How to maintain a time machine ???

Get some sleep.

Don't worry about it. If it happens, you won't know.

... but does it reboot the universe in the process {;-)}

Paul (and anyone else),

Look at the thread "Best Practices for a Hardware/Embedded Designer" in news:comp.dsp. My best guess is that it started as a troll, but suppose not?!

Jerry

Glad you enjoyed that bit of flippancy Jerry.

I have followed the "Best Practice..." thread in comp.arch.embedded and I was under the impression that the OP there was being a little serious about that topic. This thread, though, I took for the tounge in cheek good humour that it obviously was (I thought we were allowed to have some fun too).

Same originator, not uniformly cross posted. He works for the government (which one?) and his aim is to save taxpayers' money.

Jerry

There is no such thing as a 'flux capaciter' as you may know them. Time isn't real either, its a construct of the Imagination. However, since we are living in a complex Illusion, relative to that Illusion, time is real, and therefor time travel is possible.

The first thing you must do is break out of the Network. The last person I know of that was able to do this was Harry Houdini.

The layers of psycotronic voodoo amongst matrix humans is only the surface layer. Once you break out of that and begin seeing the messages on the screens, you can become free, and perhaps be able to time travel.

What is schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects almost 2.2 million American adults (approximately 1 out of every 100). If you or someone you love has schizophrenia, treatment can help.

People with schizophrenia often have trouble thinking clearly or making decisions. They may have a hard time telling real life from fantasy. They may also find it a challenge to deal with other people. These can all be symptoms of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia generally consists of the following kinds of symptoms.

Positive symptoms: Such as delusions or hallucinations?which are also known as seeing or believing things that are not real. (These are called ?positive? symptoms because they are there but shouldn?t be.)

Negative symptoms: Such as social avoidance, emotional withdrawal?which are also known as a lack of feeling, or expression. Starting to do things, but not following through. Taking no pleasure or interest in life. (These are called ?negative? symptoms because they refer to things that are missing.)

Disorganized symptoms: Confused in thinking and speech. Acting in ways that do not make sense.

The above are the most common symptoms of schizophrenia, but they can also happen at the same time as the following symptoms: not being able to focus, unable to solve simple problems, being sad, or not being able to remember things.

Talk to your healthcare professional

this is a reasonable concern

flux is a product of inductance

inductance is the opposite of capacitance

as the inductor integrates and the capacitor differentiates

therefore if the unit is damaged and the contents escape...nothing will happen

at all

...ever

unless someone restarts time

NB, the area affected will be in inverse square relationship with the current flowing at the time

"Tristan Beeline" is a troll to a lot of newsgroups. He tracks responses in "finet.unet," so if you remove "finet.unet" from the list of groups that the message goes to, you can steal some of his trollish pleasure.

-- Christian

Save Darfur --

I believe that most of thread participants know that it is a troll's. Some of us like to exercise our creative writing skills once in a while. Threads like this one, started by another, can be a fun way to do that.

I call this "Trolling of the third kind"; an obvious spoof, like thiotimoline. Trolling of the first kind seeks to deceive, while trolling of the second kind seeks to outrage.

Jerry

I am not sure I know how to take finet out of the list of places this goes to? I am using google groups to read all this stuff. Anyways:

Asshat syndrome:

1.Thinking you are better than everyone else.

1. Classifying other humans into mental health boxes such as 'schizophrenic', 'delusional' 'paranoid', without even understanding the underlying nature of reality yourself.
2. Correcting peoples spelling mistakes in newsgroups, Google groups, Yahoo groups, chat rooms, or anywhere else on the internet.
3. Jumping on the bandwagon with people when they attack someone for posting their opinions, so that you can feel 'special'.
4. Thinking that, just because something has not been done, and seems very advanced, must no be possible, and therefore anyone who talks about such things must be delusional. (See #2).
5. Being in denial of any of the above symptoms.

Thake your own advice: "The layers of psycotronic voodoo amongst matrix humans is only the surface layer. Once you break out of that and begin seeing the messages on the screens, you can become free, and perhaps be able to time travel."

Jerry

Ah, I see you can relate since you responded.