Comments by Diacanu

1801. Study: Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology

Comment #128316 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Hmm, maybe most people's ideas of nanotechnology comes from the Borg in Star Trek.

1802. A match made on RichardDawkins.net?

Comment #128289 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Oh, man, that's terrible.
Fucking cancer!
Lost a couple grandparents to it two christmases in a row.
Condolances, man. :(
Stay strong.
Hug Veronique tight.
:)

1803. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #128283 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Of course, you can see Jesus himself being a slippery obscurantist bastard in Mark 4:11-4:12.

1804. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #128276 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Peacebeaponme-

Extremely common: 100% of Christians do it.

That's the bit that disturbs me about it.

I could aaalmost see it, if it were reasoned like "well, our faith is dying, there's a dark secular conspiracy out to get us, we're going to have to dirty our hands a bit to survive, hopefully Jesus will understand and forgive us".

Cuz, then there would be a speck of human guilt you could get through to.

But no, all of that is leaped right over, and they skip right to the bullshit and dirty tricks.

They think it's holy.
That's sick.
There are no words.

1805. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #128272 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 4:40 pm

TonyA-

Lol, yeah, I thought that too, that's why I didn't answer his post, I was hoping to eventually crack the code, and then moved on to other things, and forgot.

1806. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #128269 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Spandrell-

Indeed, there seems to be a lot of conning and shadiness on the christian side.

Lying for Jesus seems to be a common phenomenon.

Hey, there's a title for someone.

1807. The argument from oranges

Comment #128259 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 4:09 pm

As Bill Hicks would say, ya-fuckin-hoos.

1808. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #128206 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 2:01 pm

dlitt-

What's "Cash Cab?"

A gameshow that takes place in a taxi cab.

The contestants are the people the cabbie picks up, and they answer questions and win money as they head toward their destination.

They have "shout outs", which are like the life lines on Millionaire, except on cash cab, you use a cellphone, or can ask random people on the street for help.

It's actually pretty cool, you Brits should import it.

1809. A match made on RichardDawkins.net?

Comment #128204 by Diacanu on February 16, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Hooray!!!!!!

*Boings around like Tigger*

1810. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #128027 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 10:07 pm

dkv-

Doubt about what?

That the idea of hell was thought up by hateful primitive men in the bronze age, and is perpetuated to this day by people with the same mentality?

No doubt at all.

1811. Why Darwin matters

Comment #128023 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 9:58 pm

....how the fuck does wooter even manage to turn on a computer?

Does he have handlers?
A helper monkey?
Someone should be minding him.

1812. Christopher Hitchens appears on the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show

Comment #128022 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 9:55 pm

xdrive-

Yeah, wow, I totally don't care at all....

..that so wasn't worth bumping a 2 month old thread...

1813. Ayaan Hirsi Ali asks for protection

Comment #128018 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 9:48 pm

mejdrich-

Aw come on.
It wasn't derogatory.
If it were a guy, I'd say poor bastard.
I 'unno, it's just something ya say...
Loosen up!

1814. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #128012 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 9:32 pm

Wow, thread killer.

Loosen up, keeds.

Sheesh...

1815. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #128011 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 9:27 pm

dlitt-

Yeah, yeah, I know, but now you've ruined my personal anecdote wrapped in a joke, wrapped in another joke.

Limey son of a...*mumble grumble*....

1816. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #128006 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 9:22 pm

dlitt-

Why are you so offended? You didn't write it.

No, but anyone educated under the American school system gets painted by your brush there whether you intended it or not...

But still...like I said in the rest of the post, nevermind...

1817. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #128002 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 9:19 pm

Shh..don't bump it, let it die.

Oh, and...

Word.
:)

1818. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #127992 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 8:51 pm

dlitt-

a testament to the quality of American education.

Why you snotty limey son of a....!!!

...no...public schooling failed me utterly, and I didn't have the grades or money for college, my mind is completely self built with internet and books...

...and I seem to have more lights on upstairs than a lot of folks that went to college...

Okay, fine, it's a fair cop...

1819. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #127991 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 8:46 pm

Richard Morgan-

rape and sexual abuse of children

Two things notoriously absent from the ten commandments.
Y'know, the ten commandments Mike Huckabee says "pretty much cover everything".

1820. Ayaan Hirsi Ali asks for protection

Comment #127988 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 8:40 pm

What a difference time makes.
Tom Paine almost got the chop in France for speaking out against religion.

1821. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127983 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 8:35 pm

Word.

:)

1822. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #127979 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm

quill-

"somehow that mud came to life"

Oh, of course, God molding that same mud into a guy shape, and breathing into it, that's perfectly reasonable!

1823. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127970 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 8:18 pm

Steve Zara-

Sorry, I did not mean to sound provocative. I meant that I could irritate you more by disagreeing with you if you were up to it.

No, I'm really not.

If my batteries were fully charged, then y'know, we could smash each other through walls like a couple Terminators, but the mess with ThermoThug really drained my meter down.

1824. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #127957 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 7:44 pm

dlitt-

"Smashin' of the Christ."

ROTFLMAO!!!

That's great, can I use that?

1825. Ayaan Hirsi Ali asks for protection

Comment #127951 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 7:35 pm

Tch, the poor bitch is still having to beg?
Disgraceful.
Not to her, I mean this fucking world.

1826. Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

Comment #127948 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Course, it'd be far easier to drop down a robot in a landing pod of some kind, and then work it via VR.

1827. Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

Comment #127947 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 7:20 pm

babrock-

Yeah, if you tried to linearly map the information, but someone might find some kind of quantum memory or something that makes particles jump back into previous states.

Who knows?

1828. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #127920 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Spandrell-

Evolution and Intelligent design are never defined, and Stein shies away from any question remotely involved with the factual accuracy of either.

Well, from what I've seen of the trailer at least, the thrust of the film seems to be a big bottom lip puffed, sniffle voiced, martyrdm routine for creationism being picked on by big mean science.

Morons will swallow it like candy.

1829. Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

Comment #127891 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Steve-

Yes, but what about the unobtainium?

Alcubierre's warp field requires a form of exotic negative-mass matter which has never been created, nor observed.

Chris Van der Broek revised Alcubierre's metric so that the warp is essenially a thin wormhole, thus minimizing the need for this negative mass matter down to a few pounds or so, but then, you still have to produce this stuff, and then you have the added problem of how do you squeeze your spaceship through the eye of the needle?

1830. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127882 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Non-falsifiable arguments now.

You're using the whole bullshitter pamphlet I see.

1831. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127878 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:10 pm

Post-modern wackaloonism.

Sell crazy somewhere else.

1832. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #127873 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Credulity always coughs up its dough.

A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

1833. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127870 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:06 pm

ThermoThug-

you must always keep an open mind,

But not so open your brains fall out.
;)

1834. Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

Comment #127865 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:03 pm

Steve Zara-

It has already been done. This was worked out by the physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. The main problems include steering and how to turn the thing off.

Well, that, and for fuel, you need a big tank of unobtainium. ;)

1835. Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

Comment #127851 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Come on, Hawking, invent warp drive already.

1836. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127798 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 3:54 pm

So, Philip, what do you think would be the thermodynamic properties of a clown car that spits forth unlimited ThermoThug clones?

1837. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127792 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Oh, sweet merciful crap, TT has called in for fresh troops.

*Facepalm*

1838. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127755 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Heh, how do y'all like how I got back on topic in a warped way at the very end of post 198?

*Wink*

1839. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127746 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:54 pm

al-rawandi-

Depends on what turd pointed him in the direction of this site.

If it was someone like wooter, or Blacknad, then it could be a yin-yang of shit.

A shit shitting a shit that in turn is shitting it.

A self-shitting infinity shit.

1840. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127729 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:41 pm

al-rawandi-

ROFL!!

1841. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127721 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:35 pm

al-rawandi-

Re: post 166

You forgot the vital reason 4.

Men who hate women usually have some sort of Norman Bates thing going on with their mother.

Probably has to wash her hairy carcass, loves her, hates her, hates himself for popping wood.

That's if she's even alive anymore, and he doesn't have her stuffed on a base in some disturbing pose.

1842. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127715 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:30 pm

ThermoThug-

You vomit-feed your comatose momma with that mouth?

1843. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127698 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:17 pm

ThermoThug-

Anyway, what the hell does it matter anyway?

Exactly, knowing the Dixie cup in the landfill awaits you.

1844. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127682 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:08 pm

Quetzacoatl-

I think working out how to fire an Uzi might be too complicated. Perhaps impaling himself on a rusty spike might be better?

Spike, road flare cigar, hydroflouric acid enema, playing chicken with a steamroller with him on a tricycle, whatever.
So long as those poor molecules are liberated.
They never asked for this.
They could've been a foam cooler, or an inert carbon rod.
But no, cruel fate made them into the beefaroni and sugar cereals that gradually conglomerated into ThermoThug.
It's a crime that must be rectified.

1845. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127668 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:57 pm

ThermoThug-

Please, stop molesting the poor molecules that are being forced into service of comprising your wretched form, and go guzzle an uzi clip.

You'll find it a cool refreshing drink that will rinse away a lot of misery.

1846. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127661 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:52 pm

ThermoThug-

Forward into????

For you?

If I were a betting man, I'd wager a protracted death of some sort of wasting disease, lonely and forgotten in the filthy sub-basement of an abandoned building in a bad neighborhood with a meth head's hand down your pants seeking warmth.

Then, your horrible carcass will be body slammed into a pine box, burnt in a furnace, and then your ashes violated for weeks with cat piss and cigarette butts before finally being scooped into a Dixie cup, and carelessly being tossed into a landfill.

1847. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127647 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Steve, why are you discussing things rationally with this piece of shit troll?

1848. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127643 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:37 pm

annabanana-

Which of course have all been edited to something less crude. You'll have to look at the blockquotes on my postings and quetzcoatl to see what he really said.

Ah....

Sure I'll find it as I hit troll and offensive on all his posts...

1849. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127636 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:32 pm

annabanana-

Before his latest bout of physics, he was busy making crude comments about me...

Ah...then the lad must die....

1850. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127633 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:29 pm

*skims*

...so...what's ThermoThug doing here?
Seems to be a kind of post-modern physics.
Nice bit of mental acrobatics, but about as useful a skill as weaving invisible fabrics.