Letters to the Editor
Xanthro
Published Letters: 522 Editor's Choice: 47
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Replies to the Ten
[Read the article: And the Buffy goes to...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]10. Why must paper be a rectangle, do we really use the corners for writing?more spacey?
9. The cylon were made by humans, and really haven't advanced much in many areas because they at some level want to be human. This is reflected in their ship designs, all of which could accomodate humans, though there would be no need. Note, the height of Cylon techology is to be indistinguisable from human.
8. If this is a society from some other galaxy that’s trying to find the earth, why does all of their technology look like ours? Why the phones? Why the computers that use our alphabet?
7. Most of the Battle Stars didn't have networked computers, but did have the upgraded software that was vulnerable to the Cylon virus.
6. The Galatica was a major historical ship that was being decommissioned and turned into a muesum. Plenty of reporters were on hand for this event, and thus they survived.
5. Camera work is always personal whether a person enjoys it or not.
4. I don't really see any Mormon connection. The Planets are based on astrological signs, not Tribes of Israel.
3. Because the Cylons don't really want to destroy all the humans, so they haven't.
2. Cylons did mate with humans before the attack. None got pregnant. What's great about BSG is that the antagonists are not uniform. Some Cylons want to kill all humans, some don't. We aren't certain about Cylon intentions.
1. All the main characters are flawed, male and female, that's what makes the show. Sure, Rosalyn is a monster sometimes, but she's often right, but often wrong as well. Every main character has made major mistakes with great consquences, and worked against both his or her own personal gain, but against the group as well, exactly as happens in real life.
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It was poorly written
[Read the article: Money for nothing, golf trips for free]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...how arithmetically icompetent so many of the posters are! Or maybe their problem is that they cannot read!
In either case, it does not reflect well on the performance of our education system.
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The confusion had little to do with math skills or reading comprehension, the sentence in question was poorly written, and that's the source of the confusion.
It's even more confusing because the didn't work for exactly 36 months, so the totals are off.
The writer simply took the rounded three years and used 36 months to calculate the final amount.
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It's not illogical, it's foolish
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It's not illogical to prohibit drinks on planes even if they were purchased inside the secure perimeter.- DaviddesJ"
The policy of not allowing drinks is beyond illogical, it's downright foolish.
You cannot possibly counter every method possible of bringing explosives on a plane, while still allowing passengers.
Imagine if Reid, instead of hiding explosives in his shoe, shoved them up his anus and removed them in the bathroom! Pretty much unstoppable.
Having names of people as a list of terrorist has to be the stupidist idea in the history of aviation.
Wait, it's John Smith, he can't get on the plane, so what if this particular John Smith is 4 months old!!
Given the great ease in which people lie about their names and even ages in many third world countries, including on official documents, name list do nothing to help.
The worst part is, security is worse than it used to be. Those questions that most people considered to be silly, the has your bag left your sight, has anyone packed or asked you to carry something for them, had value. Of course anyone trying to attack the planes would lie, but that doesn't matter. The answers were not what was important, it was how they were answered. Proper security requires asking questions. What the questions are really isn't all that important, it's that you ask them and gauge how the person responds.
Nobody asks questions anymore, instead, they chase after the last act, removing shoes, no liquids.
When the terrorists leak that they will be hiding explosive in their anus, I'm not flying again. We already been and take it figuratively, the literally part is just too much to contemplate.
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Golden Boy
[Read the article: Mocking Bush is my patriotic duty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Islam was invented in the seventh century by an Arab warlord as a justification for and unifying religion around the conquest of the Arabian peninsula.
Do you agree with that statement or not?
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No, I don't agree because it's historically untrue.
Unwittingly, you are parroting the same tried shit the Islamtists parrot. That is Islam conquered by use of the sword.
It's simply untrue. Islam spread mainly because it was more appealing than the alternatives at the time. Christian thought at the time regulated one to the role she or he is born into, and placed priests, bishops, the pope, and Saints are levels between a person and God. Christian thought at the time stratified society and enabled nobility. The chosen by God.
Islam, at the time, did not recognize anyone as having a greater level of understanding or closer relationship to God than anyone else. God was personal, you didn't have to provide money to a wealthy church to know God, and you simply had to be a good person and try to obey God.
Islam at the time did not recognize kings and servants, all were equal before God. When Islam spread to the Indian subcontinent, the "untouchables" converted in mass.
Not because of force, but because given the choice of "you are untouchable" or "you are everyone's equal" they naturally chose the latter.
Now, Islam is nothing like that. The Islam fascists want to believe they conquered by force, and you are siding with their misguided view of history.