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LukeHeinz57 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 7:58 am
Valuethinker is my favourite discussion board poster, which is sort of the accomplishment given the august firm he retains on this wonderful web site! To Valuethinker: Primus Inter Pares!

I too as others have commented discover inside a number of sentences when I’m studying a Valuethinker publish and look to confirm. I have never tracked the speed although that does look like a enjoyable sport.

There are lots of higher and extra authentic posters than I. #Cruncher. grok87. Nisiprius. Ted Swippet. And a number of others. Quantity just isn’t high quality. I’m fairly spinoff (pun ) in my strategy – I do not are inclined to provoke threads.

Thanks, nonetheless, in your phrases.

His historic references are excellent. I additionally respect his honest efforts to guard individuals from themselves in a delicate method.

You’ll know the Tom Lehrer songs? If you do not know Tom Lehrer, you actually ought to. His determination to return to instructing arithmetic was an important loss to comedy. The recordings have been accessible free on the web, or youtube has a few of the clips.

I’m always remember the day I first meet the nice Lobachevsky
In a single phrase he instructed me secret of success in arithmetic
Plagiarize
Plagiarize
Let nobody else’s work evade your eyes
Keep in mind why the great Lord made your eyes
So do not shade your eyes
However plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Solely make certain at all times to name it please “Analysis”
And ever since I meet this man my life just isn’t the identical
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his identify
Hello
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach

The wonderful thing about citing historical past is that one is at all times plagiarizing, and it is completely authorized!

I additionally respect his honest efforts to guard individuals from themselves in a delicate method.

Or somewhat to not comply with in my footsteps. They have been costly errors. However possibly any mistake that you just make that doesn’t have deadly penalties for you and for anybody else can also be good studying?

There was a factor on the web. An nameless poster: that they had misplaced their job as a result of security violations. What had occurred was an industrial accident (chemical plant?) and (s)he had rushed in and saved the lives of three colleagues, however others had died. Tribunal and so they have been discovered at fault. They have been grief-stricken.

What we tried to do was inform them that that they had saved 3 individuals by their actions that day. That folks would identify their kids and grandchildren after him**. Sure in some ultimate world he might need been capable of save extra lives, however they did what was finest at that second – that they had striven in the direction of the great. 3 individuals have been dragged again from Dying’s outstretched arms. It was not their appointed day. “Not your day, man” because the sergeant screams to the lieutenant who has simply misplaced his led to an IED within the graduation of the Doonesbury cartoon strip about amputee veterans. That the authorized course of (plus the standard company self-covering) was designed to push “blame” down as far down the company ladder as they may go. However that that they had been a hero, and they need to go to their grave remembering that that they had saved lives.

If by our expertise and data, we might help individuals keep away from monetary errors, then that is one thing we’ve got carried out for our, name it “karma”. That justified our existence on this universe and time.

** this really occurred. Twin brother of a buddy of mine was named after a soldier who dragged his father, a Commando (Particular Forces), out of a minefield in North Africa.