the Matrix concept of birth/rebirth was certainly borrowed from the Riverworld books of P.J.Farmer - like 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go' ... and of course is no reality.
You don't see the absurdity of that - how preposterous it is? How laughable it is? Again I point you to the 'success' of his talks with North Korea as evidence of the nonsense he speaks.
If the left hand side is expressed in base 9, 7 * (9+3) = 84 = 2 * 38 +8 = 28 base 38, so 7 x 13 = 28 Infinitely many solutions with 13 and 28 in different bases. 13 = x+3; 7x + 21 = 2y +8 7x+13 = 2y y > 8, x > 7, x is odd x = 9, y = 38, or perhaps x = 11, y = 45 7 * 13 base 9 = 84 = 2 * 38 + 8 = 28 base 38 so in base 9 arithmetic 7 times 13 = 28 base 38, trivial really.
@jac The Diaries are amazing reading, and portray the 17th Century London of Plague Fire of Shakespeare and the Royal Society PLUS the accepted practices of the time. The use of women by the powerful was an everyday thing, and remains so now. One famous scene has his wife about to poke out his eyes with a red-hot poker. Pepys reveals everything, even resorting to French within the cypher to hide his misdeeds. Famous people, famous events, great candidity, greatly revealing. And so to bed! His bladder stone operation is very eye-opening and an amazing survival for those days.
@jac I thought political correctness proscribed gender specific variants ... well obviously at most partially, we seem to have arbitrarily selected an absurdly small subset like chairperson, actor, police officer mostly to do with occupations. So is it blonde or blond person? Blonde hair-dye or blond depending on the user? Now I am left scratching the meagre vestiges of hair on my head. OMG I got to use 'meagre vestiges' perhaps for the first time in my lengthening life! Vestigial hair goes with dwindling memory.
China, by the way, does have government backed crypto-currency, the e-CNY, shuzi renminbi, issued by China's central bank. China also rents large tracts of Siberian farmland under a 49 year lease.
Hope beyond hope that America wisens up enough to choose two suitable candidates and move on from the Biden Trump Clinton era. Two Bushes, crippled Obama, Clintons Trump and Biden enough surely. Unlikely though, isn't it? How might a Gore era have been?
Mid Autumn in Sydney, uncharacteristically cloudy, mild 14-22 with a hint of winter next Sunday when it will be rainy and 13-17. Last 2 years have been milder than usual with few fiercely 40+ days and almost no colder winter days.
@op nothing so remarkable about Russian ships or trawlers listening and spying, really, is there? Where are American ships not listening and spying, where are the USA satellites not scrutinising worldwide? Just look at the ring of naval bases around China and Russia.
Of course those in blue are fixed bases - the mobile spy ships and planes and satellites, well just about everywhere! That article is probably totally outdated, bet the blue dots have just about doubled.
@op to be confronted with such a horrifying situation is unimaginable. One's own children, how can we do that, or not do that! Horses, pets, never a question (why I wonder), but a 1-3 year old or a 12 year old non-verbal incapable of self determination, how how how?
Then you slip away to quite another topic - also known as 'evading the question'. From greening and CO2 to recycling... In a debate sneakiness wins no points.
@ten of Now that is weird logic. Are you promoting CO2 production so we can have trees? On the face of it your logic is upside down. Both China and India have invested in planting and greening - that is consuming and converting CO2, in counterpoint to the denuding of the Amazon and forests of Indonesia. India and China together 1/3rd the world's population, so it is unsurprising they are the largest producers of CO2, but they are together a significant part of the effort to reduce the emissions.
"Ignorance is bliss" is a phrase coined by Thomas Gray in his 1768 "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College". But no, in this case ignorance provides no joy or comfort, does it. Astonishing really that 'deniers' mouth on with their particular nonsense. Yes insects and worms can and do provide protein and nutrition.
I saw them frequently in Chinese markets, but even doused in chilli I could not bring myself to eat them (or dog or cat for that matter).
CH4 methane is another by-product of food that needs reduction ('another nonsense!' she might splutter) and that can be done by lowering beef and dairy consumption; it is being done by use of feed additives like seaweed for one.
@cc A weird and absurd thing to say - I guess it was a typo or smart-keyboard thing, but then again, given it is you, maybe not. So how do you connect pork consumption or rejection to autism, or religion to autism?
I made the trip to Anaheim way back in, in 1977 or 8 from New Zealand, for computer conferences and to negotiate software purchases. What do I remember of Disneyland? The long long queue of 'big' people. Everyday Americans but big in places which are not optimum. 40 years afterwards we Australians have caught up big time, in the obesity stakes we Australians are competing to overtake the Great America image. Ironically the only other memory is of the 'Its a small small world' installation.
From the chatroom I used to frequent daily 20 years ago (but you rarely if at all, I think) we could make a connection in open chat and then one-one in yahoo icq messenger or qq. I was chatting there when 7/11 occurred and someone announced it, and there were perhaps 30 people active in the room then. Over the years I have met at least a dozen in Australia and Asia via those connections and remain close friends in regular contact with several of them twenty years later. The chat-rooms actually worked, but they are a thing of the past.
@op at the risk of being boring, here is a voice and piano version sung in German by that wonderful Schubert lieder baritone - Fischer-Dieskau. German somehow transforms it. Almost all my remembered German comes from song lyrics! The voices of the young male choir are very pure.
and then there were smoke signals, drums, flags. About the only remaining advantage of a landline is a single number providing access to a family, yet any one of the messaging apps surely provides for group access, but the landline leaves no trail ...
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RE: "The Matrix"
the Matrix concept of birth/rebirth was certainly borrowed from the Riverworld books of P.J.Farmer - like 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go' ... and of course is no reality.