except that the netwrok is totally satrated all the time because of everyone running four instant messengers, 5 pay-to-surf scams, and two instances of napster. Talk about bandwith hog.
atleast it's a port. more companies ought to produce their games to linux, even if its only for more money. It's about time Windows lost its role as the dominant gaming platform.
or what about Thor believing in God, or God in the hammer? or the hammer in/.? grow up folks, religion is simply a placebo for the weak minded. why would an all powerful diety (or group thereof) leave no sign for us to know their existance?
probally because we're american bastards who think that if it were not for us there would not be things like electricity, automobiles, freedom, happiness, social order, lunar eclipses, football, the human race, etc, etc, etc
in the same way we don't know that it took billions of years for human life to develop. we have no evidence that the earth, or the solar system has been around for billions of years (do you really believe that carbon dating crap?) or that space-time is linear. clearly what we need is a greater perspective to view things from.
is it just me or did Vogt's last comment, the oune about For a planet in the habitable zone of its star, such moons offer the possibility of liquid water and the eventual emergence of life bother you at all? It certainly sounds like he suggesting that with all the vastness of space there's got to be other life than us. am i the only one who finds this absurd?
has anyone else got the impression that this bit of news is just one more sign that more important things are being ignored? it seems to me that a lot of todays discoveries are given the task of filling some void that really can't filled be searching outwards. I know i'm sounding kooky here but i bet things would be a lot better on earth if there was more focus on internal affairs. Maybe i'm just becomming affected from all the news of protest from the WTO being in town, but this bit of news sure seems quite useless. why don't we save life here on earth before we go looking for it in the reaches of space? do you really think aliens (if there are any, and we happen to cross paths somehow) would come to our rescue? for our sake i'm hoping they won't. Sure the United States was founded on freedom and largely by people who fled from religous persecution in Europe, but why did it become necessary to flee rather than stay and fight and fix the social probles of the 15~1700's? and don't say it can't be done, look what Gandhi did.
other than that, Vogt is going to hell, and i for one am hoping to find that aliens are simply a race of scantly clad teenagers.
you've all seen - i hope - what they did to the first (er... second?) three movies in spaceballs. who's to say these.... new three won't also be spoofed. i might be speaking for myself, but a lesbian version of Rick Moranis can't be good for anyone. and if they really want something homosexual and wussy, why not go for Leo?
considering what chaos goes on during any other ney year's, i think i have to side with the FBI on this one. The last time we had a turn of the century, people thought the world was commming to an end. Lucikly back then the average smoe didn't have access to firearms. Not to say that there are more kooks these days, but it sure feels like today's kooks have a lot more venues to rise terror towards people who don't really want to be terrorized. Why do terrorists/anarchists/whateverists have a higher profile? well.... freedom of speech and press and such. The spread of information inherentally includes the freedom of malicious speech, and threatening press. There are probally thousands of creeps out there waiting for an excuse to blow someone's head off. If we go around saying how much turmoil the turn of the century is going to be, we are creating targets of ourselfs (that is, as non-creeps). I'd rather have a bit of regulation on speculation then get a shank in my side. even so, i'm still gona stay indoors, away from windows with a bat at my side. remember, this is also the turn of the millenium, not just of the century. I will not be surprised to see kooks and religous nuts both get hammered for their radical behaviors. Keep in mind if you feel like replying to this that i do not like what the FBI has done, but it is the lesser, and safer of the two evils.
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they are not 'bugs', they are FEATURES!!!!
yeah but they'd be nekked pink dots
with cool videos here: http://www.mbari.org/ghgases/deep/release.htm
i feel your pain, but in all reality most scientific research is either not marketable, fashionable, or successful.
i feel you pain, but in all reality most scientific research is either not marketable, fashionable or sucessful.
no booze? what's the fun in that?
read you history junior he was a preacher in New England during the reign of the puritans.
I thought the return of Christ is to be a joyous time.... why must we be afraid of it. you're not a very good Johnathan Edwards.
except that the netwrok is totally satrated all the time because of everyone running four instant messengers, 5 pay-to-surf scams, and two instances of napster. Talk about bandwith hog.
atleast it's a port. more companies ought to produce their games to linux, even if its only for more money. It's about time Windows lost its role as the dominant gaming platform.
I can dress myself!
Bravo AC! I commend you for you wit and fabulous use of your privliges as first post.
then why the 2000 years of silence? and don't give the "god's ways are not man's ways" mumbo-jumbo.
but look how many comments are under post #4 nad how many are under post #5.
or what about Thor believing in God, or God in the hammer? or the hammer in /.? grow up folks, religion is simply a placebo for the weak minded. why would an all powerful diety (or group thereof) leave no sign for us to know their existance?
probally because we're american bastards who think that if it were not for us there would not be things like electricity, automobiles, freedom, happiness, social order, lunar eclipses, football, the human race, etc, etc, etc
I'd prefer to run around in gardens naked if i had the choice.
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but why is that progress?
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how can you base growth/advancement/ the betterment of humanity on socio-econimic-political expanion?
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in the same way we don't know that it took billions of years for human life to develop. we have no evidence that the earth, or the solar system has been around for billions of years (do you really believe that carbon dating crap?) or that space-time is linear. clearly what we need is a greater perspective to view things from.
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is it just me or did Vogt's last comment, the oune about For a planet in the habitable zone of its star, such moons offer the possibility of liquid water and the eventual emergence of life bother you at all? It certainly sounds like he suggesting that with all the vastness of space there's got to be other life than us. am i the only one who finds this absurd?
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why can't we all just settle our differences over a feast of Perfectly Normal Beast?
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has anyone else got the impression that this bit of news is just one more sign that more important things are being ignored?
it seems to me that a lot of todays discoveries are given the task of filling some void that really can't filled be searching outwards. I know i'm sounding kooky here but i bet things would be a lot better on earth if there was more focus on internal affairs. Maybe i'm just becomming affected from all the news of protest from the WTO being in town, but this bit of news sure seems quite useless. why don't we save life here on earth before we go looking for it in the reaches of space? do you really think aliens (if there are any, and we happen to cross paths somehow) would come to our rescue? for our sake i'm hoping they won't. Sure the United States was founded on freedom and largely by people who fled from religous persecution in Europe, but why did it become necessary to flee rather than stay and fight and fix the social probles of the 15~1700's? and don't say it can't be done, look what Gandhi did.
other than that, Vogt is going to hell, and i for one am hoping to find that aliens are simply a race of scantly clad teenagers.
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you've all seen - i hope - what they did to the first (er... second?) three movies in spaceballs. who's to say these.... new three won't also be spoofed. i might be speaking for myself, but a lesbian version of Rick Moranis can't be good for anyone. and if they really want something homosexual and wussy, why not go for Leo?
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considering what chaos goes on during any other ney year's, i think i have to side with the FBI on this one. The last time we had a turn of the century, people thought the world was commming to an end. Lucikly back then the average smoe didn't have access to firearms. Not to say that there are more kooks these days, but it sure feels like today's kooks have a lot more venues to rise terror towards people who don't really want to be terrorized. Why do terrorists/anarchists/whateverists have a higher profile? well.... freedom of speech and press and such. The spread of information inherentally includes the freedom of malicious speech, and threatening press. There are probally thousands of creeps out there waiting for an excuse to blow someone's head off. If we go around saying how much turmoil the turn of the century is going to be, we are creating targets of ourselfs (that is, as non-creeps). I'd rather have a bit of regulation on speculation then get a shank in my side. even so, i'm still gona stay indoors, away from windows with a bat at my side. remember, this is also the turn of the millenium, not just of the century. I will not be surprised to see kooks and religous nuts both get hammered for their radical behaviors. Keep in mind if you feel like replying to this that i do not like what the FBI has done, but it is the lesser, and safer of the two evils.
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