Unlike most people I really liked Liliana Cavani's 2nd Francis of Assisi film, the low budget Francesco (1989) featuring Mickey Rourke and Helena Bonham Carter.
To be fair, the original poster quoted a verse from Matthew, which is in the "new testament". Your copy of "Dear Dr. Laura" refers only to "old testament" verses.
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:17-19, The Bible, King James version.
Nine verses later we get a nice on topic bit:
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." - Matthew 5:28-29, The Bible, King James version.
The New Horizons spacecraft would be able to detect Pluto satellites down to 0.62 miles (1 kilometer) as it approaches the planet, but finding large satellites in advance would benefit the mission, Stern says.
Hopefully someone at NASA didn't round that kilometer figure, and then have reporters converting that 1.00 kilometer to 0.62 miles. If it was 0.55 km, it would be 0.34 miles - round the 0.55 km to 1.00 km, then have the reporter convert that 1.00 km to 0.62 miles - aargh!
Anyone out there interested in these figures who still use miles and ciceros?
You blame the parties, I'll keep blaming the people who keep voting for the republicrats, and the vast majority who don't vote at all - not even to go and spoil their votes by writing "none of the above" on their ballots.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No", said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd", said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did", said Ford. "It is."
"So", said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them", said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes", said Ford with a shrug, "of course".
"But", said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said", said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them." he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." - Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the fish, chapter 36.
"It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it." - Eugene V. Debs
"Peggy Bresee was in Bear Pond Books recently to buy "
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" as birthday gifts for a son who lives in Utah. She had the store purge the purchase records." - Vt. bookseller purges files to avoid potential `Patriot Act' searches
Searching google now not only reveals what books Peggy has bought her son, but also her home address, telephone number, job description, and a recent anti-war petition she signed.
All digital versions of books that publishers have should be requested and maintained in a safe place till their respective [copyrights] expire so that they can be easily integrated into the public domain.... especially if OCR or speech recognition doesn't get any better any time soon.
I'm prety sure speech recognition and OCR will have been perfected before copyrights expire - which will be just before universal heat death.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No", said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down
him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The
people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd", said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did", said Ford. "It is."
"So", said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them", said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government
they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes", said Ford with a shrug, "of course".
"But", said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said", said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them." he said. "They're completely wrong of course,
completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." - Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the
fish, chapter 36, 1984
Kent: Senator Dole, why should people vote for you instead of President Clinton?
Kang: It makes no difference which one of us you vote for. Either way, your planet is doomed. DOOMED!
Kent: Well, a refreshingly frank response there from senator Bob Dole. ...
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us. [murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away. [Kang and Kodos laugh out loud] - The Simpsons, 4F02
"It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it." - Eugene Debs
The small size of handheld computers makes them conveniently mobile, but limits the amount of information that can be shown on their screens. This project introduces Peephole Displays, an interaction metaphor in which the handheld computer is a movable window on a larger virtual workspace anchored to the user's physical reference frame. Peephole Displays enable new forms of two-handed interaction for simultaneously navigating and manipulating information, including the ability to create and edit objects larger than the screen and the ability to drag and drop in three dimensions. I developed four iterations of the Peephole hardware, and built and tested several Peephole-augmented applications including a drawing program, a map viewer, and a calendar. A user study of 24 participants showed that the Peephole technique can be more effective than current methods for navigating large information spaces on handheld computers.
This work was accepted to CHI 2003 both as a long paper and as a formal demonstration.
The poster:
concept
Portable devices have tiny screens. To see more, free the information from confines of the screen. Associate it with physical space. The screen becomes a movable windows on the workspace. Apply muscle memory and spatial awareness. Enable entirely new kinds of two-handed interaction.
execution
Track the position of the handheld device and scroll the display to exactly cancel its movement in physical space. Posotion tracking was implemented using ultrasound (Mimio), using an optical mouse, and using tethers in the air.
testing
User tests were conducted on 24 participants. Each participant used both a peephole interface and a conventional interface to perform four tasks: one-handed list selection, two handed list selection, route planning on a subway map, and drawing a diagram. Tasks and interfaces were permuted to control for any learning effects.
There are whole cities in SA which, for all practical purposes, have no police presence. Expats like you talk about how great things are, but probably couldn't be paid enough to go back. [...] I've never been to South Africa. My description based on a friend who grew up there, and joined the French Foreign Legion to get a passport and get the heck out of SA. - Ancil (622971)
I live in South Africa, born and raised here, with a lineage here going back about 400 years. I can't compare daily live in SA to the USA since I've never been to the USA (I've only been to Namibia and Senegal (and Côte d'Ivoire for a day, before the civil war)) and what I know of the USA is from citizens I've spoken with/written to. I can however give my firsthand impression of SA:
It has the kind of economic disparity that's hard to believe, and I'm not just talking about a 3rd world country with opulent areas. Because of colonialism and apartheid the millions of whites have an economic stranglehold, and they are dumfounded at the cost of bridging the gap with basic services, education, land, etc.. Crime is prevalent, but is now not limited to the ghettos. The police now have to serve and protect the entire populace. HIV/AIDS is wracking the country.
That being said, reconciliation is actually getting somewhere. It's a large and diverse country (we have eleven official languages), and instead of lynching the colonizers, the truth and reconciliation commission and human rights institutions has changed the country to something you wouldn't recognize from what it was in the 80s. The neo-liberals has a fight on their hands against those who want to rebuild the country, and implement the bill of rights and social justice. Serious environmental, socio-economic, and democratic problems are being tackled. It's not Switzerland or Sweden, but it's not Sharpeville 1960 or 1976 either.
the full relativistic calculation with retardation effects (i.e. finite signal propagation) eliminates the naive nonphysical effects. One does, however, see things like precession of the perihelion from GR, which is absent in the Newtonian approximation.
Can someone please translate that into tennisballese?
"because most of it is creative (in that [programmers] don't really know what we're doing when we start out)... [Bridge building engineers] don't have to reinvent the wheel... study the lives of great software designers." - Richard Gabriel
How not to plan 101.
How to ignore OOP 101.
rms, the early years.
Slashdot Mirror
Chapter 11 is a step-by-step guide [...] searching for an excuse to build a system
Luc Besson's The Big Blue (1988) (NOT the horrible USA version!).
Giuseppe Tornatore's Italian Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) is not underappreciated, but very few people I know have seen it.
9 out of 10 network admins smack their tape monkeys when they forget about modprobe zftape after reboots.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:17-19, The Bible, King James version.
Nine verses later we get a nice on topic bit:
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." - Matthew 5:28-29, The Bible, King James version.
it's a space station!
Anyone out there interested in these figures who still use miles and ciceros?
Congratulations, you're voting for politicians who openly take bribes. Back in my days, they at least did it in secret.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No", said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd", said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did", said Ford. "It is."
"So", said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them", said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes", said Ford with a shrug, "of course".
"But", said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said", said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them." he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." - Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the fish, chapter 36.
"It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it." - Eugene V. Debs
perfessor multigeek, please used Google newsed links instead of links that require registration.
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No", said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd", said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did", said Ford. "It is."
"So", said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them", said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes", said Ford with a shrug, "of course".
"But", said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said", said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them." he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." - Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the fish, chapter 36, 1984
Kent: Senator Dole, why should people vote for you instead of President Clinton?
...
Kang: It makes no difference which one of us you vote for. Either way, your planet is doomed. DOOMED!
Kent: Well, a refreshingly frank response there from senator Bob Dole.
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us. [murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away. [Kang and Kodos laugh out loud] - The Simpsons, 4F02
"It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it." - Eugene Debs
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The poster:
I live in South Africa, born and raised here, with a lineage here going back about 400 years. I can't compare daily live in SA to the USA since I've never been to the USA (I've only been to Namibia and Senegal (and Côte d'Ivoire for a day, before the civil war)) and what I know of the USA is from citizens I've spoken with/written to. I can however give my firsthand impression of SA:
It has the kind of economic disparity that's hard to believe, and I'm not just talking about a 3rd world country with opulent areas. Because of colonialism and apartheid the millions of whites have an economic stranglehold, and they are dumfounded at the cost of bridging the gap with basic services, education, land, etc.. Crime is prevalent, but is now not limited to the ghettos. The police now have to serve and protect the entire populace. HIV/AIDS is wracking the country.
That being said, reconciliation is actually getting somewhere. It's a large and diverse country (we have eleven official languages), and instead of lynching the colonizers, the truth and reconciliation commission and human rights institutions has changed the country to something you wouldn't recognize from what it was in the 80s. The neo-liberals has a fight on their hands against those who want to rebuild the country, and implement the bill of rights and social justice. Serious environmental, socio-economic, and democratic problems are being tackled. It's not Switzerland or Sweden, but it's not Sharpeville 1960 or 1976 either.
Make trolls foes, and No More Trolls (544787) a friend; then in Comment Options set foe and foes of friends to -6.
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Cue Libertarian pointing out that genocidal greed is both good and human nature.
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How not to plan 101.
How to ignore OOP 101.
rms, the early years.
Seriously tho, some good ideas mentioned.