:: Re: [DNG] new behaviour of /dev
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Autor: Renaud OLGIATI
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] new behaviour of /dev
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:48:02 +0200
Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???> wrote:

> >>   People were happy even before the steam engine was invented.    


> > 'solitary,


> Do you think so?


> > poor,


> It depends; when the wealthiest individuals where those who could afford a
> horse, wealth was more evently distributed than today. Or do you think they
> felt poor because they could not have a PC?


> > nasty,


> Maybe, some of them.


> > brutish,


> Maybe, some of them.


> > and short' come to mind


> Oh dear, were they really *short*? Jeez, how happy I am not to have lived
> in those awful times!


All those adjectives, which come from a quote of Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) refer not to people, but to their lives in preceding ages...

Cheers,

Ron.
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                           delle gravi non possono.
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