This sounds like the premise to a really bad sci-fi movie:
Microwaves "cook ballast aliens"
US researchers say they have developed an effective way to kill unwanted plants and animals that hitch a ride in the ballast waters of cargo tankers.
Tests showed that a continuous microwave system was able to remove all marine life within the water tanks. Cut to: Hordes of radioactive sea life terrorizing humanity.
Not to be pedantic, but the number of the beast is actually 616... they have a wikipedia article about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast Suprisingly, the Wiki article implies that P115, Codex A, and Codex C all read 616, while the (possibly wrong, but I take it over the wiki any day) NA-27 apparatus lists A as reading 666, C reading 616, and does not include P115 since it is a rather recent publication. Also P115 is a fragment and Codex C is rescripted codex, meaning that parts of it were scraped off and written over.
So yes, there are two rather old manuscripts in Greek and some other early witnesses which attest to 616. However, the fact that this reading is only present in a split Alexandrian text-type (with all other types reading 666) makes it quite possible that this is an early scribal error or interpolation. So, while early manuscripts are nice, they are not always the weightiest. I am sticking with 666.
No backing from any major carrier? Actually, there are quite a few major carriers in the Open Handset Alliance (which is behind Android): - China Mobile Communications Corporation - KDDI CORPORATION - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. - Sprint Nextel - T-Mobile - Telecom Italia - Telefónica
There are also quite a few semiconductor companies (Intel, Broadcom, TI, etc.) and handset manufacturers (LG, Moto, Samsung, etc.) on board as well. So yes, Android phones are vaporware, but they have quite a bit of backing as it happens.
The man is irrational and would gladly have us living back in the dark ages. The Enlightenment called and they want their inaccurate characterization of medieval Europe back.
For those of you that don't know, The National Review is a conservative magazine that publishes political opinion pieces. It's not exactly a scholarly journal of well researched historical fact. Do you have some specific evidence that the information presented in this article is incorrect or misleading, or are you simply poisoning the well?
* Have "better things to do" than spend an extra 5-10 minutes each way walking several blocks, or
I've always found that the time I can spend being productive en route on public transportation more than makes up for the few extra minutes "lost" to walking.
There have been no breakthroughs because no is allowed to experiment on them. There is a moratorium on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in the United States. There is no restriction on experimenting with such cells in the US. All there is is a lack of funding from the federal government. Private groups and state governments can and do fund embryonic stem cell research in the US, and such research also is conducted in other countries.
Progress has a way of feigning ease Convenient new inventions bait the tease For though it is impossible to cure: A husband bent on cheating The oxygen depleting A child who's always bragging A wife's persistent nagging We're equipped to live as though it were
~ Pedro the Lion
If we waited to fix all of our problems before trying anything new, we would never try anything new.
Yes, you should just install a non-encrypted remote control server on a Windows machine and punch a hole in the firewall to allow external machines to connect to it. What could go wrong?
I'll tell you. In this case, it was a Mac, but the hilarity is no less:
A coworker just got done telling me this story, and it is too good to pass up sharing with the world. So, without further ado, here is my paraphrase:
We purchased a new iMac for my mother-in-law. She knows next to nothing about computers and we live about 1000 miles away, so I decided to set up a VNC server on her machine and leave it open and running so that I could easily access her computer in order to offer support.
He didn't mention this at this point, but the machine was connected directly to the internet, and there was no software firewall, and the VNC connection was not password-protected. The geeks among us are already cringing at this point.
Late one night she was walking back from the restroom and noticed the computer monitor was on (which was odd since it was set to sleep after inactivity). When she peeked in to see what was going on, she noticed that there was a quite a bit of pornography open in a browser, and that the mouse was seemingly moving itself around the screen.
She was of course quite alarmed, so she called me in a panic and asked me how to get it to stop. I told her to sit at the computer and close the program. However, the VNC user on the other end sensed what she was trying to do and fought back, jerking the mouse away from the VNC server's dock icon so that she could not close the program. After some time of wrestling for control, she finally was able to get it closed.
I will have to go down there sometime soon and try to clean up all that person may have done to her machine.
I recommend that he buy a hardware firewall and use a password for VNC sessions. And I suppressed my laughter. This is a perfect example of someone who knows just enough to be dangerous.
I just can't stop chuckling about the idea of an old woman wrestling an anonymous VNC driver for control of the mouse. Warms the soul.
Rejecting a major theory with a century-and-a-half of observational and experimental evidence behind it in favor of a ludicrous Biblical interpretation is more than just a differing opinion, it's a sign of a lack of sound judgement and rational powers. Why do pro-evolution candidates believe in evolution? Given the age, educational background, and profession of most of the candidates, I would hazard to guess that most of them have not done any in-depth study of evolutionary biology. So in most cases the reason for why a candidate espouses evolution is likely not because of the sound use of reason and logic in his or her analysis of the observational and experimental evidence.
So why do various candidates (and people in general) believe in evolution? It could be that the belief is politically expedient. It could also be because that person accepted the word of friends, experts, and/or published works. In this light criticisms against people who do not believe in evolution because they say "everyone knows it's true" or "the book told me so" do not sound as damning.
Also, I won't beat around the bush: These people are stupid idiots that ought to be arrested for severe child abuse. Anyone who thinks this for any reason is a bad and extraordinarily selfish parent and should immediately have their children taken away from them. Anyone who would deliberately impose a curable handicap on their children should be beaten, and I'd be happy to volunteer to be the one who brings the baseball bat and takes the first few swings. I sure as hell don't think I'd be the last one, either.
What if we do not agree on what makes a handicap? I know that some people in the deaf community choose not to get cochlear implants (as close to a "cure" as we have) because they do not perceive deafness as something needing a cure.
While it may be inconvenient or impractical, I think it is is insane (and I think should be illegal) to have public data locked up in proprietary formats. We ran into this issue not long ago with some old Quicken backups at my workplace. I wasted quite a few man-hours trying to find a way to retrieve our data without buying a brand new version of Quicken. So I guess impractical is in the eye of the beholder.
That is true. However, liquid steel was found in the basement of the World Trade Center weeks after 9/11. Some metal that had been liquified was found in the wreckage; there is no reason to believe it was steel (as opposed to some of the many other metals with lower melting points in the building) -- it was certainly not identified as steel by anyone except those who want to believe in a grand conspiracy. Hey, knock it off with these rational explanations! You are ruining my conspiracy theory fun.;-)
Sorry to break the news to you but heat does soften steel long before it actually liquefies. That is true. However, liquid steel was found in the basement of the World Trade Center weeks after 9/11. This requires explanation because most people agree that the fires in the WTC towers were not hot enough to melt steel. Food for thought it all.
The Linux version of Truecrypt (mostly) works on PowerPC as well. I currently use it with Gentoo on my iBook. What is broken is creating volumes. Truecrypt on ppc seems to have trouble creating the file system on the encrypted volume properly. However, volumes created on x86 (Windows or Linux) can be opened and modified on ppc. It's plenty cross-platform for me.
how about an article that makes some recommendations on how to mitigate the problems they identify with virtualization, or point out some non obvious issues? Have it on my desk Monday morning.
I personally think the Office 2007 UI is an improvement over Office 2003. However, I am a network admin at a church. Most of my users are people over the age of forty and below average with respect to computer skills even in that age group. I have worked hard over the past years to cram, shove, and pound the knowledge to operate Office 2003 into their minds. The prospect of having to start from scratch is enough to make a grown man cry.
I think this says far more about the lack of morality of the person making this statement than it does about the morality of athiests - they are obviously only held in check by their fear of divine retribution and are incredulous that anybody who is not so constrained would act in a moral manner because they themselves wouldn't if they thought they could get away with it.
I think that is a pretty reductionist way of looking at things. Most Christians in reality do not think all atheists are immoral by definition (regardless of what a few vocal Christians say). Most Christians are motivated to morality by more than just divine retribution (whether they realize it or not).
Despite how well that anecdote fit your argument, its black/white conclusion is no better than that of the foolish Christian who says such about atheists.
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US researchers say they have developed an effective way to kill unwanted plants and animals that hitch a ride in the ballast waters of cargo tankers.
Tests showed that a continuous microwave system was able to remove all marine life within the water tanks. Cut to: Hordes of radioactive sea life terrorizing humanity.
So yes, there are two rather old manuscripts in Greek and some other early witnesses which attest to 616. However, the fact that this reading is only present in a split Alexandrian text-type (with all other types reading 666) makes it quite possible that this is an early scribal error or interpolation. So, while early manuscripts are nice, they are not always the weightiest. I am sticking with 666.
- China Mobile Communications Corporation
- KDDI CORPORATION
- NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
- Sprint Nextel
- T-Mobile
- Telecom Italia
- Telefónica
There are also quite a few semiconductor companies (Intel, Broadcom, TI, etc.) and handset manufacturers (LG, Moto, Samsung, etc.) on board as well. So yes, Android phones are vaporware, but they have quite a bit of backing as it happens.
* Have "better things to do" than spend an extra 5-10 minutes each way walking several blocks, or
I've always found that the time I can spend being productive en route on public transportation more than makes up for the few extra minutes "lost" to walking.
Brain changes when sensing *
If there were no change in the brain, you would not be experiencing any sensations, would you?
~ Pedro the Lion
If we waited to fix all of our problems before trying anything new, we would never try anything new.
I'll tell you. In this case, it was a Mac, but the hilarity is no less:
A coworker just got done telling me this story, and it is too good to pass up sharing with the world. So, without further ado, here is my paraphrase:
He didn't mention this at this point, but the machine was connected directly to the internet, and there was no software firewall, and the VNC connection was not password-protected. The geeks among us are already cringing at this point.I recommend that he buy a hardware firewall and use a password for VNC sessions. And I suppressed my laughter. This is a perfect example of someone who knows just enough to be dangerous.
I just can't stop chuckling about the idea of an old woman wrestling an anonymous VNC driver for control of the mouse. Warms the soul.
You clearly do not roll a PowerPC.
So why do various candidates (and people in general) believe in evolution? It could be that the belief is politically expedient. It could also be because that person accepted the word of friends, experts, and/or published works. In this light criticisms against people who do not believe in evolution because they say "everyone knows it's true" or "the book told me so" do not sound as damning.
Also, I won't beat around the bush: These people are stupid idiots that ought to be arrested for severe child abuse. Anyone who thinks this for any reason is a bad and extraordinarily selfish parent and should immediately have their children taken away from them. Anyone who would deliberately impose a curable handicap on their children should be beaten, and I'd be happy to volunteer to be the one who brings the baseball bat and takes the first few swings. I sure as hell don't think I'd be the last one, either.
What if we do not agree on what makes a handicap? I know that some people in the deaf community choose not to get cochlear implants (as close to a "cure" as we have) because they do not perceive deafness as something needing a cure."Migrants To Replace Robot Fruit Pickers"
While it may be inconvenient or impractical, I think it is is insane (and I think should be illegal) to have public data locked up in proprietary formats. We ran into this issue not long ago with some old Quicken backups at my workplace. I wasted quite a few man-hours trying to find a way to retrieve our data without buying a brand new version of Quicken. So I guess impractical is in the eye of the beholder.
The Linux version of Truecrypt (mostly) works on PowerPC as well. I currently use it with Gentoo on my iBook. What is broken is creating volumes. Truecrypt on ppc seems to have trouble creating the file system on the encrypted volume properly. However, volumes created on x86 (Windows or Linux) can be opened and modified on ppc. It's plenty cross-platform for me.
I believe NASA's various wolf-cries about life on Mars over the years are a much more compelling reason to be skeptical when they announce something.
These 'ad-skipping' technologies are in turn causing an increase in product placement.
I personally think the Office 2007 UI is an improvement over Office 2003. However, I am a network admin at a church. Most of my users are people over the age of forty and below average with respect to computer skills even in that age group. I have worked hard over the past years to cram, shove, and pound the knowledge to operate Office 2003 into their minds. The prospect of having to start from scratch is enough to make a grown man cry.
I think this says far more about the lack of morality of the person making this statement than it does about the morality of athiests - they are obviously only held in check by their fear of divine retribution and are incredulous that anybody who is not so constrained would act in a moral manner because they themselves wouldn't if they thought they could get away with it.
I think that is a pretty reductionist way of looking at things. Most Christians in reality do not think all atheists are immoral by definition (regardless of what a few vocal Christians say). Most Christians are motivated to morality by more than just divine retribution (whether they realize it or not).
Despite how well that anecdote fit your argument, its black/white conclusion is no better than that of the foolish Christian who says such about atheists.
I am in World of Warcraft detox and do not want a relapse.
I cannot see how government corruption warrants an invasion by a foreign power.