> Sure, the Church of Filet Mignon is bogus - nobody's going to argue with that, I'd imagine.
Here's some more fake stuff: I heard of a church some body made up where you can't spread the cream cheese with the same knife that you cut the bagel with...oh wait, no, that's real. Sometimes, I can't keep the made up ridiculousness separate from the real ridiculousness.
Evolution is not an "origin of life" theory. Evolution describes a stochastic process of change, specialization, and, eventually, speciation. These processes are directly observable in numerous systems, but the concept has its origins (no pun intended) in biology. The goals of intelligent design are similar to evolution in that ID seeks to provide "force" behind biological adaptation but goes further (or perhaps recedes a bit) in that it removes the stochastic component of evolution and replaces it with supernatural powers. An unfortunate byproduct of ID is that it paves the way for creationism. Objectively, however, creationism and evolution are not necessarily at odds as they describe distinct processes.
Most rational people would not want creationists at a government agency endorsing their position. So it makes sense to squelch any formal debate, even if it means offering up a sacrificial lamb, so to speak.
Every day I bus down a street that has giant "LCD" screens with changing pictures. I don't play video games, but if they ever got as bad as that street, my desire to play them would go from some tiny fraction to some new fraction much, much tinier than than it already is.
When I suggested my roommate to switch from AIM to something like Miranda, he wrote me back as if I had suggested he cook his mom in a pot of stew. He is a gamer with a brand new x-box. So there probably is a correlation. These people WANT to bend over. I feels good to them.
Even though you think you are kidding, this really is the issue. Dolphins season ticket holders and Patriots season ticket holders both experienced similar risk when buying their tickets. I infer from your post that the Dolphins are not doing so well this year and so Dolphins ticket holders now hold less valuable tickets. But both teams use state law to fix their prices, which is terribly anti-American and contrary to the principles of free market. Season ticket holders should be able to enjoy *full value* of their tickets because it is *their property* that *they bought*. Season ticket holders should be able to enjoy this value either by attending more exciting games or financially. Such enjoyment should be the reward for the risk they took when buying the tickets. It is patently communist to use state law to lower one's risk as the Patriots are doing here. Such communist practices will actually raise the price of tickets because it removes free market principles Moreover, their use of the state to invade the privacy of the loyal customers who endured risk is reprehensible.
I don't know where to throw this in, but your pointless post seems good enough. On linux versus windows: I have a brother who runs an internet business from home and does better in $$ with his highschool diploma than his PhD brother. He built this business using a windows box--keeping track of *all* his transactions, shipping, *everything* with hotmail. He used photoshop, editpad lite, ws-ftp, and good ole exploder to create his online presence. Very pragmatic, he taught himself only what he needed to know to make money. He wasn't even aware that computers still had places where you could "type-in" commands. Problem is, every vacation I visited him, I went through the same drill to de-brickify (or whatever material is just above brick in functionality) his windoze box: backup-zap-reinstall. Last Christmas vacation, I had enough and told him I'd upgrade him to Ubuntu--"just trust me". Once I got it going, I tweaked his wrt54g for dyndns. He called me a couple of times to get me to add some functionality to his box and I ssh'd to add whatever (for example, put an icon in his toolbar for his floppy drive--yes, the way he is set up, a floppy is integral to his business). This has been since Christmas. I went over this summer and everything was running hunky-dory and full speed without any real input from him as an administrator, and I made barbecue instead of wiping his windoze box--very refreshing. I'm certain he's not a part of the storm bot too (which I understand is made entirely of windows machines, right?--oh no answer to that, hmm...). So whenever a positive article about open source pops up, I skim it because I already have a first hand experience with the joys.
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> Sure, the Church of Filet Mignon is bogus - nobody's going to argue with that, I'd imagine. Here's some more fake stuff: I heard of a church some body made up where you can't spread the cream cheese with the same knife that you cut the bagel with...oh wait, no, that's real. Sometimes, I can't keep the made up ridiculousness separate from the real ridiculousness.
Evolution is not an "origin of life" theory. Evolution describes a stochastic process of change, specialization, and, eventually, speciation. These processes are directly observable in numerous systems, but the concept has its origins (no pun intended) in biology. The goals of intelligent design are similar to evolution in that ID seeks to provide "force" behind biological adaptation but goes further (or perhaps recedes a bit) in that it removes the stochastic component of evolution and replaces it with supernatural powers. An unfortunate byproduct of ID is that it paves the way for creationism. Objectively, however, creationism and evolution are not necessarily at odds as they describe distinct processes.
Most rational people would not want creationists at a government agency endorsing their position. So it makes sense to squelch any formal debate, even if it means offering up a sacrificial lamb, so to speak.
Every day I bus down a street that has giant "LCD" screens with changing pictures. I don't play video games, but if they ever got as bad as that street, my desire to play them would go from some tiny fraction to some new fraction much, much tinier than than it already is.
When I suggested my roommate to switch from AIM to something like Miranda, he wrote me back as if I had suggested he cook his mom in a pot of stew. He is a gamer with a brand new x-box. So there probably is a correlation. These people WANT to bend over. I feels good to them.
I couldn't help reply to someone who stands up for their team so adamantly yet so ANONYMOUSLY.
Even though you think you are kidding, this really is the issue. Dolphins season ticket holders and Patriots season ticket holders both experienced similar risk when buying their tickets. I infer from your post that the Dolphins are not doing so well this year and so Dolphins ticket holders now hold less valuable tickets. But both teams use state law to fix their prices, which is terribly anti-American and contrary to the principles of free market. Season ticket holders should be able to enjoy *full value* of their tickets because it is *their property* that *they bought*. Season ticket holders should be able to enjoy this value either by attending more exciting games or financially. Such enjoyment should be the reward for the risk they took when buying the tickets. It is patently communist to use state law to lower one's risk as the Patriots are doing here. Such communist practices will actually raise the price of tickets because it removes free market principles Moreover, their use of the state to invade the privacy of the loyal customers who endured risk is reprehensible.
I don't know where to throw this in, but your pointless post seems good enough. On linux versus windows: I have a brother who runs an internet business from home and does better in $$ with his highschool diploma than his PhD brother. He built this business using a windows box--keeping track of *all* his transactions, shipping, *everything* with hotmail. He used photoshop, editpad lite, ws-ftp, and good ole exploder to create his online presence. Very pragmatic, he taught himself only what he needed to know to make money. He wasn't even aware that computers still had places where you could "type-in" commands. Problem is, every vacation I visited him, I went through the same drill to de-brickify (or whatever material is just above brick in functionality) his windoze box: backup-zap-reinstall. Last Christmas vacation, I had enough and told him I'd upgrade him to Ubuntu--"just trust me". Once I got it going, I tweaked his wrt54g for dyndns. He called me a couple of times to get me to add some functionality to his box and I ssh'd to add whatever (for example, put an icon in his toolbar for his floppy drive--yes, the way he is set up, a floppy is integral to his business). This has been since Christmas. I went over this summer and everything was running hunky-dory and full speed without any real input from him as an administrator, and I made barbecue instead of wiping his windoze box--very refreshing. I'm certain he's not a part of the storm bot too (which I understand is made entirely of windows machines, right?--oh no answer to that, hmm...). So whenever a positive article about open source pops up, I skim it because I already have a first hand experience with the joys.