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Commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
The best (and maybe first) novel on this subject: Der Untertan...
Commented on College students arrested for not tipping
These students really need to see Reservoir Dogs....
Commented on Plaices of Death
Interesting, people eat all kinds of animals without wanting to know how it ended up on their plate. There's no better way to demonstrate the process on the plate itself then......
Commented on Homophobic murder in Puerto Rico. Cop: "he deserved it" for his lifestyle
"I didn't say many of the things you are accusing me of." Actually, I didn't accuse you of anything. I just expressed myself poorly, sorry. "What? That's exactly what I'm saying." I should have said that I don't think that...
Commented on Homophobic murder in Puerto Rico. Cop: "he deserved it" for his lifestyle
What kind of evidence would you expect in order to make such a link? I don't think that one needs to be a religious fundamentalist to hate gays. You can't deny that many people are raised in a way that...
Commented on Homophobic murder in Puerto Rico. Cop: "he deserved it" for his lifestyle
Seriously? There are people who say that there is no link between Christianity, which is after all a very important part of the local culture, and homophobia? Are you saying that religions don't influence human behavior at all, or just...
Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
"people called her gross and ugly and criticized her mother for having sex with a black person out of wedlock." That kind of stuff just makes me want to cry......
Commented on Virus loads child porn on unwitting users' computers
The fact that there are more viruses for a certain OS doesn't necessarily increase the OS's vulnerability to viruses. A security leak is either there, or it isn't, regardless of how many viruses exploit it or not. As it happens,...
Commented on Epoch: podcast of my story about the death of the first AI
I just finished listening to the podcasted Epoch. It really made me question our view and definition of AI. If AI is supposed to be just like human intelligence, but capable of processing information faster, isn't it like having very...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
Yes, an employee who's trained and is payed to make such decisions. It works in Europe. Most of the time, the police doesn't even need to use their guns because a majority of criminals don't have access to guns. Most...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
I said social....
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
"Uh, that'd be "fewer" bad guys" Alright thanks, English isn't my native language. "it's the one hypothetical bad guy that's being prepared for, not a ravening onslaught of evil that has to be shot down" My point is that if...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
"An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity." And still you insist on making it as easy as possible to have access to weapons. Anyway you sound like you're coming straight out of a cheap Hollywood action...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
What about paintball or hunting? You don't necessarily need an M16 to retain these skills. And your right to practice with these guns isn't more important than everybody's right to live in a safer society....
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
"you wouldn't need a gun if less bad guys didn't own one" Correction: replace "less bad guys didn't own one" with "less bad guys owned one"....
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
but the vast, vast, vast majority are just like Xeni. So their life is constantly threatened and they need to defend their families? You guys are either very important people, real gangstas, or just suffer from paranoia. And you wouldn't...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
"To non-US readers. There are many parts of the United States where IF you have cell phone reception with which to call the police" Do you think europeans rely on the police when they are being assaulted for no reason...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
Yeah right, now consider that instead of playing cowboy, the crowd could've immobilized the attacker after having shown signs of hostility, if he just didn't own that gun huh?...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
"irrational fear of weapons." While I may have some irrational fears, believe me my "fear" of weapons isn't one of them (I'd call it a disgust more than a fear). Why don't you just play paintball if you think shooting...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
I have to admit, the ownership part does sound responsible. On the other hand, I still don't see how the use of a gun for self-defense can be responsible. The subject of a threat can't objectively evaluate the situation; the...
Commented on Fort Hood Shooter bought "cop killer" at "Guns Galore"
He thought it'd be more practical to do what he did with something that was specifically designed to kill other human beings. I guess a car wasn't his first choice. Xeni, what the hell is "responsible gun ownership and use"...
Commented on An Insider's View of the Fort Hood Tragedy
And when you look at countries that have established that principle, you find majority Christian countries, majority Buddhist countries, majority Jewish countries, majority animist countries, but a pretty scant list of majority Islamic countries. So what? If you look at...
Commented on An Insider's View of the Fort Hood Tragedy
Delusion comes in every flavor, if you're going to tolerate one, logic dictates you tolerate the others too. Islam isn't crazier than Christianity, that's all I'm saying....
Commented on An Insider's View of the Fort Hood Tragedy
"we're really at war with "Some of Islam"" We're also at war with "some of christianity". The Qur'an doesn't have more potential than the Bibel to make people do horrible stuff....
Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
Yes, that's what I tried to explain. It's unreasonable and there's no point. Basically this camera issue all comes down to whether or not you believe a plane hit the pentagon. If you don't, there's nothing I can do for...
Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
"This is foreign government with deep ties in American government, military and security. And no, it is not a Muslim government." "If al-Qaeda didn't do 9/11, it does NOT follow that the US government did it." But it follows that...
Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
"Come on, if there were 83 or 87 cameras in the area, and only one captured the impact, please let us take a peek at the 80-odd other videos that purportedly show nothing. Or do we have to take the...
Commented on Thieves who stole from child get a public shaming
This is against human dignity. On the other hand prison isn't really better or is it?......
Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
If you are using irony you're extremely good at it! Otherwise you're either an astroturfer, or totally brainwashed....
Commented on Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology
Actually, I would've loved to read a scientific rebuttal to this claim. Two of my favorite comedians are women: Sarah Silverman and Wanda Sykes....

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ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
By the way, I have not read this book. I read the introduction linked here. Based on the introduction, I didn't see a need to read any further. (Just like I've seen no need to read any of Rush Limbaugh's books.) If the book itself is different than the introduction, the author might want to provide more convincing arguments up front. I have my own life experience that tells me that ignorance and illogical thinking is a natural trait of all humans. Not just ones that I happen to disagree with. I have the ability to even admit ignorance in...
SamSam commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
I can write an experiment that gives me exactly what I want it to...this guy's no different. So do it. Seriously. Give a test to 1000 liberals and 1000 conservatives and make it "prove exactly what [you] want it to." You imply this guy's experiments are just designed prove exactly what he wants, so 1) Pick an experiment which you think is unfairly loaded, and explain why, 2) Come up with an experiment which would prove the opposite. Until you do, http://bit.ly/7JHgj0...
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
It really isn't all that hard to defy logic and skew the results of an experiment. I don't know why you'd want to do it (unless you are trying to ram through an agenda like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore). There certainly is no point in wasting time doing it as an exercise to prove whether this author has done it or not. It wouldn't prove anything. No one would deny that bias is impossible....
AirPillo commented on Understanding the psychology of authoritarianism
Guys, you might want to read the book before you attempt to rebuff it? I'm seeing a lot of concerns leveled against the book's content in the comments here which are explicitly spoken to and acknowledged in the first 2 chapters alone. You can't refute something respectably if you can't even be arsed to read what you're refuting....
billrafferty commented on College students arrested for not tipping
If the service is excellent, it's a comparable tip. If the service is passable, it's about 15% standard for the wife and I. If the service is poor it drops to about 10%. If the service really sucks then we pay cash TO THE PENNY. No tip. I have been to restaurants where a gratuity was added for large groups of my friends and I and if we didn't feel that the 18% was appropriate we simply didn't pay it. We didn't not pay the check, that's stupid. The customer decides what the gratuity is, not the business....

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