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"Religion" tried to tell us that the world was flat and that the Earth was the centre of the universe. It took intelligent people a while to rubbish these assertions, and it will take a while before they gather enough evidence to completely rubbish the assertion of creationism. They're working on it, but it takes a lot before these long-standing myths can be overcome, mostly due to people's inherent conservatism. However, intelligent people's interest in the real universe, rather than the 2,000 year old story version of it, continues apace - unburdened by the religious layman's opinion of events. Scientific journals don't waste space on the consideration that there might be 'creationism' every time that an article is written - there's no asterisk after every sentence saying "*assuming that evolution is real"... and since scientists are the people that are actually discovering and interested, they're the only people whose opinions matter. So mostly what I'm trying to say, is that religious people aren't discovering anything new and they're not finding any more real evidence to back themselves up, all they're doing is looking for holes in current evidence... the majority of the religious are opposed to humanity's progression, because deep down they know that it will prove them wrong. But it doesn't matter, because progress will happen, and the religious will always be on the backfoot, fighting a rearguard action against reality.

If you wore a mask or face covering, it'd probably be fine.

It started off really cheesy, and mostly continued that way, but towards the end it started having a bit of an overall story to it, and it linked up with the previous Dr. Who series, and that gave it a bit of depth. I enjoyed it!

I'm quite keen on utilising technological advances, such as hydrogen power in cars. I think the governments of the world should subsidise these technological advances to completion and then subsidise consumers buying them so they are viable in terms of cost. I'm also in favour of world economic-based solutions to pollution. allowing countries to trade emissions for example. If properly put into effect, these produce the lowest emissions for the lowest cost. Of course, currently some selfish countries such as America and Australia haven't signed up for them. I read that there's a 40% chance that the gulf stream will stop in the next 50 years. If the gulf stream stops, then I'll be advocating revenge against these selfish countries.

there'd be big complaints, because prices would fall dramatically, so the people who recently bought a santa hat for 3m or whatever, would be out of pocket by something like 2.9m.

From what I've heard, but I haven't been following it too closely, I'd have voted him guilty. The part that I don't understand was when Michael's ex-wife was called by the prosecution and she then supported Jackson fully. It seems to me that you'd have to be a dim lawyer to call someone who was going to testify against your case, and since both lawyers are highly paid and presumably very good, this seems unlikely. It sounds to me like she was given a payoff.

At least it's one less thing for an adolescent to worry about at school. It also makes the atmosphere academic if everyone is smartly dressed.

I used to win things, I was quite a lucky child, nothing especially big comes to mind though. I won a big soft toy that I still have :) My Mum spends ages on the internet doing competitions, she wins lots of random stuff, and my Mum's friend who got her into doing competitions won the equivalent of ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã100,000 online :)

He could have kept quiet about it, and most normal people wouldn't even have considered it, since they don't have to pay it.

Let's all give some respect to the UK chancellor Gordon Brown for waiving the bills for the staging of the Live 8 concert, which would have come to the equivalent of ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã500,000 in tax. (Full Story here) and of course, Gordon Brown has always been very keen on reducing poverty:

I remember reading this a couple of years ago actually, however the likelihood is that I've forgotten it by now. But from what I remember, the UK was worth about ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã6 trillion, so you'd need more than $2 trillion. I wish that me and Mad will work out as a couple in the future.

Happy Birthday! :D Did you get presents? ;)

I'm still talking to one of my earliest RS friends from 2001, Mystery Gerb - then of course there's Mad who I don't ever plan to let escape :P and also Robd75 from the RS boards in 2001... and then there's the darkwebz crew, we've been around for 1.5 years now, with mostly the same core people, all united around an IRC chat room :D I was 15 years old in 2001, 19 now.... It's been a long time :D

Apparently sexy sells better than blatant sex when it comes to advertising.

Dudek's off-putting in the penalties was brilliant :D His dancing, and also how he went out of his way to hand the ball to the guy taking the last penalty, so he could look him in the eye and show him how tall he was and how he wasn't afraid.

Get some large stencils, and spraypaint through them onto the walls! I think red would be a good colour :D You could make it have a kinda.. chinesey theme? and then put your swords and things over the top.

Looking at some of Maddox's first articles from 1998.. he seemed like quite the.. outcast from society. I find his articles funny (I especially liked the Orbitz one recently), but I wonder about the person behind them. What happened to turn him into such a bitter person?

The trick is to get into a job which isn't being outsourced, then you get to have a salary that is still decent, and it goes further because you can buy all the stuff that China produces for a cheaper price. So get a decent job, that requires a good education, and then it won't be outsourced. It's just like when machines came along and started doing lots of the jobs that humans used to do. Instead of having 100 unskilled workers packing shampoo bottles into boxes, a machine just does it instead and 1 skilled operator looks over it and gets paid a lot of money for it. More power to the intelligent people.

Lack of seal in avatar!!! UBER UNLUCKY!!!!11112223445';'L@:,. Maybe! Though it was like that yesterday, and I don't think I was that unlucky yesterday :?:

I did an economics experiment today which was based on luck, and I lucked out and got no money for it :( However, there was a 1 in 3 chance that it would be the case, so it's not really that unlucky.

These types of questions just annoy me. It's so utterly obvious what the "correct" answer is. So the liars and cheats just say "oh, I wouldn't even dream of skipping work! o:)", whereas in reality they'd be more likely to do it than anyone else. If you really want to find out what someone is like, you don't ask them such an obvious question like that.

As Rick says.. it's really old. But I respect the kid in the video :P That song rocks, I'd have been in serious danger of doing a similar dance on camera had that song suddenly come on :P

Did you get asked any awkward questions Lionheart_0?

I find the spread of votes across the country interesting. Forgive me if I get the exact figures wrong, I am remembering it from the t.v. 36% of people voted for Labour 33% of people voted for the Conservatives 22% of people voted for the Liberal Democrats. It seems rather stupid to me that with those figures, Labour has 55% of the seats, Conservatives 30% and Liberals 10%. It was like when George Bush won the American election with less votes than the democrat candidate. Beyond that though, the Liberal Democrats picked up an extra 10 seats, so I think that's a success for them :D Next time if they can pick up even more, then it is quite possible that there would be a hung parliament, and that means that the liberal democrats are the deciding party :D So then they really would be the 'real alternative' :D

I will support Liverpool in the final :D Just because they're an English team :oops: