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  1. Re:What BS on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 0

    So, you didn't read the article did you.

  2. Equal amounts? on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1
    Did it really 'start' with equal amounts?

    Is the question about what happened to the anti-matter, or what happened to our theory?

  3. Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    What, you mean like westerners usually push on honing stones while japanese will draw backwards? Or commonly, westerners just use poor quality metals and just use a grinder? Or that western carpenters push their planes while japs pull them? We are talking about general differences not whether or not a certain culture was aware of another way of doing things or can't you follow a conversation?

  4. Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    Well your thinking skills are very weak.

    If they don't cut on a forward stroke, my gosh, then they must cut on the back stroke! You know, where you can leverage your body weight and keep the blade under tension, both which lead to a more precise cut with less energy expenditure and you can use a thinner blade.

  5. Re: on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    I'm an attorney. I'm pretty sure that I know what the definition of evidence is as it applies to the law that I practice and so has no real bearing on this.

    FTFY

  6. Re:Good. on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    Stop confusing the bible and the US churches!!

  7. Re:Good. on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    No, you are wrong.

    Just a simple example from the root of karma, good karma = good, bad karma=evil, both are karma, neither is a desired state, akarmic action is what is sought after. Buddhism talks about equanimity, which is basically the same.

  8. Re:Good. on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    On my first day to the gym I couldn't press 80lbs...

  9. Re:Good. on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    God does not have to abide by your definition of God.

    These stupid riddles are fancy strawmen.

    If you want to understand why 'god' allows these things, then understand first why YOU allow them.

  10. Re:Internet as Education on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    Well, we can say education doesn't teach you the difference between atheism and agnostism.

    Education leads to agnosticism, buying into another belief system(science ftw!) teaches you atheism.

  11. Re:Correlation is not causation. on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    It appears to me this study carries a flaw that many do, which is the intent to prove something rather than discover it.

    Ah, so you don't understand science?

  12. Re:The Internet: Where Religions Come To Die on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    Ah, so you let a 5 year old define your reality.

    yup, that seems real intelligent to me.

  13. Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    You just said something blatantly incorrect.

    Let us start with the differences between Religion, Spirituality, and Churches, mainly US Churches. Only one of those three asks you to blindly accept what they are saying. Why, it's exactly the same attitude as US science, US industry, etc...

  14. Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    Japan is WAY different. You must live in the US, no? Even Canada has a different outlook.

    One of the biggest differences is in the use of tools. Westerners prefer to attack things and use force. They saw with a pushing motion which requires more effort for a less precise cut. They sharpen their knifes by attacking the steel which gives a less precise sharpening. They cut their meats by a forward imprecise motion. They join two pieces of wood by piercing them with nails resulting in flimsy houses. They create pottery by pushing not receiving, necessitating thicker walls. The list goes on and on.

  15. Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    oh god this is so wrong.

    What we really need is someone to graph out basic logical thinking abilities for the same time period, let alone that the guy hasn't proven anything. Has he linked to percentage of people who had internet access during the time frames? Who were the first adopters of the internet? What was the ratio of adoption between secular and non-secular? In 1991 I attended the only cegep in canada to have internet access. It may have started in the 90's but it was a long time before most people had access.

    I can almost 100% gaurantee that actual thinking in general has decreased.

    A prime example is slashdot. Where the 'educated' people can only construct strawmen and cover them with a religious robe. They do not understand what they are arguing against! What we have now is a generation of parrots. There is no thinking anymore, there is only google.

  16. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    Sigh, the problem with slashdot and religion is that people always get modded up that don't know anything about religion.

    Lucifer is a distinct 'being'. Satan is 'enemy', it is not a person. Just like 'sin' is not evil, but brings the possibility of bad.

  17. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    It's almost like they have two different brains to store the stuff in!

  18. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1
    Your head is baked. Man gained the possibility of the knowledge of good and evil, the 'power' of the 'elohim'. Therefore it is logical that man can judge something good or evil. Whether he is right depends on the how fulfilled his knowledge is, exactly the same as a god.

    The bible says nothing about man being 'broken'. That is your church talking.

  19. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    Do not mix what the bible says and what the church says, especially US churches. You will be less confused. It basically boils down to a wrong interpretation of 'all-knowing'.

  20. Re:Three interesting things on More On the "Cuban Twitter" Scam · · Score: 1

    ah, but you forgot to take into account that the tweets come with subliminal messages based on advances in EBS, steganographically concealed using the latest alien compression tech.

  21. Humans use tools available to them on More On the "Cuban Twitter" Scam · · Score: 1

    News at 11

  22. Re:Shorewall on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? · · Score: 1

    Is that a cold press extraction or your basic toxic-solvent + centrifuge?

  23. Re:Google's ANdroid Playstore on Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android · · Score: 1
    Well,something is off about your story. Unless you bought a really cheap tablet without ICS then you didn't buy it recently.

    Unless of course you're one of those people that would rather do a websearch than consult the manual you get.

  24. Re:Amazing Insight on Illustrating the Socioeconomic Divide With iOS and Android · · Score: 1
    No, it is not.

    Whether you live in an affluent neighbourhood and/or spend lots of money may be correlated with Income but ...

  25. Re:How many Earthworms? on How Many People Does It Take To Colonize Another Star System? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Two of everything should be more than anybody needs!