According to current theories dark matter has to be non-baryonic. Doesn't rule out that dyson spheres exist, though. They just aren't the matter we are looking when mentioning dark matter.

As if anything about islam or christendom is _personal_ belief. You just adopt a canned worldview past it's expiration date and identify with it.

So yeah, people have kind of the right to stupidity. Problem arises when it's organized and billions of people subscribe to a particular brand of stupidity, complete with stupidity-experts that explain the stupidity seemingly away.

Just because you share delusions with tons of other people doesn't mean that this should become the norm.

And by delusions, I don't mean faith in a higher power or connectedness of things, I mean systems of interpretation like Christianity and Islam. Religions perverted on of the most amazing things about humans with no sign that they are going stop anytime soon. Quite a bit of it is understood by psychology, but it takes a lot of will and perseverance to get rid of it once it took hold of you. Not unlike other addictions, maybe? That is why I think it's a crime to indoctrinate children with this stuff. They get exposed to those ideas, they take hold, and most of them are in it for life. If that's not sad, what is?

practicality.

english has become the de facto lingua franca of the internet, which is a good thing. my native language is german, and I regularly see the atrocities commited when text gets translated from english to german. a lot of the time you are better off learning english and reading the original.

translations are terribly time consuming, just ask the EU who prepares its documents in a plethora of languages.

also, interesting information should have, at least in my opinion, as large a reader base as possible. fine if your latest findings are written in romania, hungarian, finnish, german or bonga-bonga. either you find translators for every little rotten language on earth or your information is simpled locked into the language bubble of the author.

english has the potential to be a remedy of sorts (easy,concise,not extra characters), but as always nationalistic or chauvinistic tendencies come into play. the french seem to be a particulary interesting example here. the more nationalist minded germans try to do the same, translating every "lehnwort" (english word incoporated into german) into its german counterpart... which more often than not sounds a little bit retarded. (ie. "heimseite" for homepage)

speak english or die! (to quote an album from S.O.D from years past)

"Ok, what other valid ways are there?"
Asked the same question last week on a german board, didn't get an answer either.

I don't think christianity can be considered tamed... merely relatively dormant.

but... in the case of the koran it's the twisted interpretations that makes it look peaceful. read it. this book makes the old testament look rational in comparison.

i think i know that feeling. trying to get more in-depth information about islam, its customs and countries has proven to be a brutal feat. the original intention was to counter what i perceived to be another hunt for people with a different ideology. i could not have dreamt what this ideologie does in fact contain. its a horrible, horrible mess and a very real possiblity to actually fall back to the dark ages. i really thought that this was over and done for, that our future will be free of the worst aspects of religion - for good. along came allah and hundreds upon hundreds of millions of his submitting devotees...

and no, i do not care about that not _all_ of them are fanatics. everybody who really believes that the koran is the unadulterated word of god is, in my current view, a potential time bomb. after all, all it takes for those non-fanatics to become very strange people is to start to take the koran more seriously in their life. just read the text of the koran, from a humantistic point of view its a pukefest of the highest order. just because it's peppered with a few stanzas that aren't totally off the rocker doesn't make it more bearable.

they are like regular people who happen to hold a brutal desert-doctrine for the final truth. so yeah, _totally_ just like regular people... and i've tried the "talk to western muslims" approach over the last couple of years. I was horrified by a lot of the reponses, but agreed, not _all_ of them. but most. enough, for me at least, to form an opinion about the "religion of peace", something i can only write with quotes proper lest I risk a semantic breakdown.

free, uncensored information has to be the mortal enemy of islam. i sincerely hope that free information will prevail, otherwise allah help us all. (posted from central europe)

maybe this will be of help:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/backforward-dropmarker/

"business users" should die out.all those arguments they are still spouting off evaporated the past decade. "there is a large corporation behind it to fix security holes", now we have seen how well this played out.

the only reason would be that if something goes wrong, as it regularly did, management can believably blame another management, that is microsofts. of course there was a hefty price to pay, maybe we will see someday some charts that quantify what microsofts ie6 dominance has cost the web in terms of hindered evolution and millions of manhours to make stuff run on it.

it seems "business solution" is rapidly becoming synonym with overly expensive, inflexible, often braindead... but backed by other businesses. if trying to get something done is the name of the game, looking to "business" for a good solution is... optimistic.