ID was created when Creationism got booted from public schools. It is a mirror image of science. I too suspect there is more to evolution than we know, but then again so do numerous scientists who work on improving our understanding. ID is working backwards to science. They *already know* evolution never happened and that we were all designed by someone/something. Now who could do something like that? God maybe? There is no testable/falsifiable hypothesis here. Now if someone were to prove that some entity did a little genetic engineering on some apes a few hundred thousand years ago to see if they could be made a little smarter that would be one thing, but I can assure you that no ID proponent wants to prove we were created by aliens doing some field experiments on a backwater planet off the normal hyper-speed trade routes!
BS on BS on BS (BS cubed?)
ID is a good example of something that CANNOT be researched in the conventional sense. ID is a pseudo-scientific word for creationism. Since the hypothesis involves a "designer" with near-unlimited power, anything that doesn't fit the theory can be said to have been designed that way on purpose. This is the old "the Earth is 6,000 years old and God can put fossils in the ground that look older than that because he is God" arguement. Try to prove the Earth existed prior to 1999. I say God made us all in 1999 and everything before that is false memories created by God. Silly you say, but you can't disprove it either. ID/Creationism is full of arguements like "God changed the speed of light, that is why you can see stars more than 6,000 light years away".
As far as ESP goes, if I had to guess, it invovles quantum physics and is so far down in the noise that usefull information transfer is impossible 99.9999999% of the time. I also have a theory that the likelyhhood of any given person having true ESP power of any kind is inversely proportional to the amount of effort they expend trying to make money from it.
Many (all?) airplanes with NiCad batteries have a battery temperature meter in the cockpit. I think they are obsolete now, since AGM batteries are much safer.
I have 3 MP3 players. My iPod is by FAR the least reliable and also sounds the worst. The only reason I have it is it interfaces with the BMW Ibus control system and no other ones do that I know of.
This is actually false. Certain industries attract a series of dreamers who burn up their cash and exit, only to be replaced by another. Prices are always too low for long-term survival. Good for the buyer though!
What you need to do is find what is selling on EBay for *higher* than rational prices, not lower. Example: Used ham radio gear, sometimes well used, going for MORE than new gear. Or there is the ever popular Mother-Mary-on-a-piece-of-burnt-toast.
WTF is wrong with you people?!?
Dry ice or liquid nitrogen will blow up coke bottles all day long WITHOUT SRAYING CORROSIVE CHEMICALS EVERYWHERE!
In other news, I heard that filling balloons with nitroglycerine and juggling them is fun too.
USA law makes no distinction between your yard, a field, or a forest. If you own it, you can can keep people off of it. Frequently when exploring a wooded area you will have no idea who owns it. It is not illegal to be on the land if the owner has not put up NO TRESSPASSING signs, but if he finds you and asks you to leave then you have to. Land owners also frequently put up NO HUNTING signs if they want to save their game animals for themselves or just don't like hunters on their property.
I *COULD* kick people out of my yard if I felt like it. That is the very definition of private property. The Finnish way of life seems to imply that you don't have any real property rights as I understand them. I would not like that. In the USA we do have, AFAIK, the English Common Law on easements. If people have been walking along a path for many years (decades?) and you don't stop them it becomes an easment and you have to let them keep doing it. I had an issue like that once where part of my driveway, built in 1920, was on the corner of another lot and they suddenly decided after all these years to block it and build a fence. They were a few years too late:)
I was wondering the same thing. I used to own about 3 acres of mainly forest land I had to kick kids out of every so often that were riding 3-wheelers or building campfires. If I bought it, and I pay taxes on it, you all can stay the fsk off of it unless invited.
WTF is it with people here anyway?
There are HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of left wing blogs that are always going on about Bush being Satan V1.2 or something. How many sites like that exist in China? Can you even imagine the local State U. hiring students to purge the internet of anti-government postings?
Trolling = fishing by dragging one or more baits with the boat moving slow ahead.
Trawling = fishing by dragging a net.
Trolling is also a slang for trying to get a job/date/whatever doing something passive like posting a resume and seeing if anyone bites.
A computer security conference in 1956 would have been mainly about gaurding the building the thing was sitting in!
Actually, you STILL need physical security, so maybe that's not so dumb....
It was real fun flying a fleet of Beachcraft airplanes when half of them had landing gear on the left, flaps on the right and the other half were opposite. Flaps up afer landing = expensive grinding noise = oh shit this is the backwards one:(
Analog copies get worse every time and need to be distributed physically.
Back in the "day", we would all pool our money to get the records we wanted and make tapes to share. The RIAA weren't really losing money becuase we only had so much to spend on music anyway. Now if I can send a perfect copy to the whole world for no money..............
The idea that the individual is insignificant?
The idea that order and obedience are the most important virtues?
The idea that forced abortions are OK?
The idea that slave labor is OK?
I can't wait:(
Dude, you REALLY need to go visit West Virginia and see "mountain top removal mining" and then get back to us. Coal has to win the all time NOT GREEN energy source award. FYI, coal burning plants release more uranium into the environment than any nuke plant that isn't designed by Russians and operated by retards.
I was wondering about the Jewish doctor thing myself. Why would Jews specialize in this any more than any other doctors? And why would someone with knowledge of such a murderous conspiracy be willing to tell random underlings about it? Sounds like an urban legend to me. Not to say if you had enough money you couldn't eventually find someone willing to do something like this. None of the Jewish doctors I know have tried to steal my organs, but some lawyers got me for a kidney, one eye, one gonad, and 10 feet of intestine!
FYI, A WW I airplane "rotary" engine was a radial engine with the crank fixed to the airplane and the whole fsking engine rotated! The gyroscopic effects made for "interesting" flying at best. This concept died a deserved death quickly. Mazda rotary engines are in some modern aircraft, but cooling issues make them a little tough to adapt.
No way is alcohol going to get the same MPG. Gasoline burns at 14.7:1 and alcohol burns at 7:1 or so. For a given power output you need TWICE the alcohol. Other than that it is a good fuel. It's octane rating is quite high at 106. This is why the fastest drag racers use alcohol instead of gasoline.
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ID was created when Creationism got booted from public schools. It is a mirror image of science. I too suspect there is more to evolution than we know, but then again so do numerous scientists who work on improving our understanding. ID is working backwards to science. They *already know* evolution never happened and that we were all designed by someone/something. Now who could do something like that? God maybe? There is no testable/falsifiable hypothesis here. Now if someone were to prove that some entity did a little genetic engineering on some apes a few hundred thousand years ago to see if they could be made a little smarter that would be one thing, but I can assure you that no ID proponent wants to prove we were created by aliens doing some field experiments on a backwater planet off the normal hyper-speed trade routes!
The Anarcho-Capitalist utopia is a myth. In reality you get Somalia.
BS on BS on BS (BS cubed?) ID is a good example of something that CANNOT be researched in the conventional sense. ID is a pseudo-scientific word for creationism. Since the hypothesis involves a "designer" with near-unlimited power, anything that doesn't fit the theory can be said to have been designed that way on purpose. This is the old "the Earth is 6,000 years old and God can put fossils in the ground that look older than that because he is God" arguement. Try to prove the Earth existed prior to 1999. I say God made us all in 1999 and everything before that is false memories created by God. Silly you say, but you can't disprove it either. ID/Creationism is full of arguements like "God changed the speed of light, that is why you can see stars more than 6,000 light years away". As far as ESP goes, if I had to guess, it invovles quantum physics and is so far down in the noise that usefull information transfer is impossible 99.9999999% of the time. I also have a theory that the likelyhhood of any given person having true ESP power of any kind is inversely proportional to the amount of effort they expend trying to make money from it.
That makes no sense at all. How about this: When you see the electron spin the other way then it means happy hour is at the strip club in one hour.
Many (all?) airplanes with NiCad batteries have a battery temperature meter in the cockpit. I think they are obsolete now, since AGM batteries are much safer.
I have 3 MP3 players. My iPod is by FAR the least reliable and also sounds the worst. The only reason I have it is it interfaces with the BMW Ibus control system and no other ones do that I know of.
This is actually false. Certain industries attract a series of dreamers who burn up their cash and exit, only to be replaced by another. Prices are always too low for long-term survival. Good for the buyer though! What you need to do is find what is selling on EBay for *higher* than rational prices, not lower. Example: Used ham radio gear, sometimes well used, going for MORE than new gear. Or there is the ever popular Mother-Mary-on-a-piece-of-burnt-toast.
Aren't there 1,000 ways around Itunes restrictionsa right now???
WTF is wrong with you people?!? Dry ice or liquid nitrogen will blow up coke bottles all day long WITHOUT SRAYING CORROSIVE CHEMICALS EVERYWHERE! In other news, I heard that filling balloons with nitroglycerine and juggling them is fun too.
USA law makes no distinction between your yard, a field, or a forest. If you own it, you can can keep people off of it. Frequently when exploring a wooded area you will have no idea who owns it. It is not illegal to be on the land if the owner has not put up NO TRESSPASSING signs, but if he finds you and asks you to leave then you have to. Land owners also frequently put up NO HUNTING signs if they want to save their game animals for themselves or just don't like hunters on their property.
I *COULD* kick people out of my yard if I felt like it. That is the very definition of private property. The Finnish way of life seems to imply that you don't have any real property rights as I understand them. I would not like that. In the USA we do have, AFAIK, the English Common Law on easements. If people have been walking along a path for many years (decades?) and you don't stop them it becomes an easment and you have to let them keep doing it. I had an issue like that once where part of my driveway, built in 1920, was on the corner of another lot and they suddenly decided after all these years to block it and build a fence. They were a few years too late :)
I was wondering the same thing. I used to own about 3 acres of mainly forest land I had to kick kids out of every so often that were riding 3-wheelers or building campfires. If I bought it, and I pay taxes on it, you all can stay the fsk off of it unless invited.
I just read the poorly contructed levy system is th emost expensive engineering failure in history.
WTF is it with people here anyway? There are HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of left wing blogs that are always going on about Bush being Satan V1.2 or something. How many sites like that exist in China? Can you even imagine the local State U. hiring students to purge the internet of anti-government postings?
Trolling = fishing by dragging one or more baits with the boat moving slow ahead. Trawling = fishing by dragging a net. Trolling is also a slang for trying to get a job/date/whatever doing something passive like posting a resume and seeing if anyone bites.
A computer security conference in 1956 would have been mainly about gaurding the building the thing was sitting in! Actually, you STILL need physical security, so maybe that's not so dumb....
It was real fun flying a fleet of Beachcraft airplanes when half of them had landing gear on the left, flaps on the right and the other half were opposite. Flaps up afer landing = expensive grinding noise = oh shit this is the backwards one :(
Analog copies get worse every time and need to be distributed physically. Back in the "day", we would all pool our money to get the records we wanted and make tapes to share. The RIAA weren't really losing money becuase we only had so much to spend on music anyway. Now if I can send a perfect copy to the whole world for no money..............
The idea that the individual is insignificant? The idea that order and obedience are the most important virtues? The idea that forced abortions are OK? The idea that slave labor is OK? I can't wait :(
Dude, you REALLY need to go visit West Virginia and see "mountain top removal mining" and then get back to us. Coal has to win the all time NOT GREEN energy source award. FYI, coal burning plants release more uranium into the environment than any nuke plant that isn't designed by Russians and operated by retards.
I was wondering about the Jewish doctor thing myself. Why would Jews specialize in this any more than any other doctors? And why would someone with knowledge of such a murderous conspiracy be willing to tell random underlings about it? Sounds like an urban legend to me. Not to say if you had enough money you couldn't eventually find someone willing to do something like this. None of the Jewish doctors I know have tried to steal my organs, but some lawyers got me for a kidney, one eye, one gonad, and 10 feet of intestine!
FYI, A WW I airplane "rotary" engine was a radial engine with the crank fixed to the airplane and the whole fsking engine rotated! The gyroscopic effects made for "interesting" flying at best. This concept died a deserved death quickly. Mazda rotary engines are in some modern aircraft, but cooling issues make them a little tough to adapt.
No way is alcohol going to get the same MPG. Gasoline burns at 14.7:1 and alcohol burns at 7:1 or so. For a given power output you need TWICE the alcohol. Other than that it is a good fuel. It's octane rating is quite high at 106. This is why the fastest drag racers use alcohol instead of gasoline.
OK, can we assume that McCain-Fiengold violations run the risk of death or slavery in a labor camp?
After watching how the Muslims react to a CARTOON, I think xenophobia is about as much of a phobia as "cyanidephobia".