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Comment Re:Canada Here I Come (Score 1) 747

[having a few guys whose job it is to get arrested for running enough stoplights to smuggle stuff in to the leaders on a 30-day pass and pass messages back and forth from the outside too.]

[Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense]

My fallback job in case I get canned from my current employment has just been shelved....

Comment Re:Can't wait.. (Score 1) 173

[[I looked into the TMobile deal and yes, I could go that way but I would only get Edge speed for data.]]

[T-Mobile announced that they are reallocating their GPRS spectrum which will bring 1900MHz support for their 3G/4G which will then work on the iPhone.]

This is good. I got an unlocked Iphone and migrated my old GOLD plan on which I pay 10 a year and rolled over the 1500 or so talk minutes each year. WIFI covers the data and I notice Netzero has free WIFI 4g Internet (but one must purchase their 3 1/3 " hotspot at 120 includes postage, check coverage).

Once TMO upgrades their infrastructure, placing the Walmart 30 dollar plan on unlocked iphones will definitely compete favorably to the $65-90+ planes others wish to charge

Comment Re:Fragmentation (Score 1) 617

Some developers restrict apps that can be downloaded and installed on the target device ie the store did not let me install a directional app because my iPAD lacked the gyroscope of iPAD2.

The same restrictiveness should apply to games as well, else one is dependent upon customer reviews.

Comment Re:Good Luck (Score 2) 155

The German company Elastolin once produced an assortment of wonderful vacuformed plastic castles, scaled for use with figures from 25mm to larger. Elastolin castles were based on German castles. A hobby shop in New Jersey, used to supply these and as i understood it, they were especially desirable. Especially fascinated with the Elastolin Castle used with rules "for the Siege of Bodenburg," I would like to see these products reformed and re-released.

Comment Re:Man whose job relies on the scientific method.. (Score 1) 743

[We can't observe the magical-thinking existence of "cures" based on someone praying to a dead carpenter on a stick.}

Yet we have:

"Among the best-known accounts by Catholics of faith healings are those attributed to the miraculous intercession of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary known as Our Lady of Lourdes at the grotto of Lourdes in France and the remissions of life-threatening disease claimed by those who have applied for aid to Saint Jude, who is known as the "patron saint of lost causes".

The Catholic Church has given official recognition to 67 miracles and 7,000 otherwise inexplicable medical cures since the Blessed Virgin Mary first appeared in Lourdes in February 1858. These cures are subjected to intense medical scrutiny and are only recognized as authentic spiritual cures after a commission of doctors and scientists, called the Lourdes Medical Bureau, has ruled out any physical mechanism for the patient's recovery."

Yes,other studies as described elsewhere show varying results as the list of articles found here describes

http://onlinesurgicaltechniciancourses.com/2010/25-intriguing-scientific-studies-about-faith-prayer-and-healing/

 

Comment Re:Man whose job relies on the scientific method.. (Score 1) 743

[I have chosen to believe there is in fact an omnipotent/omniscient/omnipresent being who created everything and loves everybody equally ]

There are those who are convinced that their faith is supported by the evidence that history provides. Many Christians asserts their beliefs are on the foundation that the resurrection of Jesus is supported by sufficient historical evidence which indicates God's guidance and existence . And that event stands upon the foundations laid by Moses and others which state God intervened in key specific moments in history, for example, at the Exodus events and the giving of the Ten Commandments in front of all the tribes of Israel thus creating empirical evidence stemming from the sheer number of witnesses.

This is further augmented by continued public incidents, such as Joan of Arc, Fatima 1917 , Padre Pio, to perhaps include the Shroud of Turin and the Medjugorje Six.

The common thread here seems to be that God has not just required faith by providing no evidence and demanding belief, but has indeed provided evidence to buttress belief and faith.

Nevertheless, in a workspace such as NASA, and other places too I would imagine, it would be inappropriate to be be expressing belief or compelling adherence to such in a way as described in the article quoted.

Comment Re:That is one hell of a complicated way of saying (Score 1) 315

>>As oppose to our Christian Evangelic crazies who think the end of the world is close and something they should work to achieve >Or our Mormons weirdos who have recently baptized Anne Frank >-Not to mention the Pro "lifers" who think it ok to shot doctors!
  (In the U.S., violence directed towards abortion providers has killed at least eight people, including four doctors, two clinic employees, a security guard, and a clinic escort. The American Life League issued a "Pro-life Proclamation Against Violence" in 2006. Other pro-life groups to state their opposition to violence include the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and Pro-Lifers Against Clinic Violence. The pro-life organization National Coalition for Life and Peace has also rejected violence as a form of opposition to abortion.)

  From what I gather you consider the above totally comparable to what donscarletti posted among which is:

  --....and it is the exact same form of crazy. These are the same guys that Crassus and Leonidas fell to and that's the problem...
  --I've met an Iranian engineer who used the phrase "praise Allah" multiple times during his doctoral defense at a top western university and got his PhD anyway.....
  --------------------
  Marcus Licinius Crassus was a was a Roman general who went into Syria, where he was defeated and killed in the Roman defeat at Carrhae against a Parthian Spahbod The Parthians would get within shooting range, rain a barrage of arrows down upon Crassus's troops, turn, fall back, and charge forth with another attack in the same vein.
  And Leonidas referring to the the Greek hero-king of Sparta, who fought the Persians, who amassed an army of 50,000 to 200,000 at Battle of Thermopylae with four to seven thousand Greeks.

Comment WHERE do I purchase (Score 1) 109

I NEED one of these captcha solver programs. When I try to register for a website or forum, many of them are so unreadable it takes me 20 minutes of trying to get it right and NO PHONE NUMBER to call their technical to register me by tele.

Comment Easer to download and install than used purchased (Score 1) 383

Easer to download and install than used purchased disk.

I buy my games but its easier and I often get better performance just to download it, install and use than run the install disks and hope the CD drive is up to date with SecureROm, hope I don't get a message "I have DVD emulation software installed" or wait while yet another program must load and access the Internet before I can run the game.

Comment Studies of people ACTUALLY experiencing "God" (Score 1) 380

Unlike experiments which try to induce the sensation of "God" through the deft turn of a knob or a drop of a pill, experiments have been done on individuals who already experiencing a supernatural personage (apparition).

According to one of the many websites and books searched for some information on the studies "The reported apparitions in Medjugorje are the first apparitions in history to be thoroughly investigated by science. The regularity of the apparitions has made for consistent and extremely reliable findings."

Scientific experts have defined the phenomena "as a state of active, intense prayer, partially disconnected from the external world, a state of contemplation with a separate person whom they alone can see, hear, and touch."

Some scientifically inexplicable events occur during the time that they are having the vision.
-- the larynx (voice box) shuts off even though all muscles continue to operate normally with the exception during the time the alleged visionaries will be heard simultaneously praying, "Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name..." When later asked, they report Mother Mary is leading them in the Lord's Prayer."
--No brain response is detected when a 1000 bulb is placed near the visoneers eyes. Likewise loud sounds, pin pricks or burns are not being noticed / responded to either until the visitation disappears.
-- Brain waves are predominantly of a normal beta rhythm conscious attentiveness before the visitation. During the apparition almost uninterrupted alpha rhythm predominates, which is previously measured in states of sleep, meditation or relaxation. Oddly, the visioneers eyes remain open.

Comment Re:What went BADLY wrong (Score 1) 281

I once, in the distant past, was building a bunker for my Terrans. The Zergs attacked with a few individual squiggly fools and were blasted to bits. Individually their pathetic attacks did not count and with great aplomb they were given the smak-dab with no hurt to my side. I proceeded with my production. Minutes later the same type of geeky dork creatures reappeared but this time in great heaps and hordes. Collectively, they were considerably difficult to ignore. I had to concede to their superior ability to cause pain. I resigned. If 20,000 to 200,000 gamers think and react like SwordGeek, 2k will get a potent un- ignorable message.

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