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quote:Originally posted by vava:Sadly Thoth, I have hung up my towel. The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal happened to eat my favourite one during my last visit to Squornshellous Zeta... That is one of those rare posts that sounds almost identical (and is just as confusing) read forwards and backwards!!! Wow dude!

quote:Originally posted by MJ: quote:Originally posted by aurguplu:i have a new international version bible where it is mentioned that jesus had a brother called james?! how come this comes as such a shock to christians? It doesn't. Only those who have never read the New Testimony are shocked.The "those" being probably the great majority who depend on TV for their info (such as me) ... but I got Hyeforum too!

quote:Originally posted by Domino:But thise does not contradict what I said, to the contrary. Why do you think everyone is out to contradict you all the time?

First of all, nice try, trying to distract me with ideas of food right in the beginning. Unfortunately, you were successful! So for now, I am going to think about this a bit since it's a pretty cool question. However, I have a couple of things to throw out there: 1) Energy in an "isolated system" is constant. 2) The entropy of an "isolated system" cannot decrease. 3) Universe is an isolated system. The first 2 are laws of thermodynamics. The third one is my guess. I would agree that "live" beings, reduce their entropy (in their local system) and can thus be considered more "ordered". Whether life is the most ordered thing in the universe, I have NO idea. Domino, do you know something about the whole Universe we don't? But anyway, this is just my initial feeling about the subject and I'll try to come back to this.

Dear Gamavor, Hate if you must, but I can assure you this board would have closed down long ago if it weren't for strict moderating. When you have one or few disturbed individual who "spam" a board, that board is no more a "discussion board" ... it is simply a recycle bin of repetitive, useless, "spam". I am all for letting people speak ANYTHING they want to say. But that should not come at the cost of shutting out someone else I think EVERYONE should get a fair chance to speak no matter what they believe. But if someone spams a forum in which I am a moderator, I wouldn't hesitate a second before sending their entire thread into "empty and resusable hard disk sector land"

Oh, yah the "guest" posting is a big source of headache ... I know how that can be. Hmmmm ... with anonymous/guest posting, you have to have round-the-clock moderators

You simply delete the user's account and all of his/her posts. On most forums you can also set flood control so that a user cannot post more than one message per some time period. I can't see how anyone could "take" a site, unless they hack into the site through some back-door, get a hold of the admin account/password, or get root access to the server. Oh, and I fully agree that the admin here knows his sh!t [ November 11, 2002, 07:49 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Dealing with that "virus" is easy! You just have to have good moderators who are on top of things I guess But yah, totally pathetic ... the good thing is that their actions are obviously self destructive as well

With some of the current printer deals, sometimes it makes sense to buy a new printer than to replace the ink cartridges!!! (esp for inkjet ones)

Yah, since there is a one in a million chance that the hottie may say "yes", your chances of succeeding is much better with the hottie than trying to pass those classes Dman I am on a ROLL tonight. It must be "rip on Jug" day today

Vow Vow Vow Jug ... what happened to "Accelerated" ?

According to my estimates, that's about 1.25% annual growth rate (continuous) for the next 18 years ... that's not too bad at all ... it would seem to me that the other muslim countries in the area have a much higher growth rate (just a feeling though) ... anyone have any actual numbers for other coutries around there?

Forget repairing ... you are always better off buying a new one for $100. Even a cheap one will live for a couple of years.

Just checked eBay and there are plenty of used ones ... $40 for 17" ... just wanted to say, "IIYAMA VISION MASTER PRO" is a great monitor (I saw it on ebay) ... iiyama is a not so well known brand but they make great monitors (personal experience) ... one of the few companies where everything is made in japan (at least as of a few years ago) If you take Sony for example, their crap is made/assembled in Malaysia ... I'd stay away from Sony By the way, HOW THE HELL did you post with a dead monitor? [ November 10, 2002, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

When you hear those noises, it could be 2 things: 1) Bad picture tube (assuming it's a CRT monitor) 2) Refresh rate is too high. Since you didn't change your video card and it was working, I am assuming your refresh rate is ok. If it was a refresh rate problem, you should at least see a picture when the PC is booting. So I am guessing the tube is fried. What kind of monitor is it? Is it Japanese or one of those cheap ones? How long have you had it? But don't forget to check your video cable... make sure it is tightly connected on BOTH ENDS. If you can, try the monitor with another PC to make sure it's not a video card problem ... but what you are describing, it sounds like a dead monitor The good news is you can buy 17" monitors for around $100 (90-120) on the inexpensive side ... with shipping, it'll probably be less than $150. Don't know what kinds of stores you have around you but it's not the end of the world ... I go through about 1 monitor every 2-3 years ... right now, I have a Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 22" one that is just awesome ... but I paid a lot for it (back when the economy was GOOD)

There's nothing really wrong with my team ... I tend to score descently ... it's just that people seem to have games of their lives against me! Like Bogglers ... Plaxico scored like 37 points for him!!!! By the way, did you see what happened in the Steeler's game? Wow! I just saw the highlights and it looks like it was a heck of a game. I still have Portis, Rice, and Rickey Williams playing so there is hope for me. But I don't think I'll get to 124 points ... I am watching the Miami game right now ... hopeing Rickey will light things up a bit Actually, I think I am 4th or a very close 3rd in terms of number of points scored. However, in terms of points scored against, I am second to last ... only beating Tigranes ... unfortunately, I don't have much control over how many points are scored against me [ November 10, 2002, 06:58 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by THOTH:If anyone has ever seen taxicab confesions- wirth the 2 Armenian guys - I'm still rolling over that one... Yah I saw that taxicab confessions!!! That was absolute hilarity ... those guys were so damn funny. I couldn't believe some of the stuff they said They were really drunk and maybe on some other things too Weren't those guys from Detroit or something? [ November 10, 2002, 05:49 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Hey Thoth, how's the wine today? (just re-read your post and you'll see what I mean ) Whoot: Yes! We even have used Armenian cars ... they come equipped with "xhorovats" making equipment from the factory (it uses engine heat under the hood), run on 80-proof vodka, and the CD-player only plays Harut Pamboukjian. But best of all, they are voice activated: You say "Ara gna" it starts to go ... you say "Hop" and it stops.

Domino, I don't think I was mixing anything. Actually, I see now that we are in perfect agreement! The only confusion I guess is from the fact that I don't care about the "possible" or "human" (as you call it) good/bad at all. That is irrelevant I think. I am always in search of absolute good/bad (as I think everyone else should also be). And I think we both agree that our challenge in life is to try to be good in the "absolute" sense even with our limited perception. Of course we will make mistakes along the way ... but we should try to minimize mistakes as much as humanly possible. Thoth: I agree! With all those powers, it just seems like the "christian" god at least is toying with us for his/her amuzement [ November 10, 2002, 04:47 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Was it last night? Ah !!!! I missed it Have you seen the one where Ben Affleck playing a used Armenian Car salesman? It's one the FUNNIEST SNL sketches ever ... the one when a "kinky" husband and wife show up and almost everything they say has some strange sexual connotation Affleck in a thick "Armenian" accent: "You vant me to put it in FIRST"? (referring to the stick-shift)

Not mad at you at all!!! They certainly deserve a BIG mention Welcome aboard by the way!

quote:Originally posted by HOVSEP KASHISHIAN:To all nations of the world: 1) unvail your women ... Now we're talkin!!!

I have a fundamental problem with how you are defining order. "Killing is worse than lying" is not a universalizable statement. It is not absolute. The same applies to "human is higher order than mouse". You almost always have to consider the big picture ... that is where Kant's thing falls apart. Example: A human new-born child vs. A healthy adult female white tiger. Which one is higher order in your mind? If that tiger species disappears, it is GONE FOREVER (ignore genetic research for the moment). A human new-born is relatively trivial to recreate. Granted, that that specific instance of a human is unique (some argue that it's infinitely valuable), but I am making the argument that in that case, your ordering is grossly shortsighted. You have to consider a LOT of factors in your ordering, and that's what makes it a difficult task. I realize that people get a bit touchy when humans are concerned. So replace my "human baby" example above, with a chimpanzee baby. Obviously a chimp is much more "ordered" than a tiger ... or is it? In this case, I think that white tiger is a LOT more "valuable" than the chimp, even though the chimp is much higher on your scale (I am guessing). Also, what if we met in real life one day and I say either: 1) Hi Domino, you are a fat ugly pig. 2) Hi Domino, you look good man, what's up? What if #1 is the truth but I choose to say #2? I did a bad thing (lie) but I think the outcome will most likely be better (more good) than what will happen with #1. [ November 09, 2002, 05:41 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

But unfortunately, Kant's theories fall apart very quickly in some cases. There have been instances in the past, where lying was the better action. There have also been instances in which killing was very justified. I have no doubt that in the future, that will hold true as well. You simply cannot say killing and lying is bad so NEVER do it! It just doesn't work like that Examples of "good" killings: self-defense, shooting a hostage-taker, assasinating a bad dictator. Examples of "good" lying: Ah there are just too many! Just think how many times you lie during the day. Most of those are good lieings I bet.

I am not a believer in God. I find great comfort in knowing that my actions are not that impacting to the Universe! That basically takes a huge load off my shoulders so to say. Unfortunately, I have this gift/curse of being able to think on my own. So even though I know my actions are not that significant in the Universe, per se, they are very significant in my own life. I, just like anyone else out there, is out to maximize my own happiness. The difficulty in my case is that my happiness function greatly depends on the happiness of the people around me, so simple greedy actions that are only taken for my benefit never tend to work out I must constantly analyze the "whole picture", as much as I can see of it anyway, and base my decisions (the good and bad analysis) on my perception of the whole picture. That often causes a lot of problems in life ... sometimes there are tradeoffs and conflicts that you have to resolve ... I have often been in situations where good/bad actions are NOT that easy to figure out ... and worst of all, you can't know the answer most of the time until after you perform an action and see the result. The time-dimension is a very hairy beast to concur so to say!!!!