Posts by MidiMagic

Argument: "Global warming is occurring, because the glaciers are melting."

Truth: Statement is affirming the consequent.

Argument: "The amount of CO2 in air trapped in polar ice is a lot lower than the CO2 concentration today."

Truth: Ice is not a hermetic seal for CO2, which can diffuse through it by combining chemically with H2O to form H2CO3. This will especially happen if the ice is in contact with rock or sea water, for the H2CO3 will react with the minerals present to produce carbonates.

Argument: "If the ice on just the polar seas melted, it would raise sea level by 3 feet."

Truth: This totally ignores the physics of floating bodies. A floating body displaces its weight. A submerged body displaces its volume. But if the floating ice melted, it would still displace the same amount of water, because it is water. So the sea level does not change. On the other hand, ice sitting on LAND would raise the sea level if it melted.

Argument: Man is causing global warming.

Truth: If this is so, how is man causing global warming on Venus, Mars, and Europa?

Argument: The average temperature has increased 1/2 degree F since the 1700s.

Truth: The standards we use today were not defined accurately enough in the 1700s to make such a claim. They degree F was also changed in 1901 by an international treaty, so the old values must be adjusted.

Argument: Greenland …

Here's the proof:

Watch the 9-11 Conspiracy Theories show on the History Channel tonight (11/4/07 at 8pm eastern time).

Wait for the part about Building 7 falling. They show the section of video I saw on 9/11/01.

They will show a video of Tower 1. You can see a floor start to BEND down, due to the loss of strength in the steel (the fire removed the hardening). The instant that floor touches the floor below it, the building collapses.

The floor below couldn't hold up the combined weight, and failed.

What I posted does make sense, unless you think that having sex is somehow a civil right.

It isn't, because it always requires the permission of the other person.

My point is that, IF everyone obeyed God's law, there would be no widespread transmission mode to spread AIDS widely. There would be NO STDs at all.

The fact that they don't obey God's law provides the means needed to spread the virus.

This is a logical fact, not religious propaganda.

The spilled monkey blood might give one or two people AIDS, but without the promiscuity, it would not spread beyond a few people.

I think God's rule is there for this reason.

A what???

Here are some:

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER, BUT POLITICIANS WON'T SHUT UP!

CAUTION: GOVERNMENT MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR WEALTH

DON'T LIE. IT'S ILLEGAL TO IMPERSONATE A POLITICIAN.

DON'T STEAL. IT'S ILLEGAL TO COMPETE WITH GOVERNMENT.

BE SURE YOU HAVE PAID YOUR 72 PERCENT TO GOVERNMENT

DANGER: STRESS FROM TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT CAUSES OBESITY.

CAUTION: GOVERNMENT ID NUMBERS CAUSE IDENTITY THEFT.

THE ONLY POLITICIANS I WOULD VOTE FOR ARE THE ONES WHO DON'T WANT TO RUN FOR OFFICE.

CAUTION: HIGH TAXATION DESTROYS JOBS.

WARNING: THE LATEST GOVERNMENT-REQUIRED OBESITY SOLUTION CAUSES DIARRHEA.

WARNING: DON'T VOTE FOR CONSERVATIVES. THEY CAUSE SANITY.

CAUTION: THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES BIAS THE ELECTION THE OTHER WAY.

DANGER: THE MINORITY WILL KEEP SUING UNTIL THEY WIN.

CAUTION: LAWYERS RUN THE NATION.

WASHINGTON DC. CAUTION: HOT AIR CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING

DO NOT REMOVE THIS NATIONAL IDENTITY NUMBER UNDER PENALTY OF LAW

OBEY DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, EVEN THOUGH IT WASTES ENERGY

WARNING: GOVERNMENT HAS DESIGNED ELECTIONS SO THERE IS NO WAY TO VOTE FOR SMALLER GOVERNMENT.

CAUTION: YOU MUST VOTE FOR ONLY EXACTLY ONE CANDIDATE, OR YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT

CAUTION: LAYMEN POLITICIANS PRACTICING TRAFFIC ENGINEERING WITHOUT A LICENCE

The problem is that liberals want to help America, but they do it through emotion instead of logic:

- They believe that stealing more money from people in taxes is going to help the economy.

- They believe that we can actually absorb the taxes needed for a national health care system without bankrupting all employers.

- They believe that all we have to do is stop fighting, and our enemies won't hate us anymore, but they also believe in making the very thing our Islamic enemies hate most (sexual sin) a constitutional right.

- They believe in negotiating a middle-east peace, but we don't have anything to negotiate with. The only thing that would appease the radical Islamics is to remove half of our constitutional rights and install an Islamic government in America.

- Some liberals believe that, fi government gets big enough, nobody would have to work. What they don't explain is where the food comes from with nobody working.

- They cite the Greek and Roman civilizations as proof of the above. They forget that those economies ran on slave labor.

- Other liberals believe that, if all of the money on the planet were distributed evenly among all people, nobody would have to work. Enjoy your $2500. It has to last the rest of your life. And there are no products (or food) to buy, because nobody is working.

- They want to take civil rights away from …

"Me-first" government at its worst.

The problem is that the global warming advocates haven't proved anything, especially about whether man caused it. It';s the environmentalist religion's mantra that man causes all environmental problems.

These advocates (especially Al Gore) used bad science and faulty argument modes(mostly the fallacy of affirming the consequent).

Using their faulty logic, I could "prove" that you had to be driving drunk, because you were in an accident, and drunk driving causes accidents. That's an example of affirming the consequent.

People keep telling me to show proof of my statements. I want to see actual proof (without bad science or faulty argument modes) from these advocates.

Meanwhile, scientists are observing global warming on Venus, Mars, and Europa.

I'd say we are returning to the warm climate like that of the time of the Roman Empire.

Some strong guy broke into a store here last week, ripped the machine off the bolts holding it down, picked it up, and carried it outside to his truck. The store security video got it all.

Once again, you are spouting quite untrue, stupid information. BACK UP YOUR CLAIMS!!!!! GEEZ man.. how many times do I have to tell you.. no one is going to believe anything you ever say, because one, it's always ridiculous, and two, you never back it up with factual data!!!!

I did so once. I will do it again. But I am not going to send you to websites, because you would just discount them.

Instead, I want you to walk through the figures on your own income, the same as I did with mine. Get all of the figures from your governments, and ask businesses what portion of their product prices are their own taxes passed on to consumers (this is hard to get).

First of all, figure your direct taxes. If you are a typical worker, your total direct taxes will look something like this (these are my actual values from 2005):

- Federal income tax: 13 %
- Social tax (SS, MC, SSI, SMA) 7.5 %
- State income tax: 3.4 % (varies by state)
- County income tax: 1 % (varies by state)
- Real Estate tax: 2% (varies by locality)
- Sales tax: 6% (varies by state)
- Trash, sewer, and storm water tax: 1% (my city - required use by law)
- Miscellaneous taxes (utility, personal property, township, etc): 2.1%

Total personal direct taxation: 36 %

(Utility tax is the taxes tacked onto …

Except that they are just the names of the smilies. You can't see which one it makes until you put the post.

What happens to all of the posts with inlinecode tags?

Well, at least MoveOn.org has finally changed their belief that Kerry would become President if Bush is impeached. Now they want Pelosi (2nd in line).

In so far as marijuana is concerned, nearly all of these claims are without merit and show a great ignorance of the matter.

No, it's from reading both sides of the issue, not just the liberal spiel that says there is nothing wrong with pot.

The original event of making pot illegal WAS in that Wiki site, but they glossed it over, just giving the place (New York) and the date (1900). It was made illegal for two reasons:

1. People using it in the workplace were getting injured.
2. Those injured people, and those who wouldn't work because they didn't care, weren't earning the money to pay their taxes with.

In other words, government feared losing tax revenue. The racial component came later.

Do more reading on the things I've posted. Don't just take my word for it. (I highly doubt I have to worry about that too much).

I have read all that stuff, and much more that contradicts it. I don't believe the pro-pot part of it (probably because it looks like it was written by pot users justifying themselves). I also notice that liberals never believe anything a conservative says that contradicts the liberal dogma.

I have smoked a little pot long ago. I have not in quite some time. I still manage to develop software for a living, so I guess I've managed to maintain some semblance of logical thinking. Enough at least to be a responsible wage-earner and citizen.

Like the time the Texas legislature commended the population control efforts of Albert DeSalvo?

The problem is that our long-term permanent memories are serial, like recording tape. The problem isn't that you can't remember something, but the rewindatory gap. That's the time it tales to find and retrieve the memory.

My memory can take 24 hours to complete a search cycle.

The problem is that government takes 72 percent of the average worker's money in taxes. About half of that value is hidden in the purchase prices of the products you buy (and pay all the business taxes through).

So the more you ask government to do for you, the harder it is to work to get money. People are working 4 times as hard to make ends meet as they would have to work if there were no taxes. And if we "get" national health care, workers will have to work 10 times as hard.

For every person who doesn't work, someone else has to work twice as hard. Nothing is free.

The graphics and music keep me from thinking.

Corel Draw can do so much more than any of those photo editors can do.

The problems with both sites is high traffic.

Study the use of forms. You need this inside a form object.

I'd say it is either a style or something JavaScript is doing.

I think that logo you see is in the video. The click area does not coincide with the logo, but is larger.

That's the hazard of the div. If it won't fit nicely in the available space, it shoulders stuff aside.

You have to make sure the div, its contents, and any margin, border, and padding ALL fit in the available space. And remember that browsers on computers with different screen resolutions have different available space.

Compounding the problem, FF puts the the margins, borders, and padding outside the defined size of the div. IE crams them inside it.

I don't think you can get rid of the title bar. The ones without title bars are actually players.

You could place a block object on the page.

You can. Just set them to auto in the stylesheet. They are valid styles.

Now you know the secret.

Since the Hebrew digits are the first 10 letters of the alphabet, their w is also a 6.

So "www" = "666".

So naturally, evil adds the "www".

:icon_mrgreen:

We use the technique from calculus of dividing a curve up into a lot of very short straight lines:

- Define the curve with arrays. Use an array of x coordinates for the points in curve, and an array of the y coordinates.

- Draw a line from the x,y coordinate of the first point to the x,y of the second point, then from the second point to the third, then from the third to the fourth, etc. Use a loop to read the values.

OK, the pages you gave me even show the syntax I used as an alternative. I think you are interpreting them in a stricter sense than is required.

But they are also using deprecated forms in their pages, so they are not current. The name attribute is now deprecated in the form tag. The only place it works and validates is in the radio button. (I must use XHTML.)

And I see the difference between what I tried to use for radio buttons and what works. I was trying:

buton[i] = document.forms['namForm'].elements['buttonset[i]'].checked;

It should be:

buton[i] = document.forms['namForm'].elements['buttonset'].[i].checked;

But the following ARE completely interchangeable, according to those pages. One is not better than the other, unless dynamic addressing is needed:

document.forms.nameOfForm.part_revenue.value = revenue;

document.forms['nameOfForm'].elements['part_revenue'].value = revenue;

a = 'nameOfForm'; b = 'part_revenue'; document.forms[a].elements[b].value = revenue;

The reason to use the first version is to keep the files short. Some ISPs (including mine) charge more for longer downloads. Keeping the files short allows more downloads per hour with the cheaper plan.

Save both pages to your hard drive.

I teach a class that includes the use of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Access. Everything has been fine until recently.

Some of my students have been required by their employers to upgrade to Office 2007. The problem is that I now can't read their homework to grade it on the school computers.

I told them to save to 2003 compatible mode, but when I try to grade those, the colors and other formats are wrong when opened in Office 2003. I can't tell if the students did their work wrong, or if Microsift messed it up.

I hope that if Bill Gates ever has a serious illness, the doctor treating him can't read the files necessary for treatment, because they were in a format obsoleted by Microsoft upgrades.

THAT would teach him (maybe).

Is it set to 50Hz power? I once had a laptop computer that used the power line to adjust the clock speed.

Knowing Microsift, they did it on purpose.

Reinstall. That's the only way to fix the boot. And you will have to boot from the CD to do that.

Never compress files.

The only thing I can think of is restore to a safe version.

No, sourcery!

Pot users want pot legalized. But one would wonder if pot users are even competent to make such a decision for themselves. Examples:

- Greenwood Village CO: Sonja Aguirre parked a car loaded with marijuana in a handicap parking space to save a few steps. The car was towed, and then she was arrested.

- New Braunfuls TX: Drug Dealer Robert Villarreal sold drugs to the same undercover officer three different times, and was arrested and sentenced each time. The third time (strike 3) he got 50 years.

- Orlando FL: Edgar Gavin and Jose Clark were hauling pot in a van with expired plates. Guess why police stopped them, and what they discovered inside.

- Dayton OH: Two people who intended to steal the entire inventory of an illegal pot farm shoplifted the pantyhose they intended to use as disguises from a local drugstore. But the store security caught them.

- Belleville IL: Anthony Martin called police to report that his pot plants were stolen. But when he led police to the scene of the crime, the plants were still there. Busted for using AND possession.

- A Monroe County IN man called police and reported that a homicidal bush was chasing him down the road, and that it was trying to kill him. He demanded that police search the house for the bush. They found a grow light, 55 marijuana plants, and labeled jars filled with different kinds of marijuana. (Maybe this …

I'm on the other side of the exam now. I'm giving exams this week.

We are using special techniques to detect cheating, including software that detect plagiarism.

There are several effects of drugs (including marijuana) that affect others who want nothing to do with drugs:

1. I have known people before and after they used drugs (primarily pot), and the drugs changed them permanently. I noticed most of the following changes in each of them:
- A lack of logical thinking.
- A craving to pursue unlucrative liberal arts or music, instead of high paying jobs.
- A belief that they should be paid for the art or music they make, regardless of whether or not there is a demand for it.
- A shift to the left in political beliefs.
- A tendency to believe the wacky schemes politicians propose just to get votes could really work.
- A drive to get more drugs, often so strong that they could harm someone.
- A lack of concern about the consequences of the the user's actions.

2. Too many drug users are careless or accident-prone. This was the original reason drugs were banned. And remember that others can be harmed by the carelessness of drug-using workers:
- Most insurers require a drug-free workplace. Drug use causes the cancellation of the company's liability insurance, especially in factories.
- One automotive recall in the 1990s was caused by a drug user on the assembly line assembling wheel bearings wrong. At least 2 crashes were caused by wheels falling off, traced to this defect. But the real cause was …

I have an actual material safety data sheet (MSDS) for it. The specified safety precautions are:

- Store protected from moisture. Could react violently with water.
- Wear chemical safety goggles, gloves, and lab apron.
- Use appropriate respirator.
- Avoid breathing vapor.
- Irritating and highly toxic gases might be generated in a fire.
- If irritation develops, get medical aid.
- Contains oxygen. Might contribute to combustion.

This real MSDS is for D2O - deuterium oxide.

Deuterium oxide is heavy water - with all of the chemical properties of ordinary water. It's obvious that the person who wrote up the MSDS didn't know what deuterium is, but applied the safety precautions for oxides of group I-a alkali metals.

I would put used car salesmen ahead of corporate leaders, and lawyers ahead of both.

Most corporate leaders are honest. The news media always focus on the few that aren't.

But politicians top the list. Among their lies:
- National health care can actually work.
- The minimum wage actually helps the poor (only the ones it doesn't throw out of work).
- We need more tax money (eliminate the huge sports and arts subsidies instead).
- Arts are necessities.
- Sports are necessities.
- Entertainment is a necessity.
- Our ejukashun sistum is the wurld's finets.
- The other party caused all the trouble.
- A living wage can coexist with social programs.
- We need to keep track of every person in the country.

The one attribute that would make a politician one I would want to vote for is the lack of desire to run for office.

Sometimes I wish there was a death penalty for politicians.

Brain fell out.

Only a few of the problems are still there with the features disabled:

- The tooltips and bookmark bumbles are gone. I am using the menus at the top to get the menu pages.

The lost text-insertion point cursor in the Quick Reply box is caused by moving ads stealing all my CPU cycles - not your fault. It's intermittent, depending on which ads are playing.

My only remaining serious complaint is with the watermarks on the posting boxes. I still have a lot of trouble reading my post when this is underneath. It is not very accessible.

There is nothing wrong with using classes to address element styles.

Some elitists in the literary world want to force their ideas of "proper use" on the rest of us. They just want to make it harder for the rest of us with their "politically correct" ways. They want us to divide the web page into sections (similar to the sections in Word documents), with one id for each section. That works OK for books and newspapers, but it makes an awful mess of websites intended for demonstration pages, galleries, or advertising, with much needless duplication of styles. I think their purpose is to get rid of advertising.

It has nothing to do with your problem.

Use class for styles if you don't know whether it will be single use or multiple use, if you use overlapping styles, or if you use a common stylesheet.

My rule for simplification is:
- Use classes for styles
- Use ids for JavaScript addressing

Your problem may be that the browser is defaulting to not showing overflow. Try adding the style:

overflow: scroll;

I don't think moving content can be rendered in the background. The motion brings it forward.

The problem is the order you are executing the statements in.

JavaScript executes the statements in the order you place them in the program. You have the switch statement before the statements that get the info to work it.

// Until the user enters "end" keep asking what product they want
while(product != 0)
{
    product = prompt("Please enter which product you would like: ");
    [B]// you need to put the entire switch structure HERE, or it won't work.[/B]
    total = total + price;
}

Let's see the relevant part of the code.

I have a few thoughts:

- Could the problem be an "unable to render as instructed" case? If your designed shape doesn't fit in the available space, the browser will alter the rendering.

- Could it be a 'condensing whitespace" case? The browser will throw away all whitespace except one blank character, unless you specifically tell it not to.

- Could it be a problem with a variable-width font? Spaces are not the same width as asterisks in most fonts.

- Is the browser substituting fonts? Remember that each user can pick his own default rendering font. Also remember that your chosen font might not exist on the user's computer.

How are we supposed to know this "correct" way of doing things if most of the sources have not published it? Clairvoyance?

What is your source for this requirement of using the 'elements' nodelist? All of my sources say that it is becoming the obsolete way of addressing elements.

Are we talking about the necessity of including the "elements" name in the description?

Or are we talking about different syntax? These are equivalent, unless you want the program to be able to change parts of the descriptor (which requires the third case):

document.forms.nameOfForm.part_revenue.value = revenue;

document.forms.elements.value = revenue;

a = 'nameOfForm'; b = 'part_revenue'; document.forms[a].elements.value = revenue;

What is the "correct" syntax for using a radio button? Is it addressed as an array of arrays? I said it doesn't work, because I can't get it to work. If I try to address the element as a subscript, than I can't seem to address its own subscript.

If OOB means Out Of the Box, and that is really supposed to be xml, you got rooked. I see deprecated code, which is part of html, but which is NOT part of either xhtml or xml:

bgcolor is deprecated.

width as a property is deprecated, but is allowed as a CSS style.

I just realized that you are not writing in JavaScript. My answer is for JavaScript. Take your question to the forum for the language you are really using.