Flying Squid
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3·13 minutes agoFor those interested in following this:
I honestly try to have a brighter outlook on things, but then shit like this happens…
This will only end after people are murdered.
“We didn’t know who was giving us money to lie! What’s the problem?”
Also, if you’re rich, they let you do it.
Yes but have you considered the fact that shut up and vote for Trump?
One where I couldn’t find another story that contained enough necessary information.
21·5 hours agoOh nowhere near the worst. Just the least qualified.
4·6 hours agoIt seemed like the person I was talking to didn’t. The implication was that tape was viable as long-term storage. It isn’t. I’ve seen tapes rot after a year. DATs were especially prone to that, but even things like 2" multitrack audio tape can go bad that quickly.
Bork was nothing compared to Harriet Miers. Probably the least qualified person ever nominated to SCOUTS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers_Supreme_Court_nomination
I love that the two central conceits of Atlas Shrugged- that railroads would thrive without government intervention (good luck laying track without eminent domain) and that the great individualists of the world will thrive with a device that creates energy from static electricity in the air- are utterly ludicrous and her fans don’t even consider that.
When do they look like they care now? I have never seen a president campaign on a reservation. Insulting me is not going to make your point make sense. Presidents might not care about the indigenous without the electoral college, but they don’t care with the electoral college either. It’s a moot point.
He had it ready because he’s said it before and has been saying it since 2015. Seth Myers ran a supercut in his post-debate special.
Which state and which presidential election has the indigenous vote been the thing that clinched things?
As a former audio engineer in the days where we still used it- tape can rot.
But we do have originals of many other texts. Like vast, vast amounts of cuneiform texts because they were usually pressed into a clay tablet and then baked.
All but four Mayan paper codices were burned, but the Mayans loved carving their stories into rocks and making those rocks part of their cities’ architecture, so we still have a lot of their textual information. Same with the Egyptians- they wrote a lot on papyrus, and most of that is lost, but they also carved and painted all over tombs.
The secret is not to keep copying the texts. That introduces errors and those errors can compound. The secret is to preserve the texts in a medium which will only degrade over exceptionally long periods of time (compared to a human life, anyway).
If you had a device which could carve stored data into stone and make it retrievable again, you could potentially preserve that data for thousands of years.
Do they believe it or have they found a reason to persecute that they think other people will believe?
By definition.
Notice Musk has never even been up in a SpaceX rocket, even for PR purposes like Bezos does. He’s probably too cowardly to do that, let alone go to Mars.