Posts by GrimJack

If you keep disowning everyone who begins to question the McCain/Palin ticket, you are not going to have many conservatives left on your side. David Brooks of the New York Times, heck even Karl Rove thinks McCain is lying through his teeth in his ads. Now McCain flacks are claiming that McCain invented the BlackBerry. Then his other flack's are having a real problem explaining McCain - Pfotenhauer and Bounds.

Yes, I did notice that these videos are on Huffington post. And yes I think the Pfotenhauer and the Democratic flack kept really trying to keep on talking point.

<<poke>>

Even the right-leaning Washington Post has given up on McCain/Palin.

Never call your broker on Monday.

So what if John McCain graduated 894th out 899 cadets from the US Naval Academy in 1958? He did get up to the rank of captain in the navy, that's just below Rear Admiral!

It is the equivalent of colonel in the army (heh,heh - he said rear admiral, heh,heh)

and why is a bridge to Wassila a "waste of federal money" but a billion dollar road to connect some remote town in (say) Montana isn't?
Maybe because it's not a leftist politician voting for the budget?

Palin has a track record of reducing pork and corruption, Obama and Biden have only ever tried to increase it.

Palin does not have a record of reducing pork in AK - how on earth did you get that idea - oh yeah, from her. Just because the 'bridge to nowhere' was not build does not mean that she did not spend that pork somewhere else. The money did not come back to DC - she spent it.

The difference is that Montana just happens to be 'in the way' when travel across the United States. I would really not advise you to tell Montanans that they are leftist. The last Democratic governor of MT died in a plane crash in the late 50s. They did not get another one until that stupid Republican governor decided to take Montana Power into the digital age, sold off all of its assets and ran it into the ground. Montanans woke up one morning with a completely gutted utility and immediately elected a Dem gov. They are happy with him - well, as happy Montanans can ever be with a Dem.

Do you mean sabbataging? Moving the voting day to the sabbat or Sabbath.

I still think it doesn't matter whom you vote for. Once in DC they all turn into the same thing.

Heh,heh - I flunked out of French - I knew it named after throwing a wooden shoe into the works - I forgot that the shoe is a sabot.

because other planets' climates are so hostile no living things could survive there

Er, is this out of the blue or were you responding to something? you should use the 'reply with quote' cuz I am too lazy to read 90+ post to try to figure out what you are talking about.

maybe. But remember that many of those illegals are using the voter registration cards of dead people (and their SSNs).
One more reason leftists are opposed to throwing out illegals and closing down the border so they can't get in again.

More unsupported Bull Pucky. I grew up in John Birch country, it is amazing how easily you would fit in, JW. Going home from college I would pass the sign "You are entering John Birch country". This being Montana, the sign was full of bullet holes.

Don't you believe in resurrection?

The amount of illegal aliens voting is far larger than the amount of dead people voting.

Give me some numbers! Making unsupported statements is not good form in a discussion. This is not a game of gotcha (well, actually it is but we still need some support for our gotchas).

Dead People Voting

an update at that link

UPDATE: Contrary to the suggestion of some commentators, I made no claim of fraud. It's obvious that dead people are not actually voting (at least, obvious to those of us who reject claims of the paranormal). So, to repeat a finding that dead people are voting simply means that either a) live people are casting fraudulent votes in the name of dead people, or b) live people casting their own votes are wrongly listed as being dead. As some commentators noted, the story swuggests the latter is as, if not much more, likely than the former. Either way, official records show people voted who are supposed to be dead. In any event, I wrote that "some 2,600 dead people may" have voted, but I probably should have said "up to" or "as many as" to be more precise.

and it is also quite possible that someone got an absentee ballot, voted, and died before the election.

JW - I rather think of it as "not accepting unchecked data from rightist news sources"

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/15/acorn-commits-fraud-in-michigan/

If you read the article, you will notice that the workers are not ACORN employees but paid gatherers. It is unfortunate that when people are paid by the registration, some will try to get a little more. If you also notice in the article, it is stated that none of the dupes or invalid registrations get through. And I stand by my request for some actual numbers. Just saying it happens is only inflammatory.

It is better to snuff one candle than to curse the light.

Sneeks - thanks for that. One wonders why the MSM does not trot these out every once and a while. I imagine that Faux News would scream about proprietary rights but still...

Indecision 2008 - Restoring Honor and Dignity to the White House. Watching Jon work was soo much fun.

BOINC has about 15 or 20 projects as you noticed. Currently I am running WorldGrid, Malariacontrol,Rosetta@home,SpinHenge,UFluids and on my desktop I have Malariacontrol, WorldGrid,Climate, and Einstein@home.

I waste a lot of power because I feel guilty if I don't have something running and I really want another badge. Maybe I should run out and buy a bigger cpu. This is one is dual, the desktop is single - I suppose I should get a job so I can afford another, 4 or 8-plex machine. I really want my next WorldGrid badge.

A geek I remane.

Face it, man. You are still playing.

So now you are starting with the first grade stuff.

Say something interesting or go away.

Oh Goodie - we are going to have a pork-off! i will get right on it.

BRB

>Like I have said before "If only ignorance were painful"
...you would be begging your doctor for bigger and stronger pain-killer.

Heh,heh - I played that game in first grade, it was boring even then - the whole rubber/glue thing.

Anyway, thank you for playing.

It seemed sort off that phrase you used rotten carcass infected with putrefied-fresh eater maggots. - I don't know what about that phrase does not seem very Christian but it has resonance -- I bet it sounds even better in the original German.

Like I have said before "If only ignorance were painful"

Of course I am presumptuous; how could I not be, especially as I choose this definition: impertinently bold; forward.

I put a print statement inside a loop instead of after it - the operator called me after he loaded the 2nd box of paper, sigh.

You assumed incorrectly. I am not looking for answers, and I am not open minded. The truth is the truth regardless of the spin. And it is its own best ambassador.

I can see that; you are bigoted and hold on to your beliefs with considerable vigor (or rage - you be the judge)

I have not mislead anyone. You are not us or everyone. If you feel mislead is due to your own presumptions and bigotry.

please show me my bigotry without showing yours

>Last edited by GrimJack : 19 Hours Ago at 18:34. Reason: I know that Aia is female, I just wanted to keep the quote whole
You know nothing and you can prove it.

You are correct - I have only your word to go on and you are telling me I should not trust that.

For the record, I am against Obama or anyone that has the same ideas that Obama. In a matter of fact, now more than ever.

Okay, we understand that; to be honest, once you tell us you are not open-minded - it becomes more difficult to care.

Nevertheless, any one lawmaker that has such little respect and disregard for human life, especially, of those innocent little one, are as equal as a rotten carcass infected with putrefied-fresh eater maggots.
Am I clear enough for you? Am I misleading you in anyway?

Wow, <sarcasm>Did you get any saliva on your screen or keyboard</sarcasm> you are definitely clear enough for …

No I don't - I get away with that because I am cool and liberal. I get to do it and you don't so there.

Well, actually you gotta keep poking me or I won't see it.

Or maybe your creepy rightwingnut is a valid, dispassionate description??

Here is some cool hardware I won't get - I play shooters and get shot way too often to want to 'feel the pain'.

Those were shown to cause reproductive harm if worn longer than a day.

Did it depend on where you wore it?

I particularly liked Fury Shark; she was hot (er, well, in my head she was hot).

And combine that with this story linking Obama with ACORN to get a clear picture of how the Obamessiah is planning to corrupt the November elections.

Well more emotionally laden cr*p with no supporting documentation (I went to that article and found no reference to Obama and that is the article that Dave and I were discussing - show us something with substance).

I notice that there is no count mentioned so we do not know what they consider 'a sizable number' is. This is especially important because we have the count for the number they enrolled. It would also be helpful to know what the overall count of invalid applications for the entire state/town/county. What we have is an article with vague references and complaints that it slows down "our operations". There is no advantage for ACORN to 'purposely' try to register invalid applications; the advantage is that most of the applications that they register will vote Democratic - and that is the reason for the hysteria around the error rate.

For this to mean anything, we need real numbers.

Darn, now we are have to hide it again - it was so nice to be able to just leave it over there and grab it when necessary.

I once had a Captain Midnight Codograph.

I have come to enough evidence that the testimony given it is the truth.
It is political charged with mister Obama in the thick of it, but to avoid it is like taking a bath and pretend not to get wet.

If you have come to enough evidence then bring to us this real evidence. Do research; find articles from medical journals; find articles from legal documents. Then bring Obama into the evidence with quotes from his speeches or position papers. Please, at least follow some of the rules of discourse.

Or just spew cr*p from your comfortable little cocoon, your choice.

That's why it has a ? at the end. However, the word I would like to have used is despicable.

No, the question mark is there because you have no clue. I saw the '?' and assumed that you had an open mind and were looking for answers. Instead you point to an anti-Obama screed. I will paraphrase my first quote:
Have you no shame, at long last lady, have you no shame?

If despicable is what you would like to have used, then why didn't you use despicable? If you somehow believe that Fox News in general and BO'R in particular are a good source of anything other than rightwing propaganda, then say so up front - do not mislead us by pretending you have a question.

I think the word you were looking for in the title was indefensible - just for future reference.

Hey, JW - look what I found on broadcasting energy. "A former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a distance of 92 miles (148 km) between two Hawaiian islands, an achievement that he says proves the technology exists to beam solar power from satellites back to Earth" It cost a million dollars and only transmitted 180 watts but heck the Wright brothers' first flight was shorter that the length of the 747 body.

Uh, the primary source was linked in the creepy rightwingnut website.

That does not answer the question of why you did not link to the primary source.

Well, this is probably not what you are looking for but it is fun - it is a science fiction turn based game - one character can be played for free:
Destiny2.. There is even a game in there for you, Ancient Dragon - called DungeonWorld

Heh.

Cr*p! At least point to the primary source rather than your creepy rightwingnut websites.

<zing>

Sorry - I should have known your post would have been cr*p but I thought you had some decency left.

I was wrong so I will repeat something said more that 50 years ago:
Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Black Holes are theoretical for a start. All the evidence points towards them, but as they can't be seen, and object when near the edge just 'fade' we cannot say for definate what happens. However, as everything has a seperate gravitational exertion of energy, then they will not be supported as seperate objects on the Earth able to fall through. It will be entirely self 'suspended', so will not "fall" through another gravitational source, which is a common misconception. The singularity will not have an effect on matter until it reaches the event horizon. According to the net, the total earth mass going into a black hole will result in one under 1cm. That means all matter outside that radius will not exactly be pull into it, but will slightly be effected. This along with its self supportion in spacetime means that it will not devour out planet... Which is a good thing really.

Well, yes Black Holes are theoretical and we will never see one but I would like to point you to this site
.Using a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), a team of astronomers led by Doeleman employed an array of telescopes to study radio waves coming from the object known as Sagittarius A* (A-star). In VLBI, signals from multiple telescopes are combined to create the equivalent of a single giant telescope, as large as the separation between the facilities. As a result, VLBI yields exquisitely sharp resolution.

Nevertheless, their result represents …

It is like many scientific discoveries; its affects can be seen so it is added in to balance things out. Observations of Uranus showed that something not seen was affecting its orbit. They finally found Neptune. Though, truthfully, it was first seen by Galileo but he is not credited because he thought it was a fixed star. The Neutrino was not seen but physicists needed something to balance certain equations, later they found it.

They are just so 1980s lame - what were they thinking?

Is there an algorithm for normalizing data? I think I understand the process but how do I know when I have drilled down to the bottom?

All it takes to be an intellectual is to have someone around who isn't.

For those of you with FF running "NoScript" - have you noticed "googlesyndication" and "google-analytics" - I have them marked as untrusted cuz - I don't trust them, especially since they bought doubleclick. I think I might be harping on doubleclick a lot but I hate them.

Nice read, another article I really liked linked with developing skills in the programming field is Peter Norvig's Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

I'm getting depressed again. At least I bought the Complete Dummies version. Anyone want to take on a 60 year old trainee?

Black Holes happen all time around us in nature. They are just doing in a controlled way to moniter what happens closely. Even if a black was to be created, consuming the entire mass of the earth (In other words, everything is gone) the event horrizon would be very small; We are safe... For now anyway :S

One of the doomsday scenarios is that a tiny black hole is created and is accidentally dropped. It falls through the center of the earth, swallowing mass as it goes, comes out the other side, then falls back through the earth swallowing more. Each path is different due to the rotation of the Earth. Long before the earth is consumed by the black hole, magma leaks out and covers the surface of the planet.

Wow, I am starting to depress myself.

Think happy thought, think happy thoughts -- the cockroaches won't win!

My great aunt voted when she was dead. Absentee. She died the day after she mailed it in. I have to believe that vote was counted. It wasn't fraud though since as far as I know she didn't know she was going to be dead. Two years later when she got another absentee ballot in the mail and THAT was sent in, well that may have been illegal. By the way, that's at least one counter-example for you, AD. She voted Republican in that one. If I had gotten to the mail before my cousin did, she probably would have voted Democratic.

Are you from Chicago? I love the old "when I die, have me buried in Chicago so I can continue to vote Democrat"

nope. Hit them at short notice so they have no time to think up another fraudulent scheme.

Somehow, this makes no sense. You are saying it is better to disenfranchise a million voters to stop unknown, unproven, 'possible' cases of voter fraud? Do you even think through what you say?

Crazy Japanese WII Manual :)
LINK HERE

I am sorry, I don't actually see the 'Japanese' part of the humor; what I see is a stupid white guy who can't understand symbolic languages. Would you please explain the 'Crazy Japanese' part?

Excellent. Far too many fake voter registration cards are in circulation, most of them created by far left groups btw (which is of course why the left is so opposed to voters needing to identify themselves).
In other countries it's quite normal that you can't vote without first proving who you are, and getting that identity registered so you can't go out and vote more than once.

You don't find it suspicious that they waited until 2 months before the actual election to come up with these plans rather than, say, a year ago so that there would be time for response?

Let me look at this a little

Wind power consumes no fuel for continuing operation, and has no emissions directly related to electricity production. Operation does not produce carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, mercury, particulates, or any other type of air pollution, as do fossil fuel power sources. Wind power plants consume resources in manufacturing and construction. During manufacture of the wind turbine, steel, concrete, aluminum and other materials will have to be made and transported using energy-intensive processes, generally using fossil energy sources. The initial carbon dioxide emissions "pay back" is within about 9 months of operation for off shore turbines.

Okay, this looks pretty good. The output could be improved by using only recycled aluminum (extraction is the real energy consumer there).

Unlike fossil fuel and nuclear power stations, which circulate or evaporate large amounts of water for cooling, wind turbines do not need water to generate electricity. However, leaking lubricating oil or hydraulic fluid running down turbine blades may be scattered over the surrounding area, in some cases contaminating drinking water areas.

This can be balanced against coal-produced contamination which goes into the air and contaminates a far wider area. Or against dams which destroy down-stream ecologies. Or against nulclear which produces down-time contamination. And we could always learn to tighten the seals.

One study reports simulations that show detectable changes in global climate for very high wind farm usage, on the order of 10% of the world's land area. In a similar way, there are concerns of …

There is an interesting development in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Mississippi, state Attorneys General are suing the Boards of Election to remove all voters from the rolls whose address does not match the address in the Department of Licensing db. In some of the larger cities, plans are in place to send members to polling places with lists of foreclosure notices to challenge any voter whose address is on the list.

Do you believe that a data mis-match between the voter database and the DMV database is an accurate way to determine eligibility to vote?

Do you believe that a list of home under foreclosure will be a valid test for voter eligibility?

Solar sails have been tested in orbit and do work.

Of course the test sails have been small and crude, made of very thin plastic coated in aluminium, but the concept has been shown to work.

I like Larry Niven's explanation of solar sails (and the pursuit).

I am tempted to get political here but instead just say that we started building the superconductin super collider but stopped after spending about 2 billion dollars on 17 holes in the ground. We probably should have done what CERN did and make it an international effort. the SSC would have been somewhat higher energy - 40 TeV against 14 TeV in the center of mass. I hope that the US does not lose its position as the leader in science.

No, to that little mishap in the Ukraine...

Nuclear energy is safe as long as you leave it to engineers to run the plants and set policies rather than politicians and greenies.

I'd much rather live near a nuclear plant than a coal or oil fired plant, and especially a windfarm.

Could you elaborate on that? "especially a windfarm" - how is that worse than coal or oil fired?