Of course that's exactly why the republicans are so against unemployment benefits (or any other form of government benefits). It simultaneously makes it harder to exploit workers, while also allowing unscrupulous people to sit on their bum.
I don't agree, I speak from experience...listen...I was unemployed for several years in a safe country that has a LONG-term unemployment benefit - and in the beginning I loved just having an extended holiday, after 2-3 months I was BORED out of my mind, after 6 months I was scraping on every door, after several years I was completely broken down by endless CV-training meetings and endless talk from the neighbors and ex-friends how useless unemployed people are. No matter how skilled you are, going down that welfare road is signing your own death warrant. No one wants to hire someone desperate, no one wants to hire someone who hasn't worked for a long time, it's a dead end road, literally.
My solution? I gave up my social welfare rights + unemployment benefits...I actually had the rights to receive 2 more years on benefits but said screw the system, and moved to another country still unemployed.
Within the next 6 months, I had a job as a part time teacher, within 1 year after that I had my DREAM JOB...in a place that has less than 7K population as an graphics artist.
Now I have my own house, money on my bank account...and NO social benefits insurance! You do the math!
I'm an old Commodore 64 guy, a coder that has been around since the ZX80 jupiter ace days, yes...I've been around and been into every computer and every language you can think of - never mind that...it's besides the point I am about to make......Nowadays I work as a 3D artist at a smaller ad-company, we live in a rather huge building containing various companies, some working with programming...that of course work with us...since we're like a big family in this house we rent...if you like.
The company next door has a woman employed, she is rather new into the business, but she really kicks ass. When it came to programming, I could literally ask her anything, she was modest, not implying that she actually knows anything, but she kicked ass every time...every time she found the answer to any of the programming issues that we had at hand, any problems we had...she solved. In other words...Women can KICK ASS when it comes to coding, and trust me...I am as old SKOOL as it comes, I've been coding everything from C64s to microcontrollers at any bit..but she?...She understood everything...and fixed it all...you know what that means? This is a woman! She kicks ass at coding...she is a natural...and I don't believe for a second that women can't kick it at this stuff, it's just a matter of attention, women can do this stuff as well as we can. Seriously...
That's your problem (or rather our problem) today. Everything today is subject to patents and liability. Every time some scientist makes some significant progress somewhere, that scientist is limited to several buzz killers like:
- Patents - Religious implications - Political complications - Today's glass-fragile ethics
All these factors severely complicates life for your average scientists, well - nothing prohibits you to come up with the next cure for aids or stop world hunger, but there are many out there that can and WILL stop you from doing so.
To Open Source science however, making sure that formulas can't be patented, opens up the freedom we once had in science, the freedom to spread ideas, freely combine formulas and derivative material any way we needed to get that new idea working - is nearly long gone. That is why it's so important not to let greed hinder progress, that's easier said that done in our world today with all the super powerful "world health org - endorsed" pharmaceutical companies vigorously defending their purchased patents while half the planet is either starving or dying from not being able to afford it, while affordable techniques already exists, but is prohibited by patent issues.
...of any security, that's just babble from their PR dep.
How can I say that? Simple...I'm not even a hacker, but I've used a certain "Boot-cd" (you'll have to search for it on the net yourself), to get into every single system MS have made to date, to help out a school recover their students accounts, nothing illegal as it was the schools themselves who requested this from me, as their IT dep. was inadequate and said the usual MS-BS...the accounts are NOT retrievable if there is only an admin account and the PW is unknown, which...is BS...and this is from MS themselves. They even say that on national TV....and it's a blatant lie. Every OS...MS has released, is easily "hackable" within 10 minutes with that CD!
It's already a felony in basically every democratic city in the world to snatch whatever private property someone else owns, and tossing it away like that (out the window).
It's not yours, so you can't snatch it, it's that simple. Nothing complex about it.
The story about a scared little ball, out to break trough the bricky bastards! Imagine being round, dreaming of squares, would scare the bajeezus outta any sin & cos shape any day!
A few moments in my life can be considered life changing, very rare, very seldom......but this video was one of them. He is totally SPOT ON! Instant and LIVE feedback on programming, changes EVERYTHING. Let me explain where I come from, so you understand why I react the way I do to this if it sounds weird or foreign to you, but I was the kid in class who asked too many "dumb" questions, the teachers couldn't answer, I wanted to know WHY X and Y was what they where, and not just accept that they where there. The teacher wasn't creative enough to explain why, and told me to just accept that it was there....
that made me feel dumb for 15+ years, until I actually discovered that I was smarter than any of those teachers, and had an IQ way WAY above average (yep..that explains why I didn't need manuals...duh!)
The point of the case is, not how intelligent I am, but the way I LEARN THINGS! Such as the video demonstrates very elegantly.
I'm a tech nerd, I have a room filled with Test-Instruments, you know...oscilloscopes, multimeters, rf-generators, spectrum analyzers etc....I don't have a heavy theoretical science background, but yet I'm very capable of building and constructing robots and advanced circuitry (much to the confusion of my educated friends), but the truth of the matter is - these instruments.....yes...here comes the point of the video as well......provided me with a VISUAL FEEDBACK ON WHATS GOING ON!
Did you get that, slashdot audience? Visual feedback is what it's all about (to certain visual persons like me), we're no dummies because we can't just accept or visualize data inside our mind based on eg. traditional math such as you know it, but have a different...visual mind)
Benoit Mandelbrot comes to mind....if I'm not mistaken...
I think Anonymous basically are 4 - 5 really skilled people that really knows what they're doing, the rest is just a bunch of posers and script-kiddies that does whatever Anonymous want them to do - in fact, the worst posers probably does exactly what anonymous doesn't want them to do as well, since there are no real connection between them, no real mail, no real addresses - just random causes that some follow or not.
If there's an outrage in the world, it's very easy to make a distorted video, put on a guy fawkes mask, and post it on youtube via a tor connection. Any idiot can do that.
And of course there are crackers with malicious intent, they're pretty much like any other criminals, just using computer knowledge (borrowed from real hackers) to steal and destroy for purposes only known to them.
Argh...I hate floaters... I've had them since I was about 25. Now I'm around 40 and STILL have them, one of them got firmly stuck in the middle (focus center) and was in focus all the time, like a pearl-threaded-snake-necklace or something, vigorously shaking my eyes every day for nearly 2 years, finally "shook" it lose, so it's just floating around like the other floaters now.
But you can "program" your brain to ignore the floaters, that's what I have done, it works...just sort of tell yourself to completely ignore them, and try to avert focusing in on them, but look at other spots in the room, monitor, outside etc. After practicing, the floaters goes away, yes...they're still there...but training helps the brain totally wipe them out "mentally". Weird...yes, but it works.
I've always been careful with both my eyes and ears, ok - they're not the same, but at least for my ears...I'm over 40 and have tested my ears with delicate test-instruments and top-notch headphones, and can still hear well in the 20Khz range, 23 Khz, when I was 20 years old.
Same for vision, while I do notice in the dark...that the exact center spot of my eye, blocks the weakest of light, I can still see pretty much the way I did as a kid, and I always kept low light conditions, and wasn't much exposed to the sun at all.
Those however that did - doesn't even have anything CLOSE to my vision, so I really wonder. Maybe it's the diet.
I've also noticed that if I eat vegetables for 14 days straight, my vision increase to extreme sensibility, and gets "night-ready" faster.
...but a breach into any company is a break-in-and-entering if you haven't been assigned to do so for testing the security vulnerabilities by the company itself.
It's kind of like catching a thief without any goods, but inside of your home. Uhm...I'm just testing your security system, now you know you have a weak system, thank you - I'll mail you the bill.
The movie character Gordon Gekko, got famous for his words "Greed is good" in the movie Wall Street, but he was wrong, and AMD has proven it - as so many others have before them, greed is indeed NOT good, it's a destroyer of all things good.
Why?
Because AMD was Warner Brothers when Disney always bet their money on Cute & politically correct. AMD appealed to the young student generation, the people that wanted POWER but didn't buy into the heavily advertised Intel hype. Sure - nothing wrong with Intel, I was an avid Intel fan myself, the AMD processors where notorious for overheating, and several issues on certain math performances, but AMD overcame those issues, and produced some absolutely AMAZING processors that even outperformed their competitor at a staggering 3rd of the price back then, it was a no-brainer, every geek wanted an AMD in their computers, many of them where excited about overclocking their AMD cpu's to unseen speeds, it was indeed the "rogue" choice, but people (like me) loved it, and certainly took advantage of it.
But anyone who gets up there, get's taken by GREED, it's kind of like Nintendo who just couldn't understand why no one wouldn't pay the same price for their toy, when it was 3 times slower than the competitor, it's like Sony who simply didn't understand why no one wanted their proprietary formats and couldn't understand the need to have an open platform, when they could be in total control instead...
Yep, story of our lives as computergeeks & users, history repeats itself, and it never fails to tell things like it is.
I really don't want to go trough that old SD cliche...I for once, welcome...blahblah;)
Anyway, I'm actually for these drones, especially since I'm an avid hobbyist builder of all things robotic, so it's natural that it'd be okay to manufacture these as well and allow them to be used for useful purposes.
Maybe this will be spearheading our future with flying vehicles, Müeller and his infamous sky-car didn't get off the ground due to technical issues, maybe due to MAKERS everywhere, we'll now get rid of the final safety bugs in the designs, and make headway for the very real thing.
Guess there is some truth to it, it's like us old farts that started messing with our computers back in the ZX80 Commodore vic 20 / 64 days...when we tweaked and tuned and got rid of borders & made the impossible - possible.
I still do that these days, my workshop is a gazillion components (nos from eBay etc...) from factories worldwide gone bust, old electronics...albeit new and unused - finds new life in makers everywhere.
The maker generation - is our new generation, it's like the electronics hobby is rising from the dust again. Love it, embrace it - and above all - have a LOT of fun with it.
Yesyes...maybe Lockheed bought a quantum computer. It's real? I don't see why not. I can imagine you can program existing hardware to simulate the quantum effect. Does it mean that you get a quantum computer - no...but it simulates it, so in effect...you have one, expensive - not sure how useful, but it'll prove some working theory.
It's like a double douche - here's one, the other proves the existence of the first one. It's like perpetual energy theory, there will always be believers, and if you make it complex enough, no one will dare to prove them wrong, even though we never ever see the practical use of it.
My guess it's the same with the Quantum Computer. If ya catch my drift;)
With the fall of the Roman Empire, the librarian of Alexandria was pulled off her carriage and skinned alive. Literacy dropped. Even the Pope had to have the Bible read to him. In the first crusade, Christians killed 10s of thousands of people they called "infidels". The Children's Crusade (1212) caused the deaths of nearly 50,000 children. Preachers sentenced to death and executed thousands during the Inquisition (1233-1834) for heresy and witchcraft. There were the the Salem witch trials (1692) in America. The 17th Century Thirty Years War (Catholics v. protestants) wiped off tens of millions in Europe off the planet. In the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850's a Christian cult started a war that resulted in the slaughter of twenty million people. In the Holocaust six million Jews were murdered. Muslims and Christians in Bosnia reached a death toll of over 250,000.
Want more?
Ask the Aztecs about the wars againt the Portugese and Spanish christians. Oh, that's right, you can't they were exterminated by the christians. The Crusades of course. World war 1 started because of a religious fanatic shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The african wars between the Hutus and the Tutsi's. The Arab-Israeli war(s) were of course, religiously motivated. The millenia long conflicts between the Shia and the Kurds is religiously motivated. The conflict between Israel and Lebanon (hezbollah) is undeniably religious in nature. The list is endless.
Don't even try if you aren't prepared to stand the distance, faith blinds people from the truth. You believe what you "WANT" to believe.
Reverse psychology - you're right, it's equally dangerous to be pointing fingers at a minority, but religion is far from minority, in fact - it's directly responsible for wars all over the planet.
I'm all okay with religion as long as people don't take it to extremes, but history has proven over and over again that if you chose belief over facts - aka religion vs science, then you're bound to lose, no matter what the outcome would be as long as the outcome is anything but peaceful.
And history shows - people DO take things to an extreme. You don't see a bunch of scientist raging out on the streets over some cartoon-drawings, burning down embassies, cars and peoples homes?
Religion is the most dangerous thing facing our population, not overpopulation. They all claim to be peaceful, but criticize them - and you'll see their true nature.
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...they hardly come up with any innovations these days, now do they?
Of course that's exactly why the republicans are so against unemployment benefits (or any other form of government benefits). It simultaneously makes it harder to exploit workers, while also allowing unscrupulous people to sit on their bum.
I don't agree, I speak from experience...listen...I was unemployed for several years in a safe country that has a LONG-term unemployment benefit - and in the beginning I loved just having an extended holiday, after 2-3 months I was BORED out of my mind, after 6 months I was scraping on every door, after several years I was completely broken down by endless CV-training meetings and endless talk from the neighbors and ex-friends how useless unemployed people are. No matter how skilled you are, going down that welfare road is signing your own death warrant. No one wants to hire someone desperate, no one wants to hire someone who hasn't worked for a long time, it's a dead end road, literally.
My solution? I gave up my social welfare rights + unemployment benefits...I actually had the rights to receive 2 more years on benefits but said screw the system, and moved to another country still unemployed.
Within the next 6 months, I had a job as a part time teacher, within 1 year after that I had my DREAM JOB...in a place that has less than 7K population as an graphics artist.
Now I have my own house, money on my bank account...and NO social benefits insurance! You do the math!
I'm an old Commodore 64 guy, a coder that has been around since the ZX80 jupiter ace days, yes...I've been around and been into every computer and every language you can think of - never mind that...it's besides the point I am about to make... ...Nowadays I work as a 3D artist at a smaller ad-company, we live in a rather huge building containing various companies, some working with programming...that of course work with us...since we're like a big family in this house we rent...if you like.
The company next door has a woman employed, she is rather new into the business, but she really kicks ass. When it came to programming, I could literally ask her anything, she was modest, not implying that she actually knows anything, but she kicked ass every time...every time she found the answer to any of the programming issues that we had at hand, any problems we had...she solved. In other words...Women can KICK ASS when it comes to coding, and trust me...I am as old SKOOL as it comes, I've been coding everything from C64s to microcontrollers at any bit..but she?...She understood everything...and fixed it all...you know what that means? This is a woman! She kicks ass at coding...she is a natural...and I don't believe for a second that women can't kick it at this stuff, it's just a matter of attention, women can do this stuff as well as we can. Seriously...
That's your problem (or rather our problem) today. Everything today is subject to patents and liability. Every time some scientist makes some significant progress somewhere, that scientist is limited to several buzz killers like:
- Patents
- Religious implications
- Political complications
- Today's glass-fragile ethics
All these factors severely complicates life for your average scientists, well - nothing prohibits you to come up with the next cure for aids or stop world hunger, but there are many out there that can and WILL stop you from doing so.
To Open Source science however, making sure that formulas can't be patented, opens up the freedom we once had in science, the freedom to spread ideas, freely combine formulas and derivative material any way we needed to get that new idea working - is nearly long gone. That is why it's so important not to let greed hinder progress, that's easier said that done in our world today with all the super powerful "world health org - endorsed" pharmaceutical companies vigorously defending their purchased patents while half the planet is either starving or dying from not being able to afford it, while affordable techniques already exists, but is prohibited by patent issues.
...of any security, that's just babble from their PR dep.
How can I say that? Simple...I'm not even a hacker, but I've used a certain "Boot-cd" (you'll have to search for it on the net yourself), to get into every single system MS have made to date, to help out a school recover their students accounts, nothing illegal as it was the schools themselves who requested this from me, as their IT dep. was inadequate and said the usual MS-BS...the accounts are NOT retrievable if there is only an admin account and the PW is unknown, which ...is BS...and this is from MS themselves. They even say that on national TV....and it's a blatant lie. Every OS...MS has released, is easily "hackable" within 10 minutes with that CD!
...this camera was invented to prove that superman exists.
Now I'll know for sure that Clark Kent taunts his boss at least 36 million times a day at the Daily Planet!
It's already a felony in basically every democratic city in the world to snatch whatever private property someone else owns, and tossing it away like that (out the window).
It's not yours, so you can't snatch it, it's that simple. Nothing complex about it.
I've got a better name for it...
PARANOID!
The story about a scared little ball, out to break trough the bricky bastards!
Imagine being round, dreaming of squares, would scare the bajeezus outta any sin & cos shape any day!
A few moments in my life can be considered life changing, very rare, very seldom... ...but this video was one of them. He is totally SPOT ON! Instant and LIVE feedback on programming, changes EVERYTHING.
Let me explain where I come from, so you understand why I react the way I do to this if it sounds weird or foreign to you, but I was the kid in class who asked too many "dumb" questions, the teachers couldn't answer, I wanted to know WHY X and Y was what they where, and not just accept that they where there. The teacher wasn't creative enough to explain why, and told me to just accept that it was there....
that made me feel dumb for 15+ years, until I actually discovered that I was smarter than any of those teachers, and had an IQ way WAY above average (yep..that explains why I didn't need manuals...duh!)
The point of the case is, not how intelligent I am, but the way I LEARN THINGS! Such as the video demonstrates very elegantly.
I'm a tech nerd, I have a room filled with Test-Instruments, you know...oscilloscopes, multimeters, rf-generators, spectrum analyzers etc....I don't have a heavy theoretical science background, but yet I'm very capable of building and constructing robots and advanced circuitry (much to the confusion of my educated friends), but the truth of the matter is - these instruments.. ...yes...here comes the point of the video as well... ...provided me with a VISUAL FEEDBACK ON WHATS GOING ON!
Did you get that, slashdot audience? Visual feedback is what it's all about (to certain visual persons like me), we're no dummies because we can't just accept or visualize data inside our mind based on eg. traditional math such as you know it, but have a different...visual mind)
Benoit Mandelbrot comes to mind....if I'm not mistaken...
Get it?
I'd like to hear more people asking good questions...
...and pigs can fly, especially when you've had a few.
Trust me...then alcoholism is going to be the least of your problems.
There's a difference between Hackers and Crackers...
In Anonymous there's probably 4-5 hackers, and 20+ crackers, 1000+ script kiddies + 10.000 fanboys.
I think Anonymous basically are 4 - 5 really skilled people that really knows what they're doing, the rest is just a bunch of posers and script-kiddies that does whatever Anonymous want them to do - in fact, the worst posers probably does exactly what anonymous doesn't want them to do as well, since there are no real connection between them, no real mail, no real addresses - just random causes that some follow or not.
If there's an outrage in the world, it's very easy to make a distorted video, put on a guy fawkes mask, and post it on youtube via a tor connection. Any idiot can do that.
And of course there are crackers with malicious intent, they're pretty much like any other criminals, just using computer knowledge (borrowed from real hackers) to steal and destroy for purposes only known to them.
That's it - really...
Argh...I hate floaters... I've had them since I was about 25. Now I'm around 40 and STILL have them, one of them got firmly stuck in the middle (focus center) and was in focus all the time, like a pearl-threaded-snake-necklace or something, vigorously shaking my eyes every day for nearly 2 years, finally "shook" it lose, so it's just floating around like the other floaters now.
But you can "program" your brain to ignore the floaters, that's what I have done, it works...just sort of tell yourself to completely ignore them, and try to avert focusing in on them, but look at other spots in the room, monitor, outside etc. After practicing, the floaters goes away, yes...they're still there...but training helps the brain totally wipe them out "mentally". Weird...yes, but it works.
Well, there you go, that IS good news, thanks ;)
I've always been careful with both my eyes and ears, ok - they're not the same, but at least for my ears...I'm over 40 and have tested my ears with delicate test-instruments and top-notch headphones, and can still hear well in the 20Khz range, 23 Khz, when I was 20 years old.
Same for vision, while I do notice in the dark...that the exact center spot of my eye, blocks the weakest of light, I can still see pretty much the way I did as a kid, and I always kept low light conditions, and wasn't much exposed to the sun at all.
Those however that did - doesn't even have anything CLOSE to my vision, so I really wonder. Maybe it's the diet.
I've also noticed that if I eat vegetables for 14 days straight, my vision increase to extreme sensibility, and gets "night-ready" faster.
Go figure...
...but a breach into any company is a break-in-and-entering if you haven't been assigned to do so for testing the security vulnerabilities by the company itself.
It's kind of like catching a thief without any goods, but inside of your home. Uhm...I'm just testing your security system, now you know you have a weak system, thank you - I'll mail you the bill.
The movie character Gordon Gekko, got famous for his words "Greed is good" in the movie Wall Street, but he was wrong, and AMD has proven it - as so many others have before them, greed is indeed NOT good, it's a destroyer of all things good.
Why?
Because AMD was Warner Brothers when Disney always bet their money on Cute & politically correct. AMD appealed to the young student generation, the people that wanted POWER but didn't buy into the heavily advertised Intel hype. Sure - nothing wrong with Intel, I was an avid Intel fan myself, the AMD processors where notorious for overheating, and several issues on certain math performances, but AMD overcame those issues, and produced some absolutely AMAZING processors that even outperformed their competitor at a staggering 3rd of the price back then, it was a no-brainer, every geek wanted an AMD in their computers, many of them where excited about overclocking their AMD cpu's to unseen speeds, it was indeed the "rogue" choice, but people (like me) loved it, and certainly took advantage of it.
But anyone who gets up there, get's taken by GREED, it's kind of like Nintendo who just couldn't understand why no one wouldn't pay the same price for their toy, when it was 3 times slower than the competitor, it's like Sony who simply didn't understand why no one wanted their proprietary formats and couldn't understand the need to have an open platform, when they could be in total control instead...
Yep, story of our lives as computergeeks & users, history repeats itself, and it never fails to tell things like it is.
I really don't want to go trough that old SD cliche...I for once, welcome...blahblah ;)
Anyway, I'm actually for these drones, especially since I'm an avid hobbyist builder of all things robotic, so it's natural that it'd be okay to manufacture these as well and allow them to be used for useful purposes.
Maybe this will be spearheading our future with flying vehicles, Müeller and his infamous sky-car didn't get off the ground due to technical issues, maybe due to MAKERS everywhere, we'll now get rid of the final safety bugs in the designs, and make headway for the very real thing.
Guess there is some truth to it, it's like us old farts that started messing with our computers back in the ZX80 Commodore vic 20 / 64 days...when we tweaked and tuned and got rid of borders & made the impossible - possible.
I still do that these days, my workshop is a gazillion components (nos from eBay etc...) from factories worldwide gone bust, old electronics...albeit new and unused - finds new life in makers everywhere.
The maker generation - is our new generation, it's like the electronics hobby is rising from the dust again. Love it, embrace it - and above all - have a LOT of fun with it.
Yesyes...maybe Lockheed bought a quantum computer. It's real? I don't see why not. I can imagine you can program existing hardware to simulate the quantum effect. Does it mean that you get a quantum computer - no...but it simulates it, so in effect...you have one, expensive - not sure how useful, but it'll prove some working theory.
It's like a double douche - here's one, the other proves the existence of the first one. It's like perpetual energy theory, there will always be believers, and if you make it complex enough, no one will dare to prove them wrong, even though we never ever see the practical use of it.
My guess it's the same with the Quantum Computer. If ya catch my drift ;)
With the fall of the Roman Empire, the librarian of Alexandria was pulled off her carriage and skinned alive. Literacy dropped. Even the Pope had to have the Bible read to him. In the first crusade, Christians killed 10s of thousands of people they called "infidels". The Children's Crusade (1212) caused the deaths of nearly 50,000 children. Preachers sentenced to death and executed thousands during the Inquisition (1233-1834) for heresy and witchcraft. There were the the Salem witch trials (1692) in America. The 17th Century Thirty Years War (Catholics v. protestants) wiped off tens of millions in Europe off the planet. In the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850's a Christian cult started a war that resulted in the slaughter of twenty million people. In the Holocaust six million Jews were murdered. Muslims and Christians in Bosnia reached a death toll of over 250,000.
Want more?
Ask the Aztecs about the wars againt the Portugese and Spanish christians. Oh, that's right, you can't they were exterminated by the christians.
The Crusades of course.
World war 1 started because of a religious fanatic shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The african wars between the Hutus and the Tutsi's.
The Arab-Israeli war(s) were of course, religiously motivated.
The millenia long conflicts between the Shia and the Kurds is religiously motivated.
The conflict between Israel and Lebanon (hezbollah) is undeniably religious in nature.
The list is endless.
Don't even try if you aren't prepared to stand the distance, faith blinds people from the truth. You believe what you "WANT" to believe.
it is not an either or proposition.. science and religion arent mutually exclusive.. science doesnt deal with morality, or faith..
And that...is exactly why religion never must be in control over other humans faith - aka...religions must never be the law.
Reverse psychology - you're right, it's equally dangerous to be pointing fingers at a minority, but religion is far from minority, in fact - it's directly responsible for wars all over the planet.
I'm all okay with religion as long as people don't take it to extremes, but history has proven over and over again that if you chose belief over facts - aka religion vs science, then you're bound to lose, no matter what the outcome would be as long as the outcome is anything but peaceful.
And history shows - people DO take things to an extreme. You don't see a bunch of scientist raging out on the streets over some cartoon-drawings, burning down embassies, cars and peoples homes?
...are on the "non-believers".
Religion is the most dangerous thing facing our population, not overpopulation. They all claim to be peaceful, but criticize them - and you'll see their true nature.