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 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Free Movies, TV and Sports
Posted: 5/19/2013 1:04:26 AM
There's very little as far as sports or TV that can't be gotten for free on the internet
I watched a bootleg copy of the new Star Trek movie last night on a web site last night.

But, enjoy it while you can, the corporations are trying their best to divide up the internet among themselves and the good ol days of everything for free will be over.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Experimentation on men who are on death row then experiments on animals
Posted: 5/14/2013 2:55:23 AM
There are rumors that this sort of thing already happens in China.
The Nazis did this to Jews in the concentration camps. They did extreme cold experiments on living people by taking them up above the Arctic circle and dumping them naked onto the ice.
Remember what Joseph Mengele was all about ?

Exactly what kind of society are we running here ?

Should the testing subjects be given the opportunity to volunteer or reject being in the experiments ?
Should the test subjects get some sort of compensation ?
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Modal Ontological Argument for God
Posted: 5/12/2013 7:14:19 PM
Look.... if you want to believe God exists, go ahead. Nobody's going to stop you.
Absolutely nobody in the world has any interest in convincing you of something you want to believe if that's what you want.

Just remember, it's only a belief and believing isn't proving.
The existence of God can't be proven, it can only be believed.

Any God who could be proven, is an obvious fraud.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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If you could change history...
Posted: 5/12/2013 6:39:13 PM

Stopping Constantine [prevent Christianity from becoming the dominant religion in the west]

By the time of Constantine it was too late, Christianity was already the most popular religion in the west.
The real culprit is the Apostle Paul. He's the one primarily responsible for perverting the teachings of Jesus and spreading it through the Roman world.

You could get rid of St. Augustine while you're at it.
His self loathing guilt complex instilled the idea of any diversion from constant mental focus upon God was sinful.
He's been ruining lives for almost 2000 years.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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It is not the actions we take, but our reasons behind them!
Posted: 4/21/2013 1:39:28 AM

What I am trying to say really is that it is not our actions that define us, but our reasons behind them!

Obviously, you have never worked in the service industry.
There are lots of times, in our modern society in which our motivations are not the reason for our actions.

Does that waitress at Hooters really like you, or is she just acting that way because her job demands it ?

You have to remember that motivations are limited by knowledge.
People do what they know how to do.
If you want to feed your children and stealing is the only way you can figure to do it, you will steal. Naturally, if you could think of a better way, you would do that instead.

Education is the key to all true morality.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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The Light Speed Centrifuge thought Experiment
Posted: 4/17/2013 11:01:15 AM
Any object with mass distorts the very space it occupies, 4th dimensionally. It creates an indentation in the fabric of space, surrounding the object on all sides. Other objects fall towards it according to that indentation in space.
They aren't really attracted, they are simply following the shape of the space they occupy.

But, what is it about a centrifuge ?
It doesn't gain any more mass than what it had before it started spinning.
Is the spinning somehow distorting space ?

Is there some spacial/ dimensional thing about this we are missing out on ?
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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The Light Speed Centrifuge thought Experiment
Posted: 4/16/2013 7:56:10 AM
Imagine we have a centrifuge just like the type NASA or the Air Force uses to train astronauts and pilots for the effects of G-forces. Only this is a special centrifuge, made of special materials which can make the centrifuge spin up to the speed of light.

Inside the test capsule we have an astronaut who is wearing a special space suit which allows him to withstand any amount of g-forces no matter how strong.

There is also a camera which is focused on the astronaut and allows the outside controllers to observe what happens.

When the centrifuge approaches the speed of light, the astronaut takes out a laser pen and shines the beam across the inside of the capsule.
Is there a point where the g-forces are so strong, the light beam starts to bend in the direction of the centrifugal force ?

When the centrifuge spins at the speed of light, are the g-forces infinite ?
If so, will the astronaut disappear into a artificial black hole ?
If so, when we slow the centrifuge back down, will the astronaut re-appear out of the black hole ?
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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why was the new pope chosen?
Posted: 3/17/2013 2:02:43 AM
The true relevancy of the Catholic Church isn't in it's religion ( few people really believe that stuff ).
The matter is that the Catholic Church is so rich.
It's operating revenues are far and away larger than any other religious institution in the world. As a financial entity, it is the equal of any major corporation in the world.
And, almost all of it's financial details are unknown to anyone outside the institution. Actually, anyone outside the Vatican itself.
Being a church, it has no requirement to submit any financial records to the government.
No one really knows how rich the Catholic Church is, but it's really rich and it has it's fingers in things all over the world.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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With all the whining about men hold most CEO positions
Posted: 3/13/2013 1:51:29 AM

The life threatening hardships men go through for all of us to survive.


Exactly what are those life threatening hardships CEO's go through ?

Judging by the amount of whining they do about it, you'd think billionaires were the most victimized people in the country.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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How to stay off Facebook...
Posted: 3/13/2013 1:44:36 AM
Facebook is the " black hole " of the internet which sucks everything into it and nothing ever comes out.

I can't believe how much time girls must spend finding cute puppy and kitten pictures to post.
There are some people who can't get through the day without telling everyone how much they love God or Jesus or
their brothers and sisters or their parents or grandparents or whoever else they can think of.

No matter how important you think your political posts are, it's like bouncing a nerf ball off a brick wall.

I never put anything personal or communicate anything personal to anyone on Facebook.
I don't trust the privacy.

I amuse myself collecting all the outrageous pictures and cartoons I find and post them all on Saturday morning.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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would you turn down a relationship with someone who believes in a God?
Posted: 3/5/2013 12:44:40 AM
Atheists are not morally superior to the religious.
Atheists can be just as insufferable as any bible thumping preacher.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Possibly some answers to life's questions?
Posted: 3/4/2013 12:14:31 AM

Nipoleon, I did not know there were any Aristotelian Scholastics left after 1700.


Undoubtedly, the best thing anyone's ever said about me here.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Why are men given such a bad rap?
Posted: 3/3/2013 2:57:24 AM
I agree....it is a lazy inconsiderate man who does nothing but live off a woman, ...the woman allows it, the man does it. both guilty. why a woman allows it. low self esteem, loneliness...who knows. do I think it is right or healthy? no way.


Now let's change this sentence by one word and see how it sounds.

I agree....it is a lazy inconsiderate woman who does nothing but live off a man...the man allows it, the woman does it. both guilty. why a man allows it. low self esteem, loneliness...who knows. do I think it is right or healthy? no way.

I'm not taking any sides in this, I'm just showing the differnce in the two sides.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Possibly some answers to life's questions?
Posted: 3/3/2013 1:23:22 AM
Everything which exists in the universe exists as a part of the greater whole. Everything which exists, does so because if fulfills the particular purpose of it's existence. Nothing exists which does not fulfill the reason for it's being.
The universe is like a large machine and all the parts must work perfectly according to their purpose or the machine will break down. Any part which doesn't work as part of the greater whole of the universe will be eliminated and replaced.

We humans work this way too. We just don't realize we are doing it.
This is why there are so many seeming contradictions to our behavior. We insist upon looking at things from our own perspective rather than from the perspective of the universe. The universe demands certain things from us and we fulfill those demands.
It's not a matter of whether we like them or not, or understand them.

The first step to enlightenment is to ask " What is our true place here and how do we fit into the greater scheme of things " ?
Don't ask if something is right or wrong. Ask instead , " What was it about it that, that it needs to be " ?
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Is sex for it's own sake wrong?
Posted: 2/28/2013 1:02:03 AM
I have always wondered about guys who seem to have a lot of sex.
They make it seem they're having sex all over the place and never have any trouble finding women to have sex with.

There are some people who hate sex.
They hate all sex, any sex, and they especially hate other people having sex.
And, they don't want anybody thinking about sex either.

Usually, they preach that they know the true purpose of sex. They use sex to manipulate people for political power.
It's too bad that making people feel guilty about war and poverty isn't as useful as making people feel guilty about sex.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Why do we need religon
Posted: 2/19/2013 10:47:01 AM
It's not a matter of religion.
It's a matter of ORGANIZED religion.

Everyone needs religion, because everyone should ponder those things which are greater than themselves.
You can believe in God, or not if you choose.
Even the atheist can marvel at the greatest miracle of all, which is the simple existence of the universe itself.... however it came about.

Every human owes it to himself to decide for himself what he personally will or will not believe. It's the imposition of a belief system through coercion or force which is the problem.

Stop believing... stop believing everything anyone has tried to get you to believe.
Decide for yourself what you believe, what makes sense to you personally.
It's your obligation to yourself.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Has an argument ever changed your mind?
Posted: 2/19/2013 12:55:41 AM

Are you seriously suggesting that YOU have never gotten into an argument? Ever? In your entire life?


Of course I've gotten into arguments.
That's why I now realize how wasteful and silly it is to argue with anyone about anything.

If someone wants to believe some stupid thing, I go ahead and let them.
I'm not going to try to change their mind.
Sooner or later life will beat into them the error of their ways.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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What is Want?
Posted: 2/15/2013 2:04:35 AM
There is a difference between wanting and needing. People frequently get the two confused.

A need is a necessary thing for your life.
A want is an unnecessary thing which is merely desired.

People frequently don't put much thought into what they want. It's common for fulfilled wants to become liabilities.

Be careful about what you want.
God gives you what you need.
The Devil gives you what you want.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Has an argument ever changed your mind?
Posted: 2/15/2013 1:52:44 AM
Logical, reasonable people don't need to argue. Logical, reasonable people discuss, they don't argue.
The whole fact that an argument is happening means somebody's not using logic and reason.
Therefore, it's useless to argue with anybody at all.

Like the old joke.... Arguing with a fool is like wrestling with a pig. You get dirty and the pig rather likes it.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Has an argument ever changed your mind?
Posted: 2/14/2013 11:34:56 AM
Yes, it changed my mind about having sex with them.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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final great monotheistic religion
Posted: 2/14/2013 1:29:05 AM
Just read an article that stated since Islam was the finial great religion it was superior in every respect to Judaism and Christianity.

I don't know what article you read, but this attitude is typical of the egotistic thinking that goes with most modern religious adherents.
The whole idea that any particular religion is better or higher than any other is stupid and pure vanity.

Someday all religions are going to have to come to grips with fact of science.
They can't simply continue to chalk up everything they don't understand to a miracle of God and leave it at that.

If a Christian in Los Angeles and a Jew in Tel Aviv, and a Muslim in Medina all conduct the same chemistry experiment, they will all get the same results ! There is no Jewish chemistry, or Christian mathematics, or Muslim biology.

If you want to believe that God created the universe.... fine, there's nothing wrong with that.
Then you have to concede that the study of the universe is also the study of God and knowledge of the universe is also knowledge of God too.
What more sincere form of worship could there possibly be ?
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Confusing ideas of pornography
Posted: 2/11/2013 11:22:38 AM
Yes I agree, there are a lot of confusing ideas about porn.

If your analogy is that whatever captures the imagination, could be expressed like porn, I would also agree.

Religion is like porn, video games are like porn, sports are like porn, politics is like porn, everything which people might be fascinated with is much like porn.

Sexual pornography reduces the sexual experience to a singular mental image which is fascinating to the individual.
Religious pornography reduces the religious experience to a singular fascinating mental image.
Sports porn reduces the sports experience to a singular fascinating mental image.
And so on.... with any subject you wish.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Is Jesus the son of God
Posted: 2/11/2013 1:13:55 AM
Evangelism is absolutely the worst part about Christianity.
The whole idea that following a religion yourself isn't good enough, you have to make everybody else sign up to it too. Only Christians think it's right to kill somebody to " save their soul ", and then act like they've done them a big favor for it.
Evangelism has done more evil and created more hatred and animosity than the devil himself could have done.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Is Jesus the son of God
Posted: 2/6/2013 12:46:41 AM
If God were in fact and extraterrestrial alien astronaut, who inseminated Mary to produce a hybrid alien/human offspring.
Then it would work.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Favorite documentary?
Posted: 2/5/2013 12:23:30 AM
One of my personal favorite movies, " F... is for fake ".

One of the last movies Orson Wells ever made.
It's about Howard Hughes and Clifford Irving , Picasso, and world of fakery and art forgery.
You wont be disappointed.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Marriage, do you believe in it, why/not?
Posted: 2/3/2013 9:42:58 AM
Has it occurred to anyone, that all those people who are actually happy in their marriages or relationships, are not contributing to this thread or members of POF.

Face it folks..... the mere fact that your looking at this automatically means that your point of view is probably a bit prejudiced.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Wouldn't it be better to just not have beliefs?
Posted: 2/2/2013 2:11:42 PM
As I said earlier, a good scientist will gladly change his theories or beliefs in the face of evidence.
Only a foolish scientist will continue to cling to a theory or belief when it's been proven to be invalid.
It would do a lot of religious people good if they would stop clinging to beliefs which are obviously invalid.

There are a lot of scientists who are quite devoutly religious and see no conflict between objective knowledge and religious faith.
By studying Gods universe, we understand God.
Theoretical physicists are constantly talking about God.

Of course, a lot of organized religions have no real interest in God at all.
They are interested in economics, and political power, but God is the last thing they really want to talk about.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Wouldn't it be better to just not have beliefs?
Posted: 2/1/2013 9:34:17 PM
A belief is like a theory, or an opinion. You can have a belief about anything.
You can believe anything about anything. Believing a thing doesn't mean anything.

There is a difference between believing and knowing.
You can only believe in something which can't be known. Once a thing becomes known, it can't be believed in anymore.

I don't believe Jupiter exists, I know Jupiter exists.
I might believe there are planets beyond Pluto, but since I can't know them like Jupiter, they can only be believed in. If a planet beyond Pluto is ever proven to exist, then it can't be believed anymore as it is now known to exist.

A good scientist is willing to change his theories, opinions, or beliefs in the face of evidence.
Wise people will change their beliefs in the face of experience, evidence, and logic.
But, that doesn't mean beliefs shouldn't be held.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Philosophy and psychology: How to find the answers
Posted: 1/31/2013 12:56:56 AM
Meaningful answers are found from asking simple questions.
If the answers come to easily, you're not asking the right questions.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Good vs Bad
Posted: 1/29/2013 7:58:33 PM
Interestingly, both Aristotle and Gautama Buddha advocated the same approach to life.
That is, the proper way to live is with balance in all things. Aristotle said that life was like walking a tightrope, leaning not too far to either side or else you'll fall off. Buddha made the same distiction, only that ballance brought one in harmony with the world.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Probowl before the Superbowl
Posted: 1/27/2013 2:31:02 AM
Leroy Selmon had a career ending injury playing in the pro bowl.
They should get rid of it, or make it a game of flag football.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Staring into the bathroom mirror...
Posted: 1/27/2013 2:26:15 AM
There are a lot of people I can think of , who must be hallucinating when they look at themselves in the mirror.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Marriage, do you believe in it, why/not?
Posted: 1/27/2013 1:13:04 AM
Somebody has to say this.....
The whole western concept of marriage for love is really a perversion of the classic idea of the institution. Marriage through the ages has seldom been about love. Marriages have always been about financial and social contracts between families.

It's easy to get married, if all you want to do is get married.
I know lots of women who will gladly marry any man who would ask them.
I know lots of women who will gladly trade a lifetime of sexual favors for financial security. That seems like such a great deal. It's no wonder so many of them end in disaster.

I would gladly marry a woman who I thought was truly worthwhile.
Unfortunately, I don't know any women who are worthwhile.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Would you vote for an Atheist president?
Posted: 1/21/2013 1:39:00 AM
We've never had an avowed atheist president, you'd be surprised at how many presidents barely set foot inside a church before they were elected to the office.
All our politicians pay lip service to the predominate religion.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Re: Tai Chi
Posted: 1/17/2013 12:06:33 PM
Tai Chi could best be described as " meditation in motion ".

The whole object is to develop a calm concentration of the mind while doing the exercises, rather than meditating while sitting still.
In this way you will carry that concentration throughout all areas of life.

By going through the motions slowly, you develop balance and become aware of your body and exactly how your muscles move and flex.

Focus, awareness, and balance are in fact the most difficult things to master in any sport or martial art.
It's the lack of these things which have defeated more people than inferior talent.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Ancient Astronaut/Alien Theory...what's your take on it?
Posted: 1/16/2013 2:05:35 AM
The Earth is 4 billion years old and the Milky Way galaxy is about 14 billion years old. It's almost certain that life has arisen on other planets and certainly a lot of that life has been around billions of years longer than us.
Certainly, some of that life had to of evolved into intelligence societies like we have and also figured out space travel over the last several billion years.

We homo sapiens have only been around about 1 million years, which is a pretty small window over a 4 billion year old planet.
I think it's a pretty good bet that at least sometime in the past some alien space explorers passed by our planet but they were too early for us to meet them.

It's possible that the alien explorers could have visited us some time in the last 25,000 or so years. Perhaps they influenced human society when they did.
You have to admit.... the Adam and Eve Genesis story does sound like some kind of experiment being performed.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Adrian Peterson, running into history
Posted: 1/8/2013 4:18:46 AM
Peterson could always do it next year.

Adrian Peterson is more like Jim Brown than any running back we've seen since. Jim Brown ran standing straight up with a lot of strength. Very hard for one guy to tackle, he punished tacklers .
How many time have you seen Peterson run 20-30 yards while carrying 1 or 2 guys on his back ? Just like Jim Brown.

Too bad the Vikings don't know how to use him. They'll give the ball to Peterson and he'll run 20 yd's. Then they come back and run him again on the same play and he'll gain nothing. Peterson will have 20 rushes for 150 yds. for the book. But really, he had 10 rushes for 150 and 10 for nothing.

There are at least a dozen teams he'd be better off with.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Will atheism be Americas new way? WHen?
Posted: 1/8/2013 12:14:55 AM
It isn't that people are moving towards atheism, but rather away from traditional organized Christianity.
They havn't stopped believing, they just don't buy what the traditional churches have to sell.

Let's face it..... for anyone who has any real spiritual or philosophical questions, the Christianity we are used to has nothing to offer.
All they want to do is use Jesus as a hood ornament and ignore anything he said or did.
Christianity as we know it is first and foremost political, religion is a far distant secondary concern.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Why do woman/girls like older men??
Posted: 1/7/2013 1:16:50 AM
Because his package may be sagg'n but his pants wont be.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Historical question: The most important person in the development of western culture
Posted: 1/6/2013 8:34:50 AM
The most important person in the development of western culture ?

Aristotle.....no one else comes close.

Alexander the Great ?..... Aristotle was Alexanders teacher !

Everything we think of as western culture was elucidated originally from Aristotle and he wrote it all down.
Aristotle didn't invent western culture, but his writings and philosophic observations has dominated the western way of thinking.
Aristotle asked all the right questions, he thought the same things everyone in the western world thinks about and has thought about for all western history..

I would go so far as to say, Christianity owes more to Aristotle than even Jesus. This is because the logic of Aristotle was more obvious ( instinctive ) to the original Christian thinkers than Jesus was.

Aristotle invented the way westerners think about things.
We think about things in an Aristotelian way, as opposed to a Buddhist way or a Confucian way in the East.

What Newton is to the world of physics, Aristotle is to the western world.

There is no more important writer for anyone in the west to read than Aristotle.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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I just woke up
Posted: 12/23/2012 1:39:30 AM
Actually, the world did end.

Welcome to Hell.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Anyone ever tried a Windows XP reload ?
Posted: 12/3/2012 6:40:07 PM
The clone idea isn't going to work.
I took a look inside the computer and the Dell 2400 has no place to put a 2nd. hard drive. So that means I'll have to back up everything and reload it onto a new hard drive, replacing the old one.

Replacing the hard drive seems to be a simple operation. The drive is secured in a metal bracket which must be unscrewed from the frame. Then unplug it, plug the new one in, and screw the bracket back in.

I'm also going to replace the power supply from a 250 watt, to 400 watt.
I've read that a higher power supply will make the machine run cooler especially when upping hardware. Too much heat may be a lot of my problem to begin with.
Replacing the power supply is also a very easy thing. Simply unscrew the bracket in front of the fan, take the fan and the power supply out, unplug the old one and plug in the new one, and put it all back in.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Anyone ever tried a Windows XP reload ?
Posted: 12/2/2012 8:15:35 PM
Well it looks like I'll be getting a new hard drive.
I've been looking up the instructions for installing one and it seems a pretty easy thing to do.

I'm thinking, the best way would be to install the new one as a second drive and clone everything to the new drive.
Then take out the old drive and replace it with the new one since the old drive is defective anyway.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Anyone ever tried a Windows XP reload ?
Posted: 12/2/2012 1:19:19 AM
I'm using an old Dell 2400 with XP home and sp3.
The only hardware I've put in is a 1 gig Ram stick about a year ago, making it 1.25 gig Ram.
It has locked up before but not regularly after a specific amount of time. I've never gotten a tone from the speakers.
I've never gotten the blue screen or a system error message.

I do a defrag pretty regularly every few weeks.
I run about 4 different free scanning programs on a rotation and scan for viruses and the registry at least every day.
I use Avast, CCleaner, Slim Cleaner, and MyTurboPC. I also use Comodo Firewall.

I get that " seeking " sound occasionaly, expecialy when it reboots after doing a scan.
It simply wont come out of hibernate. It always goes to the black F2, F12 screen. I've found that F2 and F12 aren't any good. I restart and punch F8, then select 2nd option, " Disreguard ( whatever ) " , " Boot normaly " wont work.
I have done the Alt-E, Alt-F, Alt-B trick and that works for a while.
I have done a chkdisk " scannow ", but that wasn't any good.

It's amazing how much you learn about computers when stuff goes wrong.
I'm afraid I may need a new hard drive but I'd like to eleminate all the software possibilites first.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Anyone ever tried a Windows XP reload ?
Posted: 12/1/2012 10:13:14 AM
I found a technique on the internet where you can do an XP reinstall which will not erase your programs. It will replace a corrupted XP with the original and return your XP to it's beginning factory state.
However, you do have to re download all the old updates along with sp1, sp2, and sp3.

I'm wondering if anyone's ever tried this.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Anyone ever tried a Windows XP reload ?
Posted: 11/30/2012 9:49:57 PM
I've been having trouble with my computer lately.
Microsoft updates wont download. I cant get much help from any source, even the Microsoft help center.
The sound settings wont stay, I'm constantly resetting the volume.
The computer has trouble coming out of hibernate or rebooting all together. It's starting to take 3 or4 tries to get it to reboot.

I'm thinking of doing a complete reload of Windows XP from the original disk.
Has anyone ever tried doing this and can give me suggestions ?
I've gotten instructions from the internet and it seems pretty easy, but what are the risks and would that solve my problems ?
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
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Being fair vs being right ?
Posted: 11/19/2012 6:04:28 PM
Igor.... I agree.
But, I'm posting this analogy for people to think about and discuss.

The bar owner has no interest in subsidizing Suzys superior playing abilities. His interest is in promoting the business of the bar. The more people who play, the more money he will make.
If only 1 person plays he doesn't make any money.

This sort of thing happens in society all the time. There are lots of examples of the successful being purposefully discriminated against for the greater good of a group.

The National Football League is a great example.
The league practices revenue sharing among all it's members. Those teams which don't make as much money are subsidized by the more successful teams. Those teams which perform worst on the field of play are given 1st. round draft choices.
No successful team is allowed to dominate the league and everyone gets to play the game.
And, no one has any problem with this.

Society as a whole works the same way.
We have no interest in subsidizing only those most successful members. We want all the members of society to participate. The more people who participate and play the game of society, the better off everyone is.
Everyone must participate and share in the prosperity of society as a whole.

Of course, some people call this socialism.
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
Msg: 14 (view)
 
Being fair vs being right ?
Posted: 11/19/2012 1:40:11 PM
Playing the devils advocate......

Taking Suzy's point of view, she could insist that the other players " pull themselves up by their bootstraps " and learn to play the games as well as she does. After all, it's not her fault that she's better than the other players.
She could argue that the other players are jealous and resentful of her success.
She could also argue that the bartenders are " redistributing the wealth " to less deserving players.
Why shouldn't Suzy win all the money if she's good enough ?
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
Msg: 10 (view)
 
Being fair vs being right ?
Posted: 11/18/2012 10:44:13 AM

Is Suzy being informed of this?

No, the bartenders do this on their own and nobody knows it's happening.

This exact sort of scenario is played out in society all the time.
It's usually called, " leveling the playing field ".
 nipoleon
Joined: 12/27/2005
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Being fair vs being right ?
Posted: 11/17/2012 9:51:12 PM
Being fair is not always the same as being right. Sometimes, fairness must be secondary to rightness.

Consider this not too fictional analogy.

There's this bar, and the owner of the bar wants to stimulate his business. So, he purchases 3 video games for his customers to play at the bar. It costs 25 cents to play a game.
In the beginning, the customers play the machines somewhat but the amount of business the machines get is generally disappointing.

So, he gets another idea.
He decides to start a raffle. Whenever a player scores 10,000 points on a machine, that player gets a ticket with his name on it. The ticket then goes into a hopper and at the end of the week 3 tickets are drawn by the bartender for cash prizes.
The 1st ticket drawn get the owner $100. The second ticket is worth $50, and the 3rd is worth $25 with the names of the winners posted on a wall.
Now business really picks up with the video games and a lot of people play the machines trying to score 10,000 points and get a ticket for a chance to win money. The owner makes a lot more money from people playing than he does from giving away the money in the raffle.

That's when a customer named Suzy comes along.
She's really good at playing the video games, and she can score 10,000 points easily. Of course, Suzy starts getting a lot of tickets. At the end of the week, Suzy has far and away the most tickets in the hopper and she wins all three prizes, netting herself $175.

A few weeks go by and it's obvious Suzy is winning far more than anyone else.
The other customers get discouraged by Suzy winning the money all the time and they stop playing the video games.
They start to grumble that the games are rigged is Suzy's favor.
The owner of the bar is seeing his idea backfire. Suzy is becoming the only customer playing the machines and he's paying her money to do it.

This is where the bartenders step in and decide to not let Suzy win so much.
They draw the tickets and any time Suzy's name get drawn more than once, they throw it back and pick somebody else's name.
Now, the customers are satisfied that the game is fair and they start playing again.
The owner is satisfied because he's making money on his machines again.
But, it's not fair to Suzy because she's not allowed to win as much as she legitimately should.

Is it right to handicap Suzy for the greater good of the rest of the customers and the overall profitability of the bar ?
 
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