Excuse the off-topic, but I am looking for the author/title of a story about the world where the living space was finite and used as currency. Please help.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012. Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture.
Meanwhile IV Reich^W^W Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades and routinely "rattles its sword" at neighbouring countries, occasionally launching some conventional assault on them as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if Iran came up with something entirely new in the nuclear energy field and everyone dependent on oil profits wanted to stop them.
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No, not "basically," you secondary illiterate. Posting unpopular or offensively straightforward stuff anonymously = no balls.
You can say anything you want. Just have the balls to suffer the consequences. That's why I don't post unpopular opinions anonymously.
Microsoft is committing to open source
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Don't knock it till you tried it.
Guess what, I'm servicing SuSE in corporate environment. We're moving on, though. To Debian.
Fuck SuSE. Fuck Novell. Fuck slashvertisements.
save the planet
The planet's fine. WE are fucked.
Capitalism is the greatest example of voluntary human cooperation
What the hell are you smoking?
Excuse the off-topic, but I am looking for the author/title of a story about the world where the living space was finite and used as currency. Please help.
Don't worry. There are two endings. In one he kills himself as a fetus to save his family, in the other he alienates the love of his life to save her.
Oh, wait.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Stanislav Lem's Fiasco
Not that they're total shit from a security POV? (warning: pdf)
Lies! Lies! Lies! Lies!
This is a prize for you in recognition of your intellectual level and achievements.
This (PV antennae) is even more interesting application.
This distro will cover everyone's requirements.
Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012. Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture.
Hence my original question, with added emphasis:
Exactly what do you think they were right about?
Hence the proverb "prohibition is countereffective."
... a fool can't get fooled again.
Are you sure it's not sqrt(1 - accuracy^2)?
Not really that far behind the US of A with that.
Remember that Iran is a country with no homosexuals.
Oh for fuck's sake, it wasn't that long ago when being a homo was a felony in the US of A, with penalty going up to death.
WTF happened? Correct link.
You are not using valid reasoning. The '20 years' have involved more than one person in power in Iran.
Nope.
Centrifuge separation is much more efficient than either of the processes used in the US to separate the uranium for its nuclear weapons.
And yet breeding plutonium would be even more efficient. And logical - if they really wanted to build weapons.
Meanwhile IV Reich^W^W Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades and routinely "rattles its sword" at neighbouring countries, occasionally launching some conventional assault on them as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if Iran came up with something entirely new in the nuclear energy field and everyone dependent on oil profits wanted to stop them.