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It is right now ... just like "electricity" was a completely foreign and "obscure" concept a few hundred years ago. But now we understand it well enough to be able to stuff a billion tiny transistors into a few square milimeteres ... Right now it's obscure ... but that doesn't meen it's going to stay obscure indefinitely. Heisenberg once said we can't know the position and verlocity of an electron both at the same time. But we have found ways to describe it (using probabilistic models). There's no saying what cannot be done. Obviously what has been done, can be done. Now about the "can't be dones" ...

Just consider him as "he who wonder"

What if we open our eyes one day and realize our imagination had been running wild and coming up with theories and wonderful explanations for otherwise much simpler things? All I am saying here is that all these talks of ghosts, goblins, souls, other universes, things beyond death, coming and going in different shapes, and gods and angels and so so so so many of these "magical" things we are talking about ... most have started from our imaginations! Let's not get carried away with those Is it possible? Yah maybe. But what's more probable?

What do you mean "take advantage"? He is going to feel better

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I can't prove you anything ... all I can tell you is for a long time "fire" seemed magical to cavemen ... that round bright thing in the sky seemed like a god ... we thought we were magically the center of everything and everything revolved around us. People thought grape juice turned into wine by magic ... there are still those that think UFOs exist and are flying around us ... to some, what a computer can do seems like magic ... Many believed that the sick were possessed by the devil ... we burned many claiming them to be "witches" ... All I know is, we as humans seem to see "magic, supernatural, other-worldly" when we don't understand something. I think we should learn from the past

That's a very nice story and will make a wonderful movie and will make people's eyes tear up. All I am saying is, I don't subscribe to any of that. They injected me with a few cc's of something and I was OUT. No floating, no feeling, no ANYTHING ... nothing was felt, nothing was experienced .... there was NOTHING until I came back to being again I think that's what death is like. For some reason people always seem to want to imagine much more complex things where in fact, it's quite simple!

I don't know about most men but just the thought of not being able to sleep at ANY angle on the bed is pretty damn scary. You have to watch yourself day and nigth ... and you can't just start rolling over any which way you want while sleeping because that could result in a punch in your face, a kick in the you know where, a lot of screaming and some very ugly words being thrown at you in the middle of the night. Being scared of commitment (or attachment I should say) doesn't mean one is looking to be running around with different women although it some cases it may be so.

I've had a couple of surgeries when I was knocked out ... nothing serious just fixing broken bones and what not ... I didn't even have dreams! I was out COLD ... so I kinda know what death must "feel" like ... and no it doesn't really bother me at all. Nothing will matter after I'm dead so why should it bother me?!!!!

Oh dont' get me wrong though ... I ain't complaining ONE bit! I live for this stuff Such a rush when you have a deadline ... all of a sudden problems seem to start solving themselves I just do wish that hard work would translate to success all the time ... that would make my life pretty easy

I am much more practically minded. I started a few months before birth and will end at death. For me, nothing existed before I came to be and nothing will exist after death. The rest of you feel free to do whatever you want after I'm dead While I'm alive, we'll obey the laws of thermodynamics and regular old physics Last part was a joke

I thought the dashnaks were coming to take over I know a bit of German

Knowing Computers? me? Nah ... I just like them Actually Vava and Domino are also pretty knowledgable ... so feel free to ask questions about them. I'm sure someone here will be able to help. e-machines suck ass because they use EXTREMELY cheap components to really really really drive the costs down. With PCs, you really get what you pay for. They don't make too much profit except with the latest and the most high end stuff ... they just can't make profits if they want to stay competitive. So "cheap" usually means poor quality with computers. By the way, XP is probably the best operating system for a PC you can get right now... for the "average non-geeky user" that is. So it doesn't suck ass at all

I'm also thinking about a new one ... I think this one I'll put together myself ... haven't done that in at least a couple of years! I want to get a GOOD motherboard ... need to start doing some research ... to be honest, not sure what processor I'm going to go with ... but P4 sounds mighty good right now ... 3Ghz with 800 Mhz bus.

No I've had about 2-3 hours of "rest" per "day" but when my mind is racing focused on a single problem, at least I rarely get a good sleep. I always want to jump back in and try to do it ... but then the muscles just say NO way. I think I've produced more bug-free code in the last 72 hours than most people working for big companies do in a year

we all grow old and we all die. I just know I haven't really slept in 3 days and I am still far from being sucessful where this project is concerned!!! Just an hour ago I realized I had been running in circles for the last 36 hours ... ah only if hard work meant success ... then at least I'd have something to show for my numb fingers and tired eyes!!!!! But I'm getting there ... just a bit of the old brain and I'm back in busiiness. It's amazing how a little thought (which I should have put in before I started the hard work) can go SUCH a long way.

I have known a lot of peple that "work hard" ... VERY hard ... but some don't become successful at all. And as far as Ph.D. .... if only "working hard" was the requirement, so many would have Ph.D.s It's a lot more than that. Sure in some cases you can "work hard" and make employee of the month at the local market bagging groceries for people month after month. You can get awards and bonuses and maybe promotions that are in place to encourage hard work to begin with. But with Ph.D (using as an example), you don't "get" a Ph.D. ... you become one. That takes a lot more than just hard work. Oh but don't lose that attitude ... working hard is definitely a big part of it!

I don't think there is a soul ... I think "life" is all physical, chemical, and biological and as long as blood is circulating and those neurons firing in our brain we can think and function. When all that stops, so do we and that's the end.

That is a VERY difficult question to answer.

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My comment was because of this.

Domino, BEFORE you treat, first diagnose Azatik ... I bought a Compaq for my parents from BestBuy for $589 a few months ago (just PC no monitor). It had a 2+ Ghz AMD processor, 512 MB RAM, 60Gig disk, DVD player, CD recorder, and very decent sound/video (not for gaming but for any regular stuff). I have been very happy with that purchase as it was the easiest "new" PC I have ever gotten ... and probably the most cost effective.

Maybe. All I am saying is just because you are "fighting for what you want" doesn't mean you will succeed or that what you are doing is right. Of course for a LOT of things we are dreaming of, we have to work hard for to them. That is not what I am disputing. Things just don't fall into our laps most of the time. But we have to pick our "battles" wisely.

Come on people!!!! Doesn't matter how much I dream about NBA and work hard ... doesn't matter if I spent the last 27 years shooting baskets day and night and practicing drills, I would NOT be in NBA today. I could also never be a horse jockey doesn't matter how much I dreamt of being one or worked hard to be one. These notion of "dream and you can have" and "work hard and you can achieve" are all nice and romantic when told from parent to child, teacher to student, priest to parishoner but in real life, they don't mean much.

I think first of all the more important question is, is there a "soul"?