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Obligatory...

(1) I'm outraged that people are being arrested for shit they say on Facebook.

(2) I'm outraged that the entire world seems so stupid as to think it's a good idea to tie real identities to everything they say online SO THAT people who want to use that speech against them are able to. (Never mind that the stupid shit you might have said at 17 will still be there nice and searchable when you are 52 and trying to become mayor).

Report: Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due To Facebook>

Obligatory Onion article:

"Chinese Laundry Owner Blasted For Reinforcing Negative Ethnic Stereotypes"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/chinese-laundry-owner-blasted-for-reinforcing-nega,1563/

This kind of music encourages teens to enrich uranium. Just look a these lyrics.

"Topin' all night like a motherfucking physicist.

Now every third world arab nation in the world wanna get with this."

Topin' and Freakin'

I have to agree. If anything, we'll split into two groups, those who while away their lives watching reality TV, and the rest of us, grimly fighting to keep science alive and hold our infrastructure together.

You're just doing the same thing as those who act all holier than thou about not watching TV (made fun of in
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/).

I watch a lot of TV and movies (yes, including reality TV), and ALSO am very much a scientist and keep myself informed about the latest goings on in science. (Went on a SLAC tour as part of the Bay Area Science festival, and went to a lecture at Stanford.)

I won't get to know.

I block flash and I block javascript. I only whitelist js for certain sites but mostly, its all blocked.

(and nothing of value was lost...)

Obligatory Onion.

This is why us dirty liberals refer to Clinton as the best Republican president of the modern age.

Or perhaps he just happened to get the job at the right time. I wonder how different would things have been for all you Americans out there if you had Obama and Clinton switched in their offices. Specifically, this is one of my favorite articles on the whole issue. :-)

Fun Toy Banned Because of Three Stupid Dead Kids

...This had been fixed with the new 'completely intuitive 22-foot-tall, 11-foot-wide 600 lever steam-powered voting machines'

http://www.theonion.com/articles/florida-to-experiment-with-new-600lever-voting-mac,29699/

Oh Lord, why don't you just tell everyone you don't even own a TV so you can reach that epic level of doucheyness?

You clearly haven't tried the MacBook Wheel.

But you still get people magazine and hulu plus so you can talk about all the shows you've never heard of, right?

Google has a similar plan for the world :)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/google-announces-plan-to-destroy-all-information-i,1783/

obligatory humorous link to an article on.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia has some serious credibility problems, as a federal judge in California recently observed:

“It is unfortunate that the parties were unable to provide more authoritative evidence. One court recently noted the danger of relying
on Wikipedia:

Wikipedia.com [is] a website that allows virtually anyone to upload an article into what is essentially a free, online encyclopedia.
A review of the Wikipedia website reveals a pervasive and, for our purposes, disturbing series of disclaimers, among them,
that: (i) any given Wikipedia article ‘may be, at any given moment, in a bad state: for example it could be in the middle of
a large edit or it could have been recently vandalized;’ (ii) Wikipedia articles are ‘also subject to remarkable oversights and
omissions;’ (iii) ‘Wikipedia articles (or series of related articles) are liable to be incomplete in ways that would be less usual in
a more tightly controlled reference work;’ (iv) ‘[a]nother problem with a lot of content on Wikipedia is that many contributors
do not cite their sources, something that makes it hard for the reader to judge the credibility of what is written;’ and (v) ‘many
articles commence their lives as partisan drafts' and may be ‘caught up in a heavily unbalanced viewpoint.’ ” Campbell ex rel.
Campbell v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 69 Fed.Cl. 775, 781 (2006).

“See also Badasa v. Mukasey, 540 F.3d 909, 910 (8th Cir.2008) (noting that Wikipedia is not a sufficiently reliable source on
which to rest judicial findings for the reasons stated in Campbell); Kole v. Astrue, No. CV 08–0411–LMB, 2010 WL 1338092,
*7 n. 3 (D.Idaho Mar. 31, 2010) (“At this point, it must be noted that, in support of his brief, Respondent cites to Wikipedia.
While it may support his contention of what the mathematical symbols of ‘’ refer to, Respondent is admonished from
using Wikipedia as an authority in this District again. Wikipedia is not a reliable source at this level of discourse. As an attorney
representing the United States, Mr. Rodriguez should know that citations to such unreliable sources only serve to undermine his
reliability as counsel”); R. Jason Richards, Courting Wikipedia, 44 TRIAL 62, 62 (2008) (“Since when did a Web site that any
Internet surfer can edit become an authoritative source by which law students could write passing papers, experts could provide
credible testimony, lawyers could craft legal arguments, and judges could issue precedents?”); James Glerick, Wikipedians Leave
Cyberspace, Meet in Egypt, WALL ST. J., Aug. 8, 2008, at W1 (“Anyone can edit [a Wikipedia] article, anonymously, hit and
run. From the very beginning that has been Wikipedia's greatest strength and its greatest weakness”).” Crispin v. Christian Audigier, Inc., 717 F.Supp.2d 965, 976 (C.D. Cal., 2010).

Definitely not 'scholarly mature.'

Given his record, a vote for Obama is a vote for more drone strikes. And I'm guessing a vote for Romney is also a vote for more drone strikes.

According to the news, Obama already took care of the Romney issue at the last debate.

No, I only read Time Advanced.

Blast from the past: http://www.theonion.com/articles/worlds-top-scientists-ponder-what-if-the-whole-uni,712/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/dolphins-evolve-opposable-thumbs,284/ "'I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, 'Holy fuck,'' said Oceanographic Institute director Dr. James Aoki"

And Christianity.

Yeah, right.

Those sure were some deadly riots touched off by Piss Christ.

No one murdered because of this image

WASHINGTON—Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in a lascivious sex act of considerable depravity, no one was murdered, beaten, or had their lives threatened, sources reported Thursday. The image of the Hebrew prophet Moses high-fiving Jesus Christ as both are having their erect penises vigorously masturbated by Ganesha, all while the Hindu deity anally penetrates Buddha with his fist, reportedly went online at 6:45 p.m. EDT, after which not a single bomb threat was made against the organization responsible, nor did the person who created the cartoon go home fearing for his life in any way. Though some members of the Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths were reportedly offended by the image, sources confirmed that upon seeing it, they simply shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and continued on with their day.

You FUCKING MORON.

Well, there are some crazy Christians, but not nearly as many, and the truly crazy ones are few and far between.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/

Gillette sponsors a team of astronomers to find a planetary system of five stars. http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/ [Link contains strong language that may be considered NSFW]

The more enlightened countries of the world should pool their resources to build a secret satellite that can project huge images on the moon, and will run Muslim-offensive material directed at the more backwards parts of the world until the extremists have all been desensitized to offense towards their religion. We'll start with simple, non-offensive stick-figures labelled "The Prophet Mohammed" just flashed once a week, and move onto stuff like this running all night long until the riots stop:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/

With no single place to focus their rage, they'll distribute their riots to various western embassies and should be easier to manage.

Islam is a blight on humanity

Religion is a blight on humanity.

Fixed that for ya. Doesn't matter whether intolerance and the desire for absolute control over morality and ethics emanates from Saudi Arabia, Rome, an Anglican pulpit or some intolerant, fundamentalist bigot in the southern US of A.

Belief in mean, paternalistic sky fairies and an intense wave of misogyny is the problem, here. In other words, believe whatever you like, and practice whatever superstition you choose. But the minute you try to impose that belief on any another human being without allowing them the ability to critically question your assumptions, you're in the serious wrong and need to be bitch slapped back to sanity.

Reminds me of the recent Onion item ... No One Was Murdered Because Of This Image

It reminds me of the Live Polling bit on the Onion.

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/

Why would they waste money on Crowdsourcing technology?

Awesome, I enjoyed the prequel to that one already.

I hate to have to be the one to inform you of this, but corporations were invented by the Romans for the purpose of being considered a person under the law. "Corporations are people" has been the quick legal definition of what a corporation is for over two thousand years.

I hate to have to be the one to inform you of this, but asserting a thing doesn't make it so. Evidence?

This is why the founding fathers used language like "Natural Persons" to distinguish living people from fictional legal entities.

When and where did they do that, exactly? The phrase doesn't appear anywhere in the Declaration of Independence or in the Constitution. OTOH, the latter document refers to "person," "persons," and "people" repeatedly, with no indication whatsoever that these words are supposed to refer to anything other than actual living, breathing human beings.

Protip: don't be this guy.

I'm just gonna leave the obligatory Onion article here. (Note, at the time I began composing this, nobody else had posted a link, nor had the inevitable "I don't own/watch a tv" posts started"

If I want to spend my time off doing things people don't like, that shouldn't be anyone's business but mine. Whether it's smoking, skydiving, wild orgies, satanic rituals, or all of that at the same time.

I agree with you. But as for this producing "more global warming" -- well, I must draw your attention to The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-ecofriendly-cigarettes-kill-destructive-human,17529/

He's playing a variant of the area man constantly mentioning he doesn't own a television tune. He's showing how superior he is for using outdated technology that fills a specific niche better than a modern, general-purpose device. In reality, most people aren't out to tilt in his little idealistic crusade, and just use both.

The onion owns many subsidiaries, it seems.

The genius that is The Onion is that they write stories that are outrageous but utterly believable at some level.

I often call it "the journal of shit that hasn't happened yet, but will"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/

Read. Be sad.

--
BMO

Actually the new find only further confirms prior evidence that it was Dasani once flowed on the Red Planet. http://www.theonion.com/articles/cokesponsored-rover-finds-evidence-of-dasani-on-ma,1146/

There's a great "The Onion" article that pretty much sums up the situation:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/

"You are STEALING content! How do the content creators get paid?!?"

Content creators do not have a right to have their business model work out. Besides, most ads pay per click, not per view these days (though both kinds still exist).

There are many other business models. An online game of mine (BattleMaster) runs entirely on donations, for example. I'm very proud of having been able to run this game for 12 years now, and there has never been a single banner or pop-up ad on the site. Not in the game, not in the wiki, not in the forum.
Does it allow me to quit my day job? Nope. Does it pay for its own bills (hosting, etc.)? Absolutely.

There are Freemium models, there are subscription models like The Onion where you get a few free articles and then they ask you to subscribe. And, of course, there is the old "You want something? Pay up and you get it." system. You know, the one that mankind has been using for a few thousand years?

The Internet has been and still is experimenting with various ways of making money. If yours doesn't work out, stop whining and start taking the possibility into consideration that your business model is flawed.

The Onion published this not long after the first 4-bladed razor came out:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/

HP's cloud is the best

Rubbish. A movie can not have the intent to offend since a movie can not offend. The only person who decides who is offended is the person who gets offended at stuff. I can say whatever I want to you, if you get offended by it that is your problem, not mine. You can chose not to be offended by it. Adults generally do when children say offensive things. When retards say offensive things too.

In this case the "offender" and the "offendee" are equally retarded, and boom, you have a boom.

People supporting free speech should sponsor one such movie a week, hitting every major and minor religious figure in history, until these retards stops electing to be offended by something that is not offensive.

No One Murdered Because Of This Image

I am a muslim i dont support in violent protests and killing of innocents, but i do believe that this video is truly offensive and hurtful , freedom does not mean to mock anothers religion its just plain prejudice , just to let you know that muslims love jesus believe in him and respect him also. if not believing him to be son of GOD is disrespect than my friend there are east orthodox churches and christians that believe the same. muslims are not asking anyone to forcefully believe in Prophet Muhammad but it is something else to demean him. If americans believe in democracy then they must understand the majority in the world does not agree with each and every of there ideas and ideals and most of the world does not believe that freedom is in making fun of religion. By doing this you are making the muslims more estranged from you and helping and justifying terrorism in the eyes of many.
If tomorrow someone pisses on your mothers grave what will you just stand there watching? and say this is democracy ! peace bro !
If removing of one video can save thousands of lives , dudes grow up and be a little understanding

If they keep stretching movies out like that they'll end up like this. Also The Onion (linked from the page above).

It reminds me of a parody of the final Harry Potter film(s) the Onion did a while back. See here.

Missed one, from their radio service: Roomba Continues Gathering Evidence Against Human Captor

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-roomba-blender-makes-smoothie-out-of-everythin,29539/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/roomba-violates-all-three-laws-of-roombotics,2184/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/roomba-maker-unveils-military-robot,15331/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-roomba-blender-makes-smoothie-out-of-everythin,29539/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/roomba-violates-all-three-laws-of-roombotics,2184/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/roomba-maker-unveils-military-robot,15331/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-roomba-blender-makes-smoothie-out-of-everythin,29539/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/roomba-violates-all-three-laws-of-roombotics,2184/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/roomba-maker-unveils-military-robot,15331/

(NSFW) http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/

Still no one murdered because of this offense to Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism.

But, there's no shortage of twats on Slashdot and elsewhere making excuses about how offensive the film is, the intent of the producer, it's not Islam, it's about economics, this is only a trigger, bullshit, blah, bullshit, blah, bullshit.

What about the cops in Los Angeles picking up the film's producer for "questioning"? What the fuck is that about? How is that acceptable?

Are they going to block this image from the Onion, entitled "No One Murdered Because Of This Image"? After all everyone tells us that Muslims are no worse than people of other religions, so surely this insult to Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism will have the members of respective religions storming embassies and murdering people all over the place?

If not some people might suspect that Islam really is a more violent and savage religion than the others

I believe this onion cartoon explains the difference between Islam and the other major religions well:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/?ref=auto

Rubbish. A movie can not have the intent to offend since a movie can not offend. The only person who decides who is offended is the person who gets offended at stuff. I can say whatever I want to you, if you get offended by it that is your problem, not mine. You can chose not to be offended by it. Adults generally do when children say offensive things. When retards say offensive things too.

In this case the "offender" and the "offendee" are equally retarded, and boom, you have a boom.

People supporting free speech should sponsor one such movie a week, hitting every major and minor religious figure in history, until these retards stops electing to be offended by something that is not offensive.

No One Murdered Because Of This Image

The image of the Hebrew prophet Moses high-fiving Jesus Christ as both are having their erect penises vigorously masturbated by Ganesha, all while the Hindu deity anally penetrates Buddha with his fist reportedly went online at 6:45 p.m. EDT, after which not a single bomb threat was made against the organization responsible, nor did the person who created the cartoon go home fearing for his life in any way. Though some members of the Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths were reportedly offended by the image, sources confirmed that upon seeing it, they simply shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and continued on with their day.