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Why spend money on a Mac when you can write Mac compatable code on any commercially available computer for 1/2 the price running Unix? Or anything in Java. People at MS actually use MacBooks on occasion, since all they are are overpriced Intel machines running a custom build of Unix out of the ...

Are you familiar with VPNs and proxies? Because many Chinese are.

What? How can you even claim that? What sort of data set backs up that claim? If you mean that people fit the archetypes that people invented to describe and categorize others, well, then you have said exactly nothing. If you intend to claim that there is a direct 1 to 1 relationship between ...

The limited use, yes. Generally limited to the uses described in the same law. Public performance, whether free or for profit, is generally not considered among those uses. I'm not saying you should take your videos down, just having a legal disclaimer that has no legal weight means precisely ...

Holy crap. This song is now 1000X creeper since I know this video exists.

6 blocks from my house, would have been cool to run in to you...

No, but it does leave you with the same responsibility to present proof supporting your position before basing any proposals for what actions you or society as a whole take. I can believe there are fish people commanding fleets of space battle ships in a far away galaxy, but I damn well better h...

I think you have a profoundly naive, unrefined, and/or archaic idea of what time is. Time is a fundemental dimension of the physical universe. It exists independant of clocks or other human means of tracking it. Again, you use a word that only has meaning in the context of time, 'eternity', as...

Actually, if you Google it even slightly, you'll find out they are protesting because Dawkins is a sponsor of one of the first private for-profit colleges in England, and the protesters oppose this on the basis that they think all education should be state and not-for-profit. It has nothing to d...

Reza, like most apologists, confuses increasing levels of abstraction with nonoverlapping magisteria. If you are playing a computer game, the characters in the game can be referred to as characters, or as differing charges on the computer memory. Those are both valid methods of description that...

pro tip: If someone calls you out on something, Google it to see if they are right first. It will save you lots of backpedaling and looking like an idiot.

You bought it from an ANTIQUE store, why would you expect an ANTIQUES dealer to have any expertise at all about sundials? You fail on so ma...

Just a guess, but given that the star is light years away, and even with a telescope, your field of vision is light years wide at that distance, there will still be interesting after-effects of the explosion going on. :)

actually, strictly speaking, atheism is not the belief that there is no god, but rather the lack of belief that there is one. It's kind of like how in a court, they don't pronounce someone innocent, only not guilty. There is insufficient evidence to reach a 100% certainty of a given conclusion....

Yup. The judicious use of force is sometimes (though rarely) necissary. When I was Casey's age, I choked out a bully, and after that, I stopped getting bullied. The key is teaching kids the judgement to know when to fight back and when not. And also to control bullying. That scrawny ass kid ...

That's a pretty big boat for a raiding party of 4. Then again, they do have to fit a 10-piece drum kit, amps, and a generator on that thing...

I would not go as far as calling him a racist. Fixated on a traumatic issue from his past, almost certainly, but racist, no. I don't think he hates white people, I think he's just paranoid that they all hate him for being black.

You don't believe in superstitions? So what is Aniu? Or Thakis, Scotte, Nijax, Jakob, and Kaltaga? It's some half-assed attempt to mythologize science, or at least sciencify religion. Man evolved from wolves that were created by God? You've obviously never taken any form of evolutionary biol...

This is what religion is. Whatever new age, touchy-feely, amorphous idea you think religion is, this is the inevitable expression of faith-based in-group systems. Any system that discourages critical thought and questioning of itself will result in behaviors like this. Dogma and blind faith ar...

Your astounding ability to raise straw men and completely miss the point makes me wonder if you are just a Poe. I was attacking the foundation of your argument, pointing out that the basis of it is fundamentally flawed, and offensive and antithetical to a free, progressive society. Your respons...

Again, you miss the point entirely, just like rdrakken.

Yay! Clap for the person who bought something! What a bunch of iTools.

And now an unfounded assertion as a strawman argument to justify you leaving the discussion. I don't think anyone here says TF is perfect, just that he has a valid point here that you refuse to acknowledge. For instance, I'm still not 100% behind the whole, "burn a Koran," thing, even though I ...

You mean like photoshopping someone who was actually put in jail in to a jail cell? Yeah, totally defamatory, complete misrepresentation of truth. Nitwit.

It's boilerplate apologetics that Hitler was an atheist and used Darwin as the underpinning for the Holocaust. These people have only a passing acquaintance with reality. Then again, they believe in an invisible sky daddy and his virgin-born Jewish zombie son, so reality isn't their strong point.

I want his assertion to be true, but I think the biggest threat to the type of research discuss here is that yes, the most harmonious societies are irreligious, however, they are also some of the most culturally and racially homogeneous societies. I'd like to see researches attempt to control fo...

Wait, a panel in discrimination against atheists without a single atheist or even rep from the ACLU or separation of church and state person? What a pile of crap.