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  1. Re:doesn't matter on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 1, Insightful

    don't go after a strawman.

    If you are a Christian, then you are in keeping with their most consistent trait -- hypocrisy. Nothing in the OP's post requires sola Scriptura and I think it was just another vain attempt at faux intellectualism by latin injection.

  2. Re:You don't know what "Hide the Decline" means on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is against the moderation rules to mod somebody down even if they REALLY ARE wrong.

    Bullshit. The negative moderation options exist for a reason. Use them where appropriate. When someone makes an empirical claim that clearly and absurdly wrong, especially one which remediable with a couple minutes of research, this is a troll by definition.

  3. Re:2012 on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    Quoting Hitchens:

    Of course you have free will, the boss insists upon it.

  4. Re:2012 on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    My need to prove a supreme deity doesn't exist is exactly the same as my need to prove Godzilla isn't lying in a slumber in a deep chamber somewhere under the Pacific waiting for a prime moment to cause chaos.

    I don't waste my breath on people whose minds aren't susceptible to con jobs

    Fixed.

  5. Re:2012 on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 2

    Without evidence one way or another, the only logical conclusion is agnosticism.

    Wrong. Contrary to popular opinion, absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

    God has revealed himself to me. He'd reveal himself to you if you weren't so afraid he might actually exist.

    You won't find what you're not looking for, and you certainly won't find something you're sure doesn't exist.

    Sounds startling similar to wish-thinking. What criteria do you use to separate the two?

  6. Re:2012 on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 1

    So a land littered with empty tombs and the spawn of tomb raiders is some sort of evidence for your belief?

  7. Re:2012 on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Don't worry if you don't believe in God. Just know that God believes in you.

    AFAICT, you don't have enough evidence to warrant a knowledge claim. I consider it likely you don't even have enough evidence to make a belief based claim. That only leaves you with a faith based claim. Faith and delusion share the same definition -- eg they are synonyms. What does this tell you?

  8. Final Answer: on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Game For Young Kids? · · Score: 2

    Best Linux Game For Young Kids?

    Ubuntu. For the advanced player, try the server edition without the mouse.

  9. Re:Heaven Help Us on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: -1, Troll

    SCOTUS elected Bush, there is little Clinton could have done to provoke a non-partisan action from them.

  10. Re:teamviewer on Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software? · · Score: 2

    TeamViewer is a good solution

    A good solution to install VNC. Then you can remove TeamViewer.

  11. Re:Line Item on JPMorgan Chase Spends $500 Million On a Data Center · · Score: 1

    "Good things" meant good moral actions from the context of the original article. I'm not sure what Dimon means, but yes it certainly has nothing to do with altruism.

  12. Re:Line Item on JPMorgan Chase Spends $500 Million On a Data Center · · Score: 1

    Whether the bankers benefit themselves or not is irrelevant (I can anticipate someone making the point that they were motivated by their own profit)

    Seeing that a great number of businesses closed the doors due to the economic pressures placed upon by the actions of their (indirect) creditors, I don't see how that helps the balance sheet on good vs evil, nor how CEO's personal gain is irrelevant to the question at hand.

    the point is that these successful businesses are considered "good things" by a large segment of the population.

    The point really is these successful businesses survived in spite of the actions some financial institutions rather than because of. I don't believe consequentialism is a view held by the population by in large(see poll), however I would believe it if said of the business community.

    http://www.pollingreport.com/terror.htm

  13. Line Item on JPMorgan Chase Spends $500 Million On a Data Center · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't detract from all the good things we've done.

    Can I get a line item listing of these "good things"?

  14. Re:Give Spinrite a try on Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Exactly, SpinWrong is tool designed for exploiting the credulous which appear in every industry. However for all intents and purposes this is a religion for these fan boys. Nothing, no evidence, no logic, no debunking of absurd claims will ever shake the faith many belonging to the cult.

  15. Re:National Enquirer website on Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms · · Score: 1

    I would guess you live somewhere libel laws are quite strict. The kind of country who would rather have censorship than gossip.

  16. Re:Wait, what? on Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms · · Score: 1

    NBC had both of those stories I listed, but decided to bury them leaving the Enquirer the only news outlet that would run them, and both turned out completely accurate.

    I assume you mean NBC had the ability to break the story, not cover it because they certainly did. So they didn't break the story...do you have evidence for this? Do you have evidence NBC wasn't simply practicing journalistic integrity and was seeking a second source? In general, how much credulity do you posses on conspiracy theories? In your opinion, is a quality news organization one that breaks news first regardless of source?

    Have you looked www.nationalenquirer.com recently? Can you give more a detailed reasoning on why anyone should take your statements seriously?

  17. Re:Age on Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? · · Score: 1

    Your superiors had it right. UEFI laden systems are defective and should be returned.

  18. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 2

    > The store employee had no choice: he was obeying the law.

    What law says you can't sell to Americans?

  19. Re:Because there's no KDE for Win7 on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    I am unsure why you are marked as informative

    Perhaps they didn't know KDE worked on Win 7. Perhaps they did and were glad someone corrected it. Perhaps they looked into the matter and saw many examples of people successfully running it. Perhaps they tried it themselves and it worked.

    In any case, they likely have more tech skills than you and aren't intimidated by anecdotal, completely made-up FUD.

  20. Finally... on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had been waiting some time for a comment section completely devoid of any technical argument.

  21. Re:Because there's no KDE for Win7 on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's no KDE for Windows 7.

    You mean like this:

    http://windows.kde.org/

  22. Re:Until you can prove them wrong on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Why on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    The question really is, why are you?

  24. Re:Oblig. on Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Discovered · · Score: 1

    I'm an agnostic

    You, and everyone ever born. The most meaningless description of them all.

  25. Re:scsi on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Test Storage Media? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps an honest mistake, the link is broken. Second, evidence has shown SATA are more reliable than commercial/enterprise grade drive. Only buy those if you don't like your money, or there is some clear advantage. That supposed advantage is not reliability, unless there is there is some sort of rapid replacement mechanism coming with the drive. Although replacement isn't reliability in my book.

    http://lwn.net/Articles/237924/