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  1. Food is not an easy thing to get a handle on.

  2. Re: Can't be excluded on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of available literature is produced by such scholars, and additionally, there's no mark of of the author's belief -- nor of who really paid for a given cancer study -- and even if there was, a Christian is capable of being honest,

    Then link to your expert who is not a Christian.

  3. Re: Can't be excluded on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    The experts largely agree, and you disagree with them.

    Any documentation comes from 2nd century, and is very obviously tainted

    That's a judgment call, isn't it? What qualifications do you have?

  4. Re: Can't be excluded on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You are disagreeing with most historians. When did you get your PhD?

  5. Re:Can't be excluded on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    and is very obviously tainted -- either comes from Christians themselves or is a copy of their works.

    Not really, there is stuff that is generally considered reliable.

    If a preacher leading a popular movement of anything of the scale postulated in the Bible happened,

    You might want to reconsider that the scale mentioned in the bible mostly isn't very big, at least until later when they came to the attention of Nero.

  6. Re:They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So.....how did he define "illegal" then? I define it as doing something the law says you will get punished for.

  7. Re: Been around for centuries, will be around for on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they've never been to the ocean, or if they have, maybe there were no boats on the ocean at the time.

  8. Re:They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    A crime is merely what is illegal, it isn't synonymous with what is wrong. And no one will say (honestly) all crimes are equal.

  9. Re:Been around for centuries, will be around for m on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah you're reading too much into it.

  10. Re:Yeah - it's all quant and cute... on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. If he starts three wars he'll become the worst president this century.

  11. Re:Yeah - it's all quant and cute... on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how Trump is going to be remembered

    It depends how the economy does under his administration, (which, ironically, he doesn't have a whole lot of control over).

  12. Re:Been around for centuries, will be around for m on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 2
    Some of it is a good start, like this example:

    So how do people come to believe this stuff?..... it was after watching some YouTube videos and realizing that "with all this movement, water stays flat, calm, and reflective to the point of being a perfect mirror, something that is not possible on a curve."

    If someone said that to me, I would say, "Great! You are thinking outside the box, you are questioning Why?" That is how science starts. Then we would start doing experiments, showing that water can be flat in a curved dish, or discussing momentum in thought experiments (or even going out on a flatbed truck). Asking these kinds of questions is great, but you need to go beyond questioning and start experimenting. That is when your questions turn into discoveries and understanding.

  13. Re:Been around for centuries, will be around for m on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 2
    There are some good quotes in the article, explaining the viewpoints of the people involved. This one:

    Fiona continued: "I think, being African Caribbean, you tend to live to a certain extent on the outskirts of mainstream society. It's something the majority of white people don't experience,"........That was probably the most reasonable thing I'd heard all day: If you've been marginalized and feel like you've been lied to by institutions and people you're supposed to automatically trust for much of your life, why should you trust what any of them have to say?

    So to some of these people, it doesn't matter so much whether the earth is flat or round. They are there more to have a community of people they can relax with and feel good with. The science is secondary (or in this case, non-existent).

  14. Re: Exit ramp on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed we don't.

  15. Re: Oh dear. on Ask Slashdot: How Would a Self-Aware AI Behave? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    And if you go back even farther, the Egyptians hit a form of existentialism after the fall of the old kingdom 4000 years ago. What did Buddha learn from Alara Kalama and from Udaka Ramaputta?

  16. Re: This makes no sense on President Trump Pledges To Help China's ZTE, After Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Sometimes you don't have to hurt them, you just have to show that you have the power to hurt them.

  17. Re: Jobs not important? on Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think most people care about those, but the D's are trying to make an issue of net neutrality, for example forcing a vote on it in Congress. So well see if it works. More specifically, it matters if people are willing to change their vote based on the issue.

  18. Re: Jobs not important? on Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe your assumption that they could win on those issues is wrong. Maybe they have better analysts than you looking at the polls, and even paying for better polling data.

  19. Re: unsafe? on Malware Found In the Ubuntu Snap Store (linuxuprising.com) · · Score: 1

    If a central power has the ability to cancel a crytocurrency transaction, then that kind of ruins the point of cryptocurrencies. At that point it becomes way more efficient to just use a database, or several, like our banking system now.

  20. Re: Exit ramp on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    He also has skills. Can you continue to deny that?

  21. Re: Exit ramp on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I really don't care if he's wealthy or not. That's not the point and his problem not mine.

  22. Re: Exit ramp on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say he was good at managing money. I said he was good at making deals. While we're on the topic, he's also very good at drawing attention to himself. Most clowns disappear after a couple years. He's kept it on him for decades.

  23. Re: "Dismantled?" on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That is a post full of speculation and lacking evidence.

  24. Re: Dismantled by China on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    One of the driving forces of the Chinese government is to avoid another person like Mao. They were the ones who saw firsthand how bad the Cultural Revolution actually was. When they talk about stability, there is some reality behind it.

  25. Re: No one wants the solution on One Year After WannaCry, EternalBlue Exploit Is Bigger Than Ever (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Because for most people it works fine. At least, well enough. And the few times it doesn't, they buy a new computer and move on. They'd rather spend their time watching Netflix than learn a new skill.