Friends, all the very best to you.

I'm leaving these forums. I won't live under the unfair Nazi moderation here.

I've enjoyed your company very much...on both Beethoven's Club in its various incarnations, and on Beethoven's Chess Cafe.


Please stay in touch by email, I'll always be glad to hear from you.

Does that mean I can delete your threads?

If you could, you would. No, you don't have my permission to delete my threads.

I can and I will, after your provoked attacks this morning
Good Bye.

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Friends, all the very best to you.

I'm leaving these forums. I won't live under the unfair Nazi moderation here.

I've enjoyed your company very much...on both Beethoven's Club in its various incarnations, and on Beethoven's Chess Cafe.


Please stay in touch by email, I'll always be glad to hear from you.

Does that mean I can delete your threads?

If you could, you would. No, you don't have my permission to delete my threads.

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Friends, all the very best to you.

I'm leaving these forums. I won't live under the unfair Nazi moderation here.

I've enjoyed your company very much...on both Beethoven's Club in its various incarnations, and on Beethoven's Chess Cafe.


Please stay in touch by email, I'll always be glad to hear from you.

Does that mean I can delete your threads?

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Friends, all the very best to you.

I'm leaving these forums. I won't live under the unfair Nazi moderation here.

I've enjoyed your company very much...on both Beethoven's Club in its various incarnations, and on Beethoven's Chess Cafe.


Please stay in touch by email, I'll always be glad to hear from you.

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Ok then... we're taking back over. Matt now knows he was wrong and mis-informed when he posted in NC.

You've had your 24+ hours worth of flames and other fun. Back to Status Quo. The moderators are moderating again according to the rules, not only on porn and obscene language.

I will give all of you a further 12 hours to acclamatize from your hot headedness. That'll give me time to take a nap and the forums to calm down again. Boincmods email is no longer available for personal complaints. As the "more information" link says, you can now take it to setimods@ssl.berkeley.edu.

That will be for all your complaints about moderators, if you feel bad about getting your post deleted or if you just want to have a chat with us off the forums. Any flames we can douse off on there won't show on the forums. So use it.

I think the Zero RAC Policy addition is still working on here. That will mean that all of you who haven't run a Seti result in ages will all of a sudden find you can't post here. As your RAC is lower than 1.

Posting on here is a privilige. No crunch? No post. Only crunched in the past but no longer? No post. You can post in Q&A, but no longer on the main forums.

So continue for now as you have been again for the past day and a bit. It's over with that behaviour in a couple of hours. :-)

(Oh, mass minussers, the rating system is about to be disabled again, so get your negative votes in before it's dead yet again. ;-))

OOOH! A COUP D'ETAT! Ageless and Captain Avatar and The Favored Front Ear have blackmailed Seti into bringing these Nazi Bastards back!



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!



Let's hear it for our brave and honest Moderators!!!

SIEG HEIL!!!

SIEG HEIL!!!

SIEG HEIL!!!

For the record this is the true nature of Beethoven.

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Arm Band:



Windshield Banner:



Vest patch:

Now that's what I call "The Right Stuff"! Cheers to all of you Patriot Guard and thanks for sharing these pics.

Just curious...why is it not 13 stars?

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Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data!
I did NOT authorize this belly writing!

In Lesser Known News today, famed physicist Stephen Hawking is urging colonies on the moon. This isn't a new idea of course, but for the first time, someone of Hawking's scientific stature is actively lobbying for it.

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Hawking sees future on moon
Physicist predicts new home for human race in 20-40 years
by Sylvia Hui


HONG KONG — The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there’s an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, says world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.

Humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years, the British scientist said.

"We won’t find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system", added Hawking, who arrived in Hong Kong to a rock star’s welcome on Monday. Tickets for his lecture yesterday were sold out.

Hawking said that if humans could avoid killing themselves in the next 100 years, they should have space settlements that could continue without support from Earth.

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species"’ Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the everincreasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

The 64-year-old scientist and author of the global best-seller A Brief History of Time uses a wheelchair and communicates via a computer because he suffers from a neurological disorder called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

One of the best-known theoretical physicists of his generation, Hawking has done groundbreaking research on black holes and the origins of the universe, proposing that space and time have no beginning and no end.

Professor Hawking is one of the best-known scientists in the world, and he has even had cameo roles in Star Trek and The Simpsons. Publishers are expected to be excited at the prospect of a children's book on cosmology which even adults should be able to understand.

A Brief History of Time has sold more than 10 million copies since it was first published in 1988, but its difficult subject matter on the origins of time and the universe has earned it a reputation for being the least-read bestseller in history.

Professor Hawking suffers from motor neurone disease, a debilitating condition that has left him almost totally paralysed, but it has not stopped him from making fundamental contributions to cosmology and theoretical physics.

He is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, an academic chair held by Sir Isaac Newton in 1663. His specialist interest is in the physics of black holes, and his academic achievements are even more incredible given his disability which forces him to communicate through a computerised voice synthesiser.

"I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life. Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work," he once said.

He has three children and one grandchild

Professor Hawking has 12 honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He conducts extensive research into theoretical physics as well as holding frequent public lectures.

However, Alan Guth, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Hawking’s latest observations were something of a departure from his usual research and more applicable to survival over the long term.

"It is a new area for him to look at," Guth said. "If he’s talking about the next 100 years and beyond, it does make sense to think about space as the ultimate lifeboat."

But, he added: "I don’t see the likely possibility within the next 50 years of science technology making it easier to survive on Mars and on the moon than it would be to survive on earth.

"I would still think that an underground base, for example in Antarctica, would be easier to build than building on the moon."

Joshua Winn, an astrophysicist at MIT, agreed. "The prospect of colonising other planets is very far off", he said.

Hawking’s work "has been highly theoretical physics, not in astrophysics or global politics or anything like that", Winn added. "He is certainly stepping outside his research domain."

Hawking’s comments were reminiscent of the work of American astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who was a believer in the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Sagan, a Cornell University professor and Nasa-decorated scientist who died in 1996, noted that organic molecules, the kind that life on Earth is dependent on, appear to be almost everywhere in the solar system.

Sagan played a leading role in the US space programme, helping design robotic missions and contributing to the Mariner, Viking, Voyager and Galileo expeditions.

But his work also focused on the search for habitable worlds and intelligent life beyond the solar system, and speculated on life’s origins, ideas popularised in his best-selling 1985 novel, "Contact".


(from the inside pages of today's The New Zealand Herald)

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But you do have a detailed map of the route? And you can study it ahead of time?

Of course :)

PROMISE! PROMISE! PROMISE! LOL

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But you do have a detailed map of the route? And you can study it ahead of time?

Of course :)

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But you're going to study the route carefully and maybe talk to some friends about the danger points before you go, right? Promise?

Which reminds me (just by way of word association) Have you ever heard the Surfaris do the instrumental "Wipeout"?

OH of course, I have scheduled a group ride that has experienced ride captains with us.

I have never heard the Surfaris....

But you do have a detailed map of the route? And you can study it ahead of time?

The Surfaris/Safaris (sp?) were a One Hit Wonder. "Wipeout" is a fun song though. Maybe you can download an .mp3 of it somewhere.

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But you're going to study the route carefully and maybe talk to some friends about the danger points before you go, right? Promise?

Which reminds me (just by way of word association) Have you ever heard the Surfaris do the instrumental "Wipeout"?

OH of course, I have scheduled a group ride that has experienced ride captains with us.

I have never heard the Surfaris....

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Yikes! Yes, Mike: please bone up on the route carefully. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to either you or that gorgeous new GoldWing. ;)

Don't worry, my wife will be on the back riding with me, and I don't fool around when my baby is 2 up with me :)

But you're going to study the route carefully and maybe talk to some friends about the danger points before you go, right? Promise?

Which reminds me (just by way of word association) Have you ever heard the Surfaris do the instrumental "Wipeout"?

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Airbus sure took a beating today...ick.

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Good morning, David and Mike...and everyone else.

And welcome to Beethoven's!

It's a patriotic day in the United States: Flag Day isn't it?

Three Cheers for America, land of the Free and home of the Brave!

Here's a pic to celebrate the day.

If anyone has a favorite American patriotic pic please feel free to post it here. (I'd appreciate it though, if you could resize it to be less than 600 pixels wide, so as not to stretch the window.)


When I was growing up this nation was indivisible without the imposition of god in the pledge. Frankly, things haven't gotten much better since then.

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THE MOTHER OF FOOLS IS ALWAYS PREGNANT

I'M TROLLING FOR FOOLS. THIS MUST BE THE PLACE!

Yikes! Yes, Mike: please bone up on the route carefully. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to either you or that gorgeous new GoldWing. ;)

Don't worry, my wife will be on the back riding with me, and I don't fool around when my baby is 2 up with me :)

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OOPS! Duplicate post.

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Speaking of rides, I am heading down to Asheville, NC Tuesday morning on my new GoldWing..gonna break her in right :)
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Headed down to the Honda Hoot and also to the Intruder Alert Rally.

Gonna be fun fun fun!

Plus it will be my first "Ride the Dragon" which is a stretch of road 11 miles long and 300+ turns....or something like that, I probably should look it up so I don't pass bad scoop.

Yikes! Yes, Mike: please bone up on the route, carefully. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to either you or that gorgeous new GoldWing.

It could happen to anyone; think of Ziggy...and be careful, Puhlease!

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Ahh, it is called the "Tail of the Dragon" which is the Holy Grail of roads for us Bikers:

Dragon

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Speaking of rides, I am heading down to Asheville, NC Tuesday morning on my new GoldWing..gonna break her in right :)
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Headed down to the Honda Hoot and also to the Intruder Alert Rally.

Gonna be fun fun fun!

Plus it will be my first "Ride the Dragon" which is a stretch of road 11 miles long and 300+ turns....or something like that, I probably should look it up so I don't pass bad scoop.

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