[quote]The amount of confirmation bias that people can exhibit when their passions are challenged is incredible.[/quote]
This, ofcourse, only applies when your opponent is involved. You, on the other hand, are never wrong. You never have a fault in your logic and you do not suffer from even the most common logical imperfections. You are perfect.
How dare you question the holy working of democracy! It is my democratic right to spend my mod points however I want. If I disagree with you I have the absolute right to mod you -1 Flamebait and if I like, I have every right to mod you +1 Insightfull. For democracy is an infallible system that never fails and do to the infinite wisdom of the owners of/. we have this perfect system.
Nuclear reactors generally pose two threats. The first is that they will get out of control. That can't happen at NC State. By the time the water gets hotter than bathwater, alarms would be going off. The reactor isn't allowed to get at all close to boiling. There have been a multitude of accidents in big nuclear reactors and at Chernobyl we learned that practically safe is not safe enough. And don't say that it happened because of defective russian equipment or something. The US has had it's own nuclear mistakes.
Ok, I might open a big can of worms with this one but I will do it anyway. I am a fan of Thomas Aquinas and I admire his works. In one of his works he describes the so called "Divine Right of Kings" i.e what the kings says is right. While I may not fully agree with this he does have a very strong argument for it. Namely, if you can overthrow the king(or any authority higher than you) because of some unjust law, who is to say that the law is unjust? If that is allowed than you can overthrow any superior for any reason you wish(namely, you think that the law is "unjust"). That means that all authority is under constant threat and any hierarchical chain of command is very uncertain. Under that principle I think to a certain extent(gross violations of human right) the laws of a country should be obeyed and I think that people don't have the right to break the law if they deem it unjust.
And then the concept of a "state" is formed. States create laws and people have to abide by them. The fact that you don't like the laws does not give you the right to violate them.
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They can't be all wrong, and he is actually pretty cicil.
Wow, doesn't really matter if you have to sit in jail for the rest of your live, does it?
Superior abilities breed superior ambition.
Watch your cheese!
Robots, with lasers, mounted on sharks, fighting pirates, with the help of ninjas.
...but the overall quality will be higher compared to Wikipedia.
Hard. Nothing worse than a pissed off multi-billion dollar company suing your ass off. That will teach them.
The bad publicity will cost them hundredfold of what they gained from not giving the customer what he should have gotten.
Togheher with your flying car. No. Really.
I love the fact that the word wankers can result in a +1 Informative.
Idiots.
America sucks!
Regulate th#*@)*#@)# [NO CARRIER]
If I was blowing whistles, I would use a whistle...
Because there is nothing better than flaming the opposition when you have done something wrong? Pathetic.
OJ Simpson is sorry for killing his wife.
And failed. If all goes well, the system apparently works.
[quote]The amount of confirmation bias that people can exhibit when their passions are challenged is incredible.[/quote]
This, ofcourse, only applies when your opponent is involved. You, on the other hand, are never wrong. You never have a fault in your logic and you do not suffer from even the most common logical imperfections. You are perfect.
How dare you question the holy working of democracy! It is my democratic right to spend my mod points however I want. If I disagree with you I have the absolute right to mod you -1 Flamebait and if I like, I have every right to mod you +1 Insightfull. For democracy is an infallible system that never fails and do to the infinite wisdom of the owners of /. we have this perfect system.
Unlikely. Europe sold it's bigots to America long ago. We only have lefties here :(
Maybe we should start a lefties 'R Us.
Thank God I was intelligently designed for this kind of thing ;)
Never mind latency or anything....
And does it run linux?
Thankfully we have people who think that you can revolt for whatever reason you like.
Ok, I might open a big can of worms with this one but I will do it anyway. I am a fan of Thomas Aquinas and I admire his works. In one of his works he describes the so called "Divine Right of Kings" i.e what the kings says is right. While I may not fully agree with this he does have a very strong argument for it. Namely, if you can overthrow the king(or any authority higher than you) because of some unjust law, who is to say that the law is unjust? If that is allowed than you can overthrow any superior for any reason you wish(namely, you think that the law is "unjust"). That means that all authority is under constant threat and any hierarchical chain of command is very uncertain. Under that principle I think to a certain extent(gross violations of human right) the laws of a country should be obeyed and I think that people don't have the right to break the law if they deem it unjust.
And then the concept of a "state" is formed. States create laws and people have to abide by them. The fact that you don't like the laws does not give you the right to violate them.