Re: No Wifi Option
On 2019-05-05, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, May 05, 2019 11:42:36 AM Curt wrote:
>> Of course, anyone who quits *and* gives up simultaneously is trying to
>> make some sort of point rather than solve some kind of problem.
>
> Hmm, I have trouble relating to that. I can imagine saying that I "quit and
> give up" as a redundancy, and my intent (unstated intent) would be to do
> something else entirely to accomplish my goal (stick with Windows, buy a new
> laptop, stick to a desktop, hire someone to set up Linux on my laptop, hire
> someone to browse the web, ... ???).
>
I found the phrase revealed a certain childish petulance incongruent
with the application of the unwavering scientific values that are the
hallmark of this technical forum.
;-)
--
The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done
to get them. I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful
language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with
the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was
an American. - "Another Country"
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