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by andyb
Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:40 am
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

And what would you think if he decided he'd never believe anything from an atheist? Of course not, False Idols come to mind. http://www.openbible.info/topics/worship_of_false_gods I don't do unexplained video links. Reading's faster and I don't risk being the umpteen-millionth person to watch some ...
by andyb
Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:29 pm
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Topic: Voting in America just got a bit harder
Replies: 183
Views: 215895

Re: Voting in America just got a bit harder

This explain how one-sided and unjust this is (not sure if those outside the UK will be able to watch it).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20091451


Andy
by andyb
Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:30 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

The best, relatively concise resource I could find was this article which, at least at first glance, appears to be well documented and attempting objectivity. The man who wrote this is a self-confessed "Born Again Christian", would I believe anything that he preaches, I am a natural skeptic and I h...
by andyb
Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:12 pm
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Topic: Windows 7 & Windows 8 Working Together?
Replies: 16
Views: 11468

Re: Windows 7 & Windows 8 Working Together?

Why on earth shouldn't they work together? I'm not aware that M$ changed any protocols or procedures to exclude Win7 and hence WinVista and WinXP working with Win8. The question is not so much "do they work together", but how well do they work together. No one can be certain until they try it, but ...
by andyb
Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:12 pm
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Topic: Windows 7 & Windows 8 Working Together?
Replies: 16
Views: 11468

Re: Windows 7 & Windows 8 Working Together?

This is new today (30th October 2012).

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/windows-8 ... 32555.html


Andy
by andyb
Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:57 pm
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Topic: Windows 7 & Windows 8 Working Together?
Replies: 16
Views: 11468

Re: Windows 7 & Windows 8 Working Together?

This is still a long way from your answer (because it is admittedly an incomplete review), but its worth a read if you are considering a W8 phone. This review does drop a few juicy snippets of information as to how W8 on a phone (or tablet) will work with any OS. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6415/w...
by andyb
Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:49 pm
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Topic: Best video on youtube
Replies: 5
Views: 3769

Re: Best video on youtube

The vast majority of what he said was telling people that physics at a certain level was really not that difficult to grasp, and explained in very simplistic terms how and why the level of physics that he was describing is just about all anyone needs to know on the average day. Yes he did go a bit t...
by andyb
Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:14 pm
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Topic: Best video on youtube
Replies: 5
Views: 3769

Re: Best video on youtube

Thanks for the link. I wish this video had existed when I was at school, its not just amusing, but very easy to understand, concise and above all accurate and true.


Andy
by andyb
Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:44 pm
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Topic: Republican rape chart
Replies: 30
Views: 21551

Re: Republican rape chart

It couldn't be murder because it lacks intent. Regardless, it's specious to argue that abortion is acceptable because so many pregnancies terminate naturally. That was just me taking the piss, I dont consider the destruction of a Foetus in the early(ish) stages as murder either and obviously I dont...
by andyb
Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:30 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

You have made a very common mistake: you assumed Hebraic slavery was like colonialist slavery. It wasn't. Hebrew slaves were more like contracted employees: they could own property, had significant legal protections, and had the right to purchase their freedom at any time. A few even rose to wealth...
by andyb
Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:19 am
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Topic: Republican rape chart
Replies: 30
Views: 21551

Re: Republican rape chart

I understand a fertilized egg is not a human being. But just because the word that we use to describe a right-earning human being does not apply to a fertilized egg doesn't mean that it doesn't own rights. A Foetus is a parasite by the definition of a parasite, most parasite's we kill because they ...
by andyb
Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:31 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

My view is that it's not religion per se but the misuse of religion for human motives like personal enrichment, acquiring political and sexual power over human beings, expressing hatred "personal enrichment" Qur’an 9:29-Fight against Christians and Jews ”until they pay the tribute readily, being br...
by andyb
Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:51 am
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Topic: Republican rape chart
Replies: 30
Views: 21551

Re: Republican rape chart

Of course life is a gift of God Tell that to the children of Josef Fritzl. If "life" is a gift of God, then being imprisoned and raped by your own father must also be a "Gift of God", for in this example they are both very much intertwined. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case of course life be...
by andyb
Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:44 pm
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Topic: Republican rape chart
Replies: 30
Views: 21551

Re: Republican rape chart

Finally, we arrive at my conclusion. I think that a fertilized egg has a right to life, because it satisfies the basic requirement of being a human being. If an adult has rights and a teenager has rights and a child has rights and a baby has rights, then the chain keeps going (I think) all the way ...
by andyb
Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:54 am
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

Here is a rather potent example of how religion "causes" harm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20054867 "I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of Rape, that it is something that God intended to happen". This vile man wishes to impose his vile "religious" views on an...
by andyb
Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:55 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

That is part of your personal belief system. It cannot be proven that reason is superior in understanding all things. As a person who is reasonable I would agree. Yes, I understand, your sole reliance on reason and science is part of your "belief" system. Using that criteria alone, your conclusions...
by andyb
Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:18 pm
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Topic: Romney tax plan finally explained!
Replies: 8
Views: 4799

Re: Romney tax plan finally explained!

Well they live by the myth that the rich are job creators, while dismissing supply-and-demand/real capitalism. I dont doubt that some of the rich entrepreneurs are job creators and as such deliver more tax revenue to the government than just sticking that money into a bank, however in times of rece...
by andyb
Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:57 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

There is something after life !!!! How could you say there isn't ??? There are multiple things in fact... LOTS of things : little worms eating you :) Its actually your "Flora" that will eat you long before anything breaks into the coffin (providing of course that you are buried when you die). http:...
by andyb
Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:51 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

So long as we all agree that a person's (unproven) beliefs about the methodology to be used to determine whether God exists plays an outcome in the results of whether you believe or don't believe that God exists, that is OK with me. Any demand that reason alone be used to decide whether God exists ...
by andyb
Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:22 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

I am not necessarily arguing one way or the other on the validity or usefulness of science, but your decision to rely on science in deciding whether or not God exists is an assumption and belief on your part that science is the appropriate way to know that. You cannot prove that science is the prop...
by andyb
Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:16 pm
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Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
Replies: 357
Views: 480187

Re: If you could ask God one question ...

At what point did I claim that God exists or that the Rapture was coming, andyb and edh? In all of my posts, I have played the part of a skeptic, attacking your reasoning and not your conclusions. I am not going to re-read all of your posts in this thread and as a reasonable person I will assume th...
by andyb
Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:53 am
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Topic: Why do people have friends?
Replies: 7
Views: 4382

Re: Why do people have friends?

I just never bothered with any of it, it seems such a nuisance and waste of one's time. Does this make me weird? Yes you are weird, unless this is a great example of "trolling". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship There are many numerous reasons why humans (most mammals in fact) and most bird s...
by andyb
Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:10 pm
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Topic: Windows 8: what do you think about it?
Replies: 87
Views: 97090

Re: Windows 8: what do you think about it?

Thanks Mark, that is a very useful perspective especially from the HTPC angle and its ability to work correctly with a remote control (I assume using standard up/down/left/right arrow keys rather than a mini joystick).


Andy
by andyb
Fri Oct 19, 2012 1:55 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Super Flower Golden Green 350W PSU
Replies: 32
Views: 38322

Re: Super Flower Golden Green 350W PSU

Andy, I think it'll take more than changing 80+ test methods. It's in the PSU mfgrs' self interest to sell the higher wattage supplies as the profit margin is much higher. Why would they opt to change the consumers' false views? That's precisely what I think as well. I expect that the whole 80+ sta...
by andyb
Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:02 pm
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Topic: anyone records TV programs on a PC?
Replies: 10
Views: 6877

Re: anyone records TV programs on a PC?

I am sorry, I cannot help you.


Andy
by andyb
Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:53 am
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Topic: anyone records TV programs on a PC?
Replies: 10
Views: 6877

Re: anyone records TV programs on a PC?

I cant help you with your TV tuner question directly, but I can suggest some alternative solutions that might work for you. If you have decent broadband then a simple solution is live streaming TV over the internet, or TV on demand for TV programmes that you have missed such as "BBC iPlayer" which I...
by andyb
Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:37 am
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Topic: Windows 8: what do you think about it?
Replies: 87
Views: 97090

Re: Windows 8: what do you think about it?

So like I said, Metro Screen is nothing more than a significantly reworked Start Menu. I agree with you in principle, but it actually goes way beyond that, it also replaces the start bar, the system tray, the quick launch icons and to some degree it IS the desktop. This I am sure is just fine for m...
by andyb
Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:13 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Super Flower Golden Green 350W PSU
Replies: 32
Views: 38322

Re: Super Flower Golden Green 350W PSU

I believe that there is a huge "flaw" in how the 80+ PSU's are rated. It pretty obvious to anyone who has read a few SPCR PSU reviews that the idea of measuring the "efficiency" of any PSU at 100% of its rated maximum output is insane. The 20% makes sense to a certain degree, the 50% also makes sens...
by andyb
Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:15 am
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Topic: Romney tax plan finally explained!
Replies: 8
Views: 4799

Re: Romney tax plan finally explained!

I read the tax plan in full, it looks like Romney is going to screw everyone but the mega rich (i.e. himself).


Andy
by andyb
Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:34 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Super Flower Golden Green 350W PSU
Replies: 32
Views: 38322

Re: Super Flower Golden Green 350W PSU

This looks to be an excellent product, and not to expensive either, a great shame that it has been discontinued. I hope that there is another Super Flower (probably re-branded) PSU to replace this, there should be a good demand for PSU's in this power range that are quiet and efficient and I hope th...