It's been a long time since I read the Bible, but I don't think the BBC version was particularly Biblical either. It was a portrayal of Noah that you could completely believe. It's just a gritty down to Earth story about a man doing what he believes is right, even when everyone is laughing at him. The religious factor is almost an aside - it's certainly watchable in it's own right, even if you had no religious persuasion of your own.

The only good film this year was The Ark. The BBC made it, so it was called a Drama, but a one off ninety minute film length drama sounds rather like a straight to TV film to me.

Sort of - you did essentially just play those noises down the phone, and then intercept them in the software layer on the way back down - but you could get a connection without a modem, using just a soundcard.

Here is a full how-to: Telephone interfacing circuits

It's very easy to get millions of people to deride the headlines. It's very difficult to get any scientist to refute the papers.

Experimental biogerontology has never been as insane as the headlines make it out to be, it's merely the rhetoric that's overblown (normally by the media, occasionally by the scientists, usually by the businesses, and always by the peanut gallery).

They're all essentially the same thing, and work in fundamentally the same way. PayPal is ebay first, Paytoo is mobile-first, Neteller is casino first, Payza is pretty scummy all round, and that's about the only way to distinguish them other than fees.

I'm no fan of PayPal, but switching to one of the others is switching for the sake of switching.

I vaguely remember somebody mentioning some kind of festival or something.

Sure, you can use a router, a switch, a LAN, a WLAN, or WiMAX, Satellite, 3G/4G...

It's not as good as the olden days when you could use your sound card to get a dial up connection though. That never worked well, but you did score hundreds of geek points.

Amiga Workbench is still a thing...

A super-mega-hybrid that started life as a stage 2 Gentoo, but became increasingly Debianised as I discovered I can't live without apt, and then became Mintised as I realised I can't live without apt, but I'd like more up to date libraries than Debian provide. Presently, I can use the Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora and Gentoo repos with clever use of chroots, as well as Windows software via WINE, Playstation, NES, SNES, MegaDrive, Amstrad CPC, C64, Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, Amiga 500 and, well pretty much anything really via MESS.

I think the technical term for it is "a bit of a mess".

Someone's got to be a miserable git

Johnny Logan - Whats another year - YouTube

Quote:ants never sleep

Not true. And kinda true. It's weird.

All ants have some state of torpor, exactly what depends on the species. Fireants power nap as many as 250 times a day - for mere seconds at a time (which is why we thought they never slept at all until the 80's). Black ants have cyclical rest periods - but during the rest periods the soldiers brainwave patterns increase. And queens often do little but sleep.

Ants are just weird. Any ant fact is always gets more weird the closer you look.

I am from the Great Jorvik empire founded by Sigurd Snake In The Eye, Son of Ragnar Lodbrok.

This is not recognised by the UN due to the Saxon occupation of the last thousand years, and thus, they call us part of the UK.

I'm still waiting to get my money back from e-gold, and I was one of the three people who only used it legally.

May I be the first person this year to wish you a happy Hanukkah.

Quote:In my opinion Western World is dying

Yip. As I've said many times, this is Fimbulvetr and Ragnarok is nigh. All empires fall. Every single empire in history has fallen. This one will fall too.

Quote:Globalization , democracy and tehnology CAN NOT survive if they are together

We haven't invented democracy yet. We have representative cockwomblery instead. You're right though - Democracy doesn't scale, it is necessarily a local thing.

Quote:we opened it and we will not survive .

Sure we will, Ragnarok is cyclical. Take away the metaphor, and it's still cyclical. Every time an empire falls, those who escape unscathed are those who retreated to more natural ways of life without the dependencies on their nearest empire.

Well, it's certainly true that some degrees are better than others...

Also, I'd much rather a CV contain a link to Git logs, than someone tell me they've got a degree in computer science, where they learned to become structured programming, object oriented script kiddies.

Quote:3. Education- Get a job, date after college, study, do your best to NOT take out student loans.

That depends what your goals are. I worked my way through uni. I always hated students, even when I was one, it was a good excuse to avoid students as well as the loans. On the other hand, I've never taken a job I don't believe in, and ...I don't think I've ever earned as much as minimum wage - which would exempt me from paying back student loans. For me, a student loan would have been thousands of dollars (well, pounds) for free.

So, decide what your life will look like before deciding whether or not to take out a student loan. If you're going to work with charities, take the loan. If you're going to work for money, avoid the loan.

I've got three vixens. I think the mother is about three, and the kids six or seven months. These are country foxes, and the pups didn't have the bravado city foxes sometimes show with humans. They haven't told me their names yet. It took months to make them accept me, and it's only the last few weeks we've got as close as physical contact, they're still scared of every other human, and still disappear as the sun comes up, or lights come on.

Also, a cat I rescued from a bin - literally. A woman up the street died while her cat was pregnant, and they moved into our bin. I rehomed them all, but one. He's called Percy, I don't know why - my sister chose it.

I want to get a dog, but female genital mutilation is wrong, so I can't use a dogs home, and you'd be amazed how hard it is to find a private seller with a proper dog these days. They're all three inch tall little rat-like things.

What does the economy actually do?

You can use it to trade time spent doing x for time spent doing y. Meanwhile, people doing z tell us how much x and y is worth, even though they're not a party to the transaction. People w have lots of economy and people v have no economy, and it stays that way because they all believe person z for no particular reason.

Ask person z to show you the economy, and he'll show you some figures in a database. Tell him no, you don't want that, you want to see the actual economy, you want to see the tangible thing. He can't show you it, because it just doesn't exist. It's imaginary.

My prediction for the economy is that people will continue to believe in the fairytale, and continue to oppress or be oppressed based on this fiction.

My personal interaction with the so called economy should hopefully be limited to entertainment only by the end of the year. There are very few areas I'm not self-sufficient now - the primary ones being production of tea (it's planted, but not grown enough yet), and internet services (I do have a mesh, but no way to throw a packet over a mountain or ocean).

The Earth is 4,500,000,030 years old. I know this, because in school they told us it was 4,500,000,000 years old, and that was thirty years ago.