User:Isaac Dupree
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Awarded by all those who appreciate that sort of thing, 15th November 2005 [1]
It has been perhaps six months since I last substantially edited this page. Therefore, it can only possibly reflect what I was like at that time. People change. I have been changing a lot. I noticed that this was amazing to some people I know, particularly a psychologist, which hardly surprises me since I think the current state of the study of psychology isn't very good, in fact perhaps slightly on the bad side, but this is only one persons' worth of evidence whose personality was able to be more flexible than just a single view, and I hardly expected to end up being a much-changing person either, although it was certainly good and perhaps necessary for my well-being. (Now how's that for a run-on sentence! although it depends on how you define that term — even Wikipedia seems only to choose one of the definitions I've heard for that term, one that doesn't seem applicable here....) There is always some value in each person, including the persons one once was. Therefore I will leave this which the me of one point in the past wrote here, as it does not seem outright wrong to me now. —Isaac Dupree(talk) 11:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm a curious person and Wikipedia is an excellent way to learn random interesting things. It is when I am doing that that I see minor problems with articles and fix them.
- For a view on the world worth serious consideration: [1] — invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
- For an interesting programming language: [2] — invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
- For a flexible operating system: [3] — valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!
- For a generally good operating system with a good community and a relatively easy installer: [4] — invalid HTML 4.01 Strict!
- For a search engine that at least has a good concept: [5] — valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!
- For an intellectually incestuous link: [6] — valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!
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- Practical reason: I hate license incompatibility problems.
- Ethical reason (but ethics can also be practical): I could not bear to use state coercion on someone, who cannot be coercing me just by using some writing (especially encyclopedic writing) that happened to be composed by me in any case, so it would not help fight coercion to be able to use copyright-based coercion in as a “defense” anyway. But there is so much more going on in my mind than that explanation; thought is a complex process that deserves recognition for its complexity. Any external link found above is a good starting point.
- Practical reason: I don't have the resources to deal with the “legal” system in things like copyright lawsuits in any case.
[edit] References and citations . . .
. . . are helpful for a variety of reasons for a variety of people, all unique . . .
- ^ Awarded in this contribution.
