Ya idiots have excellent knee jerk reactions. If it were not for tired old jokes the stupid would have no sense of humor at all.
One of my favorite tag lines is the quote of a French commander during WW1
"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent! I shall attack"
Any here that are forced to use the NMCI (Navy/Marine Corps Intranet) network know that reading any email at all can be a challenge.
A NMCI laptop takes over 10 minutes to boot and load the dozens of background processes and roving preferences. Once booted the machine is near useless performance wise.
Most, including middle management, refer to NMCI as No More Computing In-house.
In order to get idea just how bad things are, upper management conducted "customer satisfaction surveys". Even though the NMCI program office controlled the content, distribution, and analysis of the survey the results indicated overwhelming dissatisfaction. The NMCI program office has declined to release the raw data from the survey, instead issuing a release about the results. Rear Admiral J. B. Godwin III said releasing the results would challenge the "integrity of our data." Hmmm....
Most Navy labs that are under the burden of the NMCI contract maintain two networks, the legacy and the NMCI - the one to get work done on an the other to read email. This leads to double the costs and double the vulnerability exposure, and halves the resources to concentrate on security and usability.
Worst I hear that the Navy just extended the contract to 2010. Your tax dollars at work.
Maybe instead of "repairing various damaged tissues" you could just uhmmm... enhance various undeveloped tissues you could solve your girlfriend problem.
but can one actually argue that human kind is much better off because of science?... It was not until about 200 years ago that science has really taken hold.
Yes. Silly question.
Two centuries ago the life expectancy was 30 years or less. People died painful deaths for things that can be cured with a pill today. No pain killers, no antibiotics, no concept of what or how diseases is spread. Crude and painful dental services, no vision care, infant mortality was high.
Indoor toilets and hot showers (believe me I grew up without these amenities in northern Canada and their contribution to your standard of living is underrated), warm beds, adequate supply of food and varied diets.
Two centuries ago the averaged work week was 72 hours for the average commoner.
I don't think you have thought this thru or have ever lived in substandard conditions for any length of time.
Maybe, just maybe, we could use a little bit more wisdom and a lot less knowledge.
More wisdom is always a good thing i agree with you there.
(BTW the scriptures warned about this time)
No they didn't. That is fanciful thinking, in every age there were those that believed that (including Paul) and they are where wrong.
"Long before scientists stated (and proved) that the heavens are expanding, the Bible has stated this fact (Job 9:8, Isaiah 40:22, 42:5, as well as many others)."
Let's examine this a little further.
Here are are quoted scripture....
Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the crests of the sea.
Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:5 This is what God the LORD says--
he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it,
who gives breath to its people,
and life to those who walk on it:
If you spent any time researching this you would understand the Ancient view of the universe was very limited and these passage only underscore this point. You are clinging to the word "stretch". You are assuming that this means stretching like a rubber, but it means stretch like spreading out a tent.
The translation conveys the meaning of a canopy or tent (a tent or a canopy indeed have to be stretched to serve their purpose). This fits the simple fact that those writers who compiled the biblical story thousands of years ago had no knowledge of the atmosphere's structure and thus described what they seemed to see while looking up at the apparent blue cupola above their heads. They believed the stars were fixed on this "tent". They believed that there was a water firmament (ie the water is blue the sky is blue).
They also believed the earth to be flat. Here are a few more scriptures showing amazing insight...
1 Chronicles 16:30: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable."
Psalm 93:1: "Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm..."
Psalm 96:10: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable..."
Psalm 104:5: "Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken."
Isaiah 45:18: "...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast..."
Psalm 24:2, for example, it was said that "the world and all that is in it belong to the Lord; the earth and all who live on it are his. He built it on the deep waters beneath the earth and laid its foundations in the ocean depths,"
Furthermore, in all the years not one single scientific discovery has ever came about by a direct or inspired reading of the bible. Not one.
I could go on and on about many pieces of evidence, however this evidence is not really hidden. One can find references to most of it online. Yes, I fully expect that this post will be modded down and labelled as flaim bait (typical). However I post such information so that people will get to see a broader view and diverse opinions.
No just misinformed and you should work on enlarging your view.
Ha I went into my local Best Buy to buy a 9-pin serial cable. The clerk told me sorry they don't make those cables anymore and tried to sell me a USB cable instead.... Off to Radio Shack.
Were I work we are in the processing of moving from Sun to.... Well I push for Redhat Linux while others favor Windows. It goes one way or the other. Either Redhat will get our dollars or Windows. I don't see us increasing our IT budget and buying more of both. In at least this little microcosm it is a zero-sum game.
Imagine a world where MS and Linux worked even 25% together than they do now
Microsoft can imagine that and they know it would slash their margins. To Microsoft a Linux gain is a Microsoft loss - it is a zero sum game.
I recently had several sites that I host find their way into Google hell. I wrote a small 15 line Perl script (using File::Find) to hunt thru thousands of pages and return all url patterns.
Filtered out local domains and found easily found the problem with a run away forum that spammer zeroed in. Looks like they were also using a Perl script:{
"There is no information corroborating the threat and that the alert was issued as a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution"
How the hell does this make the news. Oh my the cyber-islamicfacist-terrorists are coming for us.
"Radical muslim groups" are constantly making the threats. If they can do, they do, if they can't they make threats to inflate their balls and those stupid enough to follow them.
In order for Carbin 14 dating system to be accurate, there hase to be NO CHANGE in the ratio of carbon 14 to carbon 12 in the atmosphere over the years for which the system is claimed to be accurate.
What is Carbin 14 is that sort of like the Mini-14?
Seriously, modern Carbon-14 dating does not assume there is NO CHANGE in the atmosphere. Carbon-14 dating is calibrated to known events such as ice cores, wood artifacts and growth rings, ocean sediment, cave deposits, etc. Uncalibrated Carbon-14 dates are referred to as radiocarbon years.
Additionally Carbon-14 dates only are reliable in the tens of thousands of years. A common mistake by YECers.
NO PLACE THAT STATES THAT THE EARTH IS ONLY 6000 YEARS OLD
Yes it does, run the math on the geologies.
In confirming that the earth is old, very old, there are many geological structures that confirm this and falsify a young earth. My favorite question to ask YECer's is which sedimentary layer in this picture of lava layers is the flood deposit.
I do expect at least 5 posts arguing against what I say because most people here are biased towards evolution as being the source of all life.
This reminds me of an incident at the San Diego museum of Natural History. There was a display of Therizinosaurus. A group of kids were admiring the display when one of them asked out loud how old the fossils were. A member of the museum staff was walking by and overheard the question and quickly answer "72 million and 14 years".
That answer satisfied most, but after a few seconds another asked how could they ever identify the age so precisely. The staff member responded "Well when I started work here they told me that it was 72 million years old and I have worked here for 14 years so now it is 72 million and 14 years old."
"would be only two to two-and-a-half square miles"to generate a Gigawatt of energy
How much land use do you think it would take to feed a coal powered Gigawatt power plant over its lifecycle? In addition, to coal mining consider the resource destruction of acid rain, mercury release, etc.
Could work in some places like eastern southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and maybe south west Texas.
Yes and hydroelectric only works were there is a river. The regions you just listed are huge consumers of energy.
If you say the masses, then what about when the masses (such as in other countries) promote strapping a bomb to their chest and blowing up innocent people? What about when the masses promote cannibalism? Or theft? In a relativistic world, what right does anyone have to claim anything is right or wrong?
Your writing style is might bit hard to follow.
However, you do know that the people strapping on bombs and blowing people up are doing so for strictly religious reasons. If you chatted with these people you would find that you have a lot in common with them.
This reminds me of a quote by Stephen Weinberg "Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things--that takes religion." And you want a good account of that read the old testament.
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At one time computer companies were all vertically oriented. You bought the h/w, o/s, s/w, utilities, support all from the same company.
Then along came the PC and the marketplace became horizontally organized. Various companies specialized in building hardware, software, utilities or operating systems. The efficiencies and flexibility in this mode of market organization delivered faster innovation, lower prices, more options, better support due to the more competitive marketplace. The vertical companies went the way of the buggy whip manufacturers.
Just a thought
Ummm. Israel is not a theocracy. Israel has parliamentary democracy, a free press, an independent judicial system, freedom of religion, equal rights for women, etc.
Iran is a mullahcracy, has a supreme leader for life, political canadates must be "selected", state controlled press, Iran does not have religious freedom, etc. Iran even has a bloody moral police with incredible powers to arrest and detain.
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One man's "creative influence" could very well be one lawyer's "plagiarism". It is all a matter of degree.
...and I am going to wait for D#
Ya idiots have excellent knee jerk reactions. If it were not for tired old jokes the stupid would have no sense of humor at all. One of my favorite tag lines is the quote of a French commander during WW1 "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent! I shall attack"
Any here that are forced to use the NMCI (Navy/Marine Corps Intranet) network know that reading any email at all can be a challenge.
A NMCI laptop takes over 10 minutes to boot and load the dozens of background processes and roving preferences. Once booted the machine is near useless performance wise.
Most, including middle management, refer to NMCI as No More Computing In-house.
In order to get idea just how bad things are, upper management conducted "customer satisfaction surveys". Even though the NMCI program office controlled the content, distribution, and analysis of the survey the results indicated overwhelming dissatisfaction. The NMCI program office has declined to release the raw data from the survey, instead issuing a release about the results. Rear Admiral J. B. Godwin III said releasing the results would challenge the "integrity of our data." Hmmm....
Most Navy labs that are under the burden of the NMCI contract maintain two networks, the legacy and the NMCI - the one to get work done on an the other to read email. This leads to double the costs and double the vulnerability exposure, and halves the resources to concentrate on security and usability.
Worst I hear that the Navy just extended the contract to 2010. Your tax dollars at work.
The question is, if some company trademarkes "Bones3D" could they just take it away from you?
Earth First... We will log the other planets later. It may be true eh?
Maybe instead of "repairing various damaged tissues" you could just uhmmm... enhance various undeveloped tissues you could solve your girlfriend problem.
Yes. Silly question.
Two centuries ago the life expectancy was 30 years or less. People died painful deaths for things that can be cured with a pill today. No pain killers, no antibiotics, no concept of what or how diseases is spread. Crude and painful dental services, no vision care, infant mortality was high.
Indoor toilets and hot showers (believe me I grew up without these amenities in northern Canada and their contribution to your standard of living is underrated), warm beds, adequate supply of food and varied diets.
Two centuries ago the averaged work week was 72 hours for the average commoner.
I don't think you have thought this thru or have ever lived in substandard conditions for any length of time.
More wisdom is always a good thing i agree with you there. No they didn't. That is fanciful thinking, in every age there were those that believed that (including Paul) and they are where wrong.
Here are are quoted scripture....
Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the crests of the sea.
Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:5 This is what God the LORD says-- he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:
If you spent any time researching this you would understand the Ancient view of the universe was very limited and these passage only underscore this point. You are clinging to the word "stretch". You are assuming that this means stretching like a rubber, but it means stretch like spreading out a tent.
The translation conveys the meaning of a canopy or tent (a tent or a canopy indeed have to be stretched to serve their purpose). This fits the simple fact that those writers who compiled the biblical story thousands of years ago had no knowledge of the atmosphere's structure and thus described what they seemed to see while looking up at the apparent blue cupola above their heads. They believed the stars were fixed on this "tent". They believed that there was a water firmament (ie the water is blue the sky is blue).
Here a good treatment of the subject.
http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/skepticism/universe
They also believed the earth to be flat. Here are a few more scriptures showing amazing insight...
- 1 Chronicles 16:30: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable."
- Psalm 93:1: "Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm
..."
- Psalm 96:10: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable
..."
- Psalm 104:5: "Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken."
- Isaiah 45:18: "...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast..."
- Psalm 24:2, for example, it was said that "the world and all that is in it belong to the Lord; the earth and all who live on it are his. He built it on the deep waters beneath the earth and laid its foundations in the ocean depths,"
Furthermore, in all the years not one single scientific discovery has ever came about by a direct or inspired reading of the bible. Not one. No just misinformed and you should work on enlarging your view.Ha I went into my local Best Buy to buy a 9-pin serial cable. The clerk told me sorry they don't make those cables anymore and tried to sell me a USB cable instead.... Off to Radio Shack.
Interesting that you mention Sun.
.... Well I push for Redhat Linux while others favor Windows. It goes one way or the other. Either Redhat will get our dollars or Windows. I don't see us increasing our IT budget and buying more of both. In at least this little microcosm it is a zero-sum game.
Were I work we are in the processing of moving from Sun to
Imagine a world where MS and Linux worked even 25% together than they do now Microsoft can imagine that and they know it would slash their margins. To Microsoft a Linux gain is a Microsoft loss - it is a zero sum game.
I recently had several sites that I host find their way into Google hell. I wrote a small 15 line Perl script (using File::Find) to hunt thru thousands of pages and return all url patterns.
:{
Filtered out local domains and found easily found the problem with a run away forum that spammer zeroed in. Looks like they were also using a Perl script
They had uploaded over 3000 links - the bastards.
"There is no information corroborating the threat and that the alert was issued as a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution" How the hell does this make the news. Oh my the cyber-islamicfacist-terrorists are coming for us. "Radical muslim groups" are constantly making the threats. If they can do, they do, if they can't they make threats to inflate their balls and those stupid enough to follow them.
In order for Carbin 14 dating system to be accurate, there hase to be NO CHANGE in the ratio of carbon 14 to carbon 12 in the atmosphere over the years for which the system is claimed to be accurate.
What is Carbin 14 is that sort of like the Mini-14?
Seriously, modern Carbon-14 dating does not assume there is NO CHANGE in the atmosphere. Carbon-14 dating is calibrated to known events such as ice cores, wood artifacts and growth rings, ocean sediment, cave deposits, etc. Uncalibrated Carbon-14 dates are referred to as radiocarbon years.
Additionally Carbon-14 dates only are reliable in the tens of thousands of years. A common mistake by YECers.
NO PLACE THAT STATES THAT THE EARTH IS ONLY 6000 YEARS OLD
Yes it does, run the math on the geologies.
In confirming that the earth is old, very old, there are many geological structures that confirm this and falsify a young earth. My favorite question to ask YECer's is which sedimentary layer in this picture of lava layers is the flood deposit.
I do expect at least 5 posts arguing against what I say because most people here are biased towards evolution as being the source of all life.
No just that you have the wrong information.
This reminds me of an incident at the San Diego museum of Natural History. There was a display of Therizinosaurus. A group of kids were admiring the display when one of them asked out loud how old the fossils were. A member of the museum staff was walking by and overheard the question and quickly answer "72 million and 14 years".
That answer satisfied most, but after a few seconds another asked how could they ever identify the age so precisely. The staff member responded "Well when I started work here they told me that it was 72 million years old and I have worked here for 14 years so now it is 72 million and 14 years old."
Couldn't these robots save the US a lot of money on a border fence. Just the rumor that these baby's were deployed would probably be enough deterrent.
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want. ~ Larry Wall
"would be only two to two-and-a-half square miles" to generate a Gigawatt of energy
How much land use do you think it would take to feed a coal powered Gigawatt power plant over its lifecycle? In addition, to coal mining consider the resource destruction of acid rain, mercury release, etc.
Could work in some places like eastern southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and maybe south west Texas.
Yes and hydroelectric only works were there is a river. The regions you just listed are huge consumers of energy.
followup on Gemstones falling from Heaven
quietly embedded 3/4's the way down in an obscure bill.
Natural vs Synthetic ... bah ... who cares when Supernatural Gemstones are falling from heaven in Idaho.
If you say the masses, then what about when the masses (such as in other countries) promote strapping a bomb to their chest and blowing up innocent people? What about when the masses promote cannibalism? Or theft? In a relativistic world, what right does anyone have to claim anything is right or wrong?
Your writing style is might bit hard to follow.
However, you do know that the people strapping on bombs and blowing people up are doing so for strictly religious reasons. If you chatted with these people you would find that you have a lot in common with them.
This reminds me of a quote by Stephen Weinberg "Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things--that takes religion." And you want a good account of that read the old testament.
At one time computer companies were all vertically oriented. You bought the h/w, o/s, s/w, utilities, support all from the same company. Then along came the PC and the marketplace became horizontally organized. Various companies specialized in building hardware, software, utilities or operating systems. The efficiencies and flexibility in this mode of market organization delivered faster innovation, lower prices, more options, better support due to the more competitive marketplace. The vertical companies went the way of the buggy whip manufacturers. Just a thought
Ummm. Israel is not a theocracy. Israel has parliamentary democracy, a free press, an independent judicial system, freedom of religion, equal rights for women, etc.
Iran is a mullahcracy, has a supreme leader for life, political canadates must be "selected", state controlled press, Iran does not have religious freedom, etc. Iran even has a bloody moral police with incredible powers to arrest and detain.