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• There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.
  -- Robert Benchley...
• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
  -- Abba Eba...
• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
  EBAN...
• deadlock n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• Great Renaming n. The flag day in 1987 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the net.
  format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme....
• Great Renaming: n. The {flag day} in 1985 on which all of the non-local groups on the {USENET} had their names changed from the net.
  format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme....
• There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us.
  I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice....
• Katz' Law: Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
  History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives....