Why is it not perceived as intolerant to not tolerate those who are intolerant of religion?

The Desktop PCs that our parents bought from Dell that cost around $300 and are mainly used to check e-mail and surf the web (basically all it can do anyway) are dead. It just no longer makes sense for the average consumer to own such a large device to do such simple computing. My step-dad recently told me he uses his Galaxy S3 in place of his desktop...

This article would have made sense to me ten years ago but today I feel like Spotify and Grooveshark (streaming audio) is the new radio.

Spotify only streams at 160kbps for non-subscribers using the Ogg Vorbis format:

q3 (~96 kbps) mobile
q5 (~160 kbps) desktop non-paid
q9 (~320 kbps) desktop pay service

And you never know what Grooveshark is going to give you.

I personally can't detect a huge difference above 160kbps and for the sake of my own collection, I used to rip at 190kbps and only 320kbps if it was an artist I absolutely loved to blow my speakers out too. Even then, my ears and sound system couldn't capture the difference.

I don't really see the problem, as bandwidth and memory costs continually drop it only seems natural that we'll migrate to higher bit-rates, especially with the prevalence of so many high-end headphones lately. I would be surprised if Spotify free fully utilizes Beats headphones and don't get me started about people using Beats to stream Pandora at 96kbps...

I can't believe that Islamic attempts are this inconsistent and will always contend that 9/11 was not purely initiated by outside Islamic forces.

Also, nothing has changed in regard to the Cold War threat of nuclear war except a direct confrontation with Soviet Russia is much less likely at this time. The threat of nuclear fallout destroying the planet is still here plus we have the added benefit of religious radicals in third world countries blowing shit up at every chance they get.

You cannot keep people from being stupid.

A more useful statistic would be the increase in collateral deaths i.e. drivers going the speed limit or under being hit by speeding drivers.

If you're goal is to risk death and you end up dying in the process, I don't see why anyone should stop you, that's just survival of the fittest, but we should limit collateral damage.

Why not tell students the whole story:

1. Here are some examples of evolution, i.e. whale, horse etc. Scientists believe these to be explanations for the origin and progression of biological life.

2. Here is the concept of creationism from a generic religious perspective

Note: There are numerous hybrid theories that fall all along the lines between these two theories.

None of the above can be empirically confirmed. Believe whatever suites you the best.

Happy Occam's Razor.

"Does there exist, anywhere in the GNU/Linux world, a similar system to COM and Objective-C that is then used to set up APIs that are maintained even if Hell Freezes Over? the answer to this is a resounding NO, and that's the crux of the problem.

Exactly.