the knicks trade the brazillian kid who could be a great power forward and camby for mcdyess. mcdyess has the same numbers as camby but he is 2 inches shorter. what a salary dump thier draft was. they got no help at all. they suck!! i hereby revoke my allegiance to the knicks and give my allegiance to the team that drafted dunleavy. GO WARRIORS!!

You shouldn't make it to 20 you little scumbag. Have a nice day!

gay sex?

well? tell me

At my office, we have an employee of the month parking space. There hasn't been an employee of the month appointed in the last 8 months or so. So, some people have been parking in the space. HR put out an e-mail stating that this space, and all marked spaces, were not to be used by employees.

At a workmate's children's school, nobody is allowed to have peanut butter because one kid is allergic.

There are laws mandating that it is illegal to talk on your celly in the car while driving. But, there is not law about reading the newspaper, shaving, or putting on makeup while driving.
(Ok, there is a law that covers all of it, it's called "Careless Driving - operating a motor vehicle without due care and caution")

What rules and regs drive you bonkers?

At my office, we have an employee of the month parking space. There hasn't been an employee of the month appointed in the last 8 months or so. So, some people have been parking in the space. HR put out an e-mail stating that this space, and all marked spaces, were not to be used by employees.

At a workmate's children's school, nobody is allowed to have peanut butter because one kid is allergic.

There are laws mandating that it is illegal to talk on your celly in the car while driving. But, there is not law about reading the newspaper, shaving, or putting on makeup while driving.
(Ok, there is a law that covers all of it, it's called "Careless Driving - operating a motor vehicle without due care and caution")

What rules and regs drive you bonkers?

i am going going through this and it sucks. you should check this out. It will save you trouble later, trust me.
Prevent strokes in the young



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Scientists mix spiders with goats
23jun02

LONDON: As comic book hero Spider-Man fills cinemas with his webby adventures, prepare to meet an equally astonishing creation - Spidergoat.

Scientists have combined the DNA from a goat and spider to create an animal which produces silk that is five times stronger than steel. The fibre, derived from the goats' milk, harnesses the huge strength of silk spun by spiders.

The breakthrough could be worth millions because the silkmilk fibre can be used to make body armour which is far tougher than normal bullet-proof vests – while weighing little more than a cotton shirt.

The hybrid goats were created by the insertion of a single gene from an orb-weaving spider into a fertilised goat egg.

The amazing genetically-engineered goats are outwardly normal, but carry the gene responsible for production of a spider silk protein. Each goat is only 1/70,000th spider, but when fully grown the females produce a milk which can be treated to produce a fibre with spider-silk strength.

The animals are believed to be the first commercially-viable creatures made from the DNA of two species.

Nexia, the Canadian biotech company which produced the goats, hopes the fibre – dubbed Biosteel – could take a large chunk of the billion-dollar market in industrial fibres.



Now this is fucking unbelievable. When will they stop fucking with mother nature??? They're gonna keep pushing and pushing till they end up with something really scary and mankind is gonna be fucked.

The majority of the time nobody posts anything and threads remain relatively stagnant all day long. Then arpi comes along and posts some dumb ass thread about nothing and it's the most active thread on this board. What gives?

No I'm not jealous, I just don't want to rely on arpi's posts to keep me interested and posting.

I haven't posted an article in awhile and this is actually an interesting topic.

Quote:Pledge Ruled Unconstitutional
Wed Jun 26, 3:10 PM ET
By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For the first time ever, a federal appeals court declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional Wednesday because of the words "under God" added by Congress in 1954.

The ruling, if allowed to stand, means schoolchildren can no longer recite the pledge, at least in the nine Western states covered by the court.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ( news - web sites) said the phrase amounts to a government endorsement of religion in violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which requires a separation of church and state.

"A profession that we are a nation `under God' is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation `under Jesus,' a nation `under Vishnu,' a nation `under Zeus,' or a nation `under no god,' because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion," Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the three-judge panel.

The government had argued that the religious content of "one nation under God" is minimal.

But the appeals court said that an atheist or a holder of certain non-Judeo-Christian beliefs could see it as an endorsement of monotheism.

The 9th Circuit covers Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state. Those are the only states directly affected by the ruling.

However, the ruling does not take effect for several months, to allow further appeals. The government can ask the court to reconsider, or take its case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The case was brought by Michael A. Newdow, a Sacramento atheist who objected because his second-grade daughter was required to recite the pledge at the Elk Grove school district. A federal judge had dismissed his lawsuit.

"I'm an American citizen. I don't like my rights infringed upon by my government," he said in an interview. Newdow called the pledge a "religious idea that certain people don't agree with."

The appeals court said that when President Eisenhower signed the legislation inserting "under God" after the words "one nation," he wrote that "millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty."

The court noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has said students cannot hold religious invocations at graduations and cannot be compelled to recite the pledge. But when the pledge is recited in a classroom, a student who objects is confronted with an "unacceptable choice between participating and protesting," the appeals court said.

"Although students cannot be forced to participate in recitation of the pledge, the school district is nonetheless conveying a message of state endorsement of a religious belief when it requires public school teachers to recite, and lead the recitation of, the current form of the pledge," the court said.