Last I check, we're on these floating masses called "plates" and they actually move around, shift and stuff. Some get pushed under others, etc. Wouldn't that simply explain why one section might be seeing a change in sea level and not another?
Lastly, why does everyone panic when the world changes a little? We have fish fossils on mountain tops, dinosaur bones, the land mass used to be one large hunk of land. Mountains were created through plate shifts and valleys and hills formed by ice ages. So, knowing all this... Where do we come off panicking when there is the slightest change from the prior year? Do folks expect the world to sit stagnant as we know if forever and ever, and all the history of the world be damned? It will never change again?
Seems like these things are more politically motivated and looking for someone to blame rather than someone rationally just standing up and saying "Well, what did you think was going to happen? The same thing year after year? Had to change sometime..."
Does it tell me how to handle the images? I upload one from my phone. Now... ALL I WANT TO DO, is right click it, and view it, so I can hot link it and post it elsewhere.
You would think that would be easy. But no... the scripting won't allow me, and I can't figure it out. So I would rather use flickr.
That and it's just a bit too confusing on what's viewable, what's private, etc. They really need to fix the images. I really think that's holding them back.
I legitimately no longer have a facebook account. I did. But deleted it well over a year ago. I hated that my friends were no longer my real friends. No need to get together and chat when everyone already knew everything.
Getting invited to events from across the country due to some idiot with just a blanket invite? Yeah, some friends they are...
Old college buddies saying: "I can't wait to catch up again!", and then never messaging me back. Making me realize why we lost touch in the first place....
So my question, after that rant, is... What if you don't have an account? You tell the employer that you don't have one. Of course they won't believe you as EVERYONE (/italics) has an account. Will they accuse you of lying? Is there any way for me to prove myself? Being self-employed, I really don't give a rats ass in the end, but this is going to affect someone somewhere as folks leave Facebook for Google+ or the multitude of other all-encompassing sites fighting for your attention.
I loved the service and used it a lot, but the problem was, in the end, every time I went to use it, they would put my order on hold, call me and leave a message and force me to call them back to be sure it wasn't a fraudulent charge. Really puts a damper on using it when you know they're going to call you every time.
I even asked them, why they bother to call me, and they said they have to do it for everyone. I can only imagine a stupid policy like that was cost prohibitive.
Who the HELL is going to be using a $50,000 simulator and vests in golf, unless your are a professional on a circuit, and winning money and/or being sponsored!!
I'm not going to be using it. Does that make me a have not?
They're professional. And if an amateur can afford such a luxury, then all the power to them. Just like some can afford top of the line golf clubs and balls, and others can not.
Just like Lance Armstrong is able to have bikes custom made, helmets custom made, practice with out having a day job, and spend time in a wind tunnel with high tech gear and finding ways to lessen drag.
And guess what? I CAN'T DO THAT. Imagine that.
That's professional... on the individual level. Just go out and have fun. Isn't that what it is all about? If you're trying to break into professional, then you'll work your way up the ladder to your 50K simulator. If not, then get out your grandfathers clubs, and who cares. Have fun.
Every sport is like this.. get over it. Some people will have money, and others will not.
Final word: I don't think Tiger Woods started off with a $50,000 simulator... He worked his way up to the top, now I bet he's stepped into one to help keep him there, but he wasn't using one when he started, and it didn't stop him.
All the damn pavement we put down that holds in the heat and radiates it back... all the trees we cut down (not a big deal in and of itself) but we replace them with high rises and cities that hold in heat.
We talk about the temperature rising... well... anyone figure in this "Heat Island" complex? Oh.. by population or by square footage of pavement and concrete?
Unless you start figuring in all the factors... we don't know shit.
First off, there has been a historic election in Iraq and they're talking about a 70% turn out.. 70%!!! Damn! But we don't want to talk about good news so let's dig up an chapter TITLE in James Risen's new book that will be out in 10 days. For those that don't know, James Risen is a Times Reporter... yup.. no conflict of interest there.
And to boot: The Times attempts to create a national uproar over something called a "special collection program" launched by the National Security Agency sometime after the Sept. 11 attacks. The opening paragraphs give the alarming impression that the agency is spying broadly on "Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying.
Those who actually read the piece will note that the paper must grudgingly acknowledge that it is talking about the NSA's monitoring of international communications (e-mails, cellphone calls, etc.) only!!! the agency still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications.
Hello? RTFA.. Don't we say there here often.. too many chicken littles... no one with brains. Sad.
You're kidding right? I hope so, but just in case:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
Let me break it down:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,"
Basically says, that any country (state, etc) to remain FREE must have a well maintained army (militia).. Ok... Now with that out of the way
"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." Means that, just because we have a military, doesn't mean we're safe, so thereofre the right of "the people", that's us, the average person, will not be infringed. Why? Because the Brittish just tried to take our guns away so we couldn't win the war. We wouldn't give them up, and fought back.
Without guns, we could not stand up against our government.
The 2nd Amendment is actually quite simple. If you just read it. This is why they use "the people" in the Second Amendment, to mean everyday people.. you and me... just like they used in the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendment too!
Or maybe the right to free speech was only really meant for government officials?
I don't think anyone can deny evolution. No matter whom you talk to. But there is a fundamental difference in evolution. There is macro-evolution and micro-evolution. Micro evolution is the evolving on an animal to better adapt to its habitat. Albeit for a food source, or in the example of the snoe shoe hare turning white when winter comes, and back to its natural fur color for the summer. That's Micro-Evolution.
Macro is the thought of a monkey growing feathers, lighter bones, and now flying and being reclassified as a bird, or a new species. (not that stupid gliding monkey.. still a monkey.. see the difference?)
There is no example of animals do that, nor are there fossil records. That IS a big gap.
But that's not the outlying issue of creationism... Yeah yeah.. you get the whole adam, ever crap.. whatever.
The final though on creationism is: Who created all this? Or more so, how did it get here? It is regretfully a chicken or egg type of scenario though.
How was the universe created? Big bang... Ok... from what? Atoms? Ok.. where did they come from?
It will keep falling back to "where did they come from?" Rocks, particles, gas, atoms.. etc. Had to be formed somehow, and somewhere, and didn't just appear magically right? Or did they?
Creationism is bigger then some fool put a fish on this earth... It's putting a theory to (if you agree or not) how all this got here.
As a scientist, you keep going back on how it was all created... but eventually you will hit a point when you ask yourself "How did it get there, and where did it come from?" that you can no longer answer scientifically, or at least with what you and I can understand in our current patterns of thought.
One day we will be able to answer it... one day. But until then.....
Abusing the Patriot Act? Sounds more like abusing power... and we've NEVER heard of any police force or government agency abusing power before have we? [/sarcasm]
There is a distinctive difference between abusing power, and abusing the Enacted Law: Abusing Power is using your resources to do something you shouldn't be, and would never be allowed to do. Abusing the Enacted Law (Let's say the Patriot Act), would be doing something that is approved to do under that Law, but using it to harrass someone you don't like.
I'm no choir boy, but I do like to play devils advocate here... So chew on this thought:
The Patriot Act was renewed again because it helped gather intellegence to stop London Style Bombings here in America, along with some other plotted attacks. Hell, we even have Mr. Clarke (Bush hater himself) stating that the preserves civil liberties: 'I can't find anything wrong with it [the Patriot Act], and if I'd had it prior to 9/11, it would have been a hell of a lot easier to stop 9/11.'
I think the point that hits ME the most, is that the same people bitching and moaning now, would be the EXACT same people bitching and moaning that we didn't do enough. Were you one of those Koolaid drinkers that said Bush didn't do enough to stop the attacks? What about Clinton? Did he do enough? Can we say Able Danger? (Don't know? Look it up...)
You can't have it both ways folks. But you MUST make a choice.
That's from the Liberal "Boston Globe" newspaper. No choir boys there... They hate this administration, but it has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the UN being inept at doing anything correct.
"imagine a UN member with a lot of clout, and a very low regard for freedom of speech -- China, say. ICANN accredits the companies that sell domain names to Internet users like you and me. Suppose a democracy activist wants to register domain names like downwithchina.com. If China had a say in ICANN affairs, it could push to have such domain names prohibited."
That article speaks volumes, and is a HELL of a lot better written then the parent post.
Ok.. According to the logic on this board, there is this EVIL conservative corporation that purposely put a flaw in this machine... ok.. sure...
Even if it is so, you're saying that ONLY those EVIL conservatives can access these flaws for their gain, and not any type of liberal working there, probably because no liberals work there right?
The whole thing is silly...
If you don't like the machines, then use a freaking paper ballot!!!!!
We still use paper ballots in our town. You mark it.. bring it to a machine... the machine registeres where it is placed. Done.
If you can't fill out a circle, then you can't vote ok?
And who's having trouble with these machines??? Liberal towns!!! If you don't like/trust them... get rid of them. You still vote don't you?
Without Space Weapons, there would be no Star Trek Without Star Trek, there would be no Captain Kirk Without Captain Kirk, there would be no Geeks Without Geeks, there would be no Slashdot Without Slashdot, I would stop wasting time at work
So: No Space Weapons = No Geeks = No Slashdot = A Raise in our National GDP
[quote] We were attacked first? Really? So there were no events prior to the WTC bombings that might've been a cause to motivate them? And really, "We were not over there at all"? Don't you mean our military wasn't occupying their country, because I'm sure that we had some presence or another diplomatically, or at least economically, overseas at the time. [/quote]
Ok.. so tell us what the events that built us up to the first WTC bombings were? So OBL was in Afghanastan... what? Did we economically affect them by selling a shirt in their country? Maybe we were diplomatically trying to work something out with someone he didn't want us to? Should we be walking on more egg shells?
That's assinine...
What did we do to provoke it? Fill us in....
You talk about soviets and germans... Grab a history book and look up how many soviets died in that war... Do it now. Is that what you want to see? If you're too lazy the count is 6,115,000 people. Sure there are other ways to fight.. but at what cost?
That's food for thought.. and you better chew well.
[quote] I truly believe that if we left Iraq tomorrow, the insurgency would collapse in a short time because they'd have no real reason to exist. [/quote]
That logic is so flawed it's almost sad.
We were attacked first. WTC Bombings... USS Cole... Misc Embassy Bombings, and then the WTC collapse. Hey, and guess what. We were not over there at all!!!
The fact is, their object is to destroy all infidels... since we're not muslim, or restrict women, or who the fuck knows what else... then we are on their shit list. Period.
Why we shouldn't leave? It's like bribery. If I have dirt on you, and I ask for money, and you keep paying up, then I'll just keep asking for more and more.
If we roll over and do as they say because of a bomb, then they'll see that as a working avenue. So anytime they want something, they blow up and kill a lot of people, demand, and receive. Then do it again when something else is needed...
There's no reasoning with people willing to blow themselves up....
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Last I check, we're on these floating masses called "plates" and they actually move around, shift and stuff. Some get pushed under others, etc. Wouldn't that simply explain why one section might be seeing a change in sea level and not another?
Lastly, why does everyone panic when the world changes a little? We have fish fossils on mountain tops, dinosaur bones, the land mass used to be one large hunk of land. Mountains were created through plate shifts and valleys and hills formed by ice ages. So, knowing all this... Where do we come off panicking when there is the slightest change from the prior year? Do folks expect the world to sit stagnant as we know if forever and ever, and all the history of the world be damned? It will never change again?
Seems like these things are more politically motivated and looking for someone to blame rather than someone rationally just standing up and saying "Well, what did you think was going to happen? The same thing year after year? Had to change sometime..."
Does it tell me how to handle the images? I upload one from my phone. Now... ALL I WANT TO DO, is right click it, and view it, so I can hot link it and post it elsewhere.
You would think that would be easy. But no... the scripting won't allow me, and I can't figure it out. So I would rather use flickr.
That and it's just a bit too confusing on what's viewable, what's private, etc. They really need to fix the images. I really think that's holding them back.
I legitimately no longer have a facebook account. I did. But deleted it well over a year ago. I hated that my friends were no longer my real friends. No need to get together and chat when everyone already knew everything.
Getting invited to events from across the country due to some idiot with just a blanket invite? Yeah, some friends they are...
Old college buddies saying: "I can't wait to catch up again!", and then never messaging me back. Making me realize why we lost touch in the first place. ...
So my question, after that rant, is... What if you don't have an account? You tell the employer that you don't have one. Of course they won't believe you as EVERYONE (/italics) has an account. Will they accuse you of lying? Is there any way for me to prove myself? Being self-employed, I really don't give a rats ass in the end, but this is going to affect someone somewhere as folks leave Facebook for Google+ or the multitude of other all-encompassing sites fighting for your attention.
Desktop Linux is Dead: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/18/1312214/Desktop-Linux-Is-Dead
I loved the service and used it a lot, but the problem was, in the end, every time I went to use it, they would put my order on hold, call me and leave a message and force me to call them back to be sure it wasn't a fraudulent charge. Really puts a damper on using it when you know they're going to call you every time.
I even asked them, why they bother to call me, and they said they have to do it for everyone. I can only imagine a stupid policy like that was cost prohibitive.
This is also why I use sites like: http://www.cryptboards.com/
Keeps them guessing.
I just tried downloading off my buddies band page, just to see how/if it works, and nadda.
So.. move along, nothing to see here.
LR
So I may as well just be first:
...
"I thought the mother of the internet was Al Gore's Mom??? "
Let hilarity ensue ---> NOW
Who the HELL is going to be using a $50,000 simulator and vests in golf, unless your are a professional on a circuit, and winning money and/or being sponsored!!
I'm not going to be using it. Does that make me a have not?
They're professional. And if an amateur can afford such a luxury, then all the power to them. Just like some can afford top of the line golf clubs and balls, and others can not.
Just like Lance Armstrong is able to have bikes custom made, helmets custom made, practice with out having a day job, and spend time in a wind tunnel with high tech gear and finding ways to lessen drag.
And guess what? I CAN'T DO THAT. Imagine that.
That's professional... on the individual level. Just go out and have fun. Isn't that what it is all about? If you're trying to break into professional, then you'll work your way up the ladder to your 50K simulator. If not, then get out your grandfathers clubs, and who cares. Have fun.
Every sport is like this.. get over it. Some people will have money, and others will not.
Final word: I don't think Tiger Woods started off with a $50,000 simulator... He worked his way up to the top, now I bet he's stepped into one to help keep him there, but he wasn't using one when he started, and it didn't stop him.
No you moron...
The quote is:
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Get your facts straight. And try not to mangle up someone's fucking quote. There's a BIG difference in what the quote says, and what you wrote.
Next time, look this shit up: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Ok moron.. HOW do they take them into account? Guess work? By guessing how much heat is stored, radiated in each city? YES!!! Imagine that....
Look it up. And now take that foot out of your mouth. Stupid fuck.
Think about it...
All the damn pavement we put down that holds in the heat and radiates it back... all the trees we cut down (not a big deal in and of itself) but we replace them with high rises and cities that hold in heat.
We talk about the temperature rising... well... anyone figure in this "Heat Island" complex? Oh.. by population or by square footage of pavement and concrete?
Unless you start figuring in all the factors... we don't know shit.
Same here... Mod this bad boy up...
Same old tired crap. How about just the NEWS.. and let us decide?
First off, there has been a historic election in Iraq and they're talking about a 70% turn out.. 70%!!! Damn!
But we don't want to talk about good news so let's dig up an chapter TITLE in James Risen's new book that will be out in 10 days. For those that don't know, James Risen is a Times Reporter... yup.. no conflict of interest there.
And to boot: The Times attempts to create a national uproar over something called a "special collection program" launched by the National Security Agency sometime after the Sept. 11 attacks. The opening paragraphs give the alarming impression that the agency is spying broadly on "Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying.
Those who actually read the piece will note that the paper must grudgingly acknowledge that it is talking about the NSA's monitoring of international communications (e-mails, cellphone calls, etc.) only!!! the agency still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications.
Hello? RTFA.. Don't we say there here often.. too many chicken littles... no one with brains. Sad.
Yet these are the same people who want the decentralize the internet and let morons like this guy have a say on what DNS servers can/can not do!
He wants to censor the internet, china does, others will... and yet, you want THEM to have a say?
Remember this shit next time another story comes back up about decentralizing the DNS
I say keeping idiots like you alive is Human Rights. In Cuba, you'd be shot already.
You're kidding right? I hope so, but just in case:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
Let me break it down:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,"
Basically says, that any country (state, etc) to remain FREE must have a well maintained army (militia).. Ok... Now with that out of the way
"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
Means that, just because we have a military, doesn't mean we're safe, so thereofre the right of "the people", that's us, the average person, will not be infringed. Why? Because the Brittish just tried to take our guns away so we couldn't win the war. We wouldn't give them up, and fought back.
Without guns, we could not stand up against our government.
The 2nd Amendment is actually quite simple. If you just read it. This is why they use "the people" in the Second Amendment, to mean everyday people.. you and me... just like they used in the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendment too!
Or maybe the right to free speech was only really meant for government officials?
I don't think anyone can deny evolution. No matter whom you talk to. But there is a fundamental difference in evolution. There is macro-evolution and micro-evolution. Micro evolution is the evolving on an animal to better adapt to its habitat. Albeit for a food source, or in the example of the snoe shoe hare turning white when winter comes, and back to its natural fur color for the summer. That's Micro-Evolution.
Macro is the thought of a monkey growing feathers, lighter bones, and now flying and being reclassified as a bird, or a new species. (not that stupid gliding monkey.. still a monkey.. see the difference?)
There is no example of animals do that, nor are there fossil records. That IS a big gap.
But that's not the outlying issue of creationism... Yeah yeah.. you get the whole adam, ever crap.. whatever.
The final though on creationism is: Who created all this? Or more so, how did it get here? It is regretfully a chicken or egg type of scenario though.
How was the universe created? Big bang... Ok... from what? Atoms? Ok.. where did they come from?
It will keep falling back to "where did they come from?" Rocks, particles, gas, atoms.. etc. Had to be formed somehow, and somewhere, and didn't just appear magically right? Or did they?
Creationism is bigger then some fool put a fish on this earth... It's putting a theory to (if you agree or not) how all this got here.
As a scientist, you keep going back on how it was all created... but eventually you will hit a point when you ask yourself "How did it get there, and where did it come from?" that you can no longer answer scientifically, or at least with what you and I can understand in our current patterns of thought.
One day we will be able to answer it... one day. But until then.....
Abusing the Patriot Act? Sounds more like abusing power... and we've NEVER heard of any police force or government agency abusing power before have we? [/sarcasm]
- clarke.html
There is a distinctive difference between abusing power, and abusing the Enacted Law: Abusing Power is using your resources to do something you shouldn't be, and would never be allowed to do. Abusing the Enacted Law (Let's say the Patriot Act), would be doing something that is approved to do under that Law, but using it to harrass someone you don't like.
I'm no choir boy, but I do like to play devils advocate here... So chew on this thought:
The Patriot Act was renewed again because it helped gather intellegence to stop London Style Bombings here in America, along with some other plotted attacks. Hell, we even have Mr. Clarke (Bush hater himself) stating that the preserves civil liberties: 'I can't find anything wrong with it [the Patriot Act], and if I'd had it prior to 9/11, it would have been a hell of a lot easier to stop 9/11.'
Harvard Gazette Link: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/04.29/03
I think the point that hits ME the most, is that the same people bitching and moaning now, would be the EXACT same people bitching and moaning that we didn't do enough. Were you one of those Koolaid drinkers that said Bush didn't do enough to stop the attacks? What about Clinton? Did he do enough? Can we say Able Danger? (Don't know? Look it up...)
You can't have it both ways folks. But you MUST make a choice.
More like the UN wants control so they can TAX people... Censor people.... etc
s /2005/10/17/dont_give_un_control_over_internet/?pa ge=1
More info here:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/article
That's from the Liberal "Boston Globe" newspaper. No choir boys there... They hate this administration, but it has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the UN being inept at doing anything correct.
"imagine a UN member with a lot of clout, and a very low regard for freedom of speech -- China, say. ICANN accredits the companies that sell domain names to Internet users like you and me. Suppose a democracy activist wants to register domain names like downwithchina.com. If China had a say in ICANN affairs, it could push to have such domain names prohibited."
That article speaks volumes, and is a HELL of a lot better written then the parent post.
Ok.. According to the logic on this board, there is this EVIL conservative corporation that purposely put a flaw in this machine... ok.. sure...
Even if it is so, you're saying that ONLY those EVIL conservatives can access these flaws for their gain, and not any type of liberal working there, probably because no liberals work there right?
The whole thing is silly...
If you don't like the machines, then use a freaking paper ballot!!!!!
We still use paper ballots in our town. You mark it.. bring it to a machine... the machine registeres where it is placed. Done.
If you can't fill out a circle, then you can't vote ok?
And who's having trouble with these machines??? Liberal towns!!! If you don't like/trust them... get rid of them. You still vote don't you?
Follow my logic here:
Without Space Weapons, there would be no Star Trek
Without Star Trek, there would be no Captain Kirk
Without Captain Kirk, there would be no Geeks
Without Geeks, there would be no Slashdot
Without Slashdot, I would stop wasting time at work
So: No Space Weapons = No Geeks = No Slashdot = A Raise in our National GDP
Therefore: Profit!
Isn't the actual quote: "But not in dreams" ??
I wouldn't be putting quotes around something that wasn't actually said.
Still funny.. just not accurate...
[quote]
We were attacked first? Really? So there were no events prior to the WTC bombings that might've been a cause to motivate them? And really, "We were not over there at all"? Don't you mean our military wasn't occupying their country, because I'm sure that we had some presence or another diplomatically, or at least economically, overseas at the time.
[/quote]
Ok.. so tell us what the events that built us up to the first WTC bombings were? So OBL was in Afghanastan... what? Did we economically affect them by selling a shirt in their country? Maybe we were diplomatically trying to work something out with someone he didn't want us to? Should we be walking on more egg shells?
That's assinine...
What did we do to provoke it? Fill us in....
You talk about soviets and germans... Grab a history book and look up how many soviets died in that war... Do it now. Is that what you want to see? If you're too lazy the count is 6,115,000 people. Sure there are other ways to fight.. but at what cost?
That's food for thought.. and you better chew well.
[quote]
I truly believe that if we left Iraq tomorrow, the insurgency would collapse in a short time because they'd have no real reason to exist.
[/quote]
That logic is so flawed it's almost sad.
We were attacked first. WTC Bombings... USS Cole... Misc Embassy Bombings, and then the WTC collapse. Hey, and guess what. We were not over there at all!!!
The fact is, their object is to destroy all infidels... since we're not muslim, or restrict women, or who the fuck knows what else... then we are on their shit list. Period.
Why we shouldn't leave? It's like bribery. If I have dirt on you, and I ask for money, and you keep paying up, then I'll just keep asking for more and more.
If we roll over and do as they say because of a bomb, then they'll see that as a working avenue. So anytime they want something, they blow up and kill a lot of people, demand, and receive. Then do it again when something else is needed...
There's no reasoning with people willing to blow themselves up....