Manticore

As acupuncture has been pretty thoroughly debunked, then I can't see any possibly of this being any more than yet another crackpot idea.

7 minutes ago, LaurieAG said:

That's mainly in a threads title not a user name.

In the ADD NEW Thread function the last test should be. If the Thread Title contains "http" etc then BAN(user_name), Delete thread, Hide posts and exit

 

Whoops! I wasn't thinking there.

I've been thinking about this too. Seems like it would be easy enough to automatically remove anyone with "http://" in their name before they even get a chance to post their garbage

"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!"
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to
feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is, 'The Aged
Aged Man.'"
"Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?"
Alice corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is
called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it is called you know!"
"Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who was by this
time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is
"A-sitting on a Gate": and the tune's my own invention."
--Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"

33 minutes ago, koti said:

Well, you're gonna need to try harder to find double standards in my positions in this thread. I would suggest you wouldn't though because so far it's as futile task as finding sense in Dimreepr's sheep shagging post. 

I would like to point out that you've managed not to address a single one of my arguments in this thread. We keep on revolving around me answering your questions and this strategy is as good against someone with 17 functional neurons as it is annoying to me. I might be the "5th horseman" riding a donkey in the back of the pack but I'm not falling for a dialog filled with silence against my arguments, directed only towards an agenda of catching that one flaw in my posts and using it for basing a rebuttal which would attempt to diminish my line of thought as a whole. Although my donkey rides steadily so far, I would prefer to get out of this conversation before Dimreepr manages to piss me off to a point in which I fall off my ride and give you the chance to use that as foundation to discredit everything I said so far.  

As far as I can see, you haven't made any arguments. You have basically repeated (ad nauseam) "I hate Muslims therefore they are all evil."

Any expansion problem would be more likely to be caused by the wood expanding and contracting with changing moisture content. I don't think I would worry too much unless you live somewhere with long wet and dry seasons.

16 minutes ago, koti said:

Well maybe because they are not sticking to the doctrines of Islam aka they are not "true" Muslims.

 

So, you're saying that all Muslims are fanatics, and the 99+% that are not, are not true Muslims.

10 minutes ago, Manticore said:

That is utter nonsense. Tanzania is about 35% Muslim and in 13 years here, with many Muslim friends, I've never met one that I would classify as a fundamentalist.

Whoops! I took the first figure I found there. Other estimates range from 19.8% to 65%.

There does seem to be religious conflict in Zanzibar.

6 minutes ago, koti said:

Religious fundamentalism is an intrinsic part of Islam, these two cannot be separated. Terrorism is a whole different issue on its own and it has to be separated from the subject of this thread. 

That is utter nonsense. Tanzania is about 35% Muslim and in 13 years here, with many Muslim friends, I've never met one that I would classify as a fundamentalist.

Doesn't seem to be anything to do with cookies. My browser is set to delete all cookies at the end of a session. If I've checked "Keep me logged in" then I still get automatically logged in when I come here. I connect via a cellmodem so the IP address is different every time - that doesn't seem to affect it either.

After the successful siege of Jerusalem the Crusaders began an unholy mass of killing. The Crusaders went on a rampage killing every single person they encountered. They went into houses and dragged out the people inhabiting the place to kill them. They stole everything they found and destroyed statues and things the Muslims and Non-Christians considered holy. Muslim refugees had taken shelter in the mosque of Al-Aqsa. Even though his banner was flying high and low above on the morning of the 16th the Crusaders broke in and slaughtered everyone inside. The chroniclers tell of "streets running with blood and of horses splashing blood up onto their riders' leggings". Order returned on 17 July because basically there was simply no one left to kill. All the Jews of Jerusalem were dead and all the Muslims were dead. The Christians had been expelled before the siege began. The city was empty of all save its conquerors. The Muslim world would never forget and forgive the Crusaders' behavior. Jerusalem was a holy city to the Muslims as much as it was to the Christians. The looting of sacred shrines and the slaughter of innocents confirmed the opinion that the people of the West were savage barbarians with no faith at all except in blood and wealth.

2 hours ago, Sicarii said:

Which "Superior Intelligence" created the "Superior Intelligence" which you chose to call "God"?

And which "Superior Intelligence" created the "Superior Intelligence" which created the "Superior Intelligence" which you chose to call "God"?

And which "Superior Intelligence" created .........

What a load of complete and utter bollocks.

3 hours ago, koti said:

What this comes down to is a choice between MY hostile line of though towards islam and the: "lets turn our heads away, be PC and rational" line of thought. There is no correct solution here but my self preservstion instinct telling me to fight.

I don't think I've ever met a Muslim fundamentalist and I have plenty of Muslim friends. I have to say that I have met Christian fundies and they are uniformly vile. I imagine fundie Muslims would be pretty much the same.

It's not the religion you should be opposed to - it's the fundamentalist mindset.

They might call themselves Christians but....

12 minutes ago, Itoero said:

What does one verse matter?

There is a lot of disgusting stuff in the OT and for many Christians the OT is more significant then the NT. Do you deny this?

If they think the OT is more significant then the NT, then they are absolutely *not* Christians.

Bash for loop is different again:

for i in *

iterates over all files in the current directory.

The majority of people are also mainly non-Christians.

The majority of people are also mainly non-Hindu.

The majority of people are also mainly non-Jewish.

The majority of people are also mainly non-Atheist.

etc. etc.

I think you should cut down on the ganja for a while.

19 hours ago, EdEarl said:

The military controls predators with pilots sitting on the ground, and the plane half way around the world. And, NASA controls rovers on Mars and other solar bodies. Distance is not a big problem.

Distance is a huge problem - time lag in the signal can lead to PIO (Pilot Induced Oscillation) which can be a killer.

Also:

Many years ago I was flying in West Africa when the Harmattan began (Harmattan is when the winds change, bringing dust from the Sahara). As the dust thickened, I lost radio contact with the Tower as well as the VOR signal. I flew home by a combination of dead reckoning and road following. Contact was not regained until I was less than 10 miles from the airport.

And what would you do when it disappears over the horizon? Are you going to run after it with your little transmitter?

Since the board is pushing the surface away, what makes you think it could  possibly lift it?

On 31/07/2017 at 11:54 PM, Doctordick said:

 (and all the other mindless readers)

Pot, kettle.

Give a man a fire and he is warm for a few hours.

Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life.

I find it easier to think of the Universe as infinite rather than finite but unbounded which seems to be the other main option.