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1. Woman dead
2. No she was not a scientist.
3. No she was not involved in the arts.
4. No she was not involved with feminism

1. Woman dead
2. No she was not a scientist.

Hey! I noticed the icon now appears before the URL in my adress bar, but it still hasn't appeared in favorites. Was everything set properly?

(edit) Hey! Now its up there! Awesome! Looks great!

I really think this is a place where religious discussions should be avoided, and i don't want to go into this much, but that seems an unfair dismissal of the subject. There are many forms of prayer besides asking for help. For example, there is prayer as a means of associating with or "spending time" with God, Allah, Buddha or whoever. There is prayer to do homage, prayer to give thanks, prayer of confession/reparation, etc. But even in the case of help, what you are more or less saying (IF I'm not mistaken) is that people should be able to ignore God, Allah, Buddha etc. and expect him to do favors for you. I think the idea is that going to god for help, and trusting he will do something, is in itself pleasing and this itself makes you more deserving of help. But of course, a god is free to choose not to help for whatever reason regardless of whether or not you deserve it.

Problem is that people usually do see prayer as a source of material wealth. While the Islamic religion is, i believe, quite compatible with material wealth, Christ discouraged all attachment to it on numerous occasions. So I agree, a Christian expecting prayer to grant you money and riches is foolish.

So should we go with that?

here here!

Nice! The only thing i'd reccomend is showing what to do when there are "missing terms". In this case, you need to write out the missing terms with coefficients of zero for the algorithm to work.

uh.. what kind of simplification do we want? One way is summation

∑ tan(2^n)/cos(2^n+1) from n = 0 to 7.

More ideas...

okay, that last one was a joke...

It looks like everyone wants the semitransparent, 8 sided dye from the top of the forum.

on second thought.. this actually doesn't look too bad.

Just a bit small.

Well I've been thinking about it for a while. Its difficult. 16x16 is hardly enough room to draw anything except a single small object. There isn't room for an equation or formula. I thought of geometric shapes or the dye pictured above, but there's really only room for one. You can for instance draw a cone, a circle, a triangle, a graph of a line, etc. but none seemed fitting.

After much deliberation i produced this. Not only is it simple, practical, and clearly describes what this site is about, it has a determinant!

What do you think?