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It's Not Because They Have Suddenly Converted To Stallmanism.
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> "It's not because they have suddenly converted to Stallmanism."
> Anyone else misread that as "Stalinism"?
The word "Stalinism" is deprecated, the correct term is "GNU/Communism".
Spotted on Slashdot
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Stalinism begins at home. -- Tom Neff
Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.
-- Senator Dan Quayle (9/04/88) (from the Book "The Clothes have No Emperor")...
hexadecimal n. Base 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier `sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.
Actually, neither term is etymologically pure. If we take `binary' to be paradigmatic, the most etymologically correct term for base 10, for example, is `denary', which comes from `deni' (ten at a time, ten each), a Latin `distributive' numbe...
hexadecimal:: n. Base 16. Coined in the early 1960s to replace earlier `sexadecimal', which was too racy and amusing for stuffy IBM, and later adopted by the rest of the industry.
Actually, neither term is etymologically pure....
Liberalism is simply another word for Communism.
lashdot effect n. 1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said to have happened when a website being virtually unreachable because too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an interesting article on the popular Slashdot news service.
The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including variants like "That site has been slashdotted again!...
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
-- John Viscount Morley, "Rousseau", 1876...
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -- John Viscount Morley
Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the first word he speaks.
It is a cheap word because it requires no explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of thought on every occasion....