but when it comes down to it, redundant gadgets are.... well... redundant. my (impulsive) friend spent around 400$ on this kickass mp3 player about a year ago, he ended up buying a laptop a month later and he was like 'uh, this junk mp3 player is just going to end up another of my unused gadgets', so he gave it to me.. i left it at a different friends house, and it was pawned:/.. anyway my beaten around the bush point is this..... people would rather have a laptop for this kind of thing, generally, because a laptop is multifunction.
If someone has a laptop, they are going to look at this device and say 'well.. i guess its somewhat easier to handle/hold, but I can already read a vast majority more on my wifi enabled laptop, and i wont have to pay an extra 400$ just to do something i can already do.' and on the other hand, which is almost as bad-- if someone doesn't own a laptop, they will look at this and say 'wow, 400$ just to read e-books? i could spend the same amount, and have infinite ebooks, infinite music, and infinite free wifi, and (insert everything else here)'.
in other words, this technology simply isn't cheap enough for the common all american materalistic faddist.
Redshift has NOTHING to do with parallax measurements of distance, which can be calculated to many significant digits.
I believe you have misunderstood me, because of my own obscurity.
I understand that the entire concept behind the spectroscope(which is what we read a 'redshift' off of), is based on the assumption that light acts much like sound (we still do not fully understand light). It goes like this. The doppler effect says that, if you are sitting in your car at a red light, and there is a huge 18 wheeler doing 75 in front and to the left of you, about to go through the green light, you will hear the sound from the 18 wheeler at a higher pitch frequency when it is coming towards you (since it is compressing the sound waves), and at a lower frequency when it has past you and it is moving away(since it is refracting the sound waves). now, the theory is, that possibly light does the same thing. a spectroscope breaks the star light through a prism and displays black lines going through one of the colors (black lines shifted through the red area = the star is moving away or black lines shifted to the blue area = the star is moving closer to us). this is not documented to be true, since we still do not fully understand the nature of light, although many people think they do. (many people say "light travels at 186 miles per second." and it seems noone knows the end to that statement to actually make it scientific. "light travels at 186 miles per second IN A VACUUM.". Noone knows exactly what light is, nor do they know that it always travels at the same speed throughout all time, space, and matter. think about the theories regarding black holes, that light can be attracted by gravity-- well, if light can be attracted by gravity, obviously the speed of light is not a constant. In 1999 Dr. Hau at Harvard slowed light down to 38 MPH, in 2000 Dallas Morning News (2/28/2000) said that some folks there slowed it down to 1MPH, then in 2001 nytimes had an article that said that scientists completely stopped light, held it in place, and then sent it out on its way.
this is the way in which my mind linked the two (red shift, and judging distances of stars), because we do not know that throughout space that the speed of light has remained a constant, and in that way these two subjects are very related. even evolutionist professors acknowledge that.
"A shocking possibility is that the speed of light might change in time during the life of the universe." Dr. Joao Magueijo - Imperial College London
"The speed of light was ten billion times faster at time zero!" Dr. V.S. Troitskii - Cosmologist at the Radio-physical Research Institute, Gorky.
Another interesting study you may want to look into:
"In fact, there is little correlation of brightness to redshift at all! Either QSOs come in an extremely wide range of intrinsic luminosities, as most people believe, or their redshifts do not indicate distance." ..."Thus for us the only conclusion that can be drawn is that at least some QSOs are relatively nearby, and that a large fraction of their redshift is due to something other than the expansion of the universe."
Burbidge, Geoffrey, and Adelaide Hewitt, "A Catalog of Quasars Near and Far," Sky and Telescope, Dec 1994 p.32
For the last few decades, everyone has been taught that the universe is expanding, and hey, it could be, i don't know -- but neither do the top scientists. mainly their evidence for the expanding universe is the red shift, a la "because of the red shift, we know the universe is expanding, that means it all used to be together, and that means that there was a big bang."
Interesting article from Science:
"...another set of observations indicates that the universe... appears to be... 8.4 to 10.6 billion years... The new work relied on the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the distance to far away galaxies." Scienc
"Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light. We cannot see their size or shape. So how can we tell different types of stars apart? For the vast majority of stars, there is only one characteristic feature that we can observe - the color of their light."
Stephen W. Hawking - 'A brief history of time', 1998 p.37
If you want to get the distance between yourself and an item you cannot touch, the primary way (afaik, for stars.) is to use trig. you get two different observation points, line of sight, looking at the object you want to get the distance to ['3rd point'], if you have the distance between the two observation points, and the angle that they form pointing to the 3rd point, you can figure the distance by using sine, cosine and tangents.
now here is why this science isn't exactly down to a science. the earth is only ~8000 miles in diamater, if two people are were on almost complete opposite sides of the world, even that wouldn't be nearly enough distance between the two points (when looking at a star, many hundreds of millions of miles out).
what they have done to enlarge the base of their 'triangle' is they look at a star in january, then they look at it again in june, so that we are on the completely other side of the sun. so, the distance from the earth to the sun is ~93 million miles, or 1 astronomical unit ('au'). so at this point they have about 200 million miles between the two points focusing in on the 3rd. now, 1au is 8 light minutes, so 2au is only 16 light minutes. so, if you wanted to measure say a star that was 1 light year away [525,948 light minutes] (btw, there aren't any that close), your 'triangle' would be patheticly miniscule. that would be somewhat the same as getting two surveyors to set up observation points 16 inches from eachother and getting them to focus in on a dot 525,948 inches away [8 1/4th miles away]. so a one light year triange has an angle of 0.17 deg. to measure a star 100 light years away, the angle becomes.00017 -- sad right? this would be like keeping your surveyors 16 inches apart still, and moving the 3rd point 826 miles away. so... measure a distance of 10+ billion light years away is clearly impossible, for even if we did it all day long, we would still have to reach that star (or one even 100+ light years away) to prove that our calculations were actually correct.
i suggest you look more into this matter, many things like the red shift are dependant to a degree on this, and its more voodoo than science (still.)
Scientists are starting to scare me. Many scientists find funding through government or taxpayer-funded programs and grants. Are we dealing with the same quality of people who review and allow frivolous patents and lawsuits to be enforced? Will we start seeing more scientists under review for doing what we all do in our jobs -- try and find ways to increase our pay while keeping our work the same (or lower).
When I decry public funding of science, I'm blasted because people say that the free market won't pay for certain research [...] What can we do to combat humanity's deep need for self preservation in a scientist having the same human drives, especially when it is funded straight out of our pocket involuntarily?
In a perfect world: *ALL* scientists would be completely impartial to the results of their findings, and completely honest (as to keep from swaying the minds of non-scientists into believing something that simply isn't true.)
In a perfect world: *ALL* police would be looking to serve the best interests of the public they protect, and would show no leniency to those who break the law (also, in the said perfect world, all the laws would be worth upholding. blunt, anyone?)
In a perfect world: *ALL* politicians would be honest. there would be an enforced accountability to the people they 'represent'.
do you see where this is going? WHY do people hold scientists to a standard that would be (and IS) considered preposterous to hold other *HUMANS* to?? EVERYONE is dishonest, EVERYONE has an agenda (usually money.), EVERYONE has special interests.
I can almost see the look on your face.. You are thinking to yourself 'wow, this idiot totally missed the point of what my post was about.' no, I didn't.
Are we dealing with the same quality of people who review and allow frivolous patents and lawsuits to be enforced?
YES! WE ARE! THEY ARE CALLED HUMANS. STOP expecting a double standard between scientists and 'citizens'. You will ALWAYS find mixtures of decent, honest people in a much outweighed ratio with lying, backstabbing, climb-my-way-to-the-top types. It just so happens, for the most part, the scientific community (as well as the world) became flooded with the latter.
when it comes to a gaming system, why is it that usually you end up spending so much less building it yourself with much higher quality parts. ive worked on and played on enough assembly line 'customised' pc's to say that every major manufacturer skimps hard on very important parts, especially motherboards. i wont use anything other than abit and asus. been that way many years. even if you subtract all the useless junk that comes preloaded with those systems, you end up alot of times with very specific driver problems, and sometimes you just plain cannot use the gpu manufacturers 'pack' drivers (even moreso true with laptops).
anyway... im sure some rich kid won't mind the vendors quality/quantity performance difference when he's playing it on his 4 projectors.
i've taken large doses of dextromethorphan hydrobromine for many years straight as a teenager. i never get colds. although i do sometimes see some odd things during the cold and flu season, but i think that is mainly from the dimethyltryptamine.
although that particular commerical doesn't really piss me off that bad, i must say, i am glad to see another person with uncommon views on commercials. i think these companies honestly think the more annoying a commerical is, the more likely it is to stick into my memory, and thereby i will recall their brand in the store and buy it. that is just retarded.
i really think there are some companies that are just so huge and well known already, that noone will be convinced to buy from them based on a commercial they saw. point in case: tampons. if tampon producing companys stopped all television advertising right now, i can guarentee none of them would see a loss of profit for the next quarter due to their lack of tv ads. women know what they use, no out of touch bullshit ad is going to change that.
You aren't supposed to give them a notice. Hell, I got fired once and they sure as hell didn't give me a two week notice on that shit.
The right way to leave your position is walking out at a crucial time, and setting some godawful cron ticking for about a week after you leave. That way, when the next chums contact your xboss for a reference, his only reply is "Oh, shit, I remember that guy! We were totally fucked when he left!"
I don't know about you guys, but I think we should be teaching science in science class.. NOT religion, guess what, I bet everyone agrees with me on that one -- so why is there such a controversy over this? why is everyone up in arms disputing one another? This is why: People do not want their children being taught a religion that is contrary to their own while spending their own tax dollars to pay for their childrens indoctrination.
Ok, well lets dig a bit deeper into this. There are a few different definitions for evolution, but that is because they apply to particular areas of it, let's look at each area. The overall complete theory of evolution (please someone, anyone, correct me if I am wrong -- I wasn't indoctrinated by our public school system, I learned on my own.) goes something like this.
1. Cosmic evolution - how time and space came into existance, the origins of our universe (big bang)
2. Chemical evolution - how we have all these different elements, even though the big bang was only thought to produce hydrogen, helium, and maybe lithium.
3. Stellar/planetary evolution - how the stars and planets were formed.
4. Organic evolution - how non living material came to life. spontaneous generation from years of raining on a rock to produce a 'life soup'.
5. Macro evolution - all the life on earth having a common ancestor, the process of one type of animal producing another type of animal due to a wide array of different variables.
and last but surely not least
6. micro evolution - the variations and differences that exist within 2 animals of the same type.
You know the odd part? They're going to show your kids 5000 different examples of micro evolution, why? because it happens, it's *science*. no creationist in their right mind would say that microevolution does not happen. everyone knows it does. however, the school doesn't want to sell it on its own, it's a package deal with the rest of the theory -- which is NOT science. Science is an array of phonomena that we can test, observe, and recreate. There is *NO* proof for any of the items listed above, 1-5, and there is NO way to observe test or prove them. That isn't science, folks.. it's religion.
Now think about it a second. You don't want to pay for the far right christian whacko's teaching your children that in the beginning, GOD created everything, including us, although we have no proof for this -- however, you do want your tax dollars teaching your children that a ROCK created us, although you have no proof for it.
You want something that will make you sick? Read this. http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.htmlThe truth of public school teaching, from a teacher that taught public school 35+ years.
Actually the console itself (and the tv it is played on) are "no replacement for parenting." If a few parents would stop working 50+ hours a week (in order to afford things they don't need) and start actually parenting (you know, like, actually raising your kids, not just grounding them based on the 'report' that you get from the people that actually raise them 187 days a year.), then maybe we wouldnt be in this shit right now. fucking brainless americans, don't you know the public education system was karl marx's idea? hitler said it himself 'let me control the textbooks, and i'll control the state.'
Instead of wasting time complaining, work a few more hours a week and donate the money to your church marketing fund.
Yeah this is really a novel idea, do even more extra work and hand over the money to those frauds. Do not get me wrong, I -know- there is true undefiled Christianity, I know that there are still some keeping the true faith -- however -- this is not true for 98% of the supposed 'christian' world. I've been doing some very in depth research on this the last few years and what I've uncovered blew my mind. We are living in an age where there is absolutely no middle ground. If you are letting the government, or eminem, or the state, or mtv, or nintendo raise your kids you are a pathetic piece of shit not worthy to be called a parent.
I hate my label as I'd never tell a non-Christian to stop swearing or stop drinking or stop screwing around or stop watching porn.
You are apparently confused. If you see someone swearing, or drinking, or being a whore, or watching porn of course you don't run up to them, knock the bottle/slut/remote out of their hand and tell them they are going to hell -- but to stand by idle and never express to them that there is a better way to live is even worse than living their life (and i would know, from experience.) Oh, and as an example how 98% of the 'christian' world is completely out of line with the Bible, here is a perfect example, speaking of hell. According to the Bible there is no eternal place of suffering, where humans are cast down to suffer forever for their ~50ish years of sin. it simply does not exist at all in the Bible. Anyone who considers himself a Christian better start doing some in depth study of the Bible. The Lord that loves us more than we can imagine would never send his own creations to a place of eternal nonstop suffering. I look around this destroyed world and I completely understand why people turn their back on God, it is because they lack true understanding of his message and the controversy we are involved in now.
I'd never use government or a nanny group to further a Christian agenda.
Good. You should avoid those types of retards altogether. Believe it or not they are going full speed ahead furthering satans work by working to create a one world melting pot of religions and trying to create moral laws (there are already several in effect, and they've been around for awhile. consider the blue laws -- here in alabama you cannot buy alcohol on sundays. this goes way further than just alcohol though, it basically gives the state power to mandate which types of stores can be opened on particular days.)
Hear me now, believe me later. Tyranny and persecution are coming to the USA in the guise of religion. Soon there will be a total union of church and state and far more laws trying to govern religion and morality will be imposed. You think it's bad now, just wait.
Your job as a parent is to be involved 100% in your child's life.
Agreed.
If you want a good Christian child, be a good Christian parent. Try to live sin free, and stop forcing your child to be perf
...that a comet was flying through the solar system, and parts of it or the ice tail landed in various places. it could help explain why the craters on the moon are not evenly distributed over its surface, it could also explain the craters on mars -- which are also not evenly distributed. as a matter of fact, according to http://www.thule.org/mars/
The following conclusions can be made:
I . Mars received about 86 percent of its craters in one catastrophic day.
2. Mars received the other 14 percent of its craters during all other time.
3. The 14 percent in all other time impacted Mars equally in both hemispheres.
4. Approximately 2831 of the 3068 craters in the Hemisphere of Craters impacted Mars during one single day, and, for that matter, during one single 60-minute spasm of tidal upheaval and crater formation.
It kinda reminded me of this article. wasn't that crater full of ice near the planets north pole? isnt ice slightly magnetic? don't we have two ice covered poles on our own planet?
Ok so if a meteor was flying nearby our planet, and tons of ice chunks came into our atmosphere and landed on our north and south poles how would we know? well.. we might find plants and trees not nearly suitable for arctic climates under the ice there. and we do. we also find animals that shouldnt be in those areas (eg. animals that eat only plants). havn't we even found frozen mammoths standing straight up with food undigested in their stomachs? how would you freeze something the size of an elephant that fast without the inside rotting out before freezing? coldest temperature if i remember right was recorded in antarctica, something like -130 F. thats cold, but not nearly cold enough -- you'd need something like -300/400 snow falling really quick and really long. hmmm... so then while the mammoths are trying to walk off -- they get stuck in snow where they cannot move at all, and freeze standing straight up. ideas?
The reactions are only unbelievable to you because you are applying a fallacy: that some part of a group's reactions to one article and another part of a group's reactions to another article must somehow be consistent with each other...as if "slashdot readership" is a single mind that must not harbor hipocrisy. In truth, a large collection of individuals will have a large collection of different opinions about different issues and it's silly to be perplexed when you actually observe that to be the case.
I think you are missing the point here, the parent did not imply that the/. community 'should' be looking at the article in any specific fashion, rather, that if the story was about microsoft offering free windows to each laptop, 90% of the posts here WOULD BE screaming bloody murder about microsoft rather than just small chitchat. So yes, when it comes to microsoft, at least, "a large collection of individuals will have a large collection of different opinions" doesn't hold water.. there is -in fact- a general slashdot 'single mind', and it IS a double standard on that topic. Don't believe in it? Someone modded the parent flamebait.. how fucked up is that?
and here's an idea.... Hard drive space costs pennies now, even for mobile devices. What about say, 10-20 gigs dedicated to 'restore' images, you could get at least 5 FULLY installed clone images of various free OSS distros, give them a few different flavors of unix / linux to tinker with (with some sort of common partition only for storing whatever personal files they may need, which won't be touched by the image writer), that way, when they 'tinker' enough to fubar the entire install, they're a reboot, 10ish keystrokes, and 10 minutes away from a complete reinstall of whatever distro they choose.
once again though, I cannot possibly agree more with the parent, the/. double standard is constantly in effect -- you people should be ashamed, and if you aren't, you should get a clue and THEN be ashamed.
Oh, yes, this is so terrible in recent years. It's not like since the effective dawn of the modern Internet, the World Wide Web hasn't been filled with a million Geocities websites about people's cats.
Wait - nevermind, it's *always* been like this.
Well no shit sherlock, and thanks to the blogging trend it looks like we've increased the number by about 70,000 per day.
Google has evil shit going on!
Christ. Unless they're going to invade a second-world country under the guise of terrorism, excuse me while I laugh my ass off. Yeah, of all the things people should be paying attention to, Google's right up there!
Everyone knows this war on terror doesn't pass the smell test, that isn't the point and doesn't cover the fact that people are putting their trust in google without realizing exactly what the company is up to. while you laugh your ass off try pulling your head out of it.
Why? The average weblog creator already has an audience - even if it is just their friends and family. Are you so pathetic that you somehow feel threatened by the fact that others out there have people who *do* care about their day to day lives? Or are you just some crusty Internet has-been, one of those brave souls from the early 90's who now sits around bitching about 'How it was back in the day', never leaving your dank and dark basement dwelling to see the sun?
You should start your own internet psychic site -- you got me!!! get some original material btw, the 'never seeing the sun' shit is getting old.
im really tired of this blogging fad. there are so many blogs now, that everyone is so busy writing their blog that noone has time to -read- any of them. it seems like everyone now has something so fantastically important to say that they need to have their own site to put it online for the world to behold. give me a break. noone cares what emo cds you bought today.
im glad that google exists, because on the rare cases that someones blog has worth reading information you can sift it out, however, in case you didn't know, google has some evil shit going on that people need to really start paying attention to. anyway, as a quick recap to my opinion -- if you were thinking about starting a blog - dont - noone cares what you have to say. (and yes, before you trolls start coming for me, that includes this message as well.)
this is something ive been wondering about for years, my interest was sparked again semi-recently for two reasons. One is TCPA. The other was one of my past jobs..
I was working for a well known company doing QA/Testing on console games, and monitoring server side/client side bugs.. We would get new DVD's sometimes twice a day with the latest revision of the game and we would have to check both our "open" bugs, and our "closed" bugs - that is, bugs that were previously fixed to make sure that they had not somehow become "reopened". Usually early in the game development, there were tons of hidden easily accessable menus that would change tons and tons of variables inside the game, kind of like a developers menu to directly effect the engine in ways that would normally never happen during regular gameplay, even settings that were supposed to remain static. So, anyway, later on when the game was close to being declared 'ready for release' these menus would of course be cut off, that is, the code for the menus was still actually in the source, but it was impossible to access them, the method for accessing had been removed. (kinda reminded me of the GTA sex scene thing, the code was still there - just cut off.)...
Anyway, my point is this, who is to say what data is ACTUALLY on the chips themselves on any component in your computer? I'd say 98% of people do not even have access to or knowledge of the hardware that would be required to really look inside any given chip. Sure, we can play and tinker with -what is accessable- to us, that is, what the coders left open to us. We know how they do what they do, to a degree, but not -why- they do what they do. Who is to say there aren't tons of hidden things going on way low on the OSI model? TCPA really got me thinking about this as well, after all, it took IBM several years to admit to what they had in their thinkpads in the mid 90's. Anyone work at a hardware manufacturer with stories of 'easter eggs' so to speak?
She was not 'sick', she was a typical member of the parasitic consumer society in which she lives, consuming what the rest of the world produces until they (literally) keel over and die.
Uh, if that isn't 'sick', what is? Something you can see wiggling around under a microscope? The variation you described does indeed constitute sickness, and I'd say we can at least agree millions of Americans fall into its catagory. As you said, she was a 'typical member of...' -- just because it's commonplace, doesn't mean it isn't 'sick'.
Posted anonymously to avoid being modded as a troll... people don't like hearing the truth.
No, actually you posted AC because you know your opinion is wrong, although you are entitled to it. If you look at all the replys to this "Was the link necessary" post, you will notice a strange phenomenon, all 5 of your type posted AC, only 1 posted such under his account. I don't call that watching your mod point karma, I call that being ashamed of your view, which you should be, the sad part is you don't know why you are ashamed of your view, so you try to justify it by your ability to proclaim yourself above it.
Sadly that is what this world has come to, the line between humor and decency/morality has been completey demolished.
I remember my rule of thumb a few years ago was "if something is more offensive than it is funny, don't say it.", I would take notice of just how many people would have something that was just too 'funny' to hold back, and they would throw it out in front of everyone, normally at someone elses expense (especially if it is directed at the least popular person in any given clique), the 'funny' part IMHO is that the person that throws the derogatory joke out would never have said such a thing had himself and the 'unpopular' person been the only 2 in the room. This is why I've termed this collective usage of 'humor' - "Social Points".
Over time I've learned that my rule of thumb is sometimes not enough, you really do have to go the extra mile not to offend some people these days, it seems some people are downright determined to be offended and to be overly dramatic. I never thought I'd say this, but I believe that all of this does in fact stem from our forms of 'Entertainment' nowdays. People want to act like they are on some sitcom, they want to make fools of people, and they just love drama.
I see the downfall already in motion, and it was started way before I was born. Look at how far it goes nowdays, though. Shows and movies like "Over There" and "Jarhead" -- If I had any family in the military right now, I'd be even more offended than normal when I see previews for movies and shows like those. Honestly, there are people getting killed, and we're sitting here watching reinactments of that fact while drinking sodas and eating popcorn. The line between entertainment and common sense regarding humanity has been thoroughly eliminated. I can guarentee you this fact in our backwards world - if I made a graphic movie about me running around slaughtering animals, like domesticated dogs and cats, although all of it would be special effects and no animals would be injured, it would be extremely controversial and I am positive that people, especially animal rights activists, would hold my movie responsible when some deranged kid goes nuts on the family pets-- and you know what? there could be a shred of truth to their claim. explain then, why movies with people killing people are totally overlooked in our days? Shows like 'The Sopranos glorify 'organized' crime, I had an aunt that was murdered by the mafia, case of mistaken identity/wrong place wrong time, there is nothing glorious about a defenseless woman getting stabbed 40+ times, but our kids are being brought up in an era where these types of figures are not only acceptable, but commended. Mankind is becoming more and more base by the hour, and noone is doing anything to stop it, moreover, they are profiting by accelerating it.
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the insects have already won.
but when it comes down to it, redundant gadgets are.... well... redundant. my (impulsive) friend spent around 400$ on this kickass mp3 player about a year ago, he ended up buying a laptop a month later and he was like 'uh, this junk mp3 player is just going to end up another of my unused gadgets', so he gave it to me.. i left it at a different friends house, and it was pawned :/.. anyway my beaten around the bush point is this..... people would rather have a laptop for this kind of thing, generally, because a laptop is multifunction.
If someone has a laptop, they are going to look at this device and say 'well.. i guess its somewhat easier to handle/hold, but I can already read a vast majority more on my wifi enabled laptop, and i wont have to pay an extra 400$ just to do something i can already do.'
and on the other hand, which is almost as bad-- if someone doesn't own a laptop, they will look at this and say 'wow, 400$ just to read e-books? i could spend the same amount, and have infinite ebooks, infinite music, and infinite free wifi, and (insert everything else here)'.
in other words, this technology simply isn't cheap enough for the common all american materalistic faddist.
I believe you have misunderstood me, because of my own obscurity.
I understand that the entire concept behind the spectroscope(which is what we read a 'redshift' off of), is based on the assumption that light acts much like sound (we still do not fully understand light). It goes like this. The doppler effect says that, if you are sitting in your car at a red light, and there is a huge 18 wheeler doing 75 in front and to the left of you, about to go through the green light, you will hear the sound from the 18 wheeler at a higher pitch frequency when it is coming towards you (since it is compressing the sound waves), and at a lower frequency when it has past you and it is moving away(since it is refracting the sound waves). now, the theory is, that possibly light does the same thing. a spectroscope breaks the star light through a prism and displays black lines going through one of the colors (black lines shifted through the red area = the star is moving away or black lines shifted to the blue area = the star is moving closer to us). this is not documented to be true, since we still do not fully understand the nature of light, although many people think they do. (many people say "light travels at 186 miles per second." and it seems noone knows the end to that statement to actually make it scientific. "light travels at 186 miles per second IN A VACUUM.". Noone knows exactly what light is, nor do they know that it always travels at the same speed throughout all time, space, and matter. think about the theories regarding black holes, that light can be attracted by gravity-- well, if light can be attracted by gravity, obviously the speed of light is not a constant. In 1999 Dr. Hau at Harvard slowed light down to 38 MPH, in 2000 Dallas Morning News (2/28/2000) said that some folks there slowed it down to 1MPH, then in 2001 nytimes had an article that said that scientists completely stopped light, held it in place, and then sent it out on its way.
this is the way in which my mind linked the two (red shift, and judging distances of stars), because we do not know that throughout space that the speed of light has remained a constant, and in that way these two subjects are very related. even evolutionist professors acknowledge that.
Another interesting study you may want to look into:
For the last few decades, everyone has been taught that the universe is expanding, and hey, it could be, i don't know -- but neither do the top scientists. mainly their evidence for the expanding universe is the red shift, a la "because of the red shift, we know the universe is expanding, that means it all used to be together, and that means that there was a big bang."
Interesting article from Science:
If you want to get the distance between yourself and an item you cannot touch, the primary way (afaik, for stars.) is to use trig. you get two different observation points, line of sight, looking at the object you want to get the distance to ['3rd point'], if you have the distance between the two observation points, and the angle that they form pointing to the 3rd point, you can figure the distance by using sine, cosine and tangents.
now here is why this science isn't exactly down to a science. the earth is only ~8000 miles in diamater, if two people are were on almost complete opposite sides of the world, even that wouldn't be nearly enough distance between the two points (when looking at a star, many hundreds of millions of miles out).
what they have done to enlarge the base of their 'triangle' is they look at a star in january, then they look at it again in june, so that we are on the completely other side of the sun. so, the distance from the earth to the sun is ~93 million miles, or 1 astronomical unit ('au'). so at this point they have about 200 million miles between the two points focusing in on the 3rd. now, 1au is 8 light minutes, so 2au is only 16 light minutes. so, if you wanted to measure say a star that was 1 light year away [525,948 light minutes] (btw, there aren't any that close), your 'triangle' would be patheticly miniscule. that would be somewhat the same as getting two surveyors to set up observation points 16 inches from eachother and getting them to focus in on a dot 525,948 inches away [8 1/4th miles away]. so a one light year triange has an angle of 0.17 deg. to measure a star 100 light years away, the angle becomes
i suggest you look more into this matter, many things like the red shift are dependant to a degree on this, and its more voodoo than science (still.)
In a perfect world: *ALL* scientists would be completely impartial to the results of their findings, and completely honest (as to keep from swaying the minds of non-scientists into believing something that simply isn't true.)
In a perfect world: *ALL* police would be looking to serve the best interests of the public they protect, and would show no leniency to those who break the law (also, in the said perfect world, all the laws would be worth upholding. blunt, anyone?)
In a perfect world: *ALL* politicians would be honest. there would be an enforced accountability to the people they 'represent'.
do you see where this is going? WHY do people hold scientists to a standard that would be (and IS) considered preposterous to hold other *HUMANS* to?? EVERYONE is dishonest, EVERYONE has an agenda (usually money.), EVERYONE has special interests.
I can almost see the look on your face.. You are thinking to yourself 'wow, this idiot totally missed the point of what my post was about.' no, I didn't. YES! WE ARE! THEY ARE CALLED HUMANS. STOP expecting a double standard between scientists and 'citizens'. You will ALWAYS find mixtures of decent, honest people in a much outweighed ratio with lying, backstabbing, climb-my-way-to-the-top types. It just so happens, for the most part, the scientific community (as well as the world) became flooded with the latter.
when it comes to a gaming system, why is it that usually you end up spending so much less building it yourself with much higher quality parts. ive worked on and played on enough assembly line 'customised' pc's to say that every major manufacturer skimps hard on very important parts, especially motherboards. i wont use anything other than abit and asus. been that way many years. even if you subtract all the useless junk that comes preloaded with those systems, you end up alot of times with very specific driver problems, and sometimes you just plain cannot use the gpu manufacturers 'pack' drivers (even moreso true with laptops). anyway... im sure some rich kid won't mind the vendors quality/quantity performance difference when he's playing it on his 4 projectors.
should it really take 1.4 million complaints to alert them that the law was being violated?
i've taken large doses of dextromethorphan hydrobromine for many years straight as a teenager. i never get colds. although i do sometimes see some odd things during the cold and flu season, but i think that is mainly from the dimethyltryptamine.
although that particular commerical doesn't really piss me off that bad, i must say, i am glad to see another person with uncommon views on commercials. i think these companies honestly think the more annoying a commerical is, the more likely it is to stick into my memory, and thereby i will recall their brand in the store and buy it. that is just retarded.
i really think there are some companies that are just so huge and well known already, that noone will be convinced to buy from them based on a commercial they saw. point in case: tampons. if tampon producing companys stopped all television advertising right now, i can guarentee none of them would see a loss of profit for the next quarter due to their lack of tv ads. women know what they use, no out of touch bullshit ad is going to change that.
tv is retarded.
You aren't supposed to give them a notice. Hell, I got fired once and they sure as hell didn't give me a two week notice on that shit.
The right way to leave your position is walking out at a crucial time, and setting some godawful cron ticking for about a week after you leave. That way, when the next chums contact your xboss for a reference, his only reply is "Oh, shit, I remember that guy! We were totally fucked when he left!"
I don't know about you guys, but I think we should be teaching science in science class.. NOT religion, guess what, I bet everyone agrees with me on that one -- so why is there such a controversy over this? why is everyone up in arms disputing one another?
This is why:
People do not want their children being taught a religion that is contrary to their own while spending their own tax dollars to pay for their childrens indoctrination.
Ok, well lets dig a bit deeper into this. There are a few different definitions for evolution, but that is because they apply to particular areas of it, let's look at each area.
The overall complete theory of evolution (please someone, anyone, correct me if I am wrong -- I wasn't indoctrinated by our public school system, I learned on my own.) goes something like this.
1. Cosmic evolution - how time and space came into existance, the origins of our universe (big bang)
2. Chemical evolution - how we have all these different elements, even though the big bang was only thought to produce hydrogen, helium, and maybe lithium.
3. Stellar/planetary evolution - how the stars and planets were formed.
4. Organic evolution - how non living material came to life. spontaneous generation from years of raining on a rock to produce a 'life soup'.
5. Macro evolution - all the life on earth having a common ancestor, the process of one type of animal producing another type of animal due to a wide array of different variables.
and last but surely not least
6. micro evolution - the variations and differences that exist within 2 animals of the same type.
You know the odd part? They're going to show your kids 5000 different examples of micro evolution, why? because it happens, it's *science*. no creationist in their right mind would say that microevolution does not happen. everyone knows it does. however, the school doesn't want to sell it on its own, it's a package deal with the rest of the theory -- which is NOT science. Science is an array of phonomena that we can test, observe, and recreate. There is *NO* proof for any of the items listed above, 1-5, and there is NO way to observe test or prove them. That isn't science, folks.. it's religion.
Now think about it a second. You don't want to pay for the far right christian whacko's teaching your children that in the beginning, GOD created everything, including us, although we have no proof for this -- however, you do want your tax dollars teaching your children that a ROCK created us, although you have no proof for it.
You want something that will make you sick? Read this. http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.htmlThe truth of public school teaching, from a teacher that taught public school 35+ years.
Actually the console itself (and the tv it is played on) are "no replacement for parenting."
If a few parents would stop working 50+ hours a week (in order to afford things they don't need) and start actually parenting (you know, like, actually raising your kids, not just grounding them based on the 'report' that you get from the people that actually raise them 187 days a year.), then maybe we wouldnt be in this shit right now. fucking brainless americans, don't you know the public education system was karl marx's idea? hitler said it himself 'let me control the textbooks, and i'll control the state.'
Yeah this is really a novel idea, do even more extra work and hand over the money to those frauds. Do not get me wrong, I -know- there is true undefiled Christianity, I know that there are still some keeping the true faith -- however -- this is not true for 98% of the supposed 'christian' world. I've been doing some very in depth research on this the last few years and what I've uncovered blew my mind. We are living in an age where there is absolutely no middle ground. If you are letting the government, or eminem, or the state, or mtv, or nintendo raise your kids you are a pathetic piece of shit not worthy to be called a parent.
You are apparently confused. If you see someone swearing, or drinking, or being a whore, or watching porn of course you don't run up to them, knock the bottle/slut/remote out of their hand and tell them they are going to hell -- but to stand by idle and never express to them that there is a better way to live is even worse than living their life (and i would know, from experience.)
Oh, and as an example how 98% of the 'christian' world is completely out of line with the Bible, here is a perfect example, speaking of hell. According to the Bible there is no eternal place of suffering, where humans are cast down to suffer forever for their ~50ish years of sin. it simply does not exist at all in the Bible. Anyone who considers himself a Christian better start doing some in depth study of the Bible. The Lord that loves us more than we can imagine would never send his own creations to a place of eternal nonstop suffering. I look around this destroyed world and I completely understand why people turn their back on God, it is because they lack true understanding of his message and the controversy we are involved in now.
Good. You should avoid those types of retards altogether. Believe it or not they are going full speed ahead furthering satans work by working to create a one world melting pot of religions and trying to create moral laws (there are already several in effect, and they've been around for awhile. consider the blue laws -- here in alabama you cannot buy alcohol on sundays. this goes way further than just alcohol though, it basically gives the state power to mandate which types of stores can be opened on particular days.)
Hear me now, believe me later. Tyranny and persecution are coming to the USA in the guise of religion. Soon there will be a total union of church and state and far more laws trying to govern religion and morality will be imposed. You think it's bad now, just wait.
Agreed.
the supreme court told lycos, 'go get it!'...
It kinda reminded me of this article. wasn't that crater full of ice near the planets north pole? isnt ice slightly magnetic? don't we have two ice covered poles on our own planet?
Ok so if a meteor was flying nearby our planet, and tons of ice chunks came into our atmosphere and landed on our north and south poles how would we know? well.. we might find plants and trees not nearly suitable for arctic climates under the ice there. and we do. we also find animals that shouldnt be in those areas (eg. animals that eat only plants). havn't we even found frozen mammoths standing straight up with food undigested in their stomachs? how would you freeze something the size of an elephant that fast without the inside rotting out before freezing? coldest temperature if i remember right was recorded in antarctica, something like -130 F. thats cold, but not nearly cold enough -- you'd need something like -300/400 snow falling really quick and really long. hmmm... so then while the mammoths are trying to walk off -- they get stuck in snow where they cannot move at all, and freeze standing straight up. ideas?
I think you are missing the point here, the parent did not imply that the
I couldn't agree more --
/. double standard is constantly in effect -- you people should be ashamed, and if you aren't, you should get a clue and THEN be ashamed.
and here's an idea.... Hard drive space costs pennies now, even for mobile devices. What about say, 10-20 gigs dedicated to 'restore' images, you could get at least 5 FULLY installed clone images of various free OSS distros, give them a few different flavors of unix / linux to tinker with (with some sort of common partition only for storing whatever personal files they may need, which won't be touched by the image writer), that way, when they 'tinker' enough to fubar the entire install, they're a reboot, 10ish keystrokes, and 10 minutes away from a complete reinstall of whatever distro they choose.
once again though, I cannot possibly agree more with the parent, the
Well no shit sherlock, and thanks to the blogging trend it looks like we've increased the number by about 70,000 per day.
Everyone knows this war on terror doesn't pass the smell test, that isn't the point and doesn't cover the fact that people are putting their trust in google without realizing exactly what the company is up to. while you laugh your ass off try pulling your head out of it.
You should start your own internet psychic site -- you got me!!! get some original material btw, the 'never seeing the sun' shit is getting old.
* == blogger.
im really tired of this blogging fad. there are so many blogs now, that everyone is so busy writing their blog that noone has time to -read- any of them. it seems like everyone now has something so fantastically important to say that they need to have their own site to put it online for the world to behold. give me a break. noone cares what emo cds you bought today.
im glad that google exists, because on the rare cases that someones blog has worth reading information you can sift it out, however, in case you didn't know, google has some evil shit going on that people need to really start paying attention to. anyway, as a quick recap to my opinion -- if you were thinking about starting a blog - dont - noone cares what you have to say. (and yes, before you trolls start coming for me, that includes this message as well.)
you could have mentioned you were psychic beforehand :(
man mount && touch tail more && more; finger assets |grep && fsck; locate cat && tar; whereis find mysqldump..... chpwned.
i need to get out more...well.. on second thought, ill do society a favor.
if this wasnt a joke: post something non AC so i can find and shoot you. if it was: not funny. go get shot somewhere.
but i thought it was called 'apropos'.. no no, it was 'man'! im sure of it!
this is something ive been wondering about for years, my interest was sparked again semi-recently for two reasons. One is TCPA. The other was one of my past jobs..
I was working for a well known company doing QA/Testing on console games, and monitoring server side/client side bugs.. We would get new DVD's sometimes twice a day with the latest revision of the game and we would have to check both our "open" bugs, and our "closed" bugs - that is, bugs that were previously fixed to make sure that they had not somehow become "reopened". Usually early in the game development, there were tons of hidden easily accessable menus that would change tons and tons of variables inside the game, kind of like a developers menu to directly effect the engine in ways that would normally never happen during regular gameplay, even settings that were supposed to remain static. So, anyway, later on when the game was close to being declared 'ready for release' these menus would of course be cut off, that is, the code for the menus was still actually in the source, but it was impossible to access them, the method for accessing had been removed. (kinda reminded me of the GTA sex scene thing, the code was still there - just cut off.)...
Anyway, my point is this, who is to say what data is ACTUALLY on the chips themselves on any component in your computer? I'd say 98% of people do not even have access to or knowledge of the hardware that would be required to really look inside any given chip. Sure, we can play and tinker with -what is accessable- to us, that is, what the coders left open to us. We know how they do what they do, to a degree, but not -why- they do what they do. Who is to say there aren't tons of hidden things going on way low on the OSI model? TCPA really got me thinking about this as well, after all, it took IBM several years to admit to what they had in their thinkpads in the mid 90's.
Anyone work at a hardware manufacturer with stories of 'easter eggs' so to speak?
No, actually you posted AC because you know your opinion is wrong, although you are entitled to it. If you look at all the replys to this "Was the link necessary" post, you will notice a strange phenomenon, all 5 of your type posted AC, only 1 posted such under his account. I don't call that watching your mod point karma, I call that being ashamed of your view, which you should be, the sad part is you don't know why you are ashamed of your view, so you try to justify it by your ability to proclaim yourself above it.
Sadly that is what this world has come to, the line between humor and decency/morality has been completey demolished.
I remember my rule of thumb a few years ago was "if something is more offensive than it is funny, don't say it.", I would take notice of just how many people would have something that was just too 'funny' to hold back, and they would throw it out in front of everyone, normally at someone elses expense (especially if it is directed at the least popular person in any given clique), the 'funny' part IMHO is that the person that throws the derogatory joke out would never have said such a thing had himself and the 'unpopular' person been the only 2 in the room. This is why I've termed this collective usage of 'humor' - "Social Points".
Over time I've learned that my rule of thumb is sometimes not enough, you really do have to go the extra mile not to offend some people these days, it seems some people are downright determined to be offended and to be overly dramatic. I never thought I'd say this, but I believe that all of this does in fact stem from our forms of 'Entertainment' nowdays. People want to act like they are on some sitcom, they want to make fools of people, and they just love drama.
I see the downfall already in motion, and it was started way before I was born. Look at how far it goes nowdays, though. Shows and movies like "Over There" and "Jarhead" -- If I had any family in the military right now, I'd be even more offended than normal when I see previews for movies and shows like those. Honestly, there are people getting killed, and we're sitting here watching reinactments of that fact while drinking sodas and eating popcorn. The line between entertainment and common sense regarding humanity has been thoroughly eliminated. I can guarentee you this fact in our backwards world - if I made a graphic movie about me running around slaughtering animals, like domesticated dogs and cats, although all of it would be special effects and no animals would be injured, it would be extremely controversial and I am positive that people, especially animal rights activists, would hold my movie responsible when some deranged kid goes nuts on the family pets-- and you know what? there could be a shred of truth to their claim. explain then, why movies with people killing people are totally overlooked in our days?
Shows like 'The Sopranos glorify 'organized' crime, I had an aunt that was murdered by the mafia, case of mistaken identity/wrong place wrong time, there is nothing glorious about a defenseless woman getting stabbed 40+ times, but our kids are being brought up in an era where these types of figures are not only acceptable, but commended. Mankind is becoming more and more base by the hour, and noone is doing anything to stop it, moreover, they are profiting by accelerating it.