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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
Postcount	7968
Homepage	http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/
Registered	Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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You can do anything if you set your mind to it. in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, March 6 2007 15:13 Profile Homepage #6 If that electricity quote is real, it's pretty damning. In fact, if just about any of those quotes are real and not taken from some sort of incredibly exhonerating context, the book is a load of garbage. I don't like passing judgment on something quite that easily, but there it is. And I've never liked Oprah at all. [ Tuesday, March 06, 2007 15:13: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Jeff Really hates RPGS>?!? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, March 5 2007 22:08 Profile Homepage #16 It says something that Apple's page for BoA is better than Spidweb's page for BoA. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Exodus - Great!! ... but I have some frustrations in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, March 5 2007 21:56 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by Archie Goodwin: I had just one ally left - he just gave me some gold Aha — that's why. In retrospect, this was probably a dumb idea, and I'll change it for a new version (coming soon!). -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, March 5 2007 13:43 Profile Homepage #94 quote: Originally written by Protocols of the Elders of Zion: All it does is bind you to a document that claims pi is 3, the earth is flat, bats are a bird, and polycotton is an abomination. The first two are good approximations in certain limits, the third is fine by me, and the last is indisputable. :P -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Exodus - Great!! ... but I have some frustrations in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, March 5 2007 13:19 Profile Homepage #1 1. Nothing you can do about this. You've already passed it. 2. (EDIT: Ah, I see the problem. I'll upload a fix, but what you have to do is manually set the SDF. Using the character editor, set the flag (13,2) to the value 2. That is, with the advanced features, enter 13 2 2 when you change an SDF. Be sure to back up your file when you do this.) 3. I have to check this, but if I remember correctly, you don't get the reward if every one of your allies dies in the battle. [ Monday, March 05, 2007 14:07: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, March 5 2007 06:23 Profile Homepage #89 quote: Originally written by Now with Real Cheese: —Alorael, who has said elsewhere and maintains here that there's no need to prepend the secular. There's no need to ponder/consider the secular? I am a little at a loss as to what you mean, here. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, March 4 2007 21:08 Profile Homepage #85 quote: Originally written by Excalibur: Really, if God is an all-powerful being, then he could control what humans say he said. So if you believe in God, why don't you believe in the Bible. Such a god is clearly not interested in controlling everything that humans say that he said, because humans say completely contradictory things about what he said. Therefore, it's hard to say on those grounds alone that the Bible is better than any other written work in terms of God's word. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Zimbabwe. in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, March 4 2007 21:03 Profile Homepage #17 quote: Originally written by Calphrexo: For another, the information you may be taught might be incorrect or possibly interpreted in a different way. In other words, don't believe anything you ever learn from any source? :P EDIT: There is a way in which that is reasonable (don't believe it, just learn it as the best information you have at the moment), but that's another issue. [ Sunday, March 04, 2007 21:04: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
turn based strategy for BoA in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, March 4 2007 20:58 Profile Homepage #2 quote: Originally written by Enraged Slith: For instance you can give "Group 1" the order to "Attack Strongest," meaning they would each target the enemy with the most current HP, or you could order them to "Attack Leader," meaning they would go for the "leader." Aha! I had thought about how to do something like this before, but this particular way of doing things had never occurred to me. I like it. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
New Cold War US-Russia? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, March 4 2007 07:12 Profile Homepage #25 I'm under the impression that modern nuclear plants don't really have meltdowns except under conditions of incredibly severe neglect. We've come a long way from Three Mile Island (which, by the way, was costly and annoying, but — if Wikipedia is to be believed — not harmful to any people, particularly). -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, March 3 2007 23:46 Profile Homepage #73 For the record, that bit of John has much more to do with Stoic philosophy than with Biblical infallibility. In Greek it makes a bunch more sense and doesn't sound like a bunch of garbage, especially when you consider that logos (the "word" word, which doesn't mean word at all) was a powerfully charged philosophical word at the time. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, March 2 2007 21:23 Profile Homepage #54 quote: Originally written by Dintiradan: A flurry of councils sprang up in the fourth century (and a few sporadic ones before) debating which books belonged to the canon (I could have sworn that determining which books were canon was on the agenda for the First Council of Nicea, but Wikipedia doesn't agree. We can strike Wikipedia from the list of infallable resources :P ). The best scholar I've heard talking about this (Anthony Long at Cal) said that the canon wasn't established until the Renaissance. I can't speak from my own knowledge, but as I understood it, while the early councils were concerned with stamping out heresy (and therefore eliminating Gnostic gospels), there were some fringe books that they didn't specifically condemn or include, and those books weren't ruled upon until fairly recently. quote: You don't have to believe the legend of seventy-two scholars producing identical versions of the Septuagint in seventy-two days to realize that preserving the old manuscripts was a priority back then too. Ach, textual transmission in the classical period. This is one of my interests, and it's a heck of a topic. The Bible is a little beyond my field of study, but what I've read suggests that while the Greek New Testament's textual status is not bad, all things considered, the exceedingly large number of manuscripts with incredible numbers of minor variations makes even assessing the situation daunting. Islam presents an interesting, different take on this issue. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Oh, Happy Day! in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, March 2 2007 21:07 Profile Homepage #7 [insert snide remark here] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Hypothetical Greek Weapons of Mass Destruction Suck in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, March 2 2007 21:04 Profile Homepage #47 quote: Originally written by Disastromere: —Alorael, who should know better than to pour oil on flames. In fact, he should know better than to click Add Reply now. Fortunately, life is an endless series of learning experiences. Maybe next time. If the previous 13250 times didn't teach you, maybe this one will. :P -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
1/10 Judging in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, March 2 2007 06:24 Profile Homepage #6 Did that lead anyone else to a really bad visual place? -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Hypothetical Greek Weapons of Mass Destruction Suck in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, March 1 2007 22:05 Profile Homepage #41 Marcelo: I'll forgive your mis-reading because you're reading in a foreign language, but note the word "only." You're wrong near the top of this page, and your reference to "euphemisms" is nonsensical. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, March 1 2007 20:41 Profile Homepage #43 Piece of wood (or former living material), I meant. Dammit, I'm off today. In any case, I had a pretty good rant about the so-called lack of evidence for evolution here. Gaps in the fossil record are not evidence of anything. The very presence of order in the fossil record is almost indisputable proof that evolution is very, very real. [ Thursday, March 01, 2007 20:47: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, March 1 2007 19:51 Profile Homepage #41 I'm not a nuclear engineer or anything (cough), but I'm informed that C-14 dating has problems when samples are contaminated with organic material somehow. That is, you don't want to rub your hands all over a very thin rock if you want to use C-14 dating on it afterwards to determine the rock's age. Nor do you want to inject some bacteria all throughout the rock's interior. However, as Alo said, that's usually not a problem here with the standard date of the Earth, because the rocks usually aren't contaminated, and people don't use C-14 dating to go back that far anyway. Gah, when I do some planetary astrophysics later on, I'll be able to talk more about how we know that the Earth is as old as it is. I can say a little (a very little) about how we know the age of the universe, but not as much about the Earth. [ Thursday, March 01, 2007 19:58: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, March 1 2007 18:23 Profile Homepage #37 There's another term that people are butchering in this discussion, and I think it's worth discussing for a moment, because my Thermo class put it into serious perspective. It's the concept of "infinity." There's a huge conceptual difference between "extremely large but finite" (as in the size of the universe, the number of stars in the universe, the probable number of planets in the universe, the age of the universe, etc.) and "actually infinite." Given a number that is extremely large but finite, there is some limit to the craziness that can ensue. Given infinity, total chaos can break out. For example, it is commonly suggested that monkey typing randomly on typewriters would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. There is a definite probability of hitting the proper keystrokes in the proper order. Neglecting capital letters and punctuation, but including spaces, we can say that there are twenty-seven possible options for each keystroke, and the complete text of Hamlet has well over 100,000 such keystrokes. The probability of getting 100,000 right keystrokes in a row is 1 in 26^100000, which is approximately 1 in 10^141,000. Now, if we take a billion monkeys at a billion typewriters, each typing at a hundred words per minute (which we can estimate as 600 keystrokes per minute or 10 per second), the number of keystrokes these monkeys would have typed in the age of the universe (approximately 14 billion years) is 4.4 * 10^27. Sadly, 10^27 pales in comparison to 10^141,000. The odds of these monkeys producing even a sizable fraction of Hamlet is unfathomably small. Let's try this again with just one monkey at just one typewriter and have him hunt and peck at a more feasible one word per minute (or one keystroke every ten seconds), but let's give the little monkey an infinite amount of time to work. The monkey will produce the complete works of Shakespeare, no question. It definitely will happen. We go from a probability of unimagineably small to a probably of 100% just like that. That's the power of infinity. So don't talk about things as infinite unless they actually are. EDIT: There is, also, a similar problem in really huge numbers. It's hard to remember, when we get up in the high orders of magnitude, that a billion is so much bigger than a million that it makes a million look like nothing. It's really hard to conceptualize "a million years." Common sense may revolt at the idea that evolution really can create such enormous complexity, but then common sense also can't really handle a million years, much less a billion. But again, this discussion isn't really a question of evidence. [ Thursday, March 01, 2007 19:07: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Hypothetical Greek Weapons of Mass Destruction Suck in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, March 1 2007 16:18 Profile Homepage #25 quote: Originally written by Excalibur: Anyways, the U.S. is the only nation to have ever used weapons of mass destruction. Not true. The U.S. is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in a war. The phrase "weapons of mass destruction" usually includes biological and chemical weapons as well, and other countries have definitely used those (including, famously, Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War). -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
[Insert Dumb Joke Here] in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, March 1 2007 07:21 Profile Homepage #84 quote: Originally written by Nemesis.: quote: Originally written by The Dikiyora: It's pretty darn funny when "Your mom!" insults come from a full-blooded sibling, though. :P Agreed. My brother and I do it all the time. It is far stranger when they are said by your own mother. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, March 1 2007 07:08 Profile Homepage #25 SoT: Whoops. I knew that. I think I forgot that I had said "special relativity" right after I said it. :P -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
On the Road to Weapons of Mass Destruction in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, February 28 2007 22:39 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Originally written by Excalibur: 10. It's called the Theory of Evolution. A theory is a theory, but not a fact. The rest of what you've said is pretty openly wrong, but I won't bother to contradict it, because there's no point. This is not a debate that either side can win, because evidence is not the issue. However, this statement is one that is worth talking about, because it's based on a common mis-conception. When scientists talk about a "theory," they don't mean a theory as the term is casually used (as essentially synonymous with the word "idea": "I've got a theory that the reason that socks disappear in the dryer is that there are little gnomes that steal them"). A "theory" in science is not a fact; it's far more than a fact, and it should be respected as such. A fact is a single data point: when I did this, that happened. A fact can be dismissed as a fluke. A theory says, "Whenever I do this, that happens." A theory is based on a wealth of experimental evidence, not just a single fact, and the use of the term "theory" does not imply that the idea is purely hypothetical and not demonstrated; it implies that it is so incredibly well-demonstrated that it has moved beyond disbelief. For example, Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity is "just a theory," but it has been confirmed by experiment over and over again. There are still arguments in the details — how it interacts with quantum mechanics can sometimes be problematic — but the overall picture is undoubtedly correct. To rewrite relativity would require ignoring virtually all of twentieth-century physics. The Theory of Evolution is on comparable standing. It has been corroborated by data from all sorts of areas, and it is so well confirmed that to try to undo it would require deleting virtually all the evidence in twentieth-century biology. There are still some arguments in the details, but the overall picture must be true. Evolution is not a fact at all; it is a theory, so it cannot be easily dismissed. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Hypothetical thoughts in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, February 28 2007 22:00 Profile Homepage #69 quote: Originally written by Randomizer: Hebrew always had native speakers, it just ceased to be the primary language of any region. I will admit that I'm rather out of my element outside the Indo-European languages, but as far as I know, you're just completely wrong. Hebrew was not anyone's native language from somewhere in late antiquity to about the nineteenth century. People could read it and write it, but it was not anyone's first language. quote: Latin had even less people that spoke it for centuries after the Catholic church changed the Mass to local languages. And Latin hasn't had any native speakers since the Early Middle Ages. But we could define "people who spoke Latin" loosely, here, and that would make what you're saying true. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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