Secular Café Archive

Funny how when the Puritans colonized New England they strictly believed that marriage was a civil function and not a religious one. Marriage was conducted and established by the civil authorities.

Or sometimes the writers. Like a parsec is not a speed but a specific distance. Love seeing Star wars fans try to explain that away. Or how they can go across a galaxy at 1.5 light speed..... Next to Star Wars, Trek at lease tried to base stiff in some science. The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle...

Thanks to this reminder I deleted all my photos from PhotoBucket and deleted my account. Since I got tired of posting wildlife photos I haven't searched for an alternative. I do occasionally post wildlife photos on a Birdforum but I can use the attachment feature there. I hope PhotoBucket goes out o...

Bumping this thread reminds me to go in and delete my photos. They don't work here any more so far as I can tell. I don't want Photobucket claiming joint copyright on my pictures as non professional as they may be.

[quote=""lpetrich""] I must say that some of Star Trek's technology seems less than impressive to me. Like the communicator. We've had walkie-talkies since World War II, and cellphones have gradually been developed since then. I have a very low-end cellphone, but it remembers pho...

[quote=""Jobar""] Hi and welcome, Dr. Z. I think I've interacted with you a few times at TF. No definite plans have been made, but we may try some sort of merger with TF in the next year or so. This board has been getting less active for some while, and when DMB, one of our found...

[quote=""Jobar""]Hi and welcome, Dr. Z. I think I've interacted with you a few times at TF. No definite plans have been made, but we may try some sort of merger with TF in the next year or so. This board has been getting less active for some while, and when DMB, one of our founde...

We watched the 3rd episode this evening. The kids liked it. I didn't. Not star trek at all. No likeable charachers except perhaps the ensign room mate. A lot of the characters were dinks.

I expect that because the kids like it we will watch every episode but so far I don't like it.

[quote=""Peanut""]Crazyfingers, do you have Babylon 5?
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I don't. I have heard lots of good stuff about it but never did get up the interest to buy a season of DVDs. You think that I should?

[quote=""MattShizzle""]The only ones I have watched every episode are TOS (I think - I'm assuming over years of watching it in syndication I've seen them all. I wasn't born when it aired) and Enterprise. I missed the first season or so of TNG. I saw most of DS9 and maybe half of ...

Why were they pronouncing Sarek, Serek?

I'll preface my comments by first saying that I've been a Trekker since Star Trek TOS was first aired. I was 6 years old and my dad watched it and so did I. I have all the DVDs. I loved TNG and recorded every episode on VHS when it aired. I also recorded every episode of Voyager when they came out. ...

I'm expecting that pretty soon all of the photos I posted in the wildlife topic will be gone as Photobucket appears to now require paymemt for posting photos on discussion boards. Never mind that I was payimg them when I posted them. I read on another board that the minthly charge to allow continued...

The photo in the link in the OP is not the ship in question. The photo in the link is actually the USS Midway CV-41, new class of WWII fleet carrier that followed the Essex class carriers. The Midway was 45K tons. The story is about the USS Card, which was an escort carrier and only 7.8K tons. A ver...

[quote=""Worldtraveller""]Have you looked into just getting a dropbox or google drive? They are both comparable in terms of cost for a terabyte. If you're selling (or interested in selling) really hi rez pics or prints of pics, then Smugmug is the way to go.[/quote] I have Dropbo...

[quote=""MattShizzle""]And recently they stopped allowing it to be used to host pics for posting elsewhere unless you pay some ridiculous amount.[/quote] The only purpose I have for something like Photobucket is for posting photos at places like this. At least it looks like they ...

[quote=""sohy""]If he hates being president so much, why is he already campaigning for his second term?[/quote] I don't think that he's campaigning for his second term. I think that he's holding pep rallies to boost his own ego. But If my observations are correct, his crowds are ...

So I thought I'd chime in here. I've been here in Japan this week and into next week. In my 26 years of visiting Japan, politics has never come up before in my client meetings. But this year is different. My clients are senior level divisional managers at many of the big name Japanese tech firms. Un...

Trumps comment only again demonstrates his 1: absolute self-centeredness and 2: lack of awareness of both distant and recent history.

Seems to me that Pence is just as much a hard core right wing everything as Trump has been behaving. Regardless of what if any real principles Trump may have, which I suspect he had not, his behavior though appointments and executive orders have been at least as hard right wing as Pence would be. Wi...

[quote=""DMB""]I've never had to pay for Photobucket. :confused: [/quote] To upload more than a few photos at once you need to pay. In the wildlife topic I would post a few dozen at a time. Can't do that with a free account. In reseaching services I came on a note that warned tha...

I have been using and paying for a Photobucket account but have now stopped. Over Xmas time they kept spamming me with Christian oriented offers. So I unsubscribed to their emails. But they kept spamming me. I unsubscribed again. The spam kept coming. So I have stopped paying for a photobucket accou...

[quote=""DMB""] In high school i read a ton of Ayn Rand's stuff and was libertarian. That was the 1970s. Enter college and i shed the whole free market part of libertarian and progressively moved left despite getting an MBA degree. Been moving left ever since. Certainly left of m...

In high school i read a ton of Ayn Rand's stuff and was libertarian. That was the 1970s. Enter college and i shed the whole free market part of libertarian and progressively moved left despite getting an MBA degree. Been moving left ever since. Certainly left of most Democrats. I view the Republican...

This is my annual post on first hearing of spring peepers.