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Comment Re:Windows 10, Windows 10, Windows 10! (Score 1) 503

i7winUsers / i7winUsersWithARM ==> DIVISION BY ZERO

That ratio is the inverse of what you said in your earlier comment, and is the percentage of i7 Windows running on ARM who are i7 Windows users. This value would presumably work out to 100% every time.

I'm pretty sure aardvarkjoe is right, your joke doesn't really work.

Comment Re:Yeah. And the SS was a bunch of nice fellas ... (Score 1) 519

It's not your POV, it's what you do.

One's point-of-view determines how said person interprets "what you do". Nobody is suggesting that somebody who might otherwise view ISIS as evil should reconsider that position simply because ISIS doesn't think that ISIS is evil. What is actually being said is that, though you (and many others to be sure) may think that ISIS is evil, this doesn't make them evil in some sort of objective, cosmic sense. All it means is that a bunch of people think that ISIS is evil.

TL;DR: Moral relativism.

Comment Re:Yeah. And the SS was a bunch of nice fellas ... (Score 1) 519

I think there is a distinct area in which people and their views can be placed that is undoubtedly evil. Holding abysmally absurd theo-fascist views... etc. pretty much puts people smack center of the 'evil' designation in my book.

In your book. Moral relativism is the whole damn point.

Comment Re:Another example (Score 1) 728

The schoolyard bully isn't a bully because we call him that. He's a bully because he beats you up just enough intimidate you into giving in to his future demands, but not enough to get in trouble with local authorities. He can call himself rightful ruler of the school for all we care. He's still a bully. It's the strategy which determines the name, not the other way around.

Right, but the question that kicked off this thread of conversation was:

What are the motives of these terrorist groups? What does killing people randomly accomplish?

"Terrorism" may be a fine descriptor of the end result of these attacks (and therefore may be a reasonable answer to the latter question), but it doesn't necessarily shed much light on the motives of the attackers. We may call them "terrorists" and it may be an apt name indeed, but it doesn't mean that we have any idea of what it is they're actually after.

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