Thursday, October 20, 2005

Worship at the Church of C.S.

Scientology is a crock.
I don't expect them to make any valuable contribution to society. I mean even the shakers contributed fine carpentry and woodmaking workmanship to the world, as well as some popular Church music ('Lord of the Dance'). So I don't expect the Co$ CULT to last very long at all.
Let their leader pass away into obscurity and the rest will most likely lose interest.

Besides, the fact that they may have originally been based on some noble beliefs, but they don't stand by their morals now-a-days. They use strong-arm tactics to snub any popular critics. (Though this shouldn't be surprising from a pseudo-religion that is based off of the idea of paying for knowledge.)

The Scientific community should SUE Scientology for tarnishing the image of science by the similar uses of the word "Science" in 'Scientology', and that they try to associate themselves with Science's SOLID image/name to give substance to the shaky (at BEST!) basis for their pyramid-scheme like cult/pseudo-religion.

As a Computer Scientist, I take offence to their associating themselves with anything to do with science.
Anything 'religious' is NOT scientific.
And there is NOTHING scientific about Scientology.

Scientologists should apply what they say they believe to the advancement of society.
Then they'd see that Scientology is really just a cancer on Common Science.

Everyone should FIRST bow down and study at the Church of COMMON SENCE.

*Grrr*

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

It's about time! (Pay-Per-View to Provide DVD After Viewing?)

Pay-Per-View to Provide DVD After Viewing?: "Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that Comcast is entertaining an idea that would allow digital cable customers to purchase a pay-per-view movie for roughly $17 that would also include a hard copy in the mail a few days later. From the article: 'The only snafu in the entire idea is the fact that only 40% of Comcast cable subscribers have the required digital box at this point in time. But still, that is 40% of 21 million customers which is not too bad. DirecTV and Dish, are you listening?'"