Should be sufficient to sum up how many hutus you've slaghtered. Or was that Tutsis? No matter, if it wasn't them then, will be their turn next time.
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I'm not a fool that thinks you need anti-gravity to build the Giza pyramid. Everything I said was regarding a work of fiction, and a compelling one at that. His story may be fictional, but at no point does he invoke bullshit soft scifi to explain anything. Check it out. He wrote another novel in the 70s, where Luna was a moon of planet #5 in between Jupiter and Mars... its destruction hurtled it sunward, and was eventually captured by Earth.
In the appendix of a later edition, he tells of how a friend of his, a scientist, pointed out that we could prove that the moon was orbiting earth for millions of years... tidal stress records in the oldest coral reefs and so forth (this is before geology had proved common ancestry for the earth and moon ~ 4bil years ago). He took that to heart, and Cradle of Saturn is a better book for it... you'd be hard pressed to prove that what was in the story is impossible.
Does seem to have a thing for stories in which the solar system keeps getting fucked up though. Haha.
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James P. Hogan, Cradle of Saturn. Saturn's only 4000 years old, spit out of Jupiter's core. Previous to that and the upheaval it caused, Mars was in some kind of co-orbit with the Earth, losing its water and biosphere to the earth. The features on it correspond to those found in hindu scripts describing a god. Supposedly, that's how the indians even knew the earth was spherical, for a time, they could see its reflection in the oceans of Mars.
The deluge of water from Mars explains alot of flood mythologies around the world.
Was a neat story, he writes well. You oughtta check it out sometime.
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It was all sucked down to earth in a 75,000 mile long waterspout thousands of years ago.
Why Mr. Dvorak, when you tag your whatever with the Creative Commons license, it only means that you aren't an asshole. Let me explain. If I don't, and you copy some of my work, perhaps to troll it on your common, despite fair use, I might still sue you. If I'm a big corporation, I might even win. So, by tagging it with a CC license, I'm saying that I'm a good guy, and I won't do that to you.
Though, in your case, the "not being an asshole" thing probably zooms right over your head...
My wife has like 4 or 5 directivos, 3 dish500s, a motorola DCT-5200 digital cable pvrs, and a few standalone tivos hooked up to 4dtv satellite recievers. Not to mention the DVB-S card in our home server. She even wrote special software, so they would all coordinate with each other, and not try to record something another DVR was already recording. With a terabyte fibre channel backend. It's kinda scary. She's even thinking of doing an episode guide database ala imdb, just so she can have better descriptions in the slice info.
Oh wait, that's me. She can't turn the tv off with the universal remote.
Yeh, there are a few problems with Stargate. But I love how they actually try to do strategy with it. In how many seasons of TNG/Voyager did they never just beam the damned photon torpedo onto the enemy ship's bridge? Assistant Deputy Director of the FBI Skinner as a starship captain?
Also, can someone explain to me how the hell they can fly to Atlantis, when it takes insane energy requirements to open a stargate wormhole?
Would require an entirely new protocol, to do bidirectional data. I've considered such, but it's doubtful that the things would have any mass market appeal. I'm thinking a board the size of a deck of cards. z80 cpu, 32k static ram, 32k eeprom. Tcp/ip stack, over daisy-chained serial. You'd have a single cat running from your computer to the first module, and then another chained off the first, etc. Could even do power over the cat5, reduce wirepulling.
Now, put 3 or 4 slots on the thing. Make it a simple, cheap connector. The 2x20 headers you see on a hd, for instace. The slots would need an innterrupt, 8 data, and just a few address pins.
Give it to the slashdot crowd, and let them make their own sensor/activator cards for the things. Put one in your fridge, have one module wired to the door switch, so you know if its closed or not, slot 2 would be a photosensor, to see if the lights on or off. If the door is open, but still dark, have the damn thing add "fridge lightbulb" to next weeks automated grocery list printout.
Who can come up with the weirdest (cheap) sensor you might build for such a thing? I'm thinking geiger counter myself, but I can imagine some college physics student building a cosmic ray detector for the back yard...
PS I would not trust a system that I couldn't test, to call the fire dept. for me. False alarms can get you in trouble... maybe have the thing use your asterisk card to call you on your camera phone with a inside pic, so you can confirm for it?
Or maybe smoke + extreme heat sensors going off in multiple rooms is conclusive enough?
Actually, most of these are chosen by the agencies' marketing departments (PR, whatever in the hell they call it). Wouldn't be surprised to learn that all these operations have real code names, before marketing makes them change it.
Pissed off a trainee at work once. Told him "Stop asking questions, only stupid people ask questions. You aren't stupid are you?". For once, managed to say it without a hint of it in my voice, totally dry delivery, I was proud.
Because this will also magically stop terrorists from using inflight phones, USB-cellphone internet connections (with the cellphone hidden in onboard luggage), or any other number of less than covert communication channels.
Not to mention, it seems the last time, they did just fine working independently of each other.
C'mon dude, not wanting your book sold before the date you planned, well, that's only slightly control-freakish and hardly objectionable, even by my own standards. If they had the book go up in flames, mission impossible style, once you've read through it once, or sued people selling used copies, maybe I could get a little pissed. If I wrote a book half as popular as this crap, and it was important that Barnes and Noble didn't sell it before Decemberween the 19th, you can bet I'd be pissed if they started selling on the 17th, undercutting all my other retailers.
They have medication for your mental illness nowdays, go talk to a doctor.
They don't depend on us for medical care, if we withdrew it, they'd go on much as they have before modern medicine was available. They pay for it too, or do you think the AMA sends out doctors to Amishland to treat people for free, because they're all a bunch of big freeloaders? That they choose not to go to medical school themselves means little, did you insist that one of your own family go? Or maybe you're pissed that they don't do any medical research (hey bonehead, this article says that they're participating, in case you didn't notice). Well, if our superior capitalist system is doing its job, the cost of that research is factored in to the care that they pay for.
They don't have to fight, you say? I know, I know. Everyone is nervous that Iraq will invade, and the Amish, well, they'll be sitting ducks. Wouldn't suprise me if that asshole Saddam launches scuds at them filled with kurdish nerve gas.
And what about this exile thing? You obviously don't have a clue, but it's going to be so hard to inform you against your will. They allow people to voluntarily leave. They don't force anyone. Those that are disruptive (which happens very rarely) are usually shunned as I understand it. As long as they're willing to put up with that, nothing more happens. They don't do it for 3 weeks, and if the behavior still hasn't ended, they don't form a lynch mob and storm their house at night.
You write it as if I should hear a subtle sarcasm when you state but that it is uncomfortable because of the presence of various kinds of evil presumed to be a property of the outside world, and conversely absent within the group.... this is one paragraph below where you tell us they have no sixth sense for crime and dangerous situations.
And this, seems both frightening and hollow. I'm an atheist, and I'd never dream of giving up technology, but anyone who hasn't thought our society is hollow at least once in his life is someone I'd likely consider to be shallow.
What they have works, and they dont have to crack down on misfits to make it work. They allow people to leave. Tell me this, if a son decides he can't live as they do and leaves, is he still welcome to visit? I honestly don't know, but if that turns out to be the case...
Supposing those become popular, all the old bullshit will return. I'd be able to register microsoft.opennic right now maybe, but once a large fraction of the world can resolve it, you can bet it would be sued away from me. Why bother?
I would hire 20,000 temporary staff for a period of 5-15 years, without ever offering to hire them on permanently. Then, I would issue each of them a teaspoon and canoe. These would be deducted from their first paycheck of course, at full retail price. The teaspoon serves 2 functions, as a paddle for the canoe, and when they arrive at Mt Fuji, as their shovel. It is true that Mt. Fuji is made more of rock than anything resembling soil, but I expect my employees to not need a babysitter, I hired them to figure these things out. Once they have their teaspoon filled with 0.0000000000001% of Mt. Fuji, then they have to canoe back to where ever, and deliver the teaspoonful. There would then be paperwork to fill out.
On second thought, Mt. Fuji is still somewhat active, might be best to have them sign a disclaimer, in case they are lavanated.
More to it than that. There's also the question of trying to maneuver something 100lbs, 1 inch high, so that it "locks" into place. With a square manhole cover, you might end up with it being 1deg rotation off, making it difficult to complete without losing a fingertip... with a round cover, it's only a matter of pushing it from a different direction.
Some questions, assuming you know the answers to them...
Why the hell 5/15? It seems that the fiber itself will do gigabit as easy as it will do 10mps, and even if they couldn't offer 1000mps internet connections, telling you "it's 5mps to the internet, 1000mps to your neighbors" would kick ass.
Is it ethernet, or are they doing some dumbass ATM/DSL over fiber crap?
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Should be sufficient to sum up how many hutus you've slaghtered. Or was that Tutsis? No matter, if it wasn't them then, will be their turn next time.
I'm not a fool that thinks you need anti-gravity to build the Giza pyramid. Everything I said was regarding a work of fiction, and a compelling one at that. His story may be fictional, but at no point does he invoke bullshit soft scifi to explain anything. Check it out. He wrote another novel in the 70s, where Luna was a moon of planet #5 in between Jupiter and Mars... its destruction hurtled it sunward, and was eventually captured by Earth.
In the appendix of a later edition, he tells of how a friend of his, a scientist, pointed out that we could prove that the moon was orbiting earth for millions of years... tidal stress records in the oldest coral reefs and so forth (this is before geology had proved common ancestry for the earth and moon ~ 4bil years ago). He took that to heart, and Cradle of Saturn is a better book for it... you'd be hard pressed to prove that what was in the story is impossible.
Does seem to have a thing for stories in which the solar system keeps getting fucked up though. Haha.
James P. Hogan, Cradle of Saturn. Saturn's only 4000 years old, spit out of Jupiter's core. Previous to that and the upheaval it caused, Mars was in some kind of co-orbit with the Earth, losing its water and biosphere to the earth. The features on it correspond to those found in hindu scripts describing a god. Supposedly, that's how the indians even knew the earth was spherical, for a time, they could see its reflection in the oceans of Mars.
The deluge of water from Mars explains alot of flood mythologies around the world.
Was a neat story, he writes well. You oughtta check it out sometime.
It was all sucked down to earth in a 75,000 mile long waterspout thousands of years ago.
I quit that job, AC. But just out of curiosity, what would you have had me do during downtime, retard-manager?
If you want to hear about my own personal attempt to migrate the company webapp to firefox. Haha.
Now that Firefox 1.1 supports SVG, what do I use to generate SVG?
Why Mr. Dvorak, when you tag your whatever with the Creative Commons license, it only means that you aren't an asshole. Let me explain. If I don't, and you copy some of my work, perhaps to troll it on your common, despite fair use, I might still sue you. If I'm a big corporation, I might even win. So, by tagging it with a CC license, I'm saying that I'm a good guy, and I won't do that to you.
Though, in your case, the "not being an asshole" thing probably zooms right over your head...
My wife has like 4 or 5 directivos, 3 dish500s, a motorola DCT-5200 digital cable pvrs, and a few standalone tivos hooked up to 4dtv satellite recievers. Not to mention the DVB-S card in our home server. She even wrote special software, so they would all coordinate with each other, and not try to record something another DVR was already recording. With a terabyte fibre channel backend. It's kinda scary. She's even thinking of doing an episode guide database ala imdb, just so she can have better descriptions in the slice info.
Oh wait, that's me. She can't turn the tv off with the universal remote.
So they can't return, until Atlantis gives back the ZPM?
Yeh, there are a few problems with Stargate. But I love how they actually try to do strategy with it. In how many seasons of TNG/Voyager did they never just beam the damned photon torpedo onto the enemy ship's bridge? Assistant Deputy Director of the FBI Skinner as a starship captain?
Also, can someone explain to me how the hell they can fly to Atlantis, when it takes insane energy requirements to open a stargate wormhole?
X10 sucks. It can only turn on and off.
Would require an entirely new protocol, to do bidirectional data. I've considered such, but it's doubtful that the things would have any mass market appeal. I'm thinking a board the size of a deck of cards. z80 cpu, 32k static ram, 32k eeprom. Tcp/ip stack, over daisy-chained serial. You'd have a single cat running from your computer to the first module, and then another chained off the first, etc. Could even do power over the cat5, reduce wirepulling.
Now, put 3 or 4 slots on the thing. Make it a simple, cheap connector. The 2x20 headers you see on a hd, for instace. The slots would need an innterrupt, 8 data, and just a few address pins.
Give it to the slashdot crowd, and let them make their own sensor/activator cards for the things. Put one in your fridge, have one module wired to the door switch, so you know if its closed or not, slot 2 would be a photosensor, to see if the lights on or off. If the door is open, but still dark, have the damn thing add "fridge lightbulb" to next weeks automated grocery list printout.
Who can come up with the weirdest (cheap) sensor you might build for such a thing? I'm thinking geiger counter myself, but I can imagine some college physics student building a cosmic ray detector for the back yard...
PS I would not trust a system that I couldn't test, to call the fire dept. for me. False alarms can get you in trouble... maybe have the thing use your asterisk card to call you on your camera phone with a inside pic, so you can confirm for it?
Or maybe smoke + extreme heat sensors going off in multiple rooms is conclusive enough?
Actually, most of these are chosen by the agencies' marketing departments (PR, whatever in the hell they call it). Wouldn't be surprised to learn that all these operations have real code names, before marketing makes them change it.
Pissed off a trainee at work once. Told him "Stop asking questions, only stupid people ask questions. You aren't stupid are you?". For once, managed to say it without a hint of it in my voice, totally dry delivery, I was proud.
I'll tap 3 lands and play an instant, the "Moderation of Doom". All D&D nerds take -5/-5, immunity to blue, green and black.
Because this will also magically stop terrorists from using inflight phones, USB-cellphone internet connections (with the cellphone hidden in onboard luggage), or any other number of less than covert communication channels.
Not to mention, it seems the last time, they did just fine working independently of each other.
Actually, you'll never get rid of them, until you get rid of weasels. The human kind, I have no grudge against the kind that weigh less than 10 lbs.
C'mon dude, not wanting your book sold before the date you planned, well, that's only slightly control-freakish and hardly objectionable, even by my own standards. If they had the book go up in flames, mission impossible style, once you've read through it once, or sued people selling used copies, maybe I could get a little pissed. If I wrote a book half as popular as this crap, and it was important that Barnes and Noble didn't sell it before Decemberween the 19th, you can bet I'd be pissed if they started selling on the 17th, undercutting all my other retailers.
They have medication for your mental illness nowdays, go talk to a doctor.
Nice to think that, though.
They don't depend on us for medical care, if we withdrew it, they'd go on much as they have before modern medicine was available. They pay for it too, or do you think the AMA sends out doctors to Amishland to treat people for free, because they're all a bunch of big freeloaders? That they choose not to go to medical school themselves means little, did you insist that one of your own family go? Or maybe you're pissed that they don't do any medical research (hey bonehead, this article says that they're participating, in case you didn't notice). Well, if our superior capitalist system is doing its job, the cost of that research is factored in to the care that they pay for.
They don't have to fight, you say? I know, I know. Everyone is nervous that Iraq will invade, and the Amish, well, they'll be sitting ducks. Wouldn't suprise me if that asshole Saddam launches scuds at them filled with kurdish nerve gas.
And what about this exile thing? You obviously don't have a clue, but it's going to be so hard to inform you against your will. They allow people to voluntarily leave. They don't force anyone. Those that are disruptive (which happens very rarely) are usually shunned as I understand it. As long as they're willing to put up with that, nothing more happens. They don't do it for 3 weeks, and if the behavior still hasn't ended, they don't form a lynch mob and storm their house at night.
They don't need us.
You write it as if I should hear a subtle sarcasm when you state but that it is uncomfortable because of the presence of various kinds of evil presumed to be a property of the outside world, and conversely absent within the group.... this is one paragraph below where you tell us they have no sixth sense for crime and dangerous situations.
And this, seems both frightening and hollow. I'm an atheist, and I'd never dream of giving up technology, but anyone who hasn't thought our society is hollow at least once in his life is someone I'd likely consider to be shallow.
What they have works, and they dont have to crack down on misfits to make it work. They allow people to leave. Tell me this, if a son decides he can't live as they do and leaves, is he still welcome to visit? I honestly don't know, but if that turns out to be the case...
Supposing those become popular, all the old bullshit will return. I'd be able to register microsoft.opennic right now maybe, but once a large fraction of the world can resolve it, you can bet it would be sued away from me. Why bother?
This is why you work in marketing, and myself in business operations.
I would hire 20,000 temporary staff for a period of 5-15 years, without ever offering to hire them on permanently. Then, I would issue each of them a teaspoon and canoe. These would be deducted from their first paycheck of course, at full retail price. The teaspoon serves 2 functions, as a paddle for the canoe, and when they arrive at Mt Fuji, as their shovel. It is true that Mt. Fuji is made more of rock than anything resembling soil, but I expect my employees to not need a babysitter, I hired them to figure these things out. Once they have their teaspoon filled with 0.0000000000001% of Mt. Fuji, then they have to canoe back to where ever, and deliver the teaspoonful. There would then be paperwork to fill out.
On second thought, Mt. Fuji is still somewhat active, might be best to have them sign a disclaimer, in case they are lavanated.
More to it than that. There's also the question of trying to maneuver something 100lbs, 1 inch high, so that it "locks" into place. With a square manhole cover, you might end up with it being 1deg rotation off, making it difficult to complete without losing a fingertip... with a round cover, it's only a matter of pushing it from a different direction.
Some questions, assuming you know the answers to them...
Why the hell 5/15? It seems that the fiber itself will do gigabit as easy as it will do 10mps, and even if they couldn't offer 1000mps internet connections, telling you "it's 5mps to the internet, 1000mps to your neighbors" would kick ass.
Is it ethernet, or are they doing some dumbass ATM/DSL over fiber crap?
Are they offering static IPs?