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no it hasn't. i see the sqrt one (default icon) at your second link.

http://www.scienceforums.net/showthread.php?t=23216

^ what klaynos said about variable optics. a few other problems, especially in a DIY use: it could only accurately be used on properly flat surfaces, as otherize the projection (and thus the measurement) would become distorted, and also it couldn't be used on planes of the same colour as the projection. also can't use it to draw a strait line

im not convinced your fears are entirely founded, ophiolite. as i read it, the democratically elected european parlement (MEPs) have the following powers: power to amend most legislature, can veto almost all. power to deny apointment of president of comissioners power to deny formation of comision (en mass: all the proposed comissioners are ok, or none are) power to force the entire commision to resign (in '99, it threatened to use it, and so the commision resigned of it's own accord -- pretty much analogouse to the minister for transport ) forms the budget (must be approved by the counsil). but, whilst they can amend legislature, and can veto it, they can't actually 'initiate'; hence, descisions seem to be -- and i might be a bit shaky on this -- but it appears that, usually, the initial descision to do something/legislate is made by the commision, ok'd and sometimes modified by the parliment, and then enacted and possibly sometimes modified by the counsil, thus giving the parliment quite a bit of power, espescially in a 'democratically elected keeping an eye on things' role, even tho their initiative is non-existant. the constitution would have apparently extended their powers to both veto/amend almost all legislature, and completely control the budget.

i thought the eec was part of the ec? which is part of the eu? tsk. i think i've answred my own question on why this isn't discussed: the eu is bloody complicated. the more i read, the less i actually understand it. not that i neccesarily subscribe to 'democracy = best', but isn't it democratic by proxy? the comissioners, if im understanding to who you are reffering correctly, are elected by the people that represent the states, who are themselves elected by the people of those states. isn't accusing it of oligarchy similar to arguing that the uk is undemocratic on account of the fact that our elected PM gets to choose the cabinate? no one voted the minister of transport into that position; however, the person who chose him was voted in, so it's still democratic.

what i find more convienient is to install ext2 ifs into windows, and either tell windows to mount your linux drive and linux to mount your windows drive, so that you have read access to your windows files from linux, and read-write to your linux files from windows, or set up an ext2 share partition (didn't like what i heard about fat32 + power outage = fat32 - data). works for me, tho hibernating is apparently a no-no (as with a shared fat32 partition). doesn't anwre your OP atall, tho

not so. the eu has/is getting it's own military, sort of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Rapid_Reaction_Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Defence_Agency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Battlegroups as i read it, the EU also currently has access to some NATO resorses, in some manner. linky it also deals with lots of non-money stuff, like free-travel/right to work in any of the member countries/immagration, energy-supply, international-policing, human rights, etc. methinks your thinking of the EEC (european economic community), which is part of the eu. (also, apparently distinct from it; some countries are members of the eec but not the eu, but i dont think you can be a member of the eu without being a member of the eec). i think thats sort of what the constitution thingy was supposed to do/be the first step towards, and yeah, lots of people didn't like it. [accent=american] europe? is that near montana? [/accent] sorry why not?

im intruigued: given that it's unique and odd, and in the middle of forming/growing, why we dont get more discussion on the eu in here? i'd have thought it'd be an interesting conversational piece. so... the eu, discuss, i guess. btw, to get the ball rolling, and another reason i find the lack of interest odd: if all the member states of the eu are combined (as may possibly be the case in the future) and compared to the us, the eu has a better economy and greater spending power, better relations with the rest of the world, and, i suspect, a more powerful army and better R&D base. so, if the eu becomes a fully-fledged supernation, would it not displace the us as the majour world ultrasuper power?

i think the http://www.dbunked.com one is quite catchy, or maybe d.bunked.com... or maybe bsdbunked.com? the symetrical db of dbunked would be good for a logo. db ..unked or something?

trouble with making a sub-forum is that earth sciences includes phisics, biology, and chemistry. ie, whichever forum you sub it under, it wouldn't really make sence.

astronomy & cosmology and ecology and the environment could maybe go under 'earth sciences', which could also take paeleontology,and stuff like that?

i was sweating my ass off today... stupid english weather. it's technically autumn, and people wer actually walking around with no shirts on. i want snow

if they have books, then they could use a one-time key, using books and page numbers to tell each other which key to use. they could also have a pre set-up code to tell each other the book/page number to use as the otk... if he's captured and tortured, then the very small sentance that he has had to have memorised will not be enough to deduce the code, and the otk encrypted message will, without powerful computers, be, at the very least, effing hard to decypher. it would be possible to decypher tho, but, espescially if the decrypter didn't know about otk's, virtually impossable. if it's double-encrypted -- just a simple transpositional cypher prior to one-time-key encryption, then it'd be completely imossable to decypher. with a few books, the number of possable otks would be sufficient for a unique one each time, and, like i said, with a decent code, the small phrases that would have to be remembered by the messanger would be insufficient to break the code and get the book/page, especially if the code was rotated each sending. eg, you could encrypt "the bible (page) 27" as "23 thorax fish elf shoe" or "19 monkey cabbage eskimo turnip", so you can use the same book (but different pages) more than once whilst still having unique encoded messages each time. or you could give him a pack of cards to deliver with the message, and use the order to dictate which key to use. the first card in the pack could be the key card (ie, which of 52 possible codes your using), the fith could be the book (so... 51 books per codes * 52 codes = lots of books), and the ninth, thirteenth and twentieth could be the page number.

athens did something similar for a period, herding random bypassers into 'congress' to vote on the political issues, with fines for anyone who tried to avoid the hearding (wp has a good article, iirc). another option, given that democracy is supposed to be rule by the commoners, would maybe be to have a random selection of random people, who are funded to run for office? that way, people like you or i -- as opposed to rich people with supporters in industry or the majour political parties -- could get a chance to run for office.

hints: 1. insulin is a protien 2. hydrogenated fat is also known as saturated fat, the opposites being (poly)unsaturated, which might have been confusing you. it's to do with packing lots of fat molecules together in our body, and the 3d structure of the fats.

i get what your saying, and agree to an extent; but, at the same time, childhood is about learning, and one of the things that you have to learn, in preperation of becoming an adult, is that if you do something majourly wrong, then you will get in majour trouble; it's not enough to learn that you might get in trouble with your techers (which i suppose would be the equivelent of getting in trouble, as an adult, with your boss), you have, imo, to learn that the more serious things -- such as potentially endangering life -- result in a trip to the courts and the possibility of prison, harsh fines, withdraw of licence etc. i think i'm a little unforgiving in this respect, because in britain, afaict, most of the random thuggary is the result of the fact that schoolkids can bully and fight without having anything more serious than a holiday suspension. these schoolkids got pissed, got in a car, and haven't had to deal with any serious repercussions. not really helping them to learn the lesson that if they screw up this bad as adults they'll be in a whole load of trouble.

as 4nums pretty much allready said, school property isn't the road, so -- if the us law is like uk law -- they couldn't technically be done for drink driving, as they weren't driving on a road whilst drunk. tbh, theres something disturbing about the fact that, were they not drunk, there'd be no problem with schoolgirls driving. they dont strike me as old/mature enough to be in charge of potentially fatal machines. and, whilst i'll admit that this is anecdotal, the one time in america that i had a lift from a school kid kinda confirmed my fears. ****ing terrifying. and the fact that it felt like we were steaming down the motorway on the wrong side didn't help.

why not do it, and tell us has anyone melted cheese, let it cool down, and then et it? does it taste better, or the same, as unmelted cheese? there could be some kind of chemicl reaction happens during the heating? sugars breaking down, or summat?

ok, sorry if i seemed snappy, its just theres quite a few people being unwarentedly harsh in this thread imo. i dont think that humerous is quite the word. i see what you mean. cally will probably look back at this at some point and feel 'humerous' about it. my entire point is that now is not that time. however you look at it, comments such as 'join in' to a guy who's gf has just dumped him and who is obviously upset by that fact are not nice, reguardless of his age.

which assumes that callypigous was trying to get his gf to do a threesom, which, clearly, was not the case. not everyone is the same. just because you, or i, would have gone 'w00t, bisexual girlfriend' doesn't mean that cally has to feel the same way, and doesn't address the fact that, at the end of the day, she cheated on him. yes, i'd love to meet this woman, or one like her, as would you. but, we're not the ones whos trust she just broken. hence, my 'empathically deficient' comment. he's obviously not in the mood to be going 'wahay, lesbian threesoms', and suggestions that he should be are kinda missing the point that his gf just cheated on him. hows about if his girlfriend had just cheated on him normally, with 1 bloke, and you were going 'wahey, she's loose; cheer up cally, i personally would like to meat an easy woman'. kinda dumb, tactless and worthless, no?

not entirely true. one way (i.e. hardware) firewalls, as you'd find on a router, only protect you from stuff coming into your computer unsolisitedly (unles you set them up a certain way, which is, tbh, beyond most casual pc users). to circumvent, it's as easy as sneaking something onto someones computer. you visit a dodgy site in IE; it requests some data; this data is allowed thru the firewall 'cos you requested it; the data exploits an IE flaw to install an .exe; this exe requests info from the internet (say, a virus); this info is allowed through the firewall 'cos it's been requested by your computer. you now have a virus. it takes one exploit to essentially invalidate a one-way firewall. software firewalls are two way, making it harder to do the above. you can use a flaw in IE to get onto the pc through the inbound protection, then have to, say, use another flaw in IE in order to get IE to ask for the virus to be downloaded to circumvent the outbound protection, or exploit a flaw in the software firewall to shut it down, or do something else sneaky. it just makes it a bit harder, and most malware exploits unprotected people, so any protection is useful. outbound firewalls are good cos they will catch most stuff, even new, unknown malware (thus beating signature-based anti-viruses/anti-spyware/etc), (hence bad aswell, as they rely upon user choice) not to mention that anyone else on your home network who gets infected can then cross-infect you, as your firewall protects your network from the internet, not you from the other people on your network. as an aside, one of the reasons IE is so bad, is that active x technology makes it a piece of piss to trick IE into requesting data and circumventing the outbound firewall. personally, for home use -- especially if you dont particularly understand the concepts and have to rely on (no offence) no-brainer 'do this, that, and the other' security measures -- i'd advice a software firewall for outbound protection and inbound protection from anyone else on your local network who isn't as good at protecting their computer as you are, and a router firewall because hardware firewalls are generally better than software reguarding inbound protection, and if something kills your software firewall you wont then be completely unprotected.

the thought of calipygous getting hit by a car also amuses me. seriously, why is this funny because it's happening to a young adult? sure, we've all been through similar, and yeah, its to be expected more at his age range than ours, but that doesnt make it ok, and certainly doesn't make it humerous. i hardly think caly's being emo about this, other than to a low, perfectly acceptable given the situation, level. actually, no. it realy seemed as if you wer confusing me with the op, what with the use of 'you' being blatantly directed at me, with no indication that it had suddenly changed to cally. im 24, not just been dumped, and am not intending to ever enter into a monogomous relationship again. so no. i'd have to reluctantly agree. a lawyer would just paint her out as a drunken slut, pointing to the lesbianism whilst in a monogomous relationship as 'proof', and claiiming that she's only crying rape to ameliorate the situation now that her bf has found out coupled with a lack of phisical resistance, which both she and her female friend would be oblidged to admit to, a jury would be incredibly reluctant to assume guilt under thoses circumstances. cally: maybe you should do likewize. if it was an old friend, and she didn't make it clear enough that she didn't want him to stop, then maybe he genuinely thought he had consent? i know you didn't ask for advice, and i gather youd rather not persue this particular matter too much further, but as someone who's been falsly (and out of court) accused of rape (by someone i've never actually had sex with ) i kinda feel obliged to say it. no need to rebuke if you disagree. just be cautiouse of assuming he raped her, and espescially of telling others that know him that he did so. the average conviction rate is appaulingly low. in the uk, iirc, its at around 1-10% of rapes end up with the perp in jail (i think it's about 2.5% in my county). verrrry hard to convict, due to the presumption of innocence and the fact that 'concent' usually comes down to one persons word against anothers, and proving that the accused knew that he didn't have consent is tricky. even in cases where theres clear evidence of a struggle.

antivirus, antispyware, firewall, secure web browser. if you dont continually installl stuff to your computer, then using a limited user account is possibly the most useful anti-malware step you can take, as is avoiding: dodgy porn sites: find a few good ones and stick to them crax: just no. crax are made by stupid hackers. or hackers that take money from other, stupid, hackers to infect your computer. you will, almost without exception, get so many infections that your computer can no longer work, including the infections that just got put on, thus making it a rather futile endeaver on the part of the hackers (hence: stupid). unless you are unlucky enough to find one of the rare crax that is actually a trojan for one, stealthed, bank-detail stealer, in which case your screwed. ameture selebrety sites and song lyrics, for reasons that escape me. software (all free): (one and only one) firewall: zone alarm is good. (one and only one) antivirus: avg or avast! are both good antispyware/adware: both spybot and ewido anti malware are good. unfortunately, theres no real decent free antispyware. ewido has a free versin (with no active protection), and spybot has some half-decent active protection. if ewido slows your computer down too much, get ad-aware. web browser that isn't shit: firefox and opera are common choices. like i said: limited account is also good, as is keeping windows updated. btw, theres lots of fake anti-malware programs out there, so follow the links on this page to get the gooduns. http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm#trustworthy apart from windows defender, which is made by a company with a dodgy reputation. and, before any windows fan-boys attack me for that, other anti-malware programs are publically reccomended against for less than microsoft have done. leave the active protection on, use a modicum of common sence when your firewall/any anti-spyware programs ask you something (do you want to let teenxxx.exe contact the internet? hell no), and scan with your antivirus and at least one anti-spyware say, once a month (more if your prone to infection, use your computer for online banking lots, etc)

4nums. hehehe. hmm... i may have been a bit harsh on bt... i was googling to see if it was 'wireless compatable broadband', or the less cheaky (but still misleading) 'wireless broadband', when -- lo and behold -- i found this so... maybe not so cheaky afterall.

i'd be inclined to assume this is the isp companies going 'lol, look at how little people know about the interweb, lets take the piss'. like... i think it's BT... who offer 'wireless compatable broadband'. like you'd have to phone up your isp and say 'excuse me, could we upgrade our broadband so that we can make a wireless local network?' so yeah, maybe it's that. 'buy the internet from us -- now with free public IP adress' if it was AOL, it may have meant public proxy? ie, a proxy server that all local AOL customers can use, so you can't track someone by IP (as any IP you use will also be used by lots of other AOL customers), allowing you, for example, to vandalise wikipedia without your IP being banned.