Posts by GrimJack

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No, anyone who has asked an actual tough question was denied a ride on the 'Palin Express' - so she had load of lap dogs - real tough crowd to work, eh?

You will have to excuse me but that Ashley Todd’s dingbat Obama-Mugger fantasy has my dander up. I will mellow out when I have some more bourbon.

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Load of crap time again - I have been to that Ace of Spades site before - that is the site that argues about how ugly Michele Obama is and seems to use c-word a lot in reference to women. Let me point you to a more trustworthy site - ACLU has a blog site. If you are going to point to the last gasp of a desperate Republican party lashing out in a blind rage - at least point to legit site.

obama is like change change change but he doesnt actually say what/how he is going to change it

You know, the most important thing about Obama is that he is not McCain. This will probably be the one unifying factor in his (gawd I sure hope) win. McCain is lost, wandering the stage looking for his car; Palin can't be trusted to speak to the press without handlers.

Obama is at least coherent.

I am sure glad no one on this forum tried to use Ashley Todd's racist, anti-Obama story.

A new pub just opened in my neighborhood with 25 local microbrews on tap. Guess where I am spending the evening?

Heh,heh - I would just love this conversation - let's do it until someone complains. Ground rules, no name calling or ad hominem attacks, and general DaniWeb standards apply - all else welcome.

I have ad blocking turned on but the space for the ad is still there. That explains it, thanks.

No, this has nothing to do with oral vaccines? I'm talking about my kids coming home thinking that they came from apes and apes from fish and fish from dirt. As far as I know this still remains to be a theory and yet it is still taught in schools, at the discretion of the person teaching it of course. Of course that person is usually a science teacher so which way do you think they will teach?.

I am going to ignore the highlighted thing under the assumption you are exaggerating for effect and go right to your use of the word 'theory'. Yes, it remains a theory; it will always be a theory because that is how science works. Science finds facts (ie fossils), science collects facts (even more fossils), science tries to tie the facts together into a hypothesis. With a working hypothesis, scientists decide on how to test the hypothesis (ie disprove the hypothesis) then proceed to test the hypothesis. After enough testing, the hypothesis advances to theory and there it remains. If something comes along to disprove the theory or is different enough from the predictions based on the theory, then the theory is either modified or discarded. This works for evolution, gravity, light, geology, etc.

In the case of the theory of Evolution, it has undergone numerous modifications as more information is collected. You might ask how can we test evolution - i would answer that every time a fossil is uncovered, the …

I just heard that someone's kid is dressing as 'Joe the Plumber' for Halloween.

Cool!

Apropos - Duluth Trading Co. sells a t-shirt they call 'crack spackle' - it is an extra 3 inches longer than other t-shirts (they are actually have a sale on their t-shirts that say "Mine is 3 inches longer" - I can't imagine wearing something like that but I live in Seattle).

Just checked - they no longer reference 'crack spackle' but now reference 'Plumber's Butt'.

That is unless the religion happens to be science and theory which gets shoved down my kids' throats every day.

Oh, but that's different. :)

You are going to have to explain that to me - I don't know of any science that is a religion (except Scientology and that is not yet taught in schools that I know of). Can you explain how a scientific theory can be considered a religion? And what do kids throats have to do with school? Is this some sort of rant against oral vaccines?

I'm not a pro. I am a psychologist working in a treatment facility and I would like to end the nightmare of assigning manually 60 kids to n groups. When I do that by hand, I always forget a couple or have the same ones in 2 or 3 groups (OK that might be the age) and I have to retype the stupid form ten times. There should be a drag and drop thing that I could use to have my list on one side and a series of boxes on the other and just drag each kid where he needs to go..?
Can someone help or refer me somewhere?
Thanks!!!

Can't you just put the list into Excel with one column for the kids' names, and one column for each group; then put an 'X' where the 'kid_name' row intersects with the 'group_name' column. You could see immediately if there was a problem if you set the ZOOM so you can see all the kids at one time. If you see a row with more than one column, you can zoom in. You can set the filters for each column to see who is in each group. Conversely, you can have only 2 column; one for kids and one for groups and enter the various group names next to the kid. Again you can filter them to see what kids are in which group.

Does this help? I know it is not a complicated idea but …

Maybe it is just my browser - right now the forum highlights shows up about 2 linefeeds below the bottom edge of post 1

I know you are kidding; it was the beta - the first time they tested all the subsystems as a single system (or is that Euro-envy).

I consider myself an expert on chocolates, and I have to agree with you. Hershey chocolate tastes more gritty because they don't spend the time milling the cocoa beans properly. I like Belgian and Swiss chocolates the best.

Milling! That is the word I have been looking for when I try to explain the difference between good and bad chocolate. I tried to tell them that chocolate has to be mixed long enough to smooth off the rough edges of the little bits. Chocolate is just a fine powder held in suspension; your tongue and palate can tell if the little bits are smooth/fine enough.

White chocolate is just chocolate with everything that makes it chocolate removed.

Ooh, left over peeps, then Halloween candy for Easter.

Jacqueline, (love the name - my sister, godmother both have that name) I tend to agree with you on some levels but on others I tend to see the promises that Obama might be able to keep as better than the promises that McCain might be able to keep.

I checked out your site - can't wait for the 3d page to be up and running. I have absolutely no use for your products but the site is so clean and precise.

Life is hard then you die.

[T]he real crisis of conservatism…can be boiled down to two propositions. The first is that, at least as the American electorate is presently con­stituted, there is no imaginable political coali­tion…capable of sustaining a majority that takes a reduction of the scope of the federal govern­ment as one of its central tasks. The second [proposition] is that modern American conserva­tism is incapable of organizing itself without tak­ing that as a central mission.

I bought one of those 'flat' screen 'crt' televisions for my wife for her Xmas - she would have killed me if I had bought a flat screen tv. And I got a really good deal on it cuz no one wanted 'crt' tvs any more. We are purposedly remaining ludite - it is a long story having to do with hurricane Fran and cell phones.

Sooory! I meant the time we spend together

I knew that - I was poking you.

Have you considered getting Wired or this.

I gotta keep the 'stash' in my truck. Otherwise the girls (wife included) would clean me out before Halloween.

We have been trying to find a candy that neither of us like so that there are some left for the kids - hasn't happened yet so we keep our lights out. Fortunately, kids today do not understand the threat implied by 'trick or treat'. If kids knew what that meant, Homeland Security would have its hands full with all the terrorist threats.

My wife and I put the candy in the freezer - we sort of fight for the Kitkats, then snickers,

I like to call it entertaining ignorance...sounded like you were right out of one of those sci-fi movies where you sound like you know what you are talking about! At any rate, how long did it take you to come up with that one? ;)

I lost the first attempt which is just as well cus i focused on the moisture then someone mention low-temp gases; so I pre-empted the moisture and used the gases that make up most of 'air'. It surprised me when O2 boiled then N boiled then melted and then O2 melted. we would have had to come up with the coefficient of the temperature gradient from the inside of the ice cream to the service, and the gradient across the frozen air, then calculate the heat loss due to thermal convection. DaniWeb does not allow for the use of sub and super scripts or special math characters. It really made for interesting reading; this was a lot of help http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele007.html

I can't help myself - I see a train-wreck happening in slowmo, i just have to push it just a little:

So recalling Palin's grand speech at the GOP convention, it sure is safe to say that all that glitters is not gold. Even if it's gussied up. Politico reports that the Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 for clothes and accessories for Palin. Bills from Saks Fifth Avenue totaled $49,425.74. There was a $75,062.63 spending spree at Neiman Marcus. And this only covers September. Palin--this daring conservative populist maverick--might have racked up bigger bills on the RNC's credit card this month. Cue Jay Leno....and David Letterman and Tina Fey and everyone else. Hey, at some point, shouldn't a vice presidential candidate stop being known mostly as a punchline?

And another thing: anyone remember Dick Nixon's famous Checkers speech?

I should say this, that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her she'd look good in anything.

Apparently, a respectable Republican cloth coat is not sufficient for glam-gov Sarah Palin. The RNC has done a lot more than put lipstick on a pig. It's been dressing up an albatross.

omfg! are those donkeys on her scarf? The cat and dog are surprised at all the furfu

Wow, even the picture is a fraud. Is anybody honest anymore? The gun looks a lot like my bb-gun.

It is actually a pellet-gun - the only real difference between the 2 is that bb-guns were spring loaded and pellet guns were air-powered (I am actually just guessing - I had a Red Ryder that cocked so hard I had to brace the barrel on the ground and put all my weight on the lever; fortunately, my .3030 does not cock near so hard - in fact, I can keep the Winchester parallel to the ground and cock it. It is too barrel-heavy to do the "Lawman" cocking).

Without Net Neutrality, the internet will be hobbled, handcuffed, and turned into an arm of status quo.

Some might argue that the 1st is there to keep gov't out of religion. And the rest are to keep gov't out of other things. Because the Constitution is not a document allowing natural human freedom, rather one that is expressly there to limit gov't.

Oh, I agree with that interpretation. I am sure it would bother true Christians if the gov't tried to get into their faith. Either way, it does not bode well for the individual.

Same with me. Once in a great while do I take my cc with me - then only under very specific conditions.

For those of you who live over there, let me explain:

Even though the USA is a Christian country, every fall we lapse into a pagan ritual at the end of October.

I would like to point out, just to be pedantic, that the USA is not a Christian country. Christ is not mentioned anywhere in our constitution nor is god (or God) and religion is first mentioned in Amendment 1 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I bring this up because it is a constant battle to keep religion out of government and the price of freedom is constant vigilance; and Amendment 1 is the most important amendment because all the rest of the amendments rest on it and so does the Constitution itself.

I know you guys are craving more fraudulent speech by Sarah Palin. Enjoy, courtesy of msnbc.com, your favorite source for news.

I know you think I will post something mean and snide and anti-Palin but I will let her do that. If you don't want to make the jump, this is what she said:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, "What does the Vice President do?"

PALIN: Aw, that’s something that Piper would ask me, as a second grader, also. That's a great question, Brandon, and a Vice President has a really great job, because no only are they there to support the President agenda, they're like a team member, the team mate to that President. But also, they're in charge of the United States Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the Senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom. And it's a great job and I look forward to having that job.

That is just so wrong and this is the job she is applying for.

See, see - everyone laughed when I brought up posse comitatus! Do you still think we should have USMC/USAF/USArmy become internal police? pant,pant,breath,inbreath,outbreath - okay,okay om mani padmi hum ohm,om.
The black helicopters,The black helicopters
sputter,sputter nom me oho rengi kyo

That was the reason the army issued black berets to the entire army - the French control the UN and blue berets would have been too obvious.

I don't have cable so I don't get to watch CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc so I am forced to get my information the old fashioned way - research.

Now a word from our new Old Ones overlords.

DHSC - and I don't even program (er, much)

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use.... abuse.... utilize...... life's a choice
.............................choose well
it's all up to you

It looks like you choose to be incoherent and abusive to ellipses.... Never choose to use more than 4 periods in a row; life is a choice, choose to communicate.

Hello fello geeks!

Programmers' life

Im living in my own world of programming, nd I need to move on to another world.

Have you ever calculated how much time you spend on programming? Take your time and evaluate yourself. For my side, this is what I found, I spend almost 12 hrs daily on programming the real reson being dat I'm still a scholer and curious. I always want to no more and learn something new. Im now doing amazingly 5 programming languages. WOW..!! and I don't even have more dan 2 yrs programming.

What will happen to me in 10 yrs time, :-) My life will be completely be taken off by tech.

I need a serious help seing dat my girlfrriend is complaining about the time we spend together!

Lets do what we do best!

If she complains about the time you spend together, what does she say about the time you spend apart? Does she like you better apart?

I was reading some stories about the political forces in the UK and I can hardly believe how narrowly the political parties were/are defined. Sometimes it would take 4 or 5 adjectives to define what sort of labo(u)r party they belonged to and they would fight the other guy if any of the adjectives were different. I imagine pub life was interesting.

Fool that I am, I still hold out hope for humanity. I think a lot of them are going to go into the voting booth and say to themselves "I can't believe I am going to vote for a N-word, but that is the only hope I have left." Sometimes, the shock is so great that they are forced to evolve.

World-wide GDP is about $60 trillion while the world-wide debt is about $100 trillion and US debt is about $70 trillion.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

World wide CDOs are the anvil-based safety parachutes for banks.

Ene, I sure hope you meant 'owe' rather than 'own' - just saying.

No one should be dumb enough to think they can conquer Afghanistan. Everyone who tried it was crushed against the mountains. The Russians killed over a million and half Afghans and still lost there. The British tried, yadda,yadda,yadda.

And the truth shall make you free.

Convincing people with ideas "I started out by reminding him of something that most people forget: the Vietnam War was a Democratic War. Kennedy started it and Johnson expanded it. (Nixon, the Republican, ended it.) I didn’t say this in the spirit of accusation, because I wasn’t being partisan. I said it to give historical context to a larger discussion about freedom versus statism."

This is misleading at best since Truman and Eisenhower both sent 'advisers' in to support the South Vietnam regime.

People tend to think of the VN war as a war between the North and the South but the South was making war on it's own people. There were so many different issues going on people lose sight but some images stay in the mind.

Shoot, the French Resistance was successfully using crossbows against German tanks (if you consider a few dead tanks for the whole war successful) -- granted, they did have explosives on the quarrel. What happened was the quarrel made an instantaneous weak point in the armor then the explosives went off, blowing out a cone of armor that would bounce around inside the tank causing meat damage.

I had the same problem with those guys on my Vista home pro. Then I discovered that I wanted to learn to use the darned 'ribbon' anyway. Have you tried 'add/remove windoze components'?

Why did the Forum Highlights get moved so far down the page? It used to be right under 'Subscribe' (IIRC). For a while I could not find it, but this is just me.

Irony bites.

Paddy Power paying presidential prize (I had to stretch to keep it aliterative). Irish bookie is already paying out on Obama win.

Ex-DOJ Voting Rights Chief On Bogus Voter Fraud Probe: "There Is No Shame."

Am I correct in reading that as, "over the 'b' in 'Liberal'"?

Nah, over the 'r'.

These are actually the points I was questioning:

Conservatives also believe that one's rights come from the Creator, not from the government. They believe that Government's chief role is to protect the rights that God has endowed to humankind.

and

Conservatives believe that both mothers and fathers have unique and invaluable roles to play in the development of healthy children. Feminine and masculine role models are important for girls and boys alike. In our youth, we look to our mothers and fathers to learn how to live and relate to others

By chance, this article recently arrived in my "inbox".

It is certainly true that if political ads are the source of most Americans' understanding of the liberal/conservative balance (from either side), conservatives have been pretty deeply smeared. To be honest, it will take a lot for my opinion of conservatives to (corrected?) raised.

I am reading the referenced article now and it looks like there is no room for atheists, gay families. I like the view of schools and individual beliefs. I wish he had stuck with defining conservatives without trying to define liberals as everything they are not (okay, I exaggerate for effect).

A conservative person believes in individual responsibility as the cornerstone of behavior. She or he draws upon that conviction for inner strength, when circumstances are not favorable. She or he doesn't accept the principle that “the results justify the means”.
Tradition is a strong anchor in “weathering times”, as well as self-reliance and the value of virtues handled down from generation to generation.
She or he respects and honors any authority that safeguard those cherished values. Therefore she or he accepts government as a form of authority that can protect and safeguard inalienable rights and the ability to exercise that responsibility fore mentioned . Nevertheless, government should be kept in check to not intrude unduly in personal lives, nor force unjust dominion upon its citizenry.
She or he recognizes the value of human live and free agency. Accepting only any form of socialism that results of the free interaction between individuals, for mutual betterment.
It is not uncommon to find that a libertarian individual adhere to some of these same principles, only not necessarily in that order of priority or sense of importance.

In the other hand, a liberal person works under the assumption that solution to problems and betterment in livelihood, can be achieved by compulsion, brought through social programs and mandates. The “results justify the means”. Sacrifices are acceptable as long as do not rest upon him or her.
The masses are always saw after, to legitimize dominion. Individual responsibility it is shifted, …