I knew something like this was in the works.

The only alternative was to come up with Yet Another Excuse (YAE) for national and international kleptocrats to assert control over people's lives.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Bad people don't get a pass just cause they like computers.

Too bad that idea can't be applied to government(s) and the kleptocrats who corrupt it.

Once upon a time I would have assumed that the claims of whales dying were made in good faith.

Not anymore.

The environmental movement is so overrun with watermelon-marxists (green on the outside, red on the inside) that any claims have to be carefully screened to ensure that they are not an anti-capitalist scam masquerading as environmental concern.

That the target of this claim is an oil company looking for new sources of petroleum, makes me highly suspicious.

A professionally trained, well-paid human teacher eh?

If this is true, then how come our schools are so awful?

We the people have been throwing more and more money at schoolteachers, and requiring ever-increasing levels of training and education to maintain their license to teach, yet the educational achievments of our students have been flatlined for 40 years, and have even fallen dramatically in some districts.

Meanwhile home schooled children, taught by parents with no formal training as teachers, outperform government-schooled students so often that the high achieving home schooler has become a cultural meme, if not a cliche.

Charter schools have also been able to deliver superior results at lower cost.

No, I don't think we need professionally trained well paid teachers. What we need are voucher programs, more home schooling, teachers and schools that have to compete, the utter end to tenure of any kind, and pay/bonuses based on classroom performance instead of seniority. Opening up the teaching profession to anyone with a bachelor's degree and a demonstrated knowledge of a subject (english, math, science) would be even better. There is no evidence that having a master's degree in early childhood education helps someone teach 3rd graders how to multiply. Let those who want to teach and who are good at it take the field, and get rid of parasitic space takers for whom a teaching job is a state-paid sinecure.

Most of all, outlaw public sector unions so that groups like the NEA aren't able to block real education reform.

As scientific knowledge advances, DOGMA shrinks.

Problem is, scientific knowledge doesn't advance the people who possess it. It does not make them better human beings. It does not impart wisdom or an understanding of human nature.

Religious belief, despite all of its many flaws and shortcomings, is the only thing that has consistently been able to do these things.

Biblical creationists believe that evolution undermines the idea of divine creation, specifically the idea that man is created in God's image. This is a very important belief for them. Without it, their world crumbles.

When you present them with facts and evidence supporting evolution, they're not dispassionately evaluating the evidence, but desperately trying to avoid confronting it, to the point of profound intellectual dishonesty.

They are what used to be called neurotic, irrational and disturbed in one specific area or about one specific thing, but otherwise relatively functional human beings, able to work, raise families, etc, etc.

The answer to the question of why Biblical Creationists are like this is the same as the answer to the question of why some people are holocaust deniers, or Marxists, or followers of any other ideology or belief that is in obvious defiance of objective reality. They have invested their sense of self into this belief, and they cannot abandon that belief without sacrificing their sense of self along with it.

So they hold on to that belief, no matter what.

The point isn't whether the FBI can use evidence collected in this way in court, the point is that in performing these acts in the first place, the FBI is guilty of violating numerous federal laws.

They say this is about tracking down pedophiles. Yeah, right. Great cover story. Nobody likes child molesters after all. The state can do just about anything, and the public will accept it, if they can pretend it is about finding and eliminating child molesters. But that's not what this is actually about. The point of this is the same as it always is, government resentment at discovering it is not omniscient.

So they're Killer Dolphins then.

You can call them Killer Butterflies if you want. The point is, they're PREDATORS. You can train them, but you can't tame them. Sooner or later, they're gonna decide you look better than the fishes you're tossing at them, and have themselves a little snack.

"Hey Ya'll... watch this!!"

Why are we keeping killer whales in giant fishbowls?

Seriously though, what is the point?

People dying while putting out fires, pursuing criminals, or doing other work that is dangerous, but necessary, is one thing.

People dying so that tourists can watch killer whales jump through hoops? Not necessary.

What exactly does "anti woman" mean?

I'm being serious here. Exactly how does someone create a page/group that attacks half the population in a way that anyone would take seriously?

Exactly how do you successfully cast half the world as the "other?"

We don't use wireless here. We use power line network adapters.

They are faster than wireless, cheap, and avoid the problems you're describing.

Beyond that, find out who is doing this and confront them. If they don't stop....make them wish they had.

You forget that Martin is black, and Zimmerman is white.

Therefore, according to the rules of racial and cultural Marxism as defined by Antonio Gramsci, Zimmerman is GUILTY.

Not just of MURDERING Martin, but of any and all bad things that ever happened to him or anyone else in his entire family.

Zimmerman is guilty, and Martin innocent, not because of what either of them did or did not do, but because of the tribal groups they belong to. People with paler complexions have, at various times and places, done bad things to people with darker complexions. Therefore the darker complected people alive today are granted moral superiority over lighter complected people. It does not matter that neither the paler nor the darker people alive today have anything to do with these past wrongs. It does not matter that none of them are victims and none of them are perpetrators. A skin-deep resemblance to past victims or past perpetrators is sufficient to cast one in the role of victim or perpetrator, with penalties or compensation doled out accordingly.

Zimmerman will go to prison for the crime of defending himself against a member of a group he was not allowed to protect himself from. White people in the antebellum south were allowed to beat black people and smash their heads into the ground. Therefore black people are allowed to do the same thing to white people today. White people who resist will be treated the same way a black person would have been in the past. This is Social Justice.

I just realized something. I'm wasting my time talking to someone whose opinion of my mental state is about as informed as my understanding of Swahili.

You're not qualified to evaluate my mental state. You're a coder, not a psychologist, not a shrink.

The Stanford prison experiment is interesting, but it is also irrelevant. Prisons aren't filled with individuals chosen at random from the larger society and arbitrarily assigned roles as guards and convicts. Prisons are filled with CRIMINALS. Bad people who have done bad things, usually repeatedly before they were finally caught, and who would still be out there doing more of those same bad things if they were not locked up.

I want black hats locked up. If Bubba gives them a welcoming party while there.....maybe they'll think twice before pulling that kind of crap again. If not, Bubba will still be there for their second visit.

Smoking joints is proof of profound stupidity. I've no sympathy for someone stupid enough to violate a law whose consequences are known to all. Get caught with a joint, go to jail. The only winning move is to stay away from such drugs. I do believe that the laws and money spent on such things are unneccesary, but then so are the joints themselves. Illicit Drugs aren't useful or helpful. They're damaging. A real pass/fail IQ test all around. Fuck drug users. If they're stupid enough to do drugs and get caught then I'm not going to cry cause they're having to face the consequences.

As for the kiddy porn argument, that's specious nonsense. No one has ever been convicted of traffiking child pornography on that basis. There have been sexual predators who have tried to pretend that the tens of thousands of images of children being sexually abused found on their computer were somehow put there by others. Such arguments don't stand up in court and Chester the Child Molester gets locked up, as he should be.