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Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ
An anonymous reader writes "The manifesto of the man holding the Discovery Channel hostage with a bomb has been released. He has fired shots and taken hostages. His main complaints are about overpopulation, religion and civilization. He wants them to avoid encouraging people to produce more 'disgusting human babies,' to get people to accept 'Malthus-Darwin science,' reject civilization and its 'disgusting religious-cultural roots,' and to stop 'ALL immigration pollution.'" The man has now been shot by police, and the hostages have been freed.
Is Slashdot trying to turn into CNN now? This isn't news for nerds.
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Was he from that religion? Seriously...I wanna know.
To be honest, he sounds a lot like a slashdotter.
I'd bet he has a mac at home except that mac owners are frightened of guns or direct confrontation ....hmm.
THL phish sticks
In all honesty, given your attitude, I'll bet there is nothing the tea-party could do to 'undo' whatever damage you feel they've done. Just like the wacko in this story is not a good representative of the environmental movement, people who oppose the environmental movement will not suddenly agree with environmentalists just because people like him disappear. Their opposition of the environmental movement is not based on the crazies, it's based on the opposition to the environmental movement.
Likewise, you will never agree with the tea-party movement, even if it were 100% sound, because you disagree with them on things that are a matter of opinion. Kos wrote his book as a result of his opposition. He was looking for things that he didn't like about the 'other' guy, and that's what he found. Even though the fundamental thing he dislikes is they hold a different opinion than him.
Don't fall into the trap of letting your own partisan biases color the world. That is something I try to avoid whenever possible.
Qxe4
It's nice that one appears from time to time, I get bored with all the religious nutjobs the whole time.
Does that include global warming?
They made Communism their religion.
oh yeah? what deity was involved? hmmm?
the fact that you put those 2 opposing concepts together shows you know what neither of them really means.
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Sometimes an atheist can make themselves look like a psycho, as well as often religious people are able to put on the appearance of looking sane.
Phillip.
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Now, if only the people who think it's fine to abuse the environment and its inhabitants for profit would die as well...
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
You sound like a Marxist.
What does it mean? Why do some people 'have' more resources? Are they stronger? Do they plow larger fields? Or maybe they have better-bred cows?
No, they've benefited by having parents that taught them how to better manage their own resources, provided them with an education, used their own resources to provide them a better upbringing, etc. They learned from their parents and upbringing that they should get an education, do valuable productive work, and manage themselves well.
Poor people didn't get that, and they raise children to be just like them: uneducated, frequently criminal, wasting their money on booze and satellite TV instead of education for their children, etc. Ever notice how many satellite dishes there are in trailer parks?
Some people have more resources because they live in a fucking society,
You seem to think that the poor people somehow contributed to the middle classes, and helped raise their children. They didn't, except perhaps by cleaning their toilets sometimes. The poor people aren't the ones who built society, it was the people with education who managed resources better who did.
Europe doesn't need growth limits. At their current rate of replacement, there won't be many Europeans left in this world in a few generations.
So, because of immigration to Europe, Europe is going to cease to exist? That doesn't make any sense. People living in Europe are Europeans.
... and then they built the supercollider.
I can't get inside the head of people who think that huge families, today, are appropriate.
You must live in an urban, overcrowded, overpopulated, smoggy city.
Some people live on several acres, you know. Or even one acre. Some people actually grow some of their own food and could probably grow more, if they had to. Some people actually enjoy kids, having kids, raising kids... and in fact, find the most lasting fulfillment of their lives in raising kids.
Perspectives shift significantly when you live in "the country."
Because I want them. And they are sure happy to be here. As I am. A shout out to my parents for not being a pair of idiotic post modern fuckwads like seemingly so many of you out there. Fuck you. I dont give a flying fuck for all those people walking around thinking about how the world would be so much nicer if they were the only people in it. I could give two shits. Fuck them all. I'll have the kids they wont. Its called Children Credits (Patented)(TM). I'll raise the kids the lazy selfish fuckers rationalize and put themselves on pedestals for not having. They deserve their fate, let them all die old alone unloved and helpless. By their own philosophy their should all bury themselves alive six feet under and spare us all. Saving the planet? Fuck you, the planet gives less shit about you than I do.