In an age that multiple gigabytes of information can fit in a card the size of a fingernail, sneakernet is alive and well. Even if the government starts policing the internet, the underground will still live on in the shadows as it does in China today.
The World-Wide Sneakernet?
Have you tried walking across the Pacific? Apart from the obvious packet loss (and floating pairs of sneakers), the latency time on successful packet transfers is humongously high.
I wonder sometimes if the original writers of some of today's religious texts would be thinking "whoosh" when they heard that people thousands of years later are taking them literally.
Who wants to bet that in a few thousand years people will be saying you're not going to the Grey Havens if you don't accept that Gandalf was dead and resurrected. Accept him as your white wizard or be damned!
I hate to disagree with you, but I am a follower of Galadriel, not Gandalf.
The Senate doesn't pass bills through the lower house; the Senate is the upper house. Perhaps you meant "The Government recently passed a bill through the Lower House..."
And what are these "larger population densities"? Do you mean "larger cities"? Probably better just to say that then.
immaculate conception - conceived (by sex!) without the taint of original sin
According to traditional (Catholic) Christian beliefs, Christ was born of a virgin, and MARY (not Christ) was born without the taint of original sin... quite a few years earlier.
So the two terms refer to two totally distinct events: the immaculate conception occurred a generation before the virgin birth.
I have always wondered why children's books spend so much effort teaching preschoolers about lions and tigers and hippotomuses, and other such exotic things.
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In an age that multiple gigabytes of information can fit in a card the size of a fingernail, sneakernet is alive and well. Even if the government starts policing the internet, the underground will still live on in the shadows as it does in China today.
The World-Wide Sneakernet?
Have you tried walking across the Pacific? Apart from the obvious packet loss (and floating pairs of sneakers), the latency time on successful packet transfers is humongously high.
I happen to be an actual theoretical particle ...
I got this far into the parent post and my mind was already boggling.
The things they can do in physics these days - get actual particles, and actual theoretical particles at that, to post on Slashdot.
The marvels of modern science.
As George Carlin said once: "Where are all the bright, honest people of conscience?"
According to the press, they have all gone into journalism.
They may bring down our diplomats.
They may bring down our banks.
But they CANNOT bring down our Kindles!
Think that covers everything.
bacterium.speak("Hello, world!\n");
ERROR: method "speak" not found in class Bacterium.
Claiming people who disagree with you are burning kittens and hate freedom is not an argument.
Best quote about burning kittens this week ... no, this month! Hell, this year even.
There are some flaws with his staunch religious views, but that's what makes him human.
Hmmm ... so if you were to make a robot with flawed religious views ... it would be HUMAN!
The Holy Graal of robotics has been discovered.
...that the park actually evolved from lower forms of parks, each being incrementally better than the previous park.
It is just a rumor.
So, you're saying that it wasn't intelligently designed?
I wonder sometimes if the original writers of some of today's religious texts would be thinking "whoosh" when they heard that people thousands of years later are taking them literally.
Who wants to bet that in a few thousand years people will be saying you're not going to the Grey Havens if you don't accept that Gandalf was dead and resurrected. Accept him as your white wizard or be damned!
I hate to disagree with you, but I am a follower of Galadriel, not Gandalf.
Die, you Gandalfian! Elves rule!
The Senate doesn't pass bills through the lower house; the Senate is the upper house. Perhaps you meant "The Government recently passed a bill through the Lower House..."
And what are these "larger population densities"? Do you mean "larger cities"? Probably better just to say that then.
It is all a matter of operator precedence:
fake (tsunami warning) versus (fake tsunami) warning
...and boy are it's legs tired.
Naah. Anyone can see that the universe is going downhill fast. So it isn't pedaling at all.
VisageVolume
"visage" means *ace (sorry, *acebook now owns that word)
"volume" means book (unless Amazon owns that word, oh wait, doesn't Brazil own the word Amazon? Or was that the ancient Greeks? I'm getting confused)
Or we could use "CountenanceCodex"
Not being there I can't be sure, but I suspect that wife is holding it upside down. I don't suppose that will change even with this phone.
Tell her to stand on her head in future, when she is talking on the cell phone. That should fix the problem.
I guess it could put a new meaning into the question: "Are you a man or a MOUSE?"
But you ARE really talking about it publicly, so stop pretending.
Virgin birth != immaculate conception
Virgin birth = conceived without sex
immaculate conception - conceived (by sex!) without the taint of original sin
According to traditional (Catholic) Christian beliefs, Christ was born of a virgin, and MARY (not Christ) was born without the taint of original sin ... quite a few years earlier.
So the two terms refer to two totally distinct events: the immaculate conception occurred a generation before the virgin birth.
I have always wondered why children's books spend so much effort teaching preschoolers about lions and tigers and hippotomuses, and other such exotic things.
but maybe if you took ancient neanderthals and threw them into the heavy metal lifestyle, they would have succeeded.
Yeah. They had the first rock band.
Mind you, they were hunting, not making music.
"Hello, wo..."
"ACCESS DENIED - world does not accept greetings from unknown source."
Flight path?
Complexity creates bugs
Bugs create employment
Employment creates complexity.
(Ever since the first program, the IT industry has just been looping.)
Christine O'Donnell, is that you?
Somehow she seems more real than Britney Spears ...
And after 20 years, there still
isn't anything that comes even close to Visual Studio as a development environment.
*cough* *cough* And after 34 years, there still isn't anything that comes even close to Vi.
There! Fixed that for you.