You really are an ignorant, bigoted asshole, clearly spurting out nonsense in a bid to gain attention for your own ego purposes, hypocritically projecting on a daily basis to satiate your need to not feel that people think of you the way you are. You do this pattern of behavior every day on slashdot.
Every damn day with your hate, ignorance, and ego. No substance. No positive points save for the sycophantic mods by people that behave the same as you. I'd imagine quite easily that people out in the real world avoid you for this behavior.
Thak you. Pissing people off like you is one of my little joys in life. The more iirritate you, the more I validate myself.
Now that you are on the hook, let's roll, dear Coward. Game on?
does that mean that the guy (you meant "yahoo", right?) in Kentucky has the right to shoot down the flying device?
As you mentioned Kentucky explicitly, I would say: YESssss!
Consumer drones have become interwoven with paranoia about weaponized military drones.
And there's a conversation that need to be had about that. Interestingly, I can get some of the folks who are paranoid about drones really really really pissed off when I combine their paranoia with what is often their main love in life. Guns.
And that is, Do we have the right to shoot down a weaponized consumer drone and deprive another American of their second amendment rights?" Do I have the right to protect my property using my second amendment rights?
And of course, the resulting anger is because I asked a really tough question. As a gun owner and drone owner, I don't have an issue with the concept of target shooting with a drone. But is sure as hell isn't simple when you are dealing with people who think in absolutes.
No he isn't. He took one simple sarcasm, and tried to do a psyche writup on me, which was completely incorrect. Then he added declarations on me being a Hipster, and a member of the High school AV club.
I was being sarcastic, he was making incorrect declarations, possibly based on projection. Regardless, he completely ignored the salient part of my post, which makes for some interesting discussions.
Online Forum Pro-Tip: When you write "'Murrica," you betray your classist prejudice, weaken your argument, and reveal yourself as a hipster lightweight.
Or I can be sarcastic. Sarcasm has nothing to do with hipsterism, more to dealing with people who find that using deadly force is fun.
One most interesting thing is that you manage to make some claims, about my Hipsterism and the AV club, you manage to do a whole psyche workup on me. Odd. You'd be real surprised to find out what I actually am. But I'll leave that to your febrile imagination.
Kind RobotRunAmok, when we try to determine what another person is with precious little information, and based upon an incorrect assumption in the first place, we tend to engage in projection.
And when we completely ignore the reasonable question that comes along with the sarcasm, we manage to project even more. You give me much more info about yourself than I ever gave you.
Back to the meat of my comment, completely ignored in your snarkalicious reply:
In this case, we most certainly do have a property rights issue. Do you own the airspace above your house?
This is not just a simple drone issue. If you own the property rights to the airspace, anyone entering it is trespassing. Police will need a warrant to fly over it. You will be able to claim "stand your ground" laws if a Ultralight flies over your property, and you terminate the pilot, armed or unarmed.
How much leeway is there? If you fear you are being spied on, do you have a perimeter off your property that will serve as a "grace area" if you stand your ground and shoot down a drone, that turns out to not be on your property?
Do you have the right to shoot down a drone on the drone owner's property is you fear the drone on the drone owner's property is spying on you?
Do you have the right to terminate the drone owner if oyu see he is flying his drone over your property?
And in a country where more people are willing to use firearms as a first resort, perhaps such conversations are worth having.
But you just fixate on "'Murrica", and become the dude who on Netnews a few years ago that declares someone's argument null and void because of a spelling mistake. A great way to move the conversation forwards. Thanks for playing, anyhow.
Does it matter if the drone operator was in the wrong? That does not give the hillbilly permission to shoot it.
How about the next time his pickup truck exceeds the speed limit or parks illegally, we set it on fire. Is that OK?
Living in 21st century 'Murrica, other questions come to mind, If a person sees a human powered airplane or helicopter over their property, and believes the pilots are spying on his teenage daughter, does that mean that the guy in Kentucky has the right to shoot down the flying device?
So did just about everyone, and dear sir, since you are soooooooooo much in high dudgeon aout Politicians being truthful, the Bush Administration told a major fucking whopper of a lie in order to settrle his family feud with Saddam.
I was in favor of opening the football on Iraq I would have pushed the button myself, and enjoyed turning Iraq into molten glass. And I would have enjoyed it.
But the Bush administration stood there and lied to us. A Yuge! Lie.
Now go collect your paycheck from Oculous. Because you just don't like Democrats, and if your boys lie, it's just acceptable collateral damage.
What's it like having such political double standard, ya hypocrite? I also suppose you really enjoyed when Valerie Plane was outed. Anyone who outs an American secret agent should be terminated with extreme prejudice. Tell me how that was a really good thing, I seem to think it was complete evil.
This will defiantly change the way aircraft are handled. Maybe there should be a "drone space" about 100 above the ground to 200 feet depending on the terrain. It could probably be more. I believe aircraft have to stay above 400 feet unless landing or taking off.
I wonder how long before we start seeing drones take the place of police in cars.
I wonder as well. I live in a wooded development, and it would be a real trick to have a drone fly anywhere but where the roads are. In a Farmer's field type development, it wouldn't be a huge deal, but you can't even see my place form the air. So there would have to be some 15 foot altitude flying.
Not the best choice? Neither candidate is trustworthy, but Trump hasn't gotten a good portion of the world mired in failed countries at war. When it comes to war, Hillary is probably to the right of any previous president, including W.
W wasn't th president, Dick Cheney was. And it takes lead balls to blame the raging clusterfuck in th eMiddle east on her. Almost as much as it does for th etrumpeters to blme int on O'Blamea. Sorry Barbara, you buy right into what the Republicans want you to believe. Tht Cheny and Rumsfeld somehow dont need mentioned, but the big criminal is Mrs Clinton.
So vote Trump because he was just a citizen at the time?
He might not have voted to go into The middle east to make war, but he does seem to be anxious to get his hands on the football.http://realnewsrightnow.com/2015/08/trump-i-will-absolutely-use-a-nuclear-weapon-against-isis/
Then again, I have said that there is a coalition of people who will gleefully destroy the world, those who have a religion that looks forward to it, and those who just want to watch the wrld burn. Stand by, there might be a hellava worldwide fireworks show where we all have front seats. I understand that one going off is quite beautiful.
Cut it any way you want it but atheism is just as much a BELIEF as theism is.
Nope - you are just not capable of seeing it any other way.
People who have a belief in say, the exact word of god as given to man in the form of the King James Bible cannot have any other belief.
On th eother hand, I have confidence in matters. That means that if I say, have confidence that we cannot harness zero point energy, I'm pretty darn sure that we can't.
But if someone comes along, and proves that we can, I'll abandon my confidence that we cannot in the face of evidence.
That is something that can be easily seen in the Theory of Evolution, where despite all evidence to the contrary, despite the entire field od biology and modern medicine validating Evolution, and despite physics validating it, there are still peopple who have great faith theat th world is some 6000 years old.
You just cannot understand the difference in mindset of people who need absolute unshakable belief, and people who have confidence in things, yet are able to change their minds as new evidence comes forth.
The quantity of self-described religious adherents who don't go to church, don't pray, and don't think much about the afterlife (until the due date visibly approaches) is frankly quite large. Belief != fervor. And, proportionally, there's quite a few places dedicated to bringing atheists together and promulgating their beliefs (tax exempt by the way).
Fascinatinating. Given that you mention Tax exempt status, it has become most clear that you define a 501(c) 3 coprporation as a religion. Allow me to show this from the first group, and th emajor group that comes up when I clicky clicky on the google search link you thoughtfully provided.
The American Atheists
This organization, which you declare as a religion, has this organizational note:
American Atheists, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such, all donations and gifts to American Atheists are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. The Federal Tax Identification Number of American Atheists, Inc. is 74-2466507.
Membership gifts, gifts to our general fund, and gifts to the American Atheists Legal Fund, Billboard Fund, and other specific funds are fully tax deductible.
Your subscription to American Atheist magazine is not tax deductible as a charitable donation.
For questions about your contributions, members status, or for a copy of your giving record, please contact us.
Now you will also note that their magazine is >not tax deductible. How odd when most churches pay no taxes whatsoever on anything, this 501(c)(3) "Church" is not totally tax deductible. Odd indeed!
Since 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations are religions, I apparently have been a Priest of a church of youth Ice Hockey, a priest of an Amateur Radio religion, and a priest and founding member of an amateur astronomy religion. Who knew? I sure didn't!
As humans, we seek explanations, stake our identity in our beliefs, and pursue fellowship with those who share them.
And some of us actively seek to discriminate against those who do not share our beliefs. And some of us become very upset when we decide that elimination of our discrimination is discrimination aginst us.
I know of at least one secular group in my city that explicitly claims to be a church ("The Church of Beethoven").
Seriously man, are you actually saying that the Church of Beethovan is a separate religion? They say nothing about their personal beliefs.
Good day sir, Hard to argue with a person that claims 501(c)(3) organizations are religions, and that the Church of Beethoven is likewise religion. Other than you are wrong, yet do not take telling. Such faith is commendable.
... Atheism is a religion in the same way that NOT playing football is a sport.
Yes, yes, but we're pretty much just as sick of people telling how superior they are by not liking football as we are as by the people who constantly rant how they love football. Same goes for not stamp collecting and other hobbies.
I grew up in a town where religion had a stranglhold on us. No Sunday stores open, No legally required sex education, Anything that showed the earth might be older than 6000 years removed form the curriculum, priests who liked to fuck little boys, And even without getting sexually abused, daily reminders of how you were going to hell if you didn't toe the line, I'd like to apologize for your inconvenience of people who are sick and tired of your shit.
The religious can dish it out, but they cannot take it.
Actually, the US is more socialist than capitalist.
Actually, it is neither. US is corporatist in the present day. Corporations write the laws, and give the baksheesh to the politicians that rubber stamp them.
This thread is a perfect example of what's becoming of Slashdot.
So, start a subthread on the technology. Seems like a way to get people talking about technology.
Slashdot has a seriously diverse readership. In any given topic, you'll get the usual suspects
The clueless noobs who are still learning.
The trolls
The "Get off my lawn" crowd, who probably are suffering from testosterone deprivation.
People who are actually interested.
Since this tech was introduced in reference to an ancient burnt Middle Eastern scroll, and it turned out to be Leviticus, of all things, its simply going to attract a diverse audience.
Now if we wanted to deal with a less flamebaity version of the same, since the NatGeo article is pretty devoid of the technology, try this: http://www.livescience.com/560...
We can't control others, only ourselves. There in that link is the start of a technology discussion.
Which god are you referring to? If its our holy lord [F]lying [S]paghetti [M]onster, god bless you! Otherwise I have to remind that you will be at the bottom of boiling cauldron. Even then there's still hope for you. You just have to hug FSM.
Let us all say a prayer that we shall all be touched by his noodley appendage!
Improving science by looking for more clues in the real world is the right way to handle those mysteries. Claiming "Magic", "God", "Taboo" or "Holy Book" is not.
Which ties into the "God of the gaps" argument, which over time, has been used to explain everything we do not know. Once upon a time, psychosis, birth defects, seemingly spontaneous biogenisis, the entire external universe and so much else were attributed to divinity because we just didn't know.
Then over time more and more was learned that fit the once mysterious things into the natural world, and the God of the gaps became popular.
Now the God of the Gaps has become quite small indeed. People who would claim that every word of the King James Bible is the exact word of God as revealed to man believe and take for granted, things that would have them burnt at the stake for heresy in an earlier time.
Atheism is a religion for most who 'believe' in it.
Every Sunday, atheists gather in their athiest churches (tax exempt by the way) and pray to (no one) to show theiir lack of faith in no one.
Then at night, before they go to bed, they pray to (no one) to keep themselves and their family safe and healthy.
Likewise, in times of stress, they also pray to (no one) petitioning (no one) for an outcome they desire.
Then after a hopefully long life lived according to their belief in (no one), when they shift this mortal coil, the eternal soul that they don't have will forever be in teh presence of (no one)
I think you are mistaking the fact that atheists, like all humans, can be assholes, just like the people of faith in a deity can be assholes at time.
Finally, the faithful tend to think about their particular deity all the time. I know I only think about a deity when we have these discussions and people try to tell me I have a religion. As a recovering Catholic, I know the difference well. But otherwise nope, sorry, no religion here.
Microsoft are envious of how Apple get to control everything that runs on their products and want the same level of control.
Bullshit. I just booted back onto OS X on my Mac after running Windows 7 on it. I can run Linux on it any time I want. Now tell me about how Windows is so open while Apple exercises total and immutable control of their entire system.
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You really are an ignorant, bigoted asshole, clearly spurting out nonsense in a bid to gain attention for your own ego purposes, hypocritically projecting on a daily basis to satiate your need to not feel that people think of you the way you are. You do this pattern of behavior every day on slashdot.
Every damn day with your hate, ignorance, and ego. No substance. No positive points save for the sycophantic mods by people that behave the same as you. I'd imagine quite easily that people out in the real world avoid you for this behavior.
Thak you. Pissing people off like you is one of my little joys in life. The more iirritate you, the more I validate myself.
Now that you are on the hook, let's roll, dear Coward. Game on?
does that mean that the guy (you meant "yahoo", right?) in Kentucky has the right to shoot down the flying device? As you mentioned Kentucky explicitly, I would say: YESssss!
Consumer drones have become interwoven with paranoia about weaponized military drones.
And there's a conversation that need to be had about that. Interestingly, I can get some of the folks who are paranoid about drones really really really pissed off when I combine their paranoia with what is often their main love in life. Guns.
And that is, Do we have the right to shoot down a weaponized consumer drone and deprive another American of their second amendment rights?" Do I have the right to protect my property using my second amendment rights?
And of course, the resulting anger is because I asked a really tough question. As a gun owner and drone owner, I don't have an issue with the concept of target shooting with a drone. But is sure as hell isn't simple when you are dealing with people who think in absolutes.
And yet RobotRunAmok is correct.
No he isn't. He took one simple sarcasm, and tried to do a psyche writup on me, which was completely incorrect. Then he added declarations on me being a Hipster, and a member of the High school AV club.
I was being sarcastic, he was making incorrect declarations, possibly based on projection. Regardless, he completely ignored the salient part of my post, which makes for some interesting discussions.
Online Forum Pro-Tip: When you write "'Murrica," you betray your classist prejudice, weaken your argument, and reveal yourself as a hipster lightweight.
Or I can be sarcastic. Sarcasm has nothing to do with hipsterism, more to dealing with people who find that using deadly force is fun.
One most interesting thing is that you manage to make some claims, about my Hipsterism and the AV club, you manage to do a whole psyche workup on me. Odd. You'd be real surprised to find out what I actually am. But I'll leave that to your febrile imagination.
Kind RobotRunAmok, when we try to determine what another person is with precious little information, and based upon an incorrect assumption in the first place, we tend to engage in projection.
And when we completely ignore the reasonable question that comes along with the sarcasm, we manage to project even more. You give me much more info about yourself than I ever gave you.
Back to the meat of my comment, completely ignored in your snarkalicious reply:
In this case, we most certainly do have a property rights issue. Do you own the airspace above your house?
This is not just a simple drone issue. If you own the property rights to the airspace, anyone entering it is trespassing. Police will need a warrant to fly over it. You will be able to claim "stand your ground" laws if a Ultralight flies over your property, and you terminate the pilot, armed or unarmed.
How much leeway is there? If you fear you are being spied on, do you have a perimeter off your property that will serve as a "grace area" if you stand your ground and shoot down a drone, that turns out to not be on your property?
Do you have the right to shoot down a drone on the drone owner's property is you fear the drone on the drone owner's property is spying on you?
Do you have the right to terminate the drone owner if oyu see he is flying his drone over your property?
And in a country where more people are willing to use firearms as a first resort, perhaps such conversations are worth having. But you just fixate on "'Murrica", and become the dude who on Netnews a few years ago that declares someone's argument null and void because of a spelling mistake. A great way to move the conversation forwards. Thanks for playing, anyhow.
Does it matter if the drone operator was in the wrong? That does not give the hillbilly permission to shoot it. How about the next time his pickup truck exceeds the speed limit or parks illegally, we set it on fire. Is that OK?
Living in 21st century 'Murrica, other questions come to mind, If a person sees a human powered airplane or helicopter over their property, and believes the pilots are spying on his teenage daughter, does that mean that the guy in Kentucky has the right to shoot down the flying device?
Hillary! voted for the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.
So did just about everyone, and dear sir, since you are soooooooooo much in high dudgeon aout Politicians being truthful, the Bush Administration told a major fucking whopper of a lie in order to settrle his family feud with Saddam.
I was in favor of opening the football on Iraq I would have pushed the button myself, and enjoyed turning Iraq into molten glass. And I would have enjoyed it.
But the Bush administration stood there and lied to us. A Yuge! Lie.
Now go collect your paycheck from Oculous. Because you just don't like Democrats, and if your boys lie, it's just acceptable collateral damage.
What's it like having such political double standard, ya hypocrite? I also suppose you really enjoyed when Valerie Plane was outed. Anyone who outs an American secret agent should be terminated with extreme prejudice. Tell me how that was a really good thing, I seem to think it was complete evil.
Or we could just figure that more Oxygen is getting bound up in other compounds. Not a leak, possibly of some concern, but probably not.
An atheist is his own deity.
Since when?
You have your head so far up your own ass, you can even tell the difference between your two boogiemen.
But I know cowards when I read a post from them. Probably because as you note, I know exactly what shit looks like. THat dear coward, fits you to a T.
Game on?
Nah, that's too obvious. A sniper rifle fired by a CCAFS security person with money troubles is less conspicuous.
Have you got around to blaming O'Blama yet? The problem with you conspiracy kooks is that your conspiracies get really complicated, really quickly.
Its just you.
This will defiantly change the way aircraft are handled. Maybe there should be a "drone space" about 100 above the ground to 200 feet depending on the terrain. It could probably be more. I believe aircraft have to stay above 400 feet unless landing or taking off.
I wonder how long before we start seeing drones take the place of police in cars.
I wonder as well. I live in a wooded development, and it would be a real trick to have a drone fly anywhere but where the roads are. In a Farmer's field type development, it wouldn't be a huge deal, but you can't even see my place form the air. So there would have to be some 15 foot altitude flying.
My related question would be: How many of the Slashdot trolls are working for Palmer Luckey?
Probaby quite a few. Might even be the same people as troll for Microsoft.
Not the best choice? Neither candidate is trustworthy, but Trump hasn't gotten a good portion of the world mired in failed countries at war. When it comes to war, Hillary is probably to the right of any previous president, including W.
W wasn't th president, Dick Cheney was. And it takes lead balls to blame the raging clusterfuck in th eMiddle east on her. Almost as much as it does for th etrumpeters to blme int on O'Blamea. Sorry Barbara, you buy right into what the Republicans want you to believe. Tht Cheny and Rumsfeld somehow dont need mentioned, but the big criminal is Mrs Clinton.
So vote Trump because he was just a citizen at the time?
He might not have voted to go into The middle east to make war, but he does seem to be anxious to get his hands on the football.http://realnewsrightnow.com/2015/08/trump-i-will-absolutely-use-a-nuclear-weapon-against-isis/
Then again, I have said that there is a coalition of people who will gleefully destroy the world, those who have a religion that looks forward to it, and those who just want to watch the wrld burn. Stand by, there might be a hellava worldwide fireworks show where we all have front seats. I understand that one going off is quite beautiful.
Cut it any way you want it but atheism is just as much a BELIEF as theism is.
Nope - you are just not capable of seeing it any other way.
People who have a belief in say, the exact word of god as given to man in the form of the King James Bible cannot have any other belief.
On th eother hand, I have confidence in matters. That means that if I say, have confidence that we cannot harness zero point energy, I'm pretty darn sure that we can't.
But if someone comes along, and proves that we can, I'll abandon my confidence that we cannot in the face of evidence.
That is something that can be easily seen in the Theory of Evolution, where despite all evidence to the contrary, despite the entire field od biology and modern medicine validating Evolution, and despite physics validating it, there are still peopple who have great faith theat th world is some 6000 years old.
You just cannot understand the difference in mindset of people who need absolute unshakable belief, and people who have confidence in things, yet are able to change their minds as new evidence comes forth.
Just because they don't vote the way you like doesn't mean this isn't a democracy.
Who said that? I've had some corporatist funded votes that have made me a deal of money.
Finally, the faithful tend to think about their particular deity all the time.
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
Yeay verily, who among us has not had the good fortune of being born in the place chosen by god to expound the one true belief?
The quantity of self-described religious adherents who don't go to church, don't pray, and don't think much about the afterlife (until the due date visibly approaches) is frankly quite large. Belief != fervor. And, proportionally, there's quite a few places dedicated to bringing atheists together and promulgating their beliefs (tax exempt by the way).
Fascinatinating. Given that you mention Tax exempt status, it has become most clear that you define a 501(c) 3 coprporation as a religion. Allow me to show this from the first group, and th emajor group that comes up when I clicky clicky on the google search link you thoughtfully provided.
The American Atheists
This organization, which you declare as a religion, has this organizational note:
American Atheists, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such, all donations and gifts to American Atheists are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. The Federal Tax Identification Number of American Atheists, Inc. is 74-2466507.
Membership gifts, gifts to our general fund, and gifts to the American Atheists Legal Fund, Billboard Fund, and other specific funds are fully tax deductible.
Your subscription to American Atheist magazine is not tax deductible as a charitable donation.
For questions about your contributions, members status, or for a copy of your giving record, please contact us.
Now you will also note that their magazine is >not tax deductible. How odd when most churches pay no taxes whatsoever on anything, this 501(c)(3) "Church" is not totally tax deductible. Odd indeed!
Since 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations are religions, I apparently have been a Priest of a church of youth Ice Hockey, a priest of an Amateur Radio religion, and a priest and founding member of an amateur astronomy religion. Who knew? I sure didn't!
As humans, we seek explanations, stake our identity in our beliefs, and pursue fellowship with those who share them.
And some of us actively seek to discriminate against those who do not share our beliefs. And some of us become very upset when we decide that elimination of our discrimination is discrimination aginst us.
I know of at least one secular group in my city that explicitly claims to be a church ("The Church of Beethoven").
Yeah, here they are: http://churchofbeethoven.org/
Seriously man, are you actually saying that the Church of Beethovan is a separate religion? They say nothing about their personal beliefs.
Good day sir, Hard to argue with a person that claims 501(c)(3) organizations are religions, and that the Church of Beethoven is likewise religion. Other than you are wrong, yet do not take telling. Such faith is commendable.
I said, Good Day!
... Atheism is a religion in the same way that NOT playing football is a sport.
Yes, yes, but we're pretty much just as sick of people telling how superior they are by not liking football as we are as by the people who constantly rant how they love football. Same goes for not stamp collecting and other hobbies.
I grew up in a town where religion had a stranglhold on us. No Sunday stores open, No legally required sex education, Anything that showed the earth might be older than 6000 years removed form the curriculum, priests who liked to fuck little boys, And even without getting sexually abused, daily reminders of how you were going to hell if you didn't toe the line, I'd like to apologize for your inconvenience of people who are sick and tired of your shit.
The religious can dish it out, but they cannot take it.
Actually, the US is more socialist than capitalist.
Actually, it is neither. US is corporatist in the present day. Corporations write the laws, and give the baksheesh to the politicians that rubber stamp them.
This thread is a perfect example of what's becoming of Slashdot.
So, start a subthread on the technology. Seems like a way to get people talking about technology.
Slashdot has a seriously diverse readership. In any given topic, you'll get the usual suspects
The clueless noobs who are still learning.
The trolls
The "Get off my lawn" crowd, who probably are suffering from testosterone deprivation.
People who are actually interested.
Since this tech was introduced in reference to an ancient burnt Middle Eastern scroll, and it turned out to be Leviticus, of all things, its simply going to attract a diverse audience.
Now if we wanted to deal with a less flamebaity version of the same, since the NatGeo article is pretty devoid of the technology, try this: http://www.livescience.com/560...
We can't control others, only ourselves. There in that link is the start of a technology discussion.
Which god are you referring to? If its our holy lord [F]lying [S]paghetti [M]onster, god bless you! Otherwise I have to remind that you will be at the bottom of boiling cauldron. Even then there's still hope for you. You just have to hug FSM.
Let us all say a prayer that we shall all be touched by his noodley appendage!
Improving science by looking for more clues in the real world is the right way to handle those mysteries. Claiming "Magic", "God", "Taboo" or "Holy Book" is not.
Which ties into the "God of the gaps" argument, which over time, has been used to explain everything we do not know. Once upon a time, psychosis, birth defects, seemingly spontaneous biogenisis, the entire external universe and so much else were attributed to divinity because we just didn't know.
Then over time more and more was learned that fit the once mysterious things into the natural world, and the God of the gaps became popular.
Now the God of the Gaps has become quite small indeed. People who would claim that every word of the King James Bible is the exact word of God as revealed to man believe and take for granted, things that would have them burnt at the stake for heresy in an earlier time.
Atheism is a religion for most who 'believe' in it.
Every Sunday, atheists gather in their athiest churches (tax exempt by the way) and pray to (no one) to show theiir lack of faith in no one.
Then at night, before they go to bed, they pray to (no one) to keep themselves and their family safe and healthy.
Likewise, in times of stress, they also pray to (no one) petitioning (no one) for an outcome they desire.
Then after a hopefully long life lived according to their belief in (no one), when they shift this mortal coil, the eternal soul that they don't have will forever be in teh presence of (no one)
I think you are mistaking the fact that atheists, like all humans, can be assholes, just like the people of faith in a deity can be assholes at time.
Finally, the faithful tend to think about their particular deity all the time. I know I only think about a deity when we have these discussions and people try to tell me I have a religion. As a recovering Catholic, I know the difference well. But otherwise nope, sorry, no religion here.
Microsoft are envious of how Apple get to control everything that runs on their products and want the same level of control.
Bullshit. I just booted back onto OS X on my Mac after running Windows 7 on it. I can run Linux on it any time I want. Now tell me about how Windows is so open while Apple exercises total and immutable control of their entire system.
Except when they don't.
Pardon the snark, but Jeezuz that meme gets old.