Day: March 24, 2007

Computer talk. If you want something else, read on down the page.

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When it comes to computer displays, beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. I prefer CRTs over LCD screens for many reasons. Sure, I hate their bulk and weight and power requirements, but I’ve yet to see a LCD computer display that can give the kind of clear, crisp display of even low end CRTs. I set my refresh rates higher than their usual defaults (but still well within the monitor’s specs) and eliminate darned near all flicker, adjust color temps, keystoning, etc., and am pretty darned happy with the way my monitors treat my eyes.

So, when I was “bequeathed” a monitor recently (from a retired system) that was much larger than I usually use on my desk (real, physical) desktop, of course I plugged the sucker in to give it a whirl.

Nice–really nice–display, but I noticed something right away that gives me pause. My other monitors are “flat” CRT monitors. The actual screens are as flat as LCD screens, and the wonky curving and bending of straight lines that were the bane of older CRTs for years were never evident. This one, while yielding a lovely display, beautiful color values, great range of resolutions, has the older curved screen and no amount of tweaking and adjusting will eliminate the curves showing up, if only in the corners of the screen.

*sigh*

Oh, well, for all the other nice things (including letting me re-use a high-end BNC-connector cable I kept off a flat-screen IBM/NEC CRT that died), I guess I will live with it for a while on this computer. But I may well move it over to a fake Mac I want to “build” using Intel hardware and PC-BSD (well, the Mac OS X is just BSD with the Apple GUI front end), which has a really, really slick GUI and the best package installation process I’ve seen in an alternate OS. Besides, using a PC-BSD will give me what’s arguably the best of both PC and Mac worlds, and I can say to friends with their iMacs, “Oh, you’re using that proprietary straightjacket version of BSD?” *LOL*

Meanwhile, this monitor produces some of the crispest text I’ve seen, especially when I magnify a web page. Wow! Nice! Yeh, I guess now I can bump monitors down the line for a while.

Combatting false religions is a tricky task, but one false religion is both an easy target… and devilishly difficult to combat. One the one hand, it’s a phenominally easy target, because all its tenets are based on easily falsifiable lies. On the other hand, it is fiendishly hard to combat, because the Mass Media Podpeople’s Hivemind is its most ardent “believer” and because politicians *spit* are prime examples–as a class–of self-lobotomized idiots.

Of the many rational voices–and there are many–of people attempting to combat the evil (yes, “evil”–because its architects and chief priests and accolytes all know it is a lie, and the useful idiots who preach its teachings are all self-made idiots, wittingly turning a blind eye to the truth, even openly persecuting those who wish simply to discuss the facts) religion of Anthropocentric Global Warming, Orson Scott Card has done Truth a great service by succinctly summing up the case against AGW in All in a Good Cause

What matters right here and now is that it is time for the world’s scientists to apostatize from the Church of Global Warming. It is a false religion. It is based on lies, and its leading prophets know that it is because they’re the ones faking the data or stretching it to ridiculous lengths to pretend that the real world hasn’t already ruled against their claims.

Of course, real scientists are already doing all they can to right the lies of the Church of Anthropocentric Global warming, but because the reins of grant monies and publication are, for the most part, held by the cultists, real scientists are excoriated as heretics and shut out. what is needed is for those who are faking their data and cooking the books with their “experimental” procedures to repent their scientific sins and come clean with their colleagues and the world at large.

But I see a snowball’s chance in hell of that happening any time soon.

But, barring the unlikiely event of the chief priests and accolytes of the Church of Anthropocentric Global Warming repenting their many sins, it is left to those of us who see their evil for what it is to, like Card, speak the truth at every turn, to every person we can, hoping to stem their attempt to hasten the fall of night.

One problem I have skimming comment/trackback SPAM that really slows things down: I have to doublecheck all those SPAMa referring to “brutal rape sex” because it’s concievable that one could be a legitimate post about the life of Mohammed.

Seriously.

Oh. Well. I think I’ll just delete them all anyway. I already know too much about that lying brutal savage murdering rapist and pedophile, Mohammed.

Example:

From the Hadith:

Book 008, Number 3311:

‘A’isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) married her when she was seven years old, and she was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, and her dolls were with her; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old.

So, as The Sex Life of the Prophet puts it,

The girl took her dolls with her to Muhammad’s house (something to play with when the “prophet” was not having sex with her).

TMI.

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Mohammed, Islam