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  1. Re:Grossly offensive to whom? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    No it is the absence of belief in a god. In many ways it is silly we need a word for it, there are no words for not believing in UFOs, unicorns, Atlantis or arcane magic.

  2. Re:Grossly offensive to whom? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    They aren't one, they have fundamentally differing beliefs.

    No, they do not. The monotheistic part is the central tenet in both, as are the core values. Or you could say Catholics and Protestants have fundamentally differing beliefs as well (according to Southern Baptists at least)... and I see you turn into the usual paranoia regarding the religion that did NOT colonize 60% of the world.

  3. Re:context on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 2

    For further context, "Santa" is a dyslexism for "Satan".

  4. Re:The joke in question on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 0

    People why disagree with enforcement of certain laws always cry "police state". Laws against your drug of choice? Police state! Laws against enjoying the pleasures of minors? Police state! It's just a question of how you justify your contrary view to what the law says.

    Just be glad you are not in the Old West where insults were answered with a six-shooter.

  5. Re:The joke in question on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of years of tradition where someone either got a bullet or a fist if they said someone's daughter was a whore disagree with you. "Freedom to be a fucktard" is an academic myth among theorists that wouldn't know real life or human nature if they ever stumbled across it.

  6. Re:The joke in question on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 2

    Yes, he married a child (as happened frequently in Christian countries as well - also in India even in recent times), consummated the marriage as the traditions then dictated, and then stayed married to her for a decade until his death. So, less a child molester than your average Catholic priest, then.

    (You seem unaware that concepts like "age of consent" are very modern. In New York state it was ten until the 1890s when women's right activists got it increased.)

  7. Re:The joke in question on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Free speech fundamentalists abound... the stupid is strong here.

  8. Re:Oh dear ? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's being prosecuted because it is hard to punch someone's nose in for being a fucktard on the Internet. Seems "pro freedom of expression" sometimes is "anti compassion" - are you all suffering from Aspberger's Syndrome?

  9. Re:Oh dear ? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 2

    Or America. Well, it perhaps does not count as inhibiting free speech if you get sued for indecency, still prevail in court but gets bankrupted by the legal costs. After all, the Dead Kennedys could just have shut up about their "anti-American" lyrics, then noone would have used the inclusion of Giger's "Penis Landscape" as an excuse for shutting them up.

    And plenty of dictators have risen with the help of the ol' United States of Free Speech. Shah Reza, Saddam Hussein, Pinochet, the whole chain in Egypt...

  10. Re:And by security you mean on US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because Apple is a major supplier of telecoms equipment... what?

  11. Re:The Terrorists Win If You Have 4G? on US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' · · Score: 1

    ITU has accepted that telcos use 4G for "anything faster than 3G", why can't you? Sure it makes it meaningless but it already was.

  12. Re:A step forward on US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because every Linux user has read the thousands of code lines before installing it.

  13. Re:Even more reason on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    The center parties are not necessarily married to a wing, e.g. here in Norway the Farmers Party (their old name) has been in both center-right and center-left governments (they currently are in the latter).

  14. Re:The Pops is OK with it on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Well, duh, they ban contraception - more babies that way :)

  15. Re:Why... on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Dogmatic belief in the words of Marx and Engels, combined with a cult of personality around Josef Stalin, that does for a modern religion make.

  16. Re:we need a litmus test on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Your "God of the Bible" is a fucking youngster compared to Brahman, Vishnu and Shiva. So why aren't you a Hindu instead? "I do not believe in those gods", you perhaps say. So why is it so hard to accept that others do not share your particular fantasies?

  17. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Nobody has ever observed God

    What? But there are many stories of Vishnu taking on a human form and visiting his believers...

    Oh, wait, you are talking about another god.

  18. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    But where did he condone all the other methods of execution that Christians have used up through the centuries? It's not like being pelted with stones is any worse than being "drawn and quartered", for instance. Then again there is a growing consensus that a country practicing the death penalty - aka sanctioned murder - in any form in this day and age is barbaric.

  19. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    He was probably practicing the fluid balance theories of medicine as well... because genetics and modern medicine are the lies of Satan!

  20. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    - "You have a gaping chest wound! You are bleeding profusely! You need to go into surgery immediately!"
    - "No... must... google... surgeon... first..."

  21. Re:But Apple says they're happy! on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 1

    Care to come up with a citation for your subject line?

  22. Re:I hope you fucking hipsters are proud on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 1

    Unless you belong to a small handful of countries, Taiwan is a part of China. Officially.

  23. Re:I hope you fucking hipsters are proud on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 1

    Hipsters by definition used iPhones before it was cool. Now that everyone have one they probably have focused on not yet popular Windows Phone 8 handsets,

  24. Re:Philippines has long history of dictatorship on Philippines' Cybercrime Law Makes SOPA Look Reasonable · · Score: 1

    Yeah, with this tool in place, the Marcos family would still be running the country as their fiefdom.

  25. Re:I very gently opened the link on Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive · · Score: 1

    Maybe link shorteners and QR code URLs are the new cats? You do not know what the link will lead to until you click it, thus collapsing the waveform of the web...