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I see nothing at all wrong with this type of research, appropriately observed of course.

So Hex, which question are we supposed to answer? "Did America have it coming?" "Did America desrve what it got on 9/11?" Those are two entirely different questions, and from my viewpoint at least require two entirely different answers. Sure, we had it coming... deserved or not.

I'm half way through Julian Barbour's book The End of Time and thought it might be interesting to see what others thought about this idea. The general theme is that both time and motion are illusions, that the "real" universe exists as a collection of static "snapshots" or "timeslices" (or...

lol, I thought that was an intentional play on words. :rofl2:

Yeah, I figured flav would be flattered. :)

I used to have a sig similar to that once upon a time at HWC. I think it included a Radeon II (lol) and a Palomino at 2.0 GHz. Some guy PM'd me about that one and told me I was full of shit. :D :lol2:

Actually, it still makes me uncomfortable. I'm much like flavio here... started out pretty homophobic, and have become less so with time. Always wanted to bang most of my good female friends though... hasn't caused a problem yet. :D

You may be speaking for yourself, but you certainly aren't speaking for all men. I have several good female friends that I am attracted to. I don't understand why this is a problem for so many other guys, but it certainly isn't a problem for all of us.

File sharing programs themselves and the use of file sharing programs are not illegal as a blanket statement. The sharing of certain types of files is. Obviously, 99% (made up statistic) of people who use these programs share copyrighted files, so I guess the distinction isn't that important...

Erm, I only have two things to say. (1) I love America bashing threads. Always a great change of pace. :rolleyes: (2) The job of the Supreme Court isn't to rewrite the Constitution. We have a separate brance of government that handles that task. I have no problem with reevaluating the...

Using the term nothing gets a bit confusing because it has a slightly differnt context in different situations and its meaning can get a bit ambiguous. For instance "nothing can exist." What am I saying there? To keep things clear, I'll use "nothingness" to describe the entity (or lack of)...

Not true. It was. Space is not empty. It contains energy, a plethora of virtual particles, and recent observations suggest that it exerts a negative gravitational force. According to string or M-theory, it isn't empty at all but is simply composed of a configuration of string loop or brane...

Erm, at this point I'm just inclined to say "whatever" and agree to disagree, as apparently even the most basic concepts of reality are up for discussion. But I'll take one more stab at it. Look, if empty space existed before the big bang and it was just an explosion of matter into that...

To be honest, I'm not really sure. I saw so much over the course of two days (probably 15+ hours of wandering aroud) that I'm not entirely sure which exhibits were in which museums. There was definitely a large African and African American exhibit (more like a wing), but I can't remember if...

Is it more likely that tens of thousands of the brightest minds on the planet have simultaneously misunderstood the consequences of their theory, or that you have misunderstood them? I'm well aware that sometimes breakthroughs come from unlikely places, but really... you should look at this...

I think the ultimate point is that there should not be a "white" museum at all. There should be an American History museum. I visited the one at the Smithsonian just this past Sunday and I didn't see it as "white" but as "American." Of course, I'm just a race mongering bigot, so what do I...

I'm sorry, but that's just not correct. If you trace every point in the current universe back to the beginning, you find that every single point is the center. Or, if you want to state it a bit more traditionally, there is no origin point. The universe itself is the origin point. Once again...

There are limits on the "freedom" of speech. You can't slander someone, you can't yell "fire!" in a theater, and you can't cuss out your elementary teacher. Putting restrictions on this constitutionally guaranteed freedom isn't unprecedented, so I don't see why there should be any difficulty...

Erm, you're thinking about an expansion of matter in a predefined three dimensional space. Instead, think of an expanding three dimensional volume within a four dimensional space. As an analogy... you inflate a balloon. All points move away from one another. Where is the "center" of the...

common sense is not politically correct.