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  1. Re:Could someone explain to me ... on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    Originally when these religious doctrines were devised avoiding pregnancy and disease probably was the main reason for rules like "no sex before marriage".

    Nowadays with the original reason for the rule not being relevant anymore this new reason - "It's a matter of sex establishing a bond that should only exist between a married couple." has been invented so religious practioners don't have to break with what has become an entrenched tradition. It's part of religions attempt to claim it's still relevant in the modern world.

  2. Re:Keep the budget even lower on NASA Scraps Shuttle And Returns to Rockets · · Score: 1

    How about you explain the difference to me then ?

  3. Re:Keep the budget even lower on NASA Scraps Shuttle And Returns to Rockets · · Score: 1

    And with a lower bodycount. Please, this is not a troll but it puzzles me how the deaths of a couple of dozen astronauts can call our exploration of space into question but the deaths of 2000 soliders in Iraq does not call the entire military apparatus into question.

  4. Re:No, they don't need free software on Microsoft Thinks Africa Doesn't Need Free Software · · Score: 1

    Shut up Neil you bloody hippy !

  5. Re:after ww2 they bungled their rockets, its just on Commission Suggests UK Should End Astronaut Ban · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, yes. Where ever did all that money and land go ?

  6. Re:Too little, too late on Designer on Slashdot Overhaul Plans · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. /. maybe losing its edge but it's not losing it to digg by the looks of it.

    That article you have linked to is simply a lot of people parroting "Yeah, digg is cool" and the other articles I have read do the same thing along the lines of "Yeah, what the article said - that was cool man". They say that ./ now sometimes only gets 200 replies to an article whereas dig seems to have trouble managing more than 20.

    Where is the debate ? Where are the interesting viewpoints ? What is the point ?

  7. Re:Conspiracy math on Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree that is probably what it is intended to be used for but I wonder how they would prove the mark is unique to that printer and couldn't have been generated by any one of hundreds other printers ?

  8. Re:Real purpose on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine recently returned from the A5 and mentioned the road and how many Welsh people made no bones about the fact the road would be used to move many Welsh people into England and shift the demographics and help dilute/destroy the English as an independant culture.

  9. Re:Real purpose on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine recently returned from Spain a couple of hundred years ago and mentioned the boat and how many white people made no bones about the fact the boat would be used to move many white people into South America to shift the demographics and help dilute/destroy South Americans as an independant culture.

  10. Re:Why pressurize? on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    Yes but they don't climb it very quickly and tend to have rests inbetween moving each foot forward.

  11. Re:The Asian Century on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    That website really is wacko paranoia. In their article about the how the London Tube Bombings were faked they have a huge headline saying "Impossible To Leave Luton at 7:22 and arrive in London at 8:26" and then directly underneath they have published the actual times trains departed and arrived that day from the Thames Link Database. There is a train leaving at 7:24 and arriving at 8:25.

    I don't know why you people choose to believe all this nonsense when in all cases the facts clearly prove you are wrong.

  12. Re:not sure about that... on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    I was in Peru a few years ago at various altitudes between 3000M - 5000M and the best thing to stop the headaches, illness etc is coca leaves either eaten or infused in hot water to make tea.

    I don't think 5000M is an especially dangerous altitude but it would definitely be uncomfortable should the train get stuck and the pressurization fail. Maybe with a more rapid exposure to this altitude it could be more serious than if you had acclimatised gradually.

  13. Re:Too bad... (deprived of property w/o due proces on FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky · · Score: 1

    When you are talking about killing someone you need to be 100% you are killing the right ( genuinely guilty ) person because once you have killed them there is no comeback or recourse you could take to correct your mistake and compensate them afterwards should you later turn out to be wrong or to have acted improperly. I don't think the criminal justice system can guarantee this so I don't support the death penalty for that reason.

    What we are discussing here is a totally different matter, people are potentially being inconvenienced rather than killed so if it later turns out that the FBI were acting improperly Mr Ralsky can sue them and get recompense for the trouble they have caused him.

  14. Re:hiding your address on DSPAM v3.6 Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fuckwittery, an excellent term. I have been a fan of the term "fuckwit" for a long time, largely thanks to it's flexibility, and you have added another string to my bow with this excellent post. Thanks.

  15. Re:Too bad... (deprived of property w/o due proces on FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky · · Score: 1

    I believe they have to present their evidence for the necessity of taking the actions they took to a judge who will not permit them to continue if all he is hearing is speculation.

    I agree the system shouldn't be abused but then I think everyone will agree to that. I'm not sure what cases you are referring to where the government has abused it's power ( I'm not saying this doesn't happen ) but I expect that in the vast majority of cases the system works effectively and is a benefit to society.

    Certainly when abuses are detected then action should be taken and I think what you are arguing is that this doesn't happen as it should do which is a different issue but for which there is no evidence of it happening in this particular case.

  16. This is a worse one on Magnetic Field Thruster Developed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is Babelfish translating back into German then into French and then into Spanish and then in English...

    The idea is 20 years old and comes from Manfred Hettmer, President Oesterreicher March society: To the aid on "Alfven it moves" of the founded plasma order that can be radically reduced the push of a greater rocket, at the same time the gasoline consumption, if the idea periodically. And really, in agreement with tests the plasma order leads a fuel economy of near 90 % - and that one is not thing little: "with the satellites that the fuel to 50 % of the weight determines, because he it life surge also depends." Without the order, finally the precise point of view mantienese ", therefore the coordinator of project Andreas Gras-sauer cannot." This Austrian development could lead too considerable modifications with the future space projects therefore. The base of the development is a discovery in 1942 of the physics of noble winner Hannes Alfven. Employee he himself Alfven among other things of Magnetohydrodynamik (Magnetohydrodynamik) that electrically describes to the mutual effect of a liquid electrical and magnetic leader with, gathers. Thus for example the propagation mentions by waves in this liquid - "Alfven moves today" periodically. "Now there is periodically" "a new era in the sector of the technologies of order in the universe" could present/display, if with acidity a technical conversion for the first time "Alfven." The most considerable quality of the technology is 10mal, above the type fliessen-heraus than it is only different possible more than by an apparatus of nuclear fusion - that (still) does not exist -. it finishes to the mass on the base a prototype in an emptiness sector. In addition, the corrosion was avoided, since the push takes place on the magnetic tip outside the object. On the part of the economy the interest by the project already, next to the grass that and Hettmer is acidities also that, physical experimental Norbert freshon, system to engineer Tobias combustible Bartusch as well as is indicated to Koudelka de Graz participate TO DO. October of 15 the plasma order is represented that in Japan on congress an association international level aeronautischen for the first time (FAI).(

  17. Re:Stop the buyers not the spammers. on FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky · · Score: 1

    All you need to do is activate your immense zombie herd to leverage the bandwidth, electricty and computing power of their unwitting owners.

  18. Re:Too bad... (deprived of property w/o due proces on FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky · · Score: 1

    That quote is totally inappropriate to this discussion.

    Mr Ralsky is not being persecuted because of his political views, religion or anything else. The FBI is attempting to find evidence of criminal activity because they realise that without evidence the case will never get to court. When the case gets to court Mr Ralsky can defend himself and a jury will decided whether or not he is a criminal. If they decide he is a criminal then he may be locked up.

  19. Re:Too bad... (deprived of property w/o due proces on FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky · · Score: 1

    I live outside the US too and I am pretty sure a very similar system is in operation here too and I am happy that this is the case.

    If the FBI warned him they would shortly be droppping around to look for illegal activity on his computer systems you can be pretty sure by the time they arrived there would be no evidence whatsoever.

    If he, or anyone, is that worried about their activities being interrupted by raids like this I'm sure they can buy insurance to cover the loss of earnings caused by the seizure.

    If we want to catch criminals then we need procedures in place such as the one in operation here, certainly not everyone who's stuff is seized will be a criminal and the FBI should make sure they take good care of it whilst in their possesion and return it promptly but the inconvience caused is one of the costs of living in a society which can effectively deal with crooks. This is a pay-off I am willing to accept.

  20. Re:Too bad... (deprived of property w/o due proces on FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In order to try and convict him of anything you need evidence, seizing his equipment is not a punishment for him but an attempt to gather evidence of his innocence or guilt. I can't see any other way for this to work.

  21. Re:I am on ePaper To Be Used For Newspapers and Magazines · · Score: 1

    "...birds singing."

    There is absolutely nothing more annoying than the damn birds making a huge racket with their bloody singing outside when you are trying to go to sleep, this is the last thing I would want to recreate in super surround TV.

  22. Re:Not Flight, Intelligent Falling on Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight's Evolution · · Score: 1

    I think his site is a pretty obvious piss take.

  23. Re:Nah on Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight's Evolution · · Score: 1

    Sometimes if you want to see whether it's God telling you to do something or other you can just read random letters off random pages and construct a sentance explaining his divine will to you.

    For instance this morning I asked him where I would find a wife, humble and obediant to the will of her husband yet pleasant to look upon and of good child bearing potential. The Lord then sent me this message "Hang Around Schools My Son and Distribute Sweeties"

  24. Re:Speaking of dreams and video games on The Future of Videogame Aesthetics · · Score: 1

    I once had a great Doom dream where I was going to the bank. I needed to get some money so first I went to the cash machine on the wall outside. There were no enemies in sight so I ran quickly towards to the machine and found it wouldn't give me any money so I sidled right across the door and noticed a lot of enemies were in the bank already, I think I took out a couple with the shotgun as I passed across the doorway. From there it got a bit silly and quite violent but the experience of moving in a Doom like manner in the "real" world was quite entertaining.

  25. Re:Wow, what a surprise. on EU-wide Music Licensing Policies Published · · Score: 1

    You're right it isn't so it should concentrate on what it was set up to do originally which is to enable free trade amongst it's members rather than attempting to turn it's self into an all powerful political entity.