This is well-attested in older historical
sources. For example, in the reign of
Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603), the
Thames regularly froze over in winter. The
English used to skate on the ice in London.
Therefore we know it used to be colder than
it is today.
Older annals show that the Vikings sailed
out of Norwegian ports that are permanently
ice-bound today in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Therefore we know it used to be warmer than it
is today.
> Telcos tend to use predominantly the SuperDomes, > due to HP's relationship with Amdocs.
In my experience (primarily in Europe and Asia), Alphas dominate telcos, ES40s running Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS in clusters. Sweet technology. Alas, Tru64 is being washed down the drain with the Alpha -- though HP have assured legions of worried customers that they will port the advanced features of t64 to HP-UX.
> I doubt. Intel bought the patents and the > documents, but most engineers left.
Many of them went to AMD. A DEC-Compaq-HP engineer (talk about survival instincts!) told me that Compaq sold the alpha technology at a knock-down price to Intel in return for the Pentium processor specs for Compaq's desktop business. Said engineer was livid.
Rumour has it that the EV8 processor was designed and prototyped, but nipped in the bud by HP. Now we all have to switch over to nasty IA64 processors running HP-UX, and wait for the techs to be ported in 2004. A massive step backwards...
80% of the world's Catholics live below the poverty line.
Let me spell it out for you: more than 80% of the world's population live below the poverty line. Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and all. Do you seriously think you have made a logical point?
Catholicism is a disease that preys on the poor and ignorant.
If so, you must be at least half-Catholic. Don't know if you are poor, but you fit the second condition perfectly! (Applying your own style of logic, of course.)
And I don't care to hear about America's sins... sure we have flaws, but we don't have the killing fields of Cambodia, the purges of Mao, the death camps of the Nazis, the mass executions of the Cuban Revolution, Stalin's starvation campaigns, the looting of Nicauragua by a family of thugs.
But you do have the extermination of the American Indians, the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans (even after the European countries had given this up), and propping up corrupt and murderous regimes from Nicaragua (I assume you are referring, with typical monocularity, to the Sandinistas), to Chile, to Iraq (ol' buddy Saddam), not to mention Ariel Sharon, the Milosevic of the Middle East.
Capitalism creates great evil and inequity, as does/did communism. A peculiarly Puritan strain in American thought maintains that capitalism and the accumulation of wealth are inherently moral occupations, and that wealth is the reward of righteousness. This is most obvious in the langage used by the Wall Street Journal, the 'virtuous cycle' and so on.
Not only did they help you, they won it for you! Blockaded the English in the Channel, won most of the 'American' victories in the War of Independence. Remember, Washington never beat the British in the field.
The British used to complain, when going on joint actions with the French, that the French always managed to charge first, thereby getting all the glory.
The first regiment to go in on the ground in the Gulf War was the French Foreign Legion. Hardest bastards on the planet, little fluffy SEALs included.
France lost *millions* in the First World War (combined British and American casulties for both wars were in the hundreds of thousands). They just didn't have the oomph to go the second round with the Germans. The Brits and Americans only invaded Europe when the Russians had done most of the fighting...
Mixing alcohol and caffeine just seems retarded anyway if you ask me. Mixing two brain altering chemicals is pretty stupid. Makes about as much sense as dropping acid and E at the same time.
It makes wonderful sense. We call it a candy flip.
Some of my friends are Italian diplomats, and they are puzzled about the proud nationalism displayed here. They were born just after the war, and the allied-controlled postware governments brainwashed them into believing that nationalism is a bad thing...
The US isn't a nation by any reasonable definition of the term. Most Americans share little cultural inheritance, speak a language different from that of their forefathers. It seems that American politicians like to co-opt the idea of nationhood for its emotive powers.
And yes, I believe nationalism is a bad thing, since most nations define themselves against an external threat (perhaps one of the areas in which the US mimics nations, despite the accidental comedy of the enemies selected). Nationalism is of relatively recent vintage, and has yielded the most terrible wars in human history.
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This is well-attested in older historical sources. For example, in the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603), the Thames regularly froze over in winter. The English used to skate on the ice in London. Therefore we know it used to be colder than it is today.
Older annals show that the Vikings sailed out of Norwegian ports that are permanently ice-bound today in the 7th and 8th centuries. Therefore we know it used to be warmer than it is today.
> Telcos tend to use predominantly the SuperDomes,
> due to HP's relationship with Amdocs.
In my experience (primarily in Europe and Asia), Alphas dominate telcos, ES40s running Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS in clusters. Sweet technology. Alas, Tru64 is being washed down the drain with the Alpha -- though HP have assured legions of worried customers that they will port the advanced features of t64 to HP-UX.
> I doubt. Intel bought the patents and the
> documents, but most engineers left.
Many of them went to AMD. A DEC-Compaq-HP engineer (talk about survival instincts!) told me that Compaq sold the alpha technology at a knock-down price to Intel in return for the Pentium processor specs for Compaq's desktop business. Said engineer was livid.
Rumour has it that the EV8 processor was designed and prototyped, but nipped in the bud by HP. Now we all have to switch over to nasty IA64 processors running HP-UX, and wait for the techs to be ported in 2004. A massive step backwards...
Farewell Alpha.
Let me spell it out for you.
80% of the world's Catholics live below the poverty line.
Let me spell it out for you: more than 80% of the world's population live below the poverty line. Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and all. Do you seriously think you have made a logical point?
Catholicism is a disease that preys on the poor and ignorant.
If so, you must be at least half-Catholic. Don't know if you are poor, but you fit the second condition perfectly! (Applying your own style of logic, of course.)
Got a love it. Next time I go to Paris, I am going to wrap up a nice Debian CD in flowers and put it on old Marx's grave. Ha ha ha!
Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetery, England. It's the original communist plot.
And I don't care to hear about America's sins... sure we have flaws, but we don't have the killing fields of Cambodia, the purges of Mao, the death camps of the Nazis, the mass executions of the Cuban Revolution, Stalin's starvation campaigns, the looting of Nicauragua by a family of thugs.
But you do have the extermination of the American Indians, the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans (even after the European countries had given this up), and propping up corrupt and murderous regimes from Nicaragua (I assume you are referring, with typical monocularity, to the Sandinistas), to Chile, to Iraq (ol' buddy Saddam), not to mention Ariel Sharon, the Milosevic of the Middle East.
Capitalism creates great evil and inequity, as does/did communism. A peculiarly Puritan strain in American thought maintains that capitalism and the accumulation of wealth are inherently moral occupations, and that wealth is the reward of righteousness. This is most obvious in the langage used by the Wall Street Journal, the 'virtuous cycle' and so on.
Not only did they help you, they won it for you! Blockaded the English in the Channel, won most of the 'American' victories in the War of Independence. Remember, Washington never beat the British in the field.
The British used to complain, when going on joint actions with the French, that the French always managed to charge first, thereby getting all the glory.
The first regiment to go in on the ground in the Gulf War was the French Foreign Legion. Hardest bastards on the planet, little fluffy SEALs included.
France lost *millions* in the First World War (combined British and American casulties for both wars were in the hundreds of thousands). They just didn't have the oomph to go the second round with the Germans. The Brits and Americans only invaded Europe when the Russians had done most of the fighting...
Mixing alcohol and caffeine just seems retarded anyway if you ask me. Mixing two brain altering chemicals is pretty stupid. Makes about as much sense as dropping acid and E at the same time.
It makes wonderful sense. We call it a candy flip.
Some of my friends are Italian diplomats, and they are puzzled about the proud nationalism displayed here. They were born just after the war, and the allied-controlled postware governments brainwashed them into believing that nationalism is a bad thing...
The US isn't a nation by any reasonable definition of the term. Most Americans share little cultural inheritance, speak a language different from that of their forefathers. It seems that American politicians like to co-opt the idea of nationhood for its emotive powers.
And yes, I believe nationalism is a bad thing, since most nations define themselves against an external threat (perhaps one of the areas in which the US mimics nations, despite the accidental comedy of the enemies selected). Nationalism is of relatively recent vintage, and has yielded the most terrible wars in human history.