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Darth InSidious

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Posted in: Religion, Science, and the unknown
  Darth InSidious
08-21-2007, 4:37 PM
#20
I'm afraid that none of the examples that you provided support the argument being made. Could you either clarify your argument or provide a more relevant example (i.e. a hypothesis not based on observations)? Memetics is a fine example. Devoid of evi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Religion, Science, and the unknown
  Darth InSidious
08-20-2007, 6:18 PM
#17
How does science deal with the unknown? It tests. If the unknown in question cannot be tested, it will tend towards pulling an answer out of nowhere that seems logical. See: aether, memes, dark matter, etc. Or it will mutter about needing more testin...  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  Darth InSidious
08-21-2007, 4:47 PM
#38
I could have sworn it was ten years...my memory is playing tricks on me, evidently. Fair enough, I bow to your more recent investigation of the subject....  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  Darth InSidious
08-20-2007, 6:25 PM
#36
Other leaders in the past century have had similar accolades granted them while they acquired power for themselves, too......  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  Darth InSidious
08-20-2007, 5:43 PM
#34
That is a difficult supposition to prove. It does not take a ten-year reign of terror in which no-one was safe to purge one man's cronies. And anyone who put their head above the parapet got dealt with in a terminal manner......  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  Darth InSidious
08-17-2007, 6:15 PM
#32
@SS: He did kill a lot of people he simply didn't like or opposed him. He also didn't give much of a damn about international relations, and Chrysogonus, who was bound up in the case of Sextus Roscius (excellent speech by Cicero - much better than hi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  Darth InSidious
08-17-2007, 12:57 PM
#29
Perhaps an appropriate name might be 'Look, America is paying the most for this enormous white elephant, now fall into line or we stop paying for your pointless-but-immensely-lucrative sinecures'? :xp:...  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  Darth InSidious
08-16-2007, 7:30 PM
#26
@SS: You gotta be kidding. Sulla was responsible for massed murders of any and all political opponents. @topic: Interestingly, this comes just a couple of weeks after Chavez called Honduran Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga an 'imperialist clown' for cri...  [Read More]
Posted in: Look Out! It's the Apocalypse!
  Darth InSidious
08-17-2007, 6:34 PM
#45
I believe the three nuclear powers are probably the US (who nicked our scientists for it), us (the UK, who grabbed it because the US were being wankers over having it), and either Russia or China (because the US and the UK were getting jittery). And...  [Read More]
Posted in: Look Out! It's the Apocalypse!
  Darth InSidious
08-16-2007, 7:37 PM
#35
Societal fragmentation and economic atrophy. Failing that, rivers the colour of blood, wormwood, seven angels, a scroll that tastes sweet and feels bitter and four people on horseback with gibberish instructions....  [Read More]
Posted in: Study finds twist in human evolution
  Darth InSidious
08-08-2007, 4:34 PM
#2
Interesting, but I fail to see anything inflammatory about this. Dammit, I wanted to see blood on the walls! And be ankle-deep in it, for that matter! :xp:...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lightspeed
  Darth InSidious
08-08-2007, 5:35 PM
#27
When it's Solipsism vs. Reason, reason always loses. Doesn't make Solipsism correct, it only makes the fight unfair. How so? I could say the same about faith vs. reason. Reason may win, but that doesn't make it right. It just means that the fight is...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lightspeed
  Darth InSidious
08-08-2007, 4:41 PM
#25
My apologies for the preemptive hair-split. Apology duly noted, accepted, filed, lost, found, buried in peat bog for three months, dug up, re-filed and lost in the floods of 1967. :) *sigh* You and I have been here before and it clear to me that I...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lightspeed
  Darth InSidious
08-08-2007, 3:13 AM
#22
Sure you could have. Just because human beings lacked sufficient knowledge to do it doesn't mean it wasn't possible. The atomic laws were all right there the whole time waiting to be discovered. We didn't get there until the late 19th/early 20th cent...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lightspeed
  Darth InSidious
08-07-2007, 5:44 PM
#19
Well, time changes, technology changes, but physics does not. Sure the rules can be revisited and refined, but you still cannot grow energy out of nowhere and things like that. 200 years ago, you couldn't destroy a city by banging two plates of metal...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lightspeed
  Darth InSidious
08-05-2007, 2:23 PM
#14
*shrugs* Who can say for certain? Who can predict what things will look like in two-hundred, five-hundred, a thousand years' time? a thousand years ago, travelling in the air was impossible. Five-hundred years ago, destroying a city by banging two pl...  [Read More]
Posted in: Our place in the universe
  Darth InSidious
07-31-2007, 5:56 PM
#2
How could you be so cruel as to expose children to the Total Perspective Vortex?! :xp: In all seriousness, that is very humbling. But humility is something we should, I think, value more in this day and age....  [Read More]
Posted in: Religion looms large over 2008 race
  Darth InSidious
07-31-2007, 6:10 PM
#12
Ahh, Seneca the Younger. Seneca the Younger, may I remind you, was the tutor of Nero. And what a marvellous job he did, too. Seneca the Younger said quite enough while he was alive. He was also a crappy playwright. "Religion and science are lik...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Ethics of Time Travel
  Darth InSidious
07-10-2007, 8:18 AM
#1
Never mind the possibility of travelling in the fourth dimension, is it ethical?...  [Read More]
Posted in: [WIP] The Coruscant Mod
  Darth InSidious
07-20-2007, 7:31 PM
#127
I think we have a new master-texturer.......  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Darth InSidious
07-05-2007, 11:14 AM
#60
mimartin, as another person with a "disability" (I put the word in inverted commas quite intentionally - there is nothing wrong with us. We are different, and the system and society can't handle that we think differently, that we can see wh...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Darth InSidious
07-03-2007, 12:32 PM
#32
Your teaching of history, I am told, is in particular need of rebuilding....  [Read More]
Posted in: Sexist Education System
  Darth InSidious
07-02-2007, 6:08 PM
#12
The best example of the problem in Britain is the preponderance of coursework. Generally, girls work on it over the six months or however long they have to do it steadily. By comparison, boys tend to do it all in a huge rush at the last minute. Who i...  [Read More]
Posted in: Smoking Banned in England
  Darth InSidious
07-01-2007, 9:12 PM
#27
A pub w/o smoking? Isn't that like a rock concert w/o weed? :p (legality issues aside) Smoking, I would say is not so important. The smell of beer and background smoke mixed together, on the other hand, are vital, IMNERHO....  [Read More]
Posted in: Do you think the world will end in 2012?
  Darth InSidious
07-05-2007, 11:17 AM
#44
~snip~ Cleaned up off-topic post, this part of post isn't necessary anymore ;) - Cz On the topic, it seems to me that the eruption of a supervolcano is as likely as anything to destroy the Earth. Not so much the eruption itself, but the fallout wou...  [Read More]
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