GotAnyMegadeth

That's one of the main problems with your whole argument. "How many folk tales do you know...". Just because you only know one, doesn't mean there is only one. You believe the one you are told, as do the other people else where in the world and in time.

The Gregorian calendar does attempt to count the number of years since Jesus.

The Bahá'í calendar counts since Báb had his first religious experience [0]

The Bengali calendar counts (possibly) since the reign of King of Gour, Shashanka [1]

The Buddhist calendar counts since Buddha attained parinibbāna [2]

The Hindu calendar Kali Yuga counts since Krishna left Earth to return to his abode [3]

I'm sure there are more, I only looked at a few. Look how many calendars there are that are in use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars

Also, I don't think explaining anything can make a belief system collapse.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_timeline [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_calendar [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendar [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

It would be cool to have a Gallery link on the homepage, or something similar

I think they [0] are getting Streisand'd [1] pretty badly

[0] https://plus.google.com/116041780482133327447/about?gl=uk&hl... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

There is often redundancy built into the larger internal memories of chips.

I pretty much always accidentally type the Emacs commands first, often in MS Word this means I delete everything then save, rather than just saving, and I end up saving a lot of webpages.

I could see it flickering and when I tried to print screen I got the image...

Disclaimer: I only skimmed the artcle

Maybe Shivetya doesn't have any progressive in them. If they did, perhaps it would be annoyed too.

I never know what tone to take with writing letters to MPs. I don't want to waste a load of time on polite and subtly persuasive when they might be more influenced by the generic "angry voter". Equally, if I received some angry voter letter, I'd be inclined to vote against them just because I don't like angry people.

This time I think I went too angry, because last time I think I was too polite:

Dear MP,

I sincerely hope you will be voting against the ridiculous "Emergency phone and internet data storage law" on Monday. Blanket surveillance of millions of innocent civilians is short sighted, reckless and dangerous. I am well aware that the excuse is to prevent terrorism, but is there any evidence at all that it will be key in terrorism prevention? We seem to be doing a pretty good job of preventing terrorism already, and any extra (possibly non existent) benefit this may bring is certainly not worth the MASSIVE loss of liberty of the people.

I am disgusted and horrified that so many intelligent people in Westminster are so short sighted to think that surveillance, with is horrific brutal history, is going to "work this time".

Yours sincerely,

Me

I just downloaded it for Moto X, haven't tried it yet though

The few at the bottom aren't early risers

Completely agree. I feel most alone at parties full of people I have nothing in common with

I avoid listening to new music that I might like when I'm feeling bad, otherwise that music always brings back those feelings.

Sorry for the OT, but, a hammer-wrench-bath-plug is a lot more fun to imagine than a hammer-wrench-bathplug

Sorry for over repeating what people always say, but I am genuinely so grateful for the UK's NHS.

I'd be happy to live as long as the Sun, longer if we start colonising new planets. As long as I can die before the heat death of the Universe.

Good article, though writing the distances involved like this:

"twenty-four hundred and eighty vertical feet"

Makes it very hard to imagine. Partly because I would read 2480 as two thousand four hundred and eighty, and partly because they are changing between feet, yards and meters all over the place. The world will be a better place when the USA uses metric.

There are/were a couple of junctions in Phnom Penh where the traffic lights for the roads have count down timers on both the green and the red. All the motorbikes started going around the 5 second mark meaning there was a good few seconds of everyone going from both directions. I'm sure it's pretty dangerous, but it was fun to navigate

Do you have the link for that? Thanks

Good point. Though I think that the suggestion was that the technology required to materialise a massive, warp capable star ship may be more advanced than a different technology that accomplishes the same tasks as a star ship. For example being able to teleport both people and nuclear weapons across the whole universe would pretty much render star ships obsolete.

If a society was sufficiently advanced that they could just press a button and make a star ship at will, then they would probably be equally advanced in other areas and would not have any need for star ships.

I think I'm at least partially on YouTube because of YouTube rather than the content. I pretty much only watch videos on my phone, and it the only video app that I have, and it's good enough.

> I wouldn't bother reading it for fear of bias

That's a dangerous stance in general, probably better to listen to both sides whilst acknowledging that they are both likely to be biased in their own favour.

Was it Albatross flavour?

F-Zero and F-Zero X are games I used to play just for the music. They are so metal.

There is an excellent album with all the music played on real instruments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9h7SkZICg&list=PLF1AF918F7...

Only if your compiler/build process is trust worthy ;-)

I have never played this, it sounds great.

If you are playing over email and one person becomes unresponsive, what is the standard thing to do?

I think there should be some more perks at a wider range of values. There could be a $20 photo print of one of the photos or something.

I think that was more of a discovery than an invention

I agree that society advances itself together, however I don't think that shirts are necessary for a society to be considered "Advanced".

That might the case for bikes on the pavement in general, but there are some stretches of road where the road would be more dangerous.