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Comment Re:And that's why democrats hate you (Score 1) 999

Can't remember who said it but, "Liberals (Democrats) are tolerant of everything except intolerance".

Riiiiiiight. Do you seriously believe that ?

Well, I admit it may be a somewhat hyperbolic statement, but in principle yes I believe it.

Let's see, don't even do this. Just imagine it. See what your own opinion is about the matter. You walk into a democrat on the street. Just any democrat activist. Anyone at all.

Now tell him that you don't believe in global warming.

So what is your imagination telling you happens next ?

Ummm He laughs his ass off?

Is it a reasoned discussion ? Didn't think so.

I thought that all sides had pretty much agreed that global warming was a fact and that the discussion had moved on to whether or not human activity has had any effect on said warming.

If democrats were truly "tolerant of everything except intolerance" they'd out-suicide-bomb the muslims.

See above.

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Wow! My first time being modded as a "troll". I don't post often, so I hardly get any mods at all. At first I was pissed but rereading my post, I guess I *was* sort of trolling.

Comment Re:Fools. (Score 0, Troll) 572

Hows about a car analogy. You give your kid a car for his sixteenth birthday. He takes it it and drives it into a tree, toataling it. You: "How the hell could you do such an irresponsible thing?" Kid: "You said it was mine. I figured I could do whatever I wanted with it".

I always read 'dominion over the Earth' as God charging man with stewardship of the Earth, not a blank check to destroy it.

Of course, the Fundies will tell me that it's not for me to interpret the Bible, but as Steven Colbert said: "God wrote the Bible in English for a reason."

Comment Re:Why Firefly? (Score 1) 922

Thank You! As much as liked the character, when Book died I was almost relived that we could get on with the story. Then Wash died. The end of the film was pretty grim and by that point I thought it was possible that they were ALL going to die. If it had been a TV episode I'd have been checking my watch wondering how not if they were going to survive. To me it's just one more example of Whedon's amazing talent

Comment Re:The problem with an OLED e-reader is the E. (Score 1) 118

Show the text overlain, then black, then white, then just the new text?

Is that really the reason you don't have one? Or do you secretly want one and are just making excuses? Because that little flash is about as annoying as... turning a page.

God it's horrible, the text goes sideways, then disappears and you can see a page ahead for a fraction of a second, then it's sideways again and you can finally read it. Plus there's that annoying "Shhhh..." sound it makes. UGH! Turning pages is so disgusting!

Seriously man, I'll take my much, much clearer screen and much, much better battery life over instant page turns any day. Unless you're reading a thousand plus words per minute, the quarter second it takes to refresh the page is not annoying at all. Grey-scale LCDs are very low contrast, unlike e-Ink which is virtually the same as paper and ink. That makes them much easier to read on. And if you're reading over a thousand words per minute you probably aren't reading for pleasure anyway, so why are you bothering with the small display of ANY e-reader?

If you DO read that fast, well then, yeah, the page refresh would get pretty damn annoying, but like I said, why would you bother with an e-reader at that point anyway?

There is a reason LCD ebook readers never really took off, even though they are much less expensive than e-Ink readers. If you haven't figured it out, maybe you should try actually reading on one for once. My local Best-Buy has them on display, I'm sure an electronics store near you does as well. Note that I do NOT recommend actually buying a reader from Best-Buy, just to look in person before getting one elsewhere.

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