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Finally I realized memetic systems defining reinsurance networks in terms of kin-selection were the most natural way to make stable technological civilizations because other memetic systems (those that deny the importance of kin-selection) merely evolve hypocrisy at an unconsciuos genetic level rendering rational thought, communication and action nonviable.

Where is Jon Katz these days?

Being the NAMBLA member that he is, he's most likely away on a child sex tour.

Perhaps you haven't really looked closely at any of the alternatives. You sure don't seem too famlilar with the American system at any rate.

You need far more transformers in the last mile than Europeans do. America seems often to need transformers in situations where Europeans would use a simple distribution panel or 3-phase supply. When I worked in America I was amazed that the equipment hall where we were working (which had quite a few computers in it) had its own large transformer sitting on the floor for electrical distribution.

Are you absolutely sure that wasn't a power conditioner? I'm only asking because where I work we've got rooms full of PCs, minicomputers and mainframes where the power's provided via a distribtion panel. Power quality being very important for this kind of equipment, we also have power conditioners scattered liberally throughout. I could easily see someone mistaking them for transformers.

You don't see too many electric kettles or Toasters in the US (Do you even know what they are?)

I've lived in the US all my life, and I've never seen a kitchen without an elecric toaster. It's just one of those things everyone has. Since we don't drink nearly as much tea as the Brits there's not the demand here for electric kettles, but they're not hard to find if you want one.

They only go in one way round.

So do modern American plugs. You'll find older houses with unpolarized sockets, and some appliances where the polarity doesn't matter with unpolarized plugs, but either case is pretty rare nowadays. The grounded three-prong plugs only go in one way around too.

All UK plugs contain a fuse. The rating of the fuse should be appropriate to the device. This means that appliances in the UK do not generally catch fire.

You will find that appliances everywhere generally do not catch fire. (Who'd want one in his house if they did?) It takes considerable effort to get even a heating appliance (such as one of those not-so-rare American toasters) to burst into flame. Generally, it requires a considerable amount of effort involving a Pop Tart to get it to happen, and even then you have to purposely defeat the toaster's normal safety mechanism. If an American appliance requires this kind of protection there's either a circuit breaker or a fuse in the appliance itself, not the plug.

Someone posted here - "Checksumming - no good. Any program could pretend to have the right checksum, but send false data. No point in figuring out *afterwards* the download is corrupt." This is incorrect. Gnutella currently does HUGE-format full file hashes. If you are doing a multiple source download on Gnucleus, it overlaps data eg it downloads 0-10K from one source and 9-19K from another and 18-28K from another. If 2 and 3 (and 4 and 5) hook up, but 1 and 2 don't, it dumps 1. Actually tiger hashes are an even better method of doing this, you can hash any portion of the file to see if it is good or not, that is coming soon to Gnutella within the partial file sharing scheme. So in Gnutella, fake hash senders are already put down in the current system during multi-source downloads, and when tiger hashing is implemented, they will be eliminated.

The 3 components I see in solving this problem are hashes, unique IDs and distributedness. It is a very complex problem because it is not a technical problem, it is a security problem, e.g. you will have thinking humans on the other end of it trying to foul it up. A bad guy (RIAA/MPAA) can send out good data for weeks and then shift to all bad - by that time s/he will probably be trusted and their shift will have to be dealt with. But then we have to consider people who download bad data and then accidentally distribute it - we don't want them blackballed for becoming an unwitting dupe one time. It's complex and I doubt will ever be 100% solved, the best that we can do is make the network as usable as possible and filtering out as much junk as possible. Basically score data on it's likelihood of being good or bad. As long as we can keep the system 80-99% usable I think we're OK.

The best ideas I have seen here are voting on bad server, a ring of trust and gojomo's post about Bitzi.com. As far as voting on bad servers, or server keys, or user keys - I think we need to vote on bad AND good user keys, if it's just bad keys they'll keep coming back with new keys and it will be futile - the core of good keys will be what is more constant.

As far as a ring of trust - that's a good idea, especially if it's scored, e.g. people I directly endorse get 1.000, people that two of them endorse get a .9500, and so forth. One thing that can be done is all the prominent developers can get keys and then mark hosts which are transmitting legitimate data (mp3's of Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech and whatnot) and sign each others keys. That's an easy base of trust of a handful of people, and I'm sure other bases of trust will arise. Once the tiger tree hashing gets in place on Gnutella, we can start seeing stuff like the latest linux kernel distributed on Gnutella. This will be a great way to allow for distribution of popular programs that can't afford expensive hosting.

As far as gojomo's Bitzi.com post, that is the most concrete example of this stuff being currently implemented. Someone responded to his post that the data is centralized on his web site. Well, he has an opend ata policy so anyone can download the whole database and set up their own website with it - as long as they credit the Bitzi data as coming from Bitzi. I do agree that the hash and trust metric has to be distributed within P2P (or concurrent with it to where it's transparent), but right now it's a beacon of what will be, and since the database is open all the work put into it can exist indefinitely even if the RIAA and/or MPAA sues Bitzi.

You're absolutley right. It's actually already done. Edonkey2000 already does this (site such as: ShareReactor and FileNexus have long lists of high-quality material, all of which is proven to be real. Also for other p2p systems like KaZa there are tools that can make hashes. Of course there are sites that list good hashes.

You're absolutley right. It's actually already done. Edonkey2000 already does this (site such as: ShareReactor and FileNexus have long lists of high-quality material, all of which is proven to be real. Also for other p2p systems like KaZa there are tools that can make hashes. Of course there are sites that list good hashes.

Something like the sig2dat system that is used by very handy sites such as FastTrackMovies. Basically, sig2dat is a Windows program (although Linux variants are now available) which generates a checksum from a media file - which then can be posted on a website. This link uses the custom sig2dat:// protocol which, when clicked on, is picked up by sig2dat which uses the checksum to generate the necessary 'start download' file needed by the FastTrack clients (Kazaa, KazaaLite etc). FTM holds a list of these checksums (which are generated by the file's contents and the length of the file) for a large number of movies/tv programs - allowing you to click on one of the links and get the verified media with 99% certainty (ok, there is a chance that there could be another media file out there with exactly the same checksum, but I haven't encountered it yet).

http://www.geocities.com/csharpfaq/box.html

eg:
Q: What can we conclude from all this?
A: The 'Type System Unification' in C# is half-baked and full of pitfalls.

C# Best Practice
Do not use boxing and unboxing

Here is an interview with Frasier Crane.

Oi, just because it is a video doesn't mean that it can be believed. You can rent a James Bond movie at Blockbuster where it actually looks as if he can singehandedly save the world - without getting his tie out of place!

With a little bit of video editing experience I could put together a video showing you where I just put together some code and voila - there is a new OS on the screen of my PC!

However, all the cynicism aside - I doubt these guys would do that as it would be a fair bit of effort and they would be nailed fairly soon.

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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless

C'mon, you're not trying very hard, obviously. I typed in the first thing that came to mind, which was 'boobs.' :-) Results 1 - 20 of about 195, one of which was this wonderful shot.
There's also tits, ass, wank, and nekkid. Granted, none of those are crazy offensive, but this is China we're talking about, so they'll do.

Tony Stark, military-industrial capitalist-scientist, fatally injured in Vietnam, puts self in iron lung. Gives lung legs and escapes. Produces more colorful iron-lung supersuits over the next decades, and becomes The Invincible Ironman.

I knew I'd seen something very much like this before.

Anyone remember Omnibot?

Let Kendra return, this would be good news. She was cool, in fact she the only reason to watch the boring show.

The firewall blocks sites by IP, so sites like yours are collatoral damage when one server hosts a lot of sites (called vhosting), one of which has probably been deemed objectionable.

Other people have said that Geocities is inaccessible, but it looks like your actual site is still accessible. Just tell all the Chinese Monday Night Football fans to go directly to the Geocities site.

I hereby, and until notice to the contrary, endow the Bowery Award for Amateur Rocketry with $1000 going to the next amateurs launching a vehicle to a height in excess of 200 kilometers, to be disbursed at my sole discretion.

I have worked everywhere from shops where I was the only tech to Fortune 100 companies. This is not an accident. If it was really an accident, you would be a consultant who would be getting paid time and a half for sloppy management - e.g. your manager and his managers and the company would be losing money because of a mistake. That's a mistake from the manager's perspective. If you are on salary, which I'm sure you are, what the manager is doing makes a lot of sense from a managerial perspective. This idea that there is a rational, non-confrontational way to reason with managers over this is inane. "They should realize that long hours might put a crimp in that high quality code I write - I might get burned out after a few months". They are not stupid - they realize this. They think they will look better if they can burn you out on the next few projects so that's what they're doing.

At Fortune 100 companies, at big law firms, consulting companies down to small companies, many of them run their little flunkies around ragged. Whether you consider this good management or bad management is immaterial - you're not a manager. This is just the way it is, if you're at a salaried job that just requires you to work 9 to 5, you've lucked out. Also, there are plenty of college students looking for a job, H1-Bs and so forth who will not mind working long hours without pay. In terms of business, not necessarily IT, if a manager told other managers that he managed to sucker a bunch of salaried workers to work 15 hours a day, usually he'd be considered a GOOD manager. It does not matter if running you ragged is logical good or bad management or not, that's just the way it is. One reason for this is the ITAA, since there is no IT worker organization with any political clout to speka of, pushed a law through Congress a few years ago repealing (for IT workers only) the FLSA law that said overtime has to be paid.

Every worker is selling his labor time for money. When you give lots more labor time to your employer for free, he's getting over on you. Do you think you could hire a plumber or whatever who charges by the hour and have him fix a sink and then spend another 8 hours fixing all your pipes for free? If you were charging by the hour, your boss would not want you to work 15 hours - if he's paying for your time, all of a sudden he gets some consideration with regards to wasting your time.

I realize a lot of you are starry-eyed out of college Linux hackers buying a lot of BS in your early 20's, but after a while, many of you will gain this perspective, and the sooner you realize it the better. It is strategic thinking, not tactical - knowing this doesn't mean you fight tooth and nail on every thing like this. But it's the realization that if you're paid on salary, not wage - and ESPECIALLY with the laws the ITAA passed through for IT workers in the past few years regarding wages, overtime and salaries - laws financed by Microsoft, Intel, IBM and so forth specifically so they can do the kind of screwing over that you're getting now. You've had some realization about this, that's why you sent to Slashdot.

So strategically you have to realize that if you are being paid salary instead of per hour wage, you are at the mercy of your boss, in fact many, many bosses will push you to work as much as you can without dropping the ball. Very common, they pile on work, pile on work and your hours expand and eventually you start letting things slip - that's a sign to them that you have too much to do and then maybe they give you less work or hire someone else. If they pay you by the hour suddenly they have a lot more respect for your time.

Also, the laws changed by the ITAA were done by the employers (IBM, Intel, Microsoft...go check out the ITAA's sponsors) getting together and changing the law so that you get screwed on overtime, as well as other things. The solution is for more IT workers to join the efforts to organize together to counter what the ITAA is doing. They collectively spend millions to try and screw us, and we try to block them - nascent efforts are making only a small dent but as we get bigger we'll become more powerful. Anyone calling themselves a "professional" in this profession is insane. REAL professionals like doctors, lawyers, dentists have professional associations like the AMA, ABA and ADA fighting for them in Washington among other things. Or they're in unions like SAG, IBEW and whatnot. Or whatever - they organize in the way they want to organize. What do we have? The IEEE-USA? Don't make me laugh - they're sponsored by the same corporate sponsors who fund the ITAA, and these sponsors have threatened the IEEE-USA, and the IEEE-USA has rolled over when the membership has tried to do something, time and time again. Only a reform movement would fix them, if it's even worth it. There are organizations out there doing good stuff - the Programmers Guild, Washtech/CWA, CESO and so forth. Find one you like and join their organization, get active - because the ITAA sure as hell is active screwing us over. Why else have wages fallen for the first time in a decade? Anyone who thinks the ITAA's Washington lobbying to change the laws had nothing to do with it is a fool - are Microsoft, IBM, Intel etc. pissing away all that money for lobbyists and lawyers for nothing? The monetary returns come back to them in spades. And half the IT workers out there don't even know any of this is going on. But the nascent organizations coming up are beginning to change that, so check some of them out. I'm not saying all of this for my health, it's because I want to make nice money at a good job for years to come, just like you. You can come to your own opinions, and decide whether it's worth it to spend the time joining one of these organizations, but you should definitely find out about the ITAA, what they've been up to, how salaries have fallen and all of this stuff anyhow. There's not enough awareness amongst IT workers yet. Here's my web page on this - On call guild

No. they conduct oil drilling operations with dowsing-rods and donkey-powered pumping equipment.

Jeez! Howdya think any nation-state runs in this age? They have computerized buracracy in Bhutan and Namibia.

We interupt your surfing session with a special bulletin:

The Internet is now under martial law. All constitutional rights have been suspended. Stay in your homes! Do not attempt to contact loved ones, science fiction authors, or software developers.

SHUT UP!

Do not attempt to think, or depresion may occur. Stay in your homes. Curfew is at 7 pm sharp after work. Anyone transferring content on ports other than those allowed by their subdivision router - will - be - shot.

(Remain calm.)

Do not panic. Your neighborhood Digital Rights Inspector will be around to collect access logs in the morning. Anyone caught interfering with the collection of access logs - will - be - shot.

Stay in your homes! Remain calm! The number one enemy of progress is questions! The security of Hollywood's business model is more important that individual will!

(All sports broadcasts will proceed as normal.)

No more than two people may discuss programming techniques without permission! Write only the code prescribed by your boss or supervisor!

SHUT UP!
BE HAPPY!
Obey all orders without question!

The comfort you've demanded is now mandatory!

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At last, everything is done for you...

"I want everyone to know,O.J.Simpson is innocent,they did it. "

The rogue modules are at this moment trying to send tarred copies of the servers' filesystems to various *.no domains associated with the notorious elderly hacker group DIAPERS. Based on logfile analysis up to this point, apparently DIAPERS is primarily interested in email and personal documents relating to unreported security-related bugs in Apache 2.0.

The Apache Group -- led by Sven Fijlmijup of Apache Europe -- are currently trying to learn as much as possible about the attack to increase the chances that INTERPOL will be able to find and arrest the responsible elderly. Afterwards, all Apache.org websites will but SHUT DOWN until tomorrow at 8:00AM GMT, at which time a single newly-installed server will be deployed and the Apache USA group will post more information about the attack. NOTE THAT AT THIS MOMENT IT APPEARS THE PRIMARY CVS SERVERS WERE ISOLATED FROM THE ATTACK. Apache AustralAsia has taken reponsibilty for diffing the CVS repository against secure backups and Apache Canada will be joining them later this week to ensure that the Apache source code itself has not been compromised.

So please do not be alarmed but PLEASE DO NOT VISIT APACHE.ORG as their bandwidth is effectively hosed by the reverse-DDOS. All that is accessible is a hacked index page that contains a shoutout to various DIAPER hackers. I have reproduced the shoutout here so that you have no possible reason to visit Apache.org and further murder their bandwidth.

WE ARE DIAPER, THE HACKERS FROM NORWAY WHO ARE OLD. WE HERE HAVE HACKED THE APACHE

gummy
mediscare
31337cornf33t
dependz
oldISgold
wrinkl3pu$$
grandpa69
noteeth
n0td34 df00

ELDERLY IS BEST HACKERS AND DIAPER IS ELITE ELDERLY

-- The_Messenger
Apache Russia

The rogue modules are at this moment trying to send tarred copies of the servers' filesystems to various *.no domains associated with the notorious elderly hacker group DIAPERS. Based on logfile analysis up to this point, apparently DIAPERS is primarily interested in email and personal documents relating to unreported security-related bugs in Apache 2.0.

The Apache Group -- led by Sven Fijlmijup of Apache Europe -- are currently trying to learn as much as possible about the attack to increase the chances that INTERPOL will be able to find and arrest the responsible elderly. Afterwards, all Apache.org websites will but SHUT DOWN until tomorrow at 8:00AM GMT, at which time a single newly-installed server will be deployed and the Apache USA group will post more information about the attack. NOTE THAT AT THIS MOMENT IT APPEARS THE PRIMARY CVS SERVERS WERE ISOLATED FROM THE ATTACK. Apache AustralAsia has taken reponsibilty for diffing the CVS repository against secure backups and Apache Canada will be joining them later this week to ensure that the Apache source code itself has not been compromised.

So please do not be alarmed but PLEASE DO NOT VISIT APACHE.ORG as their bandwidth is effectively hosed by the reverse-DDOS. All that is accessible is a hacked index page that contains a shoutout to various DIAPER hackers. I have reproduced the shoutout here so that you have no possible reason to visit Apache.org and further murder their bandwidth.

WE ARE DIAPER, THE HACKERS FROM NORWAY WHO ARE OLD. WE HERE HAVE HACKED THE APACHE

gummy
mediscare
31337cornf33t
dependz
oldISgold
wrinkl3pu$$
grandpa69
noteeth
n0td34 df00

ELDERLY IS BEST HACKERS AND DIAPER IS ELITE ELDERLY

-- The_Messenger
Apache Russia

the "Sam & Max: Freelance Police" unofficial rpg is available here
And "Fudge: Full Throttle" rpg is available here

-Ed

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the "Sam & Max: Freelance Police" unofficial rpg is available here
And "Fudge: Full Throttle" rpg is available here

-Ed

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Wow, imagine what a Beowolf cluster of these could do.

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(* It's wierd, when you think about it, that programming is still done in flat text files. *)

It is odd that *files in general* still uses hierarchical directories. I agree that trees are (initially) conceptually easy to understand than the alternatives, but being easy to understand is not necessarily the same as being productive. It is time we byte the bullet and grow up from trees to sets. Sets are more general-purpose and handle orthogonal organizational criteria much better.

My rant on altnerativges

Sometimes I put code in tables also.

(* It's wierd, when you think about it, that programming is still done in flat text files. *)

It is odd that *files in general* still uses hierarchical directories. I agree that trees are (initially) conceptually easy to understand than the alternatives, but being easy to understand is not necessarily the same as being productive. It is time we byte the bullet and grow up from trees to sets. Sets are more general-purpose and handle orthogonal organizational criteria much better.

My rant on altnerativges

Sometimes I put code in tables also.

The potential further exists for oppressive governments to use the revocation feature to censor what we see and hear. In this Orwellian scenario it would be possible to erase from the collective consciousness striking images of the lone student facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square

Well we don't need censorware to hide political images in america. The media does it all on it's own.

Ever see this on cnn?

No.

You won't see the facts.

The potential further exists for oppressive governments to use the revocation feature to censor what we see and hear. In this Orwellian scenario it would be possible to erase from the collective consciousness striking images of the lone student facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square

Well we don't need censorware to hide political images in america. The media does it all on it's own.

Ever see this on cnn?

No.

You won't see the facts.

The potential further exists for oppressive governments to use the revocation feature to censor what we see and hear. In this Orwellian scenario it would be possible to erase from the collective consciousness striking images of the lone student facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square

Well we don't need censorware to hide political images in america. The media does it all on it's own.

Ever see this on cnn?

No.

You won't see the facts.

The potential further exists for oppressive governments to use the revocation feature to censor what we see and hear. In this Orwellian scenario it would be possible to erase from the collective consciousness striking images of the lone student facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square

Well we don't need censorware to hide political images in america. The media does it all on it's own.

Ever see this on cnn?

No.

You won't see the facts.

Soft drinks range from anywhere between 35 (Pepsi light) to 71 mg of caffeine per 12 oz. Also, most of them add sugar for an enhanced energy kick. Sugar highs are short-time, meaning you get power for only a few minutes, but with caffeine, which works long-term, that's quite okay. Except for getting fat, there are no real side effects. Depending on your constitution, age and weight, you'd need to drink between 4 and 8 litres of this stuff to get caffeine shock. (Please don't try this at home, kids, I know the feeling, and it's not good.)

Energy drinks, like Red Bull, XTC, etc. contain about 100mg caffeine per 8 oz, with additons such as guarana, ginseng or taurine. Because of the higher doses, it's generally not smart, though widespread, to mix those with alcohol. Remember, caffeine may enance the effects of any other drugs you consume.

Coffee, the allmighty coffee. From a low 65 mg in instant coffee to a nice 175 in drip per 8 oz, it is easy to get, tastes okay, and will give you heart and stomach diseases. 2 cans of strong drip coffee will make you shake like a boogie dancer.
I put tea in this category (yes, tea also containes a form of caffeine), strong black tea has 50-80mg per 8 oz, while iced tea and fruit tea range from nada to 15mg. Not quite the kick, but your digestive organs will be much more happy.

Tabs. The all time favorite would be NoDoz, with eiter 100mg in the standard or 200mg in the shiny "kill your brains" edition. Also, you can get various caffeine tablets at your local pharmacy, with different names, those will mostly contain 100mg per tab. Also, many painkillers use caffeine as an ingredience. Your doc will probably tell you that you should not consume more than 500mg of caffeine per day. Understand that 500mg may be enough for the non-coders and non-gamers out there. Real hax0r doods swallow half a gram for breakfast ;)

Speed. The common name for Amphetamines and Metaamphetamines, at least you can hope that they are inside the stuff. Usually snorted or swallowed, sometimes injected or smoked. Speed is avaiable from your friendly neighbourhood dealer(tm), ILLEGAL, and can be very dangerous to your health. One dose will keep you awake for 6 to 24 hours, in this time you will expirience a "brain high", and a lack of emotions. When getting stoned, you'll be dead tired, will sleep for a long time (12+ hours), and have a serious hangover afterwards. Physical addition is possible, but it's more likely that you'll take downers afterward to sleep, followed by more speed when you wake up, and the cycle is finished. May cause seizures, heart strokes, and other nasty things you want to avoid. Just say know.

Crack. Leave your hands of it. 'nuff said.

Well kids, that concludes today's lesson. The next time, you'll learn where /. posters get all the free time to write up useless postings like this one!

Links of interest :

caffeine content of food and drugs
Amount of caffeine in drinks
a salute to caffeine
thinkgeek : caffeine
amphetamine facts

Actually quite intresting. I did a bit of searching:

Pictures of The Voynich Manuscript

Seems a running theroy is this man Roger Bacon may have written the book.

-You must not change the past! Don't do anything that effects anything. Unless you were suppose too, then for the love of God don't not do it.

...A wonderful magical animal

Or just send them your "ass pennies".

It should be noted that in my Spasim web page I credited Kevin Gorey with the creation of Airfight and Brand Fortner with continuing later work on Airfight (the bulk of the work). Brand Fortner disputes this claiming he originated Airfight. This is something that needs to be ferreted out. The long period of time between then and now leads many of us to remember things different ways and my recollection may be in error on this.

PS: No one present at PLATO circa 1974 disputes the priority of Spasim in 3D games to the best of my knowledge.

No version of PLATO ever ran on ILLIAC. PLATO I was a single user system prototyped on an early IBM system written in FORTRAN of all things. Multiuser gaming on PLATO however really didn't start at all until PLATO III which ran on a Control Data Corporation Cyber 1604 (Seymour Cray's first "supercomputer" by many accounts).

Although lost in the mists of time there was some on-campus rivalry between the ILLIAC and PLATO projects as indicated by the grafitti on the roof of a building next to the high-rise apartment in which I stayed while writing the second version of Spasim: "PLATO Sucks ILLIAC IV". The real reason for this rivalry was probably the age-old competition between faster scalar processing and massively parallel processing architectures. The PLATO culture was hard-over into Seymour Cray's fast scalar processing architectures. PLATO folks largely saw massively parallel processing architectures as a cop-out by pussies who just didn't have what it took to build computers that did real things economically and fast.

Besides, how can you can believe in evolution when it violates basic laws of the universe? There are so many arguments against evolution that it's ridiculous. Even those that ignore the written record of humanity cannot ignore the scientific facts making it impossible.

I very highly suspect this as a troll, but I'll give it a go :)

Evolutionists claim that universe the earth is billions of years old, but how is that possible when the rotation of the earth slows by 30 seconds every century? If the earth were billions of years old the speed at which it would have been rotating four years ago would have been so fast that it could not have held together.

Er, 30 seconds every century indeed! More like 2.2 seconds every 100,000 years. Here are some references.

There's also the second law of thermodynamics to look at. It states that the universe is constantly heading toward disorder. Evolution violates that law, so which one is right?

Well the second law of thermodynamics only makes sense when you understand what it's actually saying :P It says that the universe as a whole is moving towards disorder. This doesn't prevent portions of the universe from achieving states of increased order. And to think otherwise is completely absurd - if everything could only move in the direction of disorder, how could anything really get accomplished? This is a rediculous way to try and twist the 2nd law of thermodynamics, it reeks of manipulation.

Another problem with evolution is that certain nucleic acids cannot form without the help of certain proteins, but those proteins cannot form without certain nucleic acids. That makes it impossible to occur naturally.

Admittedly, I know nothing about nucleic acids and proteins, so I cannot comment on this.

Oh well, so I got 2 out of 3. Perhaps somebody with a biology tilt can comment in on the proteins and acids. :P

here

I think there is a page that generates javascript for this.

Did Stan escape from Dallas University's, locked room, infinite monkeys on typewriters experiment ?

Off the sixth story balcony?

Off the sixth story balcony?

Incandescents MIGHT work, but you'd need a bank of them to replace the sunlight. The sun is over 83,100 lumens, and a 100W bulb is 136 lumens, so that's 612 bulbs.

"As seen on Connected TV"!

-Don

Penny Lane's "Finger pie" was a Liverpudlian sexual reference included in the song to amuse the locals. "It was just a nice little joke for the Liverpool lads who like a bit of smut," said Paul. "For months afterwards, girls serving in local chip shops had to put up with the requests for 'fish and finger pie'."

Here's a link that explains sniping very clearly.

... Bovary? ... Gipple? ... Mulva? ... Loleola? ... Dolores!

And, yeah, I do have a Palm M130. My partner recently bought a re-con Handspring at Fry's and I was amazed at the qualitative difference of the tro screens .... *grr*

"The proprietary LifeGem creation process creates diamonds from the true essence of our loved ones, the carbon."

DECKER "The crews of the previous Enterprises were also carbon units. In what way is the life form in your vessel different?

ILIA "Carbon units are not true life forms".

See: here.

tee-hee.

nalfy.