There was a doco I saw recently on global warming, where, after iterating the various data on CO2 and average temperature increases (exponential CO2 increase since the 50s - _that's_ scary), they went on to talk to a bod from the British Coal Board, and examined what the fossil fuel vested interests were doing.
Turns out they have been, on one hand, funding lots of researchers who have been discovering (surprise, surprise) that there is no such thing as global warming, and on the other, producing little informative pieces on how much nicer the planet will be once its warmed up a bit.
People like to live in warmer climates. We are doing you a favour here - gonna make the whole world like Florida!
You'll be able to go the beach a LOT more often! (because it will be so nice and warm)
There will be fewer deserts (because of the increased rainfall)
Crop yields will increase (because higher CO2 means more food for the plants)
Personally, I'm waiting for Australia's inland sea to open for business again.
One good reason to use base 13 is if you actually have thirteen fingers (dare I say digits?) Like the Traveller Fithp in the Niven & Pournelle book 'Footfall'.
In 1900, no human being had flown in powered flight. In 1969, humans walked on the Moon. In 1900,storms, frosts, droughts, etc., locked argiculture into cycles of boom followed by imexplicable,unavoidable bust. In 2000, a global weather system saves lives directly and through avoidance of crop damage. From my vantage, that's progress.
Mozambique.
All progress does is make the TV pictures better. The have-nots die no less legion
And, come to think of it, boom/bust? Like Wall Street, you mean? Ok, progress lets you change the channel, too. I guess that counts for something...
All that you see and touch is only a tiny fraction of the Universe.
Because there's also all that you taste, feel, love, hate, distrust, save, give, deal, buy, beg or borrow or steal, create, destroy, do, say and eat; everyone you meet, all that you slight, and everyone you fight, all that is now, all that is gone and also all that's to come. And most impotantly, it must be remembered that this only the sum of everything under the Sun.
The Sun, you see, is eclipsed by the Moon, which as everyone knows is all dark, so all that you touch and see is more like only %0.083333333333333333 of the total mass of the Universe. Maybe less.
How many people who read that page are going to know what an address bar is? Minus, of course the millions of slashdot &c. hits? I'd be willing to bet that ms have something in place that leads the unwary and/or naive and/or inexperienced (or, let's face it, the ones their really after - our old friends stupid and his brother gullible) right to this stuff.
In 2001, Arthur Clarke describes how the hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings that sowed the seeds of mind on the planet Earth discovered how to store 'knowledge' = 'data' in the very structure of space itself, and to preserve their thought for eternity in frozen lattices of light. That was just before they apparently uploaded themselves into the universe's permanent swap file and disappeared forever.
Could be some...Periodic housekeeping runs could still bring out a few more an a week or amonth or even this time next year (Save all data older than, for instance)...Crash recoveries could have a little extra thrill, with getting the right backups (though this one will taper off as the most recent backups get past the hundred year old ones that you made yesterday)...There's still everybody going back to work Monday or Tuesday and the end of February to look forward to (all those secretaries opening their Outlook Express with preview to get everything broadcast from the hundred addresses in their automatic address books)...And the end of the financial year...
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There was a doco I saw recently on global warming, where, after iterating the various data on CO2 and average temperature increases (exponential CO2 increase since the 50s - _that's_ scary), they went on to talk to a bod from the British Coal Board, and examined what the fossil fuel vested interests were doing.
Turns out they have been, on one hand, funding lots of researchers who have been discovering (surprise, surprise) that there is no such thing as global warming, and on the other, producing little informative pieces on how much nicer the planet will be once its warmed up a bit.
People like to live in warmer climates. We are doing you a favour here - gonna make the whole world like Florida!
You'll be able to go the beach a LOT more often! (because it will be so nice and warm)
There will be fewer deserts (because of the increased rainfall)
Crop yields will increase (because higher CO2 means more food for the plants)
Personally, I'm waiting for Australia's inland sea to open for business again.
One good reason to use base 13 is if you actually have thirteen fingers (dare I say digits?)
Like the Traveller Fithp in the Niven & Pournelle book 'Footfall'.
In 1900, no human being had flown in powered flight. In 1969, humans walked on the Moon. In 1900,storms, frosts, droughts, etc., locked argiculture into cycles of boom followed by imexplicable,unavoidable bust. In 2000, a global weather system saves lives directly and through avoidance of crop damage. From my vantage, that's progress.
Mozambique.
All progress does is make the TV pictures better. The have-nots die no less legion
And, come to think of it, boom/bust? Like Wall Street, you mean? Ok, progress lets you change the channel, too. I guess that counts for something...
Scares the heck out of me!
Strange women coming up to me in the street...
Gives me the willies just thinking about it
(Looks down)
All that you see and touch is only a tiny fraction of the Universe.
Because there's also all that you taste, feel, love, hate, distrust, save, give, deal, buy, beg or borrow or steal, create, destroy, do, say and eat; everyone you meet, all that you slight, and everyone you fight, all that is now, all that is gone and also all that's to come.
And most impotantly, it must be remembered that this only the sum of everything under the Sun.
The Sun, you see, is eclipsed by the Moon, which as everyone knows is all dark, so all that you touch and see is more like only %0.083333333333333333 of the total mass of the Universe. Maybe less.
It's a shame. A crying shame.
There could have been an AMIGA on every desktop
instead of this lump of shite (boots box)
Bet Gary was PISSED when he got back!
How many people who read that page are going to know what an address bar is? Minus, of course the millions of slashdot &c. hits?
I'd be willing to bet that ms have something in place that leads the unwary and/or naive and/or inexperienced (or, let's face it, the ones their really after - our old friends stupid and his brother gullible) right to this stuff.
In 2001, Arthur Clarke describes how the hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings that sowed the seeds of mind on the planet Earth discovered how to store 'knowledge' = 'data' in the very structure of space itself, and to preserve their thought for eternity in frozen lattices of light. That was just before they apparently uploaded themselves into the universe's permanent swap file and disappeared forever.
Hmm...
Could be some...Periodic housekeeping runs could still bring out a few more an a week or amonth or even this time next year (Save all data older than, for instance)...Crash recoveries could have a little extra thrill, with getting the right backups (though this one will taper off as the most recent backups get past the hundred year old ones that you made yesterday)...There's still everybody going back to work Monday or Tuesday and the end of February to look forward to (all those secretaries opening their Outlook Express with preview to get everything broadcast from the hundred addresses in their automatic address books)...And the end of the financial year...
Only because several (?)million hard-working geeks have spent the last 7 years rewriting umpteen gazillion lines of code.
The lack of major problems is more indicative that the operation was a success.