Yes, I'm sure the aborigines are delighted at the introduction of the British prisoners... blah blah blah...
In the 40,000 years that Asians and Europeans advanced from paleolithic thru Iron and "culture" and technology (for example, sailing around the world), the aborigines were basically stagnant, never going beyond the stone age, developing agriculture, the wheel, etc. IOW, they were ripe for conquest by a dynamic, expanding culture.
Thank you for the Eastern European examples. I had forgotten about them.
In most of those countries, though, most of the same people are in power, and many pine for the "good old days" of state control.
The older I get (in my mid-40s, and remember cursing being 12.5 months too young to vote for Reagan), the more I think that most people want to be ruled. I.e., that (among other classifications!), there are (with some overlap between "(1) and (3)" and "(2) and (3)"
Rulers,
Followers, and
Individualists.
"Followers" are the greatest chunk of humanity (some American Revolutionaries even wanted to make a king of George Washington!!), although many want the "petty freedom" of being left alone until something bad happens. IOW, there's a reason why Ben Franklin came up with his security/freedom aphorism.
i dont believe a cop can follow you 24 hours a day,
Well, no, not a single cop. They work in shifts.
nor can they follow you onto private property without a warrent
How incredibly fscking stupid are you whiners? RTFA!!! (Yes, yes, blah blah/.ers never RTFA blah blah.)
Even though the device followed Sveum's car to private places, an officer tracking Sveum could have seen when his car entered or exited a garage, Lundsten reasoned. Attaching the device was not a violation, he wrote, because Sveum's driveway is a public place.
I remember him bragging about finishing some project with 5000 lines of code when I did the same thing in like 1500 line.
I remember that from College, too.
25 years later, more code is still Considered Bad, but I always wonder whether the code reduction is due to (good) Smart Programming or (bad) Excessive Cleverness.
At least MS Office is TRYING something innovative (eg. experimenting with a new GUI). OpenOffice just copies the interface of older versions of MS Office. Where the innovation again?
Some tasks don't need innovation, because they are already Really Good.
For example, the Win2k Start Menu (to which you can easily drag your most frequently used apps) and recent Documents lists, both of which are easily accessible from the keyboard.
This doesn't tear apart the foundations of Star Trek so much as it sweeps aside most everything built on those foundations: Honor, fear in the face of death, duty in the face of insurmountable odds, there is no such thing as a "no win" solution--those are still there.
??????
How can "they" still be there if they are swept away?
The particle accelerators developed for research in HEP
How expensive were those other other particle accelerators, compared to CERN?
Doing fundamental science is good, but doing a really uber-over-budget really-frickin-expensive search for the God Particle using my money is physics mental masturbation, when they are a jillion other more worthwhile areas of basic research that could/should be funded.
For example, how many Earth-exploring satellites and research ships trolling the oceans taking measurements to improve the data fed into climate-change models could have been funded instead of pouring it into the LHC?
That would explain the price surge from $50/bbl to $150/bbl, but, since we and China and India are buying just about as much as we used to, not the precipitous drop back to $50.
Or Hawaiians or Japanese. (Oh, wait, Japanese were on the small side until the US came in after WW2.)
Seriously, though: maybe if H. Erectus had developed fire, axes, knives and archery, and "humaniformed" the land with huts and agriculture, then they would have been able to produce enough energy to "stay large".
Anyway, humans have only been on Britain 5,000 years, and modern Brits have a lot of Angle, Saxon, Norman and Viking, which is only 1,500 years old, none of which is long enough to shrink in size.
try not to think of yourself as any better than anyone else.
I do not think of myself as better than anyone else, but the Chinese (up to about 1600 CE, when the emperor pointed the country inward, to protect his power), Arabs/Egyptians/Babylonians (up to about 1500 CE, when the Sultan shut down all but one "University", in order to protect his power), Indians (who also seemed to regress after ) and Europeans (which includes the United States and Canada) (abortively starting with Greece and Rome, then from the Renaissance and Protestant Revolution, through to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution) made progress.
Australian and American aborigines were still in the stone age when Europeans arrived. That does not mean that they were savages or should have been enslaved, but it does mean that they were ripe for conquest by numerically and technologically superior invaders.
The PTT did not see why the French government would fund a competitor to their Transpac network, and insisted that the permission and funding be rescinded. By 1981, Cyclades was forced to shut down.
When you don't exist anymore, you can't establish co-dominance with ARPAnet.
(Besides, would the Brits and Germans really have bought networking gear from the French, in order to connect to CYCLADES?)
major advantages of the Internet was that of World Wide communication
No. ARPAnet was designed for the US military, and TCP/IP for internetworking. None of them conceived of internetworking with enemies like Russia, Cuba, DPRK or bum-fuck little countries like Tonga or the Christmas Islands.
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Yes, I'm sure the aborigines are delighted at the introduction of the British prisoners ... blah blah blah ...
In the 40,000 years that Asians and Europeans advanced from paleolithic thru Iron and "culture" and technology (for example, sailing around the world), the aborigines were basically stagnant, never going beyond the stone age, developing agriculture, the wheel, etc. IOW, they were ripe for conquest by a dynamic, expanding culture.
insects which tend to bread much more vociferously.
Insects don't make staple food from baking baking a dough of flour and water. And they don't do it loudly, either...
Thank you for the Eastern European examples. I had forgotten about them.
In most of those countries, though, most of the same people are in power, and many pine for the "good old days" of state control.
The older I get (in my mid-40s, and remember cursing being 12.5 months too young to vote for Reagan), the more I think that most people want to be ruled. I.e., that (among other classifications!), there are (with some overlap between "(1) and (3)" and "(2) and (3)"
"Followers" are the greatest chunk of humanity (some American Revolutionaries even wanted to make a king of George Washington!!), although many want the "petty freedom" of being left alone until something bad happens. IOW, there's a reason why Ben Franklin came up with his security/freedom aphorism.
i dont believe a cop can follow you 24 hours a day,
Well, no, not a single cop. They work in shifts.
nor can they follow you onto private property without a warrent
How incredibly fscking stupid are you whiners? RTFA!!! (Yes, yes, blah blah /.ers never RTFA blah blah.)
the peaceful abolition of coercive government
You do realize how incredibly much that is not going to happen, given the very definition of coercive.
If they're hot, why have the upper age limit?
Because gravity is a harsh mistress, no matter how hard you try to stay young, and professionally-taken pictures always look better than reality.
I remember him bragging about finishing some project with 5000 lines of code when I did the same thing in like 1500 line.
I remember that from College, too.
25 years later, more code is still Considered Bad, but I always wonder whether the code reduction is due to (good) Smart Programming or (bad) Excessive Cleverness.
At least MS Office is TRYING something innovative (eg. experimenting with a new GUI). OpenOffice just copies the interface of older versions of MS Office. Where the innovation again?
Some tasks don't need innovation, because they are already Really Good.
For example, the Win2k Start Menu (to which you can easily drag your most frequently used apps) and recent Documents lists, both of which are easily accessible from the keyboard.
Just because our country is fiscally irresponsible, science should take a back seat?
Overgeneralizing from "drop out of LHC" to "cut all science"? Shame on you?
How cash-strapped do we have to become before the education of our children gets cut?
Pretty darned strapped. The big sinks are "welfare" (Social Security, Medicare/Medicade, SCHIP, etc) and the DoD/DHS.
Without pinning down what mass actually _is_ and where it is located you have problems trying to manipulate it.
When I'm broke (as the US most certainly is!), I've got to prioritize.
This doesn't tear apart the foundations of Star Trek so much as it sweeps aside most everything built on those foundations: Honor, fear in the face of death, duty in the face of insurmountable odds, there is no such thing as a "no win" solution--those are still there.
??????
How can "they" still be there if they are swept away?
Does that mean that just because practical benefit is not immediately obvious that pushing the boundaries of experimentation is a waste of money?
I think not.
It does when we're 10 trillion dollars in debt...
The particle accelerators developed for research in HEP
How expensive were those other other particle accelerators, compared to CERN?
Doing fundamental science is good, but doing a really uber-over-budget really-frickin-expensive search for the God Particle using my money is physics mental masturbation, when they are a jillion other more worthwhile areas of basic research that could/should be funded.
For example, how many Earth-exploring satellites and research ships trolling the oceans taking measurements to improve the data fed into climate-change models could have been funded instead of pouring it into the LHC?
That would explain the price surge from $50/bbl to $150/bbl, but, since we and China and India are buying just about as much as we used to, not the precipitous drop back to $50.
Except that triangle still means "3 angles", so there is no etymological fallacy.
And the British were quite short until relatively recently (of course everyone else in the world may have been too, for all i know).
Antebellum furniture was quite small, compared to modern furniture.
Maybe "we" started to grow when refrigeration and wealth allowed us to eat more meat?
But "angle" means, well, "angle", not side.
You can't have angles on a shape without also having sides.
Rather like the British then?
Or Hawaiians or Japanese. (Oh, wait, Japanese were on the small side until the US came in after WW2.)
Seriously, though: maybe if H. Erectus had developed fire, axes, knives and archery, and "humaniformed" the land with huts and agriculture, then they would have been able to produce enough energy to "stay large".
Anyway, humans have only been on Britain 5,000 years, and modern Brits have a lot of Angle, Saxon, Norman and Viking, which is only 1,500 years old, none of which is long enough to shrink in size.
Have you watched episodes of Big Brother or Survivor?
No, I haven't, because brains shrink when watching inane "reality" shows.
You really can't prove the negative of a proposition like, "Not (all triangles have three sides)." ?
Sure you can. "Tri" means "3". Thus, if the shape has something other than 3 sides, then, by definition, it's not a triangle.
as long as it works in the toilet
In the toilet???
Aren't you supposed to sit on the toilet?
try not to think of yourself as any better than anyone else.
I do not think of myself as better than anyone else, but the Chinese (up to about 1600 CE, when the emperor pointed the country inward, to protect his power), Arabs/Egyptians/Babylonians (up to about 1500 CE, when the Sultan shut down all but one "University", in order to protect his power), Indians (who also seemed to regress after ) and Europeans (which includes the United States and Canada) (abortively starting with Greece and Rome, then from the Renaissance and Protestant Revolution, through to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution) made progress.
Australian and American aborigines were still in the stone age when Europeans arrived. That does not mean that they were savages or should have been enslaved, but it does mean that they were ripe for conquest by numerically and technologically superior invaders.
The CYCLADES packet switching network was a French network system in the early 1970s, similar to the ARPANET.
Very interesting. Thank you.
One thing you forgot to mention, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES#Demise
When you don't exist anymore, you can't establish co-dominance with ARPAnet.
(Besides, would the Brits and Germans really have bought networking gear from the French, in order to connect to CYCLADES?)
In a galaxy far, FAR away?
Vainly humorous as your comment is, the answer is "no". Been living in the same house since I started using Linux.
major advantages of the Internet was that of World Wide communication
No. ARPAnet was designed for the US military, and TCP/IP for internetworking. None of them conceived of internetworking with enemies like Russia, Cuba, DPRK or bum-fuck little countries like Tonga or the Christmas Islands.