Recent content by MCsommerreid

There's also the difference that high school is pretty much mandatory, and totally mandatory up untill about 16, so it could be seen as forcing ones ideas on the children. Either they agree or fail and don't have the right to walk out like they do in college.

I agree with raildogg that ignorance is the 2nd biggest, but that's assuming Islamic extremism (or any extremism) isn't created by ignorance. I belive it is created by ignorance, as is racial extremism, and political extremism. Thus ignorance is the number 1 terrorist threat, followed by...

MSI is bringing back the modular video card with ZIFF's for GPUs and RAM. It's an interesting idea, but I bet it would end up being most expensive and very proprietory.

Or that could have been the way the probability turned out. The process that they drew from slips of paper were about as random as could be. It's kind of wierd that the probability worked out that October and September were beat half to death in the top 10, but entirely possible based on a...

I'd call it paying my debt to society, cept that assumes just wars. Untill Vietnam the draft was used in relatively "worthy" wars. WW1 to drive back the Germans who were also attacking US shipping lanes , WW2 to drive back Naziism and stop geonicide, and the Korean war by UN request...

I belive for there to be a self aware computer there would have to be near unlimited storage, as well as a algortithem giving the system the ability to learn and write its own code to allow it to use what it's learned. Once you have that there is no limit to what can happen.

It probably has to do more with what goes into the septic system than anything else. A "perfect" system would probably only need to be pumped once in a blue moon because it would only have easily decomposed organic material and a good level of bacteria. This would be the "perfect" system...

Famous last words, if the movies have taught us anything.

It's not just ignorance or just Islam/religion. It's a combination of the two: A firey religion followed by ignorant people. Combine the two and you get an explosive mess which is reaching critical mass. The same thing happened during the Salem Witch Trials, the Spanish Inqusition, and any...

So you're saying that the Earth hasn't gone through times of very rapid climate change?

If anything this is probably just a retreat from an ice age and a couple of cooler periods. There have been times in Earth history where the temperatures in the arctic oceans were on par with those in the modern equatorial oceans, for example druing the Eocene era. It's just something that...

The problem with indirect violence is that it's indirect and not caused by something being said, but by people reacting in a radical way most often the side being spoken against. Preaching hatred is not preaching violence, it's preaching hatred. Saying "Death to America" is a whole hell of a...

My bias supporting any freedom of speach that doesn't directly support violence?

Technically "Allah" is the "Muslim god", as it isn't replaced in English translations with the word "God". "Allah" is to Islam as "Yahrew" (I think that's it) is to Judaism and "God" is to Christianity. Saying that "Allah" isn't or is the "Muslim god" is really nit picking technicallities.

The only way these cartoons could actually hurt someone is if they took their religion so seriously that they couldn't allow non-believers or satirists to conduct themselves while viewing it realistically as what it is. Instead it becomes a direct attack on said religion, and is taken as a most...