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For anyone who knows vb, basic4android is very friendly to use

Rock climbing is dangerous. I don't get why people do life threateningly risky stuff that has no potential reward beyond fun.

You are correct. -70 is the cumulative total, so far, will rise if anyone is still reading this thread

What getting -4 really means is that if the 'community' of this webtopia could downvote you more they would

'The Elements of Computing systems' by Nisan & Schocken To truly understand the machine and the software layers on top of it

baa baa edit -4 looks to be the limit to downvoting

I think that there's a herd mentality here w.r.t voting. Thankfully the system doesn't let the mob downvote too far

Yes 2, 3, 5 or 7 only for easy steps. Anyone who has 6 easy steps to do anything is clearly an idot.

Curiosity apart what good could it do us to discover or be discovered by aliens?

Banking seems a lot like a gambling except that it's heads you win and tails they lose. Lend big into a property bubble and you'll be rewarded with colossal bonuses. The bubble bur…

Which came first, the Uncle Sam image or this one? http://www.sterlingtimes.org/kitchener.jpg

I wonder if BG paid Marla Woods' expenses for the reunion photo.

If chinese, Indians and Koreans do well is it only because white people haven't enough resources to keep them down too?

Was his name Peter Pan?

Whether or not taking one's own life is brave, having read his suicide note I think he lived a very brave life.

Maybe you are correct. But the trend is in the wrong direction. When look at world population growth there is imo potentially a population tsunami approaching. Maybe my pessimism i…

"Stating the facts makes it all seem far less dramatic, doesn't it?" I don't believe that I have stated any fictions if that's what your last remark implies. I had a look at the wi…

I wasn't trolling. The netherlands has increased its area by an extraordinary 25% by reclaiming land from the sea. Despite this the netherlands is one of the most densely populated…

Can I ask you to explain what you mean?

What you say sounds right. I wonder what, if Heroin was as freely available as alcohol or tobacco, its addiction rate would be like. It's my suspicion that drug addicts tend to com…

The Dutch reclaimed a large proportion of their national territory from the sea, presumably because they needed more space and then proceeded to allow large scale immigration from …

I haven't tried crack or heroin either but I wonder if they're more addictive than alcohol or tobacco or anything else that gives instant gratification. I tend to lean toward the a…

I'm no advocate of piracy but having twice been effectively ripped off by DRM I can see where you're coming from

Amazon already has the infrastructure in place to allow people to sell physical books secondhand And now you can lend a kindle book and it becomes unavailable to you for the durati…

Can't disagree with you there.