As organisations that downsize too aggressively discover, having people around who actually remember what happened in the past can be very useful (no, this is no reference to CSR; though I have noticed that one of the most valuable and oft-forgotten ways to solve some new bug reports is to simply type the appropriate key into the bug database and discover how and why this was or was not fixed last time).
But instead, this is a pointer to Noam Chomsky's contribution to the George "I'm cr*p" Will debate.
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There is so much good music out there that never, ever hits the mainstream. But if you dig a little bit, you can not only find some good ones, occasionally you hit the gold mine.
"[T]he entire globe will soon be wrapped in a glowing envelope through which none of the magic of the Universe can be seen by the naked eye." -George Eslinger
I've kept this research paper in the archives for too long.
May I call it "fiddling while the house burns"?
By "it" I mean endless "discussions" with septics... what are they (septics and discussions) good for?
Maybe ignorance is better... (but one should not use it much too often)
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