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  1. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    Old earth creationists are a much larger group. They accept that the earth has been around a long time and when dinosaurs existed. They accept heliocentrism

    Even the Catholic Church accepts that, and it has for hundreds of years. What are you talking about?

  2. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    I suppose they use the same logic that they used to decide that homosexuality is still a heinous sin

    I forgot to answer this; it is because it is still mentioned in the NT (Paul's letters) as such.

  3. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    After all, there are passages in Genesis that make reference to God setting up the pillars that support the four corners of the earth.

    No, there aren't. However, in Isaiah and Ezekiel, there are references to "the corners" and "the four corners of the land", which refers to being scattered to the farthest reaches of the known world. Job also mentions the pillars of the earth. But that's in the KJV and the word translated "pillar" means something that supports a structure; so unless you want to argue the Earth is hollow, that is a reasonable interpretation.

  4. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    Adam and Eve only had boys

    Logically, that only makes sense if you can point out where it says they had no other children. Your argument is similar to a witness to a robbery describing the perp as wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt, and the news subsequently reporting that he wore no shoes.

    Cain was marked so that no would kill him. But since he was driven away, who would kill him? Obviously there are people outside of Adam and Eves family...actually it's obviously an allegory.

    Actually, your logic needs work.

  5. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    That would be the simple answer, but it's more because carbon dating assumes that the ratio of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere remained constant. But reading up on someone's arguments isn't as much fun as ridiculing them.

  6. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    I thought that "Darwinism" was a term thought up by the religious anti-evolution side.

    No, it was first used by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1860.

    Darwin, of course, studied theology at Cambridge University. He was also a depressive, presumably because of how stupid (and stubbornly-so) most people were. I think he would be depressed today. Especially if he saw the creationism museum.

    Or your inflammatory post.

  7. The chicken coop on The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't mind the 747 "cattle car" so much as the vile 737 "chicken coop". Six abreast, one aisle, and no additional overhead space. I would rather travel across the country on a Greyhound; at least there is more legroom.

  8. Re:Hard Drive Encryption - Theory vs. Reality on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    Wow, what you said made very little sense. Why give away the key to the real data when you can give away the key to the fake? Either is very easy.

  9. Office space on $93,803 a Year to Do Nothing · · Score: 1

    He shouldn't complain. I had this happen to me, but suddenly they "fixed the glitch", so I stopped getting my paycheck. They also had the audacity to take my Swingline stapler, which is superior to the Bostich and with which I had used Swingline brand staples purchased out of my own pocket to maintain compatibility. Unfortunately, I had no recourse but to set the building on fire.

  10. Re:Theory vs. Reality - Seriously on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, many thieves are bloodthirsty morons who kill the clerk anyway.

  11. Re:Hard Drive Encryption - Theory vs. Reality on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    If you hide the encrypted partition (and especially, create a second, unencrypted partition if the OS is encrypted), you have plausible deniability.

  12. Re:A somewhat Conspiracy-Theory-ish observation on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1

    To use the climate change lobby's methodology, it must have been J. S. Bach's offspring that caused the increase. He was really cranking them out at that time!

  13. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1

    So a scientist can't defend one's own work?

    Kinda like a crooked judge presiding at his own trial, isn't it?

  14. Re:A somewhat Conspiracy-Theory-ish observation on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1

    One degree is staggering? Oh, BTW: that one degree was already erased in the time span from 1998-2008.

  15. Re:A somewhat Conspiracy-Theory-ish observation on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1

    By using the fake word "denialist" in your response, you proved his point. Pathetic.

  16. Re:To Err is Human--to Persist is Microsoft? on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't dare to fire a "machine gun" that cost only $10.

  17. Re:Just reset your clock on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1

    I ran OS/2 at that time, as I didn't like recompiling my kernel every time I added hardware and I also liked being able to run DOS and Windows programs. Linux 1.x was really just for tinkering.

  18. Re:Ob on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    I have a problem with taxes exemption

    I do, too. Maybe once churches stop accepting exemptions, the government will stop trying to tell congregations what they can say and do in both the churches and in the community. Naahhh...

  19. Re:Article IV? on Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees · · Score: 1

    Uh... you are at a crime scene.

    Really? You mean police only arrest people if they're at the crime scene?

    Do you believe that you retain a right to anonymity when arrested? If not, then what's your specific objection to being identified through your DNA?

    Red herring. I don't want anyone touching me without just cause because of my right to personal liberty.

  20. Re:My Hero! on Wozniak Accepts Post At a Storage Systems Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Well, the IIe came out after the C64, had greatly inferior sound, and was more expensive.

  21. Re:SSD == Turning Point on Wozniak Accepts Post At a Storage Systems Start-Up · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you got cheap MLCs instead of SLCs, so you're actually accessing two blocks at once every time you have to write. Your anecdotal evidence is merely proof that some SSDs really stink.

  22. Re:ZFS and SSDs on Wozniak Accepts Post At a Storage Systems Start-Up · · Score: 1

    On Windows land, MS is stuck with NTFS emulating MS-DOS junk (8.3 OS parts etc.) so it is beyond hopeless.

    FAT requirements are a subset of NTFS requirements. Also, with the use of 16-bit programs becoming obsolete on 64-bit Windows, they are not "stuck" with "MS-DOS junk". I don't even understand how NTFS is even relevant to the rest of your post. I suppose you were just flexing your Mac zealotry.

  23. Re:There is another major drawback on Wozniak Accepts Post At a Storage Systems Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Hard disks already do this, FWIW.

  24. Re:Standard office equipment: Crowbar on First-Person Shooter Modified For Fire Drill Simulation · · Score: 1

    ...to get past those pesky flaming doors and those stacked crates.

    FTFY

  25. Re:Mods on First-Person Shooter Modified For Fire Drill Simulation · · Score: 1

    I tried circle-strafing with the fire extinguisher and it didn't work very well.