just hate sand-worms?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: PS. Don't you just hate sand-worms?
Wait!? You've been to Saturn?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Not since last Tuesday.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So that's what MAGA meant?!?!? Hmmm Kinda missed that.
Maybe that's what was meant by enforcing our existing laws?
I am truly sorry you feel that way. I think you might want to listen to his acceptance speech.
The one where he singled people out and thanked them, and said we need to come together as a nation.
The he will be the president for all of us.
Let it sink in. Because you feel how I would have felt if it went the other way.
See, I had more to lose. Trumps win, will either reshape the country for the better or it wont.
But if Hillary won... 55% of voters are LIBERAL TODAY, making this a hard win (Look at the electoral college map at the start of this race). And if she won, and granted 20 Million Illegals AMNESTY (which she said she would... A Path to citizenship), and they are almost ALL liberals.
That would have thrown our country to 70% (Liberal) / 30 (non-liberal). Which means, as a conservative (more libertarian than republican, and anti-establishment myself)... We would NEVER be able to elect a non-liberal president AGAIN, in the history of our country.
Now, you might think that is fine, since that is your team (as many of my friends did).
But consider this. Bill Clinton, in 1990s wanted to build a wall, and stop illegal immigration, and spoke out loud that there is a big difference between Immigration and Illegal Immigration. That was CONSIDERED CENTER-LEFT just 20+ years ago. Today it is considered FAR RIGHT ZEALOUS SPEAK.
So, from our perspective, we saved our CURRENT republic where EITHER side can still win a presidential election. At least for a few more years.
Otherwise, in 10 years, we are Venezuela. People take garbage degrees the government pays for, and taxes everyone to the point that is is not worth working or starting a business. Eventually everyone closes their doors, only government companies exist, and quality of life drops, options drop. And we are all FINALLY EQUALLY MISERABLE, with no chance for someone like me to do many times better than their parents.
So, I know what I thought was on the line. And I am sure you feel the same way.
In this case. Trump will be temporary. If he fails, your side will eventually win. If he succeeds, then I think our country is stronger and better because of it, and I think even you will prosper (at least I hope you will).
With a Kind Heart...
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With spectacular apocalypses on your horizon, I can see why you don't recognize mirages.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I guess the mirages have taken over my vision.
I feel the following are good:
- Not dividing the country
- Supporting our police
- Discouraging People from Resisting Arrest (98% of police killing someone involve someone resisting arrest, or failing to comply with lawful orders. But media paints a different, UNTRUE Picture)
- Asking people to Respect Rule of Law
- Not putting Tactical Nukes closer to Russian Borders while calling Putin Aggressive
- Not picking Fights to show off military strength
- Not Depleting Our Military to unheard of levels
- Not Fighting in OTHER Countries civil war (who approved military action in Syria? Why? Not our problem, stay out. It's their country).
- Defending OUR borders, OUR Laws, OUR way of life.
Can you name the apocalypses of which you speak? The only threats to America I see are Globalism, Open Borders, Established Politics (Pay to Play, Big Money Decision Making, etc)
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: But if Hillary won... 55% of voters are LIBERAL TODAY, making this a hard win (Look at the electoral college map at the start of this race). And if she won, and granted 20 Million Illegals AMNESTY (which she said she would... A Path to citizenship), and they are almost ALL liberals.
So - if granting amnesty to all the illegals (not just those born here) is such a liberal plot - how come the only president to ever grant amnesty to illegals was Ronald Reagan?
The inability to close the southern border has always been an economic one - from the north side. Consider that (Per the Donald), they're presence suppresses wages, then they're exactly what businesses want: cheap labor and a way to stifle (American citizens) from requesting a fair wage. YET - whilst saying illegals suppress the wages of American Citizens he also said he wants to get rid of the minimum wage. This particular aspect of a free market will make even more citizens work one (or even two) full time jobs and still be in poverty.
You candidate-elect has made a lot of contradictory statements, ignores lessons from historical failures, and basically, will be tipping an already divided country towards violence.
The recent little riots in Missouri were hardly a shade of the real things of the past, or worse, the overseas version.
He may wish to remove regulations from business but he and his party have no problem putting more regulations on people.
Law and Order - one of his mantras - but look through history as to what that really meant, to whom it was applied, and alas, the ultimate outcome, when applied by egotistical megalomaniacs.
For those who pray? Pray that I'm wrong.
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It's okay, Bill. I'm sorry that you're out of sorts, but we all love you here.
If you decide to move to Canada, please let me give you my address so that you can ship down some of that awesome maple syrup! 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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BillWoodruff wrote: Yeats: "The Second Coming"
I'd go with the beautifully crafted reversal in "The Sorrow of Love".
All the brawling of the sparrows involved isn't worth a tinker's cuss, compared to things that are genuinely important.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maze generation is fun (I'm a big fan of Eller's algorithm), but why buy a book, when I can get all I need from a Google search?
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You are right. However sometimes its nice to dig really deep into a structured explanation of a particular subject. For that, I like books. 
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I did some maze generation a long while back but I designed my own algorithms for it. I wish I had had this book then as it was a lot more difficult than I expected and it would probably have saved me a lot of time!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I did some maze generation a long while back but I designed my own algorithms
That's very cool you've worked through some of the algorithms on your own.
I stumbled into these ideas because of this book and I liked the explanations a lot. The book is actually well-written and interesting even as a survey into the maze algos.
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For me, I don't have a tablet, and my Kindle doesn't do Google. And my bed is my best reading place; so opposite to a day's reading sitting up behind a monitor.
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I started re-reading Petzold's Turing a week or so ago. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I started re-reading Petzold's Turing a week or so ago
Very cool. And, definitely something you can read a few times.
I like the complexity of the ideas that they in turn make more ideas arise.
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If you can't play the guitar, is there no need to fret?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'll just shred your post
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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More discord? Still strung out from yesterday?
(yeah, I know - picky picky picky)
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