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USB Is the Devil's Connection
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.
A guy lying down carrying a briefcase and a pizza and... wait, never mind...
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
The rest of us always called it "scuzzy", and thought Apple Marketing's attempt to rebrand it as "sexy" was just lame.
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Really? Jesus was born in the middle east and had blue eyes?
Either way, though, Bluetooth was of course named for a Danish King. While he himself converted to Christianity he certainly ruled over a nontrivial number of non-Christian followers.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Unfortunately, nowhere in the Bible does Satan ever have a trident. But this is Slashdot... sigh let the Christian bashing begin if it must! :(
Perhaps you should explain that to the Evangelical Christians in Brazil.
The article even says it is unconfirmed "if this turns up on Snopes don't blame me." Even with my sucky karma I expect better of /.
The entire membership of the Firewire committee.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This is good news!
Just think, if scientology somehow found the keyboard to be a derivative of the devil / whatever-their-evil-avatar-is, the internet would be a much more comforting place also...
But on another note, do these people know that most computers come with the USB symbol next to the port intended for their devil-plugs? I guess there is nothing preventing them from banning most computers!
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Users over there really shouldn't despair, there are usb-to-firewire adapters out there...that way they can send the devilish signal back into the fire-filled hell where it belongs!
We should start a new Slashdot and return control to the geeks. It actually wouldn't be that hard to get some users to
Because it's symmetrical. Who but the most evil cabal of engineers on earth would design such a connector to be a perfect rectangle? Without looking closely you have a 50/50 chance of getting the correct orientation.
Everything in computing from an RJ45 to IEEE 1397 have a obvious shape you can identify the correct orientation from.
Yes, yes. I know the trident is supposed to go "up" in relation to the trident logo by port on the port. But this varies randomly from one manurfacturer to another, from device to device, and thats those that have the trident logo next to the port at all.
Mini-B USB, popular for small gadgets, thank god, has an identfiable orientation.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
the number of the beast is 616. The next(or may the recent one?) printing of KJB will have the correct translation.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
There's no question in my mind that the point is just to poke more fun at religion, in this case, for no good reason at all.
Poking fun at religion is a good reason in its own right. Mockery is the best response to silliness.
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.
[citation needed]
The creator of symbol says nothing about it representing evil, and the circle representing imprisioning it.
Despair, not evil.
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IT doesn't work that way in real life. I told a bunch of Jehova's witnesses that I was a Devil worshiper in order to get them to leave me along. This didn't work, they came back in larger numbers and prayed for my. they followed me to work and other stupid shit praying for me. My boss asked me what the hell was going on (as he was completely anoyed by this as was about to fire me), so I told them that after they knocked on my door about twenty times asking me if I head the good news, I told them I was a devil worshiper and told them to get off my property. We had to explain to their pastor that it was only a ploy to get them to leave me the fuck alone in order to get them to leave me the fuck alone.
The cops wouldn't even stop them as they stayed mostly on the sidewalk and public right of way.
I later found out that the easiest way to get rid of them is to simply say "I'm catholic" and then listen to a bunch of crap about Marry being a whore for a few minutes. But if you pretend to be a devil worshiper to get rid of them, it's likely to backfire on you.
explain that to the Evangelical Christians
In Evangelical Russia, Christians explain to YOU!
Actually, I have met a few (a handful) of real Christians in my life. They stood out because of their deeds, not their words, and never tried force their religion on me. One was an ear, nose and throat doctor, who closed his private practice for two weeks every year. Instead of spending the time on the golf course, he went to god-awful places on the planet, and did volunteer work for the World Health Organization.
The Mormons who proselytize where I live tend to be very polite, well. They introduce themselves, tell you what they are doing, and when you say that you are not interested, they answer: "OK, thank you, and have a nice day."
Now a question for our Brazilian folks: If I am approached by a Brazilian Evangelical Christian, can I hold up a USB stick with a trident to scare them away. Like a cross scares away vampires?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
"It is news like this that gives evangelical Christians a bad rep."
Well that, and direct experience with them also helps. The US Rovian Religious Right are a MASSIVE collection of Evangelical Dominionists bent on turning the US into a theocracy.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Are YOU the reason they had to come up with the micro-USB connector, just so it would fit?
So I assume that you would in the latter group then since you don't understand the difference between faith and religion.
It depends on how it's used. Faith is just belief which is not based on proof. But a lot of people call their religion "faith." It seems especially popular in Christian circles. In most cases, there is no difference.
Modern Atheism is a belief system aka. a religion.
Not even close. Atheism is a lack of theistic beliefs. That's all.
A personal faith in god is not the same as a belief system/religion/philosophy.
What a load of bullshit. If your "faith" includes scriptures, commandments and the like, it's a religion, and your naive sounding assertions are crap.
Religion is a man made system of dogma and rituals.
Modern Atheism has a set of man made rituals and dogma. Ergo, Atheism == Religion.
Since you can't define a single piece of ritual or dogma which would include atheists, aside from the obvious "lack of belief in a god" entailed in the definition, you can't even make this specious piece of reasoning work.
I have a brain and I do not follow a religion. I have a personal faith in god and I share that faith with a community of believers.
In other words, a fucking church. Geez, are you another liar for Jesus?
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.
Where did I suggest we shun anyone?
Actually you suggested not letting religious leaders steal their money. The stealing that they're doing is pretty much just a matter of asking for offerings based on false doctrines. Stopping that implies a level of coercive control quite a bit beyond "shunning".
Also, it may be reasonable for you to conjecture that other people's gods are unreal. However, since the idea of 'God' is largely an interpretation of internal experiences, and you don't have access to anyone's internal experience except your own, you're only guessing that other people's interpretations are delusional. That may be a reasonable guess, given the evidence you have. But its a guess, and there is a huge variety to human experience. Yours is actually a religious attitude, just an atheistic one, which is why ex-atheists like C. S. Lewis often make such marvelous religious crusaders.
Even the original article refers to it as an "evangelical cult."
Hey, I heard about this scientist who proves things using a "scientific method" but his method is logically faulty. But since he claims to be a scientist, and claims his method is the "scientific method," I guess it's true; therefore, I guess other scientists are the same way. After all, one scientist can't use the "not a true Scotsman" argument. If I claim to be a scientist, I am one!
The funny thing is, I don't see who is claiming to be an "evangelical Christian." I see "evangelical cult" and "Christian homes," but "evangelical Christian" is NOT used in the original; that was apparently interpreted by the Guardian.
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.
entropy happens
Actually, no... Only the foreign media would make this misunderstanding. The blog is quite obviously humoristic, no one here in Brasil would believe them.
entropy happens
I'm brazillian. For those who did not read TFA - well... The original site linked by TFA only publish made up funny news.
From the site:
Um site chamado "Bobolhando", não deve ser levado à sério!
Se copiar, credite, ok?
subjective translation:
A site named "Idiotting" should not be taken seriously!
Answer the door naked, that usually works.
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of cats. MEOW!!
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.
Well, the issue is that noone aside from actual evangelical christians even seem to know what the word "evangelical" means anymore. Any time you see it in the media, it generally indicates something that is to be ridiculed.
Nevermind that it IS a strictly christian word, and refers to the focus on the "evangel", that is the gospel of Jesus, and has absolutely nothing to do with any of the crazy stuff its been penned as as of late. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism.
Sigh. The wrong one is marked as troll, and the wrong one as insightful. And your insightful comment stays at zero.
I'm getting tired of slashdot - any good substitutes?
Maybe it's because the rest of the world is getting increasingly tired of the rampant irrational stupidity that religion brings to the table, and we are more and more willing to mock those who keep pushing it. Religion in general is a childish and immature response to life, and I for one believe that it should be treated as such.
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.
Well, last time, they came to me on a Saturday morning, at about 9 am. I had been out drinking hard until something like 6 am. So, when they rang, I opened the door in my underpants, wild hair, red eyes, reeking of booze and ranted at them for 5 minutes for waking me up at such an UNHOLY hour. Haven't seen em since.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
I got a visit from them at a similar time (~9 am on a Saturday) but it was a family of four -- father in the lead, wife, son, and daughter standing behind. I answered the door and he asked if they could come in and speak to me. I said "No... but the girl can stay." That got rid of them pretty quickly.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.