The first international banking system was establish ed by the Knights Templar during the crusades.... I just think it's kind of interesting that banking has its roots in a militant order.
International banking goes back to Ancient Greece. The various city-states amounted, in their day, to the equivalent of today's nation-states. They carried on bank-supported trade with each other, and with more distant states such as Egypt.
Your point about banking having its roots in a militant order is well made. Indeed, governments have always reserved for themselves two things: armies and currency.
In the fourth grade, I read War of the Worlds, in which theater was spelled "theatre". A few days after having finished it, I had to take a spelling test. One of the words was "theater", only I spelled it the other way, so it was marked wrong and I did not get a one hundred on the test. To this day, I hold that one test as a grudge against the British.
If I were in your place, I'd hold a grudge against tests.
How about removing liver from the food pyramid. Think how much it's like beer: tastes bad, and it's full of toxins.
I'm told (by my brother, the hunter) that fresh moose liver has a mood-altering effect. Small wonder, considering that it's full of chemicals the moose was trying to eliminate....
Isn't most american beer pretty low in alchoholic content? I've heard stories of American sailors coming to Australia and getting wasted on a few beers because they're not used to the high alchohol content.
"American Beer" covers a multitude of sins. You can get all kinds of beers here: local and imported, weak and strong, good and bad.
It's true that there's a variety called "three-two beer", after the alcohol content. It's not real beer, in my book, but some people drink it. In fact, I'm sorry to say, a lot of people drink it.
Unfortunately, the big-name mass-marketed beers -- Millers, Bud, Pabst -- are all pretty dreadful, as beers go: filtered, highly processed, force-carbonated... and lower alcohol content.
As to American sailors getting wonky in Australia... after six months at sea, in close quarters with no one but other sailors... hell, I'd get wonky on shore leave.
A lot of Minnesotans -- myself included -- hold Norm Coleman in utter contempt, for a variety of reasons. He may be on "our side" on this issue, but overall he's a hypocritical opportunist.
"Norm Coleman won Minnesota because he was well-financed and well-packaged. Norm is a slick retail campaigner, the grabbiest and touchingest and feelingest politician in Minnesota history, a hugger and baby-kisser, and he's a genuine boomer candidate who reinvents himself at will. The guy is a Brooklyn boy who became a left-wing student radical at Hofstra University with hair down to his shoulders, organized antiwar marches, said vile things about Richard Nixon, etc. Then he came west, went to law school, changed his look, went to work in the attorney general's office in Minnesota. Was elected mayor of St. Paul as a moderate Democrat, then swung comfortably over to the Republican side. There was no dazzling light on the road to Damascus, no soul-searching: Norm switched parties as you'd change sport coats."
"If you are a sysadmin, in an organization that runs Windows on the desktop, have you stumbled on many unofficial Linux installations?"
And if you are a sysadmin in an organization that runs Windows on the desktop, but you have not stumbled on many unofficial Linux installations... get busy!
I'm sure most programmers, deep down inside, feel the same way. Windows is the undisputed king of the desktops. It is just easier to use Windows than most other OSes. No one can deny its role in popularizing computers.
All True.
What's more, I make a decent living off of Microsoft's products -- and like a good parasite, I don't actually harm my host.
BK: "Like many people, I have mixed feelings about Microsoft. They have done much good for the world, producing a common environment that has enabled a lot of creative people to build new software and hardware and sell it at reasonable prices. Microsoft's work has made computing accessible to a huge population who would otherwise not be able to use computers. At the same time, I am unhappy with some of their products. An operating system should not crash very often, if at all, and the sheer complexity of both using and programming the Windows environment is daunting."
Why, when I was their age... we had to compose our emails offline using punched cards, and then submit the stack to a data console operator for 300 baud transmission to the mainframe!
"... [Corel] became the first software company to bundle more than one program into a package. It also became the first to discount older versions, making them accessible for the more thrift-conscious consumer market."
(1) The evidence says otherwise; and (2) Oswald himself said he was a patsy, and denied shooting Kennedy.
Furthermore, we now have good reason to believe that Oswald was with US military intelligence. (Of course, military intelligence operators do sometimes commit assassinations. But Oswals didn't.)
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Yea...until you get a system that's into S&M.
... and the sadist says 'No' ..."
A little reverse psychology will fix perverse, disobedient systems:
"The masochist says 'Hurt me'
What we need are computers that experience pleasure and pain, along with the means to deliver these sensations.
When a search engine delivers good results, the user rewards the engine with a dose of pleasure.
In return for bad results, the user unleashes a blast of pain.
That should teach the circuits a thing or two about delivering the goods!
The first international banking system was establish ed by the Knights Templar during the crusades. ... I just think it's kind of interesting that banking has its roots in a militant order.
International banking goes back to Ancient Greece. The various city-states amounted, in their day, to the equivalent of today's nation-states. They carried on bank-supported trade with each other, and with more distant states such as Egypt.
Your point about banking having its roots in a militant order is well made. Indeed, governments have always reserved for themselves two things: armies and currency.
In the fourth grade, I read War of the Worlds, in which theater was spelled "theatre". A few days after having finished it, I had to take a spelling test. One of the words was "theater", only I spelled it the other way, so it was marked wrong and I did not get a one hundred on the test. To this day, I hold that one test as a grudge against the British.
If I were in your place, I'd hold a grudge against tests.
Daniel J. Baas
Admit it -- you just wanted to say "fungible".
... but you can't deny the thrill of extreme vocabulary ....
Granted, it's the right word for the context
Interesting.
"Pacemakers ... How do they replace them?" ... It involves surgery ..."
... anyway that's what I've heard.
Pacemakers are now recharged by induction, without surgery
How about removing liver from the food pyramid. Think how much it's like beer: tastes bad, and it's full of toxins.
....
I'm told (by my brother, the hunter) that fresh moose liver has a mood-altering effect. Small wonder, considering that it's full of chemicals the moose was trying to eliminate
Isn't most american beer pretty low in alchoholic content? I've heard stories of American sailors coming to Australia and getting wasted on a few beers because they're not used to the high alchohol content.
... and lower alcohol content.
... after six months at sea, in close quarters with no one but other sailors ... hell, I'd get wonky on shore leave.
"American Beer" covers a multitude of sins. You can get all kinds of beers here: local and imported, weak and strong, good and bad.
It's true that there's a variety called "three-two beer", after the alcohol content. It's not real beer, in my book, but some people drink it. In fact, I'm sorry to say, a lot of people drink it.
Unfortunately, the big-name mass-marketed beers -- Millers, Bud, Pabst -- are all pretty dreadful, as beers go: filtered, highly processed, force-carbonated
As to American sailors getting wonky in Australia
For details, see Empty victory for a hollow man: How Norm Coleman sold his soul for a Senate seat by Garrison Keillor
Excerpt:
"If you are a sysadmin, in an organization that runs Windows on the desktop, have you stumbled on many unofficial Linux installations?"
... get busy!
And if you are a sysadmin in an organization that runs Windows on the desktop, but you have not stumbled on many unofficial Linux installations
I'm sure most programmers, deep down inside, feel the same way. Windows is the undisputed king of the desktops. It is just easier to use Windows than most other OSes. No one can deny its role in popularizing computers.
All True.
What's more, I make a decent living off of Microsoft's products -- and like a good parasite, I don't actually harm my host.
BK: "Like many people, I have mixed feelings about Microsoft. They have done much good for the world, producing a common environment that has enabled a lot of creative people to build new software and hardware and sell it at reasonable prices. Microsoft's work has made computing accessible to a huge population who would otherwise not be able to use computers. At the same time, I am unhappy with some of their products. An operating system should not crash very often, if at all, and the sheer complexity of both using and programming the Windows environment is daunting."
Kids today!
... we had to compose our emails offline using punched cards, and then submit the stack to a data console operator for 300 baud transmission to the mainframe!
Why, when I was their age
Oral sex may not be sex, but email is the number one spreader of viruses ....
On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail ..."
...? Kids today!
What -- reading and sending email isn't "time online"
IP Addesses too cheap to meter!
Right on.
Doesn't the Heisenberg compensator eleminate the need for particle addressing?
It should, according to Star Trek: the Next Generation. But the Uncertainty Principle suggests that we shouldn't rely on fictional stuff to come true.
Of course we'll run out of IPv6 addresses.
... but surely something will be invented that calls for more addresses.
Not right away
For example, teleportation might require separate addressing for all possible energy states of all elementary particles in the teleported object.
Don't say it can't happen. Remember when 64k was all the memory anyone would ever need? and a megabyte hard drive was out of your price range?
Two interesting firsts, from the article:
"... [Corel] became the first software company to bundle more than one program into a package. It also became the first to discount older versions, making them accessible for the more thrift-conscious consumer market."
Except that Oswald didn't shoot JFK.
(1) The evidence says otherwise; and (2) Oswald himself said he was a patsy, and denied shooting Kennedy.
Furthermore, we now have good reason to believe that Oswald was with US military intelligence. (Of course, military intelligence operators do sometimes commit assassinations. But Oswals didn't.)
My understanding is that the Christic Institute was bankrupted several years ago by Judge King's "frivolous lawsuit" ruling.
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There were also extra-judicial pressures: break-ins, car-bombings, and shootings.
I've compiled some notes about Christic, here:
http://www.karljones.com/history/america/christic
Of course the spooks require closed-source software -- closed-source makes back doors possible.
If the software were open-source, someone would find and publish any nasty little secrets hidden in the code.