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Comment Re:Muscle atrophy? (Score 1) 226

I'm not overweight either (had never been), I weigh 75kg, at 1.78cm tall. So that's pretty ok.

I hate to break it to you, but 75kg is extremely overweight for someone 1.78 cm tall.

Perhaps he is Azazel... He's only 2 cm tall and very, very heavy

Comment Re:Does it always produce true responses? (Score 1) 249

The witch trials in Europe

Were the witch trials in North America much fairer?

Less deaths in North America. Tens of thousands lost their lives in Europe, so it's a better example purely because some people choose the argument, "Well only a few people died". (e.g. the awful apologist, Lee Strobel).

Comment Re:Does it always produce true responses? (Score 3, Insightful) 249

They were torturing for actionable evidence. They had people complaining of "spells" and "curses" being placed on them. They needed to find out who was doing these horrible things. They tortured innocent people until they confessed to being the ones responsible.

Now you have people complaining about terrorists. You need to find out where these terrorists are. You torture innocent people until they confess that they are terrorists, and tell you where their secret base is. How many people in Gitmo are innocent? How many have been released after spending a year or more there?

Comment Re:Does it always produce true responses? (Score 1) 249

do you have any evidence to back these assumptions? I'm not talking about another talking head saying the same thing, but I mean evidence pointing to several instances where a prisoner gave details that were expected and they turned out to be false.

I Personally doubt these methods are as ineffective as everyone likes to portray them.

The witch trials in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials Unless you believe in witches I guess.

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Submission + - Linux needs to try harder to catch Vista (interopnews.com)

AlexGr writes: "Jeff Gould has written an article in Interop News countering the prevailing view that Vista is really a dog and that Microsoft is only managing to make its numbers by jamming the new OS down the throats of unwilling customers. "Now I admit I don't use Vista and haven't spent a lot of time benchmarking it against Ubuntu or Mac OS X or any of the other non-Microsoft alternatives. But I don't have to use Vista to know that it's a lot more than a dog of an OS. Microsoft's recently reported revenue and profit numbers for its September quarter amply prove that Vista doesn't say "Woof! Woof!" when you boot it up." http://www.interopnews.com/news/linux-needs-to-try-harder-if-it-wants-to-catch-vista.html"

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