Er... what does his sexual orientation have to do with this, again? And do you think they faked the moon landings, too? That would also require keeping a large number of people quiet.
I can't help but notice that you didn't mention other falsehoods commonly mentioned on Slashdot, such as "Bush went AWOL," "Bush created 9/11," "Bush put an RFID device in my brain," etc. Kinda shows YOUR bias, doesn't it?
I was kidding, but I fully expect to be modded down for that kind of thing on Slashdot while others say "bullshit" and "bitch from Redmond" and get +3.
Unless you were present at the moment of creation, your belief is also "blind". Instead of presenting facts for debate, the elitists use ad homs and straw men to prop up volumes of knowledge that should be able to stand on its own merits. Examples from this discussion:
Inerrancy is not the same concept as literalism. Inerrancy is a necessary part of the Judeo-Christian system because this faith system is based on moral principles, which mean nothing when they are chosen by people in a sort of popularity contest (moral relativity). If you believe in a moral God who wants you to follow his laws, a necessary first step is to make sure they can be obeyed. A flawed text would make this unfairly difficult.
Literalism, on the other hand, means taking everything in the Bible as literally true, as opposed to seeing some concepts (such as beasts with ten horns or six-day creation) as symbolic.
Sura 5.51: O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
Sura 3.151: We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.
Sura 2.190: And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
Sura 8.12: When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. This is because they acted adversely to Allah and His Apostle; and whoever acts adversely to Allah and His Apostle-- then surely Allah is severe in requiting.
Sura 8.38: Say to those who disbelieve, if they desist, that which is past shall be forgiven to them; and if they return, then what happened to the ancients has already passed. And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do.
Sura 9.123: O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
Sura 33.60: If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist, We shall most certainly set you over them, then they shall not be your neighbors in it but for a little while; Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering.
If you mean behavioral profiling, do you honestly think it isn't being done?
Actually, it isn't, being as they are searching cripples in wheelchairs and preemie infants in random checks. I mean, if the "Wheel of Rights Infringement" comes up on a soccer mom with one small carry-on bag and two kids in tow, don't you think they should move on? I assure you, it never happens. "Zero tolerance" for all.
Clearly, you missed his point in an attempt to do some karma-whoring. His subtle point was that we need to stop being so PC so that we can have security without being oppressive to everyone (i.e. profiling).
The best protection from this sort of attack is to not make someone hate you enough to want to attack you.
Obviously, not an option unless everyone wants to convert to Islam. That's what it would take. And what do mean that their problems are "more tangible?" Are you buying the "poor, downtrodden Muslim" line? Muslims have poor, Christians have poor, Jews have poor, etc. It's just that most everyone except Muslims don't use their poor as human shields.
CGA? Feh! I had a 256K EGA card. CGA was for amateurs. The really serious nerds had Hercules, which was mono but at a slightly higher res than even EGA. Both were real graphics adapters. My EGA even had the ability to switch to CGA or emulate Hercules, both in software.
I didn't have to drop to 4.77 to format my Seagate ST225R. Man, that was totally cool when I found out how to use debug to get to the controller BIOS (g=c800:8 I think it was).
A salesman from Taiwan came in plugged his laptop in and I was hosed. Worse, the worm was probing rest of the corporate network so seriously that network traffic slowed to crawl in the company. All the top management knew was that I had an unpatched old computer in the network and compromised the company intranet and lost half their work day.
Some idiot unleashes a worm on your network and it's your fault? It's the fault of management for not implementing procedures to either wall off guest PCs as presumed hostiles or clear them before allowing them on the network.
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Er... what does his sexual orientation have to do with this, again? And do you think they faked the moon landings, too? That would also require keeping a large number of people quiet.
Yikes. I used to cringe every time I heard someone call video game cartridges "tapes," but I think your example is even worse.
I can't help but notice that you didn't mention other falsehoods commonly mentioned on Slashdot, such as "Bush went AWOL," "Bush created 9/11," "Bush put an RFID device in my brain," etc. Kinda shows YOUR bias, doesn't it?
Figures a Slashdotter would think surfing pr0n==sex. Well, I guess it's the closest most of you will get.
I was kidding, but I fully expect to be modded down for that kind of thing on Slashdot while others say "bullshit" and "bitch from Redmond" and get +3.
Unless you were present at the moment of creation, your belief is also "blind". Instead of presenting facts for debate, the elitists use ad homs and straw men to prop up volumes of knowledge that should be able to stand on its own merits. Examples from this discussion:
"dipshit fundies"
"blind"
"anti-intellectual posers"
"stupidity"
"disresepect"
"theocrat"
"ignorant" (three times!)
"weak minds"
"fearful"
Summarily dismissing your opponents as "dipshit fundies" doesn't strike me as a viable course of reasoning.
Literalism, on the other hand, means taking everything in the Bible as literally true, as opposed to seeing some concepts (such as beasts with ten horns or six-day creation) as symbolic.
So that I can place a clause in the license forbidding it for the use of trolling Slashdot.
7up is not a Pepsi brand. It's held by the Dr. Pepper-7up company (which seems to be currently owned by Schweppes).
Karma-whoring on Slashdot: provide made-up statistics with no citations to support your straw-man argument.
Here's a question: how many people are being pulled aside for random screenings right now?
So they also speak broken English in the UK and Australia? Sounded fine to me, except for that "by crikey" kind of nonsense.
I didn't say "racial profiling," did I?
Sura 5.51: O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
Sura 3.151: We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.
Sura 2.190: And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
Sura 8.12: When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. This is because they acted adversely to Allah and His Apostle; and whoever acts adversely to Allah and His Apostle-- then surely Allah is severe in requiting.
Sura 8.38: Say to those who disbelieve, if they desist, that which is past shall be forgiven to them; and if they return, then what happened to the ancients has already passed. And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do.Sura 9.123: O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
Sura 33.60: If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist, We shall most certainly set you over them, then they shall not be your neighbors in it but for a little while; Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering.
Clearly, you missed his point in an attempt to do some karma-whoring. His subtle point was that we need to stop being so PC so that we can have security without being oppressive to everyone (i.e. profiling).
CGA? Feh! I had a 256K EGA card. CGA was for amateurs. The really serious nerds had Hercules, which was mono but at a slightly higher res than even EGA. Both were real graphics adapters. My EGA even had the ability to switch to CGA or emulate Hercules, both in software.
Meanwhile, you probably used more electricity waiting for the CPU and taking twice as long to do anything.
I didn't have to drop to 4.77 to format my Seagate ST225R. Man, that was totally cool when I found out how to use debug to get to the controller BIOS (g=c800:8 I think it was).