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Jimro
@jimro
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Joined: Aug 1, 2004
Topics: 21 / Replies: 645
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RE: A classic: Nature vs.Nurture

Put me down for a five spot on the couch. Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Computer Help

Wait, I went through your post again, -5V Voltage = 3.59V If that is the case, have the power supply replaced, that voltage is way off, 8.59 volts o...

19 years ago
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RE: Computer Help

If it's not the HDD then I'd try taking it apart and cleaning everything with compressed air. Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: I got Pwnd. In which Rico begs for computer help.

Asked my brother in law, this is his response. I'm assuming that the group policies and OU's didn't get pulled from tonkawa-central. If that's the c...

19 years ago
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RE: Computer Help

I'm nearly 100 percent sure your HDD needs to be replaced, my brother in law's diagnosis is the same, but he says that there is a very slim chance it ...

19 years ago
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RE: Katrina's Toll: Possibly THOUSANDS Dead

The problem with accepting some of the offers for aid have to do with interoperability, basically it would be easy to use British pilots and helicopte...

19 years ago
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RE: A classic: Nature vs.Nurture

The fact that a mutation makes flies more susceptible to the effects of alcohol is undisputed. How that relates to other organisms has not been estab...

19 years ago
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RE: Katrina's Toll: Possibly THOUSANDS Dead

Well it's day three of the aftermath, and I honestly expected a much stronger federal presence than what is being shown on the news, so far it has onl...

19 years ago
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RE: Katrina's Toll: Possibly THOUSANDS Dead

the only difference between the flooding in New Orleans and the Mississippi flood of the late 90's, or the Chehalis river flood in southwest washingto...

19 years ago
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RE: Katrina's Toll: Possibly THOUSANDS Dead

New Orleans knew this was coming, they just didn't know when, and the good news is that the body count is actually quite small when you compare it to ...

19 years ago
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RE: A classic: Nature vs.Nurture

Are you forgetting that I study biochemistry? Part of my study involves genetics because they are what control the production of proteins that cause ...

19 years ago
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RE: Computer Viruses

The only time I don't recommend a format is for those who have data that needs to be backed up, and as soon as it's backed up I format as soon as poss...

19 years ago
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RE: A classic: Nature vs.Nurture

Didn't I start out with "genes are potential, environment allows potential to be expressed"? Having the genes to be Superman do you know go...

19 years ago
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RE: A classic: Nature vs.Nurture

Here is the central dogma of genetics, DNA encodes RNA which encodes PROTEINS. Finding a gene that causes a behavior, whether belief or lifestyle, is...

19 years ago
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RE: A classic: Nature vs.Nurture

LOL...ok, genes are potential, environment allows potention to be fulfilled. Having the genes for being really tall doesn't do much if the environmen...

19 years ago
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RE: Religion quiz

Yay, lowest score yet, I'm only 58% Christian....not really too surprising considering the vast mess that is "Christian Beliefs" and only cl...

19 years ago
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RE: Computer Viruses

You can make a Linux firewall out of a spare computer for REAL cheap if you don't mind doing the work yourself. If you don't know how to do the work ...

19 years ago
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RE: Computer Viruses

The only bit of software I'd like to add to Rico's list of goodies is a good firewall. If you are on broadband using the firewall on your router just...

19 years ago
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RE: Russia's new method of animal husbandry.....

Not really news in my book, hemp has been used as cattle feed before with no ill effects, the higher THC content of marijuana shouldn't pose too much ...

19 years ago
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RE: Guess that quote!

Then it has to be from "Clerks" the animated series. "Same as ever. Off the plane and into the crapper." is not from Ronin, it i...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

Harley, Congrats, you get the last word. Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Guess that quote!

I only saw "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" once, and I pretty much refuse to see it again...but I don't recognize the quote from any other ...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

LOL, I'm not arguing that either model is correct, only that both are "science". I don't have a problem with evolution theory, it answers t...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

Cooki, I'm sorry if seven years between publications is not long enough for you, but to paint the picture of Darwin and Mendel as cohorts or fellow re...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

Harley, Get thee to thy studies... The ID arguments are based on genetics, information theory, irreduceable complexity, not any religious text. Crea...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

Cooki, evidence is not proof, but just like in the scientific community a body of evidence will be accepted as proof if the theory supports the eviden...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

You know, new ideas in science always have a hard time being accepted. The idea that DNA, not protien, carried inheritable traits. Do you realize th...

19 years ago
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RE: Guess that quote!

Ok, another hint. It's a "Foreign" film, in that it is not set in the United States, and it is subtitled or dubbed for the english speaking...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

As a final note...you ignored everything I stated about ID not being science. Would you care to dispute them? Or do you agree that Intelligent Design ...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

...now, let me get this straight. You say there is no evidence for positive random mutations, then give me an example of a positive random mutation an...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

Nexus, Essentially, the fact is that basic evolution is proven. Populations and traits change over time, and in a great enough period of time will be...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

Cycle, falsifiable adj : capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation [syn: confirmable, verifiable] Intelligent De...

19 years ago
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RE: Auras and astral projection.

Inner Eye? Have we been reading too much Harry Potter? Madame Trelawney "The Inner Eye does not see upon command!" Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Guess that quote!

"Airplane" quotes are "What's your Vector, Victor?" and "Surely you're not serious" "Yes I am, and don't call m...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush determined to have Intelligent Design in science class

Cycle, Stop behaving like such an Athiest, Athiests use the "Theory of Evolution" as proof of nonexistence of a Creator. I know that you p...

19 years ago
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RE: Church, Politics, And Why They Should Never Ever Mix

If anyone wants to really debate Christian theology, I highly recommend finding another forum to do it in. p221.ezboard.com/bthechristianforum These...

19 years ago
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RE: Influence of Music?

Grew up listening to Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Handel, etc, from my father, as well as Deep Purple and Jethro Tull, my mother listened to a lot of br...

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RE: Guess that quote!

Don't know about the first one, the second quote "You are a sad, strange little man" is from Toy Story. How about this one: "Same as ...

19 years ago
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RE: The Runaway Greenhouse Effect...

I dunno, couple thousand years of lobbing asteroids at the surface, along with ice from Jupiters rings, Von Neuman machines to place an iron core in t...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush's solution to the energy crisis: TAX CUTS FOR THE WIN!

We can rehash this yet again if you would care to start another topic, but Marble Garden is the place to do it. Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: The Runaway Greenhouse Effect...

Hypershadow, Increasing gravity is one way of keeping the atmosphere, but that would require an increase in mass. Interestingly enough, the bulk of...

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RE: The Runaway Greenhouse Effect...

In order to terraform Mars we would need to increase the atmosphere and set up a planetwide magnetic field to keep the atmosphere from being blown awa...

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RE: Bush's solution to the energy crisis: TAX CUTS FOR THE WIN!

Harley, Yeah, that would really make the world love us, charge right in and show them how to run their country....oh wait, that's the UN's job. As f...

19 years ago
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RE: Bush's solution to the energy crisis: TAX CUTS FOR THE WIN!

Srol, www.aqmd.gov/smog/historicaldata.htm www.epa.gov/airtrends/international.html www.cleanairprogress.org/...nal907.pdf biology.usgs.gov/s+t/nofra...

19 years ago
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RE: The Runaway Greenhouse Effect...

Dreamer, The solution to pollution is dilution. All substances are toxic in sufficient quantity, as my good friend Dan likes to say "There are ...

19 years ago
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RE: eBay...GONE MAD! (Crazy crap within...)

huh, I think it's time for an "intervention".... Jimro

19 years ago
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RE: Bush's solution to the energy crisis: TAX CUTS FOR THE WIN!

Harley, I read what you write, but you really aren't saying much. Running around in a panic a la Chicken Little doesn't give credence to your argume...

19 years ago
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RE: The Runaway Greenhouse Effect...

Ok...Don't Panic Nothing like those two reassuring words to calm someone down right? You have been a victim of sensationalism. Anyways, what you ha...

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