Comment Re:Damn... (Score 1) 494
Excellent post. Excellent. Unfortunately, someone has rewritten history since we have been in school, and these kids are learning something else entirely.
Excellent post. Excellent. Unfortunately, someone has rewritten history since we have been in school, and these kids are learning something else entirely.
A bunch of workers hanging their body weight on the lever end would raise the stone a foot or two. You prop the stone with some timbers, shorten the lifting rope, and repeat. When the stone gets to the next level of the pyramid, you rotate the lever arm horizontally and pivot the stone to the next step.
Sounds plausible, except how does that lever get the stones to the top of a 455' structure? The widest "step" doesn't seem like it would allow room for enough guys to exert 800 lbs on a lever, much less for the lever itself. And we're talking a pretty long lever by the time you get halfway up. Then, you've got all the limestone sheathing to put up and you have to make sure the inside chambers are there, and accessible..
However they did it, it's pretty remarkable. I got to see it once up close and it's amazing.
I left off the most important part of the Baldwin quote, the second half:
This perpetual justification empties the heart of all human feeling. The emptier our hearts become, the greater will be our crimes.
In the words of the great James Baldwin:
The world has never lacked for horrifying examples; but I do not believe that these examples are meant to be used as justification for our own crimes.
The "Runaway Galaxies" was the name of my garage band in the 70s.
Hell, I won't even use digital thermometers out of concern that they'll upload my body temperature to the internet. I'm not going to be uploading my vitals to some app developer in Mencino.
Honestly, I think we're seeing late-stage Apple at this point. Each new product announcement makes a smaller and smaller blip on the radar, and Apple is entirely a company whose fortunes are tied to the faddish vitality of a brand name. Every year Apple does less and less to differentiate itself, and their older products are starting to whither a bit. The people who were excited about OSX 16 years ago have less and less to be excited about with each passing year and those aren't the same people who are going to get excited over a watch or something that will tell them they need to exercise more.
I'm not saying Apple is going to crash and burn or disappear, but when a company's capitalization is their biggest news don't make the mistake of thinking the future is a foregone conclusion. (see: IBM).
Neo-nazi. Why don't you listen to the words of mid-eastern Muslim leaders who still deny the holocaust, while at the same time praising Hitler. Pull your head out of your arse. Islam is a threat to life around the world. It is at least a great a threat as Nazism was, or the Soviet.
The answer to your question is rather simple. Those "SJW's" embrace anything and everything that tends to weaken America. They hate Christians so much, that they will sacrifice anything, anyone to get at them. They hate the nuclear family just as much. If you appear to be somewhat "average" in any way, they regard you as part of the problem, and they'll sacrifice your ass along with all the rest. They HATE AMERICA!
Islam hates America, so the so-called SJW's find common cause with Islam.
You, AC, get an "attaboy" for at least attempting to understand the situation. You didn't write enough to convince me that you REALLY understand, but you've made a good start.
You're a complete idiot. Christians ran the colonies, and then this country for about 300 years. We didn't have any inquisitions. We had one witch trial that I'm aware of, and the CHURCH ITSELF moved to ensure that it wouldn't happen again. Complete fucking idiot.
Who gives a flying FUCK that the terms are offensive? WTF are you, a Muslim? Nobody gives a damn.
If you're NOT a Muslim, but instead, just another idiot bleeding heart liberal, maybe you should get a bit of education.
Holy fuck - who'da thunk of all that shit? Now I'm wondering how in the hell any of us over age 50 managed to grow up at all!
Stupid motherfucker, huh? Think about it. I can accomplish anything that you can, without the telephone. Now who's stupid?
You're at the mall, and want to look up specs? Big fucking deal - you're a spur of the moment shopper. You see some shiny gadget, you feel like you must have one. DUHHHH!! Already you're an idiot. BUT - let's just suppose that the shiny thing really is somehow unique or something. What I do is, I go home and research the damned thing on my DESKTOP WORKSTATION. See? I have the same functionality that you do, it's just sitting on my desktop. I don't need the instant gratification of looking it all up in the store.
Oh - once I''m sitting at home, that "impulse buying" thing is long behind me. I can also shop for similar devices online, locate the best specs, the best price, and order it for delivery right to my door.
You know, AC, I might have had a tiny bit of respect for your post, had you shown any respect at all. But, I'm a stupid motherfucker. Yeah, uh-huh. Here's a Kleenex - wipe some of that drool off your face, alright? Then, you can go sit in front of the window, and watch the dust motes floating in the sunbeam.
But you didn't eat it
Well...
No - in other words, the man knows how to live life without an electronic nanny in his pocket.
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
