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  1. Re:Video on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You obviously aren't the persons I was talking about.

    You're right, that you don't need to hear the screams of those that are dying to know that it is fucked up. You need to hear it if you keep making stupid appeasement statements like ‘The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander the Prophet of Islam’ - Obama. Which is exactly what these assholes did in Paris today, denied the future to those that slandered the Prophet of Islam.

    This is exactly what Obama actually called for.

  2. Re:In the name of Allah ! on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Want me to compare atrocity to atrocity?

    You already did, and failed. You compared the "Christian extremists don't seem to have any more trouble with marching into Christian church services [wikipedia.org] right here in the USA and murdering people they have religious disputes with." with " Islamists kill more Muslims that all their other victims combined. "

    This is simply a false equivocation. But that is okay with you, because you have an agenda.

  3. Re:Video on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The censored version does not do justice to the dead police officer. In fact, it does a grave disservice because it doesn't clearly depict the police officer begging for his life, and the evil of those that killed him, thus "taming" the act, making it seem more respectable.

    I understand that not everyone has the stomach to watch it. But in my opinion, those that don't have the stomach are often the ones who need to watch it the most, because those are the first people who line up with appeasement language. The people expressing appeasement "Islam is a religion of peace" at this point are simply delusional. Let me know when Islamists start turning in the radicals that live among them, en mass.

  4. Re:No, you really havent avenged anything. on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Obviously the Islamists have never heard of the Streisand Effect.

  5. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ireland's war with Britain was as much about ethic sovereignty as it was about religion. When church and state are linked (in both cases) making it about religion only is simply a false narrative.

  6. Re:In the name of Allah ! on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    You compared a daily activity of Islam committed upon thousands of people (daily), that totals millions of dead people yearly, to a single event that killed one. Nice equivocation.

    By that measure, all the liberals associated with the billionaire child molester in Florida is proof that all liberals are child molesters. Actually thinking about it, there is much more evidence towards sexual predation of children by staunch liberals than there is of Christians of killing abortion doctors.

  7. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Substitute Nazi for Islam and see if you'd support "non-violent Naziism".

    My point, "moderate" Islam is the silent introduction to "radical Islam", IMHO. The resulting legacy of Islam is that for 1600 years, it has destroyed civilizations it has infiltrated.

    OR let me ask it this way. Name one Islamic Nation where Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Atheists or anyone else is actually FREE to practice their religion (or lack thereof).

    The point being, Islam itself is the problem. Peaceful Islam is only a means to an end. I hope you enjoy praying towards Mecca.

  8. Re:Same ole, same ole ... on Canadian Anti-Piracy Firm Caught Infringing Copyright · · Score: 1

    Any sufficient level of Incompetence is indistinguishable from Malice.

  9. Re:Better way on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1

    No, I meant DST, which causes fluctuations in time by one hour twice a year based on political whim and originally proposed as a joke/insult to France by Benjamin Franklin.

    Which incidentally proves two things: You should never joke with politicians, they may think it is a good idea and implement it. And politicians are stupid.

  10. Re:"while not intended for production" on Mercedes-Benz's Self-Driving Concept Car Is Here · · Score: 1

    I'd also say, that as more of these cars are on the road, they'll create more accurate represenations of those roads to navigate by, and changes in conditions would require attention will be diminished. The reality is that scaling does matter. More cars = More data = Better decisions = better experience.

    I can easily imagine, GoogleCar/Lyft changing how we commute. Imagine autonomous busses.

  11. Re:Excuse me while I blow a kiss on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    But you should mind even if you don't like Fox. That was my point. Unless your point was opposite of what you actually said.

    . I don't mind the current Fox News debacle,

    You don't mind Fox missing? You don't mind the fight? You don't mind Dish doing the same thing to Fox as AMC and Adult Swim because you're off?

  12. Re:Earth not _turning_ slower, but already is slow on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1

    Every large earthquake changes the rotation speed. The big 8.x one a few years ago, the one with the Tsunami, that one significantly changed rotation.

  13. Re:Is there a better way? on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1

    It is plenty of time. Both human and computer time.

  14. Re:Is there a better way? on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 2

    You know in advance already, they are giving you about six months advance notice. Make sure your code handles generic "leap event" with the ability to input the actual values at future, undetermined time ... but in advance of the actual leap event. I could see it requiring at least two inputs, Value change, and time to insert said time.

    Should be easy.

  15. Re:Better way on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1

    Explain the, how DST works in relation to "noon" and "midnight". AM and PM are more like guidelines than actual code.

  16. Re:And how much WITHOUT ESPN? on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    Actually, the problem is probably because of Government Regulation in the first place. IF you were to remove the Last Mile problem, the commercial viability would force content providers to offer what consumers want, at a price that is competitive with other content providers.

    If a municipality built out a nice Last Mile infrastructure that allowed competition from providers the a la carte model would not only be feasible, but likely.

  17. Re:Excuse me while I blow a kiss on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    Your problem, is you're okay with bad business, as along as it doesn't affect you directly. The fiasco with Fox is just a representation that I don't want to deal with Dish at all, regardless of my views on Fox, or AMC or Adult Swim. But by now, you're starting to see a pattern.

    At first, they came for Adult Swim, and I didn't speak out because I don't watch it.
    Then they came for AMC, and I didn't speak out because I don't watch it.
    Then they came for Fox, and I cheered because I hate Fox ...
    Then they came for ABC, and I'm pissed because Agents of Shield! (or something) and there was nothing left to watch.

    BTW, I look at this, and what HBO has done, and I'm starting to see the end of Bundled packages for the likes of DISH and Comcast.

  18. I simply said Atheism isn't a value system. It isn't. There is no one value in Atheism other than "I do not believe in a god". Not one value. I could be a serial killer and an atheist and it wouldn't be in conflict with each other.

  19. Atheists have killed a lot more than you think. Just because they are cloaked behind "government" doesn't make it any less so. Just look at China and North Korea, who kill people for no other reason other than carrying a bible.

    Pretending they aren't atheists killing religious people is delusional.

  20. I said, atheism (lack in belief in something) is NOT a value system. It has not values per se. Your arguement is null, because if I claimed atheism believes in ______ (doesn't matter what) you'd claim it does no such thing. To claim Atheism as a value system, there must be some value (other than "no god") in common. There is none. A proper Atheist could be a decent moral human, or a complete psychopath and still be a proper atheist.

    I didn't say Atheists are amoral, I said Atheism has no values in and of itself. And yet, here you are, trying to act like it does. Name one value, other than "no belief in a god" that all atheists have in common. I won't hold my breath.

  21. Re:Utterly predictable on Bitstamp Bitcoin Exchange Suspended Due To "Compromised Wallet" · · Score: 1

    TooBigToFail is a new problem. Because for Captialism to work properly, the people holding the stock of the companies that are failing need to feel the pain. The fact that TooBigToFail doesn't hurt anyone but tax payers, most of whom don't have any interest in those things failing (i.e. Middle Class). Yes, bank failures hurt, they hurt some, they hurt everyone, they hurt. The problem is, they don't hurt the right people at the right time. Risk avoidance is no longer even a consideration, which is how we got the Sub Prime problem in the first place .."It's insured, not big deal!"

  22. Atheism is not a value system. Pretending it is one, is a fools errand.

    And your view of chemical dissolution is very short sighted. The real end is either Heat Death or Collapse of the universe ;)

  23. Re:Utterly predictable on Bitstamp Bitcoin Exchange Suspended Due To "Compromised Wallet" · · Score: 1

    Backed and Insured are the result of banks failing previously. In the end, the tax payers are liable for bank failures (see the last 8 years or so), and banks still fail. The fact that you're not seeing the direct results of those failures personally, doesn't mean they aren't happening.

    The only thing different between BitCoin failures and Bank failures is that the end users is insulated from their choice in banking systems, and not so much in BitCoin systems.

    IMHO the "legitimate" banking systems are more prone to risky behavior at some level simply because they are insured. Thus the collapse of the sub prime lenders. The whole thing was fraud from the beginning dressed up as legitimate banking practices.

  24. Everyone is prejudiced. Pretending one is not is itself prejudice of sorts.

  25. Science is self correcting, meaning it is flawed. People who believe and promote that science is perfect (or pretend to be) do a disservice to what Science actually is, knowledge of the world as we can understand it. That understanding is improving, but not perfect.