Latin had no letter "U"; the letter "V" was used to render both U and V, and even post-Roman inscriptions tend to follow this practice when quoting Latin. Greek has its own alphabet, so a Latin alphabet acronym for a Greek phrase doesn't make much sense.
Also, the article translates "Et in Arcadia Ego" as "And I was in Arcadia, too." This is incorrect. There is no verb in that phrase: it reads "And in Arcadia I". That's one reason why this painting is seen to be so enigmatic. This could be the first part of a sentence, though the pronoun "ego" would be superfluous in a complete sentence since the verb conjugation would identify the sentence as first-person singular. Or, it could mean "And in Arcadia, I" (i.e. the last part of a sentence such as "In Rome, there is Caesar, and in Arcadia, [there is] I.") Or the "I" could be a Roman numeral one. Any way you look at it, the article's translation is off.
Considering how universal Nietzche's 'Will to Power' is likely to be, I sometimes wonder if aliens will be like Nazis, but with forcible genetic engineering rather than gas chambers.
Please do us a favor and actually read Nietzsche before you automatically associate him with Nazis. (And I mean something other than Will to Power, the posthumous anthology heavily edited by his pro-Nazi sister, from whom he was estranged because he disagreed with her openly anti-Semitic views.)
How convenient. You give us these blanket statements which you say apply to all religions, and when a counterexample is given you claim that it's not really a religion. That's one way to always be right, I suppose.
No, you're not trying hard enough. Here's how it should go:
The series starts with a profile of Alan "Big Gay Al" Turing, "Gaying Up Computers." In case you forgot, Turing is the gay man who came up with the gay concept of a "universal gay machine" which would perform lots of gay calculations while being tastefully decorated to match the curtains. Turing did a lot of gay codebreaking during WWII and contributed to the foundations of gay software and gay computer science. Fabulous!
Yeah, and it's a good thing no-one was living here in North America when we came over from Europe. We were able to expand our borders all the way to the Pacific Ocean and beyond without killing anyone.
While this post is somewhat interesting, I fail to see how it even comes close to being related to the topic. Okay, radio, phonographs, they're both audio media. But unless you're proposing making microbroadcasts of the Edison Concert Band, I think you're in the wrong thread.
Re:If Atlantis DID exist, how advanced WERE they?
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If they found an island, and were relatively isolated for hundreds of years, I wonder what technology they managed to create before they sunk (or blew themselves up)
Much like the advanced technology we found among the New Guinea highland tribes after they had been isolated for hundreds of years?
Don't forget, Microsoft's Altair BASIC was also extensively traded by the Homebrew Computer Club and other groups, prompting Gates to publish his famous letter accusing them of stealing. This is, I believe, the first instance of a software company going after end users for software piracy.
Then they drop all pretense and somehow she becomes a walking talking hologram. And then later, I'm not sure, but did she end up turning into a real girl somehow?
Well, see, they met some aliens who took them back to Earth, and then Rimmer invented the Solidgram which gave holograms bodies, and... no wait, that was another show.
No, no, NO. You and your stupid "scientists" don't understand how miracles work. See, before the flood, the laws of math worked differently than they do now, so seven was an even number, and could spontaneously become two, and there was nothing wrong with that. After the flood, in His infinite wisdom, God changed the laws of math. It all makes sense if you're not tied to your limited scientific worldview.
since plants do not possess "life" in the Biblical sense. They are complex chemical systems, in which exist elaborate programmed information systems designed by God to enable them to specify their own replication.
Oh, you mean like a fertilized ovum in the womb? Oh wait, that is life.
It is possible, even today, for both man and the carnivorous animals to survive on vegetarian diets if they have to.
Vitamin B12 is a myth perpetrated by Satanists.
In any case, many of the animals in some such way began to acquire carnivorous appetites, in order to overcome the dietary deficiencies set up by the deteriorating plant world.
But I thought you said carnivores could still get all their nutrition from plants?
Of course, the real problem of this link is that the only "evidence" it cites is Biblical; it just dresses it up with scientific language. No empirical evidence whatsoever is offered to support the claim that the Second Law of Thermodynamics didn't hold sway until after some supposed Curse. The basic argument is that, since they've provided an elaborate story detailing how the emergence of carnivorous animals could have happened, we must accept that this account explains in fact how it did happen, without recourse to observation. Nice try.
It is surprising how easily science lines up with the "fairy tales" of the Bible when you don't approach it from a pre-conceived, Darwinian "this is the way it had to be" mindset.
Yeah, like when you have the completely objective opinion that the universe cannot be more than six thousand years old, and some astronomer points out parralax measurements showing that we can see stars which are millions of light years away, you're free to come up with some story about the light being created a few miles from Earth, and given a trajectory that just happens to make it look like it came from millions of miles away. Surprisingly, none of these people take me seriously when I propose that Ogobo the Nine-Headed Monkey God created the entire universe a mere three minutes ago, and implanted us with artificial memories and fossils and stuff to make us believe everything is older.
Trust me, I've looked at creation "science." They really employ only two methods: they presuppose the Bible is 100% accurate, so their "science" is reduced to coming up with increasingly improbable stories to cover up for the fact that the Bible is frequently inconsistent with scientific observation; or they make some statement such as "science can't explain x" (such as what happened before the Big Bang) so therefore you have to accept their creator god as the only possible alternative.
The trouble is, when you read their accounts to the exclusion of genuine scientists, and you never find out how easily their claims can be debunked, it sounds pretty convincing.
I, for one, am disgusted. If children can't roam around unsupervised at an amusement park, what is this country coming to? Next the jackbooted fascists will be telling kids they can't play in traffic or go home with the creepy guy at the arcade offering to show them puppies.
I see what you mean, scary stuff. "Excuse me sir, but could you put on this wristband? Perfectly innocent, I assure you." Then the hapless fool walks away, oblivious to the fact that, as long as he stays within range of the Legoland WiFi system, some nefarious evildoer can track his every move. Creepy.
Obwohl Sie Leuten benennen möchten, haben Sie bitte das Anstand zum es in ihrer eigenen Sprache oder in Ihrem eigenen Namen zu tun.
(Probably full of errors, but wtf)
"Whether you peoples want to name, please have the decency to the it do in your own language or in your own name."
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I mean, they're worshipping a deity who isn't real, in order to gain admission to a place, Heaven, that isn't real and avoid being sent by their unreal but supposedly loving God to another place, Hell, that isn't real, where they would be tortured for eternity by an entity, Satan, who isn't real.
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I don't know about you, but I would be more concerned about keeping this information from fundamental Islamic extremists than from airport security.
Yeah, a stun gun is WAY more dangerous than a boxcutter.
Latin had no letter "U"; the letter "V" was used to render both U and V, and even post-Roman inscriptions tend to follow this practice when quoting Latin. Greek has its own alphabet, so a Latin alphabet acronym for a Greek phrase doesn't make much sense.
Also, the article translates "Et in Arcadia Ego" as "And I was in Arcadia, too." This is incorrect. There is no verb in that phrase: it reads "And in Arcadia I". That's one reason why this painting is seen to be so enigmatic. This could be the first part of a sentence, though the pronoun "ego" would be superfluous in a complete sentence since the verb conjugation would identify the sentence as first-person singular. Or, it could mean "And in Arcadia, I" (i.e. the last part of a sentence such as "In Rome, there is Caesar, and in Arcadia, [there is] I.") Or the "I" could be a Roman numeral one. Any way you look at it, the article's translation is off.
Isn't that a violation of the Prime Directive?
He'd lost his memory. He didn't know about the Prime Directive.
Considering how universal Nietzche's 'Will to Power' is likely to be, I sometimes wonder if aliens will be like Nazis, but with forcible genetic engineering rather than gas chambers.
Please do us a favor and actually read Nietzsche before you automatically associate him with Nazis. (And I mean something other than Will to Power, the posthumous anthology heavily edited by his pro-Nazi sister, from whom he was estranged because he disagreed with her openly anti-Semitic views.)
Hint 1: Buddhism is not a religion.
How convenient. You give us these blanket statements which you say apply to all religions, and when a counterexample is given you claim that it's not really a religion. That's one way to always be right, I suppose.
If you insist on being a pedant, don't spell it "pedent."
No, you're not trying hard enough. Here's how it should go:
The series starts with a profile of Alan "Big Gay Al" Turing, "Gaying Up Computers." In case you forgot, Turing is the gay man who came up with the gay concept of a "universal gay machine" which would perform lots of gay calculations while being tastefully decorated to match the curtains. Turing did a lot of gay codebreaking during WWII and contributed to the foundations of gay software and gay computer science. Fabulous!
Yeah, and it's a good thing no-one was living here in North America when we came over from Europe. We were able to expand our borders all the way to the Pacific Ocean and beyond without killing anyone.
The fact that he had used them showed that he did not care about international law. Same with his invasion of Kuwait.
"International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me." -- George W. Bush, December 11, 2003
I guess it's only evil brown-skinned heathens who are supposed to show respect for international law.
While this post is somewhat interesting, I fail to see how it even comes close to being related to the topic. Okay, radio, phonographs, they're both audio media. But unless you're proposing making microbroadcasts of the Edison Concert Band, I think you're in the wrong thread.
If they found an island, and were relatively isolated for hundreds of years, I wonder what technology they managed to create before they sunk (or blew themselves up)
Much like the advanced technology we found among the New Guinea highland tribes after they had been isolated for hundreds of years?
In general, isolation is bad for technology.
Wait just a minute... there are plenty of Slashdotters who know no such thing. How can you make a statement like--
oh, Greek. Never mind.
as Plato got the tale from Aristotle, IIRC,
Since Aristotle was Plato's pupil, the borrowing typically worked the other way around.
Don't forget, Microsoft's Altair BASIC was also extensively traded by the Homebrew Computer Club and other groups, prompting Gates to publish his famous letter accusing them of stealing. This is, I believe, the first instance of a software company going after end users for software piracy.
It never pretended to be anything other than a cheesy science fiction show, and had a lot of fun with some of the sillier conventions of sci fi.
Don't confuse mocking the sillier conventions of sci fi with employing them in earnest because you don't know any better.
Then they drop all pretense and somehow she becomes a walking talking hologram. And then later, I'm not sure, but did she end up turning into a real girl somehow?
Well, see, they met some aliens who took them back to Earth, and then Rimmer invented the Solidgram which gave holograms bodies, and... no wait, that was another show.
...where will Presidential assassins hide out?
No, no, NO. You and your stupid "scientists" don't understand how miracles work. See, before the flood, the laws of math worked differently than they do now, so seven was an even number, and could spontaneously become two, and there was nothing wrong with that. After the flood, in His infinite wisdom, God changed the laws of math. It all makes sense if you're not tied to your limited scientific worldview.
From the link:
since plants do not possess "life" in the Biblical sense. They are complex chemical systems, in which exist elaborate programmed information systems designed by God to enable them to specify their own replication.
Oh, you mean like a fertilized ovum in the womb? Oh wait, that is life.
It is possible, even today, for both man and the carnivorous animals to survive on vegetarian diets if they have to.
Vitamin B12 is a myth perpetrated by Satanists.
In any case, many of the animals in some such way began to acquire carnivorous appetites, in order to overcome the dietary deficiencies set up by the deteriorating plant world.
But I thought you said carnivores could still get all their nutrition from plants?
Of course, the real problem of this link is that the only "evidence" it cites is Biblical; it just dresses it up with scientific language. No empirical evidence whatsoever is offered to support the claim that the Second Law of Thermodynamics didn't hold sway until after some supposed Curse. The basic argument is that, since they've provided an elaborate story detailing how the emergence of carnivorous animals could have happened, we must accept that this account explains in fact how it did happen, without recourse to observation. Nice try.
It is surprising how easily science lines up with the "fairy tales" of the Bible when you don't approach it from a pre-conceived, Darwinian "this is the way it had to be" mindset.
Yeah, like when you have the completely objective opinion that the universe cannot be more than six thousand years old, and some astronomer points out parralax measurements showing that we can see stars which are millions of light years away, you're free to come up with some story about the light being created a few miles from Earth, and given a trajectory that just happens to make it look like it came from millions of miles away. Surprisingly, none of these people take me seriously when I propose that Ogobo the Nine-Headed Monkey God created the entire universe a mere three minutes ago, and implanted us with artificial memories and fossils and stuff to make us believe everything is older.
Trust me, I've looked at creation "science." They really employ only two methods: they presuppose the Bible is 100% accurate, so their "science" is reduced to coming up with increasingly improbable stories to cover up for the fact that the Bible is frequently inconsistent with scientific observation; or they make some statement such as "science can't explain x" (such as what happened before the Big Bang) so therefore you have to accept their creator god as the only possible alternative.
The trouble is, when you read their accounts to the exclusion of genuine scientists, and you never find out how easily their claims can be debunked, it sounds pretty convincing.
I, for one, am disgusted. If children can't roam around unsupervised at an amusement park, what is this country coming to? Next the jackbooted fascists will be telling kids they can't play in traffic or go home with the creepy guy at the arcade offering to show them puppies.
I see what you mean, scary stuff. "Excuse me sir, but could you put on this wristband? Perfectly innocent, I assure you." Then the hapless fool walks away, oblivious to the fact that, as long as he stays within range of the Legoland WiFi system, some nefarious evildoer can track his every move. Creepy.
Obwohl Sie Leuten benennen möchten, haben Sie bitte das Anstand zum es in ihrer eigenen Sprache oder in Ihrem eigenen Namen zu tun. (Probably full of errors, but wtf)
"Whether you peoples want to name, please have the decency to the it do in your own language or in your own name."
wtf, indeed.
But... but Darl said Linux was a terrorist OS!
I mean, they're worshipping a deity who isn't real, in order to gain admission to a place, Heaven, that isn't real and avoid being sent by their unreal but supposedly loving God to another place, Hell, that isn't real, where they would be tortured for eternity by an entity, Satan, who isn't real.
You're a bot, aren't you?