The way I see it, the only reason that law was ever in effect was because of the aliens that have already infiltrated the United States government, and wish to cover up their activities. They did this because the United States is simply too destructive, and they knew the Americans would kill them. Now, here in Canada, we can make contact with aliens any time we want, and we only have alien governments in Saskatchewan.:)
I'm one of those teenage-types, and a true geek/nerd/whatever. I have had absolutely *no* luck with women, so any advice is welcomed with open arms. I guess I've been doing everything wrong. But the question is, I suppose, is this really true? I guess only time will tell.
I read the article, and attempted to wrap my mind around it throughout the day. The point is, if this is true, and time really *doesn't* exist in the purest sense of the word, it doesn't really matter. Time, throughout history, has merely been a convenient way for us to measure length between things.
Consider that "time" is different at every single point in the universe. We, on earth, measure time by how long it takes the earth to turn around once, and complete its orbit around the sun. When we say that a year on say, Mercury would be X days long, we are completely wrong. If beings lived on Mercury, they would measure "time" differently. The same with any other planets in other solar systems. They'd use their sun.
To sum it up, I don't have that deep an understanding of astrophysics, so I can't understand this fully, but it seems to me that even if this is true, it just doesn't matter.:)
-- Simon Speichert
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I personally use ADSL, purchased from my local monopolistic telephone company. While they're known for being stupid, they decided to go with dynamic IP addresses for their DSL service. Granted, this isn't too fun for users, as they can't set up dedicated servers like some cable and DSL users, but it's proved convenient, and fairly secure (except for that DHCP exploit, but I haven't seen any evidence of it). Assigning names to IP addresses just uses up resources, and with dynamic IPs, you've always got enough to go around, and it keeps everything secure. Why don't all xDSL providers do this?
Maybe this means that now my high school will finally switch over to a Linux-based system. In our programming classes, we use Delphi and CBuilder (and JBuilder) exclusively. I'd love that, and I'm sure the tech guys would too; having networks go down for 3 days because they're Windows-based isn't fun.
One thing about how Mandrake is different; I believe that it's optimised for Pentium series processors rather than i386. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure of this.
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The way I see it, the only reason that law was ever in effect was because of the aliens that have already infiltrated the United States government, and wish to cover up their activities. They did this because the United States is simply too destructive, and they knew the Americans would kill them. Now, here in Canada, we can make contact with aliens any time we want, and we only have alien governments in Saskatchewan. :)
I'm one of those teenage-types, and a true geek/nerd/whatever. I have had absolutely *no* luck with women, so any advice is welcomed with open arms. I guess I've been doing everything wrong. But the question is, I suppose, is this really true? I guess only time will tell.
I read the article, and attempted to wrap my mind around it throughout the day. The point is, if this is true, and time really *doesn't* exist in the purest sense of the word, it doesn't really matter. Time, throughout history, has merely been a convenient way for us to measure length between things.
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Consider that "time" is different at every single point in the universe. We, on earth, measure time by how long it takes the earth to turn around once, and complete its orbit around the sun. When we say that a year on say, Mercury would be X days long, we are completely wrong. If beings lived on Mercury, they would measure "time" differently. The same with any other planets in other solar systems. They'd use their sun.
To sum it up, I don't have that deep an understanding of astrophysics, so I can't understand this fully, but it seems to me that even if this is true, it just doesn't matter.
-- Simon Speichert
I personally use ADSL, purchased from my local monopolistic telephone company. While they're known for being stupid, they decided to go with dynamic IP addresses for their DSL service. Granted, this isn't too fun for users, as they can't set up dedicated servers like some cable and DSL users, but it's proved convenient, and fairly secure (except for that DHCP exploit, but I haven't seen any evidence of it). Assigning names to IP addresses just uses up resources, and with dynamic IPs, you've always got enough to go around, and it keeps everything secure. Why don't all xDSL providers do this?
Maybe this means that now my high school will finally switch over to a Linux-based system. In our programming classes, we use Delphi and CBuilder (and JBuilder) exclusively. I'd love that, and I'm sure the tech guys would too; having networks go down for 3 days because they're Windows-based isn't fun.
One thing about how Mandrake is different; I believe that it's optimised for Pentium series processors rather than i386. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure of this.