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  1. I'm not sure how firefox's live bookmarks work but I recomend sage. It is a firefox plugin and will display rss feeds much better then firefox does without it. You can also view all your feed chanels in the left hand pane so you can quickly flip though them. You can use Yahoo pipes to combine several feeds into a single chanle. For instince in the following link I combined several sources of information to make an earth, enviornemnt and energy channel: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Yahoo pipes can do more advanced stuff like build pipes to parse pages into feeds but it is tricky. In the following links I try to parse a page to figure out the new posts. I'm kind of stuck: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/regular-expressions-and-yahoo-pipes.326745/ https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/sage-with-yahoo-pipes-fetch-page.326650/ This guy had better luck and he was able to turn facebook groups into an rss feed: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Anyway, I've noticed they don't seem to be perfect but if you are a member of several groups it is better to get some information about new posts then no information. You can also check the group from time to time to see what you missed. As for aggregation software, I recommend sage, although in my research about agreggators I thought mindity would be the best. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get mindity to work. I'm not sure if my computer is too old or there server is down. Maybe the guy who ran it died or something.
  2. Can we get new posts on this site published to an RSS feed? I'm trying out some agregator software, and an RSS feed for this form would likely make me check in more often. Don't forget to make sure that feed categorizes the topics because there are only certain topics I am interested in.
  3. I think I remember you from back when I use to play the army system.

  4. So how did your army system project go?

  5. Hey, how's it going. It's been a long time since I said hi.

  6. Hey, I think I met you before when I use to play the army system.

  7. Hey, how's it going. I haven't been here in a while.

  8. Well, it does happen. For isntance. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ BTW the link given by the original poster is broken
  9. try zyban, it worked for my cousin.
  10. It is certainly an emotional issue and there will be a lot of people with very strong opinions. I am curious what polls would say and how the age of the people surveyed in the polls would effect the poll results. I think in Canada (don?t quote me on this) that if she wasn?t in a position of authority (A.K.A. a teacther) it wouldn?t be consider statutory rape. I think in the united states the laws are more strict in this regard but I am not completely sure.
  11. Perhaps it is easier to talk back and forth with yourself then talk to other people.
  12. A suppose a terrorist could equip a flying car with a spy nozzle as a method to distribute biological and chemical weapons.
  13. We could add to the list that extremely high levels of consumption of hydrogen dioxide can cause kidney damage or even death. It was pretty obvious by the name what it was. I am so glad people did this because the silly ideas some people have about the environment drives me nuts. I think the name dioxide was chosen because it sounds very similar to the chemical dioxin which is found in herbicides.
  14. I think that the connection between Sadam Husain and terrorists is hard to make. I also am not sure if the IRAQ war is doing more to stop terrorism or encourage it. It is my opinion that if the US was going to go into IRAQ it should of done it with the support of the UN or at least the support of NATO. I think that getting rid of Sadam Husain and liberating IRAQ could be jugged by history as very positive but it is early to see all the consequences. I have know idea what the consequences are of the united states leaving now. I think the plan is to pass control over to the IRAQ govenmnet so that the number of troops can be reduced and the troops there can be moved to safer places and only called upon when absolutely needed.
  15. It depends what you compare it to. It is much less then that was lost in major battles of past wars. It is less then the amount of people that die in ATV accidents each year and it is a fairly small percentage of the American population. I am not saying that each loss isn?t tragic and I am not saying that the American people should sacrifice this many of their youth for a conflict in another country. But historically speaking it is not one of the more major events in terms of lives lost. Well, the violence in IRAQ and America aren?t really comparable. I am not sure how well IRAQ would deal with the violence when America leaves. Perhaps they would do just fine. I do agree that it is a perfectly rational position to take care of your own first especially considering the very high price paid for this war.
  16. The idea sounds pretty cool as I know windows has a lot of overhead. I didn?t look at the links because I don?t play a lot of games. People concerned about using the computer for other stuff could just put the different operating system on a different partition or hard drive.
  17. So if a religion taught all blacks were evil would it be right for a member of that religion to fire someone after discovering the employ was born black but got hired by changing there appearance though plastic surgery? Just because something is in contract doesn?t mean it is leagal or right. There are rules for what agreements are allowed to be made between people and what questions you are allowed to ask during an interview.For instance in a job interview you are not allowed to ask questions about race, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, what political party you belong to etc. Perhaps in some countries such questions are allowed. However, I refuse to base the laws of this country upon examples of oppressive religious laws and customs in others. So again I reiterate it all comes down to balancing the trade offs between religious freedoms and human rights. The best criteria for balancing these goals is to ask the question, ?How does the teacher being pregnant effect her ability to teach the subject matter??. Now keep in mind that teaching and brainwashing are somewhat contrary. To teach implies a strengthening of critical thinking skills. That is when we teach we learn how to think. Well brainwashing is a programmed condition to a thought. Thus brainwashing is about conditioning people to not think.I will go further by saying that the extant the image the teacher portrays by her perceived social actions though hear say is not a valid justification to asses here performance in the duties of a teacher because the use of such criterion is a form of brainwashing. The attempt to brainwash students is amoral and has no justification under the principle of religious freedom.
  18. I think men could get caught to, but the woman could have other options like, multiple levels of birth control. I.e. combine, condom, pill, diaphragm, spermicidal foam and morning after pill. And if all else fails I suppose abortion but that is a really non catholic thing to do.The issue is how do we balance the rights of an employee with religions freedoms. I think in this case perhaps religious freedoms should perhaps take a back seat because education is such a fundamental role to the functioning of society and should not be controlled by the biases and dogma inherent in organized religion.
  19. I have issues with the word used. You wouldn?t call a mobster important so why would you call a natural disaster important? Maybe it just shows the repressed optimist in me.
  20. We could record the character count of each post and the amount of hosting credits gained. We could plot a graph and try to fit some kind of function to it based on the graph. I can provide more details on how to do this if someone wants to collect the data. Anyway, in conclusion you might not have to be OpaQue to deduce the details if the system isn?t too complicated.
  21. I voted for the live 8 concert even though I new nothing about it because I wanted to vote for something positive and the option ?other? sounded too vague. If I was going to vote for something positive politically, I think the Israeli withdrawal form Gazza is pretty big. It gives me some hope no matter how small that there might some day be peace in that region. There have been a lot of breakthroughs in nano technology this year. The resulting new materials could revolutions just about everything around us especially those materials made by carbon nano tubes. I also consider any story related to the VSE (vision for space exploration) to be quite postitive. I remember when I was younger congress would stop any research that had to do with mars. I think the most tragic loss was the termination of trans hap. Transhap was an inflatable space station module which was considerably bigger and lighter then the other modules. Because this would make it easier to go to mars congress terminated because of a dislike of any technology that could be use for future mars exploration. Since the announcement of the VSE there has been a much wider political support of the goals of NASA both in congress and advocacy groups in aerospace and space exploration. NASA is no longer condemned to circle in orbit in a vehicle that is far too complex to maintain to prop up a space station which is a bad return on the investment in terms of dollars per science. Finally NASA is given the authority to actually do things in the manned space program again in an affordable and sustainable fashion.
  22. I voted no but that doesn?t mean I am totally against the war. Some good may come out of bushes actions but I just don?t think it is worth the cost. I do think though that what the Americans are doing there is good for IRAQ. So I think they are doing some good but again, it is the price. The amount spent on the war is nuts and it is making it difficult for other agencies in the government to get the needed level of funding. Also there is the human cost of the people that go there and although the casualties aren?t that high it is a lot to put people though. And it is hard to tell anyone that lost suns and daughters there that the casualties are low.
  23. I am not saying it is not an impressive achievement but I have no sense of how hard it is to obtain the certification that she got.
  24. I think people that complain too much about having to guess aren?t that good at the game. Typically you only need to make between 1 and 3 guesses to beat the game once you get a good starting space cleared by random clicking. So on average if you make no mistakes you only need 3 tries to beat expert. If you are fast at the game then it should be no trouble playing the game 3 times to win.
  25. There are a lot of people into graphics on these forums so I thought people might find this MIT I/O brush interesting. I think it would be really fun but I dont have a lot of time to play around with graphics. MIT I/O Brush
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