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steve_h



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,16:34   

Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,April 09 2008,14:07)
Tribute to great tards

   
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I was hanging out on the front steps of the lecture hall when David appeared, and we chatted in both French and English. (As bizarre as it might seem, although I earn my living as a software engineer in aerospace R&D, my three college degrees are in French language and literature, and classical piano.) I was wearing my Harley Davidson windbreaker, and David asked if I was a Harley rider, to which I replied yes. He asked about what model Harley I rode, and expressed his passion for motorcycles.

David is one of the most eloquent, insightful, clever, iconoclastic, and irreverently humorous speakers I have ever had the pleasure to encounter.


Gil Dodgen is a sad loser, onlookers.  I hate to see tragic failure, except when it is from such a sanctimonious and fractally wrong priapism for Jeesus.  Berlinski must have hit on him.

You'll have to read the rest to pick up the "And I found out we are both concern trolls" bit.  Where's the beef?

I would like to second Kristine's proposal for a Barf emoticon to made available on this board. Anyone like to bet that GD didn't find some excuse to shoe-horn his world beating checkers program or his imagined humiliation of Dave Thomas on the subject of Genetic Algorithms into the conversation?

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,16:50   

DEnMARKATIONS, YOUR DOIN IN RONG.

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-229332

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DaveScot

04/09/2008

4:45 pm
Ekstasis

If the goal of the panspermia is to seed life that then develops, survives, and thrives, then why use individual organisms that possess consciousness, and die, fading to permanent black?

Do we know for a fact that individual consciousness fades to black, never to return? How did *your* consciousness arrive in the first place and since it arrived once is it unreasonable to think that it might happen again? I think this is a question for philosophy not science.


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don_quixote



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,17:21   

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So which Harley do you own?

A 1998 Dyna Superglide, non-stock and souped up with Screaming Eagle pipes, S&S carburetor, high-performance ignition and cam, and increased compression ratio. It has 50% more horsepower than stock, and really roars.


Ironically, that bike is powered by Harley Davidson's Evolution engine.

 :D

  
J-Dog



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,17:26   

Quote (dogdidit @ April 09 2008,15:42)
Oh goody, I love French.
   
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Salut Gil,

Je ne savais pas que David B. paralait français. Est-ce qu’il a des livres en français?

J’aime bien les discussions sur ce site ainsi que les sujets que tu commence.

Lâche-pas!

Translation: "I salute you with my underwater breathing apparatus. I didn't know David B. was a French paralegal - savage*!! Do they still eat liver with quills in France? I'm getting ansty for the discussions on this site to commence. I've lost my pass(word)!"

*Apache French. Or Comanche, I forget.

High School wasn't a waste of time after all.


Tres bien, Mon ami!!*

* I am sure your translation accurately depicts the meaning of his suck-up words.

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Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10

Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08

UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

  
J-Dog



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,17:40   

WWDD?

What Will DaveScot Do?  His Sciencey Pal, and Teacher, Sci-Am has turned around and stabbed him in the back and panned Expelled.

What Will Davie Do?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sciam-reviews-expelled

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Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10

Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08

UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

  
Mr_Christopher



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,17:44   

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Oh goody, I love French.
   
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Salut Gil,

Je ne savais pas que David B. paralait français. Est-ce qu’il a des livres en français?

J’aime bien les discussions sur ce site ainsi que les sujets que tu commence.

Lâche-pas!

Translation: "I salute you with my underwater breathing apparatus. I didn't know David B. was a French paralegal - savage*!! Do they still eat liver with quills in France? I'm getting ansty for the discussions on this site to commence. I've lost my pass(word)!"

*Apache French. Or Comanche, I forget.

High School wasn't a waste of time after all.




I used an online French - English translation and got this (not a joke)

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I did not know that David B. French paralait. Has it pounds in French?

I like well debates on this site as well as subjects which you begin.

Coward-step!


edit - fix the quotes...

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,17:58   

Quote (J-Dog @ April 09 2008,17:40)
WWDD?

What Will DaveScot Do?  His Sciencey Pal, and Teacher, Sci-Am has turned around and stabbed him in the back and panned Expelled.

What Will Davie Do?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sciam-reviews-expelled

I assume he'll continue to make his wife pay for his subscription for a few more years.

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dogdidit



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,20:20   

Quote (J-Dog @ April 09 2008,17:40)
WWDD?

What Will DaveScot Do?  His Sciencey Pal, and Teacher, Sci-Am has turned around and stabbed him in the back and panned Expelled.

What Will Davie Do?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sciam-reviews-expelled

Reach for an issue from that other stack of magazines next to his bed??

Let us now draw a curtain across this sordid scenario...

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sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,22:09   

Gil doesn't know DaveScot's bike


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"[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God."

- William Dembski -

   
sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,22:13   

This one may be even bigger but it's inappropriate for American ID-creationists because the engine is Russian (Stalin!) and it was built in Germany (Hitler!)



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"[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God."

- William Dembski -

   
Jkrebs



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(Permalink) Posted: April 09 2008,22:31   

For a while I was saving threads at UD that I was participating in, but then I got disgusted that Salvador had come back in my life, and I gave the whole thing up for a while.

Now I find that DaveScot deleted all that stuff about Darwin beating a puppy on the machine-video thread.  Did anyone save that before it got disappeared?  If so, could I arrange to get a copy?

Thanks

  
CeilingCat



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,00:32   

Young Salvadore Screws Up

Though few will believe it, Salvadore Cordova's scholarship is sometimes less than perfect.  An example can be found here:                
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As an aside, Fisher’s theorem was controversial and misunderstood until the Creationist George R. Price reformulated it. The new version of Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem by creationist George Price can be found at Wiki here.  

Hmmm... George R. Price, creationist?  A creationist making a major contribution to a subject that he by definition doesn't even believe in?  Doesn't sound too likely.  Let's look at the wiki article that Salvadore quotes from.  Here's a clue, in the first paragraph:                
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A troubled man, Price converted to Christianity from atheism, and after giving all his possessions to the poor, committed suicide.  
 Okay, he was a Christian when he killed himself.  But apparently that was only a late phase in his life, for the same article states                
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In 1947 he married Julia Madigan, but their relationship was contentious because George was a militant atheist whilst his wife was a practicing Roman Catholic.  
 His conversion was evidently a little dramatic:                
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On 6 June 1970, Price had a religious experience and became an ardent scholar of the New Testament. He believed that there had been too many coincidences in his life. In particular, he wrote a lengthy essay entitled The Twelve Days of Easter, arguing that the calendar of events surrounding Jesus of Nazareth's death in Easter Week was actually slightly longer. Later he turned away from Biblical scholarship and instead dedicated his life to social work, helping the needy of North London.  
 So he was a liberal Christian.  But a creationist?           
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He then dedicated his life to helping the homeless, and invited many homeless people to live in his house. Sometimes, when the people in his house became a distraction, he slept in his office at the Galton Laboratory. At one point a violent man whose partner he had helped escape caused trouble at the office, however, he was able to smooth this over with the lab.

He was eventually thrown out of his rented house due to a construction project in the area, which made him unhappy because he could no longer provide housing for the homeless. He moved to various squats in the North London area, where he committed suicide with a pair of nail scissors by slashing his throat at Christmas 1974. Friends said he committed suicide because of despondency over his inability to continue helping the homeless.
Ugh!  Slashing his throat with a pair of nail scissors!  Okay, Mr. Price ended his days as a Christian, but where did Mr. Cordova get the idea that he was a creationist?

Here's a clue: Type "George Price" into Wikipedia's search box.  You get this response:                  
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George Price is the name of:

George Price (New Yorker cartoonist) (1901–1995)
George B. Price, (born 1929) U.S. Army brigadier general, retired
George Cadle Price (born 1919), former prime minister of Belize
George E. Price, member, West Virginia Senate 1885 to 1889.
George Lawrence Price (1898–1918), the last Commonwealth of Nations soldier killed in combat during World War I
George McCready Price (1870–1963), Canadian creationist            <<<<<<<<<<----- CLUE! CLUE! CLUE!
George R. Price (1922–1975), US scientist, evolutionary theorist.

So young Salvadore made a very common error.  Honestly, who doesn't occasionally mistake a Canadian Seventh-Day Adventist Creationist nutbag for a troubled scientist who converts to Christianity and then cuts his throat with a pair of nail scissors when he can't make it work.  Any ID scholar could make that kind of mistake.

Edited to bold "CLUE!".

  
Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,01:04   

What a pathetic dickhead.  Sal, not George.

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Erasmus, FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,08:01   

Ceiling Cat, you rock.  great post.

I'd like to point out how much effort and good smart work to point out errors in the bull shit that these idiots spew by the second.  It is very difficult to keep up with the Gish Gallop, the Sal Drive By Chicken Strut is even more of a tough character.  It's all bullshit from the top down and bottom up but these bastards have polished their narrative and rhetoric and delivery to where to anyone paying half attention it sounds reasonable, it could be true, like NPR or something.  JEsus what a douchebag.

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You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK

Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG

the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat

I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

  
Erasmus, FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,08:24   

You can count on this tard.

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For the record, I also don’t take seriously those people who accuse others of immorality of one sort or another if that person doesn’t believe there is any transcendent, source of absolute morality.


CONSISTENCY:  YOU"RE DOON IT RONG.

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First, the phrase “clearly based upon” further emphasizes that the actual “Inner Life” video was not used. And anyway, clearly, the clips in Expelled were based upon, well, what actually HAPPENS inside of a cell. Makes me think that perhaps the Intelligent Designer ought to sue XVIVO for copyright infringement.


We'll get right on that.  What is the Designer's name again?

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You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK

Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG

the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat

I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

  
PTET



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,08:36   

Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,April 10 2008,08:01)
...It's all bullshit from the top down and bottom up but these bastards have polished their narrative and rhetoric and delivery to where to anyone paying half attention it sounds reasonable, it could be true, like NPR or something.  JEsus what a douchebag.

The Fundies have put a lot of effort & money over the years into "debate teams" and the like.

Now they have armies of neatly dressed zombies who can take any piece-of-crap argument and make it look nice for an audience that's just hearing what it wants to hear anyway.

The problem is, these Master Debaters believe their own shinily-polished bullshit.

Can you guess who else liked rhetoric?

Anyone? Anyone?

Here's a clue... [edited to fix pic!]



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Even the attempt to formulate ID is a generous accommodation." - ScottAndrews

   
dogdidit



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,08:47   

Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,April 10 2008,08:24)
You can count on this tard.
     
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For the record, I also don’t take seriously those people who accuse others of immorality of one sort or another if that person doesn’t believe there is any transcendent, source of absolute morality.


Translation: God keeps me from being a lyin cheatin monster. (Opps, oh wait, it doesn't...)

I utterly loathe this fractally-wrong stupidity. For starters, the letter was from two XVIVO partners and their lawyer. All atheists? And you concluded that just how, exactly? But more importantly is the stupid belief that you can't have personal morality unless you believe that Thor Zeus Shiva Ra Ur Baal YWHW Jay-zuz Allah Spaghetti Monster Ceiling Cat will kick your ass for all eternity in his personal torture chamber if you don't follow the rules as they were clearly written down in the Quran BIBLE Talmud Book of Mormon Mode D'emploi Yellow Pages. ARRGGGHHH!!! At the end of the day, you still have to choose to act ethically or not, REGARDLESS OF WHAT COSMOLOGY YOU SUBSCRIBE TO. It's still a personal choice. It always will be.

OTOH *becoming calmer; smiling now* I utterly enjoy the prospect of sitting back and watching the Epicfailed: The Movie faeco-ventilatory event play itself out. Life is good.

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Reciprocating Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,08:55   

Gil's cargo cult motorcycle. He built this and thinks cool will land.



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Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace

"Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down."
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dogdidit



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,09:03   

The DESIGNER to the rescue:
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DeepDesign

04/10/2008

8:11 am
What does this finding do to ID?

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/.....101021.htm

53

DeepDesign

04/10/2008

8:24 am
Perhaps the designer, introduced new information so that the lungless frog could breath out of it’s skin.

And just in the nick of time, too! The lungless frog was about to ass-fix-he-ate.
Another crisis averted by Divine Design Intervention.

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Erasmus, FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,11:02   

jstanely01 is A Ladies Man


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I double checked, and the “intention” proofreader error is also on the sourced website, ERV. It’s a site run by the same grad-student hack who got her panties in a bunch back in November over Dr. Dembski’s use of the Harvard video.


My bolding of course.  I wonder if he typed that one handed.  And these are the folks we are supposed to be f**ming for?

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You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK

Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG

the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat

I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

  
tacitus



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,12:17   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 09 2008,10:08)
Quote (dogdidit @ April 09 2008,09:29)
I am convinced DS is writing hisself a sci-fi novel. Or channeling Arthur C. Clarke. link
     
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A perfectly plausible explanation for this is that the earth, as soon as was able to support organic life in any form, was purposely seeded with it (Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel’s directed panspermia). The purpose of that was to terraform the planet so that it could eventually support oxygen breathing land animals. The first seeding culminated in the Ediacaran biota. A second seeding of modern forms of life took place in the Cambrian. If we suppose that rational man and an industrial civilization capable of repeating the cycle of directed panspermia was the ultimate goal more terraforming was required at least in as much as laying down large stores of easily accessable fossil fuels to power an industrial civilization. In order to repeat the cycle and ensure that life continues beyond the point where the earth is able to support it (the sun will eventually fry the earth into a cinder in another few billion years) there must be some means of identifying young planets able to support life (astronomy), the ability to transport life to them (space exploration), and the ability to customize forms of life suitable for the new environment (genetic engineering).

Of course, if the space aliens travelled all the way to earth just to stick anal probes up our butts seed the planet with new life and program it to go out an find a new world to live on, why didn't they just perform the latter task themselves? Oh wait, that'll be in the second volume. Tard Wars will be a multi-volume set.

"Please! We have reached the limits of what anal probing can teach us!"


One would think that was true, but it's dangerous to make such assumptions without first calculating how far Gil Dogden  can stick his tongue up another person's butt.

  
Maya



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,12:24   

Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ April 10 2008,11:02)
jstanely01 is A Ladies Man


 
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I double checked, and the “intention” proofreader error is also on the sourced website, ERV. It’s a site run by the same grad-student hack who got her panties in a bunch back in November over Dr. Dembski’s use of the Harvard video.


My bolding of course.  I wonder if he typed that one handed.  And these are the folks we are supposed to be f**ming for?

Hey, I use that phrase.  Two-handed, even.

What's scarily interesting to me is that the conversation on that thread is now about whether or not Allen MacNeil believes in a "transcendent" moral code.  I must have missed the part where TRoutMac explained why it's okay to steal from non-believers.

Oh, wait, it's because we're not human.  I forget that sometimes.

  
carlsonjok



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,12:28   

Quote (Maya @ April 10 2008,12:24)
What's scarily interesting to me is that the conversation on that thread is now about whether or not Allen MacNeil believes in a "transcendent" moral code.  I must have missed the part where TRoutMac explained why it's okay to steal from non-believers.

Troutie is basically the male version of FTK.  Utterly unable to conceive that a Christian could be lying and an atheist* could be telling the truth.  They just can't wrap their melon around that concept.

* Allen isn't an atheist. He self-identifies as a Quaker, but I seem to recall some comment somewhere that he might be a Buddhist.

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J-Dog



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,12:29   

Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ April 10 2008,11:02)
jstanely01 is A Ladies Man


 
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I double checked, and the “intention” proofreader error is also on the sourced website, ERV. It’s a site run by the same grad-student hack who got her panties in a bunch back in November over Dr. Dembski’s use of the Harvard video.


My bolding of course.  I wonder if he typed that one handed.  And these are the folks we are supposed to be f**ming for?

I believe my framing suggestion works best:

Just remember to put "please" in front of your "STFU".

HTH :)

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Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10

Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08

UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,15:01   

FtK walks the christian path:

http://www.uncommondescent.com/legal....-229599

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FtK

04/10/2008

2:50 pm
Jack *is* a fascist…

*snicker*

[Don’t ban me, Dave. I couldn’t resist.]


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"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
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dogdidit



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,15:15   

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FtK walks the christian path:

http://www.uncommondescent.com/legal....-229599

       
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47

FtK

04/10/2008

2:50 pm
Jack *is* a fascist…

*snicker*

[Don’t ban me, Dave. I couldn’t resist.]

Dave can't ban her, or Gods iPod, or anybody; he is too busy being hypnotized by Allen MacNeill's superior Jedi skillz. What I am especially enjoying are the sucker punches Allen keeps sneaking in under DS's limp defenses, viz:
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Notice that this would not include an empirically vacuous “if it’s not the naturalistic mechanism, it has to be magic” argument.

BIFF! POW!


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Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,15:18   

Speaking of Allen:

http://www.uncommondescent.com/legal....-229605

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Allen_MacNeill

04/10/2008

3:08 pm
O’Leary wrote (in #48):

“Intellectual property law only protects the intellectual property created.”

So, if somebody published a book entitled The Spritual Nervous System, and you discovered upon reading it that it had the same chapter titles, the same sequence of ideas, and the same text, but with every third word changed, you wouldn’t consider this to be theft of your intellectual property?



magic!

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"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
"ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard
"I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932
"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,15:21   

As well as being in teh tard business, Atom is in teh music biz:

http://www.uncommondescent.com/legal....-229607

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I think they’ll show it anyway. I doubt XVIVO could win substantial damages for Premise independently making a (strikingly) similar video. It is like when Mad TV does spoof music videos; they slightly alter the melody and change enough things to legally protect themselves. I’d think it is the same here.


Fair use....Parody...tard.

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"You magnificent bastard! " : Louis
"ATBC poster child", "I have to agree with Rich.." : DaveTard
"I bow to your superior skills" : deadman_932
"...it was Richardthughes making me lie in bed.." : Kristine

  
J-Dog



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,15:24   

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 10 2008,15:18)
Speaking of Allen:

http://www.uncommondescent.com/legal....-229605

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Allen_MacNeill

04/10/2008

3:08 pm
O’Leary wrote (in #48):

“Intellectual property law only protects the intellectual property created.”

So, if somebody published a book entitled The Spritual Nervous System, and you discovered upon reading it that it had the same chapter titles, the same sequence of ideas, and the same text, but with every third word changed, you wouldn’t consider this to be theft of your intellectual property?



magic!

Damn!  Opportunity wasted. He could have gone with "Spatula Brain" for his example.  

I am sure that O'Leary is still stunned however, that anybody would actually put the words " intellectual" and "O'Leary" in
the same sentence.

First Time Evah - and probably last time too.

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Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10

Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08

UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

  
Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: April 10 2008,15:50   

Davetard: untouched by reality

http://www.uncommondescent.com/legal....-229623

So who's threatening legal action, then, Dave?

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