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I am an atheist/ agnostic but after careful thinking, I've decided that perhaps virulently promoting atheism (as this community is doing) isn't really good for society. Please don't get offended, just read my arguments below calmly and rationally. If you can argue that I am wrong, I will listen to those arguments and change my opinion.
Note 1: I am using science in all my arguments, not religion.Not all my links point to scientific studies, but I'm sure you could find relevant evolutionary psychology papers if you googled for it.
Note 2: Please don't take offense, I'm not a sexist or a misogynist. I am trying hard to be as unemotional as possible in my arguments.
Argument 1: Polygamy is bad for society
What percentage of our (pre-civilizational/ barbaric) ancestors are males? The answer is not 50%. As evolutionary psychology points out, 80% of our female ancestors managed to reproduce but only 40% of our male ancestors did so. (Link: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm). Simply put, in barbaric societies, males were the high-risk high-reward sex whereas females were the low-risk low-reward sex.
Males are genetically polygynous (interested in sex with as many women as possible - this makes sense as men can produce millions of sperm every day and have a low reproductive cost)
Females are naturally hypergamous (interested in only one man but the best; the top 'alpha' man - this makes sense as a female produces one egg per month and has a high reproductive cost due to pregnancy and child birth).
When sexuality is uncontrolled, the combination of male polygyny and female hypergamy results in polygamy a.k.a harems (one man having sex & children with multiple women).
The ones who suffer are the beta males - the ones who have been sexually selected out. They typically become violent and don't contribute to society. There is an argument to be made that the Taliban practices polygamy and this is the source of violent behavior of terrorists from that part of the world. (Link: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200706/ten-politically-inco...)
When promiscuity is controlled through strictly enforced monogamy, every man gets a wife. This reduces violent behavior and unlocks the productive capacity in males. I don't have the link available but a man who is already married or believes that he will marry in the future will be 4x productive as an unmarried man who does not believe that he will ever marry (e.g.) Japanese grass-eaters ostracized by an increasingly promiscuous Japan (Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/27/japan-grass-eaters-sala...)
Alpha men don't significantly contribute to society - they are not scientific geniuses or hard workers. They are typically physically aggressive men. Contrary to feminist dogma, physically dominant men (even dominant to the point of abusive) are attractive to women because they exhibit alpha tendencies - The Dark Triad of Narcissism, Machiavellianism and Psychopathy.
Alpha men understand their higher attractiveness (compared to betas) and adopt a pump-and-dump sexual attitude. They have many sexual partners but don't bother helping with raising their young; some of their young will die due to lack of resources but they make up for it in numbers.
Betas adopt a nourish-and-protect sexual attitude. They have only one sexual partner, whom they win by proving their love and commitment. Then they have children with only this partner, but provide resources and protection to ensure their children grow up successfully.
Monogamy is the cornerstone of civilization. See the Moralia versus Libertalia argument (Link: http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2011/10/14/relationshipstrategies/how...). In a monogamous society, with greater male economic participation and lesser violence, prosperity, rule of law and art flourish.
Argument 2: Promiscuity naturally leads to beta ostracism and harms society
Promiscuity - Defn: Any form of sex outside of monogamous marriage (including exclusive relationships)
Non-exclusive relationships (polyamorous relationships) are almost always polygamous (one alpha man with many women). This results in many beta men losing out.
Exclusive relationships also result in beta men losing out - Why? If enough alpha men are not available, hypergamous females would rather not enter into any relationship at all rather than be with beta men - "The Where have all the good men gone?" tirade from many women in modern promiscuous culture.
Promiscuity is the leading cause of single motherhood. Many women will rather have children with alpha men (who will later abandon them) rather than with good beta providers (whom they find dull and boring).
The social effects of unleashed promiscuity are enormous - 40% out of wedlock births, single motherhood and increased Govt debt/ taxation to support single motherhood by the State which steps in to replace the father.
Single motherhood produces children 2 to 10 times more likely to suffer from:
(Link: http://owningyourshit.blogspot.com/2012/03/transcript-of-fempocalyp...)
Argument 3: Atheism promotes promiscuity (Edit: by being silent about it)
I am not saying that atheism caused promiscuity (that happened in the 60s due to a variety of other reasons including feminism) but atheism has played a role in the rise of moral relativism, especially with respect to promiscuity.
The Golden Rule is perhaps the first tenet of religious morality but it is not the only one. The second most important tenet of religious morality is monogamy.
I have seen many arguments about how atheists are equally moral (if not more so) than religious people. In all these arguments, people assume that morality = Golden Rule.
Based on my personal experiences, many atheists seem to think that:
Morality = the Golden Rule
Promiscuity = personal freedom (i.e.) promiscuity is acceptable behavior that the Church restricts because the Church is old and stupid. Many atheists don't seem to realize the far reaching social effects of promiscuity.
This moral relativism on promiscuity is obvious even in this site. For example http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/atheists-are-not-moral-peo... does not deal with promiscuity at all. http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/what-is-your-stance-on-mar... has answers from many atheists clearly exhibiting moral relativism on the subject of promiscuity.
[Edit: The majority of your arguments were against this. I can understand why this may look like a strawman argument. Let me clarify:
There is a strong correlation between divorce risk and low IQ. There is also a strong correlation between high IQ and atheism (giving you folks a compliment, take it :) ).
Atheism as a movement, originated primarily amongst high IQ society. But it has now gone mainstream and is growing fast, scarily fast almost. As Uncle Ben put it, "with great power comes great responsibility". But Atheism does not seem to be taking up that responsibility from the Church. Yes, the Church is broken and old and corrupt and its practitioners are bigots and hypocrites. But, it is still the only thing out there taking a stand against promiscuity. Atheists seem to walk away from the responsibility of condemning promiscuity and most Atheists promote sexual freedom.
Morality naturally comes to Atheists because they are high-IQ individuals who are better able to visualize the impact of their life choices in the future. But, as atheism goes mainstream and the Church dies out, what happens to all the voices condemning promiscuous behavior?
We are not more evolved now in anyway than we were in the past. We are, still at our core, apes struggling to build great civilizations. We all (especially low IQ individuals) need moral guidance to help us in this struggle, to make better life choices.
Can you point links to me about prominent Atheists condemning promiscuity? Is the Atheist movement willing to take up the mantle of promoting social morality from the Church after slaying it? ]
[Edit 2: I am not a troll, I've just been super busy last few days, I will have more time this weekend to reply to some comments below. The essential thing I am trying to say is that religion is not pure evil, and we should not look at it in terms of black and white.
There are definitely good things about religion. There is a very interesting theory that religions also evolve over time and the most popular religions are the most useful ones to society, and they became popular precisely because they were an advantage to societies that adopted them. For example, societies with religions that promoted monogamy were almost always more successful in combat over societies that had religions that did not emphasize monogamy. The reason is because in societies that practiced monogamy, soldiers had a genetic stake in survival of that society (they had their own children to protect). Rome fell because of polygamy - the top politicians had harems and orgies and monopolized the women, resulting in loss of morale amongst troops who did not get the chance to be fathers. Rome was increasingly forced to rely on mercenaries rather than patriotic troops to protect her. After the treasury ran out, Rome collapsed because disenfranchised beta males, who had no genetic stake in Rome, simply walked off and allowed the barbarians to invade.
My point of view has always been "What is best for society?", and not "What is true?". Atheism is the correct working hypothesis because there is no proof for God and we have to use Occam's razor at all times. I don't see any downside consequences of high IQ people discovering/ discussing Atheism. But, we have a moral obligation (as the high IQ elites in our society) to do what's best for society. Imagine a ghetto filled with the poorest, uneducated people in our society. We have to make the decisions that will benefit them.
I don't really have a problem with Atheism, but I have significant issues with the Atheist Movement. For instance, take the advertisement "There is no God, Relax". This advertisement is targeted at people who have made bad choices in their life and have been sexually irresponsible. They are probably feeling guilty about these choices and the Atheist Movement is offering them an easy way out. It tells them "There is no Hell or Heaven, so relax and continue making bad choices". In reality, there is no hell or heaven, but there are societal consequences of your choices. In reality, guilt is often a very useful biological mechanism for correcting bad behavior, but Atheism is offering them a way to rationalize away their guilt so that they can continue making bad choices. I am speaking about this from personal experience, I have known people who commit adultery and rationalize their guilt because they think that the concept of 'sin' is meaningless as there is no God.
Also, to all people accusing me of being a sexist and having double standards, I am not asking for double standards from men and women; I am demanding high standards of expected social morality from both sexes. How is that sexist in any way?]
I am going to judge the merit of a social construct on the basis of its usefulness, not on the basis of its truthfulness. I will only promote an idea to society only if I am convinced it will help society.
If the Traditional Conservative Church (not the Modern version that tolerates no-fault divorce) is useful to society as an institution that encourages monogamy, I would rather have that than Atheism.
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This is spot on. When evaluating humanity and it's social structure you have to compare it to other animals. It reminds me of a quote from David Attenborough on some of our nearest cousins, the gorillas:
"There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than with any other animal I know. Their sight, their hearing, their sense of smell are so similar to ours that they see the world in much the same way as we do. We live in the same sort of social groups with largely permanent family relationships. They walk around on the ground as we do, though they are immensely more powerful than we are. So if there were ever a possibility of escaping the human condition and living imaginatively in another creature's world, it must be with the gorilla. The male is an enormously powerful creature but he only uses his strength when he is protecting his family and it is very rare that there is violence within the group. So it seems really very unfair that man should have chosen the gorilla to symbolise everything that is aggressive and violent, when that is the one thing that the gorilla is not — and that we are."
Note that the leader - the silverback - cared enough to warn the man of the danger of the snare, indicating an awareness of future possibilities.
Good job by the gorillas. :)
But on your larger point, humans are just like every other animal on this planet, not born with some inherent sin or flaw for being human that Christianity teaches. If gorillas could trap and exploit humans, would they abstain? My best guess would be that they wouldn't without at least a few thousand years of civilization first. That's my only evidence for it ever happening until now.
@Arcus - for a deeper insight into what humans are doing to their ancestral cousins, read Woman in the Mists, by Farley Mowat, the biography of Dian Fossey - she would have been SO proud of those little guys' accomplishments.
Evolution doesn't work on "better" (a subjective or qualitative judgment) it works on "more successful" (an empirical or quantitative fact).
exactly!! better does not equate to more successful...
Is making money a worthy measure of 'success', or just some local obsession?
it is merely a local obsession.. you can live without it and many millions do, we call them 'poor' but our money driven living is destroying relationships and causing social modifications that promote consumption as the highest form of life on the planet.. i offer to you that unless we refocus humanity on what is 'real', we will consume ourselves off this planet.. that can not be a good thing... success is living a life pursuing well-being as Sam Harris puts it... do you NEED a large house and 3 cars to be well? i don't think so...
If you're talking in evolutionary terms, gaining power and wealth is the standard of success used throughout nature, as far as . Which lion has the largest harem, which squirrel has stored the most nuts. If you want to attract the best formed, healthiest, most fecund females, being rich and powerful is what you want to be. Like anything else, it doesn't always work, but as an overall plan it will work more often than any other one.
You say that you are an atheist/agnostic. Either you are lying or you are clueless about atheism.
Also, only religious are so obsessed with sex as you seem to be.
Here are some ideas that invalidate your repetitive, verbose, and baseless claims.
1. The U.S. population is about 20% atheist/agnostic. The prison population is less than 1% atheist/agnostic.
2. Religious belief and intelligence are inversely related.
3. The greatest minds are overwhelmingly atheist/agnostic.
4. Wars are often started by the religious for religious reasons.
5. No atheist/agnostic has ever flown a plane into a skyscraper because of atheist/agnostic beliefs.
6. Serial killers often cite religious reasons for their deeds e.g. god told me to do it. I'm doing gods work, etc.
7. No serial killer has ever said that his/her atheist/agnostic beliefs made him/her do it.
Seems like you're making points based on Shankar saying basically that atheists are bad and cause bad things. Most, if not all, your points are true, but I think only one has a real tie to the article. Thus, I suggest reevaluating the article, and your response, and try to be a bit more relevant.


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The Texas House convened in January focused on priorities that will promote economic growth, such as reforming public education, securing reliable supplies of water and making our state budget more transparent. With the legislative session now halfway over, each of these priorities is moving forward.
The members of the House are working to improve public education on a number of fronts. The House is working on a budget proposal that increases per-student spending in public and higher education while significantly boosting funding for financial aid. This budget will expand opportunities for young Texans while giving teachers additional resources to reach a growing, diverse population of students.
Providing a quality education, however, isn't only about money. Members will soon consider House Bill 5, which is a direct response to the concerns of parents worried about over-testing and of employers who lack the skilled workers they need. The bill reduces the number of End-of-Course tests that students must take and it increases local control of how those tests are used, all while maintaining high standards for our graduates.
House Bill 5 also creates more opportunities for students to explore their individual talents and interests, recognizing the limits of a one-size-fits-all curriculum. Schools would offer numerous paths to graduation, each with rigorous, up-to-date courses designed to prepare students for success in higher education and the workplace. The bill also encourages schools to work with community colleges and private industry to ensure that course offerings reflect the demands of the Texas economy.
A well-educated workforce is essential to economic success. So is the availability of reliable sources of water. That's why another critical piece of legislation, House Bill 4, will also reach the House floor soon.
Severe drought conditions and rapid population growth have strained our water supply in recent years. The uncertainty surrounding the availability of water threatens to slow, or even reverse, our record of robust job creation. House Bill 4 addresses this concern by creating a stable funding source for water and conservation projects across the state. The passage of this bill would send a strong signal that Texas will continue to be a place where businesses can thrive and families can find opportunity.
Finally, members of the House are committed to making our state budget more transparent and straightforward. For more than 20 years — in good economic times and bad — the state has increasingly collected fees for one purpose and used them to certify the rest of the state budget. House Bills 6 and 7 reverse this practice by using more fees for their intended purpose — or ending their collection altogether. These bills represent an important first step toward making our budget more efficient and accountable to taxpayers.
Members are working on each of these issues in a bipartisan way that encourages consensus and collaboration. House Bills 4 and 5, for example, won unanimous support in their respective committees. I will continue to encourage members to put partisanship aside and work together for the good of this state. I will also encourage them to stay focused on these priorities, even as other important issues have their day.
Voters expect elected officials to confront serious challenges, and the time to do so has arrived. I believe the Texas House will make the most of this opportunity.
Joe Straus represents House District 121 in Bexar County and is speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.


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Rupert Murdoch risked a spat with directors tasked with protecting the independence of London's Times and Sunday Times newspapers on Friday after ignoring their disapproval and appointing temporary acting editors to both titles. By Tim Castle.
The independent directors refused to formally approve the appointments in an apparent disagreement over the future of the papers, which Murdoch's British newspaper operation said were in a "very difficult financial position."
The Times reported that the independent directors "refused to accept News Corporation's nominations of the two men for permanent appointments." The company said it was going ahead with the appointments on an acting basis.
"During this interim period of continued consultation … we still have a responsibility to provide these two newspapers and their journalists with strong and stable leadership," said News International Chief Executive Mike Darcey.
Darcey said John Witherow, the editor of the weekly Sunday Times, would become acting editor of the daily Times, effective immediately.
Witherow's deputy, Martin Ivens, takes over as Sunday Times editor, but again on an acting basis.
Witherow, who has edited the Sunday Times for 18 years, will fill the gap left by the departure of James Harding from the editorship of the Times in December.
The independent directors, who include former Bank of England Deputy Governor Rupert Pennant-Rea, are responsible for ensuring that Murdoch abides by undertakings he made when he bought the papers in 1981.
These include ensuring that the two titles remain distinct and have separate editors free from editorial interference. The appointment of a new editor requires the directors' approval.
"We see our presence as the editorial equivalent of a nuclear weapon – a deterrent to possible proprietorial interference," Pennant-Rea told an inquiry into British media ethics last year.
The undertakings mean Murdoch is unable to follow the lead of rival British newspapers which have merged much of the operations of their daily and Sunday titles to save money as circulations and revenues fall.
News International is reported to have made an informal approach to the government before Christmas to explore possibility of being freed from the undertakings, but it now says it has no intention of dropping the pledges or merging the titles.
Witherow and Ivens met the independent directors on Thursday, but the directors withheld formal approval of their appointments pending a review of the undertakings, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
"Following (the directors' meeting) yesterday we welcome their clear understanding of the very difficult financial position of our newspapers and therefore the need to address the undertakings given in 1981," said Darcey.
"A thorough assessment of the undertakings will enable them to make recommendations to us and to government as to how the newspapers can be structured in order to reduce their costs and become economically viable," he added.
The stand-off with the independent directors comes at a torrid time for News International, following the departure of its former chief executive Tom Mockridge and coming after the phone-hacking scandal at its now defunct News of the World tabloid.
Responding to criticism from investors, Murdoch is splitting his News Corp media empire into two companies, separating his newspaper and publishing businesses from the more profitable film and television interests. DM
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By John Kemp
LONDON (Reuters) - Every fatal accident is a terrible tragedy, prompting searching questions about how it could have happened and whether more could have been done to prevent the loss of life.
The fireball that engulfed the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic after a runaway train derailed and exploded in the middle of the night is already stirring a debate about the safety of shipping crude oil and petroleum products by rail.
After every major incident, investigators from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Chemical Safety Board, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and their equivalents abroad conduct investigations and make recommendations to prevent another future disaster.
The history of industrial safety is largely measured by a series of catastrophic accidents, each of which sparked a major investigation and inspired improvements that have made transport and workplaces less hazardous in future.
"The deadly train derailment in Quebec this weekend is set to bring intense scrutiny to the dramatic growth in North America of shipping crude oil by rail, a century old practice unexpectedly revived by the surge in shale production," Reuters reported on Sunday.
At least five people were killed on Sunday and another 40 were missing after the train carrying North Dakota crude, one of 10 such shipments per month, exploded in the town center.
"The frequency of the number of incidents that have occurred raises legitimate questions that the industry and government need to look at," according to Jim Hall, a former chairman of the NTSB, the U.S. agency charged with finding the cause of accidents and recommending safety improvements.
"The issue here is: are they expanding too rapidly?" Hall added.
The New York Times asked: "Is it safer and less environmentally destructive to move huge quantities of crude oil by train or by pipeline?" ("Deadly derailment in Quebec underlines oil debate" July 7).
Supporters of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are poised to cite the accident as a reason to speed its approval, claiming pipelines have a better safety record than trains.
Environmental groups, which have strongly opposed Keystone, are no more enthusiastic about rail and see little difference between the two modes of transportation. Their preference is to reduce dependence on fossil fuels to cut all such incidents.
But it would be counter-productive to over-generalize from a single accident to conclude that crude-by-rail is not safe.
Notwithstanding occasional high-profile spills, the oil industry has a fairly good safety record. Roughly 90 million barrels of crude and refined products are consumed every day worldwide. Almost all of it is produced, transported, refined and used safely. The quantity spilled or involved in other accidents is tiny.
Just 8 million tonnes (1 tonne = 1.102 tons) of crude and products have been spilled in the 100 largest disasters since 1960, less than half of one day's global production and consumption, according to Merv Fingas, an expert on environmental cleanup and former chief of Environment Canada's Environment Emergencies Technology Center ("The basics of oil spill cleanup" 2013).
BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster may have spilled 500,000 tonnes into the Gulf of Mexico, but it is not typical. In fact, there are 12 spills of more than 4,000 liters of crude or refined products recorded on average every day in Canada, and about 100 in the United States, according to Fingas. Most of them are fairly small and go unremarked in the media.
"Human error, directly or indirectly, causes 30 to 50 percent of oil spills; equipment failure or malfunction causes 20 percent to 40 percent," Fingas explains.
Transporting crude by pipeline is probably safer than sending it via rail, but both modes of transport have a good safety record.
According to the NTSB, over 34,000 people were killed in transport accidents in the United States in 2011. More than 93 percent were killed on the highways (32,000) in cars (12,000), light trucks and vans (9,000) or as pedestrians (4,500).
Other forms of transport result in far fewer deaths. A total of 759 people were killed in rail accidents, and the majority of those were trespassing on the track. Pipeline explosions accounted for just 14 deaths, and of these incidents just one fatality was caused by a caused by a pipeline carrying petroleum.
The U.S. pipeline network has grown rapidly over the last two decades, and pipelines now carry record volumes of gas and hazardous liquids, but the number of serious incidents causing death or injury has actually declined, and the volume of liquids and gas lost in spills and explosions is much smaller, according to PHMSA.
There are now 175,000 miles of pipelines carrying crude and other hazardous products in the United States, 320,000 miles of gas transmission and gathering pipelines, and 2 million miles of distribution mains (enough to encircle the Earth 100 times).
But in the three years from 2010 to 2012, just two people were killed per year by incidents involving liquids pipelines, and three more injured, according to PHMSA records. Three more were killed pear year by gas transmission pipelines and 23 injured.
Notwithstanding occasional explosions and spills, pipelines have proved safe, and the number of fatalities and amount of materials lost per mile of pipeline is falling.
Tank cars carried by rail may be somewhat riskier, but the statistical record so far shows it is much safer than carrying oil by truck.
Farms and trucking cause far more fatal injuries than do the oil and gas industries.
In 2011, a total of 4,693 people were killed at work in the United States (about 10 percent of them were murdered on the job). The oil and gas industries killed 112, but that compares with 485 fatalities in trucking and 566 in agriculture, forestry and fishing.
Adjusting for the number of people employed and hours worked, there were 16 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers in mining, oil and gas, more than four times the rate for the private sector as a whole (3.7 deaths), but much better than trucking (26 deaths) and agriculture (26 deaths) let alone logging (77 deaths).
Railways killed just under 10 workers out of every 100,000, according to OSHA's Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.
The point of reciting all these statistics is not to suggest lessons cannot be learned from the tragedy in Quebec. It would be surprising if unsafe practices had not started to emerge as the industry has rapidly scaled up in the last five years.
The accident investigation will identify unsafe operating practices and correct them. Accident investigations have a good track record of forcing improvements.
Lessons will need to be learned from the Quebec tragedy, but it does not automatically mean that all crude shipments should be halted or converted to pipelines.
(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
(editing by Jane Baird)


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i see one im interested in.. The others are rent n take back games to me
Nintendo will wow the crowd with upcoming software at E3 while both Sony and Microsoft wow the crowd with new hardware. Nintendo needs to utilize that one year advantage and space the game releases accordingly so they have a steady stream of good software.
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The sports information graduate assistant is responsible for assisting the director of sports information in publicizing Barry's 12-sport intercollegiate athletics program. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: writing press releases, assisting with production of media guides and game programs and helping with home event management for all sports, as well as handling other duties as assigned. A bachelor's degree in journalism, English, communications, or sport-related field is required. Applicants should have solid writing and interpersonal communication skills, and previous experience working with Stat Crew software for Basketball and The Automated Scorebook for Baseball / Softball, soccer, and volleyball. In addition, the successful candidate should have experience working with desktop publishing software including PageMaker and PhotoShop. Must be willing to work during home events, at night and on weekends.
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By MANUEL VALDES
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SEATTLE — A man accused of killing his grandparents at their Renton home on the night his family celebrated his return from prison was charged Thursday with first-degree aggravated murder, which carries the state's ultimate penalty.
Prosecutors now have 30 days to decide if they want to pursue the death penalty or life in prison for 26-year-old Michael Chadd Boysen, said King County prosecutor's office spokesman Dan Donohoe.
Boysen was arrested March 12 after a 10-hour standoff at Lincoln City motel where the manager recognized him from news reports.
He arrived in King County on Thursday after being extradited from the Multnomah County Jail in Portland, state Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis said.
Robert R. Taylor, 82, and Norma J. Taylor, 80, were strangled in their Renton home. They had hosted a family welcome home party for Boysen the night before, after his release from prison in Monroe, charging documents said.
The dead couple were found by their daughter and Boysen's mother. Boysen had agreed to be picked up by an aunt and taken to a drug rehabilitation center.
Detectives said the elderly couple had been found in the closet of their guest bedroom partially dressed in their pajamas. Both had "severely dark/bruised ligature marks around their necks," charging papers said.
A bloody shoe lace remained partially wrapped around Norma Taylor's neck.
By in large, the house remained untouched and there were no signs of struggle, but detectives did find emptied out envelopes that held $5,200. Norma Taylor's family later confirmed that she liked to save and hide cash in her home. Credit cards belonging to the couple, her cellphone and their car were also gone, charging papers said.
Detectives say that Boysen went on a shopping spree, spending around $1,400 at Fred Meyer and Walmart to buy an iPad, a laptop, music CDs, and a pre-paid cellphone.
Investigators also went back to the Monroe prison to interview inmates who knew Boysen.
"During these interviews, I was told that during his incarceration at Monroe, Boysen spoke about being angry at and wanting to kill his grandparents. Boy also shared that he planned to take cash from his grandparents and their Chrysler 300. The theft of the cash from the Taylors had been withheld from the media at the time," detective Christina Bartlett wrote.
Boysen had just finished serving nine months in prison on a burglary conviction, Lewis said. He was previously in prison between 2006 and February 2011 for four robbery convictions. Those convictions were related to an addiction to narcotic painkillers, Lewis said.
Last week, Boysen's mother, Melanie Taylor, said her parents always "saw the good" in Boysen and were like "second parents" to him. She said that despite his trouble with the law, he never threatened the family and the family never felt threatened.


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If the name Randolph Silliman Bourne is now even faintly recognizable to the general reader, it is likely to be associated with the elegy to "the tiny twisted unscared ghost" of one of the "biographies" of Dos Passos's U.S.A. Dos Passos had a penchant for martyrs, and his tribute to the radical pacifist who opposed American entrance into President Wilson's war memorialized both a man and a legend.
Bourne was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, in 1886, the same year as his friend Van Wyck Brooks, and died at thirty-one in the influenza epidemic of 1918. A severe birth injury which curved his spine and disfigured his face doubtless determined to a large degree the formation of his character and disposition. "The deformed man," he was later to write in "The Handicapped" (1911), "has all the battles of a stronger man to fight" and none of the advantages granted to the well-favored. His self-respect is stunted for he is never sure whether his difficulties are owing "to his physical disability" or "to his weak will and character." Yet there are compensations for bearing "a crooked back and an unsightly face." Friendships become more precious. Denied certain "physical satisfactions," he can "occupy the far richer kingdom of mental effort and artistic appreciation." And having undergone the neglect and anguish of the handicapped, he can identify with the "despised and ignored" and "begin to understand the feelings of the horde of the unpresentable and the unemployable, the incompetent and the ugly, the queer and crotchety people who make up so large a proportion of human folk."
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This article Based on work by frontalot and mox69. Originally by frontalot. at Linkstationwiki.org
How to Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server
The following guide will attempt to explain the steps involved in converting a stock Buffalo LinkStation into a fully functional Linux system with Samba administered via Webmin/SSH. The following is a list of things that I will assume from the reader:
- You have a basic understanding of Linux command line functions.
- Your LinkStation must be connected to the Internet! I have mine connected via a standard 5 port router to take advantage of the router's DHCP capabilities.
- It will be handy to have the IP addresses of your ISP's DNS servers.
- You know the current IP address of your LinkStation.
- Some familiarity with the Linux text editor called "vi."
Install FreeLink
1) Install FreeLink First: Get the latest version of FreeLink from the downloads area
2) Flash The The LinkStation firmware flasher
- Open the archive and carefully read the included README file for any specific instructions.
- Disable any firewall(s), including any built-in Windows firewall
- Make sure the LinkStation and your PC are on the same sub-network. This likely requires that you change the IP address (and probably the subnet-mask) of your PC and router to a different IP address (out of the box the LS should start out on 192.168.1.XXX but in EM Mode it will have a static IP address of 192.168.11.150)
- Run the firmware updater executable HD-???LAN FWUpdate-english.exe
- After finding your LinkStation, press the "Renew Firmware" button, and wait. Have patience, and keep your calm. If you think the Firmware updater is acting strange, do not try to disconnect the LinkStation or abort the update in another way.
- After flashing connect your LinkStation up to the network with subnet 192.168.1.XXX
- Find your LinkStation on the network and Telnet to it with PuTTYtel You will be at the root shell.
login as: root , password: freelink
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 %h
3) Change the root password
passwd root
- If you want to name your LinkStation something besides LinkStation, type the following commands (replacing BuffaloNas with your choice of name):
echo "127.0.0.1 BuffaloNas" > /etc/hosts hostname BuffaloNas export hosts echo "BuffaloNas" > /etc/hostname
- Do you need to use static network settings? Click here.
Install Software
4) Test your Internet connection:
ping www.google.com
if you get no response you will have to edit the /etc/resolv.conf file and add a DNS server address to the bottom
#frontalot's static setup (adjust to your network settings) # search nameserver 192.168.1.1 nameserver <<DNS SERVER IP>>
5) Now we can begin installing software. Debian uses a program called The Advanced Packaging Tool (apt) to manage the software on your computer. Think of it as a very advanced command line version of Windows add / remove programs. First update the apt package list and install SSH:
apt-get update
6) Then install OpenSSH:
note: this step is only necessary for the PowerPC(LS1,HG) versions of freelink. The MIPSel(LS2) version comes with SSH enabled
apt-get install ssh
7) Answer the installation prompts, making sure to enable the SSH daemon (server). Now use your favorite SSH program to make sure we can SSH in (I prefer PuTTY). If SSH is working you should be able to log in like this:
8) You should upgrade all currently installed programs:
apt-get upgrade
9) Now close out your telnet session and disable the telnet daemon (utelnetd):
rm /etc/rc2.d/S05utelnetd
10) Let's install specific packages. Type the following at the SSH prompt:
apt-get install samba smbfs
11) Answer all the prompts with the appropriate information. Make sure to use encrypted passwords and create a password database. Then install Webmin, a program which allows easy administration of the LinkStation via a web browser:
apt-get install webmin webmin-core webmin-cpan webmin-inetd webmin-logrotate webmin-firewall
You will need to create a /etc/webmin/miniserv.pem file using openssl (27/08/2006)
12) When that is done type:
apt-get install webmin-samba
Configure Software
13) You must add your computer's IP address to the list of allowed hosts:
vi /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
14) Change 127.0.0.1 to the IP address of the computer from which you will be administering the LinkStation. You will be able to add more later via Webmin itself. Next restart the Webmin:
15) And connect to Webmin via HTTPS, e.g., https://_LINKSTATION_IP_:10000
16) Congratulations, you have successfully installed FreeLink. now you may want to:
- Free up some space on hda1
- Correct the system time and setup Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Install a 2.6.XX kernel
- Have a look at other Debian specific articles
Static IP Address
3a) Only for users who need static network settings you must edit /etc/network/interfaces:
# we always want the loopback interface # auto lo iface lo inet loopback # # default dynamic setup (no adjustment necessary) # auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname `hostname` # # frontalot's static setup (adjust to your network settings) # # auto eth0 # iface eth0 inet static # address 192.168.1.3 # network 192.168.1.0 # netmask 255.255.255.0 # broadcast 192.168.1.255
3b) You must correctly edit this file to reflect your network settings. In our example:
# we always want the loopback interface # auto lo iface lo inet loopback # # default dynamic setup (no adjustment necessary) # # auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp # hostname `hostname` # #frontalot's static setup (adjust to your network settings) # auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.3 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1
The gateway definition is necessary if you are sitting in an intranet, e.g. internet
3c) Save the file and exit vi. To change the DNS servers edit:
#frontalot's static setup (adjust to your network settings) # search nameserver 192.168.1.1
3d) We will be using the following DNS servers in our example:
#frontalot's static setup (adjust to your network settings) # search nameserver 192.168.1.1 nameserver 18.104.22.168 nameserver 18.104.22.168
3e) Save the file and exit vi.
3f) Reboot before you move on to step 4


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