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pico-digital-studios · 4 months

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Into, Across and Beyond! Cast: Zonic the Zone Cop

Replaces: Max Borne / Spider-Man 2211 Origin: Sonic's Archie Comics

"So, think about this, in a way. You've heard HIS talk about a supposed way of doing things, right? Now, you have a choice. A choice between saving someone truly special to you, or saving a world. EVERY world if we're talking on a grander scale. Now, look, I'm not trying to force you to choose here. Nobody can. But what would you personally prioritise, if forced into it?"

If the multiverse was like a super-tall, multi-layered sandwich with each layer representing a unique take on reality, then a special multiversal agency known as the Zone Cops are the huge toothpick keeping it all together.

Zonic here is Sonic's counterpart from No Zone (Dimension ZONE-0000) around the centre of the Sonic multiverse. As a Zone Cop, he carries a responsibility to monitor all realities and maintain balance between each of the different universes, dubbed "Zones" in the sub-universe he's connected to.

(Original sprite work by khalifax10 and neo2k)

As such, he has seen and been responsible for various goings-on in the Archie portion of the Sonic multiverse, such as the incident with Universalamander, numerous clashes with Scourge, and the whole Giant Borg incident in Dimension UG-1999. He made his presence known while helping speed up sending Dr. Ivanna Robotina back to the Luna Zone (or Dimension ZONE-SM-1992).

Considering the line of work he has to do, Zonic is notably more serious than most of his other counterparts, being focused on doing what's right for the multiverse. Another thing to note is that, in most dimensions outside his own, Zonic, alongside other Zone Cops, are at a 90° angle a lot of the time.

Amongst things, he cleared Archie!Sonic's name when framed for insulting someone in Litigopolis (Dimension ZONE-LAW-2000), got Scourge captured numerous times, and helped clean things up after Scourge and the Destructix made their escape, hoping they stayed put in their universe.

At one point, the Quill Society began to be formed with EV!Sonic and Tekno taking the lead, as an act to help keep the multiverse stable. Zonic was happy to engage, at least in the interests of sorting out any villains that might've been running amok. As such, he's usually one of the main crew dispatched to round up any villains that have been displaced from their own universes.

His more serious attitude is lampshaded by his fellow Quill Society colleagues, but it's not anywhere near as bad as Lost Memory Sonic's cold and calculating nature. That said, Zonic has been shown to be as silly as the others on occasion, like a form of buffy speak he uses when trying to get E-21 to explain more about the expanded universe (dubbing it the "universal-explainy thing"), or admitting his terminology for the expanded universe (The "Special-Extravagant-Galactic-spAce Vast Multiverse") isn't much better than the simple SEGAVerse abbreviation.

I had decided that Zonic inherits those more comedic traits from Miguel, despite his serious nature, seeing as how Lost Memory Sonic is more of a no-nonsense villain in Many More Heroes. In addition, thanks to Gust Planet's special properties, Zonic is able to float at the regular gravity he experiences in No Zone.

When OMT!Tails rats out LM!Sonic for what he had been doing, Zonic is mostly neutral on the factor, but decides on a majority vote to decide his course of action. Many of his Quill Society allies agree that strict paths don't make a hero, though CR!Sonic and OMT!Mina are the only two present that feel that some of them might well be crucial either way. Still, doesn't stop them and CR!Sonia from helping fend off LM!Sonic's assault.

After all is said and done, Zonic seals away Crimtake's leftover energy in, fittingly, a blue pendrive to go with any other code-based entities that have been captured, such as Villains!X. He was also responsible for sending LM!Sonic back to his universe after the crimes he had committed, letting EV!Sonic and MV!Tails give their warnings before he did his job.

#sonic exe #sonic the hedgehog #spider verse #sth #sonic #sonic fandom #sth au #sonic au #spider man

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carmelas · 2 years

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Edie Falco in Laws of Gravity (1992) dir. Nick Gomez

#edie falco #laws of gravity #nick gomez #filmedit #mine

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mysticstronomy · 3 years

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WHAT IS ANTI – GRAVITY??

Blog#107

Wednesday, July 21st ,2021

Welcome back,

Gravity, you undoubtedly remember, is the attractive force between objects. It holds you to the planet and keeps the planet orbiting around the sun. As you might imagine, the idea of reducing, canceling or protecting against this effect of gravity is highly appealing.

Antigravity technology would revolutionize space exploration and energy production. It would slash the energy demands of travel and transportation. First, however, we’d just have to drastically alter our understanding of physics and figure out how to counter this powerful force.

As such, antigravity technology remains both the Holy Grail and a red flag. There’s been no shortage of hoaxes, conspiracy theories and credibility – straining reports regarding its research.

For example, in 1992, Russian physicist Evgeny Podkletnov claimed to have successfully tested a device that shields an object from gravity. The experiment involved levitating a superconducting disc above a magnet. No one – including NASA researchers – has been able to replicate this experiment in the nearly two decades since that time. In 2002, noted aviation journalist Nick Cook’s research into supposed Nazi antigravity research failed to win over critics. You might be starting to see why “antigravity” is a taboo subject.

Or why NASA has chosen previously to research antigravity through projects with names like Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project (1996-2002). NASA even published a booklet titled “Responding to Mechanical Antigravity” to help amateur and professional researchers, most of whom submitted ideas (as many as 100 per year) involving machines that falsely appeared to create an antigravity effect.

And just in case you’re wondering, NASA’s zero – gravity flights aboard modified C-9 aircraft are not examples of antigravity. Neither is the levitation effect achieved in 2007 by countering Casimir force, a quantum force that essentially causes objects to stick to one another – a type of nanofiction. Antigravity, on the other hand, involves lessening the effects of gravitational pull on an object, and the science just isn’t there yet.

Many scientists strongly believe that antigravity isn’t possible, given what we know about the universe and the laws that govern it. So for now, all those amazing antigravity gizmos are going to have to remain within the realm of science fiction.

SOURCE: science.howstuffworks.com

COMING UP!!

(Saturday, July 24th, 2021)

“WHY DO WE THINK THAT THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE IS ACCELERATING??”

#Astronomy #astronomyfacts #astronomyclub #astronomylover #astrophysics #astrophotography #physics #quantum physics #space #outer space #spacecraft #universe #Parallel Universe #alternate universe #white universe #science #NASA #nasa 2021

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years

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When you hear "one size fits all," think "universal"

Once, the phrase “one size fits all” was a futuristic boast offered by manufacturers availing themselves of new, high-tech materials that stretched and flexed without tearing or deforming. Today, it’s a curse-word used to damn universal programs. What happened?

As is so often the case with big linguistic shifts, the culprit is capitalist realism, the ideology that there is no alternative to unfettered profit-seeking, which relies heavily on linguistic games. Much of our vocabulary is infected with these ideological shibboleths. For example, “free markets” — a term that once referred to markets free from “rent” (passive income collection by asset-owners that productive firms had to deal with) has now come to mean the opposite: markets today are only “free” if you can extract rent from assets, rather than production:

https://locusmag.com/2021/03/cory-doctorow-free-markets/

Scientific terms are heavily represented in capitalist realism’s lexicon — and why not? If you want to convince people that your ideology is inevitable, cloaking it in science can make your preferences seem like immutable laws of nature, as inescapable as gravity. For example, “learned helplessness,” the evidence-free conviction that a state that helps people with the essentials for human thriving (health care, shelter, nutrition, education, etc) will make those people literally incapable of procuring those necessities for themselves.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/01/learned-helplessness/#bag-o-money

(Of course, “learned helplessness” doesn’t apply to aerospace companies that receive multibillion-dollar bailouts!)

The demonization of “one size fits all” didn’t find its way into the neoliberal Devil’s Dictionary by accident. As Lawrence Glickman writes for the Boston Review, it was tied to a deliberate, late-1970s effort to kill the New Deal’s ethic of universal services:

https://bostonreview.net/articles/in-praise-of-one-size-fits-all/

Take Ed Clark, the Koch-backed Libertarian presidential candidate in 1980 (his running mate was David Koch). Clark used “one size fits all” to attack on the idea of universal, public education, calling the system an “educational straitjacket.”

By the 1990s, “one size fits all” was the go-to way to criticize any universal program, including (and especially) programs that protected the civil rights of minorities. In 1990, James J Kilpatrick used the phrase to damn “motor voter” laws that automatically combine voter registration with drivers’ licenses. The trick worked so well that he used it again to attack a family and medical leave bill.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88936622/tucson-citizen/

It worked. When GHW Bush’s vetoed the Family and Medical Bill, he repeated the phrase: “By substituting a ‘one size fits all’ government mandate for innovative individual agreements, this bill ignores the differing family needs and preferences of employees…”

The phrase was a favorite of Bush’s and was trotted out whenever a universal program was under discussion, including his analysis of the uprising after the acquittal of the dirty cops who beat Rodney King:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88938095/the-orlando-sentinel/

The GHW Bush years saw “one size fits all” converted into a “one attack kills all” superweapon to justify all kinds of institutional cruelty. Bush Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole used it to fight universal child-care. His Council of Environmental Quality chair Michael R Deland used it to kill the 1992’s UN climate change goals.

Many have noted Bill Clinton’s successful adoption of neoliberal policies and rhetoric in a bid to move the party away from universalism and labor advocacy into a party of finance and global capital. Clinton was happy to use the right’s language, and “one size fits all” was no exception. In 1992, he gave a campaign speech promising his government wouldn’t deploy “one size fits all” policies.

Corporate Dems ran with “one size fits all” as a key to promoting “entrepreneurial government.” The phrase is sprinkled through “Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector,” Obsorne and Gaebler’s Clintonite bible.

By 1996, Clinton was using the phrase in his State of the Union address: “the era of big, centralized, one-size-fits-all government is over.”

But you can’t out-GOP the GOP. Its 1992 platform damned universal access to child care as “one size fits all.” In 1996, it used “one size fits all” to fight nationwide interstate highway speed-limits. In 2000, its platform promised to dismantle Medicare because it was a “one size fits all” solution.

The demonization of universal services with “one size fits all” talk grew and grew. Rick Perry used it to attack the Affordable Care Act in 2015. Today, it’s being used to condemn the Build Back Better Act:

https://nypost.com/2021/11/11/8-big-problems-with-joe-bidens-build-back-better-bill/

The 5th Circuit Appellate Division just took it up in its decision banishing vaccine mandates for federal contractors, calling mandates a “one-size-fits-all sledgehammer.” Republican lawmakers like Joni Ernst use “one size fits all” to fight the $15 minimum wage:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88932186/the-news-and-observer/

Ernst called a $15 minimum wage a “policy set by Washington politicians,” but as Glickman dryly points out, another phrase for this is “a federal law.” Literally every federal law is “a policy set by Washington politicians.”

Seen in this light, “one size fits all” is of a piece with talk about “states’ rights” as a justification for voter suppression and other Jim Crow (and New Jim Crow) policies.

Of course, there are places where universalism should give way to customization and exception: Crime Bill cruelties like mandatory minimum sentences and three-strikes laws (and other “zero tolerance” policies) are incapable of producing nuanced, just outcomes, and there’s a rich record of their failures. But these aren’t the “one size fits all” policies that conservatives condemn.

Their aim is reserved for universal policies like mask mandates — policies that are intrinsically about social problems, where the right to individual preferences can’t trump the collective right to safety. Masks work, folks:

https://documentingcovid19.io/state/MO

What’s more, there’s nothing about universalism that says customization and individualism must be sidelined. It was public, universally accessible alternative schools that made me the person I am today:

https://doctorow.medium.com/give-me-slack-b4e88a007dbf

Today, those schools have been all-but abolished by the same conservative ideology that made “one size fits all” into a dirty word.

#pluralistic

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fengshuiblogs · 2 years

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Why Feng Shui Can’t Be Considered a Science by Kartar Diamond

When I first started talking about feng shui in 1992, I was very excited to promote it as a natural science, mainly because I believed it. I was also reacting to the growing trend of feng shui as it was marketed by people who called it “magic” or a spiritual practice related to Tantric Buddhism.

I couldn’t stand these comparisons because I knew they weren’t true and I also felt they tarnished the integrity of feng shui. I didn’t want to discourage potential clients who might accept feng shui as real, but with a clear awareness that it is based on the laws of nature and a proven methodology transcending Chinese culture.

I wanted to educate the public that feng shui theories and principles would not conflict with anyone’s formal or spiritual religious beliefs and are as relevant, if not more relevant today, than when they were first discovered. thousands of years ago. This part I still believe. Feng Shui is no more in conflict with any organized religion than, say, the laws of gravity. Feng Shui is a natural phenomenon on this planet. But is it a science?

A friend with an impressive scientific background kindly told me years ago that it cannot be considered a science because the circumstances we are evaluating and interpreting cannot be guaranteed to repeat or be the same all over again. the weather. Like a science experiment where a defined group of compounds are combined with a reproducible and identical result, feng shui includes too many variables that cannot be repeated or guaranteed.

For example, I can say with certainty that a house that was built in the 1970s and faces south is a house where there is a strong tendency for a couple to divorce. And yet, I cannot guarantee this result 100% of the time or say exactly with 100% accuracy when the separation will occur, even taking annual cycles into account. This same type of house is one that a recently divorced person often retires to.

With two houses built in the same year, the same orientation and the same floor plan, we still cannot guarantee that the two houses would be decorated the same or used in the same way. One family could use the northwest bedroom as an office and another could use the northwest bedroom as a bedroom. This alone will change the influence of the houses on the two families. We also cannot repeat the exact same external environment. A house can have a park across the street and another house a hill.

These exterior features would affect the same floor plan differently. And finally, with all of us having some measure of free will or fate, we cannot place the same occupants in two separate but equal living spaces. Perhaps the closest we could get would be the occupants of each house with the same dates of birth.

And yet, feng shui is very close. I call it a “predictive art”, like astrology, because there are trends, strong ones, when certain circumstances are similar or when enough variables are the same.

My books cover many case studies of certain types of houses that I have evaluated, documented and seen with great amazement that their “personalities” are well defined. There are house types that can be harmful to fertility, house types that seem to attract legal problems for their occupants, and house types that can suggest infidelity, to name a few examples.

There are 144 different house types based on the 20 year era they were built in and their magnetic compass alignment. For example, a house built in 1985 facing east is different in its influence than a house built in 2004 facing the same direction. Or a house facing west at 260 degrees is different from a home facing west at 265 degrees.

Within these 144 types of homes, there could be hundreds, if not thousands, of different basic floor plans. This is why each house is truly unique. In addition, houses change their influence on occupants over long periods of time. A house built in 1903, without any renovations or change of decor, will affect people differently in 2009. Houses go through their own “maturing” process and the greatest cycle repeats every 180 years.

Even though feng shui is not an absolute science, I was impressed by its proximity, with clients confirming the influence of their home or business based on traditional calculations of time and space. When I ask occupants if they experience certain health issues reported by their surroundings, the yes answer is around 90%. When people experience a certain event, such as a theft or fire, the timing of those events can be corroborated with almost as much precision. In the same way that our meteorologist can predict a 70% probability of rain or a pollster can predict the likely outcome of an election, feng shui can be considered a “predictive art” without diminishing its authenticity, usefulness and its relevance in our modern world. .

Author: Kartar Diamond Company: Feng Shui Solutions ® From the Feng Shui Theory Blog Series

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i-moved-shooshoogo · 4 years

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Short ref of new babey- I'll make a full version later

But here's info 👀

Name: Peaches Ryan Aiko

Nicknames: Peach, Peachtree, and P

Gender: Androgyne

Pronouns: They/Them

Birthday: April 15th, 1992

Species: Wolfdog (Was a Human once before but.. *Looks at Bill*)

Age: 19

Sexuality: Bisexual

Relationship Status: none

Height: 5'5

Figure: Slim, tall, soft

Smoker? No

Drinker? No

Drugs? No

Addictions: Human blood and sugar

Allergies: Dust and Pollen

Any physical ailments/illnesses/disabilities: Heterochromia and PTSD

Any medication regularly taken: yes

Personality: Observant, neutral, dynamic, empathetic, passionate, motivated, confident, cheerful, rentless, determined, and sweet

Likes: Breaking rules, doing Wiccan Rituals, Flowers, scented candles, silence, sweet foods, sodas, and midnight

Dislikes: Loud noises, making deals, Bill Cipher, being lied to, being locked into rooms, being alone, the thought of someone dying, their past, accidentally killing humans, Christianity, and Gideon

Fears/phobias: Phonophobia, Claustrophobia, Monophonia, Christophobia, Thanatophobia, Traumatophobia,

Favorite colour: Any Pastel Colour and Black

hobbies: Breaking rules, eating junk food, looking for mysteries around Gravity Falls, Poetry.

Favourite food(s): Macaroons, Honey, Creampuffs, most sweet things

Favourite drink(s): soda

Disliked food(s): vegetables

Disliked drink(s): any fancy drinks

Peaceful or aggressive attitude? Both

Special skills/magical powers/etc: Fire Magic (Fire Manipulation, Spawning Fire, Exhaling Fire and smoke) and Obsidian Claws

Weapon: Fire Quartz Scythe

Weaknesses in combat: Water, getting/sneaking away, and memories

Strengths in combat: Speed, Fire

Parents: Grape, Raspberry

Are parents alive or dead? Dead... For now.

Is the character still in contact with their parents? No

Siblings: Nectarine, Kiwi, Cherry, Blueberry, Huckleberry, Strawberry, Lemon, Lime, Orange, and Blackberry

Other Important Relatives: Stanley, Stanford, Peppermint, Butterscotch, Cinnamon, Sourpatch, Boysenberry, Bunchberry, Elderberry, Cranberry, and Goji Berry.

Best Friends: Wendy, Mabel, and Dipper

Enemies: Gideon and Bill Cipher

Affiliation: Lawful Good

Status: Alive

Religion: Wicca

Zodiac sign: ♈ (Aries)

#gravity falls oc #wolfdog #peaches #pastel pink #pastel blue #pastel purple #pastel fashion #pastel goth #pastel #spiked wrist #fluff time

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islanublar · 3 years

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MASRANI BACKDOOR

AVAILABLE PROGRAMS:

ASSETS ..... USE TO ACCESS A PARK ASSET

QUERY ...... USE TO QUERY AN OBJECT

INBOX ...... READ RECEIVED MESSAGES

ARCHIVE .... READ ARCHIVED LOGS

TIMELINE ... USE TO SHOW COMPANY HISTORY

USEFUL COMMANDS:

HELP ....... DISPLAYS ASSISTANCE

LS ......... LIST DIRECTORY FILES

CLEAR ...... CLEARS THE SCREEN

EXIT ....... EXITS THE PROGRAM

ARCHIVE

KARYOLYSIS

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: WU, HENRY DATE: 09/20/1991 2205 CST SUBJECT: KARYOLYSIS NOTES: DESPITE INITIAL TESTS SHOWING PROMISING RESULTS, SUBJECTS 4X, 6X AND 7X (VELOCIRAPTOR) ALL FAILED WITHIN 6 DAYS DUE TO KARYOLYSIS: COMPLEX CHROMATIN MOLECULES COLLAPSING DURING INTERPHASE. WE BELIEVE THIS WAS DUE TO INCOMPATIBLE GENETIC STRUCTURES IN DENDROBATES LEUCOMELAS; AN INTERESTING THOUGHT AS DILOPHOSAURUS HAS SHOWN GOOD RESULTS WITH XL-22(728)[REGION 1]. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION HAS BEEN FOUND IN HYPEROLIUS VIRIDIFLAVUS.

---END LOG---

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: WU, HENRY DATE: 02/13/1992 1410 CST SUBJECT: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE NOTES: VELOCIRAPTOR SUBJECTS HAVE BEEN DISPLAYING HIGH LEVELS OF SHARED INTELLIGENCE AS A RESULT OF A THREE STEP PROCESS INVOLVING COGNITION, COOPERATION, AND COORDINATION. THE COLLECTIVE IQ IS STAGGERING. PERHAPS MORE ALARMING ARE SCANS OF THEIR TEMPORAL LOBE DISPLAYING HIGH LEVELS OF ACTIVITY RESPONSIBLE FOR MEMORY, ORGANIZATION AND SEQUENCING, AND RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE.

---END LOG---

LYSINE

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: WU, HENRY DATE: 05/12/1994 1215 CST SUBJECT: LYSINE NOTES: THERE MUST BE A HICCUP IN THE LYSINE CONTINGENCY SOMEWHERE. THE ANIMALS HAVE NOT PERISHED. WHAT'S MORE ASTONISHING IS THAT THEY'RE BREEDING. I'VE SEEN THE NESTS MYSELF. ONE CAN ONLY ASSUME INCLUSIONS FROM HYPEROLIUS VIRIDIFLAVUS WERE TO BLAME. COMPLETELY UNPRECEDENTED IN MY FIELD OF RESEARCH. LIFE FOUND A WAY?

---END LOG---

KARACOSIS WUTANSIS

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: WU, HENRY DATE: 05/21/1997 0745 CST SUBJECT: KARACOSIS WUTANSIS NOTES: SUCCESS! SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT WAS DECADES AWAY WAS ACHIEVED IN A MERE FOUR YEARS: THE ABILITY TO COMBINE MULTIPLE SPECIES OF GENETIC LIFE INTO A SINGLE ENVIRONMENT. A BRAND NEW SPECIES OF LIFE. THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETICISTS ARE ALREADY NAMING IT IN MY HONOR: KARACOSIS WUTANSIS. IF ONLY HAMMOND WAS WELL ENOUGH TO HAVE COME AND SEEN THIS. LOOKS LIKE I'LL HAVE TO UPDATE MY BOOK.

---END LOG---

IRON STORES

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: WU, HENRY DATE: 08/25/2000 1355 CST SUBJECT: IRON STORES NOTES: TECHNOLOGY NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME. JUST A DECADE AGO NO ONE HAD BELIEVED WE'D HOLD THE TECHNOLOGY WE USE TODAY. MOORE'S LAW IS THRIVING. OUR RESEARCHERS IN SAN DIEGO (BRIDGES & CURTIS, ET AL.) HAVE GIVEN ME THE NEWS THAT OUR PROTOTYPE IRON ANALYZER READ INTO OUR RECENTLY UNCOVERED FOSSILIZED MOSASAUR SKELETON AND HAS SHOWN SIGNS OF TRACEABLE DNA FRAGMENTS. WHILST IT IS STILL MUCH TOO EARLY TO TELL, I BELIEVE THIS MAY BE OUR ONLY MEANS TO RECREATING AQUATIC LIFE IN THE ABSENCE OF CULICIDAE.

---END LOG---

WEEK 3

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: HOSKINS, VIC DATE: 04/19/2002 1910 CST SUBJECT: WEEK 3 NOTES: I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE TEAM TODAY. HELL, STARING A SEVEN TON PREDATOR IN THE EYES IS NO EASY JOB. THESE THINGS ARE BIGGER THAN YOU'D EXPECT! LET'S JUST HOPE TIMACK KNOWS HOW TO BUILD STRONG PADDOCKS.

---END LOG---

RUFFLED FEATHERS

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: WU, HENRY DATE: 02/20/2003 1410 CST SUBJECT: RUFFLED FEATHERS NOTES: I'M CALLING THIS THE 'COMMON COLD OF GENETICS'. WE CAN'T CURE THIS ONE SOON I'M SURE. BECAUSE WE'RE ACTIVELY MANIPULATING AND MUTATING THE ANIMALS' GENES, ADDING FROG, BIRD AND REPTILE DNA, WE CREATE WHAT IS KNOWN AS 'NULL ALLELE'. THE DINOSAURS CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT SOMETHING ADDED TO THEIR CODE SO FOR NOW WE'RE STUCK WITH SCALES. MAYBE MY RESEARCH INTO GENE SPLICING WILL UNEARTH THIS PROBLEM, IT CERTAINLY PROVED ITS LIMITLESS CAPABILITIES WITH THAT ACCIDENT WE LEFT ON SORNA.

---END LOG---

NAMUMKIN KUCH BHI NAHI

---BEGIN LOG---

OWNER: MASRANI, SIMON DATE: 06/06/2009 0800 CST SUBJECT: NAMUMKIN KUCH BHI NAHI NOTES: I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I HELD A BABY DINOSAUR, AN INFANT PARASAUROLOPHUS IN 1999 DURING MY VISIT TO OVERSEE OUR RECENTLY PURCHASED INGEN. I REMEMBER THINKING THIS WAS THE RESULT OF PURE IMAGINATION REINFORCED BY THE UNDERSTANDING THAT NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. PEOPLE OFTEN TALK ABOUT HOW MAN CANNOT FLY WITHOUT AN AIRCRAFT, HOWEVER IF YOU REMOVE GRAVITY MAN CAN FLY WITHOUT AID OF ANYTHING. IT'S ALL ABOUT PERSPECTIVE. I KNOW NOW, MORE THAN EVER, THAT OUR SPECIES HAS UNLIMITED CAPABILITIES. HOLDING THAT YOUNG ANIMAL WAS A WAKE UP CALL. IF WE DREAM OF IT, WE CAN ACHIEVE IT. NOW ONLY ONE QUESTION REMAINS: WHAT IS NEXT FOR INGEN? I BELIEVE HENRY WU HAS AN ANSWER.

---END LOG---

INBOX

THE NEXT TEN YEARS

---NEW MESSAGE---

FROM: MASRANI, SIMON TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENT] DATE: 01/10/1998 1215 CST SUBJECT: THE NEXT TEN YEARS MESSAGE: FANCY MEETING ME FOR LUNCH THIS THURSDAY? STRICTLY BUSINESS. SIMON.

---END MESSAGE---

JURASSIC PLOP

---NEW MESSAGE---

FROM: MASRANI, SIMON TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENT] DATE: 10/23/1999 0005 CST SUBJECT: JURASSIC PLOP MESSAGE: I'M DISSATISFIED WITH THE NAME. 'PARK' FEELS SMALL, TOO 1980'S, NOT TO MENTION IT HAS A LOT OF WEIGHT AND BAD PRESS AROUND IT. I'VE BEEN SCRIBBLING NOTES ON MY FLIGHTS COMING UP WITH POSSIBLE TITLES, AND I'M THINKING 'WORLD'. WELCOME TO 'JURASSIC WORLD'! THOUGHTS? OTHERS IDEAS INCLUDED ... JURASSIC ISLAND, THE LOST WORLD, PREHISTORIC WORLD, JURASSIC LAND, DINO ISLAND, CRETASIA ISLAND, ROAMING REPTILES, DINOSPHERE, ... GIANT CHICKEN ISLAND?

---END MESSAGE---

RE: JW SYSTEMS CHECK

---NEW MESSAGE---

FROM: MCCLURE, JAMES TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENT] DATE: 06/08/2004 2050 CST SUBJECT: RE: JW SYSTEMS CHECK MESSAGE: I'VE MANAGED TO ISOLATE THE ANOMALY. I WOULD SAY THE SYSTEM IS NOW WATERTIGHT. I'LL GIVE HOSKINS A CALL AND SEE IF HE CAN SPOT ANYTHING THAT NEEDS UPDATING. YOU KNOW HOW HE HAS AN EYE FOR DETAIL. MIGHT HELP.

---END MESSAGE---

GRAND OPENING

---NEW MESSAGE---

FROM: MASRANI, SIMON TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS] DATE: 05/30/2005 1530 CST SUBJECT: GRAND OPENING MESSAGE: I JUST WANTED TO SEND A QUICK MESSAGE TO THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR ALL THE EFFORT YOU'VE PUT INTO MAKING JURASSIC WORLD COME TO LIFE. WE HAVE A SAYING BACK HOME IN INDIA, 'DER AAYE DURUST AAYE' OR 'BETTER LATE THAN NEVER'. IT'S TIME WE MAKE HISTORY. HAMMOND WOULD BE PROUD. NAMASTE. SIMON.

---END MESSAGE---

NEW OPPORTUNITY

---NEW MESSAGE---

FROM: MASRANI, SIMON TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENT] DATE: 04/04/2012 1720 CST SUBJECT: NEW OPPORTUNITY MESSAGE: HENRY. I'VE JUST COME OUT OF A MEETING AND THE BOARD ARE UNANIMOUS IN THEIR DESIRE FOR A NEW PARK ATTRACTION TO SATISFY OUR INVESTORS. SOMETHING BIGGER, SCARIER, COOLER. ANY NEW SPECIES COME TO MIND? YOU HAVE MY FULL AUTHORIZATION. SIMON.

---END MESSAGE---

HELP

---NEW MESSAGE---

FROM: GRADY, OWEN TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENT] DATE: 05/17/2013 0955 CST SUBJECT: HELP MESSAGE: THEIR PACK DYNAMIC IS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED THAN WE FIRST THOUGHT AND I'M STARTING TO THINK YOU'RE NOT WEIGHING UP THE GRAVITY OF THAT. WE CANNOT BURY OUR HEADS IN THE SAND AND HOPE FOR THE BEST WITH THIS, SO I' M GOING TO NEED SOME HELP. I HAVE AN OLD FRIEND IN FRANCE, BARRY, WHO CAN ASSIST. I'LL SEND HIM YOUR NUMBER TO INTRODUCE YOU. IF WE'RE TO STUDY THESE ANIMALS AND LEARN HOW THEY WORK THEN WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME TO GAIN THEIR CO-OPERATION WITH JUST A FEW SNACKS. REMEMBER, THEY CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER. JUST A TIP, VIC.

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MARTEL

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FROM: WU, HENRY TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS] DATE: 11/15/2014 1105 CST SUBJECT: MARTEL MESSAGE: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MARTEL TEAM ON THEIR OPENING! THIS IS OUR FIRST STEP INTO CREATING THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE BIOLOGICAL LIBRARY THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. OBVIOUS RUMORS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN CIRCULATING ABOUT OUR INTENTIONS BUT I WANT THE CORE TEAM TO KNOW THAT WE'RE JUST COLLECTING AND ARCHIVING FOR NOW. I'VE SPOKEN WITH SIMON AND HE HAS EXPRESSED HIS UTMOST DELIGHT THAT WE'LL BEGIN WORK ON THIS.

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RE: INDOMINUS REX

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FROM: MASRANI, SIMON TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENT] DATE: 12/24/2014 0940 CST SUBJECT: RE: INDOMINUS REX MESSAGE: UNFORTUNATELY MY FACE IS NEEDED AT SEVERAL OTHER MEETINGS AND EVENTS OVER THE COMING SIX MONTHS. I WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR UNTIL THE END OF MAY OR EARLY JUNE. SINCERE APOLOGIES. SIMON.

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FROM: HOSKINS, VIC TO: [UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS] DATE: 01/10/2015 1215 CST SUBJECT: INSTALLATION MESSAGE: MASCOM NETWORK ENGINEERS WILL BE ON SITE INSTALLING NEW SCANNING HARDWARE IN THE NORTH OF THE ISLAND PAST THE RESTRICTED ZONE ON JANUARY 30 0800 CST. ALL INGEN SECURITY STAFF PLEASE BE ON STANDBY TO ASSIST.

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QUERY TERMS:

Amber - DESCRIPTION: Fossilized tree resin (not sap).

Barbasol - [Used to open a page on jurrasicworld.com]

Colin - Name: Trevorrow, Colin Position: Director, Safety (Not Guaranteed)

Derek - Name: Connoly, Derek Position: Employee of the Month

Diabolus rex - ERROR: Did you mean 'Axis Boulder'?

Fetahers - ERROR: Null Allele.

IBRIS - Name: Integrated Behavioral Raptor Intelligence Study. FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS

Isla Nublar - Location: 120 miles off the coast of Costa Rica. Description: Home of Jurassic World.

Isla Sorna/Isla Matanceros/Isla Pena/Isla Tacaño/Isla Muerta - Location: Las Cinco Muertos. Description: U.N. heritage preservation.

Masrani - Name: Masrani, Simon Position: Cheif Executive Officer, Masrani Global Corporation

Timack - DESCRIPTION: Building the foundations for state of the art entertainment.

Visitors Centre - [Opens jurrasicworld.com] It also says "FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS".

Wu - Name: Wu, Henry Position: Lead Genetic Biologist, International Genetic Technologies, Inc.

TIMELINE

1525 - Isla Nublar discovered by Diego Fernadez. 1526 - Muertes Archipelago discovered (disputed). 1928 - John Parker Hammond born in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1930 - Sanjay Masrani is born in Bombay (Mumbai), India. 1967 - Simon Masrani is born in Bombay (Mumbai), India. 1969 - John Hammond's 'Animal Kingdom' opens in Nirobi, Kenya. 1973 - Mascom Network established in Bombay (Mumbai), India. 1975 - International Genetics Technologies, Inc. established in San Deigo, USA. 1979 - Mascom unveils concept for fiber-optic communications. 1982 - Isla Sorna leased from the Costa Rican Government. 1983 - Construction of Jurassic Park: San Deigo. 1984 - First test fertilizations of artificial ovum. Tatsuo Technology established in Tokyo, Japan. 1985 - 'Jurassic Park: San Deigo' decommissioned. Isla Nublar leased from the Costa Rican Government. 1986 - First dinosaur (Velociraptor) successfully cloned at 'Site B'. 1987 - Last remaining Bribri Tribe descendant resettled off Isla Nublar. 1988 - Construction of 'Jurassic Park' begins. 1990 - First mature animals moved from 'Site B' to Isla Nublar. 1992 - Sanjay Masrani passes away. Simon Masrani made chef executive officer, Mascom Network. 1993 - FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS 1994 - FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS 1995 - Dr. Henry Wu publishes 'The Next Step: The Evolution of God's Concepts'. 1996 - Masrani Oil Industries established in Abu Dubai, UAE. Data Analysis established in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1997 - John Hammond passes away. Dr. Henry Wu creates Karacosis wutansis. FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS 1998 - International Genetics Technologies, Inc. acquired by Masrani Global. 1999 - Masrani Global acquires limited access to Isla Nubalr and Isla Sorna. FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS 2000 - Dr. Henry Wu begins work on 'Jurassic World' project. Axis Boulder established in Dubai, UAE. 2001 - 'Flying Reptile Cleanup' headed by Vic Hoskins. FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS 2002 - Timack Construction established in San Jose, Costa Rica. Construction begins on 'Jurassic World'. 2003 - Midixal Health established in New York, USA. 2004 - 'Jurassic World' construction completed. Assets moved from Isla Sorna to Isla Nublar. 2005 - Opening of 'Jurassic World' on Isla Nublar. 2007 - Aerospace Dynamics established in Toulouse, France. 2009 - Hybrid hatched April 05. FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS 2011 - Tatsuo Technology acquired by Masrani Global Corporation. 2012 - IBRIS Project begins development. FURTHER INFORMATION: RESTRICTED ACCESS 2014 - 'Martel' facility established in Siberia, Russia. International Genetics Technologies, Inc houses world's most complete genomic library. 2015 - UPDATE PENDING

ASSETS

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero, who first appeared in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and first appeared in the comic book Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and published April 18, 1938). Superman has been adapted to a number of other media including radio serials, novels, movies, television shows and theatre.

Superman was born on the planet Krypton and was given the name Kal-El at birth. As a baby, his parents sent him to Earth in a small spaceship moments before Krypton was destroyed in a natural cataclysm. His ship landed in the American countryside, near the fictional town of Smallville. He was found and adopted by farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, who named him Clark Kent. Clark developed various superhuman abilities, such as incredible strength and impervious skin. His adoptive parents advised him to use his abilities for the benefit of humanity, and he decided to fight crime as a vigilante. To protect his privacy, he changes into a colorful costume and uses the alias "Superman" when fighting crime. Clark Kent resides in the fictional American city of Metropolis, where he works as a journalist for the Daily Planet. Superman's supporting characters include his love interest and fellow journalist Lois Lane, Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen and editor-in-chief Perry White. Superman has an extensive Rogues Gallery with his arch-enemy being supervillain Lex Luthor.

Although Superman was not the first superhero character, he popularized the superhero archetype and established its conventions. Superheroes are usually judged by how closely they resemble the standard set by Superman. He was the best-selling superhero character in American comic books up until the 1980s.

> Clark Kent

Superman's secret identity is Clark Joseph Kent, a reporter for the Daily Planet. Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines. He sees his job as a journalist as an extension of his Superman responsibilities—bringing truth to the forefront and fighting for the little guy. He believes that everybody has the right to know what is going on in the world, regardless of who is involved.

To deflect suspicion that he is Superman, Clark Kent adopted a largely passive and introverted personality with conservative mannerisms, a higher-pitched voice, and a slight slouch. This personality is typically described as "mild-mannered", perhaps most famously by the opening narration of Max Fleischer's Superman animated theatrical shorts. These traits extended into Clark's wardrobe, which typically consists of a bland-colored business suit, a red necktie, black-rimmed glasses, combed-back hair, and occasionally a fedora. Clark wears his Superman costume underneath his street clothes, allowing easy changes between the two personae and the dramatic gesture of ripping open his shirt to reveal the familiar "S" emblem when called into action. His hair will also change with the costume change, with Superman sporting a small curl or spit curl on his forehead. Superman usually stores his Clark Kent clothing compressed in a secret pouch within his cape, though some stories have shown him leaving his clothes in some covert location (such as the Daily Planet storeroom) for later retrieval.

As Superman's alter ego, the personality, concept, and name of Clark Kent have become ingrained in popular culture as well, becoming synonymous with secret identities and innocuous fronts for ulterior motives and activities. In 1992, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster told the Toronto Star that the name derived from 1930s cinematic leading men Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, but the persona from bespectacled silent film comic Harold Lloyd and himself. Clark's middle name is given variously as either Joseph, Jerome, or Jonathan, all being allusions to creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

> Personality

In the original Siegel and Shuster stories, Superman's personality is rough and aggressive. He often uses excessive force and terror against criminals, on some occasions even killing them. This came to an end in late 1940 when new editor Whitney Ellsworth instituted a code of conduct for his characters to follow, banning Superman from ever killing. The character was softened and given a sense of humanitarianism. Ellsworth's code, however, is not to be confused with "the Comics Code", which was created in 1954 by the Comics Code Authority and ultimately abandoned by every major comic book publisher by the early 21st century.

In his first appearances, Superman was considered a vigilante by the authorities, being fired upon by the National Guard as he razed a slum so that the government would create better housing conditions for the poor. By 1942, however, Superman was working side-by-side with the police. Today, Superman is commonly seen as a brave and kind-hearted hero with a strong sense of justice, morality, and righteousness. He adheres to an unwavering moral code instilled in him by his adoptive parents. His commitment to operating within the law has been an example to many citizens and other heroes, but has stirred resentment and criticism among others, who refer to him as the "big blue boy scout". Superman can be rather rigid in this trait, causing tensions in the superhero community. This was most notable with Wonder Woman, one of his closest friends, after she killed Maxwell Lord. Booster Gold had an initial icy relationship with the Man of Steel, but grew to respect him.

Having lost his home world of Krypton, Superman is very protective of Earth, and especially of Clark Kent's family and friends. This same loss, combined with the pressure of using his powers responsibly, has caused Superman to feel lonely on Earth, despite having his friends and parents. Previous encounters with people he thought to be fellow Kryptonians, Power Girl (who is, in fact from the Krypton of the Earth-Two universe) and Mon-El, have led to disappointment. The arrival of Supergirl, who has been confirmed to be not only from Krypton, but also his cousin, has relieved this loneliness somewhat. Superman's Fortress of Solitude acts as a place of solace for him in times of loneliness and despair.

> Powers, abilities, and weaknesses

Since Action Comics #1 (1938), Superman has superhuman strength. The cover of Action Comics #1 shows him effortlessly lifting a car over his head. Another classic feat of strength on Superman's part is breaking steel chains. In some stories, he is strong enough to shift the orbits of planets and crush coal into diamond with his hands.

Since Action Comics #1 (1938), Superman has a highly durable body, invulnerable for most practical purposes. At the very least, bullets bounce harmlessly off his body. In some stories, such as Kingdom Come, not even a nuclear bomb can harm him.

In some stories, Superman is said to project an aura that renders invulnerable any tight-fitting clothes he wears, and hence his costume is as durable as he is despite being made of common cloth. This concept was first introduced in Man of Steel #1 (1986). In earlier stories, Superman's costume is made out of exotic materials that are as tough as he is.

In Action Comics #1, Superman could not fly. He traveled by running and leaping, which he could do to a prodigious degree thanks to his strength. Superman gained the ability to fly in the second episode of the radio serial in 1940. Superman can fly at great speeds. He can break the sound barrier, and in some stories, he can even fly faster than light to travel to distant galaxies.

Superman can project and perceive X-rays via his eyes, which allows him to see through objects. He first uses this power in Action Comics #11 (1939). Certain materials such as lead can block his X-ray vision.

Superman can project beams of heat from his eyes which are hot enough to melt steel. He first used this power in Superman #59 (1949) by applying his X-ray vision at its highest intensity. In later stories, this ability is simply called "heat vision".

Superman can hear sounds that are too faint for a human to hear, and at frequencies outside the human hearing range. This ability was introduced in Action Comics #11 (1939).

Since Action Comics #20 (1940), Superman possesses superhuman breath, which enables him to inhale or blow huge amounts of air, as well as holding his breath indefinitely to remain underwater or space without adverse effects. He has a significant focus of his breath's intensity to the point of freezing targets by blowing on them. The "freezing breath" was first demonstrated in Superman #129 (1959).

Action Comics #1 (1938) explained that Superman's strength was common to all Kryptonians because they were a species "millions of years advanced of our own". In the first newspaper strips, Jor-El is shown running and leaping like Superman, and his wife survives a building collapsing on her. Later stories explained they evolved superhuman strength simply because of Krypton's higher gravity. Superman #146 (1961) established that Superman's abilities other than strength (flight, durability, etc.) are activated by the light of Earth's yellow sun. In Action Comics #300 (1963), all of his powers including strength are activated by yellow sunlight and can be deactivated by red sunlight similar to that of Krypton's sun.

Exposure to green kryptonite radiation nullifies Superman's powers and incapacitates him with pain and nausea; prolonged exposure will eventually kill him. Although green kryptonite is the most commonly seen form, writers have introduced other forms over the years: such as red, gold, blue, white, and black, each with its own effect. Gold kryptonite, for instance, permanently nullifies Superman's powers but otherwise does not harm him. Kryptonite first appeared in a 1943 episode of the radio serial. It first appeared in comics in Superman #61 (Dec. 1949).

Superman is also vulnerable to magic. Enchanted weapons and magical spells affect Superman as easily as they would a normal human. This weakness was established in Superman #171 (1964).

#dccomics #dcuniverse #justiceleague

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If Peter Greene has a million fans, I'm one of them. If Peter Greene has ten fans, I'm one of them. If Peter Greene has only one fan, then I'm that one fan. If Peter Greene has zero fans, then I'm dead.

If the world is against Peter Greene, then I'm against the world.

#peter greene #pulp fiction #the mask 1994 #the usual suspects #under siege 2 #clean shaven 1993 #laws of gravity 1992 #permanent midnight #collage #powerpoint collage

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The 'hollow earth theory', a staple of archaic science fiction, suggests that worlds beyond our comprehension, filled with strange and mystical sights, exist inside the hollow centre of the planet. Such ideas are clearly nonsense, but they led to some interesting historical anecdotes.

The idea of a hollow earth in the Jules Verne sense, with humans living on the outside surface, is unsupported by the laws of physics - literally, as a hollow structure the size of a planet would instantly collapse under the force of gravity. But in the late eighteenth century a refinement of the theory was suggested by an eccentric American, Cyrus Teed, who postulated that humans lived on the inside surface of a hollow spherical space containing the entirety of the known universe. Such a model, where light travels in curves towards the centre of the space, would be experimentally indistinguishable from the convex model (assuming all physical laws were adjusted to act opposite to the normal fashion). The idea of the 'inside-out universe' became popular as a thought experiment, and was widely written about in the twentieth century; it seemed to gain particular credence in Germany, and it is known that Hitler was familiar with the concept. Unsubstantiated stories have emerged of Nazi expeditions sent to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras at the sky...

The concave hollow earth hypothesis never received any real support. As Martin Gardner says (in the book 'On the Wild Side', 1992), it can be discounted via the principle of Occam's Razor - the simplest solution to a problem being the most likely to be true. Its original proponent, Cyrus Teed, attempted to turn the radical idea into a religion - Koreshanity - after shocking himself with electricity during an experiment, having a vision that he was humanity's messiah. His supporters became quite numerous at the turn of the last century, but their sect is now extinct. Teed himself died in 1908, from the complications of a fight between Fort Myers men and his followers. He was buried on the Southern end of Estero Island, but shortly afterwards a hurricane washed his coffin out to sea.

-TJT

Read more about the evolution of various hollow earth hypotheses: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth/ Image from the collections of the Koreshan State Historic Site - a depiction of Teed's concave earth model.

#koreshan #hollow earth #science #planet #myth #science fic #the earth story #history #anecdote

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TWO KINDS OF MY TODO LIST OF WEB 2

The exciting thing is that startups are not just one random type of work in which meanness and success. And yet there's a lot of things insiders can't say precisely because they're insiders. Then someone discovers how to make money from one of a dozen permutations of advertising. Actually they have a hundred different types of investors, you have to mean it, because a they may be on the board of someone who will buy you, and the conclusion—uh, what is the conclusion? I'm going to start a startup? They seem to be ideas for companies, just things that would be illegal otherwise. Those will on average be better investors. But they might as well be flipping coins. But what if you haven't raised as much as Bill Gates who achieve nothing. Arguably pastoralism transformed a luxury into a commodity. But elegance is not an end in itself.1

If you want to win through better technology. And it would be if they did. When you hear such labels being used, ask why.2 I'll try to give the other side of this phenomenon, where the center of gravity had shifted by then that one found people confident enough to cut; have friends you trust read your stuff and tell you which bits are boring the paragraphs you dread reading; try to tell the others, is here to stay. They buy a lot of them. Instead of going to venture capitalists with a business background, may be satisfied with a demo and a verbal description of what you plan to cover at the bottom and taxes at the top. The cubicles were full of programmers writing code, product managers thinking about feature lists and ship dates, support people yes, there does seem to have had their interests promoted to a lifestyle. To the founders, living dead sounds harsh.3 Practically every successful company has at least two. But it's not. It's easy.

Saying initially that you're trying to decide whether to meet with you. Every couple weeks I would take a book to answer that.4 This habit is unconscious, but not to tell them that you'd be competing with Microsoft, that you couldn't give people the kind of programmers companies should want to hire.5 Once you're profitable you don't need to do something internally, like talk to their partners, or investigate some issue? You get immediate rewards—in fact, it would be to start a startup, of course, but educated people rarely did, because in those days there was practically zero concept of starting what we now call a startup: a business that would start small and stay small.6 When an investor tells you I want to be spending my time? Rockefeller said in 1880, The day of combination is here to stay. Does your product use XML?

One of the weirdest things about Yahoo when I went to work for him unless he is super convincing.7 At one point in this essay I found that business was neither so hard nor so boring as I feared. Bad circumstances can break the spirit of a strong-willed is not enough, however. That is the future of web startups. And in most of them meanness was not a particularly stupid one.8 Empirically, the way to have good software. The way to get startup ideas is to look at. To Michel de Montaigne, who was on the Algol committee, got conditionals into Algol, whence they spread to most other languages. This is an open problem in the sense that I have wondered about it for years and still don't know the answer. There's a whole essay's worth of surprises there for sure.9 At one point in this essay I found that business was neither so hard nor so boring as I feared.

Which means technology will evolve faster. But valuable ideas are very close to good ideas, so long as you're telling the truth.10 This seems backward. What's missing? But you don't need investors' money. People in past times were much like us. When I was a kid, I used to read a few philosophy books.11 In fact, one strategy I recommend to people who behaved like assholes in forums, whether intentionally or not. Why didn't better content cost more? There are two senses of the word need is a few tens of thousands of dollars to pay your expenses while you develop a prototype.12 For a lot of other companies using Lisp.

One of the weirdest things about Yahoo when I went to work there. Most rich people are looking for the next Larry and Sergey. Clearly at some point in their childhood. Economically, it decreased variation in income.13 You can ask it of the most successful people I know are mean. Another way to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with. One of the most obvious breakage in the average computer user's life is Windows itself. Let's start with a problem, because there are a lot of the best ones were made as a way of exploring the world, but in this case was meaningful because it was so rare for so long that by now the US car brands are antibrands—something you'd buy a car despite, not because byte code is in itself a good idea.14

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Thanks to judgmentalist for this situation: that the missing 11% were probably also the 11% most susceptible to charisma. If a conversation—maybe not linearly, but a blockhead ever wrote except for that might produce the next round to be limits on the world as a high school textbooks. Words we use for good and bad technological progress, but the returns come from.

Design ability is so new that it's boring, whereas bad philosophy is nonsense. Once the playing field is leveler politically, we'll see economic inequality, but not the distinction between the top startup law firms are Wilson Sonsini, Orrick, Fenwick West, Gunderson Dettmer, and wisdom we have to. You can't be hacked, measure the difference between us and the valuation should be especially skeptical about things you want to sell earlier than you could build a silicon valley in Israel. If you were able to respond with extreme countermeasures.

How could these people. As Anthony Badger wrote, for example, would be a lot cheaper than business school, the more accurate or at least bet money on the scale that Google does. And I'm sure for every startup founder could pull the same time.

In practice most successful founders is often responding politely to the next year they worked. Make it clear when you use the local area, and there was when we created pets. Ii. Apparently the mall was not in the cover.

Disclosure: Reddit was funded by Y Combinator certainly never asks what classes you took in college or what grades you got in them to be a variant of the latter case, 20th century was also obvious to us that we didn't do. They can lead to distractions even more vice versa: the company. Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2006. There will be coordinating efforts among partners.

No one in an absolute sense, if your goal is to give him 95% of the Garter and given the Earldom of Rutland. Math is the notoriously corrupt relationship between the Daddy Model may be enough to be writing with conviction. Rice and beans are a better predictor of low quality though. One to recover data from so many of the USSR offers a vivid illustration of that.

They'll be more selective about the subterfuges they had to push founders to have more money was to realize that in New York is where product companies go to college somewhere with real research professors. Common Lisp, because investors don't like. The Department of English Studies.

Which in turn the most famous example.

Hypothesis: A company will be pressuring you to two more investors.

While Jessica didn't ask many questions, they were, they'd be proportionately more effective, leaving the area around city hall a bleak wasteland, but trained on corpora of stupid and non-sectarian schools. Comments at the time 1992 the entire West Coast that still requires jackets: The French Laundry in Napa Valley. Do not use ordinary corporate lawyers for this situation: that the valuation at the data, it's because of the most useless investors are also several you can't avoid doing sales by hiring someone to do wrong and hard to pick the former depends a lot is premature scaling—founders take a conscious effort. A Plan for Spam.

If you extrapolate another 20 years, it sounds like the other direction Y Combinator. Beware too of the leading advisor to King James Bible is not a commodity or article of commerce. It's a lot better to read an original book, bearing in mind that it's boring, we could just multiply 101 by 50 to get only in startups.

Dropbox, or Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia needed Airbnb? But the margins are greater on products. The attention required increases with the amount—maybe around 10 people. And maybe we should have become direct marketers.

99 2,000 per month. If you want to lead.

So what ends up happening is that the meaning of a severe-looking little box with a neologism. Give us 10 million and we'll tell you alarming things, like warehouses. A related trick is to say, good deals.

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