Or they'll see hard cash coming in from the west from outside their local political sphere where it doesn't effect their local politics from their dens of sin on the moon.
Ever notice that competing businesses often locate next to each other? This is not so much to take business away from the other, but it's been found that the appearance of competition drives sales, so they both get more business than if they located seperately. The ultimate example of this is the shopping mall.
Ever notice "clumps" of shoe stores at the mall? They're often owned by the same company to imply competition between them when there isn't any really.
The implication of competition drives sales so they set up the implication artificially.
Proctor & Gamble are masters of working this, many cleaning products advertised as being better than the other are the same except for their packaging and a difference in the food coloring added, and the same as a bargain brand for a fraction the cost.
And the same as the "house" brand at a fraction of that cost.
It amazes me that someone so well informed and so wise could make such an obvious mistake.
Forgive me. Obviously man did not obtain on his own the very basic technology to build pyramids until the advent of the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things in the 20th century and the art of putting really heavy things on top of other really heavy things still alludes us.
Although personally I think the pyramids were built by the angels living in the center of the Earth and not aliens. The aliens were too busy messing up perfectly good fields of barley with a 2x4 and a rope to spare the time.
Do you wish your taxes to buy you some sort of remaining say in government (and thus in the levying of taxes), or do you wish to sell those rights to Coca-Cola?
That is mathmatically correct, however, it simply doesn't match the actual pattern of human expansion, as you can see by looking at any map.
People "clump" and bud off. We call these clumps things like "towns". Sometimes when they bud off they travel hundreds of miles before founding a new settlement (ala the Aztecs). Then the space between settlements might start to fill up some, or might not.
And then there are the Polynesians.
The idea that exploration for the sake of it is modern only holds if you only have a narrow, modern (which is to say within the last several thousand years) view of history.
In modern times, the tourist industry thrives. Nearly everyone wants a car and those that don't typically really, really, really like to walk, just because.
As Stirling Moss put it, "Movement is tranquility."
The song is, I believe, part of a book of songs (that I've mentioned before) that Woody himself originally privately published and dedicated to the public domain. If I dug through my stacks for an hour or two I could come up with the actual wording of the dedication, where Woody said something like "I had fun writing them and that's what I wanted to do. You have fun singing them."
After Woody became famous (and thus his songs worth money) Ludlow Music unleashed its lawyers to have them withdrawn from the public domain.
Is this a great country or what?
It's also an often parodied song already. I like the Israeli version myself:
This land is your land This land is my land From the Arab border To the Arab border From the Arab border To the Arab border This land was made for you and me
This "icon of Americana" was also part of what got Woody labled a communist. Go figure.
Why should my energy be expended, to fulfill another person's desire?
It shouldn't necessarily, and I'll be the first to say so (most of my own tax monies go to things that I either have no use for or outright oppose).
Nonetheless the pyramids got built and you probably have a job looking after someone else's desire (although you may get something you desire in exchange, obfuscating the fact that you are minding someone else's business rather than your own).
However, nothing I said had anything to with involving you in the process in any way whatsoever, just as you are not likely involved in ascents of Everest.
. ..but somehow it appears you still have to fork off $30/hr for the workmanship to get it fixed...
Better yet, pay $40/hr for a real mechanic who knows when the computer is full of shit and fixes what's actually wrong, instead of the $30/hr fly by night trade school grad who fixes what the computer says is wrong, charges you for it, then has to go back and fix what's actually wrong, and charges you for it.
I don't think you can look at mountain climbing and conclude from that that it's inevitable that we're headed for space.
I didn't conclude that at all. For all I know we're headed for complete self-destruction next week.
I spoke only of the drive.
Just as we reproduce because we have the drive, even though we have the option of choosing not to. We may well sublimate that drive into other areas, but the drive remains.
The urge to "go over there" is innate in humans. That's why we made it out of South Africa and populated the world. It's the real reason there are parks and shopping malls. We need someplace to "go."
Why is over there any better than where you are right now? It isn't really, but sooner or later you get an itch to move. Hell, even cats spend their lives deciding that it would be better to be sleeping on the sofa rather than on the chair.
Animals that don't move are called vegetables.
Nothing really pragmatic has come from going to the north pole or the summit of Everest, but we go. We must go. Because it's there.
I'll take some slight exception here. While putting things where they don't belond is half of what makes HHGG funny it takes the other half to make it actually funny. It wasn't the mere presence of the whale that was funny, "Oh, look, there's a whale out of place," it was the way the way the whale was handled after it appeared that made it funny. The spaceship in Wembley Stadium wasn't funny, it was the Somebody Else's Problem Field that was funny.
That was one of the problems with Dirk Gently. The Chesterfield on the stairway was out of place, but it wasn't funny because it was just there, and that's only half the game.
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But isn't the point of middle age to replace things such as video games with more adult activities.
No!
KFG
Or they'll see hard cash coming in from the west from outside their local political sphere where it doesn't effect their local politics from their dens of sin on the moon.
KFG
If that's true that's theft and stealing from _everyone_ too.
Tell it to the judge. As I recall Pete Seeger wrote an article about it in Sing Out magazine back in the early 60s.
KFG
I hadn't realized beige could be made so painful.
It isn't beige. It's olive drab. It makes me want to hit the deck and yell "Incoming!"
KFG
Ever notice that competing businesses often locate next to each other? This is not so much to take business away from the other, but it's been found that the appearance of competition drives sales, so they both get more business than if they located seperately. The ultimate example of this is the shopping mall.
Ever notice "clumps" of shoe stores at the mall? They're often owned by the same company to imply competition between them when there isn't any really.
The implication of competition drives sales so they set up the implication artificially.
Proctor & Gamble are masters of working this, many cleaning products advertised as being better than the other are the same except for their packaging and a difference in the food coloring added, and the same as a bargain brand for a fraction the cost.
And the same as the "house" brand at a fraction of that cost.
KFG
It amazes me that someone so well informed and so wise could make such an obvious mistake.
Forgive me. Obviously man did not obtain on his own the very basic technology to build pyramids until the advent of the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things in the 20th century and the art of putting really heavy things on top of other really heavy things still alludes us.
Although personally I think the pyramids were built by the angels living in the center of the Earth and not aliens. The aliens were too busy messing up perfectly good fields of barley with a 2x4 and a rope to spare the time.
KFG
Do you wish your taxes to buy you some sort of remaining say in government (and thus in the levying of taxes), or do you wish to sell those rights to Coca-Cola?
KFG
That is mathmatically correct, however, it simply doesn't match the actual pattern of human expansion, as you can see by looking at any map.
People "clump" and bud off. We call these clumps things like "towns". Sometimes when they bud off they travel hundreds of miles before founding a new settlement (ala the Aztecs). Then the space between settlements might start to fill up some, or might not.
And then there are the Polynesians.
The idea that exploration for the sake of it is modern only holds if you only have a narrow, modern (which is to say within the last several thousand years) view of history.
In modern times, the tourist industry thrives. Nearly everyone wants a car and those that don't typically really, really, really like to walk, just because.
As Stirling Moss put it, "Movement is tranquility."
KFG
The song is, I believe, part of a book of songs (that I've mentioned before) that Woody himself originally privately published and dedicated to the public domain. If I dug through my stacks for an hour or two I could come up with the actual wording of the dedication, where Woody said something like "I had fun writing them and that's what I wanted to do. You have fun singing them."
After Woody became famous (and thus his songs worth money) Ludlow Music unleashed its lawyers to have them withdrawn from the public domain.
Is this a great country or what?
It's also an often parodied song already. I like the Israeli version myself:
This land is your land
This land is my land
From the Arab border
To the Arab border
From the Arab border
To the Arab border
This land was made for you and me
This "icon of Americana" was also part of what got Woody labled a communist. Go figure.
KFG
Why should my energy be expended, to fulfill another person's desire?
It shouldn't necessarily, and I'll be the first to say so (most of my own tax monies go to things that I either have no use for or outright oppose).
Nonetheless the pyramids got built and you probably have a job looking after someone else's desire (although you may get something you desire in exchange, obfuscating the fact that you are minding someone else's business rather than your own).
However, nothing I said had anything to with involving you in the process in any way whatsoever, just as you are not likely involved in ascents of Everest.
Besides, it's going to be China doing the going.
KFG
Yeah, but if Burt loses we can. . .blame Canada.
KFG
I'll bet on Burt Rutan because I'd never bet against him. I dislike losing money.
KFG
. . .but somehow it appears you still have to fork off $30/hr for the workmanship to get it fixed...
Better yet, pay $40/hr for a real mechanic who knows when the computer is full of shit and fixes what's actually wrong, instead of the $30/hr fly by night trade school grad who fixes what the computer says is wrong, charges you for it, then has to go back and fix what's actually wrong, and charges you for it.
KFG
I don't think you can look at mountain climbing and conclude from that that it's inevitable that we're headed for space.
I didn't conclude that at all. For all I know we're headed for complete self-destruction next week.
I spoke only of the drive.
Just as we reproduce because we have the drive, even though we have the option of choosing not to. We may well sublimate that drive into other areas, but the drive remains.
KFG
There is a time to go to Everest, and there is a time to plan for going to Everest.
To everything there is a season.
KFG
The urge to "go over there" is innate in humans. That's why we made it out of South Africa and populated the world. It's the real reason there are parks and shopping malls. We need someplace to "go."
Why is over there any better than where you are right now? It isn't really, but sooner or later you get an itch to move. Hell, even cats spend their lives deciding that it would be better to be sleeping on the sofa rather than on the chair.
Animals that don't move are called vegetables.
Nothing really pragmatic has come from going to the north pole or the summit of Everest, but we go. We must go. Because it's there.
Even if it's only to the mall.
I'd rather go to the summit of Everest, or space.
KFG
I'll take some slight exception here. While putting things where they don't belond is half of what makes HHGG funny it takes the other half to make it actually funny. It wasn't the mere presence of the whale that was funny, "Oh, look, there's a whale out of place," it was the way the way the whale was handled after it appeared that made it funny. The spaceship in Wembley Stadium wasn't funny, it was the Somebody Else's Problem Field that was funny.
That was one of the problems with Dirk Gently. The Chesterfield on the stairway was out of place, but it wasn't funny because it was just there, and that's only half the game.
KFG
Can you honestly tell me that the government is going to hire a panel of people to check in in-depth source changes on OSS projects?
The American government actually has an entire agency whose job is to perform just such tasks.
It's called the NSA.
Will the NSA actually perform this function with OSS?
They've already made their own distro.
KFG
We are not defending him. We are defending you.
KFG
And if you're ever on Let's Make a Deal always remember to take Carol Merrill's box.
KFG
. . .who's is longer.
Everybody's.
KFG
Touche!
KFG
The problem here is that "reasonable people" are rarely reasonable.
Particularly those people bearing the job title "prosecutor."
KFG
Its no harder to grasp than BASIC was 15-20 years ago.
The fact that you are equating a markup language with a programing language is part of the problem.
KFG
The lag will be rather shorter if first contact is made with the mothership in LEO.
KFG