Posts by GrimJack

There are a couple tricks to use that could help:
color+noun+special char (replace one of the letters with a # like 6 for 'o' or 1 for 'i') and have a representation around your desk somewhere - you know all those ty collectables hanging off of geek computers were often password clues. I look over at my cork board now and I see:
a pink ribbon pin, silver skulls, a pic of me standing in the 'drive thru tree' when I visited the 'drive through the tree state park' <or whatever it's real name is> in California, a white snowflake and loads of old picture badges -- heck, there is my old passport from when I went to Australia and Fiji. If you have a cluttered life like me, you could have your password right out in the open and no one would see it.

When I was a system manager of VAX Cluster with forced p/w changes monthly, we kept a collection of those books of definitions that are not actual word but should be (I forget what they were called). There were 5 volumes in our library so when the password was changed, a message was sent to the team with a string like "4 15 2" which would translate as 4th volume 15th page, 2nd definition. That was back in the good old days when the 128 digit prime # would require 500,000 days to break (also the VAX/VMS system would stop accepting login …

sneekula - thanks, I'll pass on your comment to my friend tomorrow when we go to see I am legend at the Imax theater.

I used listen to http://www.spiderpowerradio.com/ - they have been down for almost a year so I am not sure what they play now. I turned a co-worker on to them because he was an old school spinner from NY; after it went down he started http://www.globalvortexradio.com/index2.html. He has been having some problems with his scheduler - especially on the weekends but.... You want to supply your own groove? Please submit it with times (to the second, natch). This is mostly house but some ambient.

Oh, yeah - now I will go back and listen to your recommendations

I am currently slogging through Space Hack but for thrills I play:
Quake 4
HalfLife2++
Sin: emergence
Max Payne2
Prey
UFO
for Xmas, I am going to buy myself Crysis and then all other games/gaming will stop -except I play a PBeM post-apocalyptic computer-moderated game from MadCentral call Twilight Earth.

and even when he attempts to explain his insult he fails to make anyone see how it's insulting

I got it, without explanation

w00t! w00t!
An intellectual! Please explain the insult to me:
Thanks for the insult, You remind me of the heroes of world war II.

I've read this a couple time (and pasted it around a bit) and just can't see the insult, please explain it to me.

GrimJack
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

lol but if she does I will cry corruption and take the moral high ground ;)

Moral high ground!
moral high ground?
Moral? high ground!
Moral high! ground?

For some reason, I get an image of a huge expanse of Dismal Swamp with one lonely hummock poking up out of the muck along about twilight. Mosquitoes, huge mosquitoes are buzzing around carrying off the less fortunate denizens of the lounge; further off in dimness, one hears the powerful snap of crocodile jaws and the cut-short screams of another lounge lizard. There, on the hummock back-lit by the setting sun, is our hero jbennet valiantly trying to push csgal back into the muck with a broken oar.

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Grimjack

nothing to see here, move along folks

The moment I post in some web master forum about renting signature link, I get many responses, but in geek forums like this , I do not get any response.
What are the reasons that geeks do not feel like renting signature links ?
Your thoughts please.

Wow! I sneak in for a quick peek between 12 hour work-days and I find a twit posting who does not understand what makes a geek a geek. We are here for community and our .sigs are to tell others something about how we view the world. My original .sig stated "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." This appears to be the case here. You seem to have no clue to what community is. You try to insult people with inane comments but get the wrong war and leave out the name of the country, then you try to insult them by explaining the insult implying they are too dumb to understand your superior wit but your world view is so far skewed from any of the members of this community that no one, in the end, really cares who you are. Your only reason for posting on this forum is to get your greed on. By bringing up Germany (eventually), you are trying to somehow - well, actually, I can't figure out where you were trying to go with that line.

Why don't you go back to your post where you are trying to insult jwenting with the …

I no longer have computer access at work (changed positions for a while) and I will be working 70+ hour weeks until christmas (wish me luck). I will miss you all

hehe Home Alone is cool.

I vote Love Actually. Makes me feel delightfully lonely...

I just saw your avatar - that is 3 times you have broken my heart <thwob,thwob>

The Nightmare before Christmas.

Definitely not Santa Claus vs. The Martians

I marked this thread as solved - as soon as Nazi's are mentioned it is time to close the thread.

OK mr GrimJack, try me ;)
To help you little there is another avatar I use often on gaming forums.

Does this help?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

I don't even want to talk about the 'cute?' kid.

AR was close. Its an M16 + M203 grenade launcher (The M16 is based on the AR15 right?)'

Its my face photoshopped onto tony montana (A.K.A Scarface). Its the bit when he grenades some guy to hell and says "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!!!" (in cuban? accent)

Ive include the unphotoshopped one and the "SAY HELLO!" scene

Oh, cool -- I thought you looked a little 'distant' from the gunfire, at first I thought it might be that damned flash-suppressor that tends to force the barrel up and left (if memory serves) on both the ak and the ar - there is a real moment of terror the first time you shoot a gun that seems to have a mind of its own.. <<I trained with an m14 and then was issued an m16 (based on the AR-15, yes) -- my first live fire was like holding a run-away fire hose, I kept over/under correcting and the everyone on the range hit the dirt until the clip was empty (which didn't take long) but I didn't hit anyone or anything but sky and dirt. They all new what was coming; much of their ground hugging was rofl. The m14 is rock solid - I could put 7 of 10 round in the center of a target at 1000 meters; the m16 - well jungle fighting doesn't allow for many 1000 meter shots>> and again I start babbling - I will contact you about the clip

I listened to a BeeB sports review of a cricket game - it was amazing, I knew every word that the commentator said but I did not understand a single thing - I know that is true of any deeply sports oriented talk but it just amazed me!

Analyzing people by their avatars sounds fun. Except mine, 'cause it's unfortunately somewhat accurate :icon_redface:

Wow - there is so much room here <heh,heh> I love your atavar, totally metrosexual and attractive but necrosis due to blood loss - WHOA! I heard an interview with a patient who had necrotic tissue on her side and they taped a whole bunch of maggots into the wound. She said she could hear them munching and they tickled while ther nibbled around the living tissue.

<<did I just say that!!!?>>

I was kind of hoping for more of a psychoanalytic approach. :icon_rolleyes: This thread has promise, but right now promise is all it has.

I don't think I want to analyze a psycho (noun withheld for protection of the innocent) with a chainsaw, sorry.

>> how many could you eat?
Put it this way -- if I could eat either a polar bear or a penguin I'd get a penguin and feed it to the bear, wait till he's eaten the penguin and eat the bear. That answer your question?

It was from an old NOAA joke "How many penguins could a polar bear eat?" Trick question, they are poles apart (snicker,snort)

Me? I love Seattle's non-weather, I prefer waiting for the earthquake to suffering through the cold (I grew up in the mountains of Montana) or the extreme heat (I lived for 3 years in Tuscon 113 deg heat and Raleigh 90 deg heat with 99% humidity) or all that rainy, muggy, hurricane/tornado stuff of the SE.

Give me an earthquake any day.

Someone has titled their thread the worst - well, this summer when I was in Paris I saw the best weather person ever. Her name is Femi Oke and she was soooo kool! The news readers on CNN always tried their best to make her laugh (not hard) and she would come on laughing. Once, when she stopped laughing, she said 'I'm just a simple girl' in this charming British accent. I am surprised she does not have fan-site. I think she still does CNN international weather out of Atlanta

Ene - Pepe or cherche??

jbennet, I had to blow up your avatar to figure out what was behind the muzzle flash (at first I thought it was a Tommy gun) - I can't identify it but it looks like an AK or an AR.

Christina>you - your name implies christina is better than you? is that what you mean?

joshSCH - you look just a little arrogant in your avatar

sturm - is that for Sturm und Drang? Your avatar looks vaguely familiar and somewhat disturbing

'stein - 'nuff said - playful avatar

The Dude - I gotta say your avatar just grates, nothing personal but I just have a thing against smiley faces and, damn, that is one heck of a smiley (grin)

Lasher - that looks like a Dr. Who baddie?

heartbreaker - I wish you would use that tattoo pic for your avatar but that is just me

serunson - a squirrel contemplating a blessed pear??

GrimJack - man that is one sick puppy!

Gotta close up shop no time for more cr*p - don't feel left out

Zandiago - pretty plane - I like the ugly ones - Puff, Warthog, the ones the grunts really want to see overhead

VManes - almost looks like a cat if you unfocus a little (er, quite a little)

TS-98 - everyone things your striking the ground when, really, you are reaching upwards

Jwenting - target or decoy? don't know where to shoot if can't tell which

Twomers - tricky …

jbennet, I had to blow up your avatar to figure out what was behind the muzzle flash (at first I thought it was a Tommy gun) - I can't identify it but it looks like an AK or an AR.

Christina>you - your name implies christina is better than you? is that what you mean?

joshSCH - you look just a little arrogant in your avatar

sturm - is that for Sturm und Drang? Your avatar looks vaguely familiar and somewhat disturbing

'stein - 'nuff said - playful avatar

The Dude - I gotta say your avatar just grates, nothing personal but I just have a thing against smiley faces and, damn, that is one heck of a smiley (grin)

Lasher - that looks like a Dr. Who baddie?

heartbreaker - I wish you would use that tattoo pic for your avatar but that is just me

serunson - a squirrel contemplating a blessed pear??

GrimJack - man that is one sick puppy!

Gotta close up shop no time for more cr*p - don't feel left out

Only too true - you can only look at a watch for so long, guessing at how it works, before you have to open it up and look.

How do I choose? I am lucky enough to live is Seattle and I eat Thai, Vietnamese, Chineese, Korean, Italian, Indian, Ethiopian, Montanan, American, I love it all. I only eat French food in France though -- there is nothing like sitting down to a meal with friends and family and eating and talking and drinking wine for 3 or more hours. The emply plates are removed and new courses are served with no interuption in conversation and no one is waiting impatiently for you to leave -- when you make a reservation, the table is yours. They invented restaurants in France - back when the all the royalty was executed, 1000s of chefs were thrown out of work and they had to invent a new concept, the restaurant. Before, food was always an afterthought - ie the place where you slept also served food or the bar where you drank also served food.

Ethiopian and Morrocan food is served on one large platter and everyone eats using bread and fingers.

When we lived in Tucson AZ, my wife and I would drive across the border into Mexico to buy cheap tequilla and eat tacos fried on street corner grills - later we drove deep into mexico (ciudad Chihuahua) to visit Poncho Villa's Villa (heh,heh) and see La Cucaracha (full of bullet holes from his assassination) and eat Mexican that was more like French because of Emporer Maximillion's influence.

We would go up into Canada and eat …

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thats the most recent i can find.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/hbk619/me/?action=view&current=hair.jpg

thats what it should be. Grey/green? What are you smoking JB?

>"Badass tattoo-your a regular rebel and will tattoo the hell out of yourself-no questions or tears"

wow. someone didn't get the henna result!

You broke my heart again! You cut your hair!

I love that purple-ish glow to your eyes <grin>
Grim

Oops! BrianSmall - for some reason, I kept reading that as BrainSmall and I could not understand why anyone would call themselves that??

Thank you for posting your beliefs. There were some things in there I agree with and some things that I disagree with, but there is nothing to argue about. Beliefs require no proof nor any dis-proofs - they are just what they are.

They must assume that you are smart enough to know where the enemy is coming from. The label should have a short instruction about this.

It also should have a label saying: "Detrimental to your health if detonated prematurely!"

Claymore mines were used for perimeters - even US Marines knew the difference between in here and out there. The manufacturers weren't smart enough to label the mines so that you would notice when their aim had been modified so they were marked with reflective tape.
The incursion mines were termed 'victim initiated detonation'

Actually, they do say that I think.

Claymore mines say THIS SIDE TOWARD ENEMY

During the VN war the Viet Cong would sneak up and turn the Claymores around (those jokesters - do just about anything for a laugh) so the Marines ended up painting small reflective dots on the 'my side' side so they could tell at a glance (uh, from far away) if it was aimed correctly.

Y'all know that a claymore is a shaped-charge anti-personell mine that can be set off either remotely or by incursion,right?

Here is where an interesting outcome for the Law of Unintended Consequences comes in.
1)most pilot wannabes flunk out because of the requirement that their eyesight must be 20/20 or better uncorrected.
2) USNavy surgeons started doing laser eye surgery and now almost no one washes out of flight school due to eye sight problems.
3) The navy is running out of Submarine captains.

All those pilot wannabes who washed out for eye sight usually chose the submarine corps next. Now Navy surgeons are doing 1000s of the laser surgeries each year. If you want the laser surgery done right - find a retired Navy surgeon to do your eyes cuz they are the most practiced and accomplished available.

My only contribution was "ur all dum"? That's not what went on.

I can't put a lifetime of thought into a post. But I put a thought or two into each of them.

Please point out just one thought that you have put into any of your posts

But because my thought is that Science and Religion are both looking at the picture in the wrong manner (much like Republicans and Democrats) ... and stopping their thought in that narrow channel of discussion, well, my thoughts don't fit in that narrow channel.

Please include an example so we might see what you are talking about - something concrete that you can point to and say - this is how science/religion is looking in the wrong manner -- it would also help to give us a concrete example of the correct manner

I would expect someone to say "Huh?" or, "What are you talking about?" or some such.

If you expect it of us, then why not share with us what you are talking about? We do not read minds so we have no clues to your argument or even if you have one

There's plenty in what I've written, but it seems you don't agree, so you don't want to respond or investigate.

There is not a single idea in what you have written - therefore there is nothing to respond to or investigate. State something. Make an argument (ie state your …

A lighter version of whatever it was before dying it purple?

<post pic for more accurate response>

Come on, guys!? you haven't looked at her web-site yet? I drool over long hair and nice curves - she has already broken my heart!

The Christmas Wicca event is pretty tame - drinking, eating, telling lies. The spring festival Leupercalia (sp?) is pretty bizarre - a naked guy runs through the party whipping people with a whip made from wolf skin -- it being a fertility thing, most of the women hide.

They said I was a henna but I am really more like the tattoo at the beginning of Daron Hagen's Alive in the moment -- especially the violin's 'smudged melody'

Grim
<<but this might not be the tattoo you are thinking of>>

We usually go over to a Jewish friends house where we celebrate some Wiccan feast or other with turkey, wine, and friendship

Calling it mud slinging is only a way to ignore what's being said.

Religious types (scientists too, science is just a different religion) all NEED their beliefs, which is why they fight anyone who contradicts them. This fighting to hold on is what keeps them from looking deeper and actually learning to think for themselves.

See, you just had to poke me with a dull stick didn,t you! You somehow equate science with not thinking, with beliefs. You actually have no idea what science is.

Heh, Heh - welcome to posting twit-hood.

What a bunch of intellectual Nazi's. When you try and kill this thread it is like Hitler killing the Jews, gypsies, and homos.

I fight for the right aimless thread-wars everywhere.

Ps The record for the long thread-war (not flame-war) has not been set because every couple months, the participants pop back up, poke each other with dull sticks for a couple of weeks -- one is in soc.politics (I actually forget the newsgroup name but just imagine the bull-headed fun in a group based on the sociology of politics vs the politics of sociology)

pps - my bad - there is actually a newsgroup called alt.fan.longest-thread; I am not even going to there (I can feel my 'post' finger quivvering even now).

Nuh, uh - I saw that leg twitch - this horse ain't dead yet, think we should flog is a couple more time.

ps the sure way to kill a thread is to insult the folk participating in it (please note that this is actually biting satire - not an accurate assessment) and why the heck are you reading the thread anyway?
pps a better way to kill the thread is to call the other guy a nazi and liken him to hitler - the horse don't twitch after that

Those guys abover were just a few of the butchers and military dictators that the US has supported in the past

Originally Posted by GrimJack
US supported, you know, that guy who used to run IraqOr was it just perhaps a way of bleeding off another enemy...?

We supported Saddam before the Shaw of Iran was overthrown.

Originally Posted by GrimJack
The US invaded Iraq looking for nuclear weapons, did not find them but did not even notice that syria, right next door, did have them (well, actually, was just getting close).

Would you mind specifying where your source for 'nuclear' in that sentance is? From the news reports at the time, I was under the impression that any Weapon of Mass Destruction, be it nuke, bio, or chem in nature, would qualify. And no, we didn't know whether or not he had them; that would have required that we be allowed to inspect, which we weren't. Thus, the possible threat had to be taken at full value.

Rice: "we do not want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"

Colin: ”They are hiding banned arms in mobile laboratories”.

“Hans Blix stated” No evidence of such activities has been found. He said his inspectors had followed U.S. leads and got nothing”.
Hans Blitz: We were carrying out inspections of Iraq looking for any sign or hint of weapons of mass destructions up to the run up to the war - there was no …

France is a thread to world peace through their support for every terrorist and dictator out there.
That support is not because they actually like those people (I think) but as payoffs so they'll be left alone by them.
Just another way in which France always immediately surrenders when threatened.

For French history condensed: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

US sold missiles to Iran shortly after they released the hostages (duh, does this seem suspicious?) and gave money to SA rebels
US supported the Shah of Iran
US support Noriega
US supported Marcos
US supported, you know, that guy who used to run Iraq
The US invaded Iraq looking for nuclear weapons but did not find them but did not even notice that syria, right next door, did have them (well, actually, was just getting close).
The US ignored Pakistan nuclear program since 1986 giving rise to nuclear weapons in North Korea and a pretty unstable Asian sub continent.
The US supported (indirectly) Osama b.l.
US support the white South African gov.
US supported well --- the list is almost endless

France controlled most of Europe a couple of times
France supported the US before it was a country

You probably don't even know that the US lost the very first war it started after the Revolutionary War. (yes Canada whipped our asses - with the help of UK)

"Just another way in which France always immediately …

How much do you think any one of those Pakistany nuclear warheads would be worth to typical tin pot dictator?

remember we have been worrying about all the nukes in the post-soviet world; all those break-away countries had their own nukes for awhile.

The Russian army barely gets paid - heck, an entire base could live for months on what they would get for a couple of nukes.

most people usually drink eggnog in the christmas season.

bacon swiss cheese sandwich with apple juice.

You know Christmas is approaching when all the espresso stands start offering eggnog lattes

Is there really any bona fide scientist amongst all these posters? I doubt it seriously!

Thread creep is a terrible thing, sigh!

ps BONA FIDE - Lat. In good faith; without fraud or deceit.

Originally Posted by lasher511
but why didn't they write JC's story in their own words like John did?

Umm.... It was?

The question was "why are Matt, Mark, & Luke's stories nearly identical / word for word while John's is completely different" Your answer does not seem to address this question

this makes no sense, you left out a lot of different possibilities including that Judas wrote it after he betrayed JC. Judas killed himself after he betrayed jesus and realised what he had done.

Well, this is open to intepretation - from anger over the wasting the really expensive oil on a prostitute to 'the devil made him do it' to " he is not the evil, corrupt, devil-inspired follower of Jesus who betrayed his master; he is instead Jesus' closest intimate and friend, the one who understood Jesus better than anyone else, who turned Jesus over to the authorities because Jesus wanted him to do so"

not a great deal more durable - they just made mud pies in a frame, wrote in it, then baked it - these things shatter and/or turn back to mud reall easily just what do you think the Dead Sea Scrolls are? wtf - I don't understand this point; if on the one had the DSScrolls prove the bible and on the other hand are written on paper and don't exist, you leave me with ?? I understand that you believe in the bible and in the New Testament; …

They wanted to write down Jesus' story so that it could be passed on. Its as simple as that.

but why didn't they write JC's story in their own words like John did?

It was either written before his betrayal, its a fake, or it was written by someone else who knew nothing about the situation.

this makes no sense, you left out a lot of different possibilities including that Judas wrote it after he betrayed JC.

Actually the oldest writing found was from babylon written in clay. A substance that is much more durable and likely to stand up to the tests of time.

not a great deal more durable - they just made mud pies in a frame, wrote in it, then baked it - these things shatter and/or turn back to mud reall easily

By Jesus' day things were written on biodegradable substances that would not really last the century, let alone 2 millenia.

just what do you think the Dead Sea Scrolls are?

By your reasoning none of the people back then existed because there is no written historical evidence about them. Infact really using this reasoning there was only about 100 people alive back then.

wtf - I don't understand this point; if on the one had the DSScrolls prove the bible and on the other hand are written on paper and don't exist, you leave me with ??

The Bible itself comes from historical texts. Just because it is the Bible does not make such texts any less legitimate or historical.

I …

That would be the same as someone going and rewriting Harry Potter. You wouldn't do it. The only reason that these men would write down the same story is if they simply wanted their experiences told.

Harry Potter is a bad example as it has been rewritten - heck there were HP books fabricated that had not relationship to anything hp-ish in other countries in other languages. YOU would not do it but that does not mean it would not be done.
I can understand how someone would want to write down their own experiences but why would they want to write someone else's experiences ie - copy what someone else has written.

The book of Judas(if it is actually real) would of been written before he knew anything about his betrayal of Jesus or that he would kill him self.

It is the Gospels that tells us he committed suicide; these gospels were written at least 20 years after the death. Why would Judas gospel be written before he betrayed JC?

I think you actually need to do some proper research before you start ranting about all this stuff. The kind of evidence that you are looking for can not be found from later times let alone 2000 years ago. If the majority of letters from 200 years ago can not be found what makes you think that letters from 2000 years ago would have lasted. Not only that but the majority of the people did not know how to …

Okay let me ask it in more technical way, if two world are moving away from each others at half of lights speed, can they never communicate ?

The real question is:
If 2 worlds have crossed the Schwarzchild limit (the point of no return when approaching a black hole - once past this limit, gravity is too strong for light to escape hence no comm. out; another way to think about it is that your acceleration is approaching 'c') can they communicate with each. Theoretically they are unable to communicate with across the S-Limit but if they are both within different S-Limits would they be able to communicate. I think this sort of references the different white/black hole/worm whole theories. Good question

There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs. -- Larry Flon

I think that might be a 'vernacular' way to state Goedel's Second Incompleteness Theorem
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It has long been known that the Earth's magnetic poles shift and sometimes reverse (as metal bearing magma exudes from plate fractures and cools, the iron is magnetized by the magnetic forces; when the poles shift or reverse, it can be detected.) Prior to a pole shift the strength of the magnetic field that surrounds the earth lessens, goes to zero then strengthens. In geologic time, the change is a blink of the eye but in human terms, it is actually hundreds of years. Right now the magnetic field acts as a protective field that keeps much of the solar ratiation away from us (ie the Van Allen Radiation Belt - also often visible as the Aurora Boriales). Studies indicate that we appear to be entering an era of lessening The years without any magnetic protection may not sterilize the earth but we would all have the same tan

Here is a pointer to the NOVA show on the subject:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/magnetic/

OTOH the showering is supposed to cleanse you of all the dirt and grime that accumulated on your body since the last shower.
If that stuff were heavier than that water, you loose weight :)

Whew! This could depend on how long between showers.
Your body absorbs some water through your skin eventually leading to wrinkle-y skin so this would add weight.

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