Regarding "redfine terms to return to God," not sure that's quite accurate. The terms were always the same. God, through His Son, provided a way so that His Son could fulfill those terms vicariously/substitutionarily (I don't think that's a word... hehe). He didn't redefine them, He fulfilled them.
Agreed. Fulfilled is more accurate than redefined.
I know this better than probably most on Slashdot.
No worries. My comments weren't directed at you. Just more trying to minimize the amount of ill-informed ranting that usually follows any discussion of religion these days.
I'm fairly well acquainted, in fact, and could provide verses for most of what you listed.
Good to see another person well-informed about Christianity.
The truth is, God loves homosexuals as much as he loves anyone. None of us are perfect, and all are forgiven.
All are forgiven? I don't recall reading that all people (I assume that's what you meant) are forgiven in the Bible.
Since this will inevitably lead to a fire storm of misinformation about Christianity please first read the following basic and universal Christian doctrines (or axioms if you will) before commenting. Note that I use the word 'axiom' deliberately here (ie: they are given w/o proof):
1. God loves everyone (no ifs ands or buts)
2. God wants His children to become like Him
3. God is perfect
4. None of us are perfect (this is the dilemma)
5. Christ takes upon Him the consequences of mankind's sins
6. Christ is now qualified to redefine terms to return to God
7. Christ teaches that all who repent are forgiven
8. Christ teaches that He is the one who determines whether or not someone is forgiven
Misinformation about Christianity can almost always be tied back to a misunderstanding (or ignoring) of one of these core and universal axioms. Different Christian sects branch off of these as primarily as they strive to understand and come to different conclusions about points 5-8.
Before reading someone's rantings about Christianity (for or against) and making a hasty generalisation about all Christians, first check what they are saying against these core axioms (whether or not you agree with the axioms themselves). I've been surprised doing this how much misinformation is out there.
I've never played any of the MMOGs out there for one reason: When I play a game I'm looking for entertainment, not commitment.
Between career, marriage, kids, and trying to be involved in the community, I don't have time to sit down and dedicate hours a day to a game. If I did, then I would be doing it to the detriment of those other things. A game is just a game. Those other things are real life.
So when I look for a game to play, I look for a game that doesn't demand you spend a minimum amount of time with it in order for it to be enjoyable or has a large learning curve before it becomes enjoyable.
Recently, nearly all of my gaming (maybe 3 hours a week) is spent playing ROMS of old 8-bit and 16-bit Nintendo games. One exception to this is Wii Fit Plus. But I don't consider that a game as much as an exercise program.
What is that? A "deafening silence" when teaching your kids about "creation science" or is it some other combination of oxymorons?
Fanatic: a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm Atheist: someone who denies the existence of god
So atheistic fanaticism would be a person who holds atheistic views with irrational enthusiasm. Generally, fanaticism is rooted in the refusal to accept or respect people with differing viewpoints on a matter you feel passionate about. I short, it's intolerance.
I've noticed that often children suffer at the hand of their parent projecting things that happened (or didn't happen) to them when they were growing up onto the child.
* Pageant parents * Religious or atheistic fanaticism * Overly protective parents * Parents who don't discipline * Parents who insist on treating their children the same as adults * Overly pushy with sports/music/school (or any other subject) * etc. etc. etc.
I've found that I've had to stop myself sometimes from projecting onto my own kids and remind myself that while I've had both positive experiences I want (and should) share/teach to my children and negative experiences I don't want them to have, I have to remember that they have their own personalities and desires and that that is what I should be fostering, not my own.
I bit that often if you sat down and talked with parents who go to extremes in parenting, the root of the problem could be found in something that happened or didn't happen to them in their childhood. Of course, there are kids who really are mentally ill and do need help. But that is a decision meant solely for a trained, competent medical physician, the parents, and the child.... NOT teachers who simply want a classroom that is easier to deal with.
On that note, if I have a teacher of my children come and tell me they have a mental disorder, I'll thank them for their feedback but then ask them to present their degree in medicine. When they can't I'll politely tell them to keep their mouth shut unless they are qualified to make such a diagnosis.
Just, as a child, you saw the film *once*, then bought the toys, and had a ton of fun playing with the toys in the schoolyard, making up your own adventures. That is where your fond memories lie.
True, true. Growing up, I didn't have Star-Wars action-toys. But if by "toys" you include X-Wing and Tie Fighter computer games then, yes, I had Star Wars toys.
You are disappointed because you are no longer a child, and can no longer revel in your imagination, and are upset that Lucas can't replace your lost youth.
My playing with my son seems to prove you wrong on this point. Having kids is a great excuse to become a kid again.
Why pay cable/satellite companies for TV in general? I've found that I'm perfectly happy with getting all of my TV online through iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, and various network's websites. Just pay for a good internet connection (which generally doesn't have such ridiculous terms and conditions) and stream. You can now even stream sports games from the internet (for a nominal cost from season to season).
The payment structures and contracts involved with cable/satellite TV just seem ridiculous and antiquated now.
And no, I haven't had any problems with bandwidth limits (just get the right package).
For a good read on the difficulties of tracking criminals through a global internet read The Cuckoo's Egg. It reads like a suspenseful spy novel but is entirely non-fiction.
I'm way late to this conversation, but you can objectively say that yourboss is wrong.
General consensus in scientific community is that office noise involving speech associated with open cubicle environments can have a significant negative effect on job performance, job satisfaction, and stress levels of employees. Office "white noise" (ie: people walking, doors opening/closing, printers, keyboards, etc.) have much less of or an insignificant effect.
As for listening to music, the same applies but results vary depending on the individual. Music that is interpreted by the individual listener primarily on a melodic or rhythmic level have a positive effect on mental-spatial performance. Lyrics in songs that are not tuned out by listeners generally has the same negative effect as office noise involving speech.
However, as others have noted, the decision your boss is making may not (or likely isnt') be based on evidence and may be prompted by something else unrelated to job performance (music is just the scapegoat).
I'd say the best thing to do is make sure before/after effects of are objectively measured (not just for performance but also for job satisfaction).
It is interesting to drive through certain areas in the northwest US and see entire forests which were clear cut a few decades ago but were replanted and now look just like a fully-grown forest (however you define that).
You could help them build a processing plant to purify it and then eventually have your own little nuclear reactor. All the other kids in the neighborhood will be soooo jealous!
I'd first check with your neighborhood's nuclear proliferation by-laws. Buying uranium may risk sanctions from the other neighborhood kids who already have uranium. Your kids will no longer be able to play or share toys with the other kids in the neighborhood and will be ostracized.
I've found Lightning betas to be solid and have been using them for several months (I use GCalDaemon to sync with Google Calendar). I'd back up first just to be safe.
Mod parent up. The Lightning calendar plugin team has been craking out bug fixes and is well on its way to releasing.
How Thunderbird has gotten this far without integrated calendaring (not just via plugin) I have no idea.
It is important to note that the skills (ie: muscle memory) involved in gaming are different from real life. Getting good at Guitar hero just means you have the skill for strumming/timing along with pressing 4 buttons. The muscle memory and training to go from 4 buttons to a real guitar is very different.
That said, some skills can transfer (especially conceptual skills). For instance, last winter I was trying to get up an icy hill that curves. Halfway up the car in front of me stalled and veered off to the side. Meanwhile another car started coming down the hill in the other lane. I turned away to avoid the car that stalled in front of me but that swung the rear of my car towards him. Without thinking, I immediately turned the other direction to control the back end of my car so that it avoided the stalled car while also avoided the car coming the other direction. I managed to control it enough to miss both of them while still making it up the hill.
This was the first time I ever had to control a skid like this and the only other related experience I've had with this is controlling skids in racing games.
Now, I don't think that this skill means I can now power slide through corners, but some portion of that skill has transferred.
At first I was excited and expected different iPhones set to play sounds of different instruments along with a piece that had some sort of melody or at least interesting harmonics. 5 minutes of variations on a sine wave was underwhelming.
Conceptually this is cool, but ultimately was a let down.
On a somewhat related note, my wife recently gave up on backing up to a different medium all together and now just builds backup into her work flow. She is a photographer and takes 50,000+ digital photos a year (in raw TIFF format). Each file is ~70MB so she requires several terabytes of storage. Loosing these images is unacceptable (ie: would result in a financial loss) and ripping to DVD for backup is simply impossible (would require a full time job in and of itself).
So she builds backup into her work flow such that at any one point in time she has at least one copy of the image spread across multiple drives. In the work flow, photos go from raw TIFF -> PSD pre-proccess -> PSD final -> JPEG for online viewing and she uses different drives for each stage in the process. That way, if a drive goes out, she only looses time, not data. For data retention requirements (~2-3 years), she just has ~10 TB of storage and rotates files from older jobs out onto other drives (spreading across 3 - drives as per the work flow).
Of course if something catastrophic were to happen to cause all of the drives to die (since they are all in the same location) then files would be lost, but that's what insurance is for.
It's also important to note that the Mormon Church has no paid clergy. So member donations go to the organization/religion itself rather than to its leaders.
Just tell them there is no mention of Nibiru in the Bible
I did that, but apparently theres a mention of a "star called wormwood which will fall into the sea"
[facepalm]
I agree.
[facepalm].
The problem is that we don't train people in the fine art of bullshit detection -- mostly because doing so would challenge mainstream religions
"The problem is that we don't train people in the fine art of critical thinking -- mostly because doing so would challenge the intellectually lazy's of mainstream religions"
As a Christian, I frequently mentally (and sometimes physically) [facepalm] when talking with other religious people.
-Young earth creationists
-Militant anti-evolutionists
-God gave us the earth so anything we do to it must be His will
-That person doesn't believe the same things as me so they must be going to hell
-That person sins, so I'm justified in hating/judging/ostracizing them
-etc. etc. etc.
These aren't the markings of a religious person or mainstream religion in general and it is dishonest to attribute these kinds of things to everyone who is religious . These are merely are the markings of those who have failed to have an open mind and apply reason and logic to their faith. These kinds of people are more concerned about being right than what's right. And what's more condemning to them is that they are more concerned about being right than they are in following the core tenants of their faith to show charity and compassion towards their fellow men.
On the flip side, what further bruises my forehead is when I see a person or group of people who have faith in God do adjust their beliefs to new evidence they see while still holding on to elements of their faith they see as still consistent with that evidence and they are ridiculed for doing so by others claiming to be critical thinkers. Why would such a person attack the essence of the scientific method, namely the adjustment of theories against evidence? The answer is too often that, although they'd like to think otherwise, those who attack people simply for having (or not having) faith in God fear what they don't understand and thus feel the need to tear down it. It's our nasty primal instinct kicking in. Take away the fear and replace it empathy and understanding of why people choose (or don't choose) to have faith in God, and the desire to attack, belittle, or demean will go away on both sides.
I remember playing Starcraft at a LAN party after I figured out how to rip the sound effects and voices out of the Starcraft data files. I'd intentionally play with the sound on (no headphones), wait just enough time so that it was believable yet frighteningly early, alt-tab over to a WAV player, then play the sound for "Nuclear launch detected" and watch people frantically scan their bases. It only works once, so use it wisely.
I'm just waiting for the time when you must ship your belongings ahead of time and when you go through security you are issued your official air-traveler gown to wear for the duration of the flight. Your civilian clothes/effects would be wrapped, checked as luggage, and ready for you to pick up at your destination.
Bonus conspiracy points if your gown has a bar code printed on it identifying you which is scanned anywhere you need identification or money in the terminal or on the plane.
To me laziness and pride are the two biggest obstacles to rational thinking.
Laziness since, more often than not, simply sitting down and thinking things through you can avoid most irrational decisions. Time constraints can make this difficult. But I'm surprised at how often I see family/friends make poor decisions simply because they don't know how to stop and think. I like this quote from Samuel Johnson since it articulates the fact that easy access to information does not mean people will spend the energy to even look at it (let alone use it wisely):
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Next to laziness, is pride. This boils down to the fact that culturally we're often taught to focus on being right rather than focusing on what's right. This comes from the illusion that one can own or control truth. I've seen this affect friendships, marriages, professional atmospheres, politics, etc. Truth is independent. You either align yourself with it or continue to live in ignorance. Of course, objective indisputable truth is rare or even non-existent in humanity, but it's the honest, humble desire to align oneself with truth (not the other way around) that's important here.
Rather than getting consumed in an OS holy-war, perhaps we should focus on how exactly these systems were compromised and how to detect whether your server has been compromised. Linux servers being compromised is not a new thing. If you run old-enough libraries and software on them or configure things improperly, they'll eventually be compromised.
Does anyone know if a particular vulnerability was used to gain access to systems?
Does anyone know how to detect whether your system is compromised in this manner (is doing "ps -aux nginx" simple enough to detect it)?
Spare everyone the OS holy-war and fanboism and let's figure out what the problem is, how to detect it, and what to do to fix it.
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Regarding "redfine terms to return to God," not sure that's quite accurate. The terms were always the same. God, through His Son, provided a way so that His Son could fulfill those terms vicariously/substitutionarily (I don't think that's a word... hehe). He didn't redefine them, He fulfilled them.
Agreed. Fulfilled is more accurate than redefined.
I know this better than probably most on Slashdot.
No worries. My comments weren't directed at you. Just more trying to minimize the amount of ill-informed ranting that usually follows any discussion of religion these days.
I'm fairly well acquainted, in fact, and could provide verses for most of what you listed.
Good to see another person well-informed about Christianity.
The truth is, God loves homosexuals as much as he loves anyone. None of us are perfect, and all are forgiven.
All are forgiven? I don't recall reading that all people (I assume that's what you meant) are forgiven in the Bible.
Since this will inevitably lead to a fire storm of misinformation about Christianity please first read the following basic and universal Christian doctrines (or axioms if you will) before commenting. Note that I use the word 'axiom' deliberately here (ie: they are given w/o proof):
1. God loves everyone (no ifs ands or buts)
2. God wants His children to become like Him
3. God is perfect
4. None of us are perfect (this is the dilemma)
5. Christ takes upon Him the consequences of mankind's sins
6. Christ is now qualified to redefine terms to return to God
7. Christ teaches that all who repent are forgiven
8. Christ teaches that He is the one who determines whether or not someone is forgiven
Misinformation about Christianity can almost always be tied back to a misunderstanding (or ignoring) of one of these core and universal axioms. Different Christian sects branch off of these as primarily as they strive to understand and come to different conclusions about points 5-8.
Before reading someone's rantings about Christianity (for or against) and making a hasty generalisation about all Christians, first check what they are saying against these core axioms (whether or not you agree with the axioms themselves). I've been surprised doing this how much misinformation is out there.
I've never played any of the MMOGs out there for one reason: When I play a game I'm looking for entertainment, not commitment.
Between career, marriage, kids, and trying to be involved in the community, I don't have time to sit down and dedicate hours a day to a game. If I did, then I would be doing it to the detriment of those other things. A game is just a game. Those other things are real life.
So when I look for a game to play, I look for a game that doesn't demand you spend a minimum amount of time with it in order for it to be enjoyable or has a large learning curve before it becomes enjoyable.
Recently, nearly all of my gaming (maybe 3 hours a week) is spent playing ROMS of old 8-bit and 16-bit Nintendo games. One exception to this is Wii Fit Plus. But I don't consider that a game as much as an exercise program.
atheistic fanaticism
What is that? A "deafening silence" when teaching your kids about "creation science" or is it some other combination of oxymorons?
Fanatic: a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm
Atheist: someone who denies the existence of god
So atheistic fanaticism would be a person who holds atheistic views with irrational enthusiasm. Generally, fanaticism is rooted in the refusal to accept or respect people with differing viewpoints on a matter you feel passionate about. I short, it's intolerance.
I've noticed that often children suffer at the hand of their parent projecting things that happened (or didn't happen) to them when they were growing up onto the child.
* Pageant parents
* Religious or atheistic fanaticism
* Overly protective parents
* Parents who don't discipline
* Parents who insist on treating their children the same as adults
* Overly pushy with sports/music/school (or any other subject)
* etc. etc. etc.
I've found that I've had to stop myself sometimes from projecting onto my own kids and remind myself that while I've had both positive experiences I want (and should) share/teach to my children and negative experiences I don't want them to have, I have to remember that they have their own personalities and desires and that that is what I should be fostering, not my own.
I bit that often if you sat down and talked with parents who go to extremes in parenting, the root of the problem could be found in something that happened or didn't happen to them in their childhood. Of course, there are kids who really are mentally ill and do need help. But that is a decision meant solely for a trained, competent medical physician, the parents, and the child.... NOT teachers who simply want a classroom that is easier to deal with.
On that note, if I have a teacher of my children come and tell me they have a mental disorder, I'll thank them for their feedback but then ask them to present their degree in medicine. When they can't I'll politely tell them to keep their mouth shut unless they are qualified to make such a diagnosis.
Just, as a child, you saw the film *once*, then bought the toys, and had a ton of fun playing with the toys in the schoolyard, making up your own adventures. That is where your fond memories lie.
True, true. Growing up, I didn't have Star-Wars action-toys. But if by "toys" you include X-Wing and Tie Fighter computer games then, yes, I had Star Wars toys.
You are disappointed because you are no longer a child, and can no longer revel in your imagination, and are upset that Lucas can't replace your lost youth.
My playing with my son seems to prove you wrong on this point. Having kids is a great excuse to become a kid again.
Why pay cable/satellite companies for TV in general? I've found that I'm perfectly happy with getting all of my TV online through iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, and various network's websites. Just pay for a good internet connection (which generally doesn't have such ridiculous terms and conditions) and stream. You can now even stream sports games from the internet (for a nominal cost from season to season).
The payment structures and contracts involved with cable/satellite TV just seem ridiculous and antiquated now.
And no, I haven't had any problems with bandwidth limits (just get the right package).
For a good read on the difficulties of tracking criminals through a global internet read The Cuckoo's Egg. It reads like a suspenseful spy novel but is entirely non-fiction.
I'm way late to this conversation, but you can objectively say that your boss is wrong.
General consensus in scientific community is that office noise involving speech associated with open cubicle environments can have a significant negative effect on job performance, job satisfaction, and stress levels of employees. Office "white noise" (ie: people walking, doors opening/closing, printers, keyboards, etc.) have much less of or an insignificant effect.
As for listening to music, the same applies but results vary depending on the individual. Music that is interpreted by the individual listener primarily on a melodic or rhythmic level have a positive effect on mental-spatial performance. Lyrics in songs that are not tuned out by listeners generally has the same negative effect as office noise involving speech.
However, as others have noted, the decision your boss is making may not (or likely isnt') be based on evidence and may be prompted by something else unrelated to job performance (music is just the scapegoat).
I'd say the best thing to do is make sure before/after effects of are objectively measured (not just for performance but also for job satisfaction).
It is interesting to drive through certain areas in the northwest US and see entire forests which were clear cut a few decades ago but were replanted and now look just like a fully-grown forest (however you define that).
You can buy it here
You could help them build a processing plant to purify it and then eventually have your own little nuclear reactor. All the other kids in the neighborhood will be soooo jealous!
I'd first check with your neighborhood's nuclear proliferation by-laws. Buying uranium may risk sanctions from the other neighborhood kids who already have uranium. Your kids will no longer be able to play or share toys with the other kids in the neighborhood and will be ostracized.
You should try one of these:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/
I've found Lightning betas to be solid and have been using them for several months (I use GCalDaemon to sync with Google Calendar). I'd back up first just to be safe.
Mod parent up. The Lightning calendar plugin team has been craking out bug fixes and is well on its way to releasing.
How Thunderbird has gotten this far without integrated calendaring (not just via plugin) I have no idea.
It is important to note that the skills (ie: muscle memory) involved in gaming are different from real life. Getting good at Guitar hero just means you have the skill for strumming/timing along with pressing 4 buttons. The muscle memory and training to go from 4 buttons to a real guitar is very different.
That said, some skills can transfer (especially conceptual skills). For instance, last winter I was trying to get up an icy hill that curves. Halfway up the car in front of me stalled and veered off to the side. Meanwhile another car started coming down the hill in the other lane. I turned away to avoid the car that stalled in front of me but that swung the rear of my car towards him. Without thinking, I immediately turned the other direction to control the back end of my car so that it avoided the stalled car while also avoided the car coming the other direction. I managed to control it enough to miss both of them while still making it up the hill.
This was the first time I ever had to control a skid like this and the only other related experience I've had with this is controlling skids in racing games.
Now, I don't think that this skill means I can now power slide through corners, but some portion of that skill has transferred.
At first I was excited and expected different iPhones set to play sounds of different instruments along with a piece that had some sort of melody or at least interesting harmonics. 5 minutes of variations on a sine wave was underwhelming.
Conceptually this is cool, but ultimately was a let down.
do {
solveProblem();
} until (getPhotonPosition() && getPhotonVelocity());
"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."
On a somewhat related note, my wife recently gave up on backing up to a different medium all together and now just builds backup into her work flow. She is a photographer and takes 50,000+ digital photos a year (in raw TIFF format). Each file is ~70MB so she requires several terabytes of storage. Loosing these images is unacceptable (ie: would result in a financial loss) and ripping to DVD for backup is simply impossible (would require a full time job in and of itself).
So she builds backup into her work flow such that at any one point in time she has at least one copy of the image spread across multiple drives. In the work flow, photos go from raw TIFF -> PSD pre-proccess -> PSD final -> JPEG for online viewing and she uses different drives for each stage in the process. That way, if a drive goes out, she only looses time, not data. For data retention requirements (~2-3 years), she just has ~10 TB of storage and rotates files from older jobs out onto other drives (spreading across 3 - drives as per the work flow).
Of course if something catastrophic were to happen to cause all of the drives to die (since they are all in the same location) then files would be lost, but that's what insurance is for.
The Mormon Church also requires large sums of money from it's members (a large percentage of your earnings) as well as mandated service.
Can you read the Book of Mormon and/or information about it without joining the church.? AFAIK you can.
Yes you can.
It's also important to note that the Mormon Church has no paid clergy. So member donations go to the organization/religion itself rather than to its leaders.
Just tell them there is no mention of Nibiru in the Bible
I did that, but apparently theres a mention of a "star called wormwood which will fall into the sea"
[facepalm]
I agree.
[facepalm].
The problem is that we don't train people in the fine art of bullshit detection -- mostly because doing so would challenge mainstream religions
"The problem is that we don't train people in the fine art of critical thinking -- mostly because doing so would challenge the intellectually lazy's of mainstream religions"
As a Christian, I frequently mentally (and sometimes physically) [facepalm] when talking with other religious people.
-Young earth creationists
-Militant anti-evolutionists
-God gave us the earth so anything we do to it must be His will
-That person doesn't believe the same things as me so they must be going to hell
-That person sins, so I'm justified in hating/judging/ostracizing them
-etc. etc. etc.
These aren't the markings of a religious person or mainstream religion in general and it is dishonest to attribute these kinds of things to everyone who is religious . These are merely are the markings of those who have failed to have an open mind and apply reason and logic to their faith. These kinds of people are more concerned about being right than what's right. And what's more condemning to them is that they are more concerned about being right than they are in following the core tenants of their faith to show charity and compassion towards their fellow men.
On the flip side, what further bruises my forehead is when I see a person or group of people who have faith in God do adjust their beliefs to new evidence they see while still holding on to elements of their faith they see as still consistent with that evidence and they are ridiculed for doing so by others claiming to be critical thinkers. Why would such a person attack the essence of the scientific method, namely the adjustment of theories against evidence? The answer is too often that, although they'd like to think otherwise, those who attack people simply for having (or not having) faith in God fear what they don't understand and thus feel the need to tear down it. It's our nasty primal instinct kicking in. Take away the fear and replace it empathy and understanding of why people choose (or don't choose) to have faith in God, and the desire to attack, belittle, or demean will go away on both sides.
*Nuclear launch detected*
I remember playing Starcraft at a LAN party after I figured out how to rip the sound effects and voices out of the Starcraft data files. I'd intentionally play with the sound on (no headphones), wait just enough time so that it was believable yet frighteningly early, alt-tab over to a WAV player, then play the sound for "Nuclear launch detected" and watch people frantically scan their bases. It only works once, so use it wisely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I
I'm just waiting for the time when you must ship your belongings ahead of time and when you go through security you are issued your official air-traveler gown to wear for the duration of the flight. Your civilian clothes/effects would be wrapped, checked as luggage, and ready for you to pick up at your destination.
Bonus conspiracy points if your gown has a bar code printed on it identifying you which is scanned anywhere you need identification or money in the terminal or on the plane.
To me laziness and pride are the two biggest obstacles to rational thinking.
Laziness since, more often than not, simply sitting down and thinking things through you can avoid most irrational decisions. Time constraints can make this difficult. But I'm surprised at how often I see family/friends make poor decisions simply because they don't know how to stop and think. I like this quote from Samuel Johnson since it articulates the fact that easy access to information does not mean people will spend the energy to even look at it (let alone use it wisely):
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Next to laziness, is pride. This boils down to the fact that culturally we're often taught to focus on being right rather than focusing on what's right. This comes from the illusion that one can own or control truth. I've seen this affect friendships, marriages, professional atmospheres, politics, etc. Truth is independent. You either align yourself with it or continue to live in ignorance. Of course, objective indisputable truth is rare or even non-existent in humanity, but it's the honest, humble desire to align oneself with truth (not the other way around) that's important here.
I think the title would have been a lot funnier if it were: "FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Available on Pay-Per-View"
Rather than getting consumed in an OS holy-war, perhaps we should focus on how exactly these systems were compromised and how to detect whether your server has been compromised. Linux servers being compromised is not a new thing. If you run old-enough libraries and software on them or configure things improperly, they'll eventually be compromised.
Does anyone know if a particular vulnerability was used to gain access to systems?
Does anyone know how to detect whether your system is compromised in this manner (is doing "ps -aux nginx" simple enough to detect it)?
Spare everyone the OS holy-war and fanboism and let's figure out what the problem is, how to detect it, and what to do to fix it.