You may have just been satirical with that post, but Jesus was born some time around 4-6 B.C. An earlier translation of the bible said the Star of Bethlehem was actually a 'planetary body' and the alignment of Jupiter and some other planet (maybe the moon, I don't remember) not only coincides with the year 4 B.C but they would have appeared in the sky in the direction that the wise man would have traveled to find Jesus' birthplace. Another similar alignment happened in 6 B.C. with the planet Saturn. I don't remember the url, but I think it was in a post in slashdot's xmastime poll.
he doesn't claim to drop the electron to a lower energy level, he claims to shrink the energy level so energy used to keep the larger orbit is released.
i bet this movie has stuff like cars not starting. this is kind of crap is what is going to cause stupid people (practically everyone) to take money from banks and sell stocks.
people only whined about TNG for a couple years at most. it got to be a good series after about two to three years. voyager, however, is on its 6th(?) year and still has the STUPIDEST writing and ideas for shows. i remember a poll or a news article a while back and all anyone did was bash voyager, paticularly its lame writing and show ideas and acting (i want to kill the person who casted captain janeway sometimes). i only watch it to fulfill my star trek watching addiction if you will, which i got from growing up with TNG.
and the earth/life is believed to be somewhere around 8 billion years old. the proof we're looking for would be found in rocks older than 3.96 billion years.
if god created all life and created science, why did he make DNA some huge complicated molecule wiht hundreds of atoms. why is there even dna. why isn't life something special physically, not just carbon and other simple junk. to me, the fact that we are made up of simple atoms and our dna is nothing more than a relatively simple molecule (when you look at its composition) is support for theories of evolution, natural selection, etc.
if dna can be peiced together easily, its not that hard to imagine it being formed naturally over billions of years. i saw this analogy in someone elses quote 'if you throw matchsticks in the air for billions of years, they will eventually land and spell life'.
like you said, religion is right along side thinking the earth is flat and the universe revolves around it. some great work of fiction, designed to scare little children into respecting their parents and giving people a reason to be good during their life.. to get into heaven. (wouldn't the idea that there is simply no afterlife make people value their life more?) its nothing more than a parable, a fictional story with a good lesson (while i dont believe the historical aspects of the bible, some of its lessons can be applied to non-religious life). the only reason people still believe is that it can't be disproven. we have proved that the earth is a sphere, and we have also proved that the earth revolves around the sun. atheists and non believers are becoming more apparent in america, and i think proof of non religious beliefs is coming soon. (you dont believe in Zues or Thor anymore do you?)
ok, lets assume God created all life. why is there even DNA, a 'natural' molecule made up of some relatively simple things behind the reproduction of cells and all of the life processes. If i were God i'd uh... 'think' of something a little less complicated and something that didn't point towards evolution quite so much.
if in fact someone could do this, peice together DNA and life with just basic chemicals, God and creationism would suddenly seem insagnificant because life can be made with a few simple chemicals floating around in a bowl. i can't wait.
90% of what Katz said about web design was him bullshitting because he doesn't know a thing about it. he called this website 'snazzy'. (i wouldn't want my supposed 'interactive' websites made for the masses called snazzy unless it was snazzy for all relatively recent web browsers. this isn't). he called it 'beautifully conceived'. perhaps the webmaster conceived it on windows with internet explorer 5.0 because it came preinstalled and he had no idea other web browsers existed (that's just a theory though).
this site is crap. it took nearly 3-4 minutes to load connected at 26,400. total size including images is 154kb. it uses frames for no good reason. and WHAT THE HELL is that blue checkerish background. puke. that dhtml scrollbar behaves like its on crack. clicking the down button moves the viewing area further than if you click the part of the bar without the draggable button. (not to mention the draggable button never goes all the way down). there is, infact, a 'non frames version', but only to read the forums. after clicking the forum button, a menu pops up asking 'frames' or 'no frames'. real snazzy. doesn't this totally defeat the purpose?
this isn't website design. this is graphic design with some poor javascript and shtml programming. too often people show me these 'awesome' websites that they say 'have cool web design'. i go there and its nothing more than a table with some hitech looking graphics. 'look mah, today in computer class i learned how to import my images into microsoft word and save it as html' (you get my point). or better yet, an image map. while i commend the graphics, i (try to) politely inform the person that it is graphic design and im not very impressed with the 'web design'. yankees.com is a good example. except, of course, i dont commend the graphics. they dont look good, nor do they match to create an asthetically pleasing design.
i hate to say this, but i agree with the person who earlier said 'jon katz knew someone working on the site and put in a good word for them'. he may be wrong, but if he is, jon needs to try again.
Although I've never read this, I wrote a short essay/theory similar. It was meant to prove that the universe is in fact finite.
In an infinite universe, technically an infinite amount of events are happening every instant. Solar systems and Earths and Human Races evolved very similar to our own, even exactly like our own (an infinite amount, in fact). Somewhere there is an alien race that has contacted humans, an infinite amount of them. Somewhere an asteroid was flung into (our) earth destroying all life, an infinite amount of them. Since these events have clearly not happened, how could you say the universe is infinite?
To reply to rebuttals beforehand...
Some people tell me 'well, that could be true, but maybe there hasn't been enough time for all of these infintie events to happen.' The theory of an infinite universe doesn't exactly correspond with the big bang, or a certain starting point for time and the universe. As far as I know, infinite universe theories all claim infinite time. Correct me if I'm wrong.
ah yes the infamous slashdot effect.. its malda's plan to rid the internet of small news sites who might steal his glory some day:). just curious.. what kind of server is/. running on?
Slashdot Mirror
please moderate this person up. those of us without web browsers would be unaware of slashdotted sites if it weren't for him@!%$
You may have just been satirical with that post, but Jesus was born some time around 4-6 B.C. An earlier translation of the bible said the Star of Bethlehem was actually a 'planetary body' and the alignment of Jupiter and some other planet (maybe the moon, I don't remember) not only coincides with the year 4 B.C but they would have appeared in the sky in the direction that the wise man would have traveled to find Jesus' birthplace. Another similar alignment happened in 6 B.C. with the planet Saturn. I don't remember the url, but I think it was in a post in slashdot's xmastime poll.
It says 'ends in the fifth move with...'
The way I interpret that, it means that knight taking rook is the last move, since the game ends 'with that move'.
You could be talking about the knight moving from a position that was blocking a check(mate), but that wouldn't be a legal move.
By 'move' I believe they mean 'turn', where both white and black move. So the game would be completed on either the 9th(white) or 10th(black) 'move'.
hydrogen has 1 electron.
he doesn't claim to drop the electron to a lower energy level, he claims to shrink the energy level so energy used to keep the larger orbit is released.
i bet this movie has stuff like cars not starting. this is kind of crap is what is going to cause stupid people (practically everyone) to take money from banks and sell stocks.
people only whined about TNG for a couple years at most. it got to be a good series after about two to three years. voyager, however, is on its 6th(?) year and still has the STUPIDEST writing and ideas for shows. i remember a poll or a news article a while back and all anyone did was bash voyager, paticularly its lame writing and show ideas and acting (i want to kill the person who casted captain janeway sometimes). i only watch it to fulfill my star trek watching addiction if you will, which i got from growing up with TNG.
this is a post RTJ book
slashdot needs a 'stupid lawsuits' topic.
i always read 8 billion. anyways, how could rocks prove wether there was oxygen in the atmosphere or not?
and the earth/life is believed to be somewhere around 8 billion years old. the proof we're looking for would be found in rocks older than 3.96 billion years.
if god created all life and created science, why did he make DNA some huge complicated molecule wiht hundreds of atoms. why is there even dna. why isn't life something special physically, not just carbon and other simple junk. to me, the fact that we are made up of simple atoms and our dna is nothing more than a relatively simple molecule (when you look at its composition) is support for theories of evolution, natural selection, etc.
if dna can be peiced together easily, its not that hard to imagine it being formed naturally over billions of years. i saw this analogy in someone elses quote 'if you throw matchsticks in the air for billions of years, they will eventually land and spell life'.
like you said, religion is right along side thinking the earth is flat and the universe revolves around it. some great work of fiction, designed to scare little children into respecting their parents and giving people a reason to be good during their life.. to get into heaven. (wouldn't the idea that there is simply no afterlife make people value their life more?) its nothing more than a parable, a fictional story with a good lesson (while i dont believe the historical aspects of the bible, some of its lessons can be applied to non-religious life). the only reason people still believe is that it can't be disproven. we have proved that the earth is a sphere, and we have also proved that the earth revolves around the sun. atheists and non believers are becoming more apparent in america, and i think proof of non religious beliefs is coming soon. (you dont believe in Zues or Thor anymore do you?)
uh, which parts of the bible have been 'verified to be true?'
unfortunately, we haven't found rocks from very far back.
ok, lets assume God created all life. why is there even DNA, a 'natural' molecule made up of some relatively simple things behind the reproduction of cells and all of the life processes. If i were God i'd uh... 'think' of something a little less complicated and something that didn't point towards evolution quite so much.
if in fact someone could do this, peice together DNA and life with just basic chemicals, God and creationism would suddenly seem insagnificant because life can be made with a few simple chemicals floating around in a bowl. i can't wait.
what exactly would you dcc to someone on a dreamcast?
shtml=dhtml
90% of what Katz said about web design was him bullshitting because he doesn't know a thing about it. he called this website 'snazzy'. (i wouldn't want my supposed 'interactive' websites made for the masses called snazzy unless it was snazzy for all relatively recent web browsers. this isn't). he called it 'beautifully conceived'. perhaps the webmaster conceived it on windows with internet explorer 5.0 because it came preinstalled and he had no idea other web browsers existed (that's just a theory though).
this site is crap. it took nearly 3-4 minutes to load connected at 26,400. total size including images is 154kb. it uses frames for no good reason. and WHAT THE HELL is that blue checkerish background. puke. that dhtml scrollbar behaves like its on crack. clicking the down button moves the viewing area further than if you click the part of the bar without the draggable button. (not to mention the draggable button never goes all the way down). there is, infact, a 'non frames version', but only to read the forums. after clicking the forum button, a menu pops up asking 'frames' or 'no frames'. real snazzy. doesn't this totally defeat the purpose?
this isn't website design. this is graphic design with some poor javascript and shtml programming. too often people show me these 'awesome' websites that they say 'have cool web design'. i go there and its nothing more than a table with some hitech looking graphics. 'look mah, today in computer class i learned how to import my images into microsoft word and save it as html' (you get my point). or better yet, an image map. while i commend the graphics, i (try to) politely inform the person that it is graphic design and im not very impressed with the 'web design'. yankees.com is a good example. except, of course, i dont commend the graphics. they dont look good, nor do they match to create an asthetically pleasing design.
i hate to say this, but i agree with the person who earlier said 'jon katz knew someone working on the site and put in a good word for them'. he may be wrong, but if he is, jon needs to try again.
i can't think of any other 'recognition software'. maybe he was just BSing
Although I've never read this, I wrote a short essay/theory similar. It was meant to prove that the universe is in fact finite.
In an infinite universe, technically an infinite amount of events are happening every instant. Solar systems and Earths and Human Races evolved very similar to our own, even exactly like our own (an infinite amount, in fact). Somewhere there is an alien race that has contacted humans, an infinite amount of them. Somewhere an asteroid was flung into (our) earth destroying all life, an infinite amount of them. Since these events have clearly not happened, how could you say the universe is infinite?
To reply to rebuttals beforehand...
Some people tell me 'well, that could be true, but maybe there hasn't been enough time for all of these infintie events to happen.' The theory of an infinite universe doesn't exactly correspond with the big bang, or a certain starting point for time and the universe. As far as I know, infinite universe theories all claim infinite time. Correct me if I'm wrong.
ah yes the infamous slashdot effect.. its malda's plan to rid the internet of small news sites who might steal his glory some day :). just curious.. what kind of server is /. running on?
slashdot effect.