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  1. Re:Comparing Einstein to today's physicists is NOT on Einstein Has Left the Building · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your follow-up post is a further demonstration of staggering stupidity or a lack of reading comprehension skills.

  2. Re:WWII on Einstein Has Left the Building · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Today, radical military tech is common-place

    I'm having trouble parsing this one; if it's radical, it can hardly be common place, no?

  3. Re:Comparing Einstein to today's physicists is NOT on Einstein Has Left the Building · · Score: 1
    His brilliance and IQ can never be matched. Let's keep it that way.

    This is a statement of staggering stupidity.

  4. Re:For their next contest... on GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest Winner Announced · · Score: 1
    Exactly, which is why when buying a car, I skip over absurd named products like:
    • Honda
    • Ford
    • Cheverolet
    • BMW
    • Volvo

    and always go with cars companies like "CarMaker", "AutoManufacturer", "TruckProducer", or "SedanMasters". I'm currenlty driving a SedanMaster model named "SedanWithNiceFeaturesAndALargeEngine". It's pretty sweet.
  5. Re:Probably a typo on Peter Quinn Resigns · · Score: 1

    I don't think htat is a typi so much as a mistakee.

  6. Re:Cause of conflict: Bonzo Madrid (SPOILER WARNIN on More Delays for Ender Movie · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like The Abyss.

  7. Re:Just a theory? on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1
    There are as many scientists that will disagree with the evidence that supports evolution as those that agree with it ....

    Not even close to being remotely true, from what I understand, but I don't have reference to surveys handy.

  8. Re:Just a theory? on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Does the "Kred" in "DocKred" stand for "Kredulous"? Why do I feel like you are represent the median output of today's schools?

  9. Re:But on the other hand... on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Also, this only works during the day. At night, the sun is of course black.

  10. Re:But on the other hand... on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    be sure to stare at it for three or four minutes. Initially, it may appear yellow, but as you stare at it you'll notice that it is really red. hth.

  11. Re:But on the other hand... on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With apologies to Larry Niven.

  12. Re:Check out Jeff Waugh's reply on Torvalds Says 'Use KDE' · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    He had an opinion on the subject-matter, and he stated it. You are free to disagree with his opinion, but does that mean that he shouldn't voice his opinion?

    Why is there always someone who feels the need to point out the right of someone to say someting? Is there someone being silenced here? Is there someone even suggesting that another person doesn't have the right to say something. Sheesh. Shut the fuck up already.

  13. Re:Moral Victory on The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again · · Score: 1
    You must be a fun guy at parties.

  14. Re:Boy, I sure am surprised! on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    Cute. And by cute, I mean stupid.

  15. Re:The darn fool. on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1
    It seems you have difficulty being honest on basic questions of content, as well as in terms of embedding logical falsehoods in terms like "trivially true"... is this an issue you commonly have, personally?

    I really don't know what you're trying to say here. No really, could you be more clear when you are talking down to simpletons like myself?

    Address the points I brought up. I'm just trying to pin down what the ID proposition is, something which I believe you've mischaracterized, as I've shown, and you've ignored. Everything else you've replied with is really beside the point, and frankly, a little too slippery for me to respond to.

    I'm sorry, I'm going to have to interpret your reluctance to speak concretely about claims you and I've made as evidence that you are indeed a troll. Again, for the recored, I think you are a troll. I may be wrong - you might just be so damn intelligent your discussion is going right over my head. You've failed to communicate or succeeded to troll, either way, this discussion can server no useful purpose.

    Goodbye.

  16. Re:So fucking what? on MPAA Gives Film About Ratings an NC-17 Rating · · Score: 1

    Unless you're deployed in Iraq where nobody drinks. Ha ha ha.

  17. Re:Why No -NC-17? on MPAA Gives Film About Ratings an NC-17 Rating · · Score: 5, Funny
    Plus, the X is kind of a bad symbol to have as a marketing tool.

    Yeah, the Xbox, generation-X, X-men, X-games, are all marketing disasters.

  18. Re:The darn fool. on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1
    "Trivially true" as in true by saying very little. As in Defendent: "I'm innocent some of the time."

    Look, Emperic, either you have a reading comprehension problem or you are trolling me. Even the testimony you post hints at Behe's true position. Let me paraphrase your original post to which I replied:

    "3. Evolution explains many things" ... is ... actually the position of ID according to Behe

    So that's "trivially true" in that all of the crucial information about Behe's position and the ID argument is tied up in that one vague, innocent word "some". Does Behe mean by "some"

    • that evolution doesn't explain gravity
    • or that evolution doesn't explain abiogenesis
    • or that some paths in evolution are still not understood
    • or that only so-called mirco-evolution is explained while change between species is not explained (so-called macro-evolution)
    • or that some biolochemical structures are so complicated that in would be impossible for them to arise through the process of evolution

    ?????. Behe's true position is closes to the last bullet. What a great word, "some". He and ID add to this tenent the conclusion that since evolution can't account for this biochemical complexity, it have been designed. As in, "evolution is flawed enough that a creator is required".

    It seems like you are having trouble being honest about what ID really is - are you a proponent of the the theory and if so, is this a common tactic among ID's supporters?

  19. Re:Boy, I sure am surprised! on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1
    How do you figure?

  20. Re:The darn fool. on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1
    I don't think that ID has any merit, I was just stating my take on the ID argument. Agrue with Empiric, he seems to be the only proponent of ID in the immediate vicinity.

  21. Re:The darn fool. on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    Your #3 is a blatant mischaracterization of the ID position. It may be trivially true, but it misses the point pretty badly. The Dover testimony is only testimony, I've read Behe, and I stand by my statement.

  22. Re:The darn fool. on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1
    3. Is not what Behe proposes, or at least to say so is to miss his point. This is Behe's proposal:

    4. Evolution is flawed enough that a creator is required.

  23. Re:Not in my experience. on Red Hat Begins Testing Core 5 · · Score: 1

    Wow, me an thousands of other people used the install images without seeing corrupt packages but you didn't. Strange. Obviously, the packages are corrupt at the source and it's not some problem with your hardware or between your keyboard and chair.

  24. Re:Every other one... on Red Hat Begins Testing Core 5 · · Score: 1

    FC4 has been better than FC3 in my experience, fwiw.

  25. Re:I don't understand on The Demise of IP? · · Score: 1

    LOL. 1 in 100000 "common interactions" are obviously fair - that's rich. Are you for real? If so, sign me up for your newsletter - we have a crackpot in the making. Get in on the ground floor, folks - this one is fresh.