Terry Pratchett. It's from the novel "Feet of Clay."

'No it's not! said Constable Visit. 'Atheism is a denial of a god.'

'Therefore It Is A Religious Position,' said Dorfl. 'Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.'

C is a high level language. Anything more complex is balderdash and chicanery.

At this point, I am beginning to lean towards one of two things

• Either he does not exist
• or the government(s) do(es) not actually want him to be found

God forbid we stop prescribing medicines all willy-nilly when they're not necessary just to quite down parents and belly-achers.

I go to the Doctor when it's serious: i.e., it's not getting better, it's getting worse, it's life-threatening or infected. I do not go to the doctor every time my throat hurts. That's just silly.

The grammar and spelling in the article are NOT good. The author, Michael Thompson, -- or "ars technica" -- should get an editor.

I mean, after all, it works so well for /., right?

That's it. I didn't really care about climate change before, and whether or not it was anthropogenic, but THIS MUST END NOW!

WE MUST SAVE THE COFFEE! SAVE THE COFFEE!

I've watched a lot of animals die. A lot. In misery. I've held them in my arms. I've found them half-dead, with their intestines hanging out on the sides of roads. I've seen them left at the front door of a Humane Society in boxes on nights when it gets below freezing. I don't like watching animals suffer.

I hate watching people suffer even more.

The problem with the world is that people seem to care more about cute little animals than they do about living, breathing, thinking human beings.

Animal Cruelty is doing horrible things to animals because you enjoy it or you just don't care. Animal Cruelty is shooting a kitten with a twelve gauge. Animal Cruelty is keeping a dog in your back yard tied up to a tree, rarely feeding it, keeping it on such short line it has to sleep in its own filth. Animal Cruelty is torturing small animals for your own amusement.

Animal Testing is conducting experiments on animals that, while they may, and probably will, kill the animal, will save human lives, in part due to the fact that you don't have to do the same test on a human being.

Please see this.

Then get the fuck off of /. and go to a website where Logic and Reason aren't part of rational debate. Maybe 4chan.

Nice. There's nothing wrong with my argument, so bitch about semantics.

I worked at a Humane Society once. Animal Testing is not Animal Cruelty.

I wish that everyone who thinks we shouldn't do animal testing would volunteer to be have said tests run on themselves. Maybe then they would understand that Human Life is more valuable than Animal Life.

Just as it is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer, so it is better that ten animals die in the name of science than one human being die because a vaccine was not properly tested, or, worse still, never brought to market because of a lack of testing.

Well, it only works if people don't know about it, right?

AB VRBE CONDITA!

SPQR! SPQR!

Oh, sure, the Puppeteers did it first.

But who did it better?