Comment 4got2mention (Score 1) 230
that was a cdc 6400 in 1968
that was a cdc 6400 in 1968
i started on punchcards in college on a cdc mainframe: drop the deck in the tray outside the machine room, operator periodically runs them, puts the output in the out tray, hours later...
i improved my turnaround by dating 1 of the operators;-)
probably;-)
lucky 4 me i won't be around that long;-}
and having an imaginary friend means u r never alone, very comforting...
al got it wrong: god_is_the dice of the universe;-) "acts of god" are all random events...and in texas football is a religion, based on a random event generator: the points on the oblate spheroid guarantee random bounding, unlike roundball;-)
indeed one can be moral w/o religion, but most people need help, and what better way to motivate them than thru fear of eternal damnation...words create images in our imaginations;-}
the bible also sez get ur drinking water _upstream_ from ur latrine, so of course all religions evolved thru natural selection;-) in a pre-literate world how do u pass on such survival tips? oral traditions wrap them in mnemonic narratives, and how better to enforce their practice than gods' gonna zap u (b4 lightning was understood, which wasn't all that long ago*) if u don't?-)
the downside is when those narratives are elevated to blind obedience/conformity...
*like the response of an undamped resonant system to a step function: we're still oscillating to the introduction of fire ffsake...prometheus caused global warming;-)
i've always thought singing was the mechanism for the physical bennies: improves breathing/blood oxygenation...and where else can u sing out loud in public w/o appearing loony;-)
i forget: the 1st pres. on 24 was black, the 2nd a woman, but were they the same or opposite parties? are we doomed to follow a fox storyline?
anything the ex(yay!)atty general of virginia (of transvaginal ultrasound fame) is automatically suspect...
under ITAR, the government classifies software as arms, which are not restricted to the 18th century, thus the right of individuals to keep & bear software is covered under the 2nd amendment as well as the 1st. but to bear s/w it must execute on h/w; thus any mechanism to remove h/w from the control of their owners is in violation of the 2nd...i don't understand why the tbaggers aren't all over this, but i imagine it's because it's more compliucated to undersand than burning snow;-}
they shouldn't be allowed to refuse to pay for blood transfusions either...
sounds like the t-bagger rants about jack-booted govt oppression, but somehow i doubt they'll support a moroccan:-[
i'm webmaster for bostoncamerata.org, the medieval music group mr. razgui has performed with:
http://bostoncamerata.org/blog/over-a-quarter-of-a-million-people-have/
gotta agree w'""The post office is one of the few things that makes our nation great." that was ben franklin's plan, and i think he would agree w/ ur idea of ip-physical mapping as the 21st cent. implementation of his original vision.
and then an personal/email-physical mapping would allow seamless snail/email integration, eliminating the vendor lock-in of addresses: it's such a p-i-t-a to change all your creditcard/banking/whatever email contacts that people just hang onto their aol.com addrs (and i think that's all that's keeping aol afloat;-)
since we already give our financial providers our physical addr, the usps could allow a single-point update of contact email.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.