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Comment on why call him god (2009-10-27 13:52:02)
I'm a complete and unabashed Atheist, but Epicurus should have known better than to fuck up the Law of Excluded Middle like this.
Comment on Grannies Protest (2009-09-25 18:06:09)
Why? Other countries do it without going bankrupt. Don't give me that 'healthcare rationing' and 'poor quality' shit-- mistakes are made with any sort of business model, including ours. Just the model now, just private healthcare, ensures that there will always be anecdotal, cute, emotional horror stories. It means nothing. If the reasoning behind "health care will be rationed if it's done by the government" is that "rationing is bad because it leads to people not getting care", well congratu-fucking-lations, the private market offers that impact as well and I call nonuniqueness on anyone's ass who claims that. You've got to tell me where a simplified system of very direct payments leads to MORE rationing than we have now, or that we will always have if we make even getting health care based on money.
Comment on cure for obama communism is a new era of mccarthyism (2009-09-24 04:45:07)
Dude, fucking Sanchez on CNN is begging people to stop being so reactionary and switch channels, to look at the other side's viewpoint for once, and is castigating bad journalism, of which Fox News is clearly the worst. I'm not saying CNN is great, there's not a fucking real journalist employed there, but Fox News is way more involved in the shit they're reporting.
Comment on Artistic Israeli Tank (2009-09-17 04:34:31)
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199310--.htm I would start there. In addition, if you have access to the library, try to find The Chomsky Reader (ISDN 0-394-75173-6). His essay called "Rejectionism and Accommodation" has a lot of insightful information on the subject of Arab baseless rejectionism on Israel's part. I understand you might not like Chomsky, but he DOES cite his sources. It might be easier to point you there rather than run down a list of citations.
Comment on Artistic Israeli Tank (2009-09-17 00:30:27)
Er, for the PLO, I should say. Sadat being president of Egypt at the time, but this was waaayyy before the Peace Accords.
Comment on Artistic Israeli Tank (2009-09-17 00:26:27)
1971, for one example. Rather early one at that. If you have access, you can get the AP cited version of it in Ha'aretz, November 13, 1981 by Amos Elon. Notice this is an Israeli newspaper. The person seeking peace from the PLO was Anwar Sadat. Before being assassinated in 1981, he had made several efforts at peace recognizing Israel's sovereignty. Intrepid internet searchers would do well to search newspapers not printed in the United States, like European or specifically British ones, as our nation has made quite a concerted effort to suppress all but demonizations of the Palestinians. The PLO is not a terrorist organization anymore than Israel is, it's a highly organized state really. Or at least it was. Things are difficult, but they might be able to pull through into something stable and not founded on hate. Israel seems to be coming from the same ditch, but is making progress.
Comment on Artistic Israeli Tank (2009-09-16 22:50:24)
This has been a recent development as the state of Israel has realized, amongst other things their people have made them aware of (this shit is bananas, fucking stop it you State-terrorist pricks), that the farce of justifying a war on terror when it's terror you've created and systematically enforced to prevent a country from developing is not going to be able to go on forever. Iran doesn't help. The occasions are rare, and the conditions very, very strict and tight compared to the more generous PLO suggestions.
Comment on Artistic Israeli Tank (2009-09-16 15:23:47)
It's not Jews as a people, it's Israel as a country. It's easy to blame religion, but it has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with a country (Israel) and its economy, and other countries that are sick of being exploited as an import market and as a cheap labor market. Further, it has to do with State-justified terrorism on both sides of the problem. Every time an IDF soldier drives a tank through civilian territory or a Palestinian arms him or herself, they exacerbate the problem and seal the deal on any compromise. Interestingly, the PLO has offered several times, officially, to recognize Israel as a state if it would recognize Palestine as a state, shared capital, with minimal right of return. Interestingly, Israel has never bargained to ever recognize Palestine as a state, no matter what.
Comment on american gun nut (2009-09-10 12:00:42)
You didn't answer my question. :-)
Comment on american gun nut (2009-09-10 00:14:56)
I'm not accusing, just asking. Are you deliberately trolling or is this accidental, incidental B-movie comedy? At what level of crazy do you have to be to see a guy surrounded by guns and a US flag behind him watching Glenn Beck and say, "Oh, looks like a left-winger"?
Comment on Joe Wilson - Republican - South Carolina - Professional Jackass (2009-09-10 00:08:26)
He didn't call Obama a liar. He said Obama lied about immigrants not getting benefits. Wait, I'm sorry, that was wrong. He yelled in the middle of a discussion about immigrants not getting benefits, saying that Obama was lying about that (he wasn't, also, it's not Obama's plan). Then sat down like a fucking pansy.
Comment on An Inconvenient Truth (2009-09-02 21:48:05)
Excellent use of numbers! You have dispelled the metaphor without at all addressing the main point. The smallness of the contribution of human global warming does not at all imply that it is unimportant. Your geologists likely failed to mention, as many do, the importance of the "butterfly effect", feedback loops, and nonlinear dynamics to climate, as has been known for many, many years. As others have said, the noncontribution amount remains constant, our contribution is rising and has been, and can dramatically unsettle things, causing irrevocable feedback loops leading to catastrophic change. What did your geologists, in their one book that amazingly dispels years of extremely modernized and intricate data on climate change and near-universal consensus among environmental scientists, have to say about that? Take a look at some of the one-star reviews of the book, which are very detailed and verifiable, for why this Ian Pilmer (ONE geologist, not "geologists") takes bad data, ignores unsupportive evidence, and plays with statistics to serve his own end. I'm not going to claim that the pro-human-hypothesis people don't do the same, but it certainly doesn't make me want to believe this guy anymore either.
Comment on Typical american political debate (2009-08-22 13:29:02)
It did when Bush was President, why shouldn't it when Obama's president? This kind of stuff didn't happen on this scale during the Bush presidency, most likely because CNN, liberal bastion though it is, hasn't resorted to the extreme ad-hominem seeding tactics that Fox News has, and terrorizing something that should not be terrifying like Fox News. Beck called Obama a racist, how many others have looked meaningfully at the camera and said, "Is Obama a Hitler?" As if hitlers were an improper noun, a thing, like a duck or cow. Jesus.
Comment on Fat Princes Leia (2009-07-13 13:17:40)
Psh, eye-bleach? Look at all the people around her. She is a fat Leia, surprising no one. It's a con.
Comment on New LP Player (2009-07-11 20:22:22)
Reading the comments on the linked page and thinking about it a bit, one thing that is definitely impossible is having the speaker in the ball. That'd disrupt the pickup of the needle so much you'd hear a lot of noise in the background. It WOULD be possible to have the needle-ball output a bluetooth signal, not difficult at all really. I'm no magnetophysicist but I think with the right 'base' underneath the LP and some good, trickly, realtime computation you could A. account for the weight of the ball and adjust for it and furthermore, B. tilt the record so that the ball slides around it after some initial motion and doesn't skip grooves. This might make it even more sensitive to skipping though. And it wouldn't be floating that high.