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Comment Re:Ecology vs archeology (Score 1) 465

You know in a few seconds you could have found several sources -- some decades old, so untainted by this issue or modern "right-wing exaggeration" -- that would have told you that the area is a near-lifeless desert with effectively no precipitation and practically no wind erosion.

even thinking about it for a second before posting would have made the poster realize that this sentence is just absurd:

"somehow I think it highly unlikely that people and animals avoided walking at that location for thousands of years as well as off course full exposure to weathering, wind and rain, which will obviously return the surface to uniform finish in short order."

but yet the images at the site nonetheless has existed for thousands of years.

Comment Re:What the hell is wrong with Millennials?! (Score 1) 465

By the way, channeling ancient Greek complaints about the youth isn't exactly original.

neither is making the same statement 4 times, in slightly different ways. (was probably more than 4 but i lost interest/count)

maybe make the false reference again as to how crime, pregnancy, and drug use is lower now than ever as well, because i'm still not tired of hearing it.

Comment Re:Muslims? (Score 1) 880

Really the crusades were just mass rape, pillage and murder with no regard or care for who they were killing. It is amusing when some try to justify it, people have always done shitty things in the names of the various religions and as long as religions continue to dominate a large proportion of the planet I am sure it will continue indefinitely.

wish i could mod you up but i got swept up in the commenting :)

Comment Re:What's recent? (Score 1) 880

"If you don't understand why Muslims are angry about drawings of Mohammed, then you are a big part of the problem."

I disagree, it is the observer of a belief that is charged with upholding that belief, people who are not muslim have NO OBLIGATION to uphold the teachings of islam.

If they are angry that is fine but misguided, if the think violence is a just response to that anger then they are wrong.

If you can't see where the road obviously leads when you expect other people who don't hold your beliefs to live a life that obeys your beliefs, then you are the problem.

Comment Re:Muslims? (Score 1) 880

" Christianity ran up a pretty impressive body count during the middle ages. "

I think you meant to say Catholicism.

I am a christian but not a catholic.

in a related note, I also never killed anyone in the middle ages, maybe we should just consider the acts of violence rather than the justifications of those who commit the acts, as the justifications are rather moot.

I would care less about why someone is killed my family than the actual act, and if i took revenge on that act it would have less to do with my hatred of their reasoning and more about the act they committed against me.

Comment Re:Not Likely (Score 1) 325

"An airliner in the pattern is doing well over 100 MPH just to stay in the air. They are way too busy checking lists, communicating with ATC and flying the plane to spot some 48" Quadcopter off their wingtip"

I'm pretty sure not only do they have multiple pilots in the cockpit (isn't minimum two for commercial flight?) but i'm very sure they aren't "checking lists" when they are 700 ft off the ground on approach.

When all you have in front of you is less and less sky and more and more earth coming towards you fast, you tend to notice small things in the path of your plane (be it wires, blinking lights, or birds of the same size), especially since birds cause crashes all the time.

take off the hat "once" in a while. (although that's how they "get ya")

Comment Re:Aerial or underground ? (Score 1) 516

"By pushing against them. Pushing against a wire usually won't break it. The wire will move a half an inch one way or the other, and then the root goes right past it."

"So it's because wires are tougher, and nothing to do with nutrients at all?"

No by the opposite, because cables resist less and are able to be moved easily, they are better than walls that don't tend to move one inch one way or another very well.

Comment Re:is it really bad in the first place? (Score 1) 342

"Every accident which has been my fault has happened while I was stone sober"

"Every? Implying a lot? I think you need to recuse yourself as an expert on driving in this thread."

they're called accidents not mentadoos.

I'd rather be in a car with someone who has been in multiple accidents than someone who has been in none, there is a level of expertise there in one and not the other in dealing with situations where accidents arise and how to deal with them when they do...

Comment Re:Don't fight it (Score 1) 720

""Give up all your hobbies" "

means i want to spend more time with you because i miss the courting we used to do and all the attention you gave me.

""get some new hobbies, you need to get out of the house more""

means she has accepted that the courting is over, she has accepted her new life and now needs "me time".

although one could ponder what that me time could entail.

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