While there's no denying that many wars have been fought under the guise of religion; I'm sure people can make war just fine (and they have in the past) without religion.
Of course they *can*; the OP's point was that they *haven't*, not nearly in the numbers of wars of religion.
One keeps hearing the Flash fanbois harping about the great lot of "Flash-based content online out there that you miss out on", always, always failing to articulate exactly what all this great content is. Crappy Flash-based ads that suck up 95% of the CPU, drain battery life and crash the browser, and this is somehow hindering one's computing experience? Or are they referring to crappy Flash-based games? If Flash games are indeed what they mean then the rejoinder "anyone who is seriously into computing" does not apply. Hell, just four posts up today Slashdot is running an article about Flash on Android being deadly, successfully loading up the device with a bunch of Flash ads that weren't visible without Flash, competing with the browser and bringing performance to its knees. And yet Flash advocates mock the iPad for failing to bring this wondrous universe of crap to the tablet experience, seemingly with a straight face. Boggles the mind.
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An opinion editorial (by a writer from The American Enterprise Institute, described as "the most prominent think tank associated with American neoconservatism" [wikipedia.com]) in no way refutes the story the Daily Show was highlighting.
While there's no denying that many wars have been fought under the guise of religion; I'm sure people can make war just fine (and they have in the past) without religion.
Of course they *can*; the OP's point was that they *haven't*, not nearly in the numbers of wars of religion.
One keeps hearing the Flash fanbois harping about the great lot of "Flash-based content online out there that you miss out on", always, always failing to articulate exactly what all this great content is. Crappy Flash-based ads that suck up 95% of the CPU, drain battery life and crash the browser, and this is somehow hindering one's computing experience? Or are they referring to crappy Flash-based games? If Flash games are indeed what they mean then the rejoinder "anyone who is seriously into computing" does not apply. Hell, just four posts up today Slashdot is running an article about Flash on Android being deadly, successfully loading up the device with a bunch of Flash ads that weren't visible without Flash, competing with the browser and bringing performance to its knees. And yet Flash advocates mock the iPad for failing to bring this wondrous universe of crap to the tablet experience, seemingly with a straight face. Boggles the mind.
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