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Darth Wong
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Gutenberg did not invent the printing press. He copied it from the Chinese and gave himself credit for "inventing" it because inventions by non-white people don't count. Not something worthy of hero-worship in my opinion.
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/RantMode/Blurbs.html
Dunnosalm wrote:did he know that the chinese had invented it before him?
And while the Chinese may have been the first to use it, it was Gutenburg's introduction of it to Europe that helped revitalize Europe and assured the West's continued cultural dynamism.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
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The Dark
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Ooh, I need to do some extra training for forgetting to mention O Sensei. Then again, sensei's decided to start using me as his training dummy, so I may not need the extra work...he accidentally hyperextended my ankle last week, and his grip is like a bear's (no offense intended, YB).Next of Kin wrote:Morihei Ueshiba -- for translating his knowledge of daito-ryu aiki-jujitsu into modern day aikido.
Gozo Shioda -- for creating the Yoshinkan, the hard school, of Aikido.
Brilliant men!
BattleTech for SilCoreStanley Hauerwas wrote:[W]hy is it that no one is angry at the inequality of income in this country? I mean, the inequality of income is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Why isn’t that ever an issue of politics? Because you don’t live in a democracy. You live in a plutocracy. Money rules.
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The Yosemite Bear
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