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Comment Re:Immoral Dilemma (Score 1) 348

I'm willing to have sex with women I'm not related to, even though they mit be someone's mother or sister. Just because someone happens to be a daughter doesn't mean younshouldntreat your daughter the way you treat them.

Same thing with a porno.

Comment Re:What an ass (Score 1) 689

there are no atheism-motivated wars or ethnic cleansings.

You may be wrong on that front actually

Also the Cold War was partly motivated by atheism (it was more motivated by economic principles, but religion was thrown in on the Russian's side at least).

Before you say "that's only one time!" How many powerful atheist dominated societies have there been? I don't think us atheists really have anything to be proud of.

Comment Re:What an ass (Score 1) 689

Now, what percent of internet atheists post smug shit every time they see a shadow of an opportunity?

So you're comparing the actions of reasonable people to the actions of those found on the internet? Talk about a double standard.

What percent of people, in your day to day life, throw their religion in your face?

I'd say about 5% of the religious people I know throw it in my face, and about 2% of the atheists throw it in my face.

Now, what percent of internet atheists post smug shit every time they see a shadow of an opportunity?

Well I can say a ENORMOUS percept of religious people post smug shit every time they see a shadow of an opportunity, and about an equal percent of atheists do as well.

See how the comparisons work out to be roughly equal when you compare valid samples?

Comment Re:What an ass (Score 1) 689

You really think the Flying Spaghetti Monster argument has any effect on them?

Read the fucking article. This is about how 1 man challenged the law concerning religious headgear, using the Flying Spaghetti Monster argument as his tool to open up a debate on the issue. This has hit the mainstream media. People who read this will now question their current position on the argument. They may not change their position, but they will be at least consider it, if only for a second.

Comment Death-throws of IE6 (Score 2) 193

You'd have to find a reason for those guys to get off their arses and support Firefox to the level that IE is

As someone who is "one of those guys" I take issue with this. The reason we use IE still is due to legacy programs requiring IE6. Now I hate IE6 more than anyone else in my building. As someone who has spent years developing websites, I know the terror of IE6. But I've had it explained to me that we can support 1 browser with our resources (fortunately the webteam aren't required to follow this policy for the external websites). It can be either IE or Firefox. Due to the fact we must support IE6 only programs, we must support IE.

The vendor has finally released upgrades that don't require IE6, they don't make these upgrades available for free. And even then, companies or government agencies moving to the latest greatest program immediately is a recipe for disaster. Instead its often better to remain a version or two behind the latest developments, in order to minimise the number of bugs that will affect the system. Meanwhile other departments are asking us to invest in these other amazing systems, that have IE as a requirement. But its all good, because we already use IE. Right?

So give IT a bigger budget with more staff members and more control over what programs are purchased, and I'm sure they'd be happy to support Firefox. Most of them are probably geeks, so they probably use Firefox when at home anyway.

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