Posts by SacrificialLoon

then i recall when they were building the molson center in montreal where the montreal canadiens hockey team would be playing, and i was thinking to myself, "they will never play there.....cause the end will come first".. .

SacrificialLoon

I'd never graduate high school before the end. I did really well on the ASVAB, and the air force sounds cool, but what if the end comes then I'd be screwed. Surely it will happen before 2000. Maybe it's not coming.

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Earth will or will not pass/fade away?

by bite me in

i've learned that jw's are taught that the current earth will never fade or pass away, how is that possible if our bibles tell us that it will.

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SacrificialLoon

Actually the Sun lacks the mass to go nova. What it will do though is swell into a red giant in about 5billion years or so, and it may or may not engulf the Earth. So either the Earth will be burnt to a crisp or it will encounter the Sun's outer layers and friction with the sun will cause it to lose orbital energy which will cause it to fall deeper into the sun until it evaporates. Either way the earth has about 5 billion years left as a planet. Life may go a bit sooner as the sun slowly increases its output over time. Some theorize Earth may become uninhabitable in about 500 million years.

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So - you think you know World Geography, eh? Try this!

by AK - Jeff in

http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974.

i completed 7 levels, final score 220,537, world traveler iq 97. .

in the scheme of things, prob not all that good i suppose.. jeff .

SacrificialLoon

510,118 first try. I didn't know there was another IQ score so I don't know what that was.

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What's The Best Country or Area To Live In???

by minimus in

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if you could live anywhere-----what would your choice be?

SacrificialLoon

I think the Khanate of the Golden Horde would be a pretty cool domain to live in. Being part of a horde is cool and all, but a "Golden Horde" now that would be awesome.

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There's no place like 127.0.0.1

by Elsewhere in

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feeling like being a geek tonight.

SacrificialLoon

Some geek humor...

Micro was a real-time operator and dedicated multi-user. His broad-band protocol made it easy for him to interface with numerous input/output devices, even if it meant time-sharing. One evening he arrived home just as the sun was crashing, and had parked his Motorola 68000 in the main drive (he had missed the 5100 bus that morning), when he noticed an elegant piece of liveware admiring the daisy wheels in his garden. He thought to himself, "She looks user-friendly. I'll see if she'd like an update tonight."

Mini was her name. She was delightfully engineered with eyes like COBOL and a Prime mainframe architecture that set Micro's peripherals networking all over the place.

He browsed over to her casually, admiring the power of her twin, 32-bit floating point processors and inquired, "How are you, Honeywell?" "Yes, I am well," she responded, batting her optical fibers engagingly and smoothing her console over her curvilinear functions.

Micro settled for a straight line approximation. "I'm stand-alone tonight," he said. "How about computing a vector to my base address? I'll output a byte to eat, and maybe we could get offset later on." Mini ran a priority process for 2.6 milliseconds, then transmitted 8K. "I've been dumped myself recently, and a new page is just what I need to refresh my disks. I'll park my machine cycle in your background and meet you inside." She walked off, leaving Micro admiring her solenoids and thinking, "Wow, what a global variable. I wonder if she'd like my firmware?"

They sat down at the process table to a top of form feed of fiche and chips and a bucket of Baudot. Mini was in conversational mode and expanded on ambiguous arguments while Micro gave occasional acknowledgments, although in reality he was analyzing the shortest and least critical path to her entry point. He finally settled on the old, Would-you-like-to-see-my-benchmark routine. But Mini was again one step ahead.

Suddenly she was up and stripping off her parity bits to reveal the full functionality of her operating system software. "Let's get BASIC, you RAM," she said. Micro was loaded by this stage, but his hardware policing module had a processor of its own and was in danger of overflowing its output buffer, a hangup that Micro had consulted his analyst about. "Core," was all he could say, as she prepared to log him off.

Micro soon recovered, however, when Mini went down on the DEC and opened her divide filed to reveal her data set ready. He accessed his fully packed root device and was just about to start pushing into her CPU stack, when she attempted an escape sequence.

"No, no!" she cried, "You're not shielded!"

"Reset, baby," he replied, "I've been debugged."

"But I haven't got my current loop enabled, and I can't support child processes," she protested.

"Don't run away," he said, "I'll generate an interrupt."

"No, that's too error prone, and I can't abort because of my design philosophy."

Micro was locked in by this stage, though, and could not be turned off. But Mini soon stopped his thrashing by introducing a voltage spike into his main supply, whereupon he fell over with a head crash and went to sleep. "Computers!" she thought, as she compiled herself, "All they think about is hex!"

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What are you doing tonight/weekend?

by KW13 in

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tonight i am going to be driving down to st. helens (not far from liverpool) with an aunt to drop off her car at a friends garage and then coming back with her, fortunately her friend is lending her a car otherwise we'd be stuck there lol.. saturday i am going to a bon-fire with family minus mum and stepdad (don't get me wrong i wish they were there).. sunday - no idea.... .

SacrificialLoon

Tonight I'm at work. Tomorrow night the same.

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The Water Crisis...

by SWALKER in

if you think price/lack of oil is a major concern, just watch this video:.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=3786476.

swalker.

SacrificialLoon

We had a buttload of rain in Texas this year, the lakes are full (or close to it), and the local cities still haven't lifted water restrictions. Smart move on their part I think.

I think we're going to need another depression to institute another massive public works program to repair and expand our water systems.

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Amazing Grace/how sweet the sound-some of my favourite gospel/worship music

by Guest with Questions in

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this song has always been one of my favourites.

wintley phipps tells the history of the song.

very moving.. amazing grace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmf_24cqqt0&mode=related&search=.

SacrificialLoon

I'm not a religious person anymore, but since leaving the Witnesses I've discovered polyphonic chant. Beautiful music.

Miserere Me Deus

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jZL3POaATn8