User:Student7
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[edit] Background
- This user is older than dirt
- This user, like Dilbert/Scott Adams, can remember programming with ones and zeros "and sometimes they didn't have ones!"
- This editor can remember the Great Depression and World War II. The walk to school was uphill in both directions with snow up to our necks! Our clothing was too light and we had to run to keep from freezing to death. There was no television. We could only get static on the radio but we were grateful for that! Not like you namby-pambies nowdays!
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Q: What is the difference between "criteria" and "criterion"
A: These often-confused words belong to a family that grammarians call "metronomes," meaning "words that have the same beginning but lay eggs underwater." - Dave Barry
Please note that I have "Autopatrolled" capability. This means if you come zipping along, exceeding the speed limit on the Internet Highway, you better look out for my blue light, cause, buddy, you are going to get a ticket!
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- Wikipedia
- "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
- "Wikipedia is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." - paraphrased from Douglas Adams in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
- "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." - Howard Aiken
- "English is the one that drags other languages into the alley, beats them up and then goes through their pockets for spare vocabulary." quoted from Darkfrog24 who modestly claims to have copied it from someplace else.
- Government
- "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session." -Mark Twain
- "In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." -Voltaire
- "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill
- "..In Italy for 30 years, under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!" - Graham Greene in The Third Man
- "..democracy without identity invites war,
- identity without democracy guarantees it." - Natan Sharansky
- "..democracy put man in place of God.
- socialism put the body before the soul." - Robert Leckie, The Wars of America
- "the only pauses in the history of human conflict had been pauses not for moderation but excess, pauses for the world to redivide itself, for thugs and victims to find each other..." - John LeCarre in The Secret Pilgrim
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx
- "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." — H.L. Mencken
- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. - Henry Kissinger
- "the state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and ‘progress’. . . . The assumption is that the future will honor this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.” - Jacob Burckhardt
- Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. — George F. Will
- In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. (attributed to Murphy's Law)
- A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns." - attributed to Vito Corleone
- Reality
- "Reality is merely an illusion..." - Albert Einstein
- "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein
- "...big bang, that first great quantum leap was not to the lowest energy level, the ground state. It stopped higher up, like an electron falling into one of the outer possible orbits around a nucleus..." "the state can change. Collapse, fall down. Spontaneously, randomly, at any time, any point..!" ("The past itself annulled, and we not only cease to be, we never were.") - Stefano Olivares, physicist
- "The rules that describe nature seem to be mathematical. This is not result of the fact that observation is the judge, and it is not a characteristic necessity of science that it be mathematical. It just turns out that you can state mathematical laws, in physics at least, which work to make powerful predictions. Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery." - Richard Feynman in The Meaning of It All
- "Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful." — Georg Lichtenberg
- The one-electron universe hypothesis postulates that there exists only a single electron in the universe, propagating through space and time in such a way as to appear in many places simultaneously. John Archibald Wheeler as related by Richard Feynman
- "I can prove almost nothing I believe in.." [including the roundness of the earth, quarks, and the Big Bang]. - Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- "All that is not eternal, is eternally out of date." -CS Lewis
- The importance of String Theory
- The importance of Nothing
- People are made of nothing?
- We don't know much about Dark matter which comprises 83% of the matter in the universe. In 2012, we found we knew less when we found that dark matter stuck together during a collision of two galaxies. It wasn't supposed to do that.[1]
- We know even less about dark energy which comprises 73% of the mass-energy of the universe.
- The former "simplistic," but orderly model of the atom, a nucleus with electrons whirling in "orbit" around it, plus odd particles discovered over the years, has given way to the much more orderly standard model, a 4x4 table/matrix in which we know "everything." The model consists of six quarks and a bunch of other random particles that seemed to need a home. Besides the comparatively orderly quarks there were nine otherwise-orphaned particles. To round out the matrix, scientists postulated a Higgs boson. Problem: they can't find one. There's probably one lying about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN someplace, but no body's been able to locate it. What if... the "simple" standard model needed to be 12x12 or 16x16...? And, BTW, weren't quarks supposed to make things simpler? And we won't even bring up charm and strange as flavour attributes. All of which "work" of course. But maybe insufficiently like the old atomic model.
- Religion
- "Religious faiths generally make claims about the nature of reality that conflict with the claims of other faiths. Attacking Christian religions exclusivity is also to attack nearly every vital religious tradition." - Michael Gerson
- "It is true that you can't prove the existence of God from His creation, but then, neither can you prove the existence of Henry Ford from the Model T." Jeffrey D. Kooistra (slightly reworded)
- "I've never seen electricity, so I don't pay for it. I write right on the bill, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen it all month." - Steven Wright
- "Atheism is blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere."
- "We should take care not to make the intellect our God." - Albert Einstein
- "Scandal" (in response to editors who try to feature "bad" people to look down on, reflecting the current media obsession with such topics)
- "Everybody's normal TILL you get to know them" - John Ortberg
- "If the best man in the world had his worst sin written on his forehead, he would pull his hat down over his eyes" - old saying
- "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is guilty of plargarism; a politician's career explodes in sexual scandal; a powerful CEO resigns in disgrace over illegal document shredding. What's is surprising is not that such things happen; it's that the general public response is, "Can you believe it? And they seemed so normal. As if you and I, of course, would be incapable of such behavior." - John Ortberg
- " He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone..."John 7:53-8:11
- "If perfection is our standard, then no one gets to talk." - Bill Bennett
- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
- New fallacies
- Hindsight bias - we knew what would happen ahead of time. We "knew" it was going to happen the way it did, even though there were several possible outcomes at the time. e.g bursting of the housing bubble. (There were many people who bought homes at the top of the market).
- Propensity effect - hyper-confidence that a certain outcome is inevitable. This has become stronger with visualization (i.e. television). For example, people "know" that global warming will destroy civilization as we know it with television repetition, despite the fact that no one "knew" this at all 20 years ago.
- "Any event, once it has occured, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian." - Simonson's Law
[edit] Important events and crises of the Year/Century/Millenium, as the case may be
- 1492 - Philosophers have known since the 3rd century BC that the world is round and it is "about" 25,000 miles in circumference. Christopher Columbus wrongly assumes the world is only 15,000 miles in circumference and cluelessly sails west to what he thinks is China. In fact, he never realizes that he has not reached China.
- 1950 - Students are taught that everyone thought the world was flat prior to Columbus and the latter changed everyone's thinking so it was up to date!
- 1949 - Orwell postulates a public Two minutes of hate in his novel of the future, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- 1969-1975 - critics tried to stop supersonic flights, assuming that they would leave lasting contrails which would reflect solar energy and cause global cooling.
- 1972 - 1982 - We're going to run out of everything real soon..
- 1972 -1974 - Orwell's prediction of "two minutes of hate" comes true with the Watergate break-in. Richard Nixon tries to protect his political burglars from prosecution, thereby becoming the most hated man on the planet. Nightly "hate" rants continue on television until he finally resigns.
- 1974 - 1976 - Ford pardons Nixon, thereby becoming the most hated man on the planet.
- 1978 - Anwar El Sadat wins Nobel Peace Prize for making peace with Israel. When he gets home, they shoot him.
- 1985-1986, winters are among the coldest on record. Freezes kill off orange trees in Central Florida, forcing the industry further south, where it has migrated from south Georgia in the early 1900s. Many people wonder whether we are entering a period of glacial cooling. Newsweek has that very suggestion as a front page article.
- 1998 - Mark McGwire accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs, admits to taking an OTC alternative, thereby becoming the most-hated man on the planet.
- 2000 - with anything and everything causing global warming, the anti-supersonic lobby claims that plane contrails will last a long time and cause global warming (not cooling, as they had claimed in the 1970s)
- 1998 - January 1, 2000 - Y2K
- 2000 - Katherine Harris, whose job it is to submit Florida election results, waits until all appeals have been answered, then submit election results, thereby becoming the most hated person on the planet.
- 2001 - Danger from Islamofascists - 9/11 attacks
- 2002 - Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize for "Nicest Smile"
- 2003 - George W. Bush orders the invasion of Iraq and overthrows Saddam Hussein, which his father had failed to do. It was obvious that he would look for an opportunity to do this since the day of his election. While the military wins the war, it loses the peace and a load of money. Bush becomes the most hated man on the planet.
- 2007 - Al Gore wins Nobel Prize for "Best Film on Nature"
- 2007 - Michael Vick is accused of illegal dog fighting, thereby becoming the most hated man on the planet. The federal authorities incarcerate him in Leavenworth for 21 months
- 2009 - President Obama wins Nobel Prize for Public Speaking.
- 2009 - Tiger Woods is revealed as having cheated on his wife. He becomes the most hated man on the planet.
- 1980 to 2000 - Ozone depletion
- 1994 - present - global warming.
- 2011 - Several Japanese nuclear reactors have caught fire after the worst earthquake in history (really!). It is the end of the world. The Japanese, then us, will all be killed by fallout. (Fire is controlled after a week). Everyone will have to shut down all their reactors: The "design" is faulty. (Actually the backup cooling system was inundated by water which was four feet higher than anticipated)
- 2011 - Coach Jerry Sandusky of Penn State is arrested, accused of 40 counts of sexually molesting student players. He becomes the most hated man on the planet.
(Serious stuff):
To find articles with names starting with (note that Mozilla won't perform anywhere nearly this well:)
All pages beginning with "Black River"
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- ‡ = Only part of it is superscripted.
- ‡‡ = Has a non-superscripted mode as well.
- ‡‡‡ = Only part of it is inline.
- Superscripted
- {{ambiguous link}} a.k.a. {{dn}}
- {{by whom}} – a grammatical variant of {{who}}, a.k.a. {{says who}} & several others
- {{citation broken}}
- {{citequote}}
- {{clarifyme}} a.k.a. {{huh}}, {{what}}, {{unclear}}
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- {{disputed-inline}}, a.k.a. {{disputable}}, {{debatable}}
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- {{fact}} a.k.a. {{citation needed}}, {{cn}}, {{needs citation}}, {{uncited}}, {{fct}}, etc.; see also {{fact-now}} wrapper
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- {{ref label}}‡ a.k.a. {{footnote label}}
- {{request quotation}} a.k.a. {{request quote}}, {{quote request}}
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- {{season needed}} a.k.a. {{episode needed}}, {{seasonneeded}}, {tl|episodeneeded}}
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- {{verify credibility}} a.k.a. {{vc}}, {{rs}}
- {{verify source}} a.k.a. {{verification needed}}
- {{volume needed}} a.k.a. {{issue needed}}
- {{weasel-inline}} a.k.a. {{weasel word}}, {{weasel-word}} & others
- {{where}}
- {{who}} a.k.a. {{who?}}, {{weasel-name}}, {{views needing attribution}}, {{attrib}} & many others (after many merges)
- {{year}}
Meta-templates:
- {{fix}}‡ a.k.a. {{fix-inline}} — used to create other such templates, consistently
- {{inline warning}} — used manually to provide a custom cleanup note
Noteworthy for features:
- {{vague}} — has feature where optional parameter becomes the mouseover/tooltip message
Needed:
- {{daymonth}} (for missing day, e.g. "November 2006" when not appropriate), to go along with {{fulldate}} and {{year}} ({{date}} and {{day}} already used for something else)
- Related software functions in Cite.php that aren't templates
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- Non-superscripted
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A number of templates are, technically, used inline, but for purposes very different from those that concern this project (at present).
- {{tl}}, {{tlx}}, {{cl}}, {{ul}}, etc.
- {{sort}}, {{nts}}, {{TBA}}, etc.
- {{day}} and the like; DAB and other hatnote templates; {{seealso}}/{{further}}/{{main}}/{{cat main}} and other self-ref tags; numerous shortcut templates such as {{Shamos 1999}}; numerous other shortcut templates such as {{wc}}, {{cuegloss}}, etc.; language formatting templates; and others that are technically "inline" but don't have anything to do with maintenance or sources, and are not superscripted.
- {{inote}}
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- {{cite}} family of ref. citation formatting templates
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- (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1000000|1990|2005|r=2}}}} in {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1}} consumer dollars)
- $1.78 million = $1.68 million
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