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Hi, I'm concerned about the narrowm view of the world 'hard' science students have these days. I think the problem starts at college - There's a culture that somehow science is more rational and usefull then the humanitities. Lecturers encourage students to joke about arts students, and humilaite them whenever possible. This encourages eliteism, and I for one am sick of it. Let's tell it like it is. 'science' is just as much about opinion as the humanities. Research simply follows the fad of the day. Take dieticians for example. These men and woman believe that just because they have degree in medical science that they are all knowing. Why, what they recommend one day may kill you the next! (see the DDT story for more information.) Science is 95% opinion then facts, lets face it. What about astrology, the most rediculious of the sciences! But I degress... Another example is music. We know what sounds good. Everyone aggreed that Valves for instance sound great. But knowitall engineers use trensastors with inferious sound quality just to save a few bucks. They argue with numbers. Hey, I don't want to do maths just to listen to music. I know what I like. You cannot apply objective reasoning to a subject which is intristically subjective. But try telling those recent grads with their useless piece of paper that and they go all mightier--then-thou. The problem with you technical guys are that you are all so eliteist. Whilst you want to trun collage into a trade school with yore narrow minded views that collage should be a job training centre, humanities are focused on making you a well rounded person who is auctually interesting to be with, not a boring focuesed geek. Really, it makes me so mad when people say "oh, he's doing a humanities degree, that's easy". I have to read *3* *books* *a* *week* on average. Not picture books either I assue you. It is a lot of work, but the upshot is improved grammer and spelling skills that are lacking in the technical. As for those that say "you will be working at mcdonalds" , I'm going on to so a PhD in socialolgy where I'll be line for tenure where I have a much more rewarding job then beeing a science freak or an engineer. Anyways, all I have to do to be a engineer wold be to get my MSCE and how hard couyld that be? techincal stuff is simply whatever fad the market thinks is hot at the moment, but all great things were done by humanities. You technical types are far to narrow minded and cynsical. You should learn to enjoy life. Peace be to god, he transcends all.
I'm not Seth.
I know I didn't fail this one...FP!
Santiago and Jose Cruz Jr. each hit three-run homers and drove in four runs apiece as the San Francisco Giants won their sixth straight game, beating the Atlanta Braves 9-2 Friday night.
The win also gave the Giants a 4-0 record on their road trip, coming off a three-game sweep of the Florida Marlins.
"I love the hot weather. I grew up in it. I wish we had 15 more games here," said Santiago, who was born in Puerto Rico. He went 2-for-3 and raised his average to .304.
"Right now I'm going good," said Santiago, who had a go-ahead homer on Tuesday night, added two RBI in a win Wednesday and was given the day off Thursday.
The Giants pulled away from a 3-2 lead in the eighth inning on Santiago's three-run homer to win a matchup of the teams with the NL's two best records. It was the first time the clubs have met since San Francisco beat the Braves in the first round of last year's playoffs.
Andruw Jones, who set a Braves' franchise record Thursday with an RBI in his ninth straight game, went 0-for-3 with a walk.
Santiago's homer made it 6-2 in the eighth. He connected off rookie left-hander Jung Keun Bong after a walk to Rich Aurilia and single by Barry Bonds.
He described his homer as "beautiful."
"I had swung too hard on the previous pitch, so I just told myself to just settle down and get a good pitch to hit," said Santiago.
Bonds went 2-for-5, stole a base and scored twice.
"You have good days and bad days. Today was a good day. Now we'll rest and go again tomorrow," he said.
Cruz was 0-for-3 before homering in the ninth. Jim Brower singled and Aurilia walked before Cruz hit his eighth home run off Jim Dawley.
Brower picked up his second save with three scoreless innings.
Santiago had a sacrifice fly in a two-run sixth, with the other run coming on a sacrifice fly by Cruz.
Santiago singled and scored on a single by Marquis Grissom in the first inning off Greg Maddux.
Maddux (3-4) gave up five hits and three runs in seven innings.
"I pitched good enough to lose, I guess," said Maddux. "Sometimes you have to win 2-1. It was a better game than the boxscore will show. It was close for the most part."
Rookie Jesse Foppert (2-2) made his fourth major league start, giving up two runs and five hits in six innings, his best effort since losing 1-0 to the Philadelphia Phillies and Kevin Millwood's no-hitter on April 27.
"I knew I had to throw a good game to beat Maddux," he said. "He's a great pitcher and it's kind of hard not to get caught up in that."
Both Atlanta runs came on solo homers. Chipper Jones hit one in the second and Marcus Giles homered in the sixth.
Game notes -- Bonds has eight homers against Maddux in 119 at-bats, tied with John Smoltz and Terry Mulholland for his most against any pitcher. Bonds went 1-for-3 against Maddux, a single. ... The crowd of 32,040 was the second largest of the season at Turner Field. The
biggest was on opening day when 40,244 showed up in a 10-2 loss to Montreal.
so am I!
here is something to amuse us: everquest fan fiction!
The sun felt as heavy as the mace Loral carried through the desert of Ro. The normal gleam of his dwarven chainmail was dull from the dust and grime that constantly beat on him, seeming to come from every direction at once. Still his eyes narrowed, ignoring the bite of the hot wind, while he tracked his prey. He lifted two fingers and said a small three word prayer to Tunare. Sparks flew from his forehead, turning his attention west, guiding him again to the elusive creature he hunted. He climbed the dune in front of him and once reaching the peak he saw his prey.
"There is a form of evil in this land that should have never been" he remembered his mentor, Ciric, stating one day as they listened to the peaceful rush of water at the edge of the river in the elven city of Felwithe. Loral was just a wild teenager back then, hardly sixteen seasons old but ready to take on all the evil that Norrath had to offer. He remembered the lifeless look in Ciric's eyes more than the words as he spoke as he described the horrible plague of undead that seemed to reach out of the darkness of Hate and into the once peaceful land. "It is our job as the vehicle of our God to rid the lands of this plague," the tall Erudite cleric continued as if reading Loral's thoughts. Loral always got excited imagining himself citing a word of his lord, Tunare, and watching the trapped spirit leave the bones it was imprisoned in. The next statement tore these glamorous thoughts from his mind and made his heart sink until it almost brought him to tears. "It is this evil that took your father, Loral. This isn't a game."
Though the words happened almost a year ago, they still rang as he stared down the Drybone. The Drybone was physically not much different than the dwarven skeletons he hunted in Butcherblock during his 8th season as a cleric of Tunare. It possessed the same physical vehicle, an ancient decaying skeleton, and had the same lumbering walk as if pulled by a puppeteer. The Drybone was much different though, the spirit inside had gained just enough control to understand it's current status and went insane from it. Sometimes the spirit was a warrior that had made a pact to live forever, only to realize what forever really was, but other times, as in this case, a mage or wizard had made the attempt for immortality themselves with disastrous results. These were the most dangerous types as only lunatic undead wizards would be.
Loral opened his pack to see the black sockets of his dark totem staring back at him with that evil grin. He pulled the skull out and when his hands touched it, sparks of life appeared in the sockets. This magical skull, a gift from a member of his guild, the Healers United, gave him a surge of energy he could channel into his God's gifts of magic. It always left a sour taste in his mouth when he looked at the ironic icon that gave him this energy while laughing at him in his mind at the same time. Though, as Ciric would say, sometimes in order to defeat your enemy you had to use his power against him. This didn't make Loral feel better about using dark magiks of the Skull of Jhen'ta.
Loral wanted the battle over quick, so he stood and cast his first spell. The tendrals of roots hundreds of feet under the desert floor thrusted upwards and wrapped around the cracked bones of the Drybone's legs. The drybone struggled against the roots as Loral's eyes went white and the powers of Tunare began to tear the screaming spirit from the bones. The drybone finally managed to turn as the second expulsion began. Loral held the skull of Jen'ta high and cast a third blast. The drybone began its own incantation, finally realizing that it didn't need to move in order to retaliate. Fire burst fourth from it's hands and caused Loral's blood to raise sharply in temperature. Loral grit his teeth from the pain and continued to expulse the undead beast. The Drybone was weakened to the point of destruction but let out a final blast of fire dropp
Well, i could give you a massive rant with about a million and one reasons why I don't support the licence fee such as TV Licensing's aggressive bullying tactics that enforce it, or its inherent unfairness to the British people because people outside Britain get the BBC's benefits for free, but I won't.
Basically it's just a matter of choice. ie. I should have the choice to pay whoever I want for whatever I want to watch. The licence fee is like a mandatory tax on CD-Rs that goes to pay the RIAA, except that it's British, and it goes to pay the BBC, an organization whose benefits are felt the world over! Extremely unfair to the British people, IMHO.
Read www.tvlicensing.biz for more information, if you want it.
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I'm having a hangover and thought this article might be entertaining. Nope...
Fucking dull examination of some US local test of which most population on earth has never heard of.
Everyone knows how Giga and Mensa rank their applications. What the fuck was that drivel doing there? The article wasn't anything like advertised in the header. Definately! I'm going to sue slashdot now for providing me with Annoyance for Misfits, Stuff that no-one cares.
(Yeah, I'm just slightly cranky after downing litre of vodka, being beaten up by a gigantic doorman and being refused an abulance and a policeman from emenergy number. No wait, i'm fucking pissed because I just paid almost 900 euros as taxes so I think I should get a fucking personal body guard with that money. (This is my normal monthly tax. Welcome to Finland))
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