Without any context --- e.g., our biochemistry, amino acid structure, nature of DNA --- this message amounts to about the worst practical joke in the history of interstellar communication. It has a relatively non-random structure, so clearly must mean something, and yet they'll never figure it out.
But if they do figure it out, we'll get a message a century from now: "Delicious! Do you have any other recipes?"
Bush lied, people died: it's not just a slogan, it's the TRUTH. [...] It smells like... victory.
Careful, our president isn't comfortable with that word. Unfortunately conservatives will be using "X lied, people died" for a lot of congressmen after this reform.
let's make it crystal clear: Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11
Who said Iraq? There's another war going on (the wars are really over in both places, it's all dangerous peace-keeping now. I've said it since before we went into Iraq: Iran is the ultimate target either for pressure or invasion).
I bet that if you made a rule that war could only be declared by people with children actively serving in the military, it would probably become a lot less 'necessary'.
But that turns into a very biased assessment of necessity. If the U.S. wasn't such panty-waists in before Japan attacked, Hitler would have had a much harder time expanding. Sometimes it makes sense to go to war when you see that the future lives will be saved with minor cost today. NIMBY thinking gets us no nuclear power. NMYSD (Not my young son or daughter) leaves us without an effective military (only for use in defense).
Christianity doesn't say "burn witches and sorcerers" In the Bible only example of sorcerers that the apostles meet are either accepted into the Way (and their books/scrolls burned), or denounced and otherwise left alone.
30And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. . . .
39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
40And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
I get what you're saying, but notice that Elijah was completely B.C. (and thus not an Apostle of Christ), so mercy and grace weren't big on his todo list. Also, priests of Baal weren't quite in the same mix as sorcerers; it was believed back then that sorcerers had power (via spirits or [fallen]angels), but Baal was supposed to be a god, and worship of other gods was the biggest no-no for the Hebrews. Yes, the Salem townsfolk might have decided to go old-testament, but that's not Christianity. It's not really Judaism either. It was Salem's secular laws built around a pseudo-religious framework.
With the world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming, what we really really need is the ultimate super cool weapon.
Not that I believe your premise, but what better time to have a superweapon than when other countries start getting desperate enough to attack?
People who use the iPhone don't care about things like this.
I use an iPhone, and I _do_ care. iPhone started promising, but Apple killed several apps I wanted. Now the good devs are leaving for Android? I may buy a droid or droid++ next year.
It's too bad you folks in the UK let them take your guns away, or you might have other options available to you. (At the very least, the UK government might fear the people instead of the other way around)
Latin wasn't the original language of the Bible. To keep semantic creep, they should have directly translated it into the vernacular.
Okay, *Further* semantic creep. Latin was the vernacular where and when the Roman Catholic Church formed, and remained a common trade language (and educated language) for long after. Original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts were translated into this Common language. Since the only means of copying prior to printing presses was Monk factories, keeping semantic creep to a minimum was a huge deal, and since a lot of people knew Latin at the time, Latin was the best vehicle for keeping the writings static. From the point of view of the Vatican, enforced Latin was great since everyone had access to someone who could read Latin (even if by three degrees to a noble or a priest). That Northern European Nobles used this to their advantage by being the "sole" reader of the Bible in the vicinity (again, sans priests), speaks nothing to OP's claims that "keeping people in the dark" was part of the religion.
everyone can read along with
Pretty much anyone who could read back then could read Latin. Uneducated people couldn't read their own language, and Latin was part of every formal education.
I'm a cat fan, but some of the dog shepherd breeds are so smart they've got mental issues. They'll organize animals/people/shoes/junk by traits, and love to be given tasks. Smart cats can learn to use the toilet and open doors, but they don't hold a torch to the smartest dogs.
I see Operation Clambake and raise you the house arrest of Galileo, the crusades, 9/11, Salem Witch Trials, etc, etc, etc, etc. The list is pretty long...
house arrest of Galileo... Maybe, but it had less to do with the Religion of Christianity, and more to do with personal insults to the Pope.
the crusades... No. The crusades had nothing to do with religion. Entirely political on both sides. After they were under way, they were retconned into a "religious" movement to garner support.
9/11... Which religion says "Kill people indiscriminately, whether believers or not" (there had to have been Muslims working in the towers)? I think you're mistaking criminally insane with religious. Given your bias, that's understandable, but unfortunate.
Salem Witch Trials... Again, Christianity doesn't say "burn witches and sorcerers" In the Bible only example of sorcerers that the apostles meet are either accepted into the Way (and their books/scrolls burned), or denounced and otherwise left alone. The Salem Witch trials came about because stupid people - who happened to be extremely religious and thus invoked God in everything including criminal trials - were afraid of their own neighbors.
etc, etc, etc, etc... Hmm, you may have something there. etc did have the people of etc doing etc for the religion of etc. I suppose etc may have to be lumped in with Scifientology.
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Without any context --- e.g., our biochemistry, amino acid structure, nature of DNA --- this message amounts to about the worst practical joke in the history of interstellar communication. It has a relatively non-random structure, so clearly must mean something, and yet they'll never figure it out.
But if they do figure it out, we'll get a message a century from now: "Delicious! Do you have any other recipes?"
"Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
any fashionable man knows that a watch is how a guy shows off.
Any fashionable man with a /. ID with 6 digits or less. Younger men show off with their cell phones, fashionable or not.
In crash tests, hydrogen cars are actually safer than gasoline when they are impacted.
I'm pretty sure that's hydrogen fuel cell cars, not compressed hydrogen gas cars.
Time to look to bulk fantasy for invention inspiration. Indistinguishable from magic and all that rot.
Can this actually be legal? Smoking is ( currently at least ) legal, so how can they penalize a smoker?
Submerging your computer in water is legal. Smashing it with a sledgehammer is legal too. Contracts can restrict actions further than many laws.
RMS is deserving of the prize, but you could argue that he should share it with others.
...and share the source of what he did to get the prize (he does this anyway).
Bush lied, people died: it's not just a slogan, it's the TRUTH. [...] It smells like... victory.
Careful, our president isn't comfortable with that word. Unfortunately conservatives will be using "X lied, people died" for a lot of congressmen after this reform.
let's make it crystal clear: Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11
Who said Iraq? There's another war going on (the wars are really over in both places, it's all dangerous peace-keeping now. I've said it since before we went into Iraq: Iran is the ultimate target either for pressure or invasion).
I bet that if you made a rule that war could only be declared by people with children actively serving in the military, it would probably become a lot less 'necessary'.
But that turns into a very biased assessment of necessity. If the U.S. wasn't such panty-waists in before Japan attacked, Hitler would have had a much harder time expanding. Sometimes it makes sense to go to war when you see that the future lives will be saved with minor cost today. NIMBY thinking gets us no nuclear power. NMYSD (Not my young son or daughter) leaves us without an effective military (only for use in defense).
Christianity doesn't say "burn witches and sorcerers" In the Bible only example of sorcerers that the apostles meet are either accepted into the Way (and their books/scrolls burned), or denounced and otherwise left alone.
From 1 Kings 18, King James
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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+18&version=KJV
30And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
40And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
I get what you're saying, but notice that Elijah was completely B.C. (and thus not an Apostle of Christ), so mercy and grace weren't big on his todo list. Also, priests of Baal weren't quite in the same mix as sorcerers; it was believed back then that sorcerers had power (via spirits or [fallen]angels), but Baal was supposed to be a god, and worship of other gods was the biggest no-no for the Hebrews. Yes, the Salem townsfolk might have decided to go old-testament, but that's not Christianity. It's not really Judaism either. It was Salem's secular laws built around a pseudo-religious framework.
With the world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming, what we really really need is the ultimate super cool weapon.
Not that I believe your premise, but what better time to have a superweapon than when other countries start getting desperate enough to attack?
Magic. Or because there's no Combustible gas inside. And the mirrors are probably actively chilled, and need replacing on a regular basis.
People who use the iPhone don't care about things like this.
I use an iPhone, and I _do_ care. iPhone started promising, but Apple killed several apps I wanted. Now the good devs are leaving for Android? I may buy a droid or droid++ next year.
It's too bad you folks in the UK let them take your guns away, or you might have other options available to you. (At the very least, the UK government might fear the people instead of the other way around)
They always have throwing knives and bombs.
Well, they do wear poofy shirts.
cellphone
Your developers don't appear to know what --prefix=~/ means for ./configure scripts.
It makes the assumption that every user is an admin
RMS makes the same fallacious assumption, and throws root passwords willy-nilly to the users.
Latin wasn't the original language of the Bible. To keep semantic creep, they should have directly translated it into the vernacular.
Okay, *Further* semantic creep. Latin was the vernacular where and when the Roman Catholic Church formed, and remained a common trade language (and educated language) for long after. Original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts were translated into this Common language. Since the only means of copying prior to printing presses was Monk factories, keeping semantic creep to a minimum was a huge deal, and since a lot of people knew Latin at the time, Latin was the best vehicle for keeping the writings static. From the point of view of the Vatican, enforced Latin was great since everyone had access to someone who could read Latin (even if by three degrees to a noble or a priest). That Northern European Nobles used this to their advantage by being the "sole" reader of the Bible in the vicinity (again, sans priests), speaks nothing to OP's claims that "keeping people in the dark" was part of the religion.
everyone can read along with
Pretty much anyone who could read back then could read Latin. Uneducated people couldn't read their own language, and Latin was part of every formal education.
I'm a cat fan, but some of the dog shepherd breeds are so smart they've got mental issues. They'll organize animals/people/shoes/junk by traits, and love to be given tasks. Smart cats can learn to use the toilet and open doors, but they don't hold a torch to the smartest dogs.
I see Operation Clambake and raise you the house arrest of Galileo, the crusades, 9/11, Salem Witch Trials, etc, etc, etc, etc. The list is pretty long...
house arrest of Galileo... Maybe, but it had less to do with the Religion of Christianity, and more to do with personal insults to the Pope.
the crusades... No. The crusades had nothing to do with religion. Entirely political on both sides. After they were under way, they were retconned into a "religious" movement to garner support.
9/11... Which religion says "Kill people indiscriminately, whether believers or not" (there had to have been Muslims working in the towers)? I think you're mistaking criminally insane with religious. Given your bias, that's understandable, but unfortunate.
Salem Witch Trials... Again, Christianity doesn't say "burn witches and sorcerers" In the Bible only example of sorcerers that the apostles meet are either accepted into the Way (and their books/scrolls burned), or denounced and otherwise left alone. The Salem Witch trials came about because stupid people - who happened to be extremely religious and thus invoked God in everything including criminal trials - were afraid of their own neighbors.
etc, etc, etc, etc... Hmm, you may have something there. etc did have the people of etc doing etc for the religion of etc. I suppose etc may have to be lumped in with Scifientology.
It's the new casting couch, and it's just as psychologically damaging... but you can't get therapy to cope afterward.
For centuries the bible was not allowed to translated from Latin to limit translation semantic creep
There, fixed that for you. Many Nobles new Latin, not just the Priests. Latin was the educated-man's common language.
It's used all over, but no one's paying money for it.