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Hey, it's April Fools Day +/- 1, that is, + a month and minus a day, so here's some troll-food for laughs, bold is where I fixed it for you

Here's a list of inconvenient facts[citation needed] that liberals and Slashdotters love to deny:

There is no evidence that humans evolved from any animal, ape or otherwise. The evidence of humans evolving from other Homo species and other primates is similar in strength to other this-animal-evolved-from-that-one evidence, where the animals are similarly related and both diverged as far back as modern man diverged from other Homo species and from other primates. The fact that you only call out humans and not all animal evolution is very telling of your likely bias. God created humans as they are today. I assume you mean as they were 4+ thousand years ago, because if he created me as I am today, why do I have memories of being a child? Oh, I get it, God created me as I am today, with those memories of events that never happened already existing. Thanks for the edumacation [NOT].
Geologic evidence shows the Earth is between 6,000 and 10,000 years old. While there may be some evidence to support this claim, the evidence to support a claim of a 4+ billion-year-old earth, or at least a many-millions-of-years-old earth, is much more consistent and compelling This lines up perfectly with the Bible. I will grant you that the best scholarship puts the age of the Bible at less than 10,000 years old
Humans lived on the Earth alongside the dinosaurs. Their fossilized remains are frequently found at the same level in the ground. Strata alone does not prove co-existence. It is evidence that cannot be merely brushed aside, and scientists have an obligation to try to offer theories as to why two things would be in the same strata that are just as testable as the theory that they co-existed.
The Earth is nearly flat. Much of the supposed evidence for a round Earth is actually the result of optical illusions caused by the atmosphere.Given the pictures we have from space, I don't even know how to respond, other than to say "Bless your heart".
The sun and the oceans regulate global temperature. Human activity has a negligible effect on the Earth's temperature. You are technically correct, in the sense that +/- several degrees C allegedly caused by human behavior is noise given that without the sun, we would be several hundred degrees C colder and without the ocean, the temperature profile of the planet would be vastly different. However, that difference of a few degrees C has non-negligible effects on both human and non-human life.
Historical cycles in Earth's temperature shows that the Earth is far more likely to experience another ice age in the next century than global warming.[citation needed]

You can thank me later for telling it like it is. I would, if you were. I did, and you can.

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For the record: I am a Bible-believing Christian who knows Jesus died for my sins (and yours too - but if you don't believe me I'm not going to bother you about it unless you want me to) and goes to church several times a week (not that going to church makes you a Christian any more than being in a car makes you a driver). I also accept that either the universe is about 13B years old and the planet is about 4.5B years old -OR- that God, in his infinite wisdom, made it look that way for a good reason. Setting up the world to look that way so Christians could argue with each other doesn't seem like the kind of "goodness" that the God I worship values. So, the world may very well be 4 thous

This is an interesting exchange in the comments to Brian's article, between him and a former employee of Norse: http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...

The ex-employee has written a blog post here (might be a liiiiiitle one-sided): http://pandawhale.com/post/703...

http://img.pandawhale.com/4653...

That is very true. You have to remember that when this domain stuff started some of the actors involved still used CRTs and an old Sun and had never used the web. Postels thesis advisor's thesis advisor (Einar Stefferud) and I became good friends and I talked him into buying a laptop so could do something other than say "what is this" when I sent him a URL.

Stef was thesis advisor to a lot of people: Dave Farber, Brian Reid, etc.He was one of the coolest people ever.

Search engines were very new and there wasn't much in them at the time.

Now? NOW? I know a guy that to get to gmail.com types gmail into google and cicks on the link. You're quite right most people don't get domains now, give them a name to use and they type the fucking thing into Google. Tell them they can type the name directly into the URL bar and they say "meh, this works".

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http://img.pandawhale.com/post...

Big Leap Forward.

Great Leap Forward.

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Exactly, more bandwidth could be less important than latency:
http://pandawhale.com/post/396...

SFW observation on the difficulty with Google Plus.

I found a picture of Bill as he's discussing his friendship with Steve Jobs.