Cap'n Refsmmat

Exercise doesn't increase the amount of oxygen running around in your system -- you might be breathing harder, but you're using up the oxygen as soon as you inhale it. (Our breathing reflex is tied to how much CO2 is in the bloodstream.) Exercise also stimulates a whole bunch of other good things, so even if the added oxygen use hurts you, I'm sure it'll be balanced out by you not having congestive heart failure at 57...

You will note that the hands of the hammer thrower do not stay stationary. They move as he rotates. You can see this if you take a piece of string and try to spin it over your head -- your hands move in a small circle to cause the string to spin. However, the end of the string travels in a circle with one fixed center. Your hand holding the string moves around that center point. Thus, the force you apply to make the string move is not perpendicular to the motion, because your hand moves away from the center point and pulls on the string from an angle.

An interesting new study reported in NPR: http://www.npr.org/t...oryId=128490874 So perhaps Churchill's famous saying should be rewritten as "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on, but the lie is wearing a rather nice minidress and showing lots of cleavage."

That may be doable; however, when you click the link to get to a thread, it should take you to the first unread post anyway. Default is 20, and it's only admin-changeable, unfortunately.

I have read quotes from French men saying "Well, if they can't wear the burqa, I just can't let them out of the house." Seems like a pretty awful unintended consequence to me. The religious aspect makes it difficult; I assume many of the women do believe that wearing the burqa is their duty, and will be as angry at the government as their spouses. I don't think easy legislation would solve the perceived problem without social and religious aspects.

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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+5:26&version=NIV Indeed. Let's look at some actual data: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life+expectancy Look at the disparity between Swaziland, where 60% of the population lives on $1.25 or less daily, and Macau, with the 18th-highest per-capita GDP in the world, where infrastructure and medicine are affordable. What Marat also forgets is that hygiene is not "pre-scientific"; it took significant advances in medicine for the germ theory of disease to ever be proven, and advancing the idea of hand-washing took significant amounts of work by Joseph Lister. Defecating in water you don't drink requires understanding that diseases like cholera are spread through contaminated drinking water -- and anyone in a pre-scientific time had no idea what a germ even was, let alone how it was spread. One must also take into account quality of life instead of just life expectancy. Modern medicine also works on non-fatal illnesses -- treatments for cold symptoms, surgeries to fix damaged joints, and so on. The problems wouldn't cause death, but the treatment makes life easier for the patient.

Unfortunately there's no easy way to do that. If you're in the habit of using the feature, be sure to quote posts so it's clear who you're talking to, or insert an hr tag or the merged posts tag manually.

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That's really odd. I don't understand how a website could cause that to happen. When it happens, do other things on your computer -- other programs, whatever -- get slow as well? Or is it just your browser that becomes unresponsive?

That was a vBulletin plugin, and I don't think the same feature is in IPB. I'll look to see if there's a plugin to achieve it. edit: I take that back. There's a built-in feature to achieve it. Enabled! Just making sure it works.

Get down to the bottom left of the page, to the style chooser (it should have "SFN" selected at the moment) and select IP.Board Mobile instead. You'll get the pre-made mobile layout designed for small screens. It's supposed to give that to you automatically, actually -- I'll have to look to see why it isn't. If you could take your Blackberry to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ and post your user-agent here, I'll see why it's not sending you to the mobile theme. Someone else has reported a similar problem in IRC.

Okay, there'll be something wrong with how we're reading the IPB cookies in WordPress. Dave will have to take a look; I'm not familiar with how it works.

If you do find certain areas hard to navigate or confusingly worded, give me the details and I can take a look. I can always make adjustments. For those on dial-up, I've tried to make the site faster to load by compressing pages and letting your computer cache frequently-used images. You can also open your browser's options and allocate more space to the cache, which will save you from downloading things over and over again; in Firefox, that setting is in Advanced->Network in the Options dialog.

User IDs changed when the conversion was done, and alexgo17 now has the user ID you used to have. We changed the blog users to account for that, but apparently blog authors are stored separately. I'll cook up a fix. Indeed. If we pay extra, we can get the Gallery add-on, which is rather nice, but we'd have to come up with good uses for it. I'm going to try to get vBulletin working in read-only mode somewhere in case you want to get your files back.

Real scientists make their coffee on a hotplate with a magnetic stirrer, while wearing goggles and a plastic apron. I do wonder if the strength gradient in a coffee pot is linear, though. As time passes, won't more and more content settle to the bottom, making the bottom portion significantly stronger than the top portions?

Also, regarding the sidebar on the index page: It will bring benefits. I intend to put some useful info in the sidebar to make it easier for visitors to find interesting discussions or blogs.

Or... get a stirrer for your coffee machine?

I think there's a file size limit (in kilobytes) as well as a dimension limit. Fudge, you're right about the favicon though, mine must have been cached. Fixed. Check links again - I just fixed one problem (some showthread.php links didn't work). If you find any others that don't work, can you paste the links for me? I'll try to fix the redirect scripts. The topics and posts thing is by design, I think - use the Find My Content button on the left-hand bar.

Resizing worked for me. What exactly happened? As for the favicon... we're not even using vBulletin any more, so I have no idea why you're seeing the vBulletin favicon. What do you see when you go to http://www.scienceforums.net/favicon.ico ?

I see the atom icon here. What kind of icon do you see? The little vBulletin v logo?

My Content lists all of your posts. Are you trying to delete your own posts? Or are you referring to something else?

amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb, color, slashed and mhchem are in use. (mhchem is only used when you use the ce tags.) We can fairly easily add more to the list if they come with the LaTeX distribution or are easy to add.