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    imagine what would happen if division by 0 was possible?

    (this post has latex formatting. paste it in and hit preview) You can divide by zero, but unfortunately it isn't very useful. The rationals (fractions; numbers like \frac{a}{b} ) are usually defined such that b is not zero, so suppose we get rid of this constraint. Then we can define a...
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    New Development Job, No Degree. Any Advice?

    The obvious next interview question is "Talk a little bit about the memory performance of this algorithm." (C lacks tail end recursion.)
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    Programming for teenagers - know any forums/communities?

    http://www.codecademy.com/
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    New Development Job, No Degree. Any Advice?

    I have about 4 years of web development experience, no degree, and was just hired at a startup. My job finding strategy cut out people like Google, Facebook, etc. Since they get so many applications, it's silly to apply to them because they can do things like cut out all people without a...
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    Stock GTX 260m artifacting

    I have an ASUS G71gx with an nVidia GTX 260M, and on stock clocks (I can't even change them, so they must be stock) I get artifacting in any games I play, even sometimes in Windows. RivaTuner says clocks are 540 MHz Core clock, 1350 MHz core clock / shader, 799.20 MHz Memory, ~63'C idle...
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    people who kill themselves: ?

    "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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    people who kill themselves: ?

    Can you substantiate that claim? What is the vice-versa you refer to? Where is religion useful?
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    Headphone choices (low impedance)

    Why don't you just get a portable headphone amplifier? I got one for my Senn PC350's: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.18350
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    Test our Obscenity Filter

    buttermuffin fudging treacle teat.
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    Recommend some good fiction

    Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 1984 - George Orwell
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    Oklahoma town to buy statue of Jesus and place it downtown.

    Treaty of Tripoli Article 11: Secularism is not a religion, it is neutrality. To suggest that there is no separation of church and state is to ignore a long history of court battles over the very issue. Is the right to abortion spelled out in the constitution? No, but it is in Roe V...
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    Proof God Is Real

    Default position should be negative on claim of existence like god, which is why atheists are correct when they say for all intents and purposes they are correct, just like you don't know of the invisible pink unicorn in the corner of your room, it doesn't mean we should say "we just don't know"
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    Proof God Is Real

    Definitely. What is astonishing is the fact that an amateur pseudo-intellectual is trying to do what the smartest people of all time have been trying to do, and failing without resorting to obscurity and logical fallacy. Good luck. You probably won't succeed. Intuition alone is not sufficient...
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    Induction & Tautologies

    No, a tautology is true under any variation. That's why it's an abstraction - the variable "A" in A=A is a placeholder for any possible value. That's how you can know that A=A without checking every "case" or valuation.
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    Induction & Tautologies

    videogames101 seems to think the proposition is an inductive statement. Is it inductive or deductive?
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    The Great Flood and Noah's Ark

    This is what you were responding too, if the heat of debate has gotten to your head so much that you can't remember: It condones slavery by providing methods of regulation. An immoral action that we know today is immoral (most of us), and yet the Bible - the book famous for being a book of...
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    The Great Flood and Noah's Ark

    You danced around the question of where it says that slavery is bad. It doesn't. It says who you can enslave [1], how to treat them [2], how to use them as sex slaves [3], how hard you can beat them [4], how to mark them [2], how much to value them by [5]. God even gives a loophole to own...
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    The Great Flood and Noah's Ark

    Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh: [1] Sumerian Myth: [2] Hebrew Myth (Genesis 6-9) [3] What a coincidence! They all are in the same area! I made a map for easy reference. http://i43.tinypic.com/2en409v.png [1] http://www.ancienttexts.org/li...an/gilgamesh/tab11.htm [2]...
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    The Great Flood and Noah's Ark

    Large is subjective and context-sensitive. We use adjectives to describe in relation to other words and contexts. "This building is large" means that it is larger than other buildings, not larger than a truck or a pebble. The smallest floods are on the order of an acre or two, and the largest is...
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    What are your favorite Dream Theater songs?

    Ordered by rank, top = favorite Blind Faith The Glass Prison Octavarium Panic Attack Home In the Presence of Enemies 1-2 Voices As I Am Lie Constant Motion Take the Time The Ministry of Lost Souls New Millennium Metropolis (w/ keyboard duel) A Change of Seasons Lines in the...
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    Baptist preacher shot and killed in front of congregation this morning...

    Maybe you ought to pay more attention before ironically spouting your ignorance about a tragedy. In 2008, an estimated 55198553 people died (1). That's about three every two seconds. The only thing distinguishing about this story is that it was a church pastor who was killed during service...
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    Thinking about it.. an afterlife doesn't make sense, sadly

    What you are referring to is the "Principle of Sufficient Reason" QM rapes it. Knowledge is impossible without minds. The truth value of which the knowledge represents and models is still there, though. It doesn't matter if the truth statement "This flower is green" is true in that...
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    How the Economy Was Lost

    Sounds like a ton of conspiracy bullshit to me. I was just waiting for the "and where does the money come from? IT'S BORROWED, WE'LL BE IN DEBT" mantra. In case you don't know, the stimulus is to stave off Great Depression 2... Points I agreed with: The US government should never have used...
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    What would you do if you were accidentally overpaid?

    Give it back, it's considered stealing. If it wasn't considered stealing, fucking keep that shit.
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    Guy wakes up from coma just before his family was about to disconnect life support

    I don't see how the additional quote adds any contextual information that somehow makes my argument a straw man or anything. I quoted what was necessary. Your point specifically that So you meant the following, with proper grammar: My argument still stands - although a bit modified. God...
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    Guy wakes up from coma just before his family was about to disconnect life support

    Wow bitter much? Actually, that's a bit incorrect, it's between the family. The family has rights to make decisions if the patient is comatose. Not an imaginary friend, but the collective group. If they can't come to a consensus, a court advisor is awarded. I would say confirmational bias at...
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    Guy wakes up from coma just before his family was about to disconnect life support

    Unsubstantiated claims are unsubstantiated. Also, 91TTZ is right. It wasn't luck, because it wasn't chance that caused him to wake up. It's not governed by chance, although the factors are minute and detectable only after the fact, so in effect it's random. But it's not actually random, and...
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    Most Gay Video Ever...

    What about Dusty / Kenny Glenn?
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    The more I study the bible, the more I dislike religion.

    You should love the people who spread ridiculous nonsense then. Your argument is deceptively close to VFX's where he says, literally in one video, that God's message is to love, and yet that atheists have no love in them. Instead of converging, as a search for the truth should, religion...
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    guitar hero 3, xbox 360 -"lifting" guitar?

    Wave it around crazily until the tilt sensor registers, because it seems to have the sensitivity of a tank.
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    Taken = Best movie of year!

    I don't know who you are. And I don't know what you want. If you want a ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have - are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go...
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    What do you think of it?

    I don't really get [although, it's probably for lack of research] how all the bullshit hype (we can make them grow armor and anti-pest-lasers) works with the actual biochemistry. They'd have to take the huge DNA sequence and swap each codon for a new codon. That way, it makes a new protein that...
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    a charity everyone can invest in

    i approve this charity
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    lost everyone's phone number

    312-588-3108
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    I don't want to cut down this tree

    don't pay the contractor, and then the neighbors will be forced to pay it all.
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    I don't want to cut down this tree

    :camera:?
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    Another epic bb.com thread

    rage comic http://209.85.173.132/search?q...ediadramatica.com/Rage http://209.85.173.132/search?q...tica.com/Ffruustration
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    Al Gore = pwned?

    What other causes are there other than man-made? If there are other causes, they will be naturalistic. If they are naturalistic, chances are we can't control them (coming out of an ice age, sun flare, etc). The only things we can control are man-made emissions. Can I evoke a pascal's wager-esque...
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    People dying from CO poisening running generators indoors

    I wonder if all the people who die from CO poisoning have ever tried to breath the warm "air" coming out of a car's exhaust?