As you might have noticed we have a great, new, aussie made, science magazine. In its second issue it also features exclusive interview with professor Michio Kaku on string theory.
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1Aussies, here is finally something good to read. COSMOS magazine
by zagor in.
as you might have noticed we have a great, new, aussie made, science magazine.
in its second issue it also features exclusive interview with professor michio kaku on string theory.. http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/
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Any computer programmers here? Did any of you try Qt?
by zagor injust wondering.
we are planning to do some cross-platform development but are wondering if qt from trolltech is a way to go.
http://www.trolltech.com/.
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zagor
Just wondering. We are planning to do some cross-platform development but are wondering if QT from trolltech is a way to go. http://www.trolltech.com/
Did any of you have experience with it?
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Have you ever got up in the middle of a meeting, bored, and just left?
by JH ini did it many times.
first of all, let me say that just about every meeting i attended was a sacrifice for me.
i was a follower, not more.
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zagor
I'm glad someone brought it up finally. I don't think there was even one meeting where I felt completely immersed into program. I thought initially I was just bad witness until it finally dawned on me that meetings were just boring.
Then I've stareted noticing that many if not all in the hall from time to time used "convenient" excuses just to skip meetings or go home earlier. Then it occured to me that many love having parts in meetings or giving comments just to keep themselves awake. I mean, come on, give me a break. If something was really the ultimate truth should we all feel a real buzz at the meetings?!?
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How much science we take on "faith"
by Big Dog inno real point here, just a funny thought popped in my head as i was reading yet another thread where people were being hammered with scientific facts and theories and i was nodding my head agreeing with the rational fact based explination when a thought occured to me: i take quite a bit of science on "faith".. what i mean is this, when i am reading the explination of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or molecular biology i have to take it on faith as i can't do the mathematical proofs and so on to verify what i am being told and i assume that is the case with most of us non-rocket scientists, and probably even many in the fields of science and technology.
i like science, i enjoy reading discovery magazine and trying to keep up on the latest techno advancements, but i realized how much of it i take on "faith" as i have no way to verify or disprove what i am being told by a scientist.
i recall einstein saying once that something like 6 people in the world truly understood the implications of his work.. so if you want to argue "faith", i'd say that many that believe in science have just as much faith as those that believe in religion.
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zagor
Difference between science and religion is that science must show a proof of every claim whereas religion or faith is exactly that, no proof, fuzzy feeling.
Now I agree that no one can take it all in. There are so many fields of scientific endeavour that would take you literally an eternity just to chew all what has be discovered so far, so you simply must, for the sake of sanity, focus on your narrow field of expertise and take other things on faith. Though I would rather replace that word with the word trust. So no one can adequately discuss it all due to shear volume of knowledge and that is quite normal to be expert in a narrow field and take other things on "faith" (mind you, some do think they can be a lid for every utensil as we say here, that is, to equally well discuss any scientific topic, that just speaks voulmes not of science but of them as "experts") -
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The Country of Niger... A Call To Reason
by Doubtfully Yours ini see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
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zagor
What I know is that those poor babies are certainly not guilty of anything and I can't even imagine what it would be like to watch your own child die because there's nothing to eat. I mean come on, where's humanity?!? We give billions on trivial things such as nail polish or car cosmetics only a fraction of that would feed those children.
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Alan F's flaming arguments and insults
by Rex inhi alan, .
have you ever looked at the carved up mountains, hills and valleys?????
have examined the remarkable similarity to the mount st. helen's canyon that was carved our very quickly?
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zagor
The watchword is "modern looking footprints". Forbidden Archaeology's writeup on this has been thoroughly debunked, and with a bit of research you can find online information about it. The point is that what the authors claim is a footprint is not that at all. It's just an odd formation in the sandstone that happens to look something like a footprint, much like some clouds look like Richard Nixon.
Right.
Thank you Alan for putting it so eloquently . I'm certainly not an archeologist so I wouldn't know, it is hard enough to keep in step with my own field of expertise without venturing into someone else's. All I can do is to try being informed about other fields to the best of what my circumstances would allow.
I believe that there are people who are equally well informed about archeology, biology, astronomy, various branches of engineering, medicine, physics and mathematics.
I certainly am not one of those natural geniuses. So if I stumbled upon a 'wrong book' as some of you are suggesting I suppose I could be forgiven for it. I found arguments in the book interesting as a casual reader not as an expert archeologist. On the other hand few people here are expert archeologists anyway and this is not such kind of a forum. So if I commented on this subject it was meant to be in that sort of a context.
Likwise, I respect other people's opinions regardless of what they are and unless they are deliberatly trying to offend me I try to give respect in return. And I do think that people on this forum should treat each other with a bit more respect. This partuclar thread is a typical example what can happen when people do not respect each other. Thats my 0.02 cents. -
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Alan F's flaming arguments and insults
by Rex inhi alan, .
have you ever looked at the carved up mountains, hills and valleys?????
have examined the remarkable similarity to the mount st. helen's canyon that was carved our very quickly?
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Called the information desk again about the UN
by skyman ini have called many times in the past.
this time i was calling for a sister that wanted to know the truth from the society.
the brother from the information desk said they did join but realy they were tricked.
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zagor
They just don't know when to stop lying, do they?
On the other hand that just shows their view on avarage level of intelligence among JWs. What a joke.Here is a new site http://www.unwatchtower.com/ was that put there by one of you?
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Called the information desk again about the UN
by skyman ini have called many times in the past.
this time i was calling for a sister that wanted to know the truth from the society.
the brother from the information desk said they did join but realy they were tricked.
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zagor
Geez, Imagine that, they got tricked into applying every year since 1992! Reminds me of a joke I heard a while ago.
Judge: Why did you stab that man?
Defendant: Well judge I slipped on bannana and fell on him
Judge: But he had 45 stab wounds.
Defendant: I tried to pick myself up and fell on him again 45 times, damn bannana!
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Alan F's flaming arguments and insults
by Rex inhi alan, .
have you ever looked at the carved up mountains, hills and valleys?????
have examined the remarkable similarity to the mount st. helen's canyon that was carved our very quickly?
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zagor
What about the Colorado river carving out the Grand Canyon by erosion over a few hundred million years?
That's why I find some arguments in Forbidden Archeology book intriguing as it seems that man has been around for at least several million years and not only last 100.000. For example how to explain modern looking footprints along with trilobites old at least 3 million years??!!??