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I'd get your ouija board fixed!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Dominic Burford wrote: a flawed genius
In what way was he flawed?
Oh come on man! He was a software guy. Need more be said?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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1996 biopic Breaking the code is a worthwhile watch too, it stars Derek Jacobi as Turing
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That's interesting as I was distinctly reminded of Derek Jacobi when first hearing BC talk in this pic. It IS a great film but as with all big productions, they tend to bend the truth the fit the cinematic story.
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I've not seen the new movie yet, but its on my radar... The whole Bletchley Park / Station X has fascinated me since the Channel 4 documentary some 15 years ago...
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The work that took place at Bletchley park in relation to the breaking of the Enigma codes was strictly classified fora full 50 years. Hard to believe.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Yes I remember watching that many years ago. Derek Jacobi is always great to watch.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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This is unacceptable we must have more sanction
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I didn't quite follow. Can you please elaborate?
What is unacceptable in this?
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One might suppose that it was a joke based on the fact that the article stating that there would be an investigation into whether that was acceptable or not.
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You'll be hearing from the Plane Pushers' Union.
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And, being Russian, one of them just had to take it further[^]
it's a pity Mark Kirsch[^] wasn't on the plane!
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You're REALLY in trouble when you have to bump-start an airplane!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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A much more important question is, can a finite number of reindeer pull one?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Disqus no problems.
Facebook, problems.
If you are referred by a mega concentrator like drudge to a "news" site that has comments you are censored by Facebook.
You have to have Disqus and Facebook accounts now a days to post comments. The problem is Facebook censors.
My assertion:
Test; copy link, close drudge (any concentrator, hufpo too), clear cache, then post in comments section to avoid being censored by who referred you.
Facebook sucks! Disqus rocks!
Carry on.
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facebook sucks because it's not anonymous. most people don't want to lose friends over comments made about news articles. besides, our country's voting system was designed to be essentially anonymous... nobody knows how you vote .... so comments become more meaningful when they are anonymous, because they reflect the true inner self.
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Not trying to self-promote my own article so I won't link to it, but does anyone know why when I submit an updated article the font appears bold? It's using normal paragraph tags for the majority of the text.
Never mind, nothing to see here. Move along now.
Jeremy Falcon
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Bah, I'll post it there. I'd remove the OP, but you know how that goes.
Jeremy Falcon
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The mention of OG's time machine reminded me of discussion on how a practical time machine is impossible. I think it was in a novel by James P. Hogan Thrice Upon a Time[^]
The gist of the argument goes that if you can send messages or people into the past prior to the creation of the time machine
If you can't change anything then there is no practical use
If you can change things, then eventually things will change so that the time machine is never created. Again, no practical use, except possibly to Weeping Angels and Time Lords.
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Matthew Dennis wrote: If you can't change anything then there is no practical use
Well, it depends whether you can bring information back to the present, doesn't it? If I could go back in time, identify a criminal, come back to current time & arrest him, that would be a practical use, Shirley?
Matthew Dennis wrote: If you can change things, then eventually things will change so that the time machine is never created.
Depends whether you subscribe to the 'infinite universes' school of thought. In this case, although going back in time and stopping the invention of the time machine that got you there should prevent you getting there, in fact all you have done is move to a parallel universe's past, where everything up to the point you appear has been identical to the version you left. The second you arrive, the timelines split.
Practical use? Well, if you don't like the world in which you live, go back (in the parallel universe) and change something. Then live there for the rest of your life. (because returning to your own timeline would leave you where you started) or invent a time machine that crosses boundaries going back, but not going forward (in which case you are likely to meet yourself in the 'no time machine' future).
I recommend reading some of Stanislaw Lem's short stories on the subject.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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There are times when I hate living in the rainiest town in Sweden.
And whenever there is a clear sky at night the light pollution kills the rest of the fun.
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