"the Transportation Security Administration, part of DHS, will have direct control of checking domestic passenger lists against terrorist watch lists, instead of the airlines"
Wonderful, so now it won't just be United that marks me as "unauthorized to board" for absolutely no reason, but all the airlines.
No, it does not become your Patriotic Duty (TM) to insult a king just because you're not a king and you live in a country without a king. You can do much more constructive things to demonstrate your liberty and equality than insult an entire culture.
Could it be that its way easier to complain about the content produced by other people than it is to actually contribute anything yourself?
Well I don't know about that, but the saddest ratio I've ever seen is the number of quality videos on YouTube to the number of negative video comments.
Why was this tagged with "sad" and "idiots?" Why use the term "alarmingly" in the summary? Mmmmmmm-Bias much? Let's make some distictions.
Religion and Christianity are not in any way against science. In fact there are many Christian institutions that are at the forefront of medical science. Science is about observing, hypothesizing, and testing. It's just a fancy variation of applying logic. Some of the greatest scientific minds of the last several hundreds of years were people of faith. Belief in God does not stifle real scientific progress.
The theory of evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of the universe, and therefore neither threatens nor is threatened by a belief in a "Creator." There are aspects of the theory such as natural selection that are self-evident. Where the schism begins is with the age of the earth and the origins of species. Faith is not equivalent to stupidity. There is naturally a stubborn aspect to it, but it is not baseless ignorance. Therefore, when people refuse to accept what our current testing methods seem to indicate, it is not out of some mental inferiority, as many high-minded folks love to believe, but rather out of necessity.
Was it wrong to believe round when everyone said flat? Was it wrong to believe heliocentric when everyone said geocentric? Looking through history, science is never really "right" or "wrong," but more like "as far as we can tell right now." So what is wrong with holding out for better testing methods? It is completely irrelevant for either "side" to flame the other. So try to be the bigger person and stop the hate.
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Yeah, I think we all caught your sarcasm. Obviously you meant 6,000 years old.
I've always liked Calc. It gets my vote.
And they'll be like, "Sure, whatever, grampa." and space-skateboard off to a cooler solar system.
No, I doubt they'll ever be able to associate me or any of my computer components with downloading a copy of Shrek 4. I stopped at 2.
Ah, I see you've picked Ron Paul. Good choice!
I didn't know my dad was a British judge!
Bill who?
No, it does not become your Patriotic Duty (TM) to insult a king just because you're not a king and you live in a country without a king. You can do much more constructive things to demonstrate your liberty and equality than insult an entire culture.
Not sure why that's funny, are you thinking my name is supposed to be an insult to someone? It's not.
Just because you can insult someone doesn't mean you should.
I believe you meant to say "How Wii Are Creaming the Competition"
How soon will be be able to develop and apply this research to explain hip-hop music?
April Fools was last weekend.
They're only mostly dead. From what I'm told, there's a big difference.
I saw it on Slashdot from this guy samzenpus who said this guy pallmall1 saw on MSNBC that the Financial Times reported it. So it's gotta be true.
That's okay, I've already got my DRM-free complete Beatles collection, which is just about all I listen to these days. No worries, EMI!
Religion and Christianity are not in any way against science. In fact there are many Christian institutions that are at the forefront of medical science. Science is about observing, hypothesizing, and testing. It's just a fancy variation of applying logic. Some of the greatest scientific minds of the last several hundreds of years were people of faith. Belief in God does not stifle real scientific progress.
The theory of evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of the universe, and therefore neither threatens nor is threatened by a belief in a "Creator." There are aspects of the theory such as natural selection that are self-evident. Where the schism begins is with the age of the earth and the origins of species. Faith is not equivalent to stupidity. There is naturally a stubborn aspect to it, but it is not baseless ignorance. Therefore, when people refuse to accept what our current testing methods seem to indicate, it is not out of some mental inferiority, as many high-minded folks love to believe, but rather out of necessity.
Was it wrong to believe round when everyone said flat? Was it wrong to believe heliocentric when everyone said geocentric? Looking through history, science is never really "right" or "wrong," but more like "as far as we can tell right now." So what is wrong with holding out for better testing methods? It is completely irrelevant for either "side" to flame the other. So try to be the bigger person and stop the hate.
The parent definitely needs to be modded up as I think 90% of those replying don't realize this.
What about TV's Frank?
why can't the phone they're working on be the iphone?
I believe that name is taken.
There's always that fat kid on the sidelines. Quite an astounding streak of coincidences.