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LHC Forces Bookmaker To Lower Odds On the Existence of God 457

A UK bookmaker has lowered the odds on proving that god exists to just 4-1 to coincide with the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider. The chance that physicists might discover the elusive sub-atomic object called the "God particle" has forced the odds lower. Initially the odds that proof would be found of God's existence were 20-1, and they lengthened to 33-1 when the multi-billion pound atom smasher was shut down temporarily because of a magnetic failure. A spokesman for Paddy Power said, "The atheists' planned advertising campaign seems to have renewed the debate in pubs and around office water-coolers as to whether there is a God and we've seen some of that being transferred into bets. However we advise anyone still not sure of God's existence to maybe hedge their bets for now, just in case." He added that confirmation of God's existence would have to be verified by scientists and given by an independent authority before any payouts were made. Everyone getting a payout is encouraged to tithe at least ten percent.

Comment Re:Netscape/Mozilla (Score 2, Insightful) 409

You are incorrect.
Version one and two of IE were based on SpyGlass. I'm not sure about 3. I do know that 4 is a completely new codebase compared to 2.
You are correct that it has many old quirks. These are COMPLETELY INTENTIONAL, and the result of a lot of work. You see, vast quantities of HTML on the web were created without any regard for standards, just so that they looked good in whatever browser was available at the time. Even if they were created to a standard, many of the old standards have been deprecated. In any case, IE focused on backwards compatibility, so that real live content worked, as opposed to standards compliance, which very little content adheres to anyway. Seriously.
If you want IE to be more standards compliant, just add the appropriate declaration to the top of your pages, and IE6 will try to adhere to modern standards.
Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp for details.

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