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I don't think there's much seriously hurt. It's mostly just from glass. Unpleasant but not life threatening.

 

I wrote it.

Just so everyone knows, Logically Irrational has been appointed as a moderator.

This forum is growing in activity, so we need some extra help. I'm sure you'll agree he's a great choice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-16935270

California ban on gay marriage ruled unconstitutional

California's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, a San Francisco appeals court has ruled.

A statewide referendum on the issue, known as Proposition 8, imposed a bar on gay unions in November 2008 but that was overturned by a court in 2010.

Now a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 that the latter judgement was correct.

Supporters of the ban previously vowed to challenge the panel's decision if it went against them.

Lawyers for those backing the ban are expected to take the issue to the US Supreme Court.

Proposition 8 was a 2008 ballot measure that amended the California constitution to state that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California".

Two same-sex couples challenged the measure, saying it violated their right to equal protection under the US constitution.

The 2010 ruling overturned the ban, determining it to be a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians.

I'm a fan of a 'praise don't punish' to be honest. Unfortunately, and I think our own forum has shown it, people love to be negative and I've seen it on forums, people with vendettas and grudges and differences of opinion just using 'down votes' as a tool to troll other users, regardless of the quality of their post. There are more constructive ways to tell someone you disagree with them, whereas allowing a 'like' or '+1' button helps eliminate 'I agree' and 'this +1' posts from littering threads and hopefully encourages people to make decent posts.

For now, I'd prefer to leave 'dislike' off. What we probably need to address soon is the light moderation on this forum, though I am still thinking about how best to do that without 'interfering' in discussion and censoring, which I am not interested in doing.

I'm not sure what you mean, but remember - nobody forces you to buy that white overpriced shit. I don't.

SpaceX's Grasshopper makes 250m testflight, tripling it's previous record.

 

 

SpaceX and Elon Musk are really astounding me lately!

 

 

Well I got many of my genes tested by a company recently for $100. It's not a complete genome but it's very detailed in what it can tell me.

 

The way they are doing this is they use a specially designed chip that looks at genetic markers they ask the designers to make on their model of the chip to detect sequences they have the data on.

 

Another company offering a similar service charges 2-300 for a similar testing with slightly different goals of detection and can get their chips manufacture for their needs.

 

As the ability to design these chips improve, and the list of requestable tracking sites for genes expands... I see no reason why in the next 24 months that the laws of accelerating returns couldn't get that taken care of. I'd say it's almost a garentee if you are willing to allow seven more months and wiggle room to about $300.

 

this is the chip the company I used uses with some customized identifiers. http://www.illumina...._infiniumhd.pdf

I've had this conversation before about a similar picture.

 

 

Maybe these artists haven't had a chance to consider the possibility that virtual reality may actually lead to an enrichment of the human experience, allowing us to more intimately share the human condition in more encompassing detail than ever before. Maybe he missed the realization that we experience virtual realities in our heads every day, that our ability to create mental models and simulations of events, places, and situations that don't exist in our immediate reality is what virtual reality is and that future virtual reality technology could be our liberation from our currently isolated virtual worlds. Maybe the technology he (or she) is painting may not be the technology that sends us into mental isolation but might be the technology that allows us to join with each other and explore and experience our imaginations together in a far deeper way than we do now.

 

Xbox didn't send us into our bedrooms and isolate us from our friends, we invited our friends over to play Xbox together.

Forums didn't take us away from our friends, it gave us another place to meet and converse with people in addition to our friends.

 

People isolating themselves from others isn't a tech issue, it's not an entertainment issue, it's a social issue.

 

 

There, not so bleak now.

Really just a cool picture, but what does everyone think of it. I suppose my biggest inclination is that once we have large-scale interplanetary shipping, it will be done with single-stage-to-orbit reusable vehicles so as to make it commercially viable.



Credit: Stanley Von Medvey
http://bagtaggar.blogspot.com/

Apple is trying to ban sales of the Samsung Galaxy S3 because of patent infringements. I think that qualifies as scum. Apple. Fuck you, you scum son of a bastard.

I just made my 5.000 post. It was a regular one. Although, later this summer, I promise to share with you a piece of story of my life. I am sure you will find it interesting. Meanwhile let’s celebrate my 5.000 posts and all I have done in these years. I managed to keep alive the forum by creating original and at time controversial threads, I offered interesting  insights and push you to see things from different corners, I created some turmoil and got into several cyber fights while keeping a certain style. In any case all this contributed to keep this place and interesting place. I also made nudity and sex topic more acceptable breaking incompressible taboo.   Some of my predictions were taken in consideration by the administration. I think between ups and downs I made an awesome job!!

Italian Ufo the DJ of the Futuretimeline!!!!          

 

YOU STUPID BULLIES ARE CALLING ME A TROLL BECAUSE I HAVE A CRUSH ON LADY GAGA. WELL LET ME TELL YOU, I AM AND ALWALS WILL BE A LITTLE MONSTER! FUCKIGN LADY GAAG HATER!S IM LEAVING THE FORUM LADY GAGA HATERS!

I QUIT!!!! IM THROUGH WITH YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1912: I do say, what the flimflam is all this steel and glass I see before me? Why are all the women dressed like whores? Why do all the whippersnappers have wires sticking out of their ears? What are all these giant metal creatures speeding along at hundreds of miles per hour? And what's this you say about a negro being the president of the United States? This is bally confusing, I say, though oddly spiffing.

 

1952: Gee, this is the 21st century! This is... uh, well. Gosh, it looks kind of the same. Buildings are taller, women are still pretty keen, automobiles are sleeker... but why isn't everything suspended in the sky by atomic retro-rockets? I thought everything would be powered by atomic energy. Wait, what's a com... computer? You mean like those giant things they use at the Navy? They fit in the palm of your hand and they form a hive-mind?! EVERYONE HAS ONE? BAH. BAHAHA. I thought this was the future, not some pie-in-the-sky pulp science fiction novel! I'll believe it when I see it! And why is a negro president? The Soviets didn't take over, did they? DID THEY??!

 

-Things people from the past say.

Iceland’s Economy now growing faster than the U.S. and EU after arresting corrupt bankers

So Iceland decided not to follow the rest of the world by bailing out the bankers. Instead, they chose to arrest them. Now their economy is recovering faster than the EU and the United States. Hmmmm.

Remember when the United States government told the American people that immediate action was required to save the banks, and save our nation from complete collapse? An action in the form of Billions of dollars of National Debt? Yeah, we remember that! Now Trillions of dollars in National debt later, we are in the same position we were in 4 years ago, just more debt. As a matter of fact Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben Bernanke has called for yet another stimulus that will add more debt onto the mountain we already have.

At the start of the world wide 2008 economic collapse, Iceland was in worse shape than almost any other country in the world. Now they are one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

http://americanlivew....w-growing-fas/

Classic troll.

Short story by Isaac Asimov.

http://www.multivax....t_question.html

Worth reading if you have the time!

Sorry,I said ugly in the sense that Africa is very poor economically,most of its population live in poverty,that continent is delayed technologically and because of that I said that continent is a shame to the world and it don't have any salvation,it's hopeless,and then it's better to let it be destroyed by global warming(it will be pretty good because it will make be less people in the world)...And I think those people and cities very ugly at my seen,that's also I said that too(I'm not racist!) eheheh...

You're not racist. You're and idiot. I think you are ugly and there's not hope that you'll get smarter or better educated. Therefore I think you're shame to the world and as shameful, beyond salvation, inmature blockhead, you should be left to die, prefferably on some desolate desert.
How do you like this way of thinking?

Do you think I'm a childish person?Have you seen all my posts?

I've seen too many of your posts. They are incredibly childish, and in this thread not just childish but shamefully stupid and ignorant.

They made another one.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

Check out how big the minecraft world is. Mind ---> Blown