Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).
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Beyond Mirrors
The age of science has failed to explain our universe in rational terms.
Consequently the power of magic has gradually emerged from our conscious minds to fathom the unfathomable.
Our most distinguished scientists reluctantly admit, that mankind is nothing but some billion creatures, sitting on a piece of solar driftwood floating in space.
Magic is the art of influencing the cause of events by the intervention of spiritual forces or some other occult device.
According to arthur c. clarke any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Early civilization often mistook the unexplainable world around them to be magic.
Rupert sheldrake in his book seven experiments that could change the world has stated that scientists attitude toward their experiments affect the results of their experiments.
There is no such thing as a definite fact in science and therefore the irrationality of magic plays an important part in our rational world.
Werner heisenberg, the leading 20th. century physicist has stated, that mass is a physical interpretation of energy.
Religious organizations have understood the power of magic; and therefore monopolized the interpretation of the supernatural to control the human mind.
The universe as a whole is beyond explanation.
Only at the end of the 20th century the roman catholic church admitted, that the great visionary galileo galilei was, in fact, correct.
The second millennium has come to an end. scientists have to admit that the universe is magic.
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As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.
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We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.
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I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.
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The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
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Letters
Atatakai suna no ue o arukidasu yo
Kanashii shirase no todokanai umibe e
Kimi ga inakutemo taiyou ga noboru to
Atarashii ichinichi no hajimari
Kyou eranda amidakuji no sen ga
Doko ni tsuzuku ka wa wakaranai
Namakemono na watashi ga mainichi hataraku riyuu
Ah ryoute ni sora wo
Ude ni arashi wo
Ah~ kimi ni o wakare o
Ah~ kono umibe ni nokosareita no wa
Itsumo okitegami
Ah yume no naka demo
Denwa goshi demo
Ah~ koe o kikitai yo
Ah~ kotoba kawasu no ga nigate na kimi wa
Itsumo okitegami
Isogashita renraku
Tama ni wasurechau kedo
Dare ni datte ichi, nido wa aru koto
Kyou hanashita toshiue no hito wa
Hitori demo daijoubu da to iu
Ikudashige na watashi wa mada kangaeteru tochuu
Ah hana ni namae wo
Hoshi ni negai wo
Ah~ watashi ni anata wo
Ah~ kono madobe ni kazararete ita no wa
Itsumo okitegami
Ah sukoshi dake demo
SHATSU no ue demo
Ah~ kimi ni furetai yo
Ah~ oboete iru? Saigo no ichigyou wa
Kanarazu kaeru yo
Ah yasuragu basho wo
Yume ni tsuzuki wo
Ah~ kimi ni okaeri wo
Ah~ kono sekai no dokoka kara watashi wo okuritsuzukeru yo
Ah yume no naka demo
Denwa goshi demo
Ah~ koe o kikitai yo
Ah~ kotoba kawasu no ga nigate nara
Kondo kyuu ni inaku naru toki wa
Nan ni mo iranai yo.
Tell me that you'll never ever leave me
Then you go ahead and leave me
What the hell is going on
Tell me that you really really love me
Then you go ahead and leave me
How the hell do I go on...
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The Stealing Of It To Claim As 'Their' Property
There are many things I show,
Handed to me by my ancestors.
And what has been given to me,
Is in my DNA.
Where it will stay!
Although the preciousness of it,
May be tampered with one day.
But...
The stealing of it to claim as 'their' property,
Will not happen in my generation.
No matter how advanced the technology.
Or the sophistication of the thieves,
To create what they percieve will be human.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
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It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
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They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.
Play Ball
Namaikisou to omowareru dai-ichi inshou ki ni shinaide
Sou saikou no bougyo wa toki ni kougeki da to iu desho
Matsuri no oto ga yasei yobisamasu
Suzushii yoru ni netsu wo sosogu
Hayari no uta ga watashi kakitateru (sounds like "play ball")
Shoubu dokoro
* Tsuka no ma no chinmoku o yaburu question
Kyuukai no ura de miseru PITCHAA no you ni
I'm throwing my heart
Hitori demo tsuzukeru to kimeta mission
Dare ni demo suki to ieru wake ja nai
Nerai wo sadamete
I'm throwing my heart at you
Natsu mo owari no kehai tadayou hachigatsu matsu akiramenaide
Zenryoku tsukushitemo DAME dattara sore mo mata fuuryuu
Hanabi no iro ga yokogao o someru
Sabishii sora ga kyuu ni warau
Kirei na hoshi ga kaeri okuraseru (sounds like "play ball")
Nozomu tokoro
Kimi no mune no dokoka ni nemuru passion
Wazuka na sukima nogasanu RANNAA no you ni
I'm stealing your heart
Hitori demo tsuzukeru to kimeta mission
Dare ni demo sugao miseru wake ja nai
Megane o hazushite
I'm throwing my heart
Karei ni gyakuten saseta first impression
Ashimoto ni buki o suteru HANTAA no you ni
I'm showing my heart
Hitori demo tsuzukeru to kimeta mission
Dare ni demo kiba wo mukeru wake ja nai
Kotae wo kikasete
I'm throwing my heart at you
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song performed by by Utada Hikaru
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
quote by Alvin Toffler
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Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
quote by Niels Bohr
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