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  1. Re:Socialism by Anonymous Coward on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 0

    Nevertheless-- they are godless communists by US standards.

  2. Reversal reverses Russia by Hognoxious on Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia Chuck Norris overthrows the evil godless commies (by like kicking them and stuff, a lot) thus causing it to paradoxically not be Soviet any longer, but to be free.

    So: with Chuck Norris, Russian reversal reverses Russia!

  3. Re:Not a surprise. by sumdumass on Possible Active Glacier Found On Mars · · Score: 1

    Evolution hasn't stopped. Maybe in humans it has stopped in the sense that we won't be seeing dramatic changes, like people with fewer toes outnumbering normal people. Nevertheless, some genetic conditions (the very bad ones, like the ones that affect the respiratory chain or other vital stuff) might become scarcer due to natural selection.
    Evolution tends to be an envelope term that encompasses evolutionary theories. The common ancestor part is connected but separate from the the strong survive and traits from parents parts. But all together, it is the evolution we generically refer to when talking about it as a whole. The parts that supposedly stopped it new and separate creatures from common ancestors. While people and animals are born different, even mutated, they still go on to be the same animals that always were. We haven't seen a new species created, we have though, seen what we think is the beginning of a new species but it isn't there yet.

    I know everyone has a right to study what they want, but it annoys me when people focus so much on human evolution, there are a lot more interesting and less controversial aspects of evolution than "0mg we came from monkeys!!1!".
    Well, you see, this goes back to the envelope thing. It isn't necessarily that we came from monkeys (I know it is ape and there is a difference). It is the problem that the coming from monkeys is the part that contradicts biblical representations. What has amplified this is that we kicked god out of school and in some areas are going as far as saying god doesn't exist, your the illegitimate offspring of a monkey and anything that says otherwise is nothing but a fairy tale. The entire points that make it popular and on the tips of everyone's minds is this controversy. You simply cannot have a government agency denying the free practice of religion just as you cannot have them pushing religion on you. The constitution says both, not just what makes some people happy. If it is valid in one instance, it is valid in all instances.

    But this isn't really a fault of science, it or more a fault of the instruction or type of instruction of science in certain areas. It can easily be adapted to be instructed in the same ways that don't create problems in other areas of the country. It isn't that those area are godless, it seems to be that the problem areas are having God specifically rebuked.

    Any good biology book will tell you the arguments for and against evolution (hint, hint). If it really challenges your faith, you might as well read up on it on your own, and you'll quickly realize it's a theory.
    This is probably the biggest problem. We don't have good biology books in all our schools. We don't have consistent instruction from them and we have teachers injecting personal interpretations and opinions on top of it that turn it into a representation of fact not theory. You will even see around here where people are convinced it is a fact, all of the theory, every single thing, fact, Science has proved it.

    They believe there is no room for error and it appears as if they have taken a religions like faith in what they were told. I would doubt that there would be an issue that gets national attention if we had "good" biology books and people instructing science in a way that pertains to science and not in a way that claims any god is part of some fairy tale. They don't even have to mention GOD, That is what I am saying. Make no reference or representation to any religion and if asked about the differences in religious views, simply stating this is the way science uses it and science finds it works best with their process is enough to get around the issue and let things go. If the student is bright enough to open a door before walking into a room, they will judge the information being presented on their own and come to their own conclusions. If they reject god on their own fine, but if they keep god and retain the Idea of evolution within the context of science, they have still learned the material.
  4. Four corner universe you say? by Nazlfrag on Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From? · · Score: 0

    We are living in a four corner universe built on LIES!
    You are stupid for reading this you are a LIE!
    Only TRUTH can be found in 4-corner simulation!
    Education makes you stupid 1-corner thinking!

    A simulated simulation of the four universes is TRUTH!
    Up and down are LIES by the GODLESS MORONS!
    There is only inside and upside down in 4-corner universe!

    MAKE YOUR TIME FAST, 1 CORNER UNIVERSE CUBE = DEATH!
    1+1+1+1=TRUTH, 1 IS A LIE!
    FOUR UNIVERSES FOUR LETTERS IN "LIES" COINCIDENCE?

    I'm a pretty purple pony, you are stupid and ugly.

    GOD IS LIES part of the 1-corner reality that makes you STUPID

    Go to hell I hate all the filthy scumsucking humans they are STUPID!!!

    TRUTH is 4 universe fractal IT JUST MAKES SENSE!
    4 UNIVERSE RATIONAL TRUTH IRRATIONAL LIES we live in LIES!
    "Whomsoever reads this is STUPID!"
    THERE is no GOD only FOUR UNIVERSE you will BURN IN HELL!

    MY HEAD ASPLODE!

  5. Oh 1947? by Anonymous Coward on The Transistor's 60th Birthday · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gosh what a coincidence that they invented it in 1947, the same year as the alleged ROSWELL INCIDENT.

    They didn't fucking invent that transistor, that shit was recovered alien technology.

    I know all you /.'ers are fucking brainwashed by your godless, rationalist educational system so you can't even consider the possibility that - (1) UFO's are a real phenomenon with a non-human intelligence at the wheel, and that (2) we might not really be able to take credit for all our technology but I submit to you that YOU AREN'T AS SMART AS YOU THINK YOU ARE.

    It just kills me that we have such a poor understanding of our own space, time, and consciousness yet we brazenly declare that "UFO PEEPLES R TEH STOOPID AND CRAZY"

    Go ahead, mod me down, we've got to keep the UFO thing a secret or else we're all going to panic, crack open each other's skulls and feast on the goo inside.

    Fuckin' brainwashed.

  6. creators to rescue planet/population using... by Anonymous Coward on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: -1

    newclear power. no gadgets, or man-made foibles required.

    we're intending (do not underestimate the power of intentions) for the godless nazis to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather'.

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

    now, that's terrorism/torture on a glowbull scale.

    the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

    corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
    (Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
    by ourselves on everyday 24/7

    as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption.

    fortunately there's an 'army' of angels, coming yOUR way

    do not be afraid/dismayed, it is the way it was meant to be.

    the little ones/innocents must/will be protected.

    after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit?

    for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available.

    all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven.

    no need to fret (unless you're associated/joined at the hype with, unprecedented evile), it's all just a part of the creators' wwwildly popular, newclear powered, planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

    or, is it (literally) ground hog day, again? many of US are obviously not interested in how we appear (which is whoreabull) from the other side of the 'lens', or even from across the oceans.

    vote with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.

    we still haven't read (here) about the 2/3'rds of you kids who are investigating/pursuing a spiritual/conscience/concious re-awakening, in amongst the 'stuff that matters'? another big surprise?

    some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

    it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....

    as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.

    concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.

    'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?

    "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

  7. north of DC to become 'new' sunbelt? by Anonymous Coward on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 0

    not right away of course, due to all the fake 'weather' being manufactured for US. maybe next year, or as soon as the godless corepirate nazis are disempowered by the big flash.

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying

    see you there?

  8. Re:But where to draw the line? by Anonymous Coward on Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements · · Score: 0

    Having been brought up in a christian faith which I then rejected in adulthood (I simply couldn't believe the fairytales) I see religion as little more than a moral crutch for the feeble minded.
    Most religious arguments seem to me to be of the "my imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend" variety. I used to have an imaginary friend - but then I became an atheist.

    To we godless heathens here downunder in Australia, seeing the fuss that the neo-conservative Jesusophiles (of Mohammedophiles) can wreak when they put their political muscle into action - all I can say is thank Darwin for universal enforced suffrage here in Australia.
    That's right - legally you have to vote in state and federal elections - at least you have to rock up to a voting place and get your name crossed off a list - or you get a small fine. You can do whatever you want with the pieces of paper they give you - even vote.
    The end result is that most people vote in a moderately sane way most of the time and diffuse the excesses of the lunatic fringes at either end of the political spectrum. This to me seems to be a wonderful thing. We expect our science teachers to know something about science. We don't give a rats if they are religious or not but if they tried to bring religion in to the classroom of a state high school they would get a "please explain" letter from the boss.

    The problem with ID is that it is based in religion not science and as a pseudoscience does not have to meet the peer reviews, hypothesis tests, have evidence-based theories or be predictive in nature.
    The real strength of real science is that it explains the universe as we perceive and measure it and the better we get at perception and measurement the more we understand it.
    It can also help us develop new ways of seeing and avoid problems (such as the ozone hole) that we wouldn't have known about expect for developments in remote sensing technologies (which are also assisting in the fight against climate change).

    ID is just a crutch for flat-earth religious losers who remind me of kids who stick their fingers in their ears and sing so they can't hear what you are saying.
    Creationism is simply bunk. It isn't science, has never been science and will never be science.
    I simply hope that every effort is made to expunge ID so-called science teachers from teaching science. Being a science teacher myself with a BSc [double major in Botany and Soil Science/Plant Nutrition] and a Dip Ed from UWA I consider science too important a subject and too important for modern economies and society in general to leave to no-nothing nobodies who put the ancient mutterings of shamans ahead of reason, experimentation and evidence gained from the combined labours of thousands (if not millions) of scientists over hundreds of years.

    Hypothetico-deductive reasoning rules OK!!!
    Otherwise we are leaving the age of reason and entering the age of nonsense.

  9. Re:how, exactly by Guppy06 on Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements · · Score: 1

    "as much sense as believing in centimetres but not believing in kilometres."

    My Korean car requires sockets measured in millimeters but the odometer measures miles! Kilometers are a dirty lie perpetrated by godless communists!

  10. Re:how, exactly by a_nonamiss on Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements · · Score: 1

    I believe that all life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor. I believe in natural selection. I don't think Darwin was a godless antichrist, and I support his Theory of Evolution.

    However, I still believe in Genesis. If you read it with an open mind, not subject to literal interpretation, it's amazing how much science and religion agree and even compliment one another. In fact, for the sake of argument, let's say I was God, and I made a universe, and I made it EXACTLY as described by modern science. Now, let's say I was trying to describe it to a bunch of people living in tents that still crapped next to their dining areas. I think that I would write a book to explain the origin of life, and I think it would be a whole heck of a lot like the Bible. I wouldn't try to explain the concept of general relativity, string theory, or recombinant DNA in said book. It would be simple stories about things those tent-dwellers could relate to. Seriously, read the first chapter of Genesis and don't get hung up on terms like "day" and "spirit" and tell me how that doesn't match up with scientific theory. Imagine you're trying to explain modern science to a caveman.

    However, I acknowledge that my belief in a greater power is not something I can prove, or something that can be subject to scientific analysis. Therefore, I don't go around calling what I believe science. It's philosophy, pure and simple. It's not testable, it's not reproducible, and most importantly, nobody can prove that it's incorrect.

    I think what the ID movement did so wrong was to start calling their philosophy a science. They're trying to shoehorn it into a biology class, so they have to call it a science, but clearly it's not. Anything that can't be disproved isn't a science. So, why I think my ideas are neat and everything, I would want them taught in a science class. I'd want them put in with religion and philosophy where they belong.

  11. Re:skul what? by budgenator on Comcast Continues to Block Peer to Peer Traffic · · Score: 1

    yeah like mine, my dial-up maxed out at 27.8, so I assume that DSL would be pretty dismal as well. At work we had satellite, which works good for web browsing but start something like FTP with a lot of handshaking and you'd be better off on dial-up. Out of spite I've been running ktorrent, I'd load anything on a "most popular" list at the trackers last night I managed to upload 221.4 MB.

    Comcast like all ISPs are NOT common carriers, but they do enjoy certain immunities against criminal prosecution for illegal content transfers; but that is not going to stop some soccer-mom from getting out of her SUV and suing the shit out of them in civil proceedings. I think we geeks should explain the advantages of bit-torrent for distributing religious and political brochures to our Church, Civic and Political groups, before long COMCAST will be tarred and feathered as the Godless Anti-American Heathens that they are.

  12. Re:Good by jvkjvk on Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches · · Score: 1

    People have been doing worse things than this to one another for centuries, usually in the name of one God or another, and you are taking the existence of a zombie cockroach as your final proof of a Godless universe? Is there a justification here I'm just not seeing? Well, for those so inclined, here's a general breakdown of this train of thought:

    1) Humans have "free will" and thus are not subject to "God's Laws" in the here and now while

    2) Animals do not have as much "free will" and are thus controlled much more directly by the Divine

    3) The behaviours in question appear freakish, "morally" reprehensible and certainly not benevolent - from the standpoint of a Human Being.

    4) God also has the same set of morals and uses the same set of critera as the Human Being in 3).

    5) If God were to exist, we would not find these types of behaviours IRL due to 2) and 4). Maybe we wouldn't be able to think about them either, not sure...

    5) Thus, God can't exist because it would be an inherent contradiction since we do see this happening.

    YMMV, but that doesn't appear to be a very good argument to me, either.
  13. Re:Good by One+Childish+N00b on Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This should serve once and for all to dispel the myth of a benevolent creator.

    Alright, you've posted with your real account, which has no history of trolling, so either this is a genuine statement or you forgot to hit 'Post Anonymously'.

    I have to ask, at the risk of being modded troll myself... why?

    People have been doing worse things than this to one another for centuries, usually in the name of one God or another, and you are taking the existence of a zombie cockroach as your final proof of a Godless universe? Is there a justification here I'm just not seeing?

  14. So, what happens when you can't get the heat out? by YHZ_MadMonk_CAN on Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages · · Score: 0

    Doesn't matter whether it's a nuclear reaction (which it appears to be) or otherwise, what happens when those pipes for the cooling liquid are broken? It doesn't seem like a very self-contained electricity generation system. The actual electricity is generated outside this unit. So, let me ask a different question. Something bad happens to your connections to the "nuclear battery". Control lines and water-cooling cut. Does the reaction just magically stop? Forgive me, I stopped taking physics after my freshman year. Forget for a moment the unlikely acts of terrorists (whether they be evil ferinners and godless heathen or God fearing, tax paying, white folk out to topple the corrupt regime) and think about big-ass storms, seismic events, wildfires or neighbourhood industrial accidents.

  15. Re:God of the Gaps by Citizen+of+Earth on Liquid Crystal Phases of DNA, Beginning of Life? · · Score: 1

    Ever study a godless society or those in power that don't believe in God

    Yeah, those secular societies are the most backward in the world!

  16. God works in mysterious ways! by Digestromath on Creationists Violating Copyright · · Score: 1
    Through our court documents, we shall prove that God ultimately made this video through divine intervention (hereto known as 'immaculate editing').

    Our position is that:

    1)Despite the godless, secular nature of Harvard, God none the less inspired them to create the original video

    2)Through means of divine communication assigned us the copyright and moral rights, as only the progenitor of the universe can.

    3)With His assent, we subsequently created a derivitave work without blasphemy.

    4)Profit er...

  17. Re:God of the Gaps by DigiShaman on Liquid Crystal Phases of DNA, Beginning of Life? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ever study a godless society or those in power that don't believe in God (or "higher power" more specifically)? You get a nasty form of hubris and arrogance hell bent on power and selfishness.

    On the flip side of the coin, I wouldn't want to live in the days of the crusades or modern radical Islam either. But don't wish for a Godless society. It's just as bad.

  18. godless corepirate nazis seize weather/population by Anonymous Coward on Russian Police Seize Kasparov · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    chilling the creators' little ones for just a bit more mammon.

    the lights are coming up all over now. pay attention. it's cost effective, & could help make the future brighter for all of us. don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, so you'll be alert when witnessing the big flash.

    there's lots to be done. the planet/population remains in crisis mode.

    we're intending (do not underestimate intentions) for the philistine nazi execrable to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things.

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying [google.com]

    micro management has never worked. it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.

    the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

    corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
    (Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
    by ourselves on everyday 24/7

    as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption.

    fortunately there's an 'army' of 'angels'(light bringers, for those who are afraid of/confused by heavenly stuff), coming yOUR way

    do not be dismayed, it is the way it was meant to be.

    the little ones/innocents must/will be protected.

    after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit?

    for each of the creators' innocents harmed (in any way), there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available after the big flash occurs.

    beware the illusionary smoke&mirrors.con

    all is not lost or forgotten.

    no need to fret (unless you're associated/joined at the hype with, unprecedented evile), it's all just a part of the creators' wwwildly popular, newclear powered, planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

    or, it could be (literally) ground hog day, again? many of US are obviously not interested in how we appear (which is whoreabull) from the other side of the 'lens', or even from across the oceans.

    vote with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.

    we still haven't read (here) about the 2/3'rds of you kids who are investigating/pursuing a spiritual/conscience/concious re-awakening, in amongst the 'stuff that matters'? another big surprise?

    some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

    it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....

    as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.

    concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.

    'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?

    "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

  19. Satire solves everything by sadangel on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simple. Re-title the book "The Lexicon of the Godless World of the Evil Harry Potter and his Stupid Friends". Presto! Suddenly it's satire and protected speech.

  20. You got it all wrong... by Frosty+Piss on FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know they'll be going after people that like Chinese cooking on the grounds that they're probably Communists.
    No, no...

    Communists are "OK" because although they may be godless, at least ther are not Muslim.

    Remember, this war is about two things: GWB's version of Christian God, and oil. In that order.