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Think it isn't possible? Think people cannot do that? Think it's ludicrous? If so, I feel very sorry for you because you are really missing out. Cool story. You can just look to the countries that legally forbid sex before marriage to see what an awesome culture we would have. Don't forget to add &...

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I managed to help over a dozen websites redirect to http://protestsopa.org/. The White House has given a nod to the people and says "no" the the current legislation. There are already dropping provisions left and right, but it's not enough. People need to call their representatives tomorro...

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I knew a Buddhist who did the index card under the plastic cup trick to throw cockroaches back out into the backyard. Add another Buddhist to the list. I lived in a lightly infested apartment with roaches ranging from small to thumb-sized. I never killed a single one. I did, however, catch a few a ...

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I just thought of an awesome solution to the abortion problem. We should change all the laws so women can give a baby up for adoption before it's born. All the people who want to save babies can take all the fetuses and raise them until parents are found. Everyone wins! No more abortions!

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What about the right to life? I see it as immoral to snuff out someone else's future to save your own... So you are equally against all war and you're a vegetarian who is actively against cruelty to animals? Or is the immorality of killing another to save yourself arbitrary, based on the shifting-s...

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Sergeant Thorne wrote:Because people in support of abortion like to call it merely part of a woman's body? Not good enough for me.

Too bad. If it's inside and attached to a person, guess what? It's part of that person no matter how much you want it to not be. Reality man, take a drink.

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If we are gonna allow the destruction of our offspring, the very kindest thing you can do for someone is to educate them to exactly what they are doing. No one is preventing the abortion, but it shouldn't be as easy a decision as gettting a flu shot either. You don't give women enough credit man. A...

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I heard it too. This was actually what he said: Cool, thanks for finding that for me as my lackluster, half-hearted search failed to produce it. I'll use it against my friend who is on the "obsessed" side with his feelings for Ron Paul, haha. Nothing beats a Paul supporter trying to "...

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This thread is going to be awesome.

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My question is this: If someone claims to be for much smaller, less intrusive government, how does that square with a government telling a citizen they have to have an unnecessary medical test performed, and ordering physicians to perform unnecessary medical testing? I'd like to see a link to his q...

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Awesome. Bookmarked.

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Wow, kick-ass. Combining my two favorite things: Descent and Tron. That's awesome. Note: This is also a good place for a cross-link.

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how do the novels account for this kind of source material.... You're right, the D3 story is pretty wack. The novels handle the whole thing completely different through the introduction of several secondary characters, each with different relationships between Dravis, Suzuki, Harper, and Sweitzer. ...

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The fact that NONE of the other artificially created elements have been found anywhere else but in a lab even goes to support that. Actually, I think that means none of these artificially made elements are regularly "leaking out" to contaminate the planet, and the two we did find likely g...

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I too have been seriously annoyed with Google and their crazy new browser hanging "features." I've turned most of them off. I use Duck Duck Go for some basic search, then use Google/Bing/Whatever for other, deeper searches if I need to. At one point I was using Yebol, but damn it was alway...

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No dude you are and it's laid out so simply. You are told over and over in so many ways that the only existence of neptunium that is on earth is produced artificially and that 2 of them actually migrated out into the surrounding matter. It's your conditioning that prevents you from seeing it. LOLWU...

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carmatic wrote:i still dont understand how can anyone write a novel based on the Descent universe...

Not just one novel, but three! They are entertaining too. A lot of embellishment, but ties in perfectly with the Descent framework.

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One of the goals of science is to make explanations simple and elegant. The complexity of math in today's advanced formulas doesn't just bother you, also bothers scientists. Einstein knew Relativity wasn't the total explanation of phenomenon. That's why he worked, literally to his dying breath, on a...

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Never have I seen anyone so fervently use the product of science and technology to refute the value of science and technology. I guess it's convenient to accept scientific and technological tools like computers and the Internet when used for the purpose of reinforcing confirmation bias, but not when...

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I hereby declare myself a subductionist. I believe in the theory of subduction. Being the very first subductionist, I hope to spread awareness of subduction and counter the claims that an intelligent designer made mountains and oceanic trenches, and this same intelligent agent continues to influence...

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ev·o·lu·tion·ist [ev-uh-loo-shuh-nist or, especially Brit., ee-vuh-] noun 1. a person who believes in or supports a theory of evolution, especially in biology. Ugh, soooo stupid that they made an entry for that. Makes no sense and is a sad sign of our culture. Notice there is no "gavitationi...

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I think a lot of scientists would love for dinosaur fossils to be a couple thousand or even a couple hundred years old because that would mean a greater possibility that some dinosaurs aren't extinct! I mean, how cool would that be? I would gladly give up the knowledge that dinosaurs lived >65millio...

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::chuckles:: I keep hearing things about the universal speed limit being proven wrong. I already have my doubts about much of Einstein's theory. You should doubt his theory. I don't see why anyone wouldn't doubt it. Einstein himself doubted it. Relativity is not the final word. There is always goin...

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It's so amusing how religious people will go to such great lengths to pick apart scientific theories in order to find fault, then dismiss a whole universe of scientific discovery based on small inconsistencies. But those same people gloss over major inconsistencies in their own religious beliefs. He...

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Oh right. The 99.9% certainty you can get from science isn't good enough for some people. They need the 100% they get from their own uncompromising convictions. That's cool, as long as you never waver in your ability to block out anything but your own opinion.

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It is my understanding that simple multiplication is not all that is taking place in carbon dating. Your time machine is fueled by assumptions. You like assumptions, right? ;) Just have a look at the bit about calibration in radiocarbon dating on wikipedia. Oh I'm well aware of that. But it seems l...

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You can watch cold water boil in front of you. You can't get into a time machine and travel 4 billion years in the past to observe the creation of the world. Conjecture is pointless when you go back that far. And in my opinion, carbon dating is bull****. You can watch isotopes decay in front of you...

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2) The Bible is historically reliable... except for when it isn't. The universe created in 6 days, the Tower of Babel, the worldwide flood... most people no longer see this as historical. Any takers on the Exodus from Egypt? I'd like to hear what evidence you have to dispute any one of those topics...

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Say, that is really nice.

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That's totally awesome. I want Einstein to be wrong. I want things to go faster than light so we can learn more about the universe. I want results that make it possible for me to visit a star or another galaxy. Imagine how awesome a new understanding of the universe would be if General Relativity tu...

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...still waiting on that 2000 year old definition of consciousness. I was really intrigued by the possibility of a biblical definition since I've never heard one existed (well, I never came across one when I read the bible).

And I guess there does seem to bit of science-phobia here.

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you have no answers either and your prejudices prevent one from being found. I find plenty of answers to life's mysteries through skeptical reasoning and scientific inquiry. They might not be absolute answers, but they are categorically better than "god did it." To me, the default religio...

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We're talking about morality, not decision making and as far as free-will goes, no explanation needed. Everybody knows what free-will is. ITell me, did you consciously exercise your free will today by making the moral decision not to kill someone? I'm assuming you didn't kill anyone today or any ot...

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They, over all other animals in this world have developed a sense of morality and the free-will to choose. Well actually, as more and more research is done it's starting to look like 1) many animals are capable of the "higher" decision-making we used to attribute only to humans and 2) we ...

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Nice. Yesterday I found out my system might have been compromised with malicious ware. Since I was planning on upgrading, I decided to check out Ubuntu 11x with Unity. My god, it was terrible. Then I checked out a few other distros like Xubuntu and Fedora. But the Linux I was most drawn to was Mint,...

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Congratulations on D2! i dont understand something, Dravis sounded like he was worried about the player over the radio, yet in the opening of D3 he is portrayed as the main villain. It is interesting. I'm sure someone else has a better explanation but my opinion is that Dravis' apparent change of ch...

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callmeslick wrote:What does strike me is that you, and others, at times get WAY too defensive for foks with unshakable faith. Just sayin'.......

Built-in persecution complex. Programmed in a seriously Pavlovian way through the doctrine and surrounding culture. So much for free will.

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The terminal has text drawn cartoon character. Not sure why. It's just trying to be a nice OS for day-to-day work. Fortune. Yeah, the little quotes and characters are kind of neat. At first I was annoyed, like, "wth why are you wasting my time with this!" But then later I was like, "...

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snoopy wrote:...but I'm pointing out that it's inconsistent to claim atheism also claim that God is evil.

Well yeah that, and you can't call something that doesn't exist evil. So it's not inconsistent, it just doesn't make sense.

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snoopy wrote:Wow.

Wow.

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