Prince Myshkin

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9591zoSkqyc]YouTube - Bright Eyes- Lime Tree[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBseqw_dThU]YouTube - Lily Allen - The Fear[/ame]

What was stickied before?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven?CMP=twt_gu Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven, it's a fairy story' A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said. In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time. Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, shares his thoughts on death, human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with the Guardian today. The incurable illness was expected to kill Hawking within a few years of its symptoms arising, an outlook that turned the young scientist to Wagner, but ultimately led him to enjoy life more, he has said, despite the cloud hanging over his future. "I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he said. "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark," he added. Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design, in which he asserts there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe. The book provoked a backlash from some religious leaders, including the chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, who accused Hawking of committing an "elementary fallacy" of logic. The 69-year-old physicist fell seriously ill after a lecture tour in the US in 2009 and was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital in an episode that sparked grave concerns for his health. He has since returned to his Cambridge department as director of research. The physicist's remarks draw a stark line between the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an omniscient creator whose hands guide the workings of the cosmos. In his bestselling 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking drew on the device so beloved of Einstein, when he described what it would mean for scientists to develop a "theory of everything" – a set of equations that described every particle and force in the entire universe. "It would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God," he wrote. The book sold a reported 9 million copies and propelled the physicist to instant stardom. His fame has led to guest roles in The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Red Dwarf. One of his greatest achievements in physics is a theory that describes how black holes emit radiation. In the interview, Hawking rejected the notion of life beyond death and emphasised the need to fulfil our potential on Earth by making good use of our lives. In answer to a question on how we should live, he said, simply: "We should seek the greatest value of our action." In answering another, he wrote of the beauty of science, such as the exquisite double helix of DNA in biology, or the fundamental equations of physics. Hawking responded to questions posed by the Guardian and a reader ahead of a lecture tomorrow at the Google Zeitgeist meeting in London, in which he will address the question: "Why are we here?" In the talk, he will argue that tiny quantum fluctuations in the very early universe became the seeds from which galaxies, stars, and ultimately human life, emerged. "Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in," he said. Hawking suggests that with modern space-based instruments, such as the European Space Agency's Planck mission, it may be possible to spot ancient fingerprints in the light left over from the earliest moments of the universe and work out how our own place in space came to be. His talk will focus on M-theory, a broad mathematical framework that encompasses string theory, which is regarded by many physicists as the best hope yet of developing a theory of everything. M-theory demands a universe with 11 dimensions, including a dimension of time and the three familiar spatial dimensions. The rest are curled up too small for us to see. Evidence in support of M-theory might also come from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva. One possibility predicted by M-theory is supersymmetry, an idea that says fundamental particles have heavy – and as yet undiscovered – twins, with curious names such as selectrons and squarks. Confirmation of supersymmetry would be a shot in the arm for M-theory and help physicists explain how each forces at work in the universe arose from one super-force at the dawn of time. Another potential discovery at the LHC, that of the elusive Higgs boson, which is thought to give mass to elementary particles, might be less welcome to Hawking, who has a long-standing bet that the long-sought entity will never be found at the laboratory. Hawking will join other speakers at the London event, including the chancellor, George Osborne, and the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

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It is mainly a fashion and lifestyle thing. I feel sorry for the bands who get caught up in it. Unless I don't like them all too much, or their fans are really precious about them like Animal Collective fans. I like Animal Collective, but it amuses me how much it hurts their die hard fans when they hear it. http://www.latfh.com/ [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I]YouTube - Being a Dickhead's Cool[/ame]

Who look down on others. Fuck them looking down on me when I'm looking down on them, for reasons that don't even have to include the fact that they are looking down at me. They don't even realise people look down on them.

Avram Grant has left West Ham.

Anyone seen the newest South Park :laugh3:?

Because they are ****s, for the most part. Also because they annoy me on nights out, enjoy playing the victim, and then later thinking they are cool because they do a little bit of ketamine even though they can't handle it. They are the equivalent of what Jarvis Cocker sang about in Common People. Fair enough they are trying to 'create their own scene' but they are failing and doing it in the most dickish way possible.

Hooray, West Ham down. Could have done with that being a draw. Nervous finish.

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html And Radiohead fans are snobs deservedly.

Whilst the term hipster is hard to establish, we all know who the hipster bands are.

The moments that really get to you. That you connect with. The moments music becomes something more than sound. For me it's: The last 35 seconds of Bjork's Unravel, after such a wonderful song. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueUT_Mccn7w]YouTube - Björk-Unravel[/ame] 2:23-2:41 of Lime Tree by Bright Eyes (and I don't like Bright Eyes generally), with the strings, backing vocals and lyrics. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9591zoSkqyc]YouTube - Bright Eyes- Lime Tree[/ame] 0:39-1:55 of Daniel Johnston's Walking The Cow for pure sound. The best part of any lo-fi song ever. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYxE17dNBY]YouTube - walking the cow[/ame] The end of The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agY6FBwHcHw]YouTube - David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World[/ame] It's important to know that they all sound amazing within the context of the song, and of course have personal emotion attached to them. Apologies if this thread has been done before. I did a search for one. Stick it on the end of that one if it's already around.

A more credible and interesting article to post on the affair: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13398281

Seen the penalty now, since I was at the game when it happened and didn't have the benefit of a replay (though I thought it was one). I was right. Was a penalty.

Well they say they have no idea if it's his. And with the other things they have said about him, like he used a woman as a human shield etc, I wouldn't believe it till there's actual evidence. It's easy to make silly claims, especially if you aren't even going to bother putting a name to the article.

Daily Mail readers.

Yeah, I'm delighted with the point. And I'm glad United didn't press for a winner. Bad results for us elsewhere though. Should be safe. Especially if West Ham beat Wigan tomorrow.

Not in my experience.

Toure

Next you'll be telling me that Ian Huntley swore once. :shrug:

I'll take the point thank you very much :) United were poor till Fergie came off the bench and pressured the ref and they magically started getting a few more decisions. Good point and they could have battered us though.

Come back with a story that a reporter will actually give their name to. Every one knows never to read those stories as though they are fact. If it was to be true he must have had it well and truly hidden if it's only been found recently.

I remember when I found out that Norah Jones was Ravi Shankah's daughter. I like her song Don't Know Why. Wasn't written by her unfortunately.

When I mentioned the mainstream I meant that they recorded their music with the mainstream in mind and made certain sacrifices or watered down what they had to say for commercial success. I'm not the kind of person who doesn't like something just because it's popular (I like two Britney songs), although there is generally a correlation between a band with a cult or genre based following but limited commercial success and their movement to a more mainstream prominence as usually being a negative one. To music fans (i.e not somebody who just bases their musical opinion on the radio and actively seeks new material whether through live venues and record stores - as people would have done in the past - or the internet nowadays) the icons aren't usually mainstream as such. It's harder for me to say as I know the American chart system has so many facets to it, whereas the UK's is pretty much just about the one chart. In this country, talking to music fans, if you were asked who the icons were in the 80's - Wham!, Spandau Ballet and Bananarama or The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen and The Cure then there's only be one answer. That's what I mean by the mainstream in this sense, and I think my nationality distorts the word for myself as I see it as a different thing. If I was to describe something as 'more mainstream' then I'd mean more produced and accessible usually, but to describe something as straight up mainstream I'd mean it was made for the chart in mind, or at least it appears that way. And of course the terms icon and mainstream aren't mutually exclusive when it comes to those who I classed as 'music fans', but those icons are few and far between in comparison.