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Has Pekka won yet?"The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - DissidentComment
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He invented the notebook too?! Oh my...surely that clinches it for him!Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
In the opening post you asked for the person who made the most significant impact. You realise that da Vinci's notebooks were ignored for years, and played no part in technological development?
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More than 50 posts and noone has mentioned Bush yet, Poly is slacking...
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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Plato
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003Comment
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Who is Sid Meier anyway? Where did he came from? Where was he educated? One always hears about the games he designed and never about Sid Meier the man.Originally posted by jdd2007
Sid Meier
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Oh, yeah, I say Pekka too
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Japher, exactly!
His entire life consists of founding Microprose and designing this game and that? I don't think so. There's more, but nobody knows it.
Isn't that spooky?
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Come to the convention and you'll be able to meet the man.Originally posted by VetLegion
Who is Sid Meier anyway? Where did he came from? Where was he educated? One always hears about the games he designed and never about Sid Meier the man.
I can personally attest that his office door, unlike any of the others in Firaxis, doesn't have a last name.
After all, there can be only one Sid.
[/remembering Church of the Sid from a few years back]Comment
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Neither Einstein nor Darwin can be considered the greatest - their theories were inevitable given the prior works that they built on, and both had competitors who nearly beat them to publication. If any of our Mathemitician/Physicists types might contribute, how about the folks who gave us quantum physics? I don't know enough of that history to say if their discoveries were inevitable, like Einstein and Darwin. But even Einstein had trouble choking down their theories, so I assume they were pretty brilliant.
Aristotle was a genius, and his world-shattering idea of empiricism was truly revolutionary. However, he got ALOT wrong, and some of his errors ended up retarding human development. However, he did help create one of the foundations that lead to the Renaissance, so he should get honorable mention.
I would lean toward Da Vinci, if you are going to consider individuals. Painter, sculpture, scientist - and his art still qualifies as great even today. As a group effort I would consider the primary actors in the American Constitutional Convention - they created a Democratic Republic that worked, and showed the world it WAS possible. Was any one of them the equal of Da Vinci - of course not. But the group effect, for all it's flaws, can rightly be traced as one of the most critical points in the history of Modern Democratic Government. That's affected ALOT of people.The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry… I wish it were otherwise.Comment
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