Sorry, I think you Canadians have been smoking too much of your legal marijuana, there was no conclusive evidence to overrule the ruling on the ice, and besides, the best analysis shows that the puck never fully crossed the plane of the goal--it has to be 100% across and it wasn't.
I agree, though I am not a proud, forlorn Canadian. I'm a proud, forlorn Floridian who is really mad that she didn't get to see her team's Stanley Cup banner raised on schedule. It's pretty sad when the Tampa Tribune has started running weekly updates of the EA Sports simulated season and the morning sports radio guy has been reduced to giving recaps of what might have happened the night before if the game had actually been played.
Besides, I know of at least some companies who's Q4 ends January 31st. That means that products that are promised in Q4 2004 could still have 24 days to materialize. They aren't even technically vaporware yet.
In the clothing industry, clothes like that are classed as sportswear. Don't ask me why, though my hunch is that it's because it's the sort of thing that rich upper crust types would think appropriate for such "sporting" events as yachting or golfing--i.e. appropriate clothes for a country club.
Unlike men's clothing designers, who have largely ignored the need to tote around technology (leading to a market for TEC products), handbag designers have responded quite rapidly to the need to tote around massive quantities of technology.
Most handbags sold today have specific compartments for phones, PDAs, pens, etc. About six years ago, before I went to college, I worked selling handbags at a big name department store, and even then, there were quite a few bags with specific cell phone pockets, because if nothing else in fashion is, handbag design is very much driven by consumer specifications.
IMDB also says that Penn is mad at them, though they suggest that the reason is because they said that if you don't know what you're talking about, you shouldn't vote. Apparently, Penn doesn't like the idea of telling voters that they should be informed before they vote.
Nice to diss Cheney, but it was the Kennedys who didn't want windfarms built off the coast of Nantucket (they like to talk about alternative fuel, but apparently not in the backyards of the wealthy and powerful on the left).
The Danny Dunn books are horribly outdated (how many kids today even know what a slide rule is?), though that kind of adds to the fun of it. Can you even still get a hand on them though? When I was in elementary school in the '80s, I checked them all out from the local library, but I just went over to the library website and they don't have them anymore.
Would you like me to submit a switch story then?;-) I promise it will be an improvement over Ellen Feiss (at very least, I will not look stoned, even if I were to submit the photo taken after a hockey game in which I inadvertently ended up looking like a blue haired goth Lightning fan).
If they get this working and get rid of the yellow tint, I'd definitely buy a car that had the coating on the windows. I'm so sick of getting in my car and hardly being able to touch the steering wheel it's so hot (and I have a light colored car, with a dark car, it's torture). It would also be a great savings on home AC bills.
If I recall correctly, they Barbie and Hotwheels computers shipped with different software, and the software on the Barbie computer wasn't nearly as cool as what they put on the Hotwheels one. The Barbie games were all really lame things like Barbie fashion designer (which I would have gotten bored with in 5 minutes when I was little).
And, here's my pet peeve. Why is it that toy designers and kids software companies make all the cool toys that involve building things and market them to boys, but girls just get toys and computer games that revolve around fashion or makeup? When I was little, dressing and undressing my Barbie dolls got old quickly, but I would play with Legos for hours. I would have been insulted if my parents had come home with a Barbie computer for me (thankfully, the Barbie computer wasn't around when I was little).
It definitely was a watch-it-in-the-theater type movie. I went to the midnight showing (where half the audience looked like Comic Book Guy), and from all of the murmering when the anti-piracy commercial ran, I'd guess that a good percentage of the audience has downloaded movies. But, if you're a real movie fan, you'll go see the big budget blockbusters in the theater, and that's what everyone did.
I had some friends who were driving through Alabama on their way home for college break when they were pulled over for "speeding." It turned out though, that the real reason that the police pulled them over was because they were driving a small white car with out of state plates that was weighted down in the back and the week before the police had pulled over a small white car with out of state plates that had been carrying a large quantity of drugs. My friends were presumed guilty of drug running for no other reason than that they happened to be driving a small car that was the same color as a car that was running drugs the week before, even though that car had Arizona plates and they had Mississippi plates and were headed towards Mississippi. Fortunately, they were white, or they probably would have had an even harder time than they did convincing the cops that they weren't drug runners.
And then there's my black friend who found himself handcuffed in the back of a police car in rural Georgia when he was 15 because the cops decided he and his grandfather were drug dealers because of the way he was driving, and threw him in the back of the police car without letting them explain that his grandpa was just teaching him how to drive.
A close friend of mine was severely embarassed in our community due an idiot reporter who entirely misrepresented/misquoted what my friend said.
Reminds me of some friends a while back (probably about a dozen years ago now), who agreed to be interviewed and photographed by our local paper, which was doing a story about homeschooling, which has been legal in Florida since the early 1980s. Anyway, one Sunday morning, they opened the local paper to find their photograph on the front page under the large point headline "Homeschooling: Is it Legal?" and an article that went on to suggest that it wasn't. That was the last time they ever had anything to do with that paper.
My only experiences with reporters have been with them trying to put words into my mouth.
Back in the early '90s, I was involved in the pro-life movement (don't want to get into a debate about that now, what matters is the way reporters handled the story), and one of the things I did, being a good First Amendment type, was to test an injunction that said that certain name people or organizations, or anyone acting in concert with those individuals or groups, could not come within 30 feet of a particular abortion clinic. Anyway, I wasn't named on the injunction, so some other teenagers and I, none of whom were named, decided to test the injunction, and since it happened to be a very hot day (it being Florida and all), it became apparent that the media wanted to paint the story as "bad parents forcing their children to protest." I had a reporter interview me and try every which way to say how hot it was and how hot I was and to try to get me to say that it was my parents' idea that I be there, because that was the story they wanted to tell.
In another story of reporters trying to get the quote they wanted, a few weeks ago I went up to Tampa for the Stanley Cup Finals, and was sitting outside the building looking bored because I had gone up early to get standing room tickets and there was nothing to do, when a reporter came along and wanted to interview me for the human interest fan story. It was pretty obvious that the quote he wanted was that the reason I spent $200 a pop on tickets to game 1 was because it was a "once in a lifetime experience." I didn't want to say it was a once in a lifetime thing because I certainly hope the Lightning will be back to the finals before I die, and since I didn't say what he wanted, I didn't get quoted but he found someone else to say it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
So yeah, I don't trust reporters, because whether it was a serious issue or not, they've tried to put words in my mouth.
I was looking foreward to the episode where they punked Warren Sapp, former of the Bucs, now of the Raiders, since, as anyone who lives in the Tampa Bay area knows, he's a jerk in real life, so I expected him to go postal or something when he got punked. Unfortunately, he only got mildly annoyed, and as soon as he saw the cameras, he turned into his charming TV self.
Now, Mike Tyson is somebody I'd love to see get punked.
If someone could just create an enable/disable button for cookies, javascript, and plugins, and put it on a toolbar that I don't have to make a half dozen clicks to get to, bother-free browsing would be so much easier.
They do make such a thing. It's called PrefBar and it's a mozilla plugin.
1- If it really happened, wouldn't all river fishes be dead, since they cannot live in sea?
Creationists do not disagree with the concept of microevolution, so the likely answer would be that 5,000 or however many years ago, there wasn't the distinction between freshwater and saltwater fish, but that over the last 5,000 years of natural selection, you ended up with fish that can only survive in fresh water and fish that can only survive in salt water.
2- Wouldn't we expect to find amazing evidences like whales, dolphins and sharks skeletons in the most unusual places, from the animals trapped in some valley when the water came back to the normal levels?
We would expect to find instances like those you mentioned if the current topography is similar to the topography 5,000 years ago. The argument is that the the seismic activity that led to the breakup of the continents and the formation of the large mountain ranges took place at the end of the flood, by the point where the water was receding (the argument is that it was these great continental shifts and the subsequent deepening of the ocean as the continents moved apart is what provided the space for the flood waters to go). So, based on the explanations given, you wouldn't expect to find large creatures like whales in unusual places, but you might expect to find smaller ocean creatures in odd places, and they have in fact found fossilized fish in places you wouldn't expect.
Anyway, that's the argument, and I doubt I really gave it justice since it's been a while since I've read any of those explanations.
I don't expect anybody to find remnants of Noah's ark, because the odds that wood artifacts survived this long aren't very good. But, if they do find evidence of a boat on top of Ararat, it would be of archeological significance, no matter who's boat it was. Just to make it clear, slashdotters, creationists don't 'not believe' in radio carbon dating. What they question is the accuracy of the dating method when you're dealing with objects that are much older than any of the calibration objects.
How about the tower of babel? Surely, if they created a tower that reaches to heaven, there ought to be some rocks lying around.
Don't you know that the mental picture that most people have of the Tower of Babel comes from some Renaissance painting, which has no relationship whatsoever with the architecture of the ancient near east? Most likely, said tower was more of a zigurat type structure and even if they were trying to literally reach heaven, all you'd find was a partially built, broken down zigurat, and people probably wouldn't think to make any connections with the Babel story. For all we know, one of those structures is what remains of the attempt to build said tower.
Only reason I can think of is that they only went wireless this school year, but now that they are wireless, every building on campus is wireless, and about the only place that doesn't have wireless access is the soccer fields, which are quite a hike from everything else.
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Sorry, I think you Canadians have been smoking too much of your legal marijuana, there was no conclusive evidence to overrule the ruling on the ice, and besides, the best analysis shows that the puck never fully crossed the plane of the goal--it has to be 100% across and it wasn't.
I agree, though I am not a proud, forlorn Canadian. I'm a proud, forlorn Floridian who is really mad that she didn't get to see her team's Stanley Cup banner raised on schedule. It's pretty sad when the Tampa Tribune has started running weekly updates of the EA Sports simulated season and the morning sports radio guy has been reduced to giving recaps of what might have happened the night before if the game had actually been played.
Besides, I know of at least some companies who's Q4 ends January 31st. That means that products that are promised in Q4 2004 could still have 24 days to materialize. They aren't even technically vaporware yet.
In the clothing industry, clothes like that are classed as sportswear. Don't ask me why, though my hunch is that it's because it's the sort of thing that rich upper crust types would think appropriate for such "sporting" events as yachting or golfing--i.e. appropriate clothes for a country club.
Unlike men's clothing designers, who have largely ignored the need to tote around technology (leading to a market for TEC products), handbag designers have responded quite rapidly to the need to tote around massive quantities of technology.
Most handbags sold today have specific compartments for phones, PDAs, pens, etc. About six years ago, before I went to college, I worked selling handbags at a big name department store, and even then, there were quite a few bags with specific cell phone pockets, because if nothing else in fashion is, handbag design is very much driven by consumer specifications.
IMDB also says that Penn is mad at them, though they suggest that the reason is because they said that if you don't know what you're talking about, you shouldn't vote. Apparently, Penn doesn't like the idea of telling voters that they should be informed before they vote.
Nice to diss Cheney, but it was the Kennedys who didn't want windfarms built off the coast of Nantucket (they like to talk about alternative fuel, but apparently not in the backyards of the wealthy and powerful on the left).
The Danny Dunn books are horribly outdated (how many kids today even know what a slide rule is?), though that kind of adds to the fun of it. Can you even still get a hand on them though? When I was in elementary school in the '80s, I checked them all out from the local library, but I just went over to the library website and they don't have them anymore.
Dominos Pizza
1403 57th Ave W
Bradenton, FL 34207-3656
Phone: 941-758-3030
From the address, I think that Tempratech must be located in one of the dinky little industrial parks that dominate that part of town.
Would you like me to submit a switch story then? ;-) I promise it will be an improvement over Ellen Feiss (at very least, I will not look stoned, even if I were to submit the photo taken after a hockey game in which I inadvertently ended up looking like a blue haired goth Lightning fan).
If they get this working and get rid of the yellow tint, I'd definitely buy a car that had the coating on the windows. I'm so sick of getting in my car and hardly being able to touch the steering wheel it's so hot (and I have a light colored car, with a dark car, it's torture). It would also be a great savings on home AC bills.
If I recall correctly, they Barbie and Hotwheels computers shipped with different software, and the software on the Barbie computer wasn't nearly as cool as what they put on the Hotwheels one. The Barbie games were all really lame things like Barbie fashion designer (which I would have gotten bored with in 5 minutes when I was little).
And, here's my pet peeve. Why is it that toy designers and kids software companies make all the cool toys that involve building things and market them to boys, but girls just get toys and computer games that revolve around fashion or makeup? When I was little, dressing and undressing my Barbie dolls got old quickly, but I would play with Legos for hours. I would have been insulted if my parents had come home with a Barbie computer for me (thankfully, the Barbie computer wasn't around when I was little).
No, that's unnecessary, because it's clear that Google will become Skynet.
There's a great movie about that tracking station called The Disn, which I'd highly recommend.
That's great, though there is one problem--"Bilbo when he was young" didn't meet "Gimli when he was young", he met Gimli's father Gloin.
It definitely was a watch-it-in-the-theater type movie. I went to the midnight showing (where half the audience looked like Comic Book Guy), and from all of the murmering when the anti-piracy commercial ran, I'd guess that a good percentage of the audience has downloaded movies. But, if you're a real movie fan, you'll go see the big budget blockbusters in the theater, and that's what everyone did.
I had some friends who were driving through Alabama on their way home for college break when they were pulled over for "speeding." It turned out though, that the real reason that the police pulled them over was because they were driving a small white car with out of state plates that was weighted down in the back and the week before the police had pulled over a small white car with out of state plates that had been carrying a large quantity of drugs. My friends were presumed guilty of drug running for no other reason than that they happened to be driving a small car that was the same color as a car that was running drugs the week before, even though that car had Arizona plates and they had Mississippi plates and were headed towards Mississippi. Fortunately, they were white, or they probably would have had an even harder time than they did convincing the cops that they weren't drug runners.
And then there's my black friend who found himself handcuffed in the back of a police car in rural Georgia when he was 15 because the cops decided he and his grandfather were drug dealers because of the way he was driving, and threw him in the back of the police car without letting them explain that his grandpa was just teaching him how to drive.
A close friend of mine was severely embarassed in our community due an idiot reporter who entirely misrepresented/misquoted what my friend said.
Reminds me of some friends a while back (probably about a dozen years ago now), who agreed to be interviewed and photographed by our local paper, which was doing a story about homeschooling, which has been legal in Florida since the early 1980s. Anyway, one Sunday morning, they opened the local paper to find their photograph on the front page under the large point headline "Homeschooling: Is it Legal?" and an article that went on to suggest that it wasn't. That was the last time they ever had anything to do with that paper.
My only experiences with reporters have been with them trying to put words into my mouth.
Back in the early '90s, I was involved in the pro-life movement (don't want to get into a debate about that now, what matters is the way reporters handled the story), and one of the things I did, being a good First Amendment type, was to test an injunction that said that certain name people or organizations, or anyone acting in concert with those individuals or groups, could not come within 30 feet of a particular abortion clinic. Anyway, I wasn't named on the injunction, so some other teenagers and I, none of whom were named, decided to test the injunction, and since it happened to be a very hot day (it being Florida and all), it became apparent that the media wanted to paint the story as "bad parents forcing their children to protest." I had a reporter interview me and try every which way to say how hot it was and how hot I was and to try to get me to say that it was my parents' idea that I be there, because that was the story they wanted to tell.
In another story of reporters trying to get the quote they wanted, a few weeks ago I went up to Tampa for the Stanley Cup Finals, and was sitting outside the building looking bored because I had gone up early to get standing room tickets and there was nothing to do, when a reporter came along and wanted to interview me for the human interest fan story. It was pretty obvious that the quote he wanted was that the reason I spent $200 a pop on tickets to game 1 was because it was a "once in a lifetime experience." I didn't want to say it was a once in a lifetime thing because I certainly hope the Lightning will be back to the finals before I die, and since I didn't say what he wanted, I didn't get quoted but he found someone else to say it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
So yeah, I don't trust reporters, because whether it was a serious issue or not, they've tried to put words in my mouth.
I was looking foreward to the episode where they punked Warren Sapp, former of the Bucs, now of the Raiders, since, as anyone who lives in the Tampa Bay area knows, he's a jerk in real life, so I expected him to go postal or something when he got punked. Unfortunately, he only got mildly annoyed, and as soon as he saw the cameras, he turned into his charming TV self.
Now, Mike Tyson is somebody I'd love to see get punked.
Doesn't work in my mozilla. One of my mozilla plugins, or maybe it's the version I'm using (1.7 RC1), keeps the mouse over popups from happening.
If someone could just create an enable/disable button for cookies, javascript, and plugins, and put it on a toolbar that I don't have to make a half dozen clicks to get to, bother-free browsing would be so much easier.
They do make such a thing. It's called PrefBar and it's a mozilla plugin.
1- If it really happened, wouldn't all river fishes be dead, since they cannot live in sea?
Creationists do not disagree with the concept of microevolution, so the likely answer would be that 5,000 or however many years ago, there wasn't the distinction between freshwater and saltwater fish, but that over the last 5,000 years of natural selection, you ended up with fish that can only survive in fresh water and fish that can only survive in salt water.
2- Wouldn't we expect to find amazing evidences like whales, dolphins and sharks skeletons in the most unusual places, from the animals trapped in some valley when the water came back to the normal levels?
We would expect to find instances like those you mentioned if the current topography is similar to the topography 5,000 years ago. The argument is that the the seismic activity that led to the breakup of the continents and the formation of the large mountain ranges took place at the end of the flood, by the point where the water was receding (the argument is that it was these great continental shifts and the subsequent deepening of the ocean as the continents moved apart is what provided the space for the flood waters to go). So, based on the explanations given, you wouldn't expect to find large creatures like whales in unusual places, but you might expect to find smaller ocean creatures in odd places, and they have in fact found fossilized fish in places you wouldn't expect.
Anyway, that's the argument, and I doubt I really gave it justice since it's been a while since I've read any of those explanations.
I don't expect anybody to find remnants of Noah's ark, because the odds that wood artifacts survived this long aren't very good. But, if they do find evidence of a boat on top of Ararat, it would be of archeological significance, no matter who's boat it was. Just to make it clear, slashdotters, creationists don't 'not believe' in radio carbon dating. What they question is the accuracy of the dating method when you're dealing with objects that are much older than any of the calibration objects.
How about the tower of babel? Surely, if they created a tower that reaches to heaven, there ought to be some rocks lying around.
Don't you know that the mental picture that most people have of the Tower of Babel comes from some Renaissance painting, which has no relationship whatsoever with the architecture of the ancient near east? Most likely, said tower was more of a zigurat type structure and even if they were trying to literally reach heaven, all you'd find was a partially built, broken down zigurat, and people probably wouldn't think to make any connections with the Babel story. For all we know, one of those structures is what remains of the attempt to build said tower.
Only reason I can think of is that they only went wireless this school year, but now that they are wireless, every building on campus is wireless, and about the only place that doesn't have wireless access is the soccer fields, which are quite a hike from everything else.