Intelligent design has been beaten to death in Europe in the 19th century already and in South Africa in the early 20th century, but the USA is always a little behind the times...
Here is the story of Prof Du Plesis, who battled the church in court in the 17th century town of Stellenbosh, South Africa, about the book of Genesis - he won:
It is ironic, that the church calls itself protestant, but the last thing it wants to hear are protests from its own members. Even today, almost 100 years after Professor du Plessis fought the Stellenbosch seminary in court and won, his statue has to stand in front of the municipal building, where it can be guarded and protected against religious vandals. It appears that the prof's supporters knew what they had to contend with, when they had his statue commissioned of granite, one of the hardest rocks on earth.
The statue was originally situated at the end of Church street, directly opposite the main entrance of the seminary building, in a position where it could be maximally annoying to the seminarians, but it was vandalized with paint so many times, that the city had to move it to a safer location. Being made of granite, it is not much the worse for wear, but it cost much money to maintain it. The iron in the granite rusted and turned pink, earning the statue the fond name of Pink Pete.
The court case, was about the Book of Genesis, the first book of the holy bible. Prof. du Plessis contended that Genesis isn't literally true, but the holy fathers of the seminary begged to differ and fired him. Fortunately, he had a few rich and influential friends, who enabled him to go to court. The court had him re-instated and affirmed his point about Genesis in a separate libel trial. The church fathers were not amused, having lost twice. They put him on indefinite leave of absense and paid his full salary till the age of 75, then put him on pension, though he never taught a single class again. After his death, his friends erected an extremely durable, life size statue to rub the church up for perpetuity.
I suppose it must be intelligent, as for invisible, infeasible, inconceivable, incomprehensible...
Religion is an air castle, built from blood bubbles.
This is like - OMFG!!! We need to drum up business, only 3% of servers are vulnerable, you know what I mean? We need to - pssssshhh, you know, get some stuff in print, but, like you know, we can't just say 3%, we gotta blow that up a bit, like by 1000%, like, put some more and bigger numbers in there, nobody is gonna check, math is hard, you know what I mean??? Pssshhh...
Just bear in mind that Shaw only allows SMTP/POP over their own network. So, if you are a typical geek and want to read your email from anywhere, then you may not like having to use webmail.
So how often do you replace your fridge or your stove, or your house for that matter? Durable goods do have a market and some people are willing to pay a premium for it.
Think of a big hydro dam: It is constructed to last forever, since failure is simply unacceptable and repairs almost impossible.
Companies that build durable goods seem to be doing just fine...
Nevermind hearing, you are probably using it every day unknowing. Many telcos use VoIP to carry their long distance calls. The reason it is popular is simple - they can carry an order of magnitude more calls on the same old infrastructure and still charge the users an arm and a leg...
God was independently invented by many cultures around the Mediteranean sea. Unfortunately business method patents were not allowed yet, so whoever thought of it first, quickly lost his monopoly on religion...
Orion was a make work project to keep people employed. Technically, it doesn't work. It doesn't provide a practical amount of thrust. It was a joke.
The best way to describe it is "a flash in the pan"...
Well, I have bought some old CDs from Amazon too, but record stores? Nope. At the rate record stores are closing down it is clear that lots of people feel the same.
Africa is also an incredibly harsh continent.
There is an old joke about an experiment with 3 canon balls, 3 people of different cultural backgrounds and a hermit cell in a monastery. One of the test subjects managed to break one ball and lose another - I rather won't recant the story here, but there is lot of truth in it...;-)
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A better translation: "The people want to be deceived, let them be deceived".
Vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
Intelligent design has been beaten to death in Europe in the 19th century already and in South Africa in the early 20th century, but the USA is always a little behind the times...
Here is the story of Prof Du Plesis, who battled the church in court in the 17th century town of Stellenbosh, South Africa, about the book of Genesis - he won:
It is ironic, that the church calls itself protestant, but the last thing it wants to hear are protests from its own members. Even today, almost 100 years after Professor du Plessis fought the Stellenbosch seminary in court and won, his statue has to stand in front of the municipal building, where it can be guarded and protected against religious vandals. It appears that the prof's supporters knew what they had to contend with, when they had his statue commissioned of granite, one of the hardest rocks on earth.
The statue was originally situated at the end of Church street, directly opposite the main entrance of the seminary building, in a position where it could be maximally annoying to the seminarians, but it was vandalized with paint so many times, that the city had to move it to a safer location. Being made of granite, it is not much the worse for wear, but it cost much money to maintain it. The iron in the granite rusted and turned pink, earning the statue the fond name of Pink Pete.
The court case, was about the Book of Genesis, the first book of the holy bible. Prof. du Plessis contended that Genesis isn't literally true, but the holy fathers of the seminary begged to differ and fired him. Fortunately, he had a few rich and influential friends, who enabled him to go to court. The court had him re-instated and affirmed his point about Genesis in a separate libel trial. The church fathers were not amused, having lost twice. They put him on indefinite leave of absense and paid his full salary till the age of 75, then put him on pension, though he never taught a single class again. After his death, his friends erected an extremely durable, life size statue to rub the church up for perpetuity.
Well, actually, intelligent Design is a collection of assholes in evolutionary theory...
I suppose it must be intelligent, as for invisible, infeasible, inconceivable, incomprehensible... Religion is an air castle, built from blood bubbles.
This is like - OMFG!!! We need to drum up business, only 3% of servers are vulnerable, you know what I mean? We need to - pssssshhh, you know, get some stuff in print, but, like you know, we can't just say 3%, we gotta blow that up a bit, like by 1000%, like, put some more and bigger numbers in there, nobody is gonna check, math is hard, you know what I mean??? Pssshhh...
Stupid idiots...
You can POP Telus mail servers from anywhere. They just block outgoing port 25.
Just bear in mind that Shaw only allows SMTP/POP over their own network. So, if you are a typical geek and want to read your email from anywhere, then you may not like having to use webmail.
Uhhh - you mean something like the rubber like glue that holds the tiles down?
So how often do you replace your fridge or your stove, or your house for that matter? Durable goods do have a market and some people are willing to pay a premium for it.
Think of a big hydro dam: It is constructed to last forever, since failure is simply unacceptable and repairs almost impossible.
Companies that build durable goods seem to be doing just fine...
Common sense isn't...
Well I guess the American spelling for 'metre' is 'foot'. NASA is very familiar with the problem.
Nevermind hearing, you are probably using it every day unknowing. Many telcos use VoIP to carry their long distance calls. The reason it is popular is simple - they can carry an order of magnitude more calls on the same old infrastructure and still charge the users an arm and a leg...
Java: Write once, debug everywhere...
The Uni is NOT blocking speech. They are blocking their EARS. That is a huge difference...
God was independently invented by many cultures around the Mediteranean sea. Unfortunately business method patents were not allowed yet, so whoever thought of it first, quickly lost his monopoly on religion...
I'd rather clone a beowulf cluster...
Mandrake mini Ubuntu Kubuntu Knoppix DSL Puppy ...
What does your sig mean? Something like "Man should not whatever..."
Why are these things not glued down? It sure sounds as if Ductape would have been better...
Orion was a make work project to keep people employed. Technically, it doesn't work. It doesn't provide a practical amount of thrust. It was a joke. The best way to describe it is "a flash in the pan"...
I wonder if anyone else on Sloshdat knows what a Battenski Telephone is... getting old I guess.
All the new stuff I get, is from CDbaby.
Well, I have bought some old CDs from Amazon too, but record stores? Nope. At the rate record stores are closing down it is clear that lots of people feel the same.
Africa is also an incredibly harsh continent. There is an old joke about an experiment with 3 canon balls, 3 people of different cultural backgrounds and a hermit cell in a monastery. One of the test subjects managed to break one ball and lose another - I rather won't recant the story here, but there is lot of truth in it... ;-)
Yup, woulda been really purty if those WiFi adaptors had a 10,000km range...