Mister P-Mosh

I've been reading about the Sumerian and Babylonian religions that are the precursors to Judaism and it's pretty interesting. Adam is Adapa, and created as the first man by the gods (I forgot if it was Enki or Enlil who created man in them) but Eve appears to be a modified version of the goddess Ananna. From my understanding, what she did was to bring Adapa to the place where the gods lived (think of Mt. Olympus for the greeks) and gave him the fruit of the tree of life, which is one of the ingredients that seperate the gods from man. This angered Anu and so Adapa was sent back to Earth, and Ananna was sent to the underworld as a punishment. So, according to the stories that the biblical events were based on, it was not sexual at all, but rather that man had tried to become a god, sort of.

The wife and I liked it, although the only word I could use to describe it would be neurotic.

This is a movie about the Al Jazeera TV station right before the war in Iraq to the point where Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" and the military attacked the media in the three attacks in one day on Al Jazeera, Abu Dhabi, and the Palestine hotel. Basically, it was an interesting look at their internal conflicts between bias in support of their own people, as well as others that want to be completely objective. It also shows how they were hated by both the Bush administration and Saddam's regime. I was also interested in their portrayal of a U.S. Marine who they initially had conflict with (the bad feelings were mutual) but developed a relationship where both the Al Jazeera reporters and the Marine became friends and ended up learning about each others' cultures. All in all, it was an interesting look into the Fox News of the arab world.

I thought TWI's priorities that they always harped on were: God Yourself Your immediate familyTWI Your "earthly" family etc?

Heh, all of the above. Plus, shopping, going to Barnes & Noble, doing laundry, fellowship meetings at public parks, etc. The thought was that if you were around someone who was not in TWI, you should be witnessing.

Yeah, but it's one thing to say, "yeah, the fast food companies are advertising a lot and are making food that makes you fat" and another to say, "these people are brainwashing kids through parents that let their kids sit in front of the TV on Saturday mornings watching a cartoon or two, plus they are purpousely making something that is just about poison in order to addict you to their food." It's hard to explain, but some of the interviews with fast food people and doctors (including an ex-surgeon general) is amazing. The guy that made the film claims that everyone knows that McDonalds is unhealthy, however he heard a response from a McDonalds rep basically saying that their food was part of a balanced diet and that it was perfectly healthy to eat all the time. I read somewhere on the internet where someone claimed that you lower your chance for a heart attack by eating McDonalds french fries! It's insane.

I know that USB works with Linux. It may not be quite as easy as the plug and play abilities of XP, but standard things definitely work. All in all, I'd say that if someone is still using MS-DOS or Windows 95, they should have upgraded by now. They're still riding in a horse and buggy while everyone else is driving cars.

This movie was amazing. I went into it just expecting to see this jackass moron eating McDonalds for every meal for a month and how he would bring bad health upon himself. What I got was that, plus lots of information that was very damning against McDonalds, the GMA, and the general ignorance of the American public when it comes to eating healthy. I need to do more research into it, but the general idea is that fast food has addictive opiate-like chemicals, and kids are practically brainwashed into wanting it due to viral marketing during cartoons and such. I think that this movie should be required viewing for all kids in school, and adults should pay attention too. While I do think that the movie underplayed the importance of taking a personal stake in your own diet, it focused on critical things that too few people bring up related to how ignorant most people are about what they put in their mouths.

I agree with Tom. You shouldn't use floppy disks for anything. It's like trying to do math problems in Roman numerals -- difficult, unnecessary, and prone to problems. CDs are extremely cheap, and the small USB drives are as well, both of which hold a lot more. It's also good to keep copies of important files on your hard drive and back it up to somewhere else via the internet.

For the most part I didn't hear much bad news about it, although I do remember it making an "Ask Sam" article in the local paper when I was a lot younger. TWI leaders basically told us how it was just a bunch of B.S., an attack from the adversary, etc. Quite a few people wrote to the paper to complain, and that was about the end of it. The other sources were basically family members who were not in, such as one of my grandmothers who viewed TWI as "better than nothing" when it came to religious beliefs. My other grandparents refused to attend TWI functions when they visited us, and since my parents ran a home fellowship in their house, my grandparents would sit upstairs and wait for it to be over. I'm not entirely sure what they thought of it, as I didn't discuss it with them. I did discuss it some with an uncle who I rarely see, but I was drunk so I don't really remember what we said. I remember him being worried about my immediate family for being in TWI though. He probably heard the same reports that Trefor's mom did, I would imagine. All in all, the desire to leave and to change my life came from the inside. There was nothing anyone else could do, I had to realize for myself that it was bad and leave.

Movies are already dual layer, so I'd say yes. The only potential gotcha, which shouldn't be a problem, would be if somehow your DVD player was incompatible with some new format that they would propose. That's not likely though, as it sort of defeats the purpose of a DVD burner in the first place.

I've also heard that some NEC DVD burners can be converted to write dual layer DVDs without anything more than a firmware upgrade. I don't know how true that is, but if you own one, it might be worth checking out.

The only thing that would make it considered at all a chick flick is that there are too many naked Brad Pitt scenes. Of course, in my opinion one is too many. I think there were two or three. Otherwise, it's a lot like a cross between Gladiator and LotR.

I've seen plenty of data on the tempuratures rising, so I'd side with PBS over Penn and Teller on that one, however I do agree that the question is still out on example what is causing it. This indicates that there has definitely been a warming trend in recent history, although it doesn't attempt to explain it. In fact, there has been evidence that the carbon dioxide levels have gone up in the past as they are now, which accompanied warming trends: As you can see there though, it appears to happen in cycles, even though our current upswing is a bit higher than previously. It's not a huge difference, only about 40 ppm between the previous peaks. The graphs from PBS are here in case they don't show up in my post. In any case, it looks like the warming trend is real, and I don't see how it could be spun differently. They use pretty sound science as far as I can tell to identify the warming. It's just that the idiots who say things like, "If two people drive seperately to work it's going to kill Gaia" distort the science. I'd be interested in hearing Penn & Teller's side of it though.

Ummm...I thought global warming is a certified fact, while the cause of it is what is up for debate? I could be wrong as I haven't really looked into it that much, but I'm pretty sure that it is really happening, and that the science behind melting glaciers screwing up the ocean and weather are sound. The movie isn't really based on science, but global warming is real, even if most people misrepresent it.

Which scene? The ice chase?

I have the DVD. :D-->

I will post something about this on the Open forum where we were talking about the aliens and such.

Agreed. There wasn't anything else we haven't seen worth watching so we went ahead to see this one. I loudly cursed the people who made the movie during the wolf chase scene, as I take that rather personally when movies show wolves as evil monsters. The president and vice president were interesting, in that the president looked like Al Gore, and the VP Cheney. That was very odd. Also I was suprised that an ecological propaganda movie came out from Fox, since Rupert Murdoch is not exactly known for standing against conservative morals. The most original thing is probably that a freeze can chase you down a hallway. It was like Jurrasic Park, but instead of velociraptors, it was icesickles.

Not exactly as I live in the U.S., but you can consider me a representative of County Antrim, depending on what you consider Northern Ireland to be. Anyway, we come from Carrick, Larne, Jordanstown, etc which is basically across the bay from Belfast.

I saw it, and it's actually not that bad. It does make fun of various people, but I expected all whites to be bad guys in it (which wasn't true) and I think that they had some good information presented, although the whole movie was a bit of weird humor. I'd say that it was a movie that I'd expect out of film school rather than in the theaters, but it was still interesting to see.

How many hours is all that together? I remember Gettysburg being extremely long, but I haven't seen Gods and Generals, although I bought it as a gift for someone else.

I bought the DVD for ROTK at Sam's Club yesterday when I was grocery shopping. So, I started the long journey of watching one DVD a night from the EEs of the first two, and should be able to watch ROTK on Sunday.

I heard November. I'm debating buying this one and then the EE in November, at which time I'll give the theatrical version to my sister or something. My wife thinks I should just buy one and keep that one, but she doesn't understand. :D-->

We may have the same laptop then. The only laptop I've ever seen that does worse is my Pentium 90 IBM Thinkpad, since it has had the same battery for many years now. Anyway, I'm planning on getting a PowerMac for my next PC, once the next job comes (or if this one gets extended yet again.) I really don't use it much for work so I don't need the Win32 only programs for it. With the vast amount of places that offer free wireless access, it's definitely worth it to try and get a laptop that can run on batteries and use 802.11b networks.