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Maybe the logic to power off the device to avoid doing work on Sabbat kicked in too early due to clock skew?

.. thus foiling Bibi's cunning plan to set up a settler outpost on the Moon and annex it into Greater Israel?

Environmentalists already want to humanity to exclusively eat insects and pests
http://theconversation.com/eat...
So take meat off the menu, and add roaches, ticks, maggots, and leaches. Yum!

They also advocate for the reduction of 90%+ of earths population.
https://www.conservapedia.com/...
Think the people that remain will include you?

Now in addition they want to take away the ability to build buildings and roads from concrete, and certainly not wood, and most definately not harmful plastics, and forget glass. Environmentalists also do not approve of iron, steel or other refined metals (harmful gases, destructive to environment when mined, energy intensive).

Did you know that modern agriculture is a big producer of CO2 gases? Enviromentalists want this to go. No more corn, carrots or potatoes.

This is environmentalism. These are the facts.

You asked, you get: https://www.conservapedia.com/...
Extract:

https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves the atheistic Theory of Evolution and Theory of Relativity, both of which deny a fundamental uncertainty to the physical world that leads to increasing disorder."
Mild stuff.

Let's try https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Conservative principles are based on reason. So why do non-conservatives still exist?"
You can read the rest yourself.

How about https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Gun control is a term used by liberals when advocating unconstitutional laws designed to disarm people by restricting the lawful purchase, ownership, or carrying of guns, under the guise of "public safety." Studies show that increasing lawful access to guns results in less crime,[1] but, despite the fact that gun ownership is a Constitutional right, Leftists push gun control because it increases the dependency of voters on government for protection while disarming citizens from any self-defense against violent crime or tyranny such as genocide. "

Why not https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The theory of evolution does not permit the existence of any counterexamples." which leads to counterexample #1 "Evolution cannot explain artistic beauty, such as brilliant autumn foliage and the staggering array of beautiful marine fish, which originated before any human to view them. "

His stuff on homosexuality is hilarious too. He really gets hung up on it. Honestly there's more common sense in encylopedia dramatica than this.
As a brit I love and sometimes (ok, regularly) even admire you yanks but you do extremes frightningly well.

You asked, you get: https://www.conservapedia.com/...
Extract:

https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves the atheistic Theory of Evolution and Theory of Relativity, both of which deny a fundamental uncertainty to the physical world that leads to increasing disorder."
Mild stuff.

Let's try https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Conservative principles are based on reason. So why do non-conservatives still exist?"
You can read the rest yourself.

How about https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Gun control is a term used by liberals when advocating unconstitutional laws designed to disarm people by restricting the lawful purchase, ownership, or carrying of guns, under the guise of "public safety." Studies show that increasing lawful access to guns results in less crime,[1] but, despite the fact that gun ownership is a Constitutional right, Leftists push gun control because it increases the dependency of voters on government for protection while disarming citizens from any self-defense against violent crime or tyranny such as genocide. "

Why not https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The theory of evolution does not permit the existence of any counterexamples." which leads to counterexample #1 "Evolution cannot explain artistic beauty, such as brilliant autumn foliage and the staggering array of beautiful marine fish, which originated before any human to view them. "

His stuff on homosexuality is hilarious too. He really gets hung up on it. Honestly there's more common sense in encylopedia dramatica than this.
As a brit I love and sometimes (ok, regularly) even admire you yanks but you do extremes frightningly well.

You asked, you get: https://www.conservapedia.com/...
Extract:

https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves the atheistic Theory of Evolution and Theory of Relativity, both of which deny a fundamental uncertainty to the physical world that leads to increasing disorder."
Mild stuff.

Let's try https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Conservative principles are based on reason. So why do non-conservatives still exist?"
You can read the rest yourself.

How about https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Gun control is a term used by liberals when advocating unconstitutional laws designed to disarm people by restricting the lawful purchase, ownership, or carrying of guns, under the guise of "public safety." Studies show that increasing lawful access to guns results in less crime,[1] but, despite the fact that gun ownership is a Constitutional right, Leftists push gun control because it increases the dependency of voters on government for protection while disarming citizens from any self-defense against violent crime or tyranny such as genocide. "

Why not https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The theory of evolution does not permit the existence of any counterexamples." which leads to counterexample #1 "Evolution cannot explain artistic beauty, such as brilliant autumn foliage and the staggering array of beautiful marine fish, which originated before any human to view them. "

His stuff on homosexuality is hilarious too. He really gets hung up on it. Honestly there's more common sense in encylopedia dramatica than this.
As a brit I love and sometimes (ok, regularly) even admire you yanks but you do extremes frightningly well.

You asked, you get: https://www.conservapedia.com/...
Extract:

https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves the atheistic Theory of Evolution and Theory of Relativity, both of which deny a fundamental uncertainty to the physical world that leads to increasing disorder."
Mild stuff.

Let's try https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Conservative principles are based on reason. So why do non-conservatives still exist?"
You can read the rest yourself.

How about https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Gun control is a term used by liberals when advocating unconstitutional laws designed to disarm people by restricting the lawful purchase, ownership, or carrying of guns, under the guise of "public safety." Studies show that increasing lawful access to guns results in less crime,[1] but, despite the fact that gun ownership is a Constitutional right, Leftists push gun control because it increases the dependency of voters on government for protection while disarming citizens from any self-defense against violent crime or tyranny such as genocide. "

Why not https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The theory of evolution does not permit the existence of any counterexamples." which leads to counterexample #1 "Evolution cannot explain artistic beauty, such as brilliant autumn foliage and the staggering array of beautiful marine fish, which originated before any human to view them. "

His stuff on homosexuality is hilarious too. He really gets hung up on it. Honestly there's more common sense in encylopedia dramatica than this.
As a brit I love and sometimes (ok, regularly) even admire you yanks but you do extremes frightningly well.

You asked, you get: https://www.conservapedia.com/...
Extract:

https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves the atheistic Theory of Evolution and Theory of Relativity, both of which deny a fundamental uncertainty to the physical world that leads to increasing disorder."
Mild stuff.

Let's try https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Conservative principles are based on reason. So why do non-conservatives still exist?"
You can read the rest yourself.

How about https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"Gun control is a term used by liberals when advocating unconstitutional laws designed to disarm people by restricting the lawful purchase, ownership, or carrying of guns, under the guise of "public safety." Studies show that increasing lawful access to guns results in less crime,[1] but, despite the fact that gun ownership is a Constitutional right, Leftists push gun control because it increases the dependency of voters on government for protection while disarming citizens from any self-defense against violent crime or tyranny such as genocide. "

Why not https://www.conservapedia.com/...
"The theory of evolution does not permit the existence of any counterexamples." which leads to counterexample #1 "Evolution cannot explain artistic beauty, such as brilliant autumn foliage and the staggering array of beautiful marine fish, which originated before any human to view them. "

His stuff on homosexuality is hilarious too. He really gets hung up on it. Honestly there's more common sense in encylopedia dramatica than this.
As a brit I love and sometimes (ok, regularly) even admire you yanks but you do extremes frightningly well.

Redundancy detected. If a Circle Jerk were not self referencing, then you wouldn't call it a Circle Jerk. It would be a Line Jerk. One end would be un-serviced while the other end would be capable of servicing but is under utilized.

If Conservapedia has a page about Circle Jerks, then it needs to be updated to reflect this.

At least YouTube has the good sense to not use Conservapedia to verify YouTube videos.

Where's 'here', though?

He's portrayed by most of the media worldwide as an idiot and has by normal standards of behaviour, frequently behaved like one. For that and other reasons he's seen as toxic by many talented people who would otherwise work for a Republican administration. They don't want to give up their lives for a few months trying to fathom what passes for his mind, specially knowing he's likely to insult them in public at any time. The military seem more able to cope - they probably see it as their duty to the country and console themselves by thinking, "I can take it - it was worse in Iraq, though at times like these i wish i was back there".

Where's a list of his achievements (good ones I mean)?

I tried to go to Conservapedia but

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /Donald_Trump_achievements on this server.

Either it knows I'm a liberal or it has something to hide.

Err... there are no senators in congress.

Are you sure about that AC? Wikipedia: The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. ...

For those who think that Wikipedia is written by left-wing SJW's I will - very reluctantly - quote from Conservapedia: Congress (Congress of the United States) (a word derived from the Latin "congressum", from "congredior", meaning "to come together") is the term for the legislative body of the United States of America, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate. ...

Incidentally, I note with amusement that at the top of that Conservapedia page it says: "This article was last edited in 2014. Some of its information may be outdated" and that immediately following that definition of Congress is: "In the current 112th Congress, the House is controlled by the Republican Party while the Senate is controlled by the Democratic Party." Apparently the contributors to Conservapedia are less interested in updating Conservapedia than in adding news feed items like this currently on the main page: In the News. what the MSM isn't fully covering currently has as a first item "Unplug CNN - and Sesame Street, too. Those two organs are teaming up to spread Islamist propaganda directly to children. linking to ConservativeNewsAndViews

Err... there are no senators in congress.

Are you sure about that AC? Wikipedia: The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. ...

For those who think that Wikipedia is written by left-wing SJW's I will - very reluctantly - quote from Conservapedia: Congress (Congress of the United States) (a word derived from the Latin "congressum", from "congredior", meaning "to come together") is the term for the legislative body of the United States of America, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate. ...

Incidentally, I note with amusement that at the top of that Conservapedia page it says: "This article was last edited in 2014. Some of its information may be outdated" and that immediately following that definition of Congress is: "In the current 112th Congress, the House is controlled by the Republican Party while the Senate is controlled by the Democratic Party." Apparently the contributors to Conservapedia are less interested in updating Conservapedia than in adding news feed items like this currently on the main page: In the News. what the MSM isn't fully covering currently has as a first item "Unplug CNN - and Sesame Street, too. Those two organs are teaming up to spread Islamist propaganda directly to children. linking to ConservativeNewsAndViews

Honestly, liberals are what is ruining Hollywood (movies & TV) today. Liberals by definition feel their way through life instead of thinking their way through. Go watch the first season of The Walking Dead and then (if you can survive it) the first season of Fear the Walking Dead. TWD must have had some input from someone with a brain because the characters are complex (not all good or bad) and they make reasonable choices. OTOH, FTWD is ridiculous, many characters are liberal stereotypes (the soldiers, police, gun owners, gun objectors). The show had great source material, but instead of working to build realistic characters in TWD universe, they instead chose to barf their liberal agenda all over the sad excuse for a story (or they are incapable of controlling themselves).

The really successful movies out of Hollywood in the last 15 plus years have been superhero flicks because they have predefined cartoon villains that Hollywood cant really screw up and don't offend their liberal bias (excepting a few, like Iron Man 3 who completely pooched many things due to the obvious liberal bias in the writing, including the Mandarin, because a person of Chinese ancestry couldn't possibly be evil). 99% of the original Hollywood movies in the last 40 years depict villains as some kind of white male who is either a corrupt corporate type (Avatar etc) or a US soldier or some kind of crazy Christian (rock of ages, Red State, Salvation Boulevard, Higher Ground, Tyrannosaur, The Ledge etc. http://archives.relevantmagazi... ) Those are the boogeymen for the liberals in Hollywood, and it is ridiculous to the rest of us. In the real world (outside of the massive liberal echo chamber, you know where there are history books to study) the majority of villains in the real world are: politicians (Hitler, Stalin Mao etc were all politicians, yet liberals want powerful government to save us from ourselves and care for our every need, so politicians can't be villains), criminals (liberals believe that criminals are just ill and need to be rehabilitated, rather than evil that need to be punished or eliminated from society), atheists (liberals love these morally relativisitic God deniers, but they have killed about 200M people in the last 100 years http://www.conservapedia.com/A... ) and radical Muslim terrorists (note they are MUSLIMS, no other religion comes close to the 30,000 plus murders committed by radical MUSLIMS in the past 17 years in the name of Islam http://www.thereligionofpeace.... or the 30% acceptance of radical violence by the US Muslim population). You may not like it, but that is the reality. The one movie that had a Muslim as the villain that I am aware of (True Lies) has been blacklisted by Hollywood (you can't buy it or stream it on Hulu, iTunes, Ultraviolet, Netflix, Amazon and it is not available on BluRay or 4K, only it's original DVD release as of a few months ago).

Even if you are going for pure fantasy, there are many villain tropes to draw from in literary technique/history and yet liberals seem to be incapable of creative thought outside of their fascist, limited worldview, and that is what is killing the quality of movies.

Probably going to be like Conservapedia. With similar success.

Now bias journalism gets checker by bias fact checkers. We'll need fact checkers to fact check the fact checkers and fact checkers to fact check those fact checkers and round and round it goes.

The scientific enterprise has been doing this pretty well for over 100 years.

You're not going to build an algorithm that says X is a true story and Y is false. But as humans we have the ability to build institutions and use our judgment to figure out which ones are reliable. Does the NYTimes have a liberal bias? Sure. But it also has very reliable facts. The HuffPo generally agrees with my bias, but it also spent years peddling medical nonsense and it still hasn't reestablished its credibility for me.

If FB starts using nonsense fact checkers I'll call them on their BS and be a lot more likely to drop them, and I suspect many others would do the same.

I'm sure some conservative groups are trying to build fact checking websites, but I suspect they'll have a lot of trouble due to the extent to which mainstream American conservatism has embraced a lot of nonsense. They're either going to end up taking a lot of shots at their own side and get called liberal, or they'll descend into self-satire like conservapedia.

See subject: "... of the united states of america & to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, 1 nation, under God, INDIVISIBLE - with liberty & justice for ALL" - We're a Constitutional Republic specifically http://www.conservapedia.com/Constitutional_Republic/ that's being subverted by FALSE NARRATIVES like yours is due to the above!

(Jill Stein tried saying that too falsely, just like you, that we're democracy-> "If you believe in democracy, if you believe in the credibility of your victory" from https://www.yahoo.com/news/fed... )

The PROBLEM with democracy, pure democracy?

Is that 51% of folks can TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS of 49% - & yes, that's WHY we use the Electoral College!

All per "rule of law" that constitutional republics elect officials with - it's all in the link above!

For keeping largely populated urban centers in heavily populated states from doing it. This IS what Shillary SOROS was after (soros funds BLM & wants to break the USA & has said so, he also thinks he's God, + led his own jew people into captivity & stole from them - he'd do you that way too!)

I do see our right to bear arms being assaulted, our freedom of speech too ('hate crime' bs - don't LIKE it? Don't listen... what ARE you afraid of!) in 'Free Speech Zones' (WTF? I was taught the WHOLE USA IS THAT) & so is the electoral college lately too!

WTF!

* Get RIGHT man - read the 1st link, be enlightened...

APK

P.S.=> Most folks, including BLM ones, are being PLAYED badly & yes, it's part your own faults... why? You're ignorant of FACTS - yes truth & facts - your post proves it! apk

The problem with America is, your moral compass is skewed so far to the right, that you perceive CNN as being on the left.

Sorry, but it's not true. It's your perception that is the problem. By European standards, or the rest of the world for that matter, CNN is even conservative. It's the American society that for some reason has drifted so far to the right, it's not even funny anymore. Only in America some nutcase conservative could come up with something as "Conservapedia"
http://www.conservapedia.com/
Because Wikipedia, a real encyclopedia, has a "liberal bias".

Only in America!

Hi! Occam's Razor here! It is more likely that:

There was election fraud going on and it was collusion between the establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats

Both of whom LOVED Trump and wanted to see him elected, right?

establishment Democrats who are looking to get kicked out of the political party they are paid by the corporations to control

Because most large corporations LOVE the Democrats. And most people love getting kicked out of power, too!

focus in on those areas where the Greens and the Libertarians should have done much better

I believe the votes in Candy Land County and Galt's Gulch were already re-counted.

Or is it more likely that the vast majority of Americans thought that the Greens and Libertarians were nut jobs and didn't want to vote for them?

Your choice. Massive alleged voted fraud and "actual full on collusion" between bitter political opponents, or your preferred parties just didn't get that many votes. As the late great Carl Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." Please elaborate. Links to Reddit != "extraordinary proof."

I hate to keep pointing this out, but everybody loves "democracy" until their candidate doesn't win. Then there must be some reason that said candidate didn't win like voter fraud OMG! Nobody ever says, "Well, shit. More people support that other thing than what I support. I guess I need to accept the results and move on." (Full disclosure: my candidate didn't win, either. I wrote in for Alexander Hamilton.)

If you don't like "censorship", it's a free country- instead of being a parasite on Twitter, LEAVE and start your own site.

Man has it been a long time since I had seen a conservation link. I feel dumber for having read that but am always amused with this description of it.

Yes, there's a chance someone might not agree with my personal morality in the future. SFW?

If you don't like "censorship", it's a free country- instead of being a parasite on Twitter, LEAVE and start your own site.

Liberal wennies think biased liberal sources are not actually biased. Pay $10 to watch what you want to hear

Right you are. Stick to Conservapedia instead.

Bah! Legal names! What politically correct drivel is this?! HIS JESUS NAME IS BRADLEY! HIS JESUS NAME IS BRADLEY! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

See, here's problem. According to the most accurate and unbiased source on ALL the internets, a sauce that may even be a big truck!:

Most of Wikipedia's articles can be edited publicly by both registered and anonymous editors, mostly consisting of teenagers and the unemployed. As such, it tends to project a liberal--and, in some cases, even socialist, Communist, and Nazi-sympathising--worldview, which is totally at odds with conservative reality and rationality.

See! Only a TEENAGE NAZI would think a legal name fucking matters for ANYTHING! I'll bet you fucking spell sympathising with a Z you naZi! AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Trump 2016~! IT's all rigged~! Reality is unknowable~! You can't argue against JESUSreality! Aaa--!

SIGSEGV received. Core dumped. Exiting.

Ahem:
http://www.conservapedia.com/C...

There's quite a long list there.

It may be time to stop feeling quite so put upon.

Though it is still condemned by a certain segment of the population: The theory of relativity is defended with religious-like zeal, such that no college faculty tenure, Ph.D degree, or Nobel Prize is ever awarded to anyone who dares criticize the theory, as the example of denying a Nobel Prize to the most accomplished physicist of the 20th century, Robert Dicke, illustrates. Another critic of the theory was Louis Essen [1908-1997], the man credited with determining the speed of light. He wrote many fiery papers against it such as Relativity and Time Signals[4] and Relativity - Joke or Swindle?[5]. Perhaps the most famous website opposing relativity is this one, with its Counterexamples to Relativity page. The cornerstone item in that page involves the experimental measurements of the advance of the perihelion of Mercury that show a shift greater than predicted by Relativity, well beyond the margin of error. - http://www.conservapedia.com/T...

So it's become Conservapedia then.

Quantum mechanics and GR have their flaws, and yet no one goes around declaring that electron tunneling and time dilation are part of an evil plot by Communist physicists.

It appears you just made a statement in which you attempted to place a limit the raving insanity of true wingnuts. Of course, being a modern take on such matters, it's a liberal plot, nmot a communist one but I believe the principle is the same. Have fun with this:

http://www.conservapedia.com/C...

Here's the opening line:

The theory of relativity is disproved by numerous counterexamples, but is promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to pull people away from the Bible.

I can see that as being every bit as successful as conservapedia

There's an eye-opener (pun on faceglory unintentional). I liked the entry for Evolution - well, I would have if I had a Fffacebook account.

I'm guessing the FaceGlory crowd will have a banner sharing agreement with The Flat Earth Society (when the in-fighting between the various "true" FES groups ends), and Christian Porn (you know - the good stuff).

"These Christian Fundamentalists want to get creationism taught in our science classes. I would have been all for it when I was in high school. - easy credits. “OK class, God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh. See you at the final exam.” ~ Bill Hicks

I can see that as being every bit as successful as conservapedia

If WP's facts don't line up with your political preconceptions, try Conservapedia

Hell, they're even trying to rewrite the Bible over at Conservapedia, because they are certain the current translations have been tainted by the liberal bias of the people doing the translating....

No I'm not making that up.

http://www.conservapedia.com/C...

And what if some competitor of Wikipedia comes in. What if they believe that Wikipedia has some huge bias and are spreading propaganda, and all they want to do is set teh record straight.

There is one, but fortunately it has not spread beyond the USA yet.

True as that may be, people who are absolutely nuts tend to use the perpetual openness of science as an excuse to inject irrelevant, arbitrary insanity into discussions of fact. I'm not just referring to the (particularly common as Slashdot) climate change deniers who dismiss all sorts of careful analysis of data and theory for some unspecified null hypothesis "because we've been wrong before". But crazier people.

Conservapedia's owner cum dictator, Andy Schafly comes to mind as a frequent abuser. Who has made "be more open minded" arguments over things as scientifically established as relativity, which he asserts doesn't exist, or walking on water being scientifically possible.

And creationists do the same.

The point, of course is that while established science can always be wrong, arbitrarily embracing the opposite and asserting the evidentialist structure of the scientific method as a reason is crazy. The proof is in the pudding, if you will.

Cant have conservative, right wing, religious, pro capitalism or anti-socialist propaganda.

Fortunately for you, there are some wiki-based online encyclopedias that are based on exactly the opposite principle! Enjoy the god-fearing, American-flag-loving truth bombs at Conservapedia.

It's taken from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The Conservopedia people worship this book.

So... does that mean we'll be seeing an Conservative Atlas Shrugged Rewrite Project soon?

Absolutely not. But you can see that there are people who deny relativity. Can't you see the difference between scientists who perform experiments to check relativity to these folks who simply deny the evidence?

To some ignorant person, Einstein might seem stupid.

Ah, I see you've been to Conservapedia.

All we need now is for Andrew Schlafly and his Conservapedia to welcome those scorned by Wikipedia to come to them. Should go nicely with their other crap (see evolution, global warming, anything related to Obama and just about everything else near and dear to the far-right).

I like this flowchart. Particularly relevant to the question of whether science is "settled" is the fact that there is no "end" cell in the flow chart. When attempting to disprove some scientific knowledge you should know what has failed in the past (and reputably confirmed) so you don't waste resources. There are always questions that haven't been answered yet! That doesn't mean you can't make good use of science (or rely on partial results) even when some people disagree. I'm glad we didn't have to wait for conservapedia to agree before we began taking advantage of Einstein's work.

E=mc^2 is liberal claptrap!!!

Don't they know wikipedia exists?

Do you know that conservapedia exists?

http://www.conservapedia.com/

Which one is correct? Teach the controversy!

Do you know uncyclopedia exists? http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/...

Don't they know wikipedia exists?

Do you know that conservapedia exists?

http://www.conservapedia.com/

Which one is correct? Teach the controversy!

for many fundies, it will be the very first time they're ALLOWED to hear the truth of the matter.

You don't think the churches have been brainwashing their flocks ready for this? They're the ones who asked for this debate.

Guess what the headline is today on Conservapedia: http://www.conservapedia.com/M... (they even provide the Youtube link for you).

Nope, they know what they're doing.

Two parties? Apologies, maybe it's the distance, but from over here in Europe it looks like the US has only one party with two slightly differing wings.

Seriously. If the main problem for the moderator in a political debate is to find some kind of tiny semantic difference in the position of the two biggest candidates, you know something is not going right.

You haven't browsed the Conservapedia yet...

Unlike in the Soviet Union, we have individual choices here. We can choose to learn anything from creationism to evolution or anything else we wish -- unless the government controls the schools and censors the lessons. We should learn to avoid the Soviet Union's failures.

Teaching pseudoscience and political ideology in biology classes is exactly how the Soviet Union fucked up. We can choose to pursue intellectual inquiries that expand our knowledge of natural processes and inform our efforts to control our environment and treat our illnesses, or we can ignore these subjects in favor of religious doctrine. Which do you think will do more to improve our quality of life? Should we also be encouraging aspiring doctors to go into faith healing instead of modern Western medicine? Obviously in America people are free to do exactly this, just as they are free to lobby against GMOs, or vaccines, or general relativity. I can't stop them, nor would I if I had the power, but I won't stop calling them out as anti-progress misanthropes either.

Yes, the Koran is the exact word of God and there are no translation errors.

However, people still say that the Bible is the word of God regardless of translations.

And interesting note, there's even a "conservative bible": http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project Some of the highlights are "Express Free Market Parables" and "Utilize Terms which better capture original intent: using powerful new conservative terms to capture better the original intent;[9] Defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer""

The neocons want to push the bible as their narrative.

Well, their version of it, anyway.

You say "there are no known examples of harm" --- but that's because nearly no one has looked

Hardly no one looks for examples of harm from non-GMO corn either. All corn, really all agricultural products, are heavily genetically engineered, the difference is some is engineered with selective breeding and hybridization, and the other by resequencing. The only reason we pay attention to the latter is there's a contingent of motivated believers who think that "natural" food contains Maggi Health Fairies, and that Big Science and Corporations kill the fairies by Playing God(!!1!@1!). it's really hard to get funding to try studying anything against Big Ag's corporate profit interests

"It's impossible to disprove Darwinism, because the Darwin lobby controls all granting in the life sciences!" "It's impossible to disprove general relativity, because the government suppresses that truth!"

I don't think "more religion" is an answer to any of society's problems.

(Take a glance at Conservapedia before replying).

It's Microsoft's implementation of MobileMe, only it doesn't work as well.

You probably should have included a link to the Wikipedia entry on MobileMe.

Some people might not know what Wikipedia is, so you'd better put a link for that as well.

Help! The sky is falling! A companies revenue in one country now only dwarves 62 countries!

Bizzare. Why link to a dodgy souce like that (that gives out-of-date figures) rather than linking to a dodgy source like this that has up-to-date figures?

Help! The sky is falling! A companies revenue in one country now only dwarves 62 countries!

They should be worried, shouldn't they? With that sharp decline, their revenue in China is now "only" equal to the yearly income of 870 thousand chinese (or 92 thousand americans).

I will readily admit I'm an Apple fan. But wtf is this article? A piece of whining, like a super-rich complaining that this years champagne doesn't taste as nice as last years'. I don't think the author has a grasp for the numbers he posted.