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  1. Re:Is it just me? on GTA Blamed for Graffiti · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But couldn't the same argument be made for adult movies that they will get in the hands of kids, so they should be banned? This line of logic can be continued indefinatly. There are many things in this world that are dangerous to children, parents have to take responsibility, end of story.

    Personally I know of a woman who rented and allowed their 8 year old daughter to watch "Saw" now thats some sick twisted stuff. Either way I still wouldn't ban the movie, just really really wish parents would use some common sense, but then again maybe this kid has proved they can handle movies like that well. On the other hand noone knows what the long term effects are. So I guess my argument is circular, all this stuff is tragic, but its not new, and we can't just go around banning things we don't like.

  2. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes interacting collapses wave forms, but one method of observing is to bounce light off an object, thus collapsing its wave form then capturing the photons as they come back. Well photons from natural sources such as the sun will still bounce off objects even without an observer. Or a rock being an observer of the bounce will capture and effect the photon and stop other observers from receiving the same information. Its more about the fact that said observers don't have to be intelligent.

  3. Re:As was mentioned yesterday on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1

    Generally villages without a modern communication system do not grow very large, and often have some system of noise makings to call everyone to attention for communcation. Remember tele-phone, tele-graph and tele-woman.

  4. Re:It's all about angular momentum on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1

    But thats the point, taking mass and putting it to a higher position decreases rotational speed. Either way these skyscrapers have nothing in weight when compared with mountains that are being pushed up.

  5. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    You might be able to travel through time but you can't pass information though time. You can obviously go forward in time, hell freezing yourself has the same effect, or theoretically slow down time (such as near a black hole) but the act of going back in time and being able to pass information when you do it completly negates cause and effect.

  6. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its not so much that there must be an observer, but simply that the act of observing (which in order to observe a particle you must either capture that particle or bounce something off of it) changes it. Which in reality makes a lot of sense. It still exist without said observer.

  7. Re:Fox News on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    Definatly completly true, in general it probably happends a lot. You start with someone who leans left socially but is centralist economically, after being attacked constantly for their "liberal views" sees comfort in the friendship of other liberals who are more left leaning in their economics.

  8. Re:Yeah on Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available · · Score: 1

    Yes, but very low powered lasers might do the trick. Yes it will still be bright but theortically no brighter than current projection technologies. Basically your switching from trying to use omnidirectional light to project and image, meaning some of the light will scatter and the image will be slightly blurry, color will run (etc) no matter what you do. To laser projected pixels. Yummy.

  9. Re:way different lasers on Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available · · Score: 1

    Don't forget this one is also powerful enough that isn't simple reflection even off a non mirror surface could cause some damage.

  10. Re:you are a republican on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    Wow, we are finally getting rid of the Constitution!
    Good News!

    Ahh, remember that "Good News" show that was on TV in the mid 90's wow.. hhehe. Wonder what they would have said about the Iraq war, probably replayed that video of the Iraqi girl who got surgery here a thousand times already :)

  11. Re:Fox News on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    As a right leaner myself, I have to admit that Fox News does lean slighty to the right, but is still more balanced than most.

    On the other hand if you were constantly being attacked by every left winger in the country, you'd lean slightly to the right yourself :)

  12. Re:Not a very good attempt on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    Well the US EPA has a few charts and graphs on their website none of which provide the exact 25% figure but do show we are the biggest pollutor. Now one interesting graph though is http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/cont ent/emissionsindividual.html
    which shows that our emissions per capita hasn't gone up much and interestingly enough our emissions per GDP has gone way down which I assume means we are being much more efficient. I think we can eventually turn this efficiency into less emissions in the long run, but that is yet to be seen.

  13. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    Well of course Aquinas (1225-1274) lived well before Quantum Physics, but it is rather interesting that many of his thoughts lead towards the subatomic well before even atoms were known (well yes elements where thought of before him but were not a known idea)

    But in general Aquinas talked about how God could work in the laws of newtonian physics, not quantum physics, as such where not known at the time.

  14. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    Ok, so your saying the "God" could have planned for each and every act of free will, interesting.

    Of course my comment was more directly to the original parent who said
    "Of course, such meddling would imply the Great One couldn't design a universe that ran according to The Plan without intervention - such impudence."

    And while given a newtonian universe this is possible. Given free will, or even quantum physics, which may or may not prove to be predictable, such a plan would be impossible.
    Now of course the argument that one could have guessed all acts of free will and planed appropriatly does bring in an interesting twist. I would have to say in such an instance "Devine Intervention" would definatly be required from time to time.

  15. Re:This is good. But... on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    Yes, but from what I remember these spammers were not so much charged with spam as they were charged with fraud. Frauding hundreds of people out of millions of dollar is going to get you a long time in the pokey.

  16. Re:Less subscribers? on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    Hey! You try dragging your 2 ton Hummer SUV and all your matching luggage to your vast array of vacation homes, and not create 5x the amount of polution as everyone else... Come on...

    But seriously I'd like to know where the 25% numbers come in, do they factor in trees in said country, because we still have a lot of those! :)

  17. Re:Sounds good... on Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam · · Score: 1

    No, just a bad translation really.

  18. Re:Need to remind these guys about the mars orbite on B612 Foundation and 2004 YD5 Asteroid Capture? · · Score: 1

    Well the asteriod they are planning to move is small and would burn up on its own. But we are adding a heat shield to it.....Hmmmmm.

  19. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    Then that negates free will. You can't have non free will and the "knowledge of good and evil, and the ability to commit sin" if you don't have free will.

  20. Re:Like the first one... on Whippersnappers Bad-Mouth Old Games · · Score: 1

    I think it was a pants vs short thing, not nessesary what you are thinking. Pervert

  21. Re:There's no such thing as "scientific fact" on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    No, I'm saying gravity exist because E=MC^2.

  22. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    No, I'm saying that a Supreme Being won't be able to guess what choice you will make. Therefor one can't completly plan for the future.

  23. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    s/can plan/can not plan/

  24. Re:Stephen Hawking on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    Of course free will is generally assumed to exist by Catholics. And of course given free will you can plan the future exactly. Thus occasional meddling has to be done. Now a perfect god, would know when these meddlings would need to be done and setup a system of pre-recorded meddlings. Thus he can rest till the end of time.

  25. Re:There's no such thing as "scientific fact" on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    Why? because E=MC^2 Duh