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Comment Re:Seriously (Score 1) 904

Offensive is such an interesting word, don't you think? Completely subjective. If facebook considers something to be offensive, then their code of conduct disallows it. And, to make it even more fun, what facebook considers to be offensive can change from day to day.

Comment Re:Pressure applied (Score 1) 877

Pumping waste chemical weapons into the subsurface under Rock Flats = Pumping stuff underground = Increases pressure.

Kindly read what you are insulting before insulting it, it leaves innocent bystanders like me with less of a headache. Or, if you still argue that it's not the same thing, use an argument which makes sense with the thing you're insulting, okay?

Comment Re:Pointless... (Score 1) 630

I guess it depends on how vague or specific you are on the word "appear". I know a lot of people would find a god appearing (becoming visible in a visual sense or coming before the public according to the dictionary) More than enough scientific proof to stop questioning the existence. I'm just saying this to show that, especially in the United States, the word atheism has evolved in a much darker definition.

More dependent on the definition of waiting; it's the difference from actively waiting (eg, "I really hope that a god appears soon so that I will know which religion to join") and inactively waiting (eg, "I suppose that, if a god appeared, I would have to join a religion"). I would argue that most atheists are inactively waiting (or just not waiting, as they don't want to subscribe to a belief system which involves worship).

So, atheism means that, even though you can go through the motions of theism, you don't really need to? (As asexuality means that, while you can go through the motions of sex if you need to, or are pressured into doing so, you have no mental need for it). That fits; if I had to choose between not practicing a religion and death (or at least social ostracism - although, considering the crusades and other religious wars, death works) I would probably be willing to go through the motions of belief.

Comment Re:Pointless... (Score 1) 630

As I understood that, it meant that assuming that all religious (or non-religious) people will argue the same thing is ignorant, not that being religious (or not) is ignorant (as you seem to have read it). Also, I think that you may have confusing Atheism with Agnosticism. Atheism is the belief that there are no gods (or an absence of belief in them), Agnosticism is the belief that metaphysical things (including gods) are either unknown to exist, or cannot be proven to exist - but they still might exist. I suppose that most atheists would probably be willing to become theists if they were presented proof of a god, but that's not the same thing as waiting for a god or gods to appear.
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Journal Journal: Ask Slashdot: Home Theater and HDTV? 13

I'm wanting to take the plunge into home theater and HDTV but I have not the foggiest idea of what to buy.

Actually I lie, I know exactly what I would get if I had $5000+ to spend. However my budget is more the $1500-$2500 for the whole thing.

Feed Engadget: Grad student bolts air-conditioner onto car to beat Texas heat (engadget.com)

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Trust us, Texas isn't the only place on the verge of melting right now, but this solution to solving one's automotive AC problems is the perfect marriage of tawdry and frugal. As you can clearly see in the photo above, a University of Houston graduate student opted to retrofit a home air-conditioner into his vehicle rather than coughing up $1,200 to have it repaired the right way, and while we've no idea how much he spent on the unit itself, the wiring, or the additional gas thanks to the added drag, we have a sneaking suspicion that this mod was about more than dollars and cents. Click on through for a few more photos, but please refrain from trying this on your own ride, cool?

[Via Wired]

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Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac 528

Apple just announced new iMacs. They are aluminum and come in 20" (two models) and 24". There's a new view called "Events" in iPhoto that should make it easier to deal with large photo libraries. Apple's .Mac service is enhanced with .Mac Web Gallery, which integrates with the new iTunes and also the iPhone. It's a Web 2.0 app now. And iMovie is being replaced by a completely new app of the same name. Steve Jobs claimed that with it you can put together a 5-minute movie in 30 minutes, and he demo'ed that from the stage. iWeb, iDVD, and GarageBand get new features too. And .Mac subscribers get 10 GB of storage. Here is Engadget's blow-by-blow coverage, and Wired's.

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