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Lafy BAR

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  1. USA (77) England (41) Norway (36) Sweden (47) Germany (36)
  2. USA (78) England (41) Norway (37) Sweden (45) Germany (36)
  3. USA (79) England (40) Norway (37) Sweden (47) Germany (34)
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  5. Please check the communications setting. Open the sound control panel (right click on the speaker icon and choose recording devices, playback devices, or sounds, they all go to the same control panel) Click the Communications tab. If it isn't set to "Do nothing" change the setting to that and let us know if it helps.
  6. It's called lucid dreaming
  7. I was having a hard time figuring out what I was looking at, so I've fixed it to help others out
  8. I can name yours too. I have plenty of books here. One second.... And the result is... "Happened"
  9. I picked a random book, and a random page, and a random word. It's decided, you should name your kid.... "Openly"
  10. That guy is pretty clearly trying to sell books to theists who want science to agree with their mumbo jumbo. He uses scientific sounding words without explaining his meaning hoping that you will fill in the missing bits for him. For example his claim that consciousness is quantum information that can leak out of the body and seep back in. What does he mean by quantum information? Even if that did mean something concrete, information always lives in a medium. You can copy a book, an mp3, whatever, but you always copy from a physical medium to a physical medium. There is nothing in physics that suggests that information can float around elsewhere. He tries to argue that the information is transferred into a parallel universe, but even there he would still need a medium. He's claiming the "quantum information" from your brain seeps across the divide between universes and lands somewhere on the other side, but that would require a suitable receptacle for the information. If any of this were to make any sense at all the receptacle would have to be the exact same structure as your brain. If you wanted to save all the "information" in a book by taking the letters off the pages and putting them away for safe keeping a bag wouldn't be a useful place to keep them. Information couldn't survive the trip into the bag and back. So if the structure in the parallel universe has to be identical to your brain, then either what he's suggesting is impossible, or he's going to have to rely on something like the anthropic principle that he was arguing against. Either no structure exists in any parallel universe to store the information, or he has to count on the vastness of the multiverse to provide so many things that the incredibly improbability of another of your brain existing is outweighed by the number of universes. I don't see how what he's saying is any different from saying that consciousness can enter and leave the body thanks to magic. Using scientific words out of context for an audience of people who don't really know those fields is just trickery. The two slit experiment he referred to says something very specific about particle physics but it says nothing of consciousness, regardless of what he claims. Observation in this context has nothing to do with an observer. One more thing, for anyone who thinks the fine tuned universe argument makes any sense. It is often argued that the values of the physical constants are highly improbable. The Eiffel Tower is 1063ft tall. What is the probability that it have been that tall? How do you calculate it? Probabilities require that something be able to happen multiple times and that you know the range of possible outcomes. When there's only one of something to consider, you can't say anything at all about probabilities. The multiverse may very well exist, but presently we have no evidence of it. We can't go look at other universes and figure out what the range of possible gravitational constants are. It may be true that if gravity was 2% weaker stars wouldn't form, but how can anyone know if it's possible for gravity to be 2% weaker? In string theory you can do math using a different gravitational constant, but so what? An equation like distance/speed = time will take any numbers you want, if you plug in 5,000 miles per hour as your speed it will give you an answer, but it doesn't mean that the probability of a bicycle travelling 5,000 miles an hour is anything but zero. Without a number of bicycles and cyclists to analyze and gather data about bicycle speeds you can't say much about the probability of a particular cyclist on a particular bike riding any speed. Without data from other universes to compare ours to we can't say anything about the probability of the physical constants being anything at all.
  11. That image looks like a failing graphics card. You could use speedfan or GPU-Z to check what temp your video card is running. The problem may only show up when the card gets hot. If that's the case, you can check the fan and heatsink to see that they aren't clogged with dust or you can lower the clock speed of the video card to try to reduce the temp. Otherwise it looks like you'll be needing a new video card soon.
  12. Umm Wells.... none of those things is a motherboard.
  13. Can you please let us know the exact model of your motherboard? Do you know if it's still under warranty? How many hard drives, ssd's, or dvd drives do you have? Depending on your motherboard it may be possible to connect your drives to different ports and disable the Marvell 88SE91xx causing the issue.
  14. It appears as though your network problems ended before you ran the tracert's. These are not showing the lag previously indicated by your pinging. Can you try to catch it again?
  15. Make sure to protect your hose.
  16. Japan (16) USA (45) Mexico (18) Canada (11) England (33) Norway (42) Sweden (47) Finland (8) Germany (20)
  17. Rather than pinging google can you please do a tracert to the pub and to google? start by running these when things are working properly and post the results tracert 208.167.243.207 tracert www.google.com then next time you are experiencing the the lag run them again so that we can compare the results.
  18. From the same F8 menu that got you into safe mode there should be a "Repair your computer" option. If it's not there power off and back on pressing F8 again, it should show up. Once you've selected that option windows will boot into a repair mode that has a "Startup Repair" option. select that, go through the steps. Report back the results.
  19. Japan (20) USA (30) Mexico (19) Canada (20) Russia (2) England (24) Norway (31) North Korea (17) Sweden (30) Finland (19) Germany (22) China (6)
  20. You can try booting into safe mode. If it lets you boot then you can try a system restore to the last recovery point. To get into safe mode turn on the computer and press F8 repeatedly quickly. It should take you to a menu where you can choose safe mode. There are several safe mode options, the plain safe mode option is fine. Select it with the arrow keys and press enter You should see a bunch of text scroll across the screen and be booted into safe mode. If you don't make it that far then report back with details. Once you're in safe mode find System Restore in your start menu. It should be in all programs, accessories, system tools. Go through the wizard, and select the most recent restore point. If the restore point is months old and you've installed programs since then, it might not be a great idea to run it. So if there's no recent restore point, please report back. Once you've made it through the system restore wizard there's a reasonable chance the startup error will be corrected. If not then let me know and we'll see about some other instructions, likely requiring an install disc.
  21. Japan (20) USA (30) Mexico (19) Canada (20) Russia (3) England (24) Norway (28) North Korea (17) Sweden (29) Finland (19) Germany (22) China (9)
  22. The HD setting for Netflix is 3GB/hr, which works out to 6.83mbps down. It's no wonder that would max out your internet connection. You really only have two options for fixing the problem. Don't watch HD Netflix or get more bandwidth.
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