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Crazy or not, it's spurring on some pretty awesome science. It shows that maybe it won't matter that fetal stem cells don't need to be used after all (something that is also illegal in Japan).

Thermal Depolymerization.

I'm trying to figure out a way to experiment with this right now.

On the stem cell front a guy in my Physics class last semester told me he had interned in Japan with a medical team that successfully grew a human eye using stem cells taken from adult blood.

Apparently Japan has laws against organ donation because of Buddhist origins or something.

Kinoko, that's an interesting prospect.

In fact, I think there are few problems that couldn't be solved if people would just STFU. 

I think it's funny that you are in the band and ecstatic about the performance of the football team because I've always been far more interested in the bands performance.

If you hit a bowl game in or around Oklahoma let me know. I might not go to the game, but I'm all about road trips.

I just got back from a FEMA detainment camp

Disgusting.

Mind you, this is a stupid conspiracy site I normally laugh at but there are pictures and that is a real place which he is accurately describing. There's another camp being set up in Camp Gruber, Oklahoma (a basic training camp for the armed forces) near my hometown and I'm sure it'll be similarly set up.. they kept 20k Germans there captured from the African desert in WWII.

I guess I could go see, if I feel like throwing up.

As good of certain points Michael Moore makes in his letter, it sickens me that he's using this tragedy to further his own agenda.  Shame on him this time.

His agenda? To remove a generally terrible and retarded leader from power, you mean?

He isn't just trying to hawk videos, and he isn't manipulating anything in that letter. That shit really happened.

Reminds me too much of radio, waaay too much repetition and I keep thinking get to the point and actually say something.

Which is why I don't listen to radio or podcasts.

If they thought you were stealing on purpose they probably would have booked you into the county jail. I know someone who did something very similar at Wal-Mart, but intentionally, and he ended up spending the night there and going through a trial.

you find me one example of atheists declaring war on religious people and i'll eat a bowlful of cock, atheists used to be very secretive so that the religious masses wouldn't kill them.
and politics is often used as an excuse for religious people to kill eachother, in fact politics is no better than religion.

Purely for the interest in seeing someone eat a bowlfull of cock, I have an example. The Soviet Union fought any inclination for it's people to practice religion and encouraged atheism with loyalty to the country. It declared war on several countries, but to name one: Afghanistan.

Where do you find bowlfulls of cock, anyway?

You've accounted for less than 100 manuscripts with the Dead Sea Scrolls, and those merely confirmed what we already had.  And we're obviously not considering the ones Constantine got his hands on.

And the exact date of Jesus's birth was never claimed to have any importance; it's extremely likely that if people knew the date, they'd worship it more than considering what Christmas is all about.

No, they didn't confirm what humanity already had, they added several new psalms that probably haven't been seen in over a millennia and a half.

They were also written in the time that Jesus supposedly walked the Earth and made no mention of him. Why? Because Jesus was not anything special to them, nor was he the first to claim to be the messiah. Many people before him had claimed that, and many people are still claiming that today. Sure, the bible says he performed miracles.. but there's also that one part where the Egyptian magician does some pretty wild and "out there" shit too, before being matched up by the great Jesus. Does this prove that Jesus was performing miracles, or just that he was a better magician and maybe the people weren't too sure exactly what they were seeing? It can go on like that forever.

Really, this quote sums it up for me:
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
-Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

I'm talking about both.  And if you look at the original Hebrew/Aramaic, which is what I'm talking about, there are only a miniscule amount of differences between copies, most of which can be easily attributed to the error of the copyist.

Except for all of the books that Constantine threw out or modified.. yeah, there was that.. the dead sea scrolls do not match up exactly at all.

That's what Boyd meant when he said, "Learn the history of your religion."

Christmas rests on a pagan holiday, not on the day of the actual birth of Jesus which can be historically linked to near Roman tax season, at another time of the year.. among many other things that were modified to mix Roman paganism with Christianity. There was no other way to just tell half of the country, "Hey, you're gonna have another religion now," so Constantine mixed and modified the two.

Zooming to over the half makes the map x'ed out, so...

But anyway, Dizzy Dancer, I feel stupid for not saying it before, but welcome!

Seems to me your connection is at fault or else your computer may not be able to keep up with the leeching software that is google maps.

Have you tried to partition the drive into two sections?

Perhaps you could dual-boot Linux and see what it does.. I think there's a version of Knoppix that boots from a CD-ROM.

ditto.

Well, seeing as how it wasn't NASA or the government which discovered the planet, but a university professor, your theory is flawed.

He is purported to have delayed announcement in order to do fact finding.. spectographic analysis, mass determination with a low margin of error, accurate orbital determination, and etc. He already knew it could be classified as a planet, but wanted to be the first to determine most of the information about it as well.

Yahoo also allows you to size the window to monolith proportions if you desire, so that seems to be the way to go.

MSN allows you to enlarge the video in the drop down menu but only to a 1:1 ratio (with the resolution of the typical web camera).

P.S. Hours?! It's not that bad..

My grandmother and grandfather wed during the great depression (American). They both picked cotton to earn a living and were very, very poor. Married in a court house. My grandmother was very strong willed, I don't know the exact circumstances but she wouldn't let him buy her a ring because she considered it inconsequential. She said that their marriage and love were most important. Just before she died, on her birthday, he bought her a wedding ring after being together for more than 60 years.

That is true love.

Wow you guys have been a great help!

Redwood City - CA, thats where I will be working.
I have a friend that stays in San Fran. I am planning to crash with him for awhile until i get my own place.
Yeah "I wish they all could be CA girls.. )

I've been there, it's still expensive but less so than Frisco or LA, so you'll be fine. Probably will have leftover money too unless you party a lot. Look for apartments on the net early so you'll find the best deal.

Good luck!

Yeah, I'd say that here in the mid-northern-south (Oklahoma-Missouri-Arkansas) I'm straight out of college with a computer degree and at most I'll be making ~2500/month.

California, however, is a whole other story. I'm guessing at least twice that much. Which makes you wonder why software and video games cost so much to make instead of outsourcing everyone here. But I'm not a CEO of a company or whatever.

There are game companies around, just not many. A company in Tulsa, for example, does ports of various games.

The density of good programmers and CG artists here isn't even moderate either, which I'm sure has a lot to do with it.

Actually, it appears that Bush has agreed to save the world.

:o

He thinks hydrogen fuel will work though, which is dumb because we don't have any clean source of hydrogen yet.

If you were going to a non-coastal state or a southern state $4k a month would be awesome, but Cali and the NE states have some harsh costs-of-living. I wouldn't call it paltry, but you wouldn't be banking much of it. I'd go for it anyway.

In bigger cities you're looking at $700-$1000 per month rent
Transportation depends on your method of travel, but probably at least $100 using public transport and somewhere above $1000 if you buy a car
Food could be anywhere from $150-$500 depending on how/where you eat

So you see, as a single guy it wouldn't be bad.