Comment Re:Per aspera ad astra (Score 1) 445
Per ballista ad astra ("Shoot for the stars") ; ).
Per ballista ad astra ("Shoot for the stars") ; ).
They seem to have disappeared Sir.
As a boy who was 13 in 2000 making flash apps, I resent that...
(j/k, I'm old).
And to add to that the taxi's in Amsterdam are run by the police in every way except legally. The police work for Ajax and Heineken. Their main function is to destroy any new criminal acts or people muscling in on somebody's scam. Ergo no Uber.
Today, 54 per cent of the worldâ(TM)s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050
"And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.
But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.
For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.
The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And AC said, "LET THERE BE LITHIUM!"
And there was lithium---- "
Caryatide number two seems to have been hit in the face by a Rod of Smiting.
You ought to know personal ideology almost always trumps cold hard facts ; ).
Well at least you're not an ignorant descendent of those once great Egyptians ; ). But your hypothesis re:lineage is at least as good as mine so I'll call it a day : ).
There is no reason for panic.
Return to your standard subroutines.
We are all descendents of those Egyptians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXiLMb-OFgY
http://web.mit.edu/
On a more serious note, although I agree with the sentiment of your comment, the first twelve monkeys to hit the typewriter won't always be the best informed. Sometimes it can take hours before someone with practical knowledge of the subject at hand chimes in. Added to that that moderation may take some time too there's always going to be crud before pearls. You can find more information on specialist websites, but there is often no discussion due the low visitor numbers on those sites or even no possibility to leave comments at all.
Project 18 monkeys is a go.
I for one welcome our simian overlords.
"Who has had to hard-sell the most bullshit to the people".
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.