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Prove to her that you are a better person and more interesting than those guys.

If i'd be sure he wouldn't see i'd call the police and try to describe him as good as possible. Than i'd delete the police number out of my "dialled numbers" list.

If you are his friend and you don't approve that, why not get him to do something more interesting than the game? Otherwise no, i don't find it sad.

This article makes me wanna cry.

"If DNA / RNA has been damaged, this [growth factors from milk] may cause cancer."

If you get run over by a train, a heart attack may kill you.

Seriously.

Never been there myself, but i wonder what will become of it now that the economy is in such a state, and it is quite dependant on tourism as i know? Cuz maintaining indoor ski pists must be very expensive, and building islands as well...

yup, it is horrible.

But why would being labeled a hacker be so bad? Maybe people only say it because they respect your level of knowledge or something...

Its all about the appearance probably...

I found studying from a cadaver rather not as helpful as i imagined it to be - the parts are not labeled, and when the cadaver is not there anymore i pretty much forget all that i've learned. Books are nice because they have at least some structure to them, but i wonder if there is a simpler way...

So the usual tactic is to study it from a book? How do you even take notes from an atlas, do you try to draw them?

why do they think so?

At 2/17/10 12:52 PM, ifureadthisdie wrote: Our brains are more advanced than a regular animals pain. An animal just fucks, sleeps, and has sex for reproduction. We eat for more than just survival reasons, sleep, and have hot sweaty lustful sex.

Where did you get the chance to feel what an animal felt that you know it doesn't?

At 2/17/10 01:54 PM, Evark wrote:

:It's not evolution that dictates emotional pain

You contradicy yourself with your post - because living in a group in the first place is very much evolutional.

At 2/17/10 01:04 PM, Tiki-Dog wrote:

Wow internet, screw what people say about it being infested with bad people!

Its actually much more pure than reality, big loud ego's get tuned to whispers soft and sweet.

Coffee is just a way of doing drugs without thinking you are doing drugs. And knowing that its actually coffee unlike with meth.

I'd rather get a text and reply to it when i have time instead of having the phone ringing, usually when im doing something else already.

At 2/16/10 05:39 PM, mattuiop wrote:

Why does the ng community hate me?

If you read 1 (one) major thread other than yours you may quickly realize a deep philosophical truth.

to say it out loud:
1. everyone gets hate posts, now what?
2. such replies are a way to properly answer to whining.

That would be quite interesting with people going:

Yeeah, im coooming! Where are my keys? Shit, my keys, my keys.. oh here they are! ok now - YEEES just a MINUTE i will be right there!! ...my phone... k got it, my dick... shit wheres my dick?!

At 2/15/10 05:54 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote:

But science can be easy to teach the problem is getting people interested in science.

I'd suggest that part of the problem could be the usual method by which this is done - which is largely formal education. I think a big part of the problem is presenting large amounts of names and mechanisms to people who have no personal connection to it.

For example, when mathematics is first thought, there is probably a tiny minority whose parents have connections with the area, while all the others are presented the subject in a form that is not relevant to them (in the opinion of the people presented TO).

Yes, an adult person sure understands the implications of being able to count to ten in everyday life, but most of the children were to the point used to living perfectly content without such knowledge.

So maybe even children who have never heard of math should see a working mathematician come and explain what he does, that there was possibly a time when he didn't understand, but show how he overcame such obstacles in his own mind as well as how he went out looking for answers, show them the "magical parts", the tricks, the things that will change the world when completed or found out after his work is done.

Cuz face it, 99% percent of kids hate coloring 2 flowers and 3 butterflies a thousand times just as any adult person does. I am not saying teach them some vector-multiplication-matrix idea instead of counting, but i think the motivational aspects of learning should be stressed much more.

Nobody learns to program with the objective just to get a screen say "Hello World".

And no architect draws a house by knowing that one stone gets laid on the other to make them tall.

How i see it is that people work because of their dreams, ambitions, so finding out what the kids really are interested in doing or making would be of much help. They are not as dull as they are taken for, and even if they present with ideas that already have a solution, this would make something easier to teach.

Also, maybe more people have an interest in science than could be observed everyday, but are afraid of certain factors that come with it, like getting oneself to a point where before you were doing great, finding out all the interesting stuff but than stumbling over something you will not be able to comprehend without help. Therefore the belief that people will either not be willing to help them, or more probably there won't be any person who will even know the topic around, prevents them from even giving it a try.

And it sucks to fail at something, and people will not start something on the basis of fearing they will fail, even if this were their only factor against it.

I base this assumption on the idea that many of my peers i have today are questioning their choice of university. With a life expectancy of 80+ years i think we should be ready to part with the idea that a person has to choose one occupation and with it one education for life.

Most can see that a large percentage of people today work in a different area than they previously thought they will, and i believe as a society we should work toward making such transitions more acceptable, they should be approved by others by not belittling their formal education because of it, but rather show how interdisciplinery knowledge helped a person grow and become successful even in a different area.

Because many people fear that they might be doing something that will give them nothin in return. If it really doesn't, it is the program that should probably be reviewed somehow, but i thing something with no potential would be really rare.

I'm not sure how this could be overcome, but again part of the problem could be in how they first came across, to take another example, chemistry, when they first met the subject in school they had to learn strange-sounding names, which were unrelated to them (or boring for some different reason), and when they didn't do it, they got a bad grade, were looked upon by parents and/or peers regarding this subject. And during all this time they were made unable to turn away from it, making them feel trapped. People arent as afraid to look a page about a musician but are afraid of looking at one that contains chemistry. The difference - they can turn away from the music whenever they feel like it, but have an experience when this was not possible with chemistry.

Also, wanting to learn is still somewhat stereotyped in our society, internet did help a bit to look upon something from a different perspective.

As well when people failed they might have been looked upon as incapable from a person with a better grade/teacher/parent, and because of that they might have hated such a person, and even today they somehow fear to become that person. Because it is just so much easier to hate someone better off (from your own view) than than to surpass him.

Bad teachers may be to blame somewhat here, i recall many moments when i opened a book and I realized the subject really wasn't as bad as the image of a despised teacher that formed in my mind whenever i thought about the subject.

So trying to get people to be more interested in science may really be hard work, which would require numerous mostly voluntary hours of people who will try to present the material, will require some change at the interpersonal (like society's view on education), and personal level, since even though a spider might objectively not bite, people will still have to sort this out for themselves on some level.

A few years ago it was 4-8hrs every day. Now no more than 0.5hrs/2days really.

My worst problems weren't lack of sun really, but the fact that i didn't bother to eat properly and lived of chocolate, and my room was such a mess i can hardly imagine it now, but i finally decided to stop when my grades were getting too low and my life seemed more fucked up day by day because of it... Dunno, at some point i just kinda thought "wait, i wanna go to this university" and it didn't allow wasting me to waste my time like that.

At 2/13/10 04:10 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:26 PM, zaci1 wrote:

At 2/13/10 02:13 PM, gamewiz202 wrote: ... but i do belive that evolution and the big bang theory are complete BS..

If you have a valid point of disproving those, why don't you publish it?

If you have a valid point of proving those, why don't you publish it?

I am not as familiar with it to either prove it od disprove it, as well as i don't have anything new to add to the theories, but when you call it complete bs it seemed like you have looked into it and disagreed with some certain aspect of it that made so clear to you as to prove it wrong for sure.

Those theories are based on experiments, and yes i do agree that a species will change towards a more suitable form for the environment (as this is a guiding principle in breeding farm animals - only the ones considered good enough are kept, and therefore with time their form changes - so why not be the same in nature only to a greater extent since more time passes?), and i don't have anything to disagree with regarding the experiments that the universe is expanding, or however they derive the idea of a "big bang" from. Nor do i, again, have any "proof" for it.

Its just that its the theory that fits the data today best, there's nothing holy about it, and will be changed as soon as data will disagree with it.

On the other hand the Christian God for example supposedly keeps being the same, and when a part of the Bible is proven wrong its interpretation is changed to a meaning that was supposedly not meant literary in the first place, and so it goes, on and on, and i really wonder what part of the original faith still remains today or will remain in the future, since part by part it is changed, but still called by its former name. And it is changed according to science, and since science leads the way in knowledge, faith is always late to adjust.

So how holy does this make a pope for example, when his word will be changed by the folowing pope anyway (pick your topic, for example birth control)?

Here's mine, i occasionally test the water and either the tests don't work or the water is clean enough, even though it is quite full of dead leaves and slightly brown.

So if anybody has a tip to on how to remove Vallisneria leaves (i manage to either damage the live leaves or leave the plant intact with the dead leaves) or leaves of small plants (theres a million of them anew every day), please share.

There are 2 female betta fish inside (they still fight occasionally and i don't recomend buying the combination, but since it's a 125l tank they manage somehow with a diagonal border between the territories).

maybe the university has a day when you can go there and they show you the difference, and than you can also find some students there and talk to them about how they see it?

At 2/12/10 09:06 PM, nihim wrote: Snow sucks ass. It really does.

Ever been in some slightly remote place after 10pm to look back towards a city with snow all around? If not i think you should, it is like time stops that moment and everything is just so beautiful.

Though fighting yourself through traffic jams with your feet submerged in not-so-white snow sucks for me as well^^

At 2/13/10 02:13 PM, gamewiz202 wrote: ... but i do belive that evolution and the big bang theory are complete BS..

If you have a valid point of disproving those, why don't you publish it?

At 2/10/10 04:43 PM, morefngdbs wrote: I refuse to have a facebook account...there's just no actual good reason for it.
I will not open or ever answer a text message on my cell phone...if you want to get a hold of me, call me & talk to me. If I'm not there my machine wll take your message & I will call you back I guarantee it...even if your the Federal Taxation Dept.

I will upgrade my phone to a black ber...iphon... or whatever in the future. But there is no way I'm going to attempt to type with a phone that has 3,4, or 5 characters/functions on one key.
Fuck that...TALK TO ME...its easy.

You want to write to me...because , I don't know, You are incapable of speech...then send me an e-mail, I'll get to you eventually !

Thats my view pretty much as well, but im not really as strict on the topic. I had a myspace account, i closed it. I have a facebook account, and while i tried to close it it makes something quite difficult so i will look into that again sometime later. I do read sms, but i will not be carrying my cellphone into the bathroom because of it.

Email is okay i guess, though being in a group it can get on your nerver as well when a person posts some info and than you get 200 "thank you"'s into your inbox. But apart to speaking to someone in person its my prefered mode of communication.

At 2/13/10 01:52 PM, StayingSain wrote:

Religion still has a very large influence on society and when I see people on television base their scientific research on the bible or some other means of divine power it makes me very angry.

Yes but religion sometimes gets into the way of science, and when it gets some people get proved wrong and change their views somewhat.

So truly wrong beliefs will probably subside on their own eventually when enough people see they are wrong.

I would say worse are the subtle anti-science trends, like some anti-vaccination movements or magic pills. The ones you cold really consider to be wannabe-science.

Its really better for a person to have the good sides of a disease not being present and not exposing yourself to a potentially harmful vaccine, and some of those people will just not realize what a threat this could become when more people will go this selfish way.

On the other hand the magic pills are worse since people will be buying them because "you can be sure they are not harmful and can therefore only do good", and rarely people talk against them in public. Here i mean certain high doses of vitamins as cure-alls or even diet pills. Did anyone notice how much variety came up in this area in the last decade or so?

And i don't consider stupidity in ignorance that far apart from each other, since they will complement each other in time.

I never give them money. As strange as it seems, i decided this one time while playing runescape - people will be claiming to be poor and need money in a game!
So when so many do it even in a game, why would people in real life do it any less where real money is involved?

We all die. Umm okay now whats new about it?

Thats because in science you actually have to put in effort to get the results. And science is difficult, complicated, boring,and for nerds. And by learning science you are wasting your youth.

So yes, basically all the non-science is potentially better untill you die, and than it doesn't matter anymore, now does it.

Oh, and lets not forget. Medicine can't cure cancer. And only beings in green landscapes take part in evolution anyway, our lives are not affectedby it.

Its hard to do it well, there are just to many people doing it.

Oh, im whining, i made it above everyone else^^