Could the scammers at least try to bother with learning English??? I mean really, my 8 year old could write better English...
Hello my name is Marina [ed: the email was addy'd by "Isabel" not Marina] You probably are not much surprised that have received my letter, I understand that you at all do not represent who I, but it not the big problem. I ask you to give to me some minutes to read my letter. As I already spoke my name is Marina I live in city St. Petersburg to me of 28 years. I have written to you that will get acquainted with you, I have received yours e-mail the address in agency of acquaintances to me have told that you very good and kind person. I have paid for it 2000 roubles.
It depresses me that there are people who reply to these things...
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It seems pretty obvious that if a HS science course doesn't actually teach science, then it shouldn't be used to score college prep credits for science, but as usual, some people don't understand that point and sued.
How can a HS science course not actually teach science? Well, when the science course in question insist that the Bible is infallible and use that as a basis to reject common science frameworks like evolution.
UC is not claiming that all Biblically based frameworks are not allowed.
[T]he university has approved many courses containing religious material and viewpoints, including some that use such texts as "Chemistry for Christian Schools" and "Biology: God's Living Creation," or that include scientific discussions of creationism as well as evolution.
UC drew the line at a text from Bob Jones University "Biology for Christian Schools," declares on the first page that "if (scientific) conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong."
Security Theater: Border Agents Redux Follow up to my earlier post on Border Agents Gone Wild and the new rules about seizing laptops without warrants.
Here's a post with some more analysis on the issue at hand and wondering if the vague and seemingly open-ended rules now in place can be used to search all internet traffic.
In that sense, it would seem to make little difference if the information is "imported" into the US via a physical laptop or via a VPN, or for that matter by a web connection. The right to search a laptop for information, then, is equivalent to the right to tap any and all international connections, without a warrant or probable cause.
And, of course, its only reasonable that the government gets all VPN keys so it can check up on that information flowing so freely across the border... :-/
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What a great event idea! At a meeting of atheists, have them symbolically pass under a blow dryer for "de-baptism"! hahahaha!
"Do you agree that the magical potency of today's ceremony is exactly equal to the magical efficacy of ceremonial baptism with dihydrogen oxide, and do you agree that the power of all magical ceremonies is nonexistent?" Frank Zindler, president of American Atheists, said to launch the de-baptism.
After a resounding "amen" from the audience, the first person in line yelled, "Dry me brother! I'm free!" The crowd laughed as each person squeezed his or her eyes shut and walked underneath the blow dryer.
I'll have to remember this if I ever attend any atheist gathering :-)
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Security Theater: Border Agents Gone Wild Well, its official: Minimum-wage, power-goons at the border can take your electronics and keep them forever, share the data with anyone they want, and never give it back... and all do any of the above without cause and for no reason at all. At least that's what the official DHS policy says.
I'm sure most agents take their work seriously and honestly believe they are doing an important job. But the policies covering them are overly broad, have no oversight, and there is no recourse for anyone caught up in the idiocity.
The wackos are upset because the book includes swearing (because tender high school eyes might spot a word they have never heard and we all know that adults never ever use curse words), but most horribly, the firemen in the book burn a bible! Oh the horror!!! And particularly ironic since the main character in the book makes a special effort to save the bible.
The problem started when one kid didn't like what she read, so she was assigned another book. But as is usual with these Christian wackjobs, they are imposing their rigid ignorance on others and insisting that no other kid get a chance to read the masterwork. They can't be content that the kids don't have to read it, they want to censor it so the kids can't read it.
How bout this. If you don't like the book, don't read it, but don't tell me what my kids can't read. I can make that call myself, thank you.
Today's other freelink story: The ongoing stoopidity of crackergate PZ Meyers has been involved recently in "Crackergate" where he came to be in possession of a stale cracker that some people think is extra special.
Well, now some wacky group of Catholic leaders has written a public letter condemning PZ's actions which PZ posts and criticizes.
The scary part is that this Catholic group seem to think that they are beyond ridicule because they think this cracker has magical properties and that PZ somehow "defamed" it and displayed irreverence towards their beliefs.
The Catholics are compleatly free to believe their cracker is special, but that belief does not mean that anyone else is required to treat the cracker with any more reverence than a stale saltine. And the thought that PZ has to apologize because he treated the cracker like the stale saltine it was is ludicrous.
Your religion is your own delusion, keep it to yourself. And if someone else gets ahold of something you are handing out willy-nilly, but that person doesn't treat it with the same respect as you do, that's really your problem, not theirs.
I think I saw this structure once on a trip thru Georgia and remember reading about it once or twice before.
Seems some Christian groups are mobilizing against anyone else posting 10 commandments.
"We have atheists and Satanists getting the Bible's Ten Commandments removed from public property," said Mark Dice, spokesman for the group The Resistance, "yet the satanic Georgia Guidestones have stood for decades, and nobody seems to care. Well, we do."
The problem is, unlike the Christian 10 commandments that keep getting pulled down from public property, these 10 commandments are a private monument placed on private property and in no way bear an air of official government.
Unfortunately, knowing the types of people these groups attract, the monuments will undoubtedly be the victim of defacement or destruction before too long.
So if you happen to be in the outskirts of Georgia you might want to see these monuments for yourself before some religious nut takes away your freedom to think differently.
"The children wanted to go on an inflatable slide and I started taking photos of them having a good time. Moments later the woman running the slide told me to stop.
"When I asked why, she told me I could not take pictures of other people’s children. I explained I was only interested in taking photos of my own children and pointed out that this was taking place in a public park.
"I showed her the photos I had taken to prove my point. Then another woman joined in and said her child was also on the slide and did not want me taking pictures of the youngster.
Perhaps we need to just dump some valium in the water mains or something... people really need to chill and get some perspective.
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