Posts by caspian

A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that he could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten foot fence. He was out the next morning, just roaming around the zoo.
A twenty foot fence was put up. Again he go out.
When the fence was forty feet high, a camel in the next enclosure asked the kangaroo,
"How high do you think they'll go?"
The kangaroo said, "About a thousand feet, unless somebody locks the gate at night!"

The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for Australia's armed forces. As virtual reality simulators assume larger roles in helicopter combat training, programmers have gone to great lengths to increase the realism of their scenarios, including detailed landscapes and, in the case of the Northern Territory's Operation Phoenix, herds of kangaroos (since disturbed animals might well give away a helicopter's position).

The head of the Defence Science & Technology Organisation's Land Operations/Simulation division reportedly instructed developers to model the local marsupials' movements and reactions to helicopters. Being efficient programmers, they just re-appropriated some code originally used to model infantry detachment reactions under the same stimuli, changed the mapped icon from a soldier to a kangaroo, and increased the figures' speed of movement.

Eager to demonstrate their flying skills for some visiting American pilots, the hotshot Aussies "buzzed" the virtual kangaroos in low flight during a simulation. The kangaroos scattered, as predicted, and the visiting Americans nodded appreciatively... then did a double-take as the kangaroos reappeared from behind a hill and launched a barrage of Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. (Apparently the programmers had forgotten to remove that part of the infantry coding.)

The lesson? Objects are defined with certain attributes, and any new object defined in terms of an old one inherits all the attributes. The embarrassed programmers had learned to be careful when reusing object-oriented code, and the Yanks left with a newfound respect for Australian wildlife.

Simulator supervisors report that pilots from that point onward have strictly avoided kangaroos, just as they were meant to.

From June 15, 1999 Defence Science and Technology Organisation Lecture Series, Melbourne, Australia, and staff reports

Love to Mr and Mrs Ozzie

Cas

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Are you an igtheist?

by Abaddon in

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we've seen it before; the pages long debates where there is a theistic lobby and an agnostic or atheistic lobby, and where because the discussion is approached from completely different paradigms by the participants, they don't understand or accept the objections or point being argued over.. i found an interesting new word today;.

igtheist.

igtheists can be defined as "those who argue that theistic language makes no sense and therefore they cannot understand what theists are talking about.".

caspian

I had to look it up

Igtheists are those who argue that theistic language makes no sense
and therefore they cannot understand what theists are talking
about. The term was ... He moves away from atheism, which denies
that there is any evidence to prove or demonstrate that God exists,
to a position where one is ignorant (hence <ital> ig <ital>) of what
is meant by theists. He points out that theological language tends
to be murky, and that the God language in particular ranges from the
symbolic terms used by the theologian Paul Tillich (God is
the 'ground of being') to the metaphorical (God is 'creator' of the
universe) to the anthropomorphic (as in the Bible). Those God
concepts are made more confusing by the arguments that God
is 'unknowlable' or 'transcends' human knowledge but is 'revealed'
to specific humans from time to time in history. He states that 'to
talk about God in a transcendent sense is to utter indefinable, even
nonsensical language.' (p196) Therefore, he states, 'That is why I
can maintain, as a skeptic, that I am an <ital> igtheist, <ital> for
I do not understand what the theist is talking about. (p.107) He
concludes, 'The question that we will have to deal with is a second
one, whether such a being exists (whatever 'God' refers to), or
whether it is reasonable to disbelieve in such a being.' (p. 198

As I don't understand a single word of it. the simple answer to your question is..........

Cas

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Three years removed from JW-Dom.

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i have not been to a meeting in three years 20-plus days.

i wonder if i missed any new light (tm).

certainly, i have had so much fun since leaving.

caspian

Do they know where you live?

If they know they have to come and inform you.

If you have left the area and no one finds you, most elders will jus leave it as that.

however I did use the term "most elders"..........................

Cas

17

Orlando area.

by caspian in

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any one here from the orlando area that i can meet up with in january.

i am out there for 3 weeks .

cas.

caspian

Does Beyonce too

Cas

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Orlando area.

by caspian in

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any one here from the orlando area that i can meet up with in january.

i am out there for 3 weeks .

cas.

caspian

Any one here from the orlando area that I can meet up with in January

I am out there for 3 weeks

Cas

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Corruption.......

by caspian in

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we are putting together a dossier about corruption inside branch offices involving large amounts of money.. we already have some quite revealing evidence, however we need more especially from the branch in australia and the uk.. any information received will be treated as confidential.

please use my pm.

caspian

bttt

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Jehovahs Witnesses News last Update

by Fiskilis in

pediatrician improved the welfare of children

when friends and family of dr. robert scherz gather saturday to remember his life, they will talk about a pediatrician who was passionate about his profession, his faith and his family - but most of all about the welfare of children.

an innovative blood saving machine is being

caspian

So...............