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Comment Before I attack this cloud computing problem... (Score 1) 278

I have to take a leak. Also, this electric drill I bought last week to work on a bust of Steve Jobs has an emergency recall on it from the manufacturer- shows symptoms of power failure. My target date for completion of the project- without help and delays- depends on how much time I spend on these social media sites; they sure are addictive... almost like narcotics. BTW, has anyone seen that remake of 3:10 to Yuma? I heard it's pretty good.

Comment Re:The internet doesn't "route around it" (Score 1) 410

$5 early matinee and no drinks and no snacks; pretty damn cheap entertainment. However, we do have a large HDTV and watch lots of stuff at home, too. But there are some films that really are worth seeing on the big screen and millions of other people also think so and that's why Hollywood's model still works- to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Go pedal your misinformation elsewhere.

Comment Re:"a fraudulent religious organization" (Score 1) 498

Most, if not all, of them believe in auditing which is all connected to the Xenu/dead alien soul nonsense. But I would ask you if you think it's worse for people to not believe in any of that stuff and still tell people if they give them money they will take their pain and misery away. IMO, that seems far worse than if they, the CoS, actually believed all of it and were trying to help people, as ignorant and misguided as that would be.

Comment That's not what he said. (Score 4, Informative) 498

James Randi never said that because those particular dousers could not find water under those particular conditions that all dousers could not find water under those particular conditions or any other conditions ever. He has never laid these out as rules. But you would know that if you actually bothered to understand what exactly Randi has been doing for more than 50 years.

Comment Re:Actually it *is* science's job to disprove it (Score 1) 498

It is not science's job to disprove a supernatural claim made by someone. We need positive proof; repeatable positive proof. That is how science works. We know water boils at 100 degrees Celsius(~at sea level, of course) . And we know it because it has been positively proven countless times by people trying to figure out at exactly what temperature water boils.

Comment Re:Just another Con Man (Score 2) 498

And you're just dead wrong. People that make these kinds of extraordinary/supernatural claims have the burden of positive proof. It is not for anyone to disprove them since they are the ones making the claim in the first place. If I tell people I can do a backflip and dunk the basketball on a regulation 10' basketball goal, no one is required to try and disprove this claim; I have to put up or shut up. What is claimed must be repeatable and if it cannot be repeated in a timely manner then it is debunked. Simple as that.

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