"Just a couple of years ago, near the whole world was behind America..."
I don't mean to be a cynic, honest, but this keeps getting said all over the web. Who in their right mind, when the worlds only superpower is really pissed off and looking for someone to attack, is going to stand up against them on a matter of principal?
The 'whole world' only appeared to be behind America, the day before _that_ event, the 'whole world' was not behind America.
They've tried to regain their youth by returning to the earlier days of Star Fleet, why not take it the other way?
The Culture series by Iain Banks has basically done this already: Exploring an extremely advanced 'utopian' culture. And with great success.
Going back to the old days might have worked a bit, but watching shuttle craft bump into things while docking and starships flying through 'liquid atmospheres' put me off a little;)
On that scale if you make something *exactly* the same as your 'original' you haven't made a copy, you have the original in front of you. It's kind of hard to explain the concept, as it isn't everyday stuff were talking.
You won't have destroyed the original and recreated it, the 'copy' will be the original...just in a different place.
Aah, fug it, I'm getting a headache just trying to think about it!
There's no greatest SciFi writer, but I guess on the short list is definitely Asimov, Zelazny, Niven, Clarke, Heinlein. Asimov is my personal favourite because his book 'The Robots of Dawn' was the first SciFi novel I read and I still have a special place for it in my heart;)
*But* you simply must read the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter, it's the best SciFi in ten years IMHO. SciFi got decidedly political in the nineties with excellent writers such as Robinson, Bear, et al, and Baxter has brought back the classic 60's/70's style of SciFi updated and armed with modern sciantific thought.
The book is just not that simple, however you must understand that it was written in the desire to restore the English folklore that was lost to us when the Normans invaded. This is critical in understanding what the book is about.
It is also obvious that the Hobbit lifestyle is drawn from the English, but this *does* *not* make the Hobbits and allegory for the English...:)
Take the Internet out of it and provide an anology that is pertinent to the issue. Your analogies are helpful, but don't carry to the situation we're discussing.
Citizen A, of and in the Country A casts a stone across the border to the neighbouring country Country B and smashes a window in the car belonging to Citzen B.
Now argue your case. The Laws in Country A are not going to apply to this situation because it's not a crime to throw a stone across the border, but Citizen B has been financially injured. Who's laws apply to Citizen A, and what should happen to him if he ever crosses the border?
Okay I've stretched it a bit, hopefully you get the point.
My own opinion is that it's not easy to simplify every case that is going to happen to this analogy, but Gorshkov is Citizen A here and his laws are being applied to a crime he, arguably, committed in Country B, the US.
This is where it gets more complicated, where was the crime committed? At the keyboard in Russia or on the Server in the US? I think that future law will be based around whatever decision is made on the location of the event of the crime...
I installed Win2k on my Sony Vaio FX-301 laptop three weeks ago and it didn't take three CD's, or 2.5 hours.
I downloaded the neccessary drivers from Sony, but apart from that time which you can't include in a windows installation speed comparison it took *less* than an hour. Got a bunch of hardware errors and installed the Vaio drivers, rebooted and started browsing the Web over dialup (testing) and a network connection for CivIII downloads...
In fact I was doing three other things while it took place, so not exactly rocket science eh?
I really don't see what the point of this was apart from to get heads nodding in ignorant agreement in the Red Hat community. There's plenty of real complaints to be made about Win2k, but installation sure isn't one of them.
Let's just say that most people are a little more cynical than that, and altruism, if shown by any nation, is not a characteristic of the US alone. No country has entered armed conflict without economic reasons, sometimes they are harder to see sometimes not. Building an aeroplane? Is that a serious comment?
You may not like the general opinion held of the US but surely you can understand it? I don't like the way people see the UK, but I know why they do...
On the other hand you don't have to go very far to see how much people respect the symbols of America; the dollar, Statue of Liberty etc. I was suprised when I was travelling recently to find countries reporting that Big Ben was being cleaned - Front page news!
It reminds you how much influence we have on other countries.
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"Just a couple of years ago, near the whole world was behind America..."
I don't mean to be a cynic, honest, but this keeps getting said all over the web. Who in their right mind, when the worlds only superpower is really pissed off and looking for someone to attack, is going to stand up against them on a matter of principal?
The 'whole world' only appeared to be behind America, the day before _that_ event, the 'whole world' was not behind America.
They've tried to regain their youth by returning to the earlier days of Star Fleet, why not take it the other way?
;)
The Culture series by Iain Banks has basically done this already: Exploring an extremely advanced 'utopian' culture. And with great success.
Going back to the old days might have worked a bit, but watching shuttle craft bump into things while docking and starships flying through 'liquid atmospheres' put me off a little
Nope, you're missing the point.
On that scale if you make something *exactly* the same as your 'original' you haven't made a copy, you have the original in front of you. It's kind of hard to explain the concept, as it isn't everyday stuff were talking.
You won't have destroyed the original and recreated it, the 'copy' will be the original...just in a different place.
Aah, fug it, I'm getting a headache just trying to think about it!
Sorry! I know it doesn't contribute, but:
You don't know what irony is.
6b: Slashdot poster imagines a Beowolf cluster of those, and the first Ethernet band is born!
6c: Band spend several years thinking, not playing, and eventually decide on the name "Band-width"
Seek time on editing.
...Then reel off to tape ;)
With tape you have to wind through to the section you want to edit blah, blah, so what you do is copy up to disk, edit then reel back to tape.
With HDD on the camera you can edit quicker.
Is no one going to suggest that perhaps these two cats that don't look similar are in fact not related at all?
Smith "Okay, I've got these two cats, right, and they're clones!!"
Jones "But they don't look the same at all..."
Slashdot "That's because of a very complicated process during the early stages of mitosis in embreonic...etc."
Jones "But they don't look the same at all..."
Where are the conspiracy theorists!? Come on!
if you didn't keep calling me a cowboy.... :(
So why are the lights off then?
There's no greatest SciFi writer, but I guess on the short list is definitely Asimov, Zelazny, Niven, Clarke, Heinlein. Asimov is my personal favourite because his book 'The Robots of Dawn' was the first SciFi novel I read and I still have a special place for it in my heart ;)
*But* you simply must read the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter, it's the best SciFi in ten years IMHO. SciFi got decidedly political in the nineties with excellent writers such as Robinson, Bear, et al, and Baxter has brought back the classic 60's/70's style of SciFi updated and armed with modern sciantific thought.
Brilliant!
(Cheers)
Err...Is it because they do a lot of cooking?
Kind of like men and football....?
(In case it's not clear enough, I don't watch football)
The book is just not that simple, however you must understand that it was written in the desire to restore the English folklore that was lost to us when the Normans invaded. This is critical in understanding what the book is about.
:)
It is also obvious that the Hobbit lifestyle is drawn from the English, but this *does* *not* make the Hobbits and allegory for the English...
Sorry for lowering the tone but when I saw 'uncapping' and 'shafted' I though this was to do with pr0n regulations... :(
Why the fuck does everyone keep saying "my bad" it's really fucking me off.
Talk normally you fuck-wits!
Real world junk mail.
:)
Junk mail comes through our doors everyday, and costs the sender more than $0.001, your solution isn't.
Sorry,
Mr.Shatner, may I call you Bill?
Which alien/enemy/foe made you laugh the hardest on set when you saw it?
My personal favourite was the 'Pizza' that ate people - I think Spock mind-melded with it to save the day.
Seriously it must have been a wheeze on set for Star Trek! Spock in dungarees!
Oh my God! Surely not!
Was anyone else shocked by this revelation?
"Only 50,000 melodies exist in the Western musical scale [everything2.com], and by now, somebody probably owns them all"
;)
Duh, that's why I copyright the *words* not the melody.
Doh!
Seriously though, unless your talking instrumentals (not songwriters then), the important part is the song. Not the singer, the music, but the song.
Have you seen the 3km long train in Africa? Carries iron ore, sheesh that's more metal than Iron Maiden on a good day.
http://i-cias.com/m.s/mauritan/matrain.htm
Zouerate to Nouadhibou. Only way in, only way out (Monopoly anyone?) $5 a ticket.
Why bother, eh? When you can get great responses from you guys...
You can track anything that moves, but how do you identify it? Duh.
So now we need legislation to make sure everyone
a) Has a mobile phone
b) Cannot turn it off
c) Leave it at home
Wow, we'll catch all those crooks now...
Take the Internet out of it and provide an anology that is pertinent to the issue. Your analogies are helpful, but don't carry to the situation we're discussing.
Citizen A, of and in the Country A casts a stone across the border to the neighbouring country Country B and smashes a window in the car belonging to Citzen B.
Now argue your case. The Laws in Country A are not going to apply to this situation because it's not a crime to throw a stone across the border, but Citizen B has been financially injured. Who's laws apply to Citizen A, and what should happen to him if he ever crosses the border?
Okay I've stretched it a bit, hopefully you get the point.
My own opinion is that it's not easy to simplify every case that is going to happen to this analogy, but Gorshkov is Citizen A here and his laws are being applied to a crime he, arguably, committed in Country B, the US.
This is where it gets more complicated, where was the crime committed? At the keyboard in Russia or on the Server in the US? I think that future law will be based around whatever decision is made on the location of the event of the crime...
Cheers.
I installed Win2k on my Sony Vaio FX-301 laptop three weeks ago and it didn't take three CD's, or 2.5 hours.
I downloaded the neccessary drivers from Sony, but apart from that time which you can't include in a windows installation speed comparison it took *less* than an hour. Got a bunch of hardware errors and installed the Vaio drivers, rebooted and started browsing the Web over dialup (testing) and a network connection for CivIII downloads...
In fact I was doing three other things while it took place, so not exactly rocket science eh?
I really don't see what the point of this was apart from to get heads nodding in ignorant agreement in the Red Hat community. There's plenty of real complaints to be made about Win2k, but installation sure isn't one of them.
Okay,
:D
So who else still wants to draw a little shield for Armor Class on their CV?
STR, CON, DEX etc. would spice things up a little too.
Let's just say that most people are a little more cynical than that, and altruism, if shown by any nation, is not a characteristic of the US alone. No country has entered armed conflict without economic reasons, sometimes they are harder to see sometimes not. Building an aeroplane? Is that a serious comment?
You may not like the general opinion held of the US but surely you can understand it? I don't like the way people see the UK, but I know why they do...
On the other hand you don't have to go very far to see how much people respect the symbols of America; the dollar, Statue of Liberty etc. I was suprised when I was travelling recently to find countries reporting that Big Ben was being cleaned - Front page news!
It reminds you how much influence we have on other countries.