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Alex Chiu devlops a ring which grants immortality, homeopathy can preserve the effects of chemicals even when diluted to less than one molecule per world's oceans' worth of water, and scientology can help you get rid of evil body theatens.

Oh, and you've all been educated stupid.

Sheesh, it's one thing to report on out-of-date speculation, and another thing to report on blatent hoaxes. What is this, the Weekly World News?

Do you know what this means? Someone better tell Mr. TimeCube right now ...

Something I wish I'd known in high school: How to easily identify BS.

The most obvious sign of weird BS is flagrant use of bold and italic faces, as well as liberal use of "words in quotes".

Scanning this essay, I came across a few gems that convinced that 1) This guy should team up with Gene Ray and 2) I probably won't get much out of reading the whole thing. For example:

Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital. It is something historically original and horrible. It was beyond the capacities of such demonic tators of yore as Nero and Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible. For all their bad intentions they just didn't have the machinery to control their subjects as thoroughly as modern despots do. Discipline is the distinctively diabolical modern mode of control, it is an innovative intrusion which must be interdicted at the earliest opportunity.

Demonic tators of yore? Hmm. Yeah. Plus, from the passage quoted in parent: "Feminists don't care which form bossing takes so long as the bosses are women." Nope, no sweeping generalizations here. Nope.

Wow. I formally request that somebody smart follow that first link and report back here, 'cause I'm just too dumb (apparently) to understand what that guy is trying to say. I don't even know the answer to the rhetorical questions, such as:

Educated cubeless stupid, you think stupid. Why worship a dumb 1 day god when I demonstrate 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single 24 hour rotation of Earth?

The second link is easier, as the great prophet (and ebay entrepreneur) Sollog only offers wisdom upon payment of a nominal fee.

The internet has sure made life easier. I used to have to go looking for mimeographed sheets* stapled to telephone poles to find this kind of stuff.

* Usually 8.5x14, printed on both sides, 8- or 10-point type, with ADDITIONAL material scrawled into the margins. I once found a TWO sheet screed in San Angelo, TX on how various corporate logos SECRET CONTAIN THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, but that was a rare find.

It really depends on what you want to do.

If you want to be a writer, say, just about the only thing a formal education can give you is an understanding of grammar and spelling. (/.ers, take note.) You do need this. After that, though, the way to learn to be a writer is by writing; also by reading, because editors (and readers) can always spot a manuscript written by someone who hasn't read very much. They tend to be cliche-ridden, among other flaws, because if you haven't read a lot, you won't know what everyone else has done before you. Writing, in short, is learned by watching and by doing. I suspect that this generalizes to other arts.

On the other extreme, if you want to be a scientist, well, if you think you're going to learn enough about any scientific field to make a meaningful contribution to the human body of knowledge in that area without a formal education, you're insane. This has generally been the case throughout history (contrary to legend, both Newton and Einstein had rigorous formal educations) but it's even more true now, for the simple reason that most of the science that can be done by gifted amateurs has already been done. We know a lot about the way the universe works, and you have to know what we already know before you can add new knowledge into the mix. The romantic image of the lone amateur working away on some brilliant new conception of the universe that has so far eluded all those smart-ass PhD's with their books and fancy papers may be appealing, but the truth of the matter is, if that's the mold you try to fit, you're most likely to end up like these guys.

Most other fields are somewhere in between. There are a lot of successful businessmen with lots of formal education, and others without. Skilled trades, as mentioned by the GP poster, are largely learned on the job -- but they also have a rigorous and largely formalized system of education within the trade; "apprentice", "journeyman", and "master" are words with well-understood meanings, and if you want to make your living as a plumber or electrician or carpenter you'd best understand them. Programming (to bring the discussion home) is also in between. There are a few self-taught genius hackers out there, but there are a lot more self-taught people who think they're genius hackers but whose code is absolute garbage. Etc.

Hemisphere?! No! You're one of THEM, aren't you? You were educated evil and stupid! Do you enjoy being stupid?

What religious freaks seem to misunderstand is that EVERYTHING in science is a theory.
Ha! See? Finally you admit it! Your feeble science is but a cheap sham. Your puny logic and reason are no match for faith and belief! all hail TIMECUBE!

I've got another theory that needs equal time too!

I went and looked at that link. To be honest, I agree with them. If the letter is genuine it should exist other places than your website, and judging from what else is on your website, I wouldn't necessarily trust you if you said 2+2=4.

Sorry.

I'd ask if you can prove it's from the person you claim it is - to be honest I haven't been able to look at it though (your geocities site is out of bandwidth) and so maybe it's a lot more genuine than I'm imagining it. But in any case, I'd still look for a more authoritative site that corroborates it.

Otherwise we might as well start worshiping Gene Ray as a prophet.

The hollow Time Cube in which the 4
quadrant corners of Earth rotate, equates to
your 4 corner bedroom, or to a 4 corner
classroom which represents the 4 corners
of Earth - in which stupid and evil pedants
teach dumb students 1 corner knowledge.
Each of the 4 corners of Earth is the
beginning and ending of its own separate
24 hour day - all 4 simultaneous days within
a single rotation of Earth. Place 4 different
students in the 4 corners of a classroom and
rotate them 4 corners each. Note that they
rotate simultaneously wthin the same Time
frame as if only one is rotating - just as the
4 different days on Earth rotate. 3D math
applied within this hollow Cube would be
erroneous math, as it would not account
for the 4th corner perspective dimension.
Place a 100 people within this Cubic like
room and they will not increase the number
of corners anymore than 6 billion people on
Earth will increase the 4 corners of Earth.
It is dumb, stupid, evil and unworthy of
life on Earth to claim that this Creation
Cube has 6 sides - or no top and bottom.
Academia equates to a deadly plague.

And does it allow for four simultaneous computers to exist within one? It must if it claims to be cubic.

Clearly, you must word murder your children...

We've been overdue for the annual Timecube reference on Slashdot.

Two Words: Time Cube.

The real answer lies within.

Two thoughts come to mind:

1. How would this affect people whose birthdays, anniversaries, etc. fall on the 31st of a month that no longer has a 31st? How about Halloween?

2. Personally, having my birthday occur on a Wednesday for the rest of time is tremendously unappealing to me. I enjoy having the occasional weekend birthday so that I can laze around all day, go out and get drunk, and just generally get spoiled by friends and family. The thought of having to work on my birthday for the rest of my life up until retirement isn't exactly heartwarming.

Oh, and of course, his model doesn't appear to be TimeCube compliant, and thus will be met with a lot of protest.

http://www.timecube.com/

You are educated stupid and evil -
and too dumb to comprehend it.

Does Sollog's style not remind you of Gene Ray (http://www.timecube.com/)?
For example, Sollog seems to like using RANDOM captilized words to EMPHASISE certain things. Gene Ray has lots of underlining and colour-usage reminsicent of some kid's personal webpage back in 1998.

Meh, I don't know... Maybe I'm crazy. Probably less so than those two, however.

(I don't believe I scored first post!)

Heil Hitler.

You simply do not understand the full consequences of the harmonic 4-day time creation.

Apologies for the link to timecube, but you appare to have been educated stupid.

NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE

Time Cube has the answer for nuclear waste problem. Scientists are stupid asses, and ignore the Time Cube.

Hey, that's really deep. Maybe you should get together with this guy.

Steve is all about the Time Cube!http://www.timecube.com/

But isn't he a proponant of Queer science theory forced on children? You one corner!

But could you create a Time Cube out of Lego?

Not to mention this little gem of incomprehensibility:

latitude and longitude do not stay fixed with relation to the sun.

Latitude and longitude are relative to the planet's surface, genius. If you mean heliocentric latitude/longitude, that's because the planet is ORBITING. That phrase looks almost like some of Gene Ray's stuff.

Word is not Real nor Truth, but deadly virus of humanity, transmitted through language. Teach Time Cube, You Fools.

Good grief man! Did you generate that drivel all yourself?! You need to get out more, or get a new hobby.

The idea that a Colonel, whose wife and son said couldn't type, and liked Bush, would use a typesetting machine costing thousands of dollars instead of a typewriter to produce personal memos for record, which are exactly the same as what you would get with only a Microsoft Word version available 22 years later, just to record his grievances about being pressured to favor Bush by a retired general with no power is.... silly.

But, maybe I am wrong. Maybe you are the only man on the planet who can see clearly enough to not only devine the essential truth behind the facade of these forged memos, but to also grasp the essential truths needed to assume the burden of spreading the word about the Timecube. Maybe you can assume this man's burden since he is in his 70s and can't continue forever.

Good luck with all that.

Good grief man! Did you generate that drivel all yourself?! You need to get out more, or get a new hobby.

The idea that a Colonel, whose wife and son said couldn't type, and liked Bush, would use a typesetting machine costing thousands of dollars instead of a typewriter to produce personal memos for record, which are exactly the same as what you would get with only a Microsoft Word version available 22 years later, just to record his grievances about being pressured to favor Bush by a retired general with no power is.... silly.

But, maybe I am wrong. Maybe you are the only man on the planet who can see clearly enough to not only devine the essential truth behind the facade of these forged memos, but to also grasp the essential truths needed to assume the burden of spreading the word about the Timecube. Maybe you can assume this man's burden since he is in his 70s and can't continue forever.

Good luck with all that.

And, of course, for those who are interested in yet more alternative views, and more "fascinating information", here are some other nice links, as helpful as the above one:
http://www.flat-earth.org/
www.timecube.com

Humans exist as CUBICS, not entitie s, for the 4 corner stages of rotating human metamorphosis do not occur at the same time for the individual - except for family Cube. You are educated stupid, indoctrinated evil, and can't even acknowledge that a mother and baby are the same age - on opposite corners of a Cubic Creation Principle - for Truth in Opposites contradict a god entity.

And, of course, for those who are interested in yet more alternative views, and more "fascinating information", here are some other nice links, as helpful as the above one:

http://www.flat-earth.org/

www.timecube.com

Holy cow.

It's rare that I see a post of blatant fear mongering lies such as this one.

Tell me, is your tin foil hat working today? Good, because TIN has been off the market in foil form for YEARS in trade for aluminum. You better check what metal it really is! It might not be protecting you the way you think!

Ack the panic!

I only have time to punch a few holes in your nonsensical arguments, so I'll focus on big ones.

Some 6600 people have contracted SARS worldwide, and that _is_ an epidemic

Yes, however SARS takes down otherwise healthy adults, does not seem to have a normal low frequency background infection rate, and is fairly new to modern medicine. It's an epidemic for that reason.

For the paragraph below, I leave it as is with the lies in bold;

AIDS is the best. Its an untreatable/uncurable disease that is supposedly spread by contact with fluids such as blood or sex goo. We've all been told that "AIDS does not discriminate", but it does! In the US, its mostly black gay men (and some IV drug users) that get it, whereas in Africa its black heterosexual women that get it. After 20 years and I'm guessing millions if not billions of dollars in research have not even provided any kind of explanation of AIDS nor has the virus even been isolated.

"untreatable" There are many drugs and treatments available on the market. Ask your doctor! Remember AZT? Maybe interferon boosters? Try going to Google and searching on "aids treatment" for once eh?

"supposedly" AIDS is spread by and present in many fluids; blood, plasma, tears, saliva, seminal fluids, vaginal fluids, feces. All forms of transfer require fluid or moist environments very similar to transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, the HIV virus is spread through close contact. There's no "supposedly" about it, it's a medical fact.

"AIDS does not discriminate" is absolutely true. Once exposed every human has a more or less equal chance once the exposure type and frequency has been accounted for. YES there are various types of populations that one can define that have different infection rates. YES gay men got it more frequently because they were a) trading semen b) doing so anally (causing bleeding during/after sex). The hertrosexual women in Africa are getting it because they have OTHER STDs (many are prostitutes full time or engage in prostitution) that cause open sores in their sexual organs... so when exposed to a male that has it they are much more likely to get an AIDS infection. Same for the IV drug users, trading needles is trading blood. By your reasoning, there would be no relation to your mom walking down the street licking DOG FECES to her getting stomach and intestinal bacterial infections all the time.

"explanation of AIDS". All I have to say is this, there are TENS OF THOUSANDS medical studies that closely or directly link the HIV virus with the collection if symptoms collectively known as "AIDS".

Furthermore, AIDS (so far) is one of the few diseases that could potentially be completely stopped with the combination of not taking stupid risks (inprotected sex, IV needle sharing, turning tricks, etc.) and relatively easy upgrades in the health care processes that would make tissue sharing done only on known AIDS free blood/organs.

If you are worried about the number of black people getting the disease (which your post implies) maybe the black people should wise the fuck up and start heeding the warnings.

You sir, are a paranoid, FUD spreading cunt. What is the address of your "earth is flat" web site? Or are you this guy? Also, whomever modded you as insightful is a MORON.

Ha! My motherboard is designed according to Time Cube principals!

I would describe my motherboard, but Word is a Trojan Horse.

-

Most of the major web servers today (including Apache and IIS) support virtual hosts (or vhosts), and the majority of smaller websites today share a web server with tens, hundreds, or even thousands of other sites through the use of virtual hosting. This is especially true for static-only websites (no CGI, database access, etc) that don't require much in the way of system resources. All they need are disk space and bandwidth.

Say that domain1.com and domain2.com are hosted on the same web server, with the same IP address. You type http://domain1.com/index.html in your web browser. The web browser looks up the IP address (the same IP it would've gotten if it'd looked up domain2, but that doesn't matter), wraps up your HTTP request inside a TCP/IP header, and sends it off. When the web server gets the packet, it discards the TCP/IP header and looks at the HTTP request, which tells it what file you want: http://domain1.com/index.html. Now it knows what domain you're trying to access, so it checks its virtual host configration to see where the files of domain1.com are located on disc, and it grabs the index.html from that directory and sends it back to you. If you request a document from a domain that isn't defined, or if you request a document from the IP address itself rather than from a domain name, or if you're using a very old web browser that just asks for /index.html rather than domain1.com/index.html, you'll get the default site rather than one of the vhosted sites.

This is easy to demonstrate with an example: look up the IPs of timecube.com and abovegod.com. Same IP, but different sites. They're both hosted on the same server, and the IP address of both is 207.150.192.12. But if you try to visit 207.150.192.12 with your web browser, you'll get the web server's default page -- in this case, an error message.

You're not talking about the TimeCube, are you?

No, you're not making any sense. You're almost sounding like Dr. Gene Ray.

peter303 writes with a more optimistic story in USA Today " about building and launching a satellite for as little as $65K,", as long as you can squeeze it into a 4 inch-cube.

Of course! Must be Satellite in Cube! Dumbass! Even Time obey Cube! NASA is Stupid for not obey Cube design! Dumbass!

--Rob

Just like in the real world, people on the Internet detect the difference between a well thought out point and a bunch of mindless rambling based on the coherence of the argument. If your argument is well spelled out, understandable and flows organically from point to point, you'll get more links, more mod points, etc.

The military is having so little difficulty with recruitment and retention that it's been able to raise its recruitment standards and still stay up to strength. The Pentagon opposes the draft, the DoD opposes the draft, and the President opposes the draft.

The story isn't reported because it's a non-story. The only person to have actually suggested a draft is Charlie Rangel, a liberal Democrat, who keeps proposing the bill in order to generate FUD. It's then spread by those either too ignorant to know that it isn't going to happen, or those with a deliberate interest in spreading Rangel's FUD.

Quoting this at +2 because it's absolutely right. Barring an actual invasion of the US, there will not be a draft. It would be a career-ending move for any politician who supported it. (Except for those such as Rangel who "support" it for transparently cynical reasons).

If this is representative of the quality of the "censored" stories (which are still slashdotted), then they're censored for the same reason that Gene Ray isn't invited to discuss the time cube at physics conferences.

Dude, WTF is up with your sig? timecube.com has got to be the most incoherent, poorly written, worst layed-out website I've seen in years. I hope it isn't your webpage. Maybe you speak engrish... I dunno. That sig seriously sucks though.

Ah...you too are a firm believe in The Time Cube. But, if you believed, you should know that you cannot fully understand the Time Cube! :-)

and Time Cube theory

Although a psychiatrist might be able to help this guy, what he *really* needs is web-design classes.

And, back to the original topic, if you don't allow the teaching of Creationism, how is that not censorship?

It's not censorchip because Creationism is not a scientifically accepted theory. Teaching Creationism in a science class is no more appropriate then teaching about free energy, perpetual motion, cold fusion and Time Cube theory would be.

The class room is for real science. The kids can learn about that other stuff from Sunday school or kranks on the internet.

All the low votes are from the same guy. He keeps looping back in time and voting again. It's probably that TimeCube guy.

and STILL nobody has disproven time cube despite the hefty $10,000.00 reward.

I am not allowed to lecture at the word animal
academic institutions, for they fear my wisdom
will expose and indict the pedant hirelings as
betrayers of dumb-ass students - the dung heads
who allow their freedom of speech to be
suppressed without a whimper, unbelieveable.
Word animals will feel the wrath of Cubic curse.

You sound like the timecube guy :)

Only if it's a 4-corner faced natural harmonious Time Cube.

Sounds like the Time Cube.

But then, you stupid ignorant mind-traitors cant understand time cube having been manipulated by your word god.