Stop avoiding being proven wrong. The one belief that I have that I am willing to share with you is that I do not believe in exorcism. You've said there is specific teaching, doctrine, dogma, or some such that says that my disbelief in this particular thing means that I am not Catholic. I am asking you to show me that specific specific teaching, doctrine, dogma, or some such that says that my disbelief in this particular thing means that I am not Catholic. I'm beginning to believe that you can't do it and that you're just spinning your wheels because you hate being called out on shit-talking on a subject that you think you know so much about.
OK, so you're a "Catholic." I happen to be a Republican. I'm also a Mormon.
These claims are all about equal.
Well you do live in a republic... So in a way you are a republican.... And who wouldnt want 50 wives?
Would it be in poor taste to point out that all the flooding and tornado destruction is happening in traditionally "red" areas where people are less open-minded about gay rights? If God is punishing people, then it looks to me like he's punishing the ones who are against the gays. Suck on that, Phelps.
Skype automatically installed bloatware on my computer in the middle of the night without my permission. It was even so brazen as to put a fucking shortcut on my desktop.
Skype automatically installed bloatware on my computer in the middle of the night without my permission. It was even so brazen as to put a fucking shortcut on my desktop.
Skype automatically installed bloatware on my computer in the middle of the night without my permission. It was even so brazen as to put a fucking shortcut on my desktop.
Fuck you, Microsoft.
FTFY
Fuck Windows for not stopping it, fuck Skype for doing it in the first place.
Skype automatically installed bloatware on my computer in the middle of the night without my permission. It was even so brazen as to put a fucking shortcut on my desktop.
Fuck you, Microsoft.
FTFY
Fuck Windows for not stopping it, fuck Skype for doing it in the first place.
Everyone thought I was crazy when I said this was happening.
Just got grades back from my semester. Admittedly, I spent a little too much time working at an internship that may actually lead to employment/playing Pokemon Puzzle League, but I now really wish that minus in "math class that seemed super easy until the final" could miraculously turn into a plus. Can someone give me the ol' Geeknights "grades in college don't matter as long as you're competent in what you want to do so enjoy yourself while you can" spiel?
Can someone give me the ol' Geeknights "grades in college don't matter as long as you're competent in what you want to do so enjoy yourself while you can" spiel?
Grades in college don't matter as long as you're competent in what you want to do... after your first job ...so enjoy yourself while you can.
Grades in college don't matter as long as you're competent in what you want to do... after your first job
Yeap. I had to maintain a 3.4 or I'd have lost my full ride. I started with a 4.0 and maintained that for a while, with a precipitous drop to barely 3.4 by the time I graduated. Those .6 points consisted mostly of running RIT Anime, playing games, and dicking around. I could have raised it significantly if I re-took a class I failed due to deciding 8 weeks in to just stop showing up. ;^)
IBM, for what it's worth, required a 3.4 or higher to even consider someone for a co-op.
It also depends on what you are going to college for. You go into any sort of creative or artistic class, your grades don't matter at all. You just need to be better at drawing/writing/3d modelling/whatever than everyone else in your class by the time you are done, so you can slap down a portfoilio that really impresses potential employers. You aren't there to impress your teachers, you are there to embarrass the other students.
I have a short story and a research paper, both barely started, due tomorrow. If my motivation had mass, I'd have enough antimatter to destroy the world. Yes, I'm aware that's not how antimatter works
Grades in college don't matter as long as you're competent in what you want to do... after your first job
Yeap. I had to maintain a 3.4 or I'd have lost my full ride. I started with a 4.0 and maintained that for a while, with a precipitous drop to barely 3.4 by the time I graduated. Those .6 points consisted mostly of running RIT Anime, playing games, and dicking around. I could have raised it significantly if I re-took a class I failed due to deciding 8 weeks in to just stop showing up. ;^)
IBM, for what it's worth, required a 3.4 or higher to even consider someone for a co-op.
Hmm...I have a 3.6 for the year so far. As long as I don't run a club, should I expect to maintain this? (Also, I will never stop attending a class(Also, 8 weeks in is still time enough to withdraw, dude)).
Apparently my work place is staffed with people that have never heard of Portal, Shawshank Redemption, or Urban Dictionary, and this is in spite of all of them being programmers and computer scientists with age <= 32.
Just got a totally bogus e-mail about "Sweet Poison" aspertame from co-worker. Had to promptly e-mail back to her and everyone that it was bogus with a link to Snopes.
SWEET POISON...A MUST READ!
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.
By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.
She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.
She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.
On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS..
I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.
I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her an article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.
She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.
Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda... and literally dying a slow and miserable death.
When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.
If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'Nutra Sweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss re turned and hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, Cramps, Vertigo, Dizziness, Headaches, Tinnitus, Joint pain, Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!' People were jumping up during the lecture saying, 'I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?'
Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates.
It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!
These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'
Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!
Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.
Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.
So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place!
Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar..'
It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.
There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'
Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.
Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.'
I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?
This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. 10pt">
The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.
The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!
Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.
Apparently my work place is staffed with people that have never heard of Portal, Shawshank Redemption, or Urban Dictionary, and this is in spite of all of them being programmers and computer scientists with age <= 32.</p>
What I've found is that a surprising number of people, even many geeks, are fundamentally disconnected.
We used to call them the "under the RADAR fans" back in the early convention days, referring specifically to people who greatly enjoyed anime, watched it regularly, even attended local anime clubs, yet had never heard of anime conventions occurring even in their home cities. Or, crooked slightly so, they were self-described "hardcore" anime fans who spent five years at RIT, attended conventions, and yet were never aware of the existence of the RIT Anime Club (further expressing great dismay upon discovering it near the end of or after their RIT days). They often had great misconceptions about particular anime or industry events (believing sequels were coming or not coming for various shows, grossly misdating shows, amazing mispronunciations, etc...).
These sorts of people exist in all geekeries, nevermind among the worldborn. Our wider convention circuit and involvement in local club/events has really brought them to light. I would personally typify them as such:
1. Never think to look anything on Google, yet nonetheless will speculate (often incorrectly) about matters for which there are definitive answers that they choose not to seek. 2. Are unaware of events, news, or conventions despite close geography and direct overlap of interest. 3. Believe that anyone who can parrot information about any of the above via Google to them is an expert and/or wizard. 4. Do not subscribe to any news feeds or read any form of news regarding just about anything on a regular basis.
As an example, consider this typical sort of gamer, based on multiple real-life encounters with similar people.
He'll be a "hardcore" boardgamer who's never played Puerto Rico or any other top-tier games. Upon teaching him and then playing a game, he'll opine how he thinks the game was "based on X game," despite the fact that game X came out almost a decade after it. He'll balk at first when you point that out ("Really? I'm pretty sure it's based on X.), but relent quietly before you bring out Google on the phone. He'll never have heard of most of the major gaming conventions, yet will have intimate knowledge of one particular tiny one he drives hours to every year (despite there being better similar events much closer to him, of which he is unaware). He'll talk about how he "heard WotC was making an Al Qadim supplement for fourth ed" despite no evidence or even a rumor (effectively trying to create his own rumor). If you mention a forthcoming expansion to a popular game, even one he personally loves and plays regularly, he'll be amazed that you have this "secret" knowledge.
He also won't take his got damned turn.
Change the proper nouns, and you get a decent picture of many people no matter how particular their interests. These are the videogamers who don't realize the 3DS already came out, somehow believe that Quake was based on Halo, and find out about sequels to games they deeply care about when they appear on the shelves in Gamestop. These are the anime fans who complain that there was never a sequel to Ghost in the Shell and have never seen an AMV. These are the movie nerds who don't realize movie X (which they were greatly anticipating) already came and went in the theaters.
A specific common attribute is a lack of "Internet social awareness," in that they are disconnected enough from the culture of the net that Chocolate Rain would be new (and hilarious) to them a decade from now. ;^)
Just got a totally bogus e-mail about "Sweet Poison" aspertame from co-worker. Had to promptly e-mail back to her and everyone that it was bogus with a link to Snopes.
While I don't think artificial sweetners are good for you, I can't believe anyone would think they're damaging to that degree. Stupid people.
A specific common attribute is a lack of "Internet social awareness," in that they are disconnected enough from the culture of the net that Chocolate Rain would be new (and hilarious) to them a decade from now. ;^)
In someways it's great that these people exist, I almost get the same level of enjoyment showing someone something they haven't seen as I get seeing it the first time. These types of people make your day better because they make you feel like your the connected one ^_^
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//damn should pay attention to what Adam posts..
Fuck you, Skype.
IBM, for what it's worth, required a 3.4 or higher to even consider someone for a co-op.
Yes, I'm aware that's not how antimatter works
We used to call them the "under the RADAR fans" back in the early convention days, referring specifically to people who greatly enjoyed anime, watched it regularly, even attended local anime clubs, yet had never heard of anime conventions occurring even in their home cities. Or, crooked slightly so, they were self-described "hardcore" anime fans who spent five years at RIT, attended conventions, and yet were never aware of the existence of the RIT Anime Club (further expressing great dismay upon discovering it near the end of or after their RIT days). They often had great misconceptions about particular anime or industry events (believing sequels were coming or not coming for various shows, grossly misdating shows, amazing mispronunciations, etc...).
These sorts of people exist in all geekeries, nevermind among the worldborn. Our wider convention circuit and involvement in local club/events has really brought them to light. I would personally typify them as such:
1. Never think to look anything on Google, yet nonetheless will speculate (often incorrectly) about matters for which there are definitive answers that they choose not to seek.
2. Are unaware of events, news, or conventions despite close geography and direct overlap of interest.
3. Believe that anyone who can parrot information about any of the above via Google to them is an expert and/or wizard.
4. Do not subscribe to any news feeds or read any form of news regarding just about anything on a regular basis.
As an example, consider this typical sort of gamer, based on multiple real-life encounters with similar people.
He'll be a "hardcore" boardgamer who's never played Puerto Rico or any other top-tier games. Upon teaching him and then playing a game, he'll opine how he thinks the game was "based on X game," despite the fact that game X came out almost a decade after it. He'll balk at first when you point that out ("Really? I'm pretty sure it's based on X.), but relent quietly before you bring out Google on the phone. He'll never have heard of most of the major gaming conventions, yet will have intimate knowledge of one particular tiny one he drives hours to every year (despite there being better similar events much closer to him, of which he is unaware). He'll talk about how he "heard WotC was making an Al Qadim supplement for fourth ed" despite no evidence or even a rumor (effectively trying to create his own rumor). If you mention a forthcoming expansion to a popular game, even one he personally loves and plays regularly, he'll be amazed that you have this "secret" knowledge.
He also won't take his got damned turn.
Change the proper nouns, and you get a decent picture of many people no matter how particular their interests. These are the videogamers who don't realize the 3DS already came out, somehow believe that Quake was based on Halo, and find out about sequels to games they deeply care about when they appear on the shelves in Gamestop. These are the anime fans who complain that there was never a sequel to Ghost in the Shell and have never seen an AMV. These are the movie nerds who don't realize movie X (which they were greatly anticipating) already came and went in the theaters.
A specific common attribute is a lack of "Internet social awareness," in that they are disconnected enough from the culture of the net that Chocolate Rain would be new (and hilarious) to them a decade from now. ;^)