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khan



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2015,18:13   

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next time they go off talking about Natural Law blah blah, this might be a good part of someone's response:


Ah, but they were all Democrats!

there's a right-of-center blog i visit where the resident RWNJ has been trying to get mileage of the fact that Kim Davis, like a lot of people in southern local politics, for primary-runoff historical reasons is registered as a Democrat.

He's not the brightest knife in the drawer.

Apparently it's a family tradition.
She followed her mother and hired her son.

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That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad

Frequency is just the plural of wavelength...
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Amadan



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2015,16:43   

Apropos nothing, and feck the stereotypes:

A sibling reminded me of this wonderful and insightful bit of sports analysis from the Gaelic football Sunday Game programme back in the day.

The chap with the Kerry accent you could slice and butter is Pat Spillane, a veteran of a legendary team from the 1970s. He speaks from long and hard-won experience.

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JoeG BTW dumbass- some variations help ensure reproductive fitness so they cannot be random wrt it.

   
OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 30 2015,15:39   

Just goes to show, just because one is a fairly intelligent scientist, doesn't mean that one isn't batshit crazy...

http://news.sciencemag.org/europe....olicies

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Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 01 2015,01:14   

Quote (OgreMkV @ Sep. 30 2015,15:39)
Just goes to show, just because one is a fairly intelligent scientist, doesn't mean that one isn't batshit crazy...

http://news.sciencemag.org/europe.....olicies

 
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From 1 October, scientists in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark—"the countries that together host most of the non-European immigrants“—won't be allowed to use a program called Treefinder, informatician Gangolf Jobb wrote in a statement he posted on his website.

Thank heavens, he left Norway out.

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 01 2015,10:24   

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Please give GG posting rights to Mr ID's thread.

Gary ran out of steam a long time ago. And Postrado, unlike Gary, can form comprehensible sentences. The Postrado thread is going to wind up being better than Gary's thread ever could be, except to those connoisseurs of interesting word usement structuring.

Postrado, unlike Gary, can form comprehensible sentences.

You are joking, right?

I apologize in advance, it has been a long year.

well, let's get some Postrado here:

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Thus, forgive me for my bad grammars but I think most of my posts are understandable. I wish that you or anyone of you who has perfect grammars could discover the real intelligence, but this discovery was put onto my shoulder. What should I do? I had to do it alone since you never yet buy my science books or send me grants for support. SEND ME GRANTS, TAXES and SUPPORTS and I will reedit all my books to satisfy your language. And see how those discoveries could blow your scientific and intellectual minds!


I maintain that this is a recognizable variant of English. Gary Gaulin Gibberish might be English-inspired, but only in some vague and mysterious way.

   
Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2015,01:12   

GaGa at Sandwalk

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2015,16:46   

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GaGa at Sandwalk

At least he hasn't infected it with The Diagram yet.

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Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 10 2015,02:05   

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GaGa at Sandwalk

At least he hasn't infected it with The Diagram yet.

I almost wish he would

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Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 04 2015,02:02   

About the psychology of coin flips

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Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 04 2015,16:19   

What? PT is down!?

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 04 2015,19:09   

Quote (Quack @ Nov. 04 2015,14:19)
What? PT is down!?

If by PT you mean Panda's Thumb it's working for me. Is it still not working for you?

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 04 2015,20:33   

There were some hours earlier today in which my attempts to connect to PT didn't connect. When I did get a connection, there were only 8 replies on it since last night.

  
Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 05 2015,00:47   

PT okay again this morning CET but was dead yesterday late evening.

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 06 2015,03:57   

Religious upbringing linked to less altruism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/release....916.htm

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But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. -Jesus in Luke 19:27

   
The whole truth



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 06 2015,14:27   

Ben Carson is a reality-denying, theocratic lunatic:

http://news.yahoo.com/carson-....on.html

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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. - Jesus in Matthew 10:34

But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. -Jesus in Luke 19:27

   
Texas Teach



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 06 2015,16:19   

Quote (The whole truth @ Nov. 06 2015,14:27)
Ben Carson is a reality-denying, theocratic lunatic:

http://news.yahoo.com/carson-....on.html

That is a fairly successful niche in the GOP.

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Glen Davidson



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 06 2015,18:42   

Quote (The whole truth @ Nov. 06 2015,14:27)
Ben Carson is a reality-denying, theocratic lunatic:

http://news.yahoo.com/carson-....on.html

What's especially bizarre with Carson's "theory" is that the age of the pyramids isn't even close to when Joseph might have been in Egypt.  Joseph would have been New Kingdom at the earliest, not Old Kingdom or Middle Kingdom, when the pyramids were built.

I mean, clearly Carson's not worried about the science and facts, but you'd think he'd at least care about Bible chronology.  He doesn't even get that right, though.

Glen Davidson

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The whole truth



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 08 2015,14:45   

It infuriates me that people this insane are elected to political office here in the USA. If nutcase Ben Carson gets the republitard nomination I won't be surprised if he chooses this wacko for his running mate.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats....es.html

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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. - Jesus in Matthew 10:34

But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. -Jesus in Luke 19:27

   
Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 16 2015,03:06   

The English language and me:

Every day I struggle with language. My own is no problem, even if grammar was 'Greek' to me, meaning incomprehensible when at age 12-13 we were taught grammar, but I didn't get it. Subject, Object, Plusquamperfektum, I couldn't have been more bored.

But English - has and have is a recurrent problem. When in doubt, which to chose?

And yet, it took me no time to get all green taking the has/have test at

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnen....and-has

It is in my nature to want to have everything in its proper place - maybe working with complex machines where every part had to be in its proper place molded me?

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 16 2015,18:37   

Sorry. What is your first language?

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Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 17 2015,02:33   

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Sorry. What is your first language?

Norwegian. In passing, I just want to remark on what I recently learned from the TV: Many words in the English language have their root in the language of the Vikings.

If I were addicted to hypocricy or something, I might say "Look, that's what made the English such a great nation - the Viking DNA;)

But attempting to be objective, it really looks to me like there's something about the Scandinavians. I think it can be atttributed to climate and geography.

No hubris, but maybe that has rendered us a little different? But heck, every nation have their own idiosyncracies. I find the English fascinating, how they are using their language.

End of rant. (At 85, I have nothing better to do.)

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 17 2015,08:09   

At least it's an interesting topic, unlike Gary Gaulin's.

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 17 2015,08:27   

Quote (midwifetoad @ Nov. 17 2015,06:09)
At least it's an interesting topic, unlike Gary Gaulin's.

Yes.

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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. - Jesus in Matthew 10:34

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 23 2015,19:50   

Did we lose both Eddie Postmodern and Otangelo already?

They don't make 'em like they used to.

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 24 2015,15:31   

It's not often that you find something at the intersection of pseudochemistry and pseudophysics. Throw in some terrorists for spice.  the Doomsday Scam

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 24 2015,23:10   

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Did we lose both Eddie Postmodern and Otangelo already?

They don't make 'em like they used to.

Plus creationist microscopist Kevin Anderson didn't hang out long enough for me to even really reply.

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Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 25 2015,02:28   



Link to Norwegian newspaper article:
Protesting

- the plan was to cross the Norwegian Bible belt in protest against dogmatic religious upbringing and education of children ...

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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 25 2015,05:00   

That bike is dinotastic! I want one.

What that guy is doing is a good thing.

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But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. -Jesus in Luke 19:27

   
Quack



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 25 2015,06:25   

Indeed. The mere 'existence' of dinos and children's fascination with them represent valuable support for evolution.

Teach children about dinosaurs and tickle their curiosity to learn more. Jesus can wait till they are thirteen.

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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 03 2015,22:02   

Question for the computer experts.

Did humans design the complexity of the internet? Or is that complexity an emergent feature of the human designed TCP/IP, http, DNS, and other systems.

If so, would this be a reasonable attack on the complexity required of ID proponents. Obviously, parts of the system had a designer, but the internet did not and it is highly complex. That complexity is an emergent property of otherwise simple systems.

Alternately, what about Conway's Game of Life?

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