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Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive
Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about an archive designed with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years to serve future generations as a modern Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta disk contains analog 'human-readable' scans of scripts, text, and diagrams using nickel deposited on an etched silicon disk and includes 15,000 microetched pages of language documentation in 1,500 different languages, including versions of Genesis 1-3, a universal list of the words common for each language, and pronunciation guides. Produced by the Long Now Foundation, the plan is to replicate the disk promiscuously and distribute them around the world in nondescript locations so at least one will survive their 2,000-year lifespan. 'This is one of the most fascinating objects on earth,' says Oliver Wilke. 'If we found one of these things 2,000 years ago, with all the languages of the time, it would be among our most priceless artifacts. I feel a high responsibility for preserving it for future generations.'"
it would appear as though some recently re-recorded history has been FUDged beyond any notion of fact already? fear is unprecedented evile's primary weapon. that, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' greed/fear/ego based hired goons' agenda. Most of yOUR dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'war', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid scheme. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & the notion of prosperity, not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one. see you on the other side of it. the lights are coming up all over now. conspiracy theorists are being vindicated. some might choose a tin umbrella to go with their hats. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1216734813&hl=en&topic=n
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/world/29amnesty.html?hp
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/nasa.global.warming.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/05/severe.weather.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/02/honore.preparedness/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01dowd.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=744b7cebc86723e5&ei=5087%0A
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/05/senate.iraq/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/washington/17contractor.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/world/middleeast/03kurdistan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080708/cheney_climate.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080805/pl_politico/12308;_ylt=A0wNcxTPdJhILAYAVQms0NUE
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=weather+manipulation&btnG=Search
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? gen
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Check out EvilBible.com.
You'll find all those horrible things your Sunday preachers don't discuss. After all, when the stars of the stories are assholes attendance goes down.
Also the bible is, to say the very, very least, a huge part of our past, present and future.
Everything we know today developed in a society that was utterly permeated by the bible in every nook and cranny.
And since people seem to have forgotten what the purpose of ideology is (you should read some ancient roman texts, or the bible for that matter. But if you've got to pick a single text either read the story of Sodom and Gomorra, and ask yourself the question "there is ONE vague reference to homosexuality in this text, what if it simply referred to something along the lines of "more attention to sex than to the world around them"), or read Cicero and you will understand the function of ideology)
But since I doubt you can be bothered to pick up a book - any book - and read, let me spell it out for you. Everything you are - your clothes, your food (clothes don't grow in the stores), your car, your very thoughts come from others, with a tiny drop of personal impact from yourself. Therefore while your own ideology only matters for that tiny drop, the ideology of people around you matters for everything else. If those people choose what economists call "Nash efficiency" as an ideology (what atheists do), improving themselves without conscious regard to others (e.g. "piracy is not a crime") that is not a problem as long as they are a tiny minority in a sea of Christians. It is not a problem for them, and neither is it a problem for the larger group of Christians.
However, if everyone around you (example ... your current employer and any other possible employer) behaved atheistically, improving primarily themselves without regard to others, you'd be out of a job, out of food and out of options (even the food would disappear from the local supermarket, as it will be more in the personal intrest of the owner to simply keep it himself). You'd die (even if you are said owner, because deliveries would stop).
Now in reality people always act with a mix of egoism and altruism, never truly altruistic. But they can act purely egoistic. If you want to see that in action, find yourself a Syrian, a North-Korean and ask them about their way of life in their home country.
You'd be correct, of course, that "a little bit" of piracy doesn't matter. A litle bit of theft does not make a difference in an economy either. Neither does a little bit of murder.
The problem however, is simple. In a society of nominally altruistic people, a small group can be egoistic bastards, without consequences for either the group, or for these guys themselves (e.g. "setting fire to a building because the insurance will pay anyway"). That's currently the case with music pirates/thieves/murderers/frauds/... all criminals. However, if one of these groups is not attacked, either by the state or by their environment or by whoever, that group can only grow.
And at some point, society, the economy as a whole will buckle under the increasing stress. Don't make yourself any illusions about how glamorous this will be, it will be anything but glamorous. At some point parts of the economy will become weakened, at which point an evil, growing financial load will be put on the rest (like the vandals in the Roman empire, or the muslims in western europe, if you'd like to put this stress in a simple slogan "bread and games"), and this group will grow. At some point these savages will get their moment in the sun, and defeat the central authority, whatever that is for the respective countries. The economy will fail. Transport will block and the "glorious" victors will be ... ... left without food, water or even paper to write down their victory ... and will die off painfully while murdering eachother for the few remaning food options ... and history, IF they're lucky, might actually record the name of their leader, however mostly even that doesn't happen. And they simply disappear.
Before the vandals and visigoths started their massive
People don't believe in Jesus because of Mary's claim that God made her pregnant. People believe in Jesus because of claims about his miracles & resurrection.
Really? Then how did the Son of God originate on Earth?
Part of His holiness is how He came to the world.
Are you saying that He was born of man and woman?
That's the sin of heresy, and if you would of been born in the times of the Spanish Inquisition...... - you would of at least been excommunicated.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
wait, it requires a 1000X microscope to be read, that's crazy, 250x microscopes were fancy just 100 years ago, do they think optical technology will survive the fall of western civilization (a preventable fall, if only greed wasn't the basis of most modern tech)
and 100 years ago massive coal based industrialization had already happened... there is no was modern high tech optics are going to survive as long as 'humanitarians' keep finding more ways to cause the sick and the poor to be able to have dozens of surviving children, instead of half that number without medical and food assistance... even with the 'death' of cheap oil, there are countless poor people around the world going hungry because food prices have risen globally, and they blame america (and rightfully so, the idea of going 'green' energy came alive in the 70's but we opted for 'cheap imports')
i know the 'humanitarians' say 'think of the children' but really, think of how many 'children' those children will have because an endless sink of money from foundations created by the rich are ensuring more and more people can successfully reproduce!
the earth doesn't need 6.64 billion humans, much less the 9 billion we expect to have in just another 38 years. imagine the kinds of wars that will break out, just look at africa in recent years, too many people, plenty of them willing to get guns and start killing other people over land and wealth and control.. if humanitarians hadn't provided food, medicine, etc most of those people would have died in childhood, and there probably would have been no wars, or at least very short wars, since there would have been a shortage of healthy young men to form large resistance groups or armed uprisings.
my views aren't popular, i know, and you really can't stop foundations 'helping' the poor, other than to organize guerrillas and train them to steal the medicines and foods to support their armies, some of that already happens, and it wasn't done intentionally, but rather as a result of humanitarians making sure there enough people for them to fight over water, land, food, and power, once those 'adorable' children grew up, into gun toting militias.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html