Throwing poo at police isn't driving down the tone of political discourse, but expressing conservative constitutional principles is?

I think I'll just curl up and hide now.

What is up with this? Has Slashdot become so incestuous that we have to backlink through 5 articles to actually get to a real article which either won't load or doesn't show the pretty pictures?

"THINK FOR YOURSELF. I would have thought Slashdot would even take into account all the controversy regarding 911 and stop just spreading the propaganda that we have been forcefed through all the mainstream sources."

Oddly enough I can think for myself and my conclusion is exactly opposite of yours, because I can contextualize things as separate events, not as one grand conspiracy.

Perhaps you should too.

"Waa Waa Waa give me free stuff just for playing, I'm entitled to it, I'm a paying customer!"

I forgot that faction in my previous comment.

... if you expect that they will produce perfection always.

A lot of people grew up on WoW, and have such rosy memories of vanilla or BC. Cataclysm has been a seriously hit-or-miss expansion. Some things are awesome, and some things are terrible. Here's why:

Blizzard is trying to cater to too many factions in their playerbase. They need to please the maximum number of players in order to keep their subscriber numbers up.

There's one faction that will steamroll through content. They have 7/7 Heroic Firelands done, finished the legendary and are now bored.

There's another faction that doesn't. My guild is 2/7 Firelands -normal-, and my raid group is 0/7 Firelands because after 4 weeks we cannot down Shannox or Beth. (For all people in the previous faction, how do you find that content so easy?)

There's one faction that doesn't care at all, and there's too little for them to do. The same 5-mans all the time are obnoxious, and there seem to be far fewer of them in Cataclysm compared to Wrath.

There's a faction that cares WAY TOO MUCH about PVP. And RAGE on the FORUMS using ALL CAPS because THEIR MAIN IS SO NERFED.

And then there is the faction of players that pine over their childhood and wish that WoW never changed because it's so not cool anymore, 'cause back in the day you had to walk barefoot up Blackrock mountain with 39 friends to get a rare pair of shoes that has a 10% chance to drop off a boss that you might be able to get to after 2 hours.

I mean, how do you please all of those competing interests? You don't. You do your best and sometimes ideas just don't work out so well as you'd hoped.

Except that "truth" isn't built by consensus.

Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable. Hiding it is dangerous.

The sad part is that a lot of movements of the past few decades have bought into this mantra that truth is somewhow malleable and that reality is merely a construct of how many people believe it to be true. Shades of 1984.

Speaking Truth to Power? More like "Making crap up and calling it truth, then screaming about babykillers to to your Congressperson and buying ads in the New York Times."

Point is that this shouldn't be a problem as big as it is. We shouldn't have to waste time better spent on a "productive" task to argue with people on the talk page of an article about an edit reversion that should not have happened.

Perhaps, maybe, wikipedia editors should be held accountable for their actions. Right now, great power comes with no responsibility. Seeing a few editors get banned from the site forever would help. Lets start with any editor that has posted "Delete: See [WP:Notability]"

This this and especially this.

Wikipedia went downhill as soon as the Admins got a stick up their butt about "notability"--the Wikipedia definition of notability is so skewed as to be worthless. Very notable historical pages such as Old Man Murray get deleted, well-informed and well written articles on obscure topics get wiped clean, while at the same time there are dozens of stub articles that provide no worth.

The whole of Wikipedia is a disaster nowadays. It's run by petty dictators acting out their dreams of dictatorship. Back in the day, they would be sitting in their parents basement memorizing bus schedules. Today, thanks to the internet, they post those schedules on wikipedia and edit camp them against all the evil people who would even think of editing their masterwork.

I'm pretty sure that what passes for 'debate' in the halls of most western societies is more like "which pressure group can provide me more votes in the fall" vs. "I once took a class in science, so I know everything!"

Why do you have to resort to 'whataboutery'?

In a socially conservative area, you at least know what you're going to get, because it's patently obvious that they want to enforce judeo-christian conservative social mores.

In a Liberal place, I'd expect that your lifestyles and personal choices would be tolerated to the hilt, as long as you were responsible for your own actions, and didn't try to shove your beliefs down someone else's throat.

Except thats not true. You simply swap one set of religious morals for another set of religious morals and end up without any freedom whatsoever to simply life free of screaming governmental ninnies with personal issues.

What if the animal has to eat its food alive? Pythons don't typically prosper well if it's been dead and frozen.

These idiots in the animal-rights groups don't understand a single thing about biological requirements for life. They just look at their puppies and wonder how anyone could ever love their free-range puppies as much as daddy loves his snuggie wuggums.

Yes. He is, in fact, that loony.

To his mindset, something that is "western" is imperialist and evil, the source of all suffering in this world. If only those nasty "western" ideas and philosophies would just die out, we could live in a perfect Utopia like I heard in that John Lennon song once.

Until, you know, the guys with guns from the "east" came along to ethnically cleanse you like they did to all the other infidels.

In San Francisco, and other so called 'liberal' bastions, laws are not created to give people the freedoms to live the life that they choose, they are created to radically socially engineer a population according to specific mores that the 'elites' prefer. So if the elites are tree-hugging PETA members, then they want to fashion society in that image, regardless of the hypocracy and stupidity it causes. One could say that all social engineering is applying a first order linear model to a chaotic system and then crying about how the results don't work.

How this is different than theocracy, I don't know.

This is because most, if not all, journalists on the science beat have no scientific training at all. They are the same j-school idiots as everyone else, trained to hype up the bad parts of a story to sell more newspapers.

So, apparently according to the WHO, DDT is as dangerous as coffee. I'ma go drink up a nice mosquito-free latte now.

What you should be offended by is that the WHO apparently doesn't classify things well at all.