I knew a person back several years ago who was heavily into Ham Radio. He built some of his own equipment and hoarded heaps of "useful" parts that were never used, but were considered "handy" to have "just in case". He spent all of his free time either chatting to people all over the world from inside his darkened radio shack or planning how he was going to do it. And when away from home (on the road to the local shops or on vacation around the world) he took portable equipment so that he would always be connected, which was to the annoyance of those around him.
As a result he of this obsession he never communicated well with his family, instead choosing to share freely with his on-air mates. Resulting in a well of negative energy in his own home.
Yep I knew him.. he was my father.
(Yes I am bitter about that.. but yes I am dealing with it)
BTW I also remember when people built their own computers.. from scratch.. and coded up their own systems by the bootstraps.
I can just see the warez crowd racing to download GWTW and other works, just because you can get a copy while its still legal.
And then later on..
Psst.. can I swap you a copy of GWTW for a Moby Dick???
Re:Cook more "claimed" Australia than discovered.
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Oops about La Perouse, I got my history mixed up. Thats what I get for being a Mexican. Nothing north of the Murray is ever important.
But as for "discovery". Cook knew there was something there. He just sailed until he tripped over it. You can't discover something you already know about from the reports of others.
It wasn't until Flinders circumnavigated the place in 1802/1803 that we could probably conclusively say that we had an island continent.
Cook more "claimed" Australia than discovered.
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A few years ago I bought a book that mapped all of the voyages that Cook had undertaken. It also showed copies of all the maps that he had with him when he went on his voyage of "discovery" when he visited Oz in 1770.
Cook knew there was a continent there from all of those maps and also from the accounts of all the other sailors that had been tooling around the area during the previous century. So he never really discovered it per se, more just claimed it for England. In fact as he was running around the Sydney area, the Frenchman La Perouse was also in the same area at the same time.
If anything the discovery of Oz by westerners should be credited to the Dutch, who ran into the west coast when they forgot to turn left on their trips around South Africa, and up to the East Indies. Google for Dirk Hartog and the silver plate he nailed to a tree well before Cook was a glimmer in his fathers eye. If the areas the Dutch had seen had a been a little bit more fertile, instead of bordering on major desert, then they might have wanted to spend a bit more time there. But when you are colonising sort of chap, a very dry west coast is not really all that appealing.
Of course if you want true discovery you have to go back to Aborigines who have been here for more than 40,000 years. And before you discount them as primative stone age relics, have a read of Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, and consider that their society was STABLE for 10s of THOUSANDS of years. Anyone want to take bets if western society can remain stable for another 100 years?????
Finally we have to thank you Yanks for the actual colonisation of Oz by the Brits. If you hadn't had that little war of independence back a few years ago, the Brits would not have had to find a new location for their crims. And I would have grown up speaking with a North American accent..
With an estimated population of 1.3 to 1.4 BILLION by 2010, I can really see China's techno nationalism hurting itself.
If (for example) the US with a population of ONLY 300 Million, and Japan (130 million) and a few other countries can dominate the worlds technology, I can easily imagine that in 50 years time we could be all following Chinas leads with regards to technology (assuming of course they haven't outsourced it all to India by then:-)
As someone who has been invoved in latin dance in various forms (salsa, meringue, cha-cha, argentine tango, samba, rhumba, bolero etc) over the last few years I can attest to the fact that learning to dance is fun thing to do and that you can meet lots of cute and friendly people of the opposite sex. Which is how I met my current gf.
Whats even better is that in order to dance these dances well, you NEED to hold your partner in a close embrace. And you can't complain about that.
Another plus is that social latin dancing is done in places like public bars, but the atmosphere of the dance set is not 'meat market'. Thus it gives you a solid framework to get out in public that is not confrontationist. In my job where I do a bit of world travel, I always try and find the local dance places for some non work social life, and as a result have had some really fun times away from home.
On a final note, Samba is a Brazilian dance, and I can attest that all the Brazilians I have met have been fun loving people, and that the country is a great one to go and visit:-)
I have always considered this aspect of/. to be one huge cop-out. Not only does it affect the people whose sites are linked to, it also affects us people who want to actually see the site that goes with the story.
Umm.. that's been done. I remember reading about it a few years ago. You use the human body as the physical transport layer of the network. Given just enough power you can establish a connection when you physically touch someone.
That may be so, but The Passion is rated R.. and from what I have heard for a good reason due to the use of violence as a shock tool in order to make a point about the sacrifice that Jesus made. The (quite reasonable by the sound of it) R rating is meant to protect children from just wandering in and seeing it.
Yet there *are* many examples of Christian parents taking their kids to see this movie without having seen it before themselves. This is totally irresponsible and I feel an extremely hypocritical action on behalf of those parents.
There was also the story this week of the 6th grade teacher who showed long excerpts of this movie to their class without the parents knowledge/permission.
Such blind belief that because its Christian, that any amount or portrayed violence is acceptable is worse than what is in a video game, because the adults are *forcing* their childrento see it.
OT There are a lot of interesting stories in the Bible that would not make it to any sermon due to the extreme levels of sex and violence. Check out "The X rated Bible" for more info:-)
IANALANAUC (I am not a lawyer and not a US Citizen) but isn't the concept of "Freedom Of Expression" a US law only?
While the concept is interesting and has its good and bad points(*), I am sure it is only a legal concept in the US. The rest of the world in general gives some lip service to the idea, but does not have it codefied in laws.
And there are many regimes around the world that do not grant such rights at all.. take China or North Korea for instance.
So why are you suprised when some non US regime says that there should ne a crack down on websites that they object to?
And if you think that you really have free speach in the US try having a discussion on paedophilia and see how far you get. Not that I advocate it, but the subject is so highly charged that you risk being pilloried just for mentioning it.
*I was in in Pittsburgh one year when the KKK was given the right to march and hold a rally espousing their racist views. Is this what Freedom of Speech was meant for?
But I will say it was entertaining.. I learnt how far a protester could throw a stone, that some Neo Nazis don;t know which hand to salute with, and that pathetic little Amps cranked up to 11 distort the sound so much that you couldn't hear what the KKK had to say in the first place.
With all the Haiku posts, I decided to head off to google and see what actually makes Haiku. My feeling was the 5-7-5 plus indication of a season.
Seems that I am slightly wrong. The 5-7-5 syllabal grouping is accepted to be a Japanese convention where those breaks match the structure of that language. In other languages the the 5-7-5 doesn't fit as well, so you seem to be able to do what you want.
Also the Haiku is generally considered to be an expression of direct experience with out attached emotion. So similie, metaphor and anthropomorphism do not see, to be well regarded.
Well you really need to move to the Gold coast (a bit south of Brisbane) and check out the Queensland version of meter maids. These are bikini clad women who wander the streets looking for meters to plug, as "service" to the tourists.
I for one.. would not be berating them at all.. lol
That I didn't make my Nazi reference about demonising the opposition being the first step to controlling your own people, so as to get them to do what you want.
Jeez, if I said that I'd be up that creek without a paddle, in a barbwired canoe.
Of course it is given that the side that you (speaking in the general sense of the word "you") represent is always upstanding and morally correct. And the opposition is always a demonic pit of festering zealots.
I see a lot of people saying that the short CD lifespan is not a problem.. you just copy from one generation of media to the next as you approach the optimum time.
Well that doesn't really cut it for two main reasons
1/ You have now decided that the only information you will hand down to the future is that the stuff that you care about now. As soon as you stop caring about that data, or your descendants stop caring, then that data will lost.
2/ It will only need a skip of roughly 2 generations of technology before you won't be able to recover any digital data that you (or someone else) accidently re-discovers.
If this doesn't seem important, look at what historians and archeologists are finding/learning from poking around things that have survived millenia, compared with the despair of knowing what huge gaps exists from records/items that have been irretrievably lost.
So how do you want to judge the concept of "archival"? As something that is accessible as long as the item is whole, or as something that requires active intervention to maintain its integrity?
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I knew a person back several years ago who was heavily into Ham Radio. He built some of his own equipment and hoarded heaps of "useful" parts that were never used, but were considered "handy" to have "just in case". He spent all of his free time either chatting to people all over the world from inside his darkened radio shack or planning how he was going to do it. And when away from home (on the road to the local shops or on vacation around the world) he took portable equipment so that he would always be connected, which was to the annoyance of those around him.
.. he was my father.
.. but yes I am dealing with it)
.. from scratch .. and coded up their own systems by the bootstraps.
As a result he of this obsession he never communicated well with his family, instead choosing to share freely with his on-air mates. Resulting in a well of negative energy in his own home.
Yep I knew him
(Yes I am bitter about that
BTW I also remember when people built their own computers
I can just see the warez crowd racing to download GWTW and other works, just because you can get a copy while its still legal.
..
.. can I swap you a copy of GWTW for a Moby Dick???
And then later on
Psst
Oops about La Perouse, I got my history mixed up. Thats what I get for being a Mexican. Nothing north of the Murray is ever important.
But as for "discovery". Cook knew there was something there. He just sailed until he tripped over it. You can't discover something you already know about from the reports of others.
It wasn't until Flinders circumnavigated the place in 1802/1803 that we could probably conclusively say that we had an island continent.
A few years ago I bought a book that mapped all of the voyages that Cook had undertaken. It also showed copies of all the maps that he had with him when he went on his voyage of "discovery" when he visited Oz in 1770.
..
Cook knew there was a continent there from all of those maps and also from the accounts of all the other sailors that had been tooling around the area during the previous century. So he never really discovered it per se, more just claimed it for England. In fact as he was running around the Sydney area, the Frenchman La Perouse was also in the same area at the same time.
If anything the discovery of Oz by westerners should be credited to the Dutch, who ran into the west coast when they forgot to turn left on their trips around South Africa, and up to the East Indies. Google for Dirk Hartog and the silver plate he nailed to a tree well before Cook was a glimmer in his fathers eye. If the areas the Dutch had seen had a been a little bit more fertile, instead of bordering on major desert, then they might have wanted to spend a bit more time there. But when you are colonising sort of chap, a very dry west coast is not really all that appealing.
Of course if you want true discovery you have to go back to Aborigines who have been here for more than 40,000 years. And before you discount them as primative stone age relics, have a read of Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, and consider that their society was STABLE for 10s of THOUSANDS of years. Anyone want to take bets if western society can remain stable for another 100 years?????
Finally we have to thank you Yanks for the actual colonisation of Oz by the Brits. If you hadn't had that little war of independence back a few years ago, the Brits would not have had to find a new location for their crims. And I would have grown up speaking with a North American accent
With an estimated population of 1.3 to 1.4 BILLION by 2010, I can really see China's techno nationalism hurting itself.
:-)
If (for example) the US with a population of ONLY 300 Million, and Japan (130 million) and a few other countries can dominate the worlds technology, I can easily imagine that in 50 years time we could be all following Chinas leads with regards to technology (assuming of course they haven't outsourced it all to India by then
As someone who has been invoved in latin dance in various forms (salsa, meringue, cha-cha, argentine tango, samba, rhumba, bolero etc) over the last few years I can attest to the fact that learning to dance is fun thing to do and that you can meet lots of cute and friendly people of the opposite sex. Which is how I met my current gf.
:-)
Whats even better is that in order to dance these dances well, you NEED to hold your partner in a close embrace. And you can't complain about that.
Another plus is that social latin dancing is done in places like public bars, but the atmosphere of the dance set is not 'meat market'. Thus it gives you a solid framework to get out in public that is not confrontationist. In my job where I do a bit of world travel, I always try and find the local dance places for some non work social life, and as a result have had some really fun times away from home.
On a final note, Samba is a Brazilian dance, and I can attest that all the Brazilians I have met have been fun loving people, and that the country is a great one to go and visit
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Yes, and Denial is a river in Egypt.
/. to be one huge cop-out. Not only does it affect the people whose sites are linked to, it also affects us people who want to actually see the site that goes with the story.
.. All action .. no responsibility.
I have always considered this aspect of
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Umm .. that's been done. I remember reading about it a few years ago. You use the human body as the physical transport layer of the network. Given just enough power you can establish a connection when you physically touch someone.
Here is a related article from last year.
Shouldn't that quote be "Bubble headed ninny" or some such. You need to get your quotes straight, after all .. they might end up in this DB .. lol
And the word science is completely contextual as well .. look at how much "science" of today would have been dismissed as "fiction" 100 years ago.
The mythology of the Greeks and Romans was in part their science of their day.
*That* was the point of the original poster.
Damn I need to increase the size of the font on my screen .. I read "rescue the world from peril" as "rescue the world from perl".
That may be so, but The Passion is rated R .. and from what I have heard for a good reason due to the use of violence as a shock tool in order to make a point about the sacrifice that Jesus made. The (quite reasonable by the sound of it) R rating is meant to protect children from just wandering in and seeing it.
:-)
Yet there *are* many examples of Christian parents taking their kids to see this movie without having seen it before themselves. This is totally irresponsible and I feel an extremely hypocritical action on behalf of those parents.
There was also the story this week of the 6th grade teacher who showed long excerpts of this movie to their class without the parents knowledge/permission.
Such blind belief that because its Christian, that any amount or portrayed violence is acceptable is worse than what is in a video game, because the adults are *forcing* their childrento see it.
OT There are a lot of interesting stories in the Bible that would not make it to any sermon due to the extreme levels of sex and violence. Check out "The X rated Bible" for more info
IANALANAUC (I am not a lawyer and not a US Citizen) but isn't the concept of "Freedom Of Expression" a US law only?
.. take China or North Korea for instance.
.. I learnt how far a protester could throw a stone, that some Neo Nazis don;t know which hand to salute with, and that pathetic little Amps cranked up to 11 distort the sound so much that you couldn't hear what the KKK had to say in the first place.
While the concept is interesting and has its good and bad points(*), I am sure it is only a legal concept in the US. The rest of the world in general gives some lip service to the idea, but does not have it codefied in laws.
And there are many regimes around the world that do not grant such rights at all
So why are you suprised when some non US regime says that there should ne a crack down on websites that they object to?
And if you think that you really have free speach in the US try having a discussion on paedophilia and see how far you get. Not that I advocate it, but the subject is so highly charged that you risk being pilloried just for mentioning it.
*I was in in Pittsburgh one year when the KKK was given the right to march and hold a rally espousing their racist views. Is this what Freedom of Speech was meant for?
But I will say it was entertaining
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Haiku in English
Is not Japanese
With all the Haiku posts, I decided to head off to google and see what actually makes Haiku. My feeling was the 5-7-5 plus indication of a season.
Seems that I am slightly wrong. The 5-7-5 syllabal grouping is accepted to be a Japanese convention where those breaks match the structure of that language. In other languages the the 5-7-5 doesn't fit as well, so you seem to be able to do what you want.
Also the Haiku is generally considered to be an expression of direct experience with out attached emotion. So similie, metaphor and anthropomorphism do not see, to be well regarded.
Two links that I just found and read are:
The definition of Haiku by Alexey Andreyev.
Another Attempt To Define Haiku by Jane Reichhold.
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Is there another word for synonym??
XPDA-9 POS terminal .. $US1500 .. Free
.. Priceless!!!!!
Credit cards to skim
Holidays in the Caribean, paid for by some unsuspecting dupe
Well you really need to move to the Gold coast (a bit south of Brisbane) and check out the Queensland version of meter maids. These are bikini clad women who wander the streets looking for meters to plug, as "service" to the tourists.
.. would not be berating them at all .. lol
I for one
Check out out this Link for some info.
Well,
.. and I'll look forward to reading the review.
It sounds like you just got yourself an itch to scratch.
Get to it
Sarcasm is just plain lost on some people
That I didn't make my Nazi reference about demonising the opposition being the first step to controlling your own people, so as to get them to do what you want.
Jeez, if I said that I'd be up that creek without a paddle, in a barbwired canoe.
Of course it is given that the side that you (speaking in the general sense of the word "you") represent is always upstanding and morally correct. And the opposition is always a demonic pit of festering zealots.
I see a lot of people saying that the short CD lifespan is not a problem .. you just copy from one generation of media to the next as you approach the optimum time.
Well that doesn't really cut it for two main reasons
1/ You have now decided that the only information you will hand down to the future is that the stuff that you care about now. As soon as you stop caring about that data, or your descendants stop caring, then that data will lost.
2/ It will only need a skip of roughly 2 generations of technology before you won't be able to recover any digital data that you (or someone else) accidently re-discovers.
If this doesn't seem important, look at what historians and archeologists are finding/learning from poking around things that have survived millenia, compared with the despair of knowing what huge gaps exists from records/items that have been irretrievably lost.
So how do you want to judge the concept of "archival"? As something that is accessible as long as the item is whole, or as something that requires active intervention to maintain its integrity?
Before you all jump in .. that should have been 1998 for Mastering Linux.