I don't collect stamps and don't really care whether or not you do.
But if stamp collectors had a history of slaughtering those who don't or who collect the "wrong" type of stamp, and then try to force their belief on my children at my school system, I'd think it would only be rational to be pretty pissed off.
I don't care if you wanna believe in God, Allah, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but if you try to insert your religious propoganda not in your own religious schools but into the public school system and then lie about it to call it science, I'm drawing the line.
Register's just being smart. They posted a flaimbait article, got slashdotted and lot's of viewers hit their site. They've realized that they don't need actual good content, just stuff that get's people's attention.
Maybe when they start teaching people at church to blaim things on "satanists" and "militant atheists" (and often Catholics), they should teach the everything-I-hear-at-church-is-right type Christians how to actually behave at least somewhat like Jesus?
Atheists don't blow up planes, burn witches, or kill people because they don't like their religion (unless they're mentally unstable, but most of those people seem to find religion). There are no evil atheists secret organizations or bands of satanists going about stealing your children and sacrificing your pets. Churches tend to be burned more often by rival religious groups than any other reason and though this isn't the only cause of course, people don't burn churches because they're like "Hmm, religious people are EVIL! I'm gonna go burn down churches to stick it to them!". Mindlessly calling people evil is something primarily stuck in the realm of theism.
The reason religion has been attacked so much recently (and by attacked I mean verbally criticized, not violently like the responses by the religious sometimes are) is because so many religious people cause so much violence, and stupidity. Most "militant atheists" don't care if you wanna believe in some invisible skydude, but when you wanna make them follow this invisible skydude's laws, and especially when you ignore all the rules about love and peace and focus on the hateful ones, you can expect people to get pissed. Seperation of Church and State, you keep your religion out of our legal system and we won't have reason to criticize you.
What about kitchen knives? Stabbings are far more common than shootings, even in this country. I'm gonna assume you're in the U.S. here, otherwise ignore the following: I don't know if this statement is true, but it seems like the kind of thing you just made up. What I do know though, is that in homicides, the leading cause in the U.S. is with firearms. From teen homicides alone 80% are caused by guns and teens usually have a much harder time getting guns than adults.
People carry guns in "stupid" places because they want to be able to use them to defend themselves should someone attack them. It's intended as a means of protecting their person and property. Your handguns are useless for accomplishing that.
Yet, since guns stored in your house are statisticly more likely to end up harming the owner than protecting them, he is protectin himself and property (or at least himself) by locking them up like that.
That still wouldn't explain day variation. It would be the same whether we orbited the sun or it orbitted us since it is caused by the tilt of the earth.
Despite what many people think, there actually wasn't overwhelming evidence back then to point towards heliocentrism for a long time and not even Galileo could find any flaws in Brahe's geocentric model. It isn't like now where we have all this evidence supporting something and the religious are up in a knot about it.
Is it just me or is all the "linux bias" way outdone by all the "they mentioned linux, it must be biased" (as if linux should be shunned and be the operating system that should not be named) or the "oh no, this is pro-linux slashdot is biased, slashdot only likes linux" and "wow, this is pro-microsoft, I can't believe I found it in slashdot because slashdot is so pro-linux" comments.
The article isn't even about linux, linux is just the system the thing was made on. Would you rather them lie and say this was designed for Windows?
And according to Caltech, 10% of objects in the Kuiper belt have moons. So unless there are only ten objects there, Pluto isn't even close to being the only object with satellites.
As a Christian, I find the backlash against ID vaguely amusing.
You have gotten right to the problem with ID very quickly. It is something that was created by christians for christians so to say. It is a christian belief and last time I checked, Christianity is a religion. So it doesn't matter crap whether it is testable(it isn't), stupid(it is), or anything else. It is religion and in America there is this thing called the Seperation of Church and State.
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I don't collect stamps and don't really care whether or not you do. But if stamp collectors had a history of slaughtering those who don't or who collect the "wrong" type of stamp, and then try to force their belief on my children at my school system, I'd think it would only be rational to be pretty pissed off. I don't care if you wanna believe in God, Allah, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but if you try to insert your religious propoganda not in your own religious schools but into the public school system and then lie about it to call it science, I'm drawing the line.
I can't seem to find where the post you're making fun of even mentions Apple Dashboard.
Register's just being smart. They posted a flaimbait article, got slashdotted and lot's of viewers hit their site. They've realized that they don't need actual good content, just stuff that get's people's attention.
Maybe when they start teaching people at church to blaim things on "satanists" and "militant atheists" (and often Catholics), they should teach the everything-I-hear-at-church-is-right type Christians how to actually behave at least somewhat like Jesus? Atheists don't blow up planes, burn witches, or kill people because they don't like their religion (unless they're mentally unstable, but most of those people seem to find religion). There are no evil atheists secret organizations or bands of satanists going about stealing your children and sacrificing your pets. Churches tend to be burned more often by rival religious groups than any other reason and though this isn't the only cause of course, people don't burn churches because they're like "Hmm, religious people are EVIL! I'm gonna go burn down churches to stick it to them!". Mindlessly calling people evil is something primarily stuck in the realm of theism. The reason religion has been attacked so much recently (and by attacked I mean verbally criticized, not violently like the responses by the religious sometimes are) is because so many religious people cause so much violence, and stupidity. Most "militant atheists" don't care if you wanna believe in some invisible skydude, but when you wanna make them follow this invisible skydude's laws, and especially when you ignore all the rules about love and peace and focus on the hateful ones, you can expect people to get pissed. Seperation of Church and State, you keep your religion out of our legal system and we won't have reason to criticize you.
Obviously, you've never seen the movie.
What about kitchen knives? Stabbings are far more common than shootings, even in this country. I'm gonna assume you're in the U.S. here, otherwise ignore the following: I don't know if this statement is true, but it seems like the kind of thing you just made up. What I do know though, is that in homicides, the leading cause in the U.S. is with firearms. From teen homicides alone 80% are caused by guns and teens usually have a much harder time getting guns than adults.
People carry guns in "stupid" places because they want to be able to use them to defend themselves should someone attack them. It's intended as a means of protecting their person and property. Your handguns are useless for accomplishing that. Yet, since guns stored in your house are statisticly more likely to end up harming the owner than protecting them, he is protectin himself and property (or at least himself) by locking them up like that.
That still wouldn't explain day variation. It would be the same whether we orbited the sun or it orbitted us since it is caused by the tilt of the earth. Despite what many people think, there actually wasn't overwhelming evidence back then to point towards heliocentrism for a long time and not even Galileo could find any flaws in Brahe's geocentric model. It isn't like now where we have all this evidence supporting something and the religious are up in a knot about it.
Is it just me or is all the "linux bias" way outdone by all the "they mentioned linux, it must be biased" (as if linux should be shunned and be the operating system that should not be named) or the "oh no, this is pro-linux slashdot is biased, slashdot only likes linux" and "wow, this is pro-microsoft, I can't believe I found it in slashdot because slashdot is so pro-linux" comments. The article isn't even about linux, linux is just the system the thing was made on. Would you rather them lie and say this was designed for Windows?
Adium added them to my "AIM bot" list rather than my budy list.
But my bible says the sun goes around the Earth! It can't be that important!
And according to Caltech, 10% of objects in the Kuiper belt have moons. So unless there are only ten objects there, Pluto isn't even close to being the only object with satellites.