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Well, the cogs are in motion now. Despite Rehnquist being very conservative, there was a certain balance in the supreme Court. Now Bush will have time to disrupt it and make the Court lean towards ultraconservatism. This is very bad because appointing someone in the supreme court is for a lifetime ...

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DO NOT GET A BROTHER PRINTER. You will regret it when you have to return the machine two months later. If it magically doesn't break within those two months, you'll regret it when you realize that Brother toner is the most expensive per mL. Plus, you have to replace the drum unit every 4 times you ...

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Linkie no workie. I'm keen to listen to it though

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Since when does ID equate to a god? God, the designer, yo mama; whatever you want to designate the entity responsible for our creation. Certainly doesn't have to be a god...correct? No but by accepting ID you do acknowledge the existance of a higher entity, and the whole descision/purpose/reason ...

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Personally I'm not into smoking at all (either cigs or joints). Most of people my age are very aware of what they are doing, my parents generation are not however. If you're fully aware of what you're doing and the implications it causes, any use of light drugs is fine by me. For example, I like to ...

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woodchip wrote:Since when does ID equate to a god?

God, the designer, yo mama; whatever you want to designate the entity responsible for our creation.

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You're mixing issues. Both Evolution and ID have both a philosophical side, and a scientific side. I understand that you disagree with the philosophical side of ID... that's fine. I choose to disagree with the philosophical side of evolution. I don't deny, however, the scientific side of evolution ...

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Does biatch fall under this category as well?

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If we were created, that implies our existance relates to an initial descision which must have had either a reason or a purpose . I'd like to know what it is, it's the only thing that could validate the idea of ID, so the question " why? " is not an unimportant one. Nobody willing to tackle this ...

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<- addiction of some kind..

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Bettina, a law is something that is universally true. However, I hope to have convinced you that multiple contexts exist in which gravity can be considered. If, for each context, you want to state laws, that's fine by me. But there is no 'law' as such that will span all the contexts and still hold.

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Ummm. There is a law. You can check it anywhere, but here is a link. http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node54.html Bettina Yes, that statement may always be true in absolute Euclidian, three dimensional space with infinite speed of light and absolute constant time. In that context, you might call ...

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Palzon wrote:complexity is the very thing that ID depends on to demonstrate intelligence in the design.

Yes but why? Why did the designer design as he did? Why did the designer even bother to design? ID doesn't answer that. Evolution theory doesn't need to.

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Sirius wrote:
Tricord wrote:To answer the question in the thread title:

Neither.
Troll alert!

Really? With all these posts about faith and existential uncertainty popping up all over the place, I felt like offering a curt but descisive answer to the question at hand.

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The nomenclature used to describe the theory has no bearing on the method or truth-vale of its content, except in the case of what is called a "law" (such as a gravity). It seems to me that you are confusing terms instead of us. Top Gun wrote a very accurate post. First of all, there is no such ...

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To answer the question in the thread title:

Neither.

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Sigh, I don't believe this. How's this for an idea: If evolution theory leaves questions unanswered, at least we know what to look for in order to answer them . We know answers to questions we still have today, will be answered by thourough DNA analysis. It will exactly tell us how we descended from ...

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That is why I say either shouldn't be taught in our Elemtetary/Secondary education systems. Leave it for those of us in higher-education (i.e. UNIVERSITY) to discuss, synthesize, extrapolate, disect, experiment, and ultimately conclude for ourselves which is the proper avenue to look at. We agree ...

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Another way of saying what I mean is that the precision of the evolution theory and science in general is a few orders of magnitude higher than the precision offered by ID and religion in general.

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A couple of posts back rush mentions that scientific theories are often altered, changed or thrown away altogether, because new theories emerge and "prove previous ones wrong". Or something along those lines. I'd like to state that science is also subject to evolution, because each new theory is an ...

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Roidy, it doesn't make sense here either.. But I think the reasoning is that some real money changed hands in a fishy way. I'm pretty sure there are many scenarios imaginable where you'd get arrested for doing something, without there being an explicit law forbidding it. For instance, is there a law ...

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If there was new scientific evidence that spawned a debate in the scientific community about the evolution theory, then I'd maybe reconsider and support any of this. But seeing as it's just a bunch of politicians pushing the envelope just to look busy on something that is irrelevant to them anyway ...

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There isn't a single trace of DOS in WinNT/2000/XP, they just mimetized the interface (black window) with prompt and commands. Batch commands are supported as well as piping. On a WinNT machine xcopy is actually a command-line Win32 application like any other, and will happily copy files from/to any ...

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Jim, everyone knows that if you drop a drive it might be no joy. Everyone knows that if you have a surge on the grid, it might fry your rig. But the thing is, if you have multiple copies in different locations, you can afford such a misfortune. It's exactly against that kind of thing you're ...

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It is too late anyway. Any inconsistency revealed afterwards is another sign of bad coordination and cockups. Much like the fuss around the shooting of an innocent civillian in the London Underground. Information is unclear, stories are revised multiple times, documents leak that prove wrong what ...

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Bush--;

In fact, dealloc(Bush);

To each his opinion

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That doesn't make a lot of sense, since the ultimate gaming rig depends heavily on personal preference AND changes every few days because new and better hardware pops up all over the place.

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Roid, I wouldn't be comfortable with that. GMail may be private and supposedly personal, but the fact that it's out there is scary. Who knows where it'll be in 30 years? No, I consider RAID1 fairly reliable if you keep an eye on the disks. If one disk fails and you keep running a broken mirror, it's ...

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Rofl Roid, how old is that? Two years?

I should never have given this to you guys, but it cracks me up anyway

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If u ask me as long as u CRC everything before and after you burn optical media is pretty much as reliable as you can get. Yes, they're pretty reliable immediately after burning. But over time the reliability decreases. Mostly due to my own carelessness, I will admit, but still, optical media isn't ...

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For some reason I don't trust self-written optical media for backups.. Thanks for reminding me why

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roid wrote:If Iraq becomes an Islamic state my irony gland will ****ing explode.

Made my day

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Well, it's interesting to see a cultural difference surface up here. For some reason, there is no tipping custom here in Belgium. Waiters get a decent salary without tip incomes, and the service is included in the food price. You pay the amount on the bill and that's that. I guess you can tip a ...

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That's pretty ★■◆●ing amazing! What a realistic physics engine

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Now, how about flossing his a$$?

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Picie no workie.

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Where do the women come in in your life story?

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SilverFJ wrote:I like the fact that Krom has 2 mute buttons

Yeah, sometimes you need them both to get her to shut up

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linkie
On the left.. All engineers here

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