Quotation of the day for November 30, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 30, 2015 "Normally if I purchase a hammer, if the head of the hammer falls off, I'm allowed to repair it and fix it. I can use the hammer again," Charles Duan, director of Public Knowledge's Patent Reform Project, told me. "For a lot of these newer devices, manufacturers want to say 'We want to be the only ones to repair it' because they make more profits off the repairs. They've found lots and lots of way to do this. Intellectual property law, contracts, end user license agreements, lots and lots of ways to try to make sure you can't do what you want with your stuff." - Charles Duan, interviewed by Vice, on how companies try to prevent product owners from doing their own repairs. [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-fix-everything] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 25, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 29, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 29, 2015 "The best thing that can happen to someone before they retire is that they hate their job at the end. Those that have loved it and are restructured out or pushed out have a harder time. If I had a recipe for good retirement it would be to have a bad job in the last three working years." - Ken LeClair, professor of psychiatry. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/retirement/retire-health/men-vulnerable-to-boredom-depression-in-retirement/article27490557/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 26, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 28, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 28, 2015 "They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace." ["Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant."] - Calgacus, a chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy, rallying his supporters against Roman Legions c. AD 83. Quoted by Tacitus. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 23, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 27, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 27, 2015 "Apple deals with things by ignoring people." - Kyle Wiens, iFixit CEO, on Apple's hostility to people fixing their own Apple equipment. [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-fix-everything] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 25, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 26, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 26, 2015 "A landmark 2010 study from the Massachusetts General Hospital had even more startling findings. The researchers randomly assigned 151 patients with stage IV lung cancer, like Sara's, to one of two possible approaches to treatment. Half received usual oncology care. The other half received usual oncology care plus parallel visits with a palliative care specialist.... The result: those who saw a palliative care specialist stopped chemotherapy sooner, entered hospice far earlier, experienced less suffering at the end of their lives--and they lived 25 percent longer. In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality." - Atul Gawande, from Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 23, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 25, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 25, 2015 "Sometimes, what takes place in prison seems like a version of ordinary life beyond the prison gates, just taken to a grotesque extreme. Nowadays in "ordinary" life, too, it can be difficult to distinguish a racketeer from an employee of an official organization. In fact, does this distinction even exist for most people? "And what happens to those of us who are too frightened to stand up for our rights, who adapt and hide behind a mask of submissiveness? Does this protective mask not morph to become our real face? Do we not gradually turn into slaves, silent and unresponsive, but prepared to commit any abomination if so ordered from on high?" - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former Russian political prisoner, from his book My Fellow Prisoners. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 23, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 24, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 24, 2015 "Patriotism transmutes individual unselfishness into national egoism." - Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian, in his book Moral Man and Immoral Society. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 23, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 21, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 21, 2015 "What I try to show here is it's not the outcome of normal economic forces. It wasn't the laws of supply and demand that had suddenly changed to result in this increase in inequality. "What happened was, in the United States, and then other countries, the rules of the market economy had been written to serve the interests of the 'one per cent.' So they were changing the rules of corporate governance, the way we enforce antitrust laws. "There were some changes in the economy as well: globalization, network effects, association with new technologies. So there were both changes in our world, but most important, changes in the rules of the game." - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate, discussing his new book Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/joseph-stiglitz-economic-inequality-1.3326999] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 20, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 20, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 20, 2015 "I'm used to people insulting me because I'm a politician. They can insult my faith, they can insult my hair, they can insult my weight and once in a while my ideas, but rarely. So I'm totally used to that. But when I say I'm shaken as a Canadian, it's not as an individual. I'm not worried about my personal safety. But I'm shaken in terms of my personal political belief." - Naheed Nenshi, mayor of Calgary, on the racist nature of some of the debate over the Syrian refugee crisis. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/calgary-mayor-nenshi-shaken-by-racism-in-debate-over-refugee-crisis/article27336996/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 19, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 19, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 19, 2015 "We were not allowed to speak our language before, and now ISIS wants to wipe us off completely from the earth. I fought ISIS in Serikani. I captured one of them and wanted to kill him, but my comrades did not let me do so. He kept staring at the ground and would not look at me, because he said it was forbidden by his religion to look at a woman." - Saria Zilan, an eighteen-year-old Kurdish soldier in the YPJ (Women's Protection Unit). [http://time.com/3767133/meet-the-women-taking-the-battle-to-isis/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 18, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 18, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 18, 2015 "Corporate-ese usually likes to put a cheery, productive spin on things. You're not forced to do several things at once - even though what you really need is to concentrate on a single project. But ever since the downsizing, you don't have a choice in the matter. Oh, no. You're just multitasking. That's just best practices, right? Now an equally chilling term has come down from the head office of language abuse/truth evasion: multiskilling. BusinessDictionary.com defines it as "the training of a single employee in multiple skill-sets." In other words, getting one person to do what used to be more than one person's job. This noxious euphemism is weaselling its way into everyday language. Overburdened? Overloaded? You don't get to complain when you're multiskilled." - Dave McGinn, writing in The Globe and Mail, November 16, 2015. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 16, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 17, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 17, 2015 "You ever notice with Indian music you never know when the tuning stops and the tune begins?" - Harry Manx, musician, who studied in India for many years. [http://plungermusic.tumblr.com/post/132996486651/you-ever-notice-with-indian-music-you-never-know] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 16, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 12, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 12, 2015 "Members of the Public committing suicide from this tower do so at their own risk." - Lord Berners, from a sign he had placed at a tower he had built in 1935. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 11, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 6, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 6, 2015 "She knew that the machines were supposed to save work. But she was aware that the girls worked just as hard and long and hopelessly after their introduction as before; and she suspected that there was something wrong with a social system in which time-saving devices didn't save time for anybody but the owners." - Sinclair Lewis, from his novel The Job. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 5, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 2, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 2, 2015 "...a sideboard carried an array of silver cigarette-cases with the arms and monograms of friends who had bestowed them for standing godfather or being best man at a wedding or second in a duel." - Patrick Leigh Fermor, from his memoir Between the Woods and the Water, on visiting a country home in Transylvania in 1933. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 30, 2015

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Quotation of the day for November 1, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for November 1, 2015 "I have carried the soldier's musket, the traveler's stick, the pilgrim's staff." - Chateaubriand Submitted by: Rob Wood Oct. 30, 2015

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