How on Earth did they become a "scientific community" on/.?
They became a "scientific community" the opposite way from which some of the people posting here because "Anonymous Cowards"; the flat earthers are "scientific" because they are arguing a point using their subjective "proofs", and a "community" because there are several of them and they tend to work in tandem.
That is different from the "Anonymous Coward" who can NEVER be truly "anonymous" due to his/her IP address, and cannot be considered a "coward" due to the courage displayed by these bold people as they debate points ranging from "frothy piss" to "GNAA" to whether or not Rob Malda really had sex with Bill Gates in a bus station bathroom.
Flat earthers who post "anonymously" must be the most noble folk on the arguably-flat planet.
Huh? I'd sure rather have a hat or a sticker than ride in the same vehicle as some old guy. Have you smelled an old person? It's not pretty; like a combination of mothballs, fried bacon, a Catholic church, talcum powder, and the dust underneath the couch
The smell of a Catholic church is the smell of fear...
I am really sorry to see the archives go. If he doesn't want to continue writing, the man has his reasons. But the archives were full of good material.
If I'm perfectly pleasant and do proselytize--that is, discuss questions of religion with people who disagree seeking to persuade them--can I still avoid the nutjob label?
If not, do I get to call atheists who argue for atheism "nutjobs"?
Both are equally annoying.
There is a relevant truism that I believe wholeheartedly:
If you hear anything about religion from a person the first time you meet them, watch your back; they are greasing you up to be screwed.
Affirmative action is the new racism. It is a very effective method of marginalizing non-whites.
"Your ethnicity is a handicap, so here's your cripple check."
But hey, it is just so easy.
What is wrong with saying "Sorry, folks, but the world is a real place and sometimes fucked up shit happens. Deal with it." and letting the chips fall where they may? Oh, no that would be awful! People coming from the bottom would actually have to work hard, and would have to teach their children to value the things they have. And that wouldn't be easy at all. How terrible!
On the subject of "Native Americans", the idea that indigenous peoples have some "right to live however they want" is a crock of shit. Indigenous peoples, minorities, and majority groups all have the same "right to life" as everyone else: the right to live as they are able to, not as they want to.
I was born in Illinois. I am a Native American. Where's my cripple check? Never mind , keep it. I take pride in working for a living.
So can you.
As a result of affirmative action, "minority" people are becoming less equipped to compete on a level playing field.
In my experience, that usually means that the prospective tenants with poor credit will be required to leave a hefty deposit; quite likely first month, last month, and a security deposit equal to at least half a month's rent.
I use either VMWare and VirtualBox on all 5 of my local machines and 1 dedicated server. Each appears to have strengths in different areas.
For *nix and servers, VMWare works quite a bit better IMO. Drive access and networking both seem quite a bit more stable. I run a VMWare Debian LAMP to mirror my dedicated server for testing, Solaris for coursework, and a few different flavors of BSD just because. I can run as many machines as will fit into available memory with no appreciable hiccups. VirtualBox wouldn't do that, I wasted most of a day duplicating the VMWare setup using VirtualBox and when I started putting it through the paces everything bogged way down.
However, VirtualBox is the only way I would want to run an XP VM. The ability to directly and seamlessly share directories with the host OS (Ubuntu Hardy) is really nice. The only problem I have is occasional problems with reading from the drive, it seems to have trouble with more than 2 file operations at once. It is mainly used for Netobjects Fusion and the occasional MS-type-file that OpenOffice doesn't render properly.
Since they can both run at once, I never have to shut down the VMWare Debian LAMP on the development machine when I fire up the VirtualBox XP instance. My wife uses XP in VirtualBox on her Linux laptop for the occasional ActiveX website and opening MS-type-files that OpenOffice won't, and has no problems with it. The interface is smooth, and with the option for "seamless" integration it really reduces Windows to the role of "just another application running in the taskbar" especially with Alltray and the ability to start the VirtualBox XP VM automagically in the background via the command "alltray VirtualBox -startvm Windows_XP" in a launcher on the taskbar.
Comparing VMWare to VirtualBox is like comparing pilsner to lager. They are both damned good, but sometimes I want one, sometimes the other.
Responding to an anonymous troll is not good for karma, but mine sucks anyway so screw it.
I bought America Deceived off Amazon for less than 10 bucks, shipped. Banned? I don't know about that. [Citation needed.]
It might be more accurate to say that the publisher didn't put out mny copies, and those who have a copy are holding onto it. I know I'm not letting go of my copy, it is an interesting book.
As an aside, the book is pretty good. The writing style was sort of odd but not necessarily bad, just different. It took maybe an hour to read the whole thing.
The book is couched in fiction but hits pretty close to home in quite a few areas. If you take "human energy" and accept it as a metaphor for the work that we, as people, do in our daily lives, the whole thing is spot-on.
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Care to tell me how you'd deal with the epidemic of obesity in the west?
If you would like to know how to combat obesity in the West, I have some keyphrases for you to Google.
high fructose corn syrup secretary of agriculture
aspartame donald rumsfeld
flouridated water obesity
sucralose thyroid gland
saccharin thyroid
thyroid gland function
Pay special attention to High Fructose Corn Syrup. AFAIK it is the quickest way in the world to fuck up your metabolism.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, but I do like to read and almost never watch television.
How on Earth did they become a "scientific community" on /.?
They became a "scientific community" the opposite way from which some of the people posting here because "Anonymous Cowards"; the flat earthers are "scientific" because they are arguing a point using their subjective "proofs", and a "community" because there are several of them and they tend to work in tandem.
That is different from the "Anonymous Coward" who can NEVER be truly "anonymous" due to his/her IP address, and cannot be considered a "coward" due to the courage displayed by these bold people as they debate points ranging from "frothy piss" to "GNAA" to whether or not Rob Malda really had sex with Bill Gates in a bus station bathroom.
Flat earthers who post "anonymously" must be the most noble folk on the arguably-flat planet.
What do you think of Debian?
Baby poop brown is so non-fun that it must be a serious business application.
Baby poop also comes in green and yellow.
Oh shit I hope Intrepid Ibex isn't green and yellow.
Cancelling the bookings may piss of some users, but it makes their point.
I think the word you are looking for is pint .
Huh? I'd sure rather have a hat or a sticker than ride in the same vehicle as some old guy. Have you smelled an old person? It's not pretty; like a combination of mothballs, fried bacon, a Catholic church, talcum powder, and the dust underneath the couch
The smell of a Catholic church is the smell of fear...
O.k., Mr Stallman, it's time for your meds.
So is Al Gore going to charge us for our "hot water footprint" now?
I am really sorry to see the archives go. If he doesn't want to continue writing, the man has his reasons. But the archives were full of good material.
:)
Fortunately the Wayback Machine is on the case
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://williampatry.blogspot.com
I knew who posted the story without looking.
mdawson?
If I'm perfectly pleasant and do proselytize--that is, discuss questions of religion with people who disagree seeking to persuade them--can I still avoid the nutjob label?
If not, do I get to call atheists who argue for atheism "nutjobs"?
Both are equally annoying.
There is a relevant truism that I believe wholeheartedly:
If you hear anything about religion from a person the first time you meet them, watch your back; they are greasing you up to be screwed.
Ninety percent of them stayed in Maryland and Virginia.
Before moving to New Jersey.
So the difference between a "professional webhoster" and an "unprofessional webhoster" is a 15 dollar certificate?
Since when is Israel a democracy?
This goes completely against the American Library Association's issued "Recommended Procedures for Law Enforcement Visits" policy
Uh, American Library Association... lessee... that has the ABC's on it of "ALA" and that's how real Texans know "Allah" is spelled.
Liberries are obviously all terr'rists and need to have all their stuff just took.
You see what I did there? ALA? Allah? Took it all? Rove taught me that.
Well spoken.
Affirmative action is the new racism. It is a very effective method of marginalizing non-whites.
"Your ethnicity is a handicap, so here's your cripple check."
But hey, it is just so easy.
What is wrong with saying "Sorry, folks, but the world is a real place and sometimes fucked up shit happens. Deal with it." and letting the chips fall where they may? Oh, no that would be awful! People coming from the bottom would actually have to work hard, and would have to teach their children to value the things they have. And that wouldn't be easy at all. How terrible!
On the subject of "Native Americans", the idea that indigenous peoples have some "right to live however they want" is a crock of shit. Indigenous peoples, minorities, and majority groups all have the same "right to life" as everyone else: the right to live as they are able to, not as they want to.
I was born in Illinois. I am a Native American. Where's my cripple check? Never mind , keep it. I take pride in working for a living.
So can you.
As a result of affirmative action, "minority" people are becoming less equipped to compete on a level playing field.
It is one of the biggest scams alive today.
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Let the modding-down begin.
Sounds like a good idea. If you filtered out binaries you could fit quite a bit on a 250 gig disk.
A better bet might be for you to use the server for your own use and possibly friends or aquaintances.
In my experience, that usually means that the prospective tenants with poor credit will be required to leave a hefty deposit; quite likely first month, last month, and a security deposit equal to at least half a month's rent.
Mod parent up.
Good call.
In Soviet Russia, the treaty signs YOU!
That is one scary-looking dude... uh, chick... uh...
I use either VMWare and VirtualBox on all 5 of my local machines and 1 dedicated server. Each appears to have strengths in different areas.
For *nix and servers, VMWare works quite a bit better IMO. Drive access and networking both seem quite a bit more stable. I run a VMWare Debian LAMP to mirror my dedicated server for testing, Solaris for coursework, and a few different flavors of BSD just because. I can run as many machines as will fit into available memory with no appreciable hiccups. VirtualBox wouldn't do that, I wasted most of a day duplicating the VMWare setup using VirtualBox and when I started putting it through the paces everything bogged way down.
However, VirtualBox is the only way I would want to run an XP VM. The ability to directly and seamlessly share directories with the host OS (Ubuntu Hardy) is really nice. The only problem I have is occasional problems with reading from the drive, it seems to have trouble with more than 2 file operations at once. It is mainly used for Netobjects Fusion and the occasional MS-type-file that OpenOffice doesn't render properly.
Since they can both run at once, I never have to shut down the VMWare Debian LAMP on the development machine when I fire up the VirtualBox XP instance. My wife uses XP in VirtualBox on her Linux laptop for the occasional ActiveX website and opening MS-type-files that OpenOffice won't, and has no problems with it. The interface is smooth, and with the option for "seamless" integration it really reduces Windows to the role of "just another application running in the taskbar" especially with Alltray and the ability to start the VirtualBox XP VM automagically in the background via the command "alltray VirtualBox -startvm Windows_XP" in a launcher on the taskbar.
Comparing VMWare to VirtualBox is like comparing pilsner to lager. They are both damned good, but sometimes I want one, sometimes the other.
One man's opinion.
Responding to an anonymous troll is not good for karma, but mine sucks anyway so screw it.
I bought America Deceived off Amazon for less than 10 bucks, shipped. Banned? I don't know about that. [Citation needed.]
It might be more accurate to say that the publisher didn't put out mny copies, and those who have a copy are holding onto it. I know I'm not letting go of my copy, it is an interesting book.
As an aside, the book is pretty good. The writing style was sort of odd but not necessarily bad, just different. It took maybe an hour to read the whole thing.
The book is couched in fiction but hits pretty close to home in quite a few areas. If you take "human energy" and accept it as a metaphor for the work that we, as people, do in our daily lives, the whole thing is spot-on.
Ever wonder why Congress as a whole gets shitty approval ratings yet people usually have good things to say about their own Rep?
Does it have anything to do with American Idol or NASCAR? If it doesn't, then I am totally clueless.