Why not a brain tax? They could tax people based on their estimated brain content. Oh wait a minute. They ain't got none o' that neither, I suppose. Well durn!
Sometimes the more general news/blog/wiki comments are more entertaining, if not informative. It helps keep things in perspective. I think one reason our LUG isn't surviving is the complete lack of builliten boards in our community coupled with strict solicitation, flyer distribution and litter laws. It seems the cost of newspaper advertising has tripled lately as well. As we become more and more "paperless" the motion is toward online communities. Heck, even my site is a sort of online community in itself, since I've been posting all of my Linux experiences there. (Shameless plug)
LUGs are a holdover from the days of the BBS, when communication was slow and information was hard to find. There was a LUG in my town. I think it got taken over by a needy charitable organization and is hosted in a drafty and somewhat smelly clothing drop-off center. I've never been to it. I just downloaded and installed Fedora Core last year and I've been hooked ever since. The internet is the only user's group I'll ever need. So the real question becomes "What's next now that user's groups are dead?" Ans: Slashdot!
"Future research in this topic is assumed to be finding a material that exists in a superfluid state at room temperature."
Room temperature superfluidity has already been achieved by our government years ago. It's called inflational currency. Of course, funding is the real "superfluid" we're after.
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Why not a brain tax? They could tax people based on their estimated brain content. Oh wait a minute. They ain't got none o' that neither, I suppose. Well durn!
Sometimes the more general news/blog/wiki comments are more entertaining, if not informative. It helps keep things in perspective. I think one reason our LUG isn't surviving is the complete lack of builliten boards in our community coupled with strict solicitation, flyer distribution and litter laws. It seems the cost of newspaper advertising has tripled lately as well. As we become more and more "paperless" the motion is toward online communities. Heck, even my site is a sort of online community in itself, since I've been posting all of my Linux experiences there. (Shameless plug)
LUGs are a holdover from the days of the BBS, when communication was slow and information was hard to find. There was a LUG in my town. I think it got taken over by a needy charitable organization and is hosted in a drafty and somewhat smelly clothing drop-off center. I've never been to it. I just downloaded and installed Fedora Core last year and I've been hooked ever since. The internet is the only user's group I'll ever need. So the real question becomes "What's next now that user's groups are dead?" Ans: Slashdot!
"Future research in this topic is assumed to be finding a material that exists in a superfluid state at room temperature." Room temperature superfluidity has already been achieved by our government years ago. It's called inflational currency. Of course, funding is the real "superfluid" we're after.