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At 12/8/08 11:58 PM, altanese-mistress wrote:

At 12/8/08 04:33 PM, Drakim wrote: Wait, the very structure of molecules being ripped apart would be no big deal for us? D:

No, because we'd either be dead long before then or something close to it.

My money is on you both being wrong. By then, we will have found a way to travel through higher dimensions, like time for instance, and either gone back to near the start of the universe to repeat for another almost infinite amount of time or jumped ship altogether and gone to a different universe.
At the rate our technologyis growing we will eventually kill ourselves or exceed all limitations.

At 12/6/08 03:00 PM, aninjaman wrote:

If you do that on black friday then all the sales will simply move to anothey day and instead of black friday we will have the same thing on black saturday.

On all days. There should never be an occasion on which the health of an individual or a crowd is considered less important than a few dollars off a copy machine. Whatever day the company advertises their version of Black Friday, that day an officer will be waiting at that store to turn people away or take them into custody.

At 12/6/08 12:27 PM, aninjaman wrote:

At 12/6/08 12:25 PM, JeremieCompNerd wrote: Black Friday is a bad idea, and should be outlawed.

And how would you do that?

The same way you prevent loiterers any other day of the year. If they start assembling before 6 or so, you teargas them and hold them on loitering and intent to riot.

At 12/6/08 07:49 AM, poxpower wrote:
Though I guess you could make the case that some of the smartest apes might not be caged. Whatever, for all the good they do in the wild, constantly beating eat other up, killing their offspring and generally being morons who smell their farts and growl at everything while eating bugs with sticks.

Bar fights, wars, etc. Post pardom depression, drugs, etc. Teenagers and small kids, etc. Growling can be compared to verbal arguements like teens, lawsuits, etc. Eating bugs with sticks, eating cows with forks......
Apes and gorrillas are far smarter than people give them credit for, they can even use sign language. They don't talk because they don't have the right vocal cords, not because they aren't smart enough to understand.

Anyways, I do think that genetic and medical testing are both neccessary parts of advancement and better animals than people, but I do think that some things such as cosmetic testing that offer no benefit at all should be done with volunteers.
I do think that no animal should be mistreated for no reason.

Last year at Best Buy the people they had watching the crowds played Guitar Hero in a heated tent and never came out. They had a sign in sheet for the order that people arrived in, but in the morning everybody swarmed the entrance and when asked about the list and the order of arrival I was told, and I quote, "I don't really know who put the list there, but it's only supposed to be used in the event of a riot."
It took all I had not to ask where he'd like me to start it. In the meantime, around 6 A.M., an old lady had a heart attack and we actually had to go to the tent, after they had already been informed of her condition, and point out that she should be brought into the warm tent to wait for an ambulance so she wouldn't die of hypothermia waiting for the doctors.
Black Friday is a bad idea, and should be outlawed.

At 12/1/08 04:12 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote:

Unless people develop teleportation without the need of fuel I doubt space colonization is really possible. Currently most scientists say that teleportation is impossible.

Technicaly incorrect. We have already done teleportation. We teleported a photon from one container to another. The mass of the object affects the power usage, the distance does not (except energy lost due to resistance in the wires which is minimal as you will soon find out). To teleport that single photon blacked out a very large city.

Regardless, I think that eventually we will have the technology to produce a self-sustaining planet-ship. A huge mass the size of a continent that can carry a relatively large population and constantly reuse all resources just like earth. Power would be solar from the starlight, and there would probably be only a very small number of actual people or pets at any given time. Most of our genetic diversity would be in cloneable DNA, and it may even be possible eventually to store conciousnesses in computers. When that becomes possible, we would be able to stay alive essentially from then until the crunch/freeze/rip/etc. in a huge ship that stayed near enough to stars to keep operational and store extra power without risking damage, then moved to the next star when that one failed. Cool, no?

At 12/2/08 08:19 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote:
As one poster said above me spent fuel is not the only thing that encompases nuclear waste. Any substance that comes into contact with nuclear material is a health hazard and considered nuclear waste. Any substance that becomes radioactive within the plant becomes nuclear waste. The list goes on and on. What i'm worried about is that radioactive fumes might be released from the volcano, but I have never heard that suggestion before so I'm just pulling that out of my ass. I do not know whether or not it would be safe to drop it into an active volcano. That is something that should be researched.

I agree, not only used material is considered toxic, but that is by far the MOST dangerous of the materials, and the bulk of the remaining contaminated equipment should hold to the same assumptions as the used fuel itself.
I suppose vapor could form from a volcanic dump, but given that the vapor would spread so thin that only a very few radioactive particles would land anywhere near eachother I think the result would be the same. You might have an increased risk of sunburn and skin cancer from that kind of uber thin radioactive film, but not any more so than an area with unmined uranium in it. I don't know the math of course, but to the best of my knowledge a volcanic dump is the best way to go for cost effective destruction. Of course, if safety is the ABSOLUTE word on getting rid of something you don't want: Try space. Nothing protects better than being 600k+ and counting from whatever you want to be protected from. :)

At 12/1/08 04:30 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote:
The problem is that out of uranium mined from the earth only a very small portion is actually used in the reaction. Nuclear waste is less stable than unprocessed uranium. Not to mentiont he fact that if it has already been mined there is already a record that the uranium is there. When uranium is discovered it is usually immediately mined and used, but if uranium was dumped without proper security a terrorist group could gain access to the Uranium without anything more than shovels and pickaxes.

Isn't it stronger because the dirt is filtered out and it's concentrated all together in one space, allowing small reactions to take place more often that when isolated and diffused? That's why I recommend mixing it with copious quantities of lead and scattering across large areas.

As for terrorists obtaining it, the Mariana Trench is too deep for even us to reach today, so that should hold the third world out of it for quite some time.

As far as I recall, there isn't anything living in the bottom of the trench, but on the off chance that something survives that temp and pressure, then try unoccupied volcanoes. The waste should diffuse and spread through the lava/magma and be rendered harmless enough. Besides, didn't somebody already say they use it, refine it, use it again and again until there isn't any useable material left? Only the lowest quality of all material could be retrieved and they'd have to work REALLY hard to get even that.

Suddenly, I realize how everyone will read that last message.....
No I was not advocating enforced ZPG or NPG, I was advocating incentives for people to willingly accept the idea.
Second, no I don't think a global ban will end all illegal gun traffic, any semi-powerful organization like Yakuza/Mafia/etc. will still have guns, but it will significantly decrease gun fatalities outside of organized crime. Besides, since when did one citizen with a gun stand up to the mob anyways? It's not like the public stands up to organized crime anyways so we don't really need guns to roll over on our backs and wait for the big boys to fix the problem. Worst case scenario we increase organized crime by flooding thier ranks with the small time crooks who can't get guns everywhere else, and these flunkies get caught and roll on thier bosses. We'd have a lot more manpower to deal with organized crime because we wouldn't have to waste as much time fixing DISorganized crime.....

Personally, there are far too many ways to get guns illegally. I think a global ban would be far more effective. If the whole world stopped making them and the ones that are out there are destroyed, it would become far more effective. Can't blackmarket a product that's no longer in production, you run out of stock too quickly and those get confiscated soon after.
I also think that we should limit population to help reduce the number of people on Earth, and therefor the number of crazy people who want to kill others.

I like nuclear power as much as any other alternative fuel, but it isn't unlimited. It might last a lot longer than coal, but we will use it all sooner or later. Still, use it while we have it since it's clean.
Many people argue about how to dispose of nuclear waste, but before we made it into fuel guess where it was? We need to get whatever power we can out of uranium, then put it back where we got it, exactly as we got it. Spread it out in the same places we found it buried the same depth and add some lead to it for good measure. Background radiation from space would be more dangerous than a few pounds of depleted uranium mixed well with a great deal of lead and spaced out over 40+ miles. It's not like this stuff gets MORE powerful the longer it's used....

At 11/29/08 11:15 PM, frigi wrote: Spent $10,000 to get them installed and what not? Probably would of cost less to just pay for electricity from the power company.

Solar power is pretty inefficient compared to regular means of electricity. Most of the sun's energy is lost by our atmosphere, you have clouds and such, and the sun isn't always out.

Yes a great deal of energy is lost, and even more so since current solar panels can only use red light for power. Eventually though our technology will allow panels to collect across a much larger spectrum and that will boost power generation as much as ten fold, so even on earth they would make a lot of power.

Need to get the solar panels into space and send the energy down to collection ports on the ground that can distribute them all over.

I had that thought, use a laser from the space station to hit a second solar panel down here, but you would still lose a lot of energy from the atmosphere, and even more so powering the space station and the energy loss from converting energy from light > electricity > light > electricity. It's probably more efficient to just leave them on earth. A lot easier to install as well. :P

I think we need to offer huge incentives for alternative power, wind and solar, to the public. We need to offer huge incentives for alternative power, wind solar nuclear geothermal and hydroelectric, to companies who can afford them and can guarantee the quality of the plant.

At 11/30/08 11:45 PM, dySWN wrote:

Why? A lot of atheists come from religious backgrounds and came out the way they did - nothing prevents a child from forming his own opinions once they reach mental maturity. Parents should be allowed to teach their children as they see fit (excluding physical abuse, of course); as long as all points of view are expressed in the public forum, people will come to their own decisions later.

True, but many people are very hard to change. They can't accept anything that doesn't fit with thier personal view of the universe and they become defensive, evasive, angry, even violent to protect what they believe. If you teach someone something for so long at so young an age you will have a very good chance of permanantly crippling their ability to see anything else. If you tell them apples will kill them and hide siezure-causing meds in all the apples and never, ever eat any of them but let the kid eat them, then even as an adult he would avoid apples like the plague no matter how many people told him it was a lie. The same goes for religion. If you teach the kid something for all those years and he believes it, it will take a massive amount of effort to convince him to even look at anything else. I have always thought logically, and was fascinated by dinosaurs and geology for a time, so I was able to put the evidence together early on and correct for the few years of mindwash, but most people don't have that advantage. I think kids should be exposed equally to all religions regardless of heritage and should make their own choice. At least then even if the number of religious people stayed the same or even increased, the distribution could level out some and we would learn some tolerance for one another. As long as religion is not pressed upon anybody and doesn't spark hatred, I have no problem with the need for hope of a better life. I almost wish I had that kind of trust in the future. But not at the expense of freedom of mind and a blank check to start wars.

You know, most people try to use the argument that this country was founded by Christians for Christians, but the truth is this country was founded by Christians who were tired of being told what to think by thier government for all people who were tired of being told what to think by thier government. Religion and politics have nothing to do with eachother. The first gives people hope for a better future, the second destroys the present, and they should NEVER have contact with one another.
You shouldn't even be allowed to mention what religion you are in this country. There should be a single year in highschool where one of the classes is "religion and spiritualism" and they cover all religions during that class. No religion get preferential treatment and if you find one you like you can look into in your own time. No recruitment, no telling people about it, no hating people for it. Believe what you will and move on.

Yes. There are already viruses that attack the brain and often hit locations that impare judgement and cause uncontrollable rage. There are also viruses that disable pain. If you can develope a virus/parasite/bacteria that is strong enough to overcome human defenses, and attacks specific portions of the brain, then you can create a violent, territorial feeding machine that can limp on with multiple leg fractures. They would still die easy since once they lost an arm they would bleed to death at the same rate as any other sick person, but they wouldn't feel it. Not to mention they would likely attack eachother before anyone else. They certainly wouldn't cooperate with each other. Good luck and let me know before hand....

You mention the bombing of hospitals in particular, and though I would say that they are a valid military target because they offer refuge to the enemy, I would also like to add to that by saying that a true doctor would save people on both sides. A hospital can't possibly be considered a valid military target because a hospital is indiscriminate and would heal soldiers regardless of their side in a war. Or, at least, any decent hospital would. Nobody seems to have commented on this part just yet so I'll throw it out there as my 2-bits.

I never understood why people think the Mayan calendar is a prediction of the destruction of Earth. Or a prediction of anything else either. Think about the Y2k scare. People thought computers would shut down because we didn't program their internal calendar to go past 1999. Well, if we didn't program our calendars even a few hundred years forwards with all our technical savvy, then surely having worked as hard as they did the Mayans deserve a break for taking some time off from all their hard work of hand calculating?

I'd have introduced him to my Aunt. My cousin is half African American, and my Aunt takes beer bottles to the back of the head and turns around to ask when it's her turn. :)
Of course, that would be after I did everything I could to help him change his mind. Sometimes people are racist because they've been told lies all their life. Others, they were traumatized by someone and made a generalization that everyone who looked like that was bad. Still more simply don't know other cultures very well and assume they don't measure up. I would try talking to him and finding out what you can do to help him understand that there isn't as big a difference as he thinks. If he truly is beyond help, then there really isn't anything you can do but to walk away.

Actually yes. There is an electromagnetic shield available. Weave copper, gold, or other conductive materials into a mesh and use it to cage your house. A Faraday Cage that is well built should block electromagnetic pulses. It would be expensive, and if your worried about a country wide attack you would also need your own backup generator within the shield, but you could concevably build a copper mesh wall/ceiling/ floor and your home would be immune to EMP. Also blocked out: Radio waves, microwaves, most radiation, satellite TV, walky talkys, cell phone signals...... Some particularly strong waves may make it through, but the better (I.E. smaller gaps, more regular spacing, more conductive materials, more layers) you make your cage, the less likely that becomes. I doubt very highly that an EMP attack would occur though. EMP is for taking out electronics, and therefor defences. So if we were ever attacked by an EMP field generator, it would likely be followed by other kinds of weaponry including mass invasion/carpet bombing/etc.

You make a topic emphasizing the effect of the emoticons in the title of a thread........
AND FAIL TO PUT AN EMOTICON ON THE TOPIC!!!!!
What? That's crazy! That's like saying nobody punctuates their sentences online anymore and not putting a period. Lol.

You could find this all on www.google.com or you could experiment with the buttons like I did. I learned way more than that with just 20 minutes of fideling with the program. Try opening all the menus and switching all the control boxes on. You should have no problem learning the ins and outs of GIMP if you have any computer experience at all.

Universal Health Care provides a way for people with no money to get medical attention when they need it. Private Health Care provides lower taxes and stacks the odds of survival in favor of the rich.
Personally, I'm hoping Pres. Obama initiates UHC right away. And tops it off with higher taxes on rediculously rich people.

I would begin by scrapping grades 6 and up. Really. All gone. By grade 5 you know what you like and don't like. If you don't like math by grade 5, it's not getting any easier. After grade 5, you hit precollege. You pick your courses, you learn. You can learn a much larger amount of a subject much faster if you drop subjects you don't like. I spoke quite clearly at that age, and I would have traded English for more Science in a heartbeat. The current system is set up to enable any person to get any job and do it well enough, but it would be far more effective to let the kid identify what type of job he wanted and learn only the skills relevant to that job. A history teacher only needs to know as much math as his taxes require, a chemist has little need of world history, and an engineer only needs to be able to read the parts index, so most jobs can drop one or more subjects without affecting the ability to work.
I know a lot of people will think this is a bad idea, and I get why things are done the way they are today, I do. But this is how I would have liked MY school to have been, and it may or may not work for you.

At 11/14/08 03:08 PM, Malachy wrote: And as you said, you have a problem with only one moderator. There's 50 others to choose from if you have a question..and really you only run into us if you are being a total dickweed anyway.

Well, no actually he jumped in with that given no cause or incentive at all. I used her as an example to help prove a point relevant to the topic, and he took a cheap shot because it was there to take.

:...nobody cares when you do your job right, they only get pissy when you do something they don't like.

This I agree with sadly.... Nobody shows respect anymore. It's a shame really.

Then perhaps if the meter included a feature that would make more "happy" a good thing, such as increased voting power or the privilege to make longer posts? Or an entirely different setup such as a meter for IQ and Personality, and if you have above a certain amount of both you are recommended for a Moderator position, and if it then drops below a certain amount your conduct would be reviewed possibly at the cost of your authority? There are any number of ways to make a system that would encourage friendliness on the forums, I'm just suggesting that we look into finding one that works for this site. It's a lot of work, but so was putting together this site in the first place so if there is a way to keep it alive and strong for longer it should be looked into.

Actually my beef isn't with you, Aviewaskewed, but with a different mod who went out of his way to poke fun at a friend of mine he's never met or seen. Some mods really are just regular joes trying to make the forums a better place. Others hardly qualify as human. You notice my post makes it clear I'm staying out of the issue of that topic. I don't know enough about it to bother commenting. Still, because of my personal experience with a rude mod, I'm in favor of some form of mod feedback besides bothering Wade. Perhaps a separate aura that changes to reflect the public's opinion of the user? Then people would know whether they were loved or hated on the BBS, and mods would have some way to guage whether people were happy with thier decisions or not.

At 11/14/08 08:57 AM, The-Great-One wrote:

At 11/14/08 08:46 AM, JeremieCompNerd wrote: Moderators Are Nazis.

It's like people just skip by anything I post.

Don't misquote me. Ever. I don't say anybody was a Nazi, and I think comparing anybody to that is a cheap blow that serves to downplay the horrors of WWII.
What I said was that Mods need to be held to some kind of standard with their posts, such as not flaming and/or trolling, to set an example to everyone else.

Just because the topic XaosLegend was refering to did deserve to be locked, doesn't mean he's not right about the need for greater communication of the will of the forum to the moderators. Using a bad example doesn't mean the point should be lost. While I don't personally care about the topic, I fully support him in any effort to ensure that mods remain unbiased role models for the BBS community.

Actually I think XaosLegend has a point. Mods have a responsibility to act fairly and nonjudgementally and to set a role for people on the forums. I for one support him.

At 11/13/08 12:59 PM, JohnnyWang wrote:

At 11/13/08 12:53 PM, JeremieCompNerd wrote: I look at it from a viewpoint outside of the 3 dimensions we see.

Well, to my knowledge, the multiple universes theory already views the whole thing in four dimensions.

Anyway, on the multiple universes thing; finite or infinite amount of universities?

Infinite. There's an infinite size to them, so there's an infinite particle combination. And yes, four dimensions is better than three but I'm looking at a view of...... I think it was 9 or 10. Anyways, the difference is that 4D is all of time in this one timeline, I'm looking at all of time in all possible timelines not only occuring with the laws of physics in this universe but all possible laws of physics and all possible timelines.