I do have an unhealthy obsession with my Goomba, but it doesn't come close to the religious outrage that descends on my bog whenever / if-ever I say anything that doesn't approach worship of Dog.
Honestly, it's the biggest reason I no longer buy products from Amway. The astonishing thing is how many years this keeps going on. I had a friend who started hiding his Necronemecon for fear of the cultists that would swarm him and go on about how great it was while he was just trying to look up an address or whatever.
The most insane Amway-nut I ever met was L. Ron Hubbard, but then he was at least reasonable enough to acknowledge other MLMs, although you wouldn't believe it from the Amway fans who quote him endlessly.
Why are so many of their cultists complete nutcases?
Which moron modded the parent Troll?? - The comment was probably intended as sarcasm. Should be Insightful imho. Oh and anyone with tag privileges, tag this one Nazism, beucase that's exactly what it is.
With my handle, I feel that I absolutely must comment on this article...
Whilst the BS factor in some "religions" is higher than in others, ultimately they all contain their own specific BS. Not surprisingly - in the more established religions like catholicism for instance - this "changes" (as if touched by His Noodly Appendage) whenever scientific methods provide contradictory evidence.) At high school, my religious education teacher (surely those terms are oxymoronic) taught us that the bible was, in essence, an allegorical story written to explain the 'coming to be' (I refuse to use the C word in this context) of the universe as we observe it.
Since that time, its been my opinion that any adult who believes that the bible is a factual account of the processes involed is either intellectually subnormal, toeing someone else's line under duress or (for the safety of others) needing to detained for psychiatric treatment.
From what I have read, 'scientology' appears to go several steps further with its particular 'origin' fairytale, the nuclear bombs and volcanoes guff isn't even remotely allegorical; the sheer 'front' of "El-Ron" for cooking this one up, though, is legendary enough in itself...
In stark contrast to (most of those?) institutions already recognisesd as religions in most of the world, 'scientology' keeps its teachings secret and even charges money for them. These facts themselves are serious cause for serious concern; yet more worrying are its attempts to gain charitable status (as a 'religion') here in the UK.
One positive thing (as I see it) to come from this bunch of nutters attempts to legitimise their absolute horsecock of nonsense is that it's opening the eyes of a lot of people in respect of 'religions' as a whole.
It is my sincere hope that this campaign to debunk one 'obviously purely fictional' 'religion' evolves (did you like that one?;)) into a juggernaut to expose the falsehoods of other 'obviously purely fictional' 'religions' (i.e. all of them).
I always used to think that if I were American, then I would probably vote Republican (as an analogue to the Conservative party here). I have since come to learn of the endemic religious lunacy in that institution and pray to my Dog that the next US president doesn't have a biography copied from the DSM IV.
Curiously enough, I changed the sig to what it is now because you (though I'll never know) modded down a comment I made which treated religion with the respect it deserves (i.e. none at all).
Before your down modding the sig read:
Its not a Troll if its true; its never Offtopic if its funny.
Funny how religious lunatics always (and I mean always) behave like the "Ministry of Truth" in Orwell's 1984.
May I suggest that you indulge in eating your own shit, preferably utilising some religious items as cutlery and crockery. After all, you're eating shit every Sunday so what does it matter.
Btw, "Jesus" doesn't give a fuck about anything - the reason is deceptively simple. "He" never existed. The Individual you think arose from the dead was nothing more than an invented character in a bogus story concocted by the Romans to help subdue pagan tribes across Europe. Whilst it isn't a definative source of information, watching "The Pharmacratic Inquisition" may be a useful alternative to therapy and/or psychosurgery for you. What you'll find out about the "Sun" of Dog I leave to you to interpret. Unlike going to church, downloading it won't cost you any money.
Lampooning 'religion' is *not* trolling because 'religion' is just a sick joke. Want to know the truth about your beloved Jebus? Watch "The Pharmacratic Inquisition".
Once again, the so-called 'theory' of creation is a just a pthetic excuse to:
i/ ignore the obvious. ii/ excuse one's self from the hard work of thinking. iii/ steal 5 minutes of fame in the (future) annals of history.
On the last point, if it wasn't for the amount of unadulterated evil perpetrated in the name of religion (boiling people alive, burning at the stake, beheading etc.) the only section of a future encyclopaedia that you'd find 'creation' in would be Comedy or Humour
Btw, let me give you an example of a "real" Troll:
So the Canadians have invented:
a massive robot which will 'rise like Frankenstein' from the shuttle's cargo bay ostensibly to deal with space emergencies...
That's nothing. The "Creationists" have invented a massive work of fiction which will 'rise like Jebus' into the consciousness of anyone dimwitted enough to buy into it.
ostensibly to deal with "Road Traffic" emergencies...
Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems.
Now we know how the theory of "Intelligent Design" has gained the amount of acceptance that it has.
True, but if it was created following the same logic as some of the pro creation arguments I've heard then we'd be living on a planet with a crust of Meringue (Option 56PL 3)
Speaking from experience, the financial services industry is one environment where 99.9% uptime is certainly not acceptable, all the more so where real time trading takes place.
Quite literally, a dealing room must have as close to 100% uptime (certainly whilst the markets are trading) as is possible.
The consequences of an outage can run into the tens of millions (often far more) in a matter of minutes. 'Open' positions which cannot be closed in a timely fashion if market conditions change unfavourably can be a bit of a pain, like a brain haemorrhage is. Lets not forget lost profits from an inability to make new trades.
Most 'industry insiders' think that whhen they hear the magic acronym 'UPS' that all is well; in reality, little could be further from the truth.
I am aware of at least two (through personal involvement and that of family) major banks here in London that have had "uptime issues" as a result of systemic deficiencies that (wiith respect) very few people in IT understand at all, let alone to any real extent. Quite what the losses associated with these outages are is anyone's guess, but put it this way, if you were given the money that was lost, you (and probably several generations of your descendants) would never ever have to work again.
The bottom line is that it is totally useless having machines with hot swappable power supplies, drives etc unless you have concurrent redundancy in your entire IT infrastructure - that's from the computing hardware, through the electrical distribution system in your building (including redundant airconditioning systems, back-up generators etc.) right down to having redundant and independant mains feeds from the electrical power supplier.
There is a lot of halfbakery when it comes to building proper support infrastrucure for large IT systems. Whilst it might be accpetable for consumer level telephony services to be offline for a couple of hours occasionally, when you have the risk of an outage that could involve the SEC (due diligence, sarbox etc. I can elaborate if anyone cares...) or the FSA (in the UK) because of the enormous amount of money involved, it simply does not pay to cut corners.
I'd put money on it that a lot of supposedly redundant electrical distribution systems are, when properly scrutinised, nothing of the sort. That is certainly the case here in the UK; things might be better in the US where the lack of a national electrical grid means that vulnerabilities to loss of supply have long been considered.
Undoubtedly, some of you have heard of the Uptime Institute (google it) and their 'Tier' system (1,2,3 & 4) - but most of the IT people I've been involved with just look puzzled when you try to explain.
It's just a personal opinion, but until regulatory bodies in whichever industry start to pay attention to this sort of thing (and that includes the management of the system maintenance regime), you will always get unplanned downtime because someone in the proverbial corner office thought themselves a better engineer than the people who actually make things.
Whilst I'm at it, with power densities in data centres climbing ever higher (and set to soar into the stratosphere) critical IT system design needs a bit of a shakeup whereby IT and facilities work more closely to ensure that set-ups are fit for purpose for today and the foreseeable future.
Any errors or omissions are because I'm tired and lazy - oh and sick of people who try to pay me a worker's rate but expect me to think and plan for free (and on my own time).
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Settin u up the bomb :O
I do have an unhealthy obsession with my Goomba, but it doesn't come close to the religious outrage that descends on my bog whenever / if-ever I say anything that doesn't approach worship of Dog. Honestly, it's the biggest reason I no longer buy products from Amway. The astonishing thing is how many years this keeps going on. I had a friend who started hiding his Necronemecon for fear of the cultists that would swarm him and go on about how great it was while he was just trying to look up an address or whatever. The most insane Amway-nut I ever met was L. Ron Hubbard, but then he was at least reasonable enough to acknowledge other MLMs, although you wouldn't believe it from the Amway fans who quote him endlessly. Why are so many of their cultists complete nutcases?
If so, can we expect to see them handed out in churches?
Then again, they already have voice activated mind control don't they..
LJ
Hmm - okay, here goes:
In Soviet Russia, DNA profiles you
In Britain, we aren't so lucky - we only get government agencies doing that sort of thing.
Which moron modded the parent Troll?? - The comment was probably intended as sarcasm. Should be Insightful imho. Oh and anyone with tag privileges, tag this one Nazism, beucase that's exactly what it is.
With my handle, I feel that I absolutely must comment on this article...
;)) into a juggernaut to expose the falsehoods of other 'obviously purely fictional' 'religions' (i.e. all of them).
Whilst the BS factor in some "religions" is higher than in others, ultimately they all contain their own specific BS. Not surprisingly - in the more established religions like catholicism for instance - this "changes" (as if touched by His Noodly Appendage) whenever scientific methods provide contradictory evidence.) At high school, my religious education teacher (surely those terms are oxymoronic) taught us that the bible was, in essence, an allegorical story written to explain the 'coming to be' (I refuse to use the C word in this context) of the universe as we observe it.
Since that time, its been my opinion that any adult who believes that the bible is a factual account of the processes involed is either intellectually subnormal, toeing someone else's line under duress or (for the safety of others) needing to detained for psychiatric treatment.
From what I have read, 'scientology' appears to go several steps further with its particular 'origin' fairytale, the nuclear bombs and volcanoes guff isn't even remotely allegorical; the sheer 'front' of "El-Ron" for cooking this one up, though, is legendary enough in itself...
In stark contrast to (most of those?) institutions already recognisesd as religions in most of the world, 'scientology' keeps its teachings secret and even charges money for them. These facts themselves are serious cause for serious concern; yet more worrying are its attempts to gain charitable status (as a 'religion') here in the UK.
One positive thing (as I see it) to come from this bunch of nutters attempts to legitimise their absolute horsecock of nonsense is that it's opening the eyes of a lot of people in respect of 'religions' as a whole.
It is my sincere hope that this campaign to debunk one 'obviously purely fictional' 'religion' evolves (did you like that one?
I always used to think that if I were American, then I would probably vote Republican (as an analogue to the Conservative party here). I have since come to learn of the endemic religious lunacy in that institution and pray to my Dog that the next US president doesn't have a biography copied from the DSM IV.
For those old enough to remember ;)
WARNING direct links to wikipedia and jpg image (nothing "shocking")
http://www.blakes-7.co.uk/conventions/b7reunion/liberator/Orac.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orac_Blake's_7
oooookayyyyy......
Curiously enough, I changed the sig to what it is now because you (though I'll never know) modded down a comment I made which treated religion with the respect it deserves (i.e. none at all).
Before your down modding the sig read:
Its not a Troll if its true; its never Offtopic if its funny.
Funny how religious lunatics always (and I mean always) behave like the "Ministry of Truth" in Orwell's 1984.
May I suggest that you indulge in eating your own shit, preferably utilising some religious items as cutlery and crockery. After all, you're eating shit every Sunday so what does it matter.
Btw, "Jesus" doesn't give a fuck about anything - the reason is deceptively simple. "He" never existed. The Individual you think arose from the dead was nothing more than an invented character in a bogus story concocted by the Romans to help subdue pagan tribes across Europe. Whilst it isn't a definative source of information, watching "The Pharmacratic Inquisition" may be a useful alternative to therapy and/or psychosurgery for you. What you'll find out about the "Sun" of Dog I leave to you to interpret. Unlike going to church, downloading it won't cost you any money.
That's funny, I could have sworn it was Frosted Piss...
If you take a look at this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6380789.stm it mentions that >60kW has already been achieved in the lab from a solid state setup.
I, for one, do not welcome our new steroid-addled laser pointer overlords.
LJ
Mod: try reading the sig...
Lampooning 'religion' is *not* trolling because 'religion' is just a sick joke. Want to know the truth about your beloved Jebus? Watch "The Pharmacratic Inquisition".
Once again, the so-called 'theory' of creation is a just a pthetic excuse to:
i/ ignore the obvious. ii/ excuse one's self from the hard work of thinking. iii/ steal 5 minutes of fame in the (future) annals of history.
On the last point, if it wasn't for the amount of unadulterated evil perpetrated in the name of religion (boiling people alive, burning at the stake, beheading etc.) the only section of a future encyclopaedia that you'd find 'creation' in would be Comedy or Humour
Btw, let me give you an example of a "real" Troll:
Your mother
Now be a good lobotomite and fuck off.
That's nothing. The "Creationists" have invented a massive work of fiction which will 'rise like Jebus' into the consciousness of anyone dimwitted enough to buy into it.
ostensibly to deal with "Road Traffic" emergencies...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCnGRur6gvg
It isn't very successful though.
LJ
Just like the Cold war was post Stalin (and probably was all along).
Btw, I used to consider myself fairly conservative until "Basil" B(r)ush came along. Boom Boom!
This is a prime example of a comic book, for those who need to put things into context:
http://www.eden.co.uk/shop/cover-images/illustrated-bible-1010826.html
What an imagination!
McDonald's burgers certainly are 100% Beef - its just that a lot of that beef is actually from the cow's ass (its cheap meat)
I don't fall for their crass bullshit.
I'm sure they wash all the shit off the burgers before they cook them
Its not a troll if its true and its never offtopic if its funny.
LJ
Whatever you might think of *me*, this guy is dead on - esp. with his last paragraph.
LJ
Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems.
Now we know how the theory of "Intelligent Design" has gained the amount of acceptance that it has.
Hint: Its not a Troll when its true.
Fixed ift for ya, 10^42.
Gutless shitcunt religious lunatic.
Whata pair of cunts those two are (the adults). Hope someone does it back to them one day
True, but if it was created following the same logic as some of the pro creation arguments I've heard then we'd be living on a planet with a crust of Meringue (Option 56PL 3)
Or it could be the answer a creationist will give you when presented with the question:
"What is 6 x 9?"
Despite all logical reasoning, they insist that it's 42 because "THAT'S WHAT THE BOOK SAYS IT IS"
Its the average IQ of a creationist.
:P
Flame away
Its not a war on data, its a Spamish Inquisition.
Then again, come the election they could still get the (fish) finger....
http://www.mccain.com/
Speaking from experience, the financial services industry is one environment where 99.9% uptime is certainly not acceptable, all the more so where real time trading takes place.
Quite literally, a dealing room must have as close to 100% uptime (certainly whilst the markets are trading) as is possible.
The consequences of an outage can run into the tens of millions (often far more) in a matter of minutes. 'Open' positions which cannot be closed in a timely fashion if market conditions change unfavourably can be a bit of a pain, like a brain haemorrhage is. Lets not forget lost profits from an inability to make new trades.
Most 'industry insiders' think that whhen they hear the magic acronym 'UPS' that all is well; in reality, little could be further from the truth.
I am aware of at least two (through personal involvement and that of family) major banks here in London that have had "uptime issues" as a result of systemic deficiencies that (wiith respect) very few people in IT understand at all, let alone to any real extent. Quite what the losses associated with these outages are is anyone's guess, but put it this way, if you were given the money that was lost, you (and probably several generations of your descendants) would never ever have to work again.
The bottom line is that it is totally useless having machines with hot swappable power supplies, drives etc unless you have concurrent redundancy in your entire IT infrastructure - that's from the computing hardware, through the electrical distribution system in your building (including redundant airconditioning systems, back-up generators etc.) right down to having redundant and independant mains feeds from the electrical power supplier.
There is a lot of halfbakery when it comes to building proper support infrastrucure for large IT systems. Whilst it might be accpetable for consumer level telephony services to be offline for a couple of hours occasionally, when you have the risk of an outage that could involve the SEC (due diligence, sarbox etc. I can elaborate if anyone cares...) or the FSA (in the UK) because of the enormous amount of money involved, it simply does not pay to cut corners.
I'd put money on it that a lot of supposedly redundant electrical distribution systems are, when properly scrutinised, nothing of the sort. That is certainly the case here in the UK; things might be better in the US where the lack of a national electrical grid means that vulnerabilities to loss of supply have long been considered.
Undoubtedly, some of you have heard of the Uptime Institute (google it) and their 'Tier' system (1,2,3 & 4) - but most of the IT people I've been involved with just look puzzled when you try to explain.
It's just a personal opinion, but until regulatory bodies in whichever industry start to pay attention to this sort of thing (and that includes the management of the system maintenance regime), you will always get unplanned downtime because someone in the proverbial corner office thought themselves a better engineer than the people who actually make things.
Whilst I'm at it, with power densities in data centres climbing ever higher (and set to soar into the stratosphere) critical IT system design needs a bit of a shakeup whereby IT and facilities work more closely to ensure that set-ups are fit for purpose for today and the foreseeable future.
Any errors or omissions are because I'm tired and lazy - oh and sick of people who try to pay me a worker's rate but expect me to think and plan for free (and on my own time).