Zenister

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  1. not that i particularly care for microshaft but, IE will do both those too...its just not set up as defaults because most get annoyed at being asked about every cookie... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  2. whooo hooo! your on tall one! when you comming down to Kapow again?? gotta jump together at least once before the clouds keep us low... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  3. looked like sid took a nasty head shoot on the door as they exited...woulda hated to be the guy who gave sid mouth to mouth, did you see that fuked up grill?? ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  4. one wonders if your only interested in your poll results what difference it matters if they subject is debated while votes are cast? always raises a flag for me when someone says "i dont want to discuss this but....." ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  5. i know a few places that still have penny crap tables
  6. no worries, thats why i just posted yes. but i was wondering what you were asking so i wanted clarification.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  7. no its not. anyone who thinks so has a simplistic veiw of the universe and religion in general. and if you dont divide your catagories very well you get misleading answers. Someone who assumes she means the christian 'God' in the "almighty" catagory will perhaps put their vote into the "non traditional" one. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  8. thats why i questioned. they way you defined "god" is much more broad than most do, so you'll end up getting overlap in catagories that would have fit in one. Hence the reason to avoid the word as its been 'coopted' by the primary monotheistic religions.. actually Tao and Zen dont fit into that definition either, nor do any of the religions that dont personify divinity. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  9. heya thats a neat idea...everybody PM each other (or better yet just post it) and agree on a day to all wear our dz.com shirts (work permiting) see how many get spotted in various places.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  10. drools... and to think i just want to take one our 'old' Enterprise 4000s home ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  11. here's mine, bro. what kinda odds can ya get me? the Russian artists Komar & Melamid once set up a concession to buy and sell souls (long before the ebay bit) unfortunately they discovered their were so many people willing to sell theirs that it was completely a buyers market.. (Andy Warhol's soul was purchased for a dollar with the assumption that there was already a lein on it ) I guaranteeyou can still pick up souls cheaply pretty much everywhere, so i doubt your soul will be worth much on the craps table... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  12. define "traditional" -whos traditions? so if i follow religious traditions thousands of years older than christian am i still considered 'traditional" "One almighty?" -if you mean christian God say christian god as is this option applies to several faiths. your far better off using the word "Divinity" or "deity" in nearly every case..although you'll run into issues with those religions that dont personify them still..Shinto being one, or better yet stick with the actual names for each religion..Yahweh, Jehovah, Buddha, Vishnu etc.. "many gods" leaves out quite a bit, too for example Hindu, and various Amer-Indian religions could be classified this way however at their core they are all aspects of the same ideal...with differing 'realms of responsibility' now where do you fit beliefs that are completely unpersonified?? ie Tao and Zen?? the word "god" means far to many things to categorize it in the manner you did. Mind you I dont think it was intentional at all the way you phrased your question illustrates an obvious cultural bias hence 'judgmental'. when you break it down in this manner its pretty obvious that a majority of the population believes in "god" in one form or another with the only holds being agnostics and atheists. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  13. spybot will help you wack those and all the things tracking your surfing too...it actually creates a plug in that will block further installation of that stuff..you'll see it on occasion when it tells you what evil programs its blocked.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  14. you need less 'judgmental' options...the way you phrased you question includes unintentional i imagine value connotations simply. yes. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  15. my .02 Mozilla is very nice, but depending on where you surf to you may run into compatibility issues. Its not terribly difficult to learn as its not much different, but i got to annoyed with it crashing on some flash sites etc..si i usually stick to IE... with Spybot and good security settings on IE you shouldnt see many popups at all.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  16. i think i'm still covered for my postwhoredness this year but me thinks many of you are slacking..... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  17. sometimes i love working for the military... we got the warning on that one last month and i patched all my machines.. i guess i should start posting them here as i get them too.. might save some headaches.. sorry guys.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  18. that is soooooooo wrong... as penance you should have to show us yours ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  19. dont make us shoot you too.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  20. would have to be Thor from a very early age, used to try to hurl myself across the yard with my fathers sledgehammer..it sort of works if you really commit to it, my mother has a favorite picture of me completly horizontal on the way into the pool, good thing she never saw all the practice tries although i have lots of sub 100 Xmen comics too.. Dangermouse ruled! i loved that show. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  21. always lurking on occasion.. for a more 'internal' persective (vs more critical) read Zen Flesh,Zen Bones a collection of Zen/Tao writings including the gateless gate, centering and the title collection of koans. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  22. "Taoist church" sounds like an oxymoron if you ask me. If you're into Taoism, there's a really good book called the "Tao of Zen" which traces the historical relationship of Zen & Taoism. The author's (who is a Taoist) premise is that Zen is essentially Taoism + Buddhism.... so philosophical Tao and philosophical Zen are indistinguishable. that was Zen, this is Tao.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  23. really picky definition time..obviously i dont know the gear anywhere near so well as you define "function properly"? will it do the job that component is intended to do? will the original do it better? most assuredly, but does the 'work around' do an "acceptable job"? even if it does not perform as well as the original? then you get into the tricky ethical part, some people will accept "works ok" vs "works perfectly". do you? do you want your name on something you are unsure of? how unsure are you? then the murkier question. Do you require the manufacturers parts if you can make/modify a component that will work just as well? why? liability? I am not a rigger, but as a field engineer, often have to make things work NOW, vs making them work "perfectly", of course the immediate consequences of a radar system failing are perhaps not as great as that of a tandem rig, and i always have to explain the options, costs and time involved to my customers (military) and let the owner (the commander) make the decision he/she can 'live with' ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.
  24. Zenister

    Speed...

    realizing we are all skydivers, and so have an addiction to speed others might not, but i think its pretty clear from this poll that very very few people actually drive the speed limit. which of course begs the question: If a majority of the population is 'breaking the law' on a regular basis, why isnt it changed? A: because then local governments would have to seek other more obvious means to extort money from their citizens to fund its bloated body.. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.