Oy_the_Great

Mr. Google knows. I don't think this forum will get you far.

We don't want to be harsh, but there are hundreds of people on this forum. If everyone would randomly post their fav bands in seperate topics, it'd become a spamfest.

Radio-wha? *cough :wink: * My favourite bands (don't even have to add lesser known, they're mostly Belgian bands so err, yeah) are dEUS, Soulwax, Daan, Absynthe Minded and Sioen. Any non-Belgians who know these bands? Oh and, Sigur Ros (Iceland) is in a weird way fantastic. :-s Sigur RÃÆÃâÃâós have made a steep rise to the top of the postrock genre here. Half a year ago they were stuff for alternative music fans, now they're common and even on the radio from time to time.

*pets Daan's back* And all this on your birthday too #-o

God, Daan posts his topic, I reply in the understanding that it's not needed and then we get 3 [bleep]ing spam topics. If you like a band, post it in a related thread, like 'what's your fav band' or 'what are you listening to right now'?

You got that right. All a teacher is do is just add on minutes into your lunchour because of you wasting time. And then you'd get pummelled for being a smeghead anyway. Plus the fact that it isn't really that hard. I don't wanna sound like a prodigy, but proving those formulas isn't hard. I'm sure every math teacher with a bit of a decent diploma will have no problems doing so. Even I don't seem to see why it's hard. Try asking him to prove why intergrals measure surface (whenever you see that in high school). That one's hard.

Yep, I quickly skimmed it, and, after having been on the AS fora for 4 years, I still notice how 90% of the newbies don't ever read the introducing stickies and still ask the dumbest [cabbage]. The only people who read these things are the people that won't create useless spam. I believe in learning by doing and teaching by doing as well. So the elite of this forum should set the example, and make threads a good read, backed up with reason and wit and try to enhance this forum's quality. Oh, I wouldn't mind a restriction of the current amount of smileys either. Who ever uses :boohoo: or :!: :?: :idea: :arrow: in a meaningful way? [/whine] Apart from this little rant of mine, I appreciate the effort you put in this, but it's a tragic vicious circle.

Not just the topic..

You sure are. FREAK!

well, i dont like listening to the same stuff over and over, thats why i keep all my songs. and space isnt a problem when you have a decent sized hard drive. Yeah, I bought this computer with 165 gig hard disk space, 2gig DDR RAM, 3.6Ghertz clockspeed plus flatscreen etc. last year and I only paid 975ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì for it. Sometimes Dell offers the best computers at a really low price, if you combine various offers of theirs.

You all right there Bubs? Got hit by a brick or something? :P Haha, that's.. one silly dream. I remember that I dreamt of a Sigur RÃÆÃâÃâós concert once. Or was that real? Yeah, must've been real. It was like a dream though, fantastic.

Haha, fantastic game :) You should be able to do a little more. Throw it ou of the window or sledge it.

So far, only 2 films really changed my way of thinking. The first is the Matrix, and it had the same effect on me as it had on everyone who understood the story and had never thought about such a thing. The second is the lotr trilogy, because it is a source of joy and hope for me. edit: oh, as an example of fantastic comedy that influenced my own jokes and possibly also my view on the world: the Monty Pythons (and the Flaying Circus, but we're talking movies here).

I never said it wasn't. Yeah I know, I'm just saying. We should pretty much be our own continent. =;

Many animals are similar? Excuse me? That's ridiculous. We're both human both we obviously differ a lot. And the difference between a fish and a lion is pretty obvious, I'd say. I don't quite understand what you mean with nothing comes close to us human beings, but I guess you mean no other creatures are so intelligent? Well, we evolved in a record speed. It took us about 50,000 years to evolve from cavemen into what we are now. It takes another creature 50,000 years to evolve one single harmless little thing. If there would only be a few thousand humans that would not meddle with nature too much, eventually, after millions of years, another intelligent race would erupt, of that I'm sure. edit: if you think carbon dating is influenced from outer space, you're obviously one of the ignorant people that do not care about whatever scientific explanation we give, you prefer staying in your religious shell. I'm not going to bother too much then. You missed the point, where are the cavemen? If you implying 'cavemen' had the intelligence of a animal why didn't animals wear fur and create fire? Utensils anyone? How are cavemen anyone different then we are now? I don't see any evalution. We are cavemen... I don't think carbon dating is influenced from outer space, but it is obviously more plausible then evalution. Who is to say space didn't effect our carbon? 1/ I regret to say that I find you don't use common sense in any of your posts, since you start with the theory that what some folks wrote 3-2 thousand years ago is the absolute truth. If you would have read everything I said on the previous page, you would notice I respect all sides, I respect the Bible, since it bares a lot of truth, but only about the human nature. Not about nature itself, at all. 2/ I never implied cavemen being stupid. You're right that we still are more or less equally smart as cavemen were. But don't you think our society can be seen as the most dramatic part of evolution? I think that with every new invention, a leap in evolution is made.

Many animals are similar? Excuse me? That's ridiculous. We're both human both we obviously differ a lot. And the difference between a fish and a lion is pretty obvious, I'd say. I don't quite understand what you mean with nothing comes close to us human beings, but I guess you mean no other creatures are so intelligent? Well, we evolved in a record speed. It took us about 50,000 years to evolve from cavemen into what we are now. It takes another creature 50,000 years to evolve one single harmless little thing. If there would only be a few thousand humans that would not meddle with nature too much, eventually, after millions of years, another intelligent race would erupt, of that I'm sure. edit: if you think carbon dating is influenced from outer space, you're obviously one of the ignorant people that do not care about whatever scientific explanation we give, you prefer staying in your religious shell. I'm not going to bother too much then.

Let's say that natural selection did result into the human race. Why are there fish, amphibia, reptiles, birds, and mammals still? If in fact what you are saying and that if a monkey used a more sophisticated way of getting its food natural sellection says those would out live the old monkeys, ultimatly resulting in super powered monkeys. The problem is there isn't any dumb monkeys left. Since we do have dumb monkeys it contradicts natural selection and ultimatly contradicting evalution. I take what you say about evaltion literally because I take what the Bible says literally. There still are fish because the world's a big place and chimps can't swim, nor do they intend to try, because they will be eaten by creatures that still can swim. And there are different kinds of evolution; if you don't realise that you're just not worth calling yourself a smart monkey. 1/ evolution through enhancement, wiping out or driving away, like Rick said, other similar creatures 2/ evolution through movement: by moving to new places, creatures require changes. A fish can't live on land, that's why amphibia, the link between them, did. But more succesful forms of land creatures than amphibia evolved and conquerred the lands. Only because they sacrificed their swimming capabilities.

Haha, I guess that's just Murphy's law. Anything else happened that day? : The 'funniest' way I lost a tooth was while playing soccer, bumped into the elbow of a friend of mine, broke the entire tooth. His elbow was severely bleeding as well. And my remaining tooth, broken to the root, hurt like hell.

I meant creatures that rely on their eyes, like mamals or birds. Besides, spiders usually have eight eyes (some have 2, 4 or 6), but few have good eyesight. That means they can likely survive without eyesight. And you shouldn't take everything I said too literary. I meant that evolution isn't an obviuos process. Bam: don't take everything too literary; I gave an example, to use as a basis for further conclusions. I thought you were smarter than that. anyway: single-cellular creatures -> fish -> amphibia -> reptiles -> birds and mammals

While I believe in Christ, I do not believe in him as a divinity. I see him as a very noble man, that taught people what is beneficial and what is sinful with the utmost care and patience. I also believe in humanity, in the fact that people can enhance eachother's lives, like your story told us. But my reason would not be the martyr-alike one the reverend uses. Because it makes his life seem so miserable. The reason I want to help people is only because it makes them feel better and that makes me feel better as well. I'm sure that most people in the world think like this, but the few that do not and wreck the work of the good people are often the ones that gain power, through submission and violence. Violence is much stronger than beneficial activities, and that's why there's so much misery in our wolrd. We can't ever overcome all of this misery, because bad intentions will always remain somewhere. I like to see myself as a Christian, though I often get asked why that is, because I do not believe in the holy trinity etc. But if only for the great ideology Christianity offers us, I am proud to be Christian. The problem is that every ideology is a good one. Judaism, Islam, Buddhism or any other religion, preach peace and harmony. It's just those bad intentions that ruin it.

Well, I dare you to name 5 species that are less evolved, such as you call it. The last few hundred years, a lot of species have gone exstinct, due to human acitivity. That proves many animals aren't able to adapt quickly enough, making them lesser species, actually not worth living here. But that's of course harsh, and it smells of Hitler's ideas, so don't quote me on that ;) The animals that now exist, all have some kind of superiority to other animals. Little maggots can easily survive, but the continuity of some animals like buffalos, lions, tigers etc is in much graver danger. When we would not interfere, these animals would have all been hunted down for their skin or for the danger they pose. So, what I try to say is that no lesser species hang around, or never for a long time. It takes a few hundred, perhaps thousand years to wipe out a lesser specy, but they will either die or adapt eventually. Perhaps Darwin's studies did not, we do see that animals change over time, and this can't be observed like a study, because it takes far too long. Take cats for example: the small cat we all know as a pet, has been exported by European travellers to all over the world, where they have never ever been before. These cats are able to survive everywhere, whether it's in a hot desert or in the north poles. And they are a fine example of adaptation; the Lynx-type found on the Falklands for example has evolved from regular cats in a relative short time span. Again, name me an animal with 3 eyes. An eye doesn't just occur. And animals with more than 3 eyes? There are none, or at least none that are succesful. The very complex evolution of the eye is one that took several hundreds of millions of years. Almost every creature has 2 eyes, simply because 'creatin' another, no matter how useful it sometimes may be, is too complex. It was possible to develop it over so many years because no real threats existed in the world more than half a bilion years ago, before the dinosaurs. Single cellular creatures evolved into more cellurar creatures that may have had a very, very primitive version of the eye. This evolves throughout the millions of years, and it's possible to do so, because no big share of predators were around back then. Eventually, this miniscule creatures evolved into fish and insects. The facet-like eye of an insect is a great link between a single cell and the eye we have now. It consists of simple cells that detect movement, but not colour. This is what the eye serves it purpose for: so that insects can detect enemies attacking them. They can track food in other ways. Eventually, the simple fish with two (needed to estimate distance) eyes evolved into amphibia, so they needed to adapt their eyes as well. A long trail of evolution led to mamals and birds, that all have more or less the same kind of eyes. (and here the circle endeth :)) Well, I just explained it, didn't I? It's a process of trail-and-error. You're 100% right when you say those light-sensitive cells are likely to evolve somewhere on a useless place. But after thousands of different places, those cells come into place, and stay, because the species has now been enhanced and will likely survive. Also, it's not completely trail-and-error, because a light-sesitive cell doesn't just pop up. It pops up because some cells in the body need to adapt to the light, like we need to adapt to our community or we get banned, for example. If those cells adapt, and it's a failure, the creature dies. But if they succeed and the animal can see the different shades of light, this animals will surely reproduce and be succesful. --- I don't quite understand how that professor came to that dramatic conclusion, but I assume it is possible. Perhaps all of those flagella are fragile to a certain matter in certain circumstances, and perhaps these circumstances and matter are rather trivia among more or less evolved apes? Either way, I also hope you read what I said Ghost, it took me 40 minutes of my precious studying time in this exam period ;)

Well Piano, evolution isn't something that happens from one day on another. A monkey doesn't just change into a human, but of course you know that. One small change occurs, something possible very unrelevant, like a monkey that uses a more sophisticated method to gather his food than just pick fruit with a stick like all others do. This causes his brain to use certain functions that it otherwise would not, thus making it more creative. Because it has better access to food, it now has more of a guarantee to survive. If out of the millions of monkeys a few start doing this, at least one or a few will be the ancesters of the monkey kind that we are part of. It takes millions of these slight changes to take place and after many thousands of years, the monkeys that kept adapting (so evolution has nothing to do with a leg somewhere or an eye..) have slightly changed into more sophisticated creatures. They eventually rule out all others of their species who did not have the ability to adapt, because eventually, the smarter monkeys will steal all food before the others can access it. And other changes will get them the females before the others as well, so the dumbos are doomed to disappear. No creature has evolved through some sudden change, ever. People with a handicap, like you described creatures with legs on the wrong place etc. are never any better. The human body would always be worse if something that dramatic happened. Probably the most dramatic changes are those that involve inventions. The man-apes that discovered how to start a fire, for example, were most likely afraid of it for several years. But when they discovered how powerful it can be, that it can cook food, thus making it free of most bacteria and be healthier than raw meat, they were all of a sudden lightyears ahead of other man-apes. I hope you take the effort to read it all, but I don't doubt you will :)

demon days album - the Gorillaz

A little information would be welcome instead of just asking a meaningless question.

It depends a lot on how good you are in keeping rhytm and if you're able to easily move your hands and feet seperately. When I started playing the drums, it was pretty frustrating, because my eye-hand coordination was far from perfect. But give it some practice, an hour a day at least in the beginning, and you'll quickly get far.