very basic skills

An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.
The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.
The school, in Lund, southern Sweden, argues that if invitations are handed out on school premises then it must ensure there is no discrimination.

An exam board is to review its marking guidance after one of its top examiners gave marks for a script which contained only a two-word sexual expletive. The pupil is reported to have written only two words, and would have had another mark for adding an exclamation point (for a total of 3 out of 27).

Mr Buckroyd is quoted by the Times as saying: "It would be wicked to give it a zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for - like conveying some meaning and some spelling."

Education is over the hill and down to "very basic Skills". Qualify your discrimination and otherwise let it all hang out, even your lack of basic human rights - you have the right to be human, you have the right to be decent and you have the right to respect other humans.

Amazing

" According to the survey, those who knew they were HIV positive were statistically more likely to have unprotected sex than those who did not.
"Of course, on the face of it, it seems perfectly simple, but what we do know is that one-third of young - homo - men leave school without adequate safe sex information. "We're not equipping those people for their future sex lives and we're not investing the way we that should be in HIV prevention campaigns across the whole of the UK in the communities who are most at risk." "

We live in a most amazing world. Pull out a toy gun in a public place and bang, in the slammer. BUT we MUST spend more public dollars to educate the "most at risk" bunch in the community with regard to sex because they are

absolutely without personal responsibility ! ! The state will willingly pay for all the extracarricular activities out of my pocket. While they play with a lethal weapon I get to work to pay for it. While they thumb their nose at proper human relations - don't ever point a lethal weapon at someone, I can't suggest that there should be a forceful punishment for purposefully putting other people at risk.

Amazing !

could be a change

" An intensive care nurse from Swansea has published an academic book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.
The book is intended for academic study and college libraries.
Near-death experiences were typically often explained away as the effect of endorphins, abnormal blood gases or low oxygen levels, she said.
However, the study measured these and took them into account when researching the patients' reports.

In one case a critically-ill patient, who also had cerebral palsy, awoke from a near-death experience able to use his right arm normally, even though it had been bent and contracted since birth.
"It shouldn't have been possible without an operation to release his tendons, but he could open his arm freely," said Ms Sartori. "

Sooooooooooo ……. Things change ! !


"I don't think it's quite as simple as life after death," she said.
"It's what consciousness is and how we define it. We are entering an exciting time researching consciousness.
"Current science says it is a by-product of the brain. But it may be that consciousness is around us and the brain might be a mediator, an antenna, instead of controlling consciousness.
"It is a fascinating subject and I'm looking forward to continuing my research," she added.

brain drain

“ Homosexual men and heterosexual women had halves of a similar size, while the right side was bigger in homosexual women and heterosexual men.
"In other words, the brain network which determines what sexual orientation actually 'orients' towards is similar between homosexual men and straight women, and between homosexual women and straight men.
"This makes sense given that homosexual men have a sexual preference which is like that of women in general, that is, preferring men, and vice versa for homosexual women."

"As far as I'm concerned there is no argument any more - if you are gay, you are born gay," Dr Qazi Rahman, a lecturer in cognitive biology at Queen Mary, University of London, said. ”

For starters I have taken the liberty of replacing two words with homosexual in the quote above. If and since homosexuals do not like to be called fags then we will help ourselves to our own good word gay. And as for the law suit that is on going on the island of Lesbos I am quite in agreement with them. Let the homosexual women come up with their own name – not some existing word or name. They can not expect the people of the island to be so generous as to let them use the name when the homosexuals themselves are sooooooooo very pernicious about names !

It seems that no one has considered that what a person thinks and decides can change the physical structure of his/her body – including that of the brain ……….

am I realllly that dumb

“ Honda has begun the first commercial production of a zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle.

Critics also point out that hydrogen is costly to produce and the most common way to produce hydrogen is still from fossil fuels.
Analysis of the environmental impact of different fuel technologies has shown that the overall carbon dioxide emissions from hydrogen powered cars can be higher than that from petrol or diesel-powered vehicles. ”

Don’t people still take physics at school ? ? It takes as much power to break water into the two components as you get back from recombining them. We had a first hand experience in our lab of the force of exploding hydrogen in a Kipps generator; the stuff is Very Volatile !
Come, Come. Here, Here ! I do not drive a propane vehicle. It is not nice to see propane explode. Even the army uses diesel, ‘cause even gas is to flammable. Zeppelins all crashed and burned long loooong ago.

Say again where the big advantage is in hydrogen power ? ?

Ditto for hybrid power. How can it be more economical ? ? So you run a gas motor or better yet a diesel one attached to a generator … economy personified ? ? ? Running Electric can not be more economical ‘cause electric is not as efficient and it takes energy to produce the electric just as it does to produce hydrogen. Nuke it. Sure sure. And have all that radio active waste around for years and years and years and years and years ? ? And not to mention all the expense of keeping it and making sure that it is not leaking out into Our environment? ?

If we are serious about saving oil hows about stopping the production of plastic ??

By the by this quote says “Since 1970, plastic has been responsible for doubling automobile fuel economy” and once again seriously. The internal combustion motor is not more economical than it was the first day it was invented. True there have been improvements in the system of delivery to the combustion chamber. But mostly it has been a reduction of size and weight of the vehicle that has given us the “better” mileage. Mostly. Which is more environmentally friendly, a horse, a metal vehicle or a plastic one? Like the online question, which is better plastic or paper grocery bag?

When I was looking into solar heating I dixcovered that it is quite simple and relatively easy to get up to eighty percent efficient. The next ten percent is more costly and the last ten is exponentially even more so. Do we Have to have all the extras on our cars ? Sure it is just a radio, but is the circuit board good for us. Finger nail polish can not be carried around in bulk, it is “dangerous goods” – so, is a truck full of drugstore fingernail polish safer than a truck load of bulk polish? Computers Are nice but the electronic board is not so nice in a garbage dump.

We know for a fact that electric transmission lines are safe. We know for a fact that cell phones do not cause cancer. Or other brain malfunctions.

WE DO.

We really do !

Alone

WHEN YOU FACE THINGS ALONE

“YOU MAY HAVE LOST YOUR DONKEY, NASRUDDIN, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO GRIEVE OVER IT MORE THAN YOU DID ABOUT THE LOSS OF YOUR FIRST WIFE.

AH, BUT IF YOU REMEMBER, WHEN I LOST MY WIFE, ALL YOU VILLAGERS SAID: WE'LL FIND YOU SOMEONE ELSE. SO FAR, NOBODY HAS OFFERED TO REPLACE MY DONKEY. ”

“...Researchers found evidence of recent selection in 7% of all human genes, including lighter skin and blue eyes in northern Europe…”

So there; evolution IS racially prejudiced ! !

If I made a 7% hint about any currently politically incorrect issue I would be strung up by the … . Hows comes it is that the scientist can make such a claim – 7% … light skin and blue eyes ……… . ?

Human rights where are you ? ? (Oh, sorry. Standing up for the 'rights' of those who otherwise could not stand up for themselves)

Ah, when you face things all alone …..

Titan 2

For another titanic statement consider –“ We are one step closer to understanding the logic behind the complexity of human brains - Professor Seth GrantSanger Institute (Somehow I do not think that the good prof ment that he was going to stick with the brain and its logic. If he was that would be a good thing. People are not just the sum of their component parts - evolution. People ARE more than the sum of their component parts – holism – BUT that ‘more than’ is NOT related to any of the parts, much less the sum of them. Life is the only thing that reverses the second law, it organizes chaos. But life is NOT to be found in the brain or the logic of it.)

Titanic statement

“ "We are getting closer to simulating the real world," Bijan Davari, vice president of next generation computing systems at IBM, told BBC News. (Titanic statement !)


Supercomputer Roadrunner packs more than 12,000 processors, a chip designed for the PS3, eight-core < 4 GHz chip known as "accelerators"; on top of nearly 7,000 standard processors.

Distributed computing (using many computers linked by network) is already used by scientists examining millions of simulations of how malaria spreads to look for ways to control the disease. The Smallpox Research Grid linked together more than two million volunteers from 226 countries to speed the analysis of some 35 million drug molecules in the search for a treatment for Smallpox.

Other groups are searching through thousands of hours of radio telescope signals for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence. ”

Hows about lookin for some terrestrial intelligence ? ?

This is an example of the most intelligent statement we can find here.
“It took 20 million years for the Colorado River to carve out the grand canyon.
But even that is an instant compared to the four billion years that Mars has had to grind its own surface down to a fine dust.”

No one is going to answer the problem of the noble savage. He can accomplish Sooooo much and he can be Soooooooo dumb.
(unless we just take the religious answer – God made him but he turned his back on God)

No Will

We ARE realllllllllllllly tired of it.

It being the penchant for blaming Israel for allllll of Gaza’s woes.

I haven’t seen a Saudi cavalcade lined up at the Egypt border to Gaza with food and gas.

I haven’t seen an Iranian cavalcade lined up at the Egypt border with food and gas.

I haven’t seen a BBC cavalcade lined up at the Egypt border with food and gas or medical supplies. Though they seem to be able to get people in, in the guise of reporters telling the truth, the whole truth and anything but …

It seems that any one and everyone can easily enough get into Gaza with arms – not through Israel - maybe.
No one Wants to solve the Gaza problem.

Second Law of Ordered State

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one of the largest mysteries in physics - why time seems to move in one direction

Physicists have long blamed this one-way movement, known as the ‘arrow of time’
on a physical rule known as the second law of thermodynamics, which insists that systems move over time from order to disorder.

This rule is so fundamental to physics that pioneering astronomer Arthur Eddington insisted that ‘if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope …’ (wasn’t it Marilla in Green Gables who said ‘if you don’t believe in God you are without hope’? that first day on the stairs going up to Anne’s room…)

The second law cannot be escaped, but Professor Carroll pointed out that it depends on a major assumption - that the Universe began its life in an ordered state.

In his presentation, the Caltech astronomer explained that by creating a Big Bang from the cold space of a previous universe, the new universe begins its life in just such an ordered state.

new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space (just when you thought spontaneous life was dead)

the new universe begins its life in just such an ordered state

”

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created just such an ordered state …

And He didn’t use a BIG Bang to do it.
Life and an ordered state go together !
For such brainless scientists they sure do try hard to make it sound convincing don’t they ?

psychotropic evolution

By Meredith F. Small LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist
posted: 23 May 2008 ET

“ Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson of Binghamton University and others have also pointed out that religion can also be adaptive. If cooperation and group identity helps individuals stay alive and pass on genes, then religion is evolutionarily important, even if we made it up.
The recent research, published in the online FASEB Journal (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) on May 2, suggests that religion, or at least many religious rituals, might also have another evolutionary, or biological function. Along with the group support, the embracing identity and the place to pray when times are bad, some religions are also doling out a bit of a psychotropic drug that helps the mind find peace.

Under the influence of a good snoot full of incense, mice in scary situations, such as being put in a swimming pool, remain calm, anxiety-free. At the alter, too, people feel the same sense of peace that comes from either the comforting words of the clergy, or from the intoxicating, brain altering, smell of incense.

In an age of endless anxiety, no wonder religion works; it is both cultural and biological.
Karl Marx claimed that organized religion was the "opiate of the people," meaning it dulls us into complacency, but that might not be such a bad thing. ”

“… even if we made it up …” Indeed !
No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. Job 12:2

But ask now the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you: or speak to the earth, and it will teach you: and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Lots of religionS have been made up. Lots of religion IS naught but an opiate or in some cases an extreme stimulant BUT it is NOT a vehicle of evolution. Passing on genes is NOT THE end. Knowing God and making Him known is the end.

explain that again ...

"Without the adaptation of a more curvy lower spine, pregnancy would have placed a heavier burden on back muscles, causing considerable pain and fatigue and possibly limiting foraging capacity and the ability to escape from predators.
"Any mother can attest to the awkwardness of standing and walking while balancing pregnancy weight in front of the body.
"Yet our research shows their spines have evolved to make pregnancy safer and less painful than it might have been if these adaptations had not occurred."
There is a gene that makes a person into a “Scientist” and a very important genetic mutation that occurred as part of that gene gives them an extra ordinary imagination in order to accurately “explain” not only How evolution works but also Why.

Here we go again. IF it IS evolution there can NOT be a reason Why ! !

Who s worse

“ A Canadian privacy group has filed a complaint against the social networking site Facebook accusing it of violating privacy laws.

even if you select the strongest privacy settings, your information may be shared more widely if your Facebook Friends have lower privacy settings.
"As well, if you add a third-party application offered on Facebook, you have no choice but to let the application developer access all your information even if they don't need it."
"We're concerned that Facebook is deceiving its users," ”

Facebook is not deceiving.
Network/Internet users are deceiving themselves.
It realllllly does not take much to find out most anything you want to once you tie into a network. You work in an office that has a couple of thousand computers all tied together with a few hundred printers and so on – you work on a supercomputer. People should by now realize that THE BIGGGGGGEST supercomputer in the world IS the INTERNET ! ! Bar none ! ! How many years of viruses, have not taught anyone yet that a keyboard and a monitor is all anyone needs to get in to anything ? Once you plug your processor into a network connection you ARE PUBLIC domain ! !

Sheeeeeesh get used to it ! ! ! You still have a choice. DO NOT add third party applications …. Do NOT put anything private on to your computer …. Better yet do NOT plug your computer into the net! ! !

It is high time that people take their own responsibility on themselves in stead of trying to pass it off onto every one else and then suing them for not doing their own job ! ! ! ! It IS your life – you protect it (if it is worth it) instead of suing Facebook for not. It isn’t their life. What, they are suppose to magnanimously let everyone onto their system to enjoy and pay for it out of their own pocket and ALSO take responsibility for every Tom Dick Harry and Janette jerk who would exploit your private life ? ? ? They ARE in it for the money. Again, if you are really interested in your own privacy stay home and listen to the radio ! ! !