@"Sandman"
For the last time, you mooks, just because you believe something does not automatically make it true! For example, I believe Mr. Crippla is, in reality, a cat walking over random keys on the keyboard who just happened to hit SUBMIT when he got to the other side, but that doesn't make it true.
You might be interested to know that there is actually a program in existence called "Pawsense", whose job is to monitor the keyboard in case the computer owner's cat starts pressing keys walking across it. Scientific American contained an interesting piece on this - it was the result of one programmer's cat managing to press a key sequence that somehow managed to uninstall some software whilst walking over the keyboard. Once installed, Pawsense looks for key sequences that do not resemble meaningful typing, and bear more resemblance to a cat walking across the keyboard. If it detects meaningful key presses, it passes them on to waiting applications, but if it detects gibberish, it pops up a big dialogue box, plays a scary sound through the computer speakers (presumably to scare the living crap out of the cat) and displays the legend:
CAT LIKE TYPING DETECTED!
It then refuses to let the computer be used any further until the genuine human user clicks upon the OK button with the mouse (and does not accept keyboard shortcuts for this either - just in case the cat happens to press keyboard shortcut keys for GUI events whilst scooting away from the scary noise).
Basically, CAT LIKE TYPING DETECTED! sums up much of the output of the more stupid fundies.
Incidentally, I once had a pet budgerigar that learned to press the keys on the keyboard with its beak. It discovered that the CAPS LOCK key on my keyboard had an LED which lit up and then dimmed again when the key was pressed repeatedly, and making the LED light up and go off amused my budgerigar no end. Screwed up some of my typing at times, but then I tend to be indulgent toward cute pets. Later, this budgerigar learned that the other keys could be pressed to. If the less than happy consequences of allowing budgie droppings to fall between the keys hadn't been an important factor, I'd have experimented with the idea of letting him walk over the keyboard long enough to see if he produced a meaningful English word or two. Attaching bird cheeping sounds to key press events proved to be hilarious one day ... :)
Sadly, the budgie in question is no more. As John Cleese might put it, he is an ex-budgie. But while he was alive, he demonstrated more intelligence in his claw clippings than this particular fundie will ever be capable of manifesting.
