Posts by The Postman

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Congrats Posty!Is this your first game?

roofles

Thanks for the 'grats! Keep an eye out for my pet TV-headed-demon...he so sexy!

Quote from FrieChamp

Didn't know it went gold yet, congrats. Any links to reviews?

http://%7boption%7d

Pretty good so far!

Yes yes, and make me money my pets!

http://%7boption%7d

The reviews and buzz are pretty good...

http://%7boption%7d

Oh my, you can click that link and buy it!

Quote from DaanO

Actually, math is defined so that it cannot possibly be wrong. It's a system that is always true. Doesn't say anything about stuff outside the system though. It's just a theory.

Math is defined so that it can't be wrong, unless your math involves fairy tales and stupid religious dogma and superstitious jumps of logic. Then it's not math, it's just dumb.

I'm gonna miss wacky pope

Dammit! She couldn't have held on for another day? 'Til 4pm? Argh! I wanted to win that death pool bet!

Quote from Euro*Brew

If you guys make your way over to http://www.godhatesfags.com that will show you that in fact the quake in thailand was because of God needing to kill all the sinners.Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people?! What pisses me off most about that website is that they are happy, HAPPY, that those people died. They are happy that these "sinners" were killed!!! How!?!? I just don't get it. It's time like this that makes me think I am a better Christian then they are, which is a huge shock since I am not even religious.

Euro*Brew

I love you Eurobrew.

Quote from RD

To test us... DOH U never thought about that?

This is such a cop-out bullshit answer. I suppose that the same reason he snuck all them fossils and such around too. Oh God, you so crazy!

The religious right that are up against her death need to seriously butt the hell out of peoples' private lives.

First and foremost the numbers on the original tsunami have been questioned, nor did they rest solidly at an even 300,000.

Secondly the death toll for the most recent quake has jumped far beyond 300.

Thirdly, this has nothing to do with "Christian" related rituals, since most of them are simply co-opted Germanic and pagan rituals anyhow. Unless Odin is coming back with Thor for Ragnarok in Southeast Asia.

To the 5 people that chose "omg a connection" all I have to say is: :roll:

Quote from RD

I could expand the matrix even further with the magnitudes and exact dates, but its now clear enough that this is beyond coincidence. It was rumored the first quake was a punishment from Allah for the sexual perversion in Thailand (childporn tourism). Other rumors had it the americans set off an underground nuclear explosion to divert attention from Iraq and Rumsfelds resignation crisis. Personally, i think it goes way deeper then both, it goes right to the highest powers.

This is such insane bullshit, even for you RD.

Suggestion, give me the ability to change idiot kings at a whim.

Also, can we have more tiny soaps in room 319? We were only given 2.

Quote from JonM

should keep her alive and charge people money to fuck her... thats what jesus would do...

You're my hero.

Seriously, she's not alive right now. She's brain dead, completely. Let her die.

Quote from DaanO

Well, i don't think it is a valid scientific theory, but who says things have to be scientifically proven to be true.

Believe what you want, but it has no place in a science classroom.

http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050323freedom.php

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Capitol bill aims to control ‘leftist’ profsTHE LAW COULD LET STUDENTS SUE FOR UNTOLERATED BELIEFS.

By JAMES VANLANDINGHAM

Alligator Staff Writer

TALLAHASSEE — Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida’s universities.

The Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, passed 8-to-2 despite strenuous objections from the only two Democrats on the committee.

The bill has two more committees to pass before it can be considered by the full House.

While promoting the bill Tuesday, Baxley said a university education should be more than “one biased view by the professor, who as a dictator controls the classroom,” as part of “a misuse of their platform to indoctrinate the next generation with their own views.”

The bill sets a statewide standard that students cannot be punished for professing beliefs with which their professors disagree. Professors would also be advised to teach alternative “serious academic theories” that may disagree with their personal views.

According to a legislative staff analysis of the bill, the law would give students who think their beliefs are not being respected legal standing to sue professors and universities.

Students who believe their professor is singling them out for “public ridicule” – for instance, when professors use the Socratic method to force students to explain their theories in class – would also be given the right to sue.

“Some professors say, ‘Evolution is a fact. I don’t want to hear about Intelligent Design (a creationist theory), and if you don’t like it, there’s the door,’” Baxley said, citing one example when he thought a student should sue.

Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, warned of lawsuits from students enrolled in Holocaust history courses who believe the Holocaust never happened.

Similar suits could be filed by students who don’t believe astronauts landed on the moon, who believe teaching birth control is a sin or even by Shands medical students who refuse to perform blood transfusions and believe prayer is the only way to heal the body, Gelber added.

“This is a horrible step,” he said. “Universities will have to hire lawyers so our curricula can be decided by judges in courtrooms. Professors might have to pay court costs — even if they win — from their own pockets. This is not an innocent piece of legislation.”

The staff analysis also warned the bill may shift responsibility for determining whether a student’s freedom has been infringed from the faculty to the courts.

But Baxley brushed off Gelber’s concerns. “Freedom is a dangerous thing, and you might be exposed to things you don’t want to hear,” he said. “Being a businessman, I found out you can be sued for anything. Besides, if students are being persecuted and ridiculed for their beliefs, I think they should be given standing to sue.”

During the committee hearing, Baxley cast opposition to his bill as “leftists” struggling against “mainstream society.”

“The critics ridicule me for daring to stand up for students and faculty,” he said, adding that he was called a McCarthyist.

Baxley later said he had a list of students who were discriminated against by professors, but refused to reveal names because he felt they would be persecuted.

Rep. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, argued universities and the state Board of Governors already have policies in place to protect academic freedom. Moreover, a state law outlining how professors are supposed to teach would encroach on the board’s authority to manage state schools.

“The big hand of state government is going into the universities telling them how to teach,” she said. “This bill is the antithesis of academic freedom.”

But Baxley compared the state’s universities to children, saying the legislature should not give them money without providing “guidance” to their behavior.

“Professors are accountable for what they say or do,” he said. “They’re accountable to the rest of us in society … All of a sudden the faculty think they can do what they want and shut us out. Why is it so unheard of to say the professor shouldn’t be a dictator and control that room as their totalitarian niche?”

In an interview before the meeting, Baxley said “arrogant, elitist academics are swarming” to oppose the bill, and media reports misrepresented his intentions.

“I expect to be out there on my own pretty far,” he said. “I don’t expect to be part of a team.”

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This is just sickening. "The Academic Freedom Bill of Rights," what a fucking misnomer - another case of the conservative right slamming the word "freedom" where it doesn't belong in along run of consistent abuse of the noble word. Whatever happened to simply debating an idea or I don't know, just disagreeing? Suing a professor because you don't believe in evolution is the intellectual coward's way out for people without the mental capacity to hold a real argument. It is time for the so-called "Left" to rise up and face some real challenges here. We've been real doormats lately and it's time to look these ugly brutes in the face and say "Enough is enough." For the sake of our country and the mind's of future generations, it is imperative that we do so.

Besides, aren't Republicans supposed to be for tort reform anyways?

Quote from von*ferret

it was just a spoof of what they think dragons would BE like

Kinda like that show they did on what future evolutions would look like. Silly geese, evolution is just a myth made up by the Godless commies. We're all made from dust and dinosaurs were all herbivores that ate mana from heaven.

My wallet is a condom.

To all that suggested I make high poly art all I can do is show you this nifty emoticon: :roll:

The chair was a helluva challenge simply because of the large flat areas it had and the organic shape of it that didn't lend itself well to being taken apart. I could've probably done a mirror-mesh on it in retrospect.

These were all just little time trials for myself because I was bored at work. Set my texture size limit at 256x256 and tried to get the models to look good at severely low poly. I also watched Battlestar Galactica while doing so, but that has no bearing on these ;D

Got bored, and have been making a lovely little set of old style furniture and such for me to practice modelling. I likes my little lamp the best.

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The picture is "The Fall" from "Paradise Lost."

The book is "The Prince" by Machiavelli which I am currently reading.

Ta ta!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ntanamo_dc

Update! Judge declares that these prisoners have rights. Victory for humanity and America!

Take care big guy. You'll find another job, I'm sure of it, you're a talented fella.

heh, looks like rotten leaves Phil.

Try and tone down the dark areas and contrast a bit.