...about a guy who refuses the Fields Medal because he "doesn't want to be seen as a figurehead."
It'd look like a publicity stunt if it were anyone other than our very own resident hermit Perelman...he's one of the very few truly quiet geniuses in the world.
TFA also says he's not too interested in the $1 million for the Poincare business...now that is insane. Sure, fame is a bit overrated, but money? At least he could buy himself a really, really nice hermit shack in the mountains.
If it's anything like my school, those 22,000 kids are actually using about 20 Linux desktops per school, in the "new" computer lab, while the other lab down the hall has 20 brand-new Macintoshes and the teachers are using networked Windows XP on those ubiquitous Dells.
All that to say that 22,000 students using Linux probably translates into ~150 Linux desktops in the better funded schools.
But maybe Indiana has a better public school system than California. Wouldn't be surprised.
Well, since I'm not a high-profile civil rights activist or a scientist with a bent against the complexity of space-time, I guess I'm pretty safe from the FBI, right?
The problem with most paranoids is that they think what they're doing is actually worth the [insert preferred stalker organization here]'s time.
First, how do you know they were made before the event?
Scientific and historical proof lies in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Do a Google search on them; it's 5 AM and I don't feel like explaining something you should have checked out before you made that argument.
Second, most of them are either so general that they match anything at all, or so obscure they could mean anything at all and are only understood after some event seems to fit.
I'm not going to go too far into the irony of that sentence's vague covering of all your bases--but it's kinda funny. Anyway. Chances are you have a Bible at your house, if not, go check out an online Bible resource; read Ezekiel 26. A lot of good stuff about this city called Tyre. Pretty specific. All happened. Deuteronomy has a lot about Israel, if you'd like to scan through it--it all happened. And the over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament concerning the coming Messiah--that Jesus guy, remember him? Mel Gibson made that movie about him...ring a bell?--all were perfectly accurate. Show me how "most" of those 300 are general or obscure or anything seems to fit.
And please, please know your Bible before you argue over it.
"but you're a card-carrying member of the club of crazies like Erich Von Daniken, scientologists, Richard Hoagland, and creationists.
Why do supposedly smart people believe such stupid shit?"
I can't speak for the scientologists, Dankiken, or Hoagland, but here's why your own logic proves to me that God is up there. (^_^)
Can you even grok what it would take to pull off a hoaxed creation of the Universe? You need to fool nearly the entire Federal government, thousands of engineers, almost the whole US Navy, and all the people at places like church on Sunday _including their friends_. And throughout all of this, you have to make sure that possibly thousands of people who know "the secret" that they will never talk, even on their deathbeds.
And then you have to fool all the believers with a happiness that can't look like anything found on Earth.
It's just simpler to go to God. It's like "looking busy" at your employment - it's actually easier to do real work than to fake it.
Even the government most capable of pulling off complete dismissal of God as possible failed miserably. The Soviet Union was a much more closed society and Star City was off limits to foreigners. They were ahead of us, and even got to the Marxism-Leninism before us. The entire doctrine of the Marxist proclaims an atheistic state the only true way to go! They could have staged forced everyone to be an atheist, and nobody would have been the wiser in the West until the fall of the Soviet Union two decades later. Yet over one third of the former Soviet Union professed religious belief. Why? BECAUSE IT WAS A STUPID IDEA TO RISK ANY OTHER WAY.
"The fact is, the original poster is _just like_ those who believe in pyramid building aliens and creationists because they deny logic, history, human nature and plain evidence of reality. They are uneducable dolts."
I don't believe in pyramid building aliens, and my tinfoil cap is gathering dust in the basement; but even scraping the surface of the Bible proves it to be a historically accurate, God-inspired book---full of plain evidence (over 600 prophesies that [ZOMGWTFBBQ!] were actually RIGHT!) that The Big Guy Upstairs loves you and wishes you would stop calling people names.
Man, I couldn't see this coming at ALL. Let's see...non-moderated dating sites, rapists with internet access, and the fat girl down the street who lied about her age...the government FINALLY decides to regulate this?
They were pretty quick to regulate---
---wait---
---no, actually, the government has never been quick to regulate anything. Just point fingers.
I'm pretty sure that even Microsoft, left unchecked, would not be able to joint-own TFI--The F***ing INTERNET, man. Not only is it The F***ing Internet, but it's F***ing Huge, and F***ing Expanding Like Michael Jackson At A F***ing Sleepover.
Think of the ramifications involved in buying slashdot alone:
Microsoft with their cronies: Hey, we want to co-own you.
The free LJ users aren't providing LJ with any revenue. Bandwidth costs money, money comes from users or ads. If you don't pay, you get the ads, if you don't get the ads, you're basically stealing their bandwidth.
In the end, though, would you really give a shit if your LiveJournal suddenly went offline?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
Yes, I do.
Which isn't saying much, but still.
It'd look like a publicity stunt if it were anyone other than our very own resident hermit Perelman...he's one of the very few truly quiet geniuses in the world.
TFA also says he's not too interested in the $1 million for the Poincare business...now that is insane. Sure, fame is a bit overrated, but money? At least he could buy himself a really, really nice hermit shack in the mountains.
All that to say that 22,000 students using Linux probably translates into ~150 Linux desktops in the better funded schools.
But maybe Indiana has a better public school system than California. Wouldn't be surprised.
See, that is what we call a partnership.
=D
http://server1.plunder.com/994/OnyxiaWipe.swf
we know that WoW is a very important and integral part of everyday life, worth every second and every screamed WTF!
The problem with most paranoids is that they think what they're doing is actually worth the [insert preferred stalker organization here]'s time.
Scientific and historical proof lies in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Do a Google search on them; it's 5 AM and I don't feel like explaining something you should have checked out before you made that argument.
Second, most of them are either so general that they match anything at all, or so obscure they could mean anything at all and are only understood after some event seems to fit.
I'm not going to go too far into the irony of that sentence's vague covering of all your bases--but it's kinda funny. Anyway. Chances are you have a Bible at your house, if not, go check out an online Bible resource; read Ezekiel 26. A lot of good stuff about this city called Tyre. Pretty specific. All happened. Deuteronomy has a lot about Israel, if you'd like to scan through it--it all happened. And the over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament concerning the coming Messiah--that Jesus guy, remember him? Mel Gibson made that movie about him...ring a bell?--all were perfectly accurate. Show me how "most" of those 300 are general or obscure or anything seems to fit.
And please, please know your Bible before you argue over it.
Have a nice day!
Why do supposedly smart people believe such stupid shit?"
I can't speak for the scientologists, Dankiken, or Hoagland, but here's why your own logic proves to me that God is up there. (^_^)
Can you even grok what it would take to pull off a hoaxed creation of the Universe? You need to fool nearly the entire Federal government, thousands of engineers, almost the whole US Navy, and all the people at places like church on Sunday _including their friends_. And throughout all of this, you have to make sure that possibly thousands of people who know "the secret" that they will never talk, even on their deathbeds.
And then you have to fool all the believers with a happiness that can't look like anything found on Earth.
It's just simpler to go to God. It's like "looking busy" at your employment - it's actually easier to do real work than to fake it.
Even the government most capable of pulling off complete dismissal of God as possible failed miserably. The Soviet Union was a much more closed society and Star City was off limits to foreigners. They were ahead of us, and even got to the Marxism-Leninism before us. The entire doctrine of the Marxist proclaims an atheistic state the only true way to go! They could have staged forced everyone to be an atheist, and nobody would have been the wiser in the West until the fall of the Soviet Union two decades later. Yet over one third of the former Soviet Union professed religious belief. Why? BECAUSE IT WAS A STUPID IDEA TO RISK ANY OTHER WAY.
"The fact is, the original poster is _just like_ those who believe in pyramid building aliens and creationists because they deny logic, history, human nature and plain evidence of reality. They are uneducable dolts."
I don't believe in pyramid building aliens, and my tinfoil cap is gathering dust in the basement; but even scraping the surface of the Bible proves it to be a historically accurate, God-inspired book---full of plain evidence (over 600 prophesies that [ZOMGWTFBBQ!] were actually RIGHT!) that The Big Guy Upstairs loves you and wishes you would stop calling people names.
Anyway.
(/two cents)
(/sigh) now mod me down (^_^)
Whatever will they think of next?
Extended warranties?
They were pretty quick to regulate---
---wait---
---no, actually, the government has never been quick to regulate anything. Just point fingers.
Think of the ramifications involved in buying slashdot alone:
Microsoft with their cronies: Hey, we want to co-own you.
slashdot: F*** you. We'll take you to court.
Microsoft: We own the courts.
slashdot: Then we'll kill you.
Microsoft: Damn.
That said, it's only a *tiny* bit unrealistic.
Management consists of my mistress, Dominique. We just call her The Whip.
You can see her later, if she's out of her leather and black lipstick.
Only took me four years intensive training.
I'd rather participate in a remake of Deep Throat, but hey, that's just me.
In GTA: Vice City?
No no no, the real next boom in cellphone software services is mobile porn.
Or...you could...just...go talk to them. That's what me and my friends* do. *(Term used loosely)
This means that even if we nuke Keith Richards point-blank, his cells will just reproduce from all those drugs...
You know, for when I don't need it.
The free LJ users aren't providing LJ with any revenue. Bandwidth costs money, money comes from users or ads. If you don't pay, you get the ads, if you don't get the ads, you're basically stealing their bandwidth.
In the end, though, would you really give a shit if your LiveJournal suddenly went offline?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel_production can it explain it in simple terms.
I'd explain it myself, but it's late and I'm tired. Rest assured, though, NaOH is the catalyst.
Fing ignorant science writers usually know their stuff.
Which is why they became Fing science writers, as opposed to Fing pulp fiction writers.