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General Discussion / Re: Wireless Networking PCI Card Recommendation

« on: August 14, 2006, 11:13:26 pm »

Any ETA on wireless N being finalized?

Isn't it already?  Linksys has been producing Wireless N products for weeks now...

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General Discussion / Re: Agnostic.

« on: August 12, 2006, 03:41:01 am »

I never said faith is supposed to be logical. By definition, an agnostic is somebody that thinks it's impossible to know whether or not God exists. Christians don't know, they strongly believe. No matter how much they think they know, they only strongly believe. Anyways, I'm just trying to be a technical ass here, it doesn't really matter. What I was trying to get across, is that it's impossible to prove God's existance.

Here's a scenario: do you love your parents?  music?  your siblings?  Prove it.  If you can't, you don't love them.  Simple as that... right? (See what I mean?)

You stole that from Contact!

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General Discussion / Re: Our fine school system continues to destroy America

« on: August 10, 2006, 07:25:06 am »

I think it'd help if you gave instances where it's not true, instead of leaving us with an ambiguous statement. Also, thank you for that [sik]. Somebody might have thought that you made the spelling error, even though in big bold letters it says "Quote from: MetaL MilitiA".

Ironically, it's sic, not sik.

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General Discussion / Re: Our fine school system continues to destroy America

« on: August 10, 2006, 12:59:19 am »

if anyone is excluded the invitations can't be handed out at school.

They can't be handed out at school period...

I wasn't implying that they be handed out at school.

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General Discussion / Re: Our fine school system continues to destroy America

« on: August 10, 2006, 12:55:28 am »

If the social interaction is regulated and forced, then it is not genuine.

Of course it's not genuine or sincere if it's forced, but who ever said sincerity was required for social interaction?  Come to think of it, who said that it would be forced interaction?  The invitations can always be easily given at a more appropriate time: after school.

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General Discussion / Re: Our fine school system continues to destroy America

« on: August 09, 2006, 09:43:54 pm »

How do you learn real social interaction when its all fake, though?

How can social interaction be "fake?"

This extends to both sides of the argument, but if social development is of such a great concern in the context of formal education, why are there no elementary-level classes on the subject?

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General Discussion / Re: Our fine school system continues to destroy America

« on: August 09, 2006, 05:48:24 pm »

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the purpose of school to learn, not to discuss party arrangements?

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Entertainment District / Re: Little Man.

« on: August 02, 2006, 04:53:36 pm »

Hahahahahaha. It seemed good. Darn.

I hope you're being sarcastic.  The trailers don't make it out to be any better than it apparently is.

Who the fuck says "Darn"

I don't know.  Joe?

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Entertainment District / Re: Little Man.

« on: August 02, 2006, 04:43:00 pm »

Hahahahahaha. It seemed good. Darn.

I hope you're being sarcastic.  The trailers don't make it out to be any better than it apparently is.

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General Discussion / Re: Removing SP2?

« on: July 26, 2006, 04:29:15 pm »

Oh yea, forgot about that option. Well, I don't know then. The best thing to do is remove these "annoyances" you have. Behind the scenes SP2 does a lot more than it shows security wise.

Definately — you should have no reason for removing SP2.

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General Discussion / Re: Snakes on an airplane and they can talk?

« on: July 19, 2006, 07:20:12 pm »

I've always been curious as to why Satan chose to come in the form of a serpent.

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Academic / School / Re: Time

« on: July 17, 2006, 11:41:30 pm »

If you were able to go faster than the speed of light, would you back in time?

If you were to leave frame of reference A traveling faster than the speed of light, you could reach frame of reference B before the light from reference A arrived and thus, travel "back" in time.

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Academic / School / Re: Time

« on: July 17, 2006, 02:35:38 am »

Which is why Einstein concluded that it is impossible to accelerate any object with a mass to the speed of light: the mass would continue to increase to an almost infinite amount making it impossible to accelerate further.

Mmhm. :p

From who's point of reference?  To someone outside of the train, the ball would be moving at the same rate as the train (10 m/s).  To someone inside of the train, the ball would be moving at 5 m/s.

That wasn't my point.  Objects that can't travel at the speed of light can (but don't always) have additive velocities, if said velocity doesn't exceed the speed of light (I think, anyway. :\).

In example, a car traveling down a highway at a constant velocity can observe another car on the opposite side traveling at double its velocity relative to a still observer (ie, someone standing in the middle of the two lanes).

ah ok.

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Academic / School / Re: Time

« on: July 17, 2006, 02:28:28 am »

  Does mass change with velocity?

Yes.  Since energy and mass are equivilant (E=mc^2) and velocity carries energy, the higher the velocity of an object, the more energy it carries.  Since this is true, the amount of mass it carries also grows.

Which is why Einstein concluded that it is impossible to accelerate any object with a mass to the speed of light: the mass would continue to increase to an almost infinite density as its velocity approached the speed of light and therefore making it impossible to accelerate further.

Quote from: Rule on Yesterday at 10:00:47 PM
  Do velocities add -- for example, if a train is going 10 m/s wrt the ground, and a ball on the train is going 5 m/s wrt the train, is the ball going 15 m/s wrt the ground?

Yes, unless you're dealing with light.

From who's point of reference?  To someone outside of the train, the ball would be moving at the same rate as the train (10 m/s).  To someone inside of the train, the ball would be moving at 5 m/s.

Composition of velocities - velocities (and speeds) do not simply 'add', for example if a rocket is moving at 2/3 the speed of light relative to an observer, and the rocket fires a missile at 2/3 of the speed of light relative to the rocket, the missile does not exceed the speed of light relative to the observer. (In the this example, the observer would see the missile travel with a speed of 12/13 the speed of light.)

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Academic / School / Re: Time

« on: July 16, 2006, 11:12:36 pm »

What is time?  Is it absolute?

No, it's realitive.

Is time travel possible?

Yes, forward time travel is theoretically possible... or atleast it has yet to be disproven.

Do velocities add -- for example, if a train is going 10 m/s wrt the ground, and a ball on the train is going 5 m/s wrt the train, is the ball going 15 m/s wrt the ground?

No.

Does mass change with velocity?

Yes,  E=MC².

If we were in a ship's cabin going at a constant velocity, would we be able to conduct any kind of physical experiment that would reveal we are moving?

Yes, waves would be causing the ship to move/rock.