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Henderson Condemns Suppression of the Pastafarian Debate in America February 8, 2007 Bobby Henderson of Oregon sharply criticized efforts in America to prevent students and the public from learning about the debate over the Pastafarian theory of creation. Bobby Henderson of Oregon said...

Jesus, can you stay out of discussions of politics and stay within religious threads? Haven't you heard of something called "separation of the church and the state?" It's in our constitution. It's annoying enough to read your posts in religious threads...

I have no idea what you're talking about. EW theory claims to be able to predict. Truncated Levy flight is not a prediction. It's a statistical distribution. That the price movements obey certain statistical distribution is an observation. The difference between the two is like the difference...

You're right. I remember now. The first work was done by Mandelbrot in 1963 using cotton prices. Here is a webpage describing his work: http://steveedney.wordpress.com/2006/09/26/misbehavior-of-markets-mandelbrot/

There had been many tests. The earliest research was either 1950's or 60's using some obscure agricultural market data. The most authoritative study was done in 1996 and used foreign exchange data over several years, analysing every tick. Here is the article...

It is understood by scientists now that price movements follow a statistical distribution called "truncated Levy flight." See for example this article, http://ideas.repec.org/p/sfi/sfiwpa/9705087.html Truncated Levy flight is a special kind of random walk, with variable step lengths. This is...

We need Lt. Columbo here...

This coming from an American, (I assume that you're an American), is very refreshing. Ever heard of the joke about a swimmer and a math prof on a boat? That's kind of things prevailent in this culture and that's really depressing.

That will never happen, because, as designed, 100 is defined to be "average IQ." Therefore, 50% of the population will always have IQ below 100...

I don't know if you can get any hard numbers. From my school years, I never liked the rich kids. They were just spoiled and arrogant. Although it's true that majority of the poor families would never hope to produce the kind of "intellectuals" you describe, the best and brightest in my school...

http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/060523.shtml "Dr John Pannell, who co-authored the paper with his Oxford doctoral student Dr Richard Buggs, said: ‘It is clear that climate change and human interference can set plant populations on the move, with rapid extinction being one possible consequence...

Fill the society with the likes of Unabomber...

Your words are comforting. But they're not true. Even geniuses cannot make a communist system work.

Just stress. I have the same college/high school dream all the time. I never leave things unfinished. A particular one is I find out that I haven't been to my English class all semester (don't know why it's English) and it's the day of the final. But I don't know when and where the final is...

Microsoft: Thank you for calling Microsoft Replacement Services how may I help you. May I have your name sir. Caller: No, definitely not! Don't you have one yourself?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/07/prehistoric.love.ap/index.html All I can say is, let them rest in peace and don't separate them for the sake of "research."

Here's one for a real genius: How many different ways can you fill a square using these pieces? Here's the answer but don't cheat: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040515/bob9.asp

No I don't. She's never had a change of heart. She's not running on Iraq either.

From wiki: "Nowak is married to Richard T. Nowak, a space communications contractor and a classmate of Nowak's both at the Naval Academy and Navy flight school.[2][3] They separated in January 2007[4] and have three children, a teenaged son born in 1992 and twin daughters born in 2001.[5] Her...

You're confusing science with politics. Global warming, and human factor in global warming, is scientifically established fact. Whether you want to do something about it, is an entirely different matter. It's much more than "loose correlation" or "pretty graphs." There is a big body of...