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Comment Re:This is one of occasions wher... (Score 3, Interesting) 845

It has nothing to do with “beliefs” that’s a straw-man word.
Religion is a mild schizophrenia. A disease where people don’t use the outside world as a reference for their internal model of it, but a made-up internal model. E.g. “God wants it to be that way, therefore it’s OK that I lost my house, and I don’t have to break down and shoot myself.”
In some way it is a useful mechanism, because it helps people who can’t cope with the actual real world, not to go crazy. We all do an even milder form of it, where we just twist reality a bit... which is basically repression, for the same reason.
The difference between what we do, and what is religion, is that at their level of mind-twisting, tryin to reason with them is a lost cause.

Because I now understand this, I do not have any hatred for religious people anymore. Everyone is just trying to cope with reality in his way. And tomorrow, you could fall in a pit where your only choices would be to go crazy, or to twist your mind just as badly.
Hell, half our behavior is based on wrong social condidioning, which basically also is a mind-twist that is not attached to reality anymore.

Yes, religious statements have no place in any debate. Not in school, not in government, not anywhere. But there is also no point in just calling them idiots and hating them. We, as a community, must face the roots of what caused people to fall back to religion to manage their lives. Because otherwise, we also are only repressing the problem.

If you see someone who is very religious (and normally also very easily driven out of his calm state, when faced with the disparity of reality and his model of it), try to find the roots, help him face and fix them, and let him work the way up again, fixing the disparities in the process.
Or at least don’t make his life even worse. :)

(Be warned though, as that reality bubble can span multiple generations, many people and many things. You may find that you’re simply unable to do anything about it, other than invent a time machine and prevent a couple of wars.)

Comment So since Jedi is a religion over there... (Score 1, Interesting) 845

To come to the end: Can I sue any religion-infected idiot out there who dares to insult the holy flying spaghetti-monster? (E.g. by eating spaghetti in a non-ceremonial way.)

Oh boy... oh boy... ready the lawyer army! :D

P.S.: What happens, if all ceremonies in one religion involve actions that are “blasphemous” in another one? Because my religion involves pissing on every religious symbol out there. It’s called a “healthy brain”. ^^

Comment Re:Wow, so yet another screen size (Score 1) 134

Actually, Dreamweaver is quite good at dynamic layouts and assisting you in proper website creation. The HTML is usually pretty clean.

But static HTML is so last millenium. ^^

Look at the code of that page (Warning: This was never finished, so expect bugs.), and count the number of HTML tags in there, compared to the actual content. ;))

Comment Re:Wow, so yet another screen size (Score 1) 134

That is STATIC layout. Unbelievable... is that all the imagination you got?

Flexible widths, flexible heights, percentage values, flexible spaces, SVG, MIP mapping for all UI elements (so if you use a bigger screen, they have more details/functions and show things right in-place, instead of opening separate screens, etc)... there. Is that so hard to come up with??

Comment Re:And of course... (Score 3, Insightful) 125

That’s because, as I always say: It’s not about what you have to hide. It’s about what they want to find.

Cardinal Richelieu also had a nice saying about seven lines of the honest man being enough, to find something, to let him hang.

The “funniest” thing is, that the exact description of what the TSA does to people, is “terror”. They’re the real terrorists. But as all terrorists, they have more powerful backroom figures who control the big picture. The “terrorists” are just straw-men.

Comment Re:Microsoft (Score 1) 394

I’m sorry???

That’s like saying that a website’s fatal flaw is, that it can’t be used in that criminally on-purpose incompatible and on top of that more buggy than a bag of insects horrible piece of shit that is the Internet Explorer!

It’s the other way around: Mircosoft’s fatal flaw, that will completely kill off Microsoft and will make Ballmer eat his own chairs, is that they are unable to adapt to modern platforms. Small mobile computers, huge supercomputern, hell, Microsoft works how many years on the shitty DRM wrapped in colorful clickables that is Vista? And the Compiz crows ruins the whole thing in less than 3 months by having even more colorful clickables, programmed for fun, in their spare time!

Microsoft is a dinosaur, and Netbooks have just gotten the ball rolling. Now it’s going downwards on the steepest rollercauster they have ever seen.

Comment Re:Some substitutions (Score 1) 430

Well, Napster was one of (!) the first. And despite it not even being the biggest by far, it was the one that got the most media coverage.
I remember using Scour Exchange back then. It was a wayy bigger network. So in my book, SX is the one to remember.
But hey, you can’t argue, that Napster fell from even that little grace, when they became a Bertelsmann pay-service with DRM.

Comment Re:lifetime achievement award (Score 1) 54

Sexist?? WTF. That does not have anything to do with “sexism”.
By far most men are hetero. By far most women too. (Hetero) men watch by far more porn than women.
So obviously, nearly all porn is for hetero men. Some for hetero women or couples. Some for gay men. And very little for gay women.
Everything else would be a weirdly distorted market.

Buy enough porn that you like, and you get more. But don’t act as if you were entitled to anything. Especially if you most likely don’t pay anything for it anyway.

The worst *ists, are people who call others *ists.

Comment Re:lifetime achievement award (Score 1) 54

No. It does not sell anyway. It sells exactly because of that! If we wanted realistic entertainment, we would go outside. Realistic entertainment sucks and blows.

But: WTF? There are women at Top Gear? I have never seen any... except for that crowd that stands around them.

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