A system of satellites in low Earth orbit that, in conjunction with a receiver, can be used to determine one's location anywhere in the world with an accuracy of about 10 feet. Originally developed for US military use and deliberately scrambled to prevent other users from obtaining accuracy better than 150 feet, the scrambling was discontinued during the Clinton administration -- and the game of geocaching was founded the following day.
While early GPS receivers only told users what their latitude, longitude, and elevation were, modern units have built-in road maps, voice commands, and various other features. And *all* cell phones are now required to have GPS built in so that 911 operators can determine where distress calls are originating.
While early GPS receivers only told users what their latitude, longitude, and elevation were, modern units have built-in road maps, voice commands, and various other features. And *all* cell phones are now required to have GPS built in so that 911 operators can determine where distress calls are originating.
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During an interview with the Monty Python troupe in 1979, they professed that "Life of Brian" was a condemnation of closed systems of thought. Example: after Brian escapes from the Romans, he is followed by a group of people who mistakenly believe he is the Messiah based on the fact that he does not finish his statement and therefore is "mysterious" to them. When he tells them he is not the messiah, they claim that only the true messiah would deny this. That is where dogma comes in. In the early stages of their new religion, Brian's unlikely followers built their faith out fo whole-cloth. They recover a gourd that is briefly owned by Brian, proclaim that it is a holy artifact and begin to assign greater meaning and significance to it. Upon finding his shoe, a schism emerges among his new followers. They are instantly dedicated to the emerging dogma to the religion of Brian. They are so eager to believe in Brian as the messiah that they immediately begin fashioning the tenants of their faith; the dogma of their religion.
-- Dogma & Theology - Life of Brian | Renegade Cut
-- Dogma & Theology - Life of Brian | Renegade Cut
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After decades of marriage and exclusive commitment, they finally reached the toxic binary system event horizon; a boundary through which no penetration is possible. Let’s just hope that they’ve both achieved immortality.
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Get the NYC Metro System mug.Technoquantum Body System, also shortened as TQBS, is a technoquantumist technological concept that seeks to the improvement of human body by technoquantumism, it seeks to gradually evolve the human body systems into a technoquantum body system where it’s all based on technoquantum technologies and that uses of the ideas of technoquantumism and of quantum mechanics and technoquantum properties to work as well. Technoquantum Body System differs from classical transhumanist body systems on the sense that they do not need of the removal of the biological body parts, but some kind of “transmutation” and “evolution” into a pure quantum system that would lead into a technoquantum body system, the technoquantum body system would have the same functions of a classical transhumanist body system, but the person would still be able to he spiritual and have their bioextraphysical functions and the person wouldn’t need to take away their biological parts, but evolve into a technoquantum one without their removal. Technoquantum Body System differs from Quantum Body System on the sense it has technologies included on it, while the classical quantum body one is just on the pure quantum form. The Technoquantum Body System is still a hypothetical idea and it might take a lot of time and money until be full developed.
“The Technoquantum Body System, despite being necessary to take a lot of time and money to be developed, it is still far better than classical transhumanism and it might be a solution for the spiritual and bioextraphysical problems of classical transhumanism, and even a evolution of classical transhumanism into something else.”
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“that fucking emergency alert system message last night scared me”
“yeah san diego has been getting tons of them recently”
“why”
“the fuck would i know i’m not the one issuing the alerts”
“yeah san diego has been getting tons of them recently”
“why”
“the fuck would i know i’m not the one issuing the alerts”
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