Board maint Oct 25 through Oct 28th

Post by **Lyion** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:15 pm

I'm trying to fix some annoying bugs as well as doing some maintanence on NT this week as time permits. The board may be down some, mostly during the day.

Post by **DangerPaul** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:48 pm

/veto

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:38 pm

Is this causing my "style" to go back to the annoyingly large version?

Mine used to be nice and neat in the middle of my screen as size permitted.

Post by **Martrae** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:18 pm

Mine too. When I mentioned it I was told to suffer which made me a sad sad sad panda.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:32 pm

Yeah, reading in my condition is difficult enough already lmao

Post by **Lyion** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:21 pm

Should be fixed. Check it now.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:24 pm

Post by **Martrae** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:52 pm

I love you Lyion...have my e-babies?

Langston · Post by **Langston** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:36 pm

Harrison wrote:Yeah, reading in my condition is difficult enough already lmao

Yeah - most stupid people have issues with reading. Don't worry, if you keep practicing, it will hurt less.

Post by **DangerPaul** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:44 pm

Langston wrote:
Harrison wrote:Yeah, reading in my condition is difficult enough already lmao

Yeah - most stupid people have issues with reading. Don't worry, if you keep practicing, it will hurt less.

I should have bet money a comment like that was coming. Lang/Ugz/My lover whatever you want to call yourself, I know it's amusing you, but give it a rest, it is getting old reading all the hijacked threads, find a new play toy.

Langston · Post by **Langston** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:45 pm

It .... was... right ... there.

Couldn't resist.

Post by **Martrae** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:20 pm

My deep thought for the day: Stupid people have more unplanned pregnancies than smart people. Therefore there are even more stupid people to have unplanned pregnancies and so on and so on and so on. It really is a vicious circle. The end.

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:08 am

Martrae wrote:My deep thought for the day: Stupid people have more unplanned pregnancies than smart people. Therefore there are even more stupid people to have unplanned pregnancies and so on and so on and so on. It really is a vicious circle. The end.

Survival of the fittest goes out the window with social programs. Thank the democrats.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:26 am

OuchyFish wrote:
Martrae wrote:My deep thought for the day: Stupid people have more unplanned pregnancies than smart people. Therefore there are even more stupid people to have unplanned pregnancies and so on and so on and so on. It really is a vicious circle. The end.

Survival of the fittest goes out the window with social programs. Thank the democrats.

Yea, we should have running man tourneys for poor people. That would bring Darwinism right back into the mainstream.

Langston · Post by **Langston** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:26 am

Zanchief wrote:
OuchyFish wrote:
Martrae wrote:My deep thought for the day: Stupid people have more unplanned pregnancies than smart people. Therefore there are even more stupid people to have unplanned pregnancies and so on and so on and so on. It really is a vicious circle. The end.

Survival of the fittest goes out the window with social programs. Thank the democrats.

Yea, we should have running man tourneys for poor people. That would bring Darwinism right back into the mainstream.

I'd pay to watch that. Kinda like bum fights.

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:08 am

Animals in the wild usually evolve into the best case scenario for their species. We fucked with natural selection and now you get what we have now.

:rofl:

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:21 am

OuchyFish wrote:Animals in the wild usually evolve into the best case scenario for their species. We fucked with natural selection and now you get what we have now.

Sounds like evolutionary propaganda. You better watch your mouth, heathen.

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:17 pm

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:49 pm

OuchyFish wrote:Animals in the wild usually evolve into the best case scenario for their species. We fucked with natural selection and now you get what we have now.

Canadians?

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:38 pm

ps, I didn't see a change control request, and you're attempting all this outside of your maintenance window

Langston · Post by **Langston** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:19 pm

Tikker wrote:ps, I didn't see a change control request, and you're attempting all this outside of your maintenance window

*twitch*

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:44 pm

Langston wrote:
Zanchief wrote:
OuchyFish wrote:
Martrae wrote:My deep thought for the day: Stupid people have more unplanned pregnancies than smart people. Therefore there are even more stupid people to have unplanned pregnancies and so on and so on and so on. It really is a vicious circle. The end.

Survival of the fittest goes out the window with social programs. Thank the democrats.

Yea, we should have running man tourneys for poor people. That would bring Darwinism right back into the mainstream.

I'd pay to watch that. Kinda like bum fights.

Thats the running man! :
http://content.collegehumor.com/media/m ... dance_.wmv

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:31 pm

Zanchief wrote:
OuchyFish wrote:Animals in the wild usually evolve into the best case scenario for their species. We fucked with natural selection and now you get what we have now.

Sounds like evolutionary propaganda. You better watch your mouth, heathen.

GOAT POINTS!

Kansas Museum Opens Evolution Exhibit By JOHN MILBURN, Associated Press Writer

Tue Oct 25,10:27 PM ET

LAWRENCE, Kan. - Upstairs from the Natural Selections gift shop is what directors of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas believe will be the latest word in an ongoing ruckus over evolution.

The "Explore Evolution" exhibit is part of a six-university program to educate the public about evolution and its role in explaining the natural world. The exhibit opens to the public Nov. 1, with the money coming from a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant.

Although planning for the project has taken four years, it is debuting as evolution's place in science classrooms is being debated in Kansas, a federal trial in Pennsylvania and even at the White House.

Leonard Krishtalka, director of the university's biodiversity institute, described evolution Tuesday as the "single-most unifying concept" in evolutionary biology. The exhibit demonstrates that evolutionary concepts are woven into numerous scientific disciplines.

"It's not a textbook on evolution," Krishtalka said, during a museum preview for reporters. "This exhibit isn't designed to convert anyone."

The exhibit fills a display gallery in Dyche Hall on the Lawrence campus. Hanging across the entry for the exhibit is a giant mosasaur, a lizard that lived in the inland sea that covered Kansas 65 million to 90 million years ago.

Seven stations describe scientists' research around the globe and the importance of evolution in understanding the mutation of diseases, such as HIV, and the relationship between humans and chimpanzees.

Exhibits also are planned for or have opened at the universities of Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, as well as Minnesota Science Museum in Minneapolis.

Krishtalka said all visitors are welcome, though he expects that some, including advocates of intelligent design, will come looking to debate evolution. Intelligent design — a concept Krishtalka calls "creationism in a cheap tuxedo" — says some features of the natural world are best explained by an intelligent cause.

"If there are any debates, I'm sure they will be done informally," he said, adding he expects intelligent design advocates to leave literature at the exhibit criticizing evolution.

Earlier this month, John Calvert, a retired Lake Quivira attorney who helped found the Intelligent Design Network, called the exhibit "in-your-face evangelism," designed to promote evolution as a creed.

Krishtalka said he had no trouble with a discussion of evolution among educators but added that science seeks natural explanations for the history and development of the universe. He said religion seeks to give humans a sense of purpose in that universe.

"One is science; one is not," he said.

Next month, the State Board of Education is expected to adopt revised science standards reflecting skepticism of evolutionary theory. Its conservative majority contends it's promoting a balanced view of evolution.

But Krishtalka said the conservatives are wrong to let their religious and political leanings interfere with good science for the second time in six years.

In 1999, a conservative-led board removed most references to evolution from the state's science standards — a decision reversed two years later.

"Much of science has many unanswered questions. But that's no reason to throw up your hands and say some supernatural force must be at work," he said.

A poll in August suggested a majority of Americans believe creationism should be taught with evolution in schools. Krishtalka said such views show that science has failed to properly educate students.

President Bush has endorsed teaching intelligent design alongside evolution. But in Pennsylvania, a trial is underway in a federal lawsuit filed by parents against a school district that required teachers to read a brief statement referring students to an intelligent-design textbook for information about "gaps" in evolutionary theory.

Kansas Board of Education Chairman Steve Abrams, said he's not worried about whether the exhibit will be slanted and is not sure it will influence the debate.

"I think anytime that you can combine history and a little bit of education, I think it's a great opportunity," said Abrams, an Arkansas City veterinarian. "I've been to exhibits like that many times in the past. I've enjoyed them."