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  1. Re:But But... on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 1

    Dawkins does use science time and time again to disprove creation theory etc which is part of particular religion. The die hard creationists will never ever get it because their belief in the magical trumps evidence so i think mockery is justified (and its good fun) But a lot of the time the creationists dig their own hole and make themselves look completely stupid without any help from anyone (Republican Teaparty for example). Mockery is a bit harsh on those creationists who are ignorant due lack of education but are willing to learn, unfortunately collateral damage happens

  2. Re:Applies to all events? on 30% of Americans Get News From Facebook According To Pew Research Poll · · Score: 2

    you never argue with an idiot. they'll bring you down to their level and they'll win because they have had more practice...

  3. Re:Applies to all events? on 30% of Americans Get News From Facebook According To Pew Research Poll · · Score: 2

    thats like watching Fox news. i wouldn't trust anything on Facebook, Twitter etc at all for accurate impartial news

  4. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 5, Insightful

    pity their hate-on bush didn't identify the financial black hole he was creating for his amusement of invading iraq etc

  5. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    sit down, you are talking out of the wrong hole

  6. Re:Won't somebody think of the children... on PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips · · Score: 1

    I think in cases like this where they try to prepare a clever "statement" to defend their idiotic choices, dick head==spineless

  7. Re:Won't somebody think of the children... on PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think banning porn videos, bare breasts etc but not beheading videos shows a complete hypocrisy especially with this statement from the dick heads.

    "Facebook has long been a place where people turn to share their experiences, particularly when they're connected to controversial events on the ground, such as human rights abuses, acts of terrorism and other violent events. People are sharing this video on Facebook to condemn it. If the video were being celebrated, or the actions in it encouraged, our approach would be different," Facebook said in a statement.

  8. Re:I don't know where to begin... on Carbon-Negative Energy Machines Catching On · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps the biggest error is the fact that there is a tremendous amount of carbon released to the atmosphere with this apparatus."

    where does it say this in the article. it appears to say the opposite. "...and most energy sources, even others based on biomass, contribute to the problem. That's because, Price said, burning the biomass releases the carbon back into the atmosphere. By comparison, because there's no combustion in All Power Labs' gasification process, the carbon isn't released into the air."

  9. Re:Challenge the impossible... on Fossilized Mosquito Has Blood-filled Abdomen · · Score: 0

    but would it be kosher pork?

  10. Re:Ars on Fossilized Mosquito Has Blood-filled Abdomen · · Score: 1

    oooo.. you just made me go and read it....

  11. Re:Coming soon to your country. on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find Nazi way based on the very Catholic Hilter and his SS team. Nazism was certainly not atheistic. And nazi germany became very developed and prosperous up to 1939.

  12. Re:Don't forget Ananias on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 2

    "To an outsider, it's just a goddamn mess."

    You mean, "To the rational, it's just a goddamn mess"

  13. Re:Actually, Flaring is really the hardest part on Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Collapses and Dies At the Controls · · Score: 1

    based on the fact that most people here haven't seen daylight for years unless they have a window in their basement.

  14. Re:And the pilot? on Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Collapses and Dies At the Controls · · Score: 1

    what crash landing??

  15. Re:And this why communism doesn't work on Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature For Feature Parity With Windows · · Score: 1

    Better email Linus so he can give them another "fuck you" and middle finger gesture

  16. Re:Enforcement on France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU · · Score: 3

    i think its more targeted at the global companies like Google, Amazon etc who do their level best to avoid paying local taxes and don;t necessarily have a large physical presence on the ground. I'm sure Google et al would not to exit any country of france's size.

  17. Re:If BBM is so popular... on BlackBerry Delays Launch of BBM Apps For iOS, Android · · Score: 1

    they don't need 4000 people to support BBM??

  18. Re:If evolution is true... on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    "If the Bible is called into question then it is no basis for morality."

    i would never take my morality from the bible, its a book of genocide, misogyny and homophobia and probably a few other nasties

  19. Re:God of the Gaps on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) don't need religion/faith for this.

    2) see point 1.

    3) Always to be taken non-literally in order to cherry pick good bits and ignore bad

    4) miracles? nope, sycophants ramblings on how great they thought their leader was

    every high ground religion tries to claim (eg moral) is bogus as their holy books are hypocritical (see point 3)

  20. Re:God of the Gaps on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    thats a great tee-shirt saying

  21. Re: God of the Gaps on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    "Religion is a word we created for "I'm either too dumb or too lazy to figure this out."

    fixed that for you.....

  22. Re:For those who didn't know... on GNOME 3.10 Is Now Properly Supported On Wayland · · Score: 1

    i thought it was ubuntus' Mir that won't be supported by Intel.

  23. Re:I'm not sure how I feel about this on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 2

    and that is probably the scenario for 90% of the public

  24. Re:Microsoft will pull back on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 1

    you are so stuck in the 1990s with your comments on printer drivers etc

  25. Re:Mammoth burgers on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 1

    or the Dodo...