A well balanced aquarium doesn't need to be cleaned. In a saltwater tank, you might want to scrape brine from the walls periodically, but I've had freshwater tanks that haven't been cleaned in years. You just exchange 10% of the water every two weeks. Just make sure you have some aquatic plants and a couple of Chinese Algae eaters to keep the glass clean.
And this is why most environmentalists are not much more than watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside). Listen to them for more than five minutes, and they start getting all excited as they envision the utopia of them telling you how to live your life.
Religious argument has nothing to do with it. From the moment of fertilization, a fetus, embryo or whatever you want to call it is a human being. Homo Sapiens. That's a biological fact. Stage of development does not define a species.
The moral issue is that there are people who argue that some human beings are worthy of life, and others are not.
This argument is not new. The Nazis used it. Slaveholders used it. Pro-abortionists use it. The only difference is in the criteria used.
Your first assumption may not be correct. There is evidence that oil is created much more quickly than originally thought. It may not take millions of years but only a few decades for sea life to transform into oil (you were aware that all oil comes from marine sources, not dinosaurs, right?).
Many of the capped wells in the gulf are filling back up with oil.
As far as greenhouse gases go, hydrogen fuel is the worst greenhouse gas producer you can imagine. You do all realize that water vapor is many, many times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, right?
Really? Let's see. Moria is actually a thriving dwarven city. Saruman is a willing stooge of Sauron. Faramir is an evil, conniving snake who makes Boromir look noble. The Ents are tricked into attacking Isengard. Sauron is the only one who can use the ring, even though Gandalf, Galadriel and Boromir all think they can. The orcs run and hide from the Balrog. Frodo is a quivering coward who runs and hides at every opportunity. Gandalf and Saruman duke it out wizard style with swinging magical punches from their staves. Theoden is demon-possessed by Saruman. Elves help at Helm's deep. Theoden is a depressed fatalistic, indecisive king.
You have a wierd definition of what constitutes faithful following of the book's plot.
If you read the Silmarillion, you'll find that the creator, Iluvatar, created two races, Elves, the firstborn, and Men. The elves were very powerful beings (even before going to the undying lands), but they were immortal. Men were given the gift of mortality.
The Silmarillion makes it clear that this is a major and very fundamental disctinction between the two races and plays a large part in the final destiny of each. It also makes it clear that mortality is A Big Thing. A great gift, and it is only the fear and ignorance of man that have turned it into a thing of terror. It is said that even the elves will come to envy the Gift of Men as the ages wear on.
Therefore, when elves and men marry and have offspring, it becomes essential to see which inheritance they will receive: The inheritance of the elves, or the gift of men and the inheritance reserved for them?
The Valar gave the half-elves the choice as to which inheritence they would receive.
Those who chose mortality were, nonetheless, granted a longer life than normal men.
And to the person who made comments on racial purity. The Numenoreans were beings of power, not so much because of their ancestors, but because of their proximity to the Valar, and their faithfulness to the Valar.
The line of Numenor dwindled not because of time passing, but because of their disobedience to the Valar, their pride, and their eventual assault on the undying lands.
Tolkien was a devout Catholic, and he works many Catholic Christian themes into his LOTR books, esp. the Silmarillion backstory.
*sigh* Sometimes I think the elitists are right in that most people don't get it.
The kind of person who would murder another being in the name of a "higher cause" is the same kind of person who would seize the ring.
Read the books. That's how the ring seduced people to use it: the Ends Justifies the Means argument. It worked on Boromir and Saruman (and he never even saw the ring, just studied about it.) It tried with Sam and failed. Gandalf knew it would work on him and was terrified to touch the ring. Galadriel almost succumbed to it and was only saved by a tremendous effort of will on her part.
If Elrond had decided to push Isildur into the pit to destroy the ring, the ring would have taken hold of him at that moment. Instead, he would have drawn his sword, slain Isildur and claimed the ring for himself. He would have then immediately begun rationalizing his decision, claiming that the ring was safer with him than with a frail human. He would have then told himself, he would destroy it at a more opportune time; right now he had a war to finish cleaning up after. Later, when things were quiet and organized, he would destroy the ring. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Bascially, they'll have to re-write the Denethor character, too.
That's what you get when you start mucking with an intrivately woven novel. You screw one character up (for who knows what reason) and you've got to make a thousand changes everywhere else to repair the mess you just made.
expect RTK do be so far removed from the book to be almost unrecognizable.
It wasn't the scenes so much as the character/Theme assassinations. Tolkien's book was about the power of evil and its seductive nature. It was about the craven who embrace it, the cost of redemption for those who are seduced by it (Boromir), the nobility of those who refuse its call (Faramir), the innocence, humility and love that provides a shield against it (Samwise), the selflessness that allows one to fight it (Frodo).
It is about the fall and decline that occurs to man when he embraces pride (the fall of Numenor/Denethor).
It is about the lies people tell themselves and others that seduce them to evil (Saruman).
To Jackson, all it was about was sword fights, and stereotypes. Me grunt Aragorn. Handle sword well. Kick Orc butt. Don't want to be King. Me wicked kung-fu master Legolas. Me comic relief Gimli, Merry and Pippin. Me cowardly, bumbling Frodo. Me country hick Samwise. Watch us go destroy ring that only Sauron can use. Have much fun on way. Me, Aragorn, get to kiss lots with Arwen and have cute blonde Eowyn chase after me! Hubba Hubba!
I'm afraid reading the books won't give you much insight on what you'll see in Return of the King. About the only thing Jackson's film has in common with the book are hobbits and a gold circle he calls the One Ring.
Yeah, Ghandi responded to stimulus just like any animal. So did Joan of Ark and the firefighters in the WTC, and the people on the flight who took down the hijacked airplane.
This is such a stupid comment that it hardly deserves a reply.
No, you just break the backs of people you employ at slave wages to stand and pull weeds and bugs off your plants so you can enjoy about 1/3rd the yield of a modern farm, thereby wasting land by using it inefficiently, and then charging so much for your food that only the wealthy can afford to buy and eat it.
But, hey, you feel good about yourself for all that you do to contribute to the environment.
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What is hell to you may be heaven to an animal. Quit projecting your human prejudices onto non-human creatures.
Yeah, it was Microsoft's fault that OS/2 was a failure. IBM's stupid marketing and attitude had nothing to do with it. A 160 page installation manual for OS/2 had nothing to do with it. Crappy hardware support in OS/2 had nothing to do with it. IBM's, "That drive isn't supported. You want to use a CD-ROM, buy brand X, and don't bother me again" attitude had nothing to do with it.
The fact is, MS got where they are because their software sucked LESS than the competition. It still sucked, and still sucks today, it just sucks less.
And yes, that does include the latest Linux distros. I installed the latest Red Hat on my box last month and had to freakin' recompile the kernel to get sound support. That's asinine, and is a perfect example of how Linux STILL sucks more than MS.
Linux's greatest handicap is the arrogance, elitism and denial of the people advocating it, and the general "scratch an itch" programming that typifies open source.
OK. This is not entirely accurate. I was in Provo at the time. WordPerfect made a deliberate choice NOT to develop for Windows. They thought it would never take off or be successful; it required too much computing horsepower and was nothing more than a toy, like the Macintosh. DOS was for real business use. It wasn't until AFTER Windows started selling like crazy that WordPerfect changed their tune. And, then, to cover up their stupidity, they wasted no time blaming MS for witholding critical information, etc. to explain why their product sucked. Remember, WP was the company that only supported their own file format in their products for years.
The fact that AmiPro was released almost the same time as Word, ran faster than Word and had more features than Word put the lie to WP's claims.
But, of course, this destroys the anti-MS agenda, and so is completely ignored.
OK. This myth is getting a little old. I don't care if the site is "broken" because it is designed for IE only. That doesn't change the FACT that Mozilla won't display it properly.
The answer is not to whine and moan about the broken site. The answer is to make Mozilla W3C AND IE standards compliant.
This isn't rocket science. But, then again, NASA has shown us that rocket science isn't all that much anyway.
You idiot. We're talking about NASA engineers. Why in the world did you actually use math to get a quantitative result? You also forgot to mix your units of measure.
News Flash. Being the son of an industrial physicist and studying college level physics myself, I can tell you that engineers have nothing but contempt for pointy-headed physicists who have no grasp of the real world.
To be fair, most physicists return that contempt toward engineers who are nothing but crank turning techno-monkeys who haven't a clue as to why the crank does what it does or why they have to turn it in the first place.
Oh, please. All the other media outlets are pounding constantly on Fox News.
As much as it offends your little universe, Fox News DOES tell stories other networks spike. A beautiful case in point was during the 2000 election. No other media outlet reported that EXACTLY the same issue with recounts had occurred in Palm Beach county, only it was a local Florida republican. And the EXACT same lady who insisted on hand recounts for Gore, denied them for this lady because electronic counting was more accurate. Another story was a series of people who had been sent to prison for committing perjury on the stand during the Clinton perjury.
Reporting these was NEWS. Spiking it was propaganda.
The truth is Fox News reports stories the other outlets spike, and you are being told that Fox News is the threat. Keep taking that blue pill...
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Yeah. Heaven forbid a gene mutation makes it into the general population. The next thing you know, evolution might start taking place.
A well balanced aquarium doesn't need to be cleaned. In a saltwater tank, you might want to scrape brine from the walls periodically, but I've had freshwater tanks that haven't been cleaned in years. You just exchange 10% of the water every two weeks. Just make sure you have some aquatic plants and a couple of Chinese Algae eaters to keep the glass clean.
And this is why most environmentalists are not much more than watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside). Listen to them for more than five minutes, and they start getting all excited as they envision the utopia of them telling you how to live your life.
Religious argument has nothing to do with it. From the moment of fertilization, a fetus, embryo or whatever you want to call it is a human being. Homo Sapiens. That's a biological fact. Stage of development does not define a species.
The moral issue is that there are people who argue that some human beings are worthy of life, and others are not.
This argument is not new. The Nazis used it. Slaveholders used it. Pro-abortionists use it. The only difference is in the criteria used.
Your first assumption may not be correct. There is evidence that oil is created much more quickly than originally thought. It may not take millions of years but only a few decades for sea life to transform into oil (you were aware that all oil comes from marine sources, not dinosaurs, right?).
Many of the capped wells in the gulf are filling back up with oil.
As far as greenhouse gases go, hydrogen fuel is the worst greenhouse gas producer you can imagine. You do all realize that water vapor is many, many times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, right?
In Soviet Russia, they tell you what you need.
No it wasn't and saying it was just to cover your embarrassment is typical slashdot reader.
Really? Let's see. Moria is actually a thriving dwarven city. Saruman is a willing stooge of Sauron. Faramir is an evil, conniving snake who makes Boromir look noble. The Ents are tricked into attacking Isengard. Sauron is the only one who can use the ring, even though Gandalf, Galadriel and Boromir all think they can. The orcs run and hide from the Balrog. Frodo is a quivering coward who runs and hides at every opportunity. Gandalf and Saruman duke it out wizard style with swinging magical punches from their staves. Theoden is demon-possessed by Saruman. Elves help at Helm's deep. Theoden is a depressed fatalistic, indecisive king.
You have a wierd definition of what constitutes faithful following of the book's plot.
If you read the Silmarillion, you'll find that the creator, Iluvatar, created two races, Elves, the firstborn, and Men. The elves were very powerful beings (even before going to the undying lands), but they were immortal. Men were given the gift of mortality.
The Silmarillion makes it clear that this is a major and very fundamental disctinction between the two races and plays a large part in the final destiny of each. It also makes it clear that mortality is A Big Thing. A great gift, and it is only the fear and ignorance of man that have turned it into a thing of terror. It is said that even the elves will come to envy the Gift of Men as the ages wear on.
Therefore, when elves and men marry and have offspring, it becomes essential to see which inheritance they will receive: The inheritance of the elves, or the gift of men and the inheritance reserved for them?
The Valar gave the half-elves the choice as to which inheritence they would receive.
Those who chose mortality were, nonetheless, granted a longer life than normal men.
And to the person who made comments on racial purity. The Numenoreans were beings of power, not so much because of their ancestors, but because of their proximity to the Valar, and their faithfulness to the Valar.
The line of Numenor dwindled not because of time passing, but because of their disobedience to the Valar, their pride, and their eventual assault on the undying lands.
Tolkien was a devout Catholic, and he works many Catholic Christian themes into his LOTR books, esp. the Silmarillion backstory.
You're mixing up your geography. Faramir never takes Frodo out of Ithilien.
*sigh* Sometimes I think the elitists are right in that most people don't get it.
The kind of person who would murder another being in the name of a "higher cause" is the same kind of person who would seize the ring.
Read the books. That's how the ring seduced people to use it: the Ends Justifies the Means argument. It worked on Boromir and Saruman (and he never even saw the ring, just studied about it.) It tried with Sam and failed. Gandalf knew it would work on him and was terrified to touch the ring. Galadriel almost succumbed to it and was only saved by a tremendous effort of will on her part.
If Elrond had decided to push Isildur into the pit to destroy the ring, the ring would have taken hold of him at that moment. Instead, he would have drawn his sword, slain Isildur and claimed the ring for himself. He would have then immediately begun rationalizing his decision, claiming that the ring was safer with him than with a frail human. He would have then told himself, he would destroy it at a more opportune time; right now he had a war to finish cleaning up after. Later, when things were quiet and organized, he would destroy the ring. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Bascially, they'll have to re-write the Denethor character, too.
That's what you get when you start mucking with an intrivately woven novel. You screw one character up (for who knows what reason) and you've got to make a thousand changes everywhere else to repair the mess you just made.
expect RTK do be so far removed from the book to be almost unrecognizable.
It wasn't the scenes so much as the character/Theme assassinations. Tolkien's book was about the power of evil and its seductive nature. It was about the craven who embrace it, the cost of redemption for those who are seduced by it (Boromir), the nobility of those who refuse its call (Faramir), the innocence, humility and love that provides a shield against it (Samwise), the selflessness that allows one to fight it (Frodo).
It is about the fall and decline that occurs to man when he embraces pride (the fall of Numenor/Denethor).
It is about the lies people tell themselves and others that seduce them to evil (Saruman).
To Jackson, all it was about was sword fights, and stereotypes. Me grunt Aragorn. Handle sword well. Kick Orc butt. Don't want to be King. Me wicked kung-fu master Legolas. Me comic relief Gimli, Merry and Pippin. Me cowardly, bumbling Frodo. Me country hick Samwise. Watch us go destroy ring that only Sauron can use. Have much fun on way. Me, Aragorn, get to kiss lots with Arwen and have cute blonde Eowyn chase after me! Hubba Hubba!
I'm afraid reading the books won't give you much insight on what you'll see in Return of the King. About the only thing Jackson's film has in common with the book are hobbits and a gold circle he calls the One Ring.
Jackson had to cut those scenes to make more film available for gratuitous sword fights.
Yeah, Ghandi responded to stimulus just like any animal. So did Joan of Ark and the firefighters in the WTC, and the people on the flight who took down the hijacked airplane.
This is such a stupid comment that it hardly deserves a reply.
No, you just break the backs of people you employ at slave wages to stand and pull weeds and bugs off your plants so you can enjoy about 1/3rd the yield of a modern farm, thereby wasting land by using it inefficiently, and then charging so much for your food that only the wealthy can afford to buy and eat it.
But, hey, you feel good about yourself for all that you do to contribute to the environment.
What is hell to you may be heaven to an animal. Quit projecting your human prejudices onto non-human creatures.
That advice goes to all animal "rights" people.
Yeah, it was Microsoft's fault that OS/2 was a failure. IBM's stupid marketing and attitude had nothing to do with it. A 160 page installation manual for OS/2 had nothing to do with it. Crappy hardware support in OS/2 had nothing to do with it. IBM's, "That drive isn't supported. You want to use a CD-ROM, buy brand X, and don't bother me again" attitude had nothing to do with it.
The fact is, MS got where they are because their software sucked LESS than the competition. It still sucked, and still sucks today, it just sucks less.
And yes, that does include the latest Linux distros. I installed the latest Red Hat on my box last month and had to freakin' recompile the kernel to get sound support. That's asinine, and is a perfect example of how Linux STILL sucks more than MS.
Linux's greatest handicap is the arrogance, elitism and denial of the people advocating it, and the general "scratch an itch" programming that typifies open source.
OK. This is not entirely accurate. I was in Provo at the time. WordPerfect made a deliberate choice NOT to develop for Windows. They thought it would never take off or be successful; it required too much computing horsepower and was nothing more than a toy, like the Macintosh. DOS was for real business use. It wasn't until AFTER Windows started selling like crazy that WordPerfect changed their tune. And, then, to cover up their stupidity, they wasted no time blaming MS for witholding critical information, etc. to explain why their product sucked. Remember, WP was the company that only supported their own file format in their products for years.
The fact that AmiPro was released almost the same time as Word, ran faster than Word and had more features than Word put the lie to WP's claims.
But, of course, this destroys the anti-MS agenda, and so is completely ignored.
OK. This myth is getting a little old. I don't care if the site is "broken" because it is designed for IE only. That doesn't change the FACT that Mozilla won't display it properly.
The answer is not to whine and moan about the broken site. The answer is to make Mozilla W3C AND IE standards compliant.
This isn't rocket science. But, then again, NASA has shown us that rocket science isn't all that much anyway.
You idiot. We're talking about NASA engineers. Why in the world did you actually use math to get a quantitative result? You also forgot to mix your units of measure.
News Flash. Being the son of an industrial physicist and studying college level physics myself, I can tell you that engineers have nothing but contempt for pointy-headed physicists who have no grasp of the real world.
To be fair, most physicists return that contempt toward engineers who are nothing but crank turning techno-monkeys who haven't a clue as to why the crank does what it does or why they have to turn it in the first place.
Personally, I think the physicists are right.
Some disks were mastered with electron beams (RCA). RCA players also used a stylus, but the Phillips unit used a Helium-Neon laser.
I know it's gonna take the poor guy's site down, but here's a link to the 1977 Popular Science article talking about both players.
Oh, please. All the other media outlets are pounding constantly on Fox News.
As much as it offends your little universe, Fox News DOES tell stories other networks spike. A beautiful case in point was during the 2000 election. No other media outlet reported that EXACTLY the same issue with recounts had occurred in Palm Beach county, only it was a local Florida republican. And the EXACT same lady who insisted on hand recounts for Gore, denied them for this lady because electronic counting was more accurate. Another story was a series of people who had been sent to prison for committing perjury on the stand during the Clinton perjury.
Reporting these was NEWS. Spiking it was propaganda.
The truth is Fox News reports stories the other outlets spike, and you are being told that Fox News is the threat. Keep taking that blue pill...