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This article had every single logical fallacy in the book.

Tying the genes factors that contribute to a likely-hood of being religious may have have qualities in common with a stable family life... Like, i dunno, "trust". There's basically a lot of assumptions made throughout the entire article. Any of which given a proper error analysis would cause the conclusion to fall apart.

Also, the assumption that future "religious gene" carriers will be in an organized religion. There's a lot of things that people become "religious" towards. Kings, talk show hosts, drugs, sports teams, presidents, pseudoscience, etc. Just look at Obama supporters. It's so obvious that you can parody it without much stretching of the imagination. Example.

If Palin wins who knows what will happen.

I've seen that article. Here's the video.

whoosh.

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

This is China - in 2004, they didn't have a high-speed rail network worth the name. In 2010, they had approximately 10,000km built. If they want it next year, they'll get it alright

Its 2011 now. Does the USA, in this year, have a high-speed rail network?

I heard there was a plan for a high-speed bus network:

http://www.theonion.com/video/obama-replaces-costly-highspeed-rail-plan-with-hig,18473/

Rossi and Focardi’s paper on the nuclear reactor has been rejected by peer-reviewed journals, but the scientists aren’t discouraged. They published their paper in the Journal of Nuclear Physics, an online journal founded and run by themselves, which is obviously cause for a great deal of skepticism.

In other words, they're real-life versions of this guy.

Can't wait for the sex-scene!

Does the screenplay software help or hurt those?

the Chinese started to brag about how they where clearly more educated and hard working and superior to the western people because they got all the companies, technology, economy and whatever

Yeah, just like the Europeans were inherently superior, or the Japanese were inherently superior, or the American Way Of Life(TM) was superior. Now, the Chinese are on their way to being the biggest assholes on the planet. How fun that we can all wind up sharing something in common ^_^

A Drupal site doesn't have to look like anything in particular (especially a stock Drupal site with a blue theme and "Drupal devil" icon).

Here's

a newspaper: http://observer.com/
a magazine site: http://www.economist.com/
a discussion site: http://dailypaul.com/
a parody site: http://www.theonion.com/

And some more: 45 Drupal Sites Which You May Not Have Known Were Drupal Based

Why do you think the fire dept has anything to do with the water system? there just a user, like you.

If there is a pot hole, would you call the police about repairing it? because, they use it to? Just to be clear: The fire Dept. was right. YOU were wrong.

You clarity of protocol requirements reminds me of Franz Kafka International Airport.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/eons-of-darwinian-evolution-somehow-produce-mitch,17635/

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

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence

There is no longer a need for CDs. Check this absolutely remarkable device that Sony has created for this purpose!

Obligatory Onion Link:

Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs

I'm not so sure about that. I've seen articles in respected publications that dolphins intelligence has been consistently overestimated.

You mean that we might actually see the MacBook Wheel adopted sooner than expected!?

http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no,14299/

So this?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/highschool-science-teacher-takes-fun-and-excitemen,42/

Just today, I was reading Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace. The story goes well with the review. Cyberspace used to be portrayed as this crazy password-protected ghetto where people suffered severe brain damage if someone unplugged their 2400 baud modem while they were online.

Now, we see it so much, every day, that we have trouble thinking of it as exotic and futuristic. So, you bought your shoes in cyberspace...Big deal. The internet is no longer the "frontier" it used to be, and people interacting online are no longer the tech-savvy elite that you would have expected 28 years ago. Is it any surprise that we now have people scratching their heads about all the virtual reality cliches?

Well look on the bright side, we could be saving $200 million!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-announces-plan-to-launch-700-million-into-spa,1950/

(kudos to Soulskill on the memerrific taglines lately)

Congrats: you are the newest iteration of that guy

The Onion, as usual, has the scoop:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fda-approves-sale-of-prescription-placebo,1606/

I came across that link on Ben Goldacre's site, where he mentions a study from the 60s that (carefully) told the patients they were just getting sugar pills:

"Mr Doe ... we have a week between now and your next appointment, and we would like to do something to give you some relief from your symptoms. Many different kinds of tranquillisers and similar pills have been used for conditions such as yours, and many of them have helped. Many people with your kind of condition have also been helped by what are sometimes called 'sugar pills', and we feel that a so-called sugar pill may help you, too. Do you know what a sugar pill is? A sugar pill is a pill with no medicine in it at all. I think this pill will help you as it has helped so many others. Are you willing to try this pill?"

http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/all-bow-before-the-might-of-the-placebo-effect-it-is-the-coolest-strangest-thing-in-medicine/

http://www.leecrandallparkmd.net/researchpages/placebo1.html

40% of US residents believe in creationism. What are you going to say to them, huh?

"Awhh... forget about LHC... what do you think of Snooki?".
Is this good enough?

IPv4 is here and is not going away.

Wanna bet on it?
(hmmm... who do I know in ..IAA? Maybe suggeting them to assign an IPv6 addr to each person - like the SSN - addresses to be tracked to individual persons? I bet they'll lobby it in no time, no matter it does makes no technical sense... since when making sense is necessary for business?... Fuck everything, We're doing 5 blades).

Showing someone getting their head blown off at point-blank range with a shotgun? That's alright, just make sure it's realistic.

Obligatory link :-)

again, I will have to thoroughly second this article:

2010 was a landmark year for Zuckerberg: He watched his net worth surpass that of Steve Jobs and of Rupert Murdoch, while also expanding his online empire to include geo-location services, high-res photo-sharing, and enhanced personalization features, all of which just proved that the redheaded little dickface has really got our number and will always have us lining up and begging for more. Goddammit.

Will the audio warnings also be implemented?:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/orange-alert-sirens-to-blow-24-hours-a-day-in-majo,135/

But why watch that content hunched over a computer monitor? Just to say you don't own a TV?

Big TVs are getting cheap. My gaming rig is hooked up to a 42" LCD. Giant display == awesome.

Glad to hear you're ok area man!

It isn't what you think it is, you're just being thrust in the situation of this guy:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock,10861/

Enjoy your recently discovered gayness, bear the rainbow flag with pride.

Do us all a favor and kill yourself coward

It isn't what you think it is, you're just being thrust in the situation of this guy:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock,10861/

Enjoy your recently discovered gayness, bear the rainbow flag with pride.

1. the quality of being novel; newness; freshness
2. something new, fresh, or unusual; change; innovation
3. a small, often cheap, cleverly made article, usually for play or adornment: usually used in pl.

Come on man, foodism is all about novelty. Those people can convince themselves that something is good merely because it is unusual. I had bone marrow without any preconceptions...heck I was even open-minded towards bizarre foods. It was awful. Just wait, a year from now, bone marrow will be back to being offal that only hicks eat, and the celebrity chefs will all be hawking the benefits of baking soda mixed with Pixie Stix as the Next Big Thing. "Snorting your food! Bypass the mouth for that next big sensation!" See this article from The Onion for an illustration.

what about this patent?

"But what if there's nothing worth watching?"

I did not realize the networks had anything worth watching right now.

Maybe you spend too much time trying to act cool on Slashdot instead of catching some good T.V.

Perhaps he has more of a life than sitting growing fat in front of a television?

Yeah, growing fat in front of a computer is much better. Why do you douchebags who hate TV so much insist on reading and posting in TV threads?

This link may be relevant to your interests.

I can't quite see their logic here:
1) DDoS corporate websites
2) DDoS corporate fax machines.
3) DDoS corporate record players?
4) DDoS corporate 8-track machines?

Reminds me of this Onion article.

See, it's already been done - the World of Warcraft sequel lets you play a character who is playing World of Warcraft!!! How cool is that?!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/

the man who doesn't own a television and in pure narcissism tells this fact to anyone at the slightest chance

i am the same sort of laughable curmudgeon when it comes to facebook: i don't have a page, and never will, and proudly announce the fact to people whenever the subject of facebook comes up. i am the fringe weirdo, and i know it. and regardless of my level of narcissism, i am apparently also turning out to be wise. people are feeding facebook so much detail about their lives they are doing nothing than feeding a beast which makes privacy in their lives impossible

facebook is a future myspace/ friendster. give it a few years. simply as a matter of fact that facebook's business goals will make people more and more uncomfortable and more and more creeped out. yet facebook cannot back away from their business goals of exploiting and cashing in on the massive data stores about us that they are sitting on, because those server farms cost a heck of a lot to maintain. so as facebook rushes to fulfill the promise of their business plan, they will inevitably repulse and drive away their members

cantankerous weirdos like me who don't have a facebook account will begin to look cool again, prescient even. i promise i won't loudly bleat "i told you so" in 2013 when the latest slashdot story is about the decline of facebook

but here's the big thing: the phenomenon of social networking sites have a real world analogy: the hot club/ restaurant/ bar. take any metropolitan area, and you will have some nightlife hangouts that are THE place to be and be seen, some that are past their prime, and some that are up and coming. social networking sites are the online analogy of this continuous sociological process of rising and falling. after a certain amount of time as the "center of the world", a new dynamic takes places where a new "in" crowd begins to consider the hot hangout spot to be over the hill, declasse, tired, over. and they have a new little place where the "coolest of the cool" hang out. and then the exodus begins in earnest. soon the new place has lines out the door every night, the old place is empty. somehow everyone knows about the new place, and they all want to get in. the old place can't pay people to come. then a new "in" crowd rises... repeat ad nauseum. what's notable for those who would extend this analogy completely, is that there is subcultural rift lines. the internet is still young. maybe the future of social networking sites will fractionate according to those who identify themselves according to certain subcultural identifiers. well, that's true already to some extent

now if i were REALLY smart i'd be busy maneuvering around the next feature set that will make the next social networking site the "got to have it" place to put up your profile. and ride that pile of money to its bitter end. well, there's probably already about a hundred thousand zuckerberg wannabes out there doing exactly that already. 99% of those wannabes absolutely suck, but in that remaining 1%, all i know is, one of them will actually succeed

because facebook is jumping the shark, and the internet still needs an "it" social hangout spot. which site that will be... i wish i had that crystal ball

Some other media outlet should do the Man of the Year thing. Time has sucked at it for years.

Maybe they'll have a non-shitty selection in Time Magazine For Adults.

Are you by any chance this guy?

(Yes I know you only mentioned it once, but I just find that particular onion piece funny)

I mean... they already have got him fired!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/product-awareness-increased-with-advertisement,307/

there just isn't much in the way of eye candy in the Federal spotlight.

Well, with the obvious exception of Joe Biden.

For some interesting research in the same field see:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/good-old-days-traced-back-to-single-weekend-in-194,18210/

What an incredible racket to have a business that peddles lies every day, without consequences.

Yeah, the folks at The Onion seem to be doing a pretty good job. Maybe the other "news" organizations are simply watching their success, and following in their footsteps.

And note that The Onion has a long-standing policy of never admitting that they publish parody and satire. They do so despite (or maybe because of) the fact that their stories frequently get quoted as fact.

For that matter, during the last couple of US elections, surveys repeatedly reported that the best-informed voters were those who watched Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) and Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report).

This will probably trigger a lot of correlation-vs-causation replies ...

It is already socially awkward to admit liking him since he was found to be a 51 year old pedophile.

I hope he never works for Gillette.

Obligatory Onion

http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money,2912/

"Unfortunately, he got into office and concentrated on his progressive agenda instead."

You meant "conservative agenda", surely?

"The conservatives stopped trying to actually get anything done, and instead focused on a 24/7 dirty PR campaign. In an inept attempt at fighting the smear attacks, Mr. Obama sank into the same partisan bickering that he had previously railed against."

Come on, Obama (and Democrats in general) can't even start to counteract this dirty PR. Onion (as usual) is right on the mark: http://www.theonion.com/articles/democrats-if-were-gonna-lose-lets-go-down-running,18333/