Posted on 04/02/2006 2:57:40 PM PDT by wagglebee
Am I misunderstanding your point that you wish to die as a mass muderer/suicide?
Probably.
So9
Geez, when you educate an idiot, you get an educated idiot with a degree.
Shake-your-head-in-disbelief PING
They must be working for Bin Laden, he funds such people for murderous purposes.
Ops4 God Bless America!
Dr. Weston in Perelandra could do no better.
"...but a planet with only 1 billion people, like it was in 1900 would be a lot more comfortable."
The only reason life was 'more comfortable' in 1900 was due largely to ignorance. We were not aware of daily events around the world, foreign despots, etc. I agree that areas are getting somewhat crowded, but I think nature will take care of it should it become a problem. (Bird flu comes to mind)
What is the basis for the assertion that mankind is more than just a biological process?
Cordially,
The fact that mankind creates higher culture and is not entirely subject to natural conditions. Mankind is able to incorporate lessons from the past in order to live better in the present. Animals react in an instinctive manner rather than an intelligent one and their abilities to adapt are quite limited.
Just listening to Mozart is sufficient proof of a higher nature within mankind. Abstract thought is also evidence of a spiritual nature.
True.
Insane.
My point exactly. Thanks for the link.
Maybe we could start with the people who applauded the presentation and then wait and see.
LOL!!
Mims is one of the fathers of personal computing.
He was co-founder of MITS, which produced the Altair 8800 -- the first personal computer on the market, back in 1975.
Interesting sidenote: Bill Gates got his start by writing his BASIC interpreter for the Altair. So, if not for Mims, there would quite likely not have been a Microsoft!
Forest Mims is a very well-known, very credible individual. (I remember reading his stuff Way Back When, in the '60s, when I was a budding young electronics hobbyist.)
Thanks. I like your tagline.
Like all liberals, he means for the 90% to be everybody else, not him of course.
Of course, Mims left MITS before the Altair was invented; Mims sold his interest for $100.00. Mims should get little credit for Gates use of Basic as Mims wasn't part of the company at that time. pdf link Mims left in 1971, the Altair was introduced in 1975.
I'd say that the statements from the guy's students are pretty damning evidence of what he's been preaching.
It would still be nice to have some other confirmation. Mims only gave his paraphrase of what this guy said. Single-source paraphrases are about as accurat as a single movie review.
After he left he maintained ties with the company (i.e., he wrote tech docs for them).
Of course, Mims left MITS before the Altair was invented; Mims sold his interest for $100.00. Mims should get little credit for Gates use of Basic as Mims wasn't part of the company at that time. pdf link Mims left in 1971, the Altair was introduced in 1975.
As to the legacy leading to Gates, my point was that without Mims, there'd not likely have been a MITS; without MITS, there'd have been no Altair 8800. Without the Altair 8800, Gates would have avoided the college drop-out route and become a successful student. :)
To cut Mims out of that sequence would be like cutting G. Washington out of the history of the USA, asserting that he has no claim to the greatness that the nation manifested over the next couple of hundred years, because, "he was long dead when most of that stuff happened." :)
(I said that he was a "father" of the PC, not the "guardian" -- in the same sense that GW is referred to as the "father of the nation.")
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