I'm sure there's a large number of pre-programmed among us, but when you simply compare news services and await the outcome, you'll learn almost every major network has been compromised. And the biggest propaganda purveyors out there is AP.
In exactly the same way that Man-MadeGlobalWarming(TM) seduces researchers with money, liberalism has seduced the news industry. If you just read headlines, you'll never know the truth. If you watch the 'big three' (ABC/NBC/CBS) you're going to know the same thing, from the same viewpoints, with the same outcome. And in many cases, with the same words. I know this because Rush Limbaugh collects all the times when the same words are used by all these "seperate" news organizations make things meet their template.
Bitch and moan about FoxNews, but at least there you don't start with a narrative. And, if you spend any time watching the ratings for these orgs, you'll see that FoxNews stomps the competition in large ways: a lot of people already know this.
But if you only read the headlines, "Everything is OK: a black man has been made president so how can things go wrong?":)
If 'behviour detection' (dare we not say PROFILING!) was used, this is the usual outcome. Most criminals (away from the airports) don't get caught by an 'Ah-ha!' moment in the crime lab, but rather assessing someone who 'seems nervous' and asking questions. It's as common in law enforcement as uniforms and badges, and it's because it works.
The airport/airplane system with the biggest threats in the world, el-Al, uses this exact process. When you pick every N-th person out of line, how's that going to find anyone? A lot of the TSA processes (like using names, alone) don't make a lot of sense. But "Profiling" actually does. Not just everyone of a skin color, or everyone with a beard, but by behavioural attributes.
Why anyone would think this kind of 'profiling' could be wrong escapes me; it effective, it bothers few innocents, and gets results.
IBM didn't 'warehouse' OS/2 on a lark; they wanted more than anything to offer the world a well-written alternative to Windows. Problem was, they were PAYING for copies of Windows to sell at the time. Microsoft learned of the product and said "Ya know, if you continue to push OS/2, the cost of Windows will rise..." IBM thought, "How bad could it get?" and Microsoft responded "$2,000 a copy or more."
Without a product they could afford to sell, and no guarantee that OS/2 would EVER grow to replace the missing market, they relented....angrily. And when Linux came a'knocking, they were the first to advertise. OH, yeah: there's no love lost between the two giants of the "Personal Computer".
AIX engenders no noticable amount of love than any other machine I've seen; it's not awful, and it's not miraculous. (I've hear similar claims about Sun and AT*T hardware, for example.)
Again, the problem seems to be money and capability; IBM can merely use Linux on their hardware and get the benefit of all the free development work that goes on, and not have to start at AT&T's original code and work back to today: that's a LOT of work. More than you know, I'll wager.
Linux, and it's free-and-easy licensing, and the fact that a lot of great people (including a bunch from *BSD) develop it make it quite a nice alternative. With the exception of Apple's iPod and such, almost every wearable you'll find in Best Buy is running Linux, including the TomTom and Garmin GPSs. It's really popular for a number of good reasons. It's no surprise IBM wants to get in on it.
So much like I miss the high-power, well-made Apple PowerPC hardware that's going to go away with Apple going to x86, you miss AIX. Quite a nice tool for it's time; I can see why you'd miss it. But welcome to Linux!
This isn't new...Hawking has been pushing an "everything sprung from nothing" idea for quite some time now. No evidence there, either.
This 'lottery defense' says, "Since there are trillions of universes, we just happen to be on the one and only one whose trillions-of-trillions of settings just happened to come up correct." But this dodge has a couple of problems.
1. No evidence of any other universe whatsoever.
2. Every creation has a cause larger than itself- who created (now) trillions of universes?
3. Science now denies various data sources. Case in point: The Bible. - Mentions how the Earth is 'suspended from nothing', while everyone else said it was on the back of a fish, Atlas' shoulders, and so on. Indians actually place the Earth somehow over a sea of milk and an elephant's involved. John Glen disagrees.
- Same data source talks about tectonic plates in motion tens-of-centuries before science noticed that Africa and South America seem to fit together.
- Same book shows how this entire reality began with nothing until a bright flash of light.
So tell me, why is it so impossible for a modern scientist to pick up the book and use his skills to decide if it's valid?
Christianity, while it's followers tend to believe without asking questions, is evidential and historical. The Bible isn't a rehash of last year's translations- every translation comes from the source. And the source is checked and re-checked for authenticity across many lifetimes. As much science goes into cross-checking as sequencing gene data. Unless you ask any other scientist...
There's so much "religion" in science these days. Too much 'believe it anyway'. Look at ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM). We're told "there's a consensus!" and "there is no more debate!" But is this how we checked-and-crosschecked math? Gravity? Newtonian physics? Did we just 'come to a concensus'?
Science has lost it's peer-review, don't-believe-it-until-I-repeat-it mindset and journalism has lost it's objectivism. Have other, long lived industries gotten broken by greed as well?
First, is there anyone in the audience that didn't suspect this? Anyone?
Second, someone had to pay for this oddball research. How do I approach these people to sell them oceanfront Arizona property?
Sheesh! With all the OTHER things going on, like 300,000 people dying each year from mosquitos (malaria, worldwide, because the EU won't permit the use of DDT) and with 9,000+ US deaths annually where people die JUST from taking a Tylenol while drinking, aren't there more important things to study? Wouldn't this cash have saved some lives, advertising the above two facts?
I'm stuck here penniless and people are pouring billons out of firehoses to see the rainbow.
Has there ever been a Microsoft bug that hackers have left alone?
We've been through this 'a million times' since DOS; there are literally more than a million active viruses out there, with another 100,000 per month. 40 percent chance of an exploit being used seems kinda low, doesn't it?
Uhm, no...you seem to be missing the forest for all these trees. The media over the last few decades, based on man's basic desire not to be bothered with the details, have wedged it's way into important areas. Instead of civics-minded people we've become a majority of Homer Simpsons, deciding on a candidate because of his skin color (in this case) not because of what he's done, the policies he'd enact, or who his heros are.
Just now, days after the election, media pundits are revealing, "We just don't know much about Barak Obama." (It was their job to send out investigative reporters: didn't they, for Sarah Palin?)
We're also getting, "This is a kinda creepy 'cult of personality'". (At events such as the victory speech and after, with him, alone, showing up- and if the family is nearby they get shooed into a closet someplace quick.)
The media was supposed to be there to investigate BOTH sides of the political story, not just fawn over one candidate. They knew all of these stories about his thuggery back in Chicago, shutting people down by any means, using courts, maybe more. They didn't say a word until after the election.
My point is that they weren't (and for about 10-15 years) haven't been doing their jobs. This guy could be Hitler incarnate, but we'd never know until after he's elected, because the media was under his spell. And now that he is, and he intends to go after 401k's, medical deductions, institute "free" healthcare and such, robbing Americans of even more of their tax breaks, are ya sure you voted correctly? Did you get enough information from that 'fourth branch' of government, the news media?
- the fourteen time McCain has gone to Iraq without the media or
- the 'fight' the big-three did to get onto the plane when Obama went once?
The media [Hollywood, Television, All news but Fox] are all Liberal outlets. Once upon a time they pretended they didn't care; they don't do that anymore.
The rest of the USA [Colleges, Unions, Science] are all mind-frelled into thinking that by raising taxes, fairness happens. It doesn't.
And they think they're all so 'open minded' while throwing Oreo cookies at State Representative Steele (a negro) because he's Conservative, not because he's black. At least they're not burning books yet. Merely hiding them in every bookstore you go to.
At least we're not punished for crimes of opinion- no wait: hate crimes.
Oh, well. Buckle up, children: there will be many and grand parties as this nation comes down to the level of France.
That there's *nothing* the US Congress can do that actually works...because it's all driven by 'what does it get me?' instead of 'is this a good thing for all of us?' thinking.
Why have we forgotten about Term Limits again? Some of these guys were there for bombs dropping on Pearl Harbor- nobody in the private sector stays around that long.
Step one: throw money around like it's not yours. (See also: George Bush)
Step Two: raise taxes, thinking that raising the rate means more money in the till, and no one will change their habits (like going out of business).
Step Three: With unemployment rising, inflation too, wonder why no one's paying the higher taxes, and why everyone has left the country to get it done elsewhere.
Step Four: (Which actually starts now) Find people to ruff-up. Joe the Plumber was an innocent guy asking a question- no reason not to set his metaphoric house on fire. And let's let that be an example of what anyone else can expect if they cross House Obama.
With all the "Change" talk, it's just the same old thing, with a meaner tone. Jack up the taxes, chase businesses out of the country or out of business, and don't let anything stop you from spending. He's about to appoint a woman to the economic-advisor post: she bankrupted her state. Remember these are the poeple who don't understand why Detroit Michigan is broke and miserable.
It's really not that hard. "Taxing the rich" doesn't help YOU. This 'getting even' kind of class warfare is just childish, short-sighted Democrat thinking a'la Jimmy Carter. Ever interview for a job with a single mother? Ever TAKE a job from a crack addict? Doubt it: they have no money, and as such cannot offer you a job. Only::GASP:: "THE RICH"(TM) can do that, and we hate them.
The only thing new is that the Black Panthers might just be used to collect taxes, and we already know how painful it is to ask questions of this administration: this is how it's going to be. You voted for it.
I'm told the television is an innocent box that's never lied to us before. And besides, there's an "OFF" switch!
(This, as well as a finding yesterday about girls getting promiscuous when watching promiscuous television shows are just another re-re-re-re-re-think of the same problem. It's real.)
Ya know it's real. Don't act surprised. Don't lie; if watching things on TV had no effect on people whatsoever, all the advertising would be on radio. There'd be no "Ad Men" there'd be no pining how for good shows USED to be, and how crappy the selection has become.
I know you want to keep your video games; but understand from someone who's been on both sides: it does, in fact, have an effect. It's not immediate, but the effect is real. So just play wisely, aye? Don't let really young kids spend too much time there. Just moderation, that's all.
OK, begin the flood of "Neo's" who just leveled on Halo or who will now yell and scream at me, despite my well-meaning rant, completely free of name-calling and hatred: they have to scream at me, they've been hating people/places/things for fun on their TV all day. Trust this old man who's been there, please.
Yeah I did for several months, the months the ADT man was telling me "We're working on it" and then I got busy, being the IT Director of a large lumberyard. As Dave Ramsey is so fond of saying, 'Life Happens'.
When I was in Chicago, they were stretched pretty thin, here. My brother is the only living relative, he and his new wife were busy with four new children and such...but when Mom fell one day, then had a STROKE a few later, I was certain it was time to come 'man the fort' for her.
My Mom's house had ADT. They promised to get us a discount on the insurance of the house because it was there, and always watching for fire. We were told that the paperwork for that much-needed discount had been sent, and we assumed that the unit would be alert for fire and carbon monoxide as well.
Three years later, with me in Chicago, we learned that wasn't quite true.
1. In order to GET the insurance discount, you, and not ADT have to walk the paperwork over there and get signatures for it to matter. They never did, despite what we were told.
2. We later learned that, despite three years of being on and chirping for every door-opening, it wouldn't have reported a fire or carbon monoxide problems, as those two sensors cost extra.
Yeah, not friendly to ADT. I could make something better. In my new home, that's what I'm doing.
You mean anyone USES the same computer in corporate America for more than 16 months? Who? Oh- the Linux folks. Well, is that gonna matter? It's not completely clear from the article...
Have we all forgot the last 3-4 elections where the media has claimed the Democrats will win (starting about October first) and then claim them to be already so far gone that cabinets are being chosen and china patterns declared.
But that's not what happened.
Each election came down to the wire, in some cases being resolved by court actions. Let's not get into the Florida difficulties where, if Al Gore had carried his own state, Florida wouldn't have mattered...or the ridiculous indecision of hanging versus missing chads...but I think I can guarantee it won't be over in just one night.
Part of the fantasy is suggesting to the other side they need not vote: Obama's working on this now. The suggestion that they're already putting another $700,000 into a celebration in Grant Park, Chicago (when it's just a show). Things like this have the downside that it might make one's OWN team not vote, since it doesn't appear needed.
A lot of people were angry at Richard Nixon, but the first time he ran for president and it was close HE STOOD DOWN. Back in those days presidents cared about what it would do to the nation, being so close. Now, none of them seem to care...about anything. Future presidents will be chosen by courts, not so much votes, I'm afraid.
The problem is, as has been the problem lately, when things get close, the instigators comes out of the woodwork. There's no need- the vote either works one way or the other, it's not magic...but people always like to suggest "The election was stolen!" even when it's not. It's how they feel important, and how Left-minded magnates try to take over the country.
Right now teams of people have been hired to fill forums like this one, responding positively to every mention of the names of their candidate. It's good pay, I'd imagine...wish I could get it. But I'm not doing it. I really kinda HATE McCain, despite his being a fighter pilot.:(
Trust me: it won't be a landslide. Liberal versus liberal, there won't be.
My stories keep getting modded-down because 'everyone' here knows that science is never wrong. Yet, they're insecure in their philosophies that they prefer to 'burn my books' online.
For perhaps centuries we've been told the planets orbited each other because of gravity, only...if this is true, we were blind to this truth for centuries. Science was wrong, either way.
So maybe things like 'the Bible is just translated over and over until it means nothing" is farce too? Maybe when it calls out just about ever serious astronomical event (short of dying dinosaurs, because who cares 60M years later?) maybe the Bible could be true?
Nah, we're open minded here. Science is about investigating the truth no matter where it goes, unless it goes into 'that book'.:)
Another decade goes by with powerful Microsoft pretending to be helpless facing the dreaded teenager-in-Tahiti scenario. Threats from the Justice Department: Not a problem. Threats from Sybase? Steal their code. Anyone else? Buy'em out or burn'em out, whichever's cheapest. They fear nothing: they want the danger.
Now, I'm a Conservative; neither Bush makes me smile...they're far too much like Liberals spending and taxing like they're on crack. But what does your knee-jerk hatred of the Bush Administration got to do with the 20-year milestone of a computer prank?
I keep hearing the Left curse Bush for every cause known to man; - Katria, because he didn't sign Kyoto (Clinton didn't either) - Aiming it at New Orleans because he hates Negroes (though the actual body count was 253 to 254 just after the storm). - It's even Bush's fault because while a dozen-or-more intelligence departments (as well as Clinton, Kerry, and other Democrats) said there was WMDs in there, it turns out there were few.
None of these were his fault. But you're programmed to believe it; you're letting your TV think for you. It chose McCain, too: I nearly wretched! Still, he's not a Marxist, nor does he consort with racists nor terrorists.
But show me ONE guy, minding his own business who's put up on charges and spent so much as a single night in Guantanmo Bay for being a terrorist. No one seems able.
Like in the Democrat Mortgage Scandal. America "Had to pay!" about a TRILLION dollars to keep the banking system open after Democrats forced them to make loans to people who couldn't pay. Surprise! They didn't pay. So this is a both-sides issue? No. Name me ONE Republican who stood before Congress as did Barney Frank and told them not to investigate Frannie & Freddie. Not one Republican. Maybe it, too, was because Bush didn't sign Kyoto....hmm... Oh, and BTW: the banks who "needed" this money to stay open are now paying bonuses with it. Thanks, Congress.
I'm sorry, but the propaganda is leaking from your ears. Conservatives are fair-market and fair-minded people; they're not bigots, homophobes or haters of any kind. But we *are* tired of being given the labels better fitting Democrats:
- Democrats needed Republican votes to pass the Civil Rights bill of '64.
- Al Gore's dad voted against it.
- Bull Shannon, in a famous video clip was the guy who ordered attack dogs and fire hoses to be used on Negroes: Democrat
- George Wallace, standing in the door of that school in Forest Gump: Democrat.
And at no time has this changed. The color blind party is STILL the one that freed them in the first place. If we weren't the first to end slavery, we were among the first: we have no reason to feel guilty.
Conservatives don't want to pick your car, your food, your light bulbs, or your pockets by way of taxes, to spread the wealth around. These are each Democratic/Liberal causes. Start asking critical questions: think for yourself.
(Yeah, I'll get modded down for trolling or whatever, but this needless brainwashing has got to stop!)
A lesser-known one is that smaller-to-larger image of an 'evolving man'. It wasn't done by Darwin, it wasn't part of his book(s); it was drawn up in (I think) 1971 by Time/Warner folks that had a template to show, but no scientific information.
In fact, for one of those beings, everything about it, including the beard, contemporary-shaped hands, and the more-erect stance was all discerned from a single tooth. (!) Several others had similar 'holes' in their scientific design, because it was an artistic rendering, suggested as truth; it's not. The bones and the fossils, etc just don't support it.
And let's not forget the long-running Liberal, world domination plans:
- The Coming Ice Age(TM) (about 1977, captured in one place, on a Barney Miller episode)
- Acid Rain(TM) which, according to a bevy of non-scientific pundits such as Ted Danson warned that by 1980, no longer will children be able to go out to play. Think about the children.
- Killer Bees(TM) which, before the year 2000 would invade, kill and conquer the entire north american continent, being the only planetary catastrophe with it's own spot on SNL.
- The Ozone Hole(TM), this large invisible thing with a hole in it, which can only be solved by changing the people from whom we get our refrigerant (That'd be Al Gore) and sending money to Washington, DC.
- Man Made Global Warming(TM). Nevermind that we can do nothing about it, the fossil record shows CO2 is the tool by which this planet *cools* by being exuded from the ocean water (ya know, that 3/4 of the Earth's surface) after it gets hot enough for 800 years. But don't be distracted by the facts- CO2 is now a *pollutant* according to the EPA. So stop breathing!
It's funny how we can always count on the media to post such madness, and make a living on the fear it breeds. It's all a money-search. But the funny thing? Not one part of this is Conservative: it's all Liberal.
Not one Conservative will tell you which car to drive, what food to eat, whether to smoke, which light bulbs to use, what terms to use in speech....no, those 'racist fascist pigs' don't do that: that's the enlightened Liberals we call Democrats. When the government fails (because they broke it) they get to claim Republicans and greedy people did it, and they get EVEN MORE CONTROL over it.
Now _that_ is one scam that pays off. Keep voting Gore, Kerry, and Obama guys!
Is anyone else in *this* crowd even bothered that a guy asks Obama a simple, solid question (that the news media won't) and all the sudden we know all about Joe The Plumber and his every foible since birth, yet all we know about Obmama is the people with whom he associates?
It's not a matter of association...
Consider this: the court flubs Tim McVeigh's case and he goes free. For *decades* he dedicates his life to taking over America by subversion, in particular by indoctrinating Chicago-area school kids that capitalism is wrong, and only communism is good. Only two years ago he said "We should have done more". (In no way sorry for the lives he took.) That's who Bill Ayers is.
If this guy was hanging around with McCain, he'd be grilled. Why is Obama not grilled?
(What's wrong with a 486? Tell me it's reliability, having worked for so long will somehow be worse than a modern dual-core CPU...)
Guys, the space program's ALWAYS had old equipment. They need the confidence-scan of inter-department certification- that takes time. Keep in mind: 3 + 3 is the same on any platform. Now, if it's a matter of CPU speed to manage skew, that may be something else. But if it couldn't handle the job, it wouldn't be there in the first place.
Just 'cause it's not running something needed to run Vista doesn't automatically mean it's junk. (It worked for the last two decades, ya know...):)
Call'em Nazi's all you want, but the Republicans (or at least the Conservatives) have never made demands over what you eat, what you drive, the type of toilet you use, or whether you smoke; that's for Liberals to control.
Don't think so? 'Crowd Control' is SYNONYMOUS with socialist/communist nations. How much censorship did we see at the Olympics? How many thousands of people disappear off the street in Russia? It's about power and retaining it.
So now you can vote the way the TV/Radio/Movies/College Profs want you to vote, or you can vote for freedom. I just hope you learn which is which, in time.
Much like i science, where getting a research grant nowdays means adding "GlobalWarming(TM)" to the title, the media has lost it's soul. If "truth" means that it's published elsewhere, that's building a house on sand. We've already seen the "truths" of Joe-the-Plumber reported:
- Non-union guy - Not carrying a license - Had DUI a decade ago - Real name isn't "Joe" but Samuel Joe "
Modern media fills but one purpose now: to back political parties. Nope- nothing more. Know how I know?
In 48 hours they turned up more dirt on an average "Joe" and ruined his life, meanwhile after 2 YEARS of OBama, we know almost nothing about him.
"Truth" can't be by previous publishing; Soros owns everything but FoxNews and the Washington Times; daily they all even run the same headlines. And, in most of the case [like where OBama suggest McCain's going to cut medicare/SSI] it has never met the truth, much less it is.
I think they'll have to dig a little deeper to find "truth". Look in old books. I can think of one...:>
In these days where Congress puts it's snout into industries, mismanaging them horrifically, then claims "greedy capitalists" so as to use more money to buy more of the industry, capitalism is on the ropes in America.
"Spreading the wealth around" sounds good when it's not yours being spread; ask anyone from Russia that wasn't part of the ruling class. (Last I heard, they hadn't published the Leningrad phone book since 1974!)
I hope they learn from this; a bunch of us, with varying messages, have been trying to tell these folks it would work this way. But business-school tactics are hard to overcome- they're like old habits.
Three cheers for the change of business! Let's hope the next administration (whichever one it is) permits us to have free markets so we can see what happens!
Science tests beliefs (hypotheses) against evidence.
Great: we have the evidence. But we won't look into it? Not only is it there now, but it's been there for centuries. Let's investigate and see if it can be true.
Consider this: (Job 26:7, *written in the BC*)
"He stretches out the North over empty space; He hangs the Earth on nothing". Meanwhile Greeks said it was on the back of Atlas, Buddhists thought it was on the back of a fish, and the Indian religions pondered an elephant swimming in an ocean of milk. The Bible is the only thing that got it right. And THOUSANDS of years before John Glen orbited the Earth and took pictures.
Discarding candidate information suggests a closed mind.
Religion tests evidence against belief.
Some do. But Christianity is historical and evidential. Consider the Hittite people. For *centuries* people claimed they never existed. Genesis 15:20 mentions them. A few decades ago, the ruins of a city located in Turkey, north of present-day Israel, was discovered which proved to be the ruins of a main Hittite city.
It's not a quaint set of tales; it has millions of cross-connected issues and ideas that can't be merely written by man.
The Bible is a text; like any scientific text you might have come across, not an idea based on the whims of culture. It's a lie to say the Bible is translated over and over and over. Every translation comes from the source texts and is peer-reviewed.
How about Science? Is there really a 'consensus' on Global Warming? Isn't science about prediction, proof and repeatability, not consensus? How about the Ozone Hole, the Killer Bees, Y2K, and maybe a dozen scientific fantasyland trips? Remember leeches and bloodletting? Science hasn't gotten us here in a straight line.
But religious _people_ don't always help. Many "Young Earthers" rely on a priest named Usher who tried, scientifically, to work through Numbers and create a timeline. However his five assumptions were wrong. At the time, without carbon-dating or the THOUSANDS of other cross-checkable dating systems, a lot of people believed it. They mean well, but they're wrong.
And so is science at times. The oldest-known fossil is of a trilobite. But, oldest-as-it-is, there's a spine in there. The story goes, "being at germs, then invertebrates, then vertebrates" right? This animal is out of order. In truth, the fossil record shows every phylum springing up in the pre-cambrian era. (And here I mean "all at once" in a cosmological sense.) Now, are these proponents well-meaning, or do they just not have a better answer without invoking God?
Notice the difference?
Yeah, we *have* an understanding for the creation of all we see; science would have you believe that we've been lucky to have all of it dropped at our feet, the way it landed. Just luck. Yet, we're just one planet of millions. We're not. How does the scientific religion go?
Your cultural understanding of creation has no scientific certainty. It's not science to claim something to be, when the fossil record says otherwise. Just like Young Earthers saying the Earth is 6,000 years old because of their misunderstanding.
It's how you read it. It isn't a retelling of every change, every new animal, every astronomical event. It isn't a calendar or clock. It refers to everything in ordinal terms. Recounting the order of plant development, which matches the fossil record, is an example. Not a date/time, but an order. Anyone claiming they know something's about to happen because of the Bible is wrong. Period.
Ever notice there's not really a dinosaur-era text? Thought about it. Why would t
Scientists don't have an explanation for creation- some 'big bang', then everything, despite the complexity 'just happened'. Since that's flawed logic, 'everything just happened on so many planets, we must be the only one that worked out'.
Right now Steven Hawking is trying to prove the existence of an infinite number of universes having been created just to support this silly irreducible complexity.
I keep hearing "our planet is common" and "there must be billions of other Earths out there" but no one seems to come up with any. If there really are _billions_ surely there are some near enough to have used radio for explanation, aye?
You can keep believing in this unsupported attempt to explain the Earth's lottery, or you can pick up one book that has been proven right each and every time: The Bible.
- The big bang was described as "Let there be light". - It says the Earth "is suspended from nothing". - Tells of the continental drift - Makes reference to the world being round, and having daylight and dark at the same time. - 110 civilizations have a 'flood story' in their ancient histories. It's detailed in the story of Noah. - Recounts the development of plants, and that matches the fossil record.
Now I don't expect you to believe in God from a single posting. But what I'm asking for is that you don't discount the data source. Just be, shall we say, open-minded?
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I'm sure there's a large number of pre-programmed among us, but when you simply compare news services and await the outcome, you'll learn almost every major network has been compromised. And the biggest propaganda purveyors out there is AP.
In exactly the same way that Man-MadeGlobalWarming(TM) seduces researchers with money, liberalism has seduced the news industry. If you just read headlines, you'll never know the truth. If you watch the 'big three' (ABC/NBC/CBS) you're going to know the same thing, from the same viewpoints, with the same outcome. And in many cases, with the same words. I know this because Rush Limbaugh collects all the times when the same words are used by all these "seperate" news organizations make things meet their template.
Bitch and moan about FoxNews, but at least there you don't start with a narrative. And, if you spend any time watching the ratings for these orgs, you'll see that FoxNews stomps the competition in large ways: a lot of people already know this.
But if you only read the headlines, "Everything is OK: a black man has been made president so how can things go wrong?" :)
If 'behviour detection' (dare we not say PROFILING!) was used, this is the usual outcome. Most criminals (away from the airports) don't get caught by an 'Ah-ha!' moment in the crime lab, but rather assessing someone who 'seems nervous' and asking questions. It's as common in law enforcement as uniforms and badges, and it's because it works.
The airport/airplane system with the biggest threats in the world, el-Al, uses this exact process. When you pick every N-th person out of line, how's that going to find anyone? A lot of the TSA processes (like using names, alone) don't make a lot of sense. But "Profiling" actually does. Not just everyone of a skin color, or everyone with a beard, but by behavioural attributes.
Why anyone would think this kind of 'profiling' could be wrong escapes me; it effective, it bothers few innocents, and gets results.
IBM didn't 'warehouse' OS/2 on a lark; they wanted more than anything to offer the world a well-written alternative to Windows. Problem was, they were PAYING for copies of Windows to sell at the time. Microsoft learned of the product and said "Ya know, if you continue to push OS/2, the cost of Windows will rise..." IBM thought, "How bad could it get?" and Microsoft responded "$2,000 a copy or more."
Without a product they could afford to sell, and no guarantee that OS/2 would EVER grow to replace the missing market, they relented....angrily. And when Linux came a'knocking, they were the first to advertise. OH, yeah: there's no love lost between the two giants of the "Personal Computer".
AIX engenders no noticable amount of love than any other machine I've seen; it's not awful, and it's not miraculous. (I've hear similar claims about Sun and AT*T hardware, for example.)
Again, the problem seems to be money and capability; IBM can merely use Linux on their hardware and get the benefit of all the free development work that goes on, and not have to start at AT&T's original code and work back to today: that's a LOT of work. More than you know, I'll wager.
Linux, and it's free-and-easy licensing, and the fact that a lot of great people (including a bunch from *BSD) develop it make it quite a nice alternative. With the exception of Apple's iPod and such, almost every wearable you'll find in Best Buy is running Linux, including the TomTom and Garmin GPSs. It's really popular for a number of good reasons. It's no surprise IBM wants to get in on it.
So much like I miss the high-power, well-made Apple PowerPC hardware that's going to go away with Apple going to x86, you miss AIX. Quite a nice tool for it's time; I can see why you'd miss it. But welcome to Linux!
This isn't new...Hawking has been pushing an "everything sprung from nothing" idea for quite some time now. No evidence there, either.
This 'lottery defense' says, "Since there are trillions of universes, we just happen to be on the one and only one whose trillions-of-trillions of settings just happened to come up correct." But this dodge has a couple of problems.
1. No evidence of any other universe whatsoever.
2. Every creation has a cause larger than itself- who created (now) trillions of universes?
3. Science now denies various data sources. Case in point: The Bible.
- Mentions how the Earth is 'suspended from nothing', while everyone else said it was on the back of a fish, Atlas' shoulders, and so on. Indians actually place the Earth somehow over a sea of milk and an elephant's involved. John Glen disagrees.
- Same data source talks about tectonic plates in motion tens-of-centuries before science noticed that Africa and South America seem to fit together.
- Same book shows how this entire reality began with nothing until a bright flash of light.
So tell me, why is it so impossible for a modern scientist to pick up the book and use his skills to decide if it's valid?
Christianity, while it's followers tend to believe without asking questions, is evidential and historical. The Bible isn't a rehash of last year's translations- every translation comes from the source. And the source is checked and re-checked for authenticity across many lifetimes. As much science goes into cross-checking as sequencing gene data. Unless you ask any other scientist...
There's so much "religion" in science these days. Too much 'believe it anyway'. Look at ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM). We're told "there's a consensus!" and "there is no more debate!" But is this how we checked-and-crosschecked math? Gravity? Newtonian physics? Did we just 'come to a concensus'?
Science has lost it's peer-review, don't-believe-it-until-I-repeat-it mindset and journalism has lost it's objectivism. Have other, long lived industries gotten broken by greed as well?
First, is there anyone in the audience that didn't suspect this? Anyone?
Second, someone had to pay for this oddball research. How do I approach these people to sell them oceanfront Arizona property?
Sheesh! With all the OTHER things going on, like 300,000 people dying each year from mosquitos (malaria, worldwide, because the EU won't permit the use of DDT) and with 9,000+ US deaths annually where people die JUST from taking a Tylenol while drinking, aren't there more important things to study? Wouldn't this cash have saved some lives, advertising the above two facts?
I'm stuck here penniless and people are pouring billons out of firehoses to see the rainbow.
Has there ever been a Microsoft bug that hackers have left alone?
We've been through this 'a million times' since DOS; there are literally more than a million active viruses out there, with another 100,000 per month. 40 percent chance of an exploit being used seems kinda low, doesn't it?
Uhm, no...you seem to be missing the forest for all these trees. The media over the last few decades, based on man's basic desire not to be bothered with the details, have wedged it's way into important areas. Instead of civics-minded people we've become a majority of Homer Simpsons, deciding on a candidate because of his skin color (in this case) not because of what he's done, the policies he'd enact, or who his heros are.
Just now, days after the election, media pundits are revealing, "We just don't know much about Barak Obama." (It was their job to send out investigative reporters: didn't they, for Sarah Palin?)
We're also getting, "This is a kinda creepy 'cult of personality'". (At events such as the victory speech and after, with him, alone, showing up- and if the family is nearby they get shooed into a closet someplace quick.)
The media was supposed to be there to investigate BOTH sides of the political story, not just fawn over one candidate. They knew all of these stories about his thuggery back in Chicago, shutting people down by any means, using courts, maybe more. They didn't say a word until after the election.
My point is that they weren't (and for about 10-15 years) haven't been doing their jobs. This guy could be Hitler incarnate, but we'd never know until after he's elected, because the media was under his spell. And now that he is, and he intends to go after 401k's, medical deductions, institute "free" healthcare and such, robbing Americans of even more of their tax breaks, are ya sure you voted correctly? Did you get enough information from that 'fourth branch' of government, the news media?
I'm guessing 'no'.
What was the first clue-
- the fourteen time McCain has gone to Iraq without the media or
- the 'fight' the big-three did to get onto the plane when Obama went once?
The media [Hollywood, Television, All news but Fox] are all Liberal outlets. Once upon a time they pretended they didn't care; they don't do that anymore.
The rest of the USA [Colleges, Unions, Science] are all mind-frelled into thinking that by raising taxes, fairness happens. It doesn't.
And they think they're all so 'open minded' while throwing Oreo cookies at State Representative Steele (a negro) because he's Conservative, not because he's black. At least they're not burning books yet. Merely hiding them in every bookstore you go to.
At least we're not punished for crimes of opinion- no wait: hate crimes.
Oh, well. Buckle up, children: there will be many and grand parties as this nation comes down to the level of France.
[Millions died for *this*?]
That there's *nothing* the US Congress can do that actually works...because it's all driven by 'what does it get me?' instead of 'is this a good thing for all of us?' thinking.
Why have we forgotten about Term Limits again? Some of these guys were there for bombs dropping on Pearl Harbor- nobody in the private sector stays around that long.
Step one: throw money around like it's not yours. (See also: George Bush)
Step Two: raise taxes, thinking that raising the rate means more money in the till, and no one will change their habits (like going out of business).
Step Three: With unemployment rising, inflation too, wonder why no one's paying the higher taxes, and why everyone has left the country to get it done elsewhere.
Step Four: (Which actually starts now) Find people to ruff-up. Joe the Plumber was an innocent guy asking a question- no reason not to set his metaphoric house on fire. And let's let that be an example of what anyone else can expect if they cross House Obama.
With all the "Change" talk, it's just the same old thing, with a meaner tone. Jack up the taxes, chase businesses out of the country or out of business, and don't let anything stop you from spending. He's about to appoint a woman to the economic-advisor post: she bankrupted her state. Remember these are the poeple who don't understand why Detroit Michigan is broke and miserable.
It's really not that hard. "Taxing the rich" doesn't help YOU. This 'getting even' kind of class warfare is just childish, short-sighted Democrat thinking a'la Jimmy Carter. Ever interview for a job with a single mother? Ever TAKE a job from a crack addict? Doubt it: they have no money, and as such cannot offer you a job. Only ::GASP:: "THE RICH"(TM) can do that, and we hate them.
The only thing new is that the Black Panthers might just be used to collect taxes, and we already know how painful it is to ask questions of this administration: this is how it's going to be. You voted for it.
I'm told the television is an innocent box that's never lied to us before. And besides, there's an "OFF" switch!
(This, as well as a finding yesterday about girls getting promiscuous when watching promiscuous television shows are just another re-re-re-re-re-think of the same problem. It's real.)
Ya know it's real. Don't act surprised. Don't lie; if watching things on TV had no effect on people whatsoever, all the advertising would be on radio. There'd be no "Ad Men" there'd be no pining how for good shows USED to be, and how crappy the selection has become.
I know you want to keep your video games; but understand from someone who's been on both sides: it does, in fact, have an effect. It's not immediate, but the effect is real. So just play wisely, aye? Don't let really young kids spend too much time there. Just moderation, that's all.
OK, begin the flood of "Neo's" who just leveled on Halo or who will now yell and scream at me, despite my well-meaning rant, completely free of name-calling and hatred: they have to scream at me, they've been hating people/places/things for fun on their TV all day. Trust this old man who's been there, please.
Yeah I did for several months, the months the ADT man was telling me "We're working on it" and then I got busy, being the IT Director of a large lumberyard. As Dave Ramsey is so fond of saying, 'Life Happens'.
When I was in Chicago, they were stretched pretty thin, here. My brother is the only living relative, he and his new wife were busy with four new children and such...but when Mom fell one day, then had a STROKE a few later, I was certain it was time to come 'man the fort' for her.
My Mom's house had ADT. They promised to get us a discount on the insurance of the house because it was there, and always watching for fire. We were told that the paperwork for that much-needed discount had been sent, and we assumed that the unit would be alert for fire and carbon monoxide as well.
Three years later, with me in Chicago, we learned that wasn't quite true.
1. In order to GET the insurance discount, you, and not ADT have to walk the paperwork over there and get signatures for it to matter. They never did, despite what we were told.
2. We later learned that, despite three years of being on and chirping for every door-opening, it wouldn't have reported a fire or carbon monoxide problems, as those two sensors cost extra.
Yeah, not friendly to ADT. I could make something better. In my new home, that's what I'm doing.
You mean anyone USES the same computer in corporate America for more than 16 months? Who? Oh- the Linux folks. Well, is that gonna matter? It's not completely clear from the article...
Have we all forgot the last 3-4 elections where the media has claimed the Democrats will win (starting about October first) and then claim them to be already so far gone that cabinets are being chosen and china patterns declared.
But that's not what happened.
Each election came down to the wire, in some cases being resolved by court actions. Let's not get into the Florida difficulties where, if Al Gore had carried his own state, Florida wouldn't have mattered...or the ridiculous indecision of hanging versus missing chads...but I think I can guarantee it won't be over in just one night.
Part of the fantasy is suggesting to the other side they need not vote: Obama's working on this now. The suggestion that they're already putting another $700,000 into a celebration in Grant Park, Chicago (when it's just a show). Things like this have the downside that it might make one's OWN team not vote, since it doesn't appear needed.
A lot of people were angry at Richard Nixon, but the first time he ran for president and it was close HE STOOD DOWN. Back in those days presidents cared about what it would do to the nation, being so close. Now, none of them seem to care...about anything. Future presidents will be chosen by courts, not so much votes, I'm afraid.
The problem is, as has been the problem lately, when things get close, the instigators comes out of the woodwork. There's no need- the vote either works one way or the other, it's not magic...but people always like to suggest "The election was stolen!" even when it's not. It's how they feel important, and how Left-minded magnates try to take over the country.
Right now teams of people have been hired to fill forums like this one, responding positively to every mention of the names of their candidate. It's good pay, I'd imagine...wish I could get it. But I'm not doing it. I really kinda HATE McCain, despite his being a fighter pilot. :(
Trust me: it won't be a landslide. Liberal versus liberal, there won't be.
My stories keep getting modded-down because 'everyone' here knows that science is never wrong. Yet, they're insecure in their philosophies that they prefer to 'burn my books' online.
For perhaps centuries we've been told the planets orbited each other because of gravity, only...if this is true, we were blind to this truth for centuries. Science was wrong, either way.
So maybe things like 'the Bible is just translated over and over until it means nothing" is farce too? Maybe when it calls out just about ever serious astronomical event (short of dying dinosaurs, because who cares 60M years later?) maybe the Bible could be true?
Nah, we're open minded here. Science is about investigating the truth no matter where it goes, unless it goes into 'that book'. :)
Another decade goes by with powerful Microsoft pretending to be helpless facing the dreaded teenager-in-Tahiti scenario. Threats from the Justice Department: Not a problem. Threats from Sybase? Steal their code. Anyone else? Buy'em out or burn'em out, whichever's cheapest. They fear nothing: they want the danger.
Now, I'm a Conservative; neither Bush makes me smile...they're far too much like Liberals spending and taxing like they're on crack. But what does your knee-jerk hatred of the Bush Administration got to do with the 20-year milestone of a computer prank?
I keep hearing the Left curse Bush for every cause known to man;
- Katria, because he didn't sign Kyoto (Clinton didn't either)
- Aiming it at New Orleans because he hates Negroes (though the actual body count was 253 to 254 just after the storm).
- It's even Bush's fault because while a dozen-or-more intelligence departments (as well as Clinton, Kerry, and other Democrats) said there was WMDs in there, it turns out there were few.
None of these were his fault. But you're programmed to believe it; you're letting your TV think for you. It chose McCain, too: I nearly wretched! Still, he's not a Marxist, nor does he consort with racists nor terrorists.
But show me ONE guy, minding his own business who's put up on charges and spent so much as a single night in Guantanmo Bay for being a terrorist. No one seems able.
Like in the Democrat Mortgage Scandal. America "Had to pay!" about a TRILLION dollars to keep the banking system open after Democrats forced them to make loans to people who couldn't pay. Surprise! They didn't pay. So this is a both-sides issue? No. Name me ONE Republican who stood before Congress as did Barney Frank and told them not to investigate Frannie & Freddie. Not one Republican. Maybe it, too, was because Bush didn't sign Kyoto....hmm... Oh, and BTW: the banks who "needed" this money to stay open are now paying bonuses with it. Thanks, Congress.
I'm sorry, but the propaganda is leaking from your ears. Conservatives are fair-market and fair-minded people; they're not bigots, homophobes or haters of any kind. But we *are* tired of being given the labels better fitting Democrats:
- Democrats needed Republican votes to pass the Civil Rights bill of '64.
- Al Gore's dad voted against it.
- Bull Shannon, in a famous video clip was the guy who ordered attack dogs and fire hoses to be used on Negroes: Democrat
- George Wallace, standing in the door of that school in Forest Gump: Democrat.
And at no time has this changed. The color blind party is STILL the one that freed them in the first place. If we weren't the first to end slavery, we were among the first: we have no reason to feel guilty.
Conservatives don't want to pick your car, your food, your light bulbs, or your pockets by way of taxes, to spread the wealth around. These are each Democratic/Liberal causes. Start asking critical questions: think for yourself.
(Yeah, I'll get modded down for trolling or whatever, but this needless brainwashing has got to stop!)
A lesser-known one is that smaller-to-larger image of an 'evolving man'. It wasn't done by Darwin, it wasn't part of his book(s); it was drawn up in (I think) 1971 by Time/Warner folks that had a template to show, but no scientific information.
In fact, for one of those beings, everything about it, including the beard, contemporary-shaped hands, and the more-erect stance was all discerned from a single tooth. (!) Several others had similar 'holes' in their scientific design, because it was an artistic rendering, suggested as truth; it's not. The bones and the fossils, etc just don't support it.
And let's not forget the long-running Liberal, world domination plans:
- The Coming Ice Age(TM) (about 1977, captured in one place, on a Barney Miller episode)
- Acid Rain(TM) which, according to a bevy of non-scientific pundits such as Ted Danson warned that by 1980, no longer will children be able to go out to play. Think about the children.
- Killer Bees(TM) which, before the year 2000 would invade, kill and conquer the entire north american continent, being the only planetary catastrophe with it's own spot on SNL.
- The Ozone Hole(TM), this large invisible thing with a hole in it, which can only be solved by changing the people from whom we get our refrigerant (That'd be Al Gore) and sending money to Washington, DC.
- Man Made Global Warming(TM). Nevermind that we can do nothing about it, the fossil record shows CO2 is the tool by which this planet *cools* by being exuded from the ocean water (ya know, that 3/4 of the Earth's surface) after it gets hot enough for 800 years. But don't be distracted by the facts- CO2 is now a *pollutant* according to the EPA. So stop breathing!
It's funny how we can always count on the media to post such madness, and make a living on the fear it breeds. It's all a money-search. But the funny thing? Not one part of this is Conservative: it's all Liberal.
Not one Conservative will tell you which car to drive, what food to eat, whether to smoke, which light bulbs to use, what terms to use in speech....no, those 'racist fascist pigs' don't do that: that's the enlightened Liberals we call Democrats. When the government fails (because they broke it) they get to claim Republicans and greedy people did it, and they get EVEN MORE CONTROL over it.
Now _that_ is one scam that pays off. Keep voting Gore, Kerry, and Obama guys!
Is anyone else in *this* crowd even bothered that a guy asks Obama a simple, solid question (that the news media won't) and all the sudden we know all about Joe The Plumber and his every foible since birth, yet all we know about Obmama is the people with whom he associates?
It's not a matter of association...
Consider this: the court flubs Tim McVeigh's case and he goes free. For *decades* he dedicates his life to taking over America by subversion, in particular by indoctrinating Chicago-area school kids that capitalism is wrong, and only communism is good. Only two years ago he said "We should have done more". (In no way sorry for the lives he took.) That's who Bill Ayers is.
If this guy was hanging around with McCain, he'd be grilled. Why is Obama not grilled?
Oh, sorry: it's racist to ask that question. :/
(What's wrong with a 486? Tell me it's reliability, having worked for so long will somehow be worse than a modern dual-core CPU...)
Guys, the space program's ALWAYS had old equipment. They need the confidence-scan of inter-department certification- that takes time. Keep in mind: 3 + 3 is the same on any platform. Now, if it's a matter of CPU speed to manage skew, that may be something else. But if it couldn't handle the job, it wouldn't be there in the first place.
Just 'cause it's not running something needed to run Vista doesn't automatically mean it's junk. (It worked for the last two decades, ya know...) :)
Call'em Nazi's all you want, but the Republicans (or at least the Conservatives) have never made demands over what you eat, what you drive, the type of toilet you use, or whether you smoke; that's for Liberals to control.
Don't think so? 'Crowd Control' is SYNONYMOUS with socialist/communist nations. How much censorship did we see at the Olympics? How many thousands of people disappear off the street in Russia? It's about power and retaining it.
So now you can vote the way the TV/Radio/Movies/College Profs want you to vote, or you can vote for freedom. I just hope you learn which is which, in time.
God, I wish I was kidding...
Much like i science, where getting a research grant nowdays means adding "GlobalWarming(TM)" to the title, the media has lost it's soul. If "truth" means that it's published elsewhere, that's building a house on sand. We've already seen the "truths" of Joe-the-Plumber reported:
- Non-union guy
- Not carrying a license
- Had DUI a decade ago
- Real name isn't "Joe" but Samuel Joe "
Modern media fills but one purpose now: to back political parties. Nope- nothing more. Know how I know?
In 48 hours they turned up more dirt on an average "Joe" and ruined his life, meanwhile after 2 YEARS of OBama, we know almost nothing about him.
"Truth" can't be by previous publishing; Soros owns everything but FoxNews and the Washington Times; daily they all even run the same headlines. And, in most of the case [like where OBama suggest McCain's going to cut medicare/SSI] it has never met the truth, much less it is.
I think they'll have to dig a little deeper to find "truth". Look in old books. I can think of one... :>
In these days where Congress puts it's snout into industries, mismanaging them horrifically, then claims "greedy capitalists" so as to use more money to buy more of the industry, capitalism is on the ropes in America.
"Spreading the wealth around" sounds good when it's not yours being spread; ask anyone from Russia that wasn't part of the ruling class. (Last I heard, they hadn't published the Leningrad phone book since 1974!)
I hope they learn from this; a bunch of us, with varying messages, have been trying to tell these folks it would work this way. But business-school tactics are hard to overcome- they're like old habits.
Three cheers for the change of business! Let's hope the next administration (whichever one it is) permits us to have free markets so we can see what happens!
Science tests beliefs (hypotheses) against evidence.
Great: we have the evidence. But we won't look into it? Not only is it there now, but it's been there for centuries. Let's investigate and see if it can be true.
Consider this: (Job 26:7, *written in the BC*)
"He stretches out the North over empty space; He hangs the Earth on nothing". Meanwhile Greeks said it was on the back of Atlas, Buddhists thought it was on the back of a fish, and the Indian religions pondered an elephant swimming in an ocean of milk. The Bible is the only thing that got it right. And THOUSANDS of years before John Glen orbited the Earth and took pictures.
Discarding candidate information suggests a closed mind.
Religion tests evidence against belief.
Some do. But Christianity is historical and evidential. Consider the Hittite people. For *centuries* people claimed they never existed. Genesis 15:20 mentions them. A few decades ago, the ruins of a city located in Turkey, north of present-day Israel, was discovered which proved to be the ruins of a main Hittite city.
It's not a quaint set of tales; it has millions of cross-connected issues and ideas that can't be merely written by man.
The Bible is a text; like any scientific text you might have come across, not an idea based on the whims of culture. It's a lie to say the Bible is translated over and over and over. Every translation comes from the source texts and is peer-reviewed.
How about Science? Is there really a 'consensus' on Global Warming? Isn't science about prediction, proof and repeatability, not consensus? How about the Ozone Hole, the Killer Bees, Y2K, and maybe a dozen scientific fantasyland trips? Remember leeches and bloodletting? Science hasn't gotten us here in a straight line.
But religious _people_ don't always help. Many "Young Earthers" rely on a priest named Usher who tried, scientifically, to work through Numbers and create a timeline. However his five assumptions were wrong. At the time, without carbon-dating or the THOUSANDS of other cross-checkable dating systems, a lot of people believed it. They mean well, but they're wrong.
And so is science at times. The oldest-known fossil is of a trilobite. But, oldest-as-it-is, there's a spine in there. The story goes, "being at germs, then invertebrates, then vertebrates" right? This animal is out of order. In truth, the fossil record shows every phylum springing up in the pre-cambrian era. (And here I mean "all at once" in a cosmological sense.) Now, are these proponents well-meaning, or do they just not have a better answer without invoking God?
Notice the difference?
Yeah, we *have* an understanding for the creation of all we see; science would have you believe that we've been lucky to have all of it dropped at our feet, the way it landed. Just luck. Yet, we're just one planet of millions. We're not. How does the scientific religion go?
Your cultural understanding of creation has no scientific certainty. It's not science to claim something to be, when the fossil record says otherwise. Just like Young Earthers saying the Earth is 6,000 years old because of their misunderstanding.
It's how you read it. It isn't a retelling of every change, every new animal, every astronomical event. It isn't a calendar or clock. It refers to everything in ordinal terms. Recounting the order of plant development, which matches the fossil record, is an example. Not a date/time, but an order. Anyone claiming they know something's about to happen because of the Bible is wrong. Period.
Ever notice there's not really a dinosaur-era text? Thought about it. Why would t
Scientists don't have an explanation for creation- some 'big bang', then everything, despite the complexity 'just happened'. Since that's flawed logic, 'everything just happened on so many planets, we must be the only one that worked out'.
Right now Steven Hawking is trying to prove the existence of an infinite number of universes having been created just to support this silly irreducible complexity.
I keep hearing "our planet is common" and "there must be billions of other Earths out there" but no one seems to come up with any. If there really are _billions_ surely there are some near enough to have used radio for explanation, aye?
You can keep believing in this unsupported attempt to explain the Earth's lottery, or you can pick up one book that has been proven right each and every time: The Bible.
- The big bang was described as "Let there be light".
- It says the Earth "is suspended from nothing".
- Tells of the continental drift
- Makes reference to the world being round, and having daylight and dark at the same time.
- 110 civilizations have a 'flood story' in their ancient histories. It's detailed in the story of Noah.
- Recounts the development of plants, and that matches the fossil record.
Now I don't expect you to believe in God from a single posting. But what I'm asking for is that you don't discount the data source. Just be, shall we say, open-minded?
The website's kinda crappy, but the information is good:
http://doesgodexist.com/