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I agree with you on the parenting part, for one no one should comment on parenting unless they're parents themselves.

But on your statement regarding the slashdot crowd is being "religiously godless and radically liberal" and that slashdot should be more balanced. I feel I must speak out against that. Slashdot, being a forum and site for technology related subjects (hence, for the nerds), it will inherently be biased towards one side. And of course the said modding will be radical, since the only people that bothers to mod are those with radical opinions. Secondly, you could also argue the same regarding many other online groups, including the PTA. Which consists of members who, pardon my language, are a bunch of "ultra conservertists and hard-core fundamentalists" (maybe a bit extreme, but just to make a point.

ive read through this thread (ugh, yeah - i shouldnt read the comments, just the articles) and i'm so bummed by how biased the moderating is.

the slashdot crowd is so religiously godless and radically liberal and most of 'em dont even have kids so they are talking out of their arse when they speak of parenting (and most of the ones that do have kids frighten me.)

this is not going to get modded at all, or -1 troll if anyone bothers to read it, but on principle i will submit it anyway.

it'd be neat if slashdot was more balanced, but most techno-geeks are hardcore bigots in their own special way anyway. i guess we're all lucky they are techno-bigots instead of lynch-mob bigots, but the thought process is still the same. freaky, huh? in another time/place these whacko's would be running progroms against windows users or something. sad.

Yeah, because we all need our God-given right to discriminate based on sexual orientation. It's their own fault for being fags! If they weren't faggots, God wouldn't hate them, and we wouldn't hate them. Why does everyone blame the white people for discrimination when it's plain to see the fault lies with the fags? It's just like how women complain that their husbands abuse them when it's sure as shooting she didn't bring the beer when she was told. Everyone wants to assume the problem lies with white people. Next I bet you'll start saying it was wrong for us to invade Iraq and Afghanistan and kill all those godless heathen ragheads.

PS: GOD HATES FA, err, sarcasm alert! ^^;;~

Here in the states we don't like those long haired draft dodging pinko commie bike riders taking up any of that beautiful black asphalt that each of us God fearing American moterists is garuenteed unfettered access to in the Constitution. Such marks as you describe would just give the godless bikers the idea that they are equal to us and encourage them to ride.

Remeber, the Commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own.

Mein Führer! I can walk!

Hope that clears up your confusion, you pinko-commie, Godless word nazi. ;)

Languages grow and evolve on a daily basis, and so for purposes of word variety, a descriptive approach works best; that is to say, a dictionary should reflect actual usage over time.

A grammar book should use the same rules over time, without flexibility, so as to assure us that "John kicked Mike in the leg" does not one day become "In the leg, Mike kicked John."

When a word is born (or evolves), and usage is broad enough to ensure understanding, that word should be considered acceptable. In this case, it is clear that you are feigning ignorance in order to point out faults in another's writing. This is neither polite nor intelligent behavior.

Well, yeah, but pffft! Only godless Communists play video bowling anymore. Who cares about them?

There's a difference between 'conservative' and 'wack job' christians. This guy isn't conservative, he's just a hate-spouting fool. His drawings remind me of the old WW2 cartoons, the ones where japanese people had fangs and pointy ears.

It's a kind of visual ad hominem attack, and it underscores the weakness of his position.

Don't worry, we godless heathens don't lump the intelligent Christians in with this nutjob and his ilk.

I for one am taking the high ground here and currently producing "Christian Cell" a first person action game that will teach children about the bible while they infiltrate godless liberal political organizations before they can put Hillary Clinton into Office and outlaw the bible.

After being air-dropped in the middle of the night your role as a member of Christian Cell will be to use your bible knowledge, high tech gadgetry and stealth skills to sneak up behind enemy targets, collect information and ultimately destroy the leaders of this terrorist organization.

Nah, I think the real explanation we lag the world is that Godless Furriners with no Family Values need more bandwidth for their porn downloads.

"This country contains people dummer than the common stump, even dumb enough to believe Creationist psuedo-science. This is a fact, not a theory, regarding the origin of many of the world's problems. These people should be approached with caution, studied carefully, and critically considered undependable, irratic, and quite dangerous."

And lest someone to the right of Adolf Hitler (slightly more than 50% of the voting public if election results are to be believed) get their panties in a knot, IAAA (I Am An American).

Read the section in context:


SEC. 212. EXEMPTION FROM INFRINGEMENT FOR SKIPPING AUDIO AND VIDEO CONTENT IN MOTION PICTURES.

(a) Short Title- This section may be cited as the `Family Movie Act of 2004'.

(b) Exemption From Copyright and Trademark Infringement for Skipping of Audio or Video Content of Motion Pictures- Section 110 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in paragraph (9), by striking `and' after the semicolon at the end;

(2) in paragraph (10), by striking the period at the end and inserting `; and';

(3) by inserting after paragraph (10) the following:

`(11) the making imperceptible, by or at the direction of a member of a private household, of limited portions of audio or video content of a motion picture, during a performance in or transmitted to that household for private home viewing, from an authorized copy of the motion picture, or the creation or provision of a computer program or other technology that enables such making imperceptible and that is designed and marketed for such use at the direction of a member of a private household, if--

`(A) no fixed copy of the altered version of the motion picture is created by such computer program or other technology; and

`(B) no changes, deletions or additions are made by such computer program or other technology to commercial advertisements, or to network or station promotional announcements, that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture.'; and

(4) by adding at the end the following:

`For purposes of paragraph (11), the term `making imperceptible' does not include the addition of audio or video content that is performed or displayed over or in place of existing content in a motion picture.'.


It appears that the whole section, including the parts about editing out "objectionable" content and not removing ads are relating to the same practice.

There's a group out there (Yo) that's renting/selling "family-friendly" movies with the materials that might offend conservatives removed. They have to edit the movies in-house to make their versions available. Right now I think they're in a legal grey area. Filmmakers want their work protected from prudish editors, and conservative parents want their children protected from godless liberal Hollywood heathens, so to speak.

Regardless of how you feel about editing movies for content, some people want their content pre-screened before they (or their kids) watch it. I'm personally against it, but this legislation doesn't force anyone to buy movies from these places.

Looks like the advertising bit refers directly to the practice of editing movies for content on after-studio edits. What they're saying is that a business may edit the film for content, but may not remove previews and ads, etc. that would appear on the original DVD or Video. I don't think this has anything to do with TiVo et al.

I had to check into this one further after seeing Rep. Rich "The Slashdot Congressman" Boucher's name on the list of cosponsors.

IANAL, btw.

Funny how the Republicans campaign against "Godless Hollywood which is corrupting our values", and then when elected immediatly rush through legislation which will greatly increase the cultural power of Hollywood and Nashville.

That said, this one is a lock. Expect it to be on the President's desk the week after Thanksgiving.

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Sorry for making the assumption that you were taking that position.

I think the gay marriage issue is less about tolerance and more about acceptance. There is a difference. I tolerate the fact that you have a different opinion than I do but that doesn't mean I accept your opinion as right.

Legally, a homosexual has just as many rights as a heterosexual. Moreover, given the fact that hate crime legislation is only enforced for minorities, one could say they have MORE rights than heterosexuals.

challenging of definition of the institution known as "marriage" instead of pursuing other avenues such as civil unions.

I would say that the gay marriage issue is a perfect example of the ideological intolerance that politically-correct politics creates. For instance, look at how those who oppose gay marriage are portrayed. They're backwater bigots or bible-thumping zealots rather than people with different opinions.

There is no need to prove the superiority of Firefox. The only thing you need to do is to link terrorism with IE, paint IE as creation by godless entity, while Firefox is used by US government and US army in the fight against terrorists, protect US against evil, if necessary put a cross on the head of the fox, Now 51 million people will use firefox.

"In God We Trust" and "Under God" have not been with us for a long time when we talk about Money and The Pledge.
Educate yourself. These were added strictly as part of the Cold War and McCarthyism to keep "Godless Commies" out of school and from using money.

"In God We Trust" and "Under God" have not been with us for a long time when we talk about Money and The Pledge.
Educate yourself. These were added strictly as part of the Cold War and McCarthyism to keep "Godless Commies" out of school and from using money. Like that worked at all. They are a black spot on our histiry and culture.

Nothing in America relating to government and religion even comes close the the issue of the Taliban and Buddha. 5K years gone in a second.....

"That is, we shouldn't remove the "In God We Trust" and other such things from our history/culture. They are there, they have been there for a very long time, and trying to erase that past is silly."

Actually, I think you introduced that "In God we trust" thing during the mcCarthyism era, in order to distance yourself from the godless, evil soviet empire. It's not that old, and Soviet has gone the way of the dodo...

Ahhh yes the liberal press where footnotes and documented sources are used. Not like the Bush Whitehouse where the "reality based community" is derided as being out of date. Where you supress all opions that differ from your own and exclude the people from the decision making process.

Also your 95% by 5% numbers, lets see a footnote, or even an endnote like Ann Coulter might use. You know what the GAO is? They're nopartisan governmental organization devoted to f'gur'n out numbers not taught in the 3rd grade.

You and your kind of radical right wingers are just trying to desrtoy the federal government so the SOUTH CAN RISE AGAIN! He's and idea go back to you anti-intelectual anti-thought all faith world and love the Jesus who tells us to go to war and kill your enemies. Then you and yours can wait for costal liberals and thier tax dollars to underwrite your imagined pastoral religous utopia.

Its funny that the godless liberals belive in and practice all the things that Jesus belived in and the evangelical christains would have be thrown out of their churches on thier ears by the actual radical left wing anti-estblishment Jesus.

I'm sure Jesus would have shitloads of sympathy for a man that puts people to death, sends good men and women who were free to kill women and children. The same guy who found Jesus by reading the chapter in the bible about distributing wealth to the poor, then turns around and does the opposite of what his god tells him in print. Why does his listen to god instead of reading him? He does what he hears god tell him. HE'S TOO FUCKING STUPID TO KNOW THAT THE DEVIL TALKS TOO! THE DEVIL TELLS YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR. THAT'S WHO BUSH LISTENS TO ON HIS KNEES EVERY NIGHT! Bush is like the first class at Harvard who took business ethics, the all turned around and broke those rules to become the first corporate raiders. Bush reads the bible, wait who am I kidding. Bush listens to other people reading small parts of the bible without context to come up with his morality. Bush wouldn't know real morality if it came up and bit him on the ass. And if you belive in hurbris which I do the gods have some serious ass biting in the wings for GWB.

Athiesm doesn't make terrorists.

No, it just makes GODLESS COMMIES!

This is a joke, sad as it is since many people actually believe this crap.

As a theory goes, evolution has yet to provide evidence of the spontaneous creation of the Jackalope, or any of his crazy bretheren. The theory proposes that, with enough time, the Jackalope could happen. There isn't any evidence that is true, though.

Ditto actual life itself.

Y'all have a lot of faith... but no evidence.

FWIW, my sister-in-law works as a Group Supervisor for a Juvenile Hall, and after hours of discussion with her, I hate to break the news to you: yes, kids exist that will go out and beat up a bunch of cripples. No, none of them had moral upbringings.

The (valuable) point that I was originally trying to make (please ignore the inflammatory bullshit) was that society is better off if science has an accompaniment of morality, than not.

That is to say, godless science is worse than godfull science.

And for some reason, some people get apoplectic against the idea that morality ought to be a part of the schools.

I don't understand why, but it seems to be the way it is.

If you think it would help, you could explain that to me.