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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN ^^ dont forget the EPL is the best competition in the world

I didn't forget it, but its omission is based on an argument of mine (and that I've heard from others) about what the world cup is.

The reason behind the popularity of world cup isn't football alone. It's a duel of nations: a bunch of players from the same nation representing their land. This is far from happening (thankfully) in national leagues, where you have people from different cities, different countries and whatnot playing in the same squad. And, they're all playing the same sport - it's not like the olympics where you have several different olympic events happening at the same time. During the olympics, it's almost an individual effort, as you can have athletes from the same country competing against each other (e.g. swimming).

In fact, I don't even like football - I'd hate to spend one hour and a half watching guys kicking a ball. My interest on the world cup is the passion that there is over something that doesn't really exists: the concept of a country.

The fever, the passion, that irrational - but strong - feeling that stops entire cities, where almost all citizens draw their attention to a small court with 22 players.

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Originally posted by tathi So I might look into getting a job in the South of Brasil as an English teacher through a friend who i did a course with, it's not what you know but who you know and his cousin runs the school

The South is one of the most beautiful regions of the country: you'll probably like it

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Originally said by Adolf Fleisch Hitler How naive can people be? Curing the COR with messy hair and philosophy?

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Originally said by Maurice Moss I came here to kick ass and drink milk... and I've just finished my milk

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Originally posted by occrider As of this past Saturday, I'm done with my test .

Congratulations!

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Originally posted by occrider I won't be posting a whole lot (looking for a new job), but I won't be such a stranger. So how has everyone been?

New job? Outside DC?

As to me, I've been busy with work - but I took the liberty of taking tonight off. Catching up with the postings in here. Boy, you people have been busy!

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Um, no I don't think it should work that way. You just start with 0.2% of people already having 6 fingers, and go on from there. Having 5 fingered people have a 2% chance of evolving a 6 fingered gene would necessitate having 6 fingered people with a chance of evolving a 5 fingered gene. So the last 3 should sum up to 0. I think the question said that 5 fingered gene is recessive. Lots of the possibilities you mentioned above are impossible. Mostly the ones where 55+55 give a 6 fingered child, or where xx+66 make a 5 fingered child.

Just rounding this one off. There's going to be some months before I have time to look at this again, and it appears that the original poster has lost interest anyway.

Anyway, we're definitely seeing the setup differently. In your setting there seems to be no explanation as to where the 2% of mutants came from, and in that, yes, you're right: It would be impossible for 55s to have 65 kids. However, if the extra digit is seen as a possible mutation, as I do, then it would not be impossible.

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z So I'm really curious as to what the hell time is. Does it even exist? I'm not very well read in this area of physics. Are there any books or something you guys could recommend that could provide some insight? I'm guessing Drug_Tito, trancaholic, and Renegade have probably read plently of material related to this subject. So if you guys could direct me to something that would help, that would be much appreciated.

The best book - by far - I've read on the subject is "The Fabric of Reality" by David Deutsch. It explains time from a philosophical angle, but assuming current observations and theories within mathematics and physics as valid. Basically, time is seen as non-existent, with the universe (meaning what is) being an infinite uncountable collection of physical universes that are each related to all others by "similarity" relations, that we can approximate by probabilities through the theory of quantum mechanics. A physical universe A may then be immediately "before" a physical universe B, if it sufficiently similar. The book is a good 350 pages, and it doesn't belabour its subject, so of course my feeble attempts of explanation here do not suffice. You'll have to read it yourself if you're interested. (Teaser: The philosophical model it presents explains both why there are no real antinomies related to time travel and why the question "what was before the universe" not only is meaningless, but also not interesting.)

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z Numbers don't actually exist. They're just a means of quantification we use (analagous to what I was talking about earlier, a function of our mind). Space on the other hand is real, I can see the monitor infront of me and it occupies space.

I think Plato would tear you a new one if he saw that.
Actually, I'm not convinced that I wouldn't agree with him. Numbers, by virtue of being defined specifically as non-existent are more definitely real than matter or space, which each seem to depend on the realness of the other for their own realness. Bertrand Russel's excellent definition of "matter" springs to mind: "Matter is anything that adheres to the laws of physics. Whether it exists I don't know".

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 This basically describes causality, and says that furhter away the events are in time or in space, their distance is greater. It also says that causality is determined by the speed of light. So let's say there are events A and B. Now, the event A happened before event B if a beam of light that is released from event A when it occured arrives to the spacial location of event B before it happened at that point in space. If by the time the light beam arrived there event B already occured, then B happened before A, and it is not in a causal relationship with A.

I didn't get this part. Are you saying that causality is (merely?) some sort of temporal precedence?

Btw. I'm going to be in Boston from the 11th until the 17th of July. Anyone in the area?

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN ^^ dont forget the EPL is the best competition in the world

I read an article (or maybe on TV) recently that the Championship (England's second division under the Premiership), in terms of revenue generated, is actually the 4th (!!!) biggest league in the world (or maybe it was Europe)!!! Think it went...Premiership, German 1st Div, Italian (or maybe Spanish) 1st Div then the Championship!!

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Originally posted by trancaholic I didn't get this part. Are you saying that causality is (merely?) some sort of temporal precedence?

I meant causality as an ability of one event to preceede and therefore influence another event, regardless of how significant or insignificant that influence might be. I did not mean it in the terms of cause and effect.

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Originally posted by Lira I didn't forget it, but its omission is based on an argument of mine (and that I've heard from others) about what the world cup is. The reason behind the popularity of world cup isn't football alone. It's a duel of nations: a bunch of players from the same nation representing their land. This is far from happening (thankfully) in national leagues, where you have people from different cities, different countries and whatnot playing in the same squad. And, they're all playing the same sport - it's not like the olympics where you have several different olympic events happening at the same time. During the olympics, it's almost an individual effort, as you can have athletes from the same country competing against each other (e.g. swimming). The fever, the passion, that irrational - but strong - feeling that stops entire cities, where almost all citizens draw their attention to a small court with 22 players.

hehe, i see where youre coming from and i agree with you to an extent. however, as an australian that follows england, for me its all about the soccer

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN yeah, fuck fox for buying EPL rights

You mean fuck Rupert Murdoch.

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Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
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Originally posted by trancaholic Congratulations! New job? Outside DC? As to me, I've been busy with work - but I took the liberty of taking tonight off. Catching up with the postings in here. Boy, you people have been busy!

Maybe ... I would like a major city ... but one of my current directors may accept a high level position in St. Louis ... and subsequently bring me on. We'll see. Personally I'm a fan of NY. My job WILL change in the next month or two ... my city might change.

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Haha, occrider is going to be "on SL"

Cool. So Trancaholic, are you rooting for Sweden in the world cup, because ya know they are Scandanavian and what not?

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