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Hello, I dug out an old book the other day "Every Boy's Handbook" It had a list of important historical events. It mentioned 4 BC as "actual year of Jesus Christ's birth", and I was thinking how this seems to be commonly accepted. But why? From what I have read elsewhere there seem to be...

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cherokee/stories/2006/11/14/1115metIllegal.html Cherokee targets illegals' landlords By CHRISTOPHER QUINN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 11/15/06 In what is believed to be the first such action in the state, Cherokee County, Georgia is...

I'm looking at putting together a DVD that will work in a special way, but I'm not sure if it's possible. I know I could do it if it were to be run on a computer, but I want to run it on a DVD player. I don't know if they are capable of it, however. The idea is basically as follows (this is a...

So i'm studying for my vert. phys. test and we're going over circulation. Our lecture notes say that an increase in blood resistance decreases blood flow (which i can understand) and it also increases blood pressure. This last part is what i have a problem with, because earlier in the lecture...

Boys toys question... At concerts you see lights that swivel and tilt in response to the music and also can change their beam colour continuously through the spectrum. Some also have masks that make shapes. I have a hankering to have one of these at home to light up a room where we turn the...

A client of mine is a 14 year old girl. This past summer as she was walking home from a church event one afternoon she was approached by a group of men who were affiliated with a local gang. This county has been having a chronic problem with gang activity. It is known that one initiation...

Is it OK to be unethical to someone who is unethical to you, except to the minimum extent necessary to defend yourself (or those you protect) from harm?

Im starting to upgrade my computer (slowly), and was going to start out by getting a newer case that allows for a lot of expansion. I have a 3 1/2 year old Sony Viao with 2.4Ghz P 4 CPU in it. Im not sure if any of you guys will know this, but I want to make sure my motherboard will fit into...

One thing that genuinely puzzles me about how people frame their belief of the bible. It seems that you can either accept the bible as infallible literal truth in its entirety, or a sort of morality play story that requires interpretation to apply. If the former, how do you answer the...

I see trees on very steep slopes that emerge perpendicular to the slope, then, very quickly, turn upward to grow vertical. Is this currently explained as: -- some sort of genetic programming, with details still to be understood? or -- some kind of natural selection within the organism, by which...

Split from: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1880141#post1880141 This reminded me, anyone know what the policies/laws are regarding the following idea: Once we have a nice little bullet-point flyer debunking Sylvia, placing a copy of said flyer in each of her...

This evening I stopped into the local Barnes & Noble to buy some books on web development, for use in the upcoming site about Sylvia. After purchasing five very cool books (okay, two very cool books, two moderately cool book, and one I'm not sure about) I got back out to my car to find that...

I would appreciate any help one can give me regarding this problem that occasionally pops up (pun unintended) ... For some reason the size that my opening Windows' window starts out with is much smaller than full screen. Now, I keep re-sizing it to full screen, but each time I start it will...

With regard to this story.... Passengers Questioned After Dutch F-16s Escort U.S. Plane to Airport I heard a brief interview between a Fox News person and an official at the Amsterdam airport.. The official pretty much answered ‘ No comment.. ‘ to all the questions, including this one...

As a political feather-weight myself, who couldn't argue his way out of a wet paper Blair, a comment was made among my fellow aves which was left unanswered and the subject dropped as no one had enough knowledge to mount a serious discussion. A quick summary: Many current news...

quickie poll time.... Is euthanasia acceptable? etc. etc. There's an article in the guardian today with a first hand account...... http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1840319,00.html

Here's one which popped into my head the other day, and I'm not sure how to solve it. You have an mp3 player with an album containing ten tracks. You have put it on "random play". What is the probability that two or more tracks on that album will play out in their original order? They could be...

My friend recently told me an odd story about playing with an old chemistry set. Apparently this person (who unfortunatly doesn't remember the actual set or what specific chemicals it came with) got bored and poored everything into a single test tube. Apparently this dissolved the entire tube...

Checking specs on these things the 2 things that stand out/appear to be of particular importance performance-wise are the dot pitch and refresh rates. Standard dot pitch on these things seems to be in the .29 range - may not notice a diff in most cases but this seems disappointing as CRTs have...

I've Googled unsuccessfully, and I'm hoping someone here will know the answer to this: I'm wondering about planned comparisons in a mixed model. Details: 2 (between subjects: sick versus healthy) X 4 (within subjects: assessment time: T0, T1, T2, T3) design. N=13 sick and 22 healthy. They...

Hello, I am trying to work out the probability that a pack of trading cards contains new cards or cards that I already have. I am assuming that there are 100 cards in the set and that I already have 50 cards. Each pack contains 5 cards and all cards in a pack are different. If I define the...

Hi all. I'm doing a research project on the markets of Eastern Europe. I ran across some figures for the "total debt stocks" of some countries. The textbook definition is "the sum of public and publicly guaranteed long-term debt, private nonguaranteed long-term debt, the use of IMF...

So, I'm killing some time waiting for my flight to Jalalabad... I found this link https://secure.royalcaribbean.com/asr/booking/product/detail/view.do;jsessionid=0000PjMVY7OEkT-8kFDsN6-DDkA:10ktdmqkf?ComponentCode=CZ79&ComponentTypeId=1&ProductCode=CZ79&ActivityTypeId=9&LocationCode= about a...

Yesterday, the UK's Independent On Sunday ran an article on the July 7th London bombings. And it looks like we might have a UK version of Loose Screws developing here - the article was implying that things were being covered up. Anyway, what specifically caught my attention was this statement...

Hello! I am hoping that you all can answer this for me . Has there ever been a case where the police did claim psychic / medium had helped them solve a crime?

im not sure where to ask this, maybee another section would be better suited, i dont know which tho, as far as im concerened this would be the best group of people to ask this question to.... now, from what i understand the church of scientology has some sort of tax exempt status based on the...

Ok, be gentle as I’m still fairly new to this board and I know Chiropractic is viewed as woo. In the past, I have been sent to Chiropractors, by my MD, for back & neck sprains and strains. I did find total relief from my injuries in about 3 weeks. The ultrasound, diatherapy and physical...

A little over a week ago, my two MySpace-addicted daughters started complaining that certain things had stopped working on MySpace pages. Some videos which had worked before now simply showed as a white square on the page. Same with some audio files. I thought perhaps it had something to do...

:D Hello, world! I am a new member who is an aspiring game programmer. I am using C++ to program video games right now, but I have a problem... The sprites (2D objects) won't display on screen. Here is the most likely problem. - My resource files are incorrect. Here's an example...

Just say I had an 820nm 200mW laser. What colour would it be and would it do to my skin? And my eyes if I shined it there? Thanks muchly.