Re:Why are we so surprized?
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Incas Used Binary?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
What?
You mean the Inca had a seven day week, from the same creation myth that we have?
Wow, spooky.
The nearest astronomical justification for a 7 day week would be 1/4 of a moon cycle, which may indeed be related to the true origins of the week, full moon - waning - new moon - waxing being natural divisions for a society basing its calendar on lunar observation.
Perhaps the inventors of Genesis merely fitted the creation myth to a pre-existing division.
Any fule nose that God is an Englishman, and would only ever use GMT.
Re:Quazikotel & The End Of The World + compuro
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Incas Used Binary?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Go, on then - I'll bite.
It's Quetzalcoatl, and he was a pre-Inca god from the Teohuatican civilisation of south-eastern Mexico.
The mathematics needed for accurate astronomical records and calendars aren't so special either - the ancient Britons had most of them figured out for the stone circles, purely from centuries of observation and orally transmitted knowledge. The (apocryphal) Book of Enoch also contains sophisticated astronomical references, possibly remembered from the Egyptians, but related to both moon-based and solar circle observatories.
Counting and long observation from fixed points is all that is needed for astronomy - in fact there's not a lot more involved even now!
Re:What SCO is really afraid of.
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My Visit to SCO
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they never show anyone their code
The current SCO hasn't written any code.
The idea that a company can exist purely on IP that they have bought should be abhorrent to all right thinking people.
May SCO die the painful death that they deserve, and may the SEC catch the pump-and-dump merchants that are currently running this worthless enterprise.
Re:You may have read it but nothing sunk in.
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Working with ADHD?
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bigoted crap
Why would anyone be bigoted against someone with ADHD?
We might get a little pissed if someone kept harping on about how they were special, despite showing nothing for it, but based on your description of what ADHD is like, then I probably 'suffer' too.
Some of us just take shit as it comes, and go with the flow.
Being an eternal victim just isn't attractive to me, thankyou very much.
P.S. I suppose maths at Cambridge is uneducated, huh?
(only to be used when the other vehicle is detected to be still moving)
300 ft - ease up on the throttle, slowing closing speed.
200 ft - start automatically flashing the lights to get the dumb sucker to move over.
100 ft - lights on main beam, begin to apply horn.
50 ft - begin random swerving motion, unsettling the by now irate / indignant driver in front.
10 ft - enter full 'tailgate' mode, indicator on, reverse LED sign on front of car says 'Speed up or pull over, asshole', lights flash intermittently again, seatbelt tightens to allow full rictus of rage on tailgaters face...
Of course, that's just my own personal take on this...
That'd be when you're not in the right lane for the speed you're doing, then.
If everyone followed the rule that the overtaking lanes are for overtaking, and didn't just amble along in the outside lane at the same speed as the slower lanes (or, just as bad, amble along in the middle lane when the inside lane is clear), there would be far more room on the road, traffic would run smoother, and there wouldn't be such a need for radar braking systems.
Which glorified typist / webmonkey modded the parent down to -1 redundant?
Everything the parent says is right on the button, especially the point about overdesigned sites.
Simple, static HTML is good - even frames are an abomination that should be banned.
If someone wants to create a new mark-up language (OBML - Overdesigned Bollocks Markup Language, perhaps) and use that for ugly tarty websites, then good luck to them.
For myself, I'll continue to browse with Javascript disabled, and if a site doesn't display properly in flat HTML, then I won't use it.
As a senior attorney for Coca Cola, I hereby order you to cease and desist publishing the intellectual property of Coca Cola in any way shape of form.
Your identification of 'dog poo' shows clear knowledge of our trade secrets, and any further revelations of any of the secret ingredients that make up Coca Cola will be met with the fullest force of the law.
If you don't understand it, just ignore - I don't understand any Japanes apart from 'domo arigato' and 'konichi wa', but it's different, it's not offensive, it's not intrusive...
I hate modding things down, though I do occasionally - my mod points are for stuff I think should be seen.
Let the editors mod down unenlightened posts - they have unlimited mod points.
I'm going to find out where the parent came from, and then I'll worry.
it is quite impossible that plastic army men and one guy with a head injury are accountable for the thousands of grey aliens which have been witnessed around the globe over the last century.
Nope, but a bit of gullibility and the vast number of humans in the world might just fit the bill...
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he looked great in a dress!
You mean the Inca had a seven day week, from the same creation myth that we have?
Wow, spooky.
The nearest astronomical justification for a 7 day week would be 1/4 of a moon cycle, which may indeed be related to the true origins of the week, full moon - waning - new moon - waxing being natural divisions for a society basing its calendar on lunar observation.
Perhaps the inventors of Genesis merely fitted the creation myth to a pre-existing division.
It's Quetzalcoatl, and he was a pre-Inca god from the Teohuatican civilisation of south-eastern Mexico.
The mathematics needed for accurate astronomical records and calendars aren't so special either - the ancient Britons had most of them figured out for the stone circles, purely from centuries of observation and orally transmitted knowledge. The (apocryphal) Book of Enoch also contains sophisticated astronomical references, possibly remembered from the Egyptians, but related to both moon-based and solar circle observatories.
Counting and long observation from fixed points is all that is needed for astronomy - in fact there's not a lot more involved even now!
The current SCO hasn't written any code.
The idea that a company can exist purely on IP that they have bought should be abhorrent to all right thinking people.
May SCO die the painful death that they deserve, and may the SEC catch the pump-and-dump merchants that are currently running this worthless enterprise.
I suppose SCO is Uncle Ernie, then?
Why would anyone be bigoted against someone with ADHD?
We might get a little pissed if someone kept harping on about how they were special, despite showing nothing for it, but based on your description of what ADHD is like, then I probably 'suffer' too.
Some of us just take shit as it comes, and go with the flow.
Being an eternal victim just isn't attractive to me, thankyou very much.
P.S. I suppose maths at Cambridge is uneducated, huh?
Nothing, unless hatred of Monsanto is a human good.
What really would be a pisser, though, is if all the weeds in the soybean fields ended up roundup resistant.
I'll take your allergy, and you can have whatever it is about me that makes the mangy little buggers think I like them.
I only have to sit down in a room with a cat in it, and within five minutes I've got a lap full of annoying furry thing.
You're most welcome to my cat attraction persona, 'cause I don't want it.
Give me a big slobbering hound anyday.
There'll probably be a choice of heights, for fairway, green and rough, if you wait long enough.
We'll no have yer maligning our winter pastimes here!
300 ft - ease up on the throttle, slowing closing speed.
200 ft - start automatically flashing the lights to get the dumb sucker to move over.
100 ft - lights on main beam, begin to apply horn.
50 ft - begin random swerving motion, unsettling the by now irate / indignant driver in front.
10 ft - enter full 'tailgate' mode, indicator on, reverse LED sign on front of car says 'Speed up or pull over, asshole', lights flash intermittently again, seatbelt tightens to allow full rictus of rage on tailgaters face...
Of course, that's just my own personal take on this...
If everyone followed the rule that the overtaking lanes are for overtaking, and didn't just amble along in the outside lane at the same speed as the slower lanes (or, just as bad, amble along in the middle lane when the inside lane is clear), there would be far more room on the road, traffic would run smoother, and there wouldn't be such a need for radar braking systems.
Everything the parent says is right on the button, especially the point about overdesigned sites.
Simple, static HTML is good - even frames are an abomination that should be banned.
If someone wants to create a new mark-up language (OBML - Overdesigned Bollocks Markup Language, perhaps) and use that for ugly tarty websites, then good luck to them.
For myself, I'll continue to browse with Javascript disabled, and if a site doesn't display properly in flat HTML, then I won't use it.
Your identification of 'dog poo' shows clear knowledge of our trade secrets, and any further revelations of any of the secret ingredients that make up Coca Cola will be met with the fullest force of the law.
Have you considered adopting Aspergers syndrome as your next excuse?
From your description of the symptoms, and especially the lateral thinking, Aspergers seems a much better bet.
For what it's worth, I agree with the parent post that ADHD is overdiagnosed at best and a non-disorder at worst.
Why mod this down?
If you don't understand it, just ignore - I don't understand any Japanes apart from 'domo arigato' and 'konichi wa', but it's different, it's not offensive, it's not intrusive...
I hate modding things down, though I do occasionally - my mod points are for stuff I think should be seen.
Let the editors mod down unenlightened posts - they have unlimited mod points.
I'm going to find out where the parent came from, and then I'll worry.
Patent Lawyer: I've spoken with the copyright guys, and they blame the contract.
Contract Lawyer: We blame the Patent guys, but they blame the Boise.
Manager: Where are the Boys?
Aide: Snowboarding in Utah.
Manager: Isn't there anyone whose responsibility it is to keep this whole pump'n'dump running?
Aide: (aside) That'll be you, Darl.
Cue Big Blue logo, close up of McBride shitting himself.
At least that would make it really hostile...
That's even funnier than the parent.
Thanks, AC.
The alternative (a /. reader with no LOTR knowledge) is too horrible to contemplate.
They then further chickened out by challenging SCO to produce some evidence.
Some chickening - more like roostering methinks.
Nope, but a bit of gullibility and the vast number of humans in the world might just fit the bill...
It's not as clever as a Checkpoint, but for a bridging firewall it's quite neat.