A friend of mine broght this too my attention. I don't see your addy. mine is easy enough to figure out. I have automated the process of porn hunting with slrnpull, uudeview, a heck of a lot of scripting, crontab, so screen tickers to tell me how many pics, vids, mp3s, etc have been downloaded. multipal spam removal featurs[0] via the custome scripting and a killfile 3 years in the makeing. If you wan't to see who I did it let me know. I would love to paticipate in a pr0n-HOWTO
[0] I am going to have to refine this a bit because some stupid anima site keeps spaming with randome titles but the same damn images. I thinks some size checking and md5 checking on same sized files should help get ride of that.
plaympeg + aalib = ascii-vision pr0n. I do it all the time. Just make sure you have aalib installed and then compile plaympeg. If you are going to try and watch it from an term then do this $ OLD_DISPLAY=$DISPLAY $ unset DISPLAY $ plaympeg file.mpg # then when you are done $ export DISPLAY=$OLD_DISPLAY
also jeck out jpig on freshmeat.net for pic viewing. there are better options but that one is no fuss.
Ok so here I am with my first moderator points in who knows how long[0] and I wanted to use them so badly on this thread because I am really new to this whole X font thing having spent so much time in a self imposed exile to the command line for two years[1]. So I am back to using X and this font HOWTO sounded like a great idea. Until I started reading it. To paraphrase "Just unpack the src RPM". Well hell I thought HOWTOs were supposed to be distro independent because the HOWTO might outlive the distro and because not every one uses Uber_Distro_GNU/Linux. I fit in to that latter category. I run Slackware and some people run Debian. Now it is possible to unpack that RPM and futs with it for a little while and hope that it works no matter what distro you are on but the HOWTOs are supposed to "speak in a language that everyone can comprehend."[2] One of the tricks to Linux's success is that is very portable to any arch. Shouldn't the HOWTOs be written with the same idea?
I really did want to use those mod points here. Oh well better luck next thread.
[0] remember that 1000 mod pointed post? Well apparently I have served my time. [1] to better learn this thing called Linux better than a GUI will ever allow. [2] no thats not a Living Color song.
We have reached a time in the world where nerds are now asking for fashion advice. I am not sure if this person is so out of touch with reality that he is unaware that he is asking for the blind to lead the blind or if some major paradigm shift has happened in the world that I must have missed while hacking away at my terminal that is lit 24 hours a day by just a red light and has days worth of dishes piled up on the the top of the shelves that house all of my O'Reilly books.
I have not learned Latin. But I have picked up a lot of it from my theology studies. I was reading the Malius Malificarum earlier this year and all the foot notes were still in Latin. Any time I was unsure or questioning the meaning of an important one I would call up experiment-4578[0] as to the meaning of it. Latin is very helpful in the areas of theology, medicine, law, and talking to tall-beautiful-young girls who happen to know it, thus enabling you to balance Geeky/and/ Manly pursuits at the same time.
I have however studied a bit of Ancient Greek[1] and have found even it to be a very nice language to pick up. But once you learn Greek you can no longer say "It is all Greek to me". But every skill acquired means one less thing you can claim ignorance on.
Not that I keep up on these things.
[0] who is fluant in Latin [1] bible debates are much more fun this way.
I have said this once and I will say it again:
In a text browser "[IMG]" is all you see unless you have it set like/. does in which place you see something like "Alt TextAlt Text".
Until all sights are done in Flash I will be content to surf in text
browsers like elinks, links, w3m, and lynx.
But this is just my 542 bytes worth.
If you read the alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ you will see that some of the regs there have added a few new options for installing such as an ftp install. It is all in the FAQ.
I am a notoriously bad speller. Only slightly lesser well known is that you shouldn't trust a slashdot editor in asia^W^W to proof your stories. Well I am looking right now at at google news and I can see the apple/rendezvous slashdot artical as we speak which shows that slashdot is most deffinetly being used as a source. Maybe its time that the slash editors to use a spell checker and a grammer checker since the site will be getting a little more traffic.
No spellcheckers were used in the production of this post to illustrate a point.
Am I the only one that gets the feeling that they will be seeing some of these items at his next [A-Z]* protest? Don't get me wrong. There is something very fun about this in that "we will laugh about this when we are done with our court mandated volunteerism. But for right now I am in a lot of pain. Did they have to use the tear gas/and/ the the nets?" kind of way.
This appears to be the first usable version of:
cat/dev/random | grep metallica
Well I would have used mr bungle[0] in that example. metallica (used to
have) classical orchestration and movements instead of rhythm changes.
one of the mr bungle reviews on amazon says "some listeners might be
shocked to find melodies on this record"
you don't get much more random than that.
I remember reading about something like this earlier, where they had a
circuit that modified itself (it was implemented on an FPGA) and it
was supposed to figure out how to solve a mathematical problem. After
it randomly came up with a "working circuit", the engineers couldn't
debug it -- until they figured out the FPGA circuit as implemented was
making use of stray RF signals to help solve the "problem"
I have solved this problem. Remember that Nine Inch Nails video with the "missing scene" parts? Well grab a silver marker and some nice black Canson paper and make a bunch of cards to put in front of the camera (or make a screen saver version and aim the camera at your display) with things like "www.DMCAsucks.org", "free $hacker", "this is is for your own good", &c. Now after 3 minutes of talking with them via the vidphone you can say "well I have to go and cook something so while we are talking you can watch my fortune mod or you can see the new Britney Spears video. Which one is more interesting than looking at my ugly face?"
Its not so much that a vidphone sucks because its a vidphone with all of its problems. Its that a vidphone sucks because people haven't thought of a way to use it to send more information than a head shot. I am willing to bet that at one point these devices will be discounted when they start embedding Pepsi logos in the corner so that these too can be used to grab eyeballs.
Re:How to run your business into the crapper
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By creative accounting do you mean like when they payed Mariah Carey some 40 million dollars not to produce anything new for them?
1 pound polish kielbasa sausage 3 pounds potatos 1 bell peper, any color 1 yellow/brown onion spice, more on that latter.
Grab a 12" cast iron pan or a casserole dish and a big knife with a sharp edge. I cook for flavor so I will be assuming cast iron will be the pan for me and you.
Take the sausage out of the freazer and grab that sharp knife and start cutting it into disks that are no more than 1/4 of an inch in thickness. Throw it into the pan.
Chop the potatos so that they are just a hair larger than you would like to eat in just one bite. Put them in the pan.
You can chop the onion and bell peper how ever you want but bigger is better and throw those in the pot as well. Now we add spice. There are a number of differnt ways to spice this thing but the favorit is a coarse ground steak seasoning and some garlic salt and black peper. I have also done "everything red", which is to say chille powder, paprika, red peper, curry and what ever else is on hand. And you can even sub out the kielbasa and use italian sausage and herbs for the seasoning.
Toss it all around in the pan so that its good and mixed. Find some foil, a lid or some other non flameable object to cover the pan and stick it in the oven at 425-450 d-f. After about 30 minutes or so its time to go and give it all another toss and take a guess as to how much longer it will be before its done. Depending on the size of the potatoes it will take anywhere from 10 to 20 more minutes.
This dish is best once it had a few days to maranate in the cooling unit for a few days and then sliding it into the radiation device for some warming. But its good the first day as well. And if you are like me you might want to throw some real cheese, not the proccessed American crap, on top of it when you searve it.
Makes 4 super-sized portions or 8 normal ones. Keeps for up to 9 days in the fridge.
Checking
Linux Counter you will find that Slackware runs 12.09% of the registerd boxes. I couldn't find any current numbers indicateing how many netscape users there are. Maybe someone else knows.
cat file
Slackware users know to look below the surface and check the changelog
in slackware-current for information. You can do this with a quick
bash script in cron once a week and read about any changes in your inbox:
# only meagerly tested code that i banged out for this post # covered under GPL #!/bin/bash
HOME=/home/faux DIFF_STORAGE=${HOME}/.diffsave/ MIRROR="http://carroll.cac.psu.edu//pub/linux/\ distributions/slackware/slackware-current/\ Chan geLog.txt" if [ ! -d $DIFF_STORAGE ] ; then mkdir $DIFF_STORAGE fi if [ -d $DIFF_STORAGE ] ; then cd $DIFF_STORAGE mv -f ChangeLog.txt ChangeLog.txt.orig wget ${MIRROR} fi
if [[ -f ChangeLog.txt.orig && -f ChangeLog.txt ]] ; then if [ $(diff ChangeLog.txt ChangeLog.txt.orig 2>/dev/null | wc \ -l | awk -F : '{print$1}') -gt 0 ] ; then diff ChangeLog.txt ChangeLog.txt.orig fi fi
alt.os.linux.slackware has known
that rc1 on was out for a few days now and someone on the group
even makes the effort to make current ISOs on a weekly bases.
Other innovations mentioned in that group are the ability's to easily
install slackware from ftp or DOS.
I looked at the list and while I don't think Blade should be #1 much less even on the list I can say some good things about it.
I don't care what list someone comes out with but as long as it has Brazil on it has got my vote for being at least somewhat well researched. Brazil is 1984 meets Fear and Loathing. The later of which is also by Terry Gilliam. Brazil should be watched many times to fully "get it" and it should not be watched for at least 2 hours after the acid has worn off.
I also saw that #20 was Barbarella. A must see movie. Jane Fonda in the prime of her life in some of the sexiest costumes around. I only own two movies and Barbarella is one of them. I have no VCR to play it on and I have no TV, but I can bring this to a party and pop it in after Army of Darkness and people will sit glued to their chairs.
Hmm. According to current theory there are 13 dimensions. We exist in 4 of them so that leaves 9 left over for all the rest. I think the Star Trek comics have easily surpassed 9 dimensions. Lets not even consider the number of dimensions an plains that The Sandman goes to.
What I have always wondered about is the economics of comic books. Who read the death of Superman? Did you see all of the damage they caused in the final fight between the two of them in a downtown area? I have seen whole urban areas reduced to ruble but I never see any reference to insurances policies against mutants. I never here about how the stock market took a dive while waiting to find out if the world was going to be destroyed. Do sales of tabloids go up if some one claims to be caring $super_hero's baby? Where are all of these headlines? Where are do these Evil_Super_Weapons manufactures get their funding from? How does a contractor hide the one million dollars that it earned from doing a upgrade to the Bat Cave from the IRS without them asking questions? How does Bruce Wayne write off a million here or there for replacement BatMobils? Its things like this that caused me a long time ago to stop reading Super Hero comics. I much prefer the mental drama comics instead of the physical drama ones.
I mentioned The Sandman above. This is a prime example of the way things should be done. When the moon is brought down to earth by one a which for a spell involving the moon goddess, Gaiman makes a point of mentioning that a hurricane altered its course as a result. When Dream goes traveling on earth he uses a old Babylonian god that is an expert at handling transportation issues like customs and knows how to work the system. When Dr. Dee makes the whole world go insane you see bits on TV letting you know that the whole world is indeed going insane and not just the people in the diner. These things aren't hidden in the background never to thought of like they are in most comics for fear that it will ruin suspension of disbelief.
I love comics. I just wish that they didn't exist in a vacuum where not just the rules of physics don't apply but the rules of economics and media aren't even mentioned.
It's all find and nice of them to have ideas about exploring Pluto now but its too late for the fun stuff. If they had launched a craft 5 years ago we would have gotten there in time to witness the changing of the seasons. Now its going to be another 250 years before we get to see both the summer and winter time on the planet. And what a seasonal change it is. In the summer it has a liquid nitrogen atmosphere and in the winter it freezes and falls to the ground. If only they had gotten off their but sooner.
I have the solution to your battery issue. http://home.earthlink.net/~gaite/energy.ht m http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/SolarPow ere dAccessPoint http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/to uring/laptop.h tm http://www.roadwaves.com/toys.html
A year or so ago there were two comercials on TV. One was for a food suplement and the other was for the exact same thing but it was a perscription drug that was FDA approved. So what was the differance? The food suplement was late night infomercial fair with a talk show style and preached on and on about the virtues of the product. The comercial for the durg however came with all of the FDA required listing of side effects like "spontanious explosive diarrhea".
So whats the lesson here? Do your homework. Some herbial things have a real effect while some do not. It isn't until science is applied to it that we can see what works and what doesn't. Alt med to me means either "it doesn't work" or "it's not been proved" ether way I don't want to touch it until it becomes "it works" or "it's fraud".
The parent mentioned high school chemistry. I wish more people had paid attention back then. Because their disire to believe has caused them to be stupid and accept things like "homeopathic" as true even though to accept that means that one must accept that since all of our atoms in our bodie came from some dead star that we have in our bodie all the diluted/homeopathic meds we would ever need to live out life. This is of course false and stupid reasoning. But people, even the educated geeks of/., still think with their harts and not with their minds.
A segfault will convince a programer that a bug exists but for some reason the laws of science are no bearier to killing the flu bug.
I just want to warn anyone who is thinking of reading St Thomas Aquinas that they might want to think of doing something else. The book he is talking about is Summa Theologica. I have read it and I must say that if you love doublthink's and the same thought process that caused Aristotle to say that the Earth had to be the center of the universe becasue it was perfect and all perfect things belong in the midle then you will love this. Otherwise you will find about 200 questions that are asked in the negative form with each of those haveing many more subquestions also phrased in the negative form. i.e. Qustion XXII artical 8 "It seems that predestionation cannot be furthered by prayers of the saints". Then he gives some very well resoned thoughts that back up the question and then he goes and uses extreamly bad logic to refute each of these points.
Its not something I would put on the "must read list"[0]. If you are looking for a good book on the same types of subjects I would recomend Augustine's The City of God which is written less than 5 years after the sacking of Rome by the Goths and is a much better read that wont make you pull your hair out.
While we are at it lets give a plug for Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World which is the antithasis of Summa Theologica.
Disclaimer: I can't spell,
[0] Unless you want to be a very well read athiest or theologin, or in my case both.
Slashdot Mirror
A friend of mine broght this too my attention. I don't see your addy. mine is easy enough to figure out. I have automated the process of porn hunting with slrnpull, uudeview, a heck of a lot of scripting, crontab, so screen tickers to tell me how many pics, vids, mp3s, etc have been downloaded. multipal spam removal featurs[0] via the custome scripting and a killfile 3 years in the makeing. If you wan't to see who I did it let me know.
I would love to paticipate in a pr0n-HOWTO
[0] I am going to have to refine this a bit because some stupid anima site keeps spaming with randome titles but the same damn images. I thinks some size checking and md5 checking on same sized files should help get ride of that.
plaympeg + aalib = ascii-vision pr0n.
I do it all the time. Just make sure you have aalib installed and then compile plaympeg.
If you are going to try and watch it from an term then do this
$ OLD_DISPLAY=$DISPLAY
$ unset DISPLAY
$ plaympeg file.mpg
# then when you are done
$ export DISPLAY=$OLD_DISPLAY
also jeck out jpig on freshmeat.net for pic viewing. there are better options but that one is no fuss.
Ok so here I am with my first moderator points in who knows how
long[0] and I wanted to use them so badly on this thread because I am
really new to this whole X font thing having spent so much time in a
self imposed exile to the command line for two years[1]. So I am back
to using X and this font HOWTO sounded like a great idea. Until I
started reading it. To paraphrase "Just unpack the src RPM". Well
hell I thought HOWTOs were supposed to be distro independent because
the HOWTO might outlive the distro and because not every one uses
Uber_Distro_GNU/Linux. I fit in to that latter category. I run
Slackware and some people run Debian. Now it is possible to unpack
that RPM and futs with it for a little while and hope that it works
no matter what distro you are on but the HOWTOs are supposed to "speak
in a language that everyone can comprehend."[2]
One of the tricks to Linux's success is that is very portable to any
arch. Shouldn't the HOWTOs be written with the same idea?
I really did want to use those mod points here. Oh well better luck
next thread.
[0] remember that 1000 mod pointed post? Well apparently I have
served my time.
[1] to better learn this thing called Linux better than a GUI will
ever allow.
[2] no thats not a Living Color song.
We have reached a time in the world where nerds are now asking for
fashion advice. I am not sure if this person is so out of touch with
reality that he is unaware that he is asking for the blind to lead the
blind or if some major paradigm shift has happened in the world that
I must have missed while hacking away at my terminal that is lit 24
hours a day by just a red light and has days worth of dishes
piled up on the the top of the shelves that house all of my O'Reilly
books.
Can someone try to clear this up for me?
I have not learned Latin. But I have picked up a lot of it from my /and/ Manly pursuits at the same time.
theology studies. I was reading the Malius Malificarum earlier this
year and all the foot notes were still in Latin. Any time I was
unsure or questioning the meaning of an important one I would call up
experiment-4578[0] as to the meaning of it. Latin is very helpful in
the areas of theology, medicine, law, and talking to
tall-beautiful-young girls who happen to know it, thus enabling you to
balance Geeky
I have however studied a bit of Ancient Greek[1] and have found even
it to be a very nice language to pick up. But once you learn Greek
you can no longer say "It is all Greek to me". But every skill
acquired means one less thing you can claim ignorance on.
Not that I keep up on these things.
[0] who is fluant in Latin
[1] bible debates are much more fun this way.
RTFM::Slackware::Beer::Saturday
.. hmm...
Now where have I seen that before?
If you read the alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ you will see that some of the regs there have added a few new options for installing such as an ftp install. It is all in the FAQ.
Faux_Pseudo
Offical a.o.l.s. cult member.
I am a notoriously bad speller. Only slightly lesser well known is that you shouldn't trust a slashdot editor in asia^W^W to proof your stories. Well I am looking right now at at google news and I can see the apple/rendezvous slashdot artical as we speak which shows that slashdot is most deffinetly being used as a source. Maybe its time that the slash editors to use a spell checker and a grammer checker since the site will be getting a little more traffic.
No spellcheckers were used in the production of this post to illustrate a point.
Am I the only one that gets the feeling that they will be seeing some /and/ the the nets?" kind of way.
of these items at his next [A-Z]* protest?
Don't get me wrong. There is something very fun about this in that
"we will laugh about this when we are done with our court mandated
volunteerism. But for right now I am in a lot of pain. Did they have
to use the tear gas
Thats what disposable user accounts are for.
Well no wonder you are flunking.
/home/faux/url.pl line 7, near "&&," /home/faux/url.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
syntax error at
Execution of
Well I would have used mr bungle[0] in that example. metallica (used to have) classical orchestration and movements instead of rhythm changes.
one of the mr bungle reviews on amazon says "some listeners might be shocked to find melodies on this record"
you don't get much more random than that.
[0] a mike patton project like faith no more
I remember reading about something like this earlier, where they had a circuit that modified itself (it was implemented on an FPGA) and it was supposed to figure out how to solve a mathematical problem. After it randomly came up with a "working circuit", the engineers couldn't debug it -- until they figured out the FPGA circuit as implemented was making use of stray RF signals to help solve the "problem"
You mean this article?
I have solved this problem. Remember that Nine Inch Nails video with
the "missing scene" parts? Well grab a silver marker and some nice
black Canson paper and make a bunch of cards to put in front of the
camera (or make a screen saver version and aim the camera at your
display) with things like "www.DMCAsucks.org", "free $hacker", "this
is is for your own good", &c. Now after 3 minutes of talking with
them via the vidphone you can say "well I have to go and cook
something so while we are talking you can watch my fortune mod or you
can see the new Britney Spears video. Which one is more interesting
than looking at my ugly face?"
Its not so much that a vidphone sucks because its a vidphone with all
of its problems. Its that a vidphone sucks because people haven't
thought of a way to use it to send more information than a head shot.
I am willing to bet that at one point these devices will be discounted
when they start embedding Pepsi logos in the corner so that these too
can be used to grab eyeballs.
By creative accounting do you mean like when they payed Mariah Carey some 40 million dollars not to produce anything new for them?
1 pound polish kielbasa sausage
3 pounds potatos
1 bell peper, any color
1 yellow/brown onion
spice, more on that latter.
Grab a 12" cast iron pan or a casserole dish and a big knife with a
sharp edge. I cook for flavor so I will be assuming cast iron will be
the pan for me and you.
Take the sausage out of the freazer and grab that sharp knife and
start cutting it into disks that are no more than 1/4 of an inch in
thickness. Throw it into the pan.
Chop the potatos so that they are just a hair larger than you would
like to eat in just one bite. Put them in the pan.
You can chop the onion and bell peper how ever you want but bigger is
better and throw those in the pot as well.
Now we add spice. There are a number of differnt ways to spice this
thing but the favorit is a coarse ground steak seasoning and some
garlic salt and black peper. I have also done "everything red", which
is to say chille powder, paprika, red peper, curry and what ever else
is on hand. And you can even sub out the kielbasa and use italian
sausage and herbs for the seasoning.
Toss it all around in the pan so that its good and mixed. Find some
foil, a lid or some other non flameable object to cover the pan and
stick it in the oven at 425-450 d-f. After about 30 minutes or so
its time to go and give it all another toss and take a guess as to how
much longer it will be before its done. Depending on the size of the
potatoes it will take anywhere from 10 to 20 more minutes.
This dish is best once it had a few days to maranate in the cooling unit for
a few days and then sliding it into the radiation device for some
warming. But its good the first day as well. And if you are like me
you might want to throw some real cheese, not the proccessed American
crap, on top of it when you searve it.
Makes 4 super-sized portions or 8 normal ones. Keeps for up to 9 days
in the fridge.
Checking Linux Counter you will find that Slackware runs 12.09% of the registerd boxes. I couldn't find any current numbers indicateing how many netscape users there are. Maybe someone else knows.
alt.os.linux.slackware has known that rc1 on was out for a few days now and someone on the group even makes the effort to make current ISOs on a weekly bases. Other innovations mentioned in that group are the ability's to easily install slackware from ftp or DOS.
I looked at the list and while I don't think Blade should be #1 much less even on the list I can say some good things about it.
I don't care what list someone comes out with but as long as it has Brazil on it has got my vote for being at least somewhat well researched. Brazil is 1984 meets Fear and Loathing. The later of which is also by Terry Gilliam. Brazil should be watched many times to fully "get it" and it should not be watched for at least 2 hours after the acid has worn off.
I also saw that #20 was Barbarella. A must see movie. Jane Fonda in the prime of her life in some of the sexiest costumes around. I only own two movies and Barbarella is one of them. I have no VCR to play it on and I have no TV, but I can bring this to a party and pop it in after Army of Darkness and people will sit glued to their chairs.
Hmm. According to current theory there are 13 dimensions. We exist
in 4 of them so that leaves 9 left over for all the rest. I think the
Star Trek comics have easily surpassed 9 dimensions. Lets not even
consider the number of dimensions an plains that The Sandman goes to.
What I have always wondered about is the economics of comic books. Who
read the death of Superman? Did you see all of the damage they caused
in the final fight between the two of them in a downtown area? I have
seen whole urban areas reduced to ruble but I never see any reference
to insurances policies against mutants. I never here about how the
stock market took a dive while waiting to find out if the world was
going to be destroyed. Do sales of tabloids go up if some one claims
to be caring $super_hero's baby? Where are all of these headlines?
Where are do these Evil_Super_Weapons manufactures get their funding
from? How does a contractor hide the one million dollars that it
earned from doing a upgrade to the Bat Cave from the IRS without them
asking questions? How does Bruce Wayne write off a million here or
there for replacement BatMobils?
Its things like this that caused me a long time ago to stop reading
Super Hero comics. I much prefer the mental drama comics instead of
the physical drama ones.
I mentioned The Sandman above. This is a prime example of the way
things should be done. When the moon is brought down to earth by one
a which for a spell involving the moon goddess, Gaiman makes a
point of mentioning that a hurricane altered its course as a result.
When Dream goes traveling on earth he uses a old Babylonian god that
is an expert at handling transportation issues like customs and knows
how to work the system. When Dr. Dee makes the whole world go insane
you see bits on TV letting you know that the whole world is indeed
going insane and not just the people in the diner. These things
aren't hidden in the background never to thought of like they are in
most comics for fear that it will ruin suspension of disbelief.
I love comics. I just wish that they didn't exist in a vacuum where
not just the rules of physics don't apply but the rules of economics
and media aren't even mentioned.
It's all find and nice of them to have ideas about exploring Pluto now but its too late for the fun stuff. If they had launched a craft 5 years ago we would have gotten there in time to witness the changing of the seasons.
Now its going to be another 250 years before we get to see both the summer and winter time on the planet. And what a seasonal change it is. In the summer it has a liquid nitrogen atmosphere and in the winter it freezes and falls to the ground.
If only they had gotten off their but sooner.
I have the solution to your battery issue.t mw ere dAccessPointo uring/laptop.h tm
http://home.earthlink.net/~gaite/energy.h
http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/SolarPo
http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/t
http://www.roadwaves.com/toys.html
Have fun.
A year or so ago there were two comercials on TV. One was for a food suplement and the other was for the exact same thing but it was a perscription drug that was FDA approved. So what was the differance? The food suplement was late night infomercial fair with a talk show style and preached on and on about the virtues of the product. The comercial for the durg however came with all of the FDA required listing of side effects like "spontanious explosive diarrhea".
/., still think with their harts and not with their minds.
So whats the lesson here? Do your homework. Some herbial things have a real effect while some do not. It isn't until science is applied to it that we can see what works and what doesn't. Alt med to me means either "it doesn't work" or "it's not been proved" ether way I don't want to touch it until it becomes "it works" or "it's fraud".
The parent mentioned high school chemistry. I wish more people had paid attention back then. Because their disire to believe has caused them to be stupid and accept things like "homeopathic" as true even though to accept that means that one must accept that since all of our atoms in our bodie came from some dead star that we have in our bodie all the diluted/homeopathic meds we would ever need to live out life. This is of course false and stupid reasoning. But people, even the educated geeks of
A segfault will convince a programer that a bug exists but for some reason the laws of science are no bearier to killing the flu bug.
I just want to warn anyone who is thinking of reading St Thomas Aquinas that they might want to think of doing something else. The book he is talking about is Summa Theologica. I have read it and I must say that if you love doublthink's and the same thought process that caused Aristotle to say that the Earth had to be the center of the universe becasue it was perfect and all perfect things belong in the midle then you will love this. Otherwise you will find about 200 questions that are asked in the negative form with each of those haveing many more subquestions also phrased in the negative form. i.e. Qustion XXII artical 8 "It seems that predestionation cannot be furthered by prayers of the saints". Then he gives some very well resoned thoughts that back up the question and then he goes and uses extreamly bad logic to refute each of these points.
Its not something I would put on the "must read list"[0]. If you are looking for a good book on the same types of subjects I would recomend Augustine's The City of God which is written less than 5 years after the sacking of Rome by the Goths and is a much better read that wont make you pull your hair out.
While we are at it lets give a plug for Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World which is the antithasis of Summa Theologica.
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[0] Unless you want to be a very well read athiest or theologin, or in my case both.