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I am amazed by the number of spammers that actually have open $hares on their box

No, it's just another lame conspiracist's theory. The windswept flames from the 5000+ gallons of fuel only needed to drop the top of the building by one or two floors to get the whole building moving straight down.

Somehow your link changed:eek: The original news release is here.....

The term scientology has got to be one of the best oxymorons of all time. I also suspect the condition it describes would qualify as a mental disorder under many health plans.

I think a few examples of capital punishment might help to deter future spammers. Perhaps if several were tied down, painted with honey and left for the ants to eat, other spammers would take notice of what's in store for them. Of course, if death is too harsh then maybe some burning bamboo slivers jabbed under their fingernails would keep them away from the keyboard for a while. Virus writers could be treated the same as well.

Try Mathematics of the Rubik's cube....

Yep. There are more than a billion Muslims and I don't think we're actually seeing protests by even a million of them. The media is showing those that squeal the loudest and portrays them as representative of the whole group. In a way this induces the problem to grow as the media helps to influence Muslims in other areas that the numbers of protesters are larger than they really are. The media is effectively inciting riots.

Solved bunches of them but it'd be easier for you to learn how to use Google than it would for me to explain my method to you here. Beginner's solution? Take all the stickers off and paint it all the same color, aka Rubik's Cube for Dummies

Wow, that looks more like an article from The Onion...

Ah, it's a browser add-on, not part of the forum software.

You must be using some other software to compose you posts then. Neither the quick reply or advanced interfaces have the icon you're describing and I'm not aware of any "spell checker" add-ons for vBulletin.

One scenario causes a problem with this. It is often said, "when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns." The same scenario comes up with total disarmament. A rogue entity does not care about any international pact, they will work in secret to their own means. OTOH, allowing any nation to have nuclear weapons is no guarantee that this won't happen either, look at Iran. Would Iran necessarily give up their desire if Israel is disarmed? I would not trust that they would because they have already stated that Israel should be wiped off the map, not because Israel has nuclear weapons, just because Israel is there. This leads me to believe that Iran would pursue the weapons necessary to effect this desire regardless of the armament of anyone else. For this to work would require absolute certainty that no one could operate a clandestine research facility and I can't imagine any and every sovereign nation giving the level of inspection access required to the rest of the world to guarantee this.

Asphyxiation has been claimed to cause some hallucinations.

That position is a gamble. Now ask yourself, what do you gain if you're right vs what you lose if you're wrong to assess the risk with that gamble. If you're right, Iran gets nukes and everyone lives on the edge of their seat wondering if they're going to use them but Iran gets to produce their own nuclear fuel as opposed to having to get it from Russia whom has already agreed to provide all the fuel Iran could ever need, i.e. stress for everyone except Iran, but no one dies. If you're wrong, Iran gets nukes and uses them to start a new World War. Now is the gain from winning your gamble worth the risk of being wrong? Honestly now?

I enjoy my copy of the "Handbook of Mathematics" by Bronshtein and Semendyayev. It's strictly a reference with no exercises and covers the needs of just about any scientist or engineer.

I use FreeZip as well.....

Sorry but it's not new. Google pi polygon for 337,000 hits, including this one with an interactive form that lets you inscribe and circumscribe a circle with increasing numbers of sides as you watch the values approach pi.

It's still on page 1 for me. Then again, I have my "Posts per page" setting set to 100 since I'd rather scroll than click.....

That sounds like a good test for the B61-11

You'd go up like a piece of flash paper before you reached the center since the core temperature is estimated at around 5000 to 7000 degrees Celsius depending on your source.

Maybe there's a market for Murphy's insurance as a result of such vaults

If I understand Murphy's law correctly that mountain will now become the target of any future asteroid destined for a collision with Earth.

Google uses PageRank to rank their search results. Spamming their spider with keywords won't work.

IMO, Roe v Wade was a twisted attempt by the court to legislate and it should be overturned. The privacy issue addressed in that case should be taken care of by legitimate legislation. IMO, the Roe v. Wade decision wasn't even necessary to enable abortion. There is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits abortion so it was already legal. At any rate this is not an issue for the court to decide what the law should or should not be. Congress should be called to task to do it's own job if it's concerned about what is and what is not the law. It is not the court's job to write law through judicial fiat. Congress should quit attempting to find judges that will do so with ingenious interpretations of the law. The law should say what it means and mean what it says.