Dechristo

Fly in central asia if you want to know third-world.

Paraphrase of a dust jacket: At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. The argument has been made that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, computers will rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. The next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our own creations. That merging is the essence of the Singularity, an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly non-biological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today - the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity. In this new world, there will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality. We will be able to assume different bodies and take on a range of personae at will. In practical terms, human aging and illness will be reversed; pollution will be stopped; world hunger and poverty will be solved. Nano-technology will make it possible to create virtually any physical product using inexpensive information processes and will ultimately turn even death into a soluble problem. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, maintained is a radically optomistic view of the future course of human development. As such, it is a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.

friggin' 24kbps connection! That's a tight avatar display, espirita.

thanks, I always forget that

I'd give it a go, but I'm not confident I can tune the instrument.

I almost posted this exact same thing. This is too damn bizarre, Dechristo. Are you my alter-ego? No, but I may be your altar-ego. Just wait and see. The church will be full of friends and family when your altar-ego takes over and starts spewing inappropriate syllables all over the place: addressing the priest as "Preacher Pederast" and then, turning to your intended, assuming a posture and facial contortion reminiscent of Billy Bob in Slingblade and saying with a southern drawl in a loud voice for the entire gathered to hear, "you sure got a pretty mouth".

ahhh, butt it would be tiresome to repeatedly climb the finger crack route of BrokeBack Mountain.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanconiosis

depends on temperature and relative humidity

I don't suppose residue of Michaelangelo's sweat remains.

Black Mind Disease

I thought Ted Nugent was the "Motor City MadMan".

dry bones?

I've got your "short answer"... oh shit, how do I edit that before it's posted? Oh no, too late. I'm about to click the "continue" button and...

I love this shit

What the fuck are you talking about with "ugly mind", then?

And you have an ugly mind. That book gives me the creeps. Great grammar lessons in it though... The humor is that I used that phrase in its historical connotation of comment on the speech of another... knowing there was a probability the more recent sexual connotation would be recognized. It was your ugly mind that chose to receive only the sexual implication. I love this, you rule, thanks.

I studied on it some...

You sure got a pretty mouth

"certainly demonstrates the diversity of the word..."

No, he's from Oilmansville.

What/who is our country? Federal, State, County governments? I tire of the attitude toward government that empowers with expectation of panaceic/utopian effect; dream on. If you're passionate about an issue, it's up to you to administrate an affect.

someone needs to tell Dave his fly is down.