This Dutch pirate site blocklist seems to list some interesting websites.

I need to get a copy of it.

I can't wait until we can just plug the display output directly to our brains and set the resolution so that it fill's our brain's entire video frame buffer.

The Su-27 was a pretty formidable plane, comparable to the F-15.

Linux for Workgroups 3.11

Enjoy getting a million little cuts.

Birds are reptiles now.

Yes they are. Although in common everyday language usually "reptiles" means those scale covered green or brown land creatures, in taxonomy all living and extinct bird species are part of the reptilia class.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avialae

What is the "life expectancy" of PVs?

I believe most of the monitor's power drain comes from the back light. For a given screen size, the back light should be the same regardless of the resolution so I expect little impact on battery life.

They say the high levels of UV may hinder the development of life but it could have developed underground protected by a thick layer of rock.

This sort of ad-hoc rationalisation can be used to account for absolutely anything imaginable. For instance, arguing that God created the whole Universe 5 minutes ago with everything in it and all our memories in a way to make it undistinguishable from a 13.7 billion year old Universe would be another example of ad-hoc rationalisation that can account for anything which is intellectually equivalent to your suggestion.

I know you don't necessarily believe in "domino theology", it is just something to use on creationists but in my experience there almost no chance that they'll change anything in their mind about the subject of evolution. For anything related to someone's religiously based beliefs it's hard to have any productive discussion.

Ultragod created God, obviously.

Who created Ultragod you ask? What a silly question. Ultragod is eternal and thus needs no origin.

Wait a while until Write Amplification kicks in. Then they'll be screwed.

"The Great Debate" occured in 1920 and it took a while after that to figure out that Heber Curtis was right. It's crazy that it took so long to develop the telescopes needed to find out there are other galaxies out there.

And in less than 90 years since then, we now have the technology to take those Deep Field pictures showing tens of thousands of galaxies at a time when the Universe was 300 million years old.

There is no point where we stopped being something else and started being humans because evolution happens in small gradual steps. Over very long periods of times, the individuals of a population are so different from their ancestral population that if you could take a present individual, travel back through time, it couldn't reproduce with members of the ancestral species.

Think of it. If two animals had an offspring that had evolved into some new species, with whom would it reproduce? It would be the only one of its species. Two animals may have an offspring with a slight mutation which proves to be favorable. This offspring can still reproduce with other members of its species because that little mutation doesn't make it different enough to be genetically incompatible. Since this mutation is statistically favored, it will spread across the members of a specie as generations pass by. Many such mutation will accumulate over long periods of time leading some very different animals than what you started with. Never will you see any big difference between one generation and the next.

If a population is suddenly separated, each sub-population will accumulate different such mutations such that over a long period of time they members can no longer reproduce if they were to somehow meet again. Hence, they species has split into two species.

Incidentally, we do not descend from Monkey's nor Neanderthals. They are more of our cousins than our ancestors.

I have experienced patients having complete cures that they did not get through ordinary medical means.

Anecdotes do not prove whether a mediacal treatment works. There are many ways in which different types of biases makes basing conclusions on anecdotes unreliable.

Just as a few examples how this can possibly happen:
- Perception of symptoms may be very subjective. A patient may report an improvement in how he feels even if what he took does nothing.
- Symptoms often vary in intensity or go away and come back. A patient may enter a phase where the symptoms diminished or went away and attribute it to the treatment and report it as such. He may then fail to report it when they later come back.
- Crediting the wrong treatment. A patient may be taking a conventional drug while following his alternative treatment and attribute the curing to the alternative method even though it might have been due to the conventional drug.
- The patient may be a hypochondriac. He may never have had the condition he now reports as cured in the first place.
- The patient may be lying and falsely report his illness is gone.

There is also bias that can be introduced by the person dispensing the treatment. Say you are running a homeopathy shop and many people come and try your products. Those who find it does not work do not return while those who are convinced it does work (rightly or wrongly) keep returning. You are therefore only collecting anecdotes mostly from those people who believe it works.

Also, you may subconsciency remember only the anecdotes that are favorable to what you are doing.

Therefore, if you believe that those stories from your patients PROVE that homeopathy works, you are irrational. If you do not believe it proves it, and if you have nothing else that proves homeopathy right but still decide to change your world view based on it, then you are believing things to be true without knowing them to be true and are again, you are irrational.