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Comment Re:U.S. prison system is flawed (Score 2) 134

Does Norway also have the Mob and gangs that will murder the other prisoners in their sleep?

Anders Behring Breivik, the Utøya shooter, is kept away from the other prisoners so they won't kill him. (A price tag has been put on his head) At the moment the prison is planning to build a high security department (article in norwegian) for him. So the problem is here but it's not as big as in the USA (yet).

Comment Re:That's nice (Score 1) 100

Mendellian methods

It's called 'evolution'. And the radical terrorists don't believe in it, haven't you heard ?

According to his own manifesto Anders Behring Breivik, the guy that tried bombed a government building in Norway before he went to the ruling party’s youth camp and started shooting people, believe in evolution.

Comment Re:Valuable lesson in currency... (Score 1) 709

Gold is not fiat since gold have other uses than money. A currency consisting of gold coins where the value is the gold content would not be fiat. The same can be said for other commodities. (Not all commodities are created equal. I would not recommend an apple currency. They tend to rot and lose value. If you try to divide an apple it will rot even faster. The supply of apples can easily be inflated by farming them. It would still technically be hard money)

Comment Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it (Score 2) 692

I didn't notice libertarians express any disinterest when their corporations got government bailouts, paid for by taxpayers.

Were you looking for it at all?

I've never heard of a libertarian complain that the government interfered in blocking union workers from aggressive strike behavior.

Not all libertarians are anarcho-capitalists. Randians for example would not mind the government stopping violent thugs.

I've never heard of a libertarian complain that he didn't wish to receive Social Security or Medicare, when eligible.

When a robber offers to return some of what he stole from you it's not immoral to accept it back. Most libertarians believe that the same thing applies to the state and what it taxed from you.

Comment Re:so ? (Score 1) 344

Why don't you buy some fucking gold and start your own insane version of the fucking Gold Standard with you and your two equally fucking deluded friends?

Perhaps he lives in the USSA and wants to avoid getting thrown in jail for "domestic terrorism" like the liberty dollar guy was.

Comment Re:The Atomic Bomb (Score 1) 343

Let's face it, any peaceful alien race probably has something like the prime directive in star trek and will go to extreme measures to hide their presence until we're developed enough to make contact. They've probably observed us enough to notice we're pretty much a warrior race or that we've got a majority that homophobic or discriminating against our own race on appearance and figured most of us would become xenophobic and they should stay the eff away.

To assume that aliens, if they exist, think like man, I can forgive, since it's hard to imagine another way of thinking even if an alien way to think would be more realistic. However, your assumption that they think like a small group of humans that only have existed for a small part of human history (that I assume you are a part of) makes me think you should expand you horizons a bit. The potential aliens might just as well reason like this: "They're not usable as gladiators for hire to entertain us, even if we pay each winning gladiator with the knowledge of a technology that is decades ahead of their level, as they have to many inhibitions to fight in an entertaining way. They're not advanced enough to make porn extremely superior to the real thing (something that wiped out all of our specie except our ancestors, blessed be their wisdom, that saw the evil of unproductive sex). Even without this temptation they not only allow unproductive sex but in many places encourage it, even between individuals of the same sex. Since many of them are offended by the idea of superior races of their own specie how will they react to our superiority? Better stay away." (Note that this alien still is peace full. It won't attack or force amyone to do anything. The gladiators are volunteers that go for their own reasons, like the hope to become rich from alien technology when they return victorious)

Comment Re:twitter makes money (Score 1) 303

Hint: sodom was nothing to do with gay sex, but a civil war.

Hint: Jude 7:

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

If you prefer it in the sodomites own words: "Where [are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them." (part of Genesis 19:5) If your not familiar with Biblical language and are confused by the term "know", here is a hint: "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived")

Comment Re:Ah. Survival. (Score 2) 562

The ones in this group imo could not defend themselves if their life depended on it.

Already today you have gun owners defending their life and property.

However, the fact that your argument is wrong does not invalidate your conclusion: If you live in or near a city, a major disaster hits and people suspect that you have canned food chances are that you will run out of bullets, will to kill or the part of your aiming that depends on luck* before the city runs out of people wanting your canned food.

* training at shooting reduces that fraction but it will still be there

Comment Re:Hate meets hate? (Score 0) 744

They're the poster child for how the US has gotten "free speech" wrong. Take a look at Canada, or most European countries. We enjoy essentially free speech as well, but what WBC is doing would be seriously illegal, as hate speech, and picketing a fallen soldier's funeral with signs like they have would land them in jail in Canada.

In that case I'm certain that you rejoice in the free speech of North Korea and Saudi Arabia. The freedom to praise the communist party in North Korea and to tell how awesome Mohamed was in Saudi Arabia must warm your heart. Personally I find any definition of free speech that only include approved speech meaningless. Real freedom of speech includes the freedom to say things both people like you and those in power hates to hear. That includes the right to say that God hates fags and fag enablers or for that matter to say that that some sort of speech should be banned.

Comment Re: Consistency I would guess (Score 1) 1276

The moderates are leaving the Church entirely or gradually sliding into the more conservative sects. I'm not sure what's causing it, I just know the membership of "mainline" Protestant denominations is falling in the US, whereas the very conservative wings (Baptists, etc.) are swelling.

Perhaps some of the moderates open their Bible and stumbled upon 1 Kings 18? "How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow Him: but if Baal, [then] follow him." It should not be hard to understand what this means today: If the Lord is God, follow Him: but if man (or any other idol that has taken part of what belongs to Yahweh), then follow him. They could also have stumbled upon Revelation 3:16: "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."

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