Oh no!
In reply to this comment by dotdude:
But now the forecasters have the storm coming at New Orleans. Of course that could change. This storm is unpredictable. http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/picservice.asp?t=t&m=09&av=2
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
In light of the news that the GOP has had to delay the start of their convention based in Tampa, what you were saying makes a lot more sense now : Pardon my confused expression, was just missing some context.

>> ^oOPonyOo:

Fake. http://www.snopes.com/photos/humor/batteryhack.asp.
Also, don't throw out your old VCR. Check out this video for a helpful hack!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx-3t8CJ-k&feature=player_embedd
ed#!


I'm too gullible for my own good [blush] =o/

Thank you for your investigative prowess =o)

But now the forecasters have the storm coming at New Orleans. Of course that could change. This storm is unpredictable. http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/picservice.asp?t=t&m=09&av=2
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
In light of the news that the GOP has had to delay the start of their convention based in Tampa, what you were saying makes a lot more sense now : Pardon my confused expression, was just missing some context.

Fake. http://www.snopes.com/photos/humor/batteryhack.asp.

Also, don't throw out your old VCR. Check out this video for a helpful hack!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx-3t8CJ-k&feature=player_embedded#!

*promote

Chris Marker has died - http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34742

as an agnostic I think one of the key things that atheists AND religious people alike need to get past is the possibility that maybe there is a god, but religion as we know it is just flat out wrong.

Most religion as we know it is wrong. This is the religion approved by God:

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world

Maybe there is a god, but there is no religion. Maybe god doesn't care if you pray or don't pray. Maybe a god created us, but has since moved on and isn't watching us and otherwise doesn't give a damn about us anymore

What if god isn't really god, maybe we were created, but by some hyper-advanced aliens.

Maybe God became a man, Jesus Christ, and died for the sins of the world?

What if god doesn't dictate morality...maybe we create morality. God used to be ok with slavery...then we decided differently. Why aren't we getting flooded again if God was down with slavery?

http://www.comereason.org/soc_culture/soc060.asp

What if god is a tyrant? You know what the US does with tyrannical governments right?

I'm not really sure how to reply to this comment.

Whenever I used to think about that stuff as a kid . I put myself in god's shoes. Ok, I just created humanity. What's that? you're worshiping me and giving me thanks? ok that's sweet and all, but I want you to go out and do stuff. What's that? a whole day devoted to me? no...just no. I get it that you're thankful..but it's time to move on. What's that? you're killing other humans in my name? Just...no..just stop it!

Why would you think, as a flawed, subjective, morally imperfect being (that's all of us), that you could understand the mind of God? Perhaps God ordained worship for a reason that you don't understand?

Seriously, I think that's what every religious person needs to ask themselves. If you created a species. Would you want it constantly fighting and bickering and killing each other in your name? Nah, you'd want people to get along no matter how different they were?

If people followed what Jesus taught, none of that would be happening.

Religious people who are parents, would you really like it if your kids CONSTANTLY prayed to you and gave you thanks? We currently only spend Father's Day and Mother's Day devoted to our parents. Do you really think kids should be that devoted to their parents? Or do you want them to grow up and go out into the world and do big things?

Our parents don't uphold the atoms in our bodies. God is who makes all things possible.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

I'm sure there are many times in your life that you've wanted to give thanks for the good things God has done for you, but you have no one to thank. I think that's is a sad moment for an unbeliever.

Bottom line is that what we know is completely and utterly dominated by what we don't know. Column A is just a TAD bit bigger than Column B if you know what I mean. So it's utter absurdity to make claims that you know that there is no god..just the same as it is to claim that there is a god and you know exactly what it wants. Even people in the same religion can't seem to agree what god wants and get into extremely petty and hurtful fights over this shit.

so this supposed "battle" between theists and atheists is just ego getting completely out of hand IMO

We're all on the same fucking team...start acting like it.

The only way you could know the truth is if you are omnipotent, or an omnipotent being told you. Christians are claiming the latter. I have a route to truth, and you don't, so how are you telling me I don't know what it is? How would you know that?

>> ^VoodooV

Wow, Craig and a baptist preacher are in complete agreement:

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=7111187262

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I'm honestly not sure - might have been minor design changes on our side - but could also be browser changes, the way alt or title tags are cued. It's all going to change in VideoSift 5.0 - which I'm starting to get pretty excited about. >> ^xxovercastxx:

There used to be visual cues for a lot of these things.
The relative date and the view count used to have a dotted underline which is the standard visual cue for "more info on hover". See the right side of this page for an example. Comment timestamps could benefit from this treatment, too, as could comment voting controls.
Your username in the menubar used to have a downward pointing triangle (like the downvote button) next to it instead of your star/gem/crown to indicate that it's a drop-down menu.
@dag, any input as to why these things were removed over the years?

There used to be visual cues for a lot of these things.

The relative date and the view count used to have a dotted underline which is the standard visual cue for "more info on hover". See the right side of this page for an example. Comment timestamps could benefit from this treatment, too, as could comment voting controls.

Your username in the menubar used to have a downward pointing triangle (like the downvote button) next to it instead of your star/gem/crown to indicate that it's a drop-down menu.

@dag, any input as to why these things were removed over the years?

>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^Sagemind:
Well, to be honest, it's not like they look like they are fishing in the ocean - I'd be shocked too..
This must be an inlet or something connected to the ocean, a place you wouldn't expect to see a shark.
Edit: I like the un-tube chopped version better.

I've seen a few shows on cable which have shown that sharks are being found way up-river in places they thought they couldn't live. One show in particular was looking for Greenland Sharks up near the great lakes and I'm pretty sure they found them... Let's check the internets quick: yup... here's the link to the description of the show:
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/ma04/feature.asp
Basically bigassed sharks near Quebec.


I think they had an episode of River Monsters where they talked about that.

>> ^Sagemind:

Well, to be honest, it's not like they look like they are fishing in the ocean - I'd be shocked too..
This must be an inlet or something connected to the ocean, a place you wouldn't expect to see a shark.
Edit: I like the un-tube chopped version better.


I've seen a few shows on cable which have shown that sharks are being found way up-river in places they thought they couldn't live. One show in particular was looking for Greenland Sharks up near the great lakes and I'm pretty sure they found them... Let's check the internets quick: yup... here's the link to the description of the show:

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/ma04/feature.asp

Basically bigassed sharks near Quebec.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.asp

>> ^Bad-Wolf:

4:35 Guys scuba diving in lake gets picked up.
5:40 Guy waving and yelling WTF!!
5:48 Guy gets dumped into fire.

>> ^JiggaJonson:

With the votes being 1/1/28/1, you've touched on something that is clearly, as you put it, divisive. </sarcasm>
It may be divisive among the troglodytes that make up a good hunk of society, but I would hope, for most who are not ignorant of what evolution is, that this is not even a question. What @zombieater brings up about abiogenesis is something I agree with. @gwiz665 makes a good point too. It's just hard to answer a question like this when the question is not very specific.
On another note, I also don't believe extraterrestrial evolution is that far fetched; with The Voyager 1 reaching the boundaries of our solar system, I think it's certainly possible that even we are colonizing a few cells if by some chance they make their way to a habitable planet. That situation, however, requires that Darwinian evolution exists.


Wow, the result... I figured we'd have a few more for Creationism and especially Theistic Evolution, BUT all I can say is that I'm guessing education (YES, this is a big player!) played a large part into the outcome of this poll. The only two things that could be making such a large play on this poll is, one: education--this is pretty straight forward, but basically everyone that voted had a considerable higher source of education (or perhaps even better grades, thus more attention and better retention of the knowledge they learned). Two: cultural (or better said sometimes as: community education), this could be due to the literal source of where this poll is located such as in this case, "The Internet", meaning it attracts a certain type of person and ONLY persons that have access to the Internet (which already means that those people most likely have access to things you only commonly see in a First World society--especially if it seems to be a common place discussion...); second, the culture and community around the person voting. In this case we could say that the culture and community are both the Internet. The last choice is of course your personal one; we all have it in the end, but this poll was taken on the Internet and shown to have a stark difference between a "real world" poll and a tongue-and-cheek version.

Of course the original was the U.S. only and also was across all types of people. It would be interesting to go back to those polls and have them mark out the reasoning for why they made the choices they did. Was it religion? Was it religion, but evolution is on their minds they just don't think science has proved it yet...? Was it science? Was it what they were taught (belief)? Did they guess or just pick what they thought was right? Lets see a poll on that as well.
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For example if you go to this page here: wiki-answers: Do you believe in Creationism or Evolution and why?

It REALLY is a Creationism page! Sure they "try" to be nice to evolution, but apparently whoever understands evolution there knows about it in a 1970's Junior High textbook read-through half-assed way, looking back after 47 years they wrote a very brief summary of what they "thought it was (after writing some stuff down from Wikipedia too flesh it out)" and then left it for the masses.

They even put up links, plenty of creationist, creationism, or young-earth scientist links, BUT when they got to evolution they put up:...not even the Wikipedia entry. THEN they call it an answer on a page were people go looking for answers and this is a page that gets HIGH HITS from Google! They can barely even explain what the word evolution is, they know know enough to not get "clowned" by every single person.

BUT, here's the thing I bet the majority of the people that voted yes for evolution on this poll COULD in fact tear into this person and make a mockery out of that page. The page tries to be friendly to what I would call: "Atheist Suckers". They come on soft and nice, telling you how religion got you down, but guess what there is so much evidence that is just plain strange--it makes no sense.

As I said though, there is absolutely no page to back up their claims; just some names of idiotic scientists that most likely were Dentists and decided it was their job to tell you that carbon dating is fake, and so on and so forth.
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To me it is as clear as day, but maybe I'll FORCE someone to make a poll besides me on this subject. Why did you vote for evolution, creationism, intelligent design, or the aliens (don't forget comedy for the alien choice ), or maybe just quickly post below as it would much quicker get the job done and allow for every response in the book, including multi-responses. Maybe even tell what choices you were originally if you changed over time and HOW those choices changed (was it due to faith or education)!?

With the votes being 1/1/28/1, you've touched on something that is clearly, as you put it, divisive. </sarcasm>

It may be divisive among the troglodytes that make up a good hunk of society, but I would hope, for most who are not ignorant of what evolution is, that this is not even a question. What @zombieater brings up about abiogenesis is something I agree with. @gwiz665 makes a good point too. It's just hard to answer a question like this when the question is not very specific.

On another note, I also don't believe extraterrestrial evolution is that far fetched; with The Voyager 1 reaching the boundaries of our solar system, I think it's certainly possible that even we are colonizing a few cells if by some chance they make their way to a habitable planet. That situation, however, requires that Darwinian evolution exists.

Absolutely! Very funny and to the point. However, as a scion of truth (insert sarcasm here) I felt it was my duty to inform.
In reply to this comment by Barseps:
Ok, fair comment....... I still thought it was funny though :
In reply to this comment by jqpublick:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/palisades.asp

Sorry, but ... you know.