DZJ
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God is real. God is the internet. Ergo, the internet created the universe! That's one for the creationists!
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Even so, I don't see the necessity of force here. What was stopping them from simply dragging him from the library? If they'd done that, this whole event could be seen as a simple ejection and the student in question would look like a childish, whinging baby, rather than the victim of a (at the very least) questionable use of force. (On a different note, I'm somewhat dismayed that this happened in a library. I always think of libraries as scholarly, genteel and civilised places.)
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What I find mind boggling is that at some point he must have thought 'Eureka! I can disprove evolution with peanut butter!' Even more incredibly, this must have seemed like a good idea all the way through the production of that video.
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His library books must have been seriously overdue....
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Hey man, nice work. One thing I thought might be a nice addition would be a shadow for your canopy. Suppose the sun is always behind the player's start point, so you could see your shadow meet you as you land. Would give you another way to judge the landing rather than just watching the numbers spin down. Anyway, good job, good fun simulator.
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So what do you make of the fact that when asked where the Britons were abducted, the Iranians replied with coordinates that were inside Iraqi waters? Any rational person would conclude the Iranians are either liars, or idiots.
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Isn't that a rather simple analysis? Surely you'd have to take the composition of Congress into account to describe any given war as Democrat or Republican?
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I'd hope that a politician so disorganised (as to have to break the law in order to make up time) would be kicked out of office at the earliest opportunity.
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To my mind, the piss-taking thing about this whole business is that despite kidnapping British servicemen in Iraqi waters, and working to destabilise Iraq and other countries in the region, Iran is managing to come out of this looking like the wronged party.
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Understand that too. There seems something terribly ghoulish and exploitative about photographs, and especially those of jumpers. I'd hope that if anything quite so traumatic and dramatic were to happen to my city (London) that it would be treated with the proper sensitivity and respect. (London has had it's share of terrorist outrages, but with 7/7 happening largely underground, its somehow less symbolic and less traumatising. There isn't a 'ground zero' in quite the same way)
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Can understand the feeling, but I wouldn't say it's the vendors' fault, or at least not solely their fault. Supply and demand and all that.
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Uncivilized if you ask me. They weren't even hooded or waterboarded, held in solitary for years, nor made to stand for hours in "stress positions" or stripped and photographed in sexually embarrassing poses like we in the enlightened USA do to our prisoners. Damn those uncivilized Iranians! Well, we now know they were hooded, stripped, held in solitary, and photographed, but I see your point.
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Oh my, that was so hilarious I don't know where to start. Half expected both of them to spontaneously explode in a shower of vitriol. For what it's worth his guest seemed to have a better grasp of the facts than O'Reilly did.
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Seeing that lot on telly is like driving past a car crash...sickly compelling. [In a strange way, however, watching this stuff is reassuring. I now know how, by comparison, I am extremely level-headed and well-balanced]
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For a man with a lot of medals, he certainly types a lot of bollocks.
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Everything that's ever happened to me in my dreams.
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"The only real proof something exists is if you directly experience it" That strikes me as a rather dodgy philosophical basis. One can experience all sorts of things without the experience proving their existence.
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I'd have said that industrialisation was at least as much an economic phenomenon as a scientific one. So perhaps the root cause is actually money, or wealth, or greed, or human nature as mentioned earlier, rather than science. I think all in all this is a bit of meaningless question. Neither religion, nor science are inherently good or evil, and I would say history provides plenty of examples of either being used for either end. Surely it ultimately comes down to the individual, or group of people, and to what ends they harness science or religion (or, indeed, both at once).
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Define 'better', then we can begin.
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Health Care System - which design would you choose?
DZJ replied to lawrocket's topic in Speakers Corner
Re: your poll, what's your definition of accessible? And accessible to whom? A system that is high quality, 'accessible' but (very) expensive is, in reality, only going to be accessible to a (very) small minority of people. -
Not going to criticise the guy for being averse to killing, but I wonder why he joined the Marines to begin with.
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Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
DZJ replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
Don't judge a book by it's cover. That was but one of many sources. Here are many others. They include the BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and more. Wasn't meant as a dig at you, I just really don't like the Mail. It's just a particularly vicious and obnoxious tabloid. -
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
DZJ replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
Seems like this issue is a confusion of politics, religion and history, and probably on both sides (schools and mosques alike) And yes, history teachers should confront difficult questions. In fact, they should make a point of doing so. I look askance at the source though, the Mail is a xenophobic small-minded rag, preferred by people of a similar bent. -
I'm saying that it could easily be policy to harass the Iranians by straying into their territory. What possible benefit could there be from such a policy? And just what sort of 'harassment' can be achieved by a dozen or so sailors and marines, lightly armed, in rubber boats? If it was the frigate in question that was close to the Iranian border, then you might have a point. As it is, however, this just reads like grasping at straws.
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There aren't words for the gut-deep loathing I feel when those lunatics speak. Also feel sorry for the children - they remind me of a couple of young (7-8yr old) girls that Theroux met while investigating the far right/neo-Nazi/white nationalist community. Can't help but think that they're heading either for a major personality meltdown somewhere along the line, or a lifetime of ostracism.