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Some interesting questions in General
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quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

I tend to think in English, but every so often something in German will sneak in. I don't see colors in the words in my head, unless I specifically visualize the words. Otherwise, the things in my head fall more along the lines of "indistinct shapes" than actual words.
Is your first language German, or did you just spend as much time using German as I did English?

I tend to think in English a lot of the time...

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A Thousand Words in General
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quote:
Originally written by The Adventures of Taqman and ELISA:

(Image as link for browser sanity)

Lock

Mod was here!

—Alorael, who has more of those lined up. Many, many more.

Was this meant to be accompanied by an actual lock? It sure looked like it...

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The Topic To Perhaps End Some Topics in General
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I told myself I'd go as soon as the stats were posted. I stayed away for almost a week - but then, I'm a mod, so posting is a bit like a duty. Heh.

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My God can beat up your God! in General
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Profile Homepage #162
quote:
Originally written by Drakefyre:

Mohammed is not the messiah for Muslims - he is just God's last prophet.
Out of interest, does "last" in this context mean "last ever" or "most recent"? Is there any possibility for another prophet in the future, as there seems to be in Judaism and Christianity?

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A Thousand Words in General
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quote:
Originally written by Lt. Sullust:

I find the concept of Pre-Emptive CoC enforcement very troubling...
I have the well-being of the people at heart.

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:P

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A Thousand Words in General
Law Bringer
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Don't worry; SA's definition of Ethical Conduct is pretty unique.

I do wonder about the manual redirect though. Does this mean they have time to sift through the server logs to find out whether an image is being requested through another web site? It's not exactly hard to make the redirect automatic, like Geocities does.
Then again, it's not very hard to circumvent that either.

Also, I don't know any pictures that are significantly worse than Goatse. Except harlequin fetus, perhaps, my memory of which is repressed.

Since Kingy is either offline or doesn't see your message, I'm relocating the pictures. Call it pre-emptive CoC enforcement, or something. :P

[ Tuesday, May 30, 2006 04:18: Message edited by: Henry Anthony Wilcox ]

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I'm back. Finally. in General
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The topic isn't at fault, really; nor are you.

However, since you started it and it hasn't gone anywhere important, there's no reason not to grant your request.

(This goes for Ed's "PLZ BAN ME" too. Admins?)

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[ Tuesday, May 30, 2006 03:48: Message edited by: Henry Anthony Wilcox ]

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I'm back. Finally. in General
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Nikita is Delete-on-Sight. If you'd just stop responding to his posts, it would make it a bit easier.

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A Thousand Words in General
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quote:
Originally written by The Worst Man Ever:

Kingy, please take those down or mirror them. SA images incur horrible penalties on remote-linkers.
Those penalties take some time before taking effect? I haven't seen any yet, unless I misunderstood you. Does "horrible penalties" not refer to redirecting remote-linked images to goatse?

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Ancient Mystery: Solved! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Maimonides:

quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

He didn't say "all fundamentalists." He simply used a plural: more than one fundamentalist.
There is no reason to assume the two are meaningfully separate.

There is no reason to assume they are not.

Hah. :P

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My God can beat up your God! in General
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So, a summary of what I must now assume about RealityCorp (that's you, GremlinJoe, right?):

- a *cough*fanatic*cough* devoted Christian
- who believes Christ is a lightbulb
- and was formerly a follower of David Icke (reptilian world conspiracy).

Wow.

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Ancient Mystery: Solved! in General
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Profile Homepage #21
Rephrased:

"I have known at least one person who I would class as a fundamentalist who argued against the feasibility of macro-evolution based on at least partly this reason."

:rolleyes:

[ Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:25: Message edited by: Henry Anthony Wilcox ]

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Ancient Mystery: Solved! in General
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Rather than "one" egg that was laid by non-chicken parents and hatched as a chicken, there were probably several hundred generations of these, each one looking a bit closer to a chicken. The scope and speed of evolution tends to get exaggerated, which is one reason fundamentalists find it so hard to believe.

[ Saturday, May 27, 2006 22:29: Message edited by: Henry Anthony Wilcox ]

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Excuse me? in General
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I expected having to prove it to you, but I guess that counts as a confession.

That's not how it works. You were banned temporarily two months ago and then banned permanently after evading the ban. You had a discussion with Stareye who explained to you quite clearly that you are not welcome here anymore.

You don't get parole after two months here. Ask some people who've been gone the past two years. You can move to another continent and change your name and writing style, and you might be able to fool us, but otherwise it will save us all time if you just find yourself another forum. K?

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Bobby pendragon in General
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I distinctly remember the admins telling you to go boil your head, Edward aka &. Please do not take us all for idiots; we aren't.

01 POST
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04 GOTO 01

[ Saturday, May 27, 2006 05:20: Message edited by: Henry Anthony Wilcox ]

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These pretzels are making me thirsty. in General
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I stalk Thuryl? :confused:

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Dan Brown Book... in General
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Profile Homepage #10
quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Never read The Da Vinci Code. Before it got big I read his earlier book Angels & Demons which was intensely silly: set in the present day, but it turns out that the Europeans are about a hundred years ahead of the US scientifically. This is only a surprise because the notoriously parochial American media has not bothered to report spaceplanes and antimatter. Yet when a terrible plot with deep roots in European history emerges, those brilliant European scientists call in a Harvard professor. It's a good thing they do, though, because the secrets of the Illuminati turn out to be typographical tricks with English words. Did I forget to mention it all happens in a papal election?
Talking about that, is it even theoretically possible to make a suitcase-sized anti-matter container? From what I understand you need keep the particles cycling in a particle-accelerator-like containment ring several hundred meters in diameter to keep them from touching the walls, so just slapping a couple of magnets into a capsule's walls isn't going to do it.

CERN wrote a detailed response to the book, rebutting pretty much every single point in A&D. Antimatter is not an energy source (and not even an efficient energy storage at this point, unlike Hydrogen). It cannot be produced in more than a few atoms at a time, and all antimatter ever produced at CERN could power a lightbulb for a few minutes. And so on.

I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code as a mixture of alternate history and historical fiction. I enjoyed Angels and Demons slightly less as science-fiction trying desperately to sound accurate. I liked Digital Fortress a lot less partly because of its Clancy-ish US nationalism and partly because I know more about computers than about physics, so the technical stuff sounded even more like BS than in Angels and Demons.

By the time I read Deception Point, I was somewhat deadened to the nationalism, so it irked me less. Also, I know absolutely nothing about astrophysics or marine biology, so it was easier to suspend disbelief. Still, I wouldn't have read it if I hadn't bought all four books at once. Which I regret - I should have stopped reading after Angels and Demons, when it was still passable.

[ Thursday, May 25, 2006 13:39: Message edited by: Henry Anthony Wilcox ]

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Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
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Just out of curiosity: What is an adminastor? Is this some terrible and revered position of unimaginable power - an eminence grease*, so to speak, behind Drakefyre and Stareye?

*sorry. Pratchett influence.

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