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Theory-Affirming Evidence About the Universe

Bill Kendrick writes "Astronomers using a radio telescope at the South Pole have recorded a flicker of light from nearly 14 billion years ago that verifies most modern theory about the cosmos. Way back then, light and matter were only just beginning to separate from each other."

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  1. fr1st ps0t by Penis+Bird+Guy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shizzle mah nizzle

    1. Re:fr1st ps0t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      For years now, the common American penis bird has been a staple of every American's daily diet. Whether it be penis bird sandwiches, fried penis bird, or perhaps penis bird under glass (for the rich), we all have penis bird at least once a day. Many Americans have no clue how the penis bird became so important in the pyramid of a balanced diet, so in this article I will attempt to explain its history and why it is so useful.

      In the early 1870s, Francis Zefran became the first penis bird breeder in North America. He started his famous Penis Bird Ranch in Canton, OH. At the time, not much was known of the penis bird's nutritional value, but the Penis Bird Ranch changed all of that. Not only did Francis Zefran raise penis birds to sell their colorful plumes (a VERY lucrative business), he also set up the world's first research lab dedicated solely to the study of the penis bird.

      The lab found many interesting things. First, it was discovered that thepenis bird was actually semi-sentient. Second, the scientists found that the meat of the penis bird was high in protein, vitamin A, vitamin B, and calcium, while low in fat, cholestorol, and sodium. Never before had such a nutritious meal been had without supplement or fortification. The scientists of the lab recommended immediately that the penis bird become a part of every American's daily diet.

      When the news of the penis bird's usefulness reached president Rutherford B. Hayes, he was absolutely ecstatic. You see, President Hayes owed a number of favors to Francis Zefran because as I said earlier, the penis bird plume trade was an extremely lucrative business and Mr. Zefran was important in getting RBH elected through a number of monetary gifts. President Hayes immediately asked Congress to pass what we all know today as the Hayes/Zefran Penis Bird Consumption Act.

      The act did a number of things to make the penis bird a daily meal, most important of which was the requirement that for every four people in a household, one penis bird must consumed every day. Another thing the act did was create an artificial monopoly for Francis Zefran's Penis Bird Industries. The act stated that the only supplier of penis bird meat in the US would be PBI. As one would imagine, this quickly made Francis Zefran into the richest man in the world. He was soon a multi-billionaire (quadrillionaire with today's inflation). Never before had a single man seen such wealth.

      Many challenges were made to the Hayes/Zefran Penis Bird Consumption Act, and several even made it the Supreme Court. It was argued that the act was unconstitutional and went against liberty itself, but once the detractors tasted delicious penis bird meat for the first time, they immediately dropped their cases and followed the law to the letter. We all know today that penis bird is the most delicious meat man has ever known, but at that time, the only meats people ate were pork and beef.

      In the early 1970s, though, challenges to the act began again. Many argued that the monopoly given to Penis Bird Industries by the act was in all ways unamerican. The Supreme Court finally agreed, and in 1974, Section II of the act was struck down. This in effect opened the market to competition for all.

      Today, Penis Bird Industries is almost no more. Today we have the market leader Penis Bird Meat International facing against Penissoft, a recent startup. Where will the future lead the penis bird market? Only time will tell us, but one thing is certain: penis birds are here to stay!

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  2. tsarkon foo phirst poast teh redhat strikes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Here is a script I wrote to deal with RedHat's fucking stupid up2date servers. ;p . Now I know its probably "bad bash," and I suck and all that, blah blah blah. But garbage code like this is less unprofessional than RedHat extorting cash from its faithful users by holding people's insecure systems in the balance. "Oh, yes, you can have your security updates if you PAY FOR SERVICE. Have a bad day." FREEBSD or Die.
    [root@redhatholdsyouhostagewithupdatesformoney /root]# cat harass.update.sh
    #!/bin/bash
    var0=0
    while [ "$var0" -lt 5100 ]
    do
    echo .
    echo -n Redhat has fucked me "$var0 " times.
    echo .
    # -n suppresses newline.
    var0=`expr $var0 + 1`
    # var0=$(($var0+1)) also works.
    up2date -u -d
    ls /var/spool/up2date
    sleep 3
    clear
    sleep 1
    done
    echo
    exit 0

    Redhat has fucked me 740 times..

    Error Message:
    Free service limited due to high load, please try again later (server 1000733406)
    Error Class Code: 51
    Error Class Info:
    Due to extremely high traffic, access to Red Hat Network is currently
    limited to subscription customers. Please try again later. If you
    would like to become a subscription customer, go to
    https://rhn.redhat.com/preview/priority_service.p xt for more information.
    Explanation:
    An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem
    persists please submit a bug report to rhn-help@redhat.com.
    If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
    details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
    details on how to reproduce this problem.


    How come FreeBSD has over 14 mirrors for CVSUP?

    I hate RedHat. FreeBSD or die. (JUNEOS on my M10 router is sweet. Its FreeBSD, it works, and I like it better than IOS)
  3. Re:hmm help my cat mittens please! please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So I came home from work the other day to discover my cat laying on the floor. His breathing was very shallow and his eyes were very glassy. When I approached him I noticed a belt tied around his arm and both a syringe and a bent spoon laying beside him. Despite all his promises to the contrary, my beloved Mittens has started shooting up smack again!

    Fortunately the paramedics showed up quickly and gave him some naloxone which saved him. Unfortunately the problem of my cat being addicted to heroin still remains. Last week he sold my stereo and this weekend Mittens offered to perform oral sex on me in exchange for a hit.

    I love my cat and want to see him off this horrible drug. Unfortunately he won't stop on his own! Mittens says he can quit anytime he wants to and becomes combative when I force the issue. I'm tired of seeing him throw his life away. He could've been a great mouser, one of the best before he got hooked.

    Can anyone recommend a way to get my cat off heroin? It would be much appreciated.

  4. Re: crap moderation. 3rd comment marked redundant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    slashdot has denigrated. the users are terrorists against intellect, raising jihad against those without populist opinions. your sweaty thirteen year old finders clicking away on your microsoft and imac mice legislating mediocrity. redundant. 3 post. whatever.
    This is just another example of spineless crap moderation here on /.

    Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, SLASHDOT's editing/moderating [read: censoring] "community"(*) ALL AGREE on ONE THING:

    CENSORSHIP WORKS!

    (*)Note, the word community used often on Slashdot, this is referring to a proto communist commune.

    So, you busy little plebian proletariats, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN! Do the bidding of your fat, undisciplined masters who never subject themselves to peer review.

    Good job you little neo-commies. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of /.].

    A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
    Crack Pipe Moderators
    Crack smoke wafts though air
    Dumb shit moderator!
    Try to suck less, please

    The Humorless Moderator
    Crack smoke wafts through air
    Humorless moderator!
    Why do you hate me?

    The Proletariat
    Slashdotting Commie
    Moderator fears new idea!
    Censor him quickly

    The reason China blocked Slashdot is that when Jiang Xemin saw at how good "The Editors" at Slashdot are at suppressing the community, he knew that if more of his party members saw this degree of suppressive efficacy, he would be deposed, for the good of the people, of course, in favor of Rob Malda as the all new supreme dictator and premier of China.

    I have a Gun and the Constitution [Not the urinated-on pissed-on hacked fucked up one WashingTOON thinks exists, I mean the real one, with Jefferson and Madison at my side], please, give me an excuse to use them both.

    SAYINGS, quips et al:

    It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill (Especially when your democratic peers twist democracy into a reason commit cencorship, to squash dissenting or unpopular opinions, and refer to them as trolls, flaimbait overrated or offtopic when they aren't any of the said)

    The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. - Jay Leno.

    The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of governement. (Death to those who defile the root documents of a free nation to make economic freedom Supercede Freedom! Freedom First! Free market Second!)

    Occam's Razor "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" "Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora" "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" Translation: " "Simple explanations are preferred to complex ones" Modern fucking translation "JUST DO IT."

    Reading Slashdot at anything above -1 is like trying to put a shit filter on your ass.

    Get busy moderating this down, you little pack of obedient prefects of the corrupt state! You are the vanguards of purity, and dissent is not allowed!

    There are an inordinate number of +5 Funnies that wouldn't get a laugh at a hyena ranch. /. it's like what you get with any nonprofit oligarchical organization. They tend to be run like the Chinese Communist Party, i.e., they just can't abide anybody who actually wants to belong to a democratic organization. How many nonprofits hold elections where there's only one candidate? And the reason is simple. They don't want anybody getting into office who actually disagrees with them. They are, after all, agenda based organizations. Sadly, Slashdot leans just far enough in that direction that it's easy to mistake them for Linux/Open Source proponents, anti-MS zealots, believers in the superiority of the engineering mentality, or other related biases. I'm not sure this is more than a perception, but it really wouldn't bother me if someone suggested they change their name to Slantdot.


    MODERATORS Crack smoke wafts though air - Dumb shit moderator - Try to suck less, please
    KAZAA Fuck R I A A - Network sold behind their backs - Stupid fucking cunts
    Slashdot, Where Editors come to SUCK * * *
    HAIKUS
    Haiku: to the Slashfags. Fuck slash editors - The cumlicking fags they are - I shit upon them
    TACO pondering GOATSE: I stare at the goat - His huge gaping ass so wide - And I want to eat
    Haiku: The ancient haiku: - Flame Taco and CowboyNeal - With lame poetry.
    CowboyNeal A mountain of fat, - butt cheeks jiggling like Jello. - What an odd poll choice!
    CmdrTaco Watching Pokemon - With cum stuck on his goatee. - Newbie loser scum.
    Stinky Kathleen Fent Cockeater Taco, - Proposing to Fent online, - I fingered her too.
    Rob Malda and Kathleen Fent Chubby breasts, fat ass - Distract us from Rob's boylust. - But they both suck cock!
    Taco Tuesday: Too much mexican. - Angry poo, firey hot. - Where's my antacid?
    CHOAD licking Taco: Malda in the dark - Swallowing chode for profit - He rips his anus
    Fuck KATZ Katz is a Jew - michael is a Mormon - Or is it Timothy?
    Martini Fuck off That is fucking good. - I nearly spilt martini - On my nice trousers.
    Slap my Ham, rub it off, fuck Spank fast wank it hard - Jerk that dick to Pokemon - Party at Taco's
    GOAT I just came again - looking at the goat-see man - more kleenex required
    Cock BIRD The Dead Penis Bird - Nailed to the member always - Never falling off
    BSD Stare into the night - Sun is setting on your sys - BSD *NOT* dead
    Michael Michael User Simms - Sifting through all our comments - Censoring bastard
    Klerk Trolltalk hard to read - Information desires - Wideness for us all
    Cobalt Really tired now - Off to masturbate to sleep - See you at the day
    Humorless Moderator Crack smoke wafts through air - Humorless moderator - Why do you hate me?

  5. Re:hmm help my cat mittens please! please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Watch out: cat tounges are highly abrasive, and if Mittens sucks your wang (or licks your love-nodule, if you happen to be female), you could end up with severe chafing!

  6. Re:hmm help my cat mittens please! please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i dont want to fuck my poor cat mittens. i love him dearly. he offered oral sex as a hit, and i would never compromise the sanctity and trust of our brotherly (non gay, non sexual) relationship! i thank you for your genuine concer for the safety of my genitals with regard to animal contact, I assure your that fornicating wiht animals is not on the repitoire! please, if you know how to help poor mittens get off the smack, please, for the love of god help. its mittens darkest time, and i dont want this to turn out like that beefy rugby guy who died on junk in trainspotting. i dont want me or mittens to swim in toilets either. please, help

  7. Re:fr1stpiss shit cunt cocksucker tsarkon fart tur by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    piss shit cunt cocksucker motherfucker piss fart turn and twat. piss shit cunt cocksucker motherfucker piss fart tird and twat. i fucked your moooooooooooooooooooooom
    The Future of SLASHDOT.
    2002. Slashdot publishes 1,000,000th rumor passed off as actual story. The story generates 480 comments, 263 of which agree with the article, and 107 of which point out it's a rumor and are modded down as redundant. The remaining comments are all "first posts." or posts that contain any rational insight are modded "troll."
    2002. CmdrTaco married to a human female, reports are that she does not have 46 chromosomes, however. Fent does display tendency to retardation.
    2002. Slashdot parent corporation VA Research^W Linux^W Software stock worth 35 cents. Rumors that AOL, Microsoft, or even Jimmy the hobo who lives under the Longfellow Bridge may buy it.
    2003. VA Software bought by Microsoft for a cup of coffee and a donut. All Microsoft-critical articles mysteriously disappear from Slashdot. Bill Gates as Borg logo replaced with Bill Gates as God. (Taco suggested that in order to be "God," or his vision of God, Gates would have to be seen in a NAMBLA T-shirt. Luckily good taste prevails in favor of the old man image in glowing aura.)
    2004. CmdrTaco loses virginity, well, not sex with men virginity, that's long since gone, and not sex with anime blow up dolls, this time, real sex.
    2004. The WIPO Troll returns again, showering Slashdot in 45,000 copies of the same post: "Lick my crotch hairs." Slashdot, despite running on 18 redundant IIS/8.0Beta6 servers, buckles under the load. The term "Slashdotted" is replaced with "WIPO-Trolled."
    2004. Slashdot officially shut down. Millions of screaming, unwashed geeks invade Redmond campus and lynch Bill Gates.
    2005. Linus Torvalds and Anal Cox found dead along with six penguins, a tub of crisco and several used condoms. FreeBSD users are glad the insanity is dying.
    2005. CmdrTaco rumored to have had sex again, even with constant Viagra therapy, it took this long. He complains, I can be ready to go again in five minutes if I was looking at a nude man, to the dyslexic Fent.
    2006. CowboiKneel found dead in hotel room with 56 pizza boxes covering his bloated corpse. Three suffocated gay prostitutes are extracted from beneath his body as police remove it with a backhoe.
    2007. CmdrTaco actually has sex again, this time plugging Fent in the ass for a more manlike feel.
    2007. BSD is still officially "dying." No word on when its demise will take place. FreeBSD 9 is delivered in perfect working order in a coherent superior, commercially viable and useable fashion with real documentation, the same practice followed since inception. Linux lunatics, after the death of Cox, are still trying to perfect the Trident driver while ignoring the existence of the GeForce 9 [Anyone have one of these? There are only 3 known Trident based cards left in the whole world? Please Contact Marcelo Tosatti. Expect a short, rude reply.]. Netcraft dies along with all the surveys they held on Microsoft and Linux servers are lost as well.
    2007. CmdrTaco starts new weblog to replace Slashdot, creatively named Dotslash. Remainder of Linux users flock to the site and immediate WIPO-Troll it out of existence.
    2007. Box running FreeBSD for 6 years sets world record for Unix uptime on consumer hardware.
    2008. CmdrTaco has sex with his wife for the first time without thinking of men. He has dawned on the extra sexual pick me up for his twisted mind, small children.
    2009. Marcelo Tosatti finally releases a version of the 2.4 Linux Kernel that is useable 2.4.29-RC2099.alpha.stage.99 (not -STABLE!). Fuck you Marcelo, YOU SUCK as a MAINTAINER.


    links is so much better than lynx. fucking lynx is bullshit.
  8. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i *strongly* disagree with the reduandant moderation, and have heavliy flamed accordinly.

    see above.

  9. Re:hmm by glesga_kiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    every religious man worth his salt knew that witches floated!

    Because...they are made of wood?!?

  10. Re:hmm by kuiken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No because they weigh less then a duck !!!!!!!!!!
    I should no she turned me into a newt. (dont worry i gopt better)

    --

    42
  11. Re:hmm FNORD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FNORD! 42!

  12. Re:hmm DAYS COULD MEAN ? vermillion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, it could mean days as defined by how long it takes the wicked witch on the west flying on a broomstick while tracing pluto's path!

    And if he was all powerful, why would time be an issue for him. If I was all power I would just stop time and do it so no one could measure how long it would take, and if I could just simple stop time then it should take no time at all to make the world.

    Rife with self contradictory things. It wasnt meant to be taken literally. Western religions are proscriptive and have zealous follows. Kind of like crapintosh users. Those machines are modern art, they aren't actually supposed to be used.

  13. Re:Yep!yo bible scholar be my name, rizzo tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    über-Jew - here is the chosen bible scholar furiously looking through scripture with titles like "Bible Scholar" and typing letters to rabbis on "Dagesh."

    Relax, you take your Khazar hack of a religion too seriously. Lets not act like Judaica hasnt been subect to a bit of editing here and there. When were the 316 written? And the little man in the clouds wants you to follow them or he makes you get really mad at some dude who magically parts large bodies of water and then collapses them on those angry menas PUNISHMENT, for he is a vengeful god. Please. Oh, wait, I'm sorry, I know a neighbor who can do the parting water trick in his backyard pool - kinda neet. Roger is his name, and I live in his neighborhood. [He happens to be a shrubber - shrubberis are his business.]

    let's not get über-Jew, like its some sort of reference religion.

    Another thing about modern Judaica, why all the Ashkenazi? They don't seem to be descendant of the Sephardic peoples you speak of. Most modern Jews are overwhelmingly by percentage Ashkenazi. The funny thing about Ashkenazi is that they are not closely related to the generation indigenous Jews, but rather descendants of the Turkic Khazars , who converted to Judaism by mandate of kings [Bulan and Obadiah].

    The claims of being Jewish by the Ethopian [The people called Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of Judea by a man named Buba] Jews are actually genetically founded and tied to Sephardic priests in modern day Israel, the cohanim, the priests who are of single father ancestry, none other than Aaron. A team of geneticists has found that many Lemba men carry in their male chromosome a set of DNA sequences that is distinctive of the cohanim, the Jewish priests believed to be the descendants of Aaron.

    Now, about Ashkenazi Jews. It seems most will not subject themselves to testing because they know they are basically Russian/Turkish. Why is that Sephardic Jews are looked down on by the Ashkenazi? Why did the late adoption of Judaism by the Khazars lead to so many changes in religious rites, customs and philosophy.

    My point is this. The Ashkenazi have had a net negative effect on the purity of the Jewish religion. One can contrast the customs of Othodox Christians, which follow ritual very similar to Jews as the religion has evolved very little since the advent of Christ [if he was Mosiach or a Prophet remains to be seen.]. I am so sick of Ashkenazi Jews putting goofy made up 8th century holidays on the calendar, talking about kosher crap. I get the unlevened bread thing. And the who Shabbat thing. But lets get real, glatt kosher, parve? Why not do what most religions do and just fast, which is probably where it all came from. So , while I agree with the mangling of the bible, lets not say that the average English Torah is free from being edited. And if the King James is such crap, where are the Jews to print off a really, really good MODERN translation of the Torah [know as old testament to the Christians, btw, and that term is offensive to Jews]? What are some of the Talmudic treatises so anti-everything-that-isn't-Judaic? Why is it that I don't believe that Judaism in its modern form is somehow better than Christianity.

    Now, as an aside. Islam is crap. It was good, for a time. Things have been done in the past under the faith of Islam which are appreciable. But modern day Islam is, if anything, a manifestation of the horde that will follow the anti-Christ. How can a religion who has the same root religion, the same prophets, and the same god be twisted into the modern day trash that it is. The Koran, the Talmud, the New Testament, its all political, subject to revision crap that is a list of excuses to pull bullshit in the name of God.

    Now why is it that Hindu and Buddhism don't get the attention they need from western countries. These religions are far closer to ideal because they are not proscriptive, they do not cause war, the do not force people to act a certain way, etc. No one seems to be missionaries for those religions. They seem to exist and a tradition, and indication of culture rather than a focal point for channeling human zealotry. Another thing about the said religions, they don't seem to pull the collection basket routine. Its not a cash vacuum like the other religions are. That is interesting to me. Seems more timeless than money.

  14. Re:hmm by hatchet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your god exists, and others don't? Your god is right and others aren't? And then religious people make stupid excuses like.. god is inside of everyone, god is your soul... and so on.

    And I can go to space anytime i want. I really can! Except that you might think i mean universe.. i actually meant local bar to which i can go anytime i want.
    It's just a matter of interpretation. And so called "God" is changing form so it can still fit the bible and all other religious crap.

  15. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I personally have nothing against religion. My beef was with people who use religion as a tool to negate science, the converse doens't have to be true, that was you projecting what you read into the post. By the way, I am probably more conservative than not, but not Republican. I am pro-constitution (100%, no excptions), but I like having homosexuals, non-christians, and even "god haters", atheists, agnostics around. I do not blame certain groups in society for the ills of society. Doesn't bother me because I am secure I my belief, and that is, I don't know what to believe, I just hope for the best.

    If Christianity, the religion that once did excommunicate Galileo (and let him back in, which is modern and impressive, just took 400 years), gives you solace, comfort, and a metric by which to lead your life, enjoy. And I hope for everyone's sake that the good afterlife is indeed true. I just don't but into it hook line and sinker. But I also do not deprecate the values and moral structure it may provide for you. Funny, I was born Catholic - and no, priests never treated me poorly (or did any diddling). I have no animosity towards it - its just not what I need for me. Please just don't call me liberal. I hate categorical designations, and most conservatives like to engage in labeling, which is unfortuante.

  16. Re:Yep!yo bible scholar be my name, rizzo tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why would this all knowing wonderbar god create beings prone to this "failure".

    maybe the thing which we think of as god is the sum of all souls, and each person is a part of that.

    "what if god were one of us"

    you proscriptive nature is distrubing, you would speak for god, as you do now, damning religion that is older than yours.

  17. Re:hmm by scientific2503 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not really

    The thing with the duck (i think it was a gose) is that if a duck can fly and she weighs less than a duck then she must be able to fly to or something like that.

  18. Re:hmm by linuxelf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, and he totally blew away the line. She couldn't weigh less than a duck, she had to weigh the same as a duck, becuase if she weighs the same as a duck, then she's made of wood, and therefore, she's a witch.

    --
    - "That's just the kind of fuzzy-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten."
  19. Re:Yep! by Hard_Code · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Or maybe it is just God's plan for you to annoy the fuck out of independent thinking folk.

    --

    It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?