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Re: FONTS FONTS FONTS Anyone got Akzidenz Grotesk? its a pretty popular typeface muchos gracias

cheers man. do you know where i can find a serial for the pro version? or am i pushing my luck

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Hola Senores, i need a little advice in how to rip dvd's. ive got an intel iMac and mactheripper and mediafork both gave me shit quality rips. hard drive space isnt an issue. is the only way to get a high quality rip by ripping to a more raw format then encoding all the audio and video shit gets complicated. any help would muchly appreciated. cheers

I just read The God Delusion his latest book. He does back himself up pretty well in my opinion. extreme...probably. but he does admit that if someone could downright prove that god exists etc he would be persuaded. a good point he makes is that the difference between science and religious trains of thought is that the scientific method is always open to new ideas, amendments etc. he opens the book with a douglas adams quote which pretty much sums up my views :"isnt it enought to see that a forest is beautiful without having to beleive there are fairies at the bottom of it also". or something

So anyway, I ended up forking out for a 24inch iMac, dual core, wireless everything, etc. and i am loving life. Cheers for all the feedback.

yeah i realised that, i was mainly using the quote to try and disprove Mensa's non-belief of human induced climate change. true that the question is exactly how much, and in terms of bias, its getting harder and harder to find a credible and reliable source which reveals what will happen and why, without the politics/money making etc. if anyone knows of a site which possesses these credentials feel free to let everyone know..

True, some 'geoengineering' ideas could produce favourable results and do deserve some R&D merit. But it seems like another example of the human ego shining away at its most brilliant. It seems these huge engineering ideas would perhaps benefit only one species, us. Until we acknowledge that the world doesn't revolve around humans and our 'marvelous' capabilities, and disgregard the notion that anyone with an environmental conscience is a 'greeny' or worse, a 'hippy', then we have a long way to go. The shift we must take is equally as big psychologically as it is behaviourally in my opinion.

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Firstly, Mensa, you're 95% wrong. The IPCC (http://www.ipcc.ch/) said this a few weeks ago: The Working Group I report was published on February 2, 2007. Its key conclusions were that: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations Hotter temperatures and rises in sea level "would continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution, although the likely amount of temperature and sea level rise varies greatly depending on the fossil intensity of human activity during the next century (pages 13 and 18) The probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes alone is less than 5% source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC Secondly, this is kinda funny: THE US wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming. It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be "important insurance" against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a UN report on climate change, the first part of which is due out on Friday). ... The US response says the idea of interfering with sunlight should be included in the summary for policymakers, the prominent chapter at the front of each panel report. It says: "Modifying solar radiance may be an important strategy if mitigation of emissions fails. Doing the R&D to estimate the consequences of applying such a strategy is important insurance that should be taken out. This is a very important possibility that should be considered." ... The US submission complains...that overall "the report tends to overstate or focus on the negative effects of climate change". Click For Full Article (2 pages)