I don't understand why you think "cowboy stereotype" is a bad thing. When I was a kid I used to play at being a cowboy incessantly. We watched westerns, bought the hats, wore boots and big belt buckles...
Basically if you accused me of being a cowboy it would be the greatest day of my adult life. Look! That guy over there! yes, the skinny one! He thinks I'm a real cowboy! I'm not shitting you.
how about a little money?
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The moment the government starts investigating every UFO sighting out there, even just ever group sighting, a ton of money is going to be spent on a something futile...oh wait...it already...
True, the government should not spend a lot of time and effort investigating unusual phenomena that may or may not have happened. But the government can just spend a little bit of money. Perhaps ten or twenty people in a government agency, say the FBI, were to be assigned to strange and unusual cases such as this. They could be called unknown-variable-files, or unusual-files, or, say, x-files. Well, actually 10 people would be too many. It would be better to try, say, 5, or perhaps even just 2. Yeah, a 2 man team, investigating cases that no one else can solve, working for the FBI. Or even better yet, make it one man and one woman for more sexual tension!
I predict that in 100,000 years eggs will be green. Ham will too. Monkeys will make a home in what's left of my assal bones and regularly fly out in the morning times for feeding.
Seriously what's the use of making 100,000 year predictions? Nostradamus didn't even do that.
Evolution doesn't adhere to those guidelines either. It exists more in the realm of philosophy and religion than science. The sooner we admit this, the sooner we can stop hearing about scientists falsifying scientific data to match their philosophical and spiritual beliefs in evolution.
Re:It sounds great, just like Wikipedia
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These days, my experiences on the internet make me wonder how the world itself can survive under a heavy load of spam, honest mistakes, and deliberate mischief. Can someone explain that to me?
If only people would carry their name and photo on a little piece of plastic inside their wallet, with a copy of the same information backed up on a network law enforcement had access to, then we wouldn't have to wait a week to prove our identities! We could just show the card!
What a GREAT idea! Don't tell any criminals though. Those bad people might try to make fake versions of these cards, and then the police might stop trusting them! Good thing no criminals read slashdot or they might profit from my extensive imagination.
[blockquote]And there was never a war in Canada, we went there to reinstate our rightful authority there given the fact that Canada was a holding of Great Britain under the Empire, was invited to join the Declaration of Inedependence, and since the USA is a successor state i.e. is in a chain of replacement governments of British North America (colonial governments to the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution of 1789), the USA is legally in control of Canada.[/blockquote]
Actually that's a damn good argument. I'm going to tell this to my Canadian friends.
I'm currently overseas and unable to watch HBO, so I've been downloading these shows. It takes about 6 hours to finish one, and I've got all 5. When I download my weekly Battlestar Galactica fix, it usually takes 2-3 hours to finish the same size file. So there is a significant speed decrease. However, it doesn't deter me at all from getting the file, I just watch it on Monday evening instead of Sunday morning. Big deal.
No, no, and hell no. As a student, you are a student. Leave your stupid consumer victimization routine in suburbia, where it belongs. Don't try to bring that crap to academia.
I'm living in korea as an English teacher, they have had this for at least a year now (that's how long I've been here). Always crazy commercials for it on TV.
Alcoholics Anonymous also emphasizes belief in a higher power as an integral part of stopping drinking, and they are not allied with any sect etc.
Maybe they do it just because it works?
No, original sin is going against God's will. Remember the tree that Adam and Eve were not supposed to eat of? It wasn't called the "Tree of Knowledge". It was called the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil". God simply told them not to eat of it and if they wanted to disobey God it was always there for them to do so.
You think God held any knowledge back from them? Well the bible doesn't mention it so you'd have to wildly speculate and read your own opinions into it. You can say that Adam and Eve lived in blissful ignorance if you wanted to, or you could say that God never held any knowledge back from them, even the knowledge of what it was like to oppose His will. And God isn't holding any knowledge back from us these days. We are free to explore the world as greatly and deeply as we can. God never holds knowledge back!
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Game with God
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i think that with his remarkable abilities its high time he started a cult.
Re:uh,, Black and White anyone?
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I'm currently working as an english teacher in South Korea. I teach in an english institute on the 6th floor. On the 4th floor there is a Buddhist Evangelism Center. So... Buddhists evangelize.
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That sounds like the entire Protestant movement's views of Catholicism.
Well, from what I've seen of life and reality, the people who believe in God are the kind of people you'd want to have with you in good times and bad. They're the people that feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick and help the poor.
On the other hand people like you are sarcastic asshats who I couldn't stand to be in the same room with for longer than 10 minutes. Hrm... who is the superior being?
[blockquote]They may apply the scientific method to problems that they encounter but their core motivation is the search for something that they already believe exists. They are using faith in something (without a shred of proof) as justification to spend millions of dollars, countless man hours, and TONS of processor time (SETI@home).[/blockquote]
Them and every other human on the face of the planet.
In all seriousness I don't understand why Mozilla hasn't taken over the browser market already. It has all the features that anyone would want in a web browser and I've been using it for years. Why doesn't...
Oh, right. I remember my mother, the standard by which all computer users can be compared. I can't even imagine trying to explain to her what an internet browser is, much less explain that there are better ones around. This is the woman that once asked me in a panic-stricken voice "where's the K key, I can't find the K key!" while trying to give her a walkthrough on how to use Microsoft Publisher.
I love her to death, but she is the bane of technological civilization.
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but... it is designed to replace guns, which are designed to inflict DEATH on human beings in masse from a distance. Choose one, DEATH or PAIN.
god damn hydrocarbons polluting our suns! Next thing you'll be telling me solar radiation is causing the ozone layer to be destroyed!
I don't understand why you think "cowboy stereotype" is a bad thing. When I was a kid I used to play at being a cowboy incessantly. We watched westerns, bought the hats, wore boots and big belt buckles...
Basically if you accused me of being a cowboy it would be the greatest day of my adult life. Look! That guy over there! yes, the skinny one! He thinks I'm a real cowboy! I'm not shitting you.
True, the government should not spend a lot of time and effort investigating unusual phenomena that may or may not have happened. But the government can just spend a little bit of money. Perhaps ten or twenty people in a government agency, say the FBI, were to be assigned to strange and unusual cases such as this. They could be called unknown-variable-files, or unusual-files, or, say, x-files. Well, actually 10 people would be too many. It would be better to try, say, 5, or perhaps even just 2. Yeah, a 2 man team, investigating cases that no one else can solve, working for the FBI. Or even better yet, make it one man and one woman for more sexual tension!
I think this idea could work, folks!
I predict that in 100,000 years eggs will be green. Ham will too. Monkeys will make a home in what's left of my assal bones and regularly fly out in the morning times for feeding.
Seriously what's the use of making 100,000 year predictions? Nostradamus didn't even do that.
what? This can't be true. There's so much sarcasm on this board my sarcasm detector has been redlining for some time.
How many libraries of congress/football fields do you have to burn to get that temperature?
opinion rape? I like it!
Evolution doesn't adhere to those guidelines either. It exists more in the realm of philosophy and religion than science. The sooner we admit this, the sooner we can stop hearing about scientists falsifying scientific data to match their philosophical and spiritual beliefs in evolution.
These days, my experiences on the internet make me wonder how the world itself can survive under a heavy load of spam, honest mistakes, and deliberate mischief. Can someone explain that to me?
[blockquote]And there was never a war in Canada, we went there to reinstate our rightful authority there given the fact that Canada was a holding of Great Britain under the Empire, was invited to join the Declaration of Inedependence, and since the USA is a successor state i.e. is in a chain of replacement governments of British North America (colonial governments to the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution of 1789), the USA is legally in control of Canada.[/blockquote] Actually that's a damn good argument. I'm going to tell this to my Canadian friends.
I'm currently overseas and unable to watch HBO, so I've been downloading these shows. It takes about 6 hours to finish one, and I've got all 5. When I download my weekly Battlestar Galactica fix, it usually takes 2-3 hours to finish the same size file. So there is a significant speed decrease. However, it doesn't deter me at all from getting the file, I just watch it on Monday evening instead of Sunday morning. Big deal.
"As a student, I'm the consumer. "
No, no, and hell no. As a student, you are a student. Leave your stupid consumer victimization routine in suburbia, where it belongs. Don't try to bring that crap to academia.
I'm living in korea as an English teacher, they have had this for at least a year now (that's how long I've been here). Always crazy commercials for it on TV.
Alcoholics Anonymous also emphasizes belief in a higher power as an integral part of stopping drinking, and they are not allied with any sect etc. Maybe they do it just because it works?
No, original sin is going against God's will. Remember the tree that Adam and Eve were not supposed to eat of? It wasn't called the "Tree of Knowledge". It was called the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil". God simply told them not to eat of it and if they wanted to disobey God it was always there for them to do so.
You think God held any knowledge back from them? Well the bible doesn't mention it so you'd have to wildly speculate and read your own opinions into it. You can say that Adam and Eve lived in blissful ignorance if you wanted to, or you could say that God never held any knowledge back from them, even the knowledge of what it was like to oppose His will. And God isn't holding any knowledge back from us these days. We are free to explore the world as greatly and deeply as we can. God never holds knowledge back!
i think that with his remarkable abilities its high time he started a cult.
I'm currently working as an english teacher in South Korea. I teach in an english institute on the 6th floor. On the 4th floor there is a Buddhist Evangelism Center. So... Buddhists evangelize.
That sounds like the entire Protestant movement's views of Catholicism.
Well, from what I've seen of life and reality, the people who believe in God are the kind of people you'd want to have with you in good times and bad. They're the people that feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick and help the poor.
On the other hand people like you are sarcastic asshats who I couldn't stand to be in the same room with for longer than 10 minutes. Hrm... who is the superior being?
Just stop talking about this and take it on faith.
[blockquote]They may apply the scientific method to problems that they encounter but their core motivation is the search for something that they already believe exists. They are using faith in something (without a shred of proof) as justification to spend millions of dollars, countless man hours, and TONS of processor time (SETI@home).[/blockquote]
Them and every other human on the face of the planet.
Wow, this is the single greatest argument for a United States conquest of the world that I have ever read.
an article with no comments? can such a thing be?
In all seriousness I don't understand why Mozilla hasn't taken over the browser market already. It has all the features that anyone would want in a web browser and I've been using it for years. Why doesn't...
Oh, right. I remember my mother, the standard by which all computer users can be compared. I can't even imagine trying to explain to her what an internet browser is, much less explain that there are better ones around. This is the woman that once asked me in a panic-stricken voice "where's the K key, I can't find the K key!" while trying to give her a walkthrough on how to use Microsoft Publisher.
I love her to death, but she is the bane of technological civilization.