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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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It's another post about #rulers -- well, of sorts.
I own a slide rule -- likely given to me by my dad. These would have been used a lot during schools and engineering bods alike. Until such time that the pocket calculator came along.
I ought to learn how to use it.
I own a copy of "The Slide Rule", by Burns Snodgrass, which is either a name, or an instruction, I'm not sure which...
Whilst I was rooting around, I came across these two gems:
The United Kingdom Slide Rule Circle: https://www.uksrc.org.uk
The International Sliderule Museum: https://www.sliderulemuseum.com
I really hope they're still being used somewhere, by some people.
Considering there's so many blooming different ones (some circular, for instance), it would be a shame these things were consigned to history.
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As a follow-up to this conversation about #ded #console #rulers, Thomas Dickey had this to say (in response to an email I'd sent him):
It's a visual reminder of how far left/right I've scrolled, in either the directory listing, or in the built-in pager. If you're using the pager, the scrolling applies to that.
Neither of those wraps lines, and when I
began that (in 1987), had no other programs to do that sort of thing.If I'm scrolling left/right, I want to know where I am. If I scroll too far the right, and the screen's blank, that helps :-)
I see it's in the initial version of dedview.c, in April 1992, which precedes any of the followup versions of #dired. In turn, that says it was split from ded.c, so... in that file I see a ruler (in showFILES), which is from November 1987. The 'Xbase' variable corresponds to left/right scrolling - but that's the initial version of ded.c (I don't recall if the intermediate version that I wrote beginning around December/January 1986 did that, but have a hunch that this was something that I did for the improved version, with the ring of active directories, etc).
I had modified the initial version seen here:
https://groups.google.com/g/net.sources/c/_lGkTpsqyPE/m/SwhkKsBuayIJ
to move its divider line up and down in late 1983, and incorporated a similar divider into the versions that I wrote from scratch. I don't recall if I added column numbers to my changes in the original dired, but may have, since it seems "obvious".
Thanks for that, Thomas!!
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“History,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More info about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/13455…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #history #humancondition #humanity #myth #rulers #soldiers
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Putin envoy Dmitriev, Trump envoy Witkoff meet in Washington
April 2, 2025
WASHINGTON — "Russian President Vladimir #Putin's investment envoy #KirillDmitriev met with US officials in Washington on Wednesday (April 2) as the Trump administration continues to press Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, two US officials familiar with the matter said.
"Dmitriev, a Stanford-educated former #GoldmanSachs investment banker, is one of the most US-savvy members of Russia's elite, with close relations to some key members of the Trump team. He is the highest-ranking Russian official to travel to the US on state business since Russia's 2022 expanded invasion of Ukraine.
"It was not clear what Dmitriev discussed with the US officials.
"But his visit comes after President Donald Trump expressed his frustration with the pace of ceasefire talks, saying on Sunday he was 'pissed off' with Putin and raising the possibility of imposing sanctions on those who buy Russian crude. Russia is the world's second largest exporter of crude after Saudi Arabia.
"#SteveWitkoff, a Trump envoy who has taken the lead on the Trump administration's contacts with the Kremlin, invited Dmitriev to the US last week, said the US officials. The White House directed the State Department to issue a short-term licence for Dmitriev to travel to the country, a necessary step as Dmitriev faces US sanctions, the officials said.
"Dmitriev may be key in repairing relations that were, until Trump's January inauguration, the worst between Moscow and Washington since the most dangerous junctures of the Cold War.
"The Russian envoy played a role in early contacts with the US when Trump was first elected president in 2016, as well as in building relations with #SaudiArabia, which led to an #oil price agreement under the expanded #OPEC+ producers' forum."
Read more:
https://www.asiaone.com/world/putin-envoy-dmitriev-trump-envoy-witkoff-meet-washington -
In each great revolutionary struggle the masses are led on by vague dreams of human brotherhood, and then, when the new ruling class is well established in power, they are thrust back into servitude. This is practically the whole of political history, as Burnham sees it. […] History consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of Utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by the new masters.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic MagazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/14826/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #classwarfare #commonpeople #history #masses #oligarchy #revolution #rulers #rulingclass
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In each great revolutionary struggle the masses are led on by vague dreams of human brotherhood, and then, when the new ruling class is well established in power, they are thrust back into servitude. This is practically the whole of political history, as Burnham sees it. […] History consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of Utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by the new masters.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic MagazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/14826/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #classwarfare #commonpeople #history #masses #oligarchy #revolution #rulers #rulingclass
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In each great revolutionary struggle the masses are led on by vague dreams of human brotherhood, and then, when the new ruling class is well established in power, they are thrust back into servitude. This is practically the whole of political history, as Burnham sees it. […] History consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of Utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by the new masters.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic MagazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/14826/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #classwarfare #commonpeople #history #masses #oligarchy #revolution #rulers #rulingclass
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The currently trendy obsession with being a "#king" is poison.
Buddy, the vast majority of #men throughout human #history—past, present, and future—are not kings. If you think you are, or can be, you don't understand how people function. We're not #knights either. We're #peasants. We're born, we live, we work, we die. Nobody but our friends and families will ever know we existed. When they die too, we will be completely and utterly forgotten.*
The ones who are kings? Or #dukes, or #barons, or knights? Shitheads, by and large. Even the "good ones" turn out to be pretty bad when you look closely. #Rulers need the #people, but people don't need rulers. This is a lesson the world learned through millennia of blood and pain. Those who want to discard that hard-won knowledge are scum.
If that's what you want to be ... okay, thanks for letting us know what you are. We won't forget it.
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[The people] have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Essay (1765-09-30), “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, Boston GazetteSourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/34259/
#quote #quotes #quotation #citizenry #freepress #freedom #freedomofthepress #government #knowledge #liberty #privacy #publicofficial #publicity #rulers #transparency
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There are #Cycles of #EqualRights where #Rulers of #Power #Lose #Control and #Generations of #Repression are #Diminished.
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There are #Cycles of #EqualRights where #Rulers of #Power #Lose #Control and #Generations of #Repression are #Diminished.
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There are #Cycles of #EqualRights where #Rulers of #Power #Lose #Control and #Generations of #Repression are #Diminished.
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There are #Cycles of #EqualRights where #Rulers of #Power #Lose #Control and #Generations of #Repression are #Diminished.
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There are #Cycles of #EqualRights where #Rulers of #Power #Lose #Control and #Generations of #Repression are #Diminished.
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So I bought an LED shop light yesterday and I was just looking at the installation instructions and it says to install two ceiling hooks 44.08 inches apart. There are no #metric instructions. That bugged me, and I assumed it had been manufactured overseas in metric and would translated to a round metric number. It translates to... 111.963cm. WTF?! Even if you assume rounding errors, why 112cm? Not 100 or 120 or even 115? WHYISTHIS!
#measurments #imperial #rulers #wft -
A quotation from #Pratchett, Terry:
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The suggestion that the world could be completely other than it is always annoys those who are content with the way things are. #Stories of #imagination tend to upset those without one. #Rulers are suspicious of new worlds where their writ does not run. #Jailers don’t like #escapism.
»»»»»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/60637/#quote #quotes #quotation #censorship #fantasy #powersthatbe #statusquo #change
