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TNOon Why God Did Not Create the Universe

" The precise placement of the moon, the composition of our core to generate perfect magnetic fields, etc."

How precise are you defining these to be? The Moon's distance from earth increases yearly for example. The magnetic field fluctuates over time, possibly causing havoc to migrating animals. This argument seems like a confusion of cause and effect.

My circular bowl was designed perfectly for my circular water to sit within...

TNOon Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball

Works beautiful on Fx b4

TNOon How Come All My Browsers Suddenly Suck?

http://vimeo.com/13560319

TNOon Chrome table release hits v6, Firefox 4 loses features

Of course no mention of the numerous new features and improvements Fx 4 contains.... Seems a bit biased.

TNOon Stephen Hawking: Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something

"It was science that said the earth was flat until it was proven otherwise."

Pythagoras (570-495BC) had a belief in a spherical earth along with a number of other Greeks in the same era.

The book of Isaiah was written no earlier than the 8th century BC.

These two date ranges and regions are quite close to one another. Your claim seems a bit off the mark.

TNOon Objects Have Not Failed [Guy Steele]

Objects Have Failed: https://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveFailedNarrative.html

TNOon Diamonds Are a Supercomputer's Best Friend

Skip the middle man: http://news.discovery.com/tech/diamonds-computing-supercompu...

TNOon [dead]

Pot, kettle, black

TNOon Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0

TNOon Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother

A good digital photo of your eyes may be all that is needed: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.htm...

TNOon Webkit Unicode Bug; Workarounds

He probably should have used valid syntax: "✕"

TNOon [dead]

One cannot forget that the USA is a superpower who has taken on the mantle of world police and has been expected to perform in that role for decades. I don't think either of us are qualified to make a judgment on how many countries we need a presence in. The question of a deficit is mostly a separate issue IMO. Their are plenty of other places to point to in the budget that take up a significant amount of money.

TNOon [dead]

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are trying to argue for some type of self-defeating isolationism? What does the nation's current troop deployments and/or geopolitical strategy have to do with the constitution?

TNOon [dead]

So they changed their mind, so be it. I don't see what difference it will make though. With 125+ undeclared conflicts under our belt, the trend seems to speak for itself.

TNOon [dead]

...and yet it was Congress which passed the War Powers Resolution which was in turn used to legalize the conflict in the first place, which congress didn't seem to complain about much according to their near unanimous vote (1-shy). In regards to the "invasion" itself, it sounds as if you're trying to make some type of moral argument for leaving Hussein in power.

TNOon [dead]

What's your point? The country has been in over a hundred conflicts without a formal declaration of war. The legality of a war should have little to do with the necessity of one. The former seems to be more of a formality than anything else.

TNOon Get your PhD in JavaScript

Ironically, if more people took the time to learn the language and the browsers they wouldn't need to load a few hundred kb of [insert library] just to validate a form. Those "10,000s of lines of client code" would be reduced significantly.

TNOon Ask HN: What would alien code look like?

What would alien code look like? Perhaps like Piet: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

TNOon [dead]

"attacked" is hardly the proper word IMO. Scared off is a better term I think. Not surprisingly though, there is of course much more to this than meets the eye:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100626/ap_on_re_ca/cn_world_sum...

flagging...

TNOon JQuery CSV to Table plugin: Load CSV data and render an HTML table

It must be the 90's again.......

TNOon Tea and coffee 'protect against heart disease'

Personally I find studies like this a bit meaningless. I'd prefer to see something along the lines of: "Food Item A was discovered to contain Chemical X which softens artery walls allowing the body to remove fat deposits leading to a reduction of the risk of heart disease"

TNOon A refrigerator that runs without electricity

A better refrigerator that runs without electricity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator

TNOon The Ur Programming Language Family

Does this use lazy or eager evaluation?

TNOon College students may be lacking in empathy, study finds

Here's my guess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_nepotism

TNOon Grey goo

Bombadier beetle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombadier_Beetle

TNOon California woman earns college diploma at age 94

Redirect loop

TNOon [dead]

So let's take a look at some of his points then:

    *Private Wealth = "illth".
    *Social/economic inequality is evil by definition. 
    *There should only exist "good jobs that nobody is ashamed to do". 
    *Having well defined national borders are evil.
    *We should forcefully turn private property into public property. 
    *Owning your own car makes you a blight to humanity and the planet and 
    *we should all use public transportation instead.

I think you're right it's not Communism, it's a mental disorder.

TNOon [dead]

Talk about select perception. This article stinks of Communism and select perception.

TNOon Arctic explorers get nasty surprise: rain

Damn sun

TNOon NASA Images of Oil Slick

Except in terms of migration cost.