Apple IIe (soon to be networked via localtalk, but the rom is ruined on the workstation card.. no wonder the ebayer sold it for $1) Apple IIgs (networked to my linux server via localtalk) Mac Plus (networked to my linux server via localtalk) Mac SE (networked via ethernet) A slew of 9" black&white macs Mac LC (networked to my linux server via token ring) Apple Pippin (set top box) NeXT Colorstation Amiga 500 Amiga 2000 (networked to my linux server via arcnet) Amiga 3000 Amiga 4000 Commodore Vic20 Commodore 64 Commodore 128 DECstation 5000/133 PDP11/04 (with dual board unibus etherneton the way, and in my 42U rack) Vaxstation 3000 Vaxstation 4000 DEC Multia (alpha chip, though a horribly crippled one) Atari ST 520 (networked with homebrew ACSI-ethernet) Atari ST 1024STFM Atari 600XL Sparcstation 2 (with a dual slot HIPPI card, still need hippi for my linux server!) TRS-80 Coco 1, 2 & 3 TRS-80 Model 4 (soon to be networked via Omninet, assuming I can find a ISA omninet card) TRS-80 Model II (soon to be networked via Omninet, assuming I can find a ISA omninet card) TRS-80 Model 6000 (68k cpu, I need an arcnet board for this baby... ran xenix, and billed as a multi-user system by Tandy. Also in *MINT* condition) Altos Bidmaster (ran xenix on a 186...blech) Timex Sinclair TI994a HP Netserver (running Banyan Vines 6) Several 386/486/pentiums (running Netware 2-6) Several PS/2's(running OS/2 v1.3 - Warp 4)
My home lan consists of:
Localtalk, Token Ring (4/16/100mps) Ethernet (10baseT/2/5/100/802.11) VG Anylan, Arcnet (2.5/100mps) FDDI, ATM (155mps, need to find the 622mps optional module for my Cabletron ZX-250) DOCSIS (are there any direct DOCSIS PCI cards? My ifconfig output is only 3 pages or so...)
To be implemented: HIPPI (pending, need PCI card and switch) Omninet (have the multiplexer and vintage cards, need card for linux server) Econet (have cards for Archimedes, would need the incredibly rare Ecolink ISA card for the linux server, and some Acorn machines) Starlan (have a 6300, need the boards, switches.. will be done eventually)
By my count, that means I have these CPU families... 65xx, 68xx, Z80, x86, alpha, 68k, PPC, TMS9900, Sparc, MIPS, Super Hitachi (ok, so its a sega saturn, still counts) ?? (whatever the PDP has, know the board number, but what do you call the cpu family?) ??? (same, for the Vax)
I've lost count of OS's, but it's something like 40+.
I'm obviously missing the Bebox, and Apple Lisa. The Bebox though, I'm holding out for the Lucent Hobbit CPU prototype... no lame PPC here;)
I suppose I also need an HP-UX machine, for another OS and the PA-Risc chip. Wouldn't hurt to pick up a cheap SGI Indy either, or for that matter an earlier RS6000. But I really want a Xerox Alto or Star... anyone selling? Oh, and definitely must have a Falcon (Atari ST, last of the line).
You see, it is a lifetime goal of mine, to have the most evil, bastardized localtalk network ever. That means having
Apple II (already done) x86 PC (The most NICed linux box in history) Macs (easy, of course) NeXT (harder, pretty sure I will have to write the drivers myself) SGI (their RS-422 ports seem to be agreeable with netatalk) Atari (Falcon or TT030, has the rs-422, even in miniDIN8, but never any drivers) Amiga (had a chance at the Zorro2 localtalk board, but was broke... guy wouldn't hold it for me:( )
And if that isn't bad enough, my newly bought 19" rack (for $1 no less!) is already half full. Bay Networks and a a Cisco router (2514), and my lovely PDP11 (oldest computer I own)
But the worst part is, by far, I'm just getting started.
The ACSI (bastardized SCSI) port on the Atari ST's are db19. Also all mac/apple2 external floppy drives, as the parent poster mentions. At the moment, also seems like DECstations used it for the mouse/keyboard port, though that may have been db15. And I'm sure there are any number of other uses it had...
If you really want to talk about rare Dsub connectors, the Amiga's db23 video port is the truly horrid one to find...
I'm not entirely convinced that technology has to follow a fire/metallurgy path, to be viable or sophisticated. Was it Harry Harrison's world, where the dinosauroids have an incredibly sophisticated biotechology... they design living things as tools and even computers. The only use of metal by them in the entire book, is where they use a bio-engineered blob to "secrete" a ring of iron around a human specimen's neck. Fire is merely a "dangerous and rare chemical reaction".
As for "growing digits", I agree somewhat, but do they have to be fingers? An elephants trunk is moderately agile, and certainly there are other possibilities...
Prevention is good, when it can be effected without infringing on our rights as citizens. For instance, we could prevent all crime by putting everyone in prison... would you want that?
Prevention with the restrictions I have mentioned is neither easy nor cheap.
Also, I believe there are effects where violent games both sate the hunger for real-life violence, and those that fuel it further. Which is the dominant effect I wouldn't want to try guessing....
The Standard Model of physics doesn't allow for the Chicken Neutrino, only the Electron, Muon and Tau neutrinos. This is why I consider the Standard Model flawed, and I've proposed a new model, dubbed the Craptastic Model.
Among other innovations, the Craptastic Model does allow for the existence of Chicken Neutrino. What's more, the CM allows for an indefinite number of types of neutrinos, potentially thousands of them. It is my intent to auction off the name rights to these new fabulous types of particles. For instance, by paying the proper fees, there could be a Tropicana Neutrino*, or the General Motors Neutrino*. What could be more prestigious than having an elementary particle named after your company? The marketing potential is incredible! Get in now before they're all gone!
* Experimental evidence of these neutrinos withheld pending receipt of standard fees.
I am making great progress on my weather control device, and I don't see any significant issues that should delay such wonderful mayhem! If it makes people more comfortable though, I will blackmail the world's goverments into abandoning all weather research (among other things). That way, you'll know that weather catastrophe-causing machines will only be in the possession of responsible people like myself and my henchmen.
BTW, CmdrTaco, if you are interested, I wouldn't mind at all doing a Slashdot interview, answering the 10 highest moderated posts/revenge requests. Slashdotters, if you're interested in seeing someone's house torn to shreds by preternatural tornados, or small tropical island nations decimated by a freak hurricane, just let Taco know you'd like Slashdot to interview me. And make those requests interesting and malevolent!
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For crying out loud...
He was working with what he had. Budget cuts, deadlines moved forward, half his dept. was layed off, it was a mess. You're actually lucky you don't *shit* out of that same tube, the divine marketdroids were sure that was the only way to come in at budget and still have a viable Human(TM).
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Actually, nobody has ever seen "evolution" happen in a way congruent with the theories proposed by Darwinian evolutionists. Their theories include rates of change that are so slow as to be unobservable.
Wrong. We also can't see electrons, or stars/galaxies at the edge of the universe. We don't need to see them to observe them though. Evolution has been observed in the fossil record, and even to some extent in the laboratory. Still, the lab observations are fairly new (the last 30-40 years) and science is busy debating whether or not it is indeed evolution... after all, as you pointed out, it is a slow effect.
Furthermore, no evolutionist has ever explained creatures like the Bombardier Beetle and its built-in flame thrower.
Huh? Of course evolutionists don't know everything at once... they don't claim to be omniscient. However, that doesn't mean they are doofuses without a clue. There have already been several possible explanations suggested in the scientific community, and no one disputes that something unknown is going on. You must not be researching this issue very thoroughly, if you believe there are no explanations at all, and that biologists are all sitting around dumbfounded.
Some of the more radical ideas center around the possibility that DNA acts more like a computer than a raw blueprint. That it might "store" a bunch of "mutations", saving them for a rainy day when some threshhold is reached. This "computer" might even span many individuals in the population. So instead of a gradual change into a "bombadier beetle" where there are many transitionary variants doomed to blowing themselves up, evolution simply "skipped over" those and went straight to the version capable of blowing up its enemies, and not itself.
Was it Greg Bear that said "Even evolution is evolving, becoming better at what it does." ?
Besides, lay off Darwinian evolution. Most people today see it as only the crudest approximation of the reality of evolution. Would figure that a bible thumper would be reacting to the scientific community of 100 years ago... you guys are always more than a few steps behind.
To sum up the performance of Slashdot's 2002 trolls... (*wink* you know who you are)
Natalie Portman. C- In Soviet Russia. A+ First post! B All your base. D Stephen King dead. F Goatsex man. F #3 Profit! B
Overall summary: Trolls, your quest has only become more challenging, with more lameness filtering, competition from thousands of troll wannabees, and PR smearing you as juvenile retards with no sense of humor and vandalous personality. Even so, I'm afraid I can't give you a passing grade, when dozens of articles go by with not even one goatsex link or poorly written "all your base" parody. You keep chasing ancient Yakov Smirnoff jokes, which can only lead to trouble. You need to work harder so you can be accepted into either Comedy University or your local mental health facility.
Memorization IS a part of learning, an essential part, for almost anything. Thank god someone had the sense to make me memorize the multiplication tables when I was a child, or else I'd be saying things like "I kinda understand what multiplication is about, and I can even look up the answer to 9 x 12 if you give me a moment..". There is no substitute to practice, memorization and self-discipline.
Well, while I'm sure the tests weren't the most exacting ever done, I did get the impression that they allowed for what would be normal radiation levels on the seabed, including for that particular region. Still, it IS easy to explain... any number of things that have happened since 1944 in that area could explain the increase.(The tests were done about 2 years ago, iirc) That's why it was inconclusive, being neither able to prove or disprove a nuclear detonation.
Besides, I'm not sure I believe it either. Offering it as an alternative. Intentional detonation is so far off the fucknut straightjacket schizo scale, that I don't even consider it as anything other than poorly written fiction. Accidental detonation is somewhere closer to mildy/moderately unbelievable... not too bad when compared to the former.
PS The crater is easy to explain too. Any big explosion, no matter the source, leaves a big crater. It's just that conservative figures for crater size for a primitive nuke, and crater size for the supposed amount of munitions on the ship is slightly different. What's the actual size? Almost exactly in the middle. Hell, even the eyewitness reports of a mushroom cloud don't help... with enough chemical explosives, you'll see that too...
I readily agree it wasn't a "nuclear test". But what about the possibility that it was a nuclear accident? As I remember, the ocean floor has a crater slightly bigger than it should for conventional explosives (by no means conclusive) and shows unusually high background radiation (again, the numbers weren't conclusive).
I could belive that in a rush to get this weapon to the japanese front, that it was accidentally detonated. After all, these aren't modern nukes, where you have to enter long codes into the arming computer....
#1 The poor med student deserves to be able to fuck, even when it could mess up her life for years to come. Let's even forget that abortion violates her Hippocratic Oath...
#2 Hellz yeh, this is what I'm talking about. Now, if she could only get rid of the other 2, there could be all sorts of spending/entertainment money! Note: I just re-read this. Most attourneys wouldn't have trouble arguing pre-emptive child support here, you know. Realistically, she could end up being landlord.
#3 Something I can't make fun of. I have an idea though, let's work on eliminating the real problem, which is rape.
#4 Ask any physically handicapped person... wouldn't you rather be dead? Wait, they say "No" ? Well, let's find one too dumb to be able to answer honestly...
#5 This has to be rare, but also just stupid enough to be true. But we could always just show her how $500 and an outpatient procedure can get rid of fetuses because.... sex doesn't create babies, it creates lumps of protoplasm! Yeh, that's what they are... why educate when we can operate.
It's never a decision. The decision comes when you are thinking about whether or not to spread your legs (see #3 for the exception). It's simpler then too, because deciding that you don't want to have a baby doesn't involve $$$ for an abortion or guilt (Is there any guilt? Unlike the moronic pro-lifers, I find it difficult to believe that anyone ever feels guilty). I mean, responsibility, or encouraging it in others is a bad thing, right?
Was the roger rabbit game even beatable? I think I tried for 8 or 9 days, just to beat that piece of shit, and no matter what, you could never get that final weapon (was it paint thinner?) once you punched out the bozo.
I don't play word games. For the goverment to make "decisions", it would imply that sometimes they decide for, rather than against abortion. The goverment, despite all its flaws, has never forced someone to have an abortion, that I am aware of. This is in stark contrast to those nations whose goverments do "make such a decision".
The entire point, is that there is that there is no decision to make. Decisions, if made at all, should be made when you're getting ready to have sex with someone, not 3 weeks later when you realize how utterly fucking retarded you were.
If abortion isn't completely amoral, and a decision no one should ever be allowed to make, then how do you feel about infanticide? There are already those starting to argue such things philosophically and academically, and frankly I am unnerved that I even have to live in the same society as those who could debate shit like that.
All that said, let me say that I find the "pro lifers" equally repugnant. With their wink-wink-nudge-nudge "We'd NEVER condone clinic bombings!" bullshit, there is almost no one to turn to. It's a sick fucking world.
Actually, I find your opinion disgusting and amoral. Men and women both have the right to plan their reproduction, but once they reproduce, they can't renege on the deal. Not to mention, I find it unlikely that you would support my right to abortion, in the event my girlfriend were to become pregnant. Sorta sexist, isn't it? Especially if the procedure is as trivial as you imply.
Even so, I can't find it in my heart to disagree on the main point. I find it all too likely that indirect pressure is put on studies and acadamia to make up lies to support conservative agendas. I wouldn't be suprised if I found out that extreme "persuasions" were occuring. Dubya just gives me that kind of impression.
Really sucks when you realize that neither side is "your" side. Is hilarious when someone rants why the democrats/republicans are so much more morally superior to the republicans/democrats, though....
I eat it on hot dogs, along with mustard and relish.
Duh.
The really important question is, what sort of reaction could breed more anti-matter than it consumed... and could you ever risk experimenting with it? That's the question you should have asked.
Yeh. Too bad that the energy required to make a gram of anti-matter costs $20 trillion USD, takes 300 years to produce, and could provide enough electricity to light NYC for about 10 minutes.
AM/M reactors are prized for their energy density, not energy economy. Not to mention, that unless someone comes up with some sort of anti-matter breeder reactor, we'll never be able to make enough fuel to do more than experiment.
Now, being God, whenever I want anti-matter, I just re-adjust supersymetry temporarily, but lame fuckwads like you have to get your own. Nyah nyah nyah nyah!
PS. Zero-point energy is actually the holy grail, duh. Can't wait til next weeks slashdot article "You too can exploit the Casimir Effect!".
If you failed to call the CC company, and to insist on a chargeback, you should be modded -1, Retard. Not sure that you would recieve it, but if canceling, there is no reason that you wouldn't. Generally, upon hearing that you were charged twice for the same product, even the bitchiest CSR at a credit card company/bank will do the chargeback with no hesitation whatsoever.
Letting people steal from you, even trivial sums, isn't insightful at all. Just dumb.
I keep wondering this myself. Granted, the only games I've written are really crappy, certainly not worth paying for. But I can't help to think, that with even just a few hundred subscribers I could afford to support myself with the game, and colo a suitable server.
What do you really want out of a game though? Personally, I think most want to be a "hero"... but that will always be impossible with something like Everquest. As I see it, I'm thinking I would take applications to play, and try to weed out the idiots and shitheads. Also, you don't "create" a character, you'd get to choose from a lineup... many of which were in existence as NPCs. (Of course, I would try to make sure there are at least 2 or 3 that are particularly appealing). You'd get a short, personally written bio of your character, enough background to play it well. I'd try to get an idea when you'd be playing, and match it up to the liefstyles/location of your character candidates. Maybe you can only play during the EST evening, which is midday in the game world, so you have many to choose from. But EST morning players would have characters primarily awake during the night. Too artificial?
Instead of making it a competition to get items/scores, you'd be presented with all sorts of situations... imagine being the newly hired town guardsmen, and stumbling upon 2 of your coworkers murdering the shopkeeper. Do you try to do something about, try to stay hidden (you could be next), or try to get in on it (maybe they'll split the protection money 3 ways). If you report it, how do you know the guard captain isn't in on it?
People playing out of character would be warned once, and then booted... my opinion, is that many of these situations would evolve on their own, just by playing in character. The rest would be induced by GMs.
How many people, and how much would they pay, for something like that?
No, not at all. I want a complete network with IP connectivity and all the services that are possible with that. Freenet is the wrong approach, imo. It's neat if you want to move files around, but what if you want to chat real time? Or send email? Or any number of other things. Security/anonymity or not, it seems like a step backward. Seems more akin to pre-internet usenet, than it is to anything truly modern. I've heard people suggest that maybe they should build a network layer on top of it, but why do that when we can build such a network correctly, from the ground up?
On Meta, you'll be able to register domain names for free. Or experiment/be involved with the grimy details of managing a big network(or not, if that's not your thing). You'll be able to be anonymous, and yet prove that you are indeed the same anonymous person that someone talked to last week. Run webservers, email, and everything else that your ISP bans. The list goes on...
I hope Freenet is modestly successful though, it will take the limelight then, and act as a distraction for Meta.
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Apple IIe (soon to be networked via localtalk, but the rom is ruined on the workstation card.. no wonder the ebayer sold it for $1)
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Apple IIgs (networked to my linux server via localtalk)
Mac Plus (networked to my linux server via localtalk)
Mac SE (networked via ethernet)
A slew of 9" black&white macs
Mac LC (networked to my linux server via token ring)
Apple Pippin (set top box)
NeXT Colorstation
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000 (networked to my linux server via arcnet)
Amiga 3000
Amiga 4000
Commodore Vic20
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
DECstation 5000/133
PDP11/04 (with dual board unibus etherneton the way, and in my 42U rack)
Vaxstation 3000
Vaxstation 4000
DEC Multia (alpha chip, though a horribly crippled one)
Atari ST 520 (networked with homebrew ACSI-ethernet)
Atari ST 1024STFM
Atari 600XL
Sparcstation 2 (with a dual slot HIPPI card, still need hippi for my linux server!)
TRS-80 Coco 1, 2 & 3
TRS-80 Model 4 (soon to be networked via Omninet, assuming I can find a ISA omninet card)
TRS-80 Model II (soon to be networked via Omninet, assuming I can find a ISA omninet card)
TRS-80 Model 6000 (68k cpu, I need an arcnet board for this baby... ran xenix, and billed as a multi-user system by Tandy. Also in *MINT* condition)
Altos Bidmaster (ran xenix on a 186...blech)
Timex Sinclair
TI994a
HP Netserver (running Banyan Vines 6)
Several 386/486/pentiums (running Netware 2-6)
Several PS/2's(running OS/2 v1.3 - Warp 4)
My home lan consists of:
Localtalk, Token Ring (4/16/100mps)
Ethernet (10baseT/2/5/100/802.11)
VG Anylan, Arcnet (2.5/100mps)
FDDI, ATM (155mps, need to find the 622mps optional module for my Cabletron ZX-250)
DOCSIS (are there any direct DOCSIS PCI cards? My ifconfig output is only 3 pages or so...)
To be implemented:
HIPPI (pending, need PCI card and switch)
Omninet (have the multiplexer and vintage cards, need card for linux server)
Econet (have cards for Archimedes, would need the incredibly rare Ecolink ISA card for the linux server, and some Acorn machines)
Starlan (have a 6300, need the boards, switches.. will be done eventually)
By my count, that means I have these CPU families...
65xx, 68xx, Z80, x86, alpha, 68k, PPC, TMS9900, Sparc, MIPS, Super Hitachi
(ok, so its a sega saturn, still counts)
?? (whatever the PDP has, know the board number, but what do you call the cpu family?)
??? (same, for the Vax)
I've lost count of OS's, but it's something like 40+.
I'm obviously missing the Bebox, and Apple Lisa. The Bebox though, I'm holding out for the Lucent Hobbit CPU prototype... no lame PPC here
I suppose I also need an HP-UX machine, for another OS and the PA-Risc chip. Wouldn't hurt to pick up a cheap SGI Indy either, or for that matter an earlier RS6000. But I really want a Xerox Alto or Star... anyone selling? Oh, and definitely must have a Falcon (Atari ST, last of the line).
You see, it is a lifetime goal of mine, to have the most evil, bastardized localtalk network ever. That means having
Apple II (already done)
x86 PC (The most NICed linux box in history)
Macs (easy, of course)
NeXT (harder, pretty sure I will have to write the drivers myself)
SGI (their RS-422 ports seem to be agreeable with netatalk)
Atari (Falcon or TT030, has the rs-422, even in miniDIN8, but never any drivers)
Amiga (had a chance at the Zorro2 localtalk board, but was broke... guy wouldn't hold it for me:( )
And if that isn't bad enough, my newly bought 19" rack (for $1 no less!) is already half full. Bay Networks and a a Cisco router (2514), and my lovely PDP11 (oldest computer I own)
But the worst part is, by far, I'm just getting started.
The ACSI (bastardized SCSI) port on the Atari ST's are db19. Also all mac/apple2 external floppy drives, as the parent poster mentions. At the moment, also seems like DECstations used it for the mouse/keyboard port, though that may have been db15. And I'm sure there are any number of other uses it had...
If you really want to talk about rare Dsub connectors, the Amiga's db23 video port is the truly horrid one to find...
I'm not entirely convinced that technology has to follow a fire/metallurgy path, to be viable or sophisticated. Was it Harry Harrison's world, where the dinosauroids have an incredibly sophisticated biotechology... they design living things as tools and even computers. The only use of metal by them in the entire book, is where they use a bio-engineered blob to "secrete" a ring of iron around a human specimen's neck. Fire is merely a "dangerous and rare chemical reaction".
As for "growing digits", I agree somewhat, but do they have to be fingers? An elephants trunk is moderately agile, and certainly there are other possibilities...
Wait. Are you saying that 802.11 doesn't provide why-orless 'lectricity? Dag gommit, Jim-Bob has toll me a lie for the lass time...
*chain saw roaring*
We're gonna tich ole Jim-Bob a real good less'n!
Prevention is good, when it can be effected without infringing on our rights as citizens. For instance, we could prevent all crime by putting everyone in prison... would you want that?
Prevention with the restrictions I have mentioned is neither easy nor cheap.
Also, I believe there are effects where violent games both sate the hunger for real-life violence, and those that fuel it further. Which is the dominant effect I wouldn't want to try guessing....
It's called a logic gate. Look it up in a book on basic logic theory. Duh.
The Standard Model of physics doesn't allow for the Chicken Neutrino, only the Electron, Muon and Tau neutrinos. This is why I consider the Standard Model flawed, and I've proposed a new model, dubbed the Craptastic Model.
Among other innovations, the Craptastic Model does allow for the existence of Chicken Neutrino. What's more, the CM allows for an indefinite number of types of neutrinos, potentially thousands of them. It is my intent to auction off the name rights to these new fabulous types of particles. For instance, by paying the proper fees, there could be a Tropicana Neutrino*, or the General Motors Neutrino*. What could be more prestigious than having an elementary particle named after your company? The marketing potential is incredible! Get in now before they're all gone!
* Experimental evidence of these neutrinos withheld pending receipt of standard fees.
I am making great progress on my weather control device, and I don't see any significant issues that should delay such wonderful mayhem! If it makes people more comfortable though, I will blackmail the world's goverments into abandoning all weather research (among other things). That way, you'll know that weather catastrophe-causing machines will only be in the possession of responsible people like myself and my henchmen.
BTW, CmdrTaco, if you are interested, I wouldn't mind at all doing a Slashdot interview, answering the 10 highest moderated posts/revenge requests. Slashdotters, if you're interested in seeing someone's house torn to shreds by preternatural tornados, or small tropical island nations decimated by a freak hurricane, just let Taco know you'd like Slashdot to interview me. And make those requests interesting and malevolent!
For crying out loud...
He was working with what he had. Budget cuts, deadlines moved forward, half his dept. was layed off, it was a mess. You're actually lucky you don't *shit* out of that same tube, the divine marketdroids were sure that was the only way to come in at budget and still have a viable Human(TM).
Actually, nobody has ever seen "evolution" happen in a way congruent with the theories proposed by Darwinian evolutionists. Their theories include rates of change that are so slow as to be unobservable.
Wrong. We also can't see electrons, or stars/galaxies at the edge of the universe. We don't need to see them to observe them though. Evolution has been observed in the fossil record, and even to some extent in the laboratory. Still, the lab observations are fairly new (the last 30-40 years) and science is busy debating whether or not it is indeed evolution... after all, as you pointed out, it is a slow effect.
Furthermore, no evolutionist has ever explained creatures like the Bombardier Beetle and its built-in flame thrower.
Huh? Of course evolutionists don't know everything at once... they don't claim to be omniscient. However, that doesn't mean they are doofuses without a clue. There have already been several possible explanations suggested in the scientific community, and no one disputes that something unknown is going on. You must not be researching this issue very thoroughly, if you believe there are no explanations at all, and that biologists are all sitting around dumbfounded.
Some of the more radical ideas center around the possibility that DNA acts more like a computer than a raw blueprint. That it might "store" a bunch of "mutations", saving them for a rainy day when some threshhold is reached. This "computer" might even span many individuals in the population. So instead of a gradual change into a "bombadier beetle" where there are many transitionary variants doomed to blowing themselves up, evolution simply "skipped over" those and went straight to the version capable of blowing up its enemies, and not itself.
Was it Greg Bear that said "Even evolution is evolving, becoming better at what it does." ?
Besides, lay off Darwinian evolution. Most people today see it as only the crudest approximation of the reality of evolution. Would figure that a bible thumper would be reacting to the scientific community of 100 years ago... you guys are always more than a few steps behind.
To sum up the performance of Slashdot's 2002 trolls... (*wink* you know who you are)
Natalie Portman. C-
In Soviet Russia. A+
First post! B
All your base. D
Stephen King dead. F
Goatsex man. F
#3 Profit! B
Overall summary:
Trolls, your quest has only become more challenging, with more lameness filtering, competition from thousands of troll wannabees, and PR smearing you as juvenile retards with no sense of humor and vandalous personality. Even so, I'm afraid I can't give you a passing grade, when dozens of articles go by with not even one goatsex link or poorly written "all your base" parody. You keep chasing ancient Yakov Smirnoff jokes, which can only lead to trouble. You need to work harder so you can be accepted into either Comedy University or your local mental health facility.
Are you a fucking twit?
Memorization IS a part of learning, an essential part, for almost anything. Thank god someone had the sense to make me memorize the multiplication tables when I was a child, or else I'd be saying things like "I kinda understand what multiplication is about, and I can even look up the answer to 9 x 12 if you give me a moment..". There is no substitute to practice, memorization and self-discipline.
Well, while I'm sure the tests weren't the most exacting ever done, I did get the impression that they allowed for what would be normal radiation levels on the seabed, including for that particular region. Still, it IS easy to explain... any number of things that have happened since 1944 in that area could explain the increase.(The tests were done about 2 years ago, iirc) That's why it was inconclusive, being neither able to prove or disprove a nuclear detonation.
Besides, I'm not sure I believe it either. Offering it as an alternative. Intentional detonation is so far off the fucknut straightjacket schizo scale, that I don't even consider it as anything other than poorly written fiction. Accidental detonation is somewhere closer to mildy/moderately unbelievable... not too bad when compared to the former.
PS The crater is easy to explain too. Any big explosion, no matter the source, leaves a big crater. It's just that conservative figures for crater size for a primitive nuke, and crater size for the supposed amount of munitions on the ship is slightly different. What's the actual size? Almost exactly in the middle. Hell, even the eyewitness reports of a mushroom cloud don't help... with enough chemical explosives, you'll see that too...
I readily agree it wasn't a "nuclear test". But what about the possibility that it was a nuclear accident? As I remember, the ocean floor has a crater slightly bigger than it should for conventional explosives (by no means conclusive) and shows unusually high background radiation (again, the numbers weren't conclusive).
I could belive that in a rush to get this weapon to the japanese front, that it was accidentally detonated. After all, these aren't modern nukes, where you have to enter long codes into the arming computer....
#1 The poor med student deserves to be able to fuck, even when it could mess up her life for years to come. Let's even forget that abortion violates her Hippocratic Oath...
#2 Hellz yeh, this is what I'm talking about. Now, if she could only get rid of the other 2, there could be all sorts of spending/entertainment money! Note: I just re-read this. Most attourneys wouldn't have trouble arguing pre-emptive child support here, you know. Realistically, she could end up being landlord.
#3 Something I can't make fun of. I have an idea though, let's work on eliminating the real problem, which is rape.
#4 Ask any physically handicapped person... wouldn't you rather be dead? Wait, they say "No" ? Well, let's find one too dumb to be able to answer honestly...
#5 This has to be rare, but also just stupid enough to be true. But we could always just show her how $500 and an outpatient procedure can get rid of fetuses because.... sex doesn't create babies, it creates lumps of protoplasm! Yeh, that's what they are... why educate when we can operate.
It's never a decision. The decision comes when you are thinking about whether or not to spread your legs (see #3 for the exception). It's simpler then too, because deciding that you don't want to have a baby doesn't involve $$$ for an abortion or guilt (Is there any guilt? Unlike the moronic pro-lifers, I find it difficult to believe that anyone ever feels guilty). I mean, responsibility, or encouraging it in others is a bad thing, right?
But to answer your question, yes.
Was the roger rabbit game even beatable? I think I tried for 8 or 9 days, just to beat that piece of shit, and no matter what, you could never get that final weapon (was it paint thinner?) once you punched out the bozo.
Oh well.
I don't play word games. For the goverment to make "decisions", it would imply that sometimes they decide for, rather than against abortion. The goverment, despite all its flaws, has never forced someone to have an abortion, that I am aware of. This is in stark contrast to those nations whose goverments do "make such a decision".
The entire point, is that there is that there is no decision to make. Decisions, if made at all, should be made when you're getting ready to have sex with someone, not 3 weeks later when you realize how utterly fucking retarded you were.
If abortion isn't completely amoral, and a decision no one should ever be allowed to make, then how do you feel about infanticide? There are already those starting to argue such things philosophically and academically, and frankly I am unnerved that I even have to live in the same society as those who could debate shit like that.
All that said, let me say that I find the "pro lifers" equally repugnant. With their wink-wink-nudge-nudge "We'd NEVER condone clinic bombings!" bullshit, there is almost no one to turn to. It's a sick fucking world.
Actually, I find your opinion disgusting and amoral. Men and women both have the right to plan their reproduction, but once they reproduce, they can't renege on the deal. Not to mention, I find it unlikely that you would support my right to abortion, in the event my girlfriend were to become pregnant. Sorta sexist, isn't it? Especially if the procedure is as trivial as you imply.
Even so, I can't find it in my heart to disagree on the main point. I find it all too likely that indirect pressure is put on studies and acadamia to make up lies to support conservative agendas. I wouldn't be suprised if I found out that extreme "persuasions" were occuring. Dubya just gives me that kind of impression.
Really sucks when you realize that neither side is "your" side. Is hilarious when someone rants why the democrats/republicans are so much more morally superior to the republicans/democrats, though....
I eat it on hot dogs, along with mustard and relish.
Duh.
The really important question is, what sort of reaction could breed more anti-matter than it consumed... and could you ever risk experimenting with it? That's the question you should have asked.
Yeh. Too bad that the energy required to make a gram of anti-matter costs $20 trillion USD, takes 300 years to produce, and could provide enough electricity to light NYC for about 10 minutes.
AM/M reactors are prized for their energy density, not energy economy. Not to mention, that unless someone comes up with some sort of anti-matter breeder reactor, we'll never be able to make enough fuel to do more than experiment.
Now, being God, whenever I want anti-matter, I just re-adjust supersymetry temporarily, but lame fuckwads like you have to get your own. Nyah nyah nyah nyah!
PS. Zero-point energy is actually the holy grail, duh. Can't wait til next weeks slashdot article "You too can exploit the Casimir Effect!".
Fair enough. Feel sorry for ya.
If you failed to call the CC company, and to insist on a chargeback, you should be modded -1, Retard. Not sure that you would recieve it, but if canceling, there is no reason that you wouldn't. Generally, upon hearing that you were charged twice for the same product, even the bitchiest CSR at a credit card company/bank will do the chargeback with no hesitation whatsoever.
Letting people steal from you, even trivial sums, isn't insightful at all. Just dumb.
I keep wondering this myself. Granted, the only games I've written are really crappy, certainly not worth paying for. But I can't help to think, that with even just a few hundred subscribers I could afford to support myself with the game, and colo a suitable server.
What do you really want out of a game though? Personally, I think most want to be a "hero"... but that will always be impossible with something like Everquest. As I see it, I'm thinking I would take applications to play, and try to weed out the idiots and shitheads. Also, you don't "create" a character, you'd get to choose from a lineup... many of which were in existence as NPCs. (Of course, I would try to make sure there are at least 2 or 3 that are particularly appealing). You'd get a short, personally written bio of your character, enough background to play it well. I'd try to get an idea when you'd be playing, and match it up to the liefstyles/location of your character candidates. Maybe you can only play during the EST evening, which is midday in the game world, so you have many to choose from. But EST morning players would have characters primarily awake during the night. Too artificial?
Instead of making it a competition to get items/scores, you'd be presented with all sorts of situations... imagine being the newly hired town guardsmen, and stumbling upon 2 of your coworkers murdering the shopkeeper. Do you try to do something about, try to stay hidden (you could be next), or try to get in on it (maybe they'll split the protection money 3 ways). If you report it, how do you know the guard captain isn't in on it?
People playing out of character would be warned once, and then booted... my opinion, is that many of these situations would evolve on their own, just by playing in character. The rest would be induced by GMs.
How many people, and how much would they pay, for something like that?
No, not at all. I want a complete network with IP connectivity and all the services that are possible with that. Freenet is the wrong approach, imo. It's neat if you want to move files around, but what if you want to chat real time? Or send email? Or any number of other things. Security/anonymity or not, it seems like a step backward. Seems more akin to pre-internet usenet, than it is to anything truly modern. I've heard people suggest that maybe they should build a network layer on top of it, but why do that when we can build such a network correctly, from the ground up?
On Meta, you'll be able to register domain names for free. Or experiment/be involved with the grimy details of managing a big network(or not, if that's not your thing). You'll be able to be anonymous, and yet prove that you are indeed the same anonymous person that someone talked to last week. Run webservers, email, and everything else that your ISP bans. The list goes on...
I hope Freenet is modestly successful though, it will take the limelight then, and act as a distraction for Meta.