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These T-shirts are too funny. Notice I post them in the humour section - there is NO OFFENSE INTENDED here, so I really don't wish to see someone try and burn down the HF servers... T-Shirt Hell.

Same as in the case of "spiritual" healing. People are observed to heal - and their healing is being attributed to religion/prayer. Sometimes sick people just get better. This (the bolded statement) has been my observation - and it is quite prevalent. You guys can attribute healing to god or whatever - I securely believe that it is the "self" that heals. Whether it is through the belief in religion, homeopathic medicine, or sheer determination. It is mind over matter - what the mind believes, in fact. So the belief in religion can certainly be a healing force... but magically healing someone else is an entirely different matter.

Check these out - some are simply hilarious http://cagle.com/news/CheneyShoots/main.asp

I don't want to get into this argument again. But it was once also an "observed fact" that the world was flat - unfortunately enough. I entirely accept that when it comes to human health, phsychological and biological boundaries are blurred - physical well-being has a definite impact upon mental well-being and vice-versa. All this solely within the individual. Where I see a problem is with claim that someone else's mental well-being (or spirituality, call is as you wish) can have a direct impact upon another's physical conditions. I don't think that sort of healing is anymore fact-based than the flat earth. True, one person can guide another's mental/physical balance and help them heal themselves - but that's not the direct type of healing that we're referring to here.

Not for people with machines a couple of years old. And many of the features they are 'touting' already exist in competing OSes - MacOS "Tiger" has much of what was mentioned without having to have a monster machine to run it all. Although now with the use if Intel chips in Macs, that may change... Anyway I look forward to trying Vista - I'm quite enjoying XP - with a few exceptions of course. Overall, it has done it's job well for me. I still prefer using my Mac, but it's aging... speed and capacty are now issues for me (what was fine 2-3 years ago is no longer acceptable)

You might want to search for a cockatiel forum. I tool care of my cousin's cockatiel once. It look great - but one morning I woke up and it was stiff - dead - lying on its side at the bottom of the cage. I don't think I should be offering any advice whatsoever.

And where are you now? Welcome to HF

Bombings and violence go against the teachings of all major religions. "Poking fun" at religion does not justify, by any measure, violent behaviour. What a total cop-out. People who resort to violence in "protection" of their religion have completely missed the boat.

Responsible or not, I don't believe that 'western' socieites & cultural institutions including the media should allow themselves to be cowed by threats of violence and militantism. Granted there are sensitivities involved, but I doubt that these particular cartoons are the root cause of all this. As much as the publications of the cartoons had an impact on inciting radicals to violence, a greater role was played by muslim activists who compiled the caricitures along with many other dipictions of their own prophet (from hatemail, and hate-organisations like the Aryan Nation etc.). They created and distributed their little booklets amongts militant imams in order to be able to exert international pressure on their own governments. The violence is in direct response to communications campaign that was conducted deliberately to induce these kinds of reactions. But who pays the price? According to you we should just shut up and heed the demands of militants lest they burn our embassies.

It's definitely not n-1 That would leave too many people without ALL the gossip. Besides for the simple case of 4 glendale armenians, it would have to be a minimum of 4 calls. Taking armenians A,B,C & D: A <--> B C <--> D then A <--> C & B <-->D and voila - they all know. I think 4 is a critical number here, cause above 4 you will need a greater number of calls than the "n" number of Armenians. This is the type of discrete mathematics that keep comp-sci geeks busy (and happy), right sip? Without attempting a classical mathematics proof, i've tried to determine the formula through a series: when n=x, (y)=calls are required: 1, (0) 2, (1) 3, (3) 4, (4) as shown above 5, (6) 6, (8) 7, (10) 8, (12) 9, (14) 10, (16) OK, this is getting long. But I see a pattern - and it seems that the original 4 is a constant. I would say that the solution would be something like 2n-4; but it only works for values above 4. So it's probably not right - alas I have no proof, and i never liked discrete math. Go ahead sip - give us the solution!

That's awesome!!

How about you go first. You put your first bottle in the exact middle of the table. For your second bottle, you place it symmetrically opposed to your opponents first bottle. I'm not sure if that's how you express it, but essentially, for every bottle your opponenent places on the table, you place your next bottle at the exact opposite spot with respect to the middle of the table. This pretty much guarantees that at the end of the game there will be an odd number of bottles on the table - you having gone first, would be the winner. :D nice puzzle!!!

Winning strategy: When the table gets nearly full, and there at least one bottle close to the edge of the table - as your opponent has nearly placed his bottle on the table, you imperceptibly kick the table leg nearest you. That'll cause the table to jiggle slightly and "your opponent" will have disturbed the bottles - resulting in your win No just kidding - that would be cheating, and everyone knows that no Armenian would ever cheat.

I'm afraid I don't know Azat. It's says ghoureh on the bottle.... I have no idea for the dish.

Sour baby grapes?? What colour grapes? Are they red, or darker - and are they just some small berries (and not actually grapes?)

I thought you didn't eat red meat? Or was it veggie ghormeh sabzi? (does that even exist??)

I don't have the receipe - and both my mom & gramma are no longer here to cook for me. I haven't had ghormeh sabzi like my mom's in a long time.... sorry.

/sarcasm

Yes, but now it's killed people

You know, he ends that chapter with "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." That's quite something now. Be Perfect! Of course, we can all take quotes out of context, can't we?

Um... sorry about the above visual description..... If anyone is offended, I volunteer to edit my own "freedom of expression"

Give me a break - they're not even that bad! If they published a cartoon portraying Jesus with horns and a cleft tongue, screwing the virgin Mary while sniffing coke, even the fanatical Christians in the American south wouldn't resort to that level of violence (and that's saying something!)

I disagree with his POV. Regardless of the nature of editorial opinion (be it an article, a caricature, or other), nothing justifies the violence this issue has incited. If religiously believing persons have truly been hurt - let them publish a counter piece and initiate a civil discussion. How many people are they hurting by burning down embassies?

Actually Yes, sometimes. Especially with all this rain lately. You guys remember a few years ago we had an ice storm so bad, that more than half a million homes were without power for weeks. Downtown was an apocolyptical emptiness - towering skyscrapers, no lights, no vehicles, just ice and a frozen emptiness. Pretty trippy. I couldn't find a good pic, but here's an example:

I'm afraid you may have missed my point entirely.