Posts by GrimJack

The only reason many people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
-- Paul Dontee

He was lost in thought - fortunately, he did not have far to travel
-- Goon Show (and various)

The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.
-- Oscar Wilde

VI works on everything, twomers. It's omnipotent.

The editor of the Beast: VI VI VI (I never get tired of that joke but hardly anyone has heard of VI (dang noobs).

I do find it strange that the newspapers in UK keep referring to her as a virgin :) Do they think she's the Virgin Mary or something?

We will know for sure when her image begins to appear on toast

Don't you just love Aia - he adds nothing to the conversation but spite and bile but only sees this in others.

When I have a message for a single person, I tell them - if they, then, want to complain about it in public; well, then I will publicize the message. I do not say one thing in public but something different in private.

One of the main problems with 'string theory' <<I think xkcd is the best {mumble,muble} comic on the internets>>is that it has not produced one single prediction that can be tested by experiment. One of the main components of scientific investigation is that it be falsifiable - that it make a prediction that can be tested and proved or disproved. The theory is quite pretty and I really like all the pretty graphics that people have come up with to explain what the theory is but... unless it can actually predict something (as opposed to explaining things we already know) it could become a dead end. Then all those 'string theorists' who have spent the last 20 years working with the theory could just be relegated to the dust bin of history along with 'phlogistan'.

The joys of the Free Market Economy as espoused by conservatives:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04lewiseinhorn.html
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_stanford_financial_scandal.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18598574/
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/another-despicable-financial-scandal/
The conservatives taking care of them and theirs with our money.

Sorry, I thought you wanted a thoughtful discussion.

The reason that there would be no similarity is that each and every step was randomized right down to the whether or not the DNA would be left handed or right handed. Even given right-handed DNA with the same 4 components - there have been at least 4 'great' extinctions after which everything changed.

Just consider what was discovered in the Burgess Shale - many of those creatures no longer exist (see attached reconstruction pic). The largest living thing on earth is a fungus under a forest in Minnesota - what if fungi became the dominant life form? What is vibrating crystals were the dominant life form? Life on Earth is one long series of accidents that could never in the life of the universe be duplicated.

and my signiture is also turkish but a little bit slang. am=vajina, am-in-a=to her vajina, koyim(slang for koyayim which means put), bu saatten sonra= after this time. basically all the signiture means, i put someone's vajina if they/she comes after this time in my life. i dont feel necessary to explain what i put anyway :D

Well, you just lost any sympathy or credibility that I was trying to scrape up for you. You're just a putz (well, actually I like the old definition of schmuck - too low to kick, too squishy to step on).

But it is all good.

I am 60 yo and I had my first jello-shots last Halloween - if they had been around in my youth, I might not have survived! That was the easiest alcohol I have ever had; I had 4 before I realized what I was doing -- wayyy kool!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070518123442AAW0MWX

I also taught that It's free of animal things. but it's not.see this.
gelten have animal parts.

Yeah, Jell-o is made from a gelatin of ungulates' hooves, bones, and connective tissue - the collagen bits. No way to justify Jell-O to vegetarians.

Also i learned that Horowitz is jewish originated name, are you jewish? And where did your ancestors come from?

So you are a sexist and a racists along with being some sort of stalker? It could be that you are just too socially inept to understand the the difference between healthy interest and unhealthy interest. Maybe, just maybe you should go away.

Just my opinion (and that only counts for me) - maybe I have been reading too many right wing sites and am beginning to see prejudice everywhere but you don't say anything except that you 'learned' something about the name. If you had said something like "the name Horowitz is interesting in that it is derived from the Bohemian city of Horvice
in the Czech Republic and is a common family name for Jews and people of Jewish descent, what can you tell me about your name?" I just might think that you were just interested in names.

But not you, you had to ask, 'you a jew?' 'I heard that was a jew name'.

So if I offended anyone or am off-base, please tell me.

And sometimes I just love the world and am filled with joy

The largest known prime number (2^{43112609}-1) is 20 mi, 2,569 ft, & 1-3/4 in (32.96 km) long when set in 12pt Courier

Ants can do more advanced math than I. <sarcasm>Great </sarcasm>

Apropos of nearly nothing (except intelligent slime), enlarge image for full effect.

I did not even bother to look at the link - the title immediately told me he has never parked under a tree.

I remember years ago there was a guy downtown carrying a sign that read "The air is moving, it could be alive". I just had to ask him what he was on about. It was an interesting discussion; he was wack but interesting whereas this is just dumb.

I am known as a smart, witty intellectual - when asked what it takes to be an intellectual, I answer "to have someone around who is not one"

I am also known as a grumpy old man and all I can add to that is that I am REALLY OLD and pretty fat.

Sometimes, sitting here in Seattle, I think that we live in a post-racial world. Then I see this and think 'where is the humanity?'. I can't imagine what it is like to have to say 'yes sir', 'no sir', 'I hope you will be nice sir' while my m-i-l is on her death-bed just a hundred yards away.

Sigh! My outrage will fade but 'driving while ethnic' will remain a crime.

I just realised that this thread relates to a movie series called Stargate. For all we know there could be a burried stargate in egypt where 10000 years ago the achients could have enhabited the planet and transported species from a variety of planets from the universe. Crazy theory but very possible just like any other theory.

Sorry, that is not a theory - it is barely a hypothesis. In order for a really bad thought like that to 'evolve' from a bad hypothesis to a bad theory, it has to be supported by a fact. Somewhere someone has to find something to support it before it can even become a 'true' hypothesis.

Here is another bad thought - you exist somewhere in the real world and are really lame enough to think that this kind of thinking has value. If you do not understand the word 'theory', how can you come up with one?

The game is not just rock paper scissors; the point is to force your opponent to throw what you want. I heard one of the participants talking with what-his-name on NPR's All Things considered. As the guy explained the complications of the game and the things that people know about the game - yadda,yadda,yadda "a woman will always throw rock first" yadda,yadda,yadda said some more stuff. He filled the NPR guys head with so much 'stuff' that he beat him every time. It is somewhat like a magician 'forcing' a card pick.

Finally - an answer to your programming question.

Maybe we can out with humor

'go ask Alice when she was just small'

Tin foil hat recommended.

Tin foil is sooo last century - you need Velostat - please, please go immediately to the directions page.

Old school
See here for head-to-toe coverage, sleep gear - as seen on tv!

Yea. I wonder why those scientest don't test evolution by iscolating living creatures in a controlled environment and see if they adapt to the environment like evolution suggests. That would save the time and effort at looking for fossles to prove evolution.

Er, this has already been mentioned in this thread, see for a brief mention and another brief mention re MRSA. Bacteria are short-lived animals that live in colonies; if you poison the colony but leave some alive - those left alive are the ones that are more resistant to the poison. The colony rebuilds itself but now most of the colony are from the resistant population so when you try to poison the colony again, you only kill the least resistant and just reinforce the trait for immunity. Eventually, you have MRSA which now kills 19,000 Americans each year. MRSA used to be confined to hospitals(!) but eventually started to colonize prisons and now is found pretty commonly on the streets. Our skin has evolved over the millennia to protect us from this sort of thing but once MRSA gets past the skin (either through a cut or scratch or the mucosa) and finds its way into the blood stream and the entire body becomes infected.

So I would suggest that anyone who denies evolution might be a poor candidate for the medical field.

You might ask "How does explain evolution?":
Evolution works over long periods of time and gets pretty …

I think in science it is widely known that all cells are intelligent. From what I have learn't from a Biology course, each cell has programmed into it a set of instructions. For example, a human airborn virus is basically a bunch of cells programmed to infect other cells to enter the system. Example, if the virus first infects the blood cells like a lot of viruses do, it will get into your system quicker. That is when our immune system gets into place destroying nasty cells and some of its surrounding cells. While the immune system is at work, the virus attempts to effect parts of the body where it can then spread to other humans while doing whatever it was programmed. Some might say this is an effect of creationism where an agent created a virus but I believe it is more likely to be a effect of evolution where somebody sneases then the bacteria that sneasing creates then grows until it form new life or in the above example a virus.

I will accept that cells can follow certain programming using rDNA and RNA to build new proteins; with this I can see how as cells begin to 'network' and eventually build up to intelligence but that is probably for another time. The body is flushed with so many different messages and messengers - it is a magnificent machine. But I can't accept intelligent cells, this might be my age. I googled around a bit and did …

"NOT TRUE; We use 100% of our brains."

>Very few Americans like socialism.
Ha! for not liking it, they are embracing it very well. Furthermore, I doubt few could tell what it is.

You do not know what it is - unless you can define it.

>But what else can we do?
Stop supporting and believing in the rhetoric of those that foment socialism.

What socialism? You keep screaming 'socialism'; well - put up or shut up. Define socialism and point to the socialism that you are talking about.

> I haven't heard of a single alternative and positive proposal.
Allow me to doubt that. What is bad is bad, whether there's a different solution or not. (Biting into your assumption)
Remember the urgency with which this all thing started? The doom was so imminent at the door. Big money was approved in unprecedented haste to bail out banks. Suddenly, the purpose of that money started to shift...

Yeah! that was the lap-dog of the right, W, that shoveled Billions out the door to bankers with no requirement for accountability.

Now there's another rush and the gloom and doom is upon ourselves. Stimulus is the "buzz" word everywhere and what started with some few doze billions of dollars, it is now, well above a trillion...

No it isn't - pay attention. One dollar is closer to one hundred fifty billion dollars than eight hundred billion is to one trillion.

Stop supporting those that foment and preach socialism as an alternative. It is not.

Again, …

US soldiers heading to Iraq on commercial airliners had their knives confiscated due to ‘security regulations’ but were allowed to keep their firearms. (thanks Happy geek - only petty theft)

Why do bikers where leather?

Because chiffon wrinkles.

ahihihi - if you want to rack up a lot of posts with no effort - please go play posting games. Not complaining mind you just saying....

This time travel thing is absolutely possible... I can feel it... look, if you would just think of it... God is there, right? Yeah, I know all of you absolutely believe in God. Nothing is impossible with God. Believing in God is the most supreme belief that you would always do. Now, this is just time travel... compared to God, time travel is just nothing. Why could someone who believes in God but don't actually believe in time travel? Where time travel is nothing compared to God... just think about it... you will get what I mean... we don't lose hope...

You 'feel' it is possible? Hmm? Why don't you slip into an isolation tank (body temperature water with the salinity of The Great Salt Lake so you float, sound-proofed/light-proofed) and change your perceptions? Everything you 'know' and 'feel' is determined by what your body tells you so all you have to do is reverse the process and tell your body what to 'know' and there you are.

I do not believe in god; I do not believe in time-travel - what is the point of bringing belief into this? Science is based on knowledge not on belief; it is based on testability. So explain what part of Einstein's ToR leads you to believe that TT is possible. If you want some theory that may or may not support your proposition, it would behoove you to look to Feynman (this is a broad hint - Feynman's diagrams actually offer …

I have kind of a different take on the concept of global warming. I believe that, yes, there is global climate change but not global warming. There is no global temperature. Temperatures fluctuate everywhere on the earth and there are periodic warming and cooling trends. Climate change is a different story but not necessarily a bad one. For example, Saudia Arabia was once a thriving forest full of animal life--a vast tropic forest--think Madagascar on a very large scale. That's where the oil came from.

The second law of thermodynamics states that everything tries to reach a state of equilibrium. The earth is a closed system and will keep everything in balance--temperatures, CO2 levels, etc.

er. Earth is not a closed system - it gets heat from the Sun and radiates heat out to the universe - CO2 is a product of a chemical reaction between Carbon and Oxygen, it is 'created and destroyed' constantly.

Every bit of carbon that exists now on the earth, has always existed--now it exists as people, animals, trees, oil, natural gas, and CO2. Eons ago, that same carbon existed as dinosaurs, mammoths, trees, etc.

Almost all the elements above Helium were created after the B-B in the heart of Novas and SuperNovas. Material is constantly being added to Earth via various forms of space debris (meteorites, comets, etc) and some of it is organic.

The earth will compensate for any changes. If the CO2 level rises beyond a comfortable level, the earth will grow …

Ooh! Kool - Leslie bet me you'd see that I had just added a level to my ad hominem attack, I was sure you wouldn't. I bought breakfast this morning.

To be honest, I have not had the time to work my way through Anderson's arguments; I won't have time to get to Schlaes' arguments any time soon either (heck, I do not even have time to do a decent ad hominem on Schlaes) - I can't get the kleinbartlet .pdf to load so - ditto.

I just got a copy of Fallout3 and so I only have a few minutes every so often to pop in here to poke you - at least your black to blue ratio is getting higher. (I also have another session open with 24 more blogs to work my way through - so far about 12 of them seem interesting enough to add to my reading list).

Keep on my case, I will eventually get my arguments together.

The last thing any citizenry wants is for the government to think that it can kill one of them without consequence.

Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
:icon_razz:

What a load of crap! Someone comes along who does not try to lead by fear but by a vision of what this country was founded on and the wingnuts go wild.

Fear and Fascism lost the election, get over it and get behind our president.

Here is a picture of the dress:

I wish the world was a fly and I'm a giant rolled up newspaper.

Use flypaper, they suffer longer

Oh there is an option for people who don't like the poll number 4 write in the germ on my pillow case.

No, that is not a vote I want to make - if you look like your avatar, I am not sure I want your germs elected to anything (that a joke, son).

Something times something else mathematically always depends on what the word "times" means and the units involved. Multiplying money is problematic because:

$1 = 100 cents
$2 = 200 cents

So if $1 x $2 = $2 and 100 cents x 200 cents = 20,000 cents = $200, we have a problem since $2 does not equal $200. So I guess you'd have to have some unit called "dollar squared" and "cent squared", which probably don't make sense.

The reason that that's not a probem with 1 ft x 1 ft compared to 12 in. x 12 in., is that we have concepts of what a square foot is and what a square inch is. We have no concept of a square dollar or a square cent, so I'd say that multiplication of money is meaningless and undefined until you have concepts of "dollar squared" and "cent squared". Hence you can't multiply one dollar times two dollars.

You can't multiply $1 by $2 any more than you can multiply 1 apple by 2 apples. Inches and feet are linear measures, apples and dollars are discrete, countable units.

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?

Irony bites.

Aia,

Are you typing with a lisp?

Just pointed that out to lighten up the thread...........lol........But on a serious note Aia, I love your eloquence.

I caught that lisp thing myself but jeez lose the lolcrap and, yeah 3 dots is an ellipsis, 4 dots is an ellipsis at the end of a sentence after that it is an affectation.

heh,heh been there, puked that! I see your right wing site and raise you one left wing location with more stuff for you to ignore.

It is a push poll that tries to force certain answers - it pretty much sux but I agreed with Obama 71% of the time (are you surprised Dave?).

Has anyone considered the consequences of putting this child Obama in the white house? I have heard some of the most idiotic and inept decision making in choosing thier candidates in my entire life. Mcain is sad as well, is this the best the republican party can come up with?!?! Obama is part of the freddy & fanny gang which broke this country. Does this matter to anyone?!

You don't read much do you

Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.

stories in the NYT, Newsweek and Roll Call accusing McCain campaign manager Rick Davis of continuing to receive financial benefits from Fannie and Freddie up until last month - contradicting what McCain and Davis both claimed to be the case

He stands for nothing and lies about everything.

pure bull pucky - not worth dismissing

The government in this country is so morally bankrupt its just sick and how anyone can tote a flag for any of these candidates needs to stop and think and do some research.

Love it or leave it.

Look at the people Obama looks up to and surrounds himself with. Character and associates matter greatly in a court of law so why should the same not apply with the leader of the country.

make a point, follow up …

Lets have some fun with the economy today; I used this in the humor thread but what the heck:
Q: What's the difference between a Lehman trader and a pigeon?
A: The pigeon can still make a deposit on a Ferrari.

I should save this joke for a different thread but what the hey:
Q: What's the difference between a Lehman trader and a pigeon?
A: The pigeon can still make a deposit on a Ferrari.

we are free only because we shot enough people they couldn't control us...just ask the Georgians what it takes to be free...

I have no idea what you are saying here, if you want to communicate, somtimes paragraphs and logical progression of ideas really help.

congratulations - just noticed I did it too and I don't even know which post it was. I am going to buy that 60 year old port myself - I am the same age as the port (I bought a bottle of it on my 40th - it was soooooo good). Unfortunately, I cannot afford the US$1,200 that it now costs.

so I am taking donations -- Help a poor old man buy himself a drink

donate now!