Seriously, no need for a cell phone ban. Flying internationally as often as I do, I have developed a sure fire cure for screaming kids, bitter flight attendants that should have retired in 1985, rude passengers and, if need be, cell phone addicts. I call it the better living through chemistry method.
Establish yourself as a force to be reckoned with by identifying and staring down any suspected loud miscreants when boarding ("There's a crazy guy in 12C!".)
Avail yourself of the drink cart. ("Not only is he crazy but he's drinking!")
Take one legally obtained, by prescription 10mg Ambien for flights of more than 8 hours (half a tab if less).
Avail yourself of the drink cart yet again. ("The crazy guy's getting drunk!")
Don noise cancelling headset connected to fully charged iPod playing your favorite tunes.
Check eyelids for light leaks for 3 minutes.
Enjoy complete unconsciousness and serendipitous dreams.
Be awakened and chastised for using an electronic device below 10000 feet by one of the aforementioned bitter flight attendants as the aircraft descends on approach to your destination!
I usually make a big pot of lean chili on the weekends and this weekend will be no exception. We'll expect a full report on the physics of an expanding gas on Monday then...http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Physics/gas.html
What makes you believe the Creator is unknowable? The fact that you have chosen not to know? If so, your logic is circular and fatally flawed. Many would argue convincingly that He is in fact very knowable if you only wish it.
Worse yet, New Orleans is being rebuilt...still below sea level, by the ocean, on the Gulf and will still be protected by man-made levees that have failed in the past. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Fortunately I have a solution, use the Sam Kinnison method to rebuild New Orleans. Send them U-Hauls and move everyone upriver to a point that will allow rebuilding above sea level. Hello! McFly!
Actually the Inspiron 1200 was affected by a recall in late 2004 for the power supplies overheating. I know because I had one and Dell replaced it as part of the recall program.
So while the people in a state like Kansas focus all their attention on debating whether or not evolution should be taught in science classes, the people in states like Maine, Vermont, and Washington are defending their freedoms.
Hey wait a minute comrade! I live in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Washington and I can tell you very few of our citizens west of the Cascade mountains give two cents about states rights. It is only the brave redneck ranchers east of the mountains and Neanderthal loggers in the southwest part of the state that do. Most of the population lives around the Puget sound area which is decidedly for big government...local, state and federal...and its forced insertion into our lives.
Besides, I for one admire the bravery of my Kansan brothers is pointing out that the emperor has no clothes. You may now flame me and mod me down...
It will allow the US Navy to miss targets from much further away. Only on Slashdot would this be moderated as funny.
Having witnessed 16 inch conventional naval gunfire I can assure you that most missions are "fire for effect" on the first volley and require very little or no adjustment on the second volley in the event it is even necessary at all. If my trigonometry is correct the gun's azimuth must be adjusted to less than plus or minus.1 degree to achieve this kind of accuracy at 15 nautical miles...not bad from the pitching deck of a ship under way.
Unfortunately Novell has chosen to align itself with the Dark Lord of Redmond but the OpenSuSE 10.2 DVD is the only distro I have tried that recognized, initialized and made available all the hardware in my Dell Latitude D610. It simply worked right out of the box.
...even if you, as an individual, boycott Vista, it won't matter. Next time you go to buy a new PC, XP won't be a choice, HP/Dell/etc. will only give you the option for Vista, preinstalled.
Not exactly...as a savvy/. reader you most likely have the skills needed to buld your own box and install the OS of your choice. Alternatively you could also choose not to buy from the companies selling PC's with Vista preinstalled and instead opt for a vanilla PC from any number of online storefronts or a local PC shop. The local option has the added advantage of pumping money into your local economy instead of pouring it into the coffers of large corporations.
What this really means is that there will be more little old Anglo ladies pulled over for body cavity searches during security screening. It stands to reason that statistically the largest "group" of special customers before should see the largest increase under the quota system.
Let me repeat one more time -- science does not claim to know the truth, or even to be capable of knowing the truth.
So, let me get this straight...the truth is that there is no truth? Seems like a circular self defeating argument. If there is no truth then we can't even know if that statement is true!
The universe itself is the only purveyor and verifier of truth.
Hmmmm...wait a minute! There is no truth except that there is no truth, right?
That's the whole point of science -- to query the universe about its own truths. We come up with theories that try to describe truths about the universe, but the physical universe itself is what decides which theories we keep and which theories we throw away.
Ok, now I'm really confused about this thing called truth. How can the universe tell us a truth when there is no truth? This is also beginning to sound like a pantheistic argument which, by the way, is not science but a worldview. Are you saying that the entity known as the universe tells us what the truth really is but we can never know the truth because the truth is that there is no truth ? Is that really the truth?
I don't think you have really considered what you wrote because if you had you would see the gaping holes in the typical Darwinist mumbo jumbo style logic you have chosen. You claim to know what science really is yet you resort to confusing the issue with poor logic and pseudo-science. Wouldn't you agree that it is far more logical to believe that truth is real and it can be known and let your logic flow from that point to wherever the real evidence takes you? Everything you have written is based on a false premise of what truth is and thus the entire argument collapses under its own weight.
To anyone who argues for macro evolution based only on what you see in the media or you read on slashdot--- you should educate yourselves by reading some books on ID to get both sides of the story. Here are a couple of good ones:
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman Geisler and Frank Turk
In Six Days : Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation by John F Ashton, PhD
The latter is a collection of 50 essays from 50 different scientists with at least one PhD from many different fields of science and should be required reading and a topic of discussion in every middle school science class. The former addresses not only ID but why Christianity is true based on logic and impartial consideration of the evidence. Go ahead read them, what have you got to lose?
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Ah, /. Pointing out flawed logic in a forum that prides itself on logical thought is considered flamebait.
What makes you believe the Creator is unknowable? The fact that you have chosen not to know? If so, your logic is circular and fatally flawed. Many would argue convincingly that He is in fact very knowable if you only wish it.
Worse yet, New Orleans is being rebuilt...still below sea level, by the ocean, on the Gulf and will still be protected by man-made levees that have failed in the past. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Fortunately I have a solution, use the Sam Kinnison method to rebuild New Orleans. Send them U-Hauls and move everyone upriver to a point that will allow rebuilding above sea level. Hello! McFly!
Baseball is a grand game full of subtleties that requires great skill to play well. Now soccer...there's a boring game.
Oops, wait! First we registered all of our guns, then they government took them all away...damn!
Actually the Inspiron 1200 was affected by a recall in late 2004 for the power supplies overheating. I know because I had one and Dell replaced it as part of the recall program.
So while the people in a state like Kansas focus all their attention on debating whether or not evolution should be taught in science classes, the people in states like Maine, Vermont, and Washington are defending their freedoms.
Hey wait a minute comrade! I live in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Washington and I can tell you very few of our citizens west of the Cascade mountains give two cents about states rights. It is only the brave redneck ranchers east of the mountains and Neanderthal loggers in the southwest part of the state that do. Most of the population lives around the Puget sound area which is decidedly for big government...local, state and federal...and its forced insertion into our lives.
Besides, I for one admire the bravery of my Kansan brothers is pointing out that the emperor has no clothes. You may now flame me and mod me down...
...without the mess.
Unfortunately Novell has chosen to align itself with the Dark Lord of Redmond but the OpenSuSE 10.2 DVD is the only distro I have tried that recognized, initialized and made available all the hardware in my Dell Latitude D610. It simply worked right out of the box.
...but the Emperor has no clothes!
Ummmm...it's sticking out of the top. =)
It wasn't machines that led to their demise...it was girlified metrosexual environmentalists.
What this really means is that there will be more little old Anglo ladies pulled over for body cavity searches during security screening. It stands to reason that statistically the largest "group" of special customers before should see the largest increase under the quota system.
I don't think you have really considered what you wrote because if you had you would see the gaping holes in the typical Darwinist mumbo jumbo style logic you have chosen. You claim to know what science really is yet you resort to confusing the issue with poor logic and pseudo-science. Wouldn't you agree that it is far more logical to believe that truth is real and it can be known and let your logic flow from that point to wherever the real evidence takes you? Everything you have written is based on a false premise of what truth is and thus the entire argument collapses under its own weight.
To anyone who argues for macro evolution based only on what you see in the media or you read on slashdot--- you should educate yourselves by reading some books on ID to get both sides of the story. Here are a couple of good ones:
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman Geisler and Frank Turk
In Six Days : Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation by John F Ashton, PhD
The latter is a collection of 50 essays from 50 different scientists with at least one PhD from many different fields of science and should be required reading and a topic of discussion in every middle school science class. The former addresses not only ID but why Christianity is true based on logic and impartial consideration of the evidence. Go ahead read them, what have you got to lose?