I agree with Jayar Jackson on this one about the PR but I'd argue it a little further.

You'd have to compare the donations they get from religious groups to see if it out-weighs the donation they would get from the Atheist group.

Unfortunately without data it's only conjecture, but one could argue that putting a secular group's name on the ballot of donators may end up costing the ACS more than half of a million dollars in future donations from other groups, and that makes me sad.

The Doctors/executives that run the ACS might have worked out the margins to make this kind of decision, I only give them the benefit of the doubt because the majority of Doctors are secular.

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>> ^lucky760:

Toss a little soy sauce in there and you have lunch. Crunchy and salty. Yum!


Throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going!

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>> ^visionep:

Is there a way to make the video start at the 10 second mark?


You should look into the Wadsworth Constant.

Here is the greasemonkey script.

Oh man, I don't know what I would do if what I thought was a wax statue would turn and look at me like at 0:57.

Sounds eerily similar to the Red Scare but instead of "aggressive police investigation of the accused persons, their jailing, and deportation for being suspected of being either communist or left-wing" you can just have them killed!

>> ^BoneRemake:

Replace my old rant with a question.
Has this group done something noticeable yet ? I mean a measurable change in something, another way to phrase it would be "have they done anything they said they would "
I am most ignorant on this group.


Small stuff like the arrest of Chris Forcand, world-wide protesting against Scientology(Project Chanology), created a website during the Iran protests along with Pirate Bay and other hackers to subvert censorship of news and happenings in Iran to Iranians, they helped Wikileaks set up mirrors around the world when everyone was trying to censor the leaks that were being released, they were instrumental in taking down the websites of the Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan governments during their respective protests, they destroyed HBGary's credibility(a company competing for a government contract to create false identities online in order to subvert political movements), they attempted to boycott Koch Industries products because of the Koch brothers' history of donating money to political groups that try and destroy the middle class, retaliated against Sony (completely disabling the Playstation Network for over a month) after they prosecuted a fellow named George Hotz for his work on developing open-source software on the Plastation 3, organized protests against BART officers who disabled cell phone service to attempt to disrupt protestors from assembling violently after a police shooting.

Here you can find some more information if you'd like to read about it. I've been following them for a while now and this seems to be relatively accurate.

@Stormsinger of course 99% of them are script kiddies, but that 1% has a terryfing knowledge of 0day exploits and computers and is extremely proficient in doing whatever the hell they want to do.

In my experience, these guys want one thing more than most:

1. Freedom of information

If anything gets in the way of that, they will do what they can to try and destroy it.

..but but... we DID invade Russia!

I'm in medicine so I see them all the time. We just use it as a standard so that we know what we're looking at. http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/Radio/curriculum/Harrisons/pulmonary/NormalPA1.jpg Is how they should look like.

It really is amazing that kid survived that experience.

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Thank you for the quality. I appreciate it!
I think that that part was in the video just to annoy people with OCD tendencies :

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Was just about to post this. *quality

Amazing story. The only thing that irked me was the x-ray was upside-down and backwards.

>> ^Sarzy:

So sad. How is it the 21st century and we haven't cured cancer yet??


We have cures for a number of cancers. The problem with cancer is it's your own body growing at an uncontrollable rate. If there is nothing distinguishing your own cells from cancer cells, how do you know what you're actually "curing"?

We have a lot of drugs that can kill cancer but they also kill the rest of you.

Some cancers kill faster than others(melanoma), some are benign(moles).

BUT, we're working on it. I'm actually working on some research that may lead to something interesting in the next 10-15 years.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

I don't see her ever holding major office again.


Again? She never held anything major to begin with. Once she resigned as governor of Alaska all she did was become a VP-nominee and then just a pundit.

At least she made some money out of the deal.

I love how he calls out the fanboys.

Was just about to post this. *quality

Amazing story. The only thing that irked me was the x-ray was upside-down and backwards.

Everyone's a critic.

This is a cool step forward in technology. Sure, it might not go anywhere, but it also shows possible capability in the future!