Wow, srsly?

I won't say anything other than... CITATION PLEASE.

I personally have reduced my use of gasoline by almost 4 times from that of the lifestyle my parents lead by making choices in my own life. I use about 1/8 the electricity of my parents. It's really not hard, if you give a fuck about anyone other than yourself.

I'm planning to spend a year on the ocean, living on a small yacht "off the grid", a life based exclusively on wind and solar power in a few years. What have you done to improve the life of your progeny? (and I'm talking about 10 generations from now, which rules out spewing spittle while pointing at the size of your 401K).

Do you realize the level of the absolute asshattery (or perhaps ignorance) that you have demonstrated with the "YOU GUYS ARE STUPID POOPYHEADS" tone of this comment?

Lay off the Limbaugh crack, it'll make you smarter and generate more salient debates, rather than regurgitated internet flamebait.

But those are two facts.... simply strung together.

Is it a mantra to repeat two facts? hmmm...

Hah. Because in the 3rd world, American trash gets dumped right in your backyard, rather than down in Texas where nobody gives a shit. :-)

You just made me spit my tea all over my keyboard.

Sheesh, have some restraint :-P

ahhhhh ROFL

Bullshit.

I have a co-worker who constantly pulls the "dude, RTFM" on everyone like he knows the answer. But when you pin him to the wall, frankly, he constantly doesn't.

He frequently chortles when someone asks a question "dude, didn't you learn this in 4th grade?" but he then gets the same thing wrong the next time he has to do it because he can't ask the same question (having teased someone for asking it before).

Knowing a lot is very different from being a jackass, which is what is implied in the GP's answer.

Asking credible questions incorporating the previous steps you attempted to answer your own question gains you a lot of support and will make you a wiser person in the long run.

Simply being a turd and thinking you already "know it all" just impresses people who don't know any better. Those who do know just roll their eyes and quietly check you off in their head as a know it all turd.

Yeah, but if "janitor steve" gets a virus, the IT department is liable and responsible to fix it and probably has the means to identify the virus and/or re-image the machine.

When your home machine craters and takes a few dozen other VPN nodes with it, they have to just sigh and say "damn users".

I worked in an office a number of years ago when the Nimda virus was floating around. We managed to keep it completely off the network for 3 days, but someone connected to an old archaic dialup system that was still active (and not firewalled) and infected the whole damn place, and I spent the next 80 hours not sleeping, trying to keep the business from going under because they had over 1000 computers that were totally useless bricks.

So... I gotta say that i see both sides.

That's an interesting point. The -istan countries were bent over and raped by Mother Russia.

This is a bit akin to saying.

"I have proof God doesn't exist. See, his priests are assholes! That proves it!"

While you might be right about Al Gore, it doesn't make the initial claim any less probable.

ROFL.

Leviticus has like 500 commandments to stone people.

Leviticus 20:27

"'A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them;"

Oye.

I think that's supposed to read

"are supposed to turn the other cheek"

The christianists in the bible belt haven't followed Jeebus for a long ass time.

Well, the list of things that couldn't be done isn't mine... but let me address a few for fun.

The concept of walking on water, for example, has references far older than the bible. It's a pretty common magic trick, if you're willing to swallow the claim it may be just a parlour trick (and this is all assuming, again, that the original observations are, in fact, true).

There are also a number of references to this trick having been performed on various types of shoals and reefs, where a boat may float at anchor, but a wise seaman could position it in such a way that he could virtually step off the side into only inches of water. You might assume that would be obviously visible to others, but if I recall, many who reported it were not seafaring people and may have rarely been out on open water.

There is an interesting anthropologic reference to the red sea. Anthropologists have traced the historical path of the jews out of Egypt. It's pretty well accepted that this would have happened, and it would have taken them very close tto a large bog type swamp. Locals used to map gaps in the swamp, where a person could walk clean across the entire area, but those who were not familiar with the area would wade into a bog and often drown (especially if wearing armour).

Again, assuming that this story is close to literal and isn't the great imagination of the storyteller, it's entirely plausible that they passed a swampy offshooot of the Red Sea, walked across a known land-bridge and watched the armies behind them perish in the bogs, figuratively "splitting" the red sea.

Of course, our vision of Charleton Heston holding his staff in front of a massive wall of water is spiffy and all, but there isn't much more than that to go on. :-)

As for resurrection, I have no idea, except it's not impossible to fake someone's death, especially given sufficient collaboration with outsiders and sufficient time to plan. It's also quite possible to make up such statements. As it has been said, nobody of any historical significance SAW any resurrected people. If I recall, the eye-witnesses were always "the faithful" and/or "random joe who couldn't possibly dispute the claim" which makes them a dubious claim as far as historical accuracy is concerned.

Isn't this fun?

I figured everyone carried around $10,000 worth of gear, c'mon, hurry up. :-)

Ahh fair enough.

If you do get into using the flash, do yourself a favor and get a good pack of gels. CTO, 1/2CTO and a set of 'full green' are required, others as needed.

But outdoors, where the flash is the easiest way to really make a photo "pop", you still won't get any burst mode out of it. :-P