You're right on. I'd refine it a little to say these religions aren't even about spiritual things, but instead the desperate desire on the adherent's part to FEEL SPECIAL. That's all it ever comes down to. "The world can't be round! And it certainly doesn't orbit other bodies, we're the center of the universe!" is the same as "Humans didn't evolve from nothing, hell no. The greatest being in existence Created us in His Own Image after practicing on all those dumb animals and fish and dinosaurs etc. We're His Chosen People." Special. Funny how these religions that espouse humility don't seem to work most of the time. Except for buddhism.
Just because you believe there's a god out there has nothing to do with the point. Creationism is about believing in the God of Abraham, and that life on earth originated literally as it is stated in Genesis. So quit bitching.
Really! what is it with these naysaying fucks?
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Guitar Hero II Announced
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I can't believe how negative these fucking crybaby posters are on here. There's NO FUCKING WAY I'd put an hour into practice on a real guitar and be able to play a recognizable rendition of Bark at the Moon! What kind of a moron doesn't get this concept? And whatever happened to shutting the fuck up if you don't have something positive, or at least relevant to say? I've had friends who COULD play guitar try Guitar Hero, and they do lousy. It's a game, shithead.
Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Jeez, people, if you're going to be anal about other people's use of words, make FOR FUCKING SURE yours are correct.
>Cant guess why this did not come as an evolutionary advantage though? Just one light sensing organ in the back of the head would have saved quite a bit of lives indeed.
Why? Why is obvious: it's unnecessary. Humans and other primates have binocular vision, probably originally to help in brachiation, moving from tree limb to tree limb. No big cats up there jumping on our backs, so unnecessary to have eyes in the back of our heads. Then when we came down from the trees, we lived mostly in open savannha. Leopards living up in trees might mean we'd have to have eyes in the top of our heads, but we were busy using binocular vision to capture our own prey. And by now it should be pretty obvious to everyone that humans are the top predator in the world. Hell, we've got our very own Mass Extinction going! Eyes in the back of our heads? Who needs 'em!
>I believe this has already been taken care of... It's called the Dewey Decimal System.
Oh, the joys of being at the top and all those desperate modders just itching to dump their mod points before they're gone. Back to topic, no-one's going to use dewey decimal outside of an institutional setting, that's just dumb. How about categorizing by subject and author? Put all the books on math & physics on one shelf, then alphabetize that shelf by author. Take all the romance novels and put them in the guest bedroom, and do the guests a favor and put all the ones with explicit sex scenes in one place for easy browsing.
>the crossword was all that kept me from sleeping if I had a laptop back then I would have used it for solitaire.
Crossword puzzles make you smart! Solitaire turns your brain off. You should thank your lucky stars you didn't have a laptop then. You are smart now.:D
Who knew trolls fed off the glass tit? And your vocabulary obviously hasn't suffered from all those years of Saved by the Bell and Who's the Boss. That's hilarious. I bet you beat off to Seinfeld. Kramer/George facfic?
Cayenne peppers have 30,000 - 50,000 Scoville units. Pure capsaicin is 16,000,000 scoville units. You're full of hot shit. OTOH, I find nothing to contradict your other comments, which seem quite interesting.
http://members.visi.net/~mandy/pepguide.html has a nice pictorial guide http://www.chemsoc.org/exemplarchem/entries/mbellr inger/scoville.htm has another decent chart. Anyone can google capsaicin or "scoville units" for tons of info.
You people don't need to be such fucking assholes. Just because the parent can't spell doesn't mean he's an idiot (it's often a good clue, but not always). He's also wrong about what separates us from other lifeforms. Ethics obviously ain't it, baby. We're far less ethical than many other creatures. The real difference, as I see it, is our ability to act in accord with something BESIDES our baser natures, and look to see if we're causing harm. If we say "Gee, does cutting open a pupa and shoving a computer chip in there harm the pupa? If so, maybe I won't do it." Or even saying "No, it doesn't harm the pupa much, but do we want to take another living creature and have it jumping around like a puppet, in opposition to its nature?" Only a fucking scumbag would do such a thing. Good riddance when we kill our species off, I say.
The article says they're using CGI for backgrounds and such. The Henson shop (obviously) would be doing the main characters, though maybe that Ifrit (character made of fire) might have to be CG.
The grandparent is right, Genndy Tartakovsky DOES kick ass. I haven't seen Clone Wars, but Samurai Jack is the best animation series on american TV since the original The Tick. Let's face it, anyone who can create a gigantic bellowing snaggle-toothed scotsman with a machine gun for a leg _deserves_ a freaking Emmy or three.
Incontheeeeevable! Seriously, if someone wants to like one good movie more than another, who cares? Mind your own business, retards. It's not like someone is saying some obvious POS like Event Horizon was better than say, Forbidden Planet or some other classic great SF film.
I'm afraid you're wrong, at least in the USA. Most christians in the US according to numerous surveys published in the last couple years (google the words "americans believe" and watch with horror) say most US christians believe the whole Genesis bible story, and the stuff the Pope Gregory made up to go along with it (the 6000 year age of the earth comes from his estimating the age based on the 'x begat y' sections of the bible). And of course as more and more assaults are committed on the bastions of science, the numbers of flat-earthers increase.
Likewise, the grandparent's argument implies there IS a reason for suffering. Western religions are populated by such a bunch of crybaby four year olds.
Suffering just is. There's always something. The buddha noticed it two hundred years BC and noticed it's inescapable. But in the east, they don't assume some single creature is doing it deliberately; after all, it's not like it really matters.
He also noticed WE make the suffering worse but sitting there bitching about how wrong and unfair it all is, and going "Why? Why? Why?".
Thirdly he noticed we can make it quite a bit better.
Last he said the way to make it better is to quit wishing for things to be different. Once we give up these desires, suffering vanishes.
Westerners should think about these ideas more. At least it would be quieter.
It's funny how people get this idea that since we can farm land-dwelling animals (cows, alligators, crocodiles, swinge) that we can also do the exact same thing with animals that dwell in the oceans (whales, blue fin tuna). Come ON, boys! Get your head out. The environments are comletely different, as are the animals in question.
Jeez you guys! What a bunch of ignoramuses! Don't ANY of you know about the whaling industry or history or maybe read Moby Dick in school? Gods....
The whole reason whales have been hunted was to rip stuff out of 'em, one of the ingredients being ambergris. And yeah, there are still factory ships out there with exploding harpoons, just waiting to be put back into commission. While modern technology has replaced whale oil, whalebone corset stays, and most of the scrimshaw industry, there are still plenty of people who would love to go hunting whales to sell the meat to the japanese.
I mean come on, what on earth would anyone ever need to record 11 shows at once for? When would anyone have time to watch them all? This was made sheerly for Tim Allen's grunting "More power! Owh! Owh!" This guy needs to get off the couch.
Maybe you should look at more than the pictures..
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Forecasting Doomsday
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You should subscribe to National Geographic and RTFAs. There's also a fair bit of info at their website. The people at NGS are scared shitless, and there's good reason for it. Anyone with any sense should be writing to his congressman about banning the personal ownership of gas-powered vehicles and massive investment in public transport. The US should immediately sign the Kyoto accords, and yeah, maybe it'd be a good idea to create a description of our own environmental trouble in pictograms and place in a vault only technology approaching ours could open.
that's right boys, stick your heads in the sand.
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Forecasting Doomsday
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I like in Minneapolis; I moved her in 1993. In those days, the snow was three feet deep all winter long, piled up on the curbs and corners four and five feet high. Now the snow melts off before it gets more than a few inches deep. These effects are measurable, people.
>No one can agree on the environment. This is where you're wrong. Everyone with a brain and an open mind can agree. The evidence is there, but idiots with too much money at stake are desperately spinning the truth into lies, in an effort to keep other idiots buying big SUVs and gasoline. Record profits by oil companies this year, and we're flopping over on our back for the bastards. And yeah, the pussy-ass politicians won't take a stand, won't put any money into building decent public transport, etc etc. All of this goes back to the biblical injunction subdue the earth and (they always forget this part) renew it. Clearly we've put every living thing on this earth under our dark and grabby hand, but we need to cut off that hand and learn to live with less or we'll die and we'll deserve it. Good riddance I say. Too bad all those nice paintings and poems will go with us though.
Gee, hmmm... you only sleep five hours a night and now are having a hard time concentrating? Garsh, gee, how'd that happen? You never mention your age, but one can infer you're in your twenties from the context. And besides, anyone older than, say, 30 or so would be wise enough to realize he can't get by on only 5 hours of sleep any more, or that there's more to life than sitting in front of a screen.
So get up off your pasty white ass, Poindexter; get out there and take some dance lessons. And quit whining! You're like those asswipes who go to the doctor and cop the attitude that they can and should do everything they've ever done as a teenager and if they can't do it and remain slim & healthy that it's the DOCTOR's fault.
The problem with EVERY big company is not that they're averse to risk per se, the people who run it just don't know any other way to be. I use the "Hot Chick at a Party" analogy: Big corporations are like a hot chick at a party. The woman sits in a publicly exposed area, holding court, surrounded by lots of dorky guys who are just sort of standing there gawking. She's usually already made up her mind about the guy she likes, and she's got him right there fetching her drinks and whatnot, but nonetheless there are all these dorks standing at the periphery, who know they have no chance, but can't tear themselves away. Likewise, big companies have all this money, millions of customers/viewers whatever, and all these dorks in suits say "hey, I need a job that pays a ton of bucks" and they glom onto a big company, weasel their way into middle management, or even into the yes-men circle at the top. These dorks have no chance to genuinely succeed on their own (their own brilliance, ideas, bravery, loyalty etc) they only ride the company's coattails. And since they have NOTHING to contribute, they fall back on what they can remember from college: reduce costs, don't take any big risks, don't stick your neck out. Stick to the formula. (This is, of course, based on these people actually doing the work in college instead of letting their frat get them the answers to the tests.)
So these companies are all blocked up, constipated with mediocre, greedy schlubs who can only copy someone else's ideas. Same for most every big company; when they're just a couple guys in a garage, they kick ass, but when they get big, the mediocre slimeballs come in and start leeching.
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You're right on. I'd refine it a little to say these religions aren't even about spiritual things, but instead the desperate desire on the adherent's part to FEEL SPECIAL. That's all it ever comes down to. "The world can't be round! And it certainly doesn't orbit other bodies, we're the center of the universe!" is the same as "Humans didn't evolve from nothing, hell no. The greatest being in existence Created us in His Own Image after practicing on all those dumb animals and fish and dinosaurs etc. We're His Chosen People." Special. Funny how these religions that espouse humility don't seem to work most of the time. Except for buddhism.
Just because you believe there's a god out there has nothing to do with the point. Creationism is about believing in the God of Abraham, and that life on earth originated literally as it is stated in Genesis. So quit bitching.
I can't believe how negative these fucking crybaby posters are on here. There's NO FUCKING WAY I'd put an hour into practice on a real guitar and be able to play a recognizable rendition of Bark at the Moon! What kind of a moron doesn't get this concept? And whatever happened to shutting the fuck up if you don't have something positive, or at least relevant to say? I've had friends who COULD play guitar try Guitar Hero, and they do lousy. It's a game, shithead.
Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Jeez, people, if you're going to be anal about other people's use of words, make FOR FUCKING SURE yours are correct.
There are two Ls in satellites, not one. Unless they're, you know, miniature satellites with fewer calories or something.
>Cant guess why this did not come as an evolutionary advantage though? Just one light sensing organ in the back of the head would have saved quite a bit of lives indeed.
Why? Why is obvious: it's unnecessary. Humans and other primates have binocular vision, probably originally to help in brachiation, moving from tree limb to tree limb. No big cats up there jumping on our backs, so unnecessary to have eyes in the back of our heads. Then when we came down from the trees, we lived mostly in open savannha. Leopards living up in trees might mean we'd have to have eyes in the top of our heads, but we were busy using binocular vision to capture our own prey. And by now it should be pretty obvious to everyone that humans are the top predator in the world. Hell, we've got our very own Mass Extinction going! Eyes in the back of our heads? Who needs 'em!
>I believe this has already been taken care of... It's called the Dewey Decimal System.
Oh, the joys of being at the top and all those desperate modders just itching to dump their mod points before they're gone. Back to topic, no-one's going to use dewey decimal outside of an institutional setting, that's just dumb.
How about categorizing by subject and author? Put all the books on math & physics on one shelf, then alphabetize that shelf by author. Take all the romance novels and put them in the guest bedroom, and do the guests a favor and put all the ones with explicit sex scenes in one place for easy browsing.
Jon
>the crossword was all that kept me from sleeping if I had a laptop back then I would have used it for solitaire.
:D
Crossword puzzles make you smart! Solitaire turns your brain off. You should thank your lucky stars you didn't have a laptop then. You are smart now.
Who knew trolls fed off the glass tit? And your vocabulary obviously hasn't suffered from all those years of Saved by the Bell and Who's the Boss.
That's hilarious. I bet you beat off to Seinfeld. Kramer/George facfic?
Cayenne peppers have 30,000 - 50,000 Scoville units. Pure capsaicin is 16,000,000 scoville units. You're full of hot shit. OTOH, I find nothing to contradict your other comments, which seem quite interesting.
r inger/scoville.htm has another decent chart.
http://members.visi.net/~mandy/pepguide.html has a nice pictorial guide
http://www.chemsoc.org/exemplarchem/entries/mbell
Anyone can google capsaicin or "scoville units" for tons of info.
Jon
>then pulling the covers up right by your spouse's face
This hijink known as the 'covered wagon.'
You people don't need to be such fucking assholes. Just because the parent can't spell doesn't mean he's an idiot (it's often a good clue, but not always). He's also wrong about what separates us from other lifeforms. Ethics obviously ain't it, baby. We're far less ethical than many other creatures. The real difference, as I see it, is our ability to act in accord with something BESIDES our baser natures, and look to see if we're causing harm. If we say "Gee, does cutting open a pupa and shoving a computer chip in there harm the pupa? If so, maybe I won't do it." Or even saying "No, it doesn't harm the pupa much, but do we want to take another living creature and have it jumping around like a puppet, in opposition to its nature?" Only a fucking scumbag would do such a thing. Good riddance when we kill our species off, I say.
The article says they're using CGI for backgrounds and such. The Henson shop (obviously) would be doing the main characters, though maybe that Ifrit (character made of fire) might have to be CG.
The grandparent is right, Genndy Tartakovsky DOES kick ass. I haven't seen Clone Wars, but Samurai Jack is the best animation series on american TV since the original The Tick. Let's face it, anyone who can create a gigantic bellowing snaggle-toothed scotsman with a machine gun for a leg _deserves_ a freaking Emmy or three.
Incontheeeeevable!
Seriously, if someone wants to like one good movie more than another, who cares? Mind your own business, retards. It's not like someone is saying some obvious POS like Event Horizon was better than say, Forbidden Planet or some other classic great SF film.
I'm afraid you're wrong, at least in the USA. Most christians in the US according to numerous surveys published in the last couple years (google the words "americans believe" and watch with horror) say most US christians believe the whole Genesis bible story, and the stuff the Pope Gregory made up to go along with it (the 6000 year age of the earth comes from his estimating the age based on the 'x begat y' sections of the bible). And of course as more and more assaults are committed on the bastions of science, the numbers of flat-earthers increase.
http://www.youaredumb.net/archive/2005/10/31
Likewise, the grandparent's argument implies there IS a reason for suffering. Western religions are populated by such a bunch of crybaby four year olds.
Suffering just is. There's always something. The buddha noticed it two hundred years BC and noticed it's inescapable. But in the east, they don't assume some single creature is doing it deliberately; after all, it's not like it really matters.
He also noticed WE make the suffering worse but sitting there bitching about how wrong and unfair it all is, and going "Why? Why? Why?".
Thirdly he noticed we can make it quite a bit better.
Last he said the way to make it better is to quit wishing for things to be different. Once we give up these desires, suffering vanishes.
Westerners should think about these ideas more. At least it would be quieter.
It's funny how people get this idea that since we can farm land-dwelling animals (cows, alligators, crocodiles, swinge) that we can also do the exact same thing with animals that dwell in the oceans (whales, blue fin tuna). Come ON, boys! Get your head out. The environments are comletely different, as are the animals in question.
Jeez you guys! What a bunch of ignoramuses! Don't ANY of you know about the whaling industry or history or maybe read Moby Dick in school? Gods....
The whole reason whales have been hunted was to rip stuff out of 'em, one of the ingredients being ambergris. And yeah, there are still factory ships out there with exploding harpoons, just waiting to be put back into commission. While modern technology has replaced whale oil, whalebone corset stays, and most of the scrimshaw industry, there are still plenty of people who would love to go hunting whales to sell the meat to the japanese.
I mean come on, what on earth would anyone ever need to record 11 shows at once for? When would anyone have time to watch them all? This was made sheerly for Tim Allen's grunting "More power! Owh! Owh!"
This guy needs to get off the couch.
You should subscribe to National Geographic and RTFAs. There's also a fair bit of info at their website. The people at NGS are scared shitless, and there's good reason for it. Anyone with any sense should be writing to his congressman about banning the personal ownership of gas-powered vehicles and massive investment in public transport. The US should immediately sign the Kyoto accords, and yeah, maybe it'd be a good idea to create a description of our own environmental trouble in pictograms and place in a vault only technology approaching ours could open.
I like in Minneapolis; I moved her in 1993. In those days, the snow was three feet deep all winter long, piled up on the curbs and corners four and five feet high. Now the snow melts off before it gets more than a few inches deep. These effects are measurable, people.
>No one can agree on the environment.
This is where you're wrong. Everyone with a brain and an open mind can agree. The evidence is there, but idiots with too much money at stake are desperately spinning the truth into lies, in an effort to keep other idiots buying big SUVs and gasoline. Record profits by oil companies this year, and we're flopping over on our back for the bastards. And yeah, the pussy-ass politicians won't take a stand, won't put any money into building decent public transport, etc etc.
All of this goes back to the biblical injunction subdue the earth and (they always forget this part) renew it. Clearly we've put every living thing on this earth under our dark and grabby hand, but we need to cut off that hand and learn to live with less or we'll die and we'll deserve it. Good riddance I say. Too bad all those nice paintings and poems will go with us though.
Jon
Gee, hmmm... you only sleep five hours a night and now are having a hard time concentrating? Garsh, gee, how'd that happen? You never mention your age, but one can infer you're in your twenties from the context. And besides, anyone older than, say, 30 or so would be wise enough to realize he can't get by on only 5 hours of sleep any more, or that there's more to life than sitting in front of a screen.
So get up off your pasty white ass, Poindexter; get out there and take some dance lessons. And quit whining! You're like those asswipes who go to the doctor and cop the attitude that they can and should do everything they've ever done as a teenager and if they can't do it and remain slim & healthy that it's the DOCTOR's fault.
The problem with EVERY big company is not that they're averse to risk per se, the people who run it just don't know any other way to be. I use the "Hot Chick at a Party" analogy:
Big corporations are like a hot chick at a party. The woman sits in a publicly exposed area, holding court, surrounded by lots of dorky guys who are just sort of standing there gawking. She's usually already made up her mind about the guy she likes, and she's got him right there fetching her drinks and whatnot, but nonetheless there are all these dorks standing at the periphery, who know they have no chance, but can't tear themselves away. Likewise, big companies have all this money, millions of customers/viewers whatever, and all these dorks in suits say "hey, I need a job that pays a ton of bucks" and they glom onto a big company, weasel their way into middle management, or even into the yes-men circle at the top. These dorks have no chance to genuinely succeed on their own (their own brilliance, ideas, bravery, loyalty etc) they only ride the company's coattails. And since they have NOTHING to contribute, they fall back on what they can remember from college: reduce costs, don't take any big risks, don't stick your neck out. Stick to the formula. (This is, of course, based on these people actually doing the work in college instead of letting their frat get them the answers to the tests.)
So these companies are all blocked up, constipated with mediocre, greedy schlubs who can only copy someone else's ideas. Same for most every big company; when they're just a couple guys in a garage, they kick ass, but when they get big, the mediocre slimeballs come in and start leeching.