Who's Your Hero?
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How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse? I most definately consider most firefighters as heros but I give no special status to the ones that one present in nyc on the 11th. All firefighters that die in the line of duty deserve the same honor and recognition.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse?
Most of them wouldn't go into a bombed building in the first place either. Also, let's not forget the ones that didn't run after the first tower fell (they had plenty of time to run btw).
Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)
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I don't know about heros, but if I were to have the opportunity to meet anyone, I'd almost certainly choose Richard Feynman[^], with Lynn Conway[^] coming a close second.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse?
Most of them wouldn't go into a bombed building in the first place either. Also, let's not forget the ones that didn't run after the first tower fell (they had plenty of time to run btw).
Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)
I think at times there is a very large gap between believing you can do something and believing you can not. In the first case, they most assuredly believed they could get the people out safely. In the second case, they probably most assuredly believed they could not.
Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.
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I don't know about heros, but if I were to have the opportunity to meet anyone, I'd almost certainly choose Richard Feynman[^], with Lynn Conway[^] coming a close second.
Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
I would want to meet Jesus and ask him "WTF"? :omg:
Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.
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How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse? I most definately consider most firefighters as heros but I give no special status to the ones that one present in nyc on the 11th. All firefighters that die in the line of duty deserve the same honor and recognition.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
Seeing a house burning and doing their job is one thing. But seeing the unimaginable, unspeakable happen, and going back to work is special.
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I would want to meet Jesus and ask him "WTF"? :omg:
Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.
Apparently that was a problem with the transmission oil. Ho, did you mean Jesus as in Jesus the mechanic? ;P
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