We pay for it here, too, it's just that the tax burden is spread around to places other than the fuel tax -- state and federal income tax, property tax, etc. Many expenses related to putting a gallon of gas into your tank are paid for from the general fund -- consider the cost of military presence in the Middle East to protect the oil, for instance.
If you actually had to pay at the pump for every cost involved in filling your tank, $2/gallon would seem like heaven.
It's using file permissions, all right. In fact, in fiddling with DP4, one of my chief frustrations was that there was no way (that I could find) to make myself root when I wanted to mess with system files, unless I actually logged out of my personal account and logged back in as the administrator.
A good reason to use a section of Genesis is that it's already been translated into virtually every language on earth, so that much of the work is already done. A good reason not to use math is that the whole point of the exercise is to provide a cross-reference of textual language, as the original Rosetta Stone did. The idea is that if future historians have an inkling of how to translate, say, Cherokee, into their own language, so they can translate ancient Cherokee texts, and then they find this disk, they will be able to cross-reference what they know of Cherokee with the other languages on the disk, allowing them to translate texts from other languages as well. The contents of the text are unimportant. What's important is that it's long enough to give plenty of context, vocabulary, and sentence structure, and that the meaning is consistent across all the languages represented on the disk. The only text I can think of that might have anywhere near as many translations already made is Shakespeare's plays, but I suspect the language of Genesis has been modernized, which would make it more useful for the project. -Bill
The Chronic Town EP is available as part of the Dead Letter Office compilation (which has some other interesting stuff on it, along with an amusing drunken rendition of "King of the Road").
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If you actually had to pay at the pump for every cost involved in filling your tank, $2/gallon would seem like heaven.
You have my pills!
-Bill
A good reason to use a section of Genesis is that it's already been translated into virtually every language on earth, so that much of the work is already done. A good reason not to use math is that the whole point of the exercise is to provide a cross-reference of textual language, as the original Rosetta Stone did. The idea is that if future historians have an inkling of how to translate, say, Cherokee, into their own language, so they can translate ancient Cherokee texts, and then they find this disk, they will be able to cross-reference what they know of Cherokee with the other languages on the disk, allowing them to translate texts from other languages as well. The contents of the text are unimportant. What's important is that it's long enough to give plenty of context, vocabulary, and sentence structure, and that the meaning is consistent across all the languages represented on the disk. The only text I can think of that might have anywhere near as many translations already made is Shakespeare's plays, but I suspect the language of Genesis has been modernized, which would make it more useful for the project. -Bill
The Chronic Town EP is available as part of the Dead Letter Office compilation (which has some other interesting stuff on it, along with an amusing drunken rendition of "King of the Road").