Comment: Re:If the protests were actually worth bothering w (Score 1) 1799
What? No, damnit! I didn't want to post anonymously! Gah, I keep forgetting to make sure I'm logged in here.
Comment: Re:Her Defense Was Pretty Good Too (Score 1) 699
Similar problem (and I'm saying this as a member of the Church) with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a.k.a. "Mormons." It's not as heavily inculcated as it is in the catholic church, but it's still pretty bad and has disheartening effect of minimizing the human achievement, something that is NOT doctrinally based and ABSOLUTELY antithetical to God's stated purposes.
End-running myself from going down that particular rabbit hole, I'll leave you with an amusing quote that comes about because of the guilt-complexing and minimizing of the individual; "Ex-mormon girls make the best lesbians."
True story!
Comment: G+ is neither a cathedral or a bazaar (Score 1) 200
...it's an old fashioned private club, complete with membership requirements, a bouncer at the door, and some odd activities and traditions that don't make sense to outsiders.
"Cathedral" and "Bazaar" are commerce/Command-and-Control related, not social related. Don't try to shoe-horn any of the Social things (Twitter, Facebook, Diaspora, RainbowDash.net, etc.) into something it's not.
Comment: "They aren't buying it!" (Score 0, Troll) 756
Scientist 1: "They're poking holes in our Anthropogenic Global Warming sca...er, I mean 'theory'...stop laughing, this is serious guys! They're figuring out that we didn't really have any evidence that global warming was mankind's fault! Just like they figured out that the whole 'over-population' and 'New Ice Age' thing was all bupkus! We need a new great big scare, something that will secure the 'scientific' community the nearly unlimited funds we've been enjoying since we convinced the world we were killing each other just by driving our cars!"
Scientist 2: "Well...I've got this interstellar space flight project, but the technology is still a few centuries off from being mature enough to do any real-world tests..."
Scientist 3: "Hey, the sun's been warming the system up by a degree or two, right? People are starting to notice that..."
Scientist 1: "Wait...wait! I got it! We'll release new data that says that the SUN will kill us all after a long time frame! That will GUARANTEE that not only will WE be rolling in cash, but scientists for hundreds of years to come will be filthy rich, too!"
Scientists 2 & 3: "GENIUS!"
*beers are passed all around*