I know... I was at that mall a lot while they were filming, I remember particularly being there when they did the beating up of the Easter Bunny scene. They made a lot of fake stores all around the mall.
"Those that want to keep "God" in the U.S. pledge, etc., claim that "God" is a generic term for a spiritual, not religious concept; and, therefore, does not endorse any specific religion."
I still think that's unfair as it endorses spirituality... atheism may be a "non-religion" but for fairness issues like this I think it needs to be treated as a religion so that it gets equal consideration.
I'm reminded of when there was the big debate about the pledge of allegience, and a coworker and I were arguing about God being on money. She suggested that to be fair, we leave "In God We Trust" on half the money, and on the other half we put nothing. I told her that doesn't cut it, and that to be fair we would need to put in "God We Trust" on half and "There is no god" on the other half. Or maybe give a third to each of those and another third leave blank. She didn't like the idea.
I think I remember now... to me though it looked a lot like Linux with KDE (as I'm remembering it in my head)... though I think now I remember there used to be signs above the areas, and the Unix stations were towards the front of the building, and had grey signs above them as I recall, and blue was Mac, and red PC.
And yeah I was referring to the open sites... GWC, ECG, CC, and now COOR. I know that the math labs in ECA use Linux (with KDE set up so that it looks almost exactly like Knoppix... but I'm fairly sure that isn't what they use since it would be an odd choice for a hard-drive install, and I don't remember seeing the Knoppix name anywhere).
We used to have Macs, Windows, and Linux in the Computing Commons a few years ago... now there are no Linux machines at any computing site... although they *have* replaced the old CRT iMacs with new hinged-flat-screen iMacs running OS X.
I remember in grade school in MN we had Macs (and before that... Apple//'s) almost exclusively until high school...
I'm an atheist, so I think a lot of religious practices are nonsense.
However, the religion I was referring to is Hinduism... which is pretty good as religions go. I don't think any of the stories, sprituality, medicinal practices, superstitions and what-not have any merit... which is the same I feel for most any religion. However, if you would enlighten yourself a bit, you'd find that all the idiotic things you mentioned are not attributable to Hinduism. As with any large population, there of course are weirdos who do weird things... but of course you can't judge an entire major religion by what a dozen people do.
The vegetarianism thing is part of respecting life, which seems like a belief that is hard to object to.
You have your culture and they have theirs. Your culture allows for eating plants, theirs does not allow for eating animals. Unless you want to be a jerk, the solution is clear.
And from my experiences, the only safe bets for vegetarian food is Indian restaurants, or restaurants that sell things like hummus, dolmes, falafels, pitas and stuff... or making it yourself.
It's not being closed minded... imagine you move to some hypothetical island somewhere that has tons of restaurants but people on this island are canibals, and almost everything has human flesh in it... and even the things which seem safe might have been cooked in human fat. It's against your morals and set of values to eat human flesh.
Hypothetical situation continues... luckily, there are a few restuarants here that sell American food that you're used to... made by fellow non-cannibalistic Americans... no human flesh, just the typical cow and pig and chicken you're used to and are fine with.
You have to go to lunch with co-workers... they're all cannibals from this island. You suggest going to an American restuarant... you have to! What else can you do?
Of course one thick-skulled co-worker of yours calls you closed-minded and snorts at how you "fail to blend in with the local culture" and doesn't respect your choices and morals and the fact that you do not eat humans... and makes you feel like an outsider in the process... making the whole situation of going to a company lunch even more awkward for you.
I think you just fail to see things from the other direction. You obviously fail to see how uncultured, dense, insular, racist, and xenophobic you are... even to an atheist white american like myself.
"As a small example in my own life, I really hate how, every time I have to eat lunch with my coworkers, many of whom are Indian, they always want to eat at Indian restaurants, and some will completely refuse to eat any place else."
First off, let me say that I'm a white American... so this is not an Indian's perception. But I am 22 and have been a vegetarian by choice since I was 14.
A lot of Indian's are vegetarians (it's a cultural thing and also a religious thing for many)... and quite frankly... it can be really hard to find good vegetarian food in American restaurants... and even when you can find it, it's hard to really actually trust the restaurant even when they tell you to your face that it's 100% vegetarian. A lot of times they don't know about gelatin, chicken and fish broths, cheese enzymes like rennet (which come from the stomachs of a young calf), and other stuff like that.
Anyway... not all Indian's are so strict on vegetarianism at all... many give up on it when they move here. But I don't think their preference for Indian restaurants can be attribitued to just "not meshing" or xenophobia... it's my opinion you should welcome the opportunity to try this food since perhaps you don't eat it so much on your own. Enjoy the experience of savoring another culture as much as you're criticizing them for not doing. Indian food can be pretty tasty.
So I'd say go along with the idea when they want to go to an Indian restaurant... be nice and respect their religion and personal choices... and understand that they are very limited in American restaurants. A vegetarian can not eat meat, but an omnivore can eat plants.
Somewhere else someone said that this happens because it's corrupting the partition tables. Is that so?
If it's just a problem with the boatloader I can still install it on my machine since I use BeOS's Be Boot Loader to triple boot Linux, BeOS, and WinXP.
Did you do a clean-install of Win98SE and 98lite in sleek mode (with those 3 win95 files it needs)... or did you install Win98SE and then sleek-ify it afterwards?
I had a clean-install of 98lite and just installed the service pack... the explorer looks somewhat different now... but I *think* it's still the Win95 explorer. From the service pack author's website, it looks like he makes some minor appearance changes and such to the system tray (256 colors) and start menu and color schemes... but I don't know if he implements it by overwriting the explorer files or modifying them.
Although... now I can click on an item in the taskbar to minimize it, which I shouldn't be able to do if this is the Windows95 shell...
Also... I can click on the Start button, but the start menu doesn't appear.
I'm sure I can't be the only one who saw the bottled water bit on Penn and Teller's show on Showtime.
They revealed that bottled water is regulated by the FDA, and basically has less than one person checking standards on the entire bottled water industry. They found some large percentage of bottled waters exceeded (larger than the ~10% the parent to your post mentioned) safety standards for municipal water. And municipal water has regular checks performed for safety by a larger staff of inspectors.
They also did a fine job showing how gullible people can be with their "Water List" in the restaurant.
By posting this I'm canceling out some of my down-moderations of people who posted to this story that I think are loony... but I can't resist.
I was thinking of e-mailing that M.D. my own rebuttals to his rebuttals... like for #16, how then does he explain that different fossils are thousands of years apart in age.
Or how in #7 he says that the animals could have migrated to Noah... but then the very next thing he says in #8 is that there's a "very real possibility" that the animals were not full grown. How do little tiny babay birds who can't fly and whose legs are maybe an inch long traverse halfway across the Earth to some boat.
Also... at several points he just plain resorts to saying that God can do anything. Why not just do the simple thing and give this as an explanation for ALL the opposition to this fable? At least it's consistent.
There are also some problems in his calculations I think... such as 35,000 animals. I'm not sure what 'clean' and 'unclean' animals means, or how that ratio breaks down among the total animal population... but apparently 1 pair of 'unclean' and 7 pairs of 'clean' animals were kept. I just checked real quick on wikipedia for biodiversity and they mention "Estimates of global species diversity vary from 2 million to 100 million species, with a best estimate of somewhere near 10 million."
Of course it's possible that new species evolved... but that would take longer than I believe the timeframe we're talking about since the flood allegedly occurred... and this guy probably doesn't accept evolution as valid science anyway (always a good warning sign in my opinion that someone simply does not know good science from bad).
My personal favorite is just #15... just for the strange attitude:
God would not have killed innocent children in the Flood.
History is filled with examples where children were destined to suffer because of the choices of their parents. If we believe these children were innocent, then we should be comforted to know that by their drowning, God removed them from a wicked society and took their souls to eternal peace and rest.
How was the octave scale set at what it's at? Are the frequencies determined to be a B sharp or a D special in some way? When a piano is out of tune, it tends to sound pretty bad. What makes these specific notes/frequencies pleasing to the human ear? And other notes cacophonous?
What it sound like if a concert was composed entirely on a piano that was purposely out of tune to frequencies that don't match up with the traditional musical scales... could it be pleasant?
In one of the Calvin and Hobbes compilations... the one with a lot of comments by Watterson on the characters and stuff... he opens up the book by explaining how he never, ever agreed to merchandise Calvin and Hobbes (you never see a suction-cup Hobbes for your car window like the Garfield ones) even though he stood to make a lot more money if he had sold out.
It just angers me when I see all the Calvin stickers on people's cars... *ESPECIALLY* the ones with Calvin kneeling down and praying before a cross. Not only is that disrespecting the artist, but also it is completely not something Calvin would ever do. I'm going to start tearing those stupid things off when I see them.
They should be different and have a non-sexy Samus as the star.
I only ever really played the original NES version, and Samus was not sexy in that game. I didn't even know Samus was a girl until long after I stopped playing.
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I know... I was at that mall a lot while they were filming, I remember particularly being there when they did the beating up of the Easter Bunny scene. They made a lot of fake stores all around the mall.
Mallrats took place in Eden Prairie, Minnesota...
I still think that's unfair as it endorses spirituality... atheism may be a "non-religion" but for fairness issues like this I think it needs to be treated as a religion so that it gets equal consideration.
I'm reminded of when there was the big debate about the pledge of allegience, and a coworker and I were arguing about God being on money. She suggested that to be fair, we leave "In God We Trust" on half the money, and on the other half we put nothing. I told her that doesn't cut it, and that to be fair we would need to put in "God We Trust" on half and "There is no god" on the other half. Or maybe give a third to each of those and another third leave blank. She didn't like the idea.
I think I remember now... to me though it looked a lot like Linux with KDE (as I'm remembering it in my head)... though I think now I remember there used to be signs above the areas, and the Unix stations were towards the front of the building, and had grey signs above them as I recall, and blue was Mac, and red PC.
And yeah I was referring to the open sites... GWC, ECG, CC, and now COOR. I know that the math labs in ECA use Linux (with KDE set up so that it looks almost exactly like Knoppix... but I'm fairly sure that isn't what they use since it would be an odd choice for a hard-drive install, and I don't remember seeing the Knoppix name anywhere).
We used to have Macs, Windows, and Linux in the Computing Commons a few years ago... now there are no Linux machines at any computing site... although they *have* replaced the old CRT iMacs with new hinged-flat-screen iMacs running OS X.
//'s) almost exclusively until high school...
I remember in grade school in MN we had Macs (and before that... Apple
I'm an atheist, so I think a lot of religious practices are nonsense.
However, the religion I was referring to is Hinduism... which is pretty good as religions go. I don't think any of the stories, sprituality, medicinal practices, superstitions and what-not have any merit... which is the same I feel for most any religion. However, if you would enlighten yourself a bit, you'd find that all the idiotic things you mentioned are not attributable to Hinduism. As with any large population, there of course are weirdos who do weird things... but of course you can't judge an entire major religion by what a dozen people do.
The vegetarianism thing is part of respecting life, which seems like a belief that is hard to object to.
You have your culture and they have theirs. Your culture allows for eating plants, theirs does not allow for eating animals. Unless you want to be a jerk, the solution is clear.
And from my experiences, the only safe bets for vegetarian food is Indian restaurants, or restaurants that sell things like hummus, dolmes, falafels, pitas and stuff... or making it yourself.
It's not being closed minded... imagine you move to some hypothetical island somewhere that has tons of restaurants but people on this island are canibals, and almost everything has human flesh in it... and even the things which seem safe might have been cooked in human fat. It's against your morals and set of values to eat human flesh.
Hypothetical situation continues... luckily, there are a few restuarants here that sell American food that you're used to... made by fellow non-cannibalistic Americans... no human flesh, just the typical cow and pig and chicken you're used to and are fine with.
You have to go to lunch with co-workers... they're all cannibals from this island. You suggest going to an American restuarant... you have to! What else can you do?
Of course one thick-skulled co-worker of yours calls you closed-minded and snorts at how you "fail to blend in with the local culture" and doesn't respect your choices and morals and the fact that you do not eat humans... and makes you feel like an outsider in the process... making the whole situation of going to a company lunch even more awkward for you.
I think you just fail to see things from the other direction. You obviously fail to see how uncultured, dense, insular, racist, and xenophobic you are... even to an atheist white american like myself.
First off, let me say that I'm a white American... so this is not an Indian's perception. But I am 22 and have been a vegetarian by choice since I was 14.
A lot of Indian's are vegetarians (it's a cultural thing and also a religious thing for many)... and quite frankly... it can be really hard to find good vegetarian food in American restaurants... and even when you can find it, it's hard to really actually trust the restaurant even when they tell you to your face that it's 100% vegetarian. A lot of times they don't know about gelatin, chicken and fish broths, cheese enzymes like rennet (which come from the stomachs of a young calf), and other stuff like that.
Anyway... not all Indian's are so strict on vegetarianism at all... many give up on it when they move here. But I don't think their preference for Indian restaurants can be attribitued to just "not meshing" or xenophobia... it's my opinion you should welcome the opportunity to try this food since perhaps you don't eat it so much on your own. Enjoy the experience of savoring another culture as much as you're criticizing them for not doing. Indian food can be pretty tasty.
So I'd say go along with the idea when they want to go to an Indian restaurant... be nice and respect their religion and personal choices... and understand that they are very limited in American restaurants. A vegetarian can not eat meat, but an omnivore can eat plants.
Lexicon Branding's work, I'd suspect. That'd be a nice job to think up funny words all day.
Somewhere else someone said that this happens because it's corrupting the partition tables. Is that so?
If it's just a problem with the boatloader I can still install it on my machine since I use BeOS's Be Boot Loader to triple boot Linux, BeOS, and WinXP.
Anyone else have more info on this?
Also... I don't feel like re-installing everything...
so I think what I'll do is use litestep for my shell instead of explorer.
Did you do a clean-install of Win98SE and 98lite in sleek mode (with those 3 win95 files it needs)... or did you install Win98SE and then sleek-ify it afterwards?
I had a clean-install of 98lite and just installed the service pack... the explorer looks somewhat different now... but I *think* it's still the Win95 explorer. From the service pack author's website, it looks like he makes some minor appearance changes and such to the system tray (256 colors) and start menu and color schemes... but I don't know if he implements it by overwriting the explorer files or modifying them.
Although... now I can click on an item in the taskbar to minimize it, which I shouldn't be able to do if this is the Windows95 shell...
Also... I can click on the Start button, but the start menu doesn't appear.
completely inept.
This is good news.
...for someone to post an alteration of The Simpsons' "Monorail" song, but I'm not clever enough to come up with it myself.
I'm sure I can't be the only one who saw the bottled water bit on Penn and Teller's show on Showtime.
They revealed that bottled water is regulated by the FDA, and basically has less than one person checking standards on the entire bottled water industry. They found some large percentage of bottled waters exceeded (larger than the ~10% the parent to your post mentioned) safety standards for municipal water. And municipal water has regular checks performed for safety by a larger staff of inspectors.
They also did a fine job showing how gullible people can be with their "Water List" in the restaurant.
I was thinking of e-mailing that M.D. my own rebuttals to his rebuttals... like for #16, how then does he explain that different fossils are thousands of years apart in age.
Or how in #7 he says that the animals could have migrated to Noah... but then the very next thing he says in #8 is that there's a "very real possibility" that the animals were not full grown. How do little tiny babay birds who can't fly and whose legs are maybe an inch long traverse halfway across the Earth to some boat.
Also... at several points he just plain resorts to saying that God can do anything. Why not just do the simple thing and give this as an explanation for ALL the opposition to this fable? At least it's consistent.
There are also some problems in his calculations I think... such as 35,000 animals. I'm not sure what 'clean' and 'unclean' animals means, or how that ratio breaks down among the total animal population... but apparently 1 pair of 'unclean' and 7 pairs of 'clean' animals were kept. I just checked real quick on wikipedia for biodiversity and they mention "Estimates of global species diversity vary from 2 million to 100 million species, with a best estimate of somewhere near 10 million."
Of course it's possible that new species evolved... but that would take longer than I believe the timeframe we're talking about since the flood allegedly occurred... and this guy probably doesn't accept evolution as valid science anyway (always a good warning sign in my opinion that someone simply does not know good science from bad).
My personal favorite is just #15... just for the strange attitude:
Nice.
too funny... :-)
That was so bad... I can't believe I read it.
You raise a question I've had recently.
How was the octave scale set at what it's at? Are the frequencies determined to be a B sharp or a D special in some way? When a piano is out of tune, it tends to sound pretty bad. What makes these specific notes/frequencies pleasing to the human ear? And other notes cacophonous?
What it sound like if a concert was composed entirely on a piano that was purposely out of tune to frequencies that don't match up with the traditional musical scales... could it be pleasant?
I disagree... redneck turf should be left alone by the rest of humanity.
Actually... sealed off underneath an airtight dome and forgotten about is more like it.
M-W
In one of the Calvin and Hobbes compilations... the one with a lot of comments by Watterson on the characters and stuff... he opens up the book by explaining how he never, ever agreed to merchandise Calvin and Hobbes (you never see a suction-cup Hobbes for your car window like the Garfield ones) even though he stood to make a lot more money if he had sold out.
It just angers me when I see all the Calvin stickers on people's cars... *ESPECIALLY* the ones with Calvin kneeling down and praying before a cross. Not only is that disrespecting the artist, but also it is completely not something Calvin would ever do. I'm going to start tearing those stupid things off when I see them.
Wow... I guess everyone has an issue they're really passionate about...
All your posts are so lame.
They should be different and have a non-sexy Samus as the star.
I only ever really played the original NES version, and Samus was not sexy in that game. I didn't even know Samus was a girl until long after I stopped playing.