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  1. Something up with this page. on Slashback: OpenDocument, Intelligent Design, More DRM · · Score: 1

    Suddenly there is a gray box half way down the article (covering part of a post), the pointer disappears when I go into the bounds of the box, and at the bottom of the article under the /. links in the black area was a picture of guys at a football game with the letters ROD SEX on their chests.
    I checked my machine for spy ware and add ware but I can find nothing. Did someone sneak something in?

  2. Re:Teh city landfill welcomes your business ventur on Slashback: OpenDocument, Intelligent Design, More DRM · · Score: 1

    You would be amazed. My new Intelligent Lifting theory explains it all.

  3. Re:Can you say "backfire" on Slashback: OpenDocument, Intelligent Design, More DRM · · Score: 1

    Your best bet for local radio in Columbus is WCBE. Sure they play public radio shows (I cant complain about the music ones, and enjoy the news/story ones), but the local stuff they produce is good and they take requests.

  4. Re:I've read Van Von Hunter... on American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga · · Score: 1

    There is also a computer adventure game. Seems to be based off the adult comic book character.

  5. Re:Trendsetter on American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga · · Score: 1

    You need to get out more.
    Out here in Columbus, Ohio we have no Japan Town type place. Translated manga has been in major booksellers for many years now (upwards of 5 most certainly).

  6. Re:Novell-Borg screw up again on Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell · · Score: 1

    Nah, they are not the Borg. They are the Pakleds. They look for things.

  7. Re:Cause the Bible is translated wrong on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Ask a Hindu, they have the devine timescales worked out.

    The following was taken from a website with an article by Robert Lee Camp

    "Ancient Yogic scriptures, known collectively as the Puranas, give a picture of time that is vast and highly detailed. And according to these works of knowledge, our planet has been around much longer than anyone imagined and will be around for much longer too. In their cosmology, time is basically divided up into major chapters of time known as Yugas. There are four Yugas that repeat just like the four seasons of our year. However, each of these four Yugas are different in length. They are as follows:

    Satya Yuga 1,728,000 years The Age of Light or Golden Age

    Treta Yuga 1,296,000 years The Silver Age

    Dwapara Yuga 864,000 years The Bronze Age

    Kali Yuga 432,000 years The Iron Age

    A complete cycle of four of these Yugas makes up on Mahayuga, which totals 4,320,000 years. Then, it proceeds to another measure called a Day of Brahma, which is 1,000 Mahayugas, or 4,320,000,000 years. Needless to say, that is a very long time. But there are even greater measurements of time. One Cosmic Day consists of one day and one night of Brahma or 8, 640,000,000 years. 360 full Cosmic Days make up one year of Brahma and the life span of Brahma is 100 Brahma Years, or close to 311 trillion earth years. As long as that is, there are even greater measurements to behold.

    A thousand life spans of Brahma are equal to only 24 minutes of one day of Vishnu. And you can multiply this out for a hundred Vishnu Years to get the number of earth years for one of his life spans.

    And then comes Lord Shiva, who has the longest life span of all. One thousand Vishnu life spans (each of 100 Vishnu Years) equals only 24 seconds of one Shiva Day. And if that wasn't enough, a thousand life spans of Lord Shiva only equal 12 seconds in the life of Ishvar (God). And so it goes.

    Brhama, Vishnu and Shiva are the three manifest beings of this earth plane and their life spans seem beyond belief to most of us. But in accordance with this time system, amazing predictions have been made and are coming true.

    These four ages have distinctly different characteristics. In each age, the overall consciousness and purity of the souls that are alive is at a different level. If you haven't guessed already, the Satya Yuga is the highest age of all. In this age, all beings have the highest consciousness possible and there is no evil or darkness upon the earth at all. This age gradually translates into the Treta Yuga where there is a little less Dharma (right action) and more Adharma (negative behavior that produces pain and suffering). It is possible to achieve enlightenment in any age but the overall makeup of each age more or less supports it. The lowest age of all is the Kali Yuga where immorality, injustice and every crime against humanity and individuals that is conceivable occurs. And that is the age that we are presently in.

    In yogic scriptures written tens of thousands of years ago, the characteristics of what we are experiencing each day were described. Men and women killing each other over money and passion, having sex with children, wholesale slaughter, immorality in every conceivable form and the utter lack of any theme of righteousness are all characteristics of the Kali Yuga. Similar predictions were made in the Bible and it is interesting to read the two separate predictions of today's culture and society. They seem to be written by the same person!

    In the other three Yugas, people tend to have many magic powers. Things that occur in those Yugas seem unimaginable now. If you want to get a glimpse of how life was in just the previous Yuga, which was Dwapara, read from the book, the Mahabharata. This ancient Sanskrit poem, which is over 200,000 verses long in rhyming Sanskrit, has been translated into English many times and there are some condensed versions available

  8. Re:what if... on 3 Million 360s In 3 Months? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing soon all SONY hardware will have a remote activated self destruct, keyed to the release of a updated version of the same product.

  9. Re:$1.5 billion? Wishful thinking... on 3 Million 360s In 3 Months? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that attach rate due to most Xboxes available (Amazon, Gamestop, EB, Best Buy) during/after launch being bundles with 2 games? Thats what I remember seeing at the time.

  10. Re:Cause the Bible is translated wrong on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Ask a Hindu, they have the devine timescales worked out.

    The following was taken from a website with an article by Robert Lee Camp

    "Ancient Yogic scriptures, known collectively as the Puranas, give a picture of time that is vast and highly detailed. And according to these works of knowledge, our planet has been around much longer than anyone imagined and will be around for much longer too. In their cosmology, time is basically divided up into major chapters of time known as Yugas. There are four Yugas that repeat just like the four seasons of our year. However, each of these four Yugas are different in length. They are as follows:

    Satya Yuga 1,728,000 years The Age of Light or Golden Age

    Treta Yuga 1,296,000 years The Silver Age

    Dwapara Yuga 864,000 years The Bronze Age

    Kali Yuga 432,000 years The Iron Age

    A complete cycle of four of these Yugas makes up on Mahayuga, which totals 4,320,000 years. Then, it proceeds to another measure called a Day of Brahma, which is 1,000 Mahayugas, or 4,320,000,000 years. Needless to say, that is a very long time. But there are even greater measurements of time. One Cosmic Day consists of one day and one night of Brahma or 8, 640,000,000 years. 360 full Cosmic Days make up one year of Brahma and the life span of Brahma is 100 Brahma Years, or close to 311 trillion earth years. As long as that is, there are even greater measurements to behold.

    A thousand life spans of Brahma are equal to only 24 minutes of one day of Vishnu. And you can multiply this out for a hundred Vishnu Years to get the number of earth years for one of his life spans.

    And then comes Lord Shiva, who has the longest life span of all. One thousand Vishnu life spans (each of 100 Vishnu Years) equals only 24 seconds of one Shiva Day. And if that wasn't enough, a thousand life spans of Lord Shiva only equal 12 seconds in the life of Ishvar (God). And so it goes.

    Brhama, Vishnu and Shiva are the three manifest beings of this earth plane and their life spans seem beyond belief to most of us. But in accordance with this time system, amazing predictions have been made and are coming true.

    These four ages have distinctly different characteristics. In each age, the overall consciousness and purity of the souls that are alive is at a different level. If you haven't guessed already, the Satya Yuga is the highest age of all. In this age, all beings have the highest consciousness possible and there is no evil or darkness upon the earth at all. This age gradually translates into the Treta Yuga where there is a little less Dharma (right action) and more Adharma (negative behavior that produces pain and suffering). It is possible to achieve enlightenment in any age but the overall makeup of each age more or less supports it. The lowest age of all is the Kali Yuga where immorality, injustice and every crime against humanity and individuals that is conceivable occurs. And that is the age that we are presently in.

    In yogic scriptures written tens of thousands of years ago, the characteristics of what we are experiencing each day were described. Men and women killing each other over money and passion, having sex with children, wholesale slaughter, immorality in every conceivable form and the utter lack of any theme of righteousness are all characteristics of the Kali Yuga. Similar predictions were made in the Bible and it is interesting to read the two separate predictions of today's culture and society. They seem to be written by the same person!

    In the other three Yugas, people tend to have many magic powers. Things that occur in those Yugas seem unimaginable now. If you want to get a glimpse of how life was in just the previous Yuga, which was Dwapara, read from the book, the Mahabharata. This ancient Sanskrit poem, which is over 200,000 verses long in rhyming Sanskrit, has been translated into English many times and there are some condensed versions available

  11. Re:there are a lot of things like this on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    Funny you use the words "decent" and "monster cable" in succession.
    I hear they make some kick ass 802.1b cables, but thy cost a lot.

  12. Re:I'll join the "me too" crowd on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    Do you have stairs in your house?

  13. Re:Marketing on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    The Gamecube was released in your choice of original color here in the USA, Indigo or black. The consumer had a choice in color from the start. In Japan, as I recall, it was released in a few more colors, an orange called "spice" and I think red or blue, I cant remember exactly.

  14. Re:Children Shouldn't Be Indoctrinated on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I only follow the official Roman histories as told by Uderzo and Goscinny. It's a known fact that Druids used magical golden sickles to cut mistletoe for the magical potions they would make. These potions allowed a tiny village in Gaul to resist the might of the Roman Empire.

  15. Re:wrong Re:Talk to those that wrote it down? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    "There has to be a line somewhere, and IMHO God typically doesn't do things for people when they are perfectly capable of doing it themselves."

    So this would be a supply side God to go with supply side Jesus?

  16. Re:wrong Re:Talk to those that wrote it down? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I can't buy that David had no skill with a sling (different thing then a slingshot).

  17. Re: Talk to those that wrote it down? on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    Where does that whole bible code thing (something I only recently came across) factor into this?

  18. Re:Theory needs work on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I'm all for stronger drunk flying laws for cosmic beings.

  19. Re:Other Media on Industry Leaders Frustrated With Game Culture · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of discussion the anime fan community has been having since the 70's (possibly earlier).

  20. Re:-1 Flamebait on Industry Leaders Frustrated With Game Culture · · Score: 1

    True, but not all the story advancement missions require you to kill or significantly break the law (any more then the other AI drivers).

  21. Re:-1 Incoherent on Industry Leaders Frustrated With Game Culture · · Score: 1

    Firefighter, Ambulance, Taxi, Chopshop, Racing (street, RC, dirtbike), Pizza delivery, Stunts, Vehicle specific challanges, dancing, the various collectables.

    I probably missed a few, but there are plenty of things you can do in the games that will take a decent amount of time.

    Now there are a larger number of violent things you can do (and the missions that advance the plot are mostly involving violence) as well.

  22. Re:Catcher vs. Doom? One's full, the other's empty on Industry Leaders Frustrated With Game Culture · · Score: 1

    In "The Sufering" any time you were around an NPC voices in your head (comes as whispers over the soundtrack) tell you to kill them and give reasons why you should do it. I havent gone back through yet but supposedly how you deal with them (I left them alive) affects the game down the road.

  23. Re:It's better here than anywhere else on FBI Widens Use of National Security Letters · · Score: 1

    I don't know about any WV sniper, but the crazy dude from Ohio was spotted in Las Vegas and turned in by, I think, 2 different people.
    He copped a plea (after dropping insanity defense) and was sentenced to 27 years.

  24. Re:The biggest difference is on XBOX 360=Dreamcast 2.0? · · Score: 1

    The PS3 is so powerful that if they had ventilation holes, the Magic Genie Smoke Engine (TM SORNY) would get out and destroy the universe.

  25. Re:engaging immersive on XBOX 360=Dreamcast 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Or TG-16/DUO/PC-Engine.