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Vision is not the equivalent of Sound because vision is the act or ability of seeing. The sensory equivalent of Vision is Hearing. Light is the equivalent of Sound since they are both waves, although with different natures, If light can exist in the absence of a receiver so can the pressure wave we call Sound. Just my 2 cents.

I agree with Mokele as well. It never fails to surprise me the suffering moral people will allow, all in the name of morality. The idea that all human life, regardless of the individual's condition, should be preserved at all costs is inhuman and dogmatic...sometimes releasing them from an unbearable and futile existence is the humane option.

Exquisite content, exquisitely executed...quite moving to see such natural beauty.Thanks Martin.

ok mate...I shall find out when I try it.

OK, IA Thanks.

Hypothetical Scenario: If I create another logical partition called, say E: Drive, and a disaster occurs which neccessitates a reinstall on C:, how do I get Vista to 'see' that E: drive again and showing in Computer Disk Drives section again? I have Vista Home.

I found this list of instructions that might help providing you have an xp cd. In Step 7 to change the drive to the CD drive in Command Prompt just type the drive letter of your CD player and then a colon, X: ,then press Enter http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=216342&forumid=1 If you follow the second set of instructions (repair installation) you might have to download all the updates again but everything else should be unaffected. If you Google 'NTOSKRNL.exe' you'll find lots of stuff on your problem. A dodgy keyboard cable (grounding problems) can cause this problem so try swapping it with another if the problem recurs. Hope this helps EDIT: Sorry, just noticed you haven't got the disk.

Our mind is a function of the neural network in our head,,,if we damage our brain, we damage our mind (as Mokele said)...this demonstrates that our mind is not a 'ghost' in a machine, which knocks AP on the head because their's no ethereal mind in the first place..

I did a quick check on what Smooth Sumac was and noted that it is deciduous and has a high tolerance for low temperature (-33F). It might be possible to force germinate them by freezing them for 5 days. This process called vernalization is a mechanism used by apple trees, wheat, barley, grasses etc to ensure that the seeds produced in one season do not sprout in that same season. They have to be frosted first, then when the next Spring comes they germinate giving the resulting young plant a much better chance of completing its life-cycle, ensuring perpetuity for the species, I can't confirm this method with a reference for Smooth Sumac but it's worth a go I think.

I'm sure you'll suss out the best system eventually.

Perhaps that power needs curtailing to a smaller maximum...surely one 'smack' should just be worth the loss of one rep point regardless of a person's rep power, providing ,of course, they have the power to do so? Why should a person who has been on the forum 5 times longer hit five times harder just because they've been there longer...at the moment with the present system, a person with a rep power of 10, just because they joined 10 years ago, can still be a dickhead...and have all that power! This unequal distribution of power is why the Neg Rep didn't work, as you yourself have illustrated when asked where most of the neg repping came from: "Nope. Those were most common from people with a good bit of rep themselves." Reputation should be a function of a person's proven williness to help (no. of thanks). Why not do away with the POWER part of Rep Power and just call it Reputation? and give all normal members a power to give /take 1? Ask yourself this, why should someone with high rep have their expression of thank's/disapproval be worth more than mine (mine is one)? Their rep should be higher than mine because they will have given much more service to this forum than I but it does not seem sensible or democratic that they should give /take more...one man one vote and all that. Power should be distributed in units of one/person...... that is democracy.

"...... plus the shame of having it displayed on each post, which just causes people to leave, essentially banning themselves."- Phi If new people had started from a higher rep base, say 5, and had 1 knocked off they would more likely see it as just a wake up call and have an opportunity to change...to go from 1 to a big fat zero when you might have just joined is a bit final....... WTF I've lost it all anyway Long time posters here and people accustomed to the scientific method may not be aware that, or have forgotten, it can be quite unsettling for incoming laymen to adjust to this level of debating discipline demanded in a science forum and they are quite likely to be somewhat belligerent, when challenged on a point, at first, simply because they are not used to it. A higher rep base would have given errant new posters some breathing space to adjust without losing everything...the margin for error on their part was too small.

What about the idea of just letting Mods and Admin issue neg' rep as a disciplinary measure? They can give it, why can't they take it away? On the Hewlett Packard (HP) forum each poster has a 'kudos' button that a reader can hit if they like a post and they have a leader board for the most kudo'd people on the home page..this strikes me as a 'nice' system that encourages helpfulness...the 'atmosphere' on that forum is particularly welcoming and helpful. http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/ (look to the right: Top Kudo'd Authors)

I read that book not long after it came out, so my memory of it is a bit vague, but I remember being very engrossed with it. It touches on many philosophical themes and one I remember being struck by was his pursuit in defining the concept of Quality. The title of the book is a bit of a misnomer! It's a solid bit of popularly presented philosophy in my opinion.

"If mathematics is the best (i.e. universal) language for contact with aliens, how's an extraterrestrial going to unravel what the letters represent in our equations? Hypothetically speaking "- Baby Astronaut I thought it was common knowledge that aliens carried Babelfish...they hold one to their ear and the living fish translates anything for them.

I use Linux Mint 7 which is based on Ubuntu, Mint's update program, MintUpdate, gives all the listed updates (including Ubuntu ones) a risk rating from 1 to 5...1 - 3 is low risk and recommended, 4 and 5 are experimental/ high risk if you don't know what you are doing. It works well and I have never had a problem as I leave it to only install updates with risk factor 1-3. Apparently, Ubuntu doesn't grade it's updates like Mint does. Linux Mint is basically a perfected Ubuntu, but not so bleeding edge.

Hi Coberst. Bascule is not heckling you...Your posting style (across many forums) and lack of responses to replies was leading us to the conclusion that 'coberst' was a spambot...can you see it from this POV? If you start a thread, it would be nice for you to respond to at least some of the replies or it just looks like soapboxing...this is against the rules here apparently. Nice to know you are real anyway!

Even if there were BB's prior to our BB, time (as we know it) would still start with ours...there is no absolute external reference (constant time), we can use, to measure ALL the BB's together by....it's practically pointless to set the 'clock' before the last one. As we know presently , time started with the BB...everything else is just speculation at the moment. I don't discount the idea of previous BB's because there must have been preconditions that started this one (and that is one scenario) but, I think, there will not be any physical evidence for a previous universe ( or time) because it will have been destroyed in the transition to the present one. The BB was the beginning of the expansion of EVERYTHING...it didn't occur in a localized area of spacetime. Spacetime grew with it.....that's if I understand the BB model correctly. Even if the Universe is more expansive than we think it is, it is still The Universe, we don't need to pluralize it by 'creating' more than one in our minds. I will say, at this moment in time, I'm just trying to understand the Standard Model and this is where I am at in my understanding.

Like you said, given that there aren't any links, it is hard to discern his/her motive. This coversation concerning Coberst is being replicated all over the internet on a diverse range of forums. It looks like some weird form of attention-seeking to me where he/she is some sort of enigmatic character that everyone is talking about...the mystery is the end in itself to that person. The easiest solution would be to ban him and see if there is a response.

You could also say if an infinite amount of time has passed, everyrthing that was going to interact would have happened and the universe would now be in a state of energetic equilibrium. All matter would have long since dissipated into energy. We are still here, so it seems to me. an infinite amount of time has not passed.

You could also say if an infinite amount of time has passed, everything that was going to interact would have happened and the universe would now be in a state of energetic equilibrium. All matter would have long since dissipated into energy. We are still here, so it seems to me. an infinite amount of time has not passed.

Will this JP be reprimanded at an official level do you think...Do you have a Commission for Racial Equality that can bring a case, like here in the UK? A side question: Whch governmental (national) body decides what the official national policy/attitude is towards things like racial matters/sexual orientation in US society....or is it just decided at state level without any alignment between them, as determined by a higher national government body?

Anticaking agents are used in table salt. Its probably one of those that's causing the red and orange residues. I've extracted this from Wikipedia: " Since the 1950s it has been common to add a trace of sodium ferrocyanide to the brine in the United Kingdom; this acts as an anticaking agent by promoting irregular crystals.[21] The safety of Sodium ferrocyanide as a food additive was confirmed in the United Kingdom in 1993. [22] Other anticaking agents (and potassium iodide, for iodised salt) are generally added after crystallization.[citation needed] These agents are hygroscopic chemicals which absorb humidity, keeping the salt crystals from sticking together. Some anti-caking agents used are tricalcium phosphate, calcium or magnesium carbonates, fatty acid salts (acid salts), magnesium oxide, silicon dioxide, calcium silicate, sodium aluminosilicate, and calcium aluminosilicate. Concerns have been raised regarding the possible toxic effects of aluminium in the latter two compounds[citation needed]; however, both the European Union and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permit their use.[23] The refined salt is then ready for packing and distribution." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt

Neveos: I think people's patience has reached 'critcal mass'......... you are talking out of your backside. Shut up. I don't think there is any substance left in this thread.

99% of the time I'm looking at 'New Post's' or 'Today's Posts' so I more often than not assume the threads are current without date checking...Caleb's obviously trawled through past posts looking for something and not realized the date. It's interesting that. that subject has arisen twice, to my knowledge, so far.......vj4him in another recent thread thought it was plastic after using non-plastic containers with clear results.