Remember, kids, gravity is “only a theory”:
http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p67.htm
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Remember, kids, gravity is “only a theory”:
http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p67.htm
Technorati Tags: humour
The EU has produced a united Europe – a Europe united against the EU technocracy. But this time the technocrats can’t just keep on telling the people to vote until they give the right answer:
Salman Rushdie on why secularism is wrong to want love from religion:
Just give me that old-time atheism!
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In 199x I was on holiday in Turkey. Half way through my two week stay, a bastard newcomer told me that Microsoft had bought part of Apple. I didn’t enjoy the second half of my holiday nearly as much as the first half. But that was as much the bar by the pool looping Queen’s greatest hits as anything else.
So Macs will have Intel inside. So, Linux or BSD?
The people who regard Prisoner’s Dilemma as an illustration of economics rather than an attempt to justify a pathological ideology will probably take this as showing how natural money and markets are:
I on the other hand wonder just what kind of pervert tortures monkeys until they have to act like office workers in order to try to naturalize their weird worldview.
Some experiments prove a bit more than they are meant to. This is definitely one of them.
Update: Now I’m totally confused. I’ll update this when I know what’s going on. We’ll see whether this post’s title was right or not. 🙂
Update: Right, story checking policy.
1. Check the original page, read all of it, check the design.
2. Check the site, evaluate the site name, read the front, about and copyright pages.
3. Google the site name and get the WHOIS information for the domain.
4. Google the author name.
5. If any of this causes you to think that the story might be a joke or a plant, drop it and inform your source.
Do this for any funny, ironic or major stories.