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Number one problem for creationists is dinosaurs.
Tiny Juvenile Dinosaur Fossil Sheds Light On Evolution Of Plant Eaters
ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2008) — One of the smallest dinosaur skulls ever discovered has been identified and described by a team of scientists from London, Cambridge and Chicago. The skull would have been only 45 millimeters (less than two inches) in length. It belonged to a very young Heterodontosaurus, an early dinosaur. This juvenile weighed about 200 grams, less than two sticks of butter.
In the Fall issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the researchers describe important findings from this skull that suggest how and when the ornithischians, the family of herbivorous dinosaurs that includes Heterodontosaurus, made the transition from eating meat to eating plants.
“It’s likely that all dinosaurs evolved from carnivorous ancestors,” said study co-author Laura Porro, a post-doctoral student at the University of Chicago. “Since heterodontosaurs are among the earliest dinosaurs adapted to eating plants, they may represent a transition phase between meat-eating ancestors and more sophisticated, fully-herbivorous descendents.”
More real science at:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023222248.htm
Here is a link to the part of “Life of Brian “ where Brian denies he is the Messiah it was referenced in the
“Obama mania getting out of hand” thread.
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=FU2TAYZR
What if Obama is the Messiah.
“And a little black family shall lead them” — Obama 5:13
You can’t regulate climate change to make it work, but the international court thinks it can. Our lives will never be the same when we are hit with over the top regulations and controls to pay for something that we can’t change. I plan to keep on breathing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/3530607/Lawyers-call-for-international-court-for-the-environment.html
hey beber, why you putting out Reich Wing propaganda so early??
george posted November 30, 2008 at 9:05 am
You can’t regulate climate change to make it work, but the international court thinks it can.
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george,
Humans have changed Earth’s climate — and we can reduce the amount of change in the future by reducing our GHG emissions.
You should read your own link.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/3530607/Lawyers-call-for-international-court-for-the-environment.html
“Mr Hockman, a deputy High Court judge, said that the threat of climate change means it is more important than ever for the law to protect the environment.
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Mr Hockman said the court may be able to fine businesses or states but its main role will be in making “declaratory rulings” that influence and embarrass countries into upholding the law.
He said: “Of course regulations and sanctions alone cannot deliver a global solution to problems of climate change, but without such components the incentive for individual countries to address those problems – and to achieve solutions that are politically acceptable within their own jurisdictions – will be much reduced.” “
‘New rifts form on Antarctic ice shelf’
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/antarctic.ice.shelf.collapse/
“Scientists have identified new rifts on an Antarctic ice shelf that could lead to it breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, the European Space Agency said.
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The ice shelf had been stable for most of the past century before it began retreating in the 1990s.
Several ice shelves — Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller and Jones — have collapsed in the past three decades, the British Antarctic Survey said.
Scientists say the western Antarctic peninsula — the piece of the continent that stretches toward South America — has warmed more than any other place on Earth over the past 50 years, rising by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit each decade.”
When the Warmest in History Isn’t
A Commentary By Debra J. Saunders
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_debra_j_saunders/when_the_warmest_in_history_isn_t
The GOP’s McCarthy gene
Think Goldwater is the father of conservatism? Think again.
By Neal Gabler
November 30, 2008
…Republicans continue to push the idea that this is a center-right country and that Americans have swooned for GOP anti-government posturing all these years, but the real electoral bait has been anger, recrimination and scapegoating. That’s why John McCain kept describing Barack Obama as some sort of alien and why Palin, taking a page right out of the McCarthy playbook, kept pushing Obama’s relationship with onetime radical William Ayers.
And that is also why the Republican Party, despite the recent failure of McCarthyism, is likely to keep moving rightward, appeasing its more extreme elements and stoking their grievances for some time to come. There may be assorted intellectuals and ideologues in the party, maybe even a few centrists, but there is no longer an intellectual or even ideological wing. The party belongs to McCarthy and his heirs — Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Palin. It’s in the genes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,1009632.story
Europe Accuses Drug Makers of Padding Health Care Costs
On Friday, European officials published documents retrieved from those raids. They did not identify the authors, but the documents appeared to come from brand-name pharmaceutical companies.
“I suppose we have all had conversations around ‘how we can block generic manufacturers,’ ” one document stated. “Don’t play games in patenting new salt forms too late, the generics manufacturers are starting earlier and earlier,” the document stated, apparently referring to pharmaceutical ingredients.
Another document said, “We identify options to obtain or acquire patents for the sole purpose of limiting the freedom of operation of our competitors.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/worldbusiness/29drugs.html
Hud,
Thank you for very much for all of the laughs!
Saunders? LOL!
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Debra_J._Saunders
David Bellamy? LOL!
Marc Morano? LOL!
The Global Warming Petition Project, aka OISM? LOL!
Christopher Booker? LOL!
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/11/more_on_booker.php
What else is bushco rushing to do? One sure bet is that nothing will benefit the common good. He still has time to ruin even more than he already has. What a great day next January 20th will be for Americans and the world!
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U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers’ on-the-job exposure to chemicals and toxins.
The department’s speed in trying to make the regulatory change contrasts with its reluctance to alter workplace safety rules over the past 7 1/2 years. In that time, the department adopted only one major health rule for a chemical in the workplace, and it did so under a court order.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202838.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
More about what Bush wants to do,
http://www.desmogblog.com/bushs-midnight-regulations-worse-yet-come
God damn this blog never changes. Same shtuff, different day.
Oh yeah one more thing, fluck Obama and fluck Bush.
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving regardless of whether or not you deserved a good one.
And happy Thanksgiving to you, Pleefer.
Glad to hear your holidays were pleasant and gave you a good outlook on life, Pleefer. I’ve heard our attitude can affect our outcomes. Guess you heard and heeded that good advice too. /sarcasm
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/oct/global.html
“Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the second warmest on record for October and ninth warmest on record for the January-October year-to-date period.
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October 2008 ranked as the second warmest October since records began in 1880 for combined global land and ocean surface temperatures, behind 2003. Temperatures were warmer than average across Asia, Australia, Europe, and northern Canada, prompting the October 2008 global land surface anomalies to be the warmest on record. The global average ocean surface temperature (SST) in October was the sixth warmest on record.”
Here’s a good read for a chilly Sunday afternoon –
http://tinyurl.com/62pkqo
An exerpt –
“…the real father of modern Republicanism is Sen. Joe McCarthy, and the line doesn’t run from Goldwater to Reagan to George W. Bush; it runs from McCarthy to Nixon to Bush and possibly now to Sarah Palin. It centralizes what one might call the McCarthy gene, something deep in the DNA of the Republican Party that determines how Republicans run for office, and because it is genetic, it isn’t likely to be expunged any time soon.”
This board is extremely lame today.
Hey Parkay, Bryan, McPhersonPsycho boy.
I say we limit how many children religious folks can have.
Wow, where did everyone go today?
Probably Xmas shopping…
Hi Mary.
Cold out huh?
I’ve been stripping wallpaper all day. What a mess!
I’d rather be bored lol.
I need to go repaint my office sometime. It’s only a few walls but I just don’t have the gumption to do it.
How do you like your job?
well, I gotta tell ya. I’m having a lot of new experiences. The HR side is frustrating, we are in need of staffing, and some who need to be fired and how to do that without it coming back on me. Some of the unbelieveable stuff that is going on makes me want to pull my hair out.
Still overworked. And I’m really really irked about one thing in particular right now, dealing with profit.
Mary do you have yahoo messenger?
I hated working in the office..gained about 30 lbs from being stressed and sitting at a desk all day…and the stupid office politics drove me nuts. I prefer being on my own in the field.
The wound center is nice, too…I’m running all day when I’m there and time flys.
“Mary do you have yahoo messenger?”
Not that I know of.
It’s SNOWING!
YEAH!!!!!
bleh.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Big Three U.S. automakers should tell Congress they will limit corporate pay, bonuses and severance packages in return for government loans, the president of the United Auto Workers union said on Sunday.
On CNN’s “Late Edition,” UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said carmakers only need a loan to tide them over a tough period and insisted high union wages were not the key cause of waning sales at General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and Chrysler LLC.
“They need to establish that executive compensation is something that they’re willing to curtail, as well as bonuses and ‘golden parachutes’ on exiting the business,” Gettelfinger said. “They can also give the government an equity stake in the business.”
The automakers received a rough ride from lawmakers earlier in November after flying to Washington in corporate jets asking for help. House and Senate Democratic leaders, in a letter to GM, Ford and Chrysler executives, said the companies must submit a “credible restructuring plan” by December 2.
I am so inspired and filled with optimism at the hope the future now brings.
Everynight before I go to sleep, I read this. Obama inspires me oh so much!
“I should like to help everyone if possible; Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, black men, white, red, and yellow. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; we live in misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Industry that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than wealth we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. Modern communications and technology have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.” The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create prosperity, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men and women a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Evil rulers free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise!
Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Citizens of the world, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
People can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kind new world, where men and women will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up! The soul of mankind has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow. Into the light of hope! Into the future! The glorious future! That belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, everyone! Look up!”
Political_mama
Posted November 30, 2008 at 7:50 pm | Permalink
well, I gotta tell ya. I’m having a lot of new experiences. The HR side is frustrating, we are in need of staffing, and some who need to be fired and how to do that without it coming back on me. Some of the unbelieveable stuff that is going on makes me want to pull my hair out.
Still overworked. And I’m really really irked about one thing in particular right now, dealing with profit.
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Welcome to Management.
Now YOU are AN EVIL CORPORATE BOSS EMPLOYER!
Don’t you think we need more Labor Laws to protect employees from those evil corporations?
It’s way too easy (and fun!) to fire people now.
I can’t wait for the Government to fix everybodies salaries!
Government should determine how much everyone makes.
YOU CANNOT MULTIPLY WEALTH BY DIVIDING IT.
YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE THE POOR INTO FREEDOM BY
LEGISLATING THE WEALTHY OUT OF FREEDOM.
WHAT ONE PERSON RECEIVES WITHOUT WORKING FOR, ANOTHER PERSON MUST WORK FOR WITHOUT RECEIVING.
THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT GIVE TO ANYBODY ANYTHING THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT FIRST TAKE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE.
WHEN HALF OF THE PEOPLE GET THE IDEA THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TO WORK BECAUSE THE OTHER HALF IS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THEM, AND WHEN THE OTHER HALF GETS THE IDEA THAT IT DOES NO GOOD TO WORK BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING TO GET WHAT THEY WORK FOR, THAT IS SURELY THE END OF ANY NATION’S FUTURE.
Sorry about the ‘all caps’, that’s the way I got it. The truth of what was expressed remains quite true.
bleh.
Snow, eh?
Well, here it’s 57 degrees, 2 mph wind, humidity at 63%, no precip.
THE HORROR! ;-)
Monkeyhawk posted this earlier, but I still think it’s worth a second look. :)
http://action.credomobile.com/comics/2008/11/they_tried_to_warn_us.html
“YOU CANNOT MULTIPLY WEALTH BY DIVIDING IT.”
The instant that one man does labor to make money for another man, that first man has lost a measure of his freedom. We should err toward protecting THAT man and reigning in those who make their living off the labor of others.
It’s way too easy (and fun!) to fire people now.
Maybe so, but those emails to Bangalore must get tiresome.
Boxlock20
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:04 pm | Permalink
THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT GIVE TO ANYBODY ANYTHING THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT FIRST TAKE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE.
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Not true Box.
The $700 Billion bailout is free printed money. Sure it increases the National Debt, but nobody will be paying that back – ever.
And the $800 Billion from the Fed Reserve, they announced last week they FOUND this money from their own internal resources and this won’t increase the National Debt even. (A true money tree – called the Printing Press.)
So there ya have it Box: Something for Nothing!
“can’t wait for the Government to fix everybodies salaries!”
Utopia JJ. We are heading toward heaven on earth.
Just wait until January 21st.
BTW, made it home safely. Already miss the AZ sun.
BlueJay
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
“YOU CANNOT MULTIPLY WEALTH BY DIVIDING IT.”
The instant that one man does labor to make money for another man, that first man has lost a measure of his freedom. We should err toward protecting THAT man and reigning in those who make their living off the labor of others.
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Exactly! And Political Moma needs to be reigned-in immediately!
(She’s an eeeeevil corporate boss!)
“It’s way too easy (and fun!) to fire people now.”
The poster’s intent was sarcasm.
The fact of it is, this is a sad and destructive fact in “right to work” states. TOO many good workers are lost to the the whimsy of morons who do nothing more than dispense summary justice from behind the shield of a title like “manager”, or “foreman”.
Boxlock20: That is perhaps the silliest set of proverbs I’ve ever seen! From where ever you got it, sent it back for the tenor is just plain stupid.
American_Way
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:20 pm | Permalink
“can’t wait for the Government to fix everybodies salaries!”
Utopia JJ. We are heading toward heaven on earth.
Just wait until January 21st.
BTW, made it home safely. Already miss the AZ sun.
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Missed ya at the last meet-up AW. Oh well, can’t beat the AZ poolside adventure!
So there ya have it Box: Something for Nothing!
Tell that Standard & Poor’s, and the other greedy Wall Street scam artists who got us into this mess.
What role did the credit rating agencies play in the current economic crisis? This week, a former managing director at Standard & Poor’s speaks out on U.S. television for the first time about how he was pressured to compromise standards in a push for profits. Frank Raiter reveals what was really going on behind closed doors at the credit rating agencies the public relies on to evaluate the safety of their investments.
“During this period, profit was primary; analytics were secondary,” Raiter tells NOW Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa.
Who was watching the watchers? Surprising new revelations about the economic debacle, this week on NOW.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/446/index.html
BlueJay
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:21 pm | Permalink
“It’s way too easy (and fun!) to fire people now.”
The poster’s intent was sarcasm.
The fact of it is, this is a sad and destructive fact in “right to work” states. TOO many good workers are lost to the the whimsy of morons who do nothing more than dispense summary justice from behind the shield of a title like “manager”, or “foreman”.
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Good employees lost?
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
They are SAVED JR! SAVED from their bondage to the evil employer!
Firing them is saving them!
P.S. And while the investment raters were making bookoo bucks with a CDO scam, the consumer credit industry–of course–ALSO encouraged huge debt, by encourage huge credit limits and jacking interest rates sky high.
And for the underclass (blacklisted from the regular credit system), there is of course the payday-loan system, complete with usury rates.
What a breathtakingly stupid scam our credit system is. It was bound to implode.
” Oh well, can’t beat the AZ poolside adventure!”
JJ I went gun shopping in AZ. Same story as the rest of the country. People are emptying the shelves of semi-auto’s, ammo, and anything else they think Obama wants.
Funny thing was – I had family from Reno, NV there. They flew home to buy guns in NV – before the new Prez is annoited.
What’s funny? That entire part of the family voted for Obama!!
What’s funny? That entire part of the family voted for Obama!!
. . .and did you ask them why? Hmmmm???
Boxlock20 posted November 30, 2008 at 9:04 pm
THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT GIVE TO ANYBODY ANYTHING THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT FIRST TAKE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE.
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Sorry about the ‘all caps’, that’s the way I got it. The truth of what was expressed remains quite true.
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Hey Boxlock!
Tell us WHO the U.S. government took the computer, Internet, Mosaic web browser, etc, FROM?
‘The Technology Challenge: How Can America Spark Private Innovation?’
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/faculty.lecture/innovation/gore.html
Not to mention jet aircraft, GPS navigation, etc. . .
And JJ, read the local AZ news on illegals. That state has really put a damper on them.
But now the liberals in AZ are crying about the decrease in income taxes being paid. THey are going to use THAT as the excuse to lift the strict restrictions on illegals working.
Even though the liberals ADMIT, the illegals were paying income taxes using FAKE and OTHER CITIZENS Social Security numbers – they still want the money and want to change the laws to allow illegals to work.
Republicans are fighting back. Even though the income has gone “underground” with evil employers paying illegals in cash – the STATE SALES TAX IS EXPLODING!!! As illegals have more income to spend, they are buying more.
Always a silver lining to doing the right thing.
American_Way
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:33 pm | Permalink
Funny thing was – I had family from Reno, NV there. They flew home to buy guns in NV – before the new Prez is annoited.
What’s funny? That entire part of the family voted for Obama!!
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The Ponderosa just ain’t what it used to be.
” . .and did you ask them why? Hmmmm???”
Why would I do that? They are libs on koolaid.
But they are sure buying semi-automatic guns before their savior bans them.
What’s that tell you about liberals? Says much more than asking them why they voted for The God Obama.
Say AW, heard a news story on the radio saying that Guns & Ammo shortages right now are normal – during the hunting season this always happens.
Must be a helluva lot of hunters using AR’s and Pistols!
And I notice no shortage in shotgun shells, slugs, or 30-06.
Hollow-points, 9mm, 40, 44, 45 are hard to find now, and twice the price when you can find them!
And for some reason, .223’s (or 5.56)are in short supply. Must be a whole new group of deer hunters using these calibers.
“The Ponderosa ”
There is no Ponderosa – they believe in the government providing the Ponderosa to everyone.
Hell, you don’t think they’d W.O.R.K fer it do ya?
Geez. They’re libs for godsake!
Tell us WHO the U.S. government took the computer, Internet, Mosaic web browser, etc, FROM?
Ah yes, cosmos, isn’t deliciously ironic? Nearly every link in the technology chain–from the computer, the browser, the socket interfaces, the the ethernet standard, communication protocols, to the Internet itself–was due to overnment research, or funded by government dollars.
It reminds me of someone railing against the evils of newspapers on the editorial page of one.
That’s the standard NATO round JJ. We all know what weapons use those.
American_Way
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:37 pm | Permalink
And JJ, read the local AZ news on illegals. That state has really put a damper on them.
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Yeah, but who’s gonna clean the pool and cut the grass now?
Dang!
American_Way
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:41 pm | Permalink
“The Ponderosa ”
There is no Ponderosa – they believe in the government providing the Ponderosa to everyone.
Hell, you don’t think they’d W.O.R.K fer it do ya?
Geez. They’re libs for godsake!
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Yeah OK, Government will provide everything from the money trees. Ponderosas for everybody!
Why would I do that? They are libs on koolaid.
How predictably incurious. For some, willful ignorance must indeed be bliss!
JimJohnson
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:43 pm | Permalink
American_Way
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:37 pm | Permalink
And JJ, read the local AZ news on illegals. That state has really put a damper on them.
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And who’s gonna pick the oranges and grapefruit? American Union workers will have to be hired.
Those libs will love paying $5 for one orange and $10 for one grapefruit!
American_Way
Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:43 pm | Permalink
That’s the standard NATO round JJ. We all know what weapons use those.
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Yeah I know. Those nasty black guns that are used to hunt jack rabbits.
We were a little early for the good oranges. Navel’s were all that were in season. The AZ sweets are about a month behind.
It was a nice visit in the warm sun and time spent solving the worlds problems with some good conservatives poolside, drinks in hand. Far outweighed the blacksheep of the family on the government tit from Nevada.
Gotta run. Have to put some burn pain lotion on before going to bed. Gotta make lots of money at work tomorrow for Obama Christ.
Goodnight AW.
Have sweet dreams thinkin bout how good things are gonna be under Obamination!
I cling to my gun and bible for comfort too.
Rage,
Yes, it’s very ironic.
Boxlock may not even know that his web browser is based on Mosaic, which was developed with GOVERNMENT funds from Al Gore’s legislation. LOL!
‘NCSA Mosaic — September 10, 1993 Demo’
http://www.totic.org/nscp/demodoc/demo.html
“American way” is Hank and “Jim Johnson” is “Regular” and neither one of them have ever worked a day in their lives.
Gonna get rough on them and theirs is my take.
BlueJay sings….
Lovin’ every minute of it!
Boxlock may not even know that his web browser is based on Mosaic, which was developed with GOVERNMENT funds from Al Gore’s legislation. LOL!
Yup. And look! The first computer!
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html
Ok you all have freaking lost your mind. No I’m not an eeevil boss. I have expectations that I have always had. I have no issues with employee protections. They deserve them because too many were taken advantage of.
They’re the same ones that protect you from getting canned when you earn too much and they can replace you with someone cheaper.
However, I won’t have people who are downright bad employees. That’s bad for the company, bad for the clients, and bad for morale of the company.
I also know that a company has to be profitable in order to work. Now where that line is on profitability vs quality, that’s where I’m coming in, right? That’s my job. Trying to keep everyone happy and move the company forward. Not as easy as it may seem, and there are a lot of growing pains.
For the most part I have really good employees. I like my job.
“The $700 Billion bailout is free printed money. Sure it increases the National Debt, but nobody will be paying that back – ever.”—JimJohnson,
Surely you jest! We, or our grandkids, will surely pay it all back, whether in taxes, or due to the devaluation of money due to inflation from the printing of the money.
Again I say, surely you jest…no one can be that stupid, unless they are a DimLib or simply ignorant.
Or, as I suspect, sarcastic!
Hey Boxlock!
Aren’t you gonna tell us WHO the U.S. government took the computer, the Internet, the Mosaic web browser, etc, FROM?
‘The Technology Challenge: How Can America Spark Private Innovation?’
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/faculty.lecture/innovation/gore.html
good night; good luck; god bless —-
whatever you conceive god to be!!
blessings ALL!!
blessings on this Advent Season!!
so mote it be!!
I have read that the ENIAC computers took up a high gym sized space. But recently the memory of that large computer could be put on a chip the size of a single piece of confetti. We’ve come a long way.
Rage,
You need to read Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ. The historical trivia on computers alone make it worth the effort.
Have you ever worked with the Python language? I had used Liberty Basic to program an “effect size” calculator (Hedges’s G was what I was interested in). I was able to come up with a suitable program without too much code, but I think Python may be a better language for me. NASA uses it too, so it can’t be all bad + it’s open source and free. Python 3.0 is coming out in December and a book will also be published in late December on this version.
“high gym” should have been “High school” sized gym. And, NO, that was not a Freudian slip.
Have you ever worked with the Python language?
Not really–I’ve played around a little bit, but done nothing serious. Kinda like the “try Ruby in your browser!” experiments. Kid stuff.
ou need to read Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ. The historical trivia on computers alone make it worth the effort.
As I also have an active interest in AI (which, at this point, hasn’t even achieved “AS”), that sounds interesting. Regarding ENIAC, I highly recommend this short, fascinating book:
ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World’s First Computer (Hardcover)
by Scott McCartney
http://www.amazon.com/ENIAC-Triumphs-Tragedies-Worlds-Computer/dp/0802713483
True to its title, it is both inspiring and depressing. Few people could name the two quirky geniuses who invented the first modern computer (John Mauchy and J. Presper Eckert).
Mauchly, dammit! (Sorry, John)