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USB Is the Devil's Connection

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the god-bless-the-loons dept.

Jamie handed us Satan's Data Connection. You see, sane and rational human being, the USB logo is actually in the shape of a trident, and the obvious action to Evangelical Christians in Brazil is to ban its use. Hopefully they don't mispronounce SCSI and find themselves lusting after their PCs.

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  1. Re:it always looked to me like... by phozz+bare · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why would that be a mispronounciation? That's how it was originally intended to be pronounced. It's everybody else who's got it wrong :)

  2. Re:it always looked to me like... by contra_mundi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably from Poseidon.

  3. Re:I used to hear... by icebraining · · Score: 4, Informative

    [citation needed]

    The creator of symbol says nothing about it representing evil, and the circle representing imprisioning it.

    The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for "nuclear disarmament". In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. Superimposing these two signs forms the shape of the centre of the peace symbol.(...)
    Holtom later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater depth: "I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalized the drawing into a line and put a circle round it."

    Despair, not evil.

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  4. Re:Only Apple tried to mispronounce SCSI by pathological+liar · · Score: 4, Informative

    The rest of us? I've always called it SCSI but if you thought "sexy" was a rebranding (or Apple's idea) Larry Boucher would like a word with you...

  5. Re:How many members in this cult? by iris-n · · Score: 5, Informative

    None. The cult does not exist. The entire story is a hoax; their only source is the brasilian blog "bobolhando" (rough translation: stupid staring), which is a literary blog who posts only fictional stories.

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  6. Re:How many members in this cult? by iris-n · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, no... Only the foreign media would make this misunderstanding. The blog is quite obviously humoristic, no one here in Brasil would believe them.

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  7. Re:it always looked to me like... by BronsCon · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's actually the proper pronunciation...

    "Larry Boucher intended SCSI to be an acronym all along. Pronounced "sexy." That didn't quite happen."

    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI

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  8. Re:I thought that was firewire by wall0159 · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not an original argument, and it's common for believers to trot out the "atheists believe in no god, hence atheism is a religion" meme. It doesn't hold water because there are a plethora of gods that most people don't believe in (eg Thor, Neptune, etc) for the good reason that there's no evidence of their existence. Does that make them subscribers to the church of anti-Thor, or anti-Neptune, etc? Atheists believe that the lack of evidence for gods makes it reasonable to disbelieve, in the same way as most people would disbelieve in Burtrand Russel's teapot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot). If atheists are religious in their atheism, then all people are religious in their disbelief of the teapot, the FSM, Thor, .... Now, you may argue that one can have 'faith' in the absence of evidence. That's fine. But please don't argue that disbelieving in something because there is no evidence of its existence is an unreasonable position.