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Okkram's razor is neither an appeal to emotion nor to concequence of belief; rather, it is a practicality. The student claims his wearing a dress is the result of his sexuality -- a claim that the principle has seemingly acknowledged in his statement. You introduced the new idea that his wearing a dress is an attention-grab. Burden of proof for this idea rests with you.

you can't just casually fob this off as a shalow attention-grab. maybe he wasn't given enough attention as a kid and seeks to gain it now. maybe he genuinely feels intolerably unconfortable in the role of a man. I dont see any reason to favour the former hypothesis over the latter.

hmm... i wonder wether a woman turning up in a suit would have the same problems?

They made me read all of that crap and now they're not going to give me a usb stick? How dare they!

then that guy would be an imbocil. if he was wearing styrups, would he be at risk of being mistaken for a horse? If you're going to chace anything in a skirt without bothering to first check that its not hideously ugly/obviously herpies-ridden/male etc, then you'd have no-one to blame but yourself. anyway... as to the OP, whilst i wouldn't want to wear a dress to a prom, i also reeeeeeeeeeeeeally wouldn't want to wear formal male dress, yet id have to. I also have to at weddings. which i think sucks, but there you go. he had to wear formal male dress rather than his prefference of a floral one (sorry), and i'd have had to wear formal male dress rather than my prefference of jeans and hawaian shirts. sux, and, for variouse reasons, i really dont like people dictating what i can or cannot wear, but it's just the way these things are. 'cos of tradition.

w00t! hey, mokele

none of your fancy squiggles and symbols for me... it's brute-forsing with basic maths all the way 21 people = 25% of total work (in 33% of total time) {divide by 21} 1 person = 1.19% of total work (in 33% of total time) or (1 person) 1.19% of total work = 33% of total time {divvy by 33} (1 person) = 0.036% of total work = 1% of total time. Now, they've used 33% of the time and need to complete the work 25% ahead of scedule, so they have 100% - 33% - 25% = 42% of the total time left. {times by 42%} (1 person) 1.51% of total work = 42% of total time {or} 1 person = 1.51% of total work (in 42% of total time) Now, they have 75% of the work outstanding, so times by 75/1.51 rounded up {times 50} 50 people = 75.5% of total work (in 42% of total time). which is enough to get the remaining work done in the time remaining. and as they have 21 people, they need 50 - 21 = 29 more people. Which, give-or-take for my rounding, is abskebabs' answre. in summary: abskebabs was right, 5614 needs to read questions more carefully , and i still don't think all those funny squggles that you guys use are neccesary

How good are you with computers? As far as i can see, you just need to delete the WebSpecials folder and the dodgy browser-helper-object, then clean out your registry. Alternatively, either Ewido or trend micro online scans should be able to shift this wee booger.

ah, well if you can't access google through your proxy using my link, then it's not a DNS issue (like i said, it was a guess). You'll have to wait for someone a bit more familiar with proxys to come along, i'm afraid.

Did you click the link in my last post? Did it take you to google, or give you an error?

which firewall are you using? as well as blocking port 6667, it could be denying mIRC, trillian, klient and your browser from operating as a server (in which case i'm pretty sure they wont be able to connect to IRC). you could try killing your firewall and then trying to connect.

one word: cool. I recon you'd be able to develop tools that could see them tho. I can't remember what it's called, but there's a fish with 'w' shaped eyes that are designed to see it's prey, which are completely translucent fish. The way it sees the fish is by detecting slight 'bends' in the light, caused by it travelling through mediums of differing density. so, i assume that 'invisibility goggles' could be developed that would detect the slight bends in light that would probably be caused by making the light 'flow' around an object. still cool tho.

I prefer computer game sound-tracks; espescially from RPGs. i'm currently liking the final fantasy 7 and chrono trigger sound tracks.

i doubt it. some people are born without CCR5, which most strains of HIV use as a co-receptor, thus confuring resistance against most strains of HIV (although some strains use CXCR3 as a co-receptor). i'm not sure what you mean by blocking CD4 forsing HIV to enter the liposome traps -- if you block CD4 you will prevent HIV entry into the CD4+ cells, but also block entry into the CD4+ liposomes. Antibodies that block part of CD4 (thus preventing HIV from recognising it, whilst leaving the molecule able to perform it's normal function) have been developed as a cure/vaccine, but they don't work particularly well. [edit]@ below: ah right [/edit]

yes, but as i said, there are only three ways that i can think that terrorism would lead to al kaeda's aims being met. increased spending puts more pressure on the govournment to 'fix' the problem, and aslong as al-kaida can engeneer the situation so that the easyest way to make the problem go away is to meet their demands, increased pressure to fix the problem is roughly synonomouse with increased pressure to do what the terrorists want. Im not saying that the increased spending is hugely significant on it's own, but increased spending + public disaproval of techniques used + public disaproval if those techniques don't actually prevent another attack + etc all add up to a significant problem for the US govournment. Not to the point where they'd give up and do what the terrorists wanted -- which, as far as the US is concerned, is to be left alone and not hindered by the US in the formation of this 'super-islam' -- but i can only assume that al kaeda, being unarguably a competent terrorist group, is aware of the pressure that they are putting on the US govournment and aware of the fact that 'pressure on the US govournment' is a means to achieve their aims. my original point was that if this pressure starts to lessen, then that would be a reason for al kaida to bomb the US again. Untill it does, or untill the population appears to be forgetting the existance of the terrorists, i dont really see any pressing need for al-kaida to bomb the US again any time soon, exept, possibly, to make the populance pissed off with the govournment at failing to prevent another terrorist attack.

CD4 is the main cell-surface molecule that is present on helper-t-cells/macrophages that HIV targets. gp120 is the HIV molecule that recognises CD4 it has, in actual fact, been tried, although i'm not sure how effective the decoy-liposomes were. Dont forget that after HIV has fused with the decoy liposomes, the decoy liposomes will have gp120 on their surface, and so the liposomes themselves will fuse with CD4+ cells (macrophages, helper-t-cells, or other decoy liposomes), which would complecate the whole matter. non-infected CD4+ cells fusing with CD4+/gp120+ cells to form sinctia (big blobs formed by lots of joined together cells) is a huge contributing factor to the depletion of CD4+ cells.

al qaeda have a set of aims, and, as i see it, there are three main ways in which they hope to use terrorism in which to achieve them. 1/ that the populance becomes so scared of attack that they put pressure on the govournment to aquiest to the terrorists demands in order to stop the attackes. 2/ that the populance puts pressure on the govournment to 'fix' the terrorist problem, leading to the possibility of a behind-the-scenes aquiesting to the terrorists demands in order to make the terrorist problem 'go away'. 3/ to put a strain on the country sufficient enough to make the polititians feel that refusing the terrorists demands is more trouble than it's worth. Increasing spending would fall under no. 3.

wtf, omfg, and possibly even bbfq. that's like saying that a rise in oxygen levels isn't dangerouse just because we breath it. yeah we breath it, but that doesn't stop, say, iron from exploding if O2 concentrations get high enough. Or that water couldn't drown us if there was enough of it 'cos we happen to drink it. Oooh, we exhale CO2 and plants inhale it. therefore, CO2 couldn't possibly be dangerouse in any way, shape or form. Guess i wont bother get my boiler checked for leaks this year then. after all, who cares if it's leaking life? the depressing thing being the number of people that will accept this. doesn't this fall under false advertising? can they not be sued untill they stop?

I doubt it's neccesary for al-quaida to bomb you again at this point in time. America is still aware of the threat -- both the population and the govournment remember sept. 11th (meaning that the govournment has to spend in anti-terrorism stuff etc). once you guys seem as if you're forgetting, i'd guess that you'll get another bomb to remind you they're still there, and are still a threat, although tbh bombing, for example, London achieved this effect in America -- you know they're still around, and you know it could have been you rather than London that was bombed. So yeah, i dont see why al-quaida would be in any rush to bomb you again any time soon, tho i'd guess you'll be getting one again at some point within the next year or two.

my mate's got this. he finds that going out with mates helps (eg, to the pub with lots of people that he's confortable with) and trying to avoid staying in specifically 'cos he's scared (ie, if he doesnt feel like going out then he wont, but if he doesnt feel like it 'cos he's scared, then hell force himself to go out). Ultimately tho, if you want help you should see either a psycologist or a counsiler.

Hmm... tbh, whilst putting a computer together doesnt strike me as that hard, chosing the right bits can be confusing if you dont know that much about computers. For example, just with ram you've got to make sure that your MOBO supports the amount/type/speed of ram your getting, make sure that you dont mix speeds (or that your mobo supports mixed speeds), and that your not wasting money by, for example, buying a huge and expensive processor that will be crippled by low amounts of ram. Not saying that you shouldn't do it -- like 4nums said, it's much cheaper and really not that hard -- just make sure you get your specs checked by a tech before buying them.

it's on this page There's another page that generates the url. (theyre just demos of an idea atm) it wasn't actually that hard in the end, just very confusing