My telescope lets me see a couple stripes of Jupiter's clouds, and a nice fat disc.

Cool. I had a cheepo reflector telscope once. I could never get it to show me anything but a a smear. I probably should have been less stingy with my investment.

What if we threw a pity party and no one showed up? No risk of that. I'm already here dude ;-) I was kind of hoping that you would appreciate the rarely offered insight into my debating techniques, Rather than seeing my post as an appeal for pity. For that's certainly not how it was intended. Edit:...

Sorry to disapoint you about the sarcasm Vraith. But to tell the truth, for a change, I was lying about lying. I HAD prepared a three lines - one sentence sarcastic retort. But (if you can believe me this time) I erased it and substituted it with the patronizing text. The truth is, that I couldn't r...

Had my peeks at the celestial vagabonds myself while walking the dog. It's a sight indeed. I have no decent binoculars, but I seem to recall that seeing a few of the Jovian moons is possible with binoculars of reasonable quality.

I was lying about the sarcasm I had ready. Typical liberal bluff. Let me try some actual argumentation in stead (I may just hang myself in the attempt): Ron-B: You seem to claim (I know I'm extrapolating here, so please shoot it down at will) that the use of sterotypes only has a negative impact on ...

he did observe that the DNA of children is more pure than adults Amazing! And AGAIN I learn something new and valuable. If the internetz had been around when I went to university, I'm not even sure I would have bothered to go. Jehovas Wittnesses once told me that the dna of Adam and Eve was more pu...

Ron wrote:Prebe, I think a meme / stereotype only matters if the object finds it important

I had a long sarcastic rant written on that one, but I decided to give you one last chance to think about why that is just plain wrong.

Edit: I.o.w. I decided to skip sarcastic and go straight to patronizing

Stoopid.

I think he did the right thing actually. Not doing it could easily be morally defended, but none the less I think it was a pretty cool thing to do. The only thing that will ever make stereotypes disapear is not using them. No matter what the reason may be for debating/satirizing/applying them, the m...

DeerOD wrote:There are lots of other possible DNA sources. Fecal matter often contains blood from the donor. Skin cells might have been gleaned when a sasquatch wounded itself. There is dna in saliva, boogers, semen

Thanks for the info. I'll try to keep that in mind

Make them scratch while they're at it!

Knitting needles or wire hangers are probably incompatible with the wound from the surgery, so I'd go easy

Oh dear! I had no idea you had undergone surgery Sarge. Good that you seem up and appear to be your usual self. Fingers crossed for "no secondary infection" and against other complications.

Get well soon.

And damned I'm glad that I don't have to be around when they open that cast

On the basis of this gravitational interaction, physicists have inferred that dark matter constitutes 22 percent of the matter-energy content of the universe, while ordinary detectable matter constitutes just 4.5 percent.

So, what about the last 73,5 % Poindexter?

Thank you very much

Oh absolutely! But a lot of the deaths that we really fear, are really quite quick.

I wish I had that choice Av. I don't. At least not if I want to keep my current position. But, hey... wait...

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Pseudo-intellectual claptrap

I tend to agree Hashi

My question is the same as Bob's: Where did they get the biological material? Why is that shrouded in mystery throughout? Anyway: You can not get DNA from hair. Really? That means that a significant amount of the wobbers and wapists I have put away in my time could be innocent! Stop press! :twisted:...

Yeah, they are completely obsessed with it at Bill-Co. And as you can guess I have thrown in the towel. Even contemplating uploading all our documents to SQLserver tables as the XML-datattype in stead of binary. So it's not just the UI.