"By continuing to call me as having lesser intelligence than yourself"
Feel free to point out where I made any such claim.
"If I told you that I personally had the opportunity to talk with God himself, I doubt you would ever believe me."
No, but I would suspect there was a "serious psychosis" involved.
"but it would be sad for you if that happens and God does in fact exist."
And here you display your utter arrogance once again. It would be "sad for [me]" only to you.
"I can try to talk you out of your assumption of the non-existance of God"
This is the best part. You appear to have completely missed the point of my "jumping up" example. You can try all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't need to believe in something that has no basis for existence.
"if these students found a key to their professor's room and snuck in to check on their exam results, do you think there'd be a furor as to whether they are guilty of cheatin or not?"
Probably not. If they had snuck into a locked room to look at the answer key before the test, there probably would be. From what I understand, their knowledge of their admission status had no impact on that status until the colleges decided to bar all of the students involved from admission. It's kind of ironic, really.
I give what I get. You may find it codified in a slightly different form in your book of fairy tales in Luke 6:31. If you want to continue redefinining words, I'll be happy to continue describing your redefinitions as idiotic.
If I jump up from the surface of the earth, I will come back to the ground in a mathematically defined manner. This is not faith in gravity, but rather knowledge that of the countless number of times people have jumped off the ground, there has not been a single reliable report of anyone failing to come back down. Similarly, there has been not a single reliable case for the existence of a supernatural being. "The universe itself" doesn't cut it.
Your contention that people can't have ethics (presumably you meant *good* ethics) unless they either a.) are religious (implied) or b.) want to help humanity is as idiotic as your definitions of "faith" and "religion" were.
"As an atheist, I hope you can appreciate that atheism is a religious viewpoint as well."
How utterly idiotic.
Religion requires faith. To try to claim atheism has faith in the nonexistence of a god is the same as saying adults have faith in the nonexistence of Santa Claus and the Easter bunny. It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of not believing in ficticious entities who have absolutely no evidence to support their existence.
You will also find most true atheists don't attempt to prove the nonexistence of any god, because of two very important reasons: 1.) it is impossible to prove a negative, and 2.) there is no point in belaboring the self-evident. There is no Santa Claus, and there is no magic sky fairy who listens to your prayers at night.
If you want to believe in delusions, that's your business. Don't try to claim my nonbelief in your particular breed of insanity is a religion.
Congratulations for running nmap on a dhs.gov server. Is that even still legal? I'm losing track of the number of rights being flushed away these days.
"BTW this new posting system where you have to type in the letters you see in the graphic....SUCKS"
This is apparently only in effect for certain users, because I have yet to encounter it. Does it make you do this every time you post, or does it pop up randomly?
I mentioned this to someone the other day: Hayden is *very* good in this when he keeps his mouth shut (definitely convincing expressions). I have also heard from reliable sources that Lucas is a rotten director who doesn't give his actors feedback at all (according to a buddy who saw part of a workprint from Episode 4 where Mark Hamill was trying to get feedback from Lucas with no success). I can believe it.
I need to cut and paste to get rid of those blacked-out words, don't I?
"I agree, unless everyone who reviews these things are budding directors, writers or actors. All this nonsense of "My childhood ruined....blah,blah"...cry me a fapping river. Most people don't know any of surrounding mythology to really give a snot...Who is Exar Kun? Darth Bane? But they sit around and complain about the most trivial spat I've ever heard the "the explosion looked a little pixelated or the creature that Kenobi was on did'nt look real enough" Never mind the fact that its a long time ago in a galaxy far far away..."Oh why did Lucas put that in the story? I don't like it lets go waste time blogging making a long winded review about nothing as usual. Remember that it is his story, so have a Coke and smile and shut the fork up!"
And even though Episode 1 sucked and Episode 2 was only marginally better than 1, I really liked the general story arc. I have to thank Lucas for not making Darth Vader the cliched product of abusive parents and a childhood spent torturing animals. The fall is much more powerful when you can see Vader as a pure little kid running through a field.
"MPAA President and CEO Dan Glickman: 'There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith.'"
That's a slanderous lie! I downloaded it from an FTP site.
"Magic of movies"? You mean watching half an hour of commercials beforehand, missing parts of the movie because of people who won't shut the fuck up, and dealing with ear-splitting volumes that distort on the movie theater's speakers? Or maybe he means paying upwards of $4 for 5 cents worth (according to an insider) of popcorn? Perhaps it's the sticky floors that makes the experience magical. Whatever it is, I'm glad I missed it.
Hey, MPAA: your movies are released to the internet whether you like it or not. Instead of lobbying for stricter laws (which, in case you missed it, DON'T WORK), maybe you should re-evaluate your business model and release lower-quality first runs (say, Realmedia format) with subtitles, charging more for the convenience. Sure, people will copy and share them, but they're doing that anyway. At least you'd make some money off of it...likely as much as you would have made if anyone who actually wanted to pay for it had gone to the theater in the first place. And people who have trouble hearing will thank you.
But I know that's just a pipe dream. You'd rather lobby and try to scare people than admit that your own people are the worst offenders when it comes to media piracy.
I think the best thing for Lucas to do is come up with some more great ideas, sketch out a plot outline, and hand it to a real writer. Because while his ideas are good, his writing sucks.
"It's sad to say, but her baby's death is partially her own fault for relying on an unreliable phone service."
I have to disagree. The Vonage commercials I've seen didn't mention anything about having unreliable service. The majority of people don't know (and don't care) about network instability, latency, and other issues that could affect them.
I would hazard a guess that 911 is a whole lot faster, because it ties the cops, firefighters and medics together into one dispatch system. As I said, only a guess, because I don't know how modern police dispatch systems work.
"There are plenty of talented IT professionals on the market searching for tech jobs."
The cynical part of me says that IBM is gearing up to push (more of?) their work overseas. The practical part of me says I'm probably right. The cynical part pipes up again and says IBM donating $30 million to universities is likely just a smokescreen. The rest of me tells the other two to shut the hell up because we're trying to get some sleep in here, goddammit.
People like this, who might be a little overcautious, are far preferable to the ones who drag their 4- and 5-year-olds to, say, Sin City and then bitch about it afterwards ("I thought a movie with Frodo in it would be good for the kids!").
"But then again, thats their plan, make you pay up with no chance of a refund even if the movie is terrible."
I have yet to hear of a theater that will not refund your money if you walk out in the middle of a film and show the manager your ticket stub. If you know of any, please let me know.
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"By continuing to call me as having lesser intelligence than yourself"
Feel free to point out where I made any such claim.
"If I told you that I personally had the opportunity to talk with God himself, I doubt you would ever believe me."
No, but I would suspect there was a "serious psychosis" involved.
"but it would be sad for you if that happens and God does in fact exist."
And here you display your utter arrogance once again. It would be "sad for [me]" only to you.
"I can try to talk you out of your assumption of the non-existance of God"
This is the best part. You appear to have completely missed the point of my "jumping up" example. You can try all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't need to believe in something that has no basis for existence.
"if these students found a key to their professor's room and snuck in to check on their exam results, do you think there'd be a furor as to whether they are guilty of cheatin or not?"
Probably not. If they had snuck into a locked room to look at the answer key before the test, there probably would be. From what I understand, their knowledge of their admission status had no impact on that status until the colleges decided to bar all of the students involved from admission. It's kind of ironic, really.
"Since you have insulted my intelligence"
I give what I get. You may find it codified in a slightly different form in your book of fairy tales in Luke 6:31. If you want to continue redefinining words, I'll be happy to continue describing your redefinitions as idiotic.
If I jump up from the surface of the earth, I will come back to the ground in a mathematically defined manner. This is not faith in gravity, but rather knowledge that of the countless number of times people have jumped off the ground, there has not been a single reliable report of anyone failing to come back down. Similarly, there has been not a single reliable case for the existence of a supernatural being. "The universe itself" doesn't cut it.
Your contention that people can't have ethics (presumably you meant *good* ethics) unless they either a.) are religious (implied) or b.) want to help humanity is as idiotic as your definitions of "faith" and "religion" were.
"As an atheist, I hope you can appreciate that atheism is a religious viewpoint as well."
How utterly idiotic.
Religion requires faith. To try to claim atheism has faith in the nonexistence of a god is the same as saying adults have faith in the nonexistence of Santa Claus and the Easter bunny. It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of not believing in ficticious entities who have absolutely no evidence to support their existence.
You will also find most true atheists don't attempt to prove the nonexistence of any god, because of two very important reasons: 1.) it is impossible to prove a negative, and 2.) there is no point in belaboring the self-evident. There is no Santa Claus, and there is no magic sky fairy who listens to your prayers at night.
If you want to believe in delusions, that's your business. Don't try to claim my nonbelief in your particular breed of insanity is a religion.
"You steal from me or you rip off my software.. you're still a scumbag"
What is your software? I'll let you know if I've downloaded it.
"And for all you nerds, nmap reports [...]"
Congratulations for running nmap on a dhs.gov server. Is that even still legal? I'm losing track of the number of rights being flushed away these days.
"BTW this new posting system where you have to type in the letters you see in the graphic....SUCKS"
This is apparently only in effect for certain users, because I have yet to encounter it. Does it make you do this every time you post, or does it pop up randomly?
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. I bought my copy and got 3 DVDs worth of command-line footage. :(
Yeah, but I bet the employees who illegally sold the info were using Windows on their work computers. OMGconspiracy!
Did you read the article? Did the idiots who modded you up read it? Allow me to quote from it:
"the department has not yet classified this as an identity theft case but is watching it closely."
"I'd still find it not funny against anyone, though."
There's a good reason for that. Triumph the "Comic" Insult Dog isn't funny.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
"maybe the real losers are those who feel the need to define people who are different as losers"
No, no, I'm certain it's the people standing in line calling themselves "Lord Vader" and having mock lightsaber duels.
Your just jealous.
I mentioned this to someone the other day: Hayden is *very* good in this when he keeps his mouth shut (definitely convincing expressions). I have also heard from reliable sources that Lucas is a rotten director who doesn't give his actors feedback at all (according to a buddy who saw part of a workprint from Episode 4 where Mark Hamill was trying to get feedback from Lucas with no success). I can believe it.
I need to cut and paste to get rid of those blacked-out words, don't I?
"I agree, unless everyone who reviews these things are budding directors, writers or actors. All this nonsense of "My childhood ruined....blah,blah"...cry me a fapping river. Most people don't know any of surrounding mythology to really give a snot...Who is Exar Kun? Darth Bane? But they sit around and complain about the most trivial spat I've ever heard the "the explosion looked a little pixelated or the creature that Kenobi was on did'nt look real enough" Never mind the fact that its a long time ago in a galaxy far far away..."Oh why did Lucas put that in the story? I don't like it lets go waste time blogging making a long winded review about nothing as usual. Remember that it is his story, so have a Coke and smile and shut the fork up!"
"Who in their right mind has the whole viewing widow of a star ship made out of glass that breaks when whacked by a weapon"
*waves hand*
This is not the science you are looking for. This is a space opera.
And even though Episode 1 sucked and Episode 2 was only marginally better than 1, I really liked the general story arc. I have to thank Lucas for not making Darth Vader the cliched product of abusive parents and a childhood spent torturing animals. The fall is much more powerful when you can see Vader as a pure little kid running through a field.
"MPAA President and CEO Dan Glickman: 'There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith.'"
That's a slanderous lie! I downloaded it from an FTP site.
"Magic of movies"? You mean watching half an hour of commercials beforehand, missing parts of the movie because of people who won't shut the fuck up, and dealing with ear-splitting volumes that distort on the movie theater's speakers? Or maybe he means paying upwards of $4 for 5 cents worth (according to an insider) of popcorn? Perhaps it's the sticky floors that makes the experience magical. Whatever it is, I'm glad I missed it.
Hey, MPAA: your movies are released to the internet whether you like it or not. Instead of lobbying for stricter laws (which, in case you missed it, DON'T WORK), maybe you should re-evaluate your business model and release lower-quality first runs (say, Realmedia format) with subtitles, charging more for the convenience. Sure, people will copy and share them, but they're doing that anyway. At least you'd make some money off of it...likely as much as you would have made if anyone who actually wanted to pay for it had gone to the theater in the first place. And people who have trouble hearing will thank you.
But I know that's just a pipe dream. You'd rather lobby and try to scare people than admit that your own people are the worst offenders when it comes to media piracy.
I think the best thing for Lucas to do is come up with some more great ideas, sketch out a plot outline, and hand it to a real writer. Because while his ideas are good, his writing sucks.
"It's sad to say, but her baby's death is partially her own fault for relying on an unreliable phone service."
I have to disagree. The Vonage commercials I've seen didn't mention anything about having unreliable service. The majority of people don't know (and don't care) about network instability, latency, and other issues that could affect them.
I would hazard a guess that 911 is a whole lot faster, because it ties the cops, firefighters and medics together into one dispatch system. As I said, only a guess, because I don't know how modern police dispatch systems work.
"There are plenty of talented IT professionals on the market searching for tech jobs."
The cynical part of me says that IBM is gearing up to push (more of?) their work overseas. The practical part of me says I'm probably right. The cynical part pipes up again and says IBM donating $30 million to universities is likely just a smokescreen. The rest of me tells the other two to shut the hell up because we're trying to get some sleep in here, goddammit.
"Good parenting."
People like this, who might be a little overcautious, are far preferable to the ones who drag their 4- and 5-year-olds to, say, Sin City and then bitch about it afterwards ("I thought a movie with Frodo in it would be good for the kids!").
"But then again, thats their plan, make you pay up with no chance of a refund even if the movie is terrible."
I have yet to hear of a theater that will not refund your money if you walk out in the middle of a film and show the manager your ticket stub. If you know of any, please let me know.