Science Log 8/15/02 We've just finished hooking up the speech translater to subject A-1, a common brown lop-eared rabbit. Recorders are running.
"He's looking at me again. Why is he always looking at me. I swear, if he keeps it up I'm going to kill him in his sleep. Oh... damn... is this thing on? Only one thing to do. Destroy the evidence." *SOUND OF SCREAMING* *STATIC*
"The whole book is erroneous. It's blantly obvious that evolution happens, no intelligent creationist denies that. To deny that evoultion exists is to deny that the last two thousand years of selective breeding in agriculture and livestock had any effect at all, which is obviously irrational."
Do you even understand what the concept of evolution is? 2000 years of selective breeding creating livestock that are better suited for our consumption is not evolution. All the genes necessary for the birth of those critters were -already in their genetic code-. All we did was make sure the most benificial (To us) traits were perpetuated. Now if said cow were to suddenly develop a second head, which allowed it to see danger sooner than the rest, (And I am assuming that is not in their genetic code) -that- would be evolution.
You also have to separate "Survival of the Fittest" from evolution. Oftentimes they are bundled together, with SotF used to prove evolution. SotF is almost certainly true. Creatures that are best suited to survive, will survive.
"The probability that the world happened by chance is less than the probability of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary forming from an explosion of a print shop"
Have you recently thought about what the world would have had to go through in order to have life spontaneously generate?
Here's how the evolution story goes. There is an object in space (Where did it come from? Who knows.) BOOM there is a huge explosion. Stuff goes flying everywhere. Eventually the dust settles and there is a pile of goop. It is on a barren planet. Suddenly, something happens, and the goop comes to life! (We mock B horror movies when something like this happens, but we just accept it when people pass it off as evolution). And what is hilarious is that there are all sorts of these things throughout "History". A rat becomes a bat. Missing link? Still missing. (Not to mention, a half-rat half-bat would not be very well designed to survive).
"They start with what the Bible says and then they shape their "science" to fit it. This is not science"
They start with a firmly held belief and try to shape their science to fit it. Science itself is guilty of this. Evolutionists are just as guilty of this as creationist. It doesn't fit the evolutionary profile? It must be an outlier. The fact is, there is no such thing as a truly objective observer. Everyone projects their own beliefs and ideas onto things around them. That is why you have to take everything everyone says with a grain of salt.
Oh, and by the way, before you start questioning other's beliefs... you should check the validity of your own. It just makes you look like an ass when you froth at the mouth while uttering nonsense.
Or, you could just buy a German car and completely eliminate the car replacements / repairs. (Mine is at 2.5 billion miles and counting, no major repairs)
You could use the Autobahn too (Trim a couple of hundred thousand years off the trip).
Of course, you'd need to crank up the amount of caffeine you have in your system, so your munchie budget would have to increase.
In other news, AOL has decided to start charging for their CDs. Every person who recieved a CD that was not sent back with a carefully worded description of why the reciever did not want it will be charged $12. These effects will be calculated for the last 3 years. Expect your bill soon.
Plus, I would assume that God would settle out of court. (Lightning rod anyone?)
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Who wants to live peacefully in space? I think we should outfit every space-bound ship with the 10 kW laser from an earlier slashdot article. Live peacefully. Bah.
Well, considering that the original purpose of the article was coincidence, let's look at some of the things in perspective.
Yes, Christians of the past have tortured and killed people.
Here's the kicker- Yes, NON-Christians of the past have tortured and killed people. SHOCK! AMAZEMENT! EPIPHANY!
In fact, Christian/Jewish nations were/are not the most violent of offenders. Comparatively, they are actually quite mild.
EX: The Jewish people are commanded in the Old Testiment to kill witches. (Make a note: The New Testiment is a -revision- of the Old Testiment. This command is effectively nullified by Jesus's teachings) They do so.
Babylon, a civilization that existed at the same time uses a policy of completely destroying towns they take by hangings. (Note: Babylonian hangings weren't the white-gloved rope hangings of yesteryear. Babylonian hangings involved sticking a sharpened pole through the still-living person anus until it came through his/her chest. The pole was then implanted in the ground and the body was left to rot on it.) They would wipe out entire towns in this manner (Men/women/children). They were not Jewish.
Compare the two.
As a whole, Christianity has worked against violence, and not spreading it. It works as a code of ethics that prohibits man's natural impulsion toward violence. Certainly, many people claiming to be Christians have done horrible things. Some have even been done in the name of Christianity, but as a whole, Christianity works to prevent atrocity.
I think that we've just witnessed a Slashdot Rorschach test.
Mr. Good-N-Nappy was presented with an infinite spectrum of possibilites and he ended up with the situation: Person is giving a speech about his recently deceased mother, when a bird lands on his head, causing him to fall down the stairs and die.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to stand over here.
Repeat after me: "We... don't... live... in... a... democracy" It is that easy. The country was -never- a democracy. Hopefully, the country will never -be- a democracy. Mainly because most people are -stupid-.
Hardbound!... BAH. This kind of important stuff has to be magically imprinted into the TOME OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE so that future generations can look upon it in wonder and say: "What a crappy idea. I'm glad it never made it to production"
I was calmly surfing through the fields of animal rights nuts, managing to prevent myself from responding to them, when I cam upon this post. Maybe it was the use of bold. Maybe it was the tone. I don't know. But I have to address it.
"So torturing other life forms, even if they are beneath us in order to extend our own life is okay to you?"
Yes. O.k? Yes. I would torture a rat to extend my life a year. So would you. If someone came up to you and said "Kill this rat and your life will be extended", you would accept. Not only that, but these rats were -bred- for this purpose. They are creatures that would probably not survive in the wild (Their bright white coats would give them away to predators in an instant)
"No, I'd rather such "testing" (clever word to disguise the torture) not be done at all."
No, "Testing", is a clever word for learning things. It might be unpleasant for the rat, (In fact, it probably -is- unpleasant for the rat) but it isn't like scientists are sitting around killing rats for the hell of it. They are learning things that enhance our lives. (Most of the time)
"...Schools once taught the earth was flat..."
Ah, yes, the typical answer for a person without a valid argument. This has seen so much over-use that it is almost an argument against your point. Watch, I can use it too. "Schools teach that man is mortal. However, they also once taught that the Earth is flat. Therefore, because they were wrong once, they must always be wrong. Therefore, I'm immortal." Cool eh?
"...but you cannot say that with 100% certainty..." (That rats cannot appreciate the fact that they are being tortured)
The amount of things that you can answer with a 100% surety are very limited. (I personally hold that rats -can- appreciate the fact that they are living crappy lives. I just don't care)
"That's a big "Probably". " (Animal testing having extended his life 50-60 years)
Animal testing has almost certainly not extended your life quite that long. However, 20-30 years is not an unreasonable figure. Tell me, would you give 30 years of your life for a few hundred white lab-rats that would've been exterminated as pests? How about condemning all of humanity to have 30 year shorter lives?
At the very end you mention stem cell research. That's where I draw the line. Using humans as fodder to advance humankind is beyond my tolerance.
And in the year 2002 the MWWW (Mostly World Wide Web) was created, after the previous attempt, the WWW (World Wide Web) was determined to be too worldwide. The only people prevented from joining the MWWW were inhabitants of the USA and a guy from Britain named Murphy who no one liked anyway.
You'll never miss another semi-colon after one spoiled milk dose! Infinite loops will fade into myths after the first few developers get a taste of dead-fish-left-in-the-sun-for-a-week. And for those minor offenses such as not commenting code and choosing horrible names? A few times through with the Taste'O'Soap and you'll be cured for life!
This project brought to you by the Federal Government. Always looking for more ways to make your life unpleasant.
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What you didn't realize is what he was saying was:
"If... if... I don't get some cat food... I'll... just have to burn down the building"
Science Log 8/15/02
We've just finished hooking up the speech translater to subject A-1, a common brown lop-eared rabbit. Recorders are running.
"He's looking at me again. Why is he always looking at me. I swear, if he keeps it up I'm going to kill him in his sleep. Oh... damn... is this thing on? Only one thing to do. Destroy the evidence."
*SOUND OF SCREAMING*
*STATIC*
"The whole book is erroneous. It's blantly obvious that evolution happens, no intelligent creationist denies that. To deny that evoultion exists is to deny that the last two thousand years of selective breeding in agriculture and livestock had any effect at all, which is obviously irrational."
Do you even understand what the concept of evolution is? 2000 years of selective breeding creating livestock that are better suited for our consumption is not evolution. All the genes necessary for the birth of those critters were -already in their genetic code-. All we did was make sure the most benificial (To us) traits were perpetuated. Now if said cow were to suddenly develop a second head, which allowed it to see danger sooner than the rest, (And I am assuming that is not in their genetic code) -that- would be evolution.
You also have to separate "Survival of the Fittest" from evolution. Oftentimes they are bundled together, with SotF used to prove evolution. SotF is almost certainly true. Creatures that are best suited to survive, will survive.
"The probability that the world happened by chance is less than the probability of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary forming from an explosion of a print shop"
Have you recently thought about what the world would have had to go through in order to have life spontaneously generate?
Here's how the evolution story goes. There is an object in space (Where did it come from? Who knows.) BOOM there is a huge explosion. Stuff goes flying everywhere. Eventually the dust settles and there is a pile of goop. It is on a barren planet. Suddenly, something happens, and the goop comes to life! (We mock B horror movies when something like this happens, but we just accept it when people pass it off as evolution). And what is hilarious is that there are all sorts of these things throughout "History". A rat becomes a bat. Missing link? Still missing. (Not to mention, a half-rat half-bat would not be very well designed to survive).
"They start with what the Bible says and then they shape their "science" to fit it. This is not science"
They start with a firmly held belief and try to shape their science to fit it. Science itself is guilty of this. Evolutionists are just as guilty of this as creationist. It doesn't fit the evolutionary profile? It must be an outlier. The fact is, there is no such thing as a truly objective observer. Everyone projects their own beliefs and ideas onto things around them. That is why you have to take everything everyone says with a grain of salt.
Oh, and by the way, before you start questioning other's beliefs... you should check the validity of your own. It just makes you look like an ass when you froth at the mouth while uttering nonsense.
"...It's not like it's tacked on..."
Don't give them any ideas. Pretty soon the paranoids will be right and people will have the ol'tracking microchip implanted under their skin at birth.
I'm lucky though... I move so little that they would assume the chip was broken.
Safety through sloth-
Or, you could just buy a German car and completely eliminate the car replacements / repairs. (Mine is at 2.5 billion miles and counting, no major repairs)
You could use the Autobahn too (Trim a couple of hundred thousand years off the trip).
Of course, you'd need to crank up the amount of caffeine you have in your system, so your munchie budget would have to increase.
Damn you!
Now I want ice cream!
In other news, AOL has decided to start charging for their CDs. Every person who recieved a CD that was not sent back with a carefully worded description of why the reciever did not want it will be charged $12. These effects will be calculated for the last 3 years. Expect your bill soon.
By opening this shrink-wrap you agree to the terms and conditions of the agreement.
To see the agreement, open the book to page 1.
For technical assistance call 724-987-1192, however, by calling this number you release us from any obligation of helping you.
Thank you and have a good day.
Mo vs. God
I have this mental picture of a three stooges character trying to eye-poke God.
Funny what the mind comes up with after so many hours of work...
Where's he going to get the lawyers?
Plus, I would assume that God would settle out of court. (Lightning rod anyone?)
Who wants to live peacefully in space?
I think we should outfit every space-bound ship with the 10 kW laser from an earlier slashdot article. Live peacefully. Bah.
Well, considering that the original purpose of the article was coincidence, let's look at some of the things in perspective.
Yes, Christians of the past have tortured and killed people.
Here's the kicker- Yes, NON-Christians of the past have tortured and killed people.
SHOCK! AMAZEMENT! EPIPHANY!
In fact, Christian/Jewish nations were/are not the most violent of offenders. Comparatively, they are actually quite mild.
EX:
The Jewish people are commanded in the Old Testiment to kill witches. (Make a note: The New Testiment is a -revision- of the Old Testiment. This command is effectively nullified by Jesus's teachings) They do so.
Babylon, a civilization that existed at the same time uses a policy of completely destroying towns they take by hangings. (Note: Babylonian hangings weren't the white-gloved rope hangings of yesteryear. Babylonian hangings involved sticking a sharpened pole through the still-living person anus until it came through his/her chest. The pole was then implanted in the ground and the body was left to rot on it.) They would wipe out entire towns in this manner (Men/women/children). They were not Jewish.
Compare the two.
As a whole, Christianity has worked against violence, and not spreading it. It works as a code of ethics that prohibits man's natural impulsion toward violence. Certainly, many people claiming to be Christians have done horrible things. Some have even been done in the name of Christianity, but as a whole, Christianity works to prevent atrocity.
I think that we've just witnessed a Slashdot Rorschach test.
Mr. Good-N-Nappy was presented with an infinite spectrum of possibilites and he ended up with the situation:
Person is giving a speech about his recently deceased mother, when a bird lands on his head, causing him to fall down the stairs and die.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to stand over here.
Repeat after me:
"We... don't... live... in... a... democracy"
It is that easy. The country was -never- a democracy. Hopefully, the country will never -be- a democracy. Mainly because most people are -stupid-.
That is all.
Hardbound!... BAH. This kind of important stuff has to be magically imprinted into the TOME OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE so that future generations can look upon it in wonder and say:
"What a crappy idea. I'm glad it never made it to production"
Wait a second! That -is- my handwriting! How the hell did he get that!
Excuse me, I'm going to just grab my interrogation bat and head over to his place.
I was calmly surfing through the fields of animal rights nuts, managing to prevent myself from responding to them, when I cam upon this post. Maybe it was the use of bold. Maybe it was the tone. I don't know. But I have to address it.
"So torturing other life forms, even if they are beneath us in order to extend our own life is okay to you?"
Yes. O.k? Yes. I would torture a rat to extend my life a year. So would you. If someone came up to you and said "Kill this rat and your life will be extended", you would accept. Not only that, but these rats were -bred- for this purpose. They are creatures that would probably not survive in the wild (Their bright white coats would give them away to predators in an instant)
"No, I'd rather such "testing" (clever word to disguise the torture) not be done at all."
No, "Testing", is a clever word for learning things. It might be unpleasant for the rat, (In fact, it probably -is- unpleasant for the rat) but it isn't like scientists are sitting around killing rats for the hell of it. They are learning things that enhance our lives. (Most of the time)
"...Schools once taught the earth was flat..."
Ah, yes, the typical answer for a person without a valid argument. This has seen so much over-use that it is almost an argument against your point. Watch, I can use it too.
"Schools teach that man is mortal. However, they also once taught that the Earth is flat. Therefore, because they were wrong once, they must always be wrong. Therefore, I'm immortal." Cool eh?
"...but you cannot say that with 100% certainty..." (That rats cannot appreciate the fact that they are being tortured)
The amount of things that you can answer with a 100% surety are very limited. (I personally hold that rats -can- appreciate the fact that they are living crappy lives. I just don't care)
"That's a big "Probably". " (Animal testing having extended his life 50-60 years)
Animal testing has almost certainly not extended your life quite that long. However, 20-30 years is not an unreasonable figure. Tell me, would you give 30 years of your life for a few hundred white lab-rats that would've been exterminated as pests? How about condemning all of humanity to have 30 year shorter lives?
At the very end you mention stem cell research. That's where I draw the line. Using humans as fodder to advance humankind is beyond my tolerance.
Telling it like it is-
"If in real life when someones robbing your local bank will you ignore that too?"
Personally, I'd withdraw my money from the bank and set up a camera somewhere. (Cop shows are always looking for footage).
The morally destitute (But not quite bankrupt)
"Don't be overconfident. Don't be underconfident."
.03% up. You're drifting. WARNING skew increasing. Correct 2% up. WARNING WARNING cataclysmic confidence meltdown, you've gone into a tailspin. EJECT EJECT!
Warning, your confidence is straying from optimal. Correct
Ah yes.
And in the year 2002 the MWWW (Mostly World Wide Web) was created, after the previous attempt, the WWW (World Wide Web) was determined to be too worldwide. The only people prevented from joining the MWWW were inhabitants of the USA and a guy from Britain named Murphy who no one liked anyway.
Next, we come to the robot wars of 2027...
I'll take that as a challenge.
And now introducing:
TASTE-BASED DEBUGGING!
You'll never miss another semi-colon after one spoiled milk dose!
Infinite loops will fade into myths after the first few developers get a taste of dead-fish-left-in-the-sun-for-a-week.
And for those minor offenses such as not commenting code and choosing horrible names? A few times through with the Taste'O'Soap and you'll be cured for life!
This project brought to you by the Federal Government. Always looking for more ways to make your life unpleasant.
Close.
They'll call it the Spanish Inquisition.
After all, Nooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Nah, they forgot to convert from imperial to metric and caused the entire company to crash.
Ooops.
Recently scientists have come up with a breakthrough in medical science.
Under clean lab conditions they managed to distill a small quantity of concentrated funk.
There is hope for us white guys after all.
To be honest, my first thought was that a dust devil was some sort of critter.
Sounds like a Tabloid front-page
"DUST-DEVIL CLIMBS OUT OF MARTIAN CRATER, ONLY TO BE RESTRAINED BY ELVIS"