Anyone else think that the same guy has overplayed and overplayed this joke way too much. When it pops up in every single article, it is too predictable and quite dumb. Besides the fact that the article contains no links, which was about the only source of humour that I found in the mirror this time. And get a new mirror too, that one keeps going down and is showing signs of aging from too much use.
What people fail to recognize are all of the people who read the articles without reading the posts. Back from the open chat that/. had with the community on IRC, I believe Taco said something along the lines of 90% of the readers don't click through to read the comments/possibly post comments. So, even by time an article has even 1 post, a minimum of 9 other people have read the article and most likely clicked through the links. As well, many people who would normally post comments, and are around when an article pops up, might not post a comment initially until other people have already started a discussion - the ones who don't care about FPing, etc. As well, if you consider the time it takes to post a comment and the actual time it takes to read the article before posting (hah!), then by time there are maybe 8 to 10 comments, there may have well been a good 200 people clicking through the link. Having a hundred or so simultaneous requests would have a good chance of crashing a small to mid size server.
Blizzard is keeping the orcish race, and adding an additional Pandaren race. The race is composed of fierce, black and white, bear-like creatures that will maul their enemies do death. They are masters of mysticism and will rule Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
Well kiddie, you spend a good deal of your time developing a popular site to the point that some big company wants to come along and buy it out, and at the same time keep you onboard for development, and then when April 1st rolls around, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. UNTIL THEN KEEP YOUR YAPPER SHUT FOOL - thank you and have a nice day.:)
Four years without a remote hole in the default install!
Which is rather awesome for anyone just trying to mess around with BSD or get into the UNIX-variant world. You can just shove in a boot disk, set up your system, install with the default config, and you have an up and secure system. Just add some ip forwarding and whatnot and you already have a personal gateway/firewall for your household.
Ok, I guess I may be slightly skewed as far as what I consider YE versus what you consider YE to be. Mind you that I myself do not hold my beliefs to any certain YE theory, nor do I completely hold myself to a YE theory solely. I have interpreted a young earth as being young only in perspective, not in absolute. When I consider YE theory, it is not an explanation of the natural world around us, but rather an explanation for the natural world around us. It doesn't try to explain the workings of nature, only provides an explanation for their origin and existance. In fact, Christianity as a whole does not try to explain principles of nature at all - that is not of concern for its base ideas. And truthfully, scientific ideas have an impact on what exactly I interpret to be YE. When I do consider YE, it is that the world was created in a certain state with certain characteristics, and that these characteristics are not exactly indicative of the time of creation. They are merely protocol and status of the world upon creation. It would seem rather far-fetched to consider that the universe was created (in a purely scientific view) within the last 10000 years.
This CRS organization you spoke of seems rather radical, and if you are right about the logistics of their membership - that they refute many scientific principles - then their life in this world will be rather difficult in light of their ignorance. This does not mean that other Christian (I'm assuming their roots are base in Christianity) organizations would shun them for refuting common day principles, or call their unique principles ridiculous; as long as they adhere to the core Christian principles, then that is all that matters.
I guess the core notion that I have made, and try to get across to others, is that science is purely interpretational and nothing about science is exact. The basis of all science is observing, interpreting, and concluding - trying to fit a model or otherwise to naturally occuring phenomenon in order to describe and predict the phenomenon to better aid us in our lives. This process is inherently flawed and inherently not exact. There is nothing wrong with this, and I rather enjoy the interpretations of science and their advances that ease our lives. I in fact work in the area of physics, math, and chemistry where I deal with principles, theories, and laws of science all the time. It is just that through this, the scientific ideas can not be used as a substantial explanation for the origin of the world, and thereby the origin of the scientific ideas themselves... almost a circular logic - just in a twisted way.
As for the public education part of this comment:
I am not asking you to discard your religion; just stop trying to pretend it's a science of some sort. Also, as part of that, don't try to inflict your religious veiws on every schoolchild in the US by gussying up the book of Genesis in the emporers new pseudo-scientific clothes.
Why should religious people then be forced to hear about the scientific explanation for our origin? This is rather hipocritical, totalitarian, fascist, whatever... "You have to learn about our ideas, study them, and understand them, nevermind that they are ever changing theories and the majority of the world believes otherwise and that we won't allow opposing ideas to be taught." This is ridiculous. Now, by majority I am not trying to indicate that Christianity covers the globe like nothing else, I am merely saying that the number of religious people in the world far excedes the number of purely scientific people. But requiring one train of thought to be learned while equally substantial trains of thought are banned from existance within the same environments is insane. People always complain that when their kids go to school they don't want them to be brainwashed with religious nonsense... well I don't want my kids to be brainwashed with scientific nonsense. They can learn about the scientific ideas in due course, but not during young fragile growth periods.
Courses in practical physics, chemistry, biology... sciences should be taught in school because they contain practical ideas to be used in life and a background for how our environment works; but origin sciences should either be 1) completely left out of the scene or 2) optional, but only if opposing ideas are also allowed.
My apologies for missing the wit/sarcasm. It seemed as though you were constructing a straw-man, or had missed the point - science, being incremental, often works by taking small steps, this was such a small step. Not only that, but it was a test of the extra-terrestial nutrients side of abiogenesis - and had Amino-Acids failed to form, I cynically believe that it would be YECs crowing about their 'Victory in the Lab'.
As you tried to point out elsewhere, the notions presented are based on being able to observe small, incremental changes, and that these changes aren't necessarily a path to human existance, but rather evidence that change can occur (or at least that was my interpretation of what you have tried to explain). Without going into detail, I agree with these ideas. I agree that microevolution does occur, and that changes and adaptions occur over periods of time due to environmental influences. But this is a far cry from the claims of macroevolution. Claiming that we were able to evolve from the formations of these amino acids. That is the part that I have problems with. That from nothing after the big bang, there has evolved something - us humans. The microevolution of animals forming calloused apendages as a result of wear and tear due their environments is understandable. The macroevolution of humans from heat and hydrogen is ridiculous.
There might be an outrageous few who would "crow... about their 'Victory in the Lab'" but they would be few and far between. Those scientific ideas attempting to be proven are already based on extreme odds - the situation in which amino acids would have not been detected could have just been one of the million of other situations in which the amino acids could not have formed. I know I wouldn't pay any particular attention to the failed experiment - because it was just that, an experiment.
I've imagined being able to play CS, Q3, or other variant thereof on a wall with a projector. How does it feel? Are there any problems with a delay between your actual game play and what is being displayed? How about display rates on the projectors themselves? I'm not entirely sure how the projectors function; since they are usually used in presentations and what not, I would imagine that if display rates had to be worked on, they would not develop them too much as presentations don't require high rates. All in all, anyone care to share their experiences playing FPSs on projectors? Some economy models are coming out in the $1k range too, anyone know how those compare too higher quality ones for playing games? We need some sort of in-depth review in this area.
You have so many things wrong, I'm not even gonna try to point them all out. One thing that requires a response though is:
That means we are right and everyone else is wrong. From that we can justify free access to guns, bombing abortion clinics, and hating fags!
I'd swear this sounded like some little kid's rant if it weren't for the tone of the rest of the reply. Let us get one thing straight here, most any (and I would think all) forms of creationism (and most definitely Christianity) would not condone the actions of anyone who bombs an abortion clinic or takes some sort of hate crime action towards anyone for any reason. The people who do these things are mentally ill if they try to justify their actions through their beliefs. And people who do these things are most likely radicals not even involved directly with any set of creation ideas. Your conclusions from whatever it may be, news/etc, are skewed so far off from reality. These claims would be similar to concluding that we should shoot any and all people who follow Islam because a couple Islamic fundamentalist wackos flew a couple planes into some major buildings in NYC.
As to creationism - please don't try to advocate it; for the Fundamentalist Christian Young Earth Creationism to work, ALL of science has to be mangled into utter unintelligibility.
I'm not sure where you are going with this... trying to somehow claim that a YE theory is absolutely wrong because of any of numerous scientific findings that have been made, by us humans. That this somehow invalidates any and all opposing thoughts. This is a rather ridiculous statement - along the lines of standing under an orange tree in the middle of an apple orchard and claiming that there are only oranges throughout the orchard - completely inane and without any sustainable arguments. Scientific theories have been proven wrong over and over again in the past. People have died believing that certain theories were workable. Please don't try and use this ridiculous FUD in origin discussions. Mind you that I know of and understand many scientific theories that can be used to manipulate our environments, but just because some do work does not mean that they are all right. And your statement:
Cosmology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, paleontology, archeology, meteorology, and all their (very useful) subfields - must be dismissed as garbage in order to force the world-veiw that YE Creationism demands.
is completely incorrect, and quite ignorant of the subject you claim so much knowledge of, might I add. For example, a YE theory does not claim that Newton's laws of motion are incorrect. A YE theory does not claim that red shifts are false. A YE theory does not state that sediment flow does not happen. A YE theory does not imply any of what you just said. You can take your foot out of your mouth now, and stop talking through... well whatever else you are using, because your foot is in your mouth.
And asking someone not to advocate their thougts and ideas to others because they conflict with what you believe in? What the fudge is this? Censorship from a/. patron? I believe you are off your rocker, sir/ma'am. Why should someone succumb to oppositional ideas? Because you have scientific theories that back up your ideas? Who cares? Creationism has theories and proof to back up its ideas, so why not this... "As to evolution - please don't try to advocate it; for the Theory of Evolution to work, ALL of religion has to be mangled into utter unintelligibility." ? Pointless eh? Because you don't care what creationism provides for, even if it is true. Well, many people don't care about various scientific ideas either. Science is not an 'exact science' to be used as a universal explanation. Our world needs to operate in some fashion, so rules can be applied to govern its operation, but where did these rules come from? Many creationists can believe in scientific ideas to govern the world, but that their origins are in an original creation. So, a young earth theory does not even mangle existing scientifc ideas into oblivion.
As for the science lessons, I have attended far more complex lectures and discussions on the topic than the paltry attempt at an explanation you have provided. Mind you that I don't remember some of the specifics of such events entirely, but the conclusions have survived.
As for the FAQ you have provided, it seems to state a neutral ground, but reading through the various questions and documents shows a definite bias towards an anti-creation evolution - about as useful as any other scientific journal, perhaps just more open to opposition.
My main post was not trolling, nor an explanation of the science as you have claimed to interpret it as, and was not necessarily meant to be taken completely serious. It was a minor rant at/laugh at/miniscule explanation of the ignorance of so many people who are uneducated on the subject of evolution/creationism, but biased towards evolution, who cry out "the answer has been shown" because a few amino acids were detected in a hostile environment.
It's kinda neat how so many people who believe in creationism can still embrace ideas of science, yet so many people who live their lives in science feel the need to reject creationism. You shouldn't feel the need to fight opposing ideas so violently when the ideas of the other side aren't threatening in the least bit. I for one don't emerge out of the blue trying to fight science. I may however try to promote my ideas, and respond when certain attacks have been made.
I find it overly optimistic that on their location search page they list 226 countries/locations, yet only 2 or 3 of them even have connection points. Like what's the use of listing Afghanistan in there - on the rare chance that someone might put up a hot spot there... 1) Who would dare to use it? 2) It has a 50/50 chance of getting blown up within the hour. Not sure where they're going with this one.
lol, right, troll. The cable companies are extending themselves to help us out. That sounds accurate. These companies are out there with one goal: to get as much money as possible, and in the process of doing so they will screw our services as much as possibly. They make plenty of money off of reselling their bandwidth, and if by "underpricing" you are trying to indicate approaching some sort of net loss, then pull your head out of your ass and take a breath of reality. The cable companies charge as much as possible without people yelling "ransom". They aren't "gouging" themselves at all, and are making quite a few pretty pennies in the process. Don't be so naive.
The computer lab services/home page at the library on Eastern Michigan University are already partially hosted by OSX. Here you can already see a "Powered By Mac OS X Server" logo at the bottom. The machines in this lab still run NT though, ugh.
Sorry kiddo, but this isn't trolling when people try to say "Hah, take that creationism!" So many people are gonna see that comment without even reading the article and are going to write it off as "Hey, looks these amino acidy thingies they made prove that creationism is false." The original poster had absolutely no clue what he was talking about, it appears as though YOU(?) have absolutely no clue about what you even think you are talking about... I am trying to bring some mild clues in. Take your trolling elsewhere and log in buddy.
I already replied to one of these 'out of the blue' jabs, but it was lost - so here it is again for this other jab.
So we create a certain environment that allows for certain amino acids to be detected, nevermind that you fail to mention WHICH amino acids. They reported that they were only able to detect glycine, alanine, and serine. Wow! Shebang! Huzzah! We have these three amino acids, this MUST mean that humans have evolved from some frozen water containing some basic molecules that was hit with some radiation into the extremely advanced and complex organisms that we are today; and that someway, somehow this little bit of water, radiation, and other basic molecules have given us emotions, cognitive proactive and reactive thoughts and actions, and intelligent analysis and thinking processes. The answer is most definitely here! Let us all succumb to these amazing amino acids and praise them for our existance (not to mention the at least 17 other amino acids that are critical for human existance).
So we create a certain environment that allows for certain amino acids to be detected, nevermind that you fail to mention WHICH amino acids. They reported that they were only able to detect glycine, alanine, and serine. Wow! Shebang! Huzzah! We have these three amino acids, this MUST mean that humans have evolved from some frozen water containing some basic molecules that was hit with some radiation into the extremely advanced and complex organisms that we are today; and that someway, somehow this little bit of water, radiation, and other basic molecules have given us emotions, cognitive proactive and reactive thoughts and actions, and intelligent analysis and thinking processes. The answer is most definitely here! Let us all succumb to these amazing amino acids and praise them for our existance (not to mention the at least 17 other amino acids that are critical for human existance).
What I'd really like to know is how this affects intercourse in space. I mean, down here you can push against the bed or something, but up there you can just float around... guess you'd have to pull on your partner? Wonder how your brain might react to that.
Yeh, that's why I said as long as I can't see them. I've watced DVDs, and I can't see them. This is obviously because I don't spend immense amounts of time analysing DVDs or any other such activity. However, I am able to notice the compression by-products in DivX, and that is what I am opposed to. I don't care if anything is compressed, as long as it is good enough for me to miss it.
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You know what I wonder is if a large majority of the 'normal' population actually even knows that there will be 2 additional movies already. Or, when the previews start showing up, will they just think "Hey, looks like they decided to do a sequel to that neat LOTR movie. I wonder if it'll be any good." - just thinking that the 2 additional movies are add-ons to the first, rather than continuations on a just as grand (if not more grand) of a scale.
My initial reaction to the end of FOTR was good, I thought the movie wrapped up nicely, and I knew that there would be more to come. However, looking back I'm not so sure that others who have not really heard of the tale will think the same. In making the movie, I'm sure Jackson did not want to leave the audience completely hanging in anticipation of a future movie, as that would be undesirable in the movie making mind, and that would leave the unknowing thinking that the movie ended badly. However, he prolly did not want to close the end up too much either, as that is not what the story does and would make it even more difficult to reopen the second movie.
I just hope that everyone will be able to make the correct correlations and links to enjoy the movie so greatly. It'll be interesting to see some people's reactions.
I pretty much agree with what you're saying, but this may just push the development towards what sorts of features are included in each console. Maybe one console can hook up to the internet, allowing for multi-player capabilities. Maybe one console will hook up to a proprietary network while another console will hook up to a public netowork - perhaps the proprietary network console is cheaper, but you are hit with the subscription costs. Perhaps another console manipulates the game to fake a perceived 3D environment, while others don't.
Since most revenue comes from the sales of the games anyhow, the whole indsutry could just shift. They could just move like the average computer user market has moved. Prolly 99% of the users work on an x86 architecture, where the competition is at how the x86 architecture is used. The development has just moved to lots of implementation/little design instead of little implementation/lots of design.
Heck, if such a standard were to be implemented, perhaps we would now be seeing a lot more grass roots type games available.
Although my experiences were quite a bit better than what others have described, they were still pretty shotty at times. I have been using Comcast for quite a while now, seems like several years before the @Home fallout at least. But before the network switchover when @Home died, I had cable set up and had bought 3 IPs (I used 1 as an experimentation link, 1 as a main stable link for my various computers, and 1 for the rest of the people/computers in my household). I had decided to see exactly what the software they supplied us with in the mail actually did. So I loaded up a fresh test system and installed it - nothing, just bloated the system along with IE6 (or 5.something I don't remember exactly). So, I concluded that everything would work after the switchover and I wouldn't need to change any settings on any of the computers on the cable. So, time went by and we entered the switchover phase, everything was still working (well, besides the abhorid slow service and random fall outs in the network) - I was in the clear. Then a little time passed and we were nearing the point at which supposedly the systems without the software installed would stop working. This time came, shit hit the fan, and all of the links from my cable died except 1. So I called up tech support several times and was run around in circles for a while. I knew it wasn't the software since at least 1 link worked. I called tech support some more and apparently I needed to have my account "rebuilt" to include the additional IPs. Ok, fine, maybe the info doesn't transfer over to their new systems or whatever. I call and have the account rebuilt, the remaining links work... for a day or two, then they die again. So I call tech again and ask them what happened - told me that I needed to have my account rebuilt *sigh* I already did that - well, let's just do it again. Other links alive again... well, for a day or two again. This circus goes on for another couple weeks. At one point I was routed to some call center that told me additional IPs would not be allowed for several months (despite paying the extra $10/month for them) - wasn't sure what to think of that. But I ended up calling tech again a while later and this time I was routed to the call center. Through calling several more times to have the account rebuilt, they ended up sending a guy to my house (I have no clue why, he just showed up one day, heh) and he had the account rebuilt through whatever place he communicates with. All in all I ended up rebuilding the account somewhere in the neigborhood of 10 to 15 times. That was annoying.
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Anyone else think that the same guy has overplayed and overplayed this joke way too much. When it pops up in every single article, it is too predictable and quite dumb. Besides the fact that the article contains no links, which was about the only source of humour that I found in the mirror this time. And get a new mirror too, that one keeps going down and is showing signs of aging from too much use.
What people fail to recognize are all of the people who read the articles without reading the posts. Back from the open chat that
LMAO! Mod parent up and check that picture out. I feel so freaking sorry for the guy in that suit... what a sad job.
Blizzard is keeping the orcish race, and adding an additional Pandaren race. The race is composed of fierce, black and white, bear-like creatures that will maul their enemies do death. They are masters of mysticism and will rule Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
Well kiddie, you spend a good deal of your time developing a popular site to the point that some big company wants to come along and buy it out, and at the same time keep you onboard for development, and then when April 1st rolls around, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. UNTIL THEN KEEP YOUR YAPPER SHUT FOOL - thank you and have a nice day.
Cuz dem coppers and prostitues are eVil.
Oh man, heh.
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Four years without a remote hole in the default install!
Which is rather awesome for anyone just trying to mess around with BSD or get into the UNIX-variant world. You can just shove in a boot disk, set up your system, install with the default config, and you have an up and secure system. Just add some ip forwarding and whatnot and you already have a personal gateway/firewall for your household.
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Ok, I guess I may be slightly skewed as far as what I consider YE versus what you consider YE to be. Mind you that I myself do not hold my beliefs to any certain YE theory, nor do I completely hold myself to a YE theory solely. I have interpreted a young earth as being young only in perspective, not in absolute. When I consider YE theory, it is not an explanation of the natural world around us, but rather an explanation for the natural world around us. It doesn't try to explain the workings of nature, only provides an explanation for their origin and existance. In fact, Christianity as a whole does not try to explain principles of nature at all - that is not of concern for its base ideas. And truthfully, scientific ideas have an impact on what exactly I interpret to be YE. When I do consider YE, it is that the world was created in a certain state with certain characteristics, and that these characteristics are not exactly indicative of the time of creation. They are merely protocol and status of the world upon creation. It would seem rather far-fetched to consider that the universe was created (in a purely scientific view) within the last 10000 years.
This CRS organization you spoke of seems rather radical, and if you are right about the logistics of their membership - that they refute many scientific principles - then their life in this world will be rather difficult in light of their ignorance. This does not mean that other Christian (I'm assuming their roots are base in Christianity) organizations would shun them for refuting common day principles, or call their unique principles ridiculous; as long as they adhere to the core Christian principles, then that is all that matters.
I guess the core notion that I have made, and try to get across to others, is that science is purely interpretational and nothing about science is exact. The basis of all science is observing, interpreting, and concluding - trying to fit a model or otherwise to naturally occuring phenomenon in order to describe and predict the phenomenon to better aid us in our lives. This process is inherently flawed and inherently not exact. There is nothing wrong with this, and I rather enjoy the interpretations of science and their advances that ease our lives. I in fact work in the area of physics, math, and chemistry where I deal with principles, theories, and laws of science all the time. It is just that through this, the scientific ideas can not be used as a substantial explanation for the origin of the world, and thereby the origin of the scientific ideas themselves... almost a circular logic - just in a twisted way.
As for the public education part of this comment:
I am not asking you to discard your religion; just stop trying to pretend it's a science of some sort. Also, as part of that, don't try to inflict your religious veiws on every schoolchild in the US by gussying up the book of Genesis in the emporers new pseudo-scientific clothes.
Why should religious people then be forced to hear about the scientific explanation for our origin? This is rather hipocritical, totalitarian, fascist, whatever... "You have to learn about our ideas, study them, and understand them, nevermind that they are ever changing theories and the majority of the world believes otherwise and that we won't allow opposing ideas to be taught." This is ridiculous. Now, by majority I am not trying to indicate that Christianity covers the globe like nothing else, I am merely saying that the number of religious people in the world far excedes the number of purely scientific people. But requiring one train of thought to be learned while equally substantial trains of thought are banned from existance within the same environments is insane. People always complain that when their kids go to school they don't want them to be brainwashed with religious nonsense... well I don't want my kids to be brainwashed with scientific nonsense. They can learn about the scientific ideas in due course, but not during young fragile growth periods.
Courses in practical physics, chemistry, biology... sciences should be taught in school because they contain practical ideas to be used in life and a background for how our environment works; but origin sciences should either be 1) completely left out of the scene or 2) optional, but only if opposing ideas are also allowed.
My apologies for missing the wit/sarcasm. It seemed as though you were constructing a straw-man, or had missed the point - science, being incremental, often works by taking small steps, this was such a small step. Not only that, but it was a test of the extra-terrestial nutrients side of abiogenesis - and had Amino-Acids failed to form, I cynically believe that it would be YECs crowing about their 'Victory in the Lab'.
As you tried to point out elsewhere, the notions presented are based on being able to observe small, incremental changes, and that these changes aren't necessarily a path to human existance, but rather evidence that change can occur (or at least that was my interpretation of what you have tried to explain). Without going into detail, I agree with these ideas. I agree that microevolution does occur, and that changes and adaptions occur over periods of time due to environmental influences. But this is a far cry from the claims of macroevolution. Claiming that we were able to evolve from the formations of these amino acids. That is the part that I have problems with. That from nothing after the big bang, there has evolved something - us humans. The microevolution of animals forming calloused apendages as a result of wear and tear due their environments is understandable. The macroevolution of humans from heat and hydrogen is ridiculous.
There might be an outrageous few who would "crow
I've imagined being able to play CS, Q3, or other variant thereof on a wall with a projector. How does it feel? Are there any problems with a delay between your actual game play and what is being displayed? How about display rates on the projectors themselves? I'm not entirely sure how the projectors function; since they are usually used in presentations and what not, I would imagine that if display rates had to be worked on, they would not develop them too much as presentations don't require high rates. All in all, anyone care to share their experiences playing FPSs on projectors? Some economy models are coming out in the $1k range too, anyone know how those compare too higher quality ones for playing games? We need some sort of in-depth review in this area.
You have so many things wrong, I'm not even gonna try to point them all out. One thing that requires a response though is:
That means we are right and everyone else is wrong. From that we can justify free access to guns, bombing abortion clinics, and hating fags!
I'd swear this sounded like some little kid's rant if it weren't for the tone of the rest of the reply. Let us get one thing straight here, most any (and I would think all) forms of creationism (and most definitely Christianity) would not condone the actions of anyone who bombs an abortion clinic or takes some sort of hate crime action towards anyone for any reason. The people who do these things are mentally ill if they try to justify their actions through their beliefs. And people who do these things are most likely radicals not even involved directly with any set of creation ideas. Your conclusions from whatever it may be, news/etc, are skewed so far off from reality. These claims would be similar to concluding that we should shoot any and all people who follow Islam because a couple Islamic fundamentalist wackos flew a couple planes into some major buildings in NYC.
Please put your FUD somewhere else.
As to creationism - please don't try to advocate it; for the Fundamentalist Christian Young Earth Creationism to work, ALL of science has to be mangled into utter unintelligibility.
I'm not sure where you are going with this... trying to somehow claim that a YE theory is absolutely wrong because of any of numerous scientific findings that have been made, by us humans. That this somehow invalidates any and all opposing thoughts. This is a rather ridiculous statement - along the lines of standing under an orange tree in the middle of an apple orchard and claiming that there are only oranges throughout the orchard - completely inane and without any sustainable arguments. Scientific theories have been proven wrong over and over again in the past. People have died believing that certain theories were workable. Please don't try and use this ridiculous FUD in origin discussions. Mind you that I know of and understand many scientific theories that can be used to manipulate our environments, but just because some do work does not mean that they are all right. And your statement:
Cosmology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, paleontology, archeology, meteorology, and all their (very useful) subfields - must be dismissed as garbage in order to force the world-veiw that YE Creationism demands.
is completely incorrect, and quite ignorant of the subject you claim so much knowledge of, might I add. For example, a YE theory does not claim that Newton's laws of motion are incorrect. A YE theory does not claim that red shifts are false. A YE theory does not state that sediment flow does not happen. A YE theory does not imply any of what you just said. You can take your foot out of your mouth now, and stop talking through... well whatever else you are using, because your foot is in your mouth.
And asking someone not to advocate their thougts and ideas to others because they conflict with what you believe in? What the fudge is this? Censorship from a
As for the science lessons, I have attended far more complex lectures and discussions on the topic than the paltry attempt at an explanation you have provided. Mind you that I don't remember some of the specifics of such events entirely, but the conclusions have survived.
As for the FAQ you have provided, it seems to state a neutral ground, but reading through the various questions and documents shows a definite bias towards an anti-creation evolution - about as useful as any other scientific journal, perhaps just more open to opposition.
My main post was not trolling, nor an explanation of the science as you have claimed to interpret it as, and was not necessarily meant to be taken completely serious. It was a minor rant at/laugh at/miniscule explanation of the ignorance of so many people who are uneducated on the subject of evolution/creationism, but biased towards evolution, who cry out "the answer has been shown" because a few amino acids were detected in a hostile environment.
It's kinda neat how so many people who believe in creationism can still embrace ideas of science, yet so many people who live their lives in science feel the need to reject creationism. You shouldn't feel the need to fight opposing ideas so violently when the ideas of the other side aren't threatening in the least bit. I for one don't emerge out of the blue trying to fight science. I may however try to promote my ideas, and respond when certain attacks have been made.
Hope this clears things up for you.
I find it overly optimistic that on their location search page they list 226 countries/locations, yet only 2 or 3 of them even have connection points. Like what's the use of listing Afghanistan in there - on the rare chance that someone might put up a hot spot there... 1) Who would dare to use it? 2) It has a 50/50 chance of getting blown up within the hour. Not sure where they're going with this one.
lol, right, troll. The cable companies are extending themselves to help us out. That sounds accurate. These companies are out there with one goal: to get as much money as possible, and in the process of doing so they will screw our services as much as possibly. They make plenty of money off of reselling their bandwidth, and if by "underpricing" you are trying to indicate approaching some sort of net loss, then pull your head out of your ass and take a breath of reality. The cable companies charge as much as possible without people yelling "ransom". They aren't "gouging" themselves at all, and are making quite a few pretty pennies in the process. Don't be so naive.
What? So no more "Lotto Tickets Inside" signs outside of gas stations? Damn, how will I ever be able to gamble again?
What kinda of software? How about none? (Optional VNC at most.)
The computer lab services/home page at the library on Eastern Michigan University are already partially hosted by OSX. Here you can already see a "Powered By Mac OS X Server" logo at the bottom. The machines in this lab still run NT though, ugh.
lame ass ACs.
Sorry kiddo, but this isn't trolling when people try to say "Hah, take that creationism!" So many people are gonna see that comment without even reading the article and are going to write it off as "Hey, looks these amino acidy thingies they made prove that creationism is false." The original poster had absolutely no clue what he was talking about, it appears as though YOU(?) have absolutely no clue about what you even think you are talking about... I am trying to bring some mild clues in. Take your trolling elsewhere and log in buddy.
I already replied to one of these 'out of the blue' jabs, but it was lost - so here it is again for this other jab.
So we create a certain environment that allows for certain amino acids to be detected, nevermind that you fail to mention WHICH amino acids. They reported that they were only able to detect glycine, alanine, and serine. Wow! Shebang! Huzzah! We have these three amino acids, this MUST mean that humans have evolved from some frozen water containing some basic molecules that was hit with some radiation into the extremely advanced and complex organisms that we are today; and that someway, somehow this little bit of water, radiation, and other basic molecules have given us emotions, cognitive proactive and reactive thoughts and actions, and intelligent analysis and thinking processes. The answer is most definitely here! Let us all succumb to these amazing amino acids and praise them for our existance (not to mention the at least 17 other amino acids that are critical for human existance).
So we create a certain environment that allows for certain amino acids to be detected, nevermind that you fail to mention WHICH amino acids. They reported that they were only able to detect glycine, alanine, and serine. Wow! Shebang! Huzzah! We have these three amino acids, this MUST mean that humans have evolved from some frozen water containing some basic molecules that was hit with some radiation into the extremely advanced and complex organisms that we are today; and that someway, somehow this little bit of water, radiation, and other basic molecules have given us emotions, cognitive proactive and reactive thoughts and actions, and intelligent analysis and thinking processes. The answer is most definitely here! Let us all succumb to these amazing amino acids and praise them for our existance (not to mention the at least 17 other amino acids that are critical for human existance).
What I'd really like to know is how this affects intercourse in space. I mean, down here you can push against the bed or something, but up there you can just float around... guess you'd have to pull on your partner? Wonder how your brain might react to that.
Yeh, that's why I said as long as I can't see them. I've watced DVDs, and I can't see them. This is obviously because I don't spend immense amounts of time analysing DVDs or any other such activity. However, I am able to notice the compression by-products in DivX, and that is what I am opposed to. I don't care if anything is compressed, as long as it is good enough for me to miss it.
You know what I wonder is if a large majority of the 'normal' population actually even knows that there will be 2 additional movies already. Or, when the previews start showing up, will they just think "Hey, looks like they decided to do a sequel to that neat LOTR movie. I wonder if it'll be any good." - just thinking that the 2 additional movies are add-ons to the first, rather than continuations on a just as grand (if not more grand) of a scale.
My initial reaction to the end of FOTR was good, I thought the movie wrapped up nicely, and I knew that there would be more to come. However, looking back I'm not so sure that others who have not really heard of the tale will think the same. In making the movie, I'm sure Jackson did not want to leave the audience completely hanging in anticipation of a future movie, as that would be undesirable in the movie making mind, and that would leave the unknowing thinking that the movie ended badly. However, he prolly did not want to close the end up too much either, as that is not what the story does and would make it even more difficult to reopen the second movie.
I just hope that everyone will be able to make the correct correlations and links to enjoy the movie so greatly. It'll be interesting to see some people's reactions.
I pretty much agree with what you're saying, but this may just push the development towards what sorts of features are included in each console. Maybe one console can hook up to the internet, allowing for multi-player capabilities. Maybe one console will hook up to a proprietary network while another console will hook up to a public netowork - perhaps the proprietary network console is cheaper, but you are hit with the subscription costs. Perhaps another console manipulates the game to fake a perceived 3D environment, while others don't.
Since most revenue comes from the sales of the games anyhow, the whole indsutry could just shift. They could just move like the average computer user market has moved. Prolly 99% of the users work on an x86 architecture, where the competition is at how the x86 architecture is used. The development has just moved to lots of implementation/little design instead of little implementation/lots of design.
Heck, if such a standard were to be implemented, perhaps we would now be seeing a lot more grass roots type games available.
Although my experiences were quite a bit better than what others have described, they were still pretty shotty at times. I have been using Comcast for quite a while now, seems like several years before the @Home fallout at least. But before the network switchover when @Home died, I had cable set up and had bought 3 IPs (I used 1 as an experimentation link, 1 as a main stable link for my various computers, and 1 for the rest of the people/computers in my household). I had decided to see exactly what the software they supplied us with in the mail actually did. So I loaded up a fresh test system and installed it - nothing, just bloated the system along with IE6 (or 5.something I don't remember exactly). So, I concluded that everything would work after the switchover and I wouldn't need to change any settings on any of the computers on the cable. So, time went by and we entered the switchover phase, everything was still working (well, besides the abhorid slow service and random fall outs in the network) - I was in the clear. Then a little time passed and we were nearing the point at which supposedly the systems without the software installed would stop working. This time came, shit hit the fan, and all of the links from my cable died except 1. So I called up tech support several times and was run around in circles for a while. I knew it wasn't the software since at least 1 link worked. I called tech support some more and apparently I needed to have my account "rebuilt" to include the additional IPs. Ok, fine, maybe the info doesn't transfer over to their new systems or whatever. I call and have the account rebuilt, the remaining links work... for a day or two, then they die again. So I call tech again and ask them what happened - told me that I needed to have my account rebuilt *sigh* I already did that - well, let's just do it again. Other links alive again... well, for a day or two again. This circus goes on for another couple weeks. At one point I was routed to some call center that told me additional IPs would not be allowed for several months (despite paying the extra $10/month for them) - wasn't sure what to think of that. But I ended up calling tech again a while later and this time I was routed to the call center. Through calling several more times to have the account rebuilt, they ended up sending a guy to my house (I have no clue why, he just showed up one day, heh) and he had the account rebuilt through whatever place he communicates with. All in all I ended up rebuilding the account somewhere in the neigborhood of 10 to 15 times. That was annoying.