Things That Should Be Common Knowledge By Now

[Sociobiology]

Religious texts are fictional. Its like people believing Harry Potter 2,000 years from now.

The theological side, many contain historical elements.

just like Harry Potter

[Xsyne]

Religious texts are fictional. Its like people believing Harry Potter 2,000 years from now.

They're not fictional. They're false. The two are not synonymous.

[Xsyne]

I've run modern games on a laptop graphics card that was about ten years obsolete. How terrible of a graphics card do you have?

Its not a graphics card issue so much as a performance issue. I have a 5 year-old Dell Mini. The damn thing doesn't even have a factory cooling fan (I have a USB-powered exterior one, but even then, sometimes it doesn't do its job). It overheats, and gets laggy. I mean, laggy as shit. When its acting up, I've been known to type an entire paragraph, wait 5 seconds, and then the paragraph appears.

If it's a performance issue than any computer capable of reliably handling flash games should be able to reliably handle all but the most recent games. Flash is infamously a bloated, memory-devouring pile of garbage.

[Luveria]

A. Many games are only available for PCs.
B. You could afford a gaming rig if you weren't spending your money on a console.
C. Buy the cables. Problem solved.

A. I'm aware. However, there's not a PC version of Super Smash Bros. Melee.
B. But then I couldn't play the console games I want to play.
C. I don't even think there's a place on my system to connect the plug.

A. Then how do I play Super Smash Bros. Melee on my PC with a 360 controller, huh? Emulators, bruh.
B. See above.
C. It connects to the back of your graphics card.

[Sociobiology]

And now we have transmittable/contagious cancer in Tasmanian devils

And humans, vis HPV.

oh I don't mean the cause is contagious I mean the cancer itself is contagious, ALL facial cancer in ALL Tasmanian devils is genetically identical and came from a single source cell.
Imagine finding out all thyroid cancer is actually cells from Bob the first guy diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and it just happened to evolve to infect other people.

[Ivory Record]

And humans, vis HPV.

oh I don't mean the cause is contagious I mean the cancer itself is contagious, ALL facial cancer in ALL Tasmanian devils is genetically identical and came from a single source cell.
Imagine finding out all thyroid cancer is actually cells from Bob the first guy diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and it just happened to evolve to infect other people.

Oh, really?

Hmm. That is rather radical.

[Xsyne]

And humans, vis HPV.

oh I don't mean the cause is contagious I mean the cancer itself is contagious, ALL facial cancer in ALL Tasmanian devils is genetically identical and came from a single source cell.
Imagine finding out all thyroid cancer is actually cells from Bob the first guy diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and it just happened to evolve to infect other people.

Thankfully, HeLa is content with just being basically unkillable.

[Grenartia]

Its not a graphics card issue so much as a performance issue. I have a 5 year-old Dell Mini. The damn thing doesn't even have a factory cooling fan (I have a USB-powered exterior one, but even then, sometimes it doesn't do its job). It overheats, and gets laggy. I mean, laggy as shit. When its acting up, I've been known to type an entire paragraph, wait 5 seconds, and then the paragraph appears.

If it's a performance issue than any computer capable of reliably handling flash games should be able to reliably handle all but the most recent games. Flash is infamously a bloated, memory-devouring pile of garbage.

Except, it also epically lags whenever I play Kerbal Space Program.

A. I'm aware. However, there's not a PC version of Super Smash Bros. Melee.
B. But then I couldn't play the console games I want to play.
C. I don't even think there's a place on my system to connect the plug.

A. Then how do I play Super Smash Bros. Melee on my PC with a 360 controller, huh? Emulators, bruh.
B. See above.
C. It connects to the back of your graphics card.

A. I don't want to take the risk of getting caught pirating shit.
B. See above.
C. I don't even know where the hell that is.

[Sociobiology]

oh I don't mean the cause is contagious I mean the cancer itself is contagious, ALL facial cancer in ALL Tasmanian devils is genetically identical and came from a single source cell.
Imagine finding out all thyroid cancer is actually cells from Bob the first guy diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and it just happened to evolve to infect other people.

Oh, really?

Hmm. That is rather radical.

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_murchison.html

[Cameroi]

that truth is not directly proportional to the number of people who believe it.

[Arkinesia]

“Life expectancy” in most Western countries is still jimmied around with as a consequence of infant mortality, and we still haven't really done much to actually extend life.

[Death Metal]

that truth is not directly proportional to the number of people who believe it.

Nor is it in any way inversely proportional.

[Death Metal]

A. I don't want to take the risk of getting caught pirating shit.

Emulators are perfectly legal, actually. ROMs are considered legal if you've ever owned a copy of the game in question and never plan on selling the ROM for personal profit.

EDIT- Oh, and you're technically allowed to download a ROM of a game you've never owned before as long as you pinkie swear to delete it within 24 hours.

[Grenartia]

A. I don't want to take the risk of getting caught pirating shit.

Emulators are perfectly legal, actually. ROMs are considered legal if you've ever owned a copy of the game in question and never plan on selling the ROM for personal profit.

EDIT- Oh, and you're technically allowed to download a ROM of a game you've never owned before as long as you pinkie swear to delete it within 24 hours.

How legally binding is a pinky swear? Especially when there's nobody else to pinkie swear with?

[Breadknife]

EDIT- Oh, and you're technically allowed to download a ROM of a game you've never owned before as long as you pinkie swear to delete it within 24 hours.

How legally binding is a pinky swear? Especially when there's nobody else to pinkie swear with?

Somewhat as legally binding as "calling shotgun". i.e. much more effective if you actually have a firearm.

[Rhodmhire]

Globalized capitalism coupled with modest yet effective regulatory oversight is for all intents and purposes an absolute good which should be desired by all nations of the world who wish to thrive in the 21st century and beyond considering how a great amount of current and future prosperity, human advancements, and peaceful geopolitical relations have resulted from it.

Only currently unfathomable post-capitalistic alternatives which do not exist at this point in time could possibly prove more beneficial.

Also always go for the extrema with bathroom stalls instead of defaulting to an open one next to or in between other users when possible.

Seriously why is it not a law.

[Meryuma]

If alternative medicine worked, it would be used as standard medicine. The reason it is alternative is because it has not been shown to work.

Religious texts are fictional. Its like people believing Harry Potter 2,000 years from now.

Ugh, why are New Atheist types so clumsy with their invective?

If you want to show how rational and skeptical you are, it helps to not spout sweeping generalizations every 5 threads.

[Ivory Record]

If alternative medicine worked, it would be used as standard medicine. The reason it is alternative is because it has not been shown to work.

Religious texts are fictional. Its like people believing Harry Potter 2,000 years from now.

Ugh, why are New Atheist types so clumsy with their invective?

If you want to show how rational and skeptical you are, it helps to not spout sweeping generalizations every 5 threads.

Every five threads seems a generously low frequency.

[Rhodmhire]

If alternative medicine worked, it would be used as standard medicine. The reason it is alternative is because it has not been shown to work.

Religious texts are fictional. Its like people believing Harry Potter 2,000 years from now.

Ugh, why are New Atheist types so clumsy with their invective?

If you want to show how rational and skeptical you are, it helps to not spout sweeping generalizations every 5 threads.

It's like you don't know you're on NSG or something.

[Regnum Dominae]

Evolution is a thing.

Homeopathy is bullshit.

Climate change is real.

Windows is superior.

[Divair]

Windows is superior.

To add to this:
Windows 8 is good. Quit crying about it and try it for longer than five seconds.

[Conscentia]

Windows is superior.

Ubuntu is best. It is not possible to be superior to best.

[Regnum Dominae]

Windows is superior.

To add to this:
Windows 8 is good. Quit crying about it and try it for longer than five seconds.

IMO the Start Screen and lack of Start Menu sucks, but that was easily rectified by a $5 purchase.

[Breadknife]

IMO the Start Screen and lack of Start Menu sucks, but that was easily rectified by a $5 purchase.

This makes me boggle, more than anything else... Someone else is selling a Start Button for Windows. And even when MS releases 8.1 with a promise (well, as I've heard it told) to get the Start Button back, they still don't give it you (what looks like it is just a screen-shortcut to change to Metro, and the equivalent to the Start Menu is somewhere else entirely).

(Oh, I know what MS was thinking... "We want to make a common interface. Well, we can't squish Windows as we know it onto phone-sized machines (shame about CE), so let's unsquish a phone-type OS onto full desktops, etc, instead..." Well, some of us don't even want a smartphone-like interface, and don't even use a smartphone... Luckily I've still got a few unused XP licences that I can get installed on machines, and can arrange for some (legit) Win7s on any machine where it seems worthwhile to go further up the chain (not that there's many additional features that I look out for). And if that all fails, I'm already a fan of Fedora and WINE's pretty good at what it does...)

[Revolutionarily]

Pot is not bad for you should be added to this list