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He is running 37 inch tires with 4.88 gears in stock axles? Man that guy is crazy. The front dana 30 will snap like a tooth pick off road!!!! The suspension is not too bad. The steering doesn't look too bad though .. but still, I would be very reluctant to spend that kind of money on that, unless it's only for show. Offroad, that will not last too long. I hope it at least has a Dana 44 rear end. If it's a dana 35, that makes it even worse!

Perfect is that which is better than anything else in the "entity" space (i.e. the optimum among all entities according to whatever goodness criteria you pick to quantify things). Typically, if you don't put constraints on your criteria for measuring "goodness", perfection won't exist (or it will not be achievable).

You know how I know this to be true? When I see ordinary humans doing extraordinary things (that defy laws of the established sciences). To me, that just says the laws of established science are imperfect and need work. For example, that's how we moved from Newtonian physics to quantum mechanics ... because people observed tiny particles doing "extraordinary" things (accordoing to the laws at the time) as in seemingly going from one point in space to another point in space without having traveled anywhere in between!!! But now many of those extraordinary things are not that extraordinary anymore and have ordinary explanations. Whether those explanations are good enough or not, only time will tell.

Amen to that. The creationist position would be so much stronger if they didn't keep on insisting on this perfect God that created everything including time .... The second "time" enters into the picture, it becomes rather rediculous that it took the creator time to do things (as in seven days or whatever) and that it's creations are improving over time. But it would all make a lot more sense if the creator was itself bound by the rules of time and space.

I found that a $30 pair of sony ear-plug type headphones and an mp3 player can do wonders in that department! Which reminds me that I wish God had put in mp3 playback capabilities in our brains with several memory interfaces like compactlfash, SD card, and sony stick. For the record, even though I sounded like it, I am not complaining one bit. Just saying I would have expected more from a God that is able to put the heavens and the earth and cosmos (and if you ask Domino, multiple universes and vacuum bubbles) in motion. But you have introduced an entire new dimension into this thread which is faaaaaaar beyond my understanding. I tend to be very practical in my approach to understanding my environment. I touch, feel, experience, learn, explore, and then start to believe. Now you are telling me those beliefs influence what I experience and feel ...

http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/voyager/sail/photos/98/10/kangaroo.jpg This is the australian model

And one more thing .. the reason we have been able to do so much is not because we could do it ourselves! no ... it was because we were smart enough to figure out how to make tools that would allow us to do the things we couldn't do. But let's not get carried away thinking we are that good and also let's not be fooled thinking our minds are anything too spectacular. Sure we are the best things we have seen ... but our minds are also pretty pathetic when you think is this really the best God could do?

I don't think the design of a human is particularly smart. Sure there's a lot of cool things in there but it's faaaar from smart. For one thing, I could definitely use another hand ... especially while on the net. For another thing, what's with the stupid wisdom teeth? I have to go have another one pulled out. Why don't I have an eye in the back of my head and how come I can only see this tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum we happen to call "visible" light? Why can't I see infrared/ultraviolet like Geordi Laforge could do in Star Trek? Why are my hearing and smell so limited? Why don't I have a movable flap that I can use to close my own ears on an airplane with screaming kids in the back seat? How come I dislocated both my knees when playing basketball? How come the patela tendons were so weak? Why are there so many diseases? Why can't I spend more than 30 seconds under water? How come when I swim, my nose and ears fill with water? Why are my fingers and hands so limited in their range of motion? Shall I keep going? I would be very surprised if anyone tries to argue that the human body is anywhere NEAR perfection. Actually, if a human is the best God could do, I am rather disappointed... really ... I mean after all the cool stuff he did with the universe and the atoms and physics and electricity and magnetism ... come on! why make the human that is in his "own image" so retarded?

Cool! That 89 is a CJ, right? Coil springs? Should be fun!

Ahahahaah !!!! Like that one. God created evolution. Sasun, you're a smart man.

Take a dumb cow, make it stand up. It's not hard to see a lot of organs in the cow are pretty much where they would be in a human. Eyes, ears, mouth, tongue, lungs, sex organs, hands, feet ... we even have what used to be a tail. Ok granted cows have 4 stomachs but still I look at a human and a cow, and being a programmer, I see a common object from which both were derived (object oriented software engineers will know what I'm talking about) Now about the importance of things existing in an environment ... the higher up in the food chain you go, the more useless the creatures become in the grand scheme of things. And yes, that would make the humans pretty damn useless (if not actually quite parasitic) on earth. I'm sure this doesn't sound like something the creationist subscribers want to hear ... but just take a look around! The earth and the ecosystems existed quite well for loooooooooong before the humans showed up and didn't at all depend on us. We're just like a mold spreading on this planet ... and worst of all, we run around thinking our sh!t don't stink.

But doesn't variety support the evolution model a lot more than the creation model? Why would god create 1000 different 4-appendaged animals (4 legs/hands) with 2 eyes and 2 ears and one mouth with teeth and similar organs that all seem to share common roots? You are seriously asking an intelligent person to believe that an intelligent force created the lion and the tiger and the dog and the cat separately, or is it REALLY very difficult to see that there is just something oddly similar among all of them?

So you say evolution doesn't explain why an aligator is so stupid, but the creation model explains it? Why would God make a stupid animal like the aligator? Also, if God is so perfect, why didn't he make the humans perfect? How come we still have so many flaws?

The tacomas for 05 are pretty sweet ... no V8 but the V6 is 245HP and 282 ft-lb torque @ 3800 rpm... not too shabby! But the H3 is gay, the F*rd is going to be yet another f*rd with the same old f*rd problems. I think the only thing exciting in 05 is the Unlimited Jeep with the Rubicon package.

They were saying Microsoft already has something like 5 billion pages indexed. Google's is said to be somewhere around 8 billion. Edit: I think the winner is not going to be who indexes most, but who manages to stay most up to date and relevant. Of course google has the advantage of having been around for much longer and is much better known. There have been quite a few academic papers recently published that discuss the short comings of google's pagerank algorithm. So there is definitely room to improve on google

Here's a quote from Encarta just to have some numbers in place: But Harut, what are you going to do with that electrical energy? It's all going to be converted into heat anyway so I don't think you have anything to worry about. That's why the Las Vegas strip is usually something like 10 degrees warmer than the desert around it. If you've been there in the summer, you know what I'm talking about! And as far as wind turbines preventing air flow ... they are really not that different than large trees if you ask me but I don't know.

Oh and yes, they seemed to have indexed this place as well! But they seem to be favoring the "armenianmp3.com" domain to the hyeforum.com domain.

http://beta.search.msn.com It's still in beta mode but available to the public now. With this, Microsoft is going directly after google ... we'll have to wait and see what'll happen but this is sure to be fun to watch!

Don't know how you thought of garlic but the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the title of this thread was this: http://starbulletin.com/2001/12/19/features/ingredient.jpg

Hey eaaaaaaaaaaaaasy now ... geeeeeeeez!!!! I hope I never fall behind the latest trends when mister on top of everything Domino is around

Actually, my Dad came and stayed with me for a week last august ... so since I don't have a TV, I was out looking for exactly what you are describing. Sam's Club (very similar to Costco) had some pretty good flat screens ... a panasonic and another one that I don't remember the brand but it was flat and 27" and had a really good picture quality for under $300. There were also a couple of open boxes at best buy that I liked but in the end, I decided to save my money since I knew dad was going back to LA in a few days and I wasn't going to use it. Right now, I just have a dual monitor setup on my PC with a 22" main monitor (CRT) and a 19" Dell LCD. I usually maximize my TV window on the 19" (on the side) and work on the 22". Seems to work well ... especially since the satelite box I have doesn't have a working program guide so I open an online program guide on one monitor and watch on the other!

OH MY GOD! That's blaspheme here in the technology section. If we had a women's section, I would move this thread in there

If you want traditional picture tube (which I assume based on your price), you can't go wrong with the sony WEGA XBR's. I got the 36" for my parents a few years ago and it has lasted great. I think you may be able to get the 24 or 27 in that price range but I haven't checked. I personally have been looking at LCD projectors ... they have come done quite a bit in price and for around $1500, you can get a pretty good one that can project to around 9 feet diagonal!!!! Now there is NO TV that can compare to that, for that price!!!! The downside is you have to probably replace the bulb every year or so depending on how much you use it which could set you back around $250 easy, each time. But yah, I would either buy a high end plasma or LCD ($$$$), a projector ($$$), or a low end WEGA XBR for a small room ($). The other option you may think about is a good sized LCD for your PC that can take TV type input (RCA). So you can use it for the PC or switch to the game. This way, you'll save money instead of having to buy a good monitor AND a good tv.

http://www.ami-michelle.com/archives/laundry.JPG Here are two WU's worth of folding work.

You have to transform yourself from being lonely to being alone. Lonely can be a very debilitating thing. One can be lonely even when surrounded by many other people. Lonelyness is more often of a thing in our mind that our surroundings. I think once you learn to become comfortable with being alone and not feel lonely, then you have solved most of the problem! Because not being lonely when you are not alone is much easier than when you are alone So first thing would be not to worry about it too much. Find distractions, things to do, like a hobby, reading, traveling, surfing the web (forums like this can be great to get to talk to a lot of different people), watch TV, work out (this is one of my favorites). But most important of all, I think is to try to be comfortable with yourself. After all, as an old friend of mine once said, "I am the most interesting person I ever met".