Heyyy I could knock around your tedious, repetitive, hackneyed, tired old points all night, or I could just tell you to learn to use italics in HTML, which I feel would be more productive than getting in a flamewar with a pompous and hideously incorrect prat. Here are teh valuable new infos.
No mainstream religious scholar denies this, and I have never met one that does (and I was in academia for ten years).
See, this is why no one asks religious scholars anything, ever. I categorise it as another branch of the civil service. The rest of your post follows on from that. Google for "Jesus did not exist" and come back to me.
If we had left Vietnam a smoking ruin instead of a functional government, we wouldn't have to compete with them now AND we would have had a precident for any other revolution.
Haven't you heard? Bush (aka president pubes) is finished. You can't talk like that anymore. The world is returning to sanity.
Interesting, then, that in this last century, where the culture was substantially influenced by this Enlightenment-based "world of reason" you describe, we have seen the bloodiest wars, and the most shocking instances of genocide, in all of history.
Just as interesting is the development of automatic weapons, nuclear weapons, mass production, and so on and so forth. All of which made possible, in fact, by rational cooperation. And all of which lend themselves to easy, bloody wars.
But emotions are still a very large part of human society, and I'm not sure how you propose to eliminate that through logic -- while some people may (claim to) be able to work that way, the vast majority of people do not and cannot.
So are you telling me that skyscrapers were raised, national grids plotted and the internet itself put together, among almost all of our societal achievements through emotional power? Also the OP wasn't talking about eliminating emotion through logic, although it may be very trendy in slashdot groupthink to mouth that meme of an exceptionally hackneyed 1970's sci-fi show.
Since when, in recorded history, have people acted with the peaceful rationality you attribute to them?
All the time, all around you, every day. Thats why we have a society and civilisation. In fact you can safely say that proportionately, wars are much more of a rare, occasional aberration. And even then we go about them in an organised and rational fashion.
It's religious conviction, anti-reason, that motivates organized criminals to kill snitches.
He didn't say religion was the source of all evil, just whatever it touches collapses in a flurry of slurry, which is true. He also didn't say reason is the only thing that could bring people together, just that it could, which is also true, Mr Strawman O'Troll.
Sigh. Type 3+ (basic military) armour will stop most shots and helmets are there to stop headshots. If you are reduced to scavenging ammo from enemy combatants that you can't kill without the ammo you scavenged from enemy combatants, you have already lost. Dum dums are still worthless against an armoured foe, as are hunting rounds.
It took humiliation of our army to learn that lesson.
I would have thought that Ireland taught you that you failed to even learn that lesson. The only thing the English were good at was mowing down musketmen with machine guns. Even the current shambles in Iraq can be blamed upon their staggering ineptitude, thanks for that, Churchill.
Hunting rifles and ammo are deadlier than military rifles and ammo, Hunting ammo is designed to expand as it passes through tissue. The ammo used by hunters would result in a war crime if used by the military.
What a pile of rot. High explosive armour piercing rounds for the AK have been available in eastern europe for a long, long time, and they are a good deal worse than your dum dums. Also your hunting ammo is to all intents and purposes worthless against body armour; armour piercing doesn't deform much / at all on impact.
If you read this and can't make out what the hell he is saying, you aren't alone. This is cluckshot, who has claimed in the past to be a creationist, political aide de camp to senators, a male nurse, in research at NASA, and I'm stunned he didn't also claim to have been an actual pirate. Semi-trolls and incoherent rants are the trademark here... Mod parent down, he's off his trolley.
That is what you said. I merely pointed out that deserts are more than snakes and scorpions.
No, you made the grossly incorrect assumption that I was saying that deserts are empty of valuable life, and are now quoting me out of context and backtracking to try and cover your exposed ass.
I then pointed out the flaw in your thinking that by shading the desert you could turn into into viable farmland.
Something you still haven't proven is by any means a flaw. Solar panels don't point straight up in a uniform sheet, you pleb.
So I'll say no thanks to that course, my reading comprehension is just fine.
I'd have to say knee jerk++.
Oh, and just to throw a little more fuel on the flame, Iraq wasn't about oil. They're killing thousands of people to advance America's interests in geopolitics, most of which does not have anything to do with energy needs.
So the war in Iraq has nothing to do with oil. I'm trying to think of a way in which you could do your argument more harm, but its just not coming...
Exactly, you hit the nail on the head. Now you Americans are starting to see why we Europeans threw the fundies and religious wingnuts out of Europe all that time ago.
And when you rent, that becomes nothing as far as your balance sheet is concerned, when you are paying on the mortgage, that expense you pay on the principle becomes an asset.
Unless the interest on your mortgage exceeds the rent you would normally be paying for a similar property. Then it actually makes sense to rent, and divert the saved funds elsewhere.
Hahahah, thanks, that was the funniest shit I've seen all day. Even made my week look good, and that took some doing. I'd have given him another couple of licks, you know. Just for sniggers.
there is our next target with the new bomb (thank you, george), the Americans make it sooooo easy.
Well maybe if you idiot yanks stopped invading the shit out of places you wouldn't have to worry about someone bombing your solar array. Just a thought.
There is actually too much unproductive farmland in America. We have a lot of land that is actually very poor, but still in production due to farm subsidies. And desert land is very nutrient poor.
Who the hell cares about placing it in America? As for desert land being nutrient poor, thats a crock.
Here in the West, and more so the SouthWest, we have this issue with water. We are lacking.
Pump it via your nice solar powered pumps. And again, who was talking about America?
A simple fact is that plants need light. The solar cells use what? Why light.
So nothing will grow in the pitch darkness between the cells. Thats some superglued engineering you got going on there sparky.
Looks like someone needs a refresher course in ecology.
Looks like someone needs a refresher course in reading comprehension. What I said was that they are merrily killing human beings en masse over energy, they won't blink at deserts, not that deserts have no value. Just when you thought you had laboured the point enough, some pedant shows you haven't...
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Hey, you idiot. All your self criticism doesn't appear to have changed anything. Thats what gets everyone else upset.
Best damn post I ever read on slashdot.
Heyyy I could knock around your tedious, repetitive, hackneyed, tired old points all night, or I could just tell you to learn to use italics in HTML, which I feel would be more productive than getting in a flamewar with a pompous and hideously incorrect prat. Here are teh valuable new infos.
No mainstream religious scholar denies this, and I have never met one that does (and I was in academia for ten years).
See, this is why no one asks religious scholars anything, ever. I categorise it as another branch of the civil service. The rest of your post follows on from that. Google for "Jesus did not exist" and come back to me.
If we had left Vietnam a smoking ruin instead of a functional government, we wouldn't have to compete with them now AND we would have had a precident for any other revolution.
Haven't you heard? Bush (aka president pubes) is finished. You can't talk like that anymore. The world is returning to sanity.
I keep thinking, one day -a divorced, childless pre-menopausal white woman is gonna ride-down on y'alls asses.
What?
I could say the same things about crossbows or even spears. In fact crossbows are more useful against modern armour than hunting rounds.
Historians have, for instance, long accepted that Jesus was a real historical figure.
Whoops, no they haven't.
Interesting, then, that in this last century, where the culture was substantially influenced by this Enlightenment-based "world of reason" you describe, we have seen the bloodiest wars, and the most shocking instances of genocide, in all of history.
Just as interesting is the development of automatic weapons, nuclear weapons, mass production, and so on and so forth. All of which made possible, in fact, by rational cooperation. And all of which lend themselves to easy, bloody wars.
But emotions are still a very large part of human society, and I'm not sure how you propose to eliminate that through logic -- while some people may (claim to) be able to work that way, the vast majority of people do not and cannot.
So are you telling me that skyscrapers were raised, national grids plotted and the internet itself put together, among almost all of our societal achievements through emotional power? Also the OP wasn't talking about eliminating emotion through logic, although it may be very trendy in slashdot groupthink to mouth that meme of an exceptionally hackneyed 1970's sci-fi show.
Since when, in recorded history, have people acted with the peaceful rationality you attribute to them?
All the time, all around you, every day. Thats why we have a society and civilisation. In fact you can safely say that proportionately, wars are much more of a rare, occasional aberration. And even then we go about them in an organised and rational fashion.
It's religious conviction, anti-reason, that motivates organized criminals to kill snitches.
He didn't say religion was the source of all evil, just whatever it touches collapses in a flurry of slurry, which is true. He also didn't say reason is the only thing that could bring people together, just that it could, which is also true, Mr Strawman O'Troll.
Sigh. Type 3+ (basic military) armour will stop most shots and helmets are there to stop headshots. If you are reduced to scavenging ammo from enemy combatants that you can't kill without the ammo you scavenged from enemy combatants, you have already lost. Dum dums are still worthless against an armoured foe, as are hunting rounds.
It took humiliation of our army to learn that lesson.
I would have thought that Ireland taught you that you failed to even learn that lesson. The only thing the English were good at was mowing down musketmen with machine guns. Even the current shambles in Iraq can be blamed upon their staggering ineptitude, thanks for that, Churchill.
Hunting rifles and ammo are deadlier than military rifles and ammo, Hunting ammo is designed to expand as it passes through tissue. The ammo used by hunters would result in a war crime if used by the military.
What a pile of rot. High explosive armour piercing rounds for the AK have been available in eastern europe for a long, long time, and they are a good deal worse than your dum dums. Also your hunting ammo is to all intents and purposes worthless against body armour; armour piercing doesn't deform much / at all on impact.
Yes I have at one time or another contributed to NASA Research.
Wow. Thats very interesting. See, I just made up that part, I didn't think you actually had claimed it.
You're completely off your rocker, you do know that?
If you read this and can't make out what the hell he is saying, you aren't alone. This is cluckshot, who has claimed in the past to be a creationist, political aide de camp to senators, a male nurse, in research at NASA, and I'm stunned he didn't also claim to have been an actual pirate. Semi-trolls and incoherent rants are the trademark here... Mod parent down, he's off his trolley.
Yes.. but when you threw them out, they landed here in America, which explains a lot really.
Which would have been my point. I'm going to have to start tacking explanations on the end of my posts around here, for the hard of comprehension.
That is what you said. I merely pointed out that deserts are more than snakes and scorpions.
No, you made the grossly incorrect assumption that I was saying that deserts are empty of valuable life, and are now quoting me out of context and backtracking to try and cover your exposed ass.
I then pointed out the flaw in your thinking that by shading the desert you could turn into into viable farmland.
Something you still haven't proven is by any means a flaw. Solar panels don't point straight up in a uniform sheet, you pleb.
So I'll say no thanks to that course, my reading comprehension is just fine.
I'd have to say knee jerk++.
Oh, and just to throw a little more fuel on the flame, Iraq wasn't about oil. They're killing thousands of people to advance America's interests in geopolitics, most of which does not have anything to do with energy needs.
So the war in Iraq has nothing to do with oil. I'm trying to think of a way in which you could do your argument more harm, but its just not coming...
Exactly, you hit the nail on the head. Now you Americans are starting to see why we Europeans threw the fundies and religious wingnuts out of Europe all that time ago.
And when you rent, that becomes nothing as far as your balance sheet is concerned, when you are paying on the mortgage, that expense you pay on the principle becomes an asset.
Unless the interest on your mortgage exceeds the rent you would normally be paying for a similar property. Then it actually makes sense to rent, and divert the saved funds elsewhere.
Hahahah, thanks, that was the funniest shit I've seen all day. Even made my week look good, and that took some doing. I'd have given him another couple of licks, you know. Just for sniggers.
Microsoft is just taking the paperless office to the next level - the documentless office.
there is our next target with the new bomb (thank you, george), the Americans make it sooooo easy.
Well maybe if you idiot yanks stopped invading the shit out of places you wouldn't have to worry about someone bombing your solar array. Just a thought.
There is actually too much unproductive farmland in America. We have a lot of land that is actually very poor, but still in production due to farm subsidies. And desert land is very nutrient poor.
Who the hell cares about placing it in America? As for desert land being nutrient poor, thats a crock.
Here in the West, and more so the SouthWest, we have this issue with water. We are lacking.
Pump it via your nice solar powered pumps. And again, who was talking about America?
A simple fact is that plants need light. The solar cells use what? Why light.
So nothing will grow in the pitch darkness between the cells. Thats some superglued engineering you got going on there sparky.
Looks like someone needs a refresher course in ecology.
Looks like someone needs a refresher course in reading comprehension. What I said was that they are merrily killing human beings en masse over energy, they won't blink at deserts, not that deserts have no value. Just when you thought you had laboured the point enough, some pedant shows you haven't...