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  1. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    My point is that insulting other ethnic groups on slashdot is largely discouraged. And is slashdot a government-run forum? Your post makes no sense.

  2. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    If you would provide rebuttals with actual content instead of insulting your opponents, you might sound intelligent instead of a belligerent clod. Jefferson is the only one who said, literally, "wall of separation." Interpreting the Constitution based on that one fact is idiocy. Keep your ad hominems to yourself.

  3. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    If you can get the left to give up their deductions for green home improvements, EIC, and the like, I'm in.

  4. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? You don't get a deduction for belonging to a church! It's the religious orgs themselves that do.

  5. Re:arable land on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 1

    "Give" people yards? I bought my property, and before that I rented apartments. Who is this person giving housing away? Am I paying for that?

  6. Re:Cue the straw men. on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, MSNBC reports that western capitalists' greed for profits are causing Chinese factory workers to live in dank caves.

  7. Re:Problems... on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's free-range radiation. You'll just get organic cancer. In your organs.

  8. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    The government does use tax money for that purpose though since they give exemption from tax to religious organizations (in the US that means primarily churches). Exempting someones business activities from taxation is equivalent to giving them whatever their taxes owing should have been as a subsidy.

    No, it's not, as the money we earn is our money. Letting people keep their own money does not mean the government is giving them money. That's collectivism.

  9. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't see any reason we should believe a few lines that dozens of brilliant men argued over and compromised on for weeks over a terse interpretive statement one founding father made in a single letter to a single Baptist congregation. Jefferson wins! After all, he also recommended that when we take a walk, we should carry a gun (presumably to shoot at things) as good exercise! A clear endorsement of an unlimited interpretation of the second amendment! "No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." I mean, we hear leftists quoting that one all the time, don't we?

  10. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Cool! Just like Denmark, the most notorious theocracy in the world!

  11. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Most of them were not deists. Franklin was the closest of the major players. Jefferson was a bit of a skeptic, but identified with Christians. Washington, Madison, Adams, Hamilton, Jay-- all men of faith.

    Religious services were once held in the Capitol.

  12. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    It also says the state may not prohibit the free exercise thereof... which is what I have to remind all the intolerant atheists when they demand that faith be sequestered behind closed doors.

  13. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Are they measuring the inside or the outside of the bowl? It's a hand breadth thick. How thick is that?

  14. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Its amazing that she could get a degree in biology without "believing" in evolution. It's a bit like a physicist that doesn't believe in gravity.

    No, it's not. Gravity is readily observable. It's a little different, although admittedly still surprising.

    Next biology topic: Locusts only have four legs!

    Next English topic: reading comprehension. "Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth." Locusts primarily walk only with the two anterior pairs of legs, and hop with the posterior pair.

  15. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    You (not you, they) believe in the bible and Jesus and invisible friends in the sky, great. That in no way interferes with the proven fact that organisms evolve based on their surroundings.

    That's not evolution (or to clarify, "macroevolution"). That's natural selection, which I have often stated is not denied except by the truly obstinate.

  16. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 0

    I mean the creationist counter argument is that it contradicts a bunch of fairy tales written thousands of years ago by sand people.

    Why is it OK to use ethnic slurs against Semitic peoples on Slashdot?

  17. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Well, there's your problem, right there. The overall concept of evolution is no longer a theory. Surely even the staunchest of Creationists must acknowledge the so called "short-term" evolution that gives us the ability to manipulate plants or breed wolves into dogs.

    Do we just mod up anything that's anti-creationist here? Those aren't evolution by definition because they are-- sorry-- evidence of intelligent design by humans.

    You may wish to bring up natural selection instead, but that would still be a straw man as few deny its existence; it is easier to grasp, more easily observable, and doesn't conflict with Judeo-Christian beliefs.

  18. Re:Not cryptic though on Clever Clues Clobber Crossword Computer · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  19. Re:Poor example? on Clever Clues Clobber Crossword Computer · · Score: 1

    That clinches it... not going to bother doing a crossword again!

  20. SNOISSIWNOOW on Clever Clues Clobber Crossword Computer · · Score: 1

    Isn't having a gibberish answer in a crossword puzzle like making up your own words in Scrabble? Doesn't the creation of a crossword puzzle have any rules? No wonder I often do poorly with them; I had no idea that they could be making up nonsense words.

  21. Re:Missing the (quality) past on HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions · · Score: 1

    Ironically, the problem was caused by HP. Most third-parties actually sold refilled HP carts. HP didn't want to lose consumables, so they started making the wipers on their carts flimsy enough so they would last JUST long enough to empty the toner. The remanufactured carts would often work for just a few hundred pages before they would start printing dark lines because the toner was sticking to the drum. This would also dirty the printer. The fuser is what would usually go; fortunately, it was easy to replace on those 4s.

  22. Re:people still use printers at home? on HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions · · Score: 1

    I have the 2270DW and I like it, but it has nowhere near the economy of my old Laserjet 4L or 6L even in toner save mode. The high-cap toner still only lasts about 2,000 pages in toner save mode, whereas my old 4L must have cranked out 10,000 on a toner that had already printed out an unknown number of pages on it before the printer itself failed.

  23. Re:people still use printers at home? on HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions · · Score: 1

    - Coupons
    - Maps (don't use a GPS for various reasons)
    - Business correspondence

  24. Re:What's next? Free printer with every ink purcha on HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions · · Score: 1

    So useless if the screen failed, which was quite likely since putting the two components together indicated that both were likely of poor quality.

  25. Re:What's next? Free printer with every ink purcha on HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions · · Score: 1

    I did, but not since the 870C and 1600C were current models.