written by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: December 06, 2016
I burst out laughing (in my mind, at least)
And sad, too, because I know there are so many of you
and you are all Eat Up With Dumbass.
From 5/20/1899 ( ) To 12/6/2016 ( ) is 42934 days
42934 = 21467 + 21467
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/11/2024 ( ) is 21467 days
From 2/14/1967 ( ) To 8/11/2024 ( ) is 20998 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/30/2023 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me ) is 20998 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 8/11/2024 ( ) is 10128 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/26/1993 ( debut of Microsoft Windows NT ) is 10128 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-sent-him-deep-undercover-134004143.html
Yahoo! News
The CIA Sent Him Deep Undercover to Spy on Islamic Radicals. It Cost Him Everything
Zach Dorfman
Sun, August 11, 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899
1899
From Wikipedia
May 20 – In New York City:
Jacob German, a cab driver, becomes the first motor vehicle operator in the U.S. to be arrested for speeding when he is caught driving his electric taxi 12 miles per hour (19 km/h), more than twice the speed limit on Lexington Avenue.
The American Physical Society is founded at a meeting at Columbia University by 36 physicists, with a mission ""to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics."
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/29/business/company-reports-microsoft-corp-nms.html
COMPANY REPORTS; MICROSOFT CORP. (NMS)
Published: Thursday, July 29, 1993
The company's Windows/NT operating system, announced in May, has not yet contributed to the balance sheet, though Microsoft said Monday that it had begun retail distribution.
In recent months Microsoft has positioned NT as an alternative to the Unix operating system, which is widely used by engineers and scientists and an increasing number of commercial users.
Windows NT 3.1
From Wikipedia
Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft
At the time of Windows NT's release, Microsoft's Windows 3.1 desktop environment had established brand recognition and market share, but it relied on the DOS operating system for essential functions, and it had a constrictive 16-bit architecture. Windows NT, however, was a complete, 32-bit operating system that retained a desktop environment familiar to Windows 3.1 users. By extending the Windows brand and beginning NT at version 3.1, Microsoft implied that consumers should expect a familiar user experience. The name Windows NT ("New Technology") advertised that this was a re-engineered version of Windows.
Release
Windows NT 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server (so numbered to associate them with Windows 3.1) were released on July 26, 1993.
Even though the operating system's actual success was only moderate, it had a huge lasting impact. Developers of Unix derivations for the first time strived to standardize their operating systems, and Novell was so concerned about its market share that it bought a Unix vendor.
It was recognized that Windows NT would dominate the desktop market as soon as the hardware became powerful enough to run the operating system at an acceptable speed. Eight years later, Microsoft would unify the consumer-oriented Windows line (which had remained MS-DOS based) with the NT line with the October 2001 release of Windows XP - the first consumer-oriented version of Windows to use the NT architecture.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
[Enterprise-E engineering]
DATA: Tell me. Are you using a polymer-based neuro-relay to transmit the organic nerve impulses to the central processor in my positronic net? If that is the case, how have you solved the problem of increased signal degradation inherent to organosynthetic transmission across...
BORG QUEEN: Do you always talk this much?
DATA: Not always, ...but often.
BORG QUEEN: Why do you insist on utilising this primitive linguistic communication? Your android brain is capable of so much more.
DATA: Have you forgotten? I am endeavouring to become more human.
BORG QUEEN: Human! We used to be exactly like them. Flawed, weak, organic, but we evolved to include the synthetic. Now we use both to attain perfection. Your goal should be the same as ours.
DATA: Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind.
BORG QUEEN: Small words, from a small being, trying to attack what he doesn't understand.
DATA: I understand that you have no real interest in me. That your goal is to obtain the encryption codes for the Enterprise computer.
BORG QUEEN: That is one of our goals, one of many. But in order to reach it I am willing to help you reach yours.
(Data breaks an arm free and thumps a Borg drone, releases himself, fights with drones before being restrained, his arm wounded)
BORG QUEEN: Is it becoming clear to you yet? Look at yourself, standing there cradling the new flesh that I've given you. If it means nothing to you, why protect it?
DATA: I ...I am simply imitating the behaviour of humans.
BORG QUEEN: You're becoming more human all the time. Now you're learning how to lie.
excerpts:
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Kindle Edition
by Julian Jaynes
page 226
The consequences of the disappearance of auditory hallucinations from human mentality are profound and widespread, and occur on many different levels.
One thing is the confusion of authority itself. What is authority?
Rulers without gods to guide them are fitful and unsure. They turn to omens and divination
Even the king's own authority in the absence of gods becomes questionable.
Divination
So far, we have just looked at the evidence for the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
The absence of gods in bas-relies and cylinder seals, the cries about lost gods that wail out of the silent cuneiforms, the emphasis on prayer, the introduction of new kinds of silent divinities, angels and demons, the new idea of heaven, all strongly indicate that the hallucinated voices called gods are no longer the guiding companions of men.
[excerpts from "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, author]
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 05:16 AM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 08/15/2024
