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The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: RosieCotton

Oooh...that was totally accidental! Cool!


7,401 posted on 05/28/2004 6:21:52 PM PDT by RosieCotton (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Yah... it traces all the way without more than 10ms at any hop.


7,402 posted on 05/28/2004 6:22:39 PM PDT by Ramius (We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
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To: RosieCotton
Oooh...that was totally accidental!

For once. . . :)

7,403 posted on 05/28/2004 6:25:08 PM PDT by Fedora (Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
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To: Fedora
I laughed out loud when the NASA chick radioed to the space station, "We're getting reports down here that the storm is breaking up; what are you seeing up there?" and only then do the astronauts *look out the window* and see that yes, the storm really is breaking up! Like they wouldn't be monitoring the storm continuously and reporting regular updates to the ground... like the Earth isn't surrounded with dozens of satellites that would be sending pics down to NASA and NOAA every few minutes...
7,404 posted on 05/28/2004 6:25:22 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Richard Biggs: 1961-2004, RIP)
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To: Ramius
Have you tried a browser other than IE?
7,405 posted on 05/28/2004 6:26:48 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Richard Biggs: 1961-2004, RIP)
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To: RosieCotton
Good snaig! ;)
7,406 posted on 05/28/2004 6:27:29 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Richard Biggs: 1961-2004, RIP)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I laughed out loud when the NASA chick radioed to the space station, "We're getting reports down here that the storm is breaking up

Hearing that reminds me of the opening sequence in Six Million Dollar Man: "She's breaking up; I can't hold her. . ." :)

Like they wouldn't be monitoring the storm continuously and reporting regular updates to the ground... like the Earth isn't surrounded with dozens of satellites that would be sending pics down to NASA and NOAA every few minutes...

NASA's connection speed was slow that day because it was using dial-up :)

7,407 posted on 05/28/2004 6:29:16 PM PDT by Fedora (Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
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To: Fedora; JenB
To me, it looked like Detective Will Smith discovers a conspiracy to hide the fact that robots have become sentient and evil (naturally) and then has to fight off an army of mad robots to expose the truth.

Don't know if I'm going to like it.

7,408 posted on 05/28/2004 6:29:41 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Richard Biggs: 1961-2004, RIP)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Yeah, the name of the movie and... um... the somewhat hot female scientist chick? I think she's Susan Calvin.


7,409 posted on 05/28/2004 6:31:36 PM PDT by JenB (The Hobbit Hole: We Cannot Get Out)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Right, isn't that why Asimov invented the 3 Laws? So that he'd never have evil robot armies running around?


7,410 posted on 05/28/2004 6:32:22 PM PDT by JenB (The Hobbit Hole: We Cannot Get Out)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

No... haven't tried another browser. That's an interesting thought.

Now, I'm logged in direct from da waterin' hole again, and it appears to be working... I did another tracert... and I was wrong about the 10ms bidness... but here's the trace... and under 50ms ain't bad either...

C:\>tracert www.freerepublic.com

Tracing route to www.freerepublic.com [209.157.64.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms eth0.nmd.bes.sea.wayport.net [65.219.162.1]
2 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms 208.252.89.169
3 7 ms 10 ms 6 ms 150.ATM3-0.GW8.SEA1.ALTER.NET [208.214.103.41]
4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 109.ATM2-0.XR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [152.63.105.218]
5 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 0.so-0-0-0.XL1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [152.63.106.225]
6 6 ms 6 ms 7 ms POS6-0.BR2.SEA1.ALTER.NET [152.63.106.1]
7 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms 204.255.174.246
8 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms p16-0-1-0.r20.sttlwa01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.14]
9 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms p16-0-1-2.r21.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
5.83]
10 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms p64-0-0-0.r21.mlpsca01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
5.49]
11 27 ms 31 ms 27 ms mg-2.a00.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [129.250.25.19
4]
12 28 ms 27 ms 28 ms mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [129.250.24.19
5]
13 30 ms 29 ms 27 ms 128.242.105.82
14 32 ms 43 ms 33 ms www.freerepublic.com [209.157.64.200]

Trace complete.


7,411 posted on 05/28/2004 6:33:03 PM PDT by Ramius (We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Good snaig! ;)

Thanks! I'm impressed with myself. ;-)

I'm thinkin' I might have to see this movie, just so I can join in the ridicule.

7,412 posted on 05/28/2004 6:33:08 PM PDT by RosieCotton (To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: JenB
It's been so long since I read the actual book, that I barely remember it. I need to find a copy and refresh my memory.
7,413 posted on 05/28/2004 6:33:09 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Richard Biggs: 1961-2004, RIP)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
To me, it looked like Detective Will Smith

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I like Will Smith in comedies, but when he tries to do serious stuff I just start thinking of DJ Jazzy Jeff. . .They screwed up that Wild, Wild West adaptation really, really badly by putting him in it.

7,414 posted on 05/28/2004 6:34:19 PM PDT by Fedora (Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
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To: JenB
Right, isn't that why Asimov invented the 3 Laws? So that he'd never have evil robot armies running around?

Except Robocop introduced a fourth law which creates gridlock in Asimov's three laws.

7,415 posted on 05/28/2004 6:35:56 PM PDT by Fedora (Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Fer one, "I, Robot" is a collection of short stories rather than a book. There is no story comparable to what I saw in the preview. In one, someone was trying to find a robot who might be capable of murder, but it was all done with logical analysis. No car chases or robot rampages.


7,416 posted on 05/28/2004 6:36:35 PM PDT by JenB (The Hobbit Hole: We Cannot Get Out)
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To: JenB
isn't that why Asimov invented the 3 Laws?

Exactly... IIRC, wasn't the actual story a murder mystery? A robot apparently murders a human, and the whole story revolves around solving the mystery of whether or not the robot did it, and if it did, how it did it without violating the Three Laws.

No robot armies that I recall, though it has been a long time...

7,417 posted on 05/28/2004 6:37:26 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Richard Biggs: 1961-2004, RIP)
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To: Fedora

Asimov invented a 4th law... the Zeroth law takes precedence, but only in robots sophisticated enough to reason it out.

What did Robocop introduce?


7,418 posted on 05/28/2004 6:37:29 PM PDT by JenB (The Hobbit Hole: We Cannot Get Out)
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To: JenB
Exactly!
7,419 posted on 05/28/2004 6:38:26 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Richard Biggs: 1961-2004, RIP)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

No, some of his books had similar premises... I'm not sure a robot ever actually murdered a human. Maybe one, but I don't recall. Usually turned out to be a human trying to frame a robot.


7,420 posted on 05/28/2004 6:38:46 PM PDT by JenB (The Hobbit Hole: We Cannot Get Out)
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