The Origin of his Longevity was not luck. It was Boosterspice. The story is about the fact that after a certain period in the Known Space History, once the Teela Brown gene has gotten to spread around sufficiently, there are very few interesting stories left.
This reminds me of the Larry Niven story "Safe at Any Speed", in which a society of extremely long-lived people adopts an attitude of utter caution - to die in an accident would be unthinkable, so everything is made to be perfectly safe.
You are in correct. The Larry Niven story 'Safe at Any Speed' is not about extremely long-lived people, although virtually no-one in the Known Space universe dies of old age. The story 'Safe at Any Speed' is about a point in time in the history of Known Space where the Teela Brown gene, or Genetic Luck, has become so widespread that a large percentage of the Human Population has it. In the story, horrible accidents keep on happening to the main character, yet, because of his genetically enhanced luck, he never is actually in any danger, and he actually gets a great deal of money for his trouble.
The Poster would like it to be known that he himself has been sacked. This post has been finished at the last minute and at great expense by a team of 37 Lemurs.
The math test in which I expertly demonstrated that 0 = 1 is a work of art.
If you think that's art, sometime I'll have to show you my clever proof that infinity equals 1.
Matter of fact, if we team it up with your proof that Zero equals One, I think we will have a mathematical proof of Zen! ( Everything is One, One is Nothing, Nothing is Everything.)
If continuing education for programmers was a priority, quality would be better.
This also requires more than the current courses which are pretty much level starter course. It is sad that after a few days being busy with a language before a course, you will already find mistakes/bugs or just better ways to do it than what is promoted in the course.
Amen to this. I have not started college yet, but I plan to enroll for Computer Science and Engineering at UF. My roommate (who happens to be my 24 year old uncle) is in the Computer Science course, and informs me that my knowledge is about on par with being in my Junior Year (I need the higher level math and stuff like Operating Systems, which I am actually purchasing a copy of Modern Operating Systems to learn, and Discrete Electronics, and a few other course that you don't get till your Fourth Year) in the program. And this is just from being a lazy git who wanted to write a MUD. From what I have been told, the Intro to Computer Science Class, a Weedout class, at UF, has a 60 to 70 percent failure rate, because a majority of the persons who opt to take Computer Science have the mindset "I can use AIM and Word, so Mom thinks I should do Computers!", or worse yet, "Wow, I can make how much right out of school to sit on my ass all day?"
And don't even get me started on the fact that until you get to something 'Higher Level' they teach you with Java instead of something good and mid-level, like C. You won't even touch Machine Code till your third or fourth year, depending on which order you take certain classes.
Are no lawyers in Luna. Nor laws. Warden doesn't let us keep them. What laws we do have might call 'natural laws,' being the way things have to be with things as they are.
As a Zen Discordian Buddhist, and Second Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico and Canada, and Embarasser of the Faith, I take official notice that I have taken offense to that!
Amen to that bit about language. My biggest problem with my Latin is that while I know Latin, I do not know Classical Latin. On the few occasions where I have spoken with someone in Latin without first intimating that English is my primary language, they have almost always been able to tell due to the way I speak Latin. I also have a sometimes difficult time reading Latin Texts, as colloquial meaning, references to persons and places and activities (and I spent many years studying Roman History and Society), and even jokes and euphamisms don't cross into English Properly.
Traditional smoker excuse... Cigarette has killed most of my family members so I know this one.
It is a really easy answer. Apply it for *anything* from the terrorist who drive a packed plane in a tower to an heroin addict who kill someone to be sure to get his fix. They just see the life differently, we can't blame them !
So no this kind of irresponsible answer is not valid.
No, I think you don't get the point the GP poster was trying to make. The fact is that you are mortal, and when you were born you were born to ultimately die. There is no way that you can escape this fate. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
I am a smoker, and I enjoy it. I am very aware it is bad for me. I have had family members die from smoking. However, under your rationale, since terrorists use planes, and when they do that causes people to die, we should not get on airplanes, because it increases our risk of death. And since there are heroin junkies that roam the streets looking for people to rob, we shouldn't go out in public.
Smoking is something that people choose to do. Human beings have free will, and you sure as hell don't have the right to tell anyone what they may or may not do. Skydiving is dangerous, too. There's a very good chance that your 'chute will fail or something else will occur that will kill you. Also, there's the chance you could kill someone else while landing. Shall we ban skydiving? Or Automobiles, since driving an automobile puts you in harm's way, out on the public roads with all those idiots who don't understand a turn signal or proper following distance?
There are many, many things in this world that can kill you. You yourself are probably the most dangerous thing to your own safety. Shall we put you in five point restraints and feed you through a tube, keeping you immobile, since your own human stupidity is likely to do you in?
No. It's my choice to smoke. If I'm outside, and there are people around, before I light up I ask them if they mind if I smoke. If they say, "Yes, I do mind," I simply walk somewhere else. And to turn the situation around, if I am outside smoking, and someone walks up and sits down where I am, they have no right to ask me to put out my cigarette (although I generally will do so anyway, being a nice human being.) They could see when they were walking to where I was I was smoking. If they didn't like it, they could have sat elsewhere.
Now, one thing I will not do, is smoke inside a building (or in a outdoor setting with virtually no circulation of the air) because I myself do not like to be in a smoke filled box. But a bar or a restaraunt are private property -- and the government has no right to tell people that they must forbid smoking on their own private property. If you don't like the fact that a bar is smokey, don't go there. Find some place else. Because I know that bar owners would generally much rather have smokers at their bars than ban them, because smokers make up a larger percentage of the population than people who are so distasteful of smoking in bars that they will not come if smokers are there.
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Life is Dangerous. Grow up.
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. -- Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
How ironic that the 'thingy' at the bottom of my page reads as above...
That's not Ironic. Irony is a use of words to imply other than their literal interpretation.
I'm the "I get pissed off when my BSD code is used and then altered so as to stop perfectly fine software from running without having to change my select()" zealot brain cell. Read the man page for select() on your Linux Box sometimes, and note that the
problems both when Linux code which reads timeout is ported to other
operating systems, and when code is ported to Linux that reuses a
struct timeval for multiple selects in a loop without reinitializing
it. part. If you use the same man files as my mate's box does.
It is not part of the select() standard. It may be a good idea, but it's not the way it was written, and if you can remember the time when the select() was called, why can't you just compare it to the time when the select() returns, and save us all a bunch of trouble since you're going to have to do a comparison anyway, but I don't need to?
IE: The worm is a compact, surreptitious BT/Kademlia client.
Took me a second to realize that "IE" meant "id est" and not Internet Explorer. And "id est" means "that is," not "for example," also known as e.g. (exempli gratia).
Handy cheat sheet:
i.e. = id est = that is (not commonly captitalized, or puncuated as an acronym like IE)
e.g. = exempli gratia = for example
There's your pendantic lesson of the day:p
Now, let me pedanticly correct you. I.e. does indeed stand for 'id est,' but 'id est' does not mean 'that is.' 'id est' is latin for 'it is.' I know this, because I speak the bloody language.
Thank you.
That's very different. It may seem complex, but the only reason your native tngue seems natural is that you have been exposed to it since you were born. Perl is very structured and strict as compared to a spoken language. I know it was a joke, but it is useful to note this point.
Uh, my native tongue doesn't seem natural to me. Atleast, not anymore.
I grew up speaking English, and at Tweleve I started learning Latin. Now I'm studying Japanese, and I've had extensive exposure to Spanish, Italian, and German, too. I don't know enough German or Italian to ask where the bathroom is, and I don't know a great deal of Spanish, but I understand alot of the grammar and other rules of those languages.
English no longer seems natural, or even correct. There are several times a month when I will find myself having great difficulty trying to express a concept in English when I can express it easily in, say, Latin, or in a combination of Latin and English, or in Japanese (this happens sometimes for debates on shades of blue), or in pidgeon-Spanish. Or German, for some things.
But the point is, English no longer seems natural. The more I learn of other languages, and their rules and mechanics, and the more things other than English I get crammed in my head, the more and more I can see English for what it is: A bastard, cobbeled together piece of Linguistic Crap, the Language equivalent of the Jeep sitting down in my parking lot that barely runs, but is easy to add 'functionality' to (mainly because there are so many holes in it it's easy to run new wiring for anything I want to add.
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They're beheading the Buddhist monks for a simple reason. The longer it takes for something to get angry, the more fearsome its anger will be.
It takes a Buddhist Monk a long time to get angry.
Therefore, there is nothing more frightening than an Angry Buddhist Monk.
That's why they're killing them off first. Have you noticed the survivors still aren't angry yet?
Hoo, boy, that's gonna be some massive retaliation.
The Origin of his Longevity was not luck. It was Boosterspice. The story is about the fact that after a certain period in the Known Space History, once the Teela Brown gene has gotten to spread around sufficiently, there are very few interesting stories left.
You are in correct. The Larry Niven story 'Safe at Any Speed' is not about extremely long-lived people, although virtually no-one in the Known Space universe dies of old age. The story 'Safe at Any Speed' is about a point in time in the history of Known Space where the Teela Brown gene, or Genetic Luck, has become so widespread that a large percentage of the Human Population has it. In the story, horrible accidents keep on happening to the main character, yet, because of his genetically enhanced luck, he never is actually in any danger, and he actually gets a great deal of money for his trouble.
Also, Boosterspice is derived from Tree-of-Life.
Yours Angrily,Brennan-monster.
The Poster would like it to be known that he himself has been sacked. This post has been finished at the last minute and at great expense by a team of 37 Lemurs.
That's Methuselah, whipper-schnapper.
If you think that's art, sometime I'll have to show you my clever proof that infinity equals 1.
Matter of fact, if we team it up with your proof that Zero equals One, I think we will have a mathematical proof of Zen! ( Everything is One, One is Nothing, Nothing is Everything.)
Is your your dick blue, or have you just been using Artic Silver as a lubricant?
Urotsukidoji? I don't even know her!
I hope you get that fixed, otherwise how can I honestly say that my Daemons devour Children?
Amen to this. I have not started college yet, but I plan to enroll for Computer Science and Engineering at UF. My roommate (who happens to be my 24 year old uncle) is in the Computer Science course, and informs me that my knowledge is about on par with being in my Junior Year (I need the higher level math and stuff like Operating Systems, which I am actually purchasing a copy of Modern Operating Systems to learn, and Discrete Electronics, and a few other course that you don't get till your Fourth Year) in the program. And this is just from being a lazy git who wanted to write a MUD. From what I have been told, the Intro to Computer Science Class, a Weedout class, at UF, has a 60 to 70 percent failure rate, because a majority of the persons who opt to take Computer Science have the mindset "I can use AIM and Word, so Mom thinks I should do Computers!", or worse yet, "Wow, I can make how much right out of school to sit on my ass all day?"
And don't even get me started on the fact that until you get to something 'Higher Level' they teach you with Java instead of something good and mid-level, like C. You won't even touch Machine Code till your third or fourth year, depending on which order you take certain classes.
You're the best Thinkum ever, Mike.
Are no lawyers in Luna. Nor laws. Warden doesn't let us keep them. What laws we do have might call 'natural laws,' being the way things have to be with things as they are.
Ask Mike.
PS: Would you like some Rice?
As a Zen Discordian Buddhist, and Second Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico and Canada, and Embarasser of the Faith, I take official notice that I have taken offense to that!
They were doodles on hankerchiefs.
Amen to that bit about language. My biggest problem with my Latin is that while I know Latin, I do not know Classical Latin. On the few occasions where I have spoken with someone in Latin without first intimating that English is my primary language, they have almost always been able to tell due to the way I speak Latin. I also have a sometimes difficult time reading Latin Texts, as colloquial meaning, references to persons and places and activities (and I spent many years studying Roman History and Society), and even jokes and euphamisms don't cross into English Properly.
No, I think you don't get the point the GP poster was trying to make. The fact is that you are mortal, and when you were born you were born to ultimately die. There is no way that you can escape this fate. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
I am a smoker, and I enjoy it. I am very aware it is bad for me. I have had family members die from smoking. However, under your rationale, since terrorists use planes, and when they do that causes people to die, we should not get on airplanes, because it increases our risk of death. And since there are heroin junkies that roam the streets looking for people to rob, we shouldn't go out in public.
Smoking is something that people choose to do. Human beings have free will, and you sure as hell don't have the right to tell anyone what they may or may not do. Skydiving is dangerous, too. There's a very good chance that your 'chute will fail or something else will occur that will kill you. Also, there's the chance you could kill someone else while landing. Shall we ban skydiving? Or Automobiles, since driving an automobile puts you in harm's way, out on the public roads with all those idiots who don't understand a turn signal or proper following distance?
There are many, many things in this world that can kill you. You yourself are probably the most dangerous thing to your own safety. Shall we put you in five point restraints and feed you through a tube, keeping you immobile, since your own human stupidity is likely to do you in?
No. It's my choice to smoke. If I'm outside, and there are people around, before I light up I ask them if they mind if I smoke. If they say, "Yes, I do mind," I simply walk somewhere else. And to turn the situation around, if I am outside smoking, and someone walks up and sits down where I am, they have no right to ask me to put out my cigarette (although I generally will do so anyway, being a nice human being.) They could see when they were walking to where I was I was smoking. If they didn't like it, they could have sat elsewhere.
Now, one thing I will not do, is smoke inside a building (or in a outdoor setting with virtually no circulation of the air) because I myself do not like to be in a smoke filled box. But a bar or a restaraunt are private property -- and the government has no right to tell people that they must forbid smoking on their own private property. If you don't like the fact that a bar is smokey, don't go there. Find some place else. Because I know that bar owners would generally much rather have smokers at their bars than ban them, because smokers make up a larger percentage of the population than people who are so distasteful of smoking in bars that they will not come if smokers are there.
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Life is Dangerous. Grow up.
That's not Ironic. Irony is a use of words to imply other than their literal interpretation.
I'm the "I get pissed off when my BSD code is used and then altered so as to stop perfectly fine software from running without having to change my select()" zealot brain cell. Read the man page for select() on your Linux Box sometimes, and note that the problems both when Linux code which reads timeout is ported to other operating systems, and when code is ported to Linux that reuses a struct timeval for multiple selects in a loop without reinitializing it. part. If you use the same man files as my mate's box does.
It is not part of the select() standard. It may be a good idea, but it's not the way it was written, and if you can remember the time when the select() was called, why can't you just compare it to the time when the select() returns, and save us all a bunch of trouble since you're going to have to do a comparison anyway, but I don't need to?
It does not conform to the standard. I thought you Zealots were supposed to be Zealous for Standards?
We'd be more than happy to if you would bother to learn the correct implementation of our Socket Distribution you're shamelessly ripping off.
Dammit, you idiots, select() shall not modify my time_val!
Now, let me pedanticly correct you. I.e. does indeed stand for 'id est,' but 'id est' does not mean 'that is.' 'id est' is latin for 'it is.' I know this, because I speak the bloody language. Thank you.
Uh, my native tongue doesn't seem natural to me. Atleast, not anymore.
I grew up speaking English, and at Tweleve I started learning Latin. Now I'm studying Japanese, and I've had extensive exposure to Spanish, Italian, and German, too. I don't know enough German or Italian to ask where the bathroom is, and I don't know a great deal of Spanish, but I understand alot of the grammar and other rules of those languages.
English no longer seems natural, or even correct. There are several times a month when I will find myself having great difficulty trying to express a concept in English when I can express it easily in, say, Latin, or in a combination of Latin and English, or in Japanese (this happens sometimes for debates on shades of blue), or in pidgeon-Spanish. Or German, for some things.
But the point is, English no longer seems natural. The more I learn of other languages, and their rules and mechanics, and the more things other than English I get crammed in my head, the more and more I can see English for what it is: A bastard, cobbeled together piece of Linguistic Crap, the Language equivalent of the Jeep sitting down in my parking lot that barely runs, but is easy to add 'functionality' to (mainly because there are so many holes in it it's easy to run new wiring for anything I want to add.
Castro, now I know why Cuba is so poor! You spent all that money to get your OT III!
You're at UF? Sweet! I live about three blocks behind the Swamp! Ever stop in at Momo's?
Redmond.
Duh.
Jesus Haploid Christ, why are you asking me?! I'm a Marine Biologist!