Bill Gates not a philanthropist?

[spirantho]

Gosh. And it must be true, because it says so on the internet.
Seriously..... however you cut it, Bill Gates has done a LOT of good with his money with things like Polio eradication. This article looks like a bit of a cheap shot from a Linux nerd or Jobs fan to me.

Let's not turn into /. here, eh?

[spirantho]

And for the economy too! Now, who wants to buy a hat? Made of the finest Tin Foil, guaranteed to protect the brain from Aliens/The CIA/MI5/Cliff Richard. Honest.

[spirantho]

@ 53 years old, with over 160 College credits, I thought I was a grown up, until I read that.
WTF are you talking about Karlos?

He quoted stefcep2 above his comment... I don't think it was directed at you.

I'm not going to say anything about the argument though - any minute now someone's going to compare someone else to Hitler and then the argument will be over anyway. Some of the things said in this thread are just so ridiculous and insulting to great women like Emmeline Pankhurst and so many others, I'm not even going to honour them with a reply.

By the way, I've upgraded the firmware in my tin foil hats, and they now protect from EVIL OVERLORD DAN too. Yours for only $99.99 + taxes, import duty and another spurious surcharge I haven't thought of a reason for yet.

[spirantho]

Seems like people are just posting random personal attacks, anti-feminist rants, and gibberish on this thread now. But since it's staying stuck at the top of the homepage I'll just stick this here. To all you Brits! :bitch:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT0yoo9B2Bc
 
 

I shall give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you don't realise just how disgusting posting a link to that video is.
To say it's tasteless is understating things... Ireland was very much an issue when I was growing up and I had see all the constant news reports of innocent people being maimed and killed as they did things like shopping, and dropping kids off at school.

To put it into perspective, imagine somebody had posted a video to you asking for Muslims to rise up and shoot innocent Americans. How would you feel? (Nicholas, I'm not meaning anything by this except how a lot of people are still angry about terrorism. I realise Islam is just as peaceful a religion as any other (and just as open to fundamentalism any other)).

[spirantho]

Remember the point of terrorism is to terrorise you. If allow yourself to be scared they win. The best way to handle terrorism is to trivalise it by laughing.

I have German friends who play Nazi Zombies on Call Of Duty and they think it's the coolest thing ever! When i asked if they found it offensive they laughed at me. Then pointed out they can see the funny side of it but maybe their grandparents would not see the funny side of it.

I don't fear it, I just revile it. It's hard to laugh as people randomly blow up innocents and schoolkids.
But either way, posting links to pro-terrorism videos is in very poor taste.

[spirantho]

I think we worked out that Bill Gates was God, that Arnie doesn't like naughty threads, and that terrorism is bad (mmkay?).

Oh, and also, that my guaranteed tin foil hats are still available at the low, low price of $99.99 (+ spurious charges) and protect from EVIL OVERLORD DAN.

[spirantho]

What's a philanthropist again?

I think it's for people who get their sexual kicks from people called "Phil".

[spirantho]

This could be a new game. Everytime someone says something that contains "Phil" they get called a pervert. We don't tell them why either  :razz:

Pervert! You mentioned "Phil".

:razz:

[spirantho]

In the course of getting to know her, she revealed that she was a lesbian, but rejected that lifestyle because of her belief in God and the bible.

You can't reject your sexuality as a lifestyle choice. You either prefer men or you prefer women (or if you're really lucky, you don't care!) - you don't choose. If you "choose" not to follow a homosexual "lifestyle" then all you're doing is lying to yourself. That's not a good thing, and that's what led to so many years persecution of people just because they don't fit the perceived "norm".

[spirantho]

And this idea that "orientation" isn't a choice is an opinion that's lately been forced upon us as fact.

Am I the only one who sees the irony of a religious person dismissing science with this sentence?