Posts by GrimJack

I possibly mentioned this before, but I still think it's funny: Christianity: In the beginning was a supreme being and he made the universe. Atheism: In the beginning was nothing and then it exploded.

Actually, it would probably go more like this:
Christian - What an interesting, wonderful universe - wasn't it nice of god to make it
Atheist - What an interesting, wonderful universe.

I already told you that I have no intention of turning this thread into any type of religious war. I'll say it again -- You want a quote: just ONE is John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

There are similar claims all over the New Testiment

<<Heh, heh - we won't discuss the edit>> thanks, that's all I wanted (though in truth your quote only states that believers will not perish - it does not say non-believers will perish; am I being difficult?). I don't want this to be a religious war either.

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Sneek, you missed the point (and so did AD), he made a claim - I just wanted him to back up the claim. Your quote does not back up his statement. The claim was roughly 'non-xtians are doomed - it all over the bible'. I just wanted him to support his argument; I am certainly not interested in doing his research for him (or for you for that matter).

[edit]OMG I just noticed that I edited your post instead of quoting it. My deapest apologies for my error -- AD [/edit]

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This is a map of all the streets and only the streets in the lower 48 states. You can almost see the beginnings of the world city. Farmland, mountains, deserts are known by their absence - come take a look.

When you say you do not have any access to it - does that mean that the "safely remove device" button does not show it?

Did anyone else notice that McCain just barely got 54% of the Repube primary votes in Ohio even though, technically, no one was running against him?! Does this bode well?

<<long story detailing all the petty grievances of the day leading to - >> I finally got the cash register to open and drawer shot out spilling change all over the floor. I was on my hands and knees picking up change when the phone rang, I stood up to answer it and smacked my head on the still-open register drawer. When I got to the phone it was your mom asking me how to use an anal suppository - so I told her.

All over the new testiment.

Come on, AD - give it up! We want a hint - I think the standard is book - chapter - line(s) (zeke 12: 13-69).

Isn't that a straw man argument?

Wow, way to go Dave - you managed to stay focused and on topic!! w00t! w00t! and provided a link that is useful with nary a political rant. I'm proud of you.

Er, sorry - I just had to poke you to make sure you hadn't been replaced by a pod.

anyone here even been in the armed forces?

opinions?

I was in the USMC

Yup -- 1 for me and 0 for you :)

Yeah, I am one of those rare guys who will actually learn something from discussions and admit when they 'mis-type' or are 'mis-quoted'.

Yea, that's because Sadaam killed them all -- that's all those bodies in the mass graves our military people found all over Iraq. At least Sadaam knew how to deal with them.

AD, I can't tell when you are being serious and when you are joking.

Oh, I get it - the Kurds were AQ! The definition "if they are dead, they must have been our enemy"

Wrong. The Guard aren't reservists.
He didn't miss "all the meetings".

But your hatred of anything not extreme leftist blurs your vision to the point where you see only he shining white light over the head of Stalin and thinks it's a halo when in fact it's the KGB's desklamp they shine in your eyes during an interrogation.

jwenting - you spew the most amazing, er 'stuff'. George W. Bush was a draft dodger who got into the Guard thru political influence. While in the guard, he essentially went AWOL and was not seen by his commander for over a year.

To be honest, I don't 'hate' much and don't like personal attacks but I enjoy a good discussion. Unfortunately, I don't get much from you but 'stuff' -- I will keep trying.

Besides, picking up pencil and notebook is a lot quicker than booting up a laptop, starting VI or Word, finding and opening the file to edit, editing it, and closing everything down again.

Wow, I haven't seen mention of VI for years and years.

What is the editor of the Beast?
VI VI VI

That joke still slays me.

I won't. I won't forget the hungry living next door, the unemployed people with kids who can't afford to buy food from the meager social security they get.
I'll donate something to people helping them, not some farmer in the Sudan who left his farm to pillage and murder and now complains that he's got no food.

Jwenting, please point me to where you find the Sudanese farmer pillaging and murdering. If you have something factual to say about them, then spit it out. If you don't believe in donating to foreigners, then don't but why are you fulminating w/o anything to support your position?

I clicked, but there was no free food.

Er, sneek - the free food is not for you. The food is donated to the UN world food program

Yeah. Its illegal. They are running a pay-per-click scam.

What is illegal? How is it a scam? They have been there since 1999; if they are a scam or illegal, then they would be gone. Help me out here - what are you talking about? Just to repeat what I said to jwenting - show me something to contradict Snopes.

Sometimes you guys can be a bit dismissive w/o much support.

discussed before. They're fraudulent.

You are going to have to provide more info than that. In what way are they a fraud. Do they not provide free food for each click? I looked at the thread started by thedude and there was nothing there.

I will believe Snopes over a four-word dismissal.

I don't normally do this but I have been clicking on these sites for about 5 years or more - I hope that others will also. Every click a bowl of rice, a piece of rain forest, a mammogram, a book, etc.....

HungerSite. Then if you see something you like buy it to give more.

Including the president himself who was a fighter pilot assigned to continental air defense.

Sorry but you missed my qualification that stated you don't get to count anyone who joined the reserves then missed all the meetings (jumping to the head of the waiting list of 150 other Texans who were applying for AF Reserve).

>>name one civilian in the Bush administration who served his country in the military
I'm certain there are lots of them. Afterall there are 1.8 million civil service employees not counting postal service. That has to include thousands of prior military people.
Secretary of State: Colin Powell -- retired General.
Of the others found here, you'll have to research them yourself.

Congratulations, you found the soldier in the Bush administration - the one that regrets his participation in the drumbeat to war; he was humiliated by the lie he was told and that he passed on to the UN in that fateful speech. I was surprised to find that 2 others were also in the military - hoist by my own bombast (heh,heh - I just love my sense of humor), I guess. Unless you are completely clueless, you know that the phrase "Bush Administration" means those members of the executive branch that he appointed or hired. Do you know what the civil service is? You don't get to count them as part of the Bush Admin.

Would you like to take on any of the other points I made?

Here is an interesting article written in '02 Drumbeat for war.

http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html
interesting statistics but i dont believe it. Seems to pro-us --
well, south vietnam was defeated, the us faught a bloody war for many years, and north vieynam is still communist to this day. I call this a defeat.

I noticed that only Westmorland and Nixon were quoted - both of them had a horse in that race.

ah, the leftists are down to their usual practice again, uttering lies and abusive language in an attempt to bully others to stop telling the truth which they don't like.

So you are attacking me for quoting you directly? You are saying that I am bullying you? Show me your truth - you specifically stated that you did not serve in the military; you specifically stated that most of the GIs who did drugs in VN were druggies before they went over, then you tried to change what you said.

"neocons" are the ultraleft wing of the Republican party, people who're more leftwing than most so-called "Democrats".

Man you are so wrong that there is nothing in this statement that even makes sense let alone approach the truth. "most younger neocons never experienced being left of center. They've always been "Reagan" Republicans."; they believe that the United States should not be ashamed to use its unrivaled power – forcefully if necessary – to promote its values around the world. Some even speak of the need to cultivate a US empire."

Iraq was a necessity. It was in fact mandated by the UN resolutions determining the terms to the 1991 ceasefire, and should have been initiated in 1995 when Iraq broke those terms.

Nope! Not even close.

But Billyboy Clinton was too weak, too soft, to do what needed be done. Had he done his duty as commander in chief and president of the US Iraq would have been free and …

So.... how much does it cost to become a donor?

If you are on cable you can always turn to the Comedy Channel. I love Jon Steward's Daily Show.

The Daily Show is almost enough to get me to subscribe to cable - but I have resisted assimilation.

Everyone? Pick any moment and say "there! that is where the mistake was made" and someone else will say "Nope it was Bill Clinton"

its a fact that red cars have more accidents - they cost more to insure in my country

Must not live in the US - I have never paid extra insurance for my red car and got only one speeding ticket in the 18 years I owned it. Before you ask, I was born and raised in Montana where the speed limit was reasonable and prudent (ie. no speed limit), I drive fast. I am not an aggressive driver but I am assertive. Er, I actually talked my way out of that speeding ticket by claiming that, since I was born and raised in Montana with no speed limit, I depended on my cruise control to control my speed and that my cruise control broke on that trip. I was looking for a defective equipment ticket but the judge just looked at me for a long time and said "I have never heard so much crap but, I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and if you get no moving violations in the next 6 months, your record is clean" charged me $50 court costs. I talked my way out of a couple other moving violations but that was in a volkswagon and does not count.

No one has ever come up with any actual citations for the "red cars get more tickets, red cars cost more in insurance" stuff. I want to see any actual (actuarial) stats. If a red car in your country …

The perfect American worker is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Then kicks before s/he collects Social Security

And then there are some members like me who get up one day and say 'hey i will start posting on daniweb from today' :D

Or like me, who wants learn something new so I pop in to poke locals with a blunt stick hoping for someone to make me think.

I never said all were druggies.
All I said was that those who went there as druggies usually came back worse.<<what you actually said:
But IMO NOTHING justifies drugs, and the majority of the drug cases in Vietnam were druggies before they went over. They just replaced pot with easy to get opium and heroine when over there.>>
If I'd not been rejected for military service I'd likely be in the military now, though probably not in a warzone (by now I'd be too senior to be sent into battle, instead being confined to a headquarters' job).

Can't help it that I was born too late for Korea, too early for Afghanistan (we were never in Vietnam).

It is amazing how many conservatives managed to dodge any actual military service - we have an administration full of warhawks who thought Iraq would be a walk in the park and yet they all had 'other priorities' during the Vietnam police action. You did not go to VN, did not spend any time in the military and still manage to 'know' what and who was a druggie. I have buddies who think if you haven't killed anyone, you don't get an opinion - but, sometimes, I wonder if at least some of neocons had pee'd in a foxhole, we might not have gone into Iraq

traumatic head injury research was mainly due to vietnam. Nowadays, you can still probably live if half your skull is missing.

There was this really crazed blasting accident in the 1800s - Phineas Gage had a tamping rod blasted up through his cheek and out the top of his head Story here. The first do it yourself lobotomy.

The only thing I don't like about changing avatars is that the change propagates backwards in time.

Hmmm, I just tried to import a new avatar and I get the message "You may not upload animated images" Well, I will look around for something - this is the image I was trying to use:

What the heck is going on?! Suddenly everyone is changing their avatars - I hardly recognize anyone any more.

Okay, not everyone but still scrolling down through long threads now takes longer because I can no longer discount people out of familiarity (just kidding).

we owe a lot to world war two. jet engine, nuclear stuff, the computer... too many to name

And medical advances - we seem to make extreme strides in surgery during times of war (especially if you consider <American> football as a form of war - knee surgery comes immediately to mind).

Marco Polo may have seen it, but he wouldn't have gotten instructions on how to make it.

Oh?!

For all you older folks that's 1040AD, 1295 AD and 1346 AD. The term CE is not generally accepted anywhere in the world, only by college activists and athesists. Sorry, but we still use the Gregorian calendar.

Rather than enumerate I will just note that Jews don't accept JC but find it convenient to use the Gregorian calendar so they use Common Era (or sometimes Christian Era); Jehova's Witnesses use CE/BCE exclusively in their publications.
I offer this quote: The English phrase "common Era" appears at least as early as 1715 in a book on astronomy, used synonymously with Christian Era and Vulgar Era. A 1759 history book uses common æra in a generic sense, to refer to the common era of the Jews. Common era and vulgar era are used as synonyms in 1770, in a translation of a book originally written in German. The 1797 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica uses the terms vulgar era and common era synonymously. In 1835, in his book Living Oracles, Alexander Campbell, wrote: "The vulgar Era, or Anno Domini; the fourth year of Jesus Christ, the first of which was but eight days", and also refers to the common era as a synonym for vulgar era with "the fact that our Lord was born on the 4th year before the vulgar era, called Anno Domini, thus making (for example) the 42d year from his birth to correspond with the 38th of the common era..." The Catholic Encyclopedia uses the …

The Chinese and Europeans both invented gunpowder independently.
The Chinese did it first, the Europeans didn't know about the Chinese when they discovered it on their own.

The Chinese invented gunpowder around 1040CE, Marco Polo returned from China around 1295 CE, and gunpowder was first used in 1346 CE at the Battle of Crecy. They could have independently discovered gp but...

Buy a pc version - should be no problem. I believe halo 3 is available for the pc.

Lack of domesticated animals. Without cattle, horses, and donkey's, people were limited by their own strength and endurance; w/o pigs and chickens there are no easily transported calories. This also meant that diseases that move back and forth between domestic animals and people leaving their immune systems unstressed by certain diseases. Africa had domesticated animals and beasts of burden but not horses (except for Mediterranean trading zone); South America had domesticated animals including beasts of burden but not horses; SE Asia had beasts of burdens and domestic animals including tamable elephants; North America had no beasts of burden, no domestic animals and no horses.

I think the theory goes that horses and camels allow the spread of small, incremental, local changes in technology that then be caravaned around to other pockets of local technology. There is more to it but there you go.

Toda after lunch I ordered a bowl of vanilla ice cream with caramel and at the last second I added a cherry on top. I know I know that is kind of edgy but I had too. So I get to my office and I see the cherry and I ask myself "should I eat it first or should I take a couple of bites of the ice cream or should I wait until the end?"

Am I the only person who asks this question or are others that do it to?

More importantly, do you 'smoosh' down your vanilla ice cream into the consistency of porridge and slowly enjoy the 127 different volatile oils slip across your tongue and down your throat?

always first. Event he stem.

Can you tie the stem into a knot with just your tongue? It takes a while, but worth it.

Processed food companies spend more than $33 billion per year on advertising, nearly 70% of which goes to market snack-foods and alcohol while the GDP of Afghanistan was $35 billion.

In 2000, the USDA spent $300 million promoting the consumption of fruits and vegetables while Wrigley's spent $117 million marketing chewing gum.

Er, or at least discomfited.

That is true, infact I also happen to know that Chuck Norris is the only person who can order a Big Mac at a Burger King outlet - and of course get it.

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer - unfortunately, he never cries.

Each day more then 20 million meteoroids enter our atmosphere. Most of them are just egg-size.

Meteoroids are the pieces of 'debris' in the solar system. Once they hit the atmosphere the streak of light they produce is called a meteor, and if they hit the ground they are meteorites. Depending on the composition of the meteor (FeNi vs 'rocky'), an egg-sized meteor would weigh about a pound. Most of them are actually minuscule. The chances of a human being hit by a meteorite is about .0055 per year or about one event every 180 years - thanks to Annie Hodges, we don't have to worry about it for another 100 years.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
-- Emperor Napoleon

He also said "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

The closest thing I saw to a hologram was 3-d design monitor that actually moved towards and away from the viewer. The monitor itself did the math to determine where the screen should be. It was incredibly accurate in its giving the 3-d 'look and feel' but mechanically did not generally survive the warranty period.

Why do you have to "put your two cents in ... " but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where does the extra penny go?

Isn't that a buy/sell issue? (My thoughts are worth 2 cents but I'd only pay a penny for yours)

i think you mean UpNp as opposed to PnP

d'Oh! I dl-ed UnPlugNPlay from grc.com and missed that pun! i definitely meant UPnP

What they've been doing for the last several years is essentially police work, not military action.

I think it might be more accurately called 'occupation'. We do not have police in Iraq, we have soldiers and marines and private contractors.

Are you now or have you ever been?