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Unless you're going to interject some supernatural force -- always assumed on faith, never evidence -- then, yes, physics can explain things. But, there is a huge leap from understanding physices (what is understood) and presuming that a comprehensive model can be developed of a system with tetra volumes of information.

People often mistake that volume as the supernatural. Any presumption of something superior is just god of the gaps, of which the whole solipsism thing is just a godless version.

Solipsism is a cannard which can be exposed by simply asking why a solipsist needs to ask others how they can prove they exist. Or that you need a language (and need to speak/write it proficiently enough to be understood) begs the idea that everything is brain container contents. No, the physical world is real.

There is just as significant a leap of logic and faith to presume that because you cannot directly experience the thoughts of others (you can directly experience the world, that's what nerves are all about) that none save yourself actually exist.

Here's an experiment you can do to prove beyond a shadow that the world exists. Take yourself, a chair, a hammer and a not-so-good friend; sit with your eyes closed imagining a benign world as your not-so munches the back of your skull with said hammer. You will no longer argue the idea that the world is simply some mental construct of yours. Easy.

I believe the only important division here is the "geek" and "non geek" classes. Our current society is ever more at the mercy of "technocrats" of all walks of life, encrusted in every field, and I'm afraid there only so much lordering that can be done over us, for we hold all the keys, all the usable knowledge, we are, for all intents and purposes, like the academia, privilegded a priori, unlike our current ruling classes. We are all noble scoundrels, in our godlessness divided not so much by morality but by circumstance, and as such it is unlikely leading geeks under one banner, but unwiser to exclude them from dream of class mobility and their pipe dream of a Star Trek reality. /me lays down the pipe.

Organized e-crime is what we're talking about here. e-organized crime is mobsters using Blackberries to arrange hits.

Except the "godless" who were put to death.

I believe (although I'm not at home to test this) that the 360 audio player works much like a CD player - holding down the track forward button will FF and track back will rewind.

Ever wonder what life would be like in a world where atheism was the dominant religion? Wonder no more! Thanks to newly discovered Prayer Technologies we can glimpse into what life would be like in a godless world.
Let's take a look:

ATHIEST KID: Mom, I'm going to go fuck a hooker.
ATHIEST MOM: Okay, son.
ATHIEST KID: Afterwards, I'm going to go smoke pot with my friends, since it's "not addictive."
ATHIEST MOM: Okay, come home soon!

The athiest kid leaves the room. The father comes home from work several minutes later.

ATHIEST DAD: Hey!
ATHIEST MOM: Hi, honey! I'm pregnant again. I guess I'll just get another abortion, since "fetuses don't count as human life."
ATHIEST DAD: Okay, get as many abortions as you want!
ATHIEST MOM: Oh, and don't go in the bedroom.
ATHIEST DAD: Why not?
ATHIEST MOM: There are two gay men fucking eachother in there.
ATHIEST DAD: Why are they here?
ATHIEST MOM: I wanted to watch them do it for awhile. They just aren't finished yet.
ATHIEST DAD: Okay, that's fine with me!

Suddenly, their neighbor runs into the house.

ATHIEST NEIGHBOR: Come quick, there's a Christian outside!
ATHIEST MOM: We'll be right there!

The athiest couple quickly put on a pair of black robes and hoods. They then exit the house, and run into the street, where a Christian is nailed to a large, wooden X. He is being burned alive. A crowd of athiests stand around him, all wearing black robes and hoods.

RANDOM ATHIEST: Damn you, Christian! We hate you! We claim to be tolerant of all religions. But we really hate your's! That's because we athiests are hypocritical like that! Die, Christian!

THE END

Scary, isn't it! Thank god we live in a christian nation, run by god-fearing republicans. Praise be to Jesus!

Ever wonder what life would be like in a world where atheism was the dominant religion? Wonder no more! Thanks to newly discovered Prayer Technologies we can glimpse into what life would be like in a godless world.
Let's take a look:

ATHIEST KID: Mom, I'm going to go fuck a hooker.
ATHIEST MOM: Okay, son.
ATHIEST KID: Afterwards, I'm going to go smoke pot with my friends, since it's "not addictive."
ATHIEST MOM: Okay, come home soon!

The athiest kid leaves the room. The father comes home from work several minutes later.

ATHIEST DAD: Hey!
ATHIEST MOM: Hi, honey! I'm pregnant again. I guess I'll just get another abortion, since "fetuses don't count as human life."
ATHIEST DAD: Okay, get as many abortions as you want!
ATHIEST MOM: Oh, and don't go in the bedroom.
ATHIEST DAD: Why not?
ATHIEST MOM: There are two gay men fucking eachother in there.
ATHIEST DAD: Why are they here?
ATHIEST MOM: I wanted to watch them do it for awhile. They just aren't finished yet.
ATHIEST DAD: Okay, that's fine with me!

Suddenly, their neighbor runs into the house.

ATHIEST NEIGHBOR: Come quick, there's a Christian outside!
ATHIEST MOM: We'll be right there!

The athiest couple quickly put on a pair of black robes and hoods. They then exit the house, and run into the street, where a Christian is nailed to a large, wooden X. He is being burned alive. A crowd of athiests stand around him, all wearing black robes and hoods.

RANDOM ATHIEST: Damn you, Christian! We hate you! We claim to be tolerant of all religions. But we really hate your's! That's because we athiests are hypocritical like that! Die, Christian!

THE END

Scary, isn't it! Thank god we live in a christian nation, run by god-fearing republicans. Praise be to Jesus!

But that's how American Business is done! "at-will" employment anyone? Businesses need to be agile more than ever to please the jerk-off shareholders. They can't afford to lose money keeping non-optimal people employed if priorities shift, etc... You will likely get another job...but it seems the days of long-term employment are going away.

I'm not saying it's right, but that's what we have going on in the USA today. I think we need a little more government in our business than we've been having...shift the balance back to the regular people...but I've been called a godless commie so who knows :D

These are not the droids you are looking for.

Hey, I work at one of these Wall Street firms and . . . wait, what was that noise . . . OH MY GOD, GET OFF ME!

*banging, crashing*

****SESSION TERMINATED****

Right on. Richard Dawkins (noted Atheist) has a forum which was DoS not long ago (the DoS'er bragged about it too, on their own forum). Sad, really. The forum stayed up, but was slow, so it wasn't that bad. T

- And there we see yet another example of liberal attempts to overcome the laws of physics.

Will these godless Communists never learn?

---- R. Limbaugh, Scientist

On the relative benign side we know that people crack security just to see if it can be done, to test their wits against a verified expert. On the less benign side, fanatics might attack because they think the act will give them some other reward. For instance, if we take a purely hypothetical example, religious fanatics might be told by their Pastor to attack the web site of some godless politician so the preferred candidate might have a better chance of winning and installing other fanatics in traditionally secular positions. Such attacks would have a defined timeframe, and therefore predictable costs and risk, and win or lose, would have at least have a terroristic effect. Such an attack would be clearly logical, profitable, and effective.