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No Man’s Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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How can we receive SMS in China ?
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Learning chinese.
La route est longue mais la voie est libre…
C'est malheureusement terriblement vrai.
La vie privée est-elle un problème de vieux cons ? demandait Jean-Marc Manach dans un excellent ouvrage. Bien sûr que non, mais on aimerait tant nous le faire croire…
« Natifs numériques », « natifs du numérique », « génération numérique »… Ce genre d’expressions, rencontrées dans les grands médias désireux d’agiter le grelot du jeunisme, peut susciter quelque agacement. D’autant que cette catégorie soi-disant sociologique se transforme bien vite en cible marketing pour les appétits des mastodontes du Web qui ont tout intérêt à présenter la jeunesse connectée comme le parangon des usages du net.
Henry Ford : "Ni les Alliés, ni l'Axe ne devraient gagner la guerre. Les USA devraient fournir aux deux camps les moyens de continuer à se battre jusqu'à ce que tous deux s'effondrent."
Le futur président Harry Truman, 1941 : " Si l'Allemagne gagne, nous devons aider la Russie et si la Russie gagne, nous devons aider l'Allemagne, afin qu'il en meure le maximum de chaque côté."
On ne dira pas qu'Hitler perdit 90% de ses soldats à l'Est. Que pour un soldat US tué, il y en eut 53 soviétiques. Les manuels scolaires sont parfois bizarres, non ?
You're getting old!
Do you think time is catching up with you? Perhaps it's already overtaken you and left you in the dust.
Do the years seem to be going ridiculously quickly now? There's a reason for it. You're getting old.
We will provide you a report full of interesting stuff. But first, we need to know who this is for.
Sad Kapteyn,
by Alastair Reynolds
Hello, Earth. It's me again.
I hope you're receiving my signal loud and clear.
You'll be glad to hear that I've warmed up after the long centuries of my interstellar cruise phase. Having run a complete health check, I can confirm that all aspects of me are performing nominally. Better than nominally, if truth be told. At the risk of boastfulness, I'm actually in excellent shape. Propulsion, AI core, long-range sensors and instrumentation, navigation and communication assemblies - I couldn't be in better condition.
Not bad for a piece of space hardware which has already visited six solar systems, without ever needing to return home. Of course, I can't take credit for myself. I was just well manufactured - built to endure for thousands of years.
All the same, thank you for making me.
Onto business, anyway - and I can't begin to tell you what I've found, out here around Kapteyn's star! This really is an extraordinary place - a solar system unlike any that I've already visited. I wish you could be here with me, seeing things through my eyes.
I've dug into my background files and I understand why you sent me to Kapteyn's star. Unlike the other systems I've visited, this sun and its little family of worlds aren't part of the normal family of stars orbiting in the disc and bulge of the galaxy. This is a halo star - a member of a dispersed population of stars and star clusters, enclosing the Milky Way in a great thin sphere. It's entirely possible that these stars were not originally part of our own galaxy, but were torn free of another one after a kind of gravitational collision. And some of these stars are unmeasurably old - more ancient and venerable, perhaps, than any disc stars.
Kapteyn's star is so slow-burning, so settled, that even my instruments can't put an upper limit on its age. It could be nearly as old as the universe.
And its planets?
Just as old.
Make of this what you will - put it down to failing programming if you like - but I feel the age of this place in my bones. All right, my main bus chassis. I don't have bones; I know that. But believe me, this system feels truly time-haunted. The silence and the stillness are almost unbearable, like an endlessly building pressure. Nothing has happened here for entire turns of the galaxy; nothing will happen. Kapteyn's star simmers, eeking out its nuclear lifetime. The dead worlds tick around their dead orbits.
But once, there was something.
I know, I've taken liberties. I should have transmitted my wake-up signal before doing any investigations. But I couldn't resist myself. You made me to be curious.
I found signs of civilisation.
The first planet - Kapteyn b - still lies within the habitable zone of the star, orbiting once every forty eight days. There's nothing living there now, not even an atmosphere, but once there was a technological culture.
Yes, the first I've found. The reason I was made in the first place.
How's that for a discovery?
The fact is, it wasn't hard to detect. Cities cover almost the entire surface of that world. Enormous structures - they must have reached into space! Dishes and towers and the remains of what I think must have been space elevators, climbing all the way to synchronous orbit. A moon, its surface covered by the same kinds of architecture. Evidence of colonisation of the second planet, Kapteyn c, in its much colder orbit.
Wonders beyond comparison, but scoured into a kind of tomblike grey uniformity, after aeons of micrometeorite and cosmic-ray bombardment. Cities as mute as sphinxes.
And nowhere the slightest sign of life.
Continent-sized craters mar Kapteyn b, and I wonder if they speak of some truly awesome catastrophe - a cosmic accident, or something worse? Whatever the case, the builders of these cities are long gone. Perhaps they were dead even before Kapteyn's star was snatched from the clutches of its mother galaxy.
At the risk of inferring too much from too little data, I can't help indulging in a little speculation. I too was the product of a technological civilisation, with the capability to transform a planet, to colonise other moons and worlds, to build daunting structures. The people of Kapteyn b were clearly more advanced than you, my own builders - but given time, you too could have transformed a world in this manner.
Something to think about, isn't it?
Well, that's me signing off for now. I'm going to do some more exploring of this system, and perhaps drop some instrument packages down onto Kapteyn b itself. There'll be a risk in that, since I'll need to come in on quite a tight orbit, and who knows what will happen? Still, that's a hazard I'm prepared to accept. You made me for this, and I'm grateful for all that I've been allowed to see and do.
But look.
I know it's a small thing, and I really shouldn't bother you about it. But it's been quite a long while since I heard from you. I put rather a lot of effort into these transmissions, and it would be good - just once - to know that there was someone at the other end, listening in.
Just a word, to let me know that you still care?Stop Internet...
your brain start to think for itself.
On dit que quatre couples sur dix vivent en union libre.
En cas de séparation, doivent-ils avoir les mêmes obligations que les gens mariés?
L'Agence du revenu du Canada (ARC) maintient une liste de recherche des organismes de bienfaisance canadiens dont le titre est Liste des organismes de bienfaisance. Vous pouvez utiliser cette liste pour:
confirmer si un organisme de bienfaisance est enregistré conformément à la Loi de l'impôt sur le revenu, et ainsi, est autorisé à délivrer des reçus officiels de don;
consulter les coordonnées d’un organisme de bienfaisance et la Déclaration de renseignements des organismes de bienfaisance enregistrés, laquelle comprend les renseignements financiers et les activités.Vous y trouverez une interface graphique permettant de manière transparente de démontrer la faisabilité de l'infection des documents bureautique présents sur la clé mais également de copier des fichiers de celle-ci vers l'ordinateur et inversement.
“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”