>... those parents pushing ID also Don't deserve to have their home religious teachings purposefully undermined...
I disagree. If they want their children to be ignorant, they're quite at liberty to withdraw them from the public school system and either home-school or put them into a private fundie school.
That's not what I said. In fact, I challenge you to find _any_ evidence one way or the other for my personal beliefs (except for an antipathy for stupid, close-minded people) in my post.
As it happens, I _am_ an atheist, but if I saw a scrap of evidence for any gods, I'd accept Jeebus (or Cthuluh, or whoever) as my lord and personal saviour in a heartbeat. In 40-odd years of searching, I've not found that evidence.
>[T]he proponents of Intelligent Design are really just pushing for equal time.
They don't deserve equal time. A right to equal time would imply they were saying something that, in the interests of a fair and balanced discussion, was worth listening to.
Firstly, the IRA are mostly Catholics, not fundies. Secondly, they were intent on getting foreign invaders (the English) out of their country. (Never mind whether or not you agree with their assessment of the situation.) Which, come to think of it, has a certain haunting familiarity...
It's not that I disagree with you, but this particular set of discussion topics (the nexus of Iraq, oil, fundamentalist of various hues and the right to bear arms) _really_ gets everyone (including me) a bit hot under the collar.
I have trouble imagining just _how_ horrid this will sound... unless you get random hand movements to trigger a pre-sampled Yngwie Malmsteen track... oh, wait, forget it.
I've got about 20 litres of _really_ hoppy lager. I was following a recipe I usually use to make 40 l of beer and halved everything except the hops:( - I'd had a couple-too-many homebrews while I was cooking it up - I'm hoping it'll be drinkable in about a year...
Fortunately we can watch it in Australia without commercials. SBS has its commercials in between each show, so you can avoid them completely by switching back to the ABC for 5 or 10 minutes, or doing something in another room.
I actually got a BSOD the other day (XP Professional on my work laptop) - no idea why. I must admit it's the first in a while, but they do still happen.
I had a BSOD about 2 days ago (XP Professional, SP 2, yaddah, yaddah, and just standard apps with no weird drivers). It's the first one in a while, but still... not so stable. It's my work machine (hence bog-standard setup) and gets shut down every night. I wouldn't run it at home, though. Too flakey.
Linux, OTOH, is rock-solid - certainly no house of cards. I haven't had a problem in years.
You are clearly delusional. You shouldn't have stopped taking the medication.
And, just for the record, I'm absolutely convinced that your government deliberately lied to you. All the evidence points to it. Hardly anyone in the rest of the world believed the WMD lie for a heartbeat, and it turns out we were right.
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> ... those parents pushing ID also Don't deserve to have their home religious teachings purposefully undermined ...
I disagree. If they want their children to be ignorant, they're quite at liberty to withdraw them from the public school system and either home-school or put them into a private fundie school.
That's not what I said. In fact, I challenge you to find _any_ evidence one way or the other for my personal beliefs (except for an antipathy for stupid, close-minded people) in my post.
As it happens, I _am_ an atheist, but if I saw a scrap of evidence for any gods, I'd accept Jeebus (or Cthuluh, or whoever) as my lord and personal saviour in a heartbeat. In 40-odd years of searching, I've not found that evidence.
>[T]he proponents of Intelligent Design are really just pushing for equal time.
They don't deserve equal time. A right to equal time would imply they were saying something that, in the interests of a fair and balanced discussion, was worth listening to.
Firstly, the IRA are mostly Catholics, not fundies. Secondly, they were intent on getting foreign invaders (the English) out of their country. (Never mind whether or not you agree with their assessment of the situation.) Which, come to think of it, has a certain haunting familiarity ...
Oh, well. I reckon most fundamentalists are arseholes, so it sort of fits.
It's not that I disagree with you, but this particular set of discussion topics (the nexus of Iraq, oil, fundamentalist of various hues and the right to bear arms) _really_ gets everyone (including me) a bit hot under the collar.
> ... fundamentalists seem ignorant, naive, and arrogant ...
You left out "intellectually lazy", but that's OK. It gave me the opportunity to add it.
OTOH, the fucking fundies deserve every bit of abuse that comes their way, and then some.
They seem to think that being as dumb as shit gives _them_ the right to abuse anyone who disagrees with them.
Mao actually was quite a lot like Pat Robertson - after all, they both have an impulse towards fascism.
The one thing Mao wasn't (despite the Marxist rhetoric), was a socialist.
I have trouble imagining just _how_ horrid this will sound ... unless you get random hand movements to trigger a pre-sampled Yngwie Malmsteen track ... oh, wait, forget it.
I've got about 20 litres of _really_ hoppy lager. I was following a recipe I usually use to make 40 l of beer and halved everything except the hops :( - I'd had a couple-too-many homebrews while I was cooking it up - I'm hoping it'll be drinkable in about a year ...
Pity the fucking link doesn't work ... just like the pretend engine, I guess.
Um. No, it isn't. It's vastly _inferior_.
/etc.
Having dealt with both, I'm still convinced the registry is seriously broken, compared to a bunch of files in
And the binary back end, while a serious problem, is only part of it.
Fortunately we can watch it in Australia without commercials. SBS has its commercials in between each show, so you can avoid them completely by switching back to the ABC for 5 or 10 minutes, or doing something in another room.
At least it doesn't have a fucking registry - arguably _the_ _most_ _broken_ way of configuring a system.
I actually got a BSOD the other day (XP Professional on my work laptop) - no idea why. I must admit it's the first in a while, but they do still happen.
I had a BSOD about 2 days ago (XP Professional, SP 2, yaddah, yaddah, and just standard apps with no weird drivers). It's the first one in a while, but still ... not so stable. It's my work machine (hence bog-standard setup) and gets shut down every night. I wouldn't run it at home, though. Too flakey.
Linux, OTOH, is rock-solid - certainly no house of cards. I haven't had a problem in years.
I guess I'm not the only one who misread it as "Windows Complete Cluster" (so, what's new?)
I just mentally canvassed everyone I know about belief in the WMDs. Nope. Not a one.
OK, it's a small sample, but it's probably a reasonably good representative sample of intelligent, rational people.
You are clearly delusional. You shouldn't have stopped taking the medication.
And, just for the record, I'm absolutely convinced that your government deliberately lied to you. All the evidence points to it. Hardly anyone in the rest of the world believed the WMD lie for a heartbeat, and it turns out we were right.
We have much the same problem in Australia.
Thanks for the link.
You're the canary in the coal mine.
Not any more.