The church held a monopoly because nobody else was interested.

The reason why they had a monopoly has nothing to do with my point. They did, and that spurred the consequences I'm discussing.

Why don't you do yourself a favour and just admit to yourself that you have prejudice and that your fear of religion is based on ignorance?

You're wrong on all counts. First of all, I have no "fear of religion". Contempt is more like it. It's not based on ignorance, because I know the christian religion better than 95% of christians (and that percentage comes from personal experience). Lastly, it's not based on prejudice, but on factual evaluation of the many failures of religion vs. logic and science.

I cannot argue you into changing your mind.

That's right, you can't. And that's because your belief has no rational basis.

You seem to have a problem with cause-effect relationships. The monks were the only chroniclers because the church held a monopoly on education. Probably, without the church's monopoly, there would have been non-religious chroniclers who would have reported the facts without religious interpretations.

Your ineptitude at logic reasoning is showing.

The chroniclers were all monks. Your underwear is showing.

That's because the church held a monopoly on education. If that weren't the case, the chroniclers wouldn't have been monks and the chronicles would have been more accurate. Your cowardice is showing.

By whom exactly? Your prejudice is showing.

By the chroniclers of the time. Your religiousness is showing.

And yet, without the religious text, there wouldn't even be a written record of what happened at all.

More likely, the event would have been recorded more objectively without all the religious bullsh^Wovertones.

Yes, after all, there's no value in confirming your preconceived ideas with experimental evidence, is there?

Experimental evidence is always welcome, but to me this article's title sounds a lot like a tautology.

A new study finds that intelligence can decrease stupidity! Maybe the two teams could join forces.

the program occupied less space in memory

Unlikely. Back then, every BASIC interpreter (certainly all of those for 8-bit home computers) used to "tokenize" commands to save costly RAM (and CPU cycles on interpretation, too). Tokenization usually meant translating every command to a 1-byte index to a lookup table. That's what is called "bytecode" nowadays.

Mr. Roberts' claim proves too much. Let me show you why using analogy with mathematics, as I'm particularly fond of mathematics. Let's suppose I believe that there exists precisely one even prime, and analogously that precisely one god exists. Let's suppose furthermore that Mr. Roberts believes that no even primes exist, and analogously that no god exists.

So you to took a provable mathematical fact and compared "believing" in it to believing in a god. And you probably think you're smart, too!

So, if we find out that a handful of corrupted people employed a
dirty tactic, what should follow? Sure, let's convict those guys but after
that... Should everyone stop voting for the party they felt to represent them
the best, because of a couple of bad apples?

"A couple of bad apples"? Are you serious? You might want to study some recent history. It's always the conservatives spying on people and generally pulling dirty tricks. They're the scum of this world.

I bought one about 3 years ago. The zipper broke and needed replacement. The plastic key hook in the right pocket broke. An inside pocket has a zipper that gets caught in the fabric every time I use it.

A look at my wardrobe seems to indicate that I'm not particularly abusive to my clothing.

The idea is good. The execution is not.

You didn't get it.

The question is: What is TPB doing that's different from what they did yesterday? Hint: Nothing.

What if they didn't "decide" to host 3D-printer files and I went there and uploaded one anyway? Hint: They would host it anyway.

This is just sensationalism to wow the low-IQ masses, this is NOT news. "Nerds" should know better.

How is this different from what they're already doing?

It's just another file format. WHOA, BIG DEAL!

Idiocy.

Die you Spamming Commie

If communism was still in place, you'd get no spam from Russia. It's capitalism that begets spam, not communism.

As the saying goes, the more eyes the better.

That's a myth. If those eyes aren't attached to competent people, having more of them will do no good.