Knowledge and belief are orthogonal to one another. You can believe and not know (religious people), you can not believe and know (everyone with respect to anthropogenic deities that they do not believe in), you can not believe and not know (this usually involves some nebulous, poorly defined concept of 'god'), etc.

As far as claiming that affirming nonexistence of a god concept is just as invalid a position as affirming its existence, let's first define that god concept. Go with "Thor" or "Set" or "El" and I'd say that you have a much stronger case for nonexistence than existence, seeing as many falsifiable claims have been made regarding these god concepts, and these claims have been falsified.

My home PC isn't beastly enough to run Skyrim (barely manages Oblivion), so I've picked it up for my Xbox 360 and will play it to death on there until my PC either dies or I get fed up with it and upgrade it sometime in 2012, at which point Skyrim for PC will be exactly what it ought to be. Even as it is right now, Skyrim on 360 is far and away the most awesome game I've played on this console in a long, long time, and possibly ever.

Lots of people aren't criminals until they make the mistake of actually using their gun. The "only criminals will have guns" angle only works if the proportion of gun fire that results in injury or homicide which happens to come from people with existing criminal records is so high as to render illegalization negligible.

If you were to have stopped short at "religious" you'd be right. Since you continued on to the more general "ideological" I don't think you're right. I have seen non-Republicans guilty of some serious anti-science because it didn't gel with their view of the world.

Mojang is claiming a trademark on the word 'scrolls' for use in computer games. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:qchtni.6.8

So, Bethesda is totally right to protect their trademark in this case.

Dang, someone's a little narrow-minded. You can be proud of being an indie game developer all you want, but until dev houses like Bethesda, Bioware, Team Ico, and the like disappear, you're going to have your work cut out for you trying to match the combination of story, immersion, "resonating with people," and visual fidelity that they are capable of on "locked-down console" _and_ PCs.

Play good console (and PC "installed") games so that you know what to aim for when you're working on your own product. Play just bad ones that you consider "shiny paper-thin and hollow" and you merely hold yourself to lower standards.

So what we should be working on is "climate stabilization"! >_>

We are talking about the idea of duplicating the effects of a volcanic eruption so as to "counter" ... warming. Not ocean acidification. Not cooling in some regions vs warming in others (climate change, indeed, is different in different parts of the globe). No. Particulates limiting the amount of sun that reaches the surface leads invariably to cooling.

Is this the type of crap we can come to expect now that CmdrTaco is gone?

No. If it makes me feel superior to IE users, the story must run.