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  • Re: To Alan: iPhone scanning

    From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Oct 29 11:01:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 10/29/2025 12:48 AM, Alan wrote:

    I would get weary of doing the swipe trick, just to be able to
    multitask [on an iPhone].  The button is needed, for my sanity in using the device.
    Samsung groks that.

    Why? What about it is any more difficult than tapping a button.

    If you need a button for your sanity, it is only a reflection of YOUR
    brain damage...

    ...or that you never had much brain power to begin with.

    "When you lose small mind you free your life."

    "Bad platitudes are no substitute for a cogent argument".


    It's not a platitude, it's truth you'll never know.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Oct 29 10:20:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-10-29 08:01, Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 10/29/2025 12:48 AM, Alan wrote:

    I would get weary of doing the swipe trick, just to be able to
    multitask [on an iPhone].  The button is needed, for my sanity in
    using the device. Samsung groks that.

    Why? What about it is any more difficult than tapping a button.

    If you need a button for your sanity, it is only a reflection of
    YOUR brain damage...

    ...or that you never had much brain power to begin with.

    "When you lose small mind you free your life."

    "Bad platitudes are no substitute for a cogent argument".


    It's not a platitude, it's truth you'll never know.


    It's a mindless, unthinking platitude...

    ...and so very you!
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Oct 29 17:26:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:56:57 -0700, Alan wrote:

    Other than that at the time he is supposed to have lived, people barely
    moved around; certainly not people of his supposed social status.

    You are familiar with the resettlement policies of the Neo Assyrians,
    aren't you? The Achaemenid Empire? The Phoenicians? I don't have a dog in
    this fight but the view that people never made it further than 3 miles
    from home is naive. Galilee was a rather diverse place.
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Oct 29 10:35:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2025-10-29 10:26, rbowman wrote:
    On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:56:57 -0700, Alan wrote:

    Other than that at the time he is supposed to have lived, people barely
    moved around; certainly not people of his supposed social status.

    You are familiar with the resettlement policies of the Neo Assyrians,
    aren't you? The Achaemenid Empire? The Phoenicians? I don't have a dog in this fight but the view that people never made it further than 3 miles
    from home is naive. Galilee was a rather diverse place.

    Assyria controlled an empire that at its height covered territory that
    was all made up of people who were as non-white as the people of
    Galilee. So resettling peoples in that empire wouldn't change anyone's
    skin, hair or eye colour.

    Cultural diversity in Galilee: maybe; sure.

    Diversity in phenotypes: nope.
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