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Comment Re:evidence (Score 1) 1226

Wait what? Since when does that have ANYTHING to do with what the creationists say? They don't dismiss that....at least the reasonable ones don't. The Bible doesn't say how long creation of the Earth took. God's "Day" is probably not 24 hours long. It was probably written that way because to people of the time a day was a long time or a day was something they understood.

I say again...evolution could be HOW God created everything. It even has room for the creation of Adam and Eve. What's to say hat the evolution of primates to man wasn't caused by God? Why no WHAT happened but not the how or why.

Comment Re:False Dichotomy (Score 2) 1226

Always said that there is NO REASON to say that creationism and evolution can't both exist hand in hand. The first organisms ever HAD to be created from something and or something caused the exact conditions needed to cause life to flourish. Only the absolutists will say it's only evolution or only creationism. There's room for both in the same breath.

Comment Re:FreeRunner (Score 1) 133

I reviewed this a while back on geardiary.com:

http://www.geardiary.com/2009/02/22/review-openmoko-neo-freerunner-from-sdg-systems/

It was....a unique design but the Android port didn't work well at all. The Openmoko code was even more of a mess. It was also SLOW.

I like the idea of a completely libre device, but the G1 was WAY better than this....and that's saying something.

Comment Not new. (Score 1) 543

They do this ALL the time. YOU CAN find a laptop without their crap. When you do, they charge you less. They put it on there because they want to sell you their crappy Geek Squad tech support. I reject it. The bad thing is that sometimes YOU CAN'T GET THE SALE PRICE WITHOUT THE BLOAT!

Comment Re:touchpad firesale hopefully good for webos (Score 4, Interesting) 181

No it was priced right according to iSuppli who did the teardown. If HP sold it at $150 there would have been a loss on each device sold.

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HP-TouchPad-Carries-$318-Bill-of-Materials.aspx

They probably COULD have saved money somewhere, but they already chintzed on the plastic in the back.

The real problem is there were no apps. There was no real push by Palm OR HP on gaining developers. At least not one like there should have been. Plus the SDK was REALLY late. By that time, Palm was already dead in the water, HP picked them up and did NOTHING with them.

Comment Products need more time.... (Score 2) 181

48-49 days does NOT make a developer community. The Kin was an exception as there was no development community but HP did WebOS no favors. People aren't going to buy the damn thing if they can't get or program apps. This all started when Palm was REALLY LATE with the SDK. HP did it no favors, but it was right on the cusp of something that could have been cool.

Leo Apotheker was and IS the WRONG person to lead HP. HP hasn't ever been about the high end servers for years. Sure, people bough Superdomes but IBM had far eclipsed HP in the amount of servers it sold. Sun did too (but still failed). Leo is going down the wrong path. HP made great calculators, printers and computers and was KNOWN for them. They made servers too but when was the last time you heard them talk about that? They had HPUX and Tru64. Did nothing with either.

This is a sad sad road that HP went down and it might ultimately kill HP.

Comment Re:Why the sex offenders registration? (Score 1) 584

This is true. However, the comment Mrs. Kostolnik made was defamation and she should have kept the thoughts to herself.

All to often we say things that could set these nutters off. Better not to set the nutter off on YOU so be nice to him and don't piss him off.

Not saying this guy shouldn't be put away, but sometimes we say things we shouldn't have said. This is one of those cases!

Comment Re:Why the sex offenders registration? (Score 1) 584

ANNNND....what's to say that the boy didn't just do this to people he liked? I've seen all kids from 1 until about 6 or 7 do something similar.

What the guy did isn't right, but he shouldn't be labeled a sex offender for the rest of his life.

As for the Sex Offender list, I find it causes more trouble than it prevents and it's already being misused. 18 year old boy goes out with 16 year old girl and has consensual sex and parents get pissed and have him incarcerated for rape. Girl has nothing to say about it because she's a minor. Because rape is a sex offense, he gets labeled that for the rest of his life. It happens all too often and should be stopped.

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