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Woke up to this weather.......(UK)
Snow May Hit Roads Before Rush Home
Roads will be relatively "calm" today and tomorrow but snow could cause disruption before the Easter Monday rush.
Snow may cause delaysThe RAC said traffic will now ease after the busy getaway on Good Friday.
From around 3pm into the evening, there was congestion on a number of routes including the M1, M5 and M25, and problems were caused by standing water on the M4 in Wales.
An RAC spokesman said: "There's going to be a period of relative calm. The thing to watch out for now is that the weather is getting bad in some parts of the country."
There was a high risk of snow in eastern England this morning and showers of rain, sleet and snow are expected across England and Wales tomorrow.
More snow showers were set to strike in northern and central Scotland on Easter Monday.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91187-1310289,00.html
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I woke up to snow this morning, up in the North. It was all melted by 11am, the sun is pretty fierce today. The wind is another matter, howling gales all day yesterday, all of last night, and still going on this morning. My street is a mess, there's bins and garden stuff blown everywhere, and a lot of trees across the road have lost branches. |
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perverted_introvert
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Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:05 am
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Sorry for your horrible weather, love.
I am convinced that once April 20 rolls around we are going to see some strange human nastiness.
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| Here We Go
Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:05 am
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/us/28sniper.html?ref=us
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| Re: Spring
Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:43 pm
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quote:
Originally posted by perverted_introvert
Sorry for your horrible weather, love.
I am convinced that once April 20 rolls around we are going to see some strange human nastiness.
I think you are "right on the money" with that prediction. Give or take a week.
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raze78
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Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:38 pm
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Century 10, Quatrain 74
The year the great seventh number is accomplished,
Appearing at the time of the great games of slaughter:
Not far from the age of the great millennium,
When the dead will come out of their graves.
I wonder if its 2001+7, seventh year accomplished after 9/11? Olympics anybody?
Century IX - Quatrain 83.
Sun twentieth of Taurus the earth will tremble very mightily,
The great theatre full up will be ruined.
The air sky and land will become obscured and troubled.
Then the infidel will call upon God and saints.
Some say this is happens on the 10th of May
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stitcherman
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if a person dresses like a nazi
if a person thinks like a nazi
if a person performs acts that nazis did.
then it is safe to assume they are probably nazis.
I bet first they will start a folder and stamp them with some disorder, well and lets see  drugging them all up with drugs with fluoride. then comes the memory twisters after that. Then these children will be let known that they have a mental disorder and be sure to tell them all the ways sexually abused people become this and that throughout their life. That will really get the s!@# going  for a long long time.
Oh when they are all done they will ship them to some home where people live off children. and throw the mother in some cage or enslave her to pay for her "kid".
Here is the AP article PI posted, thanks PI
Texas defends separation of polygamist sect kids from moms
By MICHAEL GRACZYK – 14 hours ago
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — State officials are defending the separation of mothers from many of the children taken in a raid on a polygamist ranch in West Texas.
Texas Children's Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner says Monday's separation came after careful review and much discussion with experts. She says their experience shows abused children are more truthful in interviews about their treatment at home if a parent isn't present.
The mothers have complained the state deceived them. But Meisner says authorities explained the situation. She says members of the sect cried when they were told but that the separation otherwise went smoothly.
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perverted_introvert
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| 04-18-2008 Earthquake
Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:30 am
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http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/an-earthquake-rattles-the-midwest/?hp
Get ready. I was half expecting the polygamist sect raid to be the next Waco. Could we be in for something even bigger?
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Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:51 am
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Quote from your link PI
The zone doesn’t produce nearly as many noticeable earthquakes as the fault complex running down the West Coast, and in the popular mind, California has owned the Earthquake Country brand at least since San Francisco famously crashed and burned in 1906. (Odd coincidence: That one was on April 18, too.)
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Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:55 am
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-school-threats-18apr18,1,2350447.story
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A whole suburban school district closed Thursday, the latest in a spate of violence threats and strong reactions.
They know something is up too. Why is everyone so edgy this time of year?
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In th movie "esoteric agenda" it talks about the solar calendars, pagan calendars, mayan calendars, and of course astronomical observations.
I am thinking that to go by the "regular calendar" for figuring out the predictions of our controllers actions is one big mistake, this all must be considered.
A lot of it is very complex and hard to find; Talk nothing about being able to analize it all, without complete information.
Again I keep in mind this all may be true or not. the important thing I like to realize is that "they" believe it, when analizing what may be comming next.
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Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:31 pm
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03tier.html?_r=5&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least
By JOHN TIERNEY
Before we get to Ray Kurzweil’s plan for upgrading the “suboptimal software” in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York.
Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions? Have faith. Solar power may look terribly uneconomical at the moment, but with the exponential progress being made in nanoengineering, Dr. Kurzweil calculates that it’ll be cost-competitive with fossil fuels in just five years, and that within 20 years all our energy will come from clean sources.
Are you depressed by the prospect of dying? Well, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life expectancy will keep rising every year faster than you’re aging. And then, before the century is even half over, you can be around for the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software.
At least that’s Dr. Kurzweil’s calculation. It may sound too good to be true, but even his critics acknowledge he’s not your ordinary sci-fi fantasist. He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.
He makes his predictions using what he calls the Law of Accelerating Returns, a concept he illustrated at the festival with a history of his own inventions for the blind. In 1976, when he pioneered a device that could scan books and read them aloud, it was the size of a washing machine.
Two decades ago he predicted that “early in the 21st century” blind people would be able to read anything anywhere using a handheld device. In 2002 he narrowed the arrival date to 2008. On Thursday night at the festival, he pulled out a new gadget the size of a cellphone, and when he pointed it at the brochure for the science festival, it had no trouble reading the text aloud.
This invention, Dr. Kurzweil said, was no harder to anticipate than some of the predictions he made in the late 1980s, like the explosive growth of the Internet in the 1990s and a computer chess champion by 1998. (He was off by a year — Deep Blue’s chess victory came in 1997.)
“Certain aspects of technology follow amazingly predictable trajectories,” he said, and showed a graph of computing power starting with the first electromechanical machines more than a century ago. At first the machines’ power doubled every three years; then in midcentury the doubling came every two years (the rate that inspired Moore’s Law); now it takes only about a year.
Dr. Kurzweil has other graphs showing a century of exponential growth in the number of patents issued, the spread of telephones, the money spent on education. One graph of technological changes goes back millions of years, starting with stone tools and accelerating through the development of agriculture, writing, the Industrial Revolution and computers. (For details, see nytimes.com/tierneylab.)
Now, he sees biology, medicine, energy and other fields being revolutionized by information technology. His graphs already show the beginning of exponential progress in nanotechnology, in the ease of gene sequencing, in the resolution of brain scans. With these new tools, he says, by the 2020s we’ll be adding computers to our brains and building machines as smart as ourselves.
This serene confidence is not shared by neuroscientists like Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, who discussed future brains with Dr. Kurzweil at the festival. It might be possible to create a thinking, empathetic machine, Dr. Ramachandran said, but it might prove too difficult to reverse-engineer the brain’s circuitry because it evolved so haphazardly.
“My colleague Francis Crick used to say that God is a hacker, not an engineer,” Dr. Ramachandran said. “You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.”
Dr. Kurzweil’s predictions come under intense scrutiny in the engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum, which devotes its current issue to the Singularity. Some of the experts writing in the issue endorse Dr. Kurzweil’s belief that conscious, intelligent beings can be created, but most think it will take more than a few decades.
He is accustomed to this sort of pessimism and readily acknowledges how complicated the brain is. But if experts in neurology and artificial intelligence (or solar energy or medicine) don’t buy his optimistic predictions, he says, that’s because exponential upward curves are so deceptively gradual at first.
“Scientists imagine they’ll keep working at the present pace,” he told me after his speech. “They make linear extrapolations from the past. When it took years to sequence the first 1 percent of the human genome, they worried they’d never finish, but they were right on schedule for an exponential curve. If you reach 1 percent and keep doubling your growth every year, you’ll hit 100 percent in just seven years.”
Dr. Kurzweil is so confident in these curves that he has made a $10,000 bet with Mitch Kapor, the creator of Lotus software. By 2029, Dr. Kurzweil wagers, a computer will pass the Turing Test by carrying on a conversation that is indistinguishable from a human’s.
I’m not as confident those graphs are going to hold up for fields besides computer science, so I’d be leery of betting on a date. But if I had to take sides in the 2029 wager, I’d put my money on Dr. Kurzweil. He could be right once again about a revolution coming sooner than expected. And I’d hate to bet against the chance to be around for this one.
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Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:42 pm
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Ray Kurzweil's webiste.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=1
Bill Joy wrote the article entitled "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" after having dinner with Ray Kurzweil and another transhumanist scientist.
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stitcherman
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This might be a easier way to get to the article.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
Why the future doesn't need us.
Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
By Bill Joy
"Ray gave me a partial preprint of his then-forthcoming bookThe Age of Spiritual Machines, which outlined a utopia he foresaw - one in which humans gained near immortality by becoming one with robotic technology.
These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they will most certainly not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.1 "
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1 The passage Kurzweil quotes is from Kaczynski's Unabomber Manifesto, which was published jointly, under duress, byThe New York Times and The Washington Post to attempt to bring his campaign of terror to an end. I agree with David Gelernter, who said about their decision:
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