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  1. Re:How gullible are you? on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Ptolemaic system was scientific they tried to create a model that better fit their observations. What's anti-scientific is defending it violence.

  3. If you persecute scientists because they go against scientific thinking, you're about as anti-science as it gets. The renaissance broke a long period of violent inquisition into any deviations from official doctrine.

    A whole lot of original thinkers ended up in prison or burned before they got around to Galileo, so don't give us this "Not this again." bullshit.

  4. Re:Catholics also believe in evolution on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is only a relative statement. The Catholic church finally acknowledged Darwin a couple of decades ago, and still hasn't come to terms with him. For instance, man isn't fallen creature in need of redemption, but an uplifted one.

    Their acknowledgement puts them ahead of the least intellectual protestant branches, and the Muslims, the world's two worst religions, and that's about it.

  5. Re:Baha'i's Believe This on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's a hopeless cause. Instilling faith in "the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven" hampers the ability to think logically.

  6. Re:Investigation down the toilet. on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have some evidence now. At the time of Flynn's firing, Trump said that he'd just learned about Flynn's problems, but now that appears to have been a lie. If so, Trump is implicated in the cover up at least.

  7. Re:Had it comming on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true, however nobody believes Trump thinks badly of those antics. So what's his real motive?

  8. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Comey's hands are clean, eh? The only reason that particular branch of the Hilary Clinton tale was worth telling is because they got to tie Clinton Emails in with Anthony Weiner for the ultimate stupid pressgasm.

  9. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is literally friends with mobsters.

  10. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Or that he's changed his mind on Trump.

  11. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He lied about it to investigators, that's the big deal.

    There's some evidence of a quid-pro-quo. There isn't any such evidence in Clinton's case.

    Clinton was soliciting donations to a charity, albeit one she controlled. Flynn was directly paid by foreign governments.

    Also, if Clinton had won, I'm sure you'd be hearing about it!

  12. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    There's was a discussion about a news article about a leaked satellite photo. Somehow the Clinton bashers always leave that part out.

  13. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    How was OP a complaint?

  14. Re:Normal people don't do that... on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody is defending Comey. They just don't believe that Trump cares about any of the bad things Comey did. They have good reason to believe this since Trump praised Comey for the same actions.

  15. Re:Electronic adverts listing consumers purchases on Billboards Target Lawmakers Who Voted To Let ISPs Sell User Information (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    ISPs will never sell you that info, because it would threaten their ability to sell your info.

  16. Re:Well it's easy to show superhuman AI is a myth. on Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    On the rare occasion that a human is right and the AI wrong, the AI will learn from its mistake.

  17. Bitcoin will be around as long as drug dealers find it useful.

  18. Re:yeah on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    but certainly not all

  19. Re:Leftism is causing more division and strife. on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is there a stereotype in my post? Those are facts.

  20. Re:seriously? on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    These are people I know. White Americans who live and work among Latinos typically don't hate on "The Mexicans". Those that do hate are usually too scared to get too close. Of course, not every suburbanite is a bigot.

    The 'Stone Cold Racists" are real individuals, not stereotypes. Maybe not every stone cold racist will eschew New Orleans, I haven't met them all, so I might be stereotyping stone cold racists as afraid of the cities.

    Missoula being afraid of Sharia is specific, true, and totally insane.

  21. Two ideas on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I have found two ideas that came from Lisp that are invaluable.

    Minimize side effects in most functions. Any effort to reduce side effects will be repaid tenfold the next time you have to fix a bug or add a feature.

    Keep data objects immutable. This is the key to the easy life if you have to do concurrent programming (and who doesn't these days?).

  22. Re:seriously? on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Amen. It's the people that don't know anybody that hate the most. In rural Louisiana, it's the stone cold racists who never go to New Orleans who'll tell you it's not safe. They would be relatively safe, compared to the black kid from the city coming out to their town.

    It's the good folks of Missoula Montana who've probably seen a couple of Muslims their whole lives who feel the need to take action to prevent Sharia Law from taking hold in their city.

    It's the folks who've fled to lily white suburbs who are up in arms about all the "Mexicans" flowing in over the borders.

  23. Re:Stop calling it social media on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2

    It has transformed society into a bunch of bored. blue haired old women and 15 year old mean girls.

    Don't forget the drunk guy at the end of the bar who is pissed because he has the solution to all the world's problems, but nobody listens.

  24. Re:yeah on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of us are the opposite, and find most individuals wonderful, but humanity as a whole nearly irredeemable.

  25. Re:Leftism is causing more division and strife. on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After an election pitting "real Americans" versus everyone else, where the biggest cheering was for building The Wall, banning Muslims, and sending the "Mexicans" (they're all Mexicans to Real Americans) back to Mexico?

    Who's got a problem with identity politics?