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Considering the number of people who deny (or question) that Jesus was an historical figure (sorry, best references I could find in a bit of searching), you might want to use a more accurate term than `real' to avoid appearing to question his historical existence.

Eh, I'm a Creationist, and I think evolution can take place.

I'm not sure how many people read my short book, but chapter 11 has one of the better explanations on how evolution fits in well with Creationism.

Now that being said, it is only a possible avenue, and could be wrong. I come with an authority in that I know that God exists, Jesus is real. Anything else I say could be wrong, but I reason the best I can.

::Colz Grigor // God, I feel old...

Or they might just chrome the moon: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1380/crmoon.html

If you're using the built-in Palm password feature for your security, you might want to have a look at this:
No Security

Basically, the Palm security program has a tragically weak flaw which this handy little program exploits easily. All you have to do is load No Security into the palm install queue and hotsync. It immediately deletes the password, even if the device is locked, giving you full access to any private data hidden by the Palm security program.

I use a couple of different solutions to this problem: Cryptopad , which is essentially an encrypted replacement for the memopad (and has the added bonus of giving you >4k memos); and using the encryption option of Tejpwriter, which is the best free text editor I've tested for Palm.

And all these programs are free and/or open source and easily obtained with a quick google search.

But I still use the Palm security program to lock the handheld (despite its weakness) as a very basic means to keep casual snoopers from poking around and to prevent accidental button mashings from doing weird things to my data.

Given that not everyone can "install" an OS, and somehow deal with the hardware issues, PC makers are able to offer such low prices (yes they are) on powerful PC's IF they can sell them to everyone, most of whom are not able to install...etc. Volume = a chance at profit. So, all these people buying 3 GB Dual Core 256 MB video 320 GB HDD machines want (and expect) only one thing, that it "boot up to a graphical desktop" that is ready for them to use. So Microsoft still has the market for OEM installs sewed up, we get Vista. Not to bad, really, we get extra-powerful machines for under a grand, to "install linux" on. Hard drives so big we can "dual boot". (Anyone here dual booted Ubuntu 8.04 and Vista?) I dual boot my Knoppix Remaster and Ubuntu 7.10. (I like XMMS for some reason, so I'm sticking with 7.10) Actually, I can triple-boot, from a menu, into my Knoppix Remaster running from a USB drive, from the HDD, or Ubuntu from the HDD. The average buyer of PC's is not going to want to figure out how I do that. They want their OS, that "came with the computer" to just boot up to that expected graphical desktop. With a nice wallpaper. Now, if we want a PC preloaded with Linux, same thing applies, only the average buyers expect "lower prices" still. The manufacturers go along with that, and use "odd processors" that don't have the familiar Intel Inside sticker, or at least an AMD one. Also, forget the 3 GB of RAM. Sure, if you look around in the Dell website, you can find a powerful computer with Ubuntu on it. I just lied. I have not actually found it, or at least one that stayed with Ubuntu throughout the "Build it" process. Also, are there a few obscure PC builders out there that have a dual boot Windows/Linux machine to sell? I saw one once upon a time. Considering the "livecd" OS, the Dell Inspiron line can easily run Ubuntu 8.04, connect wirelessly, and have the desktop screen resolution done right also. Does not affect your Vista install, I tested it. The average PC buyer probably won't do that, but if Vista refuses to boot one day, that is a temporary solution.

General speaking yes. Take a look at this list http://www.geocities.com/coverbridge2k/artsci/famous_people_depression.html A lot of artists and poets on that list.

http://www.geocities.com/xfgirl101/

http://www.geocities.com/xfgirl101/

Well, the whole chromatic scale is 12 notes per octave including sharps/flats, so if you don't restrict the notes to being represented by the same symbols as in hex, you have more than enough. Octal could even fit the notes of a particular key with a space/rest included.

"Basse" is the feminine for "low" in French. It's also used in the names of certain buildings and groups of people. I've seen something about the building where Shoemaker works at the lab resembling a Gothic cathedral which has "Basse" in the name and having 16 floors. So that's one possible non-musical meaning for the "basse 16". Then again, The French I think use "basse" for our "bass" in music (according to this site found by a quick Google search, my memory is correct), so that might still say something about musical notation being involved.

But don't let the fact that someone has solved it already deter you from enjoying a good puzzle. After all it is supposed to be fun,right? And if it makes you feel any better I had to buy a book to solve the damned cube. I never had trouble with the others but something about the cube just never clicked right in my brain. I guess my brain just doesn't do squares.

Tragically there was an obvious direction in place subsequent to the space race (remember the Apollo program?) that would have been followed through to space industrialization had the launch service industry enjoyed the same protection from government competition that the satellite industry enjoyed:

* (c) Private enterprise; access; competition

In order to facilitate this development and to provide for the widest possible participation by private enterprise, United States participation in the global system shall be in the form of a private corporation, subject to appropriate governmental regulation. It is the intent of Congress that all authorized users shall have nondiscriminatory access to the system; that maximum competition be maintained in the provision of equipment and services utilized by the system; that the corporation created under this chapter be so organized and operated as to maintain and strengthen competition in the provision of communications services to the public; and that the activities of the corporation created under this chapter and of the persons or companies participating in the ownership of the corporation shall be consistent with the Federal antitrust laws.

It wasn't until 1990, when a coalition of grassroots groups across the country lobbied hard for 3 years, that similar legislation got passed for launch services.

The fact that the global economic paradigm didn't follow the Club of Rome model exactly doesn't change the reality of the Malthusian paradigm given a fundamentally limited biosphere undergoing its largest extinction event in 60 million years. The Club of Rome merely added academic fashion to the very real urgency of the Malthusian situation still facing the biosphere. The 1970s was the right time to start the drive for space industrialization based on a private launch service industry. It didn't happen, the pioneering culture that founded the US is being replaced by government policy with less pioneering cultures and now we're all facing some increasingly obvious difficulties -- not just pioneer American stock -- and not just humans.

Why?

Because the geek says so?

The masses - for whom the geek always shows some measure of contempt - have always chosen to communicate with both words and pictures as soon as the technology becomes available.

In 1908 the US Post Office delivered 678 million picture postcards. The population of the US in 1908 was 89 million. A Brief History of Postcards

THIS

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Try the Yotta Mac!

Mine is not the only work that one can charge Rowling "borrowed" from. Check out this piece from a fan site, pointing out links between Harry Potter and other previous works: http://www.geocities.com/versetrue/rowling.htm [geocities.com]. And don't forget the lawsuit by Nancy K. Stouffer, the author of a book entitled The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, whose hero was named "Larry Potter."

At that time, Rowling's lawyers called Stouffer's claim "frivolous."

Uncle Orson Reviews Everything
J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz

by Orson Scott Card

April 24, 2008
Can you believe that J.K. Rowling is suing a small publisher because she claims their 10,000-copy edition of The Harry Potter Lexicon, a book about Rowling's hugely successful novel series, is just a "rearrangement" of her own material.

Rowling "feels like her words were stolen," said lawyer Dan Shallman.

Well, heck, I feel like the plot of my novel Ender's Game was stolen by J.K. Rowling.

A young kid growing up in an oppressive family situation suddenly learns that he is one of a special class of children with special abilities, who are to be educated in a remote training facility where student life is dominated by an intense game played by teams flying in midair, at which this kid turns out to be exceptionally talented and a natural leader. He trains other kids in unauthorized extra sessions, which enrages his enemies, who attack him with the intention of killing him; but he is protected by his loyal, brilliant friends and gains strength from the love of some of his family members. He is given special guidance by an older man of legendary accomplishments who previously kept the enemy at bay. He goes on to become the crucial figure in a struggle against an unseen enemy who threatens the whole world.

This paragraph lists only the most prominent similarities between Ender's Game and the Harry Potter series. My book was published in England many years before Rowling began writing about Harry Potter. Rowling was known to be reading widely in speculative fiction during the era after the publication of my book.

I can get on the stand and cry, too, Ms. Rowling, and talk about feeling "personally violated."

The difference between us is that I actually make enough money from Ender's Game to be content, without having to try to punish other people whose creativity might have been inspired by something I wrote.

Mine is not the only work that one can charge Rowling "borrowed" from. Check out this piece from a fan site, pointing out links between Harry Potter and other previous works: http://www.geocities.com/versetrue/rowling.htm. And don't forget the lawsuit by Nancy K. Stouffer, the author of a book entitled The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, whose hero was named "Larry Potter."

At that time, Rowling's lawyers called Stouffer's claim "frivolous."

It's true that we writers borrow words from each other - but we're supposed to admit it and not pretend we're original when we're not. I took the word ansible from Ursula K. LeGuin, and have always said so. Rowling, however, denies everything.

If Steven Vander Ark, the author of Lexicon, had written fiction that he claimed was original, when it was actually a rearrangement of ideas taken from the Harry Potter books, then she'd have a case.

But Lexicon is intended only as a reference book for people who have already paid for their copies of Rowling's books. Even though the book is not scholarly, it certainly falls within the realm of scholarly comment.

Rowling's hypocrisy is so thick I can hardly breathe: Prior to the publication of each novel, there were books about them that were no more intrusive than Lexicon. I contributed to one of them, and there was no complaint about it from Rowling or her publishers because they knew perfectly well that these fan/scholar ancillary publications were great publicity and actually boosted sales.

But now the Harry Potter series is over, and Rowling claims that her "creative work" is being "decimated."

Of course, she doesn't claim that it's the Lexicon that is harming her "creative work" (who's she borrowing from this time?); it's the lawsuit itself! And since she chose to bring the suit, whose fault is it? If she had left Vander Ark alone to publish his little book and make his little bit of money, she wouldn't be distracted from her next novel.

But no, Rowling claims Vander

I could hardly call this: http://www.geocities.com/kathipadmarao/DURBAN.html a modern way of organising a society.

3. 60G - for windows data (fat32)

You'll have to create that 60GB FAT32 partition with Linux, because Windows XP SP2 refuses to create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB, but I believe it can access one with no problem?

In any case, I'd just use NTFS for all my Windows partitions, because support for reading/writing NTFS partitions is mature enough in Linux.

Instead of having a whole partition for your Windows XP backup, you can just give that space to one of your Linux partitions. Then while you're in Linux, use one of the many available tools to do a backup. For example, you can use dd. You can even pipe it through gzip to compress it and save space. You can even write a script to automate the process on a schedule if you wanted to.

Instead of installing GRUB on the MBR, I would install it on the Linux partition and then use the Windows bootloader to boot grub using a method like this.

I haven't tried this in Linux (worked flawlessly with VMWare Fusion), so I don't know how difficult it is, but you should be able to boot your Windows partition in VMWare. That way you only need to natively boot Windows for things like games, but everything else should run fine in a VM.

Introduction

The O-Prize is designed to realize the great potential of oil from algae with the lowest risk over the shortest time.

The potential of algae oil is to, in stages:

1) Enhance neurological development via nutritional supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids and,
2) Provide an abundant renewable source of green or environmentally friendly fuel oil.

A fixed dollar amount is withdrawn from the prize fund each month to purchase algae oil from the lowest price source(s) certified for the target market. That quantity of algae oil is then resold to the target market and the funds are added to the prize fund. When the lowest price certified sources can compete with the target market, that stage of the O-Prize has finished.

The O-Prize is designed to let algae cultivation techniques mature in two stages, building both technology and popular support for both environmentally friendly and humanitarian purposes.

You mean like the racist western conspiracy that instigated a war with a formerly allied country mainly because of that countries despicable actions in China? And how did the West get repaid for taking that stance and helping to liberate China? With the Chinese intervention against the United Nations (not just the United States) during the Korean War. Nice going -- we help to stop Japanese aggression and get repaid by China flipping off the entire World to support an aggressive regime that tried to conquer it's Southern neighbor.

If they want to make this into a nationalist cause celebre then somebody should remind them that there's a lot more history behind Chinese relations with the West then just the unequal treaties and not all of that history is the West "oppressing" China.

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For the textually challenged, perhaps a diagram would help.
And mods...insightful? Really? Two of you?

Reading several sources it looks like it takes about 30-40 hp to cruise in modern car. That figure is v^2 dependent though and the different aerodynamic figures and different speeds are what causes the figure to be so different.

Sources:
http://ergosphere.blogspot.com/2005/05/getting-down-to-earth_24.html
http://www.oramagazine.com/archive/2004/june2004/TECHNICAL/TECH05/JUNE04_TECH05_01.asp
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Shop/3589/efficiency.html

dude, read his manuscript... wtf?

http://www.geocities.com/james_sager5/book.zip

After the generation of Joshua fell off, the Jews fell into sin. As they fell into sin, God caused troubles to arise for them. Then after people prayed to God about their troubles, God sent in a judge who was given power by God to help the Jewish people and put them on track with their faith.

New York City has shortened the yellow light for as long as I can remember and it was for practical reasons. The four-second (and sometimes shorter) delay discourages yellow light runners and theoretically makes the intersections slightly safer. The temptation to run the yellow is quickly squelched
It has been criticized over the years, too, and the delay goes up and down depending on what year you're talking about.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5342/nydrive.htm
http://www.allcarrentacar.com/driving-in-queens.php
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2004/rpt/2004-r-0540.htm

This racetrack instability is actually a well known problem with annular combustion chambers such as those used with the toroidal aerospike engine. One of the main virtues of vortex engines, like Orbital Technologies or the ultracentrifugal one invented by Roger Gregory and myself, is that the coriolis effect distorts the wave front sending it into the wall of the combustion chamber. In theory, at least, this should disrupt the resonance enough to prevent destructive standing waves. Experiments have not been conducted to test this theory yet to the best of my knowledge.

The movie ends when Moore walks up to Charlton Heston's home and just rings the buzzer. Heston answers and invites Moore back for an interview the next day. At the interview, the then 77-year-old Heston holds his own, but Moore's relentless attack makes the legendary screen actor and civil rights activist seem befuddled and confused.

Moore continues to pester Heston as to why Canada has a lower crime rate in proportion to their large gun ownership rate; Heston then comments on our mixed ethnicity. Moore asks him if he thought race was the cause of crime in America, and Heston flatly says no. However, many reviewers have picked that one sentence out to accuse Heston of being a racist. Heston may be many things but a racist is not one of them.

I'll bet Taco's working on embedding sounds on this mashed-up trainwreck of a site, but until them, this will have to do:

http://www.geocities.com/yank2010/jamit.wav

Now please explain the whole point behind Guantomino, or the Polish torture prison, or to expand to more of history... the Russian trials under Stalin and Lenin, or (going back a good deal farther) "Paul the Chain" under Constantius, 354 AD.

Yeah, I want to come back as a Bonobo.

"Similar fate would befall you in total anarchism."

Total anarchism does not mean lack of order, it means lack of hierarchy. Anarchism is not the same as chaos. You can have laws in an anarchy, you just don't give anyone a monopoly on creating or enforcing them. It's not necessarily a free-for-all. It's not Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Certainly those worlds are included in the set of all possible anarchistic societies, but they are not the only worlds, they are not innevitable, and few serious anarchists are trying to bring that about.

For more information see http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/celestal.htm#earth

And here's the shot of Mars:
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There is a "No problem Bugroff" license: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html

I guess Bender finally built his lunar lander.

No, I believe Toonces drove I-10 a few times.

Shame Table oriented programming isn't being mentioned.*

*By a former "/." poster no less.

BTW just how much of languages is just a different view to the AST?

You are telling me that WordPerfect: The Corporation was moving in every direction at once. You are also telling me that WordPerfect was obsessed with the cardboard box.

I'm not sure what your getting at. Microsoft also sold retail cardboard boxes for multiple platforms. (Flight Simulator for Atari, Apple etc). WordPerfect relied on authorized retailers for Sales and Support (Remember Businessland?). Word Perfect never had an OEM relationship like Microsoft because it sold a product for multiple hardware platforms.

[I can't find a reference to an OEM WordPerfect before WordPerfect's purchase by Corel. Can you?]
OEMs were not allowed to bundle non-Microsoft software. All this is recorded history http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/MS/IBM-3.html

He also provided evidence of linkage by Microsoft between operating system and application sales, claiming that IBM would get better prices if it didn't ship Netscape Navigator and Lotus SmartSuite. For Microsoft Office bundles he was charged "IBM's price" of $250 per copy, considerably higher than the Compaq or HP price. Microsoft might have some justification for claiming volume discounts here, if IBM was shipping fewer copies of Office.

"Microsoft repeatedly told us that as long as we were shipping competitive products, such as Smart Suite and OS2, we would not be treated the same as Compaq and others," he said.


How about evidence from the Iowa anti-trust trial:

146. Another way that Microsoft found to circumvent the federal court's 1995 injunction forbidding its use of "minimum commitment/per processor" licenses was what Microsoft calls its "Market Development Agreements" ("MDAs"). Microsoft contrived the MDA as a device to evade the Court's decree prohibiting Microsoft from requiring OEMs to adhere to "minimum commitments." As Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's current CEO) acknowledged: "We have always given better prices to customers who work with us to make the market. Those used to take the form of commits [i.e., minimum commitments] which we do not do anymore as a result of the [federal court's] decree but we still believe in rewarding people who help us create demand. Hence the iMDA." Under the MDAs, Microsoft granted large discriminatory price concessions to those OEMs that would agree to market and promote Microsoft's Windows to the exclusion of any rival operating system. These discounts were calibrated so as to force the OEM to sell most of its computers with a Microsoft operating system in order to obtain the lowest price.

147. Because the OEM market is so competitive and profit margins are so thin, every OEM had to get the lowest price it could from Microsoft in order to survive. In March 2002, a Gateway marketing executive (Anthony Fama) testified before Judge Kollar-Kotelly in State of New York et al. v. Microsoft, Case No. 98-1233 (CKK), about how Microsoft used its MDA program in order to force OEMs to market Microsoft's operating system exclusively: "Given the substantial nature of these discounts, participation in the MDA, as a practical matter, is not optional. In other words, not receiving :these discounts would put Gateway at a substantial competitive disadvantage, and Gateway has communicated that self-evident proposition to Microsoft." Microsoft also used its MDAs to lock OEMs in and competitors out by offering a discriminatory price to the OEM in a later year provided (a) the OEM reached Microsoft's imposed goal of Windows sales over competitive sales in the prior year and (b) renewed its exclusionary contract with Microsoft for the later year. This placed the OEM on a perpetual treadmill, eliminating competition indefinitely. Microsoft continued these exclusionary terms at least past April 2002.

148. One method for encouraging competition in the operating systems market would have been the sale by OEMs of "naked machines" (i.e., computers that are sold without

but apart from that the nearest stations are all serving Indianapolis.

I have been using a UHF yagi for quite a while. They are broad enough to pick up the lower UHF just fine and have a narrow beamwidth. If the stations you want to pick up are all clustered on a far hilltop, I have had great luck line of sight at 85 miles. Finding a UHF only yagi is a little hard, or build your own. The ARRL Antenna handbook is a great place to start.

Here is a great article on fringe area UHF reception including some extreme stacked high gain antennas including manufacture information including model number. The antenna I am using is about 30 elements long and is from the 1970's.

http://www.geocities.com/toddemslie/UHF-TV-DX.html

I think the suppliers are trying to dump their VHF/UHF/FM stock as most everything is old stock. If you are in a fringe area and most stations are distant in one direction (big city hilltop nearby) then a narrow beam high gain yagi may be what you need.

I know that this law would be difficult to enforce, and that we'd all like to be able to post our political views, ask difficult questions, and engage in other harmless and even noble behaviors anonymously, but cyberbullying is real and it can happen to any one.

Ironically, I was online under a pseudonym at time. This was the fall of 2003. I did not know the word "cyberbullying," but something about this group felt very funny, so I thought my avatar would be happier there than I was. I'd had some bitter experiences with smaller ladies' groups. http://tacheiru.us/unfettered/defunct.html

Here is the group my "personna" joined's URL. I'm not sure they are even active.

http://www.geocities.com/trueheartsofgold/

Haldis, my alter-ego (She's a bit more than a pseudonym. I've been online as her http://hopefulviper.us/haldis for seven years so she has a separate history and if I do something under her name, I say she did it. This helps me keep track of who I was when I did what.) soon had an inbox of overflowing mail and in among the letters from the Yahoogroup that was so overloading the servers at the time, it took three days to clear. In among these gems, came some very ugly poison pen letters from a throwaway email address. The emails accuesd my personna of having "an immoral relationship" with her boyfriend and said she'd better watch herself or something vaguely bad would happen. This sounds a lot milder as a description than it did in real life. There were also ugly messages left on the remotely loaded web board, my avatar had on her web site. She deleted some of them. I think there may be one or two left up.

My avatar and I were both frightened. The avatar went to the list owner to complain. The list owner told her to be careful and watch it. We both interpreted this as the fact that the listowner did not want any bullies on her list and that she would do what she could to keep up her list's good name.

Call it a miscalculation. The bullying continued. Haldis (my avatar) and I searched for ISP's and other clues and we managed to find the bully's identity. Meanwhile, Haldis got sick of the list and the way that they had gone after another member. Haldis ripped up a glurge just to see the reaction. She got thrown off the list but the email took three days to stop. She got to see the grand pile-up and pile-on that followed her ouster. Haldis also learned that the list owner had been in cahoots with the bully.

Haldis had no choice but to email two cease and desist letters signed by her and witnessed by her fictional suite mates (Haldis is much younger than I and was a freshwoman in college at the time this all occured). The threat sounded real enough and the cyberbullies were history.

I can still find letters I wrote about this at the time...

Letter 1 -- Psycho by the Pound 11/4/03

I took a nap and then Haldis had to score Web Leagues. Suffice it to say the scoring set up at ZOID is much better. I counted 70 ballots by hand. I had reason to dread doing it.

I also did some thinking about the attack on Haldis. I tried to figure out what is provoking it. Haldis' political page is a possibility. Thadea's remarks about the crassness of competing a memorial page and site fighter demographics could be another. A third possibility is that the attacker "Squeakychair" is just crazy.

I mean you don't like someone for some reason that you meet on a fairly open and unmoderated mailing list that brings in women from all over, you either have it out with them in public or you write them a confronting letter that you sign with your real name or you let it go. This crap with threats and taunts which almost feels like blackmail, feels crazy and crazy making.

So the question is w

Yeah, but that couldn't be the Ultimate Question. As it's defined in HGTTG, it's practically impossible to derive the Answer from the Question, or vice versa. (Yet the Answer is fully responsive to the Question.)

Actually, the Question is presented in the books. There's a conversation between Marvin and a mattress creature on Squornshellous Zeta in which - well, read it for yourself. It's right there, plain as day.

My geek duties for the day having been satisfied, I shall now go have breakfast... ;)

- David Stein

prophecies which have been so accurate that in many cases it's been accused of being written after the fact which is wrong considering that Daniel had the book of Isaiah before the fall of Babylon

The Book of Daniel is a fiction, written hundreds of years after the events it claims to portray. It's easy to make prophecies come out correctly in fiction.

Archeology backs up most of the Bible

Uh, no. For starters, remember the whole captivity in Egypt thing? Big part of the Old Testiment? Archaeological evidence - none. Herod's slaughter of young boys around Bethlehem? No evidence outside the Gospels.

As literature and myth, some parts of the Bible have some merit. As history or as a sensible guide to ethics or philosophy, it's badly wanting.

I was attemlting the same thing with an old Yahoo mail account, but it backfired on me when I tried to switch a listserv I wanted to keep to another account:

http://www.geocities.com/catmistake

(& why does geocities seem retro to me?)

Most religions outlooked the day-after final, and we've noted in mind that we just live only 10.000 years of civilization and how we can challenge figure of 3.8 ~ 13.7 bya? It is simply our mind journey have measured the huge time-table, the huge mass-energy, invisible dark energy/matter, but for what? I always think that human mind is analogically as recorded-camera but there are 2 monitor, one monitor for human itself and the other monitor is God in dimensions of universe consciousness. So I believe when a scientist is watching and thinking about Milky-Way, there are two watchers, it can be expressed as Z = R + jX. Real R watcher is human mind and and Imaginary jX watcher is infinite universe consciousness. I just simply think that we've only 10.000 years very short time-table, it looks like human mind is only TIME-CLOCK-WATCHER OF FIGURE 13.700.000.000 YEARS, we've successfully defined it 10.000 - 4.500.000.000 - 13.700.000.000 and someday we will meet again in next 10.000 years time-table. Do not forget Aristotle syllogism. http://www.geocities.com/memorigin/Aristotle.htm

If anyone has DOS or an emulator, you can download my demo at: http://www.geocities.com/james_sager2/work/tri.zip

Anyway I looked more closely. And even though his triangles look like my triangles, his solution for the puzzle is solid blocks, when mine were:

V.V
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Or vice versa. I really should port the game to flash and put it on Kongregate or something. I guess being lazy, everyone of your ideas will be used up eventually.

Where the fuck do you think gasoline comes from?

Buzz, not all cars use gasoline. Nor does diesel engines run only on petro diesel. The inventor of the diesel engine Rudolph Diesel designed and ran his engine on vegetable oil. He used peanut and hemp oil among others. At the 1900 Paris Expo he used peanut oil. At his Iron Mountain Estate Henry Ford grew hemp he used to construct a vehicle as well as made fuel from it for the car in the 1930s.

I guess they did the impossible, or they didn't do it. However the fact is is Ford And Deisel Never Intended Cars To Use Gasoline".

As the abuse, anger and yelling continued, I developed a fear of my father. I slowly became more and more afraid of his outbursts over time. Eventually I was so afraid of him that I would be physically ill before he even picked me up for my weekend visit. During my weekends with him, I was so afraid of setting him off that I tried my best to appease him. The thing that I learned to dread the most were meals with him. I was so nervous I could barely eat I was trembling so much. Eventually I started throwing up after meals because I had so much nervous tension built up that I couldn't keep food down. When I did throw up around him, he would beat me and scream at me, which only made me more afraid to throw up, and it became a vicious cycle. This belief was reinforced into my head many times as I threw up and he would beat me.

I don't think you'd ever understand what I went through, it was traumatizing and I can't even describe how horrible it was. It's not a matter of being able to "grow up", this fear was put in my head at a very early age and it's been with me the majority of my life. It was my father who gave me my fear of vomitting, and it controls my life. I can't just get rid of this fear overnight, it's not like bullying where I can just "toughen up". It's a serious illness and I have yet to get the therapy that I need. It doesn't help that I now have a serious stomach illness and I've been extremely ill for the past 8 years. I can't leave the house most days as my fear of vomitting and my fear of embarrassment (from vomitting in public) prevents me from going outside.

Here's a page on Emetophobia. There's a ton of good info on that site, too much to quote it all here. But I'll quote some of the stuff that I feel is important.

Emetophobia is an irrational or excessive fear of vomiting. But nobody likes to vomit. A phobia is distinguished from an ordinary fear by the irrational and excessive anxiety caused by the stimuli for the phobic individual. For example, many people would not want to explore caves because of a fear of snakes. But some people with a snake phobia, called ophidiophobia, are afraid to walk on the sidewalk in downtown Chicago because a snake might be there.

So, hundreds of millions of people may fear vomiting, but they don't alter their daily lives because of it the way emetophobics do. The fear is also all-consuming; for most emetophobics, vomiting is their single worst fear. In casual conversation, many phobics say they'd rather die than vomit. (We hope that's overstated.)

That last sentence is very true, I'd rather die than be sick.

How did emetophobics get that way?

A good many cases of emetophobia were triggered by a particularly traumatic episode of vomiting that occurred between the ages of 6 and 10. Most of these incidents came on unexpectedly. After the frightening emetic incident, most phobics were very careful to avoid vomiting. If they experienced it at all, it was with a tremendous amount of fear and anxiety. So they never came to experience vomiting as something normal or routine.

Some emetophobics say their parents were not supportive of them when they vomited as children, and some say that their parents even made them vomit.

However, many emetophobics have no idea why they have this phobia. Many people believe it's an issue of control. Some say emetophobics want maximum control over their bodies, or that they are making up for a lack of control they had over situations as children.

Some experts think that anxiety over separation from a parent or other loved one during childhood contributes to emetophobia. And some therapists, not emetoph