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I've got a problem here. When I first boot my computer, my internet runs fine. However, after browsing a bit (I usually notice it after I've tried to open 3 or 4 webpages simultaneously), it slows WAAYYY down and hangs on "Connecting to page.com". Basically it just sits there trying to connect. AFter about 30 seconds, it finally connects and proceeds to load the page extremely slow. I think it's a problem with resolving IPs or connecting to them or something. It even occurs in IRC, so it's not just a browser problems. Any suggestions?

I cant fully explain the Episodes I experience, so I'll try my best...and I should see a Doctor about it, but wanted to try here anyways. The Episodes im speaking of started when I was a young boy around the age of 10-11 then they stopped for a number of years and started again when I was 17..I tried to learn to control them and keep them from happening and had been successful until now..I had a very intense one last night. I can best describe them as an Intense emotional cognition...My mind can only think in an absolute emotional state..I cant think of simple things or normal cognitive thinking patterns i.e. I am walking, I am getting a glass of water. I can perform the…

Wat is so special about Mona Lisa? why did this painting gain so much fame? wat are the ideas n or messages behind this painting?

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Support My School's Orchestra and Get Your Sites or Company or Name Advertised! Hi, everyone, my school, Council Rock High School South, have an amazing Orchestra. We were rated the best High School Orchestra in the US state of Pennsylvannia by the PMEA (Pennsylvania Music Educators Association). We also performed the pieces, 5 selected movement of the original version of "Pictures of an Expedition" and "Rusian Sailor Dance" and "The Inferno", at the PMEA convention at March 31st, 2006 for many music teachers. It was decided that we will be traveling to Italy on a concert tour next year to Perform the selected pieces including the famous "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy…

What if God uses 12 dimensional string theory to create multiple donut like branes of space time which collide causing multiple big bangs and multiple multiverses in which man continues to evolve and speciate eventually learning how to travel intergalactically and eventually through the multiverses forever and ever and ever and ..... Actually this is giving me a migraine and may be too horrific to contemplate. webgecko NY Better to burn out than it is to rust.

I think many would agree that the next revolution in medicine will be held on the nano scale. One day in the not too distant future you'll go to you doctor with a cold to have him administer a dose of nanocyctes which will seek out and eliminate the virus quickly and efficiently. Cold, cancer, even death could be a thing of the past once we learn how to treat disease at its most basic level. I want to be one of the prioneers of this technology but none of the career counselors at my college can give me any quality info about how I can pursue it. Does anyone have any advice regarding how I can make it happen? I figure Ill go to medical school since it is nanomedicine…

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece Has anyone else read that? Quite interesting Cheers, Ryan Jones

This took a lot of skill. Just press play even if it disappears and move your cursor off the screen before it plays. http://abum.com/file/shadow/animations/17632.swf Bee

I had a discussion with my boss today regarding my gym tee-shirt. He claimed that it was unhygenic to hang it up on a rail under my desk, but I thought it was not. My view is that it is actually less unhygenic to hang a gym shirt up than it is to wear a shirt for a whole day, for the following reasons. I'd be interested in any comments (apart from "get a fresh shirt you lazy so and so") When you wear a shirt in the office, although you don't sweat much, the small amount of sweat you build up is sufficient to allow anaerobic bacteria to build up under your armpits and create smell-producing chemicals. And it does this for 16 hours during the whole day. When you go …

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Will we still evolve years from now?

I'm putting this here in General discussion because I don't know where else it would go. It's a question about the "binding problem", the problem in psychology and neuroscience that questions how it is that the brain "binds" all the input it gets into one unified perception of reality. No one has discovered a central node - or "CPU" if you will - in the brain where all incoming signals converge, and so it's puzzling how the brain knows that all the disparate information it receives is coming from the same thing: reality. Here's my question: why couldn't the binding problem be resolved by assuming that where ever these separate signals get processed in the brain - …

Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method TALLAHASSEE, FL—Only months after abandoning a tenured position at Lehigh University, maverick chemist Theodore Hapner managed to disprove two of the three laws of thermodynamics and show that gold is a noxious gas, turning the world of science—defined for centuries by exhaustive research, painstaking observation, and hard-won theories—completely on its head. The brash chemist, who conducts independent research from his houseboat, has infuriated peers by refusing to "play by the rules of Socrates, Bacon, and Galileo," calling test results as he sees them, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. "If you're looki…

ok another strange think happened to me today. you may have read my other post about reverse visions.. Today, i was really tired, so i had a sleep. This was about 5pm. When i was in the bathroom and got undressed, i noticed several scratch/blood marks on my stomach. The are deep cuts not done by finger nails. One was in the shape of a coss. how did this happen? does ir mean something?

Say there's a quack and that wants to gain credibility as a scientist. And he does two things: 1) He makes up a PhD from a good University. Say Berkeley. 2) He claims a professorship to a university but never had one. Say Harvard. Is it illegal to do so? What action can be taken against you for you to stop? Can either of the universities sue the quack? Is Berkeley's legal options different from Harvard's? What else can happen?

It is hypothesized that at one point the entire homosapien species may have had population numbers below the 1,000s. One bad flu strain and we may never have gotten past that number - we may never have even left any evidence behind that we were here. And yet, those ancient ancestors of ours (assuming you are a human who is reading this;) ) were every bit as intelligent as you and I. Bring one of them forward in time and they could learn calculus, Java programming, how to do taxes maybe even. So it tickles my mind, the notion, that at some point in Earth's past there may have been very small populations of some species that was intelligent, perhaps just as much as you …

I was just wondering if the resident experts have moderating powers. simple curiosity.

Check this out.... I thought of YT when a friend showed it to me. EDIT: (From Pangloss) Be advised that you may want to turn down your sound when viewing this short film! Bee

http://scholar.google.com/ Search through journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly literature I recently found this website and thought it was neat.

Well, I've had a grilling about using the internet at work, and my posts in the evening are usually when I've had a couple, or my heads fried from studying, so they're usually pretty lame. In fact my posts have really taken a nose dive recently, I've had a lot to cope with...study, work and other stuff (although they weren't ever particularly inspiring...but hey), thanks all for making it a thoroughly enjoyable year, I've really enjoyed chatting to everyone. I'll probably be back when I've finished my degree (a couple of years or so), so I have something decent to contribute. Good luck to everyone with any plans you have, and hopefully I'll speak to you all …

Wonder what was happened if Einstein wasn't invented the nuclear bomb? Does it was invented by someone else? When? Thanks,

What if our solar system is an atom of a superior being??

Is anyone else offended by how recklessly this term is bandied about, particularly by those who want you to accept something largely on faith without evidence? I've heard "the truth" used in a few different contexts lately: 1. By IDiots - Harun Yahya offers you an invitation to the truth 2. By 9/11 conspiracy theorist nuts - Despite all claims that they want to know "the truth about 9/11", they don't care to rationally examine the evidence. To them, the "truth" is their preconceived view. Is there anyone claiming to know "the truth" who isn't completely bonkers?