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  1. Re:Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 2
    I could have quoted any of hundreds of texts all written before the magical appearance centuries later of the four gospels and their baby food. Documents that cross reference themselves and all of which bear a striking resemblance to the path to enlightenment laid out by yoga.

    The best lies contain a seed of truth, and paul did a masterpiece on the church he created. Funny enough, they still kept the part where Jesus said the church would be corrupted. Unfortunately, you're right, these are the majority of the christians we have to deal with today. People who read Jesus' word saying he is just a man and yet brainwashed by the church to believe they are all unworthy sinners, he the only god and his state unattainable. Makes for easily controllable sheep though!

  2. Re:Life has a mortality rate of 100% on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    What an interesting problem! Perhaps somebody should tell the anthropologists about it? Maybe they can come up with some sort of taxonomy, i propose a division of Really Smart Man to distinguish us from the Little Thinking Man that came before us.

  3. Re:Short version on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    It means you think you're clever, but actually just asinine.

  4. Re:Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    You do not know Truth. It is not in your mind and it is not in science. If you think it is, you have no idea how either works or what their purpose is.

  5. Re:Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1
    You didn't seem to understand the question. You are still thinking about the pauline monstrosity that excluded everything Jesus said that couldn't be used to control the masses.

    ...for it was said to you: 'Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon this earth.' But I say to you, Sons of Man: Honor your Earthly Mother and keep all her laws, that your days may be long on this earth, and honor your Heavenly Father that Eternal Life may be yours in the heavens. For the Heavenly Father is a hundred times greater than all fathers by seed and by blood, and greater is the Earthly Mother than all mothers by the body. And dearer is the Son of Man in the eyes of his Heavenly Father and of his Earthly Mother than are children in the eyes of their fathers by seed and by blood and of their mothers by the body. And more wise are the words and laws of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother than the words and the will of all fathers by seed and by blood, and of all mothers by the body.

  6. Re:Stack Overflow on Writing Documentation: Teach, Don't Tell · · Score: 1

    Depends on the community for the language. Perhaps your community just sucks and it might actually be due to the design of the language.

  7. Re:Looking someone straight in the eye on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    You might want to try looking at them in the eyes and not the eye. Hint, use both your eyes and look at them in 2.5d instead of 2d.

  8. Re:now i will never fly BA on Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should stop making suppositions about things where the truth is known?

  9. Re:now i will never fly BA on Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways · · Score: 1

    I know, how dumb of that guy to only pack his guitar in something specially designed to keep guitars safe. He should have built an iron cage around it, right?

  10. Re:Difference in complaints on Patent Suit Leads To 500,000 Annoyed Software Users · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why didn't they include the number of complaints about the problems brought about by lack of peer-to-peer when they had peer-to-peer. Idiot journalists, right?

  11. Re:why should apple steal someone's work? on Patent Suit Leads To 500,000 Annoyed Software Users · · Score: 1

    So, you don't understand what the issue is right? It's not the peer-to-peer, it's the handshake method for the peer-to-peer.

  12. Re:Not worthy of being front page on Kubuntu Announces Commercial Support · · Score: 2

    Front page? There are no other pages!

  13. Re:Good and bad. on World-First: Woman Becomes Pregnant After Ovarian Tissue Graft · · Score: 1
    I've been reading scientific studies, some as far back as a century ago. You have probably only been listening to doctors or opthamologists with outdated knowledge and a vested interest in keeping you coming back for more. Those are the doctors that said I would be blind by the time I reached my 30's. Almost 40 now.

    Have you ever disected eyeballs? They don't really hold their shape. Shape is determined by the cavity, muscles, and production and drainage of fluid.

    Astigmatism is a little harder to correct since there's more imbalance of the muscles so it's less about degree of tension and more about proper co-ordination of muscles. I have to admit that while I've been able to correct my eyesight enough to see without glasses for the past 7 years, it's only been this last year that I've been able to get rid of flares and double/treble/quad.etc images from the astigmatism at night.

    Investigate it yourself if you really care about your health. Of course, most people don't care about taking responsability for themselves.

  14. Re:Good and bad. on World-First: Woman Becomes Pregnant After Ovarian Tissue Graft · · Score: 1, Troll

    Except that myopia is easily corrected through learning how to use your eyes. Glasses were originally meant as a tool, not the modern crutch that leads to a billion dollar business.

  15. Re:Them names. on HTC Executives Arrested Over Leaked Trade Secrets · · Score: 3, Funny
    Same parent? Don't be ridiculous.

    It's just coincidence that all were fathered by their sons traveling back in time.

  16. Re:how does it cope with b**chy resting face? on Advanced Chatbot Could Help With Social Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    You should have listened to your mother when she told you to stop making those faces or you would be stuck with it for the rest of your life!

  17. Re:Vocabulary on Advanced Chatbot Could Help With Social Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    Nope, wouldn't help one bit. From personal experience, and from what most other autists say, the problem is not really looking at someones face. It's the excrutiating pain of looking at the eyes of a person full of deceit (read as: almost all humanity). The discongruity of what they are saying and what their eyes and body are saying is almost debilitating. On the rare occassions I run into someone that is all about truth there is absolutely no awkwardness and I can spend hours looking them directly in the eyes and making a connection with them.

  18. Re:Bunch of babies on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    Can't have foreigners taking your place at the only thing your good at, right?

  19. Re:hey for security do this on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1
    Well, CBSA certainly aren't minimum wage, we're talking 40k-60k. Though I have to admit the US border gaurds for the exit to Mexico are morons or being payed by the cartels. I got stopped because I have dual citizenship and the guy couldn't stop saying "We don't recognize dual citizenship here". Which is fine, because I'm not a USian!! Poor redneck couldn't understand the concept that other countries allow dual citizenship.

    Funny part is they all stood around listening to me laughing and trying to explain to this guy while several overly laden trucks, just inches off the ground, with tinted windows were waived through.

  20. Re: Amazing idea on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    For obviously bad journalism?

  21. Re:Three reasons why this won't work on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    ..or a parent.

  22. $16 million? Really? on US Uncorks $16M For 17 Projects To Capture Wave Energy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only 60,000 times smaller than amount spent on military. I wonder if the US citizens will ever revolt?

  23. Re:How soon before /. is taken down? on US Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-operations In 2011, Runs Worldwide Botnet · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Do you read slashdot? Lots of US patriots here who've been drinking the kool-aid their whole life.

  24. Re:Serious question for the Linux community on US Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-operations In 2011, Runs Worldwide Botnet · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should ask Linus?

  25. Re:at what point do illegal, secret acts of war on US Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-operations In 2011, Runs Worldwide Botnet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We aren't talking about the beacon of the free world, we're talking about the USA!