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Scientific American Gives Up
IvyMike writes "The April issue Scientific American opens with a Perspectives column titled Okay, We Give Up. It opens, 'For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. We resisted their advice and pretended not to be stung by the accusations that the magazine should be renamed Unscientific American, or Scientific Unamerican, or even Unscientific Unamerican. But spring is in the air, and all of nature is turning over a new leaf, so there's no better time to say: you were right, and we were wrong.'"
I know that there are people that take video games seriously and I don't know why exactly, but some do.
I've heard of fights, I've heard of friends falling out, but I have never heard of murder. At least not until now.
A Chinese man, Qiu Changwei stabbed Zhu Caoyuan to death after he sold the guys cyber-sword. Yes, you heard that right. Geek # 1 murdered geek #2 for selling a cyber-sword. Qui was apparently very pissed off that Zhu sold his 'dragon saber' in the game 'Legend of Mir 3'.
The game involves winning weapons to be used in on-line battles. Well, Qui got pissed when Zhu sold the saber. He even went as far to go to the cops and report the sword stolen. Stolen? The thing doesn't freaking exist. It's an on-line sword. It's fictional. There is no sword. At least that was the cops feeling.
The Cops told the tool-box to get lost since nothing was actually stolen. That's when geek #1 took matters into his won hands and whacked geek #2. As always in these situations, at least he had a good reason. At least there was an on-line gaming dispute. And I'm sure the courts will take that into consideration when they sentence this guy for his crimes.
I can hear the judge now, 'You're free to go geek. Who among us wouldn't have committed a homicide over a video game?" Couldn't this guy just have made up another fake sword? Couldn't he have just pretended he still had it? Granted, I am not all that versed on my video game etiquette, but this seems extreme. Couldn't they have settled this in a less violent way? Maybe the offending geek could have volunteered to shave off his pube-stache. I am sure that is a fate worse than death in the virtual sword fighting world.
hahahahah Joo ru13
do people still read magazines?
This April Fools stuff is getting old.
I think I know you.
Yawnnnnnnnnnnn.....
Enough already........................
PS.. This isn't a Joke I am serious.....
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Wait a couple millienia, the weather will change.
Every year on April 1, you spam your front page with these joke articles. Every year, they get more repetitive, more irritating, and less funny. Are you familiar with the concept of moderation? A single well executed joke amidst a dozen legitimate articles is immeasurably more effective than a torrential flood of lameass spam stories.
And it would be different if you (or your submitters) had a sense of humor. But you fucking don't. Paris Hilton promoting open source, hoo boy! That's some top notch writing right there. And hey, coming up with 1000 fake Google things, each more wildly zany than the last, that's qualit.... no, really, it's just mindfuckingly stupid.
Give it a fucking rest. Please. I'm begging you.
Maybe they should rename the mag Capitalistic American.
Please don't mod that term -1 Redundant.
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
n/t
But why do they not mention the overwhelming obstacles to thier beliefs (science shouldn't be a belief) basically how there is inrreducible complexity in a living cell, and how proteins cannot form abiotically, and abiogenisis (life form no life) is impossible.
Then you have dumb germans saying 'meat is murder' and crucifying a man witha pig mask on a cross.
So they are obviously not 'religious' so they believe we came about via abiogensis, so if we are just from rocks, then:
HOW arrogant it is for us to stop hunting and have a conscience and say meat is murder, when we EAT the very wheat of the field, how arrogant for us, mere ROCKS of the earth to put ourselves above the grass of the field, just because we have some chemical reaction that we equate to guilty feelings.
So there, they are so paradoxial in thier statements, they think others are closed minded, but when you open thier mind and say:
are we really different to plants?
and they retort 'we have emotions! we have sex'
but surely that was random happenstance of random abiogenesis, and this evolutionary phase is temporary, and plant life may become the higher sentient life on thier plant, oh and how they will kick our asses when they hear about cornflakes and rice krispies.
I for one welcome our leafy overloads!
Science can f*ck off, until I finish this lat/long to meters conversion, damn.
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