Snuff ending disappointment
So glad that wasn't just me... :)
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For shame, Wardy01, you're being all grown-up and reasonable. You're supposed to whip yourself into a frenzy before mashing a furious, incoherent tirade into your keyboard. I suggest you think about what kind of an example you're setting here. How would you like it if everyone were as thoughtful as you? Hmm?
Well, for one: why did God so love THIS world that he gave his one-and-only begotten son to save us? With countless billions of other inhabited worlds in the universe (there are a lot of galaxies out there, even the tiniest, weeniest probability multiplied by that much space will turn up a lot) what made us that special?
Does He just really dig arrogance, perhaps?
Or c) - Only those civilisations that survive get invited into the grown-up club. If you can achieve cheap energy, cheap orbit and not screw your homeworld in the process then it's yippee! Everyone gets a t-shirt and some blue dude turns up to explain how numbers really work to the three humans capable of grasping it and passing it on. Also the fundies get to meet-n-greet the angels (who turn out to really like Dr Scholls, and look shifty when the subject of begetting is raised) and we all get to holiday at the Galactic CentrePark (nice views, but don't drink the water...)
"...secretly taking your details, your friends details and then bombarded you with useless and meaningless spam ads"
Really? They're awfully clever about it then, because I'm pretty sure at least one of my friends or business contacts would have mentioned an increase in spam as a result of installing some productivity app or another, but they're bombarding us all with such subtlety that we'd never guess.
Which raises the question: If a tree falls very gently in the woods and nobody notices, who gives a shit?
Mid-may is my EDD. I'm not bothered; it'll be fun when it gets here. With any luck I'll have figured out what I want to do with it by then. There may be some giants' shoulders I can easily stand on to achieve it by then as well.
I can't be the only dilettante wannabe-hacker who's quite keen to encourage "proper" IT in our curriculum, not just lessons in how to use Microsoft Publisher and Facebook Studies? IF nothing else, I reckon my kid'll get a blast out of seeing a tiny board functioning as a real computer. I still have fond memories of the blinking light on my Dad's ELF II...
More efficient to burn it in bulk, convert it to electricity, transmit that electrical power through the domestic mains, and store it energy in heavy, expensive-to-produce-and-nigh-unrecyclable rechargeable cells? As opposed to simply carrying the highly-energetic fuel around and burning it in situ?
I could be wrong, but it almost sounds like the solution's worse than the problem...
My six-year-old was almost inconsolable when we reached the end of the Hobbit. The Neverending Story is keeping us busy for the time being but there's nothing really suitable to bridge the gap to the LOTR. Smith of Wootton Major, maybe...
...or else we just dive in with the Nazgul and the Balrogs...