I backup all my DVDs onto external hard drives and throw the shiny discs into the closest. The flimsy plastic is really only good for a couple of uses before scratching, fingerprints or other marks degraded them.
Perhaps if you didn't throw them around so much, they'd last longer.
CDs that I burned in 2001 still work five years later. Most of them have no visible scratches, and none of them have fingerprints except on the edge and in the center. They are in such good condition because I always keep them in their jewel cases when not in use, and hold them only by the edge and center. I also burn two copies of everything, so if one CD has read problems, I can use the other to fill in the missing information. Every couple of years, I go through my CDs, a few at a time when I have a few spare minutes, and read them to make sure that they still work. I haven't yet had one successfully-burned CD fail on me. I haven't had my DVD burner as long, but I am using the same procedure for DVDs, and I don't expect many problems there, either. Since DVDs will fit into slim-size CD jewel cases, I use those (100 for $14, less if they're on sale) to protect my DVDs, instead of using the more expensive (and much larger) DVD cases. Also, I don't ever write anything on the disc itself. Instead, I write the information on the sticky side of a Post-It note, and stick the note on the inside of the transparent cover. (Since the disc is always in its jewel case when I'm not using it, I don't have to worry about mixing up different discs.)
If you take a few simple precautions, your discs should last for a long time.
...
Of course, all bets are off if you have small kids in the house.
If they protest Kent State would be getting bad publicity just like it was trying to avoid.
If they protest Kent State will call in the National Guard and shoot a few students. Most people here probably don't remember, but Richard Nixon praised the National Guard for their action that day in 1970. It's one of the reasons that Nixon was the most dispised President in U.S. history, at least until recently.
Well, it's not that clever, as the idea has been proposed before.
You don't need hinged system, though, because the carousel will be spinning at a constant rate, so once it's up to speed, "down" will always be at the same angle. Prior to that, and during times of maintenance (or emergency) when the thing is spun down, everything can be stacked against the lower wall. Since the thing is spinning in a near vacuum, it needs very little energy to maintain its spin, especially if it's sitting on a magnetic bearing. Balance can be maintained by pumping water or other fluid around to compensate for movement of humans, etc., similar to what has been proposed for wheeled space stations. The main difficulty with a rotating carousel system is entry and egress, both of persons and supplies/waste. One solution would be an elevator to the hub from above that also spins up and down to match the carousel. Another would be an ordinary elevator to a platform at the hub that spins up and down.
The great thing about science is, there aren't really any certainties.
Are you certain about that?
The fact that we, as a species, crave knowledge is what sets us apart from lower animals.
Please don't call them "lower animals"; it's speciesist. Call them "non-human animals" or "differently-abled animals".
On a more serious note, many non-human species display curiosity, which is a type of want of knowledge. For example, chimp kids watch their parents or others to learn how to use a stick to get termites out of a termite mound. One thing that seems to be unique to humans is the desire (of some humans, anyway) to pass knowledge on to others. This can be both good (schoolteachers, research labs, the Open Source and Free Software movements, etc.) and bad (televangelists and inquisitioners, Soviet and Red Chinese "education" facilities, some religious "schools", etc.).
But however good or bad pure research may be, whether or not it might lead to benefits for humanity, it's not any government's place to take my money and give it to others to perform such research. And leaving aside the moral reasons of what is and what is not a government's responsibility in such matters, there is also the problem that research can be skewed by a corrupt government, as the U.S. federal government is currently doing with government-funded research into humanity's effect on the environment, for example.
Advertising as a whole just isn't a reliable way to get intelligent people to buy your product
But most ads aren't targeted at intelligent people; they are targeted at the majority of the population, i.e., the slack-jawed mouth-breathers who
were stupid enough to re-relect both Bill Clinton and George Bush,
think that the Earth was created 6000 years ago,
think that hip-hop is music and that Britney Spears (sp?) has musical talent,
believe that ghosts and UFOs exist,
can quote vast quantities of statistics concerning their favorite sports team but can't make change for a dollar without using a calculator,
feel qualified to pontificate about U.S. foreign policy (pro and con) vis a vis Iraq, but can't find it on a map of the world, even when it's labeled,
think that Global Warming is Left-Wing communist propoganda,
think that Global Warming is a Right-Wing capitalist conspiracy,
think that the government should stay out of people's lives, except for banning homosexual marriages,
think that the government should stay out of people's lives, except for giving money to people who knowingly live at or below sea level and then are surprised when the odd hurricane-fed storm surge floods their neighborhood or city,
will give up their essential liberties for a little temporary security,
sue fast-food resaurants for making them fat,
don't know the difference between "its" and "it's",
have nothing better to do than correct people who don't know the difference between "its" and "it's",
have nothing better to do than make a stupid list complaining about slack-jawed mouth-breathers and post it to Slashdot,
NASA doesn't just go to Sears to get a wrench then load it onto a lauch [sic] vehicle and away it goes.
Actually, with some of their tools, it's pretty close to that. I saw a program once where some NASA guy showed off some of the tools carried up on the Space Shuttle during the Hubble repair mission. Some of them were purchased "off the shelf" and modified for use in space. For example, their adjustable wrench (Br. spanner) was an ordinary adjustable wrench whose handle was encased with a larger handle so that it could be held with bulky space suit gloves. (I have no idea how they actually adjusted the wrench with those same bulky gloves.) Other items, such as socket wrench sockets, were ordinary store-bought sockets with holes drilled in them for tether pins, so they wouldn't float away into space. All of the above was for the Space Shuttle several years ago, but I assume that similar tools are used on the International Space Station.
The best way to destroy information on hard drives is to open them up and burn the platters. And even then there might be some residual information they can recover.
Two words: "belt sander". Alternative two words: "blast furnace".
i say y2k is mainly bs, i have over 30pc's that continue to run fine that range almost every year for the past 20, they are all running different os's and none have been affected by any y2k bug. ive had them for a long time so i know there was no code update. i dont know what bs was shoved down peoples throats but i believe companies mainly dished out a bunch of money for a problem that didnt exist.
Well, I don't know about Y2K, but I don't see how you can say that your PCs "continue to run fine" if your keyboard's shift key doesn't work.
I know for a fact that some of the legacy software that I fixed/replaced would otherwise have failed on 2000-01-01 to the extent that invoices wouldn't have been processed and people wouldn't have been billed/paid. Now, this isn't planes falling out of the sky nonsense, but this sort of thing could lead to financial hardship and even bankruptcy for companies on the edge. Fixing the problems was worth the expense. In addition, it allowed us to upgrade several systems that really needed to be upgraded, but hadn't been before due to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy. Since we had to fix these things, we were able to streamline several procedures and get rid of a lot of legacy cruft, and, as a result, things now run much more efficiently.
which we have given them vast ammounts [sic] of land to call their own
You mean "left them small amounts (relative to what was taken) of land that was deemed pretty worthless and forcibly relocated most of them there" (e.g., the "Trail of Tears", etc.).
allowed them to do otherwise illegal activities
You mean "are leaving them alone for now, although states are now looking for ways to tax gambling (or prohibit it so that it doesn't cut into their own gambling (state lottery) revenues)". (BTW, it's "try to", not "try and".)
What Mexico is doing is equivocal to declaring war on us and invading us
As far as I can tell, it isn't Mexico (i.e., the government of Mexico) that is "invading us; it it individual citizens of Mexico.
When will you UN loving hippies [...] force your one-world-government
I do not "love" the U.N., nor do I support any U.N. "one-world government" (although I have nothing against representatives of governments getting together and trying to solve their differences peacefully). I don't know where I gave you the impression that I loved the U.N. I don't recall mentioning the U.N. at all.
And there's nothing wrong with being a hippie.
pull your heads out of your rectums
I doubt very much that my head would fit in my rectum, although I have never tried, have no intention of trying, and am not the least bit interested in trying, to insert it into that particular opening in my body. However, it is my body, so if I were so inclined to attempt such a maneuver, it would not be either your or any government's place to tell me that I couldn't try.
homosexuality for everyone
I don't know of any reasonable person who advocates homosexuality for everyone. Such a thing would lead to the extinction of our species. If you are talking about homosexual marriages, well, the government shouldn't be involved whatsoever in restricting marriages of any kind between (or among) any number of consenting adult entities of any sex or species. Any such interference violates the separation of church and state.
such closedmindedness
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Based on the rest of your post, introductions of pot to kettle are appropriate here.
While I don't necessarily disagree with the point(s) that you're trying to make, I must point out that the Berlin Wall was meant to keep people in, whereas the US/Mexico "wall" is meant to keep people out.
(For the clueless, the irony to which the PP is referring is a statement made in Berlin by Ronald Reagan, a well-known actor, one-time US President, and currently dead man: "Mr. Gorbachev (sp?), tear down that wall!".)
If you had some other person "invading" your neither region and depositing their "people" wouldn't you complain too?
Ri-ight, because most of our ancestors never "invaded" America, or deposited our "people" here. And those who came over were obviously the best and brightest, and not religious nuts, farmers fleeing a potato famine, etc.
He was credited as "Doctor Who" up until Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor) took on the role in the early 1980s at which point it changed to "The Doctor"
The first season of the new series reverted it to "Doctor Who", however the second series has corrected this.
My god. Do you even know what a female human looks like?
two 2-D images projected to your eyes make pretty much as real a 3-D image as you see naturally.
You're forgetting about focus. One can fairly quickly tell the difference when one tries to focus on the out-of-focus objects in the scene, and they never come into focus, or everything is always in focus.
Because of bandwidth overuse, we temporarily capped off Coral to disallow transfers of files greater than 50 MB. [...] instead of just returned some type of error message (like 403: Forbidden), we are transparently redirecting clients back to the origin site, where they at least have a possibility of downloading the file, and the server is not in worse shape than pre-Coral.
That may or may not be true as far as IBM is concerned, but it's not true in general. I worked with Stratus machines running a version of UNIX in the 1980s. The machine could have up to eight or sixteen CP cards in it, I forget which. Each CP card had four CPUs on it, running as a pair of pairs, with each outer pair running a separate path to redundant memory modules on other cards in the computer cabinet (powered by redundant power supplies, UPSes, disks, etc., with redundant paths between components, and everything constantly checking its counterpart). All four CPUs would execute the same instruction, and each pair would compare the results, first with each other, and then with the other pair. If a pair of CPUs didn't agree with each other, that pair would take itself off-line, and the other pair would write any (presumably correct) results to both memory modules, then the entire card would go offline, and the machine would run with reduced performance until a new CP card could be hot-swapped in. (The machine would "phone home" whenever a part failed, and Stratus would ship a replacement part immediately.) I don't remember what would happen if each CPU pair thought that it was right, but the two pairs disagreed with each other. Space-time paradox, maybe.
At any rate, everything in the computer was pairs or pairs of pairs, executing in parallel, comparing results, etc. It was advertised as a "never-fail" machine, that could survive the failure of any one component. Sometimes a FedEx guy would show up at the door with a CP card, memory card, disk unit, or whatever, and that would be my first indication that something had failed. I'd take the new part back to the machine, open the cabinet, pull the card or disk unit with the red light lit, and replace it with the new one. A few seconds later, it would green-light, and the machine would be back up to full steam.
The only time that the whole thing failed is when we had an ice storm that knocked out power to the building for nearly a week, and the UPSes couldn't hold out that long.
So, to make a short story long and boring, yes, there are times when CPUs run in pairs.
Lately, and especially since the "Patriot" Act, they've sobered up a little bit
Please don't call it the "Patriot" Act, not even in quotes. It's the USAPATRIOT Act, and it has nothing to do with patriotism, so I pronounce it "the you sap at riot act" to avoid confusion.
Most of the stuff in my post was meant to be funny, or at least mildly amusing.
As for Asimov, I think that he went too far when he tried to tie his robot stories into his Foundation stories. The Foundation trilogy stood up quite well on its own. There was no need to bring R. Daneel Olivaw (sp?) into it, or make Hari Seldon's wife a robot. And the whole Zeroeth Law thing was a bit of a kluge to explain why there were no longer any aliens in the galaxy, and why robots weren't ubiquitous.
I'm not saying that the stories were bad, just IMO unnecessary. I will admit, however, that the three authorized stories by third-party authors (Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, and one other whose name I can't recall at the moment) were kind of interesting, being written in a non-Asimovian style.
The Foundation trilogy is one series that I'd like to see made into a movie, provided that it isn't butchered the way "I, Robot" was. (I thought that "I, Robot" was a fun movie, but it had nothing to do with the book (other than the Three Laws), and so it should have been called something else.)
It seems that the U.S. government doesn't like to acknowledge that some of their most prestigious and widely admired work was actually... *drumroll* done by somebody else!
Kind of like how Microsoft buys companies and then passes off their software as its own.
Yay, I managed to bash Microsoft in a totally unrelated topic. How many mod points do I get?
That's a sentence fragment, not a complete sentence. Please learn yourself some proper English your own self before you criticize others' ignorance thereof about which.
Also, Strunk was an alcoholic, and White was a pedophile, which is why their "Elements of Style" is incomplete WRT preposition-ending sentences and the like. In addition, they both frequently engaged in non-sequitorial ad hominoid attacks et al ibid et cetera and so forth (How's that for Latinizing, you non-pedantic naughty person?), which has nothing to do with anything, but I just thought that I'd throw that in. (Oops, sorry, that should be "I just thought that in which I'd throw".) Finally, "Elements of Style" was originally written in German in the early 14th century, and later translated into Ebonics by Richard van Dyke (who was once married to famed television producer Mary Tyler Moore, and later went on to solve crimes from a hospital), then from Ebonics to Inuit by French King Louis VI (who was dead at the time), then from Inuit to Klingon by Viper pilot/Babylon 5 security officer Jesus Christ, then finally from Klingon to proper English by Emperor Hirohito of Japan (during a drunken fraternity pledge initiation ceremony), so I wouldn't put too much stock in what it says.
At least, that's what I read somewhere, so I claim.
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CDs that I burned in 2001 still work five years later.
Most of them have no visible scratches, and none of them have fingerprints except on the edge and in the center.
They are in such good condition because I always keep them in their jewel cases when not in use, and hold them only by the edge and center.
I also burn two copies of everything, so if one CD has read problems, I can use the other to fill in the missing information.
Every couple of years, I go through my CDs, a few at a time when I have a few spare minutes, and read them to make sure that they still work.
I haven't yet had one successfully-burned CD fail on me.
I haven't had my DVD burner as long, but I am using the same procedure for DVDs, and I don't expect many problems there, either.
Since DVDs will fit into slim-size CD jewel cases, I use those (100 for $14, less if they're on sale) to protect my DVDs, instead of using the more expensive (and much larger) DVD cases.
Also, I don't ever write anything on the disc itself.
Instead, I write the information on the sticky side of a Post-It note, and stick the note on the inside of the transparent cover.
(Since the disc is always in its jewel case when I'm not using it, I don't have to worry about mixing up different discs.)
If you take a few simple precautions, your discs should last for a long time.
...
Of course, all bets are off if you have small kids in the house.
Most people here probably don't remember, but Richard Nixon praised the National Guard for their action that day in 1970.
It's one of the reasons that Nixon was the most dispised President in U.S. history, at least until recently.
Well, it's not that clever, as the idea has been proposed before.
You don't need hinged system, though, because the carousel will be spinning at a constant rate, so once it's up to speed, "down" will always be at the same angle.
Prior to that, and during times of maintenance (or emergency) when the thing is spun down, everything can be stacked against the lower wall.
Since the thing is spinning in a near vacuum, it needs very little energy to maintain its spin, especially if it's sitting on a magnetic bearing.
Balance can be maintained by pumping water or other fluid around to compensate for movement of humans, etc., similar to what has been proposed for wheeled space stations.
The main difficulty with a rotating carousel system is entry and egress, both of persons and supplies/waste.
One solution would be an elevator to the hub from above that also spins up and down to match the carousel.
Another would be an ordinary elevator to a platform at the hub that spins up and down.
Call them "non-human animals" or "differently-abled animals".
On a more serious note, many non-human species display curiosity, which is a type of want of knowledge.
For example, chimp kids watch their parents or others to learn how to use a stick to get termites out of a termite mound.
One thing that seems to be unique to humans is the desire (of some humans, anyway) to pass knowledge on to others.
This can be both good (schoolteachers, research labs, the Open Source and Free Software movements, etc.) and bad (televangelists and inquisitioners, Soviet and Red Chinese "education" facilities, some religious "schools", etc.).
But however good or bad pure research may be, whether or not it might lead to benefits for humanity, it's not any government's place to take my money and give it to others to perform such research.
And leaving aside the moral reasons of what is and what is not a government's responsibility in such matters, there is also the problem that research can be skewed by a corrupt government, as the U.S. federal government is currently doing with government-funded research into humanity's effect on the environment, for example.
- were stupid enough to re-relect both Bill Clinton and George Bush,
- think that the Earth was created 6000 years ago,
- think that hip-hop is music and that Britney Spears (sp?) has musical talent,
- believe that ghosts and UFOs exist,
- can quote vast quantities of statistics concerning their favorite sports team but can't make change for a dollar without using a calculator,
- feel qualified to pontificate about U.S. foreign policy (pro and con) vis a vis Iraq, but can't find it on a map of the world, even when it's labeled,
- think that Global Warming is Left-Wing communist propoganda,
- think that Global Warming is a Right-Wing capitalist conspiracy,
- think that the government should stay out of people's lives, except for banning homosexual marriages,
- think that the government should stay out of people's lives, except for giving money to people who knowingly live at or below sea level and then are surprised when the odd hurricane-fed storm surge floods their neighborhood or city,
- will give up their essential liberties for a little temporary security,
- sue fast-food resaurants for making them fat,
- don't know the difference between "its" and "it's",
- have nothing better to do than correct people who don't know the difference between "its" and "it's",
- have nothing better to do than make a stupid list complaining about slack-jawed mouth-breathers and post it to Slashdot,
and so on and so forth.Well, the rear one does, anyway.
I saw a program once where some NASA guy showed off some of the tools carried up on the Space Shuttle during the Hubble repair mission.
Some of them were purchased "off the shelf" and modified for use in space.
For example, their adjustable wrench (Br. spanner) was an ordinary adjustable wrench whose handle was encased with a larger handle so that it could be held with bulky space suit gloves.
(I have no idea how they actually adjusted the wrench with those same bulky gloves.)
Other items, such as socket wrench sockets, were ordinary store-bought sockets with holes drilled in them for tether pins, so they wouldn't float away into space.
All of the above was for the Space Shuttle several years ago, but I assume that similar tools are used on the International Space Station.
Sung to the tune of "The New Yankee Workshop":
In "The New Yankee Workshop" with
Norm Abram, he can show you how
To make all sorts of neat things with
Tools that cost about ten thou.
Alternative two words: "blast furnace".
I know for a fact that some of the legacy software that I fixed/replaced would otherwise have failed on 2000-01-01 to the extent that invoices wouldn't have been processed and people wouldn't have been billed/paid.
Now, this isn't planes falling out of the sky nonsense, but this sort of thing could lead to financial hardship and even bankruptcy for companies on the edge.
Fixing the problems was worth the expense.
In addition, it allowed us to upgrade several systems that really needed to be upgraded, but hadn't been before due to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy.
Since we had to fix these things, we were able to streamline several procedures and get rid of a lot of legacy cruft, and, as a result, things now run much more efficiently.
(BTW, it's "try to", not "try and".)As far as I can tell, it isn't Mexico (i.e., the government of Mexico) that is "invading us; it it individual citizens of Mexico.I do not "love" the U.N., nor do I support any U.N. "one-world government" (although I have nothing against representatives of governments getting together and trying to solve their differences peacefully).
I don't know where I gave you the impression that I loved the U.N.
I don't recall mentioning the U.N. at all.
And there's nothing wrong with being a hippie.I doubt very much that my head would fit in my rectum, although I have never tried, have no intention of trying, and am not the least bit interested in trying, to insert it into that particular opening in my body.
However, it is my body, so if I were so inclined to attempt such a maneuver, it would not be either your or any government's place to tell me that I couldn't try.I don't know of any reasonable person who advocates homosexuality for everyone.
Such a thing would lead to the extinction of our species.
If you are talking about homosexual marriages, well, the government shouldn't be involved whatsoever in restricting marriages of any kind between (or among) any number of consenting adult entities of any sex or species.
Any such interference violates the separation of church and state.HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Based on the rest of your post, introductions of pot to kettle are appropriate here.
While I don't necessarily disagree with the point(s) that you're trying to make, I must point out that the Berlin Wall was meant to keep people in, whereas the US/Mexico "wall" is meant to keep people out.
(For the clueless, the irony to which the PP is referring is a statement made in Berlin by Ronald Reagan, a well-known actor, one-time US President, and currently dead man: "Mr. Gorbachev (sp?), tear down that wall!".)
And those who came over were obviously the best and brightest, and not religious nuts, farmers fleeing a potato famine, etc.
Do you even know what a female human looks like?
One can fairly quickly tell the difference when one tries to focus on the out-of-focus objects in the scene, and they never come into focus, or everything is always in focus.
I worked with Stratus machines running a version of UNIX in the 1980s.
The machine could have up to eight or sixteen CP cards in it, I forget which.
Each CP card had four CPUs on it, running as a pair of pairs, with each outer pair running a separate path to redundant memory modules on other cards in the computer cabinet (powered by redundant power supplies, UPSes, disks, etc., with redundant paths between components, and everything constantly checking its counterpart).
All four CPUs would execute the same instruction, and each pair would compare the results, first with each other, and then with the other pair.
If a pair of CPUs didn't agree with each other, that pair would take itself off-line, and the other pair would write any (presumably correct) results to both memory modules, then the entire card would go offline, and the machine would run with reduced performance until a new CP card could be hot-swapped in.
(The machine would "phone home" whenever a part failed, and Stratus would ship a replacement part immediately.)
I don't remember what would happen if each CPU pair thought that it was right, but the two pairs disagreed with each other.
Space-time paradox, maybe.
At any rate, everything in the computer was pairs or pairs of pairs, executing in parallel, comparing results, etc.
It was advertised as a "never-fail" machine, that could survive the failure of any one component.
Sometimes a FedEx guy would show up at the door with a CP card, memory card, disk unit, or whatever, and that would be my first indication that something had failed.
I'd take the new part back to the machine, open the cabinet, pull the card or disk unit with the red light lit, and replace it with the new one.
A few seconds later, it would green-light, and the machine would be back up to full steam.
The only time that the whole thing failed is when we had an ice storm that knocked out power to the building for nearly a week, and the UPSes couldn't hold out that long.
So, to make a short story long and boring, yes, there are times when CPUs run in pairs.
It's the USAPATRIOT Act, and it has nothing to do with patriotism, so I pronounce it "the you sap at riot act" to avoid confusion.
Most of the stuff in my post was meant to be funny, or at least mildly amusing.
As for Asimov, I think that he went too far when he tried to tie his robot stories into his Foundation stories.
The Foundation trilogy stood up quite well on its own.
There was no need to bring R. Daneel Olivaw (sp?) into it, or make Hari Seldon's wife a robot.
And the whole Zeroeth Law thing was a bit of a kluge to explain why there were no longer any aliens in the galaxy, and why robots weren't ubiquitous.
I'm not saying that the stories were bad, just IMO unnecessary.
I will admit, however, that the three authorized stories by third-party authors (Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, and one other whose name I can't recall at the moment) were kind of interesting, being written in a non-Asimovian style.
The Foundation trilogy is one series that I'd like to see made into a movie, provided that it isn't butchered the way "I, Robot" was.
(I thought that "I, Robot" was a fun movie, but it had nothing to do with the book (other than the Three Laws), and so it should have been called something else.)
Yay, I managed to bash Microsoft in a totally unrelated topic.
How many mod points do I get?
Obligatory Simpsons quote (by Kent Brockman): "I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy doesn't work."
Please learn yourself some proper English your own self before you criticize others' ignorance thereof about which.
Also, Strunk was an alcoholic, and White was a pedophile, which is why their "Elements of Style" is incomplete WRT preposition-ending sentences and the like.
In addition, they both frequently engaged in non-sequitorial ad hominoid attacks et al ibid et cetera and so forth (How's that for Latinizing, you non-pedantic naughty person?), which has nothing to do with anything, but I just thought that I'd throw that in.
(Oops, sorry, that should be "I just thought that in which I'd throw".)
Finally, "Elements of Style" was originally written in German in the early 14th century, and later translated into Ebonics by Richard van Dyke (who was once married to famed television producer Mary Tyler Moore, and later went on to solve crimes from a hospital), then from Ebonics to Inuit by French King Louis VI (who was dead at the time), then from Inuit to Klingon by Viper pilot/Babylon 5 security officer Jesus Christ, then finally from Klingon to proper English by Emperor Hirohito of Japan (during a drunken fraternity pledge initiation ceremony), so I wouldn't put too much stock in what it says.
At least, that's what I read somewhere, so I claim.