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The July numbers ER August 11, 2025 3:48 pm (Space/Science)

Houston, we have a problem BuckGalaxy August 8, 2025 2:50 pm (Space/Science)

Nagasaki memories ER August 6, 2025 1:51 pm (Off-Topic)

Afrikaan- American news ER August 5, 2025 8:01 am (CurrentEvents)

Season 3 - Foundation BuckGalaxy August 2, 2025 12:33 pm (Science Fiction)

Shoot the messenger BuckGalaxy August 1, 2025 2:00 pm (CurrentEvents)

AI and the superconducting relativistic monkey collider RL July 26, 2025 10:14 pm (Off-Topic)

Trump's namecalling is no match for the Scots BuckGalaxy July 26, 2025 2:15 pm (Flame)

Retirement home Spirit cover -- yeah, we had better music. ER July 26, 2025 7:31 am (Off-Topic)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer ER July 26, 2025 6:58 am (CurrentEvents)

♫ I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late ♫ BuckGalaxy July 22, 2025 1:32 pm (Off-Topic)

How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump, or put another way... BuckGalaxy July 19, 2025 2:32 pm (Flame)

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple by TB August 24, 2011 5:49 pm

Cripes. The man is dying. by TB 2011-08-26 13:46:28
- My father died of pancreatic cancer. There is a certain look of someone dying from this type of cancer. ... by Eri 2011-08-26 16:53:45
- A little strange that Jobs insists on referring to his illness as complex but quite treatable, while medical professionals are ... by FrankC 2011-08-26 14:25:59
  - Actually, more and more treatments to cancer are becoming developed nowadays, most relative of which are this, this, and most ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-09-30 19:14:06
  - To be fair, Jobs had the responsibility of Apple's fiscal condition to think about. Every time he coughed, the ... by TB 2011-08-26 14:31:01

Navy Seal laid to rest by TB August 24, 2011 5:01 pm

Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occured on a rare and obscure fault-line apparently known as "Bush's Fault". by Jody August 24, 2011 11:37 am

Communism vs. Facism by Jody August 24, 2011 10:38 am

A very interesting subject, my personal definition for each is: Communism - An economic philosophy based on common ownership of ... by FrankC 2011-08-25 13:36:00
- EDIT: Actually, Frank, that wasn't bad. Not bad at all! I said too much, and Tom said nothing at all. by ER 2011-08-25 16:19:57
  - Heh, because the subject is so interesting to me I came very close to writing a cut and paste essay ... by FrankC 2011-08-25 17:29:06
    - What's a "cut and paste essay"? An essay with many quotations from authorities inserted in it? Humor me, I've ... by ER 2011-08-25 18:48:04
      - In this case my reference to cut and paste was referring to it being so long I would do it ... by FrankC 2011-08-25 23:07:06
        
        The MSWord trick is a good one, particularly when one wrong keystroke on my old AT board can wipe an ... by TB 2011-08-26 08:48:24
Start with the fundamental principles and ideas and the rest falls into line. You can cut through quite a ... by TB 2011-08-24 12:02:21
I'm not going to attempt to answer that question because there are many different answers. No one really has ... by ER 2011-08-24 11:31:36

Just sayin'... by Jody August 24, 2011 10:00 am

See what you and Eric started? by ER 2011-08-24 18:40:10
- I *did* post this on Flame. I don't understand your paranoia for the Christian right...but I see that it is ... by Jody 2011-08-24 19:22:55
  - Well, paranoia strikes deep, you know. I had to listen to the wailing about the New Dark Ages through most of ... by TB 2011-08-24 19:51:11
  - Yeah, these guys believe I deserve to spend eternity in god's torture chamber because I don't believe in their crackpot ... by ER 2011-08-24 19:35:59
If you really believe the Universe was created by god in less than a week about 6000 years ago, then ... by ER 2011-08-24 10:43:49
- From one troglodyte to another :-) The people that believe that the planet Earth was created in six Earth days TOTALLY ... by johannes 2011-08-24 19:28:36
  - Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But it was in another context altogether. by ER 2011-08-24 19:38:19
- *Tongue in cheek*....very snarky m'dear ER...:) At least I don't think the Universe is 6000 years old and that is as ... by Jody 2011-08-24 11:52:07
  - A belief in a Supreme Being is not an absurd speculation as to how the world got here. I ... by ER 2011-08-24 12:48:40
    - You mean Santa Claus DOESN'T deliver presents on Christmas Eve? Who delivers them then? by Eri 2011-08-24 21:15:06
      - The government, of course. The only Santa Claus Democrats believe in. :) by TB 2011-08-24 21:41:12
    - I don't believe the world is 6,000 years old any more than you do, or for that matter, any more ... by TB 2011-08-24 13:42:02
      - Your bristling indignation has been duly noted, and will be treated with the contempt it deserves. You have more fear ... by ER 2011-08-24 15:59:32
        
        There was no indignation, bristling or otherwise. There are no "these people." This is why I asked you to consider ... by TB 2011-08-24 16:23:00
        
        My parents were agnostic, my grandparents deist. They believed there was probably some kind of god, but they claimed no ... by ER 2011-08-24 18:01:41
        
        A massive majority of Americans are religious. Most of them believing that we are, at some level, a product ... by TB 2011-08-24 18:17:12
        
        It's precisely those victories of secular society which are so resisted by your fundamentalist allies. They are the ones ... by ER 2011-08-24 18:29:50
        
        Aren't you making my point? The real religious extremists have declined over the years, and are still failing. ... by TB 2011-08-24 18:40:22
        
        TB, those Podunk schools are mostly in Texas, and its Perry who is proud that in his state both "theories" ... by ER 2011-08-24 19:12:34
- Come to think of it, if you really believe the Universe was created by god in less than a week ... by ER 2011-08-24 11:41:18
  - And yet, as irrational beliefs go, this one has done considerably less damage in the past century or so than ... by TB 2011-08-24 12:11:12
    - Quit making excuses for these troglodytes, TB. Dammit, you're supposedly a rational, scientific thinker. I know you yourself do ... by ER 2011-08-24 13:02:44
      - You're not listening. You're still ranting. Four in ten. 78 percent if you count the "God-guided evolution" people. ... by TB 2011-08-24 16:37:01
        
        No. I'm not ranting, I'm merely letting you know that when you step in to defend and back up your ... by ER 2011-08-24 18:17:53
      - EDIT: And you're right, that will not be a killer issue with voters, left or right. But I would ... by ER 2011-08-24 13:06:12

Cargo flight to Space Station crashes by TB August 24, 2011 9:16 am

This is the first time a Progress vehicle fails. What's annoying is that it follows a serie of failures by ... by Raoul 2011-08-25 11:57:05

Bill Clinton gives up meat by TB August 24, 2011 9:13 am

LOL! You were waiting for my comment weren't you!!!??? by Jody 2011-08-24 10:33:39

Quake benefits: As all of DC leaves work at the same time, the United States experiences a brief economic recovery. by Jody August 24, 2011 8:58 am

5.8 temblor in Virginia by podrock August 23, 2011 11:02 am

It was only 5.9 in magnitude but was felt far away, though I did not feel anything here on the ... by johannes 2011-08-23 17:29:31
- The reason it was felt so intensely and so far away even though only 5.9 or whatever, is because the ... by Eri 2011-08-23 19:56:43
  - The news is stupid. by podrock 2011-08-23 21:07:50
    - They said this morning that it was more intense and so widespread because it was shallow. I was hoping you'd give ... by Eri 2011-08-24 05:38:46
      - My post was stupid. by podrock 2011-08-24 06:29:56
Wouldn't it be something if Washington DC fell into the sinkhole that it has become of late. Now, THAT ... by Eri 2011-08-23 11:12:23

25 greatest unscripted scenes in films by TB August 23, 2011 9:31 am

I'll bet the most commonly known improv is that star wars line "Iknow". I must have heard it mentioned a dozen ... by FrankC 2011-08-23 21:05:57

The strange history of the sunflower by TB August 23, 2011 9:29 am

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