and I can't wait for them to update FORTRAN. Oh, for the days of punch cards!
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At some point you will have to realize I AM mocking you. UFO's are NOT flying saucers inhabited by creatures from another star system, dimension, beneath the sea, or our future. Your increasingly long response are only further evidence that you have clung to a particular belief and like creationists look for evidence to support it, however tenuous it may be. You seem immune to critical thinking and rationality. Just because an argument is logical doesn't make it true. For example:
1. Ten percent of all car thieves are left-handed.
2. All polar bears are left-handed.
3. If your car is stolen, there's a 10 percent
chance it was taken by a polar bear.
It is clear that you will continue to believe pseudoscience and nothing I can say will dissuade you. Hence the mocking. You use the trappings of science but it isn't science. I wish you further luck in persuading people more gullible than I.
Also I wouldn't mind being forced to watch a commercial before accessing each and every wikipedia article. Oh, and show animated gifs of chicks with bouncing jugs in the sidebars.
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but I do know you are mistaken about astronomers not reporting UFO's. I would suggest that you might do better research before making any more such bold and misleading statements, (like your previous comments regarding photography).
Talk about pot calling the kettle black. I suggest you read what reasonable people like Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, or the folks at The Skeptic have to say. Mustn't forget to include Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy take on UFO nuttiness.
There is a difference between scientific ignorance and gullible ignorance. I know I don't know anything and am willing to be educated, but it doesn't mean I have to take what people say at face value, and if I learn it's bullshit, I'll call it bullshit. Especially UFOs as alien spacecraft bullshit. Having an open mind doesn't mean a lack of critical thinking.
If there really are aliens visiting earth in flying saucers, why then, and I'm really trying to understand this, why then would someone travel, perhaps, thousands of light years to abduct some stranger on a farm or isolated spot and give him an anal probe?
And yet despite this reality of photography, there have been some quite good shots of UFO's
If they are indeed unidentified flying objects as opposed to flying saucers or some other kind of alien spacecraft. There are thousands and thousands of trained observers all around the world called amateur and professional astronomers. And they have yet to report any flying saucers, any little green men from outer space.
There are things scientists don't understand yet like the relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity, dark matter and negative energy. Heck, we still don't understand gravity. We can observe its effects and make some pretty darn good calculations, even send spacecraft to Saturn and land on Titan.
There may indeed be life elsewhere in the Universe. We may even find it on Mars or Europa. There indeed may be intelligent spacefaring and/or communicating life in Universe and we may discover them in the next few centuries. But it it absolute total bullshit that any of these so-called UFO's are piloted by fucking aliens from another planet/dimension/future. The burden of proof is on the UFOs-as-flying-saucer-alien-spacecraft is on the proponents. And nothing you've said constitute proof. It might marginally and I do mean marginally warrant further study. It's easy to prove an object is unidentified: "What the heck is that?" "I don't know." "I think it's a duck." "You sure?" "See em wangs." "Well, I be." "Em are ducks."
then it got closer and turned out to be a 737. The only flying saucers I've seen were on TV and in the theater. What I don't understand is this: how is it possible with the advances in film and video photography over the past forty years we still have fuzzy video and fuzzy pictures of flying saucers? You'd think the flying saucer proponents would learn how to use a goddamn camera properly by now. God, what a bunch of gullible morons and fakers!
Indiana Jones finds out he's been cloned and now there are 47 copies but they all have different names: California Jones, Idaho Jones, Texas Jones, Arkansas Jones, Utah Jones, Rhode Island Jones, etc. No Hawaii or Alaska Jones because they aren't states yet when this is set. They are all evil so he has to track them down and bring them to justice.
It's not about creating prion-free cattle. It's about cheap meat. The meat industry is all about high density feedlots for cattle, pigs, and chickens. It's all about providing you with the cheapest meat, not necessarily the safest for you or the meat animals. The industry players want you to think that cattle spend all of their days frollicking on the range and munching on grass instead of being cooped up in their own shit and forced to eat antibiotics so they can eat corn which they did not evolve to eat. I'm a devout omnivore and won't stop eating meat, so those more rabidly zealous vegans can get stuffed. I can and will however eat safer and better raised meat.
Read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. It has a fascinating account of Joel Salatin and his Polyface Farms. You can have a win-win situation between raising meat animals and the enviroment. Finally, everything you ever wanted to know about high density feedlots can be found in cartoon format at The Meatrix.
I wonder if Helen Keller would be better at this than the average person.
I would imagine that her other senses would've compensated: smell,touch, taste. It would be interesting to see an MRI of such a person to see which areas of the brain are more active than a normal person's.
I heard about this on NPR yesterday. The researcher said we smelled in stereo. They proved it by plugging up one nostril at a time and then attaching a device so that both nostrils could smell in mono. The test subjects took far longer to find stuff. He also said one people got attuned to smelling a trail they were limited to the speed at which they could crawl.
Richard Feynman did a number of smell experiments with his first wife, Arlene. He would leave the room and she would handle bottles and books then he'd return and see if he could determine which ones she'd touched. He was able to find them. It's detailed in Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman.
There! And I didn't make any smelling cracks about misunderestimating or Uranus or "once you get past the smell it tastes all right".
Plato putting words in Socrates mouth had this to say in Phaedrus about how the art of writing destroys memory. So this is nothing new. I think this GPS destroys memory story breaks the record for old news, 2,400 years old:
Socrates: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To him came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts.
But when they came to etters (i.e–writing), This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit.
Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
10. tasers
9. rubber hose to the feet
8. strapped to a chair being forced to watch "American Idol" ala A Clockwork Orange
7. millimeter wave device
6. extremely bright lights
5. sensory deprivation
4. At full volume playing Aqua's "Barbie Girl" over and over and over and over again.
3. IRS audit
2. waterboarding
Is it really that difficult to register with a throwaway email account?
I don't want to register. When there are dozens of other news sites that don't require registration that post the same story why make us go through unecessary extra steps? If NYTimes has an exclusive and I really want to read it, I'll use bugmenot.com. Oh and it works great for Youtube.com as well.
I'll bet there's nothing keeping you from placing all those pennies on railroad tracks and having a train stomp those suckers flat.
And stop linking New York Times, you [expletive deleted]s. I don't want to fucking register nor do I want to have to take the goddamn time to go to bugmenot.com to get a NY Times uid & pwd. Here's some links that don't require registration to read:
here,
here,
here,
and
here.
Anyway, now that they said don't melt those coins, guess what they are going to do? Melt those coins.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before. Maybe this is something that belongs on the semantic web.
It doesn't matter what any lawyers or anti-gun nuts argue, there will always be a hardcore group that says "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands." Just make sure you aren't caught in the crossfire when that day comes.
Calling it a conflict-of-interest is really a matter of semantics. The conflict arises when people see the words semantic web. They are someowhat interested but but are conflicted in not admitting they don't know what the word semantics means and are too embarrassed to look it up.
I use the Firefox extensiont Flashblock. It's a lifesaver. You an allow flash or not. Since so many ads use flash it's all I need. I'd given up on other ad blocking stuff except for Firefox's pop up blocker. I can ignore the banner ads that are not flash.
I hope this gets fixed soon. Because now when you search for talk.origins the first thing that pops up is true.origins. www.trueorigin.com which I won't link to. They are a bunch of willfully ignorant creationists. Sorry that was redundant.
Anyway, here's the proper link http://www.talkorigins.org/ if you can't find it with google. I occassionally use other search engines like AllTheWeb if I can't find what I'm looking for with google.
Americans are wasting a billion gallons of fuel per year by being so fat.
Lose some weight. It's good for you and it's good for the environment.
Those asses could be turned into assets. Since fat can be turned in biodiesel, they could use liposuctioned fat. So instead of driving around on our fat asses we could drive around on our assfat.
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and I can't wait for them to update FORTRAN. Oh, for the days of punch cards!
It is clear that you will continue to believe pseudoscience and nothing I can say will dissuade you. Hence the mocking. You use the trappings of science but it isn't science. I wish you further luck in persuading people more gullible than I.
Also I wouldn't mind being forced to watch a commercial before accessing each and every wikipedia article. Oh, and show animated gifs of chicks with bouncing jugs in the sidebars.
but I do know you are mistaken about astronomers not reporting UFO's. I would suggest that you might do better research before making any more such bold and misleading statements, (like your previous comments regarding photography).
Talk about pot calling the kettle black. I suggest you read what reasonable people like Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, or the folks at The Skeptic have to say. Mustn't forget to include Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy take on UFO nuttiness.
There is a difference between scientific ignorance and gullible ignorance. I know I don't know anything and am willing to be educated, but it doesn't mean I have to take what people say at face value, and if I learn it's bullshit, I'll call it bullshit. Especially UFOs as alien spacecraft bullshit. Having an open mind doesn't mean a lack of critical thinking.
If there really are aliens visiting earth in flying saucers, why then, and I'm really trying to understand this, why then would someone travel, perhaps, thousands of light years to abduct some stranger on a farm or isolated spot and give him an anal probe?
And yet despite this reality of photography, there have been some quite good shots of UFO's
If they are indeed unidentified flying objects as opposed to flying saucers or some other kind of alien spacecraft. There are thousands and thousands of trained observers all around the world called amateur and professional astronomers. And they have yet to report any flying saucers, any little green men from outer space.
There are things scientists don't understand yet like the relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity, dark matter and negative energy. Heck, we still don't understand gravity. We can observe its effects and make some pretty darn good calculations, even send spacecraft to Saturn and land on Titan.
There may indeed be life elsewhere in the Universe. We may even find it on Mars or Europa. There indeed may be intelligent spacefaring and/or communicating life in Universe and we may discover them in the next few centuries. But it it absolute total bullshit that any of these so-called UFO's are piloted by fucking aliens from another planet/dimension/future. The burden of proof is on the UFOs-as-flying-saucer-alien-spacecraft is on the proponents. And nothing you've said constitute proof. It might marginally and I do mean marginally warrant further study. It's easy to prove an object is unidentified: "What the heck is that?" "I don't know." "I think it's a duck." "You sure?" "See em wangs." "Well, I be." "Em are ducks."
then it got closer and turned out to be a 737. The only flying saucers I've seen were on TV and in the theater. What I don't understand is this: how is it possible with the advances in film and video photography over the past forty years we still have fuzzy video and fuzzy pictures of flying saucers? You'd think the flying saucer proponents would learn how to use a goddamn camera properly by now. God, what a bunch of gullible morons and fakers!
Most Wal Mart customers don't read much anyway. So for them it's not a problem.
Indiana Jones finds out he's been cloned and now there are 47 copies but they all have different names: California Jones, Idaho Jones, Texas Jones, Arkansas Jones, Utah Jones, Rhode Island Jones, etc. No Hawaii or Alaska Jones because they aren't states yet when this is set. They are all evil so he has to track them down and bring them to justice.
It's not about creating prion-free cattle. It's about cheap meat. The meat industry is all about high density feedlots for cattle, pigs, and chickens. It's all about providing you with the cheapest meat, not necessarily the safest for you or the meat animals. The industry players want you to think that cattle spend all of their days frollicking on the range and munching on grass instead of being cooped up in their own shit and forced to eat antibiotics so they can eat corn which they did not evolve to eat. I'm a devout omnivore and won't stop eating meat, so those more rabidly zealous vegans can get stuffed. I can and will however eat safer and better raised meat.
Read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma . It has a fascinating account of Joel Salatin and his Polyface Farms. You can have a win-win situation between raising meat animals and the enviroment. Finally, everything you ever wanted to know about high density feedlots can be found in cartoon format at The Meatrix.
I'm sure that it'll go back down to normal levels real soon now. Why heck, it may even withdraw from the Internets.
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My God! It's full of tubes!
I heard about this on NPR yesterday. The researcher said we smelled in stereo. They proved it by plugging up one nostril at a time and then attaching a device so that both nostrils could smell in mono. The test subjects took far longer to find stuff. He also said one people got attuned to smelling a trail they were limited to the speed at which they could crawl.
Richard Feynman did a number of smell experiments with his first wife, Arlene. He would leave the room and she would handle bottles and books then he'd return and see if he could determine which ones she'd touched. He was able to find them. It's detailed in Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman .
There! And I didn't make any smelling cracks about misunderestimating or Uranus or "once you get past the smell it tastes all right".
10. tasers
9. rubber hose to the feet
8. strapped to a chair being forced to watch "American Idol" ala A Clockwork Orange
7. millimeter wave device
6. extremely bright lights
5. sensory deprivation
4. At full volume playing Aqua's "Barbie Girl" over and over and over and over again.
3. IRS audit
2. waterboarding
and the number one tortue tech concept for 2007:
1. the amazing electrical testicle machine
Is it really that difficult to register with a throwaway email account?
I don't want to register. When there are dozens of other news sites that don't require registration that post the same story why make us go through unecessary extra steps? If NYTimes has an exclusive and I really want to read it, I'll use bugmenot.com. Oh and it works great for Youtube.com as well.
But what will the strippers do? Think of the strippers!
Umm, put a coin in the slot?
I'll bet there's nothing keeping you from placing all those pennies on railroad tracks and having a train stomp those suckers flat.
And stop linking New York Times, you [expletive deleted]s. I don't want to fucking register nor do I want to have to take the goddamn time to go to bugmenot.com to get a NY Times uid & pwd. Here's some links that don't require registration to read: here , here , here , and here . Anyway, now that they said don't melt those coins, guess what they are going to do? Melt those coins.
I just watched that Emerald Nuts commercial and all I can say is: What the fuck was that?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you to find that deceptive advertising is going on. I mean it's not like they, as in the ubiquitious they, think people are malleable, easily led astray, brainwashed, etc, etc.
De Beers has the longest running viral marketing campaign in history. It started in the 1880's and is still going strong today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before. Maybe this is something that belongs on the semantic web.
It doesn't matter what any lawyers or anti-gun nuts argue, there will always be a hardcore group that says "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands." Just make sure you aren't caught in the crossfire when that day comes.
Calling it a conflict-of-interest is really a matter of semantics. The conflict arises when people see the words semantic web. They are someowhat interested but but are conflicted in not admitting they don't know what the word semantics means and are too embarrassed to look it up.
that I really didn't kill that 30th level troll and I'm not really a half-elf archer with a pet dragon?
I use the Firefox extensiont Flashblock. It's a lifesaver. You an allow flash or not. Since so many ads use flash it's all I need. I'd given up on other ad blocking stuff except for Firefox's pop up blocker. I can ignore the banner ads that are not flash.
I hope this gets fixed soon. Because now when you search for talk.origins the first thing that pops up is true.origins. www.trueorigin.com which I won't link to. They are a bunch of willfully ignorant creationists. Sorry that was redundant.
Anyway, here's the proper link http://www.talkorigins.org/ if you can't find it with google. I occassionally use other search engines like AllTheWeb if I can't find what I'm looking for with google.
And there's nothing on the Talk.origins news page about the delisting.