Cool- I wonder if Mr. Nelson is really Doc Brown? I wonder if Mr. Nelson/Doc Brown has perfected the Flux capacitor yet... I sent in my down payment and I'm waiting. I've got the car and everything.
He better not treat me like those Libyan terrorists. I think I might know the difference between a Flux Capacitor and an Atom bomb made out of pinball machine parts. I've almost got enough money for the Mr. Fusion option.
I wonder if the principal still calls everyone Slackers. It would make sense if they used Slackware instead of the K12LTP distro thingie.
OK- so it's not so much about the Hackers as it about corporate America....
But come on, I think all IT workers, which could include hacker's who may or may not be working, hate Corporate Think. And you've got a couple of programmers who use the old 'put the hundredths of cents into my account' gimmick to steal from the Company. They kind of were hacking around.
And they were doing it all for themselves. That's what hackers do. They don't care who they harm, who they hurt, what laws they break, so long as they gratify their own twisted desires and lusts. There is no cause for defacing a website. It's just stupid. Nobody pays any attention to what you put up there, it's like grafiti you morons. People stop trying to read it and just paint over it first chance they get. Stop being such pre-adolescent morons and do something constructive like help write for OpenOffice and let's kill M$ Office once and for all, and thusly bring about the demise of Winders. Linux or *BSD won't be a great desktop OS it's easy to start (OK, that's simple enough) and has the tools for people to do their spreadsheets, presentations, and letters to grandma or the Board, without being a geek like ourselves.
Let me think about this...
We have a turboprop plane at least 5 times the size of a fighter with waaay less power.
And then we have a fighter plane... light, built for manueverability and control for dogfights.
Tell me, who's the one who is responsible for hitting the other plane? The guys in the yacht cruising along nice and even like, or the guy in the fast little jet ski out hotshotting around?
Yeah-- and triangulating someone's position based on cell phone signal strength from the myriad of towers. 911 can't do that, though they can see what tower you are using.
I hate to give Big Brother more power, but that would be a good thing. In Houston we just had a cute 18 year old killed by a car jacker. One brief call came in over her cell phone; she saying "You can drop me off here, man", and then cut.
Emergency only had her # and the tower location. Police found her burned out car, but still no sign of her body. The suspect killed himself after a car chase three days later.
That hurts.
BTW- I ordered The Net on DVD a couple of days ago. I liked it. Besides being a good flick, Sandra Bullock is a cutie!
And by-gollies, they were going to make sure they did it!
Dont' give 'em too hard a time. They had a job to do and they got it done. Refreshing, if you've ever had to work with Gov't agencies and wait and wait and wait for something to get done.
I asked webster and they didn't know. They did suggest "theatines", which were Catholic priests who were ordered to combat immorality and Lutheranism. Seems almost apropos, but not quite.
whole scoop here
WAS DARWIN REALLY "VINDICATED"?
Frank Sherwin, MA Zoology (Parisitology)
Ever since Darwin, secular scientists have been at a loss to find compelling empirical evidence for macroevolution. The latest cause for celebration (premature as it turns out) has been the results of the Human Genome Project. By some twisted logic, evolutionist Arthur Caplan and others, sees this research as a major point in favor of evolutionism, saying that Darwin has been vindicated and that "we are descended from bacteria."
But no, as usual, upon closer inspection, the facts of science have thrown a wet towel on evolutionary naturalism.
The human genome is made up of the chemical compound, DNA. The building blocks of DNA are units called nucleotides, composed of a sugar, phosphate and a nitrogenous base. All the origin of life scenarios fail to explain how such nucleotides can form naturalistically in the manner that would then cause them to form a string of nucleotides.
Then there's the issue of the origin of DNA molecule itself. Sir John Maddox, former editor of the prestigious Nature magazine, in 1994 lamented, "So it is disappointing that the origin of the genetic code [DNA] is still as obscure as the origin of life itself."
One scientific reason why we didn't evolve from lower life forms over the alleged "millions of years" is the genetic repair system found in the nucleus all living cells (and in prokaryotes that don't have a nucleus). This complex system continuously monitors the DNA molecule for mispaired bases and damage and is a major roadblock in allowing genetic mistakes (mutations) to establish themselves in DNA. Unfortunately for the materialist, it is these random mistakes upon which the cryptic macroevolutionary process depends. If neo-Darwinian theory were true, then natural selection would clearly select against these efficient repair mechanisms.
Our alleged bacterial ancestry is without scientific support. If such a bizarre progression occurred, it left no fossil evidence, "Both the origin of life and the origin of the major groups of animals remain unknown" said evolutionist A.G. Fisher in 1998. Editor of the American Scientist book, 'Exploring Evolutionary Biology', stated, "The fossil record has always been a problem." A problem for macroevolutionists perhaps, but certainly not for the creation science model which predicts the abrupt appearance of life in the sedimentary rock units. Humans are a good example. According to evolutionists Villee, Solomon & Davis, "We appear suddenly in the fossil record, or so it seems to many paleontologists." In 2000 two evolutionists, Collard and Wood admitted, "existing phylogenetic hypotheses about human evolution are unlikely to be reliable. Accordingly, new approaches are required to address the problem of hominin [evolution]." The same can be said for animals, "Despite a century of work on metazoan phylum-level phylogeny using anatomical and embryological data, it has not been possible to infer a well-supported [evolution of the animal kingdom]" Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics, 1994.
Speaking of Darwin, we are all familiar with his infamous 1859 book The Origin of the Species. Ironically, one thing he never addressed was the origin of the species! Indeed, over a century later evolutionists are still mulling over the species issue, "The formation of species has long represented one of the most central, yet also one of the most elusive, subjects in evolutionary biology" S.R. Palumbi, Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics, 1994. Natural selection, usually attributed to Darwin and Wallace, cannot explain why we have bears and beetles, bacteria and buffalo, "Natural selection can act only on those biologic properties that already exist [creation]; it cannot create properties in order to meet adaptational needs [evolution]" Parasitology, 6th ed. Noble & Noble, Lea & Febiger publishers. British science writer Richard Milton said the primary problem of neo-Darwinism is the improbability of spontaneous genetic mutations leading to beneficial novelties in form. In 1992 anti-creationists Orr & Coyne stated in American Naturalist, "We conclude - unexpectedly - that there is little evidence for the neo-Darwinian view: its theoretical foundations and the experimental evidence supporting it are weak." More recently, evolutionist D.L. Stern asked in the pages of Evolution 54(4), "One of the oldest problems in evolutionary biology remains largely unsolved. Which mutations generate evolutionarily relevant phenotypic variations? What kinds of molecular changes do they entail?" What do secular biologists really know about vertical evolution (macroevolution) that is true?
Throughout his article, Caplan assures the reader that evolutionism has been validated via genome mapping with phrases like, ".. . Darwin was right - mankind evolved . . . . we are descended from bacteria . . . our genetic instructions have evolved . . . " etc. But
there's a distressing lack of hard, empirical evidence. Only through constant repetition does Caplan tell us what could be said in a single sentence, 'Our genes document our bacterial ancestry - Darwin was right.' Meanwhile, as we have seen, science says something quite different.
What did the Human Genome Project actually show? It would be best to go to the source, to someone who actually did the work such as Gene Myers of Celera Genomics in Maryland. Myers put together Celera's genome map and said, "What really astounds me is the architecture of life . . . the system is extremely complex. It's like it was designed . . . there's a huge intelligence there" - from an article by Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 19, 2001.
Creation scientists concur, if one were to go where the evidence leads in this massive mapping project, he would indeed come away saying there's a huge Intelligence involved.
This is the point of creation scientists everywhere. Design means a designer; creation means a Creator. The Apostle Paul stated in Romans 1:20 that God's creation is "clearly seen." One would be hard pressed to explain the exquisite design features of DNA, and the multitude of plants, animals and people that it codes for, to mere chance, time and natural selection. There's but one alternative to such naturalism, and that's supernaturalism, which is anathema to the Darwinist . . . .
The other posterboy was referring to the C meaning "Colored" which is an unacceptable way to refer to Afro-Americans... North American Assoc. of Colored Persons.
Go Federal Defiance! Somebody needs to cut the Federal gov't down a few sizes and give back to the states.
The PhD journalist said "The theory of evolution is the only way to explain the arrangement of the 30,000 genes and three billion letters that constitute our genetic code."
As if. In less than seven days their will be hundreds of press releases refuting that so-called fact.
This man offers no concrete basis for this assumption. And that is all it is-- an assumption based on a preconceived opinion. This is common over all scientific fields-- "I think this is true and so I will prove it." But what quite a lot of arrogant scientists don't do is evaluate the data fairly in a unenfranchised point of view.
And before anyone can jump on my back-- I'll admit to the same faults about believing Creationism. I say "I believe there is God who created this incredible universe and will prove it." But I can't prove it to you, and they certainly haven't proved anything to me.
So we share a lot common genomes with every living creature on the planet. Of course we are similar, we live on the same planet, and have to live in harmony. That's the way we were created.
Mr Breathed- you scarred me for life. I remember that hilarious episode poking fun at Michael Jackson's famous hair-on-fire accident. That was where that guy... um, what's his name?... used mousse and hairspray on his chest hair to make it appeal to the ladies and of course it caught on fire.
I thought- geez, I hope I have alot of chest hair and appeal to ladies!
That was right before puberty... now I have so much chest hair my wife hates it!!
My guess is as good as any. The 21st is a good day... Equinox or something.
If I were really motivated I would try to calculate the exact moment when the earth is exactly equal... but I guess that is relative to position. My mind hurts, time to go to StarBucks.
Sure there are comments about the fatalities, but it's in poor taste to say "Gee-- too bad God didn't love them too!"
Because it's not about love that saves someone from something like that. It's about Grace, about one more chance, because no one deserves another chance. People suck.
You know, I know it. We are all selfish back-stabbing suckers who don't deserve life after the way we treat people (friends, family-- parents) let alone the Creator.
While I didn't watch it, and don't think I will (I'm not a HUGE football fan and definitely don't like vince mcmahon), I think the practice of players thanking God for a successful play is honorable.
It's definitely not PC-- that's the Political Crap--er Correct-- it does show some honor and intelligence. This man realizes that he is just a man, and without an all-knowing, loving God, he is nothing. And even a touchdown doesn't matter if he doesn't thank God for giving it to him through his skill and abilities.
I should be doing that too-- kneeling and thanking God for another skillful script on my machine or a great install or an excellent diagnosis of a problem on of one of our machines.
Dang-- I just started preaching at myself. It's not enough to have Jesus in my heart, I should be living here in the office and the computer room just like those pro-players are living it in the end zone (and hopefully lockers, sidelines, and home!)!
Can you say bye-bye Terminex?
Put one of those drill thingies on the front and program them to look for termites and termite tunnels and launch a couple dozen around the house.
They could be programmed to go after June bugs, cockroaches, roly polies, spiders-- though they may be too quick for miniXtermiNaders.
They could them communicate with the others, using triangulation from other MXTN's and relay their coordinates and circle the buzzards and destroy the entire nest. YeeHaa!
Actually, that triangulation idea is a great one. They could create a little miniature wireless network, relaying info to the others. Kind of like tiny little Borg's running around your yard. Now if they could just feed on the bug's and recharge their batteries, that would definitely be something. Indefinite, mobile, bug zappers. I like it!
No, I find morality and character MUCH more important than an over inflated, 120% finanaced on credit economy.
Clinton did nothing for the economy. He passed no laws, made no sweeping reforms or referendums that made Americans more wealthy, happy, and peaceful. He just forced himself on some coeds, state employees, and strippers.
Economy is one of those things that just happens. It goes up, it plumits down. The terrible thing is that a semi-conservative will get blamed for it this time.
People- including myself (dangit!) spend too much and save too little. It's going to bite us/me real hard in the ars soon.
And as a bonus environmentalists have less supertankers sailing the ocean which are harder to clean up after then derailments.
Not entirely true. the AKRR had diesel spill (several actually) and they are still trying to clean up the area. Once the fuel even got into the creek. Ooops- hope I didn't give the Environmentaldisseds more fodder. 'Kuz really, I'd like to see this for Alaska. More options and jobs for my old homestate.
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aka Bill Gates
We hacked loderunner on Apple IIe's, lucky you, luckier him.
He better not treat me like those Libyan terrorists. I think I might know the difference between a Flux Capacitor and an Atom bomb made out of pinball machine parts. I've almost got enough money for the Mr. Fusion option.
I wonder if the principal still calls everyone Slackers. It would make sense if they used Slackware instead of the K12LTP distro thingie.
And Biff-- aka Butthead?
Go and take a look. Depending on the part of country you're in and the condition, they can be down around $6,000.
Just DO IT! You won't regret it! I don't!
I'm supossed to wait for Fusion....
That's ok. My car won't rust while I wait for Fusion power and for GE to turn coffe grinders into Mr. Fusion's!
Now if I can just get that Flux capacitor and Mr. Fission gigawatt generator working....
live the dream-- drive stainless!
But come on, I think all IT workers, which could include hacker's who may or may not be working, hate Corporate Think. And you've got a couple of programmers who use the old 'put the hundredths of cents into my account' gimmick to steal from the Company. They kind of were hacking around.
And they were doing it all for themselves. That's what hackers do. They don't care who they harm, who they hurt, what laws they break, so long as they gratify their own twisted desires and lusts. There is no cause for defacing a website. It's just stupid. Nobody pays any attention to what you put up there, it's like grafiti you morons. People stop trying to read it and just paint over it first chance they get. Stop being such pre-adolescent morons and do something constructive like help write for OpenOffice and let's kill M$ Office once and for all, and thusly bring about the demise of Winders. Linux or *BSD won't be a great desktop OS it's easy to start (OK, that's simple enough) and has the tools for people to do their spreadsheets, presentations, and letters to grandma or the Board, without being a geek like ourselves.
We have a turboprop plane at least 5 times the size of a fighter with waaay less power.
And then we have a fighter plane... light, built for manueverability and control for dogfights.
Tell me, who's the one who is responsible for hitting the other plane? The guys in the yacht cruising along nice and even like, or the guy in the fast little jet ski out hotshotting around?
It don't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
I hate to give Big Brother more power, but that would be a good thing. In Houston we just had a cute 18 year old killed by a car jacker. One brief call came in over her cell phone; she saying "You can drop me off here, man", and then cut.
Emergency only had her # and the tower location. Police found her burned out car, but still no sign of her body. The suspect killed himself after a car chase three days later.
That hurts.
BTW- I ordered The Net on DVD a couple of days ago. I liked it. Besides being a good flick, Sandra Bullock is a cutie!
Dont' give 'em too hard a time. They had a job to do and they got it done. Refreshing, if you've ever had to work with Gov't agencies and wait and wait and wait for something to get done.
The DMV should take lessons!!!!!! :-)
drive stainless. It doesn't get you around the DMV, a DMC just makes the DMV worthwhile!
I asked webster and they didn't know. They did suggest "theatines", which were Catholic priests who were ordered to combat immorality and Lutheranism. Seems almost apropos, but not quite.
Gimme Doc Brown's De Lorean and Mr. Fusion!
Live the Dream-- Drive Stainless!
whole scoop here
WAS DARWIN REALLY "VINDICATED"? Frank Sherwin, MA Zoology (Parisitology) Ever since Darwin, secular scientists have been at a loss to find compelling empirical evidence for macroevolution. The latest cause for celebration (premature as it turns out) has been the results of the Human Genome Project. By some twisted logic, evolutionist Arthur Caplan and others, sees this research as a major point in favor of evolutionism, saying that Darwin has been vindicated and that "we are descended from bacteria."
But no, as usual, upon closer inspection, the facts of science have thrown a wet towel on evolutionary naturalism.
The human genome is made up of the chemical compound, DNA. The building blocks of DNA are units called nucleotides, composed of a sugar, phosphate and a nitrogenous base. All the origin of life scenarios fail to explain how such nucleotides can form naturalistically in the manner that would then cause them to form a string of nucleotides.
Then there's the issue of the origin of DNA molecule itself. Sir John Maddox, former editor of the prestigious Nature magazine, in 1994 lamented, "So it is disappointing that the origin of the genetic code [DNA] is still as obscure as the origin of life itself."
One scientific reason why we didn't evolve from lower life forms over the alleged "millions of years" is the genetic repair system found in the nucleus all living cells (and in prokaryotes that don't have a nucleus). This complex system continuously monitors the DNA molecule for mispaired bases and damage and is a major roadblock in allowing genetic mistakes (mutations) to establish themselves in DNA. Unfortunately for the materialist, it is these random mistakes upon which the cryptic macroevolutionary process depends. If neo-Darwinian theory were true, then natural selection would clearly select against these efficient repair mechanisms.
Our alleged bacterial ancestry is without scientific support. If such a bizarre progression occurred, it left no fossil evidence, "Both the origin of life and the origin of the major groups of animals remain unknown" said evolutionist A.G. Fisher in 1998. Editor of the American Scientist book, 'Exploring Evolutionary Biology', stated, "The fossil record has always been a problem." A problem for macroevolutionists perhaps, but certainly not for the creation science model which predicts the abrupt appearance of life in the sedimentary rock units. Humans are a good example. According to evolutionists Villee, Solomon & Davis, "We appear suddenly in the fossil record, or so it seems to many paleontologists." In 2000 two evolutionists, Collard and Wood admitted, "existing phylogenetic hypotheses about human evolution are unlikely to be reliable. Accordingly, new approaches are required to address the problem of hominin [evolution]." The same can be said for animals, "Despite a century of work on metazoan phylum-level phylogeny using anatomical and embryological data, it has not been possible to infer a well-supported [evolution of the animal kingdom]" Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics, 1994.
Speaking of Darwin, we are all familiar with his infamous 1859 book The Origin of the Species. Ironically, one thing he never addressed was the origin of the species! Indeed, over a century later evolutionists are still mulling over the species issue, "The formation of species has long represented one of the most central, yet also one of the most elusive, subjects in evolutionary biology" S.R. Palumbi, Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics, 1994. Natural selection, usually attributed to Darwin and Wallace, cannot explain why we have bears and beetles, bacteria and buffalo, "Natural selection can act only on those biologic properties that already exist [creation]; it cannot create properties in order to meet adaptational needs [evolution]" Parasitology, 6th ed. Noble & Noble, Lea & Febiger publishers. British science writer Richard Milton said the primary problem of neo-Darwinism is the improbability of spontaneous genetic mutations leading to beneficial novelties in form. In 1992 anti-creationists Orr & Coyne stated in American Naturalist, "We conclude - unexpectedly - that there is little evidence for the neo-Darwinian view: its theoretical foundations and the experimental evidence supporting it are weak." More recently, evolutionist D.L. Stern asked in the pages of Evolution 54(4), "One of the oldest problems in evolutionary biology remains largely unsolved. Which mutations generate evolutionarily relevant phenotypic variations? What kinds of molecular changes do they entail?" What do secular biologists really know about vertical evolution (macroevolution) that is true?
Throughout his article, Caplan assures the reader that evolutionism has been validated via genome mapping with phrases like, ".. . Darwin was right - mankind evolved . . . . we are descended from bacteria . . . our genetic instructions have evolved . . . " etc. But there's a distressing lack of hard, empirical evidence. Only through constant repetition does Caplan tell us what could be said in a single sentence, 'Our genes document our bacterial ancestry - Darwin was right.' Meanwhile, as we have seen, science says something quite different.
What did the Human Genome Project actually show? It would be best to go to the source, to someone who actually did the work such as Gene Myers of Celera Genomics in Maryland. Myers put together Celera's genome map and said, "What really astounds me is the architecture of life . . . the system is extremely complex. It's like it was designed . . . there's a huge intelligence there" - from an article by Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 19, 2001.
Creation scientists concur, if one were to go where the evidence leads in this massive mapping project, he would indeed come away saying there's a huge Intelligence involved.
This is the point of creation scientists everywhere. Design means a designer; creation means a Creator. The Apostle Paul stated in Romans 1:20 that God's creation is "clearly seen." One would be hard pressed to explain the exquisite design features of DNA, and the multitude of plants, animals and people that it codes for, to mere chance, time and natural selection. There's but one alternative to such naturalism, and that's supernaturalism, which is anathema to the Darwinist . . . .
thanks to Frank Sherwin
don't ya think?
stainless is as stainless does
Go Federal Defiance! Somebody needs to cut the Federal gov't down a few sizes and give back to the states.
As if. In less than seven days their will be hundreds of press releases refuting that so-called fact.
This man offers no concrete basis for this assumption. And that is all it is-- an assumption based on a preconceived opinion. This is common over all scientific fields-- "I think this is true and so I will prove it." But what quite a lot of arrogant scientists don't do is evaluate the data fairly in a unenfranchised point of view.
And before anyone can jump on my back-- I'll admit to the same faults about believing Creationism. I say "I believe there is God who created this incredible universe and will prove it." But I can't prove it to you, and they certainly haven't proved anything to me.
So we share a lot common genomes with every living creature on the planet. Of course we are similar, we live on the same planet, and have to live in harmony. That's the way we were created.
I'm eager to see what the Institute for Creation Research will say about the genome project....
I thought- geez, I hope I have alot of chest hair and appeal to ladies!
That was right before puberty... now I have so much chest hair my wife hates it!!
Shaving is not an option!
If I were really motivated I would try to calculate the exact moment when the earth is exactly equal... but I guess that is relative to position. My mind hurts, time to go to StarBucks.
drive stainless || live stainless
with thanks to New Hampshire for their motto on that one.
Because it's not about love that saves someone from something like that. It's about Grace, about one more chance, because no one deserves another chance. People suck.
You know, I know it. We are all selfish back-stabbing suckers who don't deserve life after the way we treat people (friends, family-- parents) let alone the Creator.
that's a laugh. BIG laugh.
It's definitely not PC-- that's the Political Crap--er Correct-- it does show some honor and intelligence. This man realizes that he is just a man, and without an all-knowing, loving God, he is nothing. And even a touchdown doesn't matter if he doesn't thank God for giving it to him through his skill and abilities.
I should be doing that too-- kneeling and thanking God for another skillful script on my machine or a great install or an excellent diagnosis of a problem on of one of our machines.
Dang-- I just started preaching at myself. It's not enough to have Jesus in my heart, I should be living here in the office and the computer room just like those pro-players are living it in the end zone (and hopefully lockers, sidelines, and home!)!
Put one of those drill thingies on the front and program them to look for termites and termite tunnels and launch a couple dozen around the house.
They could be programmed to go after June bugs, cockroaches, roly polies, spiders-- though they may be too quick for miniXtermiNaders.
They could them communicate with the others, using triangulation from other MXTN's and relay their coordinates and circle the buzzards and destroy the entire nest. YeeHaa!
Actually, that triangulation idea is a great one. They could create a little miniature wireless network, relaying info to the others. Kind of like tiny little Borg's running around your yard. Now if they could just feed on the bug's and recharge their batteries, that would definitely be something. Indefinite, mobile, bug zappers. I like it!
drive stainless
Clinton did nothing for the economy. He passed no laws, made no sweeping reforms or referendums that made Americans more wealthy, happy, and peaceful. He just forced himself on some coeds, state employees, and strippers.
Economy is one of those things that just happens. It goes up, it plumits down. The terrible thing is that a semi-conservative will get blamed for it this time.
People- including myself (dangit!) spend too much and save too little. It's going to bite us/me real hard in the ars soon.
Not entirely true. the AKRR had diesel spill (several actually) and they are still trying to clean up the area. Once the fuel even got into the creek. Ooops- hope I didn't give the Environmentaldisseds more fodder. 'Kuz really, I'd like to see this for Alaska. More options and jobs for my old homestate.
drive stainless