I did neither honestly nor dishonestly (nor any shade in between) 'say' anything, I merely typed some stuff. As an ex-German or semi-German, or pseudo-German, (and most SlashDot readers are one), one of my self-ordained missions in life is to promote accuracy and precision in the Home of the Free. Clearly a hopeless endeavor with a non-homogenous collection of ethnic groups who use inches, pounds, bushels and who more often than not believe in Charlton Heston, with or without flintlock...and who have inexplicably not adopted DIN standards. (...Idiots).
But my heritage is one that favors (...or 'favours' if your preferred flavour is Manchester, Birmingham or Boston) and promotes, whenever possible, hopeless last-stands, to whit:
http://www.geschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/projekt/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/
Furthermore, your last line, after correcting the syntactical typographical error, reads:
"I'm a Republican and as a Republican I disgusted the current Republican party." (Caps are mine). This may have unintentionally exposed a factoid.
Oh thank you Lord, thank you thank you. That means I'm no longer descended from Africans. What a relief.
...and just to respond to some other post I saw while glancing through and skipping over the inevitable and pointless ID arguments, they're not Filipinos either and not really very oriental (but got some nice looking wimmin).
Besides, if I remember my Geology correctly, back then the Indonesian Archeopelagic Plate was tacked on to ("Land-bridged") the West European Plate. So I'm descended from honkies !!!
You fool, you silly fool. The Amouth (879122) post is intentionally mis-spelled to discredit Liberal America.
More specifically, it's part of a plot to make all you Freedom of Speech nutters, Homosexual Marriage supporters, Abortion Baby Killer advocates and Water Fluoridation practitioners look ignorant, uneducated, and stupid. (You gotta admit - pretty good work).
879122 is with a branch of the NSA PR Office and works with cookie dissemination... and please gimme my off-topic hit here.
Nice pics. The same or similar stuff can be seen almost anywhere short of a swamp, if less pretty and less obvious. How do you know volcanic activity didn't do it in under a day? Alternatively, prove that the ID Dude (better use a cap there just in case) didn't just stick it there that way. Maybe She just likes things at angles?
After 900 posts (rough estimate) of "lefties" arguing with religious fundamentalists I'm still undecided whether this is an example of:
A) Foolish wishful thinking, as repeatedly proven historically (think Socialism), or
B) A pointless love of argument as an end in itself (just to hear yourself talk).
(( On the off chance you might ask, I'm "B" ))
You cannot prove that a single word in the Bible, the Koran, the Talmud, etc (or Grimm's 3rd Fairy Tale from the top) is *not* the word of any given god or Gollum or Superwoman or The Raellians or, for that matter, a previous incarnation of me. You can't even prove that Tarot cards don't work.
The inability to prove a negative, especially a cleverly chosen vague and ephemeral one, is the last, and best, refuge of superstition(s) that survive. Otherwise they go the way of Black Cats and Broken Mirrors and Scientific Marxism.
You can only hope that the next generation grows up with a lower percentage of mysticism seekers, though the US seems to be going the wrong direction. (Somebody tell me why?).
Twenty years ago I thought that New Ageism was a bigger threat to Civilization than Superpower Nukes, Ebola and The Big Asteroid combined. How foolish.
Think I'll go play chess with my dog while waiting for the next UFO visit.
Back in the 60's I was punching little holes in cards and ticker tape and learning BASIC out of a little blue-grey book by a coupla clowns called Kemeny & Kurz (Kurtz?) and watching a guy called Slagle writing about Lisp at crazy angles on a blackboard (he was blind).
IBM was King and the Queen was Algol-60 and the wet dream emperor was Cray and Fortran was for suits and...
...Not necessarily the only [human] ones [created]...
Perhaps, but surely we can determine an upper bound? (Let's see now, one-rib, two-ribs, three...)
...incest and adultery, existence thereof...
Well of course not you dummy! How could Adam & Eve do I&A ? With whom ? (The snake??)
... But wait, now that I thinks deeply on it, and I deeply thinks a lot...given that A&E are permanently united in parasitical bliss and if one or t'other were to go off one day or night and, well, you know, do a touchy-feely on self, would that count? (And thine forehead shall be branded indelibly with both Iota* and Alpha*, thine begatted progeny debased and thine eyesight shall be at risk. - Arbuthnot 6:13)
*(Apparently Arbuthnot's hebrew was all greek)
Finally, will some literal interpretationist please please, and with a minimum of dazzling science (no worries there) explain that damn (sorry) apple to me? Was it a Granny Smith?
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But my heritage is one that favors (...or 'favours' if your preferred flavour is Manchester, Birmingham or Boston) and promotes, whenever possible, hopeless last-stands, to whit:
http://www.geschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/projekt/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/
Furthermore, your last line, after correcting the syntactical typographical error, reads:
"I'm a Republican and as a Republican I disgusted the current Republican party." (Caps are mine). This may have unintentionally exposed a factoid.
PS - If you will insist on using netiquetically repulsive capitalizations, at least get it right. Your last line should read:
The FEDS will be after YOU!
(Note that a misplaced emphasis on the "after" implies that the Feds have failed in an attempt at queue-jumping).
"Gunpowder Plot" ...Houses of Parliament ...blow up ...Evil Catholics
...and just to respond to some other post I saw while glancing through and skipping over the inevitable and pointless ID arguments, they're not Filipinos either and not really very oriental (but got some nice looking wimmin).
Besides, if I remember my Geology correctly, back then the Indonesian Archeopelagic Plate was tacked on to ("Land-bridged") the West European Plate. So I'm descended from honkies !!!
Whew.
I'm assuming that you're assuming that if/when you help elect Lady Clinton she will by then have learned to love '25 To Life' et al.
You fool, you silly fool. The Amouth (879122) post is intentionally mis-spelled to discredit Liberal America.
More specifically, it's part of a plot to make all you Freedom of Speech nutters, Homosexual Marriage supporters, Abortion Baby Killer advocates and Water Fluoridation practitioners look ignorant, uneducated, and stupid. (You gotta admit - pretty good work).
879122 is with a branch of the NSA PR Office and works with cookie dissemination ... and please gimme my off-topic hit here.
After 900 posts (rough estimate) of "lefties" arguing with religious fundamentalists I'm still undecided whether this is an example of:
A) Foolish wishful thinking, as repeatedly proven historically (think Socialism), or
B) A pointless love of argument as an end in itself (just to hear yourself talk).
(( On the off chance you might ask, I'm "B" ))
You cannot prove that a single word in the Bible, the Koran, the Talmud, etc (or Grimm's 3rd Fairy Tale from the top) is *not* the word of any given god or Gollum or Superwoman or The Raellians or, for that matter, a previous incarnation of me. You can't even prove that Tarot cards don't work.
The inability to prove a negative, especially a cleverly chosen vague and ephemeral one, is the last, and best, refuge of superstition(s) that survive. Otherwise they go the way of Black Cats and Broken Mirrors and Scientific Marxism.
You can only hope that the next generation grows up with a lower percentage of mysticism seekers, though the US seems to be going the wrong direction. (Somebody tell me why?).
Twenty years ago I thought that New Ageism was a bigger threat to Civilization than Superpower Nukes, Ebola and The Big Asteroid combined. How foolish.
Think I'll go play chess with my dog while waiting for the next UFO visit.
I was trying to be funny.
Guess I'll hang on to the day job.
:(
[ - merely intended as a courtesy for the 16 weenies in the UK who read slash-dot ]
Back in the 60's I was punching little holes in cards and ticker tape and learning BASIC out of a little blue-grey book by a coupla clowns called Kemeny & Kurz (Kurtz?) and watching a guy called Slagle writing about Lisp at crazy angles on a blackboard (he was blind).
IBM was King and the Queen was Algol-60 and the wet dream emperor was Cray and Fortran was for suits and...
...what is this, the oldest phart competition?
What's a NetScape ??
Googling quark got me a Franfurter retailer flogging soft cheese, (besides the obvious Physics sites), but I still don't get the mud brick connection.
Perhaps, but surely we can determine an upper bound? (Let's see now, one-rib, two-ribs, three...)
...incest and adultery, existence thereof...
Well of course not you dummy! How could Adam & Eve do I&A ? With whom ? (The snake??)
... But wait, now that I thinks deeply on it, and I deeply thinks a lot...given that A&E are permanently united in parasitical bliss and if one or t'other were to go off one day or night and, well, you know, do a touchy-feely on self, would that count? (And thine forehead shall be branded indelibly with both Iota* and Alpha*, thine begatted progeny debased and thine eyesight shall be at risk. - Arbuthnot 6:13)
*(Apparently Arbuthnot's hebrew was all greek)
Finally, will some literal interpretationist please please, and with a minimum of dazzling science (no worries there) explain that damn (sorry) apple to me? Was it a Granny Smith?
Hear hear (Score:6, Brevity)