rugtoad

I'm a veteran...I think I agree with you in some respects.

Soldiers on all sides of every war are typically in the shit of it at someone else's behest. If it were up to the guys on the ground, we'd probably be fine to sit down and hash it all out over a beer.

Nothing is that simple though. Ideals and swords must clash and families must be torn asunder in order to ensure that good prevails and evil does not or something like that. I certainly don't believe in war as a matter of principle, but rather as a matter of reality. The people on the other end of my barrel, I never once hated them. And that right there is the shit that keeps me up at night.

Metaphor.

The "Fig Tree" is typically understood as a metaphor for the Jewish Nation, or Jewish Leadership. Not "bearing fruit" means pretty much what you would think...it means that it is not serving its purpose. It has a bunch of leaves and looks pretty, but it doesn't actually provide anything of an objective value or even serve the original purpose for which it set out to serve.

This is definitely the best way I would have broken it down in an easy-to-understand language.

The biggest advantage of what Bill described is that your file system becomes "aware" in some regards of what is in your file, beyond just 1s and 0s, it understands the semantic value as you understand it, so instead of just looking for a document by the words that appear in it, it can look by values, such as what the document is to you (e.g., taxes, resumes, schoolwork).

There are a number of other advantages to this, and putting a filesystem on top of a database engine could facilitate very quick searches and access.

Oh and for more clarity, this is the product Bill was talking about.

I dunno, some of those insurgents are taking up arms on account of watching someone invade their country and kill off their family. When I was in iraq, I saw a few, shall we call them, "engagements" in which something that wasn't a weapon looked like one in the dark...and a farmer was cut down on the order of an overzealous LT.

Those guys have families, they saw their brother...their father..their son, shot for no reason other than someone's shitty judgement and cowboy-attitude. That sort of thing happens on any side of any war, it's what some people call "collateral damage", maybe to ease their own consciences; but in reality...it's human life taken without cause.

I can't say I really blame them for picking up a gun or rigging an IED after such things...

I'm not sure the mechanism for publishing is what's driving this up the front page...