We let the barbarians kill 3,000 of our neighboors on September 11th.
You're right you must be a troll. Your response to the death of 3000 of your citizens is to kill 30,000 civilians in another country that had nothing to do with those deaths. Who're the barbarians, exactly?
They can do what they want with the game including make the rules, change the rules, and break the rules. Your options are limited to playing the game they way they want or not playing it. Accept it.
Huh! What is it with you Merkins and being so willing to bend over to be reamed by your corporations? Firstly, you've paid them money and have rights as a consumer. Secondly, they are operating in a civil society and must abide by the rules of that society. Over here in Europe, those rules are close to breaching various EU and local state discrimination laws. Finally, MMORPGs are public spaces and there are signs that some of the legislation that applies to physical public spaces such as shops, malls and restaurants may be applied to online spaces. For example, a shopping centre owner must be even handed and cannot refuse admission to members of the public just because they're wearing an "I'm Gay" T-shirt.
Hey, good to hear that your media is being critical of the USA's 'little escapade' in Iraq, cos all we hear over here in Europe is how gung ho Fox et al are for the war.
Your final comment really made me wince:
If the media coverage was war, the good guys would be getting slaughtered.
Hint: you ain't the good guys in all of this and the slaughter is of Iraqi civilians. Your military are there of their own volition and we don't give a fuck about dumb Merkins with hard-ons for killing ragheads. But the poor Iraqis have no choice about being in your war. Odd that you didn't cite any statistics for how many of them have been killed, so here it is for you:
You really don't have a clue. The fact that the Wistar Institute has not been heard of in scientific circles, means that they are not science and have not disproved anything. If they had, that would be the biggest news in Nature (do you even know what that is?) for the last 150 years. Science works by peer review. Without that you have nothing.
PS: I know I shouldn't respond to trolls, but could not resist.
PPS: Who are these "Evolutionists"? You mean Scientists, yes...
Sorry but you're just plain ignorant. The CoE is part of the State, but it is not part of the Government. (Yeah there are some bishops in the House of Lords, but our second house contains representatives from most of the major sections of the establishment: law, medicine, armed forces are also represented.)
I find your attitude to your President espousing Christianity at every opportunity incredible. His rights as a private citizen are irrelevant - he is acting as Head of State and should be acting on behalf of all. Since your state is nominally separate from religion, that should include your president.
You really are talking bullshit, my friend. The Cambrian Explosion is one of the best early evidence of Evolution (and yes the GP was right, there is no Micro vs Macro Evolution outside the heads of Evolution deniers). Dunno who the Wistar are, but they sure as fuck did not disprove evolution - I think we'd've read it in Nature by now if they had.
Evolution doesn't argue against God's existence, only against creationism, though of course most atheists will make the next step and say it means God is "less neccessary" to our world-view, I'm an atheist and I'd agree with that (though I don't think it is actually in support of God not existing).
Sigh. Science doesn't argue for or against God's existence. If it's not observable, Science really doesn't give a shit.
You might also want to read up on "The God of the Gaps" argument. Basically it goes like this:
There is something Science does not (yet) explain
QED that is GOD at work.
Most theologians consider this heresy as it consigns their god to an ever diminishing realm of influence.
To be fair to Richard Dawkins, it is clear that the TV programme's producer was after confrontation and ire not reasoned argument.
However when you then go on to attack his arguments as incredibly unscientific in defense of his religion it becomes clear where you stand. Science and Atheism are not religions. Most of his arguments are very well reasoned and hardly ad hominem as you claim.
Well look at it this way. Evolution is an ongoing process. It is not so long since everybody hat to believe that earth is a flat dish with some water around, and that in fact it's the centre of everything anyway. We know better today, because we have evidence in everyday life.
Actually we have the Christians to thank for that as well. Back in ancient greek and roman times it was well known that the Earth was round. There was even debate about the heliocentric view. But then these backward idiots with only one book to their name came along...
Yeah right. Typical Merkin fantasy. If the separation of church and state is so important, then why do your presidents make their worship part of every political speech? Your constitution is just hot air.
And, btw, in the UK, the Church of England has far less influence on our government than your churches do on yours.
Ye gods you merkins get touchy when another country subverts a tiny little bit of your culture for a change. Get used to it - this is a big world and the USA ain't the big fish it likes to think it was.
Cue lots of American wankers jacking off over their right to bear arms and overthrow their government. When have you done that exactly? Where is the armed rebellion over the breach of civil liberties engendered by your government. Come off it you live comfy lives and the likelihood of you sheep rising up is nil.
I'm sure I'll get modded down as a troll for this, but you lot talk big and do fuck all.
Oh give it a rest - you're talking about a relative minority of Muslims particularly the suicide bombers.
Ever heard of the European Convention on Human Rights? No? Then stop shooting your mouth off about Europe. I'm a frequent visitor to the USA and know too well what a divided country it is. There are some great people there but you also have the cream of the shits as well. Separation of church and state? Invented in France actually. "Live free or die" is the worst of your bigoted statements though - how many people are the USA prepared to slaughter and enslave to preserve your freedom at everyone else's cost.
If the kind of world they wished to see actually existed, computers, DVDs and the internet etc just couldn't exist. Think 11th century.
I wonder if you appreciate the irony in that statement. In the 11th Century while Christendom was beset by single-minded fundamentalism that burnt any book that wasn't the Bible, Islam was a rich and enlightened world of scholarship. From that era we get the names of most of the visible stars, the basics of modern mathematics (including zero), algorithms (an arabic word derived from their creator...), an understanding of optics that revolutionised the classical greek understanding that the Holy Roman Empire would cling to for a few more hundred years.
Please don't fall into the trap of equating Islam and these fundie terrorists who are reviled by as many muslims as christians. Or perhaps you also believe that the fundie christians who now rule America will turn the clock back to the Inquisition and reject any belief not sanctioned in the great book (heliocentricity, evolution, etc).
It's worth noting that the American and English use of commas is quite different. Americans tend to put commas in to separate all subclauses whereas Brits only put in commas to disambiguate or to reflect a natural pause in speaking (and to the poster who complained against this - this is standard English usage even if not American).
Anyone who is interested in the differences between American and English should read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue - well balanced on both sides of the debate and with a good historical background as to how the language has evolved to get here.
Your premise is wrong. Zionism is advocates the establishment and, now that it exists, the continued existence of a sovereign jewish state. In that it is not different from other national liberation movements of its generation.
Sorry but it is your premise that is wrong. Zionism is not a national liberation movement - it is a religious liberation movement. Zionism is in fact brother to the whole notion of the Islamic Caliphate...
Greenpeace? A criminal eco-terrorist cult?! What is that crack you're smoking dude? Perhaps you think they carry bombs under those baggy sweaters... ROFL.
Oddly enough much of what you say about China was said about the USA a hundred years ago. You might want to look into the way USAian companies ripped off European copyrights & patents to produce cheap knock-offs. For a while Europe ignored this (Charles Dickens went to the USA to protest against his books being stolen) until the USA tried to export its knock-offs over in Europe. 100 years later we still haven't harmonised our IP laws...
The problem is that corruption and incompotence should be mandatory firing offenses.
Under the ancient Babylonian code of Hammurabi, corrupt judges were executed by the most unpleasant means possible. Shame we kept most of the rest of the code except that bit...
It is likely, as has happened in Europe, that murder will dramatically rise.
What a load of ignorant bollocks. Our murder rate has continually dropped after abolition and is way lower than that in the US. You've been listening to too much right-wing agitprop.
Other posters have commented on your ignorance about the web.
But you are also unaware that over in degenerate Europe we were also building our internet. For the sake of interoperability we agreed a common standard that included elements of many standards. We could equally claim that JANET was the start of the internet - it was a public network unlike DARPA which was after all a military network.
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You're right you must be a troll. Your response to the death of 3000 of your citizens is to kill 30,000 civilians in another country that had nothing to do with those deaths. Who're the barbarians, exactly?
Huh! What is it with you Merkins and being so willing to bend over to be reamed by your corporations? Firstly, you've paid them money and have rights as a consumer. Secondly, they are operating in a civil society and must abide by the rules of that society. Over here in Europe, those rules are close to breaching various EU and local state discrimination laws. Finally, MMORPGs are public spaces and there are signs that some of the legislation that applies to physical public spaces such as shops, malls and restaurants may be applied to online spaces. For example, a shopping centre owner must be even handed and cannot refuse admission to members of the public just because they're wearing an "I'm Gay" T-shirt.
Your final comment really made me wince:
Hint: you ain't the good guys in all of this and the slaughter is of Iraqi civilians. Your military are there of their own volition and we don't give a fuck about dumb Merkins with hard-ons for killing ragheads. But the poor Iraqis have no choice about being in your war. Odd that you didn't cite any statistics for how many of them have been killed, so here it is for you:Between 28000 and 32000 Iraqi civilians killed.
And as for the wanton destruction and looting of priceless antiquities - well the USA does have a reputation to maintain of being total philistines
Journal reference please or shut the fuck up.
PS: I know I shouldn't respond to trolls, but could not resist.
PPS: Who are these "Evolutionists"? You mean Scientists, yes...
I find your attitude to your President espousing Christianity at every opportunity incredible. His rights as a private citizen are irrelevant - he is acting as Head of State and should be acting on behalf of all. Since your state is nominally separate from religion, that should include your president.
Please, please, keep your ignorance to yourself.
Sigh. Science doesn't argue for or against God's existence. If it's not observable, Science really doesn't give a shit.
You might also want to read up on "The God of the Gaps" argument. Basically it goes like this:
- There is something Science does not (yet) explain
- QED that is GOD at work.
Most theologians consider this heresy as it consigns their god to an ever diminishing realm of influence.However when you then go on to attack his arguments as incredibly unscientific in defense of his religion it becomes clear where you stand. Science and Atheism are not religions. Most of his arguments are very well reasoned and hardly ad hominem as you claim.
Actually we have the Christians to thank for that as well. Back in ancient greek and roman times it was well known that the Earth was round. There was even debate about the heliocentric view. But then these backward idiots with only one book to their name came along...
And, btw, in the UK, the Church of England has far less influence on our government than your churches do on yours.
Ye gods you merkins get touchy when another country subverts a tiny little bit of your culture for a change. Get used to it - this is a big world and the USA ain't the big fish it likes to think it was.
I'm sure I'll get modded down as a troll for this, but you lot talk big and do fuck all.
<friday> They are - they just took a billion years to evolve into us to do it! </friday>
Ever heard of the European Convention on Human Rights? No? Then stop shooting your mouth off about Europe. I'm a frequent visitor to the USA and know too well what a divided country it is. There are some great people there but you also have the cream of the shits as well. Separation of church and state? Invented in France actually. "Live free or die" is the worst of your bigoted statements though - how many people are the USA prepared to slaughter and enslave to preserve your freedom at everyone else's cost.
Please don't fall into the trap of equating Islam and these fundie terrorists who are reviled by as many muslims as christians. Or perhaps you also believe that the fundie christians who now rule America will turn the clock back to the Inquisition and reject any belief not sanctioned in the great book (heliocentricity, evolution, etc).
It's worth noting that the American and English use of commas is quite different. Americans tend to put commas in to separate all subclauses whereas Brits only put in commas to disambiguate or to reflect a natural pause in speaking (and to the poster who complained against this - this is standard English usage even if not American). Anyone who is interested in the differences between American and English should read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue - well balanced on both sides of the debate and with a good historical background as to how the language has evolved to get here.
Sorry but it is your premise that is wrong. Zionism is not a national liberation movement - it is a religious liberation movement. Zionism is in fact brother to the whole notion of the Islamic Caliphate...
Greenpeace? A criminal eco-terrorist cult?! What is that crack you're smoking dude? Perhaps you think they carry bombs under those baggy sweaters... ROFL.
Oddly enough much of what you say about China was said about the USA a hundred years ago. You might want to look into the way USAian companies ripped off European copyrights & patents to produce cheap knock-offs. For a while Europe ignored this (Charles Dickens went to the USA to protest against his books being stolen) until the USA tried to export its knock-offs over in Europe. 100 years later we still haven't harmonised our IP laws...
Under the ancient Babylonian code of Hammurabi, corrupt judges were executed by the most unpleasant means possible. Shame we kept most of the rest of the code except that bit...
The smart thing would be to not induce those riots in the first place.
What a load of ignorant bollocks. Our murder rate has continually dropped after abolition and is way lower than that in the US. You've been listening to too much right-wing agitprop.
But you are also unaware that over in degenerate Europe we were also building our internet. For the sake of interoperability we agreed a common standard that included elements of many standards. We could equally claim that JANET was the start of the internet - it was a public network unlike DARPA which was after all a military network.
You didn't invent the web but use it anyway.