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However, Peon seemed (I say "seemed" because it was rather hard to understand him at times) to believe that genetics determined things such as the perception of beauty, imprinting to the mother (and that imprinting to a mother of a different species was "mal-imprinting" and not natural, while some experiments proved that geese will imprint to anything that cares for them when they are young) and so on.

http://scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11529 Please read.

Can you truly isolate it to the mouse drivers, or could it be a virus or something? Try a scan and such. I have a Kensington mouse and it worked just fine. The drivers also aren't necessary at all--they are only needed if you need to configure the mouse.

This is a theory suggested by Peon on IRC, which was widely ridiculed. He said to post it here, so here goes. According to Peon, imprinting (such as imprinting to a mother) is controlled by genetics. The genes control what is imprinted into and what is not, and when this happens. A summary of his argument: Peon thinks that DNA is the root of imprinting, while the rest of the people on the channel believed it was not, but instead a result of memories and neurological functions (although these functions are also indirectly controlled by genetics, imprinting is not directly controlled, at least according to the rest of us). Opinions?

If you have no evidence, there is really no point in posting this.

Try png. That should be far better. Alternately, how big is this image? Perhaps you could use Paint to cut out the important part and leave out the rest of the image.

I just looked at some old copies of SFN from archive.org. It looked rather nice back then. I'd especially like Fafalone's welcome message back on the front page. It's better than just presenting people with a list of threads.

Alternately, go to imageshack.us and upload it there. Then link to it from here.

I only have a TI-83+, but I'd reccommend going into memory management and deleting the X variable. I have a program that runs at startup and clears all the variables. Unfortunately I don't know if it would work on an 89.

You need to scroll down to the bottom of the Reply To Thread screen (not quick reply) and hit Manage Attachments, then choose the one you need. You can also go to your UserCP to change/delete them.

Any references? Typically such a post without any references causes an outbreak of "you're an idiot," especially when the ideas described are particularly outrageous. Just warning you.

I can get at any file I want on Home, even in the WINDOWS folder. (although it does complain the first time you try)

Hello. blike is in medical school I think. Fafalone left for good a few months ago, and YT is just as happy as ever. We banned a few people while you were gone, nothing much...

It seems the system is getting revenge for you giving so many warnings.

Thanks for replying Dave. I guess much of it is a matter of preference. But even on the vB forums there are threads about the number of tables used by the default skin. There's even a project to do a table-free layout. About the month word-wrapping: even my name word wraps around anyways... don't know if that column is big enough. Fair enough about the inline style tags. It's better than having it all controlled by deprecated tags and attributes...

That should be a short-lived show.

(Sorry, I can't edit my post at the moment. Bloody time limit.) A few more ideas: We don't need the Quick Reply to This Post button. It doesn't do anything but select the Quick Reply box. Why is the "Posting Rules" box collapsable? Does it really matter? I'd keep it open myself. I have never seen anybody rate a thread in my life at SFN. What are the Previous Thread | Next Thread links for? I don't even know what they do anyways. Couldn't FAQ be added to the Quick Links menu? Couldn't the UserCP section of the Quick Links menu be removed, given we already have a link to the UserCP up there? If anybody was going to use the Forum Jump box, it should be higher up. Or get rid of it. I don't know if it's really that useful anyways. [nitpick]Change the join date to do full months instead of 3-letter abbreviations[/nitpick] Why do we need a New Posts button in the Quick Links menu when it's already in Active Topics? That's all I can think of for now. It's all nitpicky stuff anyways, so I really don't mind. Dave, I do like your style you made. It's rather nice.

I do remember a case where engineers attempting to load a barge to fix the levies were fired at, and several of the assailants were shot and killed. The problem is many of the guns were raided from gun stores--the people didn't own them, they didn't have licences or training, etc. It's not really a good example.

I really like what dave has done to the template on SFN. It looks rather nice. However, I have a few suggestions that could make it quicker loading and cost less bandwidth: Move the CSS to an external file so it can be cached independently of the page, saving bandwidth. Look at the Quick Reply box. It has its own table and is nested among several layers of borders and such (same as the reply box). Some of those extra borders could be removed without affecting how nice it looks, while helping rendering time. Move stuff from inline style tags to the main CSS so it can be cached. I'd like to see the little top bar thingy redone. It doesn't look that great at the moment. Especially the little folder icons vBulletin uses for its nav tree, and such. That could be improved upon. Can't we consolidate the Active Topics menu into New Posts? I don't know how many people need to know the last half hour. I only care about new ones. We really don't need an arcade search function in the dropdown menu. In Post Reply, do we need a little "Logged in as So-and-so" button above the reply box? It already says who you are in the upper right ("Welcome So-and-so."). The copyright text at the bottom looks like vBulletin is copyright Jelsoft and SFN. I don't intend to be demanding, but I think we can make the template nicer than it is. Dave, I don't think your template is bad, it's the default vBulletin stuff that really sucks.

Not so much fun for the moderators though...

It seems all of the old folks are falling out. Glad to see Sayonara back though! (even blike has vanished! And vBulletin needs to be upgraded to 3.0.9!)

The Weekly World News is famous for Bat Boy and the invasion of microscopic aliens. I don't think they're trustworthy.

According to the latest conspiracy theories, it's the Russians doing it (Katrina is supposedly a Russian name, like Ivan)!! But more seriously, there have been quite a few recent news articles saying that global warming is related to hurricane frequency. I don't know how true they are (a google news search turned up environmentalist sites), so I'll wait until it's in a nice science journal.

Also a sub made with angles would be rather slow. There have been stealth ships as well, but you have to deal with the radar return from the wake as well, plus all of the other stuff. I don't believe that the Philidelphia experiment would have worked as described. Why wasn't there a big "hole" in the water where its hull was supposed to be?

The traditional method to make them "bulletproof" is rather to fill them with foam that will expand to plug the hole when a hole is blown through it. The foam is permeable so you can hold fuel in it, and fire-resistant so there's no big explosions.