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Comment Re:Guilty of violating the laws of physics (Score 1) 95

Is anyone else curious how the guy fit his [presumably 3-dimensional] son into a two-dimensional (6'x8') "box"?

There's no mystery, he is obviously a Time Lord. As to the "box," it is more of a galactic trivia question than a mystery. Since it has to fold in an extra dimension a normal TARDIS won't do, it is in fact a RETARDIS.

Comment Re:Damn... (Score 1) 494

We seem to be saddled with you freely inventing nonsense contrary to history.

The Quakers

By 1680, 10,000 Quakers had been imprisoned in England, and 243 had died of torture and mistreatment in the King's jails. This reign of terror impelled Friends to seek refuge in New Jersey in the 1670s, where they soon became well entrenched. In 1681, when Quaker leader William Penn (1644-1718) parlayed a debt owed by Charles II to his father into a charter for the province of Pennsylvania, many more Quakers were prepared to grasp the opportunity to live in a land where they might worship freely. By 1685 as many as 8,000 Quakers had come to Pennsylvania. Although the Quakers may have resembled the Puritans in some religious beliefs and practices, they differed with them over the necessity of compelling religious uniformity in society.

Since members of the LDS faith freely practice it, build new temples, and live in all parts of the country you seem to have that wrong as well.

Submission + - Security Experts Hack Teleoperated Surgical Robot (blogspot.com)

Lin4 writes: Today, Tamara Bonaci and pals at the University of Washington in Seattle examine the special pitfalls associated with the communications technology involved in telesurgery. In particular, they show how a malicious attacker can disrupt the behavior of a telerobot during surgery and even take over such a robot, the first time a medical robot has been hacked in this way

Submission + - New Law Increases Canadian Freedom: Two Regulations Enter, One Regulation Leaves (financialpost.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Government regulations are costly and limit the freedom of citizens. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has found that the costs of regulations to Canadians run as high as $37 billion per year. Canadian small business owners suggest that as much as $11 billion could be saved with no meaningful negative impact to the environment, safety, or health. This seems to be born out by the experience of British Columbia which has reduce its regulator requirements over the last 10 years by more than 40% with little negative impact. In light of this the Red Tape Reduction Act was approved by the Governor General to become law. Canada is now the first country in the world to require the removal of one regulatory burden to enact a new one of similar burden. This has been tried as policy for several years, but is now law. It doesn't cover all sources of new regulation, but is a promising start. Meanwhile in the US the Obama administration has passed 21,000 regulations and added 468,500 pages to the Federal Register. If you feel burdened by government red tape you can't blame Canada.

Comment Re:Snowden is a hero (Score 1) 109

Hi Gary....,

Interesting theory, but it leaves some ground uncovered:
2014 was an off year election and turnout for them is pretty much always lower.
There were many democrats that were more than a little disenchanted with the Obama admin.
Obamacare was already starting to give people sticker shock, and it will get worse.
With the Republicans back in control of the House they could engage in meaninful oversight, especially on things that were "uninteresting " to the Dems. The IRS scandal is one of those. (I consider that one far more dangerous to the Republic than the NSA stuff.)
2014 was far enough along that Obama began to own his administrations record - no more Bush!!

Hard to say how 2016 will turn out. I can't believe the Democratic party will really run Hillary. New scandals emerge daily - Clinton Foundations funding, fudged tax records, foreign doners, Uranium for Russia, more to come .....

Have a nice evening

Thanks, you too.
That Gatorade is great stuff.
Cheers

Comment Re:Snowden is a hero (Score 0) 109

Thanks kind of funny since the Russian army stil uses the goose step, and the US military never has. Interesting symbolism.

Kind of fits in with Russia invading Ukraine to steal Crimea (and was willing to use nuclear weapons to do it). Now Russia is sending troops into Ukraine's border regions to try to steal that away. Russia just openly threatened Denmark with nuclear weapons. Russia is also threatening Moldova, and the Baltic nations. Finland is concerned. Poland considers itself under threat. Russia has been sending bombers and naval vessels, and submarines to probe Sweden, the UK, and US.

And certainly Snowden is a hero in Russia for making millions of Top Secret documents on US intelligence systems available to Russia.

Wouldn't it be a pity if someday the goose stepping is outside your window? Maybe that will be sauce for the goose as well.

Comment Re:Damn... (Score 5, Insightful) 494

Actually, we did. Like most Americans, sadly, you know nothing of history beyond, say, 1980 or some such. If you did know some history, you would know ...

Like many people on Slashdot you seem to have a defective knowledge of history and the church.

If one were to look into the history they would find that you either grossly exagerate on these matters, or are simply wrong. Many of the early colonies were formed by religous sects coming from Europe. Once in America they adopted the European customs of institutionalizing the church with the government. Although in some colonies other sects were persecuted, few were killed. In any case it was nothing like the scale or severity of European persecution. Other colonies had different views. Rhode Island was formed with the ideal of religious tolerence, and other colonies were adopting laws for tolerance by 1650. Eventually all of the colonies adeopted the US Constitution, became states, and moved past that.

As to the "Christian justifications for the genocide against American Indians" I have to ask, what genocide are you referring to? There wasn't one.

Reject the Lie of White "Genocide" Against Native Americans
Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?

As to your claims about "lines of Christian preachers submitted tons of briefs, all saying that their Christian God had deemed that black people were inherently inferior and not worthy of any basic human rights" in the case of Loving vs Virginia, which briefs are you referring to? The only brief I see listed from an organization claiming church affiliation was against Virginia's law.

LOVING v. VIRGINIA, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by William M. Lewers and William B. Ball for the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice et al.; [388 U.S. 1, 2] by Robert L. Carter and Andrew D. Weinberger for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and by Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III and Michael Meltsner for the N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

T. W. Bruton, Attorney General, and Ralph Moody, Deputy Attorney General, filed a brief for the State of North Carolina, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance

So it looks to me that your disparagement of Christians is based on what is essentially one half-truth and two whole lies.

Now that would be bad in and of itself, but you also overlook the many positive contributions made by Christians.

The abolition of slavery - Christian and churches drove the abolisionist movement. Perhaps you could start with this man:
      William Wilberforce - the story told in this wonderful movie: Amazing Grace, released in 2007
Higher Education - Many of America's first colleges were formed by churches.
Health Care - Many hospitals have been founded by churches, or with church backing.
The Civil Right movement - Once again many churches were participants in the Civil Rights movement

There are many more that could be added to that.

Yeah, you Christians are really, really superior to other religions....

Moving past the half-truth and falsehoods you wrote certainly seems to make for a better record to reflect upon.

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