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innashpitzberg19 апреля 2013 г.Читать далееWhen it does happen, we are content to call it "chance." Or we have been persuaded. There do exist levels where chance is hardly recognized at all. But to the likes of employees such as Roger Mexico it is music, not without its majesty, this power series
, terms numbered according tooccurring within a given time interval.
[The formula for the Poisson probability mass function is
space for which |D|, the area or volume of the region, is finite, and if N(D) is count of the number of events in D, then
P(N(D)=k)=\frac{(\lambda|D|)^k e^{-\lambda|D|}}{k!} . ]
rocketfalls per square, the Poisson dispensation ruling not only these annihilations no man can run from, but also cavalry accidents, blood counts, radioactive decay, number of wars per year. . . .
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Are those people real, or what?
A. Some are real, and some aren't.
Q. Well are the real ones necessary? or unnecessary?
A. It depends what you have in mind.
Q. Shit, I don't have anything in mind.
A. We do.8368 - innashpitzberg18 апреля 2013 г.
"Your employer."
"It's not fair," Pirate moans, "I haven't even done me morning pushups yet."8362 - innashpitzberg21 декабря 2012 г.
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.
—wernher von braun
8298 - innashpitzberg18 мая 2013 г.Читать далее
He is the father you will never quite manage to kill. The Oedipal situation in the Zone these days is terrible. There is no dignity. The mothers have been masculinized to old worn moneybags of no sexual interest to anyone, and yet here are their sons, still trapped inside inertias of lust that are 40 years out of date. The fathers have no power today and never did, but because 40 years ago we could not kill them, we are condemned now to the same passivity, the same masochist fantasies they cherished in secret, and worse, we are condemned in our weakness to impersonate men of power our own infant children must hate, and wish to usurp the place of, and fail. ...
7282 - innashpitzberg17 мая 2013 г.
About the paranoia often noted under the drug, there is nothing remarkable. Like other sorts of paranoia, it is nothing less than the onset, the leading edge, of the discovery that everything is connected, everything in the Creation, a secondary illumination—not yet blind-ingly One, but at least connected, and perhaps a route In for those like Tchitcherine who are held at the edge. ...
7282 - innashpitzberg16 мая 2013 г.
"This is some kind of a plot, right?" Slothrop sucking saliva from velvet pile.
"Everything is some kind of a plot, man," Bodine laughing.7277 - innashpitzberg15 мая 2013 г.Читать далее
It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted . . . secretly, it was being dietated instead by the needs of technology ... by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, "Money be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake," but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night's blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more. . . . The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms—it was only staged to look that way—but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite . . .
7282 - innashpitzberg14 мая 2013 г.
"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar "At" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even—as Slothrop now—what you're doing here, at the base of this colossal curved embankment. . . .
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