And we all know that only women play amazons. Oh wait I better change the name of my amazon from SquadBoy to something else. I really should get around to just blocking Katz.
Poverty kills and within the context of a closed system like the Earth and a growing population we can not really do anything long term about poverty. On the other hand look at what happens everytime you open a frontier. Take the Americas for an example. The large scale opening of the Americas set off a boom in Europe and the colonies in the Americas that has had effects down to the present day. Of course it also killed and hurt alot of folks and has not been the best thing for the environment. But now consider we can go to space get a load of resources which can allow us to really start to undo some of the problems we have created here help people out and nto harm anyone. This is why pure research into space is a very good thing. This is the future. Now I just need to get me some Americum and I'll be all set....
No he does not. You are deadon right with this though the whole idea is that we geeks have what we want. With a combo of ICQ, one IRC channel that I shall not mention here, and/. I have everything I want and need out of a virtual community. And Katz is right it does exclude alot of people but these are the people who I ignore (or wish I could ignore) in meatspace in any case. I do not want them in my community this is the one place in the world where I can communicate with others like me. Also it allows relationships that due to meatspace concerns are no longer able to happen in the real world to continue. I for one agree with Sartre (sp?) when he said "Hell is other people". All I want is a place where I can communicate with people who are on the same level I am. BTW you're wrong Perl is too good for Katz he was written in VB.
And keep in mind old != outdated. For example Computer Security Basics by the good folks at O'Reilly is old but still very usefull this is because it teaches concepts that do not change and leaves the specifics to the reader. It sounds like the only bits of this book that are outdated are some web addresses and specific versions of apps. All in all it sounds very cool although I don't think I have the math for it.
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And we all know that only women play amazons. Oh wait I better change the name of my amazon from SquadBoy to something else. I really should get around to just blocking Katz.
Poverty kills and within the context of a closed system like the Earth and a growing population we can not really do anything long term about poverty. On the other hand look at what happens everytime you open a frontier. Take the Americas for an example. The large scale opening of the Americas set off a boom in Europe and the colonies in the Americas that has had effects down to the present day. Of course it also killed and hurt alot of folks and has not been the best thing for the environment. But now consider we can go to space get a load of resources which can allow us to really start to undo some of the problems we have created here help people out and nto harm anyone. This is why pure research into space is a very good thing. This is the future. Now I just need to get me some Americum and I'll be all set....
No he does not. You are deadon right with this though the whole idea is that we geeks have what we want. With a combo of ICQ, one IRC channel that I shall not mention here, and /. I have everything I want and need out of a virtual community. And Katz is right it does exclude alot of people but these are the people who I ignore (or wish I could ignore) in meatspace in any case. I do not want them in my community this is the one place in the world where I can communicate with others like me. Also it allows relationships that due to meatspace concerns are no longer able to happen in the real world to continue. I for one agree with Sartre (sp?) when he said "Hell is other people". All I want is a place where I can communicate with people who are on the same level I am. BTW you're wrong Perl is too good for Katz he was written in VB.
And keep in mind old != outdated. For example Computer Security Basics by the good folks at O'Reilly is old but still very usefull this is because it teaches concepts that do not change and leaves the specifics to the reader. It sounds like the only bits of this book that are outdated are some web addresses and specific versions of apps. All in all it sounds very cool although I don't think I have the math for it.