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And you definitely have a strong point there. The only problem that I see with Solar Energy is that it's not reliable and it's not available at one point on the planet throughout, and where it is present for larger periods of time, it isn't present in sufficient amounts. We do need other alternative and reliable sources apart from Solar Energy together with Solar Energy. I think it's best to either try out everything we can or dig up holes and hide ourselves. Jokes. I could provide with information but most of that would be largely refuted by the "biased, incomplete, political" argument and the rest which is left by the "it's in the Earth's cycle" argument. The reason why I only "spoke" was due to obvious frustration over the little amount of research that was put into such a "hear me rawr" post. You can't blame me for that, can you? You want me to list down links here in my next post, fine, I can very well do that. I already explained the mechanism for the extreme weather change for even a layman to understand but I can't go further. There are sources available already for that. As S_M said. Go over to the poles and see if you can't believe in images. Go over to the Gulf countries. Come over to India and see how the country with one of the most diverse weathers has been affected in as many ways. That's the entire problem with Global Warming, it's so easily mistaken for the "Earth's Cycle." And even if it is the Earth's cycle, it would still result in an Ice Age, just like it did in earlier. There's nothing you can do so why this last act of showcasing your "enlightenment" by disagreeing to something which doesn't even hold any substantial point anymore? We're doomed ... in many ways to come. Using Ethanol won't help and we'd probably be spending more time weaving sweaters instead of focusing on alternative sources of energy by the time it affects us. What I wanted to point out was, Global Warming is not the act of Man alone, but we've definitely sped things up. The Ozone layer too has been largely affected by weather alone and not man, but, that change is cyclic and it repairs itself in adequacy over a period of months because the causing factor alone disappears. But the CFCs and other particles that we send up there don't. They stay there as they aren't an outcome of weather and screw things up. It will, of course overcome itself. It always has. When did "Global Warming" deny that? The Pleistocene age was when one of the most remarkable evolutionary changes happened to man-kind. And no, I wouldn't mail you samples of fossils to prove that, Google is your friend or your local museum. And for the technology part, the point to be noted is that we didn't even have "civilization" and all of its viscous assumptions to start. Forget about technology. Besides, most technology that we overly rely on has been developed pretty recently going by the scales of it to have any major effect on our biochemistry. It can't possibly "hinder" our survivability in this Ice Age. We might not be the same in number, but we definitely won't go extinct. Help. That's the keyword. But well, it's fun and perfectly justified to not even click on a Wikipedia link, ever. Outside provocation is sometimes uncontrollable.

If you expect to find "good proof" over television, you're only going to find Al Gore on there. Go look, there's loads of proof and evidence across Science networks and resources. Plus, this one member on Xisto had a disturbing image in the signature. If that's not proof enough, I don't know what is. If you think Government were the ones to cook things about Global Warming up ... you can't cook a dish that's already there. Talking about Government, well I'm an Anarchist ... so you know my say on that. XD Besides, I think your entire "I don't to believe" rant is a halfhearted act to show how much you are "anti-Government" 'cause you've been going on about Al Gore and the Government when they are completely insignificant when the real deal is concerned. We aren't asking you to believe, you won't be able to make it any better even if you did.

Irrelevant. That doesn't mean they can run the entire town. No one is. Apart from the media and Al Gore of course, but you'd rather look at them than the reality once again, won't you? Not use them because this use will germinate into further production and that's what you want to stop. Are you deliberately trying to shut your eyes towards basic logic? And did you know that this fixation isn't sufficient and it's largely weather-dependent because it's due to the PSCs? And you even need to look at the difference between Stratospheric and Tropospheric ozone levels and what changes in them affect us in a good way and what affect us in a bad way. And you'd rather much believe in a hypothesis than a proven change in our climate? How intelligent. *person* erectus have survived many pole reversals (not to be confused with the whole "flipping" hypothesis) and the temporary loss of the magnetosphere and we're looking at 3000-4000 A.D. talking about this to start with. And the Solar Winds might just induce a sufficient magnetic field in the Ionosphere to save us from mass extinction in the absence of Earth's natural magnetosphere.

There are better things to be tired about. *coughs* Honestly, you don't know the meaning of "evidence" if you think there isn't any. I don't care about Al Gore and I never heard a single of his speeches and I didn't see his movie too. I don't need to look at celebrities and politicians trying to get a name for themselves to know and understand what's going on. Just because there is a parallel propaganda doesn't mean you can deny the actual empirical evidence for the same matter. That's being stupid and downright ignorant. Like someone else mentioned, if this is how you perceive things, get religion. And do you have any idea how much these couple of degrees mean? 2 degrees in your own body and you're screwed. Imagine 2 degrees for such a humongous, inter-twined and fragile ecosystem, please? Again, you fail to notice that with the obvious increase, there is a rate change too. But well, people believe no matter how much they can know. Distinguishing between heat and humidity isn't something that needs years of experience. I guess everyone can do that. I live in one of the most humid areas in my country and I frequently travel to areas with extremely less humidity. It is way too easy to tell the difference and we don't need your propaganda here. Go get educated on Global Warming please before posting any further. And you completely ignore the slight change in water currents and the fact that the heat is converting ice into water and is not having much effect on the water itself. The main difference to be noted is the different salt levels. Water currents depend on the fragile balance between fresh and saline water and they're one of the reasons why the weather's doing to be doomed. Not 1-2 degrees increase in water temperature. Again, go get yourself educated. So you mean me living in India have to follow everyone else or even the media? Here, we don't have media following weather, they're way too bothered about the celebrities and the obvious inflation. Seriously Mermaid711, get yourself educated. I am glad you took the blame on yourself instead of an innocent news/data resource. Sit and keep quite. There's nothing much you can do, that's where the propaganda comes in. There is absolutely nothing you can do. It's way too late. The balance between fresh and saline water is going to be disturbed leading to tremendous change in the water currents affecting weather worldwide which in the most extreme of cases might lead us into another Ice Age. But well, we don't need to worry. We survived the last Ice Age, we'll survive this one too. When it does come, we need to take refuge underground for maybe a thousand or million years and let the Earth replenish itself and undo all the harm we've been doing to it. Then maybe we can bless ourselves with a chance to take in the sheer beauty of a pollution-free sky, green water and cave paintings on the Statue of Liberty by another species. Okay, the latter might just be a bit extreme. No, it's worse for the Ozone layer but better for the environment.

The voluntarily induced lack of ability to ever get the point. You're half right in the end though. This is absurdity and this is exactly what would be happening with God being Omniscient and with a pinch of sense in his brains, if he has one. Or maybe, he wouldn't require that with all his "benevolence." [1] How will committing sins please my parents?[2] Irrelevant. [3] For you don't want to see it. [4] An off-shoot of your repetitive failure to comprehend subjectivity and objectivity both going hand in hand. Logic isn't subjective. Period. That didn't make any sense. Oh, really? A proof is only given for a test. [1] Blackness? You could be a bit more, precise, couldn't you? How does the observation of the death of a single unit before our existence imply that all units must die? [2] God isn't where everything came from. And I guess this should be pretty obvious from the Bible itself. [3] It's been a while and I don't remember in what context did I say that. As soon as I do, it will be here in edition. [1] Of course we can.[2] You completely missed my point. You in fact misunderstood what I wanted to say. [1] I did not say that you did.[2] Of course I know I did. [3] Constant? Excuse me? And I would love for you to clarify which definition of "brainwash" am I using. [4] And where?

Okay, now this was amusing! XDThe most funny is the Texas law, although completely expected of a place like Texas, that was just completely hilarious! Would they spare the criminal if he/she did abide the that law? How, pointless is that? It's funny that people can even come up with stuff like this but then I forget. They're just Human. :)And then on the Iowa one, how does it make any difference at all? The funniest thing would be, "You can't have sex for more than 7 minutes." Again, sheer pointlessness.

It all really depends on which kind of addiction are you talking about.Every addiction, has two reasons behind it. A completely biological reason (Our brain's Reward system) or a psychological reason (which is again in the end Biochemistry but that's irrelevant here).Most drugs, like salamangkero mentioned have the biological reason behind people getting addicted to them. One of the most toughest to get rid off addictions has to be cigarette smoking. Nicotine is a psychoactive chemical that releases certain enzymes in the liver and certain chemicals and hormones in the brain after crossing the Blood-brain barrier approximately within 7 seconds inhalation. This gives feelings of relaxation, calm, stimulation, alertness, better concentration and the lack of appetite and shot up metabolism makes people lose weight. The circuitry in our brain which regulates the "good" feelings, also known as the Reward system is affected by Nicotine and that's what makes it so addictive. This makes people unable to quit even after knowing the potential dangers of tobacco smoking, Nicotine in it's base form is far more dangerous than even Cocaine when it comes to toxicity.Almost all drugs have some or the other biological effect on our brain, especially the Reward system and this is exactly why Human Will power alone cannot curb addictions so easily. It's best to resist from the very start.There are many other kind of addictions like someone mentioned, gambling addiction or something some of the members here are addicted to, computers or the "environment" of the internet. Some researchers have led to the conclusion that along with gambling being a psychological disorder or mental illness rather than an addiction, it does have some biological effect on the brain which makes it an addiction similar to drug addiction due to the lower concentrations of Norepinephrine in the person. And now when it comes to computer addiction, it's mainly psychological. I am myself addicted to the "environment" of the internet though I am glad I got out of my state where I messed up my priorities due to me living in Hyperreality.

I am quite confused on this because I haven't seen the match myself.It's his medal and he can do whatever he wants with it. And I wouldn't question his reaction at all if it turned out that the judges made a mistake.The entire point that throwing away a medal won't do him any good and neither will it do any good to the other competitors is completely out of question here. Morals don't always rule a person's actions. He did what he wanted to and that probably gave him some psychological satisfaction. Good for him then, I guess. I said it was an obvious reaction if there was a fault on the judging side 'cause honestly, it hurts when you work so hard to get something that you completely deserve it, you work hard enough till the very end to deserve it and then it goes out to someone else.Making a huge deal out of this incident would be completely stupid for the officials of the Olympics.

Speaking of making Humans go through Photosynthesis, plants don't get all the required nutrients through photosynthesis alone and the nutritional as well as energy requirements are completely different in humans and plants.Chlorophyll in the epidermis of humans looks useful at first, but it's really tricky. How to deal with the color? The pigment Melanin gives us the color we have as well as the benefits that come with it. Would we be replacing it by Chlorophyll? 'cause that would be screwed up. We require the benefits of Melanin and not all are present in Chlorophyll, going by my knowledge, plants are susceptible to UV radiation too, probably more than we are. So now, that's not going to help us.And then, comes the transport system, how much would we need to mutate our internal transport system to deal with the energy? Almost all of the energy we get now is by oral intake and Vitamin D is synthesized in the bones and not in the skin.And then, would we need to modify the skin itself? 'cause replacing pigments is way too, Sci-Fi. What about activities like perspiration and what about hair follicles that are present in the dermis?

"One century Magic is another century's Science."I think that says it all.Giving a thought about the "magic" on television isn't the brightest of ideas. Movies are much a better option if special effects, editing, CGI and such things interest you.Illusion as people have said is more likely it. The tricks. The tricks, the processes which make the reality unavailable for your neocortex to sense. Your own perception of things and as someone said, psychological effects could play a major role in what you define as "magic" for yourself.Simple verdict: Magic doesn't exist.

Honestly, there's more to gymnastics and Olympic sports in general than that. Gymnastics is a 100 times more complex sport than it looks. I don't think popularity has really something to do with a game being an Olympic sport. Otherwise many Olympic sports would've been out and really bad "sports" like Cricket would've been in the picture. But yes, as many said it does look like more of a performance than a sport. Something you can have in between events but not as an event. I view it as good as cheerleading. And thankfully, cheerleading is not an Olympic sport. And again, there's the judging criteria. You can't really judge such an event. A factor that could be defining in a certain groups performance would not even be present in another group's performance or the entire layout of the performance might make that factor irrelevant. There are many things people compete in, but having all of them in the Olympics, we would have it running all 4 years straight. XD

I remember the first night I spent awake, being ridden with insomnia from I guess atleast 5 years ... I've spent countless of them now.I was very young at that time. I guess I was just 10. I spent the entire night playing browser-based games setting new records which really used to be quite a lot of fun those times. XD Would've been fun talking to your friend and watching the Sun rise so beautifully throughout the night. With all that Vitamin D going into your bones, you kind of don't even feel like sleeping or even tired until after like 15 minutes spent on the bed.You definitely had some fun but well the sad part is that the next night sleepless won't be even close to as good as this. But well, you'll live.

Now this is a common experience for all of us I guess. I, for obvious reasons, no longer see the point in commenting on a music video or a film trailer. There's always going to be fans who would make the use of every opportunity to diss you for whoever you are and like mainly for the immature and short-spanned sense of pseudo-superiority. Besides the obvious, there's no point in me making a comment in the first place. I like it or dislike it ... the world simply does not need to know and nothing's going to happen. It's a music video, it will air on MTV and gain money, it's a trailer, the film might just storm the Box Office even though you despised it.Besides, the "don't like, don't watch" motto has been used very, very broadly on YouTube. It was meant for people who go on digging up videos just to comment something completely retarded and derogatory about someone who has something to do with the video which is a whole lot different than criticism. And as far as I know, YouTube isn't really the most appropriate of all places to be criticizing things on. XDCommenting on other videos should never be much of a problem I guess unless someone goes like, "**** needs Jesus" XD It happened once on a live MuDvAyNe performance video and the guy went like, "MuDvAyNe needs Jesus" and it took the crowd 2 days to realize that this "discussion" shouldn't be happening since God has nothing to do with the video.It'll be a hilarious sight if someone does something like that on a generic video like a family backyard video or something. Or a kitchen experiment. :)Another annoying incident is when someone goes all, "don't diss if you can't do better" if you've posted any amount of criticism on a cover video just because you don't have a video of you doing it in a better way up. I mean how logical is it that just because you can't do something makes everyone else even an iota better than you completely right? That's really pissing off.--Moral of the story, keep your silence if you can't make it better. Speak only when needed. Speak only when your opinions would matter. You don't like a music video, it's not going to be taken off just because you don't like it anyway. So why waste your time?

That's not a bug at all. It is the user's fault.When you try to scrap someone and that scrap requires notification, a captcha is generated. Now at the same time without posting this scrap, you type up another scrap which requires verification ... this generates another captcha which over-rides the earlier one. And hence, when you now try to finish up posting the earlier scrap it gives an error because that captcha isn't valid anymore for your computer because a new one has been generated.

I think of that as the exact down-side. It can't be as collective and global as Wikipedia and besides there are always views opposing each other in various Scientific fields especially when it comes to experts of that field. Wikipedia is reliable too since every input is later evaluated by the community and all instances of vandalism are rectified soon. I really don't think Google will make much with Knol. Google can't re-invent the wheel. It didn't do all that great with Blogger and I don't think it will do all that good with this service too.