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  1. God hates the world? on Westboro Baptist Church Gets In the Music Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

    Maybe they really want Romans 12:2 "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will."
    I suppose they get their theology from 1 John 2... but God's asking us not to love the world. That's not the same as him not loving the world. After all, he created it. You'd think they'd see themselves in verses 18 and 19.

  2. Re:Too soon. on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    The first Spider-Man movie came out in 2002. I was already almost 30. Nothing makes me feel older than the idea that that movie franchise is already considered so tired it needs to be rebooted.

  3. Re:Reboot how? on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Clearly, Peter Parker needs to be gay, vegan, anxious about climate change, and wear inappropriately tight clothing (other than the Spider-Man costume) to resonate with today's generation Q or whatever it is.

  4. Re:Premature death on How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death · · Score: 1

    noyourenot

  5. Re:I know this one, I know this one! Pick me! on Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. It's quite common (because it was fiat) and I had the opportunity to get some for very little money very recently. You can find it in most coin shops.

  6. Re:What a great idea! on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    But is it legal to rent that way?

  7. Re:Doom 1? on Framerates Matter · · Score: 1

    OT, but Doom 2 also added the double-barreled shotgun, megasphere, and new monsters.

  8. Re:How is this different? on Net Users In Belarus May Soon Have To Register · · Score: 1

    It will probably take the wholesale slaughter of innocent human life (again) to end the latest turn of fascism. The horror will last about five years before we start the cycle over again.

  9. Risk on Funeral Home Offers Drunk Drivers a Free Burial · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't suicidal people sign up for this and take them to the cleaners?

  10. Re:Ginko has a different effect on me on Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills · · Score: 1

    Did you run out today?

  11. Re:Why are so many terrorists literate? on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    Maybe that was intentional: literacy is the solution, THEN it is the cause. Kinda like beer for Homer Simpson.

  12. Re:Global Warming on North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux · · Score: 1

    You know what would be simpler than single payer? Obeying the Constitution.

  13. Re:Global Warming on North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux · · Score: 1

    During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.
    "I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill,'" said Conyers.
    "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"
    http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=51610

  14. Re:Global Warming on North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this is a problem that can be solved only by international treaty, artificially skyrocketing energy costs, and the creation of an iron credit market.

  15. Re:Mohamed Atta or GW Bush on Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" · · Score: 2, Insightful
    2004 called. They want their rant back.

    Have you noticed what Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and Frank are doing? And they're doing it faster.

  16. Re:Finally! on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 1

    They're not endangered, but the USA and Canada have a stupid migratory bird treaty that protects them. Stupid, as in "millions of crows are on it too" stupid.

  17. Re:Finally! on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, they're not even threatened. Only the migratory bird treaty keeps you from your omelets.

  18. Re:Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    That being said, I doubt that a caveman invented the wheel. The oldest wheel we've discovered is from 3,500 BC.

  19. Re:Acoustic coupler era and POTS! on A Brief History of Modems · · Score: 1

    Your memory is slightly off. The VIC-20 came out in 1980/81 (I had one, too). It also had only 22 characters on screen, unless you had the special terminal cartridge. Roughin' it!

  20. Re:Acoustic coupler era and POTS! on A Brief History of Modems · · Score: 1

    I'm not aware of any 38.4Kbps modem. Nyquist theorem doesn't allow for greater than about 33.6 with a purely analog connection. You could set your port speed to 38.4 to accommodate compression. I also don't know whether there was a 4800 bps modem, but the article does and a 9600 bps modem could drop down to 4800 if needed. Therefore, it wasn't "just compression".

  21. Re:Naturally, Not in America on World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India · · Score: 1

    You need to take a break.

  22. Re:Other venues... on World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India · · Score: 1

    Did you forget to take your meds this morning?

  23. Re:Other venues... on World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the realization you purchase vehicles out of looks and ignorance rather than merit, function, and suitability, is a crushing blow to your ego and that's why you believe he's bashing?

    Perhaps you've never heard of the words "straw man", and that's why you argue against imagined, untenable positions?

  24. Re:Side benefit - LOTS of ENERGY? on World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India · · Score: 1

    Is trolling your natural state, or are you actually a fool?

  25. Re:Whoa! on World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India · · Score: 1

    Honestly, it is ugly. Aesthetics-- ever heard of it? We're not talking about Montgomery Scott beauty here. It is ugly-- or at least utilitarian-- to many people. Is it now unacceptable to have an opinion?