They that have power to hurt and will do none, |
| That do not do the thing they most do show, |
| Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, |
| Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, |
| They rightly do inherit heaven's graces |
| And husband nature's riches from expense; |
| They are the lords and owners of their faces, |
| Others but stewards of their excellence. |
| The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, |
| Though to itself it only live and die, |
| But if that flower with base infection meet, |
| The basest weed outbraves his dignity: |
| For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; |
| Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. William Shakespeare |
"Ouroboros was and is the name for the Great World Serpent, encircling the earth. The word 'Ouroboros' is really a term that describes a similar symbol which has been cross-pollinated from many different cultures. From "Ouroboros," there is the serpent or dragon gnawing at its own tail. The symbolic connotation from this owes to the returning cyclical nature of the seasons; the oscillations of the night sky; self-fecundation; disintegration and re-integration; truth and cognition complete; the Androgyne (see below); the primaeval waters; the potential before the spark of creation; the undifferentiated; the Totality; primordial unity; self-sufficiency, and the idea of the beginning and the end as being a continuous unending principle. It represents the conflict of life as well in that life comes out of life and death. 'My end is my beginning.' In a sense life feeds off itself, thus there are good and bad connotations which can be drawn. It is a single image with the entire actions of a life cycle - it begets, weds, impregnates, and slays itself, but in a cyclical sense, rather than linear. Thus, it fashions our lives to a totality more towards what it may REALLY be - a series of movements which repeat. "As Above, So Below" - we are born from nature, and we mirror it, because it is what man wholly is a part of.
Born from this symbolic notion, there are many different cultures which share this great dragon-serpent symbol (the serpent Jormungandr, from the myth of Yggdrasil, is just one). There are some cultures that see the image as not being beneficial, but evil - like Satan. These more specific re-interpretations will be spoken of later.
It is of interest to mention that a symbol such as that of the Ouroboros is something which Carl Jung refers to as an archetype; it seems to makes its way into our conscious mind time and time again in varying forms. The 19th century German chemist named Kekule dreamed of a snake with its tail in its mouth one day after dosing off. He had been researching the molecular structure of benzene, and was at a stop point in his work until after waking up he interpreted the dream to mean that the structure was a closed carbon ring. This was the breakthrough he needed.''Chris Aynesworth
"Of The Androgyne: The Serpent Ouroboros."
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
1952
RID: ZB3S279001RDatabase: Homo sapiens Non-RefSeq protein
448,380 sequences; 156,709,324 total lettersQuery= pol _ 2087..5098 _ ABI30941.1_ GI:113171671
Length=1003 Score Query cov. E-valueCAM91208.1
unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens] 1751 100% 0.0
CAF05618.1
unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens] 902 55% 0.0
AAM81188.1
pol protein [Homo sapiens] 276 80% 6e-73
>emb|CAM91208.1| unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens]
Length=1014 Score = 1751 bits (4536), Expect = 0.0, Method: Compositional matrix adjust. Identities = 846/1010 (83%), Positives = 932/1010 (92%), Gaps = 7/1010 (0%)>emb|CAF05618.1| unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens]
Length=576 Score = 902 bits (2332), Expect = 0.0, Method: Compositional matrix adjust. Identities = 468/579 (80%), Positives = 500/579 (86%), Gaps = 22/579 (3%)>gb|AAM81188.1| pol protein [Homo sapiens]
Length=863 Score = 276 bits (705), Expect = 6e-73, Method: Compositional matrix adjust. Identities = 256/865 (29%), Positives = 398/865 (46%), Gaps = 98/865 (11%)Gandhi was a great man, but we know of him only because he was fortunate enough to use his nonviolent methods against the British. Had he tried them on a more brutal foe, he would have wound up in a forgotten grave. Indeed, Gandhi advised the Jews not to resist the Nazis — perhaps the worst advice in history. Pacifists must choose their opponents with care.
Pacifists narcissistically assume everyone is like them, open to reason. They lack the imagination to see that some people do not use violence as a last resort, when other methods fail, but enjoy violence — revel in it. They cannot imagine that there are people who enjoy killing, and even some who look forward to dying themselves if enough "others" die also.
Many pacifists are zealous in protecting criminals’ rights, but they forget the rights of victims. Some time ago, a black store owner was robbed at gunpoint. He identified the robber, who threatened to kill him. The store owner applied for a gun permit but was denied. Later he used an unregistered gun to shoot the robber, who had been released from jail and tried to carry out his threat. The store owner was given a year in jail. Sympathy was used up on the robber — none was left for the store owner.
The word "peacemaker" has two basic meanings. The first refers to one who tries to calm hostility. The second refers to the Colt .45 revolver, which may be required if the first approach fails. Both types of peacemaker are needed to keep peace in the world.
Pacifists declare, "All life is precious," but what does this mean? I have seen the police photographing a corpse on a sidewalk, and two coyotes tearing apart a cat on a Los Angeles street. Every year coyotes kill many pets and occasionally attack a child, yet hunting or trapping them is illegal. In practice, "all life is precious" means that the life of a murderer is more precious than that of his victim, and the life of a coyote is more precious than that of a cat or dog. Pacifists stand aside in self-satisfied neutrality while predators roam free.
Pacifism is a luxury. Like golf, it can be enjoyed by a fortunate few, while most of us face a harsher reality. Pacifists often live in safe suburbs or gated communities, so they cannot understand why anyone feels the need for self-defense. They rarely work or live in high-crime areas, as do many poor people and minorities. They need not dirty their hands with weapons; gun oil has a pleasant smell with which they are unfamiliar. They depend on the police and military to keep them safe — and then look down with contempt on their protectors, while cutting their funding and hampering them with unrealistic rules.
As has been said, it doesn’t matter how many resolutions the sheep pass in favor of vegetarianism; the only thing that matters is whether the wolves are hungry. The world is full of hungry wolves. Sheep are too stupid to know this, so sheepdogs protect them. But what if the sheep were just smart enough to muzzle the sheepdogs, because the growls disturbed their peaceful slumbers?
From: "The Ugly side of Pacifism",
David C. Stolinsky, 2001
A breakpoint, in software development, is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. More generally, a breakpoint is a means of acquiring knowledge about a program during its execution. During the interruption, the programmer inspects the test enviroment (logs, memory, files, etc.) to find out whether the program functions as expected.
In practice, a breakpoint consists of one or more conditions that determine when a program's execution should be interrupted.
The most common form of a breakpoint is one where the program's execution is interrupted before a programmer-specified instruction is executed. This is often referred to as an instruction breakpoint.
Other kinds of conditions can also be used, such as the reading, writing, or modification of a specific location in an area of memory. This is often referred to as a data breakpoint, or a watchpoint.
Breakpoints can also be used to interrupt execution at a particular time, or upon a keystroke etc.
Many processors include support for breakpoints (typically instruction and data breakpoints). Such hardware may include limitations, for example not allowing breakpoints on instructions located in branch delay slots. This kind of limitation is imposed by the microarchitecture of the processor, so varies from processor to processor.
Without hardware support, debuggers have to implement breakpoints in software. For instruction breakpoints, this is a comparatively simple task of replacing the instruction at the location of the breakpoint. But implementing data breakpoints in software can greatly reduce the performance of the application being debugged.
Some programming language implementations expose their debugging functions for use by other programs. For example, some FORTRAN dialects have an AT statement, which was originally intended to act as an instruction breakpoint. Python implements a debugger accessible from a Python program. These facilities can be and are abused to act like the COMEFROM statement.
I wanted to get closer and then I realised that it really was... a fucking peacock!!! (Wooooaaah, check it out), so I went upstairs and sitted in front of it. A huge wingspan spreading some beatiful colours on the grey floor. As soon as my ass got frozen on the stone bench I realized that those feathers were bigger than some memories.
Innsbruck, Austria.
Leicester Square station, 5:33 am. London. 
West Hampstead apartment. London, England.
Take a deep breath of pure, fresh, virginal air. Now hold on... hold on... well, reconsider it. Reconsider your first toy, the first time you had a good time. Remember your first A++ , the second one, the third one. Remember your first FAIL, the second, the third one.
Your first mobile phone, your first bicycle, your first car. The first time you started to compare objects to your social status, remember the first time you lost your wallet, got robbed or had a car accident.
Reconsider your first cheek kiss, the second, the third. The first time you masturbated. Your very first love, the second, the third, the fourth one...Reconsider your first french kiss, first fuck, first fist fuck, first fist fight and the first blood in your fist.
Reconsider the first time you threw up or got sick.
Now, take it, cut it, fold it and break it. Have you ever seen a wipeout made by a huge 30 feet wave? Well, that's exactly what I mean. You've got your five star luxury hotel suite waiting. Take the essentials and some of Beth Gibbon's voice to go back to basics.
Budapest, Hungary 
A coffee and Juliette Binoche.
Oedipus answered without hesitating: 'That animal is the man, who in his infancy walks on his hands and feet, in the virile age only on his feet and in his oldness helping himself with a cane as if it was the third foot". The sphinx, furious on having seen her enigma deciphered, was thrown herself from the crag where she was situated and had her head broken against the bottom of the precipice.
Prague, Czech Replublic.
