TIL Upon the German occupation of Paris in 1940, the Eiffel Tower's lift cables were cut by the French so that Hitler would have to climb the steps to the top.

jeckles · 14 days

yeh .. but nothing on that Iraqi who threw a shoe at his "Hitler".

LebaneseLurker · 14 days

"It can be debated whether homosexuality is a sin."

ah .. that terribly misused verb "to be".

Homosexuality is itself not a sin. That can also be said of eating chocolate on Thursdays, or dropping bombs on villages.

(By "sin" i assume you mean "immoral". )

Nothing, in and of itself, is a "sin". "Sin" is in the eye of the beholder.

What you're suggesting is that there's a debate to decide whether we should all regard homosexuality as immoral. (but, is there? .. i assumed no one except a particular minority hold homosexuality to be immoral)

We all evolve our own morality. We all make decisions according to our own morality. If you assume that someone else should decide rules about what is and isn't "sin" (religious leaders) then that's essentially immoral.

wordsandstuffs · 14 days

.. and assbots.

PdoesnotequalNP · 25 days

long story short ..

if you don't cite an authoritative reference to your pompous assertions of what's right or wrong, you're just jacking off

mijj · 26 days

ie. if you believe you're beloved by god, then compassion is irrelevant.

(note: i'm not an atheist. But i don't respect any faiths or religions .. or atheism.)

scientologist2 · 26 days

thank you, sir!

scientologist2 · 27 days

"turtles all the way down" applies to science, too.

It's surprising that so many people think science reveals "truth" rather than provides models with a certain accuracy.

ie. "The map is not the territory" - someone whose name begins with "k" and ends with "ski" or "sky".

dc469 · 27 days

if they don't want to support our rights, we wont support their business

the essential principle of this idea is great!

economics and politics are two views on the same monster - even if it's on the micro scale of buying oranges or allowing ads on a website.

thesidebproject · 28 days

it's not that god doesn't exist .. it's that he's an asshole.

PdoesnotequalNP · 29 days

So, to point out grammatical mistakes one must now provide sources.

It's not a grammatical mistake if it's just your opinion. Unless your grammatical authority for the supposed error is respected by the other person, there is no grammatical error.

In other words. Grow up. 8-)

PdoesnotequalNP · 1 month

your criticism is wrong.

If you're attempting to convey authority, you should post a reference to your source. Otherwise you come off as someone who stands on street corners directing traffic in his underwear.

PdoesnotequalNP · 1 month

12 million

freedoodle · 1 month

you gotta admit .. taking stuff off other people is where the future of the economy lies. And for that, it helps if the population is fully tooled up and fit. (I assume Military Weapons Training and Righteous Government Appreciation are included as required parts of all courses)

a_stray_bullet · 1 month

no .. that's perfectly fine .. it'd look like a guy in an amazingly cool, utterly fascinating suit. That's something you would enjoy seeing.

what would screw you up on acid in actual reality is being confronted with something like this ..

Kida89 · 1 month

he forgot the part where he takes your shirt and pants too. .. and shoes.

blacktaxi2d · 1 month

that fact that the guy is a dentist and doesn't believe in evolution is rational.

a dentist would realise that evolution would provide a much more elegant and reliable alternative to teeth. This proves the existence of an incompetent, asshole of a god.

ZackyBeatz · 1 month

personally, i think all internet access should be blocked for all people (except for those in the security services).

Should anyone want to access a location on the network, they should make a written request to the authorities stating the location, the nature of information there and a full description of why the location will be visited.

If the request is not denied outright, an appointment will be made with a Truth Acquisition Specialist. He will determine your actual reasons for visiting the requested location. If he is satisfied your actual reasons comply with your specified reasons, then an appointment will be made where you will be allowed supervised access to the location. If the Truth Acquisition Specialist isn't satisfied that your request correlates with your actual reasons, you will be tagged "potential information terrorist" and become the responsibility of Homeland Security(Categorisation Division) for further processing.

ammcurious · 1 month

interesting: they produced a video that makes it look entirely fake.

PrettyBoyFloyd · 1 month

i came across this solution recently: CloudFogger

(beware: this is my understanding as an ill-educated pleb)

it does per file encryption. A virtual volume is created, but actual encrypted files are saved (on an individual basis) in a designated folder (eg. a folder within the dropbox folder). Opening a file from the virtual volume decrypts the file for the application.

Ie. the act of passing a file into the virtual volume encrypts the file, accessing a file from the virtual volume decrypts the file.

there's an Android version of CloudFucker i mean CloudFogger, but at the moment it only allows viewing. (they say encryption for Android is planned, but no expected date for it.)

seems ok so far. I have no technical expertise, so i don't know how good it is security wise (eg. what happens to temp stuff created behind the scenes when you open/modify/save an encrypted file with an app?).

Maxcactus · 2 months

Barring an incident where it appears as if Iran does something really, really stupid

FTFY

slaterhearst · 2 months

NATO member nations should supply weapons to the Goldman Sachs rebels.

mic9ael · 2 months

i guess we need some kind of meta-ISP that maps info onto regular ISPs as noise.

however, i have no idea what i'm typing about.

blackstar9000 · 2 months

Any evidence that demonstrates the state is fallible is a threat to national security, and so must be kept secret.

mijj

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