It's 45% patent warfare, 45% milking the public with patents for bullshit improvements thus retarding progress and at best 5% use that could be called legitimate [...]
Where'd the other 5% go?
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My neighbour has not caused any harm with her own little brand of religion, so suggesting that those things be universally connected to religion seems to be in error.
Give her time to gain influence over decision makers. Then tell me how harmless she is/was.
+/-1, Reading Comprehension. I mean, you copied a quote that said "it's legal," and then you go and argue that "it's not illegal"? Tilt at windmills much?
You spelled it this way twice, and twice with "u" and "i" for the vowels.
I like the former -- it seems like a passive-aggressive way of making the very word describing their religion, to be "formed in the image of Mohammed", and even if it was just a typo, I like the things my brain tells me, so I will keep rewarding it with alcohol.
Equivalently, most Human brains are infected with a Malware called Religion. The virus is different in different parts of the world, but its still a virus.
Religion : Thinking:: Emotion : Logic
Or, in longer terms: religion is similar to thinking, in the same way the emotion is similar to logic: it's a shortcut, and often helps keep the organism intact (society in the former, and the individual in the latter) -- but it is also, sometimes often, destructively and completely wrong.
If someone went around to all the Jewish homes in New York and put Ham on the door handles, you bet it'd make the news.
Not quite the right scale -- I can post an image in seconds with no cost other than recurring ones (electricity, Internet, etc) but buying lots of hams would cost me money, as would distributing them throughout New York -- and, then, there'd be a benefit to the homeless who could lick the doorknobs or something.
I can't quite see the Jews getting that upset with it, either; they'd find some way to make it a profitable experience. (They're in my family, I know how they think.)
I had a thought last night regarding religion and science (I've got a lot of Christian fuck-ups in my family too...). "Science is not against Religion; however, Religion tends to be firmly against Science." Once you start investigating, scientifically, e.g. how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, and you can't nail down the pertinent aspects of angels (like dimension, weight, etc) then there's no real purpose in furthering the experiment. "Accept it on faith" was used by our banking institutions, and look where that got us! Today's not my best day for arguing against religion, sorry, I'll leave it here.
Let's start a campaign to get them to ban Slashdot. And then Youtube, and Amazon, and every other site on the Internet, and then see how they can globally compete with the Amish.
Actually, in reading this, I'm thinking it's not so bleak after all.
You see, this Texas board may control the textbooks of a small backwards country, but they don't control the servers for Wikimedia.
Nor can they keep children from accessing the Internet at home.
So kids will learn the real truth. Teachers (who care, and understand what's going on) can assign homework from Wikipedia; perhaps some homework could be to help improve it. And not just to focusing on Wiki either, there are several other collaborative projects out there that can improve this situation simply by existing.
This is a crappy situation, and I agree that people who have their lives ruled through fiction do not deserve to be in positions of authority, but I don't think it's all that bleak.
Oh, and to include something from a previous paragraph that started this train of thought:
Our kids are going to grow up reading this stuff they're forcing on them now.
My brain initially stopped the sentence at "stuff" and I realized that children currently have unfettered acess to Slashdot, where we discuss many amazing things, most of which have carefully-written, logical arguments (and then there's the GNAA posts, which I suppose one could compare this Texas board to).
As long as there are intelligent discussion boards out there, with ways for people to share knowledge and improve each others' lives, I don't think the religious fundamentalists will have a very strong hold over our future. Unless they start talking about taking down the Internet; then, I'd be worried.
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FWIW, your signature exactly matches the type of meme you were trying to express. Nice juxtaposition, there.
Where'd the other 5% go?
Give her time to gain influence over decision makers. Then tell me how harmless she is/was.
Aha! You work in my row, don't you?
Says the dude with Colbert in his signature...
Yeah, and now the "normal method" is to remove founding fathers and add religion. <shudders>
Healthy Style Sexercise? Sounds appealing!
I really like how just about anything you say segues nicely into your signature.
Well, acknowledgment is the first step towards recovery. If they can read about how bad it is, then perhaps they can do something about it.
+/-1, Reading Comprehension. I mean, you copied a quote that said "it's legal," and then you go and argue that "it's not illegal"? Tilt at windmills much?
Agreed. Ever since I changed my sig, as long as I post daily, every day will be Draw Mohammed Day.
Sure, I'll join you with my sig.
You spelled it this way twice, and twice with "u" and "i" for the vowels.
I like the former -- it seems like a passive-aggressive way of making the very word describing their religion, to be "formed in the image of Mohammed", and even if it was just a typo, I like the things my brain tells me, so I will keep rewarding it with alcohol.
Religion : Thinking :: Emotion : Logic
Or, in longer terms: religion is similar to thinking, in the same way the emotion is similar to logic: it's a shortcut, and often helps keep the organism intact (society in the former, and the individual in the latter) -- but it is also, sometimes often, destructively and completely wrong.
Heh, thanks, sometimes I surprise myself; but not this time. :)
Not quite the right scale -- I can post an image in seconds with no cost other than recurring ones (electricity, Internet, etc) but buying lots of hams would cost me money, as would distributing them throughout New York -- and, then, there'd be a benefit to the homeless who could lick the doorknobs or something.
I can't quite see the Jews getting that upset with it, either; they'd find some way to make it a profitable experience. (They're in my family, I know how they think.)
I had a thought last night regarding religion and science (I've got a lot of Christian fuck-ups in my family too...). "Science is not against Religion; however, Religion tends to be firmly against Science." Once you start investigating, scientifically, e.g. how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, and you can't nail down the pertinent aspects of angels (like dimension, weight, etc) then there's no real purpose in furthering the experiment. "Accept it on faith" was used by our banking institutions, and look where that got us! Today's not my best day for arguing against religion, sorry, I'll leave it here.
Let's start a campaign to get them to ban Slashdot. And then Youtube, and Amazon, and every other site on the Internet, and then see how they can globally compete with the Amish.
I believe my new signature is on-topic here...
"Is that you, in the closet, with a knife?"
What, like Venkman's girlfriend's fridge?
Actually, in reading this, I'm thinking it's not so bleak after all.
You see, this Texas board may control the textbooks of a small backwards country, but they don't control the servers for Wikimedia.
Nor can they keep children from accessing the Internet at home.
So kids will learn the real truth. Teachers (who care, and understand what's going on) can assign homework from Wikipedia; perhaps some homework could be to help improve it. And not just to focusing on Wiki either, there are several other collaborative projects out there that can improve this situation simply by existing.
This is a crappy situation, and I agree that people who have their lives ruled through fiction do not deserve to be in positions of authority, but I don't think it's all that bleak.
Oh, and to include something from a previous paragraph that started this train of thought:
My brain initially stopped the sentence at "stuff" and I realized that children currently have unfettered acess to Slashdot, where we discuss many amazing things, most of which have carefully-written, logical arguments (and then there's the GNAA posts, which I suppose one could compare this Texas board to).
As long as there are intelligent discussion boards out there, with ways for people to share knowledge and improve each others' lives, I don't think the religious fundamentalists will have a very strong hold over our future. Unless they start talking about taking down the Internet; then, I'd be worried.
Your post starts and ends with mythology references. I trust none of the rest of it.
Wait, what? No, really? He's back?
Um, so, keep worrying and you won't have to worry about posting any more? :)