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  1. Re:In other news... on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 1

    That's why you so often see the obsessional behavior of a dumped guy. You rarely see that as much from the womans point of view.

    Dude, the psycho ex girlfriend is a major archetype...not so much the psycho ex boyfriend.

    Of course, there are always exceptions and outliers to the rule.

    I honestly think you have the rule and the exceptions reversed.

    The trick is...as a guy, never let yourself totally go, and never trust them all the way. If you do, YOU lose the dominant role, and you are open to really getting fscked both emotionally, and financially.

    Power of the pole, my friend. Power of the pole. That's all you need.

  2. Re:Finally on Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action · · Score: 1

    ;-)

  3. Re:Finally on Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nope, right wing economically simply means things such as capitalism, private control of the means of production and so on - as opposed to left wing, which is ideas such as socialism, state funded production, and so on.

    No, it does not. You described *Liberalism*. The right is diametrically opposed to liberalism.
    Right wing economically means corporate control of the government, the current bailout scam we're seeing, feudalism, threocracy, corporatism, fascism etc.

    If you're that far out of touch with reality, that you not only think something that stupid, but you spout it out in public forums then I doubt you'll actually have nay interest in knowing what you're talking about though, so I doubt this is worth my time to even try and help you learn to think.

    Quite how you get from that to "big government", I frankly I have no idea. Laissez-faire capitalism and libertarianism are right wing with small Government. Communism would be an example of left wing with big Government.

    I don't You described *Liberalism* That is not the right wing. In your deeply ignorant and stupid set of definitions, there isn't a word left to describe what actually is the right wing. Hell, where do the massive corporate bailouts fit into your ignorant idiocy? Hot tip, idiot, you've defined our current reality out of existence..or at least left us with no word to describe our current form of government.

    Now, pull your head out of your ass for a minute and think that through. Now think about the fact that it's easily described using those words as if they actually meant what they've always meant.

    Seriously, it's that easy to realize how fucking stupid your redefinitions of these concepts are.

    Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain Mussolini's Italy are all examples of right wing big government. You can't have an authoritarian pro elite small government, idiot. That requires a big government to rob the masses of the people to further enrich the already rich, idiot. That's what the right wing is, you fucking ignorant fool. Pull your head out of your ass and go figure out where the terms left and right came from you ignorant fool.

    Liberal - as opposed to authoritarianism - is a independent axis to being economically left or right wing. You could be liberal centre, liberal left wing, or liberal right wing.

    Only if you go with the Nolan chart which is an idiotic way to look at things as it takes Hitler and Stalin and lumps them together as the same thing, when they are polar opposite extremes in reality.

    Again, you are using definitions that do not map at all to reality. That is idiotic.

    I suspect you are confusing concepts such as right-wing and liberal, with the fact that some people have overloaded these terms to mean very specific things. So some people use right-wing to mean authoritarianism - but other people use left-wing in the same sense.

    No, that would be you who is doing that.

    I'm using the terms for what they mean. Left and right *are* both authoritarian by definition and always have been, neither can achieve their goals without authoritarianism. So anybody, like yourself, who tries to redefine these terms to pretend that one of these evils is good and the other is the only evil (Think, Sparky. This is what you are doing, and it is all that can be accomplished by what you're doing. You sure as hell cannot have a rational discussion about the current state of the US government using your definitions as you have redefined the necessary terms) has proven themselves to be deeply ignorant.

    I know it's nice to pretend that everyone's views can be pigeon-holed into a one dimensional axis, so that you can argue against straw men, but the real world doesn't work that way.

    It's not one dimensional, idiot. Pull your head out of your ass, and actually try applying the definitions of those terms to reality. You will see immediately that your de

  4. Re:And all the admins ask... on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    That's nice. There's just one problem: Exchange isn't just e-mail.

    That's completely irrelevant.

    The comment I responded to said:

    There is no way that someone without any FOSS experience could set up a FOSS mail server in 2 hours. You are deluded if you think they could.

    I demonstrated absolutely that that is an ignorant statement at best and a bald faced lie at worst.

    Put your strawman away, you've only proven your incompetence at basic reading comprehension skills.

  5. Re:And all the admins ask... on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no way that someone without any FOSS experience could set up a FOSS mail server in 2 hours. You are deluded if you think they could.

    yum install postfix
    emerge postfix
    apt-get install postfix
    /etc/init.d/postfix start

    Hell I just did it in at least 3 different distros with what would have only taken a quick google search.

    So, it's actually a very simple and obvious fact, rather than a delusion. So that's 5 minutes out of my 2 hours gone and I have a working mail server. Plenty of time from my 2 hours left over for learning how to configure 20 or more different features.

    Almost anyone one with half decent Windows server experience can be trained up quickly to admin an exchange server. The same can't be said for most FOSS systems out there. If you don't understand that then you are a one eye FOSS fanboi.

    If you don't understand that most of this shit really isn't all that complicated in most instances and that any reasonable intelligent person can quickly learn to admin a new application given that they already have good general admin skills, then it is you who are obviously the sad and deluded fanboy.

  6. Re:Low lifes on Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action · · Score: 1

    Ah, advanced Calculus, where some infinities aren't quite as big as other infinities. That, like much of semiconductor physics, I take on faith and trust that smarter people have done their work correctly.

    Set Theory, not Calculus. The fact is used in every branch of mathematics, but it's a fact of set theory.
    Oh, and by "advanced Calculus", you probably really mean Analysis.

    Hope this helps you have a more pedantic day!

  7. Re:Finally on Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I actually like a lot of the ideals in the republican party but I haven't seen any of them in years. It's become a total lip service to their ideals while they are jerking everyone off with the other hand.

    I'm pushing 40, and that Republican party hasn't existed at any point in my life. If you've ever seen it, you must be pretty old by now, Grandpa ;-)

  8. Re:Finally on Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't confuse the "right wing" with the religious nutjobs. They are control freaks, whereas most of us in the right wing don't care if you smoke marijuana while watching tv, have orgies in your bedroom, or worship pagan gods.

    We believe in small government and lots of individual liberty.

    Oh good lord, the insane idiocy of some people, sorry, but your statement *is* both insane and idiotic, so don't blame me for pointing it out.

    The right is *by definition* control freaks. By definition the right are fans of big government. Hell, theocratic feudalism is the canonical right wing government. You can not have a small right wing government. You can have a *Liberal* government which is what you are attempting to describe as "right wing", but that's the center.

    Here's the breakdown so hopefully you quit repeating this idiotic nonsense which is pure fox news propaganda:

    Liberalism: "We hold this truth to be self evident, that all men are created equal".

    Left: Fundamentally agrees with that one sentence description of Liberalism, but goes further and thinks the power of the state should be used against the individual to enforce that equality.

    Right: Fundamentally disagrees with that sentence and feels instead that certain elites are born superior to the masses (generally based on race or religion) and that the power of the state should be used against the individual in order to enforce that inequality.

    Liberalism, of course, doesn't think the power of the state should be used against the individual *at all*.

    So, no it is not at all in any way shape or form the case that Left = big government and Right = small government. That you would even say something that obviously stupid is really pretty fucking sad.

    Hell look at America today. Far extreme right wing government since the 80s and we're robbing the citizens blind to pay the already wealthy and powerful for their *incompetence*. That is pure 100% right wing in every aspect by definition. That's what the right wing is, Sparky, and that's what ther right wing has always been. That you've been duped into pretending that Liberalism is magically the right now and that the right just fucking vanished into thin air as you absolutely are claiming is really deeply pathetic. With your stupid blatantly false definitions, you do not even have a word in your vocabulary to describe your own fucking government. Think long and hard about that fact, Sparky.

    Seriously, please pull your head out of your ass and at least learn what the fucking words you use to describe yourself even mean. You're a Classical Liberal through and through if your description of what you believe is honest, and that means that the right is diametrically opposed to everything you believe in by fucking definition.

  9. Re:Finally on Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action · · Score: 1

    It's about time the left started getting vocal again so we aren't drowned out by the 'righteous'

    Hell, it's about time the center started getting vocal to drown out the "righteous" scumbags *and* the left wing loonies. This country was founded entirely on the principles of Liberalism. The left and right are *by fucking definition* the sworn enemires of Liberalism, therefore people on the left or the right are the enemies of America.

  10. Re:It'd be nice to see SSL on all web sites on Build an Open Source SSL Accelerator · · Score: 1

    Y'know who else thinks that it would be nice to see SSL used on all web sites?

    Verisign.

    You know who is missing (part of) the point of an SSL accelerator? You are!

    One wildcard cert + one pair of SSL accelerating Load Balancers = All of your sites can now be SSL.

  11. Re:Pinto of console on Microsoft Extends Xbox 360 Warranty To E74 Errors · · Score: 1

    I can't believe people are still spending their hard-earned cash on such a badly designed piece of go-se.

    I have a friend at work who is even ostensibly anti-microsoft who sent his back twice. When it broke the third time he bought himself a brand new one and gave the busted one to a friend (once it returns from repair). The rest of our jaws dropped when he said that. He's usually pretty smart, so when he did something that fucking dumb we were stunned.

  12. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    Most cops are hardworking, decent fellows who go to work each morning to do a job most others won't and simply want to come home in the evening to their families. Equating cops with vermin worthy of extermination is beyond the pale.

    That's obviously a bald faced lie. Most cops are fucking scum, doing a job that is completely illegal and immoral. The very fucking rare cases of cops actually enforcing sane, constitutional, laws are the exception, not the rule. I defy you to counter that fact.

    Most of their time is spent enforcing laws, such as drug laws, which have an entirely negative affect on our society with no even purely theoretical benefits even possible. Our laws are written *primarily* to benefit the prison industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the military contractors etc. So the people enforcing those laws are the enemies of the American people by their conscious, active decision, so how do you attempt to make your position sane? They are the willing servants of the enemies of the people, yet according to you somehow *magically* they are still able to remain decent people even after choosing a life of serving evil. That's batshit insane, Sparky.

    Finally, what's this "other team" crap. We're all in this together and instances of police abuse diminish us all, particularly good cops just trying to do their job.

    Wow, you're completely out of touch with reality, aren't you? You know what the owner of a private prison company does when he wants to increase his profits at the public expense? He bribes your elected representatives to create a new law to make innocent people criminals, so the scumbag can be paid for locking them up. Or maybe he bribes your elected officials to add known failed systems like 3 strikes. Now look at traffic cameras, big pharma and the rest of the enemies of the American people.

    They are not on your side, they are not on my side. They have openly declared themselves to be at war with the citizens of this country. So, it's not crap, it's a blatantly obvious fact about how the world works *and had always worked* meaning your ignorance of such undisputed and obvious facts is a very serious flaw in your reasoning ability

    Turn off the TV, put down the Wii controller, move out of your mom's basement and get a life.

    Coming from somebody who has proven themselves beyond the shadow of a doubt to be deeply ignorant of the most basic facts regarding how our system works, that's really amusing.

    Police abuse is only possible because all the other cops are fucking scum too. Police abuse is possible only due to the other cops and the entire apparatus covering up for the scum. All cops are dirty, there are no good cops.
    Now, I'll bet that I have far more experience than you do dealing with cops, seeing them at work etc. I have been hospitalized by cops and I have seen it whitewashed by the same type of scum you're defending. So, yes, I do have a life primarily outside my house. If I was a drooling idiot being programmed by the media, I'd be saying what you are, *idiot*. You are repeating the message of the media conglomerates and not demonstrating any independent thought or understanding of reality. It's truly frightening how delusional you are to be able to repeat propaganda claiming that I must be the one falling for the propaganda. I'd honestly hope I'd be able to kill myself if I was ever that fucking stupid. Seriously, you should look into it. It's clearly the only way you'll ever be anything but a liability to everyone around you.

    You don't have the foggiest idea what you are talking about and are obviously a deeply ignorant coward, too weak and fearful to look the world in the eyes. Juries made up of people *just* like you routinely let the worst of the worst of the pigs for atrocities because they are cowards, afraid to admit that their city has bad cops too. I've seen that happen in the face of every fact.

    Seriously, if you think it's possible for even a large fraction let alone most cops to be decent people, you have proven yourself to be so delusional that it's unlikely you're capable of rational thought. All you've managed to do so far is repeat propaganda, so you're clearly easily duped if you are capable of rational thought at any level.

  13. Re:Let an alum tell you about BCPD on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    Both myself and my wife are alumnuses of Yale. If the Ivy League teach anything, it's proper grammer.

    At the University of Casual Sex and Beer, they taught us spelling as well.

    Actually, that's not true. Spelling and grammar were like in....grammar school, dude.

  14. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK, I'm awake and aware of the problem. Now what do I do?

    Any time you get the opportunity, kill a cop. There's really nothing else you can do. They are the dumb, evil muscle of the other team. They willingly, and with malice aforethought, chose that role for themselves, so there's no moral issues with exterminating the vermin.

  15. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    "Fuck you, you fur-munching straight person" is more humorous than offensive.

    Humorous in that it's soooo dated. Pubic hair went out in the 90s may it never return.

  16. Re:telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl on Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises · · Score: 1

    My fellow Earthicans and I resent that.

    Terrans, you gosh darned heretic!

  17. Re:Oh noes! Our star is dying on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 1

    (I loved that movie,

    Really?!? I'm just glad I didn't hate it so much it kept me from falling alseep ;-)

  18. Re:My collection on Spammers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    If it rhymes it must be true.

    Therefore that very statement isn't so certain. Maybe it's true but no rhyme so you're hurtin'.

  19. Re:Hang them. on Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" · · Score: 1


    It might be easier if you ask them who paid BEFORE they are swinging from the rope. Unless you plan on hanging them by their ankles.

    I find your Piñata method of interrogation intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  20. Re:Election Fraud on Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" · · Score: 1

    Honestly, the people of this nation need to get violent over these kinds of things.

    Absofuckinglutely.

    The kind of people who will disagree with you on the grounds of some sentimental bullshit like "dropping to their level", at this point are nothing but illustrations of the truth of "Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb".

       

  21. Re:Election Fraud on Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" · · Score: 1

    When you have that from BOTH sides, and their greed and blatant corruption is so damned obvious that even my 15 and 16 year old smells the bullshit from a mile away, who the hell ARE you going to vote for?

    Hell Dude, I was that age in the freaking 80s and it was that damned obvious then. I mean damn, remember Reagan selling crack to buy weapons for terrorists and then getting a pass from both parties rather than being impeached and executed for treason like would have happened if we'd believed in the rule of law even back then?

  22. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1

    That might make your prostate happy but what about the rest of us?

    Well, that will keep him distracted for a while maybe he won't have time to make any more bad decisions for a while.

    I for one, would like to thank Sean Adams for offering to take a hit for the team ;-)

  23. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    If the God of the Bible does exist (and I'm not trying to convince you of it) then in order to judge whether he is moral or not, you have to take into account his nature. The morality of his actions are contingent upon him being infinitely glorious. Accusing God of being immoral while ignoring the infinitely glorious bit of his nature is attacking a god other than the God of the Bible and one which I'm not in the least bit interested in defending.

    Except the fact is that the god of the bible is not at all glorious let alone infinitely so. Now, it's true that he spends a lot of time talking about how great and worthy of worship while demonstrating through his actions that he is worthy of only contempt, but those are not the same thing.
    If you actually read the bible with an open mind it's really obvious that god is just a projection of human frailty. He's petty, jealous, and egotistic. None of these things can exist in a being worthy of worship. Even among us poor pathetic humans as you insist on considering yourself, the characteristics you call infinitely glorious in your god are considered failings which we should work to improve when they rear their ugly heads.

    So, I'm not ignoring the infinitely glorious part. To the contrary, the repeated insistence that it be so in spite of the facts is just more proof that god was made up by humans in their image.

    It's not an American view, it's an individualistic view where you want to be the boss of your own life. But why should you have a higher standing than God?

    Because at every opportunity he has proven himself unworthy of any such consideration.

    I mean take an objective look at your god.

    He made the universe and everything in it. This includes evil, all disease, suffering, birth defects, torture and the like. Now, he also made humans. He made us in exactly the way he intended, with the full intention that we would engage in exactly the actions we have. Then he gets pissed off at us for acting in the manner he created us to so he murders almost all of us....Then apparently not learning from *his* mistake, he had to do it over again.
    So now, at some point after creating us he decided that he would only let one obscure barbarian tribe know who he was and picked them as his favorites. Then he decided that his people didn't have the good land some other people did, so he ordered them to go murder all of them and steal their land. This is in spite of the fact that those people couldn't possibly violated any of god's orders since that particular god only ever existed for that one group. I mean it goes on and on and proves beyond any possibility of a doubt *to a rational* person, that your god is malicious, and entirely unjust. I mean, seriously, this completely ignores the fact that there wouldn't have been all of those other people if the bible story were true (you know, the overwhelming majority of the people in the world who must have been created by all the other gods which your god believes in and is very jealous of) and that your god could have just created new land for his people rather than having a bunch of people he was too much of a dick to reveal himself to murdered for his "glory".

    Then your god finally figured out his really obvious mistake, and in order to correct his mistakes, he decides rather than just quit being a douche he has to send his son down to earth to be killed so that he can then forgive us for his mistakes. Now get this.. at the same time he decides that eating bacon isn't really an atrocity and a huge offense against his gloriousness. Seriously, the pettiness of your god in the only thing infinite about him.

    Your religion is so fucking stupid if looked at objectively as to boggle the mind.

    I hardly think that would be the case. What does blustering rhetoric add to an argument? If you really came face to face with God on judgement day, do you honestly think it would be smart to do that? Do you really think you would be capable of doing that to the God of the Bible?

  24. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    Well the difference between God and the Universe is that the universe began to exist; it is contingent - but the origin of the universe would have to be incontingent. I don't know if you've heard of that concept before, but incontingent objects are objects with no cause.

    Yes, and the prime mover argument has been thoroughly refuted as well.
    It's a nonsensical fallacy you're trying to sell me and I'm not ignorant enough to buy it, sorry.

    people might be more willing to take you seriously if you'd take them seriously, or at least be polite.

    You're lying and then complaining about politeness?!?

    Whatever, Dude.

  25. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    For example, the universe has not collapsed on itself, atoms can form, as can stars - all of these would be prerequisites for any kind of life to form anywhere, and require incredible fine tuning, but these are not explained by the Atheist account.

    Those aren't accounted for by religion either, now are they? Where did god come from? That's not answered in your Bible, is it? Yet that is a far, far more amazing thing than the universe; a magical man that can create whole universes?

    You really need to put away those tired old arguments. Repeating nonsense like that and you other sillyness which have been thoroughly refuted so many times is a very dishonest thing to do. In the very unlikely case that you've never seen that bit of trash refuted before, you have now. If you repeat it ever again you're a liar.