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13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Top 25 Left-Wing Films... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm not completely sure, but I think F911 predates McCain/Feingold.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 15 Extremely Embarrass... · 0 replies · +21 points

I agree completely with #7.

13 years ago @ Listverse - Top 10 Best South Kore... · 0 replies · +2 points

Hwasan Go (Volcano High): Anime-style high school martial arts. Ignore the stupid MTV dub and check out the original.

Juyuso Sùpgyòk Sagòn (Attack the Gas Station): Four hoodlums try to rob a gas station, and that sets off two hours of increasingly ridiculous misadventures.

JSA: A brilliant drama that I'm honestly surprised didn't make the list. A shooting at the DMZ leaves one ROK and one NORK soldier dead and another NORK injured. A UN investigator (a Swiss born Korean, natch) unravels how that happened.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Greatest Killers of... · 0 replies · +3 points

The Roman Empire was not Catholic. During its time of greatest expansion, the Romans were still worshiping Jupiter (the deity, not the planet.) It wasn't until Constantine, who was one of the -last- emperors before the fall, that Christianity even became legal to practice, never mind the state religion.

And the Romans didn't conquer half of Europe and most of North Africa to spread the gospel of Jupiter either. In fact, they practiced a philosophy known as Interpretatio Romana which led them to view their subjects' gods as variations of their own.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Greatest Killers of... · 4 replies · -1 points

Yes. That's right. On one hand you have guy who wants to brutally slaughter or forcibly convert all 5 billion non-Muslim people in the world, who considers even those Muslims who disapprove of his methods (not even his goals, just those who have a problem with the violence) acceptable targets, and who wants to establish a worldwide theocracy in which women are second class citizens and homosexuality is a capital crime as is leaving the Islamic faith.

Nope, absolutely no difference between that guy and the guy who brought down two brutal dictatorships and dedicated his administration to putting a stop to the first guy's plan. The similarities are so blindingly obvious I don't know how anyone could miss them. </sarcasm>

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Greatest Killers of... · 0 replies · +2 points

I don't know who told you that, but it's a flat out lie. The only semi-religious component to Hitler's reign was his hatred of Judaism. He was openly contemptuous of Christianity believing (as many Neo-Nazis do today) that because Jesus was Jewish it was foolish to worship him. Some members of the Nazi party -did- show some leanings toward Heathenism, but even that could be attributed more to Germanophilia than to actual religious fervor, and I haven't seen any evidence that Hitler himself practiced it.

Julius is absolutely right. In fact, the "deadliest idea" in human history is actually Communism. Sure you can say religion caused more wars (though most of those had plenty of earthly reasons to go along with them,) but that ignores the famine, repression, torture, mass executions, etc. etc.

There's also the fact that religion has been around in one form or another since the dawn of sapience, while Communism managed to wreak all its havoc in less than a century.

13 years ago @ KeithHennessey.com - Responding to Dr. Krug... · 0 replies · +2 points

Precious metals are also fiat currency. The only reason gold and silver are considered to have any value at all is tradition; someone thousands of years ago decided we needed a universally accepted item to facilitate indirect trade, and decided to go with "pretty metal." That we have changed the item in question from gold/silver to paper and later to electronic data does not make the value of the item any more or less arbitrary. In all cases the value comes from the acceptance of the users.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Controversies from ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Note: Koreans list their surnames first. So if you're going to refer to Ahn Jung-Hwan by a single name, it should be "Ahn" not "Jung-Hwan."

Also: USA! USA!

13 years ago @ Listverse - Top 10 Compositions of... · 10 replies · -1 points

Why does music need to "change"? Bach and Mozart did their best work while following the rules, and I doubt you'll find any serious student of music who thinks John Cage or Frank Zappa is superior to those two.

13 years ago @ Listverse - Top 10 Compositions of... · 2 replies · +1 points

No. Music is something for an audience to listen to and enjoy, not something to allow pretentious "composers" to brag about how "clever" they are.