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  1. Re:Hell yeah on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    >How many Atheist kill for there lack of belief?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_atheism#Militant_atheism

    >And in the USSR there where many well known underground places of worship that were mostly ignored.

    You can ignore history if you wish. Look at the actions of those militant athiests and listen to the stories of the refugees of those places rather than the publications of those places.

    Who knows, you just might learn something.

  2. Re:Hell yeah on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    >Too many have died at the hands of men supposedly doing God's bidding following His word. You can't just dismiss thousands of years of massacres: because it's still going on today.

    The Athiests don't have a record any better than the Theists on that front. Unless you want to ignore how much fun it was to be religious in Russia during their crazy years. Plenty other examples, that is just the first that comes to mind.

  3. Re:Only one way to be sure on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    This is why you use a NUKE. Oh darn, I didn't hit the target exactly dead on. I was a quarter mile off. Wait, a 2 megaton warhead just went off. Target destroyed.

    There is a reason why nuking from orbit really is the only way to be sure...

  4. Re:Didn't XP ship with 6? on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 1

    >Why? The chances of missing from orbit are much greater than anything else.

    Uh, it's kinda hard to miss with a NUKE. When dealing with weapons fired from orbit, a nuke really is the only way to be sure.

  5. Try looking at successful paid content. on Paid Online News Venture Fails To Get Subscribers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The newspapers are doing it wrong. I pay an absurd amount of money for news services that actually report news.

    Stratfor is the cheapest one that I use, and I appreciate it for its global reporting and analysis of situations that happens to be (gasp!) unbiased! They literally just provide the facts and logical analysis. If they did local news I'd pay them more.

  6. Re:And you are surprised? on Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components · · Score: 3, Informative

    Let me fix that one more time for you.

    It's the Ferengi way.

    Which proves the fix above you is correct, not yours, as according to Rule 284 of the Rules of Acquisition:

    Deep down, everyone's a Ferengi.
     

  7. Re:Just remember when you give money to the church on Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant · · Score: 3, Informative

    When God tells you to do something, don't do it by half measure. Seems that people are reading more into that passage than was intended.

    Which really isn't surprising.

  8. Re:A matter of the environment? on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Damp? No. Cold? Yes. And Winter is a bitch.

  9. Re:A matter of the environment? on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Perhaps my neck elevation angle is insufficient, but if I was in a windowless basement how would I know what the lunar illumination situation was?

    You add it to your google homepage. Which on windows ME should also be set to your active desktop background. Feel the pain yet?

    http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phases/daily_moon_phases.phtml#google_home_page

  10. Re:Daniel NystrÃm, Pirate Party Stockholm on Swedish Pirate Party Gains 3000 Members In 7 Hours · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let us know when they go over 9000.

  11. Re:Because on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 1

    No, I'm... I'm...

    I'm having an identity crisis, brb.

  12. Re:Because on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm user #4, you insensitive clod!

  13. Re:Good luck! on Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. I make up for your lack of proxy usage by using 7 proxies.

  14. Re:Great on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    Is that sarcasm?~

  15. Re:203 decibels? on Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Couldn't the sonar be replaced by something less damaging? I guess water muffles radio waves, so a water radar is not a good idea. Maybe a very low frequency radar?

    I say we replace the submarines with dolphins. We can make them effective by attaching laser beams to them. This has the added bonus of allowing us to stop worrying about the dolphins until some genius decides to mount laser beams on sharks. But no one here would ever dream of doing such a thing, so we'll be good to go!

  16. Re:Google Lawyer Alexander Macgillivray's Blog on Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers · · Score: 1

    Hey, Analyst looks a lot better on the resume than codemonkey. Remember, we write the things to pass the HR filters.

  17. Re:Why Not Existing Phones? Am I Missing Something on T-Mobile To Launch Android Tablet · · Score: 1

    >quite simple, they are in it for the sales. putting android on an old phone won't increase sales much (at the cost of development) while creating a newer product will. Considering that the carriers get little from the phones themselves, having an upgradeable phone gives the carrier a guaranteed revenue stream rather than a worry about what new phone to cram down the throats of the consumer.

  18. Re:re-read the section you quote on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 1

    Communism works just fine for imaginary intellectual property. I mean, look at linux!

  19. Re:Pipe dream on Harvard Law's Nesson Says P2P Is "Fair Use" · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was pretty impressed actually, I thought you were trying to merge html and 4chan greentext.

  20. Re:What the hell are you guys talking about? on Google Voice Fixes Security Flaw, Almost · · Score: 1

    Just wait. It will turn out that Bauer was exposed to a techno-organic virus that turns him into a CIP device that is organic and plays techno.

  21. Re:Not nothing. on Making Sense of Mismatched Certificates? · · Score: 1

    Crap. I accidentally a word in my last post. I should have previewed.

  22. Re:Not nothing. on Making Sense of Mismatched Certificates? · · Score: 1

    Do what Joe Biden does and the website number. I gained a whole new level of respect for the VP when I found out he only connects to the series of tubes by IP addresses instead of domain names.

  23. Re:second amendment rights on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 1

    Since you seem to be hung up on the BBC not being a reliable source of data for Thailand, could you provide a source that would be credible then?

    Also, a source explaining how the BBC is not credible there would be nice to see.

  24. Re:second amendment rights on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 1

    1. They aren't murderers, they're just misunderstood? Is that your argument?

    2. How things should work and how things do work are two different things.

    3. I provided source data which contradicts your sourceless data. You spending time there does not give you instant knowledge of every aspect of their culture, political systems, and lives.

    I've provided the BBC as a source, and you discredit it out of hand. Provide a countersource to prove your argument then.

    As for the IDF, replace my use of IDF with Active IDF then if that makes you happy.

  25. Re:second amendment rights on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 1

    Incorrect.

    I rebut your claim that firearms are the causation of school mass casualty events by putting forward the following:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_school_massacre

    10 dead. Attacker used a Flamethrower and a Lance. You heard me, flamethrower and lance.

    Contrawise, school mass casualty events can be easily stopped with guns. Israel has proved this one quite handily.