Yes, I live in South Dakota, actually. Like I said, I don't know a single person under 30 that voted for Bush.
Now, keep in mind that SD has a very small youth demographic, because everyone gets the hell out ASAP to a larger city, if they can financially, and a lot of people tend to retire up here because of the cost of living.
I'm just surprised that states like Florida, Arizona, and the like - all with fairly urban environments (and as is usually the case, mroe young people) - went to Bush. I guess that's probably accounting for all the migratory baby boomers. Damn them.
America was not only colonized by the disgruntled of other countries, but it was founded as a nation by people that were sick and tired of being dicked around. They fought for their right to run away, so to speak.
And, if you weren't paying attention, American values aren't particular values. Maybe you noticed that Bush won with a majority vote this year. That represents, to a large degree, the values of the constituent voters. The views of the majority of Americans -are- being expressed. They want Bush, and you are a minority without a voice.
It is completely useless to have electronic voting logs/records if there is no paper trail to back it up. Without a paper trail, a completely fake vote tally would look just like the real thing.
Am I the only one that knows not a single person that went to vote under 30 who didn't vote for Kerry? And did anyone else see a fairly lacking percentage of people over 30 at the polls? Has not Kerry been said to completely decimate Bush in the under-30 demographic?
Makes me wonder how the hell Bush got such a majority. Diebold, possibly. Diebold is, after all, in bed with the Republicans.
The problem with this scenario is that there's very likely not going to be another time when such a vote could be exercised. I believe that the central government, as a whole, has gotten wise to the populace, and has figured out how to make a Presidential situation where nobody is ever satisfied with the choices, yet remaining to provide that illusion so that those that are really in power can make the decisions behind the scenes and just use the President as a fallman.
The problem with wearing cargo pants all the time is that you have to eventually take htem off and wash them. That, and when a person sits down, it's often that part of the cargo pant pocket gets 'under' the leg, and you can potentially crack/bend anything in those pockets. That, and when walking/running anything hefty in a pocket sends to bang about in a fairly uncomfortable manner.
Don't get me wrong: cargo pants rock. They're just not practical for gadgets.
Gentoo is the only distro with a few vocal-but-clueless users?
I've met very few gentoo users that don't have some sort of deeply-seated emotional/psychological issue resulting in complete social ineptitude. My experience is that the more die-hard gentoo a person is, the more likely they are to being presumptuous about nearly everything, and socially scathing like a pot of boiling water thrown in your face.
I've never met anyone that would use gentoo in a production environment that is able to do basic logical analysis of things such as the investment/return of such an ordeal. Usually, they pick gentoo because it's all they know, and it's the first thing they got their teeth into.
They assume they know what they're doing because they were able to follow the install guide and get things to work. Placed in another environment, they're completely SOL as they don't have handholding.
Now, if you're one of the 5% or so of gentoo users that isn't like this, great. Humanity needs more of your type. Fact is, Gentoo is a new distro with a -lot- of hype, particularly in the "fresh from windows" and "script kiddie" social departments (often the same department, at that).
That's another cool thing about linux sw raid: you can RAID damned near every storage medium. It's entirely reasonable to have a RAID1 array locally, and then have that RAID1'd to another server - and that, is cool. I don't doubt you could probably RAID ftape drives, if you spent enough time at it.
I might want to add: You want only one drive per controller! This way no more than one drive will die at a time due to non-disk related hardware failures, aside from something like the power supply blowing up.
Personally, I'd see such a setup for a small home network as overly redundant in some areas, and not redundant enough in others. A better setup, IMO, would be using a RAID1 fileserver with a mirror on a workstation. If price is no objective, I'd probably go with the workstation/secondary mirror anyway, just to take into account things like power supply breakage.
In summary: How stable is the current RAID 5 support in Linux? Quite. It's really the only way to go, and performs about as well as hardware raid.
How hard is it to rebuild an array? It's not. At all. How well does the hot spare work? Seamlessly. Be sure to use LVM, as it makes things all the more seamless. Will it rebuild using the spare automatically if it detects a drive has failed? Yes.
You're confused. They never grew crops on greenland; it was iceland that they inhabited. They tried, and failed, to inhabit greenland, but were unable to due to the climate.
This would be a sweet deal. I've been looking for such athing for a while, myself - then any program, etc. could use the mechanism.
I imagine that a reasonably competent programmer (ie, not myself) could take the existing code from KDE, combine it with a kernel module and automount, and have such a mechanism in place with reasonably small amounts of $pain.
I'd provide citations, but I don't have any online; I recalled all what I wrote from things I've read. Sorry for any errors in the transition (the 20,000 ton stone is probably one such error).
AFAICS this sort of thing would be true of pretty much any location in the Lower Kingdom. Is it your contention that the pyramid builders chose Giza for some other reason than it was in the middle of the country that they lived in?
Yes, it would be true about the location of Giza in rough terms to the rest of the world: the Great Pyramid could have easily been placed elsewhere in lower Egypt to achieve the same result. However, the same precise measurements would then not apply.
Most of what I stated above I read about in a book called "The Atlantis Blueprint" by Colin Wilson - I don't know if he's one of the quacks you refered to in your OP, but I do know that the book is well researched (roughly 1/5th of the book is appendix/references), seemingly mathematically sound (from what this college student could determine), incredibly dense (he tends to jump around a bit, as everything in the book is complexly interconnected), and does a fairly good job of avoiding making claims about anything that he couldn't colaborate with evidence (mentions several quackpots and summarily dismisses them as such). I was quite skeptical while reading it at first, but he won me over with fairly sound reasoning. I got it at B&N on a lark on a Sunday afternoon, not expecting it to be too interesting (ie, realistic/scientific), and was pleasantly surprised that it was.
There's a fair bit of talk in there about the Great Pyramid, and pyramids in general, as they're somewhat central to the theme of the book: that there was a world-wide sea-faring civilization pre-dating the previous magnetic pole shift that was subsequently destroyed by the chatostrophic effects of the pole shift. The points of construction of many ancient spiritual sites were built on the points of a geological survey that was conducted by this civilization prior to the pole shift in an attempt to find out exactly what was happening to their earth (there's evidently evidence of a lot of geographical change prior to the pole shift that would've caused a fair bit of harm, roughly 2,000 years prior to the pole shift).
Anyway, despite how quackpotishly odd my little description above sounds, it's a good book, and at the very least entertaining for someone that enjoys reading complex associations. As near as I can tell, it takes a very scientific approach, having as many as half a dozen references per page. I highly recommend it if you've got any interest in history.
Sorry to come off as an ass in my earlier post. The intention wasn't such; I think I just got a bit irked that you called the Great Pyramid a "pile of rocks".:)
But what happens when a morally corrupt, intelligent someone crashes/comes along a crashed windows ATM, and just happens to know a thing about computers? He might wait for dark, come back with a flash drive or some other removeable media storage device, and plug into the (often poorly secured - in a security sense) $data_port, grab the ATM application on the machine from the now-accessable desktop, and take off?
Later, he disassembles the software, finds the bugs (rest assured they'll exist, particularly when employing bottom-line programmers as would likely be the case with anyone making a Windows ATM), and figure out a way to exploit the machine (either locally or remotely)?
I'd be willing to wager this has already happened, either with a corrupt individual or organized crime - we just don't know about it for various reasons (lack of bank disclosure, or the bank themselves aren't even aware). I imagine it'd be relatively simple to steal cash from the things, and in a crafty manner (say, take $20 from half a dozen different accounts at a time by running something they wrote, exploiting a vulnerability that allows access to the bank infrastructure unencumbered by authentication).
I had/have an original Gameboy, Nintendo, C64, and Playstation. They all still work.
I haven't bought any of the new consoles, though. Why? Because I shouldn't have to pay extra to have a device - which has a limited useful lifetime of only 3 - 5 years, really - work that long. My gameboy has been dropped from a moving vehicles window and subsequently -run over- by an pickup truck. My nintendo has been dropped off shelves umpteen times. God only knows the abuse the C64 has gone through, and the Playstation has seen abuse by little boys (brother-in-laws) and their sticky hands and "eat while we play" habits for years, and they never had warranties. I know quite a few people with older game systems in just the same scenario - Genesis, NES, SNES, etc. etc.
As far as I know, warranties weren't even offered for such game systems. They simply worked, worked well, and didn't break. Why is it that modern consoles are such crap? Are CDROM/DVD drives such poor quality nowadays in general, do the companies pick the cheapest drives on the market, or are the drives reaching the threshold of their physical limits, reducing their accuracy? What? Nintendo doesn't seem to be having problems with their Gamecube, so it leaves me to wonder...
Maybe it's just that the Gamecube is oriented towards children, while the PS2 and Xbox are more focused on teens and young adults - who have much more expendable money than younger kids, and can thus afford the loss (and have likely grown accustomed to such inadequacies). Washers, dryers, fridges, and microwaves don't die like that. Game systems shoudln't either (especially when they're something that gets increasingly difficult to replace as time goes on, contrary to a fridge, TV, etc.)
I don't know who the hell either of those people are, but I do know a couple things about the Giza pyramid. Calling it an "exquisite heap of stone" is pedantically ignorant on your part.
- It's composed of over 2 million blocks of stone, over 2 tons each. Many of them are over 20,000 tons - all this despite the fact that there is no substantial amount of stone or anywhere to quary it from for over 100 miles. Keep in mind that our best cranes today can lift a mere 3,000 tons. - It was 481 ft high at the time of construction. That's 1/3rd the height of the Empire State Building. - It took approximately 10 years to build without using anything approaching what we'd call 'modern' machinery, to our knowledge, and weighs a total of 7 million tons (estimated) from 3 different types of stone (limestone, basalt, granite). The Empire State Building only took roughly 1/7th of that amount of time, weighing in at 365,000 tons, and took as many as 3,000 workers at any given time, despite having such modern conveniences as locomotion. Keep in mind that none of our modern day cranes would be able to even come close to lifting one of the 20,000 ton stones used in the Giza pyramid's construction. Ironically, the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Mexico is larger in volume still than the Giza pyramid. - The horizontal cross section of the pyramid is square at any level, with each side measuring 751 feet - There are areas within the giza pyramid that have hyroglyphs and odd structural design that, given our understanding of how the pyramids were made, could not have been made or put in place during building (in a vulnerable area) or after building (dark, enclosed area, and no soot on walls), and thus must've been fully constructed and put in place as a module. - The ground area covered by the Giza pyramid alone is enough to accommodate St Peter's in Rome, the cathedrals of Florence and Milan, and Westminster and St Paul's in London combined. - The entire interior of the pyramids are harmonically tuned. (That's a physical characteristic, mind you, not some crazy new age nonsense.) - It was constructed directly on the Earth's equator (which was 30 south of the current magnetic pole at that logitude) and is a mirror of heavenly bodies - which, at the time of construction, wouldn't reach the alignment made on the ground for another couple thousand years. - Originally, and up until the last 500 years or so, there was a 20+ ton stone door which could be pushed open from the inside with all the strength required to flex a single finger. From the outside when the door was closed, it was inperceiveable that there was even a crack in the stone, let alone a 20-ton slab of it. There was a study done on the stone used for this door, and it was shown that it would cost hundreds of millions dollars to reach such precision even now, just for the door alone. It wasn't just the door which was milled in such a finite fashion - every stone within the walls of the pyramid were milled with the same precision. - The Pyramid lies in the center of focus of all of the continents. It lies in the exact center of all the land area of the world, dividing the earth's land mass into approximately equal quarters. - The Giza pyramid is geographically linked to nearly every major ancient holy place (including many that remain so - Stonehenge, St. Peters, Canterbury, throughout all 6 habitable continents. Each of these sites is on a point on a pythagorean triangle (ratio 3:4:5) grid which covers the earth, with the great pyramid as a point of origin. - If you were to draw a globe around the great pyramid, and draw it to touch the 3 points, the globe would be exactly 1:36th (I think that was the correct proportion) of the earth. - Every single measurement - including weight of the building components and the dimensions of each individual stone - is proportional to the exact measurement of the earth - which we've only figured out in the last 50 years, and only then with the assistance of satellites.
WTF? Pyramids were built no more than 5000 years ago, and the people who did were definitely the same as we still are and just as smart. Now, if you can find me a pyramid built by non-homo sapiens sapiens hominid, that's certaily big news...
If you'd actually read what I'd written there, mate, you'd realize you're talking from your ass. I said there's no accounting for the construction of the pyramids, given the set of intelligence/knowledge that we currently have at our disposal. The greatest minds have only gross speculation, for the most part, as to how the pyramids were actually built, and most of those conjectures are just that - conjectures, as we can't conceive of a way for them to have constructed tools on that scale for such a task.
Thus, the logical conclusion is that our ancestors of 5,000 (actually, it's more like 7,000 given more recent estimates) years ago posessed a knowledge of science we do not yet grasp (and thus have lost since then), as well as the intelligence to figure out how to use that knowledge without anything similar to our modern day computers. That's a bloody hefty task.
Your argument is based off of a false premise - an unknown one, at that. This invalidates the argument, because your belief does not change the fact that you are more/less intelligent than your father, et al.
It is also the case that a creature unable to reason would be unable to believe anything. Making a couple generally-accepted assumptions, of course.:P
Granted, I realize you were joking. (Sod all, I hope so.)
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Yes, I live in South Dakota, actually. Like I said, I don't know a single person under 30 that voted for Bush.
Now, keep in mind that SD has a very small youth demographic, because everyone gets the hell out ASAP to a larger city, if they can financially, and a lot of people tend to retire up here because of the cost of living.
I'm just surprised that states like Florida, Arizona, and the like - all with fairly urban environments (and as is usually the case, mroe young people) - went to Bush. I guess that's probably accounting for all the migratory baby boomers. Damn them.
But it wouldn't have gone the other way. Bush didn't have to worry about it, because he saw to it that he won.
Thanks, Diebold.
Er, Americans that live overseas still have to pay US taxes? Even if they're expats? Or is it just expats?
What, are you daft?
America was not only colonized by the disgruntled of other countries, but it was founded as a nation by people that were sick and tired of being dicked around. They fought for their right to run away, so to speak.
And, if you weren't paying attention, American values aren't particular values. Maybe you noticed that Bush won with a majority vote this year. That represents, to a large degree, the values of the constituent voters. The views of the majority of Americans -are- being expressed. They want Bush, and you are a minority without a voice.
Here's one of the articles which talks about this case of fraud.
I can't believe they didn't require a paper trail. Simply can't believe it.
Here's one of the many instances of vote tampering. Thankfully, this one might provide enough intent to really fuck things up for Mr. Incumbent.
It is completely useless to have electronic voting logs/records if there is no paper trail to back it up. Without a paper trail, a completely fake vote tally would look just like the real thing.
Am I the only one that knows not a single person that went to vote under 30 who didn't vote for Kerry? And did anyone else see a fairly lacking percentage of people over 30 at the polls? Has not Kerry been said to completely decimate Bush in the under-30 demographic?
Makes me wonder how the hell Bush got such a majority. Diebold, possibly. Diebold is, after all, in bed with the Republicans.
The problem with this scenario is that there's very likely not going to be another time when such a vote could be exercised. I believe that the central government, as a whole, has gotten wise to the populace, and has figured out how to make a Presidential situation where nobody is ever satisfied with the choices, yet remaining to provide that illusion so that those that are really in power can make the decisions behind the scenes and just use the President as a fallman.
Benjamin Franklin?
The problem with wearing cargo pants all the time is that you have to eventually take htem off and wash them. That, and when a person sits down, it's often that part of the cargo pant pocket gets 'under' the leg, and you can potentially crack/bend anything in those pockets. That, and when walking/running anything hefty in a pocket sends to bang about in a fairly uncomfortable manner.
Don't get me wrong: cargo pants rock. They're just not practical for gadgets.
The comparision is a little off because it's a comparison, not a fucking 'diff'. An apple is like an orange, but an apple isn't an orange. Make sense?
Drive a rickety old toyota and use winme, eh?
So do most ricers. *badda bing!*
Gentoo is the only distro with a few vocal-but-clueless users?
I've met very few gentoo users that don't have some sort of deeply-seated emotional/psychological issue resulting in complete social ineptitude. My experience is that the more die-hard gentoo a person is, the more likely they are to being presumptuous about nearly everything, and socially scathing like a pot of boiling water thrown in your face.
I've never met anyone that would use gentoo in a production environment that is able to do basic logical analysis of things such as the investment/return of such an ordeal. Usually, they pick gentoo because it's all they know, and it's the first thing they got their teeth into.
They assume they know what they're doing because they were able to follow the install guide and get things to work. Placed in another environment, they're completely SOL as they don't have handholding.
Now, if you're one of the 5% or so of gentoo users that isn't like this, great. Humanity needs more of your type. Fact is, Gentoo is a new distro with a -lot- of hype, particularly in the "fresh from windows" and "script kiddie" social departments (often the same department, at that).
That's another cool thing about linux sw raid: you can RAID damned near every storage medium. It's entirely reasonable to have a RAID1 array locally, and then have that RAID1'd to another server - and that, is cool. I don't doubt you could probably RAID ftape drives, if you spent enough time at it.
I might want to add: You want only one drive per controller! This way no more than one drive will die at a time due to non-disk related hardware failures, aside from something like the power supply blowing up.
Personally, I'd see such a setup for a small home network as overly redundant in some areas, and not redundant enough in others. A better setup, IMO, would be using a RAID1 fileserver with a mirror on a workstation. If price is no objective, I'd probably go with the workstation/secondary mirror anyway, just to take into account things like power supply breakage.
Nothing like doing a little cursory research at the more prominent documentation sites for topics on this matter.
In summary:
How stable is the current RAID 5 support in Linux? Quite. It's really the only way to go, and performs about as well as hardware raid.
How hard is it to rebuild an array? It's not. At all.
How well does the hot spare work? Seamlessly. Be sure to use LVM, as it makes things all the more seamless.
Will it rebuild using the spare automatically if it detects a drive has failed? Yes.
You're confused. They never grew crops on greenland; it was iceland that they inhabited. They tried, and failed, to inhabit greenland, but were unable to due to the climate.
This would be a sweet deal. I've been looking for such athing for a while, myself - then any program, etc. could use the mechanism.
I imagine that a reasonably competent programmer (ie, not myself) could take the existing code from KDE, combine it with a kernel module and automount, and have such a mechanism in place with reasonably small amounts of $pain.
I'd provide citations, but I don't have any online; I recalled all what I wrote from things I've read. Sorry for any errors in the transition (the 20,000 ton stone is probably one such error).
:)
AFAICS this sort of thing would be true of pretty much any location in the Lower Kingdom. Is it your contention that the pyramid builders chose Giza for some other reason than it was in the middle of the country that they lived in?
Yes, it would be true about the location of Giza in rough terms to the rest of the world: the Great Pyramid could have easily been placed elsewhere in lower Egypt to achieve the same result. However, the same precise measurements would then not apply.
Most of what I stated above I read about in a book called "The Atlantis Blueprint" by Colin Wilson - I don't know if he's one of the quacks you refered to in your OP, but I do know that the book is well researched (roughly 1/5th of the book is appendix/references), seemingly mathematically sound (from what this college student could determine), incredibly dense (he tends to jump around a bit, as everything in the book is complexly interconnected), and does a fairly good job of avoiding making claims about anything that he couldn't colaborate with evidence (mentions several quackpots and summarily dismisses them as such). I was quite skeptical while reading it at first, but he won me over with fairly sound reasoning. I got it at B&N on a lark on a Sunday afternoon, not expecting it to be too interesting (ie, realistic/scientific), and was pleasantly surprised that it was.
There's a fair bit of talk in there about the Great Pyramid, and pyramids in general, as they're somewhat central to the theme of the book: that there was a world-wide sea-faring civilization pre-dating the previous magnetic pole shift that was subsequently destroyed by the chatostrophic effects of the pole shift. The points of construction of many ancient spiritual sites were built on the points of a geological survey that was conducted by this civilization prior to the pole shift in an attempt to find out exactly what was happening to their earth (there's evidently evidence of a lot of geographical change prior to the pole shift that would've caused a fair bit of harm, roughly 2,000 years prior to the pole shift).
Anyway, despite how quackpotishly odd my little description above sounds, it's a good book, and at the very least entertaining for someone that enjoys reading complex associations. As near as I can tell, it takes a very scientific approach, having as many as half a dozen references per page. I highly recommend it if you've got any interest in history.
Sorry to come off as an ass in my earlier post. The intention wasn't such; I think I just got a bit irked that you called the Great Pyramid a "pile of rocks".
That's nice.
But what happens when a morally corrupt, intelligent someone crashes/comes along a crashed windows ATM, and just happens to know a thing about computers? He might wait for dark, come back with a flash drive or some other removeable media storage device, and plug into the (often poorly secured - in a security sense) $data_port, grab the ATM application on the machine from the now-accessable desktop, and take off?
Later, he disassembles the software, finds the bugs (rest assured they'll exist, particularly when employing bottom-line programmers as would likely be the case with anyone making a Windows ATM), and figure out a way to exploit the machine (either locally or remotely)?
I'd be willing to wager this has already happened, either with a corrupt individual or organized crime - we just don't know about it for various reasons (lack of bank disclosure, or the bank themselves aren't even aware). I imagine it'd be relatively simple to steal cash from the things, and in a crafty manner (say, take $20 from half a dozen different accounts at a time by running something they wrote, exploiting a vulnerability that allows access to the bank infrastructure unencumbered by authentication).
I had/have an original Gameboy, Nintendo, C64, and Playstation. They all still work.
I haven't bought any of the new consoles, though. Why? Because I shouldn't have to pay extra to have a device - which has a limited useful lifetime of only 3 - 5 years, really - work that long. My gameboy has been dropped from a moving vehicles window and subsequently -run over- by an pickup truck. My nintendo has been dropped off shelves umpteen times. God only knows the abuse the C64 has gone through, and the Playstation has seen abuse by little boys (brother-in-laws) and their sticky hands and "eat while we play" habits for years, and they never had warranties. I know quite a few people with older game systems in just the same scenario - Genesis, NES, SNES, etc. etc.
As far as I know, warranties weren't even offered for such game systems. They simply worked, worked well, and didn't break. Why is it that modern consoles are such crap? Are CDROM/DVD drives such poor quality nowadays in general, do the companies pick the cheapest drives on the market, or are the drives reaching the threshold of their physical limits, reducing their accuracy? What? Nintendo doesn't seem to be having problems with their Gamecube, so it leaves me to wonder...
Maybe it's just that the Gamecube is oriented towards children, while the PS2 and Xbox are more focused on teens and young adults - who have much more expendable money than younger kids, and can thus afford the loss (and have likely grown accustomed to such inadequacies). Washers, dryers, fridges, and microwaves don't die like that. Game systems shoudln't either (especially when they're something that gets increasingly difficult to replace as time goes on, contrary to a fridge, TV, etc.)
I don't know who the hell either of those people are, but I do know a couple things about the Giza pyramid. Calling it an "exquisite heap of stone" is pedantically ignorant on your part.
- It's composed of over 2 million blocks of stone, over 2 tons each. Many of them are over 20,000 tons - all this despite the fact that there is no substantial amount of stone or anywhere to quary it from for over 100 miles. Keep in mind that our best cranes today can lift a mere 3,000 tons.
- It was 481 ft high at the time of construction. That's 1/3rd the height of the Empire State Building.
- It took approximately 10 years to build without using anything approaching what we'd call 'modern' machinery, to our knowledge, and weighs a total of 7 million tons (estimated) from 3 different types of stone (limestone, basalt, granite). The Empire State Building only took roughly 1/7th of that amount of time, weighing in at 365,000 tons, and took as many as 3,000 workers at any given time, despite having such modern conveniences as locomotion. Keep in mind that none of our modern day cranes would be able to even come close to lifting one of the 20,000 ton stones used in the Giza pyramid's construction. Ironically, the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Mexico is larger in volume still than the Giza pyramid.
- The horizontal cross section of the pyramid is square at any level, with each side measuring 751 feet
- There are areas within the giza pyramid that have hyroglyphs and odd structural design that, given our understanding of how the pyramids were made, could not have been made or put in place during building (in a vulnerable area) or after building (dark, enclosed area, and no soot on walls), and thus must've been fully constructed and put in place as a module.
- The ground area covered by the Giza pyramid alone is enough to accommodate St Peter's in Rome, the cathedrals of Florence and Milan, and Westminster and St Paul's in London combined.
- The entire interior of the pyramids are harmonically tuned. (That's a physical characteristic, mind you, not some crazy new age nonsense.)
- It was constructed directly on the Earth's equator (which was 30 south of the current magnetic pole at that logitude) and is a mirror of heavenly bodies - which, at the time of construction, wouldn't reach the alignment made on the ground for another couple thousand years.
- Originally, and up until the last 500 years or so, there was a 20+ ton stone door which could be pushed open from the inside with all the strength required to flex a single finger. From the outside when the door was closed, it was inperceiveable that there was even a crack in the stone, let alone a 20-ton slab of it. There was a study done on the stone used for this door, and it was shown that it would cost hundreds of millions dollars to reach such precision even now, just for the door alone. It wasn't just the door which was milled in such a finite fashion - every stone within the walls of the pyramid were milled with the same precision.
- The Pyramid lies in the center of focus of all of the continents. It lies in the exact center of all the land area of the world, dividing the earth's land mass into approximately equal quarters.
- The Giza pyramid is geographically linked to nearly every major ancient holy place (including many that remain so - Stonehenge, St. Peters, Canterbury, throughout all 6 habitable continents. Each of these sites is on a point on a pythagorean triangle (ratio 3:4:5) grid which covers the earth, with the great pyramid as a point of origin.
- If you were to draw a globe around the great pyramid, and draw it to touch the 3 points, the globe would be exactly 1:36th (I think that was the correct proportion) of the earth.
- Every single measurement - including weight of the building components and the dimensions of each individual stone - is proportional to the exact measurement of the earth - which we've only figured out in the last 50 years, and only then with the assistance of satellites.
Now, there are many additional
WTF? Pyramids were built no more than 5000 years ago, and the people who did were definitely the same as we still are and just as smart. Now, if you can find me a pyramid built by non-homo sapiens sapiens hominid, that's certaily big news...
If you'd actually read what I'd written there, mate, you'd realize you're talking from your ass. I said there's no accounting for the construction of the pyramids, given the set of intelligence/knowledge that we currently have at our disposal. The greatest minds have only gross speculation, for the most part, as to how the pyramids were actually built, and most of those conjectures are just that - conjectures, as we can't conceive of a way for them to have constructed tools on that scale for such a task.
Thus, the logical conclusion is that our ancestors of 5,000 (actually, it's more like 7,000 given more recent estimates) years ago posessed a knowledge of science we do not yet grasp (and thus have lost since then), as well as the intelligence to figure out how to use that knowledge without anything similar to our modern day computers. That's a bloody hefty task.
Your argument is based off of a false premise - an unknown one, at that. This invalidates the argument, because your belief does not change the fact that you are more/less intelligent than your father, et al.
:P
It is also the case that a creature unable to reason would be unable to believe anything. Making a couple generally-accepted assumptions, of course.
Granted, I realize you were joking. (Sod all, I hope so.)