On 12/16/2010 6:06 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Sometimes, the only correct response to this BS is to open your salvo
>> with, "This is all frakking bullshit, and I am not going to be nice
>> about it!" ;)
>
> Saw this earlier today. The first half had me laughing at just how
> obnoxiously it was phrased. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dSiHqpULk
>
Recent article from, I think, the Times, or one of those, centered on 
how, unlike some religions, evangelicals tend to embrace technology. My 
comment was, "Sure, just like barbarians embrace the use of books for 
use as foot rests (or maybe toilet paper would have been a better 
anology), someone who conquers a country whose national animal was a 
herd of specific deer, or the like, by sending one to every copatriot, 
freshly mounted for display, and certain terrorists embrace cell phone 
technology." The point is never to understand the sciences, its to 
employ those which give them a means to spread the faith, even if they 
later, having won, reject the very thing they used to do so, and their 
***entire*** intent is to get rid of any and all of it they don't like, 
just as soon as they can. Much like creating a 100% museum 'like' 
edifice to promote young earth creationism, because museums give the 
*suggestion* of authority, while wanting to erase any museum with the 
wrong art, or insufficient reverence to mythology), or one builds an 
"Ark" theme park, not with the intent of replicating something like 
Epcot, but rather the Pinocchio right at Disney Land, but *claiming* 
that it is Epcot.

They don't respect any of it, they hate most of it, they would just as 
soon be rid of any of it that wasn't convenient for their own ends, etc. 
Its the village idiot using a surgical laser to snuff ants, because they 
don't believe in surgery, but its so nice for burning ants that they 
can't *quite* decide to just get rid of the device entirely. Its still 
useful see. Its only the completely useless stuff you throw out, like 
heart transplants (thanks Brewer!).

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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