As it stands, there is no lasting hope for humanity in Materialism. We're not going to break out of our little ecological shell before we kill each other, one way or another.
However, behaving morally can help make things a great deal better, stretch them out, even if you don't believe that there's an ultimate source for an enforcer of morality, per se.
...talking about the events of tens or hundreds or thousands of millions of years ago as if they were observed fact when even simple measurements show that it would only take 10 million years - max - to wear the entire planet's surface down far smoother than a billiard ball requires considerably more imagination, considerably greater miracles than a mere invisible friend.
We're talking about Materialism, here, and I'll bet you haven't even got it listed as a religion, nor its fellow travellers Humanism and Atheism. You're soaking in them.
Some of the deities presented in Trek episodes make far more sense than that.
"What are you doing?!" A hand pounded his shoulder, and he turned almost calmly to meet Victor Aurelli's stunned eyes.
"I'm ordering my lighter units to run for it, Mister Aurelli."
"But . . . but . .."
"They may have the speed for it," Li explained as if to a child. "We don't. But if we can make these bastards concentrate on us while the others run, we can at least give them a chance."
"But we'll all be killed!"
"Yes, Mister Aurelli, we will." Li watched his words hit the envoy like fists. It was very quiet on the bridge, despite the battle thundering about Everest's hull, and the admiral's entire staff heard him as he continued coldly, "That's why I'm so glad you're aboard this ship."
When you've bought and finished reading Crusade, we'll talk about masses and opiates. (-:
That's what the so-called Free Trade Agreement (US-FTA) is working out to so far. Only small bits of the US are signatory to it, and those bits are definitely getting the longer end of the stick.
After seeing what deRaadt had to say about Linux, and reading a bit about OpenBSD and security, they'll probably base Shorthorn's successor on that and code name it Mammoth (ie the longest horns ever).
Little realising, of course, that the least secure pieces of ShortHorn weren't the ones they replaced with OpenBSD code.
Should be able to put it into a relatively gentle parabola and simply kick your 56.7t load out the tail.
Small disposable drogue goes first to make sure payload points the right way throughout (would be the world's most expensive air-air missile if it destabilised and happened to point the wrong way when it went whoosh), slide out back end, (roll and?) send C5A into negative gees to miss the payload, light blue touch-paper, home time.
Read up on it a bit more. The Japanese were pretty much sucked into attacking it, and there are many red flags to say that the Yanks (hi from Oz) knew it was coming at many levels and yet chose to let it happen. Somebody needed a red shirt to wave.
Not to say that Japan were angels during WW2 or anything, which would be a grossly stupid statement, just that it ain't anywhere near as simple as you make it out to be.
Forex, American-owned companies were still operating in Axis countries - and producing war materials for them, including munitions and vehicles - right up to the end. Some of the Allied anti-industry bombing was... dreadfully specific. American corporations operated in the USSR right through the Cold War, too.
...that Zope and Python are too hard for a camwhore to use, but Rails and Ruby are not?
I use both Python and Ruby, and at the risk of igniting YARW, Ruby is better pretty much across the board. Not panning Python, either, since that's also ahead of the pack. Perhaps you don't "get" it, perhaps your prejudice has insulated you from how much fun Ruby can be.
Otherwise the balloon would deflate relatively slowly.
If it is a multi-cell balloon, it'd probably equalize at a lower altitude. Not so good for BLASTing, but considerably better than taking all of the nice electronics for a dip in the briny at circa 700km/h about 30 seconds later.
My sister-in-law's mobile 'phone hit the contents of the family washing machine at roughly 1km/h and rapidly became... unhappy. And that wasn't even salt. (-:
A previous landlord once buggered up a LOX connection on a drill rig in the Pilbara and folded a drilling platform in half. Literally. He shot a stream of LOX across a steel platform and thermal effects folded the platform up a few degrees and broke (shattered the frozen legs of) the tower, which thankfully did not fall on the LOX tank.
Said landlord was also extremely pleased that the electricals for the tower ran up one of the other legs and didn't make sparks until those legs folded a few minutes later - 'coz if they'd run up one of the shettered legs... well, let's just say that LOX is not exactly a fire retardant.
H2O2 will only burn the crap out of you and then dissolve you. Much safer. d-:
...up to version 3.4.1, which is what I'm using to post this.
Since 3.4.2 includes lots of merges from WebKit, I'd expect the JS support to be startlingly better, but I'd also expect to see that a few bugs have crept in. 3.4.3 should be pretty much all shiny and good.
Then the KDE team will release KDE4, which will practically clean your teeth for you and think happy thoughts in addition to being a file-manager-over-SSH (fish://user@host), man-page reader (man:bash), CD ripper (audiocd:/)and practically everything else (mostly the kinds of features MSIE lies awake at night wishing for). Huge? yes; bloated? yes; complicated? well, only under the hood - but still remarkably quick and flexible.
Zope is a hog, but it's also very quick development environment - until you hit a wall and have to rebuild big slabs of the Zope universe more or less from scratch in order to handle a small extra feature. Modulo that and heaps of server horsepower, it's extremely attractive.
...and been so since...
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...by the time it rolls off the presses, makes its way through warehouses and parcel post to your doorstep, RoR will have been substantially improved. (-:
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...what's left is petty power games.
As it stands, there is no lasting hope for humanity in Materialism. We're not going to break out of our little ecological shell before we kill each other, one way or another.
However, behaving morally can help make things a great deal better, stretch them out, even if you don't believe that there's an ultimate source for an enforcer of morality, per se.
...talking about the events of tens or hundreds or thousands of millions of years ago as if they were observed fact when even simple measurements show that it would only take 10 million years - max - to wear the entire planet's surface down far smoother than a billiard ball requires considerably more imagination, considerably greater miracles than a mere invisible friend.
We're talking about Materialism, here, and I'll bet you haven't even got it listed as a religion, nor its fellow travellers Humanism and Atheism. You're soaking in them.
Some of the deities presented in Trek episodes make far more sense than that.
...Materialism and its Monks of the Sacred Evolution if you want to see karma not so much burn as explode.
The Monks are currently scrabbling to explain how T-Rex flesh can remain organic and pliable after 68 million years underground. Now that takes faith!
...leading to...When you've bought and finished reading Crusade, we'll talk about masses and opiates. (-:
Please.
Just checking.
That's what the so-called Free Trade Agreement (US-FTA) is working out to so far. Only small bits of the US are signatory to it, and those bits are definitely getting the longer end of the stick.
After seeing what deRaadt had to say about Linux, and reading a bit about OpenBSD and security, they'll probably base Shorthorn's successor on that and code name it Mammoth (ie the longest horns ever).
Little realising, of course, that the least secure pieces of ShortHorn weren't the ones they replaced with OpenBSD code.
...'tis supposedly able to do 110t over shorter distances - but I don't think it says anywhere "in one lump". (-:
Should be able to put it into a relatively gentle parabola and simply kick your 56.7t load out the tail.
Small disposable drogue goes first to make sure payload points the right way throughout (would be the world's most expensive air-air missile if it destabilised and happened to point the wrong way when it went whoosh), slide out back end, (roll and?) send C5A into negative gees to miss the payload, light blue touch-paper, home time.
After all, you have the source to numerous web browsers written in C. Just add a rolloversrc attribute to the img tag.
Not supported in MSIE, of course, unless you happen to be on their developer team. (-:
Ruby would be beyond cool as a default scripting language for web browsers. It's small and light, and seems to do everything else pretty well.
Read up on it a bit more. The Japanese were pretty much sucked into attacking it, and there are many red flags to say that the Yanks (hi from Oz) knew it was coming at many levels and yet chose to let it happen. Somebody needed a red shirt to wave.
Not to say that Japan were angels during WW2 or anything, which would be a grossly stupid statement, just that it ain't anywhere near as simple as you make it out to be.
Forex, American-owned companies were still operating in Axis countries - and producing war materials for them, including munitions and vehicles - right up to the end. Some of the Allied anti-industry bombing was... dreadfully specific. American corporations operated in the USSR right through the Cold War, too.
...I am not now, nor have I ever been, a camwhore.
I do, however, take pictures of stuff that ain't whores.
...that Zope and Python are too hard for a camwhore to use, but Rails and Ruby are not?
I use both Python and Ruby, and at the risk of igniting YARW, Ruby is better pretty much across the board. Not panning Python, either, since that's also ahead of the pack. Perhaps you don't "get" it, perhaps your prejudice has insulated you from how much fun Ruby can be.
Perhaps you're an AC. <sigh>
Oh, well, I'd already typed it up anyway. Submit.
...but making it work rafter-rattlingly well every time can indeed be complicated. Not to mention very, very satisfying.
Perhaps it would have been more accurate (if clumsier) to say that the context surrounding sex can be complicated.
...but most of them are only two self-evident pages of Ruby code anyway. (-:
Otherwise the balloon would deflate relatively slowly.
If it is a multi-cell balloon, it'd probably equalize at a lower altitude. Not so good for BLASTing, but considerably better than taking all of the nice electronics for a dip in the briny at circa 700km/h about 30 seconds later.
My sister-in-law's mobile 'phone hit the contents of the family washing machine at roughly 1km/h and rapidly became... unhappy. And that wasn't even salt. (-:
..."how can I get this working in the next minute and thirty?"
A previous landlord once buggered up a LOX connection on a drill rig in the Pilbara and folded a drilling platform in half. Literally. He shot a stream of LOX across a steel platform and thermal effects folded the platform up a few degrees and broke (shattered the frozen legs of) the tower, which thankfully did not fall on the LOX tank.
Said landlord was also extremely pleased that the electricals for the tower ran up one of the other legs and didn't make sparks until those legs folded a few minutes later - 'coz if they'd run up one of the shettered legs... well, let's just say that LOX is not exactly a fire retardant.
H2O2 will only burn the crap out of you and then dissolve you. Much safer. d-:
...up to version 3.4.1, which is what I'm using to post this.
Since 3.4.2 includes lots of merges from WebKit, I'd expect the JS support to be startlingly better, but I'd also expect to see that a few bugs have crept in. 3.4.3 should be pretty much all shiny and good.
Then the KDE team will release KDE4, which will practically clean your teeth for you and think happy thoughts in addition to being a file-manager-over-SSH (fish://user@host), man-page reader (man:bash), CD ripper (audiocd:/)and practically everything else (mostly the kinds of features MSIE lies awake at night wishing for). Huge? yes; bloated? yes; complicated? well, only under the hood - but still remarkably quick and flexible.
Zope is a hog, but it's also very quick development environment - until you hit a wall and have to rebuild big slabs of the Zope universe more or less from scratch in order to handle a small extra feature. Modulo that and heaps of server horsepower, it's extremely attractive.
...they switched away from FreeBSD.
...by the time it rolls off the presses, makes its way through warehouses and parcel post to your doorstep, RoR will have been substantially improved. (-: