] The Condition of the Working Class in England

Online version of the Book. Needed this in my "Evolution and the Industrial Age" English class

Conditions of the Working-Class in England

] This photo is of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
] taken every 15 minutes (if a relay satellite is available
] for transmission) from the roof of the Atmospheric
] Research Observatory which houses NOAA/CMDL's Clean Air
] Facility. In order to preserve the life of the camera, it
] is tilted down onto the snow when the sun is in the field
] of view, which occurs for several weeks around sunset
] (March) and sunrise (September) when the sun marches in a
] circle above the horizon. From mid-April until mid-August
] the moon and the aurora australis provide the only
] natural lighting.
]
] The new station, presently under construction, can be
] seen to the right in the photo; the old (circa 1973)
] domed station is to the left. The new station is elevated
] above the snow to prevent it being buried by the drifting
] snow (the present fate of the old domed station). When
] the new station is finished in about 2006, the old dome
] and buildings inside will be removed. The new galley
] (with windows!) is now being used for meals. The
] cylindrical object at the end of the station, fondly
] called the "beer can," is the entrance to the station.

Telecommunications is so damn cool.

South Pole Live Camera

MIT rules for publishing this stuff.

MAS863 How to make (almost) anything

I am subject to one god and that god is Time.

] I used Mozilla. Comcast will say (of course), "We only
] support Internet Explorer". It doesn't matter. I put
] "sas.ne2.attbb.net" into both the "HTTP Proxy" and "SSL
] Proxy" fields of the Edit-Preferences-Advanced-Proxies
] section, and put "8000" in both respective "Port" fields.
] You may only need the SSL proxy set. The "No Proxy for"
] field had "localhost, 127.0.0.1" in it, to which I added
] ", .ne2.attbb.net". In Internet Explorer, it is
] apparently a field called "bypass local address", and you
] are supposed to put in "*.ne2.attbb.net". Netscape is
] similar, but you get the idea. You have to try setting
] it, quitting, firing it up again, etc. It worked for me
] after a reboot.

Fucking Comcast. Instead of registering a MAC once, they do some kind of dynamic registering thing where you have to go through proxies etc to "Register" your connection. I have to do this every year or so. It varies. The comcast support chick was giving me alot of flak about Linux, so Fuck her. Basically just setting up proxies so they can see where on the network you are coming from. More of a note to myself when I have to do thing again, but here are the instructions for doing it under Linux

Comcast registering under Linux

While looking for a game FAQ, I ran across a Warez site in Russia. When I clicked the link I got a php page that detected firefox and then said:

For security reasons, you can only view this site with Microsoft Internet Explorer.Please download or run Internet Explorer to continue with the site...

Thank you

HA!

... There is so much wrong with this. Are they instructors, or cheap hookers? YOU make the call.

The ladies of Boiler Training

Imagine two people standing about 500 feet from a car that is against wall around a bend. One is holding binoculars, the other a piece of paper. One looks through his binoculars at the car and says, "Someone was driving that car too fast, skidded out, and slammed into the wall."

The other person says, "I don't believe that, the police report says that it was placed there by God."

"I know that the report says that, but I can pretty clearly see skid marks on the road, the car is smashed, the windows shattered, and there is broken glass on the road."

"I don't necessarily agree. I see what you mean about the marks, but they don't look that clear to me. I am also not sure that the stuff on the road is glass. To me it looks like it could be water. Besides, I believe Officer Joe, he is a good man."

"I know that Officer Joe is honest, but I think he is mistaken. Through my binoculars it looks pretty clear that the car was driven into the wall. It looks like a man drove it there, the skid marks are clear, that is definitely say that the stuff on the road is broken glass and not water. I also think I see the man's head leaning against the steering column. It looks to me like an accident."

"That is fine. It is just your opinion though. I believe the report that God put it there. You know, binoculars often produce optical distortions, there is no such thing as a perfectly accurate lens. In addition, you aren't entirely sure about the man's head, it may not be that there is a man in the car, you said that you aren't sure. If there is not a man in the car, then how could it have gotten there? The police report says it was placed there by God, and if no one was driving it..."

"Ok, ok, I know about distortions and all, but I use these binoculars all the time and I know what is and is not a distortion. Besides, to say that the car was put there by God just sounds a little..."

"A little what?"

"I mean, come on. The car was driven into the wall. This is a stupid argument. I can see that..."

"Can you see the driver?"

"Well I can sort of make out..."

"No, you can't say for sure. But you are calling me stupid. Why can't you admit that you have your opinion and that I have mine?"

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If you are a scientist, this is what the creationist argument looks like. The scientist isn't smarter or better than the other person, he just has a set of mathematical and instrumental tools, the binoculars, that he is skilled at using with knowledge of their limitations.

With the techniques of modern biology, the evolution argument is about that obvious. The scientist sees an incredible amount of evidence that people descended from primates. Just like in the metaphor, the creationist seems to be lacking binoculars. The only difference is that in reality the toolset is differential equations, statistics, technology, chemistry, and complex instrumentation. Unfortunately, this i... [ Read More (0.1k in body) ]

Evolution in Education

] The "Left Behind" series, the best-selling novels for
] adults in the U.S., enthusiastically depict Jesus
] returning to slaughter everyone who is not a born-again
] Christian. The world's Hindus, Muslims, Jews and
] agnostics, along with many Catholics and Unitarians, are
] heaved into everlasting fire: "Jesus merely raised one
] hand a few inches and . . . they tumbled in, howling and
] screeching."
]
] Gosh, what an uplifting scene!
]
] If Saudi Arabians wrote an Islamic version of this
] series, we would furiously demand that sensible Muslims
] repudiate such hatemongering. We should hold ourselves to
] the same standard.
]
] I accept that Mr. Jenkins and Mr. LaHaye are sincere.
] (They base their conclusions on John 3.) But I've sat
] down in Pakistani and Iraqi mosques with Muslim
] fundamentalists, and they offered the same defense:
] they're just applying God's word.
]
]
] Now we have the hugely profitable "Left Behind" financial
] empire, whose Web site flatly says that the authors
] "think this generation will witness the end of history."
] The site sells every "Left Behind" spinoff imaginable,
] including screen savers, regular prophecies sent to your
] mobile phone, children's versions of the books,
] audiobooks, graphic novels, videos, calendars, music and
] a $6.50-a-month prophesy club. This isn't religion, this
] is brand management.

Apocalypse (Almost) Now

Romanpoet wrote:
] "This site is dedicated to spreading the Gospel in the
] werewolf and furry communities. It is my hope that many
] trans-species people will accept Jesus as their Savior through
] this ministry. "

and the best part, aside from his young earth psuedo-science bullshit is that he ends each page with:

Love you. God Bless.

Molatar Seth Pyrargent.
Dragon, Evangelist, Ranger.

bea-ti-ful.

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