urbanjunkie's comments

No, it was shit. Completely and totally shit.

Why are dogs barking? Perhaps they hear a whistle...

What The Actual Fuck?

HN is no place for a racist dick. Kindly fuck off.

[edited to add - I expect downvotes or even a ban for my language. I will find a way of coping with my grief, so don't worry about it]

Every possible case? Your analogy was terrible. Your follow up was much better, and is what you should have said in the first place.

> Doctors get really peeved at people who research online and self-diagnose

Good doctors encourage patients to understand their condition. Let's not conflate that with exasperation over people who have a week old cough that they've decided is lung cancer because they've spent too much time on wrongdiagnosis.com.

You need to be way more transparent about what you're storing and why - a native client app implies nothing in the middle.

Ok, so you are selective in what you choose to accept as fact. That's fine, we won't get into bias effects and the subjectivity of any possible definition of tangibility.

It's also interesting that you would categorise the holocaust as a meme or an idea, but I think that pretty much sums up the way your own personal biases affect your thinking process.

Sighs.

So you must necessarily not accept anything without having obtained the raw data, formed a hypothesis, processed the data, and formed a conclusion, by yourself.

Or are you just selective in the facts you choose to accept without personal research and verification and the ones you don't.

Ludicrous hypocrisy.

So, climate change and the holocaust are fabricated.

Anything else you wish to add to your list of things we've been lied to about?

Sighs

Actually the burden of evidence is on you. I know it's inconvenient, especially as you have little that you can cite, but they, them's the breaks.

Have you really been to Auschwitz? I don't believe you. I think you may have been near Auschwitz, or perhaps you're read about it. Prove that you've been there. Then explain how it's even vaguely relevant. At this point, I'll tell you I've been to more than one concentration camp, but that doesn't mean anything.

Oh, I just assumed that you didn't believe the moon landings happened. And it's amusing that you're pretending to not understand the point.

Actually, YOU find ME a credible citation that supports your little tinpot revisionist theory.

Of course, you won't, as that will expose the lunacy of your position.

ps - the moon landings actually happened.

I have a second twitter account that is followed only by me for this kind of bullshit. If more people did the same, we'd get fewer companies encouraging Twitter pollution, and consequently fewer children crying about how they got 'scammed' on HN.

There's a mountain of evidence that supports the fact that millions of Jewish people were killed in concentration camps.

Are you seriously claiming that the biggest issue that holocaust deniers have is that the "official" version isn't "100% accurate".

You can pretend that homosexuality is a conscious choice akin to earning more money than someone else, it just increases the pity I feel for you.

Luckily, you're on the losing side of the trend, as more and more states and countries in the world pass laws that promote equality.

I shall now let you have the last word. Have a lovely life, and try to find a way to eradicate that hate you have in your heart - it's the Christian thing to do.

Cool - they just showed a quick shot of Peter Higgs in the audience - he looked a bit emotional

> Surely I wasn't the only person wondering if we are not closer to the hover board? That would have been a nice way to start.

Ah ok, you're trolling.

PS - it's "laymen", not "leymens".

> gay rights activists are not just asking to be left alone, they're asking that we explicitly expand our definition to include their relationships.

How dare those gays demand to be treated like everyone else? How very dare they?

If anyone needs me, I'll be catching up with the latest in modern thinking over at the Westboro Baptist Church site.

It's instructive how quickly you decide that public opinion is worthless when you don't have it on your side.

The reason I don't address the rest of your points is that fundamentally they boil down to this

   "Gay people don't deserve the same rights as straight people"

The version of you, 150 years ago. would be saying the same thing about black people.

Having destroyed your arguments regarding popular support for your position, I feel no great compunction to school you morally, or to teach you basic precepts from your own religion. I will say one thing - I am 100% certain that your Jesus Christ would be on my side of this debate - not yours.

I'm not trying to do anything of the sort, so stop it. Your position is reprehensible enough without you trying to pull a stunt like that.

You have repeatedly asserted that multiple referenda shows your position is supported by the majority of Americans. All I'm doing is equating your assertion with that of the you from 150 years ago - the "social conservative" who doesn't believe a slave should have the same rights as a white man.

We'll say nothing about the fact that the trend of public opinion seems to be inexorably towards more tolerance and less bigotry, as that would just make your reliance on popular opinion even more farcical.

> over and over again referenda have shown that majorities in most states DO NOT want this to happen.

Millions of Americans agreed with slavery - that does not make slavery right.

Treating human beings equally, when there is no valid reason not to, isn't something that you get to have an opinion on.