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  1. Re:Global Warming May Be Natural Climate Change on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    A religion does not cease to exist when it is discredited.

  2. Monkey Business on A New Species Of Giant Ape? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any time an animal is about to become extinct, the environmentalists should convince the restaurant industry that the animal tastes good. That way, the evil corporations would be "tricked" into funding breeding programs. They would have a vested business interest in ensuring the species' survival. Are chickens or cows going to be extinct any time soon? I, for one, am looking forward to a McChimp Deluxe or Gorilla Whopper. Long live the primates. Now pass the A1 sauce.

  3. Re:So what is this? on Did Kerry Use a Cheat Sheet? · · Score: 1
    The guy has no credibility at all and isn't even a journalist

    Right-o, I put my trust in CBS and the New York Times to get the straight dope on what's happening.

    Shmoes are more credible when they become professional shmoes.

  4. Re:See the whole ballot on Repeat of Florida Butterfly Ballot · · Score: 1

    That's not nearly as bad as the 2000 Florida ballot.

  5. Re:Should be a good night of television on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 1
    "structure of the universe, the creation of planets and the foundations of life itself"

    What part of this is testable?

  6. Similar PBS Series Rebutted on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 2, Funny

    In 2001, PBS/Nova produced a seven-episode series called Evolution. It was thoroughly rebutted, but much of the same kind of atheist propaganda will be disseminated again through this latest re-education campaign of The People's Broadcasting System.

  7. Not Everything on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 1

    I thought the first review ("Nearly everything is missing") on this page was very interesting.

  8. Pot Calling the Kettle Black on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 1
    This guy purports to explain insights about "the structure of the universe, the creation of planets and the foundations of life itself."

    ...... *cough*

  9. Re:Ha ha ha, you see, because on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 1

    Listen to this little chat about why such "rectifying" is bad for Christianity.

  10. Re:Should be a good night of television on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anybody who purports to explain the "structure of the universe, the creation of planets and the foundations of life itself" is definitely ultra-religious in my book.

  11. Jerusalem Going Wireless on Persuading A City To Go Wireless? · · Score: 1
    Jerusalem will be a WiFi city within two years.

    Bizarrely, the Arab League claims that this move by Israel is a violation of international law. No, I'm not kidding.

  12. Re:"FireFTP"? on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Save that name for the file manager.

  13. Re:The bias is in american culture on Optimizing News Sites For Google News · · Score: 1
    Have you seen Kerry's congressional absentee record?

    Senator John Kerry missed 70% of the votes of the 108th Senate (1/1/03-7/6/04).

    I don't know if he was on vacation, but he sure seems to be AWOL from his job most of the time.

  14. Re:Definitely a troll on Optimizing News Sites For Google News · · Score: 1
    ANSWER is not pro-Baathist. They are socialist.

    Ba'athists are socialists. The Ba'ath Party's motto is Wahdah, Hurriyah, Ishtirrakiyah, which means "Unity, Freedom, Socialism".

  15. Dupe, Troll, and Non-Story to boot on The Rest of the World Wants Kerry · · Score: 2, Insightful
    There is no reason for this. As others have pointed out, the world doesn't particularly like Kerry either.

    Non-Americans don't like American candidates. In related news, Americans don't like non-American candidates. Not to mention that pesky legality issue...

    It's a non-story because everybody knows that the world's socialists, communists, and terror enablers are against American values. I would like to see a poll that included the millions of dissidents and people of the "wrong" religion or party that dictators have locked away from the outside world and see if they would support Bush and his liberation schemes.

    It's a troll since it's a desperate attempt to show support for Kerry who is falling behind in the polls of legal voters.

    It's a dupe , and both stories were posted by CmdrTaco!! Can you smell an agenda? Hello, Dan Rather.

  16. Re:The truth about our near term space future on Astronaut Wants Space Program With No Frills · · Score: 1
    The real pork is in social programs, which consumes half the budget every year.

    Since the U.S. presidential election is coming up, and since most on /. are thinking of voting left, I think I should mention the ratings that congressional watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste has given to the Senators who are running on the Democrat Party ticket.

    Senator John Kerry

    • 28 in 2000
    • 5 in 2001
    • 13 in 2002
    • 22 in 2004
    Senator John Edwards
    • 11 in 2000
    • 15 in 2001
    • 19 in 2002
    • 13 in 2004
    The ratings are based solely on voting records. (George W. Bush and Dick Cheney aren't rated because they don't vote in Congress.) 100 is the maximum score.
  17. No Reporter Left Behind on Bloggers - Beowolf Cluster of Fact Checkers? · · Score: 1
    President Announces Controversial New Educational Initiative

    LOS ANGELES (APUPI) June 20, 2004

    Standing in front of the Los Angeles Times building on Spring Street and surrounded by aides, President Bush put forth a new and long-overdue proposal today, to the cheers of thousands of long-suffering readers of that paper, to start to repair the tragic situation with the American journalism system. He called it "No Reporter Left Behind."

    "For too many years have we seen the sad evidence accumulating that our nation's media outlets and journalism schools simply aren't achieving what they must for our nation to maintain its first-place ranking in freedom of speech and a properly informed public," he declared. "Compared to journalists of a few decades ago, today's reporters show an increasing inability to comprehend simple English or basic statistics, to exercise logic, or to even recognize that they're Americans."

    "Now, many accuse the media of bias against my administration, but I don't believe that. I'm here to change the tone in Washington and the nation, and I refuse to engage in such accusations. I'm sure that journalists are well meaning. As a compassionate conservative, it's clear to me that they simply haven't been given the education and training that they so desperately need, and we need to help them and their hardworking editors."

    The president went on to illustrate the growing problem. [Read more

    Hat tip to On Lawn
  18. No Copyright, No GPL on Iran: Even If Windows Is Free, Linux Is Preferred · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Iran, a country which does not abide by international copyright law, is reportedly moving toward Linux.

    The GPL is predicated on copyright law.

  19. Good Blogs on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Two choices in the near future on January Elections in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    3) Success

  21. Re:Big Concern on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1
    While it is currently fashionable to believe that the only terrorists in the world are those of middle-eastern descent or belief

    There are many peoples and religions in the Middle East besides Arabs and Islam, respectively. Most of them are not accused of being involved in terrorism.

    Let us not forget the home-grown nutcases and whack-jobs of the ilk of McVeigh

    home-grown, Baghdad-trained (his co-conspirator Terry Nichols, actually, courtesy of the Religion of Peace)

    Koresh

    Koresh was a nut, but he never killed anybody. Bill Clinton's Attorney-General Janet Reno, or somebody under her authority, was responsible for that horrible inferno massacre that killed 75 people, including 21 children. Sounds like Beslan, but who's the terrorist? Not Koresh.

    and Kaczynski

    Kaczynski was just a militant version of Al Gore and other ecofreak Democrats. Take the quiz. Can you tell the difference?

    Millions of Muslims support terrorism, and you named three white guys to try to balance that. One didn't kill anybody, and, AFAIK, didn't intend to kill anybody. One committed terrorism with the help of Muslim training. So you got one lone American terrorist not associated with Islam.

  22. Re:Alcohol is no health food on Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine · · Score: 1

    Any alternatives would be better for your health if you had to drink this water.

  23. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1
    HijackThis is a single file (183 kB) and doesn't need to be installed, but it's not as comprehensive as Spybot or Ad-aware. It scans the popular trouble spots on a Windows computer.
    The different sections of hijacking possibilities have been separated into these groups:
    R - Registry, StartPage/SearchPage changes
    R0 - Changed registry value
    R1 - Created registry value
    R2 - Created registry key
    R3 - Created extra registry value where only one should be
    F - IniFiles, autoloading entries
    F0 - Changed inifile value
    F1 - Created inifile value
    F2 - Changed inifile value, mapped to Registry
    F3 - Created inifile value, mapped to Registry
    N - Netscape/Mozilla StartPage/SearchPage changes
    N1 - Change in prefs.js of Netscape 4.x
    N2 - Change in prefs.js of Netscape 6
    N3 - Change in prefs.js of Netscape 7
    N4 - Change in prefs.js of Mozilla
    O - Other, several sections which represent:
    O1 - Hijack of auto.search.msn.com with Hosts file
    O2 - Enumeration of existing MSIE BHO's
    O3 - Enumeration of existing MSIE toolbars
    O4 - Enumeration of suspicious autoloading Registry entries
    O5 - Blocking of loading Internet Options in Control Panel
    O6 - Disabling of 'Internet Options' Main tab with Policies
    O7 - Disabling of Regedit with Policies
    O8 - Extra MSIE context menu items
    O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitems and buttons
    O10 - Breaking of Internet access by New.Net or WebHancer
    O11 - Extra options in MSIE 'Advanced' settings tab
    O12 - MSIE plugins for file extensions or MIME types
    O13 - Hijack of default URL prefixes
    O14 - Changing of IERESET.INF
    O15 - Trusted Zone Autoadd
    O16 - Download Program Files item
    O17 - Domain hijack
    O18 - Enumeration of existing protocols and filters
    O19 - User stylesheet hijack
    O20 - AppInit_DLLs autorun Registry value
    O21 - ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad (SSODL) autorun Registry key
    O22 - SharedTaskScheduler autorun Registry key
  24. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 4, Informative
    Ad-Aware doesn't cut it. Spybot Search & Destroy finds things that Ad-Aware doesn't. For systems that are seriously 0wn3d, you need Spybot. Also, HijackThis, which runs in seconds, is great for getting rid of insidious components that software sneaks on your computer.

    I use all three of these programs. No one program finds everything. Oh, and also use a virus scanner, of course.

  25. Re:Too Far? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1
    Ditto! Have you been following my posts? ;-) You might be interested in this journal entry.

    I agree with you. The contents of the home directory have an unknown value. Thus, you don't know if the punishment will fit the crime. You might be taking a stomach for an eye. The punishment might be negligible if the OS is a new install, or it might wipe out priceless files, such as six-year email archives or photos of deceased loved ones.

    You could argue that important files should've been backed up, but that's beside the point. The ethics of vigilante justice is another consideration, but I've ignored it here for the sake of argument (or agreement, as the case may be).