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author | dougb <dougb@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-28 23:34:25 +0000 |
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committer | dougb <dougb@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-28 23:34:25 +0000 |
commit | 730253b82fd8aee07046e5d6a79003eac5811fdf (patch) | |
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* Add a quote about the differences between human and machine
understanding from Ellen Ullman.
* Add Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life. The ordering
of the entries is due to the ../tools/do_sort script.
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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index b752580..ba50703 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ This fortune brought to you by: $FreeBSD$ - % -- Gifts for Children -- @@ -755,6 +754,18 @@ And everyone cuddles, And everyone wins. -- Shel Silverstein % + Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small +misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of +the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to +see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or +background. It can be programmed to behave as if it were working with +uncertainty, but -- underneath, at the code, at the circuits -- it +cannot simultaneously do something and withhold for later something that +remains unknown. In the painstaking working out of the specification, +line by code line, the programmer confronts an awful, inevitable truth: +The ways of human and machine understanding are disjunct. + -- Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine" +% "I cannot read the fiery letters," said Frito Bugger in a quavering voice. "No," said GoodGulf, "but I can. The letters are Elvish, of @@ -11853,6 +11864,233 @@ RULES OF EATING -- THE BRONX DIETER'S CREED (11) Avoid blue food. -- Richard Smit, "The Bronx Diet" % +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(1) The greatest threat to the human spirit is liberalism. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(10) Liberalism poisons the soul. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(11) Neither the United States, nor anyone else, "imposes" freedom on + the people of other nations. Freedom is not an imposition. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(12) Freedom is God-given. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(13) To dictatorships, peace means the absence of opposition. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(14) To free people, peace means the absence of threat. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(15) The Peace Movement in the United States was, whether by accident or + design, pro-communist. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(16) The collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens is the + most valuable, yet untapped, resource our young people have. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(17) The greatest football team in the history of civillization was the + Pittsburgh Steelers of 1975 through 1980. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(18) There is no such thing as "war atrocities." War is an atrocity. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(19) Regardless of the pain in our memories, nostalgia only reminds is + of the good times in our past. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(2) The single greatest threat to the free people of the world is posed + by the heinous idea of centralized government control. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(20) There is a God. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(21) Abortion is wrong. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(22) Morality is not defined by individual choice. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(23) Evolution cannot explain creation. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(24) Feminism was established so that unattractive women could have + easier access to the mainstream of society. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(25) Love is the only human emotion which cannot be controlled. You + either do or you don't. You can't fake it. (Except women, and + thank God they can.) + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(26) The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet + leaders is that he is alive. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(27) Soviet leaders were actually left-wing dictators. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(28) Abraham Lincoln saved this nation. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(29) The Los Angeles Raiders will never be the team they were when they + called Oakland home. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(3) Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(30) The United States will again go to war. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(31) To more and more American intellectuals, a victorious United States + is a sinful United States. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(32) The fact that American intellectuals rue a victorious United States + is frightening and ominous. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(33) There will always be poor people. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(34) The fact that there will always be poor people is not the fault of + the rich. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(35) Rather than feel guilty as some do, you should thank God for making + you an American. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(4) Peace does not mean the absence of war. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(5) War is not obsolete. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(6) Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(7) There is only one way to eliminate nuclear weapons. Use them. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(8) Peace cannot be acheived merely by developing an "understanding" + among peoples. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% +Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life: + +(9) Americans opposing America is not always sacred nor courageous ... + it is sometimes dangerous. + + -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc. +% SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 - Dec 21) You are optimistic and enthusiastic. You have a reckless tendency to rely on luck since you lack talent. The majority |