I find it ironic as the image clearly attests to the power that Christ had. He certainly could have called forth a legion of angels to remove him from the cross.  Also, had he not so love the world, he could have clapped and in the process of clapping snuffed out the entire universe- including those who would blaspheme him with  mornic pictures presented in a juvenile attempt at humor.  I'm just sayin.

The mythology states that he had to die in the most gruesome way possible in order to maximize the sacrifice he was making because he loved you and wanted to die for your sins. Don't feel guilty about it though. He obviously knew the Judas would betray him and could have avoided the whole thing. Then the world would have missed out on 2000 years of Christianity.

[dinosauers]

I would have thought that dinosauers would have given it away! 

I was counting on Google to have its "Did you mean: pterodactyl?" message if I was wrong

and

the fact that the entire first page of Search hits had websites all using the same spelling as my search word made me go with the original spelling.

I'm not usually a stickler for spelling, but that is particularly lame.

My point being, Ike, I am very conscientious of my spelling. Between the internal Firefox spell check, this Forum's spell check, dictionary.com, Google and copying my text into Outlook to run spell check I try and at least have my spelling correct even if no one cares about the content. I don't see what is particularly lame about a single misspelled word.

What the hell is a "teradactal"?

Are you trying to spell "pterodactyl"?

I'm not usually a stickler for spelling, but that is particularly lame.

Ah, another opportunity for spiritual growth!

Google failed me. I tried to look up the correct spelling. Honest!

In answer to your question, however, I think that there has to be an actual explicit agreement not to date other people.  I think that most people accept that if you're "just dating" you are allowed to date more than one person.

   OMFG, I agree with Ike on something....

Next stop for me, the Middle East.

that "pup" has been my faithful weenie dog for eleven years now.

I hear that penicillin clears up "kennel cough" in no time.

teradactals

Sharon Stone

company meetings that serve no purpose other than giving someone a chance to hear themselves talk

but mostly, its the teradactals.

You read stories about guys that have secret lives being married to multiple women and even managing multiple families. That's obviously someone that doesn't understand the concept of exclusivity. The other side of the extreme is to only date 1 person at a time from the very beginning. I have always leaned more towards this latter position both from personal standards and lack of opportunity to double up. Recently (as of last night ) I found myself getting involved with a second woman while still actively involved in the early stages of dating someone else. Since I hardly ever find myself in this situation I am trying to figure out when its considered cheating and when I should choose one to go exclusive with. I suppose its not cheating unless the other person thinks that you're an exclusive couple?

What are your standards for exclusivity?

What kind of requirements do you have?  If your participants trust you, you could just use a spreadsheet and a random number generator.

Have each spreadsheet row correspond to a ticket, so if they have 10 tickets they get 10 rows.

It sounds like this will work. I found this RNG and the spreadsheet row #'s will cover the ticket total. Thanks for the input.

I do wonder what it was, though.

furball

Anyone know if there is a program or website that I can use to hold a virtual raffle? I've got around 100 people with various amounts of contest points that are worth 1 raffle ticket each. These 100 people are all over the country so I can't hand out physical tickets with the winner being picked out of a hat. I need a virtual way to do the drawing.

I like how "Space Aliens" come below "Broncos" in the related tags of his blog. 

Broncos > space aliens

It's all OK. She called take backs.

"Due to my inappropriate words and acts during the interview, I feel deeply sorry and sad about hurting Chinese people," Stone said in the statement. "I am willing to take part in the relief work of China's earthquake, and wholly devote myself to helping affected Chinese people."

As a filmmaker, I even look forward to the day we might by-pass those shady studios and distributors and bring you the goods straight to you home on release day.

Maybe, but there is still something about going to a movie theater and getting the crowd dynamic involved in a great movie. Besides, not everyone can have a PeteRock sized HDTV. Some of us still live in the stone age of CRT, at least until the divorce mortgage is paid off.

according to Sharon Stone.

"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else," Stone said Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong's Cable Entertainment News. "And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"

Is this the New Age response to the Christian Right blaming every natural disaster on sinners and gays?

Srsly. Spend the money combating things important

What "important thing" would NASA's $14B annual budget solve that outweighs surrendering manned space capability to the Russians and Chinese?

Think of the children!

On a more serious note, how about if NASA stops charging companies less than it actually costs to launch their statellites into space. If we weren't subsidizing these companies they would have to pay market rates and private companies would be able to compete against NASA. This would open up space operations into the private market.

I don't know about genre, but I think we'll see alot more Indie titles as the big boys focus more and more on consoles.

Just as long as they don't involve swinging through the jungle like Tarzan and surviving a nuclear blast in a refrigerator.

Going through his IMDB list nothing really jumps out at me as the cat's meow. A couple of interesting films maybe, but that's it.

R.I.P.

Just amazing what the scientists and engineers can do. 

And Jesus   

Recently Moliere suggested a handful of films and I should receive them sometime next week from BestBuy.com (You Move You Die, Stickmen, and The Salton Sea).  I am hoping others can share some suggestions that I may have missed, or may not even know about.  They don't have to be critically acclaimed or fit within any particular genre (as made apparent by my own list), and I'm open to all sorts of suggestions.  I'm mainly just looking for lesser-known, quality films no one has heard of.

Besides repeating the 3 above I will include these on my list:

Christian Bale in The Machinist about a man that hasn't slept in a year. He went from 180 lbs to 120 lbs for the role and then had to gain it back in time for Batman Begins.

Swing Kids about teenagers not respecting the authoritah of the Nazis by dancing to illegal music.

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead is a classic with a ton of great scenes and actors.

Requiem for a Dream

Hard Eight or "Sydney" for all you non-Americans

Even Money a great movie about gambling addictions

The Legend of 1900 Tim Roth plays a piano prodigy that has lived his entire life on a cruise ship.

Are you sure?   

or is it just me?

KD, fire up the backup servers. There might be more refugees on the way.

Hillary let slip that she should stay in the race, because, you know, Obama might get shot during the Primaries. The Trilateral Commission must be pissed that their plans have been announced.

Fortunately I live in a rural enough area that the Google Van hasn't made it here yet.

Last year I took on the task of reading every single Dune book in storyline chronological order starting with the 6 prequels by Frank's son, reading the 6 original Dune books and then the final two sequels by the son. I enjoyed them immensely and appreciated the fleshing out of the back story done by the son.

For $11 I doubt you were going to get much sex anyway.

Smart car ftw!

Jails are a lot different in Chicago.

Only if it came with an interior detailing.

After all of this has been resolved just unload the car on Craig's List. Let somebody else deal with a rebuilt/mystery engine. 

why don't they ship both color schemes with the game and let the player decide which one he wants to use?

Because they already did the research in this territory. Don't you trust their market research to have found a gamers sample group that would cover all of our preferences?

The original Bard's Tale on my Apple IIc.

I hear that wearing a gun is legal if its out in the open because old tucson is permanent marshal law?..or some such thing.

AZ has an open carry license, but there are a lot of limitations on where you can carry a gun (concealed or open):

Federal Buildings
any business with a sign posted against carrying a weapon (e.g., most shopping malls)
any place the serves alcohol
and a few other places that I can't recall right now

/on topic post

Carry on with the padding.

doggie pron

I need OO to come back online long enough for me to copy down my Books read in 2007 and 2008. I read them, but damn if I can remember all the titles. I guess that's the value of cross posting to other forums.

I loved John's feeble attempt to maintain the idea that he's in charge. Jacob might be talking to John, but its up to Ben to get anything done. John doesn't have a clue where he's going and what he's supposed to do. Ben pulls out the box only to have John put his foot down on it so he can be the one to open it. Then he sees the contents and is clueless as to what he's supposed to do with them. When John asks what message he delivered with the mirror Ben's response of "none of your business" was classic.

Shoot the F'ing Bird. Or you can go find his nest and destroy it, Shoot that down instead. then it will be to busy finding\rebuilding a home to bother your dogie.

spray ddt around the nest.

I wish people would press political candidates like this. How often do they know what they hell they're talking about versus spewing whatever their speech writer told them to say.

the circle of life cannot be stopped

but come on. Did this ever make sense?



and



I think the NSFW thread should hold a special memorial to Shania Twain to eulogize their marriage.