Q. Do you know why American beer is like making love in a canoe? A. It's fucking close to water.
Anyways, I don't understand how Americans can drink that watered down [crap*] like Budweiser or Coors after tasting "real" beer like the Germans or Ale that the Bristish make...
* No offense intended if you actually _like_ that stuff...
> If he's 61 then what the hell is he doing in Afghanistan? If he isn't a terrorist in training, scoring heroin, or actively engaged in killing people because they wear rags on their heads and cut the noses off little girls, then he has no business being there.
Right, because anyone over this "magic age" of 61 doesn't deserve the right to serve their country over seas...
> So, yeah, dude, come home and get a life.
And all those years of experience you have of being older than him justifies that your opinion of how he should live his life over his own personal preference is what again?
Quite being a dick. At least he had the balls to say how to make things better.
> I recognize that I am not assailing their arguments because they are not worth my time Translation: I'm too lazy to read the book or look up any of the papers she references from credited scientists...
> David Morrison, senior scientist at NASA's Lunar Science Institute
> "Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but of they cannot match the ability we have today to keep track of time, or the precision of the calendars currently in use."
The Mayan Calender (365.2420 days) is more accurate then the Gregorian Calendar (365.2425 days) compared to the solar tropical year of 365.2422 days.
Apparently he has never read "Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year"
> "There are many objectives of government, but they do not include keeping the population at ease."
Riiiiiight, so "National Security", and the Declaration of Independence's "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." is just a a myth...
Methings David should stick to just Astrobiology instead of exposing his ignorance...
> The fundamental assumption is that there is some kind of mystical brain/mind dualism. > Mind is nothing more than categorized recollected experience extrapolated to understand unfolding or future/potential events.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your total ignorance. Materialism has long been disproved / shown to be incomplete. Brain != Mind.
Are you that blissfully unaware of what the founder of the quantum theory, Max Plank, said back in 1931 ??
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."
Finally, as a mystic, you are completely blind to the levels of consciousness. To use a computer analogy, the brain is the hardware, the mind the software, the spirit the electricity.
> I wish Firefox would stop trying to compete in Javascript and go back to one of the biggest reasons they started the project: speed of the browser itself.
It was/is more then that -- FF was about giving power back to the user. For example, FF 3.6.4 Windows build
- removes the native ability to resize the bookmark dialog - so now I have to use a 3rd party plugin??
- in Tools, Page Info, Media, you used to be able to use the arrow keys to scroll down the list of assets on the web page (so you could find that favorite pic/swf etc), now it switches the dialog tabs ??
- the devs constantly ignored users complaining about the memory usage, even when tabs were closed, for 3 versions. At least memory usage seems to be _finaly_ much saner.
FF is in the process of jumping the shark with personas... it's like 2 steps forward, 1.5 steps back.
> Anyone with any common sense is agnostic(be it agnostic theist or agnostic atheist). Both sides are equally clueless.
As a mystic/gnostic, correct, both the theists and atheists are equally ignorant of higher reality. At least the agnostic is honest to admit that he doesn't know. Unfortunately, fundamental agnostics are the worst kind of skeudo skeptics, such as (Richard) Dawkins, (James) Randi, etc. http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Contents.htm
> A god is just as likely as unlikely and we arent even close to having a clue either way. Only an ignorant angostic would support that position. There is a BIG difference between information, knoweldge, gnosis, and proof, and truth.
It is not so much, that a/theism and agnostic are wrong, only incomplete.
> modded flamebait only adds to the irony. Besides, these kinds of inane moderations tend to be corrected fairly quickly. True, just pointing it out so it gets rectified sooner.
> I get harassed for eating meat by vegans 50 times for every one time I get harassed by a Christian.
The way to shut the Vegans up is to ask "Say, could you tell me what happens if a human baby isn't breastfed or doesn't have milk in the first few months?"
Any time you take any ideology to its logical conclusion, you end up with fanaticism. Pity that the vocal Vegans are too blind to see this...
The most important people in society are paid peanutes, while the most useless, who produce nothing of lasting value, the entertainers, are severly overpaid.
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> but at the beginning what was the cause
Your fallacy is _assuming_ there was a beginning.
A circle has neither a beginning or end. It just is.
That reminds me of that old Monty Python Joke...
Q. Do you know why American beer is like making love in a canoe?
A. It's fucking close to water.
Anyways, I don't understand how Americans can drink that watered down [crap*] like Budweiser or Coors after tasting "real" beer like the Germans or Ale that the Bristish make...
* No offense intended if you actually _like_ that stuff...
> This week it's Michael Mann.
Guess there is more then one Burning Man ... :-)
> If he's 61 then what the hell is he doing in Afghanistan? If he isn't a terrorist in training, scoring heroin, or actively engaged in killing people because they wear rags on their heads and cut the noses off little girls, then he has no business being there.
Right, because anyone over this "magic age" of 61 doesn't deserve the right to serve their country over seas...
> So, yeah, dude, come home and get a life.
And all those years of experience you have of being older than him justifies that your opinion of how he should live his life over his own personal preference is what again?
Quite being a dick. At least he had the balls to say how to make things better.
Not that I doubt you, but have any references to verify that claim please?
> I recognize that I am not assailing their arguments because they are not worth my time ...
Translation: I'm too lazy to read the book or look up any of the papers she references from credited scientists
> I don't deny there are levels of consciousness, they're just all physical.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor has first experience that disagrees with that.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
> I don't deny there are levels of consciousness, they're just all physical. Just as the levels in a computer are all physical.
Show me this physical thing called "Time" that all computers use ...
> actually a pretty strong fiber for making cloth
You mean like Paper, Fabric, Rope.? Wikipedia... go figure. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
Ironic how the tides have turned...
"Hemp for Victory" from the US Department of Argiculture, 1942
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-117344919147932597#
> The issue with the lemonade stand, as I recall, was not tax issues but rather the lack of a temporary vendor's license from the health department.
Children under 13 years can NOT legally enter into contracts, so the health department suit is without merit.
> Hamlet the work of a vulgar modern playwrite..."
I didn't know Francis Bacon was vulgar... ;-)
> David Morrison, senior scientist at NASA's Lunar Science Institute
> "Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but of they cannot match the ability we have today to keep track of time, or the precision of the calendars currently in use."
The Mayan Calender (365.2420 days) is more accurate then the Gregorian Calendar (365.2425 days) compared to the solar tropical year of 365.2422 days.
Apparently he has never read "Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year"
> "There are many objectives of government, but they do not include keeping the population at ease."
Riiiiiight, so "National Security", and the Declaration of Independence's "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." is just a a myth...
Methings David should stick to just Astrobiology instead of exposing his ignorance...
> The fundamental assumption is that there is some kind of mystical brain/mind dualism.
> Mind is nothing more than categorized recollected experience extrapolated to understand unfolding or future/potential events.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your total ignorance. Materialism has long been disproved / shown to be incomplete. Brain != Mind.
For starters I would recommend:
- Peter Russell, The Primacy of Consciousness
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7799171063626430789#
- Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment
http://www.amazon.com/Intention-Experiment-Using-Thoughts-Change/dp/0743276965/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2
Are you that blissfully unaware of what the founder of the quantum theory, Max Plank, said back in 1931 ??
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."
Finally, as a mystic, you are completely blind to the levels of consciousness. To use a computer analogy, the brain is the hardware, the mind the software, the spirit the electricity.
> if there were a decent, free (as in beer) disassembler out there.
Define decent? :-) You mean interactive?
Hiew or something here doesn't fit the bill ?
http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/disassemblers.shtml
(Granted, hiew isn't open-source, and technically a hex editor, but it is good.)
Why not clone IDA Pro and OllyDbg ?
> I wish Firefox would stop trying to compete in Javascript and go back to one of the biggest reasons they started the project: speed of the browser itself.
It was/is more then that -- FF was about giving power back to the user. For example, FF 3.6.4 Windows build
- removes the native ability to resize the bookmark dialog - so now I have to use a 3rd party plugin??
- in Tools, Page Info, Media, you used to be able to use the arrow keys to scroll down the list of assets on the web page (so you could find that favorite pic/swf etc), now it switches the dialog tabs ??
- the devs constantly ignored users complaining about the memory usage, even when tabs were closed, for 3 versions. At least memory usage seems to be _finaly_ much saner.
FF is in the process of jumping the shark with personas... it's like 2 steps forward, 1.5 steps back.
> Anyone with any common sense is agnostic(be it agnostic theist or agnostic atheist). Both sides are equally clueless.
As a mystic/gnostic, correct, both the theists and atheists are equally ignorant of higher reality. At least the agnostic is honest to admit that he doesn't know. Unfortunately, fundamental agnostics are the worst kind of skeudo skeptics, such as (Richard) Dawkins, (James) Randi, etc. http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Contents.htm
> A god is just as likely as unlikely and we arent even close to having a clue either way.
Only an ignorant angostic would support that position. There is a BIG difference between information, knoweldge, gnosis, and proof, and truth.
It is not so much, that a/theism and agnostic are wrong, only incomplete.
Should of read: < sarcasm > tag
> modded flamebait only adds to the irony. Besides, these kinds of inane moderations tend to be corrected fairly quickly.
True, just pointing it out so it gets rectified sooner.
You forgot the tag for the idiot moderators.
Haha!
Oblg.: http://xkcd.com/386/
> Have you actually met any vegans?
Yup, lived with a few, and attended a few rallies. Some are _really_ nice people. Some are bat-shit insane. Any ideology can become a religion...
> Vegans have precisely zero problems with breastfeeding, for reasons that should be breathtakingly obvious. Except to a complete moron.
And these parents...
http://www.google.com/search?q=vegan+parents+kill+baby
You mean like this?
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/2008/06/dan-rather-blasts-corporate-owned-news/
or
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o25T0BspJ7c
> I get harassed for eating meat by vegans 50 times for every one time I get harassed by a Christian.
The way to shut the Vegans up is to ask "Say, could you tell me what happens if a human baby isn't breastfed or doesn't have milk in the first few months?"
Any time you take any ideology to its logical conclusion, you end up with fanaticism. Pity that the vocal Vegans are too blind to see this...
Sadly, all too true.
The most important people in society are paid peanutes, while the most useless, who produce nothing of lasting value, the entertainers, are severly overpaid.
See: The Underground History of American Education, for the indoctriniation, ^H^H^H, education of America.
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
> And this is an American web site! Zing!
Typical American ignorance to assume all posters/readers are American.
Gee, aren't we the optimist.
> I also suspect this is why we've never been visited by aliens. They can't escape their own solar system due to lack of energy.
Never A Straight Answer begs to differ with their own photage. Evidence: The Case For NASA UFO's.
Part 1
http://www.guba.com/watch/3000113495/The-Case-For-NASA-UFOs-PART-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72P5OtrHNyk
Part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8524267568796529301
> who can not spell judgment correctly.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/judgement.html
Judgement is British English.
Judgment is American English.