you'll see that the truth is the absolute opposite of what your tiny little brain perceives... activist scientists and NGOs who's budgets

Who is budgets? I notice that you deniers are the ones with tiny little brains and less education. The word you're looking for is whose.

Read a few books and educate yourself, because it looks from here that you've never read one you weren't forced to or you'd know the difference between who's and whose.

A GED might not be a bad idea, either.

There are a set of assumptions that you must start with.

Wrong. Science doesn't start with assumptions at all, you cannot simply assume anything in science. It has to be testable.

There is nothing scientific about ID or creationism and it doesn't belong in science class (and I say that as a Christian). It belongs in philosophy class, not science.

Then again, I don't have kids.

That's obvious from the first part of your comment.

Mine are grown.

While you could say they should still get the day off too, some days like thanksgiving leave one precious little to do.

I pity people like that. There's always something to do. Some people live to work, those are the folks you're talking about and they're pathetic. Me, I work to live, and next February I retire.

More books to write, electronics to tinker with, probably buy a new soldering iron and multimeter, slashdot,... hell, I may even sweep my floor and wash the dishes for a change.

Holy shit, as I live and breathe; correct usage of a fucking adverb (never thought I'd see that again...).

Nah, adverbs are used correctly all the time... just look in any book.

I use them too, and I couldn't agree with you more. Their web interface is so bad I don't check my mail with it, I use my phone. Half the emails I get I can't read in their web interface without a god damned horizontal scroll with every line.

I should set up Thunderbird or something on the notebook.

And those who never heard of God are likewise going to be in hell. As well as people who believe in other religions

The bible contradicts those statements. I wish I could cite chapter and verse, but my own preacher read it from teh pulpit a few months ago.

Even amongst the Christians, the Catholics are going to Hell, as well as the Baptists.

Well, the churches are full of atheists pretending to be Christian (I personally know a woman who says God doesn't exist but insists she's Catholic), but if you believe that Jesus is the Christ, son of the living God, your lord and savior who died for you and was ressurected, you don't go to hell as long as you repent your sins.

I grew up in a strict Catholic family, with strict Baptist Grandparents.

Man... I have problems with both of those groups. The catholics pray to the saints, which the bible frowns on greatly. Jesus said "when two or three gather together in my name, I will be there." They baptise infants, which is meaningless and stupid. Unless you choose baptism, it's a sick joke. And they baptise by sprinkling. And they don't consider you a Chriistian unless you're catholic.

The Baptists (like the Mormons) think drinking is a sin, despite the fact that Jesus drank. "John the Baptist neither ate nor drank, and you say he has a devil. The son of man comes eating and drinking and you call him a glutton and a winebibber." And they think dancing is evil.

Why won't Baptists have sex standing up? They're afraid someone will see them and think they're dancing.

The trouble isn't Christianity, it's Christians. The problem is, they're all human and therefore imperfect and simply get shit wrong.

It's not hard to sum it up. This God demands that you worship him. If you do, when you die, you will go to another place, where you will continue to worship him. If you do not worship him, you will be tortured forever.

The bible doesn't say that. It says that Satan will be thrown in th lake of fire and destroyed completely, and those who know God and reject him will be erased from the book of life. They will be as if they never existed.

I always wondered what he would do if you decided not to worship him when you got to heaven.

I don't see how you could be in paradise and not love the entity who sent you there, if if you decided not to you would be erased. Deleted from the program.

Or what if you lost a husband or wife in life, then got remarried, then re-met the original in heaven. Or divorce?

That's covered. Read the new testament, the Pharasees tried to trick Jesus with that very question.

Is sex not allowed in heaven?

Sex is a physical thing, a thing your body does, not your soul.

I get a kick out of people who bash books they've never read.

When you have a new toy, you can hardly wait to try it out.

When you build a new machine or write a new program you can't wait to test it.

for he could cast the sinning Eve as the first human that the kind and loving God tossed into the lake of fire, to be tortured forever and ever

That was a bug. Eventually the whole system was hosed, so he flooded it with zeros and started over. The next bug fix involved someone being beaten and then tortured, but that fix worked.

I'm far more scared of idiots texting while driving than I am of terrorists. In fact, terrorists don't worry me at all.

I'll be surprised if, as more and more people adopt electric cars, at some point there won't be massive power grid failures on a regular basis. It isn't designed for that sort of load

The power grid wasn't "designed" at all. It started over a hundred years ago and has been growing ever since, thanks to engineers, linemen, and power plant technicians.

Adoption of electric vehicles will come about gradually and the grid will be built to handle it. It's not like fifty million people in the US are going to buy Teslas tomorrow and suck it all at once.

They coped with massive electricity use gains during the 1920s, they'll cope with this.

It's not a "design feature" it's an insoluable engineering problem. Slashdot can't tell who you are when you're not logged in. The only fix would be disallowing all AC comments. Commenting after you've modded is indeed cheating. Of course, logged out you're starting at zero and few will see your comment unless you log back in and mod yourself up. I don't think anyone would deny that's cheating.

Maybe I got lucky. I had my first notebook for a year before it was stolen, and it did have a glitch -- if it was set to hibernate on close and sleep when powered, and you closed the lid then plugged it in before the lights stopped flashing, you had to remove the battery to get it going again. It was dual-boot and happened both with Windows 7 and kubuntu.

Its replacement didn't have those issues. I've had it for about 4 years now.