The missing thumbnail issue is fixed. Had to update our origin IP at our CDN. (CC @eric3579)

Side note: Yes, our new servers are absolutely, unequivocally, undeniably blazing fast now.

We've never had server load as low as it is right now. This is a phenomenal thing.

Happy days are here again.

It was even harder the time they accidentally used jet fuel to try to extinguish the blaze (in North Bend, Washington, last December):

http://goo.gl/Jg5QNg

It's not irrelevant if they really do take up arms and start becoming domestic terrorists if they haven't already.

they may be too small to really do anything, but they can cause a lot of damage when they finally do decide to go out in a blaze of glory...and damage/end a lot of lives.

...I'd like to not see that happen.

let them revolt...It will just solidify everyone against racists like them. If they're dumb enough to attack then I've got no problem putting them down.

They've lost, they know it, so they know they're slowly going towards going out in a blaze of glory.

And yeah I'm ok with accelerating this timeframe.

Excellent response.

Don't worry the sift members will discount your link because it if from the Blaze.

I am amazed that this has gone on so long.

That said, for the first time in my memory, I actually feel like the government is handling this correctly. They didn't go in guns blazing and claiming the victims were threats. They went in, allowed the guy to make a complete ass of himself, and let the media handle the public defamation. Now I feel like they could go in, guns blazing, and for once have a recorded justification of doing so.

That said; from everything I've heard the cattle are eating on public land that's not in use. In the realm of sanity, if he's not hurting anyone, let his fucking cattle graze.

Given that usually the guns would be acting in tandem, and that the turret spins to the left and elevates as the left gun blazes away, it's the only theory I've got. Well, unless the gunner hit the "deathblossom" button... *grin*

http://youtu.be/MLNvUsTBGyE?t=2m12s

This video lesson is a shining example of why ALL kids should quit public schools and get an internet connection and a blazing computer instead-At least if you live in the U.S. and you want your child not to be a developmentally-disabled adult with ZERO critical-thinking skills.

A few private tutors, some music, cooking, sewing, etc. lessons, Rosetta stone (at least 3 languages) and BOOM! All well-rounded peep ready for the modern world of wage slavery without the bullshit that comes with a state-sanctioned and programmed shit-think indoctrination.

FUCK public education!
(anyone who argues with this model be prepared to have your shit shoved up)

Ok firstly for ChaosEngine, your paraphrased quote of statements which voiced a sentiment I have had since engaging in conversation with seekers about the existence of 'God or no God': The same mechanism of filtering the words you read through your own belief system is a time-honored technique of the most fundamentalist of back-assward Christians and theologians who read the words of the Bible and fit them conveniently into their limited world view filtered through a similar limited and linear, perception of existence.

(*edit-I now realize that you did not in fact, paraphrase my statement rather, bcglorf's , but the sentiment remains true)

My statement was (and yes Dannym3142, that was NOT supposed to be a question mark, edited with the appropriate period): "I have a legitimate beef with rabid supporters of any particular ideology or philosophy when the shit becomes tiresome and repetitious when tinctured with rage and anger and intolerance."

Your paraphrase of sentiment ChaosEngine, "evangelical atheists are as bad as fundamentalists," then followed by "bollocks" (bullshit), is indicative to me of the rage and anger I attributed to the average atheist's consternation with these 'stupid', 'backwards', 'hillbillies' etc.,(who are too dumb or dense to wrap their heads around the very idea that an omnipresent uni-being does not exist, yadda yadda yadda.) Further, the example used 'When was the last time atheists shot a young girl for wanting to go to school?' to justify your position is reminiscent of any Southern Baptist preacher using similar extreme examples of the human condition to support their own arguments for the infallibility of their 'god'. The words used connote a similar intolerance and ignorance of that which is wholly metagnostic or, 'the unknowable' and I regard the mechanism as the selfsame dynamic.

"So, sorry if I'm not going to sit down and STFU about it." Good. It means you are on the path to enlightenment and intend to continue to seek truths which satisfy the gnawing curiosity that ALL humans are frought with in our tenure here on Earth. Keep at it.

dannym3142: (sorry for the question mark, it confused me as well when reading it again) I used Crowley and Planck's observations as an exercise in tossing a non-linear curve-ball into the circle-jerk of those whose search for absolute truth and the nature of the universe, of matter/non-matter, seemingly ended when they decided that it's a no-brainer as to whether or not faith has a place in the argument for or against the existence of a supreme being. Faith can't be argued either, we all need it to perform the simplest of our daily monkey-tasks.

Yes-I was chastising VooDooV for the blanket of down-votes to my comments because I sense his rage and anger at my input on threads similar, and recognize in atheists the same robotic mechanism they accuse Christians of which litter blog after blog when God is mentioned, by the ever-incrasing rabid anti-god fan-boys who attack with guns blazing at the very mention of that which is unable to be understood when approaching it from linear patterns of thought. That, and I refuse ever-again be ganged-up on on this site by a few well-be-nots who have it out for me because they can't understand what the fuck I am trying to communicate. I let my guard down in the past and it cost me over a year in SIFTJAIL (to all you fucking wannabe cops here present and future, suck my balls!)

Your fight is not with God but with the exponentially-increasing non-linearity of the world we inhabit, and the chaotic desire to process the information coming into the grid with time-honored methods of argument. IMLTHO this doesn't work.

All the seemingly trollish statements I make on similar threads are made with a view to wrenching another way of thinking out of the stubborn adherents to any one pattern or direction of mental process.

It can't be argued that a realm of universes exist outside of our own limited perceptive apparatus and all argument ends there for myself for the sake of my own insanity.

The fact that race is the central topic in this discussion is exemplary of how far off the mark it is from identifying the real issue.
Just because the buffoon perpetrating this cultural misbehavior was white, and was slinging racial slurs in complete ignorance, doesn't mean it's an issue OF race. He's racist, and he's an asshole, but the cultural element is the problem, not one fools personal behavior.

The entire "locker room culture" perpetuates bullying and inequality well beyond racial borders, and encourages the ego-centric narcissism that's the real root of the problem. Eliminating racial slurs here is about as useful as making the forest fire no longer produce smoke. You have to smother the blaze with a blanket of individual humility and accountability to extinguish the problem at its source.

(Is it me, or are my analogies getting worse?)

I think the most important word in Hoffman's talk was the word "epiphany."

Often these moments are blazing and complex ideas, delivered as a whole in one moment. Not easily delivered to others in a couple of sentences in an interview.

If you haven't had the epiphany, haven't worked to understand the epiphany, or haven't already fully understood and lived the complex ideas so you understand what the epiphany is.... well, you might want to slow down the reaction comments and attempt to work at understanding what he understood in a flash, all those years ago.

In my opinion, of course. In my opinion.

@oritteropo

The reason you didn't know these things is because your thought-leaders intentionally hide information from you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden:

Immigrants were five times more likely to commit sex crimes.[3] A report by the Sweden Democrats published September 2010 and compiled from 114 of 253 court rulings from around the country, stated that 48% of convicted rapists in Sweden in 2009 were born abroad.

"In Linköping, central southern Sweden, police responded to 120 incidents as cars, caravans and two schools were set alight. At one point a blazing truck was rolled into a building, which caught fire."

But while the Stockholm riots keep spreading and intensifying, Swedish police have adopted a tactic of non-interference. ”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.

”We go to the crime scenes, but when we get there we stand and wait,” elaborated Lars Byström, the media relations officer of the Stockholm Police Department. ”If we see a burning car, we let it burn if there is no risk of the fire spreading to other cars or buildings nearby. By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”

Fuck me and heat exhaustion-I'd get on a no-fly list so fast by demanding an exit in terrorist fashion. Before long, an escort would appear on the tarmac with lights a-blazing and guns drawn

I think your average duck can do about 70mph. Fastest on the flat is prolly something like a Swift (African or Eurasian? ).

And yes, it most certainly can do 88mph but nature did not see fit to evolve them a flux capacitor so ya, no blazing trails in the sky.