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Rotpeter

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  1. I was busting Bobby's balls. He got it. You didn't. We move on.
  2. I know what you mean but you need to differentiate between evolutionary scientists and professional evolutionary arguers. For some reason Darwinism has become the bludgeon the latter beat creationists with and vice versa; it's become a symbol and hence no ground can be given, even ground good science says you must abandon is defended. Consequently it's over-defended and we end up, like you say, with all the same kind of rhetorical shenanigans the creationists use. Most professional arguers only understand evolution to a conceptual level anyway and supplement this with a checklist of refutations of common creationist BS. If you want genuine insight on the current state you need to go to the textbooks.
  3. Many evolutionary biologists are unconvinced like you and don't subscribe to the kind of gradualism you are talking about. They have other theories, like punctuated equilibrium, various hybrids etc. It's a work in process as it has been since day one.
  4. Asserting something as a fact "because it's true" is bad science old boy and it's far from true. The irony of that statement in THIS thread is monumental. To state a priori that it is true and there are no arguments is to deny the reality of history and to champion dogma. Bits and pieces of Evolution/Darwinism/the whole cluster of hypotheses have been challenged, invalidated, reformulated, re-validated since day 1. So much so that whole swarthes of have been erased and they had to come up with a new name for it. Don't treat it as an article of faith. This is science. The minute you prove it right, is the minute your responsibility becomes to prove it wrong; which is inevitable. NB: No supernatural entities were used in the production of this post.
  5. Try disabling hardware acceleration under options -> Advanced -> General Try options-> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced. Make sure you have those fonts & that allow pages use own fonts is selected. What has changed recently? New video driver?
  6. Are these highly educated people able to filter out non-theological nonsense?
  7. Be that as it may, you should re-read it, there's many more great one-liners and it's still very relevant, especially seeing as how you guys are discussing the exact same topic, making the exact same points in the right here and right now.
  8. Nietzsche began that quote with 'Once Upon a Time' for a reason. The rest of the essay goes onto to ridicule 'knowing' using a lot of the same arguments Fanchester has actually.
  9. You could be right. Setting up a team without Suarez is a completely different proposition, so who knows how that will shake out. I see a lot of his Swansea in us though, deliberately sacrificing space at the back for numbers up front. Combined with the utter disdain he demonstrated for the defence first strategy on show during the chelsea game, I think it's more likely he'll keep twisting on center backs till he gets the right pairing.
  10. I doubt the defence will ever be setup to suit the weaknesses of the players though. That's what Rafa did. That's why IMO, slightly better than average players like Agger, Reina, Skrtel et al looked much better than they do now. Rodgers will setup the defence to suit the attack and they will adapt or die.
  11. Neither are good enough if we plan on competing among the creme de la creme again. The massive gaps in Ming's game are not going to suddenly disappear and Reina checked out when Rafa left and has no idea how to check back in.
  12. Yeah, it's definitely a big weakness of his but we needed his shot stopping as shot stopping appears to be our only defensive tactic!
  13. The way we defend, we need a shot stopper first and foremost. And Mignolet despite his faults is that.
  14. She's a spitting image. Of big pussy @ the fun house in the sopranos.
  15. Maths are my best subject. Closely followed by gyms.
  16. DPC Latency Checker is a windows program. Some configurations of windows don't schedule the audio driver properly resulting in crackling. That program will see if you have that issue.
  17. WEP and WPA are both hacked the same way. By script kiddies with more time than sense. WPA will take more time to crack, but if someone is determined both will fall. Your #1 priority is a working network, so go with WEP. If you really feel your midget porn collection is worth protecting, increase the next layer of security. At the router and PCs. Long randomized passwords, access controlled by device MAC address
  18. Is this a result of the govt now paying housing benefit to recipients instead of landlords?
  19. Much easier to say after the fact!
  20. It'll be in some american dictionary somewhere. Alongside, logicalize and such like. Don't sweat it.
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