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  1. I'm not sure that Thor would care much about ho you lived.
  2. That's why it's detailed in the posting guidelines. I wouldn't want people wandering off and applying their own interpretation of the word of mod
  3. ??? The links were fine. In fact they were better before.
  4. Why hope when you can read the posting guidelines? For they are truly the word of mod.
  5. That fact the General said that is nearly as crazy as a Villa fan suggesting the club should change its name.
  6. Your ratings and reactions please. Keep it respectful even if you know everyone else is wrong. [table color=#bccde9:8ea3397f01][mrow][mcol color=yellow:8ea3397f01]Norwich[mcol]2-0[mcol color=#8c333c:8ea3397f01]Aston Villa [row][col color=yellow:8ea3397f01]Holt 8[col][mcol color=#8c333c:8ea3397f01] [row][col color=yellow:8ea3397f01]Jackson 21[col][mcol color=#8c333c:8ea3397f01] [/table]
  7. Apart from the three teams with fewer points then us?
  8. Hitler was raised Catholic. If your statistic is true, perhaps the failed attempts served to reinforce his superstitious beliefs that he was doing god's will, but more dangerously, caused others to believe it too. Allowing people to be trained not to think for themselves from a young age is really dangerous.
  9. Energy condenses into matter. Energy doesn't have a velocity, only a potential, although it can be said to have a vibration. But I know what you mean.
  10. So who did collapse the wave function of the universe? BTW, I agree completely. There is no free will. Decisions are made on the basis of chemical changes in the brain in response to stimuli. The brain is a chaotic system and therefore incredibly hard to model, but the illusion of free will is simply a by product of chemical reactions.
  11. You can't have a stage of a collapse of a wave function. You've just proven that free will can't exist; "god" caused everything to have happened by observing it at the end of time (not the beginning). I think we've drifted into philosophy
  12. That's cool. I'll stay away from the New Scientist for this as it's not peer reviewed, but I'll take another dig around. Hopefully I can find something somewhere. Multiple universes does not mean that time existed before our universe though. Time is just a dimension in spacetime and spacetime is an integral part of our universe. You'd still need to hypothesise some kind of causal sequence which existed outside of any particular universe. I assume that multiverse theory allows for encapsulated universes whereby extra-universal "time" would be defined by the parent universe? Time for some study I think.
  13. Not really my area, but when you stay "is not stable", what happened when you tried it?
  14. Any particular phone?
  15. I look forward to learning about these. I don't suppose you've got any links to anything peer reviewed? Given the nature of this thread, I'm not going to take things on faith. A few months ago it was all still propositions, nothing you'd call a working theory. I'm surprised and impressed that they already have testifiable hypotheses.
  16. Time as it is currently defined in physics did not exist before the singularity. The time dimension came into existence at the same time as all the other dimensions. We don't have a model which allows for something to have happened before the singularity. Such a model would involve something like division of dimensions which is (currently) meaningless. Trying to go further back in time than the singularity is like going to the south pole and then continuing to head south. The great thing about science is that if we develop new models which explain things, we can then apply those models to create experiments to determine whether they are true and revise our understanding as we confirm things. A lot of scientists are trying to determine whether there was something before the singularity. At present it's just thinking. Thankfully rational thinkers aren't required to believe in unchanging contradictory stone age fairy stories edited multiple times to fit an agenda and interpreted to suit a different agenda. Let alone to have "faith" that the fairy stories are real.
  17. Considering the hundreds of billions of solar systems in our galaxy, and the hundreds of billions of galaxies in our universe and the tiny amount of time humans have been around, then if a god exists, how likely is it that it has even noticed us? And if it has, ins't it more likely to perceive us as at best a symbiotic life form and at worst a cancer? If we can undergo a little cognitive dissonance and accept that we can talk by magic to god, shouldn't we be stopping the religious from praying in case they make god aware we're exploiting its creation? I mean, look at what we do to things that shouldn't be growing in us. Of course, rational people know we don't need to worry. There isn't a god.
  18. by the VT match previewer Aston Villa finish their 2011-12 season with a tricky trip to take on Norwich at Carrow Road on Sunday, but will know that their Premier League status is safe after picking up a point against Tottenham last weekend. Despite this, it has been a massively mediocre season for the Midlands club, one to forget even and Alex McLeish will look to give the travelling support something to cheer about before the summer break. The main problem this season for the Villa Park club has been a lack of incision, which has meant few goals. With Darren Bent injured and potentially missing the European Championships (see latest England odds on Betfair), the club have struggled to hit the back of the net, and with 37 strikes in 37 games have the second-lowest tally in the division after Stoke. Seven wins out of 37 games has been painful viewing for the club's supporters, whilst 17 draws is five more than the nearest side this term (Sunderland have drawn 12). Randy Lerner and the Villa board have some real soul-searching to do in the summer, and a few important questions to answer. The first originates around the team's manager Alex McLeish, who started on the backfoot due to his ties to rivals Birmingham City, and has failed to capture the imagination with lifeless performances by his team on the pitch. The Scot is not solely to blame for the poor season however, as the sales of Stewart Downing and Ashley Young were always going to take their toll, and replacement Charles N'Zogbia has found the pairs' boots difficult to fill. Despite attacking midfielder Steven Ireland coming back into the fold, the club needs to replace the two creative players that it lost last summer, and the American owner should put his hand in his pocket and stump up some much-needed financial backing. The signing of Brett Holman from AZ Alkmaar is a start, but more new faces are needed. The team face a stern test against Norwich this Sunday, who have been one of the standout sides in the division this season. Their fearless and attacking approach has drawn many plaudits, and Paul Lambert's men have never even looked vaguely in danger of being relegated, which cannot be said for Villa. The Canaries boss has been mooted as a potential replacement for his countryman McLeish should a managerial change be in order, but the current incumbent will look to prove that he is the right man to lead the club forward with a win at Carrow Road. Richard Dunne and co will have their hands full with Grant Holt and maybe Steve Morison, and the attacking threat of Anthony Pilkington and Wes Hoolahan in midfield should not be overlooked. However, with nothing but pride and a more flattering league position to play for, hopefully McLeish will send his side out to entertain and play free-flowing football; something the Villa faithful have seldom seen this season.
  19. If it's a professional placeholder then I'd just pay a designer to build it for you. You might find a couple of dozen around this forum.
  20. Joomla or Drupal. I suspect you can get either as an online service if you want to have a play. I can't offer more advice when I have no idea what you use (or want to use) the web site for.
  21. Does someone want to write this up for the front page?
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