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Not much of a problemExcept for this part
more detailed inventory control
That is where the works... integrating with the rest of the business software.
I have written an html/cgi Point-Of-Sale for my wife's hot sauce retail shop. Works excellent and is integrated with a custom and much larger web store builder, order manager, and inventory control. This is the hard part and consists of several thousands of lines of perl code.
As far as bar code reading you just use a wedge or y cable and it acts just like keyboard input. A little javascript to ensure which form field is the active/default field and you are away. Input can come from a bar code scan or keyboard input for those items which are not bar coded.
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Foolish Endeavors
I once consumed a chip full of this hot sauce and my tongue was numb for a day. A day later it payed the compliment to the other end.
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Irritating ???FTFA
One major obstacle that must be overcome, he says, is the irritating nature of capsaicin, which causes burning sensations when one touches (not to mention eats) it.
Irritating... If you have ever had the pleasure to demo The Source at 7.1 MScovilles "irritating" is not the adjective you first reach for.
I have a friend who prides himself on this ability to handle heat and pain sample a bit too much one time. He became very quite but controlled although you could see his face turn red. He abruptly got up and left the room. The next when I saw him, there was no pretense, he used a few expletives but claimed that in the "after glow" phase he actually had what one might refer to as a religious experience. -
Flood Oil Exploration
An excellent con would be to form a "Christian" Oil Exploration company that will use flood geology and hire flood geologist. Then attempt to sell shares to the gullib^h^h^h^h faithful. The promotional material must promise huge returns while showing up the evilutionists and old earth geologist. It is an idea that would make millions.
Speaking of geology. I always like to show YEC this picture and ask which deposition layer represents the flood layers -
Yeah 25% and growing.
There was a time when the very real fear that if Microsoft achieve total dominance on the client that they could (and would) leverage that influence to the server by coupling new extension that only work with IE/IIS combination. The WWW would become the WMW
So this increasing market share of Firefox is good news. The threat of a single client achieving complete dominance is past now, I believe - a bullet dodged.
As an aside. I have a customer that was concerned about this several years ago and she wanted to do her part so she requested a special mod to her shopping cart that recognizes the browser and gives a "Mozilla Users Discount" for the kindred users.
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Re:65 million?
In order for Carbin 14 dating system to be accurate, there hase to be NO CHANGE in the ratio of carbon 14 to carbon 12 in the atmosphere over the years for which the system is claimed to be accurate.
What is Carbin 14 is that sort of like the Mini-14?
Seriously, modern Carbon-14 dating does not assume there is NO CHANGE in the atmosphere. Carbon-14 dating is calibrated to known events such as ice cores, wood artifacts and growth rings, ocean sediment, cave deposits, etc. Uncalibrated Carbon-14 dates are referred to as radiocarbon years.
Additionally Carbon-14 dates only are reliable in the tens of thousands of years. A common mistake by YECers.
NO PLACE THAT STATES THAT THE EARTH IS ONLY 6000 YEARS OLD
Yes it does, run the math on the geologies.
In confirming that the earth is old, very old, there are many geological structures that confirm this and falsify a young earth. My favorite question to ask YECer's is which sedimentary layer in this picture of lava layers is the flood deposit.
I do expect at least 5 posts arguing against what I say because most people here are biased towards evolution as being the source of all life.
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Re:Tip your bartenders and waitresses....
You conviently ignored explaining angular unconformities. I like angular uncomformities as a demonstration of old earth as you can walk right up to them and see them with your own eyes and there is little room for "interperation".
A flood very well explains marine deposits thousands of feet above sea level.
I can see that you are not up on the creationist literature. Creationist employ a mechanism called hydrological sorting to explain the sorting that is seen in the fossil record. For example why are no large modern mammal fossils found with dinosaur fossils. You are proposing the opposite of hyrdrological sorting where things are all mixed up and marine fossils are sitting on top of mountains. If that was the case then why not a single instance of a primate fossil in the same bed with a dinosaur? Also keep in mind many of these high elevation beds have signs of Bioturbation. These indications are present over many feet indicating that these organism where not buried and deposited but living in an slowly accumalating depositional zone.
You also ignored the fact that the Grand Canyon is layered with rock of different origins - limestone, sandstone, shale, igneous. How are these layed down by a single super flood. Some of these a layers are cross bedded sandstone, some are wind blown, some have raindrop marks, some have animal tracks and some have fossils.
More example of old earth? Magnetic reversals demonstrated on the spreading seafloor. Documenting long periods of time catching the reversal of the earths magnetic dipole as molten rock is layed down on the seafloor. Or how about ice core samples documenting seasonal transitions tens to several hundred thousands of years. Or large and thick geological deposits that consist primarily of tiny organism fossils such as diotomaceous chert, chalk and many limestones. Or layering of basalt with deposition in between. For example in which one of the these layers represents the global flood.
There sure is some willful denial going on here. I recommend you do some study and scratch in the earth yourself instead of just believing what supports your preconcieved notions and suppositions.
You are not worth debating this because you ignore the hard parts and spout off on tangents. For example you say For anyone to claim that such an event that from a physics standpoint probably cannot be measured or fathomed Are you saying that the flood existed outside of physics? Believe me if you look at the events that occur out in the cosmos such as supernova, solar flares, black holes, star collisions, planet collisions, a flood on a small planet is a tiny event by comparison.
It is you that shrinks God down to puny human size by having to believe in a creation story that a child can see as a fairy story a metaphor at best. Present day young earthers are akin to flat earthers or those who had to believe in geocentric earth. The concept of the earth rotating around the sun was at one time heresy. Good day. -
Re:My torpedos made me do it!
Scorned Women sure does bite back.
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Re:I was just reading this creationist articleThe best arguement against a young earth is not decay rates or deposition rates, or salinity rates but things you can walk up and see. The best arguement I have come up with is the geological angular unconformity with takes several unavoidable long time period sequential steps such as
- Deposition
- Lithofication
- Uplift
- Erosion
- Deposition (again)
- Lithofication (again)
- Uplift (again)
- Etc.
Great examples abound and there is even one at the bottom of the grand canyon. Some fine examples 1, 2, 3 and 4 -
Re:Do not go gently into that goodnight....
Or why not do the same with evolution? So why do you answer a question with a question? By doing so you dodge the question of why not prove something before believing in it. Because if you do it backwards you will end up believing whatever you cultural heritage suggests.
As far as your question goes - Ues starting by questioning evolution or old earth assumptiong is recommended. And yes, there is a preponderance of evidence to support evolution and old earth. Again, as in angular unconformities, I prefer the simple examples as evidence versus detailed technical arguements. For example, any physical geologic separation of life forms such as a continent, island or mountain range are attendent with variations of life forms and formation of related species. Look at Madagascar, Australia, Gelapagos islands, or Sierra Nevada mountains. Predicted and actually required by evolution but not predicted or even suggested by creationism.
Doctor Hovind has not made _any_ contributions to science or geology. He has no formation training in science. If Hovind has been dishonest in his credentials, question everything he has to say. Beware of the individual who is "dishonest for god".
Unconformities do not typically involve bending of rock. Which makes it more difficult to deal with on a short time frame. Many unconformities, such as ones at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, do not have significant bending - so to have them tilted as "soft muds" with no distortions would be improbable if not impossible. To have large sections of the earth move in parallel requires lithification or solidification before tilting and uplift and erosion. A few nice examples:
Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4
BTW bending of solid rock is not difficult at high hydrostatic pressures and temperatures.
Again, I haven't read a lot of actual science studies on geology I don't think you necessarily need to. You need a little scepticism, discernment and common sense to appreciate angular unconformities and other geological structures. For example, in this photo photo which deposition layer represents the flood. These are gravel layers separted by lava flows. Presumptions are not required to understand the earth is old and tortured.
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Re:Long Row to Hoe
Ya who pays the tax that is the big question. The only one that make sense is to tax the buyer.
Since any state that requires in-state businesses to collect tax on an out of state buyer, just lost that business - as they will move operations to a tax free state. Elected Gov't officials don't usually like putting their own businesses at a disadvantage.
Now if the buyer is being taxed then a business in Idaho has to spend time and money collecting tax for the state of Florida if they make a sale in Florida. And what legal power does the state of Florida have against a business in Idaho. Not much. So the only thing that really makes sense here is a Federal Sales Tax like Canada! ha ha I pity the poor politician that makes the proposal... -
Re:Wait just a darned minute
It puts local mom-and-pop operations at a disadvantage. Why should I purchase locally, even if it's the same price, when I can just "buy it over the internet, tax free". It puts all the retailers on the same level.
What about mom-and-pop operations on the internet. I much overhead do you think it would take to track and collect taxes for 50 states and remit payment to each?
As far as same price goes the the shipping cost equalizing things out.
My wife owns a small mom internet operation selling hot sauce. Her gross is around 100k per year. For her to install software, collect, and follow the regs for each state would put her out of business. However what States don't take into account is that she pays payroll taxes, property taxes, inventory taxes, income taxes the UPS truck that pickups her orders and deliver inventory pay taxes, she pays taxes on her IT infrastructure, etc. In this case the state of Idaho does indeed benefit... -
Old Old Old EarthYou can argue about evolution all day long but to argue for a young earth takes some mental gymnastics. For example a quote from his web site:
If you consider
The spindown rate of the earth is 1.5 to 2 milliseconds per day per century according to the Navy. That means that after 100 years, the length of day has systematically increased (on average) 0.0015 to 0.002 seconds. Now the spin rate is variable but even at these very low numbers billions of years are not a problem. This site does some math and it comes out around 22.7 hour day 370 Million years ago. His other arguements for young earth have been refuted many place on the web if you look with unbiased mind.
Often most old/young arguments require assumptions such as constant value of decay rates, layering rates, hyper-catastrophic processes not found today, etc. But there are many geological formations you can walk up to and observe directly that provide strong evidence for an old earth and tortured earth.
The best formation suggesting a very old earth are angular unconformities which require at a minimum the follow processes:- deposition
- cementation and sometime metamorphosis
- uplift and tilting
- erosion
- deposition (again)
- cementation (of new layer)
Another good example of is basalt layering. Here you have sedimentation a basalt flow, sedimentation again, basalt flow and sedimentation again. I ask YEC which one of these layers is the Noah flood.
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Old Old Old EarthYou can argue about evolution all day long but to argue for a young earth takes some mental gymnastics. For example a quote from his web site:
If you consider
The spindown rate of the earth is 1.5 to 2 milliseconds per day per century according to the Navy. That means that after 100 years, the length of day has systematically increased (on average) 0.0015 to 0.002 seconds. Now the spin rate is variable but even at these very low numbers billions of years are not a problem. This site does some math and it comes out around 22.7 hour day 370 Million years ago. His other arguements for young earth have been refuted many place on the web if you look with unbiased mind.
Often most old/young arguments require assumptions such as constant value of decay rates, layering rates, hyper-catastrophic processes not found today, etc. But there are many geological formations you can walk up to and observe directly that provide strong evidence for an old earth and tortured earth.
The best formation suggesting a very old earth are angular unconformities which require at a minimum the follow processes:- deposition
- cementation and sometime metamorphosis
- uplift and tilting
- erosion
- deposition (again)
- cementation (of new layer)
Another good example of is basalt layering. Here you have sedimentation a basalt flow, sedimentation again, basalt flow and sedimentation again. I ask YEC which one of these layers is the Noah flood.
There are many more geological formations, such as limestone deposits, chalk, diatoms deposition which are all microorganism remains or secreations. -
Investiment OpportunitiesGlobal warming is here. There are those who will attempt to disagree but the evidence is growing.
So the question is how to strategically pick investments that will pay off with the trend. Sounds greedy and selfish but the tragedy of the commons will not be denied. So ideas
- Short ski resort stocks in fringe areas.
- Short insurance companies since hurricanes will tend to be more prevasive
- Short northern europe in general since the gulf stream will cool the area
- Buy energy stocks as more energy will be required to cool and heat with more temperature extremes
- Buy Wind, Wave, Solar, Nuclear energy stocks as the public will eventually demand more emphasis on non-green house gas sources.
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Re:Same old RMS
When some asks what car we drive we often say "Ford" or "Toyota" we don't say we drive a "Huygens/Rivaz/Lenoir/Benz" derived product. This is eventhough the IP from todays automobile is probably over 50% from these original source. It is convience if nothing else.
Also if I install the cygwin on my window machine do I refer to it as GNU/Win? Not discounting GNU's contribution which has been instrumental but you have to draw the line somewhere. Stallman should be able to satisfied that the creation of the GPL is more historically significant than the some prefix or suffix name that will eventually be dropped in by future generations anyway.
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Re:How much is spoofed?
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persistance
but it improves performance and gains persistence across requests by handling all its requests within a single process
Persistance between browswer invocations can only be done via a cookie, hidden form variable or ip (which is not reliable). So saying that the single process gives you magical persistance is misleading - no? This same can be done with cgi simple and via apache modules.
On thing a persistent single process can do for you is bring down the house with a memory leak.
Mozilla users get Hot Sauce at a discount.
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Re:But how much fuel does it use?
There is enough oil in Saudi, UAE, Iraq, etc to last more than 50 years at the current consumption rate.
That is if you believe the rosey estimates that the Saudi royal family wants to believe in. This article raises doubts. In addition the keyword is at present consuption rates
Apart from that there is increasing evidence that we are running out of atmosphere as fast as we we are running out of fossil fuel. Since the industrial revolution the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from 290 ppb to 370 ppm. If the trend continues, (which will which is the tragedy of the commons) the atmospheric carbon count will reach 800-1,000 ppm by the end of the century.
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Happy HourIn fact I hear it has a bar at the center.
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NASA should use open build weblogs
Consider if NASA used accessible build web logs to track the developement of a space probe or mission.
It would definitely increase public interest and be educational, bring a window into the everyday world of engineering.
Also imagine the wizkid who finds the odd metric-to-english conversion problem and saves the day.
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Novell v SCP
And don't forget that Novell Goes for SCO's Throat. This is most interesting development yet. Novell may well end up with the money destined to pay Boies scumbag lawyer that came from Microsoft and SUN.
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Re:Millions of years?
Only difference is that the happy pink floating martian elephants didn't leave there foot prints unfortunately.
However there is strong evidence of water on Mars at one time and when you talking geologically time, millions of years is a good assumption. Look at some of the images and you can see tributaries whose structures are only known to form via a fluid based erosion.
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Hot Stuff
Only one place when you are in the need for Hot Stuff.
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Re:Bush and I'm not afraid to admit it.
He thought Sweden was neutral and had no army
Yep that is our guy in the front office
Every boy scout knows better than that...
What is really scary about this incident is that none of his yes m^h^h^h^h^h er advisers attempted to correct him. -
Patent Tax Strategy
Just yesterday there was a WSJ (printed version) article describing a trend where high-end tax dodge specialist are patenting particular and specific tax strategies taylored for wealthy clients!
What is good about this is that we are now entering into the ludacris stage of the current fashion of patenting everything that walks - which means reform will be close at hand - or at least I hope.
My wife's ecommerce store has a shopping cart that gives 5% discount if the customer just happens to be using a Mozilla browser. Maybe she should apply for a patent will she still can... -
Re:speaking of food...
hmmm
If we were to rate McBride in SCO units then we would have to extend the scale beyond what can be obtained thru natural means into the extract hot range to properly characterize his FUD abilities. -
Re:It's not about standards, it's about XUL
if you are running a business there is no way you would be so stupid as to turn away 90+% of your customers at the door simply because you don't like the way they are dressed
You got that right. However, this hot website rewards mozilla users. -
No Joke
Whatever you are cooking it always tastes better if you joke around a little
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man from provo
There once was a man from provo
who had a company with only a logo
he tried to lay claim of someone else's fame
but the judge thought it lame and had him arraigned
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Still needs more 3rd party support
In my wife's small business the only obstacle to going to a linux desktop is vender tools such as UPS worldship and Stamps.com, etc.
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Re:Chili?
Just be sure to add a little of this
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ho ho ho
We are witnessing SCO last desperate grasps before going under
Hot Sauce Linux and Mozilla users get %5 off.
McBride can expect coal this year -
One Click Local Weather reports
I recently modified the shopping cart on my wife's hot sauce store to give a discount if the client is identified as Mozilla or Linux O/S. A friendly feature to encourage the use of alternative browsers (and desktop operating systems). This is the first cart with such a "feature" I know of.
After I finished, it was a _tough_ one night hack, the thought occurred to me that some folks have patented less (ie One click shopping, local weather etc.). It demonstrated to me the need to be change the patents laws to prevent the locking up of obvious or trival application of emerging technology.
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Re:slightly offtopic, but
My wife spends $20 a day on google adwords and overture for her online store and I occasionally check the server logs.
I can tell you that both will record multiple hits from the same IP address as multiple hits (at least up to a dozen). I have contacted them both on this issue and they assured me they have "means" of identifying someone abusing the system. Neither would not tell me what their "means" are. I can assume also that neither are too concerned that abuse is prevented because it does improve their bottom line, just as long as it does not become too prevalent that advertisers lose their trust. -
Stopping distance
I noticed no specs on stopping distance. Just from the physics of a unicycle wouldn't rapid stopping be a problem?
Hot Stuff and more
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He may be running a Perl script sneaky sneaky
Right you are! Your site does cause his "scanning" software to blow. He he he and what use is a server mask if your server is spewing this:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e57'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]String or binary data would be truncated.
Oh wait... the sneaky guy he this may running a perl script and he is just trying to fool us. Sneaky sneaky guy.
Hot sauce and more
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Add to list of things never to do. Mirror here
Never link a big uncropped jpg image from slashdot.
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Re:They spoofed the wrong film
Linux is more like a wonderful independent film that has great devoted followers, but is not quite mainstream.
You mean like the Blair Witch Project?
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
Linux and Mozilla customers get 5%
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Re:Hubble Slide Show
Amazing images - I know i have seen them before but they never cease to amaze and inspire and how remind how small we and at the same time how significant life on earth is when it can rise from a single cell to a more advanced lifeform that are able to peer back into the abyss and wonder WTF.
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
Linux and Mozilla customers get 5%
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Re:Most telling part of the article
I currently pay $62/mnth or more than $700/yr for slow 128/768 kbs dsl. Typical ips costs are around $20/mnth so I am paying around $500/yr for the cable plant. Seeing how cable has a long life time the $1400 seems like a very good investiment.
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
Mozilla and Linux customers get 5%
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This also sucksDoing a suck search I get on msn
Results 1-15 of about 126572 containing "microsoft sucks"
Results 1-15 of about 132328 containing "linux sucks"
It appears Linux sucks more (just marginally mind you) according to MSN.
Some like it Hotter Stuff
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SCOX
From review of the facts it appears that SCO case has the merits of the green river killers defense in court. However the only thing that has concerned me in this debacle is that SCO's stock price has been nothing but buoyant.
Now this week it looks like the price is beginning to head towards its future target. If the past is any clue I am sure we can expect a McBride public release anytime now.
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
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OK not OK or just plain stupid
The Legislature likely will consider a bill in the coming session that would require Oklahoma's Internet companies to change the way they charge taxes on sales made in the state.
Like another bill considered a year ago, this one would require Internet sellers to compute the sales tax based on their locations rather than the buyers'.
This is from the second article for the state of OK. What a great way to slit your own thoat. This will effectively discourage any high tech, non-polluting, job creating, revenue generating business from your state.
My wife has a modest internet hot sauce store. She generates over 100k in revenue and hires an employee. The employee pays state and local taxes. We pay an inventory tax, a use tax on equipment used to run the business, property tax, state income tax, commercial vehicle tax, etc. If Idaho implemented such a tax we would close up shop or move to Montana or Nevada and the state of Idaho would lose.
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Taxes, Taxes and more Taxes
My wife runs a small internet business selling hot sauce and other scary things. She currently pays local inventory tax, business property tax, building tax, self-employment tax, state and federal income tax and use/sales tax on equipment used to run the business and now another tax to be applied to customer on sales. It is enough to make me start thinking of a having a tea party.
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Capsaicin
Long term exposure to Capsaicin such as extreme hot sauce may cause pain receptors to become "desensitized".
However, pain receptors are completely different from taste receptors. In fact, Capsaicin fakes out the pain receptors as it simulates real damage. This tricks the brain into producing endorphins, which promote a pleasant sense of well-being or even an alterted state of consciousness. The endorphin high can make spicy foods mildly addictive (and for some, such as myself, a complete obsession). -
Re:Read the bible
the fact that THERE IS MOUNTAINS after BILLIONS of years of erosion
Sure lets use common-sense. It may suprise you that mountains are not typically BILLIONS of years old. They may have materials that are very old but their current elevation is due to the process uplifted. The rocky mountains for instance starting uplifting several 100 million years ago at best.
BTW there are lots of common sense geological features that nix a young earth arguement in the bud. For example, angular unconformties. There really is not a good young earth arguement for their existence. Examples abound, perhaps even in your neighborhood. Here is one from my collection. Such a feature requires several steps such as deposition, lithification (cementation), tilting, erosion, and deposition again. This takes time - and lot of it
Or here is another of my favorites. Here it is obvious that several processes are required to layer the column and then erode the river channel. If you are a YEC then indicate which feature was cause by the flood? -
Re:Read the bible
the fact that THERE IS MOUNTAINS after BILLIONS of years of erosion
Sure lets use common-sense. It may suprise you that mountains are not typically BILLIONS of years old. They may have materials that are very old but their current elevation is due to the process uplifted. The rocky mountains for instance starting uplifting several 100 million years ago at best.
BTW there are lots of common sense geological features that nix a young earth arguement in the bud. For example, angular unconformties. There really is not a good young earth arguement for their existence. Examples abound, perhaps even in your neighborhood. Here is one from my collection. Such a feature requires several steps such as deposition, lithification (cementation), tilting, erosion, and deposition again. This takes time - and lot of it
Or here is another of my favorites. Here it is obvious that several processes are required to layer the column and then erode the river channel. If you are a YEC then indicate which feature was cause by the flood? -
Insane sauce
Apply Insanity Sauce generously and even the local mongrel will steer clear.
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Re:Finally, a Slashdot topic I know too much about
My wife uses Quickbooks for her hot gourmet web store Sam McGees. I find the following issues with Quickbooks:
1. Frequent database corruption and no way to repair the database. Since whole shebang is one db file this is scary. We backup twice daily.
2. Scalability. If you have a small customer database then it maybe fast enough, but we have several thousand customers it bogs down and becomes sloooooow. Current single file db is around 50 Mbytes.
3. And foremost the database is inaccessible with no published API. I tried a while back with Quickbooks 2000 to import orders (transactions) from a flat file. Forget it. After hours of work I was able to get customers to import, but the documentation was incomplete and I had to find trick from the usenet to make it work.
