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Hey, even a blind chicken finds a kernel of corn every now and then, why couldn't a survey do it accentally? Speaking of chicken, it probably is a chicken vs. egg problem. Did the moral values influence the religion or did the religion influence the moral values. I always believed that religion was a product of the time and place where it was created, reflecting what was acceptable at the time. As times change, sometimes the religion does too. We generally don't chop off the right hands of thieves, stone adulterers to death or sacrifice a 1000 prisoners every spring to ensure a good harvest at the end of summer. Continuing that line of thought, agnostics/atheists can be **** like everybody else.

Do not underestimate the power of the blue killer algae!

Oscar really is a tremendously talented artist : http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index...pic,1701.0.html (pics at bottom of page) The sad thing is, no matter that it looks perfectly fit for the task, self appoint art (direction) critics will line up in a queue to tell you have bad it is, picking at everything from the lighting over missing shaderss to the texture resolution. Need more bloom. It looks perfectly nice... I'm getting curiouser and curiouser about their two games

Yes, you show them! Death to the evil wooden pallets!

Look at the size of her sword! Is that Final Fantasy or what? Arghh!... those swords!... My eyes!... I've gone blind!... The new Grey Warden...

Looks like she has a skin condition? Anyway, it's possible they killed off characters later. Just don't remember seeing them do it in the original series/first few movies

Don't remember anybody name Dax, but Kirk and Spock? Damn you Hollywood Spock doesn't really count, does he? He came back in the sequel Edit to add: I've only seen the first 3 movies + one involving Picard and Borg (don't remember the title name).

Uh, main characters died in Star Trek too. Admittedly not in all of them, but still. Who? Last time I checked, Kirk, Scotty, Spock etc. were all alive and kicking in the movies

They already use robots to disarm IEDs, plus AI research is decades away from anything concrete that can actually be applied and seeing as is the Japanese that are at the forefront we may see sexbots before warbots. Make love and not war, peace out Just imagining the collective seizures that would hit the patriarchal establishment in rural/tribal south Asia if they got invaded by thousands of armed sexbots...

Luckily for us, there are people who look beyond the horizons of current knowledge and try to push the barriers, otherwise we would still live in caves be scared of lightning. This isn't about having an open mind - this is about cold, hard truth. You can ramble on all you want about how believing that our current knowledge is incomplete means that FTL travel is possible, but the fact is that it is not. You're fooling yourself. You sound like you find the very idea that Einstein could be wrong offensive? It's not just Einstein, bro. Strawmanning won't help you. Ah, I thought he was the first to promote the idea that FTL wasn't possible. You sure treat it like a religion thing. Not sure who ruined your day. Accepting status quo never (rarely) lead to any progress. I prefer to not lay down and die just because people tell me that my next goal is impossible. Otherwise I wouldn't be where I am today. Even if the original outlined path to achieve something turns out to be "not viable", you might discover alternative ways of achieving the same result, sometimes in completely unexpected ways. You wont know until you try though.

Luckily for us, there are people who look beyond the horizons of current knowledge and try to push the barriers, otherwise we would still live in caves be scared of lightning. This isn't about having an open mind - this is about cold, hard truth. You can ramble on all you want about how believing that our current knowledge is incomplete means that FTL travel is possible, but the fact is that it is not. You're fooling yourself. You sound like you find the very idea that Einstein could be wrong offensive?

Luckily for us, there are people who look beyond the horizons of current knowledge and try to push the barriers, otherwise we would still live in caves and be scared of lightning.

Get rid of the human factor and give the thing a decent AI (and better armour plating) and we don't need people getting shred to bits by IED's when patrolling remote regions in Afghanistan.

How does physics explain entangled photons? The university of Vienna has investigated the phenomena for years, trying to discover what makes one photon "communicate" effects to it's twin faster than light. There's no "communication" between entangled particles - that's a common misconception. Observing one simply determines the state of both - when you look at how wonky most quantum physics is, it's not all that unbelievable. It still doesn't have any relevance to FTL travel. Well, you sort of have to learn how to walk before you run faster than light... The beauty of physics is that we don't know it all, only what we have been able to grasp, observe and theorise about so far. I'm normally not a believer in anything, but I do have certain degree of faith in human curiosity. Not possible doesn't exist, only unsolved puzzles.

How does physics explain entangled photons? The university of Vienna has investigated the phenomena for years, trying to discover what makes one photon "communicate" effects to it's twin faster than light.

Ah, "that". Probably part of what made it different. This isn't Star Trek I really need to find Blakes 7 (the only thing that even remotely reminds me of Firefly, sort of it's darker and more cynical cousin) some day... Amazon has had the 20 disc set listed as unavailable for so long now

Yeah, even having never seen the series, that scene really threw me for a loop. I didn't like it. :/ Somebody throw me a torch here?...

This game suddenly incresed 40000% in coolness!

I would very much disagree with that. There isn't any huge difference in what you see because devs don't really do much with it most of the time. But the quality difference is still readily apparent. Unfortunately, noone seems willing to put forth the effort to use it for anything...but now that a large portion of gamers use a DX10 OS and card I'm hoping to see a lot more. ( http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey ) Interesting. I find the number of mono-core cpus surprising, as well as the low number of quad-core's in circulation (among steams survey group).

The extended cut makes the movie have much more sense/coherency. Let those who hate Alien 3 hate it, I liked it (the extended version). Saw Serenity. I've seen it twice now, not sure what to make of it. Sort of redundant if you've seen Firefly, not sure if it would be any fun to watch if you haven't. I should dust off my Firefly boxed set and get watching from episode 1 again.

Which is pretty much my main concern with the impending doom sabre rattling legislation on the horizon. I just put the blame squarely on shoulders of the "freeloaders", that such legislation is even beeing seriously considered and not shot down in it's infancy. One of the things I was happy to leave behind in the old country was the feeling of big brother always watching over my shoulder, the almost paranoia you get knowing that there are cameras everywhere, every single monetary transaction you do is registered against your cpr-number (a serial number that is unique for all Danes), that you have to prove your innocense to the tax man and not the other way around. Some people have made it all too easy for guys like RIAA etc. to become powerful and it is not the legit users. So yeah, I'm not afraid of putting my foot where my mouth is and practise what I preach, so I haven't bough music for the last 5 years, the dvd's I buy are those that run on my multiregion Sony dvd player and blu-rays?... not until they drop the market control and get rid of the region encoding (or multiregion players become widely available). My point still stands, those guys are offering nothing that anybody truly needs and only because people act like sheep (by wanting what they offer so badly) do they wield the power that they do.

I would have to go out and buy Oblivion first, but I would be surprised if I couldn't find it in a bargain somewhere now Same thing goes for Fallout 3 actually. Never tried that one.

Sorry to hear that In that case, hope you find what you are looking for some day.

Ah yes, another popular excuse by the apologists... not stealing, just violating a bit of copyright. It might be easier to pursue in a court room, but semanthic obfuscation doesn't change the fact that you are stealing. What you are stealing is the depriving other people due payment for the time and labour invested in their work. To bring back my original example of the hairdresser, walking away without paying him is not really stealing either, is it? Try telling the plumber that fixed your broken water pipe that, thanks, but since I now have what I need, why should I pay you for your time, etc. Only the anonymity in stealing digitally distributable stuff makes lions out of whimps. The same whimps indulging in self pity if somebody wants to make it harder for them apparantly.