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I'm not posting this in the Ramadan section to insult you. I have a few Muslim friends who are fellow immigrants but I also have a friend from Iran who will never be able to go back safely, just because he stopped being Muslim. The Muslim friends I mentioned are fairly intelligent and are also against child marriage but I am curious to know what others think about it. Is it a fringe idea, only existing on the edge of Islam or is it thought of as good, for purity's sake?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4017/uk-muslim-u...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-11/muslim-cleri...

I have no computer at this time but I'm already planning how to set it up when it becomes necessary.

I'll be installing slackware Linux on it and I'm curious about partitions for new computers with secureboot instead of BIOS.

This computer will probably be used for university so it'll most likely be a laptop but since I have a 3 month old daughter with my girlfriend, it should be easily accessible to both in the coming years.

That's why I'm thinking a dual boot is the better option as opposed with a virtual machine. I heard that a secureboot laptop needs a 100mb partition to function properly and that changing the partition size for windows will corrupt the operating system. Do laptops these days come with a recovery CD? What filesystem should the secureboot partition be? Does secureboot recognise LILO or should I use GRUB?

I struggle to see why anyone would be interested in the next Xbox. I see people here thinking it would be great but what reason is there to like it?

Always listening, always watching, needing a constant internet connection, games using the cloud for processing and game data (what about a server failure anyone? Simcity?), can't loan games to friends, can't buy cheap second hand games and most important of all, Microsoft being a part of PRISM. What actual benefits does it have?

Not a Sony fan boy by the way. I just wonder why idiots don't realise how important privacy is.

Just curious as to how people here view it. Haven't used it for a while because have no personal computer at the moment but enjoyed it a lot a learned loads from it.

Just wondering if anyone here has any opinions on 14.0. By the time I get around to having a computer for it, I bet it'll spend a long time updating.

Have this old phone which I do like and have no problem with. What I do get annoyed with is the bloat apps forced on me by my network (no, I do not need an Irish translator o2. I have Google translate).

The current android level is 2.3.6 so I was thinking about just getting the gingerbread rom from CyanogenMod but I heard people were running JellyBean on it even and that got me thinking about how it would be to upgrade the android system too. Is JellyBean too much for my poor, old phone?

I know lots of people have custom roms on their android phones and am interested to know if you'd be able to give the advantages and disadvantages too of your chosen one.

I know it's a personal thing and depends on

every women but I want to know how you feel

about us men trimming our pubic hair. I don't

think a completely bald penis is appealing but

on the other end of the scale is the wild mess

of pubes which must look bad too.

I don't think men should expect women to

keep their glorious lady gardens kept tidy if we

don't get out the shears to prune our bush

either.

I'm from Ireland where ancient myths and legends are everywhere. Telling tall, fantastic stories was not only a hobby but a paid entertainment in the past throughout all of Europe, with story tellers travelling anywhere which was bored enough to hear them talk.

It is now impossible for me to think of the contents in the bible as anything more than myths and legends manufactured by primitive men seeing that primitive men were very fond of imagining stories as entertainment.

My current earphones broke recently enough so I'm in the market for a new audio device.

My choice has been whittled down to the HD202 ii, HD419 and the PX 360 though I'm open to new suggestions.

These headphones will be used to listen to a wide variety of music and audio, including books, rock, metal, jazz, trance, industrial, classic and J-pop (though the list still goes on) and I am interested in getting a set which will work well with this.

Any help would be great.

While the two are facts, what makes them think that the theory of gravity is stronger than the theory of evolution. Evolution is more backed up and far more understood than gravity and yet these people seem to think that since the theory of gravity contains Newton's laws of gravitation it is on a different level.

If you have any knowledge of physics at all, you'd know that we know very little about gravity except for it being there. We don't know why it works, how it works or what triggers it to work.

There are very few major questions left unanswered. It is far easier to understand for the public than the curvature of spacetime which gravity seems to operate under.

Here's a comic

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=...

You see many theists here ("many" means "a lot", not "most") who can not comprehend doing good or being a good person unless they are promised a reward or threatened with punishment.

They seem completely surprised when an atheist actually wants to help others. Many profess about objective morality and seem unable to comprehend how subjective to particular situations morality is. Anything other than the rules outlined in bronze age mythology seems to puzzle them.

To the theists who are actually nice people who do good for the sake of doing good, this question is not for you. There may be things that we disagree on but we should at least be able to agree that anyone who does good acts just for a reward or to avoid a punishment may be a few nails short of a box.

I'm trying to decide between two (rival) headsets at the moment and just trying to get advice from others.

The two headsets are the Tritton AxPro and the Turtle Beach PX21. Due to an lucky accident, I'll be able to get the AxPro for the same price as the PX21 is usually sold so the money difference is not a problem. I know the PX21 doesn't have surround sound but it has something similiar.

Which one should I get if I truly want to be immersed in a game and will be able to hear what's going on behind me?

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I'm trying to decide between two (rival) headsets at the moment and just trying to get advice from others.

The two headsets are the Tritton AxPro and the Turtle Beach PX21. Due to an lucky accident, I'll be able to get the AxPro for the same price as the PX21 is usually sold so the money difference is not a problem. I know the PX21 doesn't have surround sound but it has something similiar.

Which one should I get if I truly want to be immersed in a game and will be able to hear what's going on behind me?

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Tonight, my sister came to me panicked thinking she was suffering from a blood clot. She told me that she felt weird shivers and numbness in her legs and she said it had happened a few times just since she started on the pill last week. She was really scared because she is a smoker also and was warned against smoking while on it too.

I found out it was probably RLS but I still want to make sure that it is just that and nothing more. Is this a usual condition to have alongside taking the pill?

On another note, what are the best ways of treating it? I already know that warm baths and stretching help but are there others?

Surely they've given it a bit of thought and realise how ridiculous it is or do they just use it, knowing it's nonsense, just because they were told it is a good argument.

I'm just curious about what your explanation of

supernovae (when a star explodes and lets off huge amounts of light) and nebulae (the remnants of the star, consisting of huge clouds of star dust) are.

I know that a lot of you think that your god just

made the light in transit from the original source

explaining why we can see stars which are millions of light years away but what about supernovae?

An example would be the crab nebulae. This amazing cosmological beauty is located 6500 light years away.

We can not see it as it is. We can only see it as it was millenia ago.

It is remnants of a giant star that exploded thousands of years ago. Both Chinese and Arab

astronomers saw this explosion in the year 1054 and since it's 6500 light years away, this explosion happened before the universe was created.

There are many more supernovae, the furthest being 10 billion light years away. This star apparently exploded 10 billion years before the universe was created.

Why would a god create light from a star even though that star isn't there anymore?

Surely if the universe was young, we would never see supernovae from stars more than 6000 light years away.

Why would we see a see a star explode when there never was a star in the first place?

If you insist that the universe is young, you have to admit that this god is a very deceptive, sly god, not worthy of any respect.

SOURCES

http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m001_sn%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1054 (crab nebula) visible in 1054, 6500 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn018%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 185 visible in 185, 8200 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn038%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 386 visible in 386, 14300 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn100%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1006 visible in 1006, 7200 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn118%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1181 visible in 1181, >26000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/sn157%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1572 visible in 1572, 10000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/sn160%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1604 visible in 1604, ~20000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/casA.%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1680 visible in 1680, 11000 light years away

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-1335...

There's so much evidence for evolution that we can find some new evidence in the back of old museums.

If we sterilized the people who are present on the Jeremy Kyle show (or any other type of chat show with idiots) including the guests, the audience and the man himself, wouldn't the world be a much better place?

It astounds me since it's probably the most backed up theory in science and makes perfect sense with no overly confusing parts.

As a physics student, that makes me jealous. We know far less about gravity than evolution yet you don't see people dismissing it. Gravity isn't even the on par with evolution. The way we think it works is completely mindblowing and tough to get your head around and yet we have no idea why it works like that.

I went to a physics talk today presented by Dr. Stephen Myers, the Director of Accelerators & Technology at CERN about the Large Hadron Collider and it was amazing but fairly indepth. Our whole classical model of physics depends on the Higgs Boson being found but if it isn't, we're even further from the end as before.

Us people in other fields of science can only wish for a unifying theory which makes half as much sense as evolution. With physics, we don't even understand gravity, let alone a unifying theory. We may be centuries from one.

I'm just curious about what your explanation of

supernovae (when a star explodes and lets off huge amounts of light) and nebulae (the remnants of the star, consisting of huge clouds of star dust) are.

I know that a lot of you think that your god just

made the light in transit from the original source

explaining why we can see stars which are millions of light years away but what about supernovae?

An example would be the crab nebulae. This amazing cosmological beauty is located 6500 light years away.

We can not see it as it is. We can only see it as it was millenia ago.

It is remnants of a giant star that exploded thousands of years ago. Both Chinese and Arab

astronomers saw this explosion in the year 1054 and since it's 6500 light years away, this explosion happened before the universe was created.

There are many more supernovae, the furthest being 10 billion light years away. This star apparently exploded 10 billion years before the universe was created.

Why would a god create light from a star even though that star isn't there anymore?

Surely if the universe was young, we would never see supernovae from stars more than 6000 light years away.

Why would we see a see a star explode when there never was a star in the first place?

If you insist that the universe is young, you have to admit that this god is a very deceptive, sly god, not worthy of any respect.

SOURCES

http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m001_sn%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1054 (crab nebula) visible in 1054, 6500 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn018%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 185 visible in 185, 8200 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn038%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 386 visible in 386, 14300 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn100%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1006 visible in 1006, 7200 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn118%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1181 visible in 1181, >26000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/sn157%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1572 visible in 1572, 10000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/sn160%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1604 visible in 1604, ~20000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/casA.%E2%80%A6 =

Supernova 1680 visible in 1680, 11000 light years away

I'm just curious about what your explanation of supernovae (when a star explodes and lets off huge amounts of light) and nebulae (the remnants of the star, consisting of huge clouds of star dust) are.

I know that a lot of you think that your god just made the light in transit from the original source explaining why we can see stars which are millions of light years away but what about supernovae?

An example would be the crab nebulae. This amazing cosmological beauty is located 6500 light years away. We can not see it as it is. We can only see it as it was millenia ago.

It is remnants of a giant star that exploded thousands of years ago. Both Chinese and Arab astronomers saw this explosion in the year 1054 and since it's 6500 light years away, this explosion happened before the universe was created.

There are many more supernovae, the furthest being 10 billion light years away. This star apparently exploded 10 billion years before the universe was created.

Why would a god create light from a star even though that star isn't there anymore?

Surely if the universe was young, we would never see supernovae from stars more than 6000 light years away,

Why would we see a see a star explode when there never was a star in the first place?

If you insist that the universe is young, you have to admit that this god is a very deceptive, sly god, not worthy of any respect.

SOURCES

http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m001_sn.html = Supernova 1054 (crab nebula) visible in 1054, 6500 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn0185.html = Supernova 185 visible in 185, 8200 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn0386.html = Supernova 386 visible in 386, 14300 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn1006.html = Supernova 1006 visible in 1006, 7200 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Misc/sn1181.html = Supernova 1181 visible in 1181, >26000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/sn1572.html = Supernova 1572 visible in 1572, 10000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/sn1604.html = Supernova 1604 visible in 1604, ~20000 light years away

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/casA.html = Supernova 1680 visible in 1680, 11000 light years away