Recent content by houman

To the amateur or pro photographers out there. I'm going on vaca, and was looking into renting a lens for landscape photography. I've looked at wide angle lens either the 24 mm/L, 14 mm/L, or wide zoom EF-S 10-22, EF 16-35/L. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Iran Plans to Unplug Internet, Create Its Own http://www.newser.com/story/119645/iran-plans-to-unplug-internet-create-its-own.html Iran is waging war on open Internet. Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran's telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time...

I'm trying to decide between Canon T3i vs the newly announced Nikon D5100. Any suggestions out there?

Researchers Anxious and on the Defensive After Republican Gains Jeffrey Mervis | More scrutiny. Less money. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/330/6006/896?sa_campaign=Email/sntw/12-November-2010/10.1126/science.330.6006.896 U.S. scientists trying to assess the impact of last...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7639728/Suntanned-women-to-be-arrested-under-Islamic-dress-code.html Suntanned women to be arrested under Islamic dress code Iran has warned suntanned women and girls who looked like "walking mannequins" will be arrested as part of...

How appropriate for Norouz. Northern Iowa just beat Tournament favorite Kansas behind the late game heroics of half-Iranian Ali Farokhmanesh...

Stone mountain has a decent laser show every week. But yeah, Atlanta's pretty flat, not as flat as Dallas though.

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No, the questions he is posing, like why is it that there are no smarter beings than humans, is not an insightful question; or why is it that chimpanzees are still around and are not evolving. Of course there is no definite answer to some legitimate questions on evolution, but there are answers...

GP, the answer to your questions are easily accessible on any reputable book on the subject, or any reliable internet resource on the genus homo. As others have put, there is absolutely no point in a back and forth argument with someone who is obtuse, and is impermeable to any logic and...

vallaah, how dare they support Iranian students? Marg bar indeed.

Don't waste your time. As Ayn Rand said, "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."

Interesting how when this video came out, a lot of people on this forum thought this is all bogus, how can some foreigner predict domestic policies of another country.

Well he has a wife. She was apparently just a "friend," and from what I've read, it sounds like murder-suicide, not sure though.

Ex-NFL QB Steve McNair, woman found slain in Tenn http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090705/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_mcnair_killed;_ylt=AvA4S8SFf8ElNnKnPTMRvnCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJpY3UzdDNyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNzA1L2Zibl9tY25haXJfa2lsbGVkBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNleC1uZmxxYnN0ZXY