1. 'Spore' Its for the Little Guys

Comment #244592 by vesihiisi on September 9, 2008 at 7:59 am

You can test the early prototypes for Spore:
http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes

2. 'Spore' Its for the Little Guys

Comment #244414 by vesihiisi on September 8, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Sounds like fun to toy for a while, but as a game the reviews say it is the disapointment of the year.
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000FKBCX4/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
And with the DRM(more like a virus) i would think twice to install. :(

3. Opening minds

Comment #242888 by vesihiisi on September 4, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Teach children zen meditating.
http://www.physorg.com/news139635145.html

4. McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School

Comment #240056 by vesihiisi on August 30, 2008 at 8:07 pm

JMac,
I was just defending her from all the critics, who say she wants to teach creationism in school.


I'd like to critic people based on the facts, but I know that it might sometimes be too confusing. Sorry if you think, this thread is not suitable for such things.

5. McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School

Comment #240039 by vesihiisi on August 30, 2008 at 7:46 pm

Comment #240018 by mordacious1

Maybe some student might ask the teacher, how does he know, that world is older than 6ka.

Comment #240019 by J Mac

The fact that she is not campaigning for ID to be put in schools is besides the point. She's is disconnected from reality.

6. McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School

Comment #240017 by vesihiisi on August 30, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Comment #240008 by mordacious1:

She wants ID to be taught as an alternative "theory" in a SCIENCE classroom. This is why she is an idiot.

"I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."
She added that, if elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add such creation-based alternatives to the state's required curriculum.
"I won't have religion as a litmus test, or anybody's personal opinion on evolution or creationism," Palin said.

Palin has occasionally discussed her lifelong Christian faith during the governor's race but said teaching creationism is nothing she has campaigned about or even given much thought to.

7. McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School

Comment #240004 by vesihiisi on August 30, 2008 at 6:41 pm

Democrats are now saying she supports gay marriage

Sarah Palin (GOV-Alaska-Republican), supports gay rights, says Anchorage Daily News.

Quote "Gov. Sarah Palin vetoed a bill Thursday that sought to block the state from giving public employee benefits such as health insurance to same-sex couples."

Quote ""It is the Governor's intention to work with the legislature and to give the people of Alaska an opportunity to express their wishes and intentions whether these benefits should continue," the statement from Palin's administration said."

Coghill said he's interested in a new plan that would allow state employees to designate one person â€" maybe a same-sex partner, but also possibly a family member or roommate â€" who would be eligible for state-paid benefits. But the employee would have to pay to add that person to his or her benefits."

Sarah Palin's veto gave gays the same rights as married couples in Alaska.

A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for gay marriage.

8. McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School

Comment #239995 by vesihiisi on August 30, 2008 at 6:31 pm

As I already posted in thread "Ayaan Hirsi Ali & The Big Ideas Forum", Palin does not want to teach creationism in schools. She would allow it to be discussed, but not taught as science. This is a big difference, but WIRED has decided to cut that part off. Read the whole story here:
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html

9. Ayaan Hirsi Ali & The Big Ideas Forum

Comment #239768 by vesihiisi on August 30, 2008 at 10:17 am

It seems, that Palin would let creationism be discussed in science class, but not be taught as an alternative.

http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html

"Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of education. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."
...
In an interview Thursday, Palin said she meant only to say that discussion of alternative views should be allowed to arise in Alaska classrooms:

"I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

She added that, if elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add such creation-based alternatives to the state's required curriculum.

10. Ayaan Hirsi Ali & The Big Ideas Forum

Comment #239678 by vesihiisi on August 30, 2008 at 7:27 am

Libertarian doesn't need to be a GW denialist, altough most of them are. Libertarian should be a sceptic, but many fail at this. They can have many other unscientific beliefs aswell. Some of them are 9/11 troofers or even creationists like Ron Paul.

The founder of The Skeptics Society, Michael Shermer also considers himself as libertarian (or used to), and has changed his view about GW.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-flipping-point

P&T usually get their info from CATO, and are usualy just glorifying corporaions, but they do have some good episodes and most of the episodes are decent, if you don't believe all that they say.

The GW denialists claims have made me to look up some of the issues, and I have learned much from it, like the creaionists have mede me to look up about the evolution. The denialists usually has as poor understanding about GW as creationists have about evolution (or are just building strawmen for the uneducated)

The root of GW problem is the drilling of oil and gas and mining of coal. All that is drilled will eventually go into air as CO2. By cutting down our use of these products, the price could go down and drilling for more oil would be less profitable. This is very hard thing to do, as Asian markets are rising and demand for oil is higer than ever. More effective would be just to stop drilling for more oil. There will be big effect to the oilproduction as the "Peak Oil" happens, and production will decline. Some say that the peak is happening just now. While we should try to get away from oil just for economical reasons, we should be conserned that that the coal would not become the new energysource.

Other concerns are how the oceans will sink carbon, or will they in fact start releasing more carbon as they get warmer. There is alsoa a fear that unfreezing northern permafrost and seafloor would release massive amounts of frozen methane. Then we might use some artificial cooling, like injecting reflecing micro particles into upper atmosphere.

11. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228662 by vesihiisi on August 12, 2008 at 10:53 am

Things are not going well for Allah:

http://www.nbc30.com/news/17137469/detail.html?dl=headlineclick
http://fox61.trb.com/news/wtic-0808-almighty-supremebeing-allah,0,400487.story

South Windsor police arrested Almighty Supremebeing Allah on drug charges.

Police received a tip that he was about to take part in a drug transaction, police said. He was arrested Thursday night on John Fitch Boulevard.

Almighty Supremebeing Allah, who lives in West Hartford, was accused of cocaine possession with intent to sell.

12. Neanderthal DNA Shows They Rarely Interbred With Us Very Different Humans

Comment #227349 by vesihiisi on August 9, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Is there any studies of mtDNA mixing between hybrid species? I would suspect, that mtDNA and Y-DNA would be harder to be transmitted between species and be deleted by negative selection. The other chromosome DNA would have easier transmission and any beneficent genes could be recombined and spread more widely in population.

13. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224362 by vesihiisi on August 4, 2008 at 2:00 pm

The anger from the posters seems to indicate, how insecure they are with their spherical earth-delusion.

It is always painful to learn the truth...

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Gandhi

14. To beat extremism we must dissolve religious groups

Comment #221723 by vesihiisi on July 30, 2008 at 3:25 am

This survey has been discussed more at here:
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2906,A-third-of-Muslim-students-back-killings,Times-Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407115.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164

These results seems to be in line with the previous ones.

15. Obama Should Re-Think His Faith-Based Agenda

Comment #220469 by vesihiisi on July 28, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Mr. Obama, build up that wall!

16. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #218835 by vesihiisi on July 25, 2008 at 6:24 pm

Village Idiot: That seems a bit harsh way to wipe out religion. Maybe we could use education or something?

17. Richard Dawkins on Al Jazeera English

Comment #215446 by vesihiisi on July 21, 2008 at 11:34 pm

People should realise, that WWII was started by creationists and lamarckists (Hitler and Stalin)

18. Antony Flew reviews the Index of The God Delusion

Comment #214514 by vesihiisi on July 20, 2008 at 2:56 pm

These militant deists do their case no favours.

19. In God's Name

Comment #183242 by vesihiisi on May 21, 2008 at 3:22 pm

War in UK in 30-40 years is sure a provocative statement.

Sadly that seems to be the standard procedure in countries that gain a muslim majority.

I don't see how the demographic trends would change in coming years, or how the majority of muslims would turn secular. As it seems, the new generations are growing more radical than their parents. How could this be changed, when societies are welcoming saudi funded preachers, and natives are fleeing by hundreds of thousands to Australia and NZ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZNx0xHe0p0
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020660/Record-160-000-foreigners-granted-British-citizenship-2007-2million-Britons-leave-UK.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-566438/Police-pay-Channel-4-100-000-damages-accusing-station-faking-undercover-mosque-footage.html

20. In God's Name

Comment #182971 by vesihiisi on May 21, 2008 at 7:00 am

Why is comparing Allah to Satan disgusting? Maybe it's a bit harsh for the Satan, afterall he is supposed to have given us the knowledge, but they are both just imaginary friends.

21. Evolution: What is 'Natural'?

Comment #178626 by vesihiisi on May 11, 2008 at 7:06 pm

Oh, you are just trying to make a simple thing too complicated.

Should societies be run by Newtonian morals? Should light people be above heavy people in society, because newtonian laws keeps society from floating into space?

Darwinian mechanics gave us our instincts, reasoning, and morals. We can research these mechanics and take them in account when we make policies and use our evolved morals and reasoning to decide, what kind of societies we should build.

Of course we can fight the evolutionary mechanics the same way we can fight Newton's laws when sending people to the Moon.

22. Pat Condell: Anthology DVD available now!

Comment #172717 by vesihiisi on April 30, 2008 at 1:36 am

Pat for the win!

And islam is not a race, like christianity, communism, nazism and atheism are not races.

23. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #172323 by vesihiisi on April 29, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Everybody knows that Stalin was a PACIFIST. We know this because he killed most of he's generals.

24. Bart Ehrman, Questioning Religion on Why We Suffer

Comment #130034 by vesihiisi on February 20, 2008 at 12:16 am

If you remove all the god worship from the book of Ecclesiastes, thats pretty much something from buddhism. Intrestingly, at the same time BoE was written, greek philosophers were getting in touch with indian philosophers and starting new schools, as Alexander the Great invaded Asia.
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Maybe an agnostic needs a better definition? One, that does not believe in god, but believes in Hell? Or one, that does not believe in god, but believes in religion (people are too stupid to think for themself)?

25. Bart Ehrman, Questioning Religion on Why We Suffer

Comment #130019 by vesihiisi on February 19, 2008 at 11:16 pm

Ehrman at Youtube about Misquoting Jesus (10 parts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cK3Ry_icJo

Ehrman at Infidel Guy http://infidelguy.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=284648