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  1. Re:Hello... Evolution? on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    Being an animal does not preclude free will or the ability to recognize between right and wrong. Straw arguments at best, ignorance on your part at the middle, purposeful misrepresentation at worst.

    No, we do not cringe. It actually doesn't bother most of us.

    No, not believing is sin does not mean they feel they can do anything without consequence. Another misrepresentation. It's not a chain of logic at all. Well, not ours -- yours perhaps.

    As stated elsewhere, I'm solid atheist. I really like Palin because it's quite obvious she can divorce her religious beliefs from her administrative decision making and she embodies quite a bit of what is good in Homo sapiens.

    Re your tag -- We do have that, it's just not within the last 6K years, as we have evidence for 13B.

  2. Re:Iraq war 'a task that is from God' - Palin on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a solid atheist, as can be seen by reading my posts here and elsewhere. Have been since age thirteen. "God's will" is neither scary nor odd. It's a common phrase uttered by religious people.

  3. Re:Internet in Alaska on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, FUD to you too. The jet was draining the budget, jets require on-going maintenance, even if parked. Getting rid of it saved money. It depreciated, hence the 600K drop from purchase. Where did you find the market value and did you consider transportation? Good spin, though.

  4. Not plague by insect on Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction · · Score: 3, Informative

    Allow me to repeat something that has been said before:

    Dinosaurs were not a tightly knit group, they were widely divergent. Any cause for the extinction must account for mosasaurs, elasmosaurs, icthyosaurs, pterasaurs and many mammalian groups as well. Plague by insect ain't that cause. For what it's worth, my degree is biology with specialization in entomology.

  5. Re:Three questions on Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. Check Wikipedia for a pretty good synopsis. RodentS carried the plague, not one species. Those areas are cities, the rural people were not decimated anywhere near that extent. You also neglect that Homo sapiens had individuals who were apparently immune and that we had a quite large reservoir over in America.

  6. Re:Lack of coverage is censorship. on Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites · · Score: 1

    P.S. Corporations are not tyrannies. They have boards and shareholders. They're more like republics.

  7. Re:Lack of coverage is censorship. on Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites · · Score: 1

    Just did Google searchs.

    160K on "Walmart welfare expand".
    50K references to "FBI arabic speakers", many about their lack of numbers. here, first listing.
    42K on "Secretary of Defense 2.3 trillion". here.

    What they hell are you talking about?

  8. Re:Turn the Screws on Their Thumbs on Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    "since men don't change their names when they get married"

    Usually don't. My son-in-law did. From Jones to his wife's. Said he was tired of Jones.

  9. Re:No Monogamy Gene on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    You have no idea what you're talking about. You have neither any idea of when the dawn of religion was nor of what societies looked like prior.

  10. Re:Hhhmm, on Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People · · Score: 1

    And, just where did they get Genghis Kahn's genome to make sure?

  11. Re:Dupe from 3 weeks ago on New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon · · Score: 1

    "It looks as if gas giants often form a long way from stars and then migrate inwards."

    And yet, we have observed zero systems where this has been known to occur. Not much support for the model.

    "That has implications for us...."

    No, it does not. Maybe for whoever is here billions of years from now, but not for us.

  12. Re:Great! on New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon · · Score: 1

    "Likewise, if it shows that systems like ours are formed x% of the time, you can try to match it against observations."

    Cool. And the observations are........

  13. Re:Climate Science on New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon · · Score: 1

    Not really. Add to that, some of the data is purposefully skewed and some suppressed because it doesn't fit. Not really.

  14. Re:GG democracy on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    You mean like you just were? Please. I exercise that right every day and don't get 'quashed'. Then again, I do it peacefully and don't make threats.

  15. Re:Disruption != peaceably assembling on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    Um, yes it is. That's why they used the word peaceful for the kind of assembly.

  16. Re:Disruption != peaceably assembling on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    This of course, presumes the innocent anarchists are telling the truth. I believe the very term anarchist implies heavily they wouldn't be above lying.

  17. Re:Disruption != peaceably assembling on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    Or -- they didn't produce it until last because they didn't want any evidence destroyed before they could secure it. People with incriminating evidence do that.

  18. Re:The Seattle Riots on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    Friggin' please. They were no more 'individualist' than the Anonymous crowds are. They plan things.

  19. Re:also on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    The worst racists I have ever seen in my life were to be found when I contracted in Rhode Island/New Jersey.

  20. Re:Buckets of urine on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    When they plan the riot?

  21. Re:The Constitution is a living document on Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Um, no. They have to be tested after 36 months or if fallen stock or if displaying any symptoms a vet finds suspicious.

    Rampant? You're an idiot. There have been 2 cases of US cattle with MCD in US history.

  22. Re:Again please... on Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing · · Score: 2, Informative

    You understand how MCD is spread, right? You also understand that it's illegal to feed cattle beef protein, right? You understand there have been 3 (1 imported from Canada) cases in the US in all of history, right? You understand there are some 35 million cattle brought to market yearly in the US, right?

    Do the math. We have the safest bovine industry on the planet.

  23. Re:Greed. on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    Greek literature has a continuous history of nearly three thousand years.

  24. Re:Greed. on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    What in hell are you talking about? What thousand years -- exactly? Perhaps you omitted the large number of innovations that traveled in the opposite direction for a reason? As for China, read more, you are ignorant of their upheavals.

  25. Re:Greed. on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    Really? Then there are a dozen separate civilizations going on in Europe right now?