You want a better one: Doctor Who, the Tom Baker Years, "Ark in Space" - Humanity builds an ark in space and everyone goes into Cryogenic freeze until the Erath is once again habitable. Too bad ttheir timer breaks, and aliens visit.
Actually the sun is a superhot ball of plasma undergoing nuclear fusion. You need Oxygen combining with other molecules to have the thermodynamic reaction we call fire. The oxygen on the sun doesn't break down, it is formed and then fused with other atoms to form even heavier ones. Things don't burn on the sun and so the answer is no, the sun is not a burning ball. It is a fusing ball. The heat of the sun is a result of agitation of the air molecules in the atmosphere from the vast amount of light striking it.
The holy roman empire was largely based on the military exploits of Charlemagne, who spent the 42 years of his reign constantly at war (with the exception of 790AD which the historians of his time see as significant, specifically stating its significance as the fact he didn't go to war that year.) The church at the time was little more than a group of back stabing cardinals and a pope that one year had had to flee Rome after an assination attempt by them. Charlemagne in 800 AD had himself declared by the pope as bieng the holy roman emporer, largely due to Charlemagnes knowledge of history and his understanding that to keep Europe safe (from Islam) required keeping it cohesive. Charlemagne then set about setting up an empire with its two chiefs authorities being the pope and himself (himself being the chief power - afterall, even he could see the church at the time was rife with corruption.) By his death, he controlled an area extending from Hungary to Spain, from Germany to Engalnd. After his death however, his empire fragmented and existed in name only until its eventaul dissapearance.
England:
The inhabitants of the Iberian Pennsula (modern day Spain and Portugul) migrating into modern day France and then spreading onto the Isle of Britian, first reached the island in prehistoric times several hundred if not several thousand years before the Greeks even reached Italy. By the time the Romans met them, they had splintered into different cultures, the ones on the continent bieng called the guals and the ones in the britian called the celts. The romans thus became the second cultural force to impact England, and their occupation left its footprint on english heritage. After they left in the 300's AD, or more appropriately were abandoned by the Emporer Heronius(sic?), the Isle did not see another major influx until the two major danish invasions that occured between 600 and 800 AD. These invaders drove the celts to the Island of Ireland and the country of scotland and the preceded to continue there expansion onto the continent, invading France (most notably the normans, who invaded and later settled an area named after them called Normandy). Oddly enough in 1066, the normans re-invaded England under the command of William the Conquerer bringing with him French influences until his sucessors were driven out. Thus, English heritage can be traced back to the celts, the romans, the danish/scandanavian invaders, and the french. Sorry about the spelling.
Law, order, infrastructure, education, the expansion of greek culture throughout Europe...
But if you want to go back to the druids, the guys who made the aztecs look like pacifists, be my guest. If you want to look at Europe without Rome, you need only to look at the areas that Rome didn't conquer. Mecca, Medina, the arabian pennisula. Much of Europe would probably be very much like modern day Saudi Arabia without the Romans - public beheadings, amputations, repressive regimes - plus the added risk of death at any moment. The Romans brought order and law. They united the people. Most people forget that the Romans were not exactly enslaving anyone that didn't already have problems. Eygpt had been under the heel of the Persians until it was liberated by Alexander. Then it was soon to be under greek tyrants and despots till it was assimiliated into the Roman empire where those same despots still continued to reign. You have France(Gaul until they were driven out by the Francs in the 500's AD), switzerland, and germany controlled by a class of priests called the druids who kept order by an insanely strict class system where the poor(which was just about everybody) had no rights and were often murdered in mass human sacrifices. You have Greece, were the city states were still fighting, enslaving, and butchering each other. The romans enslaved people. That was actually higher up on the chain. Their enemies usually butchered the inhabitants instead. It was a direct result of the stability that first the orginal and then the Eastern Roman empire provided that allowed western culture to advance. If there had been no Roman Empire, Druids would have controlled much of western europe, the parthians the east until they were overthrown by the persians who were overthrown by Islam. Without the stability offered to Europe by Rome, Europe would have remained divided and scattered until they were eventually conquered. The Romans united much of Europe and without that unification, you can forget about the middle ages and everything afterwards. If there had been no Rome, I would be typing this post in arabic.
"Even if everybody started going nuclear, the political repercussions of launching nukes are too great for any US president to risk losing the next election over. "
People start launching nukes then there won't be anymore elections. You are preceding under a false assumption: that things will go on as they do now once a nuclear war begins. Things won't. You want to know what the world will be like if we went to war? Think the video clips from the game Fallout (specifically, the intros.) No one is going to give a rats ass over republicans or democrats, it will be a war that affects us all DIRECTLY and will be not about the future, not about another country, it will be a war about survival, plain and simple. Us or them. None of this illegal war garbage. Probably no adherence to the geneva conventions either. The united states would out of necessity due to its lack of population turn into a militaristic state (not a militaristic dictatorship) where everyone would be part of the military, every industry and all the resources would come under government control, and rights would by necessity be eliminated. The causilties would be massive, tens if not hundreds of millions, and the economy woudl becoem a government controled institution to be rationed like everything else. If the chinese struck first with nukes, that is the way it would be. We would launch at china before thier nukes even got to us and by the time they hit we would all be part of a vast military.
Aliens isn't so scary once you know what is going to happen and have already seen the alien. I saw Aliens 3, then Aliens, and then Alien and I wasn't frightened at all. Now take the shining, that is a scary movie no matter how many times you have seen it. I think a farker had the best observation: there are two kinds of horror movies: slashers(Halloween, Friday the 13th) and bizzare occurances(the ring, the shining, night of the living dead.) If you find one type scary, you probably won't be scared by the other.
I just wrote a whole page about how code should be a lot more secure and yes ppl should get sued, but I got an error and lost it. I think that proves my point nicely. Code needs to be more stringent and professional. We do not allow such sloppiness in engineering, we shouldn't allow it in software. Code should be anaylized and held to a standard of quality. Businesses should not be allowed to release half done projects saying they'll patch them later. They should be held repsponsible for the quality and hence the damages their software does. I think the only way to that about is by holding the programmers legally liable. If they don't put the time in nat the start making sure the code is good, they should pay for it later just like the users already are.
"What kind of message does that send to the developers who work for Gates?"
Since you can't write secure code, we'll just pretend secure code is unecessary. And when they gets bugs and viruses, just blame it on the user for not configuring their firewall right. And prepare to be buried by an avalanche of patches in the aol-cd-level magnitude range.
Microsoft has just created a new CLI that's sort of good. That must have been real difficult considering CLI's have been around since the fifties! So they created one that is almost as good as the ones written back in the 60's. In the words of Ben Stien: Wow.
It will be like the moon: someone will win and thats it. The x-prize is the only thing that makes those rockets worth building. When someone wins there will no longer be any incentive to build them.
I think it can be understood this way: just because I don't we don't liek north korea doesn't mean we will nuke the whole owrld just to get rid of them. Same here. Just becuase IE is bad doesn't mean we will nuke the whole web to get rid of it.
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You want a better one: Doctor Who, the Tom Baker Years, "Ark in Space" - Humanity builds an ark in space and everyone goes into Cryogenic freeze until the Erath is once again habitable. Too bad ttheir timer breaks, and aliens visit.
Actually the sun is a superhot ball of plasma undergoing nuclear fusion. You need Oxygen combining with other molecules to have the thermodynamic reaction we call fire. The oxygen on the sun doesn't break down, it is formed and then fused with other atoms to form even heavier ones. Things don't burn on the sun and so the answer is no, the sun is not a burning ball. It is a fusing ball. The heat of the sun is a result of agitation of the air molecules in the atmosphere from the vast amount of light striking it.
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We got too noisy again?
The holy roman empire was largely based on the military exploits of Charlemagne, who spent the 42 years of his reign constantly at war (with the exception of 790AD which the historians of his time see as significant, specifically stating its significance as the fact he didn't go to war that year.) The church at the time was little more than a group of back stabing cardinals and a pope that one year had had to flee Rome after an assination attempt by them. Charlemagne in 800 AD had himself declared by the pope as bieng the holy roman emporer, largely due to Charlemagnes knowledge of history and his understanding that to keep Europe safe (from Islam) required keeping it cohesive. Charlemagne then set about setting up an empire with its two chiefs authorities being the pope and himself (himself being the chief power - afterall, even he could see the church at the time was rife with corruption.) By his death, he controlled an area extending from Hungary to Spain, from Germany to Engalnd. After his death however, his empire fragmented and existed in name only until its eventaul dissapearance.
England:
The inhabitants of the Iberian Pennsula (modern day Spain and Portugul) migrating into modern day France and then spreading onto the Isle of Britian, first reached the island in prehistoric times several hundred if not several thousand years before the Greeks even reached Italy. By the time the Romans met them, they had splintered into different cultures, the ones on the continent bieng called the guals and the ones in the britian called the celts. The romans thus became the second cultural force to impact England, and their occupation left its footprint on english heritage. After they left in the 300's AD, or more appropriately were abandoned by the Emporer Heronius(sic?), the Isle did not see another major influx until the two major danish invasions that occured between 600 and 800 AD. These invaders drove the celts to the Island of Ireland and the country of scotland and the preceded to continue there expansion onto the continent, invading France (most notably the normans, who invaded and later settled an area named after them called Normandy). Oddly enough in 1066, the normans re-invaded England under the command of William the Conquerer bringing with him French influences until his sucessors were driven out. Thus, English heritage can be traced back to the celts, the romans, the danish/scandanavian invaders, and the french. Sorry about the spelling.
"Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child."
---Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, order, infrastructure, education, the expansion of greek culture throughout Europe...
But if you want to go back to the druids, the guys who made the aztecs look like pacifists, be my guest. If you want to look at Europe without Rome, you need only to look at the areas that Rome didn't conquer. Mecca, Medina, the arabian pennisula. Much of Europe would probably be very much like modern day Saudi Arabia without the Romans - public beheadings, amputations, repressive regimes - plus the added risk of death at any moment. The Romans brought order and law. They united the people. Most people forget that the Romans were not exactly enslaving anyone that didn't already have problems. Eygpt had been under the heel of the Persians until it was liberated by Alexander. Then it was soon to be under greek tyrants and despots till it was assimiliated into the Roman empire where those same despots still continued to reign. You have France(Gaul until they were driven out by the Francs in the 500's AD), switzerland, and germany controlled by a class of priests called the druids who kept order by an insanely strict class system where the poor(which was just about everybody) had no rights and were often murdered in mass human sacrifices. You have Greece, were the city states were still fighting, enslaving, and butchering each other. The romans enslaved people. That was actually higher up on the chain. Their enemies usually butchered the inhabitants instead. It was a direct result of the stability that first the orginal and then the Eastern Roman empire provided that allowed western culture to advance. If there had been no Roman Empire, Druids would have controlled much of western europe, the parthians the east until they were overthrown by the persians who were overthrown by Islam. Without the stability offered to Europe by Rome, Europe would have remained divided and scattered until they were eventually conquered. The Romans united much of Europe and without that unification, you can forget about the middle ages and everything afterwards. If there had been no Rome, I would be typing this post in arabic.
Well the Romans never invaded Mecca or Medina and we can see how well the middle east turned out...
Another good article about this here.
"Even if everybody started going nuclear, the political repercussions of launching nukes are too great for any US president to risk losing the next election over. "
People start launching nukes then there won't be anymore elections. You are preceding under a false assumption: that things will go on as they do now once a nuclear war begins. Things won't. You want to know what the world will be like if we went to war? Think the video clips from the game Fallout (specifically, the intros.) No one is going to give a rats ass over republicans or democrats, it will be a war that affects us all DIRECTLY and will be not about the future, not about another country, it will be a war about survival, plain and simple. Us or them. None of this illegal war garbage. Probably no adherence to the geneva conventions either. The united states would out of necessity due to its lack of population turn into a militaristic state (not a militaristic dictatorship) where everyone would be part of the military, every industry and all the resources would come under government control, and rights would by necessity be eliminated. The causilties would be massive, tens if not hundreds of millions, and the economy woudl becoem a government controled institution to be rationed like everything else. If the chinese struck first with nukes, that is the way it would be. We would launch at china before thier nukes even got to us and by the time they hit we would all be part of a vast military.
Aliens isn't so scary once you know what is going to happen and have already seen the alien. I saw Aliens 3, then Aliens, and then Alien and I wasn't frightened at all. Now take the shining, that is a scary movie no matter how many times you have seen it. I think a farker had the best observation: there are two kinds of horror movies: slashers(Halloween, Friday the 13th) and bizzare occurances(the ring, the shining, night of the living dead.) If you find one type scary, you probably won't be scared by the other.
I just wrote a whole page about how code should be a lot more secure and yes ppl should get sued, but I got an error and lost it. I think that proves my point nicely. Code needs to be more stringent and professional. We do not allow such sloppiness in engineering, we shouldn't allow it in software. Code should be anaylized and held to a standard of quality. Businesses should not be allowed to release half done projects saying they'll patch them later. They should be held repsponsible for the quality and hence the damages their software does. I think the only way to that about is by holding the programmers legally liable. If they don't put the time in nat the start making sure the code is good, they should pay for it later just like the users already are.
Their marketing division must be drunk. 'Wallop'? 'SHell'?
Whoever came up with SSH.
"What kind of message does that send to the developers who work for Gates?"
Since you can't write secure code, we'll just pretend secure code is unecessary. And when they gets bugs and viruses, just blame it on the user for not configuring their firewall right. And prepare to be buried by an avalanche of patches in the aol-cd-level magnitude range.
What's sex?
Can someone please explain to me why that comment was modded as 'troll'?
Microsoft has just created a new CLI that's sort of good. That must have been real difficult considering CLI's have been around since the fifties! So they created one that is almost as good as the ones written back in the 60's. In the words of Ben Stien: Wow.
Stop your whining, luser.
This is a repeat of this thread.
You mean I can finally come out of my bomb shelter? After 65 years, the fallout from the atomic wars has surely dissapated.
It will be like the moon: someone will win and thats it. The x-prize is the only thing that makes those rockets worth building. When someone wins there will no longer be any incentive to build them.
Patent Carbon Dioxide and then sue everyone who breathes! They're illegally distributing CO2 to everyone!
I think it can be understood this way: just because I don't we don't liek north korea doesn't mean we will nuke the whole owrld just to get rid of them. Same here. Just becuase IE is bad doesn't mean we will nuke the whole web to get rid of it.