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There is evidence that suggests that prevalence of religiosity correlates negatively with overall societal heath. link Non religious states have less violence and more equitable.

2. Revival in religion. Yea I know this is Slashdot and a lot of the readers here are Atheists or against religion in one form or an other, but there has been a resurgence in religious people. Which teaches at least to stop people from doing unorganized violence.

Unfortunately, there's at least one study that strongly suggests that atheists are less likely to commit crime than religious adherents.

Yup. That's the problem with monotheistic religion saying there can only be one single unique deity worth worshipping, and that your particular one is *THE* *TRUE* *ONE* deity. Therefore, anyone else believing in anything else is :
- worshipping a false deity and shall be killed because that's a crime in your religion
- is on a false path and should be brought back on the right path even if it takes violence and/or torture.

So although, as GP points out, most religions aren't really supporting acts of random non-organised criminality, religions - specially the mono theistic ones - are quite good at making people kill in organised fashion "IN THE NAME OF deity !!!!". Be it holy wars, genocide of populace with differing believes, or simply stoning by applying some archaic type of justice described in an out-date bronze-age book.

2. Revival in religion. Yea I know this is Slashdot and a lot of the readers here are Atheists or against religion in one form or an other, but there has been a resurgence in religious people. Which teaches at least to stop people from doing unorganized violence.

Unfortunately, there's at least one study that strongly suggests that atheists are less likely to commit crime than religious adherents.

4. Improved conditions for the poor. Sure the gap between the rich and the poor is growing however the poor now have a better standard of life then they did in the past.

The poor in the US have an income that's basically identical in real dollars to the income of the poor in 1970. For instance, this graph from data from the US census.

His conclusions were based on an examination of scatter-plots for a small set of nations with no attempt to consider alternative explanations nor to encompass the research in the larger body of sociological theory and research on the topic.

Another response is here.

The private organizations in the US (that I am familiar with) that are doing the most to help others are generally either a) religious, or b) secular, but staffed by religious-minded folks.

His conclusions were based on an examination of scatter-plots for a small set of nations with no attempt to consider alternative explanations nor to encompass the research in the larger body of sociological theory and research on the topic.

Another response is here.

The private organizations in the US (that I am familiar with) that are doing the most to help others are generally either a) religious, or b) secular, but staffed by religious-minded folks.

I saw my doctor last week and was presented with a new form to sign to opt-in or opt-out of putting my records into an electronic format. Being a paranoid, tinfoil-hat wearing, "I remember Diebold voting machines" kind of nerd, I opted out. The form explained what EHR's are and espoused the benefits of them. I'll continue to rely on good old fashioned paper records for now, thank you. This is very new because I lost saw this doctor four weeks before then. They also mentioned that psychiatric information will not be stored in the EHR.

In other related news:

This 2-page PDF from the Nebraska Medical Association and Creighton University Medical Center dated June 27th, 2007 gives some numbers on offices that have adopted or thinking about adopting an EHRs.

If you are a Nebraska health professional or just have too much time on your hands from hiding from the pending Swine flu pandemic, you can go to this website whose tag-line is, "Enhancing clinical practices through the adoption of health information technology in Nebraska".

Here is a letter (blog entry?) from the office of the Governor of Nebraska posted on April 10, 2009 talking about the pilot EHR project in Nebraska.

Enjoy!

" Well, no . Japan, Holland, Canada, and a slew of other nations have a lower instance of religious belief, and a lower rate of crime, lower infant mortality, etc."

...and higher suicide rates. ...Japan and Canada anyway.

"Even within the USA, the Bible Belt states (actually the Red States in general) have higher infant mortality rates, lower productivity rates, higher crime rates, worse education systems, along with being worse-off in a range of other criteria."

Congratulations to NYC, Chicago and Los Angeles! You are now "Red, Bible Belt states". ;-)

"It isn't a stark difference--I'm not saying they're in the dark ages--but the difference is easy to spot if you look at the data."

Just for a moment, imagine that we live in a world where numbers don't tell the whole story.

...and then snap out of it. We're already there.

"And in one way or another, we're all atheists."

...as is each and every tree, rock, and banana slug are all atheists too. One significant difference is that they have no doubts about their atheism. ...even when they near the end of their respective existences.

People are supposed to be different because of what we believe and the small matter of being capable of believing at all.

...not because of what we do not believe.

"Is the world worse off because people don't believe in Thor anymore?"

Not that many people believed in Thor to begin with. It's a rather smaller number today, but they might even have a website.

Apollo on the other hand... There was a thunder god.

Even if there is no God, and you are an atheist, is it possible that a world containing religious people is actually a "better" society than a world full of atheists?

And in one way or another, we're all atheists. Is the world worse off because people don't believe in Thor anymore?

Recent sociological research has a much more empirism-based explanation for certain US societal problems: popular religion. When comparing to China, where religion exists but is largely denigrated, this might give some insights. The study only compared first-world democracies, though.

Recent sociological research has a much more empirism-based explanation for certain US societal problems: popular religion. When comparing to China, where religion exists but is largely denigrated, this might give some insights. The study only compared first-world democracies, though.

Just imagine Election Night

Register anonymous. If your girlfriend were the type to ask "what do you have to hide" - i.e., if she suspected you - she'd also be the type to want to see your absentee form. One could equally pose a current equivalent of this scenario where your girlfriend poses the question "Why don't we vote absentee?", and when you refuse, asks "What do you have to hide?". In fact, such a situation could be much harder to avoid; at least if you register "completely anonymous", you have the excuse that your registration is set up that way, and it would take at least an election to change it. How would you explain refusal to vote absentee? "I like booths"? This would argue against absentee voting; yet, proportionally few people would say that we shouldn't have absentee voting.

In the current incarnation of voting, barring fraud, you have the ability to choose whether you're completely anonymous (voting in the booth), or only anonymous to those you choose to be anonymous to (absentee voting). In the system which I read about, "in the booth" gets further broken down into "completely anonymous" and "anonymous to all except those who you choose", and both booth and absentee gain the ability, if you choose the lesser anonymity, for you to check on your vote.

Going further, what's the point?

If there's a contested entry, you have them check the paper record that you confirmed.

By the way - off topic, but I thought you might be interested in this (summary).

Definitely check out the LARA project at Creighton. They have a list of devices that work with their PalmOS system that delivers patient data to physicians wirelessly.

it's only leftists and liberals that talk about 'rights' in geopolitics anyway

Those leftists and liberals sound sooo naive. Maybe they want to change the culture of countries like the US (to be fair every super-power and minor power) so that they don't simultaneously talk about how righteous they are, and piss on sovereignty.

On the face of it, it DOES sound very naive, doesn't it. But it's only naive _if_ it doesn't work. That's a scary concept to grapple with... those liberals getting their way!

Well it takes about 20 years for a liberal to turn into a conservative without changing a single viewpoint. Once they are a conservative, they get their way. IMHO, that's a good approximation of "progress". You might want some proof...

Well, once upon a time, it was legal to own people, pretty much everywhere in the world. Then a bunch of liberals got in the road. At first they were heckled, then beaten, but eventually they became conservatives (by default) and got their way.

So what stops slavery now? Well it does occur in some "backward" countries. We think of those countries as backward because we find their acceptance of slavery as abhorrent. But WE were the slavers of THEM once upon a time. Call it a cultural change brought on by leftists of the time. Crazy eh?

We're seeing the same thing happen with the drive for equality for women, gays and ethnic minorities. Hell, it wasn't until 1984 that women were allowed to run the marathon in the Olympic games, because it was considered "bad" for them. It's amazing how quickly those liberals get their way!

In a geo-political sense, things have changed as well. Look at all the world condemnation of the US in Iraq. China would have invaded Taiwan decades ago if it wouldn't have made them look so bad. In the court of world opinion, they would have given the US (and others) a mandate to kick their ass.

Just read about how the US appropriated it's current territory. Do you think they'd be able to do it today, a mere few hundred and a bit years hence? Genocide is really uncool these days, and so is conquering other people. Think I'm exaggerating? Go peruse some of the Sioux-Congress treaties that the US made and broke with gunpowder. Dispicable by today's standards, but back in the day... well... they were only Indians.

It's only the PERCEPTION of the evilness of genocide and conquest that makes the Nazi's so uncool. They didn't do anything that hadn't been done before, by Europeans and others. When the Mongol Khan conquered Samakand, he cut off the head of the cities muslim priest, and held it up and told the people that he was "God's punishment for their sins". Thank god those liberals DID get their way in the end, maybe they were onto something.

It's the court of world opinion that exercises the power of the liberals of the pervious generation, that forces the high and mighty to change their ways.

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Here is a link to the new World Capitol

Typo: Not NFSnet. NSFnet.

Here. Read their AUP (acceptable use policy) for a giggle or two.

Unless the Amazons are like most ants. Most of the ants are female. Only when it's time to spread the colony and create a new nest with a new queen will there be any males produced.

Even more bizarre are certain species of lizards, which are, in fact, all-female.

I saw a piece (Charles Kuralt I think) on the building of the National Cathedral some time ago. One way they pay for the building is by allowing people to design gargoyles, for a fee. One woman had a bunch of gargoyles made that are caricatures of her grandchildren. Unsuprising that a Star Wars fan took advantage of this. The only strange thing is that it didn't happen years ago. Anyway, basing a gargoyle on a fantastic or imaginary creature has a long tradition.

My favorite chemical to imagine working with (when I worked at Texas Instruments and wandered around the 3rd floor pipe space looking at labels) was Silane. With a chemical formula just like Methane, with Silicon in the place of the Carbon, you'd imagine it would be explosive but not otherwise interesting. Wrong! Silane can spontaneously explode when exposed to air. It has to be specially ducted and burned off or blown out quickly enough to prevent creation of a flammable concentration. A friend of mine where I work now, though, had more direct experience with Silane while working at another semiconductor manufacturer. He claims that he once liberated a small volume of silane in the air, and found that it formed a bubble... the silane reacted with the air on the edge to form a protective shield around the remaining gas. Of course, when the bubble burst... the explosion was deafening. Strangely enough, I don't think my friend ever found the opportunity to experiment further. But should you care to try it yourself on a smaller scale, go for it!

I think they do to some extent. I'm not a Colorado student, but I attend another midwestern university. I can always get on irc.colorado.edu from a computer on campus, but can never got on from my ISP at home. I know Stanford used to limit use to only clients on internet-2, maybe Colorado does the same? I suppose they could go a bit farther and limit access to only Colorado students, but then again how many college students use IRC anymore? I only know one other besides myself at my school. If they limited to Colorado students only I'd imagine the server would be almost entirely unused.

Oh another note, I think Jon Katz has beaten this post so far into the ground that the sign itself is underground. It is time to move on. If you must, start a new site called www.highschoolgeeks.com or something.