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  1. Re:WTF on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    Well, the bloodlines kind of dwindled again around the flood, when only Noah, his wife, his sons and daughters (and sons and daughters in-laws) survived. Since Noah was descended from Adam & Eve, and everyone was descended from Noah, all generations after were necessarily descended from Adam & Eve (assuming Noah's kids' spouses didn't do some hanky-panky behind their backs... since they were spared, it's a good bet they were some quality people).

  2. Re:Factually inacurate on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    That's because there aren't any scriptural sources for Lilith. She exists in rabbinical lore (Talmud), not in the Pentateuch or christian bible.

  3. Re:WTF on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    Replying to self... Just realized that many people are confused by the time non-linearity of Genesis. Look in Chapter 1 for world-wide creation, and chapter 2 for localized Eden creation.

  4. Re:WTF on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    Even better: Adam and Eve's children didn't marry each other. There are two creation events in Genesis: The Garden of Eden (with Adam) on the third day"When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up", and the rest of the world on the other days (with all other humans last on the Sixth day). Cain married a woman from the east in Nod. According to the bible there were at least two men and two women created. So, generation #2 might have been kissing cousins, but there would likely have been more. It's sad that people who take the bible literally can't read it accurately.

  5. Re:Factually inacurate on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    Even better: Adam and Eve's children didn't marry each other. There are two creation events in Genesis: The Garden of Eden (with Adam) on the third day"When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up", and the rest of the world on the other days (with all other humans last on the Sixth day). Cain married a woman from the east in Nod.

  6. Re:Next step: Embryos on Skin Cells Turned Embryonic · · Score: 1

    Actually, the argument is over when an embryo/foetus can be considered a person, legally.

  7. Re:wow, what a popup! on After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bender: Behold: the Internet!
    Fry: My God. It's full of ads!

  8. Re:Heat! on Dell Thinks Ubuntu Makes Hardware More Fragile? · · Score: 0

    And the laptop was clearly not a Circus midget. Don't goatse scapegoats.

  9. Re:Support on Dell Thinks Ubuntu Makes Hardware More Fragile? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dell has had a CentOS based diagnostic disk for their servers for a while now. Desktop line software engineers, I'd like you to meet Server line software engineers. Collaborate.

  10. Re:McCain's Bad Taste on McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet · · Score: 0

    Very few Americans seem to realize that the terrorists in Northern Ireland were not bombed out of existence by the RUC and British Government, but that an American called George Mitchell brought the different parties together and negotiated a power-sharing settlement that was satisfactory to all.
    Okay, Al-Qaeda, what do you want out of this power sharing? Death to all Westerners? That might be doable. United States of America, what would you like? You want to continue living? Oh my. I'm afraid we already promised Al-Qaeda. Maybe something else?

  11. Re: May be related to TD Waterhouse merger on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 1

    i'm getting penny-stock spam that effectively originated from ameritrade.
    That sounds like a job for the FTC, not Kumba the phone-jockey.

  12. Re:Can you feel the love? on Novell Worries About GPL v3 · · Score: 1

    Port it to Debian and the difference between debian-based distros and windows will be 3d games.
    Eh? I play 3d games on linux. I even tried to write one for an OpenGL modeling class I took.

  13. Re:Mr Blobby on Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display · · Score: 1

    if you're eating in a restaurant you want a table you can streach your legs under.

    And when I'm eating in a restaurant, I don't want my table to flash subliminal messages at me when my drink is low.

  14. Re:And both should watch out for games which are b on RPG Devs Should Beware MMOGs · · Score: 1

    Please, Someone prove me wrong!

  15. Re:And both should watch out for games which are b on RPG Devs Should Beware MMOGs · · Score: 1

    that lets you run your own server, and create a portal from the mmog to your server... Hmmm.... D&D Planescape Immortal. Rule your your Plane, define its physics, create your minions, assume a mortal avatar to adventure... Defend your Plane from invasion. Project an avatar into another Immortal's plane to invade and win over their minions. A MMOG one part Populous, one part NWN, one part WOW... It'll never happen

  16. Re:Registry on A Windows-Based Packaging Mechanism · · Score: 1

    you have to download reg with MS's support kit for XP home or win2k It's still not trivial to backup reg settings with it. It's a sysadmin's tool, not a user's tool

  17. Re:What magnetic strip? on Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card · · Score: 1

    Different state, but same thing here. No mag strip, but laser bar-code. I find the "US drivers license" statement humorous. Someone should have done their homework to determine that not all states use the same tech on their cards.

  18. Re:Broadcom kernel driver on The Clueless Newbie Rides Again · · Score: 1

    My Broadcom stays connected for ~10 minutes with bcm43xx kernel drivers, but ndiswrapper solution would not work at all.

  19. Re:They make things to do that. on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    Why don't I fill the water dish with Evian while I'm at it? It's a dog house - home-built - and if I make a dog sleep outside when it's cold, the dog obviously isn't my "child". Plus, the light lets me know if the dog is in its house at night and is an easy remote way to tell if the heat's gone out. Heck, I could even throw an extra bulb in for redundancy, although I'd have to open it up some more since it would get too hot.

  20. Re:Hey! I Heat My Home With Incandescents on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    I heat a dog house with an incandecent bulb. CFLs & LEDs couldn't do that...

  21. Re:So let me get this straight. on Two Stargate SG1 Films Announced · · Score: 1

    It's like M. Night Shyamalan put the Stargate franchise in a movie of itself. Don't you mean the Wormhole X-treme franchise?