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Link to the website Pretty nice movie, actually a bachelor thesis on google's mysterious master plan to take over the world. Interesting to have a look at their arguments. I did not know what google is all involved with but back when I first heard about gmail I knew I'd never gonna use it. I am very fond with privacy and I'd never agree to TOS that allow google to read the contents of my e-mails, even if they contain 100% personal stuff. Tip: if you don't want google to know anything there is to know about you, at least delete your cookies after surfing the web!

We have a Wii at my work, the "Office Wii". Today my two bosses, a colleague and me played the Wii Sport Tennis. As our office is equipped with a beamer we occupied all the space there is to do our strokes. I tell you that was real fun.Why do I tell you this? Well, reading this thread it came to my mind that the Wii has something neither the PS3 nor the XBox have: a real social aspect. It is unlikely to have a PS3 or XBox in your office and you competing in a video game against your boss, is it? Nintendo's Wii, imho, is a revolution of gaming. Something the PS2 started with its karaoke and quiz show games, but the ultimate perfection of social gaming is the Wii, because online gaming was yesterday!

The Chinese are showing that they are a superpower. I am quite surprised at how the USA were shocked about the Chinese demonstration up in space. Hey America, wake up, China will be the most potent superpower on this planet in very few decades. Better get used to it now Anyway, of course it is dangerous that one nation can actually dominate space and the satellites. On the other hand, lately the USA have been sending out many direct threats (like against Iran and NK) as well as many indirect threats (towards China). If China was ever to attack Taiwan the USA promised military help for Taiwan. Now the USA might possibly not because they'd risk their communication backbones.So maybe the Chinese are not just testing themselves, I believe behind their nice and peaceful words that intend to ensnare the West, there is also a strategic and competitive component to any action they take.

I understand what you are saying SportsLegend. Maybe this big paying deal is an attempt to boost the popularity of soccer/football in the United States. Actually you have some good players and your national team is not even that bad. I fear this attempt is futile, just like Robbie Williams trying to conquer the USA with his songs.In my opinion Beckham is going to move to L.A. because his glamour addicted wife and ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham wants to become part of the noble Berverly Hills 'high society'. She is tired of living in the dull U.K and in Madrid she cannot stay either. and now needs a challenge - and a new shopping mile Back to sports. I really love Basketball and the NBA, but I don't understand why anybody watches Baseball. It is so interruptive, boring and ... boring to watch. But hey, if you like it that is okay. I don't expect any Americans to like soccer either Having hosted the last soccer world championship (not me, the country I live in) I however need to tell you that it is a pretty damn popular sports around the globe and it was fun celebrating such an international sports event.

Slow down! There are very good explanations to what you found out. Though I admit there are (better) arguments that really let you doubt in a true moon landing, there is also evidence and explanations that make up to it.The weakest argument is your gravity example. The moon has just 1/6th of our gravity. However you can even break a an ankle or leg if you jump too high and land hard or jump of a steep slope. I hope the Chinese will soon make their plan real and fly to the moon. They already considered visiting the US landing sites. Hopefully they find out the truth, because I am honestly interested!

Thank you very much, a very great site you found there. Does anybody know if there is an open source alternative for Adobe Illustrator, just like Gimp for Photoshop?

I have tried Joomla and Wordpress and both have their own intendend use, Joomla being a full feature CMS and Wordpress for smaller and easy solutions. If I were to start a serious and big community I'd use the Community Server by teligent. It is free (depending on the version) and open source, yet it needs a Windows based webserver (IIS) to run as it is written for the .NET Framework.

There is a similar offer on this website: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/. It has no apparent limit to the file size of the image you upload and it is generated within seconds. If you want to enhance the hyperlinks on your website leading to other pages by adding the target's favicon right next to your link, have a look at this nice tutorial: Hyperlink Cues with Favicons

The latest Core 2 Duo Processors are the first Intel processors which would convince me in not buying an AMD for a long time. Before Intel came out with the Core 2 Duo I bought an AMD X2 and now I am quite jealous that Intel's processores are much faster for equal or less money. Anybody has the feeling no matter what computer you buy a month later you regret it?

My first computer was a Commodore 64. We were really proud of it being the only ones around owning one. We could not afford the floppy disk drive right from the start so in the beginning, for me as a kid, the computer was quite dull. With the floppy drive I soon realized that computers are fun - something that excites me until this very day. After the C64 my parents were unwilling to pay for the next generation, the AMIGA 500. Therefore the next computer for me a bit later was an IBM compatible 286 and my first game for it was Police Quest 1

The language indeed seems to be the key to being human. It is so much sophisticated we can use it not just to use it to identify anything in our world, but also to talk about ourselves. This 'meta'-level and the abstraction is what really makes us human I believe. Many of what we do can be found with animals, but our potential for abstraction, philosophy and a most complex, fast developing language makes us differ.

I agree, Opera is a good choice. Most of the time I use either Opera or Firefox.

What you can always do to avoid computer viruses is not use Windows and instead install Linux or MacOS. You automatically rule out 80-90% of the existing viruses out there.

I don't think that people are smarter because they are vegetarians, but people who chose to be vegetarian are smart enough to abstract and understand that meat is not neccessary. As meat gets cheaper and cheaper and vegetables do not it is a tiny luxery to completly abstain from meat. In addition if you want some variation as a vegetarian you need more time for shopping groceries and preparing food. What I am trying to say is that vegetarian might be better educated, because they are usually upper middle class to upper class in terms of society standings. I doubt there is a true correllation between being vegetarian and the IQ which depends on genetic preconditions and the early years of childhood (in which most kids are not vegetarian considering that becoming a vegetarian is a teen/adult's own choice). In the end, having a look at the development of mankind it also becomes obvious that our brains developed because we had quite a high dosis of calories by eating lots of meat. Stone Age man could not have survived relying on plants and herbs, and surviving is also a sign of intelligence

Interesting to read about your views. I am European and though I respect your attitude towards George W. Bush I have no comprehension for it, as hard has I try. What bugs me most is that sane and intelligent people trust a president who provingly led a nation into a war based on lies and deceit. But I am always curious to read opinions from Americans - maybe I will learn to understand... though I doubt it! In the end we are all victims of the society we grew up in.