Dear diary.. Jackpot!

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>> ^thinker247:
I feel no sadness for a man who is interviewed in front of his boat while he's wearing khaki shorts and a polo shirt.


Opposed to someone that is not well off financially. Sounds a bit like a hater.

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Just for fun, I read the crawl this time.
I wonder if the juxtaposition of text with the interview is ever planned or if its mostly just random news bites...



(...)PHARMACIST WHO SHOT A WOULD-BE ROBBER ON MAY 19... 57-YR-OLD JEROME ERSLAND SHOT 16-YR-OLD ANTWUN PARKER ONCE IN THE HEAD INSIDE HIS STORE, THEN CHASED A SECOND ROBBER OUT THE DOOR... PROSECUTORS SAY ERSLAND WAS NO LONGER DEFENDING HIMSELF WHEN HE RETURNED AND SHOT PARKER FIVE MORE TIMES AFTER HE WAS ALREADY UNCONSCIOUS

NEBRASKA LAWMAKERS APPROVE BILL CHANGING STATE'S METHOD OF EXECUTION FROM ELECTROCUTION TO LETHAL INJECTION... NE HAS BEEN WITHOUT A MEANS OF EXECUTION SINCE FEB 2008 WHEN THE STATE SUPREMEME COURT RULED THAT THE ELECTRIC CHAIR AMOUNTED TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT... NE WAS THE ONLY STATE WITH ELECTROCUTION AS ITS SOLE MEANS OF EXECUTION

THREE SONS OF AN AL QUAEDA-LINKED CLERIC JAILED IN LONDON FOR RUNNING A CAR THEFT RING... THE MEN, ALL IN THEIR 20S, WERE SENTENCED ALONG WITH FOUR OTHERS TO PRISON TERMS RANGING FROM 2-4 YEARS. THE SCHEME INVOLVED STEALING LUXURY CARS FROM LONG-STAY PARKING LOTS, THOUGH THE MEN DENY FINANCING TERRORISM THROUGH THE SALES OF THE VEHICLES... THE MEN'S FATHER, 50-YR-OLD CLERIC ABU HAMZA, IS IN JAIL IN LONDON AND FACES EXTRADITION TO THE U.S. FOR ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO SET UP A TERROR TRAINING CAMP IN O

EXPLOSION IN A SHIITE MOSQUE KILLS 15, INJURES 50 IN SE IRAN NEAR THE PAKISTANI BORDER... IRAN'S SISTAN-BALUCHISTAN PROVINCE IS PLAGUED BY LAWLESSNESS AND IS A KEY ENTRY POINT FOR DRUGS... A SUNNI TERROR ORG CALLED JUNDALLAH IS ACTIVE IN THE PROVINCE, KILLING 11 SOLDIERS IN 2007 IN THE CITY WHERE TODAY'S BOMBING OCCURRED

AMERICAN JOURNALIST ROXANA SABERI, WHO SPENT FOUR MONTHS IN AN IRANIAN PRISON ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES, SAYS SHE INITIALLY CONFESSED TO BEING A SPY AFTER COMING UNDER PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE... SABERI: "MY CONFESSION WAS FALSE AND I THOUGHT I TO (...)

(...)TO KEEP PRODUCTION QUOTAS AT PRESENT LEVELS, SAYING WORLDWIDE OIL INVENTORIES AT THE END OF LAST MONTH WERE AT 20-YR-HIGH... PRODUCTION CUTS COULD HAVE BACKFIRED ON OPEC BY BOOSTING PRICES AND MAKING IR MORE DIFFICULT FOR COUNTRIES TO PAY FRO CRUDE... PRICE OF A BARREL OF CRUDE IS CURRENTLY OVER $60, UP FROM APPROX #30 FOUR MONTHS AGO, BUT STILL FAR FROM 2008 HIGH OF $147

WHAT'S IN A NAME?... WINNING TICKET IN WED NIGHT'S $232 MIL POWERBALL JACKPOT WAS SOLD IN WINNER, SD... IT'S THE NINETH-LARGEST POWERBALL JACKPOT AND THE BIGGEST EVEN IN THE STATE. WINNER IS LOCATED IN SOUTH-CENTRAL SD AND HAS A POPULATION OF ABOUT 2,800

A TAX ON EVERYTHING?... THE PROSPECT OF A VALUE ADDED TAX (V.A.T) COULD BE GAINING TRACTION AS THE GOVT LOOKS FOR WAYS TO PAY FOR THE STIMULUS, BAILOUTS AND POSSIBLE HEALTH CARE REFORM... THE V.A.T AMOUNTS TO A NATL SALES TAX, AN IDEA THAT'S BEEN SUPPORTED BY SOME CONSERVATIVES, BUT ONLY AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE INCOME TAX SYSTEM... HOWEVER A SR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL TOLD THE WASH POST IT'S "UNLIKELY" THE V.A.T. WOULD BE USED AS A NEW SOURCE OF REVENUE

>> ^EndAll:
>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^EndAll:
And wow, you really hit the pupil jackpot by posting the link here. I'm trying to post my link everywhere I can now, lol.

Dats the name of the game!

Pupils don't win you fights though, as my level 5 just proved ;}
http://poolcleaner.mybrute.com/fight/45826474


This is obviously a game of skill.

>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^EndAll:
And wow, you really hit the pupil jackpot by posting the link here. I'm trying to post my link everywhere I can now, lol.

Dats the name of the game!


Pupils don't win you fights though, as my level 5 just proved ;}

http://poolcleaner.mybrute.com/fight/45826474

>> ^EndAll:
And wow, you really hit the pupil jackpot by posting the link here. I'm trying to post my link everywhere I can now, lol.


Dats the name of the game!

And wow, you really hit the pupil jackpot by posting the link here. I'm trying to post my link everywhere I can now, lol.

^ What I think most people are having a problem with is the completely fucking stupid questions the press was asking during one of the worst financial crises in US history.

We don't get many press-conferences, so when you hit the jackpot and get to ask the POTUS a question, make it a fucking pertinent one or shut the fuck up. These pseudo-journalists are more interested in "making news" (precisely what Chuck Todd and Ed Henry stated) than reporting it, you fail the country.

Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening entertainment but
Tonight there’ll be some love
Tonight there'll be a ruckus yeah, regardless of what's gone before

I want to see all of the things that we've already seen
The lairy girls hung out the window of the limousine
And of course its fancy dress
And they're all looking quite full on
In bunny ears and devil horns in hell

Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening entertainment but
Tonight there’ll be some love
Tonight there'll be a ruckus yeah, regardless of what's gone before

I want to see all of the things that we've already seen
I want to see you take the jackpot out the fruit machine
And put it all back in
You've got to understand it you can never beat the bandit, no

And she won't be surprised and she won't be shocked
When she's pressed the star after she's pressed unlock
And there's verse and chapter sat in her inbox
And all that it says is that you've drank a lot
You should bear that in mind tonight
bear that in mind, yeah you should
bear that in mind tonight
Bear that in mind
You can pour your heart out but her reasoning will block
Ought you send her after nine o'clock

Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening entertainment but
Tonight there’ll be some love
Tonight there'll be a ruckus yeah, regardless of what's gone before

And she won’t be surprised and she won't be shocked
When she’s pressed the star after she's pressed unlock
And there’s verse and chapter sat in her inbox
And all that it says is that you've drank a lot
You should bear that in mind tonight
bear that in mind, yeah you should
bear that in mind tonight
Bear that in mind

You can pour your heart out around 3 o clock
When the 2 for 1's undone the writers block.

When I was a kid, I use to think that I had hit the jackpot whenever this clip (or the Pinball Countdown) appeared on TV.

Thanks for making my day!

this is a tv show? looks like blind date producers got themselves a jackpot lol

brilliant indeed. This woman hit jackpot when Hilary decided to run

Are you sure you didn't mean semantics instead of syntax? Okay, that was a dig. The truth is I wasn't angry at you - there's no reason to be angry on a silly blog page. Sorry if it sounded like an attack - it probably was to some degree, so I apologize.

You're right, it was irreducible complexity I was thinking of. Richard Dawkins explains irreducible complexity in his book The God Delusion as a creationist way of disassembling biological adaptation based on a "jackpot or nothing" fallacy. Either a wing flies or not. Either an eye sees or not. All or nothing. In other words (and to continue to paraphrase Dawkins) it's like a large bank combination. If a burglar spins that tumbler, there is a chance he could luckily and randomly hit the correct combination, though the odds are stacked against him greatly. That's the jackpot or nothing fallacy that creationists term irreducible complexity. They claim evolutionist's explain biological adaptation as randomly spinning the combination lock and coming up with the winning combination for every species.

But, imagine if it was more as a "you're getting warmer, you're getting colder" type of process. Imagine that burglar (here we go with Dakwins again) spinning the tumbler and as he gets closer to the correct number bits of money fall out. The burglar would easily be able to hone in on the right combination in no time. Your explanation could be that God gave that burglar the nudge, or in this case, the bits of money. I think it has more to do with what you conceded earlier by saying "selected by advantage to the organism". The bits of money falling from the combination lock, in this analogy, would be triggers the species would find advantageous to the survival of its species.

I do believe genes mutate randomly and that there's no intelligence behind biological adaptation from a genetic perspective. So, here I agree with you. I think it's arguing semantics (not syntax to say I was wrong in pointing out evolution as not being random, because I was speaking about creationists' deploying the "jackpot or nothing" argument, not that genes mutate with an intelligence or not. My point was it's not random like the combination lock, and I think you know that's what I meant, right?

I do know (or I believe I know) species pick mates based on what's best for survival. If a species lives in an extremely frigid environment, they would probably be more attracted to a furrier mate than one with less fur. Though, if that same species were in a tropical environment, the opposite would probably be true. Still, through this selection process, it is clear to me biological adaptation is not random but instead a very calculated process. The wing didn't appear overnight by chance (randomly), it was carefully selected, most likely.

And, I'm both atheist and agnostic. I tend to believe there is absolutely no personal god or no intelligent creator, and I'd say I'm about as close to believing that as any human is possible of knowing anything. I remain agnostic only because I cannot absolutely disprove the presence of a Abrahamic God anymore than I can disprove there's a tea cup orbiting the Sun right now. But, I'll save you that tangent.

I'm not quite sure what to make of your theist/atheist knowledge philosophy just yet. I think I'll need more of an explanation to understand exactly what you mean by that. That was the part in particular that sounds like doublespeak, but I don't think I can say that without sounding offensive, so I'll wait to hear more of an explanation from you, if you would offer one. Anyhow, I really enjoyed reading your rant, Doc_M. I like a nice dose of cold philosophy every now and again.