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  1. Re:My god. on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Do you post those things on the internet, in a public place for all to view? Do you involve the classroom? Do you say your going to practice killing her using a cadaver in your school's laboratory?

    If we're going to draw analogies, we shouldn't leave out critical points.

  2. Re:My god. on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    You're blurring what she said. Using your analogy, she would have said that she was going to 'shoot a certain someone with a gun', and that she was 'looking forward to shooting lessons'.

    Your analogy leaves out the threat. Talking about shooting guns, and talking about shooting people with guns are two different things. One is a threat, and one is not.

  3. Re:My god. on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Saying that you're going to stab someone in the throat with an embalming instrument sounds like a 'I'm going to kill you' threat to me.

    She wrote a threat in a public forum, directly relating violence to her classroom. There are no First Amendment violations here, there is no lurking Big Brother.

  4. Re:Tax on Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation · · Score: 1

    I think nothing could be better for the people of the United States. Tell the failing State of California, which soaks up our tax dollars, kills our young gangs, and embroils us in endless instantiations of American (Californian?) Idol to get lost. The United States would save hundreds of billions a year not wasting tax money in the State of California, which we could turn around and use on our own infrastructure. We have the largest economy in the world, and we don't need the failing State of California hanging around our neck.

  5. Re:She's often a fighter jock too. on Spaceworms To Help Study Astronaut Muscle Loss · · Score: 2, Funny

    She'll have them acting like ducks?

  6. Re:This is an attack on the teabaggers on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And in the end, nothing of any significance will change. So continues the failed experiment of big government and big bureaucracy..

  7. Re:interesting juxtaposition on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 1

    I don't see him saying anything about how a space race should be funded.

  8. Re:No. really! on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    And tell me one more time how I'm supposed to believe the Scientists *instead* of the Bible, because the scientist have a better track record again? Weren't they just last week talking about how dark matter estimations were off by like 4x?

    Well seeing how I must have skipped over the part of the Bible that dealt with the Higgs Boson and dark matter (kind of like how Christians skipped over some parts of Leviticus), I would assume that believing both scientists and the Bible is a possibility in some areas.

    Now if you want to argue about carbon dating versus God's sporadic testing of faith (I think I've failed), I can see where you might have to choose one side or the other.

  9. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 1
  10. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw 300 and I have to say the atrocities the Persian's commit on a daily basis are unholy and deserve our Christian justice.

  11. Re:Most food we eat is genetically modified on Judge Rejects Approval of Engineered Sugar Beets · · Score: 1

    I won't concede the statement that 'the vast majority of Christians are for GM foods', but since neither of us is likely to have data supporting either of our positions, it's a waste of time to argue.

    I am willing to concede that there are differing viewpoints throughout the various denominations however. Being an agnostic in the middle of the Bible Belt offers firsthand evidence at how some Christian viewpoints, even viewpoints from a minority, permeate the barriers of secular institutions, and allow stereotypes to thrive.

  12. Re:Most food we eat is genetically modified on Judge Rejects Approval of Engineered Sugar Beets · · Score: 1

    If that's the case you must not be around many Christians. Or you aren't listening to them, which is probably a smart move on your part.

  13. Re:Doomsday Machine on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 1

    http://www.armyg1.army.mil/HR/docs/demographics/FY08%20Army%20Profile.pdf

    If you're talking about racial demographics of the US Army, there you go. 61% of enlisted personnel are white. I'd have to assume the percentage of casualties remains in the vicinity.

    Of course, you could be referring the targets of the US military, in which case I'd make the argument that any cross-culture military conflict could be misconstrued as a race war.

  14. Re:Escalation on Bullet-Proof Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I missed that lesson in history class. The one where the Roman Legions are beset by the whip-wielding Visigoth horde. On a side note, I'm pretty sure whips are only effective against Dracula and Nazis.

  15. Re:The Game is still Kicking! on Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite · · Score: 1

    SWG may be still kicking, but it's lying in a pool of it's own blood, gurgling, hoping someone passes by to give it a coup de grÃce.

  16. Re:Lie to me! on "Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    I was rather disappointed he did not run for the vacant Senator position. He's the closest thing we've had to a traditional Republican: budget surplus, decreased government size, repaying of debts. Using today's standards, we're just lucky if our governor doesn't end up behind bars.

  17. Re:Lie to me! on "Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Edgar

    Who also happens to be the last decent Governor of Illinois.

  18. Re:A joke my Dad told... on UK's Oldest Computer To Be "Rebooted" · · Score: 1

    As a practical person, I prefer my car to be efficient in its abilities to get me to places I want to go, and its ability to not be a burden on my wallet. Ill trade 'interesting' for that any day.

  19. Re:Not worth reading on The Press Releases of the Damned · · Score: 1

    I'm going out on a limb that he was kidding. He found Slashdot.

  20. Re:Pirates!! on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I'd want my city associated with sixteen straight years of losing seasons.

    -A displaced Cardinals fan living in Chicago

  21. Re:Incoming 1st Amendment Challenge on Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    I communicate through other means than Facebook. Am I alone in this?

  22. Re:Obama, like Paul Atreides, will still be ruler on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 1

    About to outnerd you, but it was Paul's son Leto II who turned into the worm. Paul was the blind Prophet who got knifed by his sister's guards.

  23. Re:Pre-empting the obvious on NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth · · Score: 1

    The problem is when you feed starving people, they tend to make lots more starving babies.

  24. Re:But is it intelligent? on NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth · · Score: 1

    Apparently you've never been made it to the South.

  25. Re:slashdot anti-capitalists on Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court · · Score: 1

    Patents like this are anti-capitalist. 'A learning management system that allows a single user login to have multiple roles'. Great invention. Slap a patent on it, gotta protect that ambition to invent!