Awww, man, that car is unbelievably sexy. Little bit out of my college student budget, though. And I don't suppose it would be proper to request a US version.
Though I can definately envision taking that out for a spin out in the high desert. No one and nothing for a hundred miles, let it fly....
/me returns to trying to save for a cheap jeep or something.... sigh.....
If every solar system was habitable, that could be taken as proof that God designed them all to be perfect.
If no other solar system in the universe was habitable, that could be taken as proof that God designed us uniquely as His own children.
This 'shoots down' jack. Short of finding an advanced alien society that built, seeded, and has been monitering this planet, there's nothing space exploration can do to rigorously prove the existence or lack thereof of God.
I am an engineer, now atheist but formerly Christian, with several scientific friends who are devout Christians with varying levels of secularism. We all thought that evolution was logical and strict creationism not so, but felt that it was not irrational to feel that God may have watched over and tweaked the universe using its natural laws, including evolution and the Big Bang, as tools.
I guess that belief (formulated long before the term) would probably fall under "Intelligent Design". Should it be taught in schools? Absolutely not. Can it form a rational way to reconcile religious beliefs with scientific realities? Yes.
*jumps up and down; jiggles*
*is past puberty, suffers from no genital trauma, and sings soprano*
*is wearing a, uh, 'gender-specific bandage'*
Believe what you wish. ^_^
Heh... you might as well ask why folks in the Hollywood Hills and other areas throughout the Valley build houses on stilts off the side of hills.
Every time I drive by those things (which is fairly often), I can't help but wonder at the neurons or lack thereof that choose "OMG look at that view" over their house not in a position to tumble down the mountain.
I like living in the Valley, but between the fires, the quakes, the West Nile virus, the smog (which has improved, but the surrounding hills are still shaped to trap it), the rain this year (when the 405/101 interchange is flooded, something's wrong), and the fashionistas with yapping mutts in handbags...
A'course, I've now spent two winters in PA. I must say, CA has at least *something* going for it.
I work at the techdesk at my college, and I gotta say, the vast majority of computers I see are fixed by running Spybot, Adaware, and SAV. There's a lot of silly people out there who'll click on anything that plays on their fears or desires.
Last year, though, we had an epidemic of emails claiming to be from the "Campusname.edu team", saying that there had been an infection of campus computers and that the user had to download the attached patch. Really well done, actually; it looked totally professional.
The infection also hit late at night, when even smart folks had minimal functional brain cells. Some of my relatively-savvy buddies managed to click on it. Needless to say, we had a *lot* of computers to fix the next day.
Heh.... see, the funny thing is, I'd be ten thousand times more interested in SW or something else with explosions, spaceships, gunfights, car chases, and/or other nifty things than "hitch", "love actually", or any of the other romantic comedies my *boy*friend's dragged me to.
I'm a comp sci engineer, and he's an english major, which explains this reversal. But this is somewhat redeemed by the fact that he's one of only a handful of guys to pick up a girlfriend at a d&d campaign.:-)
I'm sorry, I loved that song the first two thousand times I heard it, honest, being a star wars geek who's read most the books (I fell behind in the NJO, but I've covered all the others save the Solo and Calrissian trilogies) and played all the games and read most the comics and owns all versions of the original trilogy but...
My boyfriend* and his roommates are absobloodylutely obsessed with that goddamn song! If I have to endure walking with their damn caterwauling down city streets, in public, at the top of their friggin' lungs.../me pulls out disrupter rifle
The title's meant as a cliche, not as a reference to the Holy Grail itself. This is something really, really big for someone trying to piece together the ancient world. Sorta like if you said, "a quick way to factor friggin' huge numbers is the holy grail of public-key cryptanalysis".
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Owww....
Though I can definately envision taking that out for a spin out in the high desert. No one and nothing for a hundred miles, let it fly....
If every solar system was habitable, that could be taken as proof that God designed them all to be perfect.
If no other solar system in the universe was habitable, that could be taken as proof that God designed us uniquely as His own children.
This 'shoots down' jack. Short of finding an advanced alien society that built, seeded, and has been monitering this planet, there's nothing space exploration can do to rigorously prove the existence or lack thereof of God.I am an engineer, now atheist but formerly Christian, with several scientific friends who are devout Christians with varying levels of secularism. We all thought that evolution was logical and strict creationism not so, but felt that it was not irrational to feel that God may have watched over and tweaked the universe using its natural laws, including evolution and the Big Bang, as tools.
I guess that belief (formulated long before the term) would probably fall under "Intelligent Design". Should it be taught in schools? Absolutely not. Can it form a rational way to reconcile religious beliefs with scientific realities? Yes.
Yeah... it and Schaeffer's (sp?) are the shitty cheap beers the frats give out at large parties round here...
/prefers pretty much anything
Darth Rove? Rovius? Rover? Heh... Darth Rover....
Now, I've seen Star Wars more recently than I've walked down by the off-campus housing, but I still saw that first and foremost as Yuengling.
Good movie, and book.
4. One that females require on a regular basis, and it would be an odd male indeed who used one. ^_^
*jumps up and down; jiggles* *is past puberty, suffers from no genital trauma, and sings soprano* *is wearing a, uh, 'gender-specific bandage'* Believe what you wish. ^_^
Every time I drive by those things (which is fairly often), I can't help but wonder at the neurons or lack thereof that choose "OMG look at that view" over their house not in a position to tumble down the mountain.
I like living in the Valley, but between the fires, the quakes, the West Nile virus, the smog (which has improved, but the surrounding hills are still shaped to trap it), the rain this year (when the 405/101 interchange is flooded, something's wrong), and the fashionistas with yapping mutts in handbags...
A'course, I've now spent two winters in PA. I must say, CA has at least *something* going for it.
Last year, though, we had an epidemic of emails claiming to be from the "Campusname.edu team", saying that there had been an infection of campus computers and that the user had to download the attached patch. Really well done, actually; it looked totally professional.
The infection also hit late at night, when even smart folks had minimal functional brain cells. Some of my relatively-savvy buddies managed to click on it. Needless to say, we had a *lot* of computers to fix the next day.
Heh.... see, the funny thing is, I'd be ten thousand times more interested in SW or something else with explosions, spaceships, gunfights, car chases, and/or other nifty things than "hitch", "love actually", or any of the other romantic comedies my *boy*friend's dragged me to.
:-)
I'm a comp sci engineer, and he's an english major, which explains this reversal. But this is somewhat redeemed by the fact that he's one of only a handful of guys to pick up a girlfriend at a d&d campaign.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHH!!!!
/me pulls out disrupter rifle
I'm sorry, I loved that song the first two thousand times I heard it, honest, being a star wars geek who's read most the books (I fell behind in the NJO, but I've covered all the others save the Solo and Calrissian trilogies) and played all the games and read most the comics and owns all versions of the original trilogy but...
My boyfriend* and his roommates are absobloodylutely obsessed with that goddamn song! If I have to endure walking with their damn caterwauling down city streets, in public, at the top of their friggin' lungs...
*yeah, female too ^_^
The title's meant as a cliche, not as a reference to the Holy Grail itself. This is something really, really big for someone trying to piece together the ancient world. Sorta like if you said, "a quick way to factor friggin' huge numbers is the holy grail of public-key cryptanalysis".