To ignore them is to passively accept what they're doing. To accept a position of trust, then defy it is treason. It's a Catch-22.

Absolutely wrong.

Treason is working against your nation. He worked for this nation. The enemies of this nation are the traitors he outed.

Don't let the lizard people here you say that.

Or the NSA...I mean New World Order people.

I know plenty of Christians who by definition (it's what makes them Christians) believe stuff that is just as wacked. But unlike Scientologists, these people mean well so they deserve a shitload of slack.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

A specific Catholic might mean well, but they are still supporters of an organization which actively engages in predatory behavior. Their policies are designed toward the specific goal of increasing human suffering in order to increase the demand for their services. Anti-choice to increase the number of poor and unwanted. Lying about condoms to help spread AIDS so that they can use their victims as poster children. Raping children and then blaming the victims while protecting the rapists because if they didn't cover it up people would think they weren't good. Spreading hatred of gay people because they're not going to produce more victims, and hence aren't really people in their book.

They're the most successful business in the history of the world based on their business model of increasing human suffering and using a small part of their income to ameliorate a small portion of it.

A specific fundie nutjob might mean well...who am I kidding, they have nothing but hate.

Not everyone who is delusional, is a sociopath.

No, but almost all religious organizations *are* sociopathic. One's intentions don't matter at all if their results are consistently the opposite of their intentions and they fail to adjust their actions based upon the outcome for the benefit of a sociopathic organization.

Maybe you're talking about some specific Christians who attend some specific churches, but that has little bearing on the big picture.

Unless their church actively supports birth control, reproductive choice and is openly accepting of people who don't harm others, then they are supporters of sociopathic organizations. Actively working to increase human suffering when your stated purpose is to decrease it is a business tactic to increase demand for your services.

They can spend all day whining about their intentions, but what matters are results.

All the major religions have much more in common with Scientology than you admit.
Individual Scientologists might be decent people in their own right, they're just brainwashed and deluded like the rest of religious people. The organizations are hard to tell apart if you look past the specific details and look to the general case.

It's just a different business model.

In many countries the mainstream churches were or (as in the US) are an import social factor in the battle against poverty and much of their money is going to 'Worthy Causes' that save the community at large from a lot of grief.

Dead. Fucking. Wrong.

The churches you speak of do everything they can to create and promote those very problems so they can solicit donations and use them to ameliorate a small amount of the damage their policies intentionally cause while pocketing the profits.

Their anti-choice, anti birth control, and anti gay policies exist to *increase* poverty. They exist to ensure that there are *more* children born into poverty in a vicious circle leading to more need for their "help" in the "battle against poverty".

Now, think it through. Even if you don't understand and are unwilling to accept that that is the reason that they have such policies, it is absolutely unassailable that their policies have this effect regardless of their reasons.

If they actually give shit one about anything decent, then they would change these policies in order to attain results with a shred of decency.

But they do not. They continue applying shotgun blasts to the face of society and jump up and down claiming great moral superiority when they toss a band aid at their victims.

Yeah, and let's not forget that the *majority* of Christians support an organization that has as an official policy to aid and abet the rape of children and lie about condoms to promote the spread of AIDS.
And that's not even talking about the whack job fundies in America.

So, no, they are not "import" social factors in the battle against poverty. They're the enemy in that battle. As part of their business plan.

That depends...is it a decent beer or some of the piss water that passes for beer in the states?

Wow, Rip Van Winkle, how long is your beard? I mean you must have been asleep since the 80s

Ho many of them are called up at 3am in the morning on a day off?

I don't have raw numbers, but I can guarantee that it's at least as many if not much more than IT people called up at 3AM in the evening day off and day on put together.

If you consider "IT" to mean "any computers at all" then outside of a lemonade stand, I can't think of a business that can compete without "IT".

I think kids these days would text their parents when they were running low on sugar, cups and lemons so IT by your definition is critical to the supply chain of even the modern lemonade stand ;-)

This is a giant waste of time as opposed to you spending 2 minutes writing the ticket, taking a screen shot and attaching it.

Pretty please, copy and paste the error message, don't send a screen shot of a dialog box with a text error message displayed in it.

1) You might actually read the error message and it might tell you exactly what to do to fix it.

2) If I don't know what the problem is from seeing the error, I'll copy paste it into google and that solves the problem a fair fraction of the time. Sometimes less time than it takes to type in the text I'm reading off of an image.

3) You waste time taking the screen shot and attaching it. You waste my time opening an attachment and retranslating text back into a useable format. Plus the wasted storage and network resources.

Unless your complaint is about visual design/layout etc. a screenshot is almost always the wrong thing to do.

This PSA brought to you by a former employee of a technical company whose client services department would routinely embed screenshots in word documents and attach them to tickets when one sentence in the body of the ticket was all that was necessary and *wasn't even captured in the image*.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then don't use a picture when 10 words will do.

For any objection presented for some course of action it is demonstrable that it is the outcome and not the action itself which presents a moral problem. So if the outcome is good, the action is good.

You failed to account for unintended consequences among other things.
1/10. Third grade level work.

Laws don't change because "me and all my friends want them to change", unless you and all your friends are an oligarchy.

Just dead fucking opposite.

There is no excuse in America to outlaw gay marriage. There is no justification for it.

It's exactly the same situation with pot. The constitution is written on hemp, and prohibition requires a constitutional amendment. They just decided not to bother when they switched the target.

It doesn't matter what most people want because the people who wrote the Constitution went out of their way to make sure that this is not a Democracy, it's a Constitutional Republic.

Just because we have a long history of not being as good as our ideals doesn't mean we aren't expected to live up to them.

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when did you last check the batteries in your "batshit crazy" detector?

I believe you'll find that those run on a mixture of zero point energy and unicorn farts.
Trust me on this one. Mine's on the fritz and I'm working up a new fuel cell charger using /dev/zero for that part.

Panspermia [wikipedia.org] (I always thought that term a tad chauvinistic)

No, it makes perfect sense.

You have big planet that's been sitting there developing a fertile environment.

Then out of millions of tiny bits of organic matter navigating a hostile environment one lodges in the fertile environment and using her resources his contribution helps create new life.

So, nope, not chauvinistic. It only works that way as an analogy of human reproduction.

Plus, what, Paneggia? Panovia?
That last one sounds like a crappy car name. Sometimes you just have to go with what's catchy.
 

There have been many instances where innocent people have been injured or killed by drug gang violence.

I think you mean drug law violence.

It would be OK if gang violence effected only the gangs but it does not. It terrorizes entire neighborhoods.

Again, you mean the violence created by drug laws.

We did an experiment called prohibition. It conclusively demonstrated that those sorts of laws and the enforcement thereof are the root cause of increased gang violence and organized crime. Hell, that's why the name "Kennedy" even means anything to you.

Blaming the effect while ignoring the cause is a problem.

Probably -- why risk wrecking the vehicle or attracting further attention once the pursuing police have fallen back?

Now I hate cops for the lying nazi fuckholes the vast majority are as much as any sane person, but I still think "possibly" would fit better than "probably".

My brother's car and the other cars at his apartment were broken into and robbed. We interrupted them and almost got shot. They left and we filed a police report. An hour later the police picked us up and drove us ~20 miles to where they (different cops obviously) had pulled over the people who did it. They were driving over 100 miles an hour in a stolen car with several unregistered guns in the car....20 miles from the scene of the crime. They would have gotten away clean if they acted in the rational manner you suggest.

Shit like that happens a lot.

Elaborate computer crimes or Ocean's 11 type shit takes some serious brain power. Most run of the mill crime just takes balls and often a lack of intelligence rather than an overabundance.