Everywhere I look there is fail.

[johnrobey]

Yeah, heh, remember when competition was allegedly a good thing for the consumer?

I shudder to think what our world would be like if there had been a patent system back when fire and simple machines were discovered. Or if businesses were obsessed with exclusive tech designs when electricity first became popular. We'd be needing universal voltage and outlet adapters even in our home country.

God...

Hi, Tim!  Isn't that how it worked back then?  Example: I'm Oog!  I just invented Fire!  Now worship me!!   ;)

[Taceus Jiwede]

Seriously, I do like reading about Quantum Mechanics physics, even when it gets strange and bizarre.

That's the best kind :)

[TimtheEnchanter]

Hi, Tim!  Isn't that how it worked back then?  Example: I'm Oog!  I just invented Fire!  Now worship me!!   ;)

LOL!!

Well thankfully we had folks like Prometheus, I guess.

But consider that people who used technology to raise themselves up as gods, didn't get to enjoy that godhood for very long. Someone would catch on, figure out how to do it themselves (assuming the 'god' didn't get killed/overthrown first) and then everyone knew how to do it.

The patent system prevents such 'robin-hooding,' and ensures that the gods retain their godhood.  :P

Thanks!  That made for nifty reading!   :D  Seriously, I do like reading about Quantum Mechanics physics, even when it gets strange and bizarre.

I'm sure we all know the basic double-slit experiment. But check out this little bugger. Schrodinger's jaw would hit the floor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser  8)

[johnrobey]

LOL!!

Well thankfully we had folks like Prometheus, I guess.

But consider that people who used technology to raise themselves up as gods, didn't get to enjoy that godhood for very long. Someone would catch on, figure out how to do it themselves (assuming the 'god' didn't get killed/overthrown first) and then everyone knew how to do it.

The patent system prevents such 'robin-hooding,' and ensures that the gods retain their godhood.  :P 

Well, um, yeah.  Happily for good or ill, it would seem that such "deities" as elect human incarnation (e.g. the Pharaohs, the Caesars) or even those who rule based on the doctrine of the Divine Right of Money Monarchy and/or the Mandate of Heaven; nonetheless, all of these, just like the rest of us non-deified ones, have to shuffle off this mortal coil after a fairly normal human lifespan, despite all the perks of "first class."  As for the Robin-Hooding, well of course Prometheus has to suffer!  He (and those like him) are upsetting the social order (and Zeus), which was no doubt just as socially upsetting an event as when J.C. threw those money changers out of a certain temple in Jerusalem.  (Somehow, I feel certain there are other examples as well.)  As you are aware, there just ain't no status quo like the status quo we know.   ;)

That's the best kind :)

Re: Quantum physics being weird, good, and very strange all at the same time.  Oops, I am misquoting myself, I mean "strange and bizarre."  :D  And I provisionally agree with you, Taceus Jiwede.

I'm sure we all know the basic double-slit experiment. But check out this little bugger. Schrodinger's jaw would hit the floor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser  8)

Thanks for that URL to the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser.   Yeah, I bet even Schroedinger would find that pretty darn amazing!  My own reaction upon reading just the wikipedia article is a mixture of (quote):  "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.  There is another theory which states that this has already happened."― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.   To which I would add "has already happened SEVERAL times!"  And the other half of what I feel upon reading that wiki article is best summarized by quoting the immortal words of Monty Python's (and John Cleese's) Professor Gumby, "My brain hurts!"

That was some really good and weird Quantum physics!!  Thanks, Tim!   :)

[Tenzhi]

Hmmmmm.

It's something I've noticed in the last couple of years with various cereals made with corn.  Some of them have increased their fiber content but can have the aforementioned side effect.

Of course, if he's speaking of one of the varieties that use blue food colouring, the mentioned side effect might be expected anyway.

[Lant]

If this is the same Joshex from my old server...my only warning to you all....Nuke it from Orbit...its the only way to be sure...

[Joshex]

If this is the same Joshex from my old server...my only warning to you all....Nuke it from Orbit...its the only way to be sure...

lol, give us a description of the joshex from your server.

btw if it's any consolation I've already left orbit lol, I'm out there alright.