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Comment Re:OK Atheists: Religion is temporarily approved! (Score 0) 618

he research invokes collapsing ice sheets, violent megastorms and even the hurling of boulders by giant waves

Remember kids, if some guy on a street corner or some kooky radio preacher was sermonizing about this stuff the Atheist echo chamber in here would go off its rocker in attacking religion.

But when we slap the magic word "Global Warming" on the same thing, now it's "science approved"!! Hell, even better: Those kook whackjob Christians who predict the end of the world on a precise date at least admit they were wrong when it doesn't happen! We don't even have to have that level rationality with our predictions, we just double down or claim that magical government regulations staved off Doomsday.

If the "whackjob Christians" actually had some evidence, instead of quoting from an ancient book, people might listen to them more. Science is funny that way. It actually requires evidence. Also, simply because someone accepts AGW or biological evolution, doesn't mean they are an atheist. AGW and evolution don't conflict with non-Christian religions, or any form of Christianity that is not the whackjob fundamentalist Evangelical type of Christianity. Unfortunately, we have a lot of them in America, though they are small minority world-wide (you know, the rest of the world - that place "outside America").

Comment Re:What else is new? (Score 2) 618

When I was in school there was constant hysteria over the ozone layer. By the year 2000 we were all supposed to be blind and dying of skin cancer because the ozone layer would be mostly gone.

And then we, you know, actually did something about it by banning CFC and so on. Now, things are better. I bet this is the kind of conversation you would have with your doctor:

Doctor: You know, if you don't stop drinking, you're going to die of liver failure.
[AC stops drinking] [3 years later, with no drinking:]
AC: See, doc! I didn't die of liver failure! Stupid doctor! You don't know anything!

The world is a wildly dynamic and chaotic place. Environmental trends can only be extrapolated so far before they become useless. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take prudent steps to protect the environment, but all of this doomsday crap just gets tiring.

As other people have mentioned, try listening to the actual scientists. Listening to Al Gore and Rush Limbaugh argue about global warming is as useful as hearing a debate about Special Relativity between two freshman, one of whom thinks he's "proven" it wrong.

Comment Re:What is stopping them? (Score 1) 644

More than 40 millionaires, including members of the Rockefeller and Disney families, are asking to have their taxes raised to help address poverty and rebuild failing infrastructure.

What's preventing them from sending more money to the government now? A trivial Internet-search immediately returns a link to the government site, which explains, how donations of cash or securities can be made to any Federal government agency...

Anybody, actually wishing to pay more taxes himself, can already do that. The only reason to make noise about it is to force someone else to pay more.

So, by your rationale (if I may use such a malapropism), we should simply get rid of taxes and fund the government on a donation system. Or, we could do the sensible, civilised thing and have a progressive tax rate where people pay their fair share so we can live in a civilised society where I don't have to worry about being poisoned or have a bridge collapse on me.

Comment Re:~50% (Score 1, Flamebait) 741

Huh. You're comparing Trump to Hitler - and I'm the one making insane comments?

If the shoe fits...

Have you even seen what goes on at Trumps rallies? Or heard all the stuff he's been saying publicly for months now? It simply is fascism. It is Hitler in the early years, before he became Chancellor. It is Oswald Mosley, complete with pointing out someone he doesn't like in the audience, and having hooligans beat them up as they are dragged out.

Clinton and Obama, while certainly not the best of politicians, as also certainly not fascists as you claim. You don't like them, and you have clearly developed a burning hatred for them, but that doesn't make someone a fascist.

Comment Re:~50% (Score 2) 741

Except that with Clinton, you pretty much know what you're getting: more of the same. With Trump... there's no telling what he might do. He *might* make some interesting changes. He also *might* invade Mexico. Better off with Clinton. Things could be much worse, and with Trump, there's a risk they will be.

Considering how insecure he is, such as publicly rebutting Rubio during the primary debate regarding the size of his member, all Iran would need to do to destroy the U.S. during a Trump presidency would be to taunt him saying he is too much of a wuss to handle a war with Russia. And his supporters would say nonsense like "Yeah! We gotta give it to those Commie Soviets!"

Comment Re:~50% (Score 1) 741

I feel the best way to destroy the Trump campaign is to keep letting people hear him.

It won't change anything. At this point, his supporters will stick with him no matter what. One thing Trump did say that was true is when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any supporters. His base of nutters are right now making any and all excuses for him.

Comment Re:~50% (Score 0) 741

You can reason with - perhaps even change - an "openly fascist candidate". However, we have openly fascist politicians in power right now (including the President) or in the recent past, looking to gain more (Mrs. Clinton); that's a much bigger threat IMHO.

Yes, that's all Hitler needed. A nice little sit-down with some good coffee and cakes would have convinced Hitler that Germany didn't need to invade the rest of Europe, and that the Jews were just fine staying where they were.

Seriously, you should try saying some of your stuff out loud before you post it. Maybe you'll notice how utterly insane it all is.

Comment Re:Open source SCO (Score 3, Insightful) 231

With all the money Darl and his brother sucked out of that company they never need to work again. His "business model" was to start a case that could not be won, give the legal work to his brother's firm, string it out for max legal fees then take a golden parachute. Not a nice guy. I've got no idea why anyone other than a crony would every employ him.

Well, that's the problem with corporate Capitalism. It works great until you run out of other people's money.

Comment Re:Kinda dissagree (Score 2) 239

I don't remember anyone really talking about video game addiction until Everquest.

I remember talk about video game addiction back in the 80's when you had to go to an arcade. There was even a short about it on HBO about a guy whose wife and kids left him, but he didn't care because all he needed was another round of Galaga.

Comment Re:Shit (Score 1) 327

You are the piece of shit, scum like you deserves to have their family marched to the gas chamber. State worshipping pig fucker scum!

Butcher all right wingers. We need a civil war. Murder all families of right-wing voters.

What about all the family members who can't stand the right-wing nut in their family? You know, the nut who won't ever shut up about politics. The nut to whom you never speak because he thinks he knows everything and tries to prove you wrong about everything. The nut who actively tries to start arguments. The nut who disowns his own children because they don't share his right-wing politics or follow his psychotic Southern Baptist religion.

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