> If you want it to have any moral authority create > the UDN (United Democratic Nations) and invite > nations that respect the sanctity of human life.
Would that include countries that have the death penalty?
IIRC, he was talking about Smallpox and why Smallpox was the last disease you heard about being "cured". The answer is that the natural host of Smallpox was humans. If you then contrast that with something like Ebola where we don't know yet what its natural host is (some suspect that it comes from plants), then you begin to see why it's so hard to eradicate a disease. It's not that hard to control a virus that lives only in humans, but a virus that lives in many animal or plant species will be next to impossible to eradicate.
> Carl Sagan, a brilliant astronomer, was also a devoutly religious person.
Sagan has been widely portrayed as an atheist or agnostic, citing quotes such as: "The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."
Don't be stupid. If a label offers you a contract take it. If your career goes anywhere, you can renegotiate a better contract after the terms of the first have been completed
I can really recommend reading Steve Albini's The Problem With Music essay if you think it's that easy.
I've read the Economist quite a few times and I've almost always been disappointed in the quality of the reporting. IMNSHO, the best English language news publication is the Financial Times.
Damn fucking right! Deus Ex has to be the most intriguing, interesting and deep game I have *ever* played. The storyline is superb, the characters are excellent and the sneak 'em up game play is just to die for.
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It's such a shame I can't mod you up!
http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net/
And file transfers with non-gaim clients ?
Works for me with MSN & ICQ, haven't tried any other protocols though. MSN file transfer is painfully slow though.
YMMV.
> If you want it to have any moral authority create
> the UDN (United Democratic Nations) and invite
> nations that respect the sanctity of human life.
Would that include countries that have the death penalty?
IIRC, he was talking about Smallpox and why Smallpox was the last disease you heard about being "cured". The answer is that the natural host of Smallpox was humans. If you then contrast that with something like Ebola where we don't know yet what its natural host is (some suspect that it comes from plants), then you begin to see why it's so hard to eradicate a disease. It's not that hard to control a virus that lives only in humans, but a virus that lives in many animal or plant species will be next to impossible to eradicate.
> Carl Sagan, a brilliant astronomer, was also a devoutly religious person.
Sagan has been widely portrayed as an atheist or agnostic, citing quotes such as: "The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Don't be stupid. If a label offers you a contract take it. If your career goes anywhere, you can renegotiate a better contract after the terms of the first have been completed
I can really recommend reading Steve Albini's The Problem With Music essay if you think it's that easy.
SUN -- Stanford
t er _history/sunet.htm
SUN actually stands for Stanford University Network.
http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/mendelson/compu
I agree completely. It's very easy to see Shakespeare in the way that it's presented to us now and to forget the historical context.
;-)
Does that mean in 400 years we'll have the RSC performing Starlight Express and Cats?!
*shudder*
I've read the Economist quite a few times and I've almost always been disappointed in the quality of the reporting. IMNSHO, the best English language news publication is the Financial Times.
http://www.ft.com/
A stunning first game and a buggy, glitchy, bastardized, neutered sequel.
Please someone let Warren Spector make the Deus Ex sequel he actually wished to make!
Stop ruining potentially good games to make them run on consoles...
Anyone else see this as "Robocop III set to fight crime in Hong Kong"?
Now that would have been cool!
*ROTFL* ...nice one! :)
Damn fucking right! Deus Ex has to be the most intriguing, interesting and deep game I have *ever* played. The storyline is superb, the characters are excellent and the sneak 'em up game play is just to die for.
Deus Ex II will rock my world!
That was really one of the funniest things I've read in a very, very long time! Great stuff! :)
...was to fund Richard Dawkins' professorship:
Article at www.world-of-dawkins.com.
DRM technology enables content creators, such as record companies
Funny, I thought that artists made records...
For those interested, the paper is available here:m a-secur ity.ps.gz
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~tschudin/ps/