You ought to be able to run a 32-bit VM and PCIe-passthrough an SCSI or Firewire card to it.
Apparently the real problem is the Firewire hardware in the scanner fails.
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moloch-hai commented on I almost bought a scanner leejo.github.io/2023/01/2... · Posted by u/leejo
moloch-hai commented on Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/diodorus
There is no evidence for the idea that they descended directly from a semitic alphabet brought up from Carthage to northern Europe. There is no evidence for trade between Carthage and early people's in that area. You realize this and so attempted to change the subject onto something you think you have an argument for.
I've wasted enough time on this. You obviously have no intention of adding any sort of evidence for this argument. Thank you for giving me a reason to read more deeply about the origins of modern alphabets, but I'll continue that reading on my own.
If you read back in the thread you will see that you have tried to change the subject at every point, and I have each time steered it back to the actual topic.
I do not know why you insist on arguing against something no one has suggested, or what so terrifies you about the simple idea I wrote that you are motivated to vicious accusations of "edenism", but I no longer care. You have revealed all we need to know.
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Good point! Heinlein was not known for being subtle on topics like this.
I can’t figure out if he seemed to be a sex crazed maniac because he had a lot of sex and drugs, or a sex crazed maniac because he never got laid. Probably the latter. A lot of the other attitudes follow…
One of life’s little mysteries.
That, anyway, is not a mystery.
Heinlein had a medical condition that progressively blocked blood flow in his brain. He increasingly needed themes that would increase his blood pressure to be able to write at all. He finally got surgery.
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moloch-hai commented on Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/diodorus
> If they resembled something else strongly enough to say there was just the one, we would not be discussing this.
That doesn't make sense to me. Maybe they did and you don't know about it.
Maybe read up just a bit? It is the biggest open question.
moloch-hai commented on Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/diodorus
Did you mean to reply to somone else? I have not objected to comparing anything.
Comparing scripts is the only way to identify similarities and differences. We can be confident Korean is not an influence just on geographic grounds, but all Mediterranean scripts are in play, because whoever started using runes could have been exposed to any or all of them.
You may say nobody can prove a negative, but cocksure deniers are fairly swarming out of the woodwork, here.
moloch-hai commented on Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/diodorus
What new evidence.
It is called TFA, around here. I have copied the link for your convenience.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sensational-runest...
moloch-hai commented on Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/diodorus
There's no old evidence. You can go looking for connections, but don't try to tell me there was a reason to defend the theory to start with.
There is plenty of old evidence. We call them runestones. The glyphs on them have disputed origin. Nobody seems to imagine they were made up from whole cloth. But they don't resemble any other alphabet closely enough to nail down how they did develop.
Older examples would generally be expected to more closely resemble whatever they came from. Is this unfamiliar reasoning?