Recent content by stratos

yeah, but as I've said, the point is not if witches exist, it is if you believe they exist. and in that respect, witches have a lot more going for them then god does. Which brings me to what borro said, Which is a non argument. We don't believe god exist yet christians are still christians...

I think VyckRo actually makes a fair point, and thunderf00t slipped up in that video, or at least did not explain himself well enough. Firstly, tf00t states the condition. If you are a christian you have to believe in witches, wizards and demons. VyckRo, successfully establishes that there are...

I don't know about THE national socialist party. But here in europe we do have a certain uprising of nationalistic parties. BNP in the UK, PVV in NL, Austria had the whole Jorg Haider guy as prime minister for a while, and switzerland had the whole minaret ban referendum (can't remember if the...

I would like to point out that the freedom of speech is not the same thing as the freedom of thought. The two often coincide and when it comes to arguments for/against freedom of speech one should be careful to exclude the freedom of thought part of it. People are free to think the holocaust...

The bank thing is actually a mayor mayor fail on my part. In dutch "Bank" is a word that means both the financial kind as well as a sofa. For some reason the fact that bank doesn't mean sofa in english did not occur to me while writing that reply. I plea sleep deprivation as a cause. But...

I've never seen a dictionary that claimed they were the source of what words meant. People who create dictionaries are pretty well aware about what they are doing. They are, as you point out, recording the usage of a word and the meaning that people give that word. I however find it puzzling...

It's obviously the fault of god for creating the tobacco plant. On a serious note however. I am not familiar enough with the legislation in america but the anti-smoking legislation here where I live is based around the concept that a employer is responsible for the working conditions of their...

Yeah, I'm empathic like that, I feel for them.

You know. You know what I do when I want to know what a word means, I look in a fucking dictionary*, that's what. ** Gee, I guess it can be used in quite a few contexts, certainly not specifically referring to the scientific method. I really don't see why people keep bickering (not only here)...

Without jumping to reality just yet. News always has a bias, it is the goal of any decent reporter to remove bias and report in an objective fashion, but it is an unattainable goal, because even in the selection of facts a reporter wants to present, bias will creep in. But even if it is an...

hmm, you could be right, would be interested in what you could find because I was under the impression that the amount of countries that respect/accept DMCA was rather low, from a national legal stand point anyway, companies and person may of course choose to act on it. I also want to rectify...

Now VFX's latest move was mayor douchebaggery, it's more then certainly crossing a line. I'm reasonably sure the proving of private data is illegal, although i'm also quite sure that the accusation of paedophilia isn't. For that to be consider slander it would have to be proven that VFX...

By shifting the top of the file icon a little to the right and the bottom a little to the left. :lol: But seriously. Give distributors of media more control in terms of licenses, as apart to giving copyright holders cart blanche. For instance, I'm pretty sure the pirate bay made heaps of...

I think it's inherent to journalism to introduce bias. I know very well that it should be the goal of every reporter to be objective in it's reporting. But abstractly, the only non-biased form of reporting is by presenting a list of dry facts, and even then you have bias by selection. So in its...

Unless the person in question is an vicar, priest or monk, etc.. there is no issue of church and state there. There is certainly a matter of professionalism to be asked from teachers in these matters. But I think it is wrong to deny people their faith for the duration of their employment hours...