Saturday, November 30, 2013
Jazz apples and artificial selection
JAZZ APPLE HISTORY
JAZZ wasn’t developed by the magical apple fairy, so where did it come from? When ridiculously smart researchers joined apple growers in New Zealand to begin developing JAZZ, they all wanted it to have intense texture and flavor while retaining its eating quality right through its selling season. It was a labor of love that saw multiple cross pollinations of Braeburn and Royal Gala in New Zealand, producing 8,500 seedlings of which only one would be chosen for greatness. A bunch of seriously dedicated —and hopefully very hungry— researchers tasted over 5,000 seedlings before selecting the variety now known to consumers as JAZZ.
For the next decade, researchers subjected JAZZ to a series of Jedi-like tests, evaluating the apple's suitability for growing, including yields and performance in different seasons, locations and conditions. Next they monitored how well the fruit traveled and stored. Finally, in 2001, JAZZ made its grand entrance onto the international stage. A few years later, half a million trees were planted and the first significant commercial volumes were exported from New Zealand. The new kid on the produce block began tantalizing the taste buds of apple lovers around the globe, and over the last five years, enough JAZZ trees have been planted in New Zealand and elsewhere around the world to produce more than 500 million apples. Holy JAZZ apples, Batman!
Today, JAZZ is grown in New Zealand, Chile, France and Washington, and is available year-round — that means 365 days of all JAZZ, all the time. Fruit from New Zealand can be found in North America May through October, and from Washington October through May.
Another example of artificial selection: The ancestor of the Chihuahua is the wolf.
Christian airheads belong in prison for child abuse.
Christian assholes brainwash children while thinking that's perfectly OK, as if there's nothing wrong with incurable brain damage. There is no excuse for this child abuse. These god-soaked Christian fucktards belong in prison.
This airhead is concerned because her son's science teachers are teaching science. And science makes the Magic Jeebus Man cry.
There is one good thing about what this drooling moron wrote. Science education, especially biology, is killing the Christian Death Cult.
Atheists are corrupting my child.
This airhead is concerned because her son's science teachers are teaching science. And science makes the Magic Jeebus Man cry.
There is one good thing about what this drooling moron wrote. Science education, especially biology, is killing the Christian Death Cult.
Atheists are corrupting my child.
Hello, I am a born again Christian. I'm 42 female and found Christ when I was 21. I have brought up my son to love God, take him to Church every weekend & I teach him prayers. Every Thursday night I read him The Bible, he's 11 now. My son came home & seemed upset because his friends told him God doesn't exist! To add on to that, I had to complain to the school for the teaching evolution when I requested for him not to be taught. He's OK for now, but yesterday he asked me whether God really loves us & why do people believe in evolution. Obviously, I told him that many of us are damned but how do I protect my child in the future?
"The antichrist (Satan) will come to earth first, (before Jeebus Christ) to deceive the whole world into thinking he is Jeebus."
The quote about Satan and Jeebus is from a book called "Rapture, Fact or Fiction, You Decide".
Of course I didn't buy this crappy book, I found it. It's a perfect example for how retarded it's possible to be.
There is just plain stupid, then there is burning stupid, and worst of all there is Christian stupid. All Christians are morons. There can be no other explanation for their disease.
Watch out for Satan folks. It likes to pretend it's the Magic Jeebus Man.
Of course I didn't buy this crappy book, I found it. It's a perfect example for how retarded it's possible to be.
There is just plain stupid, then there is burning stupid, and worst of all there is Christian stupid. All Christians are morons. There can be no other explanation for their disease.
Watch out for Satan folks. It likes to pretend it's the Magic Jeebus Man.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
More than two years ago I used to be able to write some good posts. Here's an example.
If you're stupid enough to believe there's a magic god fairy hiding somewhere in the universe, then you're stupid enough to believe any bullshit.
There are several dozen more old posts worth reading. To find a long list of these posts scroll down a bit to find these words in the right column: "THIS IS A LIST OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE POSTS:"
I might add some more links to what I think are my best posts here:
99.9% of American biologists accept evolution. In less god-soaked countries the percentage is much higher.
Amateur idiots invoke professional idiots to justify their idiocy.
Richard Dawkins is a fake atheist.
The Army and Police of Egypt are killing Muslim fucktards and that's a good thing.
In a chess endgame two bishops are usually stronger than one bishop and one knight.
There are several dozen more old posts worth reading. To find a long list of these posts scroll down a bit to find these words in the right column: "THIS IS A LIST OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE POSTS:"
I might add some more links to what I think are my best posts here:
99.9% of American biologists accept evolution. In less god-soaked countries the percentage is much higher.
Amateur idiots invoke professional idiots to justify their idiocy.
Richard Dawkins is a fake atheist.
The Army and Police of Egypt are killing Muslim fucktards and that's a good thing.
In a chess endgame two bishops are usually stronger than one bishop and one knight.
Monday, November 25, 2013
From a book that criticizes the god fairy fantasy
I'm not buying this book because I already know religion is bullshit for cowardly morons. It's at Amazon at Atheism - The Case Against God by George H. Smith.
I was just looking at the Amazon customer reviews of this book. There's a lot of stupid out there. The god-soaked will use any excuse to justiy their childish fantasies. It's pathetic.
"The Texas Board of Education on Friday delayed final approval of a widely used biology textbook because of concerns raised by one reviewer that it presents evolution as fact rather than theory."
You stupid fucking worthless Christian scum. Get out of my country you fucking assholes.
Texas Education Board Flags Biology Textbook Over Evolution Concerns
The Christian fucktards of Texas are concerned science teachers might teach science in their science classrooms. We can't have any of that because the Magic Jeebus Man would cry.
Enough is enough. It's time to declare war against Christian assholes.
Texas Education Board Flags Biology Textbook Over Evolution Concerns
The Christian fucktards of Texas are concerned science teachers might teach science in their science classrooms. We can't have any of that because the Magic Jeebus Man would cry.
Enough is enough. It's time to declare war against Christian assholes.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
In Kansas Christian assholes have filed a federal lawsuit to prevent the teaching of evolution in their public schools.
An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and violate students’ and parents’ religious freedom.
Christian scum fear science education promotes atheism. That's bullshit but they should still be afraid of science education because scientifically literate students will figure out on their own the god fantasy is ridiculous.
This is what makes the Christian assholes cry because it fucks up religious indoctrination of 5 year old children: "Calvert said the new standards are particularly troubling because students would start learning evolutionary concepts in kindergarten."
Lot's of luck Christian assholes. You always lose in court and you're going to lose this one.
Christian scum fear science education promotes atheism. That's bullshit but they should still be afraid of science education because scientifically literate students will figure out on their own the god fantasy is ridiculous.
This is what makes the Christian assholes cry because it fucks up religious indoctrination of 5 year old children: "Calvert said the new standards are particularly troubling because students would start learning evolutionary concepts in kindergarten."
Lot's of luck Christian assholes. You always lose in court and you're going to lose this one.
The Christian fantasies
In this post I will write a list of some of the Christian fantasies and why they are bullshit.
The magic god fairy. Christians believe this fairy is real. It's a ridiculous childish fantasy and there's no evidence for it but Christians are 100% certain the fairy exists. They also seem to know quite a bit about it, for example the fairy has unlimited magical powers, it can do anything, it has male sex organs, it looks like a human ape, and it loves us. The whole thing is insane. Magic god fairies couldn't possibly be real because magic is bullshit. It would be like believing the Easter Bunny is real.
Of course the fairy is not necessary. It usually gets invoked to create stuff including solar systems and life. Scientists know this is bullshit. The god of the gaps has run out of hiding places. It's magical powers are not required. We know things these days.
Christians have two ways of solving this problem (their god fairy's magic wand is not necessary). The most deranged Christians (also known as 46% of Americans according to Gallup polls) simply deny scientific facts and then replace those facts with their fairy's magic wand. The slightly less insane Christians, desperate to find a place to hide their god of the gaps, invoke their fairy to invent natural processes, as if gravity and natural selection would not work without a magical inventor. If Christians were able to think they would realize this is ludicrous.
Christians call their fairy "God" with a capital G. As I already wrote they believe their fairy looks like a male human ape. To show their respect for the fairy they call it "Him" or "He" with a capital H.
For some strange reason their fairy loves them. "God loves us." This is the wishful thinking of morons. I have tried to explain to Christians there are trillions and trillions of solar systems, therefore a magical master of the universe is unlikely to notice we are here. Christians refuse to understand. They insist their fairy loves them.
OK, the fairy loves us. How nice. Who cares? Christians care because they expect big favors from their loving fairy. This is where the insanity gets completely out of control. The fairy loves us so much it's going to use its magic wand to magically resurrect dead Christians. The Christians do not become zombies. Instead they magically fly to a magical paradise. Where is this paradise? Nobody knows. What's it like? It's magical. The dead Christians are alive again and they're totally happy all the time. For how long? It doesn't end. Long after the entire universe goes extinct Christians are still enjoying their never ending 2nd life.
But wait. How can Christians say their dead bodies magically fly to a magical heaven when it's obvious the corpses never go anywhere? Not to worry. For every problem there is a magical solution.
There is a magical thing inside us. Nobody has ever seen it because it's invisible but it exists somewhere in every human ape body. It doesn't do anything until the human ape drops dead. Then it magically exits the dead ape and magically flies to the magical heaven, leaving the stinking corpse behind. Christians call it a soul.
When the magical soul completes its magical journey to the magical heaven it magically becomes the dead ape but now it's alive and eternally healthy. Incredibly, millions of Americans (and Muslim terrorists) believe this bullshit.
Christians believe a human ape, who lived 2,000 years ago, had unlimited magical powers. They call this superman the Magic Jeebus Man. Jeebus is the son of the magical master of the entire universe. The Magic Man in the sky magically sent the magical Jeebus here to magically save Christians from having to be magically tortured for eternity by their loving Magic Man.
The idea is Christians must suck up to the dead Jeebus to make it possible for their magical souls to magically fly to a magical heaven where they magically live again forever. This is of course a ridiculous cowardly fantasy for morons.
What if a person is not insane enough and not retarded enough to suck up to the dead Magic Jeebus Man? Christians gleefully promise those people they will be magically tortured in a magical hell, and getting there is the exact same magical process that gets dead people magically sent to a magical heaven.
There's some more Jeebus bullshit, something about Jeebus getting executed, and then is magically resurrected into a zombie that later magically flies up to the clouds. There's lots more Jeebus magic including magically walking on water and other ridiculous magic tricks.
Religious indoctrination makes these fantasies possible. Thanks to this child abuse most Americans believe the whole thing, especially the heaven bullshit without which Christianity would go extinct.
Christianity is a disease. Most of the infected are incurable. They can't recover from their mental illness because they're fucking retards.
The magic god fairy. Christians believe this fairy is real. It's a ridiculous childish fantasy and there's no evidence for it but Christians are 100% certain the fairy exists. They also seem to know quite a bit about it, for example the fairy has unlimited magical powers, it can do anything, it has male sex organs, it looks like a human ape, and it loves us. The whole thing is insane. Magic god fairies couldn't possibly be real because magic is bullshit. It would be like believing the Easter Bunny is real.
Of course the fairy is not necessary. It usually gets invoked to create stuff including solar systems and life. Scientists know this is bullshit. The god of the gaps has run out of hiding places. It's magical powers are not required. We know things these days.
Christians have two ways of solving this problem (their god fairy's magic wand is not necessary). The most deranged Christians (also known as 46% of Americans according to Gallup polls) simply deny scientific facts and then replace those facts with their fairy's magic wand. The slightly less insane Christians, desperate to find a place to hide their god of the gaps, invoke their fairy to invent natural processes, as if gravity and natural selection would not work without a magical inventor. If Christians were able to think they would realize this is ludicrous.
Christians call their fairy "God" with a capital G. As I already wrote they believe their fairy looks like a male human ape. To show their respect for the fairy they call it "Him" or "He" with a capital H.
For some strange reason their fairy loves them. "God loves us." This is the wishful thinking of morons. I have tried to explain to Christians there are trillions and trillions of solar systems, therefore a magical master of the universe is unlikely to notice we are here. Christians refuse to understand. They insist their fairy loves them.
OK, the fairy loves us. How nice. Who cares? Christians care because they expect big favors from their loving fairy. This is where the insanity gets completely out of control. The fairy loves us so much it's going to use its magic wand to magically resurrect dead Christians. The Christians do not become zombies. Instead they magically fly to a magical paradise. Where is this paradise? Nobody knows. What's it like? It's magical. The dead Christians are alive again and they're totally happy all the time. For how long? It doesn't end. Long after the entire universe goes extinct Christians are still enjoying their never ending 2nd life.
But wait. How can Christians say their dead bodies magically fly to a magical heaven when it's obvious the corpses never go anywhere? Not to worry. For every problem there is a magical solution.
There is a magical thing inside us. Nobody has ever seen it because it's invisible but it exists somewhere in every human ape body. It doesn't do anything until the human ape drops dead. Then it magically exits the dead ape and magically flies to the magical heaven, leaving the stinking corpse behind. Christians call it a soul.
When the magical soul completes its magical journey to the magical heaven it magically becomes the dead ape but now it's alive and eternally healthy. Incredibly, millions of Americans (and Muslim terrorists) believe this bullshit.
Christians believe a human ape, who lived 2,000 years ago, had unlimited magical powers. They call this superman the Magic Jeebus Man. Jeebus is the son of the magical master of the entire universe. The Magic Man in the sky magically sent the magical Jeebus here to magically save Christians from having to be magically tortured for eternity by their loving Magic Man.
The idea is Christians must suck up to the dead Jeebus to make it possible for their magical souls to magically fly to a magical heaven where they magically live again forever. This is of course a ridiculous cowardly fantasy for morons.
What if a person is not insane enough and not retarded enough to suck up to the dead Magic Jeebus Man? Christians gleefully promise those people they will be magically tortured in a magical hell, and getting there is the exact same magical process that gets dead people magically sent to a magical heaven.
There's some more Jeebus bullshit, something about Jeebus getting executed, and then is magically resurrected into a zombie that later magically flies up to the clouds. There's lots more Jeebus magic including magically walking on water and other ridiculous magic tricks.
Religious indoctrination makes these fantasies possible. Thanks to this child abuse most Americans believe the whole thing, especially the heaven bullshit without which Christianity would go extinct.
Christianity is a disease. Most of the infected are incurable. They can't recover from their mental illness because they're fucking retards.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
"What is sad is people like you who hate God so much you are willingly walking into Hell for all Eternity just to teach God a lesson. The scientists who wrote this are fools because they refuse to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They are fools for listening to what Satan says instead of the Truth from God."
"What is sad is people like you who hate God so much you are willingly walking into Hell for all Eternity just to teach God a lesson. The scientists who wrote this are fools because they refuse to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They are fools for listening to what Satan says instead of the Truth from God."
The fucktard who wrote this bullshit is a typical Christian asshole. I can't even imagine how much stupidity is required to be able to write what this moron wrote.
At another website I asked a question and this fucking idiot wrote an answer. Here's the whole thing:
Creationists, do you think the brilliant scientists who write for the best encyclopedia in the world were being dishonest when they wrote this:
"There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms."
-- Encyclopedia Britannica
The reason I wrote this question is you evolution-deniers think you're so much smarter than brilliant scientists and I think that's pathetic.
What is sad is people like you who hate God so much you are willingly walking into Hell for all Eternity just to teach God a lesson.
The scientists who wrote this are fools because they refuse to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They are fools for listening to what Satan says instead of the Truth from God.
You threatened me with torture. You said I hate a magic fairy that doesn't exist. You insulted the world's scientists. You invoked the Satan fantasy which makes me wonder if there's any bullshit you don't believe.
You are the best possible advertisement for atheism. Please keep up the good work.
The fucktard who wrote this bullshit is a typical Christian asshole. I can't even imagine how much stupidity is required to be able to write what this moron wrote.
At another website I asked a question and this fucking idiot wrote an answer. Here's the whole thing:
Creationists, do you think the brilliant scientists who write for the best encyclopedia in the world were being dishonest when they wrote this:
"There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms."
-- Encyclopedia Britannica
The reason I wrote this question is you evolution-deniers think you're so much smarter than brilliant scientists and I think that's pathetic.
What is sad is people like you who hate God so much you are willingly walking into Hell for all Eternity just to teach God a lesson.
The scientists who wrote this are fools because they refuse to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They are fools for listening to what Satan says instead of the Truth from God.
You threatened me with torture. You said I hate a magic fairy that doesn't exist. You insulted the world's scientists. You invoked the Satan fantasy which makes me wonder if there's any bullshit you don't believe.
You are the best possible advertisement for atheism. Please keep up the good work.
What if religion didn't exist?
New York City would still have the two World Trade Center towers and America would not be at war with anyone.
Virtually all the 3,000 Americans who were murdered that day would still be alive. Thousands more soldiers would still be alive, and even more soldiers would still have their arms and legs.
All this for religion. Religion is bullshit. We don't need the stupidity and we don't need the violence.
Virtually all the 3,000 Americans who were murdered that day would still be alive. Thousands more soldiers would still be alive, and even more soldiers would still have their arms and legs.
All this for religion. Religion is bullshit. We don't need the stupidity and we don't need the violence.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
"Once you believe that god exists, and start explaining things in the real world with magic, like the story of how god made the world, you are no longer bound by reality or the laws of physics or by common sense or rationality in your thinking and in your arguments. You can think, believe, and argue unrestricted by reality and unhindered by facts."
The quote was written by internet name "4 minutes ago" at "Yahoo Answers".
If you want to see where that quote came from and also see some real "Christian Stupid" it's at Why do Christians believe in the resurrection of the Magic Jeebus Man even though that's totally impossible?
If you want to see where that quote came from and also see some real "Christian Stupid" it's at Why do Christians believe in the resurrection of the Magic Jeebus Man even though that's totally impossible?
Friday, November 8, 2013
Carlsen – Anand 2013 LIVE! (all 12 games)
ALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES, INCLUDING PREVIOUS CHAMPIONSHIPS, AT CHESSGAMES.COM
UPDATE November 30, 2013: Vishy Anand: "It teaches you some humility"
UPDATE November 21, 2013: Game 10 is over with. It was a draw. The score is now Carlsen of Norway 6.5, Anand of India 3.0. Carlsen is now the new World Chess Champion. Magnus Carlsen 16th World Champion
In other news there are riots all over India.
UPDATE November 20, 2013: Game 9 was the most interesting game of the match. Anand had the White pieces. Carlsen had the Black pieces. Carlsen won on the 28th move after Anand made a terrible move under time pressure. On the 27th move, while still in the middle game, Carlsen was able to promote a pawn to a queen giving him two queens, but still Anand could have had a draw because he was about to threaten checkmate. He made the wrong move and resigned after Carlsen's reply. Because he was under time pressure he moved too fast. The move he made was so bad I don't think even I would have made it. You can see the game at http://chessbomb.com/site/. An excellent YouTube video explains game 9 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5l7SRRN9c. The New York Times wrote about game 9 at Carlsen said after the game that he had been “scared pretty much all the time. There was a danger that I was going to be mated."
Two interesting facts: When the 9th game ended Carlsen had two queens. He never once moved his first queen.
The score after 9 games is now 3 wins and 6 draws for Carlsen, 0 wins and 6 draws for Anand. Each win is worth 1 point. Each draw is worth 1/2 point. That makes the score 6 to 3. The first player to get 6.5 points in this 12 game match will be the World Chess Champion. This means Carlsen needs only one draw in the next 3 games to win, while Anand needs to win 3 games in a row just to be able to be tied with Carlsen which would mean there would be more games but at a faster time control. Even worse for Anand he will have White in only one of the next 3 games. It's a bit easier to win with the White pieces because White moves first. Since Anand has played 9 games without winning once, it's fair to say this match is virtually over with. Carlsen will most definitely be the new Champion, probably after getting a draw tomorrow November 21st with the White pieces. The 22 year old guy from Norway will defeat the 43 year old guy from India. Most likely several thousand Norwegians will be waiting to greet Carlsen when he arrives at the airport in a few days. India, you can be very proud of Viswanathan Anand who has won the World Championship 5 times in 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012. And he's been the World Champion since 2007.
UPDATE November 19, 2013: All Anand fans meet here! Game 8 was today. It was the most boring draw in World Chess Championship history. There have now been 6 draws in this match and 2 wins for Carlsen from Norway. After 8 games Anand from India has not won one game. To save the match Anand must win at least 2 games out of the last 4 games. That would make him even with Carlsen which means there would be more games at a faster time control. Carlsen only needs 3 draws (or 1 win and 1 draw) to win the match. Most people agree it's virtually impossible for Anand to win 2 out of the last 4 games. Carlsen will be the next world champion in a few days. You can see the 33 move game 8 (and all other championship games) at http://chessbomb.com/site/ or at http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=81142. They have the day off on Wednesday. The 9th game starts Thursday November 21st 2013 at the same time (4:30PM USA Eastern time, 3:00PM in India where the game is). You can watch the 9th game as it happens at http://chessbomb.com/site/. By the way, not that anyone cares, but yesterday I played one of the best chess games of my life. You can see it at http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=649450285. I had the White pieces. My brilliant opponent (who made me earn it) resigned at move 57.
UPDATE November 18, 2013: Game 7 started at 4:30AM Florida time. I'm watching game 7 now at http://chennai2013.fide.com/anand-carsen-game-1-live-analysis-video/ The game took only about two hours. It was a 32 move draw because the same position was repeated 3 times. Not a very interesting game. Magnus is now ahead 4.5 to 2.5, with 6.5 required to win the match. That's one point for a win and 1/2 point for a draw. Magnus Carlsen has 2 wins, Anand has zero wins, and there have been 5 draws. There are 5 games left, but Carlsen will probably win the championship in less than 5 games. Anand has to somehow win 2 games with only 5 games left, and hope Carlsen doesn't win again. It's hopeless for Anand. He has virtually no chance. Excellent YouTube video that explains game 7 at Game 7 - 2013 World Chess Championship - Anand vs Carlsen.
UPDATE November 16th, 2013: Game 6 was today. Magnus Carlsen from Norway won again, using the same method he used to win in Game 5. He played perfectly in a complicated endgame that should have been a draw but he won. Anand from India, the current world champion, now has to win at least two games out the next 6 games to save the match, which is extremely unlikely. The score is now 4 draws and 2 wins for Carlsen, zero wins for Anand. A grandmaster wrote before the game was over: "Another endgame, another grinding for hours and Magnus is heading for a success. 62. c4 fe and practically the game is over! Magnus pulls a rabbit out of a hat, endgame magic. Constantly posing small problems to Anand, he manages to get a winning position."
You can see the 6th game at GAME SIX: Carlsen defeats Anand in 67 moves. You can also see the 6th game at the New York Times at Challenger Takes Lead Over World Chess Champion. If you want to study the 6th game I recommend Anand, Viswanathan 2775–Carlsen, Magnus 2870 0–1.
The 7th game starts Monday November 18th 2013 at the same time (4:30PM USA Eastern time, 3:00PM in India where the game is).
UPDATE November 15th, 2013: Game 5 was today. Carlsen from Norway got the kind of position he wanted, a complicated endgame that should eventually be a draw, but Carlsen is confident he will make all the best moves while his opponent will eventually make a mistake. And this is exactly what happened. Anand made mistakes at moves 45 & 51 & 57 while Carlsen played the endgame perfectly. I love endgames so this was a very interesting game for me. Carlsen won. There have now been 4 draws and 1 win. With 7 games left to play Carlsen is winning the match for the world chess championship. Way to go Carlsen. You can see the 5th game at GAME FIVE: Carlsen defeats Anand in 58 moves. You can also see the 5th game at the New York Times at 22-Year-Old Wins a Big Game in Chess Championship. You can study the 5th game at Carlsen, Magnus 2870–Anand, Viswanathan 2775 1–0 World Championship 5th game.
UPDATE November 13th, 2013: Game 4 was today. It was the 4th draw. Four games, four draws. 8 more games to go.
The 4th game was the best yet. I started watching it about half way thru the game and my first impression was Carlsen was getting killed. I was wrong because the grandmasters commenting on the game thought he was winning. It was a real World Championship game. The highest level of chess.
As the two opponents get warmed up the games get more interesting. This should be a great match.
UPDATE November 12th, 2013: I just finished watching game three at Carlsen – Anand 2013 LIVE! and also at World Chess Championship 2013 LIVE!. The 2 websites are the same except different grandmasters write comments there. Finally we have a real fight. With the black pieces Anand had an advantage but brilliant moves by Carlsen made the position even. It was the 3rd draw in 3 games but still was an exciting game. One of the grandmasters wrote "This game was a thriller! A very interesting game! In the middlegame Anand had the initiative and Carlsen was under a lot of pressure, but with very tricky play he managed to create some technical problems for Anand and he succeeded. All in all a very fighting round." Carlsen's move 28: e3 This move surprised me and I think it was brilliant.
I'm watching game two now at Carlsen – Anand 2013 LIVE! (all 12 games) and it's working perfectly. A chess board is shown and the moves are being made online at virtually the same time the players make those moves. A grandmaster is writing excellent comments about the moves. Game two looks very interesting so far.
Game two was a draw again, for the same reason, the same position was repeated 3 times. The 2nd game was a bit more interesting than the first game. It was 25 moves instead of only 16 moves, but the endgame had only just begun. These games should be at least 40 to 60 moves.
These short games, ending in a draw, is not what I was expecting. Somebody suggested Anand's strategy is to force quick draws for all 12 games because he thinks he can have better winning chances in the following games which would be at faster time controls. That might be wild guessing. We will see what happens at the 3rd game this Tuesday.
For more information about the most important World Chess Championship since 1972 please see Anand-Carlsen match for World Chess Championship in India begins November 9th, 2013 at 4:30 AM New York City time.
The first game which you can see HERE was a boring 16 move draw. The world champion, Anand from India, had the black pieces. The challenger, Carlsen from Norway, had the white pieces. I was hoping for a long interesting game but this was a draw (because the same position was repeated 3 times) at the end of the opening. There was no middle game and no endgame. It was probably the least interesting game in world championship history.
YOUTUBE VIDEO Viswanthan Anand vs Magnus Carlsen | FIDE World Chess Championship - Game 1
GAME ONE WITH COMMENTS AT CHESSGAMES.Com
Anand – Carlsen (video with commentary)
Garry Kasparov: A Win For Carlsen In The Upcoming World Championship Match Will Be A Huge Win For The Chess World
EXCELLENT POSTS ABOUT THE 2013 WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE CHESS MIND BLOG.
Anand vs Carlsen: World Championship match thread at chess.com
From the book "Bronstein on the King's Indian":
"Winning or losing is not the main idea of chess at all. A chess game is in fact a friendly exchange of intentions, hidden in individual moves. You always have the choice either of putting into action your planned move, or of first calmly preventing the intended move of the friend with whom you are playing chess in this brief, finite moment of your life."
The bible god (millions of American assholes worship it) loves us except perhaps when it almost wiped us out, if you want to believe the ridiculous Noah's Ark genocide myth, which by the way is accepted as fact by millions of American Christians. Really. America is the most retarded country of the Western world.
If you're a Muslim you probably already know this stuff.
This is one of the most effective weapons ever invented. The only thing required is some explosives and a deranged Muslim asshole. The Muslim lunatics are plentiful. They will never run out of these morons for Mohammed.
How Suicide Bombers Work
"Recruitment and training costs aside, a suicide bomber generally carries a price tag of around $150. Considering the range and adaptability this form of attack offers, you can see the advantage it has over even high-tech weaponry. A properly trained and equipped suicide bomber can walk into sensitive areas and even alter plans at the last minute, depending on security and crowd sizes."
How Suicide Bombers Work
"Recruitment and training costs aside, a suicide bomber generally carries a price tag of around $150. Considering the range and adaptability this form of attack offers, you can see the advantage it has over even high-tech weaponry. A properly trained and equipped suicide bomber can walk into sensitive areas and even alter plans at the last minute, depending on security and crowd sizes."
At another website I criticized theologians. Two people explained why I was wrong. From the way they described theology I now realize it could be an interesting subject.
What do you have against theologians? Studying the history, impact, origins etc of a myth and tracing it's ramifications and how it affects human societies is not a useless job. It's not the same thing as being an apologist. Myths tell us something about the people who create them and the times they were created in. Plus they are just plain interesting.
-- Isabelle from Brampton, Ontario
Theology is a middle-ground between history and religion, in the way that its used to understand and archive various beliefs' legends and stories.
Magic, is the middle-ground active between science and I suppose religion, but more accurately its spiritual, because everyone uses it all the time, consciously or subconsciously. Generally I just believe that it was the most stunted open-ended practice damaged by the dark ages, war and the like. We can`t just take something that was long deemed useful, and just toss the idea of it away, without holding some regard towards it, because that is plainly ignorant.
Anyhow, theology doesn`t create nonsense, it creates ideal standards for individuals to be able to connect to another culture. I wouldn`t say much that we use is new, in terms of anything generally. By now, I`d think stasis, such as automobiles being around still, 100 or so years ahead and its still not so far off from the age-old wagon. So, if not for progress, theology would at least be an interest that drives one to discover secrets within various systems.
Magic, is the middle-ground active between science and I suppose religion, but more accurately its spiritual, because everyone uses it all the time, consciously or subconsciously. Generally I just believe that it was the most stunted open-ended practice damaged by the dark ages, war and the like. We can`t just take something that was long deemed useful, and just toss the idea of it away, without holding some regard towards it, because that is plainly ignorant.
Anyhow, theology doesn`t create nonsense, it creates ideal standards for individuals to be able to connect to another culture. I wouldn`t say much that we use is new, in terms of anything generally. By now, I`d think stasis, such as automobiles being around still, 100 or so years ahead and its still not so far off from the age-old wagon. So, if not for progress, theology would at least be an interest that drives one to discover secrets within various systems.
-- Zachary Meyer from Yuma, Arizona
Another copy and paste job. It's so much easier to quote other people than write stuff myself.
The rest of this post is a copy and paste job. It was written at another website by somebody with the internet name "John". Many thanks to John for this excellent explanation for the god disease.
Here's how the mental disease known as religion works:
1. People are afraid to die: they exist but don't want to not exist. That's natural.
2. Charlatan come along who can profit from this fear. These are so called "religious leaders" like priests, rabbis, shamans and other con artists who know they can make a living from people's natural fears so they do all they can to increase those fears and other worthless emotions like "hope" and "faith." Science and the scientific method is the exact opposite of what these charlatans are selling.
3. In order for the newly "converted" to prop up the illusions that the religious charlatans have sold them, they desperately need to surround themselves with like minded believers. Of course this includes their own children. They are helped in this by children's natural desire to believe what their parents tell them. This allows adults to make themselves feel better and numb themselves to reality by programming their children with their own beliefs sold to them by the con men and charlatans.
4. Fear is one of the best emotions for con men and self-deluding parents to sell others with, so they tell their children they'll go to hell if they don't believe the same lies they believe.
No one is born a Christian or a Muslim or any other brand of cult. It has to be programmed into us by liars and those trying to delude themselves into thinking they'll live forever against all the evidence.
Religion is based on cowardice: it's putting fear and emotionalism ahead of the evidence. Why should anyone believe what iron age illiterate nomads thought about how the universe works? We don't still believe them about the Earth being flat, or rain being caused by sacrificing children... so why should we believe their other failed ideas?
Religious people are simply afraid of death and they'll go to any length to delude themselves into believing that they don't actually have to die. To make sure the illusion stays in tact, they must delude their children into believing this same nonsense. It's a very emotional thing: to question their beliefs is a threat to this illusion so they'll go to almost any length to defend the illusions they've bought into.
All the evidence we have suggests that we are like all the other animals which in turn are like all living things which in turn are like all things: We all obey mechanistic laws which govern the natural world. There's no evidence that this isn't true. You "go" the same place when you die as where you "were" before you were conceived in your mother's womb... the same place your spreadsheet goes when you don't save it ... it simply does not exist.
No scientist anywhere has ever found even the slightest shred of evidence that anything in this universe does not obey mechanistic laws. No one has ever recorded any evidence of a god, or a soul, or a ghost or any so-called "supernatural" phenomena.
This is a mechanical universe. It's time we put down the fairy tales that we use to prop up our self delusions which we use to make us feel better and start telling our children the truth.
Here's how the mental disease known as religion works:
1. People are afraid to die: they exist but don't want to not exist. That's natural.
2. Charlatan come along who can profit from this fear. These are so called "religious leaders" like priests, rabbis, shamans and other con artists who know they can make a living from people's natural fears so they do all they can to increase those fears and other worthless emotions like "hope" and "faith." Science and the scientific method is the exact opposite of what these charlatans are selling.
3. In order for the newly "converted" to prop up the illusions that the religious charlatans have sold them, they desperately need to surround themselves with like minded believers. Of course this includes their own children. They are helped in this by children's natural desire to believe what their parents tell them. This allows adults to make themselves feel better and numb themselves to reality by programming their children with their own beliefs sold to them by the con men and charlatans.
4. Fear is one of the best emotions for con men and self-deluding parents to sell others with, so they tell their children they'll go to hell if they don't believe the same lies they believe.
No one is born a Christian or a Muslim or any other brand of cult. It has to be programmed into us by liars and those trying to delude themselves into thinking they'll live forever against all the evidence.
Religion is based on cowardice: it's putting fear and emotionalism ahead of the evidence. Why should anyone believe what iron age illiterate nomads thought about how the universe works? We don't still believe them about the Earth being flat, or rain being caused by sacrificing children... so why should we believe their other failed ideas?
Religious people are simply afraid of death and they'll go to any length to delude themselves into believing that they don't actually have to die. To make sure the illusion stays in tact, they must delude their children into believing this same nonsense. It's a very emotional thing: to question their beliefs is a threat to this illusion so they'll go to almost any length to defend the illusions they've bought into.
All the evidence we have suggests that we are like all the other animals which in turn are like all living things which in turn are like all things: We all obey mechanistic laws which govern the natural world. There's no evidence that this isn't true. You "go" the same place when you die as where you "were" before you were conceived in your mother's womb... the same place your spreadsheet goes when you don't save it ... it simply does not exist.
No scientist anywhere has ever found even the slightest shred of evidence that anything in this universe does not obey mechanistic laws. No one has ever recorded any evidence of a god, or a soul, or a ghost or any so-called "supernatural" phenomena.
This is a mechanical universe. It's time we put down the fairy tales that we use to prop up our self delusions which we use to make us feel better and start telling our children the truth.
Too many atheists are full of crap.
Somebody called atheism a philosophical position.
I am 100% certain the Easter Bunny is bullshit. Is that a philosophical position?
I am 100% certain the Easter Bunny is bullshit. Is that a philosophical position?
Other people's ideas are sometimes so perfect I have to publish them here.
"Why do people believe in God?"
"Because it provides a socially-acceptable excuse for adults to believe in magic, and is a belief which lingers on in society due to a tradition of it being respected. That respect is undue and unfounded, and these anachronistic beliefs are slowly being shed as civilization matures."
-- written by internet name "Captain Sarcastic"
Catholic priests are stupid assholes.
At a funeral I watched a Catholic priest talk about the young dead man who was killed in an accident. The priest strongly implied the dead guy was going to hell because he never bothered to waste time in the priest's church.
Then while the poor gullible religious mother of the young man had a nervous breakdown, the priest walked around the coffin waving some device that put out a lot of smoke.
The mother of this accident victim was already feeling extremely sad. The priest caused her to have a complete nervous breakdown. Is this priest is a fucking asshole or what?
Some definitions to help fucking idiots understand reality.
An agnostic is a full-of-crap moron who can't grow up and make a decision. They say stupid things like "We can't be sure whether or not Easter Bunnies are real."
Speak for yourselves agnostic retards. I'm 100% certain magical rabbits and magical god fairies are bullshit. You agnostic idiots can't figure that out because you're just plain stupid.
This is a definition of a wimpy fake atheist: someone who lacks belief in a god
This is a definition of a real atheist: 100% absolutely for sure certain there are no fucking gods because it's a fucking ridiculous fantasy, equal to the Easter Bunny fantasy. Magic god fairies are not real. Period. Only fucking idiots believe in a god fairy. Only retards say we can't be sure god fairies are bullshit.
Speak for yourselves agnostic retards. I'm 100% certain magical rabbits and magical god fairies are bullshit. You agnostic idiots can't figure that out because you're just plain stupid.
This is a definition of a wimpy fake atheist: someone who lacks belief in a god
This is a definition of a real atheist: 100% absolutely for sure certain there are no fucking gods because it's a fucking ridiculous fantasy, equal to the Easter Bunny fantasy. Magic god fairies are not real. Period. Only fucking idiots believe in a god fairy. Only retards say we can't be sure god fairies are bullshit.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
My fantasy about a preacher man at a science-denying Christian-extremist church.
This idea I have which will never come true goes like this:
A preacher man gets curious and decides to find out why all the world's biologists love evolution. He reads about the evidence, he thinks it's interesting so he keeps at it. Eventually he realizes he has been extremely wrong about evolution all his life. He learns how to love evolution, how it works, and the powerful evidence for it.
Then the preacher has to make a decision. Does he pretend he's still stupid enough to believe in magical creationism? No, because this is a honest preacher man. He can't lie to his customers. So during the next sermon he talks about evolution and why it's true and why he loves it.
The reaction from the customers would be fun to watch.
That's my fantasy that will probably never happen.
A preacher man gets curious and decides to find out why all the world's biologists love evolution. He reads about the evidence, he thinks it's interesting so he keeps at it. Eventually he realizes he has been extremely wrong about evolution all his life. He learns how to love evolution, how it works, and the powerful evidence for it.
Then the preacher has to make a decision. Does he pretend he's still stupid enough to believe in magical creationism? No, because this is a honest preacher man. He can't lie to his customers. So during the next sermon he talks about evolution and why it's true and why he loves it.
The reaction from the customers would be fun to watch.
That's my fantasy that will probably never happen.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Christians are stupid fucking assholes.
I have worked for many corporations. Not often but sometimes there would be a meeting to help solve some problem. For some strange reason we never started these meetings with praying to the Magic Jeebus Man. We wouldn't do that because it would be a ridiculous waste of time, and employees would probably quit their jobs.
But here in Idiot America, a backward country infested with Christian assholes, our local and state governments often try to get away with this praying to Jeebus bullshit. But isn't this an obvious violation of the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights? Of course it is. But Christian assholes don't care because they're fucking assholes.
Imagine being a Jew or an atheist at a city's monthly town board meeting which is open to the public. You arrive there hoping to express your opinion about something the city government wants to do. When the meeting begins a fucktard preacher man starts praying, saying some gibberish like "In the name of the Lord and Savior Jeebus Christ, who lives with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever."
If I had this experience I would stand up in the middle of the prayer and say as loudly as possible "What the fuck is this place, a fucking church?"
This bullshit happens all the time in Idiot America. Christian assholes are constantly trying to find out what they can get away with. Their goal is to make America a Christian theocracy.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 6th, 2013, the United States Supreme Court will be making a decision about the Christian assholes of the City of Greece in New York State who start their monthly town hall meetings with a preacher praying to the dead Jeebus.
Our wimpy Supreme Court will probably make this decision: "You fucktards can pray in your government meetings but only if you pray to a magic god fairy. You can't pray to the Magic Jeebus Man because that would be endorsing a religion which violates the Establishment Clause."
What the Supreme Court would say if they weren't wimps: "You fucking assholes have a lot of nerve wasting taxpayer money on this bullshit. If you have to show off how holy you are you can do that in your worthless churches. You can't pray to your god fairy or any other fairy in a government building."
Fuck off and die Christian scum.
But here in Idiot America, a backward country infested with Christian assholes, our local and state governments often try to get away with this praying to Jeebus bullshit. But isn't this an obvious violation of the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights? Of course it is. But Christian assholes don't care because they're fucking assholes.
Imagine being a Jew or an atheist at a city's monthly town board meeting which is open to the public. You arrive there hoping to express your opinion about something the city government wants to do. When the meeting begins a fucktard preacher man starts praying, saying some gibberish like "In the name of the Lord and Savior Jeebus Christ, who lives with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever."
If I had this experience I would stand up in the middle of the prayer and say as loudly as possible "What the fuck is this place, a fucking church?"
This bullshit happens all the time in Idiot America. Christian assholes are constantly trying to find out what they can get away with. Their goal is to make America a Christian theocracy.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 6th, 2013, the United States Supreme Court will be making a decision about the Christian assholes of the City of Greece in New York State who start their monthly town hall meetings with a preacher praying to the dead Jeebus.
Our wimpy Supreme Court will probably make this decision: "You fucktards can pray in your government meetings but only if you pray to a magic god fairy. You can't pray to the Magic Jeebus Man because that would be endorsing a religion which violates the Establishment Clause."
What the Supreme Court would say if they weren't wimps: "You fucking assholes have a lot of nerve wasting taxpayer money on this bullshit. If you have to show off how holy you are you can do that in your worthless churches. You can't pray to your god fairy or any other fairy in a government building."
Fuck off and die Christian scum.