This would be the project work done at General Atomics in the 50's. The nuclear "ban" in '62 killed it, if you recall. My response to the name: how dare they? The CEV should be named ValueJet.
Well, let's look at this then: a lot of American news media has made "appearances" with the military in Iraq or Afghanistan. The only one of the bunch that spent a week riding in convoy and on patrol in full body armor of which I am aware was Laura Ingraham. She also participated in other military patrol missions besides ground convoys. Most modern media isn't doing what they braved to do in Vietnam.
You didn't tell me you spent a week with Al Franken, you said you met him once. I hope I've made my point. I could have swapped in Rush Limbaugh for that matter. I don't even know if that blowhard went to Iraq, so he may have been a better example. Or Katie Couric.
Thanks for the excellent feedback, and by the way, thanks for your service!
The only barely relevant difference between lottery tickets and online (or cellphone-based) gambling is accessibility and the rate at which your money can disappear on you. Imagine the guy who is up a 2:00am at a gas station 30 minutes outside of Tulsa. He decides to buy a lottery ticket. Scratch and Lose. Okay, maybe another one? Goes over, the clerk hands him another possible winner. Another loss. The guy eventually decides that going in and saying "Bet it all" and maxing out his credit card on Scratch-n-Lose lottery tokens maybe isn't going to fill the urge for him, and so he drops a five-spot down, asks for change in quarters, and hunkers up to the Galaga arcade machine for an hour.
Imagine that same guy fooling around with the internet gambling for hours at a time. The burn rate on online gambling is very fast in dollars per minute. The same guy who had to deal with a clerk to buy his Scratch and Lose instant-win ticket, plus fish out a bill from his pocket, or sign a credit card receipt is now just doing one-click-loser poker.
Imagine it this way: let's say you had to pay $1 for every 50MB of internet traffic to your system. You wouldn't see the dollars go by, would you? Even if you did, you would still be concentrating on your goal of doing whatever on the internet. The lack of the inhibiting transaction experience, the human contact, it removes the sense of conscience, and for obsessive people, it takes away some of the slow down, and they get further wound up/in debt.
The expectation is that the terrorists need to learn how to fly first. So long as we are dealing with people stupid enough to fall for the Islamo-fascist brainwashing of Al Quaeda, we are faced with a massive, naive enemy. There is considerable doubt that this mass includes people wealthy enough to have their own pilot's license ahead of joining "the cause." If Zaccaharius Moussawi (sorry about the spelling) is any evidence, the local "crop duster" pilot school is going to be suspicious of zealous, reclusive immigrants, and turn him into authorities.
I don't think you can turn a rich man into a suicide bomber/pilot. You might get that man to give over his money, but when you get down to it, rich people aren't the footsoldier types. For one, they tend to be grateful for their circumstances. For another, they tend not to want to stand in harm's way. Imagine Al Franken doing a ride-along in Iraq with a US Army convoy. He's a wealthy comedian-turned-politician and he just doesn't want to take that kind of chance with his life.
The fight is at the flight schools, we didn't detect 19 of them, but we did detect one of them. As for the U-Haul full of explosives, well, if it wasn't for the LA Times and New York Times alerting the enemy to the SWIFT program, we would have had a better chance of nabbing them at the rental counter. Now the enemy will just use your stolen credit card/identity to rent a vehicle and fill it with stinking death.
The guy has a poster discussing uses such as electric car batteries, so I would say no. One part that bugged me in the "poster" is the energy density. A value of 60Wh/kg (is this gravimetric charge density?) is less than lead-acid. The power density is a whole lot higher at 100kW/kg, would someone care to explain the difference between the two?
I think the state should require a license to sell M and AO licenses, and that the license would be revoked. make M and AO games a controlled substance, sort-of. That way, you'd lose your license if you got caught selling to minors.
This phenomenon of what sounds to me like negative current population growth, or definitely decline, would definitely explain why Japanese banks aren't seeing people putting their holdings in savings accounts. What I read said that their bank savings rate is 18% right now. That's just insane! I suppose if there's no kids on the horizon, that could explain some of it, but what about retirement?
HP is going to lose a lot of talent. These naive moves look really good on paper to either executives or stockholders, but when you get right down to it, controversial HR-related movements tend to be in the wrong direction. When Best Buy decided to go "Accenture" and turn their IT staff into contractors, the cruddy folks floated and everyone else who saw this as a negative took a swim. I know one guy who went from IT analyst to "reports to the CIO." At the Carlson Companies (Radisson Hotels, TGI Friday's, cruise lines, etc.), they did this about 9 months ago, and turned their staff into IBM Global Services contractors. Once again, a lot of the good talent just swam away. These would be the folks who ran the web servers, managed the security systems, Unix admins, etc. Wow, those middle managers who just stayed put were just soooo indispensible.
I think a lot of corporations make decisions that make sense at some shallow level. Take Sun dumping 5000 jobs. If you get right down to it, companies never announce that they are doing a massive internal staff audit and identifying and firing the lazy idiots, clever troublemakers/self-oriented saboteurs (the ones that pass for doing a good job by solving a problem they invent), the inane gossips, the skimmers, and everyone else that deserves a kick in the pants.
As much as I cannot stand many professionals who are in HR, Human Resource Management is vital to a company. I think it is done fairly well in some businesses, such as hospitals, yet where the service/product output isn't so clean-cut, more innovation and analysis is required than is usually present for other business needs.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Dilbert comics were about non IT/Engineering industry? Those of us in this tech market could then laugh at all the funny shenanigans that go on in a lawyer's office, or a carpet-cleaning company. Instead, everyone laughs at our dysfunctional business circumstances, day in, day out.
So why are Australians so interested in an enrichment process if they have no large needs to do so? Do they have nuclear-powered warships, perchance? The Australians were also responsible for a ceramic-based vitrification remainder technology. I just don't get this.
That's a fair statement, however I am certain those "film strips" they make you wear for exposure-checking become an eagerly-watched fashion accessory in the plant. One of the nuclear workers in America told me that he said some folks cannot return to work after certain medical procedures, because the radiation levels in their body would set off the sensors. I don't know if we're talking Barium enemas or what here, but I'd say those sensors would mean a lot to me if I had a job like that. Not everyone is cut out for every job. I'm sure most people don't want to grow up to be in the US Marine Corps, but the ones that do, heck, they love the idea of being the front line. I'd take Nuke Worker over combat infantry any day.
Okay, I admit that is funny, but do you know how much government-mandated medical testing goes on with these guys? They can't get near a reactor if they have had too much radiation exposure. Oh, and for even more information, the typical exposure received by people within 10 miles of the Three-Mile Island event was equivalent to the radiation exposure received during a round-trip transatlantic flight from the US to Europe. What does that tell you? The average flight attendant or pilot receives many times more radiation exposure than a nuclear power worker.
If you think I'm making it up, do the research. The amount of Hollywood misinformation that the average person has is obscene. Here's one: you can't blow up a nuclear power plant and get an atomic explosion. What? Yeah, it's basically just glowing green rocks, water, pipes, dynamos, and a lot of concrete. You can blow up a natural gas or oil power plant, however.
Okay, TFA is talking about Uranium 235, which is a weapons-grade isotope of Uranium, because it is fissile. Furthermore, this is necessary only because Australia uses Light Water Reactors. Fast Neutron Reactors and several other of the dozens of reactor designs do not need enrichment and work just fine off the naturally occurring U238.
If you read up on the Gen-4 reactor designs, you'll find that greenhouse gasses, non-proliferation, safety, and more efficient designs (a LWR reactor is rather wasteful on the scale of designs) have been taken into consideration. Rest assured that the new reactors being built in Florida, and all across the USA are being built with the best, safest technologies available.
Oh, and the thousands of centrifuges? That's just bad journalism. I don't know how lasers are cheaper at all (someone needs to actually write a decent article here), but for what it is worth, Nuclear Energy in the United States is cheaper than coal, but just barely.
Check out www.nukeworker.com and ask your questions there. Those guys know their Uranium from their belly buttons!
I don't know what would be worse, listening to puerile vulgarities, or seeing "tomorrow's future" stumble with elementary spelling and grammar. They should make video games that encorporate the basics of English. Then the "cheaters" would be the ones with either Webster's 10th Collegiate or a short copy of The Elements of Style onhand.
I can see it now: You're cornered, they have loads of BFG'sbig, frightful grammatics aimed at your sorry melon. What to do? What to do? Ooh, the temptation... You reach for it, just this once. Oh, of course! Should-would clauses are for sissies!
"I never end a sentence with a preposition, my mother told me not to," you shout. Suddenly, a piercing ray of in-game sunlight rips across the digital wasteland. Your opponents are mercilessly fried, no Fricasseed!
Days later, your account gets banned. You whine with the best of them, but to no avail. Your own incompetence incriminates you, as your seemingly victorious sentence is diagrammed, nay eviscerated before you.
There was an airplane crash outside New York early in 2002 of an Airbus 320. It had a carbon composite tail. I remember the talking heads saying that this was the second time the tail fell off the Airbus 320. Although the wireless argument may have some viability, the composite doesn't sell well with me:
It isn't as tough as steel or aluminium.
So, let's say you are flying a plane and the weather's bad. Lots of lightning blasts in the storms below you... Who wants a UDP packet loss when flying a large plane full of trusting souls? Blame it on the rain. Yeah.
You know, if I actually got some decent advertising about things I am trying to buy, it would really help. For instance, my wife has been going nuts trying to find the perfect dining table, and I'm trying to go get some parts for a fun R/C project I've started with the guys at the office, to compensate for some feelings of dissatisfaction(we're all consultants).
If I were to tell the "ad-bot" what I was after, maybe it would show me an ad I actually care about. Oh wait, that's Google Ad Words. I figure I can wait five years, fellas, get on it!
Medtronic is a fine company with good, solid engineers. I think they have some of the brightest physiologists behind these inventions, and we should all count our blessings that they do. Consider the precision involved in this sort of device, and compare it to the "numb the effects" approach with Lithium salts (which belong in batteries, IMHO) and the dizzying array of mind-drugs. How many depressed or OCD people out there have said to themselves: "My brain is wired funny?" Sure, some blessed or highly motivated people manage to adapt, change, or merely conquer. Others take illegal narcotics, cut themselves, drink alcohol like it was water, and worse.
Compare one surgery every 10-15 years to all that talk time with quacks, pills with unknown/debated side-effects, and senseless craft projects involving pipe cleaners and foam.
Incidentally, Medtronic devices now have a polymer involved in drawing heat/ flexing to power/recharge their devices. It isn't the batteries, it is the stims and leads that need adjustment/replacement. If any of their battery tech guys ever decided to go big, they'd make a laughing stock out of those folks making the 100-mile range electric cars.
The medical devices are implanted below the skin/fat layers (and not in the rib cage as I had originally thought), and the main problem is people fidget with them, like picking a scab. They are about the size of a drink coaster (bit smaller), and thickness of a pencil. well, the pacemakers are, anyway. The neuro products are about the size of 3 packs of (Wrigley) gum.
Part of me wonders how someone with OCD could not panic about the device buried in their flesh, controlling their brain. I'd hope the effects were fairly immediate.
If I get an answer from their email service, I'll post it. My guess is that they can't even hold their claim of 1000 recharges. I thought that Li Ion's were good for around 200. Of course, they just say "lithium" but the likelihood that they would be using Lithium polymer and not bragging about it is rare.
I sense some bovine feces amidst their materials. The sheer lack of information stinks of fluff.
taniwha,
I am quite certain I reviewed several early diagrams (which naturally I cannot find now), and I am quite certain that originally, Transmeta was talking about clockless processing. The reference clearly indicates that I'm not imagining things, but it may have been nothing more than hype. It would appear as if Transmeta went a different direction, however. Maybe Transmeta knew about the work at Intel (which came first?) and drummed it up, or maybe the efforts at Transmeta were not enough, and that engineer left for Intel to try it somewhere else? We really need an inside opinion here. Anyone know someone at Transmeta who would care to comment?
For those of us with short-term memories, we can go back in time and read historical articles about the Transmeta Crusoe processor, which was supposed to be clockless. Of course if you go to their Crusoe Page today, their pretty diagram sure has a clock.
What did I miss? I remember the hype, the early diagrams of how it was all supposed to weave through without the need for a clock. Would someone care to elaborate on the post-mortem of what was supposed to be the first clockless processor, 4 years ago?
It seems to me that these life simulation games are meant to let us do things we cannot, because our life is mundane. A simple solution would be to take this trapped animal out of his self-made cage. For my own self, I realized how much I like crafting, and my own game interests drove me back to my artistic roots, and I'm now grinding skills as a hobbyist wood carver. If the guy likes sorcery, I'm not saying go buy him spell components, find the local band of witches, and set up play dates, as a cult will suck you in even more than a video game and are consistently ruinous.
If he likes combat, tell him to take up fencing. If he likes being a healer, hey, there's a whole medical career waiting for him.
I was in a job interview for a position at a company, and I had, in my correspondence, inadvertently left a link to my homepage. Yeah, that's what they called web logs, back in the day. Somewhere on the site, I had written a stinging treatment about my disgust for the malaise and dischord that is (probably still) present at American Express Financial Advisors. Whatever I wrote must have scared the guy, because he sounded scared when he brought it up.
It was one of my better writing efforts, I was mildly offended that the guy did not credit me just a little for my prosaic abilities. Oh well, the prospective employer went out of business shortly after not hiring me anyway. In retrospect, I wonder if my criticism of AEFA would have been even for this other business.
Things happen for a reason. I'm glad Slashdot came out when it did, or I would never get another shot at firing off a dig against AEFA and the hedonistic blatherskites that infest its tired walls.
where do we humans get the notion we can limit God's work to fit our own theories? I think that believers who think this have inherited a serious hubris problem. Further, the day-age theorist crowd (ones I liken to the US political Centrist types) is relying their entire belief system on a single mis-translation of a Hebrew word yom which appears in the Bible 359 times meaning the "sun-up,sun-down day," when in the context of an ordinal number. Furthermore, when God separated light from dark, this was the first day, same word, same meaning. Anything else suggests literary inconsistency, hardly a good way to start off a good book, much less any book purported to be the divinely inspired Word of God.
For the non-believers:
Try, really try, to sit down with the raw data in front of you from the NASA report, and temporarily shut out your awareness of the Big Bang theory, and see what other postulates that data can suggest. The best one I've heard thus far from this approach is that the speed of light is not a universal constant, it is a momentary constant, and the constant is currently slowing down. I don't really know what that will mean for our view on the world, but I think if it slowed down enough, a number of the stars in the sky could visibly disappear, because they would become quasars (I think that's the right word: stars moving faster than light?). Anyway, I believe scientists need to be open-minded and tolerant of other theories off the same data. Otherwise, they would be as guilty as the old Catholic church, which left no room for any science contrary to the church's current view of the world. See the trouble in which you find yourself when you close your mind?
I have to second the suggestion of Super Mario Kart: Double Dash. My aging father, who struggled with Marble Madness (back in the day), was able to competently drive around a race track. I think he should have gotten a DUI for his style of driving, but still, he had some fun with it. Also, my young daughter can still to this day deal out a healthy helping of humility to her old man when in one of the battle modes of Super Mario Kart Double Dash.
It makes me wonder if that game was designed for multiple players with different skill levels: there is a tremendous measure of chance in the game. If you are dragging behind, you get better bonuses. I've seen my son go from dead-last to 1st place (and he beat me, the little punk) just from playing the "baby mario" character and getting that barking ball on a chain bonus.
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This would be the project work done at General Atomics in the 50's. The nuclear "ban" in '62 killed it, if you recall. My response to the name: how dare they? The CEV should be named ValueJet.
You didn't tell me you spent a week with Al Franken, you said you met him once. I hope I've made my point. I could have swapped in Rush Limbaugh for that matter. I don't even know if that blowhard went to Iraq, so he may have been a better example. Or Katie Couric.
Thanks for the excellent feedback, and by the way, thanks for your service!
Imagine that same guy fooling around with the internet gambling for hours at a time. The burn rate on online gambling is very fast in dollars per minute. The same guy who had to deal with a clerk to buy his Scratch and Lose instant-win ticket, plus fish out a bill from his pocket, or sign a credit card receipt is now just doing one-click-loser poker.
Imagine it this way: let's say you had to pay $1 for every 50MB of internet traffic to your system. You wouldn't see the dollars go by, would you? Even if you did, you would still be concentrating on your goal of doing whatever on the internet. The lack of the inhibiting transaction experience, the human contact, it removes the sense of conscience, and for obsessive people, it takes away some of the slow down, and they get further wound up/in debt.
I don't think you can turn a rich man into a suicide bomber/pilot. You might get that man to give over his money, but when you get down to it, rich people aren't the footsoldier types. For one, they tend to be grateful for their circumstances. For another, they tend not to want to stand in harm's way. Imagine Al Franken doing a ride-along in Iraq with a US Army convoy. He's a wealthy comedian-turned-politician and he just doesn't want to take that kind of chance with his life.
The fight is at the flight schools, we didn't detect 19 of them, but we did detect one of them. As for the U-Haul full of explosives, well, if it wasn't for the LA Times and New York Times alerting the enemy to the SWIFT program, we would have had a better chance of nabbing them at the rental counter. Now the enemy will just use your stolen credit card/identity to rent a vehicle and fill it with stinking death.
I really want to thank everyone who commented, this fills in a lot of knowledge gaps for me.
The guy has a poster discussing uses such as electric car batteries, so I would say no. One part that bugged me in the "poster" is the energy density. A value of 60Wh/kg (is this gravimetric charge density?) is less than lead-acid. The power density is a whole lot higher at 100kW/kg, would someone care to explain the difference between the two?
I think the state should require a license to sell M and AO licenses, and that the license would be revoked. make M and AO games a controlled substance, sort-of. That way, you'd lose your license if you got caught selling to minors.
HP is going to lose a lot of talent. These naive moves look really good on paper to either executives or stockholders, but when you get right down to it, controversial HR-related movements tend to be in the wrong direction. When Best Buy decided to go "Accenture" and turn their IT staff into contractors, the cruddy folks floated and everyone else who saw this as a negative took a swim. I know one guy who went from IT analyst to "reports to the CIO." At the Carlson Companies (Radisson Hotels, TGI Friday's, cruise lines, etc.), they did this about 9 months ago, and turned their staff into IBM Global Services contractors. Once again, a lot of the good talent just swam away. These would be the folks who ran the web servers, managed the security systems, Unix admins, etc. Wow, those middle managers who just stayed put were just soooo indispensible.
I think a lot of corporations make decisions that make sense at some shallow level. Take Sun dumping 5000 jobs. If you get right down to it, companies never announce that they are doing a massive internal staff audit and identifying and firing the lazy idiots, clever troublemakers/self-oriented saboteurs (the ones that pass for doing a good job by solving a problem they invent), the inane gossips, the skimmers, and everyone else that deserves a kick in the pants.
As much as I cannot stand many professionals who are in HR, Human Resource Management is vital to a company. I think it is done fairly well in some businesses, such as hospitals, yet where the service/product output isn't so clean-cut, more innovation and analysis is required than is usually present for other business needs.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Dilbert comics were about non IT/Engineering industry? Those of us in this tech market could then laugh at all the funny shenanigans that go on in a lawyer's office, or a carpet-cleaning company. Instead, everyone laughs at our dysfunctional business circumstances, day in, day out.
So why are Australians so interested in an enrichment process if they have no large needs to do so? Do they have nuclear-powered warships, perchance? The Australians were also responsible for a ceramic-based vitrification remainder technology. I just don't get this.
That's a fair statement, however I am certain those "film strips" they make you wear for exposure-checking become an eagerly-watched fashion accessory in the plant. One of the nuclear workers in America told me that he said some folks cannot return to work after certain medical procedures, because the radiation levels in their body would set off the sensors. I don't know if we're talking Barium enemas or what here, but I'd say those sensors would mean a lot to me if I had a job like that. Not everyone is cut out for every job. I'm sure most people don't want to grow up to be in the US Marine Corps, but the ones that do, heck, they love the idea of being the front line. I'd take Nuke Worker over combat infantry any day.
If you think I'm making it up, do the research. The amount of Hollywood misinformation that the average person has is obscene. Here's one: you can't blow up a nuclear power plant and get an atomic explosion. What? Yeah, it's basically just glowing green rocks, water, pipes, dynamos, and a lot of concrete. You can blow up a natural gas or oil power plant, however.
It was cool enough that I explained it to my brother-in-law, who is neither a programmer, nor exposed to the series.
If you read up on the Gen-4 reactor designs, you'll find that greenhouse gasses, non-proliferation, safety, and more efficient designs (a LWR reactor is rather wasteful on the scale of designs) have been taken into consideration. Rest assured that the new reactors being built in Florida, and all across the USA are being built with the best, safest technologies available.
Oh, and the thousands of centrifuges? That's just bad journalism. I don't know how lasers are cheaper at all (someone needs to actually write a decent article here), but for what it is worth, Nuclear Energy in the United States is cheaper than coal, but just barely.
Check out www.nukeworker.com and ask your questions there. Those guys know their Uranium from their belly buttons!
That's quite a sig, number six.
I can see it now:
You're cornered, they have loads of BFG'sbig, frightful grammatics aimed at your sorry melon. What to do? What to do? Ooh, the temptation... You reach for it, just this once. Oh, of course! Should-would clauses are for sissies!
"I never end a sentence with a preposition, my mother told me not to," you shout. Suddenly, a piercing ray of in-game sunlight rips across the digital wasteland. Your opponents are mercilessly fried, no Fricasseed!
Days later, your account gets banned. You whine with the best of them, but to no avail. Your own incompetence incriminates you, as your seemingly victorious sentence is diagrammed, nay eviscerated before you.
It isn't as tough as steel or aluminium.
So, let's say you are flying a plane and the weather's bad. Lots of lightning blasts in the storms below you... Who wants a UDP packet loss when flying a large plane full of trusting souls? Blame it on the rain. Yeah.
If I were to tell the "ad-bot" what I was after, maybe it would show me an ad I actually care about. Oh wait, that's Google Ad Words. I figure I can wait five years, fellas, get on it!
Medtronic is a fine company with good, solid engineers. I think they have some of the brightest physiologists behind these inventions, and we should all count our blessings that they do. Consider the precision involved in this sort of device, and compare it to the "numb the effects" approach with Lithium salts (which belong in batteries, IMHO) and the dizzying array of mind-drugs. How many depressed or OCD people out there have said to themselves: "My brain is wired funny?" Sure, some blessed or highly motivated people manage to adapt, change, or merely conquer. Others take illegal narcotics, cut themselves, drink alcohol like it was water, and worse. Compare one surgery every 10-15 years to all that talk time with quacks, pills with unknown/debated side-effects, and senseless craft projects involving pipe cleaners and foam. Incidentally, Medtronic devices now have a polymer involved in drawing heat/ flexing to power/recharge their devices. It isn't the batteries, it is the stims and leads that need adjustment/replacement. If any of their battery tech guys ever decided to go big, they'd make a laughing stock out of those folks making the 100-mile range electric cars. The medical devices are implanted below the skin/fat layers (and not in the rib cage as I had originally thought), and the main problem is people fidget with them, like picking a scab. They are about the size of a drink coaster (bit smaller), and thickness of a pencil. well, the pacemakers are, anyway. The neuro products are about the size of 3 packs of (Wrigley) gum. Part of me wonders how someone with OCD could not panic about the device buried in their flesh, controlling their brain. I'd hope the effects were fairly immediate.
If I get an answer from their email service, I'll post it. My guess is that they can't even hold their claim of 1000 recharges. I thought that Li Ion's were good for around 200. Of course, they just say "lithium" but the likelihood that they would be using Lithium polymer and not bragging about it is rare. I sense some bovine feces amidst their materials. The sheer lack of information stinks of fluff.
taniwha, I am quite certain I reviewed several early diagrams (which naturally I cannot find now), and I am quite certain that originally, Transmeta was talking about clockless processing. The reference clearly indicates that I'm not imagining things, but it may have been nothing more than hype. It would appear as if Transmeta went a different direction, however. Maybe Transmeta knew about the work at Intel (which came first?) and drummed it up, or maybe the efforts at Transmeta were not enough, and that engineer left for Intel to try it somewhere else? We really need an inside opinion here. Anyone know someone at Transmeta who would care to comment?
What did I miss? I remember the hype, the early diagrams of how it was all supposed to weave through without the need for a clock. Would someone care to elaborate on the post-mortem of what was supposed to be the first clockless processor, 4 years ago?
If he likes combat, tell him to take up fencing. If he likes being a healer, hey, there's a whole medical career waiting for him.
It was one of my better writing efforts, I was mildly offended that the guy did not credit me just a little for my prosaic abilities. Oh well, the prospective employer went out of business shortly after not hiring me anyway. In retrospect, I wonder if my criticism of AEFA would have been even for this other business.
Things happen for a reason. I'm glad Slashdot came out when it did, or I would never get another shot at firing off a dig against AEFA and the hedonistic blatherskites that infest its tired walls.
where do we humans get the notion we can limit God's work to fit our own theories? I think that believers who think this have inherited a serious hubris problem. Further, the day-age theorist crowd (ones I liken to the US political Centrist types) is relying their entire belief system on a single mis-translation of a Hebrew word yom which appears in the Bible 359 times meaning the "sun-up,sun-down day," when in the context of an ordinal number. Furthermore, when God separated light from dark, this was the first day, same word, same meaning. Anything else suggests literary inconsistency, hardly a good way to start off a good book, much less any book purported to be the divinely inspired Word of God.
For the non-believers:
Try, really try, to sit down with the raw data in front of you from the NASA report, and temporarily shut out your awareness of the Big Bang theory, and see what other postulates that data can suggest. The best one I've heard thus far from this approach is that the speed of light is not a universal constant, it is a momentary constant, and the constant is currently slowing down. I don't really know what that will mean for our view on the world, but I think if it slowed down enough, a number of the stars in the sky could visibly disappear, because they would become quasars (I think that's the right word: stars moving faster than light?). Anyway, I believe scientists need to be open-minded and tolerant of other theories off the same data. Otherwise, they would be as guilty as the old Catholic church, which left no room for any science contrary to the church's current view of the world. See the trouble in which you find yourself when you close your mind?
It makes me wonder if that game was designed for multiple players with different skill levels: there is a tremendous measure of chance in the game. If you are dragging behind, you get better bonuses. I've seen my son go from dead-last to 1st place (and he beat me, the little punk) just from playing the "baby mario" character and getting that barking ball on a chain bonus.