Posts by Kosmo

YES YES! My devious plan melting the ice with a hairdryer is finally working, I have been here for a century melting the polar ice cap with this panasonic hairdryer, and the world will soon be on it's knees!

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I like forums that are forums, no extra.

phpBB and the rest of the "top dogs" are just full of features very few use, and features, other programs do, and do better.

So, I tend to use Modular systems when ever I can, and that counts forums too, I'd get a forum like Vanilla with extensions and use the extensions to get the functionality that I really need.

Vanilla is a good forum because, it uses extensions, has really smart style system (the next version will feature even smarter), it is lightweight and extremely fast, minimalistic user interface with many features that make browsing the forum faster, it has whispers that work kinda like PMs but without the inane PM page, everything works on the discussions page.

So that might answer to your question, would I use a forum software if it only had like Threads and Comments, because that what forum is for.

Vanilla atm, doesn't support signatures, but we are planning to do an extension, it doesn't have calendar nor poll but we are planning to do those as extensions aswell, gallery? nope and we are not planning to do one, there are several faster galleries out there than some cumbersome thing applied to a discussion forum, emoticons can be added via extension. As for text formatters, Vanilla supports Markdown, BBcode and HTML via extensions that are built in.

Alot of words, marketting and who knows, maybe they'll even bring a good mod.

How many of the Insurgency mods staffers are from the original Insurgency mod?

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Sorry, your posts are just difficult for me to follow, kind of train-of thought stuff. Don't worry too much

Don't worry about it, I'm even cryptic to myself.

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Kosmo I'm still pretty unclear what you're trying to get across.

Well, tell me what is it what I said is so unclear and I will unravel it's mysteries to you, altho, holistic medicine and intelligent design, most part philosophical, doesn't need any gifts or such to be clear, they are mere observations, don't you think?

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RD, how can we "investigate" ID? At this point it has to remain faith-based. I mean, we have SETI and such, there is some effort to look for extraterrestrials. Sure they could use more money but what else can we do? Kosmo I'm still pretty unclear what you're trying to get across.

heheh get a little perspective. Evolution is only like 150 years old. People have known about Creation for thousands of years

Little perspective? So you are saying that things that happened millions of years ago are earlier than the bible? Or are you implying that this part was in the bible: "Hear me speak the words of god, the great intelligent designer, thy theory ofcourse mind you, but I THINK that god or some sentient being came here and made man and a woman, forgot to tell us about the dinosaurs, and then he rested on the sevent day, what a jolly good fellow he was", take my word, they didn't think it as a "theory" back then

And while I speak about ID, I don't refer only to Genesis, I refer to all the cooky creationism theories where some god or what ever, legomen, transformers and captain kirk created man as their image and so on and so on.

Modern ID theory isn't that old, and while it borrows alot of things from the modern evolution theory, you know, the one that is less than the 150 years old, my guess is that ID actually is maximum of 40 years old, what people say it is based on is beyond me, they could say that it is older than the humankind, the word itself comes straight from Santa, brought to us by Easter bunny and Carebears.

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If life can be intelligent, why is it impossible for it to have control over its own or others design?

If you are referring to things like, humans breeding horses and dogs, then I'd have to agree, some life forms have more control over others, but if you breed an intelligent race, like example, if aliens breeded humans, then there is bound to be some evidence lying around.

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The only reason you can count evolution as a fact is because someone found it worthy enough to investigate. Its like ur calling evrybody that believed in evolution before the theory was tested dumb. Intelligent design is worth investigating, even if you have a personal problem with the results

Nope, it was because evolution was not invented by a crackpot religious wacko trying to convert more people to "the flock", there is not a single meritable scientist investigating on Intelligent Design.

And I'm not saying that it shouldn't be investigated, just don't come to teach it as "fact" to my children before you have gone through some investigation, a theory mere few decades old can hardly be called theory at all.

And I have nothing against the results, if they find that mankind is the spawn of some superior alien race it would only be good for mankind, unless ofcourse they breeded us to be food or something nasty like that.

If they made a breakthrough that man was actually some weird lab test done by some aliens maybe then we'd get rid of these religious crackpots and scammers.

Well, we sorta heard the id side of the story some time ago, they were talking about the Doom3 project, and how they started and all that.

John Carmack said that they (the dev team) said to the execs that they want to do new Doom, and that the time was ripe for a sequel, but the execs were not feeling them so they made an ultimatum to them, either they let them to do the Doom sequel or they resign and leafe id to shrivel and die. The John ends the story that, they got their will through BUT someone had to go, at first there was no names mentioned, but when a major developer 'kicks' off a guy (even tho he resigned from hiw "own free will") from their ranks, there is bound to be someone who knows who it was, and that was Mr. Adrian Carmack for reasons unknown, but now we know the reasons.

I don't think that anyone in particular at id is evil, or a mastermind of some sort, but still the whole firm goes down low in my books, I don't have respect to any company that does this sort of thing to one of their long term employee and co-owner.

Suicide club is pretty weird take on the subject, but non the less a view to a twisted mind of a Japanese movie maker

Yup, Finland has the highest suicide ratio of scandinavia, especially among yougn people.

Jezpuh: Reasons might be many, and varied, but I don't think that in any stretch of imagination, the midnight sun has anything to do with it, on the contrary, many university studies show that people are more vigorous and happy during this perioid, and again, there are studies that show, many people are more depressed during the dark and cold winter.

So if I had to bet such a morbid thing, I'd put my money on the dark and cold winter rather than the lushious summer that all scandinavians love so much.

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Adrian and John are not relatives, right?

That equals corret *beep*

It was just one example. If you want another example that doesn't involve humans doing things on their own, then take the meteorite that supposedly killed dinosaurs for an example, where is the natural selection there? Or do you consider a meteorite as the ultimate predator.

What I said, was just an example of how things evolve, and the "ID must be true because DNA/Eye/'your favourite complex thing here' is so complicated that it couldn't have just happened, there must have been some higher power guiding the so called evolution".

Evolution doesn't necessary happen on it's own, after dinosaurs vanished as a quirk of universe, humans became the next-gen (if you will) and it had absolutely nothing to do with natural selection. It would go closer to chaos theory of everything is just a random act, but even then, it doesn't over rule evolution, it's just a theory that acts with evolution, not against it, but still it changed a big part of it ot seem like some higher power would have had something to do with it, just like with DNA and such.

My point is that evolution is something that just doesn't "happen" there are millions of variables to take in consideration, and I think, most of those who believe in ID think that evolution is some magic that just happens without any outside interfearence, like geological anomalities where some big bad predator can get in to a place where the original fauna has never been threatened and so on.

And it seems like they don't count that evolution is even happening this day and age, we can't consider it NOT to be evolution that the medicines that we produce, have certain effects to our physiology, even if it is from man made drug, the genetic effects that occur maybe few hundred years down the line in some generation is actually evolution.

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you only have antibiotics and globalization to thank for that

But still, we didn't forcibly alter our genetic makeup (not saying that antibiotics are in out genes, but the immunity to certain diseases are), the antibiotics made it for us, and all medicines we take either kills the disease OR mutates it to a new one, which is evolution, simple and all.

I don't care about the money, I just get sick when reading about the "began a death-of-a-1,000-cuts-style approach to force him out--closely monitoring his hours, stripping him of privileges, and denying him access to board-related documents" part.

It's beyond me how people can just think that "some outside force must have created life since it is so complicated", what part of the "hundreds of millions of years of evolution" don't they get? Besides, there are species that "evolve" almost every generation and have severe mutions with the slightest complication like radiation and genetic mixing.

Why is it so totally fucking impossible for something to happen when millions of years have passed? Todays average human has way better immunity levels than average person from 1900s, and that my friend is changed by medicine, food and well, constant bombardment of diseases over the course of decades, it is a small change but a change non the less, and all that happened in one hundred year span, now take away the medicine and add one million years, I'm fucking positive that there is bound to be big changes there.

So all who even remotely believe to Intelligent Design, cry to a pillow when you sleep, but keep it out of the facts.

Many of you have propably read the news about the legal actions Adrian Carmack has taken against id software.

This kind of BS gets id off from my "most respectable game developers"-list and in to the "piece of shit"-list with EA. I don't just rate game developers by the games they make or the franchises they own, I rate them by the news I hear about them, and how they treat their employees.

So, any toughts on the matter?

Well, due to 3 times a week in gym, I got alot of strenght, but my muscles don't show, not that it bothers me or anything. Think of Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters and you got a good idea of what I'm meaning.

Well, Man has dabbled with many things in the world, changed the course of species and natural selection, so I'd say that Intelligent design is true from about 15th century and up.

I flipped through the weekly WHO newsletter I get, and there was something about suicides there just a while ago.

It might suprise you, but actually Easter Europe has highest suicide rate, and Latin America, Some Muslim countries and few of the Asian countries have lowest suicide rate. Now ofcourse we should take in consideration that it is 'rate' and not actual numbers, but it is just stupid to compare the suicide numbers of a country that has 120million (like Japan) to a country that has 5million (like Evil Empire of Finland).

There are some "hot countries" that have high rate and increasing numbers over the past 50 years, and those are: most of the central european countries, Finland, Sweden, Russia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and countries in caribbea.

I think it would be easier to remove a tattoo than leaving core