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Big Old Liar by Quato · 2014-10-05 18:32 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America

There has been much research suggesting Marco Polo was a liar. a quick Google search showed this site: http://website.lineone.net/~mc... Many scholars believe that he may have just traveled to India and talked to travelers from China. They point out that Marco Polo never pointed out major inventions like paper, that were unseen in Europe but common in China.

BPA is everywhere by Taco+Cowboy · 2012-09-19 14:15 · Score: 2 · on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda?

http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/bisphenol.html

Click the above link and see for yourself where the BPA-compound (resins, epoxy) has been used

And one of those is "WATER PIPE"

Yes, the water pipe that you got your tap water from

You do not need to drink can soda

You do not need to eat canned food

All you need is to turn on the tap and there you go, you get BPA.

Chindogu by Jural99 · 2008-02-01 17:16 · Score: 1 · on Two Videos of E-Lead's Noahpad in Action

first thing that came to mind after viewing that video http://website.lineone.net/~sobriety/

Mother Teresa by scrad · 2007-09-24 05:30 · Score: 3, Informative · on The Fall Geek TV Lineup

Hmm, attacking the 'messenger' without researching the message? I don't particularly like Christopher Hitchens either. However, I do like to know the truth.

They all apply to Mother Teresa.

Susan Shields was one of her sisters for 9 1/2 years and writes "Three of Mother Teresa's teachings that are fundamental to her religious congregation are all the more dangerous because they are believed so sincerely by her sisters. Most basic is the belief that as long as a sister obeys she is doing God's will. Another is the belief that the sisters have leverage over God by choosing to suffer. Their suffering makes God very happy. He then dispenses more graces to humanity. The third is the belief that any attachment to human beings, even the poor being served, supposedly interferes with love of God and must be vigilantly avoided or immediately uprooted. The efforts to prevent any attachments cause continual chaos and confusion, movement and change in the congregation. Mother Teresa did not invent these beliefs - they were prevalent in religious congregations before Vatican II - but she did everything in her power (which was great) to enforce them. Once a sister has accepted these fallacies she will do almost anything. She can allow her health to be destroyed, neglect those she vowed to serve, and switch off her feelings and independent thought. She can turn a blind eye to suffering, inform on her fellow sisters, tell lies with ease, and ignore public laws and regulations. "

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/shields_18_1.html

From Wikipedia: The Telegraph, an Indian daily, has referred to her as "the Saint of the Gutters", also mentioning calls for "Rome to investigate whether she did anything to alleviate the condition of the poor or just took care of the sick and dying and needed them to further a sentimentally-moral cause".

"In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Some of Besra's medical staff and, initially, Besra's husband insist that conventional medical treatment eradicated the tumor."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/05/wteres05.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/05/ixworld.html

Dr. Aroup Chatterjee is the author of the book Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict. http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/index1.htm
http://www.meteorbooks.com/

Letters written my Mother Teresa doubting the existence of God: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119059822005736983.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Many attempts have been made to get information about how and where money is spent to CURE people of various diseases or just WHERE it all goes. Tell me, why would an organization that accepts so much in donations not want to proudly show how it's being used to do 'good work'?

Re:Not So Funny: Abuse of the Term, "Hero" by dbjh · 2006-11-20 14:11 · Score: 1 · on Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero

So, your answer to my question is: the Proceedings of the Roman Curia. As I already stated, I skip sources that have a relation to the Catholic church, effectively leaving me with no reliable source comming from you. Please don't try to defend the Catholic church as a reliable source. I don't hold people who openly declare to believe in fairy tales as if they were facts in high regard. You falsely suggest that "the Hindu group" you speak of has only the light complaints you mentioned. Since you named Aroup Chatterjee I will mention his homepage here so that other people can see how misleading your statement is: http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/index.htm.

You raise a good point: there is very little that has been written about her that is genuinely non-partisan, and the non-partisan sources are generally either not in-depth (articles about her in Time magazine, for instance) or written in circumstances that don't lend themselves to impartial consideration (such as her Nobel laureate biography.)

You create a false dichotomy here. There are other sources. You even mentioned one yourself, namely Aroup Chatterjee. If he isn't impartial I don't know who is.

However, I believe you mistake in "skipping the sources that have a relation to the Catholic church". For one thing, since *all* sources that deal with her are partisan in one way or another, you are simply removing one source of bias and relying on a different source of bias, which of course will skew your conclusions.

Nice try, but no. You are essentially saying that by including all sources, whether they are biased or not, will result in a conclusion that comes closer to reality than if I evaluate the sources first and then draw my conclusions.

For another, you're mistaken in thinking that Catholic writers are universally hagiographical in dealing with her;

Please don't put words in my mouth. I did not say that.

she was criticised by orders within the Church (particularly the Jesuits) for what they saw, with some reason, as her Catholic bigotry ("bigotry" in the non-racial sense, meaning "excessive belief in the superiority of the Catholic religion.") (Of course, there are also Catholics even further to the extreme than she was, who criticized her for idolatry, because she attended Buddhist services.)

I don't even want to begin commenting on that. Tell me, where is the 1 (ONE!) hospital she built?

As you suggest, it is of course best to judge for yourself after looking at all the sources:

Could you please not put words in my mouth? I did not suggest to look at all the sources. I suggested to skip the sources that have a relation to the Catholic church. Do I really need to spell it out for you what the benefits for the Catholic church are if Mother Teresa will be declared a saint? Or if only her current public image (in the "West") will stay unchallenged?

from people who were her enemies for religious reasons; from people who supported her politically but opposed her theologically; from people who considered her solely as a temporal figure; and others. Some of the sources aren't worth anything, of course, both (on one side) the people who viewed her uncritically as a living saint, and (on the other) the people who castigate her as cynical and mercenary.

You do realise you're contradicting yourself here, now do you? Let me quote you:

For one thing, since *all* sources that deal with her are partisan in one way or another, you are simply removing one source of bias and relying on a different source of bias, which of course will skew your conclusions.

For Catholic views you can see the Proceedings of the Roman Curia, which is charged with reviewing her life and actions, and takes

Re:Metro by TG1 · 2005-04-26 19:59 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro'

While the metro was described by Jeremy Clarkson as the perfect car if "you're called Mavis and going into town to buy mackeral", they did produce the MG Metro 6R4, which certainly wasn't street legal and looked something like: http://website.lineone.net/~burndred/metro/metro2. jpg 3 litre V6 engine in a car the size of a Yugo? Vroom vroom. I had the 1 litre "city" model. Impossible to drive at more than 90 mph, if it ever did get that fast down a hill.

Look back at an old WinAMP skin... by Lethyos · 2004-11-27 15:16 · Score: 1 · on Steve Ballmer's $100 PC, Sans Windows

I think this is what you were looking for. ;)

Re:Dr. Sbaitso by div_B · 2004-11-14 22:31 · Score: 1 · on Profanity Adventures

If anybody remembers Dr. Sbaitso, it was an old computer psychiatrist sort of thing that came with old school Sound Blaster Pro cards. Messing with by using curse words and asking it about sex was about as much fun as I remember having at 8 years old.

Who could forget Dr Sbaitso? I seem to remember that if you continued to curse at it it would act more and more annoyed and eventually it would go mental and pages of gibberish would scroll past (and be synthesized by the card of course). You can download it from here. The site claims it's abandonware, as it probably oughta be, but...IANAL. The text side of it works (on XP), but you'd be optimistic to expect any sound out of it.

Re:so that would explain by goatan · 2004-07-19 22:13 · Score: 2, Informative · on HP Memo Predicts MS Patent Attacks on Open Source

Good luck. Most car manufacturers use proprietary connectors and form factors.

modern cars come with standard Iso connectors there must be some propriatery ones out there but I haven't seen any newer that 1990.

One Word by Ann+Elk · 2004-06-01 08:07 · Score: 1 · on Harmless Pranks During a Downsizing?

ESheep.

Re:Beautiful Mind Rather InAccurate by elhaf · 2004-05-21 11:23 · Score: 1 · on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions?

Meant to include this website.

three words... by nesthigh · 2004-05-18 10:22 · Score: 1 · on Out of Gas

Hemp seed oil
Make your own ;-)

Re:Torrent by ttldkns · 2004-05-04 09:15 · Score: 5, Informative · on TheOpenCD 1.4 Released

i got it and i put it up in these places one here
and here

Re:forget winrar by AKAImBatman · 2004-04-27 07:03 · Score: 1 · on First Ten Programs on New Install?

Found the old homepage. I believe that they used to have EnZIP.com. None of the download links on the old page appear to work. If you want a copy, try searching around the Internet. I've found mirrors the download files in the past.

Dr. Sbaitso by funk_phenomenon · 2004-04-19 05:22 · Score: 1 · on Ask the Robotic Psychiatrist

Anyone remember Dr. Sbaitso? I used to play play around with that for hours. Didn't help me at all.