There are big differences between an everyday Christian and Fundamentalist; the most showcased of all differences is that a Fundy has to believe that the Bible is the end-all, no mistakes included way of the world. No picky-choosy, ever. In order to do that, they need to believe that the world (and the encompassing universe) is only 6,000 years old. To acknowledge the fact that dinos existed, with its carbon-dated proof is to instantly dispute the Bible's teachings. Therefore, they will dismiss anything, anything, that goes against one iota of the Good Book's teachings, no matter how much proof is given.
My birthday's coming up on Sunday, April 1st. I celebrate it, even though I can't tell you how many times I was subjected to intricate pranks. The worst one? When I was around 9 or 10, my mom came into my room to wake me up and said, "Hey... it snowed a ton last night, and they canceled school," only to leap outta bed, look out my window and see nothing but sunshine and green grass. The scarring. Oh, the scarring... I may as WELL have been executed. Woe is me!
Dinosaurs, for example, call to mind evolution, which might upset fundamentalists; birthdays are not celebrated by Jehovah's Witnesses; and Halloween suggests paganism.
Once again, religious sensitivities prevail over having an eclectic set of experiences in the world around us. And mentioning swimming pools equates to classism? We're asking our kids to not acknowledge things in existence. What next? Closing down art museums because holy-hell, some features paintings with naked people? For real, can we get a grip already? Dinosaurs. They're worried about mentioning. Fucking. Dinosaurs.
There's a lot I don't think is coming out when it comes to how many people are at risk. How I see things, those in charge are keeping things quiet as much as possible to prevent the masses from panicking and fleeing the country. I might be pulling this outta my backside, but I'd bet a few bucks that there's much more danger than what's been reported.
I think there are simply too many things for us to be 100% on. That, to me, is exciting--it allows us to never run out of things to learn about. If we're wrong, we get to keep trying to find out why.
The pictures in the article showing the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the shuttle on its back made my inner LotR-geek scream, "I can't carry your engines... but I can carry you!"
Considering how many misinformed people there are on the internet, there are lots of people who aren't even taking a basic science requirement in school at the time they post random bull in youtube comments, their blogs, their facebooks, etc. all of which, while not an influential public claim to scientific research, creates loads of other spout-off-the-mouth misinformed folk who read the ridiculous e-diatribes. Crap is made up on spot it seems, all reactionary and without an ounce of "I might be wrong..." added. Like I said, not someone from actual influence, but when you have a YT vid of an E! TV feature on Snooki turn into scientific debate, it gets scary. People just like to think "I'm RIGHT!" all the time and will turn opinion into fact (which, I admit, I sometimes fall victim to.:P).
A real scientist, homegrown, self-taught or MIT-learned needs to have a serious sense of humility, because so many conjectures made can turn out the exact opposite of what was theorized.
My stepbrother was born in Kaiserslautern, so he technically has German citizenship. That's it. I'm convincing him that we need to move there, pronto, before my passport expires a month from now.
Love this from the article... The justices' decision sends the case back down for a continuation of the battle between the scientists who believe that genes carrying the secrets of life should not be exploited for commercial gain and companies that argue that a patent is a reward for years of expensive research that moves science forward.
A reward for doing their jobs, what they're paid to do. Isn't that what their paycheck is for, the money they get from the medications/equipment/etc. they develop? Would they seriously stand in the way of a group of lower-on-the-totem-pole scientists for actually coming up with a cure, claiming "No, you can't cure this strain of ovarian cancer, since it involves such-and-such gene--we own that."? The fact that I lean toward 'yea, they would, wouldn't they?' makes me feel ill. We live in a world where we can be sued for posting a kid's birthday party on youtube with the 'Happy Birthday' song in it, and screw us all if we get cancer and can't rely on different, smaller companies that were on the brink of discovering cures but didn't have the dough to fight the C&D orders.
...who LIKES airplane food. Why? Dunno. The only thing I don't like is that out of the two choices they give, the best one is always taken by the time they get to my priceline-cheap-assed seat. If it's 'beef or fish', I resign myself, sadly, to the latter before they even get to me. But on the return flight home on my first international flight, they started handing out these pretty boxes to everyone. I thought they were gifts people could buy, as they'd just mentioned the duty-free abilities we had. But the guy comes over and hands me one. Is it stupid that I got all bright-eyed, saying "What... I get one?" when all it was was a boxed lunch of a sandwich, fruit and this ridiculously-delicious shortbread cookie? I need to get out more, I suppose.
Here's more reasons to pants' me and drag me around the track: that's my STEP-dad. My bio-dad worked for a company that put together parts used for Voyager I. I come from a long line of geeks, both blood relation and married-into-fam.:D
My dad has always been a 3D nutter; he even constructed his own 3D digital camera around ten years ago (consisting of TWO digital cams, measuring the exact distance from each other/shot timing and put onto a homemade wood frame. The images were run through a program on the computer that arranged them to make the pictures viewable through a classic stereoscopic viewer). While he has the new technology, the 3D TV, manufactured digital cams, etc., he has that complex... only it's been a lifetime love affair, organic, geeked-out and really cool to grow up with.:)
I'm unimpressed. To me, magic tricks are supposed to be 'hand-crafted', wherein the person learning the skill has it come from intelligence, predictions and natural sources. As someone else said, this is a form of performance art, not magic or illusion. It's probably cool to watch, but I wouldn't say it's sorcery. It's pressing buttons and standing there moving in time with prerecorded shit.
For anyone arguing that this is better than 'rabbit in the hat' magicians, go watch this.
I've only flown three times in my life, once to New Orleans, twice to England (both Gatwick and Heathrow). I'm not a huge traveler, but I felt some pride in getting on a plane to begin with. SO BRAVE.:P
I'm sure I haven't seen that thing go into action, as I would've jumped into the lap of the person sitting next to me, screaming, "HOLD ME!" LOL.
On my flight back from the UK, every time turbulence hit, I looked around in a panic to everyone else to get my bearings. STILL couldn't help from thinking, "How can you all just SIT there, aren't we about to DIE?!"
Agreed on the take-off/landings bit. Scariest, really, while being really cool.
Though I sit back and half-enjoy, half-panic during take-off an landings and don't WANT to focus on anything but the view (window-seater, exclusively), my brain goes into spaz-mode during flights. I'll go to watch a movie, thinking 'I'll get so engrossed, this 9-hour flight to Heathrow will go faster." Then I skip to an episode of 'Friends'. Get halfway through, switch to ANOTHER movie. Stop, look around to everyone else, be nosy about the magazine someone's reading. If I *had* brought my computer on my last flight as I'd almost done, I'd start off with "I'm gonna write more to my story", then play Plants Vs. Zombies for ten minutes, skipped to Sims to make a character, give up and play a computer-made household, not bother saving the game to get back to my document, close it... this is while I'm on Ativan to keep myself from thinking "WE'RE GONNA DIE!" every time we hit turbulence.
In short (too late), in situations where I'm trying too hard to pass the time, technology's made me ADD.
Couldn't do it; I have a pretty severe phobia of pressurized things. That scene from 'The Abyss', where the villain's ship goes down too far and... *shivers* Everyone at work pokes fun at me every time we have to change the fountain soda machine's carbon tanks, because I take off to the side room to steer clear. I came close to whaling on the bosses' son for taking a nearly-empty one, bring it over where I was and spurt out at me.
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There are big differences between an everyday Christian and Fundamentalist; the most showcased of all differences is that a Fundy has to believe that the Bible is the end-all, no mistakes included way of the world. No picky-choosy, ever. In order to do that, they need to believe that the world (and the encompassing universe) is only 6,000 years old. To acknowledge the fact that dinos existed, with its carbon-dated proof is to instantly dispute the Bible's teachings. Therefore, they will dismiss anything, anything, that goes against one iota of the Good Book's teachings, no matter how much proof is given.
My birthday's coming up on Sunday, April 1st. I celebrate it, even though I can't tell you how many times I was subjected to intricate pranks. The worst one? When I was around 9 or 10, my mom came into my room to wake me up and said, "Hey... it snowed a ton last night, and they canceled school," only to leap outta bed, look out my window and see nothing but sunshine and green grass. The scarring. Oh, the scarring... I may as WELL have been executed. Woe is me!
Dinosaurs, for example, call to mind evolution, which might upset fundamentalists; birthdays are not celebrated by Jehovah's Witnesses; and Halloween suggests paganism.
Once again, religious sensitivities prevail over having an eclectic set of experiences in the world around us. And mentioning swimming pools equates to classism? We're asking our kids to not acknowledge things in existence. What next? Closing down art museums because holy-hell, some features paintings with naked people? For real, can we get a grip already? Dinosaurs. They're worried about mentioning. Fucking. Dinosaurs.
There's a lot I don't think is coming out when it comes to how many people are at risk. How I see things, those in charge are keeping things quiet as much as possible to prevent the masses from panicking and fleeing the country. I might be pulling this outta my backside, but I'd bet a few bucks that there's much more danger than what's been reported.
I dunno. I'd vote Keith Richards.
I think there are simply too many things for us to be 100% on. That, to me, is exciting--it allows us to never run out of things to learn about. If we're wrong, we get to keep trying to find out why.
The pictures in the article showing the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the shuttle on its back made my inner LotR-geek scream, "I can't carry your engines... but I can carry you!"
I'd rather have a few cents chopped from my paycheck for this than everything it's been used for so far. Education > War, in my book.
Considering how many misinformed people there are on the internet, there are lots of people who aren't even taking a basic science requirement in school at the time they post random bull in youtube comments, their blogs, their facebooks, etc. all of which, while not an influential public claim to scientific research, creates loads of other spout-off-the-mouth misinformed folk who read the ridiculous e-diatribes. Crap is made up on spot it seems, all reactionary and without an ounce of "I might be wrong..." added. Like I said, not someone from actual influence, but when you have a YT vid of an E! TV feature on Snooki turn into scientific debate, it gets scary. People just like to think "I'm RIGHT!" all the time and will turn opinion into fact (which, I admit, I sometimes fall victim to. :P).
A real scientist, homegrown, self-taught or MIT-learned needs to have a serious sense of humility, because so many conjectures made can turn out the exact opposite of what was theorized.
The latter. Not sure on every single detail; all I know is that he does have citizenship there.
My stepbrother was born in Kaiserslautern, so he technically has German citizenship. That's it. I'm convincing him that we need to move there, pronto, before my passport expires a month from now.
Love this from the article... The justices' decision sends the case back down for a continuation of the battle between the scientists who believe that genes carrying the secrets of life should not be exploited for commercial gain and companies that argue that a patent is a reward for years of expensive research that moves science forward.
A reward for doing their jobs, what they're paid to do. Isn't that what their paycheck is for, the money they get from the medications/equipment/etc. they develop? Would they seriously stand in the way of a group of lower-on-the-totem-pole scientists for actually coming up with a cure, claiming "No, you can't cure this strain of ovarian cancer, since it involves such-and-such gene--we own that."? The fact that I lean toward 'yea, they would, wouldn't they?' makes me feel ill. We live in a world where we can be sued for posting a kid's birthday party on youtube with the 'Happy Birthday' song in it, and screw us all if we get cancer and can't rely on different, smaller companies that were on the brink of discovering cures but didn't have the dough to fight the C&D orders.
...who LIKES airplane food. Why? Dunno. The only thing I don't like is that out of the two choices they give, the best one is always taken by the time they get to my priceline-cheap-assed seat. If it's 'beef or fish', I resign myself, sadly, to the latter before they even get to me. But on the return flight home on my first international flight, they started handing out these pretty boxes to everyone. I thought they were gifts people could buy, as they'd just mentioned the duty-free abilities we had. But the guy comes over and hands me one. Is it stupid that I got all bright-eyed, saying "What... I get one?" when all it was was a boxed lunch of a sandwich, fruit and this ridiculously-delicious shortbread cookie? I need to get out more, I suppose.
Here's more reasons to pants' me and drag me around the track: that's my STEP-dad. My bio-dad worked for a company that put together parts used for Voyager I. I come from a long line of geeks, both blood relation and married-into-fam. :D
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Speed of light joke. Not a very good one, but...
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My dad has always been a 3D nutter; he even constructed his own 3D digital camera around ten years ago (consisting of TWO digital cams, measuring the exact distance from each other/shot timing and put onto a homemade wood frame. The images were run through a program on the computer that arranged them to make the pictures viewable through a classic stereoscopic viewer). While he has the new technology, the 3D TV, manufactured digital cams, etc., he has that complex... only it's been a lifetime love affair, organic, geeked-out and really cool to grow up with. :)
you may as well go the whole hog and fake every aspect (you could even put in some CGI explosions) .
Micheal Bay magic!
I'm unimpressed. To me, magic tricks are supposed to be 'hand-crafted', wherein the person learning the skill has it come from intelligence, predictions and natural sources. As someone else said, this is a form of performance art, not magic or illusion. It's probably cool to watch, but I wouldn't say it's sorcery. It's pressing buttons and standing there moving in time with prerecorded shit.
For anyone arguing that this is better than 'rabbit in the hat' magicians, go watch this.
Christ, it can see itself arriving.
I've only flown three times in my life, once to New Orleans, twice to England (both Gatwick and Heathrow). I'm not a huge traveler, but I felt some pride in getting on a plane to begin with. SO BRAVE. :P
I'm sure I haven't seen that thing go into action, as I would've jumped into the lap of the person sitting next to me, screaming, "HOLD ME!" LOL.
On my flight back from the UK, every time turbulence hit, I looked around in a panic to everyone else to get my bearings. STILL couldn't help from thinking, "How can you all just SIT there, aren't we about to DIE?!"
Agreed on the take-off/landings bit. Scariest, really, while being really cool.
Though I sit back and half-enjoy, half-panic during take-off an landings and don't WANT to focus on anything but the view (window-seater, exclusively), my brain goes into spaz-mode during flights. I'll go to watch a movie, thinking 'I'll get so engrossed, this 9-hour flight to Heathrow will go faster." Then I skip to an episode of 'Friends'. Get halfway through, switch to ANOTHER movie. Stop, look around to everyone else, be nosy about the magazine someone's reading. If I *had* brought my computer on my last flight as I'd almost done, I'd start off with "I'm gonna write more to my story", then play Plants Vs. Zombies for ten minutes, skipped to Sims to make a character, give up and play a computer-made household, not bother saving the game to get back to my document, close it... this is while I'm on Ativan to keep myself from thinking "WE'RE GONNA DIE!" every time we hit turbulence.
In short (too late), in situations where I'm trying too hard to pass the time, technology's made me ADD.
Hey, I could have an intense phobia of pickles like the guests on Maury.
Couldn't do it; I have a pretty severe phobia of pressurized things. That scene from 'The Abyss', where the villain's ship goes down too far and... *shivers* Everyone at work pokes fun at me every time we have to change the fountain soda machine's carbon tanks, because I take off to the side room to steer clear. I came close to whaling on the bosses' son for taking a nearly-empty one, bring it over where I was and spurt out at me.