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After watching a few minutes of Arse Talk with Sam Pernia, you have to notice what a bullshitter the man is. Yes, the brain can survive death, and even consciousness can survive death, AS DEFINED BY HIM. Only trouble is that his definition of death is pure bollocks. Where he gets with that bullshit I really don't know. Cons a few gullible people? That's not hard. Publicity? I hope it chokes him.

Backing up the password is a start. Might have saved a lot of trouble in this case. Unless the original poster bought a password-locked pc. I've had plenty from auctions in the past, but I've never had an interest in the files on the disk, so I just wipe the lot.

What would make a big difference to the betting odds is the existence of an incumbent president. Neither Obama nor Trump had to oust the current occupier of the White House. That's probably why they are offering such rubbish odds for a bet on Trump.

Look it up. Google might help.

Why not, if it makes you happy? They are just feeding a natural instinct. Humans evolved as territorial apes, to fear and fight their neighbours for territory and resources. It's not all-consuming, we can get along, but we do have natural aggressive instincts, which don't take a lot of priming.

Eat lots of low-carb fruit and vegetables along with some lean protein food like lean steak or chicken. You have to fill your belly with something, or hunger will drive you mad. If I'm trying to lose weight, I eat huge salads, with added veg like peas, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and with ham chicken or lean steak or fish. Avoiding potatoes and bread in any form. Also, walking makes a huge difference. I used to think that because walking doesn't burn a huge number of calories, it wasn't doing much. But it definitely does make a big difference. It raises your metabolic rate for the rest of the day, and you lose more weight that way. That's the theory anyway, but whatever the mechanism, walking definitely accelerates weight loss a lot.

Scripture is when someone writes. Somebody has recorded their thoughts. They might make false claims for what they wrote, or others might later. As in the case of all of 2 Timothy, which was almost certainly NOT written by Paul, but by someone CLAIMING to be Paul. A later fantasist claiming to be an earlier more famous deluded individual. It doesn't really inspire confidence in the contents.

I just looked at the (UK) betting odds for the next US President, and Trump is the favourite by a huge margin at 11/8 . Hillary Clinton doesn't even get a price quoted at all. Even Oprah Winfrey and Christine Ford get a price at about 80/1. Maybe they won't quote Hillary till she declares she's running. https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2020/winner Edit: Correction, she's listed twice. The other listing has her at 100/1. The gamblers obviously don't rate her as a prospect.

It's fair to point out that people have been wrong in the past. But at the same time, that doesn't mean that everything is going to be feasible in the future. Kelvin got it wrong, that's all. What made his pronouncement wrong was the extreme progress of the internal combustion engine. Who can tell if a revolution is just round the corner? If they made a similar jump with rocket propulsion, it might all change. But you can't plan for that. What I would be doing now, if I was in charge of the world's space program, is going back to the Moon, with a view to manufacturing lego-type units that slot together in space from Moon materials, so that you can build a decent sized space station with artificial gravity and effective shielding, that can grow and grow. You have to find materials on the Moon, it's just far too costly to launch everything up from Earth.

If you copy the files to another disk. I keep all my personal files in one folder on my pc. If I lost the password as in the original post, I just have to remove the disk, connect it to another pc via an external USB setup, and copy that folder to the other pc. I can then wipe the original disk, put a new version of windows back on it, then take the disk out, connect it up again via the USB and copy the folder back over. Obviously you need to be careful and verify that your files are safely copied, before wiping the original disk. It will not work as a backup for system files, only personal files that you have saved. Your system files will get wiped when you re-install the operating system. I save all my personal files to a personal folder on the c drive so I just have to copy c:/personal files and it's done. You can use this sort of setup to connect a 2.5 inch drive : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-To-SATA-External-HDD-SSD-Hard-Disk-Drive-Adapter-2-5-Converter-Lead-Cable/162983320703?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D52945%26meid%3D68247ffd9bd1428ebc177633f32df4e6%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D183344537176%26itm%3D162983320703&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 For a 3.5 inch drive, I use this setup, with the drive powered from the pc power supply : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SATA-PATA-IDE-to-USB-2-0-Adapter-Converter-Cable-for-2-5-3-5-Hard-Disk-Drive-DVD/282932032783?hash=item41e010350f:g:lwMAAOSwXjBa2QJf:rk:12:pf:0 You can buy a USB docking station that theoretically you just plug a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive into, and connect it to a USB port. In my experience, they are fine for 2.5 inch drives, and smaller older 3.5 inch drives, but they don't have the power to support newer bigger 3.5 inch drives, so I use the above arrangement instead.

I agree about Mars, but I wouldn't write the Moon off. It's so much easier to get on and off the Moon, and I don't believe that there's nothing there of any use. For a start, there's Moon Rock. And there's clean Solar energy in abundance. And there is apparently substantial quantities of water in craters at the poles. But another huge difference between the Moon and Mars is the time it takes for signals to travel. The Moon, it's just over a second. Mars takes an average of 14 MINUTES. So if you want to control a machine on the Moon, you can do it live, sitting in a chair in Houston. On Mars, you either have to be there, (huge difficulty there) or have computers that are hugely intelligent, which we don't have either. So you can do a huge amount of work on the Moon with remote controlled machines, which will be getting better and better year on year.

I think the salt is heated directly by solar energy. You lose a lot when you convert energy to and from electricity, but not so much from direct heating. The desalination idea sounds good, but I think it's probably already being done. A lot of big users of electricity get a better price at off peak times, and adjust their use to suit.

Clinton shouldn't have a prayer of getting even the nomination. Is there nobody out there with more appeal? I personally don't dislike her, but her speaking style make me wince. Last election was decided on who they disliked the most. Obviously the electorate has had ins and outs since then, but as well as more left wing people coming into the electorate, you get a roughly equal number getting more right wing with age. She would have the slight plus of being less known to the newer voters, but she would have the minus of being a loser from the last election. It's a long time since the US elected a "loser". It would be a weapon to use against her. She lost to Obama too. There's history there. The Democrats would do better with a fresh face, if they can find one.

I remember reading a few years ago that there were trials for motorway surfaces that reduced spray by incorporating drainage channels in the actual tarmac. I first came across it in a downpour heading into London on the M40 somewhere near Beaconsfield. It was a stretch of about two miles, and it was like suddenly coming out of fog into daylight, it was so amazingly effective. I don't know how it was done, or if they used plastic, but it was the most striking effect, absolutely amazing. Has anyone else seen anything like it? What made me think of it was watching the Formula 1 practise session a few minutes ago, and noticing the fog of spray that they kick up.

The Bowie Knife style actually dates from the Stone Age, or at least the Copper Age. The characteristic "clipped" end design has been seen in knapped stone blades dated from 7,000 years ago. Bowie became famous by killing a man in a brawl with a probably ordinary butcher's knife, and the Bowie Knife style is named after the knife made for him following the incident, which he always wore visibly afterwards. (he never used it in a fight) There's something really satisfying about the shape. I have no idea why. I used to practice knife throwing as a kid, and teenager. We used to play "splits" where you stood opposite each other and threw the knife to stick in the ground, and your opponent would have to put his foot on the spot where the knife stuck in. If you couldn't reach, you lost. Sticking your knife between your opponents feet meant you could put your feet back together.

The phrase "survival of the fittest" is really an attempt to capture a very complicated process in a few words. So while it helps, it can never cover everything, or be accurate all of the time. "the fittest" means the most fit for a particular environment. Which includes animals, plant and weather etc. In the case of the dinosaurs, the environment changed right around the world within hours. That means that "the fittest" also changed within hours. (maybe longer in the sea) So it's survival of the fittest, at that point in time. Prior to the Asteroid impact, a lot of big dinosaurs were the fittest. After it, they weren't. Maybe fifty years later, if they had still been around they would have been the fittest again. But it was too late. They were all dead. You could argue that if they had somehow survived in tiny pockets, mammals would never have proliferated. It might well be true.

On knives in general, I just read that the first "Swiss Army Knife" was actually made in Germany, for an order from the Swiss Army in 1891. And it was hardly a new design even then. This is the "Norfolk Knife" (made in Norfolk Street, Sheffield) dating from 1851. A little over the top, in my opinion.

I wonder if the increasing use of renewable energy will eventually have an effect on the scrap value of plastics? Plastic raw materials are got from refining oil and producing gas. The laws of supply and demand should cause the price to rise, so maybe in the future, it will be worth collecting waste plastic wherever it's found. Or maybe it will work the other way, and the demand for plastic will depress the economic viability of renewables by keeping prices down. If you have a rising price of plastic, that would support oil and gas extraction.

I think brevity is important. A post can't be too

In the end, the Kennel Clubs are only a reflection of the general attitudes in the public at large. Maybe they do lead opinion a bit, but they are also reacting to what's out there. Why people want a squashed nose stinky yappy liability mystifies me. Or a huge drooling lump of lard that will only live ten years. I could tolerate a cat, but I wouldn't make the effort. I can pat somebody else's, they are not particularly fussy.

Instinct.

I really don't think it follows that a real human is easier to build a religion around. If there had been a real Jesus, it would have been easier for people who were there, or knew people involved, to refute some of the stories. And refutation can spread by word of mouth, just as made up stories can.

I can see God's logic. He created humans, and he created leprosy. He didn't want leprosy to wipe out the humans, he just wanted to see them suffer. So he made it less than fatal, and not hugely contagious, so that there would always be some lepers begging him for a cure for their awful disgusting ailment. I think he went a bit to far with smallpox though. Not his finest hour.

Two skunks living down a hole. One called In, the other called Out. How did Out know if In was In or Out ? (it's not difficult, answer tomorrow if nobody gets it)

That's how I remember it, gamma rays being predicted. Could it be though, that gamma rays from tens of billions of light years away might now be radio waves due to red shift? ( I'm just musing, I haven't searched for the answer )