Skeptic Project

Why do you hate America, scitops? Why do you hate our freedoms?

Hahaha, j/k. Good questions, but no one would ever have the balls to ask them.

I'd add these questions:

6) Are you ashamed that your father named you after a notoriously bad novelist?

7) Have you ever actually read "The Fountainhead"? You mean you actually got through it?

8) You DID? HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!! *points and laughs*

>> Rand Paul’s father’s former staffer Gary North wants the United States to collapse and conned thousands of people into believing the Y2K bug was real

It *was* real, but was primarily a legacy problem. Even at the time I was employed as a computer programmer, and I would frequently tell people that most machines and software _do not_ store time that way, but rather unix epoch or some similar proprietary version. Almost all software, embedded systems, etc with two digit years had been replaced, already, even before people upgraded their stuff.

I even recall the shit-company Symantec came out with a version of Norton that made your computer Y2K ready. In other words, you spent $40 to change _nothing_. After Y2K there were minor problems, mostly dates just being printed incorrectly.

You had idiots coming out of the woodwork who knew nothing about computers or software, claiming that planes would fall out of the sky and ICBMs would launch themselves. Sound familiar? Pseudo-experts love to talk about what the Maya and Nostradamus "predicted" for 2012, yet no real experts agree.

There have been similar issues, a much bigger problem than Y2K that I'm actually worried about is the Year 2038 problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem</p>

I've run into tons of software, OSes, and embedded systems that more or less crash or screw up completely because of it. We have plenty of time to fix it, so the only thing I'm really worried about come 2038 are embedded systems.

Of course, like I said, we have plenty of time, but even in 1985 we had plenty of time:

http://groups.google.com/group/net.bugs/browse_thread/thread/64696a1b035aab72/e08bf2a04ec7e754</p>

I went totally off topic, sorry about that guys.

I wasn't aware that scitops was apart of an official smear campaign. I think the Paul's do that themselves pretty well.

For the record, I would love to see a debunking of the Pauls' proposed solutions for the America.

Not necessarily, you can look at one of their proposed solutions, and be like "wait a second, this didn't work in the past, so why would it work now?"

While a lot of his beliefs can't be debunked, the source of those beliefs can, such as conspiracy theories he believes in.

Well it seems Rand Paul has a problem telling the truth the editorial board. Here is a little info and vid about what happened: http://barefootandprogressive.blogspot.com/2010/04/rand-paul-sure-is-forgetful.html.