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WHO THE FUCK DOWN VOTED THIS?

For the love of god people, upvote this!!!!

> "What folks?" I asked trying to turn around my set, "Does this cum stain make me look fat?" No wonder you were a bomb.

I'm pretty sure that was the point.

The only problem is: we know we're sentient, whatever it is. We know we're different from our PCs in a significant way. Even if a being that consisted entirely of energy did exist, *we* know we experience qualia, aren't behaviorist machines, etc. We know that other animals are sentient to some extent as well. Yet, no matter the processing power of a supercomputer, it's missing the wetware element. I see that as the necessary component to sentience, otherwise computers remain as zombies: they have no inner life. Edit: Woah. There's a lot of people interested in the subject that feel that they should downvote Gareth321. Give him some upvotes, reddit.

No, we *think* we're sentient. We're sentient relative to our own definition. We may not be sentient relative to the beings made of energy. It sounds like you're confusing sentience with the philosophically ambiguous "free will". Sentience simply implies being aware of self. We've no way of knowing whether computer programs are aware of themselves. Computers and programs operate similarly to human brains. What is the distinction that you propose? Edit: What's with all the downvotes guys? Thanks for the comment, drunkentune. Same goes for you. It looks like there are some strong opinions on this subject.

They have a constitutional right to advertise under the First Amendment. That is something to be proud of. Even though on the fringes some speech can be harmful or misleading, I'd rather we all have the right, rather than just a select few.

You might want to look up the difference between free expression and commercial speech. There are plenty of restraints on commercial speech, and rightly so.

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Abrahamic religions, not men, have deprived women of their rights. Don't lump all men in as women abusers because a few theists 2000 years ago thought women were unclean. Put the blame where it really lies, the religious institutions that continue to preach women are evil because Adam blamed Eve for taking the apple.

Americans were neither known equal gender relations, faith in Abrahamic

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okay, so you're saying government doesnt really exist and that people govern through societal norms. the fact of the matter is, it doesnt matter what you call it, the body of people that dictate what the rest of us do simply exists. you're entirely right that only a person can prevent himself from doing something bad. but what youre advocating next is the government shaping how we behave. I dont think there is any reason why people cant change culture themselves over time, versus the government dictating what culture and social norms should be. This is exactly the difference between keynesian economists and austrian economists. You do not need a government dictating how the economy runs. The economy itself runs on its own, and dynamically changes as people make their individual decisions. If a group of people feel strongly enough that they need to change culture, they should do the best they can to follow through with that idea. I also think its just morally wrong for the government to try and shape an entire society to what it sees as being a better form of humanity. Government does not need to be involved in educating the people on what is true and false. If a group of scientists really feel strongly about educating people properly, and they want to create a show that educates kids and adults about science, evolution and the like, then its up to them to get the financial backing to create a show and broadcast it to the masses. I realise there is a double standard in things like circumcision, or sexual abuse, but I dont think the government is any effective way to change anything like that. They are upholding those double standards today, so what makes you think they will be any better in the future? Really it sounds like you think you know whats best for the public, or that the government should know whats best for the public. I certainly agree with you, as i've pointed out several times, that science is the way to go. However, what really gives any other person the right to tell another person what is best for them? what gives them that right to do it at gun point? Debate is one thing, but forceably converting people to science is another. Infact, that would most likely increase the resistance to science. You also talk about propaganda. I can't tell if youre really advocating a "good" and nonevil form of it, but even if it was used for good, theres no telling when it would be used for evil. The good things to me are far outwayed by the bad possibilities of what government could do to the masses. Your government task for for deciding whats unethical in terms of surgical procedures could also turn the other way at some point in the future and declare that all abortions are unethical, that plastic surgery is unethical, that treating the old is economically unviable an thus unethical. I mean those are extreme examples, and i know abortion is illegal in most places, but nevertheless is that really the control you wish to see other people have over an entire population? Are you really willing to take the good with the potential bad? Some people might say, but it doesnt have to be that way. How on earth can anyone really ensure that power wont be abused? Once a government becomes entrenched in one way of doing things, it becomes very hard to kick them out. Government is also notorious for becoming corrupt and one sided, and having double standards that we both dislike. Circumcision is a good example of that double standard. while I might not be a trained psychiatrist, I am not trying to throw out the effects of psychological abuse. You cant however really take psychological abuse into play with babies, considering they do not form lasting memories until around the age of three. From what scientific research tells us, they do however feel a hightened sense of pain compared to adults. However, because of their inability to form lasting memories of these incidents, and the inability to protest before the procedure, it is pretty hard to come up with evidence to convict someone of a crime here. Post traumatic stress disorder is very likely to be far out of the realm of possibility when it comes to the majority of circumcisions due to the fact that it is done usually when an individual is a baby. regardless of what is being done to the child mentally, its very hard to actually prove this unless the child is willing to come forward in a court of law. outside of this, what are you suggesting we create? the thought police? Bad things happen, and you cant prevent all of them. My point with the physical evidence was that it was very clear that it was abuse. theres no way around it. Children can hardly make clear decisions, so imposing that kind of physical pain is a clearly immoral thing to do. Feeding a child ideas that you consider rubbish on the other hand... thats a very grey area. You keep looking at it as if your side was completely right. Consider the fact that the majority of the world believes otherwise. The majority of the world would think your ideas would be polluting their child's head, and would consider that abuse. Are you suggesting we imprison the whole world? The best you can do is teach by example of your own life. spread your own morals to others. it would be a futile task to do much else. Now, lets pretend that you have some sort of governing body that has control over learning. Pretend that this body is actually on your side right now. They love science, they advocate teaching it, and infact they some how can control how children learn. Now a bunch of angry adults come and vote the other way. enough of them vote to change it to religion. Now your children are being taught religion, and you cant do anything about it. This stuff doesnt just go one way, it can go the other way as well. The only way make it "better" is to keep the government out of it. The only thing you can really do morally, is teach your own children what you believe to be the proper way. I agree that science tries very hard to avoid bias. Science is not a person though. People have bias, and science does not. oxford dictionary defines bias as: inclination or prejudice in favour of a particular person, thing, or viewpoint. You are definitely prejudiced in favour of science, scientists, and scientific books over religion, religious people, and the bible etc. theres nothing wrong with that, thats just how you view things. yes its clear ron paul is viased against evolution by his religion. It's an unfortunate flaw of his character, but i think when you take his very strong principles into account, it becomes irrelevant in the face of libertarianism.

I don't really think you understood most of what I said, so I'm not going to bother dissecting your comment, as I would have to repeat myself. As an aside, it is well known that circumcising infants results in PTSD, alterations of the brain from neurogenic shock in some cases, changes from normal infant behavior and relationships to the mother, and tested longterm psychological effects (for instance, circumcised boys are measured to experience more pain and fear at later vaccinations, which is a sign of some kind of remembered trauma from circumcision---possibly hard coded by the trauma of conscious amputation and elevated stress hormones). See [this book](http://circumcision.org/cht.htm).

Where the hell is Obama in all this? Having a press conference with 15 economists behind you is nice and flashy, but how about providing a firm stance on where to country should go with this problem. He cannot simply vote present on this issue.

He doesn't have any power yet. But it is clear that Bush means to give away every penny the US can find or print or borrow so when Obama takes office we will be broke, in a depression and a hyperinflation. Here's hope we get to try him for all this.

I totally disagree. I have been buying Dell systems (non bargain basement) for almost 11 years and never once was disappointed in their product. When there was an issue it was usually a hard drive or lcd screen that went, it was dealt with promptly under warranty. After warranty, I have been able to easily repair several of them with different ailments ranging from worn keyboards to motherboards. I haven't had the same kind of luck with HP or toshiba. We have bought Latitudes exclusively for most of that time. The only laptop that I have worked on that was better built to this point has been an IBM. I have repaired a number of them and was impressed at how well they were designed for a repair. I don't have any experience with the pre-installed Dells, But I will confirm that the latest Ubuntu works from first boot with no tweaks on a Latitude 630c. Wireless, bluetooth and all. It did take putting a check mark in the box to enable the non free drivers so that I could see the better desktop effects, but most should be able to do that.

One of my idiot friends set the BIOS password on my Dell Vostro 1000 laptop. I tried removing the CMOS battery for a few days. While that did reset the BIOS, the password was still there. I called Dell tech support, and they said that the value is stored in an EEPROM on the motherboard, not in battery-backed memory. They overnighted me a new motherboard and offered to walk me through the process of removing it, replacing it, and returning the old motherboard overnight. This did not cost me a penny. I bought the laptop refurbished for under $500 and got 24-hour business support with overnight part replacement. The replacement didn't void the remainder of my warranty. Thank you Dell! Edit: The laptop works fine with Linux (Debian sid here) with the open source drivers, except for the wireless. You need the firmware for the driver on that one, but after that, smooth sailing.

Telemarketing fraud.

Should be hung in front of a firing squad! I hate telemarketers and I AM CANADIAN! (hehe) The "do not call list" ended up being such a fiasco in Canada. So many companies and charities had exemptions from the list, and then the list was sold to these companies and charities, so that if you applied to have your number put on the do not call list, consumers actually received more calls than before they were on the list. HA! Beat that USA!

but it isn't the drill-and-skill homework that teaches the mathematical concepts most important to programmers. I wish teachers would spend more time with critical thinking and applications and less with rote practice.

Critical thinking has it's place, but some things you just have to brute force memorize. Logic and critical thinking doesn't have it's place in math if you can't do basic adding and subtracting.

*sigh* This makes me fondly remember many happy days playing Shareware versions of Commander Keen.

I recently bought a small netbook. Relatively new games work fine on it, but I've been taking the opportunity to play some older games I never got around to all those years ago. It's great :)

Awesome: * Ron Paul - Our economy is so bad we can't afford a big government. * Obama - Our economy is so bad we can't afford a small government. At least we know one of them is likely to be right.

A little more than that: * Ron Paul - Our economy is bad _because_ of too much government intervention * Obama - Our economy is bad _because_ of too little government intervention * GOP-{Ron Paul} - We don't give a fuck. We will blame Obama for whatever he does. (not just whether we can afford govt, but also whether the govt had a direct role in causing the problems)

british subjects have the habit of uprising? when?

Well we overthrew our monarch and got Oliver Cromwell, then got bored of him then brought back the monarchy. We discommunicated ourselves from the Catholic Church, and former British colonists rebelled against the state and formed the United States. There's more, but I can't be bothered. Something about protests in London... Chartists? And that woman's suffrage thing.

He should have aten him.

eaten

Is there anything Japanese that's not just chock full of AWESOME?

lolicon?

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Fuck the glitch, what is up with his viewmodel FOV? It's horrendous!

he keeps it higher. i like it that way.

The start menu on my main system pops up in milliseconds. What are your system specs? I may be able to help.

I've gotta say, Vista runs a LOT slower for me as well. I have a setup where I dual boot Vista and XP. Let s use one of my favorite games as an example... WWII Online. In Vista when I was playing in the middle of nowhere, my framerate was about 40 FPS. In heavy battles it dropped to 7 - 12 FPS. I boot into XP and play the same game. My framerate in the wilderness is 250+ FPS and in heavy battle it drops to 80 FPS. Same exact system, VERY different results. As far as basic specs: AMD 64 X2 dual core 6000+ running at 3.0GHz 3GB dual channel RAM GeForce 8800 GT video card (PCI-E w/ 512 memory) Soundblaster Audigy 2 soundcard Medal of Honor: Airborne was the same way. I downloaded the demp and even with the settings set to medium it was a slideshow on Vista but was perfect on XP. The only game I was able to play on Vista was Crysis (which was surprising.)

Sigh, another straw-man.

This is not a straw man, it's a valid question. Either Christianity uses moral relativism and the OT commandments no longer apply to modern society, or God's Law is truly Universal and they do apply. Which is it?

I'll buy the non-big-brother hardware, thanks. And if you've outlawed it, I'll still buy it.

Or build it, or modify it... (never underestimate the ingenuity of a determined techie.)

Good god. I don't think I've ever encountered a bread recipie that called for an hour's baking, and nothing even close at 350. There's a few rustic breads that go in at 200 or 250 for 45 minutes or so, but... Lengthy bake times dry out the bread inside, so it'll be crumbly-er the longer it's baked for. And beer bread tends towards crumbly most times I've made it, so that'll slant things a little as well. Everything I make right now is 25 - 30 minutes. If you're sticking to that recipe, I'd suggest doing a really large batch and trying varying bake times to see whether that'll do what you need.

Thanks for the help. Can you recommend a fairly simple beer bread recipe that turns out the way I'm looking for? Thanks again. (Actually, it doesn't have to be beer bread- anything dense and chewy that goes well with beef dishes and potatoes would be great.)

As an engineer I find it very difficult to defend myself from a good spy and keep all three of my buildings repaired. Often I can kill the spy and save my sentry and dispenser, but my teleporter goes down. Except now I have to rebuild both ends, forcing me to abandon my post to construct a new entrance. Spies can no longer sneak behind enemy lines to easily kill a teleporter, but they can do more damage with a successful nest assault.

If I had to choose which two of the three buildings to save I'd probably save the teleporter and dispenser and *not* the sentry if the area isn't currently under assault. A sentry can be put back up quickly with a metal-filled dispenser and/or nearby ammo box, but there is no way to fill a dispenser with metal quicker and it is quite risky to leave your forward base to rebuild a teleporter again.

Yet it set the seeds for democracy. In Britain it was a rather gradual process, I mean they still have a queen as a figurehead.

No it did not. It is a widely held belief but none the less a falsehood. The Magna Carta was simply an agenda for the ruling elite and aristocracy. It is perhaps the 1st example of the myth of democracy, defining the rights of the the rulers and 'the ruled'.

Yes, that is indeed what the article says. Very good. The article also says he got jail time for the song.

Yes, it does, but simply headlining that fact while leaving out the assault and bail rule breaking is just a tad misleading and sensationalist doncha think? It's a pretty poorly written article either way, as it jumps all over in time and doesn't provide anything even remotely resembling a clear timeline as to what exactly happened.

I've heard that McCain has a short temper, and I saw a little bit of that in the interview.

I saw pretty much the exact opposite. I honestly didn't know McCain was that funny and had that much personality.

At least when I was there, Columbus was second only to San Francisco in gays per capita. Columbus was also easily the most hip city in the flyover states I've ever been to, as is Austin. If you believe Richard Florida in his book 'The rise of the Creative Class,' attracting artists, gays and young high tech people to your city is crucial to growing your economy. As much as I can't stand the guy, he's dead on with regards to that. (I've met him when I was at CMU, he's a misogynistic egomaniac.) Pittsburgh, my home town, is the perfect example of what happens when you can't attract the Creative Class. Everyone I know that was well educated, hip and trendy left Pittsburgh at age 18 and never looked back. For the most part, almost all the brains at CMU tend to do the same thing. Nobody with a window to the world wants to live in a city with few good restaurants, 1 barley hip neighborhood and rampant bigotry, racism and most of all, mullets worn with zero ironic intention.

Some female indian friends made the mistake of walking a few miles from the CMU campus only to be told that they need to 'go back to China'. Everyone I know there, including the really bright ones, never considered staying in Pittsburgh after graduating. The mullet 'yinzer' scene just isn't conducive to keeping those students. I'm not prejudging the place, but the locals have an anti-education anti-creativity attitude. Talk to them, listen to the radio, feel the true Pittsburgh culture. You can be poor and have dignity and value education, but the Pittsburgh denizens, many of them working class/poor, seem to not care about their dignity nor do they care about education, even though they have an amazing school like CMU there.

Whoa now! You say you DON'T like Diablo 2?

Correct. Diablo 2 turned into a grind fest for melee classes at the level where these annoying short spitball dudes hid all over the place in tall grass. Warcraft 3 was pretty and I liked being able to destroy bridges, but CPU battles were annoying for me because I am admittedly terrible with micromanagement and the CPU always nearly instantly slaughtered my hero. I bought both and played both perhaps a week. Starcraft and Warcraft II we still play on the LAN at work. I played WoW in beta and to level 60 at release and enjoyed it quite a lot. Not having time for endgame raids (2 kids under 2) basically I was done. edit: The Diablo II cutscenes were particularly awesome.

"Intelligent" dance music has been done. I don't think Trentemøller really fits in that category. I've checked out a lot of his stuff and there's this motif that runs through it - the sort of crackles and other peripheral noises he uses, that seem to inspire a sense of unease in me. It's hard for me to find the appeal in that sensation...maybe it's cause I haven't taken enough Ketamine? I still voted this up, cause it's decent, and I think reddit could use more electronic music.

Ok, first of all: I love Trentemøller. I just recently bought "The Trentemøller Chronicles" on vinyl (it has fewer tracks than the CD version but (at least one) track not included on the CD (his remix of Røyksopp's 'What else is there?')). Regarding this "intelligent" thing, I have to say the following: There is stupid music (within the realms of electronic music that would be stuff like LÜtzenkirchen, Sven Väth, Disco Boys, Eric Prydz etc.), there is intelligent music (Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Squarepusher, Autechre etc.) and there is dance music that's also intelligent (Trentemøller for example). BUT: 'IDM' is mostly either not intelligent (Kid606) or not danceable (see the above list). There are exceptions (there always are), but mostly this stuff is intellectual masturbation. There's nothing intelligent about white noise mixed with plain sine waves... even if you call it "Tglwf Clwd 2.0", that just makes it more pretentious. Don't get me wrong tho: I love R.D.James, Squarepusher etc. (especially Venetian Snares... great). But I don't see why they should be regarded as more valuable than anything else. Some stuff you might wanna listen to if you liked that Trentemøller track: [Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=He80v05zXz8) [Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns - Trentemøller Remix](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=1eEygIR4whE) [International Pony - Our House](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=EPZkeNM6k3Q) [Gui Boratto - Sozinho](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=uEBTQN3FIiI) [Stephan Bodzin & Marc Romboy - Atlas](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP2Dg3VEhk)

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And the only clothes they get is pink with little bunny-print on it. That way, when the footage is shown on TV, there's just no way of the island-rapist-community giving the impression of a cool ghetto lifestyle

Nice everything!

Very true :D

That was interviewing him.

Usually when you are interviewing somebody and they say something hilarious and absurd you *follow up* on that line of questioning. Like when McCain says Palin has foreign police experience because Alaska is close to Russia... that needs to be clarified. *WHY* is that the case? With *WHAT* issues has Palin been involved with Russia? If you don't follow up, people just assume that the answer was satisfactory. I didn't like that interview very much at all.

That was stupid, how about we just ignore them?

I agree. Fuck censorship.

it's kind of a dumb thing to idolize anyone.

doesn't make it wrong to find enjoyment out of it though *Edit - I meant to reply to nomorewar

Explain what you just said for a layman (me), please.

I'd love to. What did you find unclear?

I'm pretty sure one side says classic rock, the other heavy metal. ...As though they're somehow mutually exclusive.

classic rock isn't technically a genre

BREAKING: **YOUR WINDSHIELD AFTER I BEAT IT WITH A BASEBALL BAT TO GET YOUR CAR STEREO**

hehe the only headline that made me laugh!

Good lord, I had to reread that 8 times before I saw the error. Teh intarwebs are making me stupid.

yeah. it should be *harderer*

No no, that had nothing to do with it. It was all due to the PS3, because HornyMelon predicted it would be so.

No it had to do with the fact that the PS2 was the reason why DVD adoption took off so quickly. Sony simply followed the same strategy, it was predicted by common sense.

And you believe him?

I know this hand.

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Could we stop doing this? That is, if people don't get a reference, they can always ask. But sometimes half the fun is getting it without any clues to the context. This is ruined by posting, "_modded for _." Oh, and you're missing a "d."

I am sure that your words will immediately sway the reddit community, and all instances of this sort of behavior will promptly cease.

His stuttering is very strange. I stutter on vowels and get quite a few 'blocks' in the middle of sentances where nothing comes out at all and I sound like a retard. Shit sucks.

are you left handed (serious question)?

Note to gamblers: If the casinos are chartering jets to get you to Vegas, it means that you losing too much.

Ya paying for good time. He probibly got presidential suits drinks, fine meals, and women on the house. Since was stealing the money it all was for free Now he ton money get good lawyers so that he will spend anytime tons of cash.

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"funny or die" or "funny or completely fucking depressing"?

What's depressing about it exactly?

Because the LJ post is also the source...?

It took me a while to figure out that LJ was an L next to a J, and not a gigantic weird U.

I guess you start with Megadeth's A Secret Place on Sitar Hero...

or Can't Lose You by Type O Negative

Step 1. Repost in /r/politics Step 2. Receive karma. Step 3. ??? Step 4. Profit

ftfy. Step 1. Repost in /r/politics Step 2. ??? Step 3. Receive karma (aka Profit).

fuck grow up people

"Fuck, grow up, people" - It's a bit crass but yes, that is basically the life cycle of Homo Sapience in a nut shell.

This thread was originally posted in the atheism subreddit, so if you read it there and didn't post a reasonable reply, don't try again here. http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/8nfnd/according_to_the_1st_law_of_thermodynamics_there/ Please philosophy reddit answer me this: if consciousness is a material phenomenon, and material (or matter / energy) can not be destroyed, then how can consciousness be destroyed?

This thread was originally posted in the atheism subreddit, so if you read it there and didn't post a reasonable reply, don't try again here. http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/8nfnd/according_to_the_1st_law_of_thermodynamics_there/ Please philosophy reddit answer me this: if consciousness is a material phenomenon, and material (or matter / energy) can not be destroyed, then how can consciousness be destroyed?

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Solitaire? Weak sauce. Minesweeper FTW!!11

No. Freecell is the best of the three! I hate games that present you with unsolvable situations. In freecell, there's only one single game that cannot be solved, the other thirty-thousand+ are all solvable.

Too lazy to look it up, but I wonder if there is a law against creating your own 'currency'?

It's not illegal to make your own currency. It is illegal to require your currency (or any alternate form of payment) be used to satisfy a debt. As it says on all of the money: "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." That means that if someone goes into debt to you and offers to repay with U.S. dollars, and you refuse, the debt is legally canceled. Note that this is not the same as a sale; you can ask for your own currency or anything else to transact a sale, and refuse to sell if the buyer refuses your terms.

What's so special? Bicycle lights never needed batteries because since the bike was invented it had two rotating wheels capable of powering a light (with the help of your muscles).

most wheel-driven lights are pretty clumsy and don't provide much power. this is unique in that renders the bike wheel into a generator part. very clever.

you have to have a lot of money to wear a cape for real. i mean who's ever even seen a non-costume cape in real life?

You and I must have very different friends.

I'm not an American, could someone explain the reference? Hanni?

Sean Hannity, Fox news pundit and talk show host. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannity They've even got a section about the site there.

BSG next season, I mean. I thought they opened that door...

Oh yeah, she's definitely coming back on BSG. She's in the previews for next season. But powerfuless said "BSG world", which is where Caprica takes place.

My point is that GolemXIV is condemning Nokia for not giving their users what they want, yet when given the choice apparently users wanted "cheaper" (or "paid over time via a plan") phones more than they wanted unlocked ones.

Nokia doesn't sell phones to users. Nokia sells phones to wireless providers, which hands them out to users. Providers obviously don't want users having unlocked phones, so they switch vendors and suddenly no wireless providers (and thus no users) are buying Nokia phones anymore.

Thanks, I've never seen it! I shall remedy this immediately.

See you in an hour (since I figure you are already 26 minutes into it).

don't post links to breitbart, it's a right-wing outlet that drudge and limbaugh feed to

HUFFINGTON POST IS THE ONLY FAIR SOURCE< MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN. Go back to your tree and hug it.

And all that sperm but just one baby? How is that anything like multiplying?

On a purely cell basis, I'll give it to them. But I'm still calling shenanigans.

This isn't Wal-Mart Bingo, this is Texas bingo

A lot of these are on our Iowa State Fair Bingo cards...

It always kind of depresses me to remember that all we are is randomly interacting atoms.

Myself, I always find it uplifting to consider that even randomly interacting atoms can occasionally have fun.

So then what's so great about a consciousness that it should be protected?

It's not really about consciousnesses, it's the fact that people have natural traits developed over millions of years that help to ensure species preservation. One of those is "Don't kill people unless you have a really good excuse."

I can't find a source for this, but I think I remember someone saying that these girls are actually all guys, and that the poster is meant to be a mockery of the temperance movement. what say you, gods of reddit?

That would definitely explain a few things.

Get over yourself, man. Believe it or not, playing video games or watching LOST doesn't suck out your brain. I play tons of video games and watch House and LOST when I have the time, yet somehow when I need or want to discuss art or (especially) music, devise mathematical or philosophical proofs, or improve someone's algorithms, I don't just stare off in to space and drool stupidly. In summary, go have some fun. You don't have to exclusively brood on how much awesome stuff came out of the past. Enjoy the cool stuff that's coming out of the present, or you'll just get more and more out of touch with society. Make some friends and get together and watch an episode of House, or play some Wario Ware or something at a party. It'll take time, but I promise that stick will work its way out of your ass.

See, this is what I don't get about friendships. Do you just call people up and say "Hey, wanna watch House?" Because that seems kind of weird to me. :\

iTunes doesn't need QuickTime, it just needs QT Alternative... which happens to be a cut down version of QuickTime. Fine logic, you've got there.

Exaclty, a cut down version, so why is the full thing needed to be bundled which is vastly bigger, IIRC, installs a systray icon, etc.

the best way to start a revolution? violence. better yet: dont.

Yeah, massive amounts of bloodshed is just about the only way says history. Almost always, peaceful resolution = dirty hippie jamfest of no importance.

Do you run as fast as you can down the hall and into the bathroom when you know the floor is wet? Do you drive 20-30mph over the speed limit when it's dark and the roads are icy? Most people don't, because taking precautions to prevent accidents and injuries is basic human nature, part of that grand 'survival instinct' that allows for greater evolutionary adaptation. There may only be one situation in your entire life that could benefit from the precaution of owning/carrying a firearm, and if you don't have one at the time, every other precaution you took in your entire life will amount to a worthless hill of beans. I am not suggesting that you need to have a gun to protect yourself, just don't knock others for not wanting to become one of Darwin's evolutionary dead-ends.

There is more chance of any firearm I had in such a scenario being used against me, as saving my life, and quite a miniscule chance of this scenario ever occurring to me. Like I say, you all sound paranoid to me. I have lived for nearly 40 years so far and I have never needed a firearm once. I don't forsee any situation that has any reasonable chance of occurring where I would be put in a situation where I needed firearm for protection and could not simply run away. If things change here in NZ and the society starts crumbling, or violent crime in my area gets statistically significant, and ordinary people start getting shot and killed in any significant number, then maybe I would change my opinion (though I doubt it). How many times in your life have you been in this hypothetical 'need a gun or you die' scenario that you all bleat on about? surely if there's a significant chance of it happening, then one of you must have a story of personal bravery to tell? Really, all you americans need to look at yopur awful firearm-related death stats compared with other OECD countries and take a long hard look at your relationship with firearms as a culture. Your arguments just don't hold up.

Is Anne Geddes next?

One can only hope.

Eh productive employees may be given iphones. Executives may well stick with their blackberries. Not only do honest to goodness hard buttons help speed, that and blackberry screams important executive, while an iphone screams... well a more consumer play. If Apple was smart they'd sell a minimally upgraded version as a "pro" model, say upgraded speakerphone, and voice command (and of course a an easy to spot physical difference), Apple would rake in the money. I mean there really are broad classes of people that really don't want the same phone their sons and daughters want, surely not to do "serious business".

Erm, I wasn't talking about companies giving employees iPhones to use. I was talking about employees owning iPhones themselves, then using it to send company email. Companies would issue instructions for using the iPhone over their network mainly to protect themselves. Blackberries only scream important executive because they're the incumbent. Wait a few years when there's 5 generations worth of iPhones out on the market, people will wonder why your executive phone has such a small screen with so many little buttons below it. I'd say if Apple was smart, they already are. Everyone has their own idea of guaranteed success in the phone market, but so far only Apple is doing pretty darn good for only being in the market for 1 year. Apple is already raking in the money so this "pro" model you speak of is probably not what their target customer wants. They probably realize they can only sell 1 pro model for every 20 consumer models. PS3 vs Wii, expensive vs cheap. I guess only the executive enterprise gamers buy the PS3 given its price and clear difference from the toy-looking Wii. However, I'm sure the Nintendo investors are a lot happier than Sony's.

Robes and wizard hats? Actually, before he was in the military and politics, he was renowned in the Dark Ages as a tailor and haberdasher. Merlin wanted something especially snazzy, yet conservative to make him stand out, so McCain created the robe and wizard hat concept. He originally called the hat a TeePee, but that didn't sit to well with the great one.

Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in the air on my mighty horn.

The return of Jesus: he's back, and this time... it's personal.

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He'll go on to win a Grahammy.

And everybody will hear him with their grahonograph.

I thought Christine and The Dead Zone were great. The Shining is too much a departure, but still wonderful.

In my opinion Christine as a movie was just a bit too campy, though for some reason the book did not seem nearly as absurd as it should have. The Shining was practically blasphemy against the original story, particularly the completely different ending that invalidates quite a bit of the story up to that point. The movie definitely has a few moments (I don't think the twins in the hallway would have had any effect in the book without the movie image being seared into my brain) but for the most part I didn't like it. I am currently reading IT, and my Lord there is a lot in that book that didn't make it to film. I couldn't get through it the first time I tried to read it because it's so long, but I'm quite enjoying the audiobook.

I have broken too many keyboards over this issue.

Not very smart then, eh?

Time is the concept of flux, echoed in memory and compared to now. My 2 cents anyway.

flux is movement, movement is time, so you just circularly defined time

I feel like there's a song to be had from the perspective of Halley's Comet, passing over and over through an icy void for 75 years, alone, going slowly mad, only to briefly return and see all of his old, tiny, human friends on earth have aged a lifetime, or have died, and being unable to slow down to spend more time with them. They would be like a fever dream that he'd have 7+ decades to wonder about each time. Did he imagine it all? Didn't he imagine this all before? It was so long ago now. Was it ever real? Will they come around again, and will I be able to stop this time and get to know them? Or will I find myself alone and cold again in my beautiful, cosmic solitude? Maybe Jonathan Coulton could write it.

Or you can, sounds like you've got a start.

I hope the atheist Reddit doesn't count as atheist literature; people would think that *all* atheists are whiny adolescents.

I didn't know that atheists say that reddit is the infallible word of the almighty now.

I understand and agree with your point, but the Bible is, by far, the most popular religious text in the US and will have the most references to it in other American lit. It makes the most sense to teach. I'm perfectly alright with someone teaching the Bible from a literary standpoint, since it IS (whether you like it or not) one of the most influential books in the world. And it is an excellent book, at that. Hopefully they do spend some time focusing on other religious texts (I did in high school, in whatever social studies was called and English, I think). Just as long as it's education and not preaching.

In terms of fairness / leavesoflorien right, but far as English Literature goes, religious works the Bible of almost importance.

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That's just dumb. Portal is not feminism. Portal simply doesn't cater to the established stereotypes. An **honest** game, not masculine nor feminine, is the result. Tetris was not feminism either, it was just a game.

You're obviously not seeing the symbology here.

And the Hookahs.

he did it for the lolz

I dunno, the head of my math department loves it to death and the happier she is the easier she marks.

wth...

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Not yet for me.

I haven't got one yet either :(

I have no problem doing it when I have studied it recently, however, two days later its completely deleted from my head. Any suggestions on methods of practicing that can help it stick a little better? Also, after I have managed to become an 8th graders equal, where should I look next? Algebra? Something else that I've never heard of?

You really shouldn't require anything more advanced than algebra to do your work and anything mathematical you'd be likely to have to do in life. A basic college algebra course should do the trick.

Hahaha, you figured it out, too. :D It's only a matter of time before we start to submit the links a day early, I suppose. (I had the URL yesterday morning.) Edit: Just so people know, my friend and I theorize the reason for the URL rewriting is for search engines; it is a pretty nifty system that Escapist Magazine has setup, though they should probably stop URL rewriting before a video is released. For example, I am fairly sure that ZP will someday be in widescreen as a result of this: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/504

well, then the goal will be to downvote the submission to hell when its 404'd, so nobody gets free karma. self-balancing system, like a game, ehh?

Indeed it does happen. One of the nicest girls I ever dated was a total stranger I met at a bar.

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The guy didnt have a car that was searched. The car we've been discussing was purely hypothetical. The librarian said she saw him ut it in the bag. That is sufficient PC to search the bag. Edit: And when did I bring up a Terry frisk?

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That doesn't mean it's not applicable to humor. Flipping through some of the top humor links, you see many things which might go in other subreddits. Comics in the comic subreddit, music in the music subreddit, etc. A submission can fit in multiple places.

...That is my opinion. just because something can fit in multiple places doesn't mean it is right.

You didn't address anything I said. Idiots like you always type a lot, but seldom say anything of merit. I'll continue speaking the truth here, whether you like it or not.

You didn't address anything I said. Idiots like you always type a lot, but seldom say anything of merit. I'll continue speaking the truth here, whether you like it or not.

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Unless I messed it up, which isn't unlikely, it adds one " subreddit" string to the end of a variable called subreddits, printing the whole thing out each time. It's subreddits all the way down, you know.

Oh, you mean "deleted subreddit subreddit subreddit". I thought you meant for it to be protection against deleting the "deleted subreddit" subreddit and didn't realize you meant for the string to be that. Looks like all is well, then.

Agreed, I had no problems watching 1MB realplayer shows although that might be a bit of an extreme case. The human brain can't really absorb the HD quality anyway, you only see the resolution where your eye focuses most of the time and often your focusing where the movement is so its going to be a bit bluring from the motion anyway. In another related note bluray BD+ has apparently been [cracked](http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1207578#post1207578) ☢

If that is true, why do so many people want to play PC games at really high resolutions?

Well, imagine if the little stick person were turned into guy. *Oh, I'm a guy?* would sound kind of odd. *Oh, I'm a girl?* is genuinely a little surprising for the character and the reader. Think about how we let people know that a stick person is a girl: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v419/Krazy006/stickgirl1.jpg We add flipped up hair and a skirt. We don't have to add a tie or buzz cut to stickpeople to signify that they are male though. It's just assumed.

Well, *I* wouldn't find "Oh, I'm a guy?" odd. But that doesn't necessarily mean something; I may not be average. Stick figures "change into" women when you add a bow or dress or what have you because there is almost no normal thing that only men wear that has an obvious shape. You don't have to assume a "normal" stick figure is a man to see a stick figure with a dress as a woman.

SPOILER ALERT Lèon is dead and Mathilda gave up being an assassin. How would you continue that story? The point of the whole movie was the relationship between the main character and the little girl, it's like making a sequel to Lolita. Plus, Luc Besson's latest works aren't that good.

Off the top of my head? Gary oldman's character was just the tip of the iceberg in DEA corruption with ties to the Korean Mafia, which is on the brink of all out warfare with the traditional Italian Mafia. Mathilda discovers that Gary Oldman's character was a frontman for the powers that be in the korean mafia, the ones ultimately responsible for the death of her beloved younger brother, and creepily erotic crush: Leon (Phelps). She goes Bat-Shit-Crazy, knocking off higher ups on the Korean side, who quickly blame the Italians, plunging everything into a bloody massacre catered with korean bbq and traditional Italian meat sauce. Possible Side Plot: Danny Aiello's character becomes adoptive father to mathilda in the duration between the two movies, and it is through him and his italian connections that mathilda learns of the the korean infiltration into the DEA. He is murdered by the koreans, thus prompting her thirst for blood. If natalie portman wont do it, i suggest summer glau. Again, i havent seen the movie in like 6 or 7 years, and im a little drunk. But if i can come up with something plausible, so can a screenplay writer.

Wow, that's a true gentleman, like in the old-school, English type of way. It reminds me of the end of Titanic when Jack stays in the water so Rose can float on the flotsam (or jetsam? What's the difference?).

Downmodded for slobbering bj given to overrated cheezy teen love story that wasn't even based on actual people.

The syrup generally comes in large plastic bags inside plastic milk crates (or sometimes a cardboard box).

It does now. It used to come in tanks that the bottler picked up to be refilled. [Bag-in-the-box](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3U8Kdo5LGBM/R9g1UrDxOhI/AAAAAAAAADQ/cYym923CJ4s/DSC00748.JPG) is a relatively new system (check out the bag oozing out of the box). Now even condiments like ketchup come in giant bags. http://www.perfectequip.com/main_condiments.html For the soda systems, a [carbnator](http://www.smokefireandgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/carbonator-closeup.jpg) and [CO2 powered syrup pumps](http://www.sodaparts.com/images/newflojet.jpg) are also needed.

That's nothing. You should see them load the trucks.

I was a line supervisor for a handful of months and no package gets treated nice there because theres no time its very fast paced and they punish if you dont load a trailer on time.

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Yes!

by who?

is it "by whom?" I am just saying.

I decided to sell all of my videogames, which included thousands of dollars worth of cool classic games, to raise money for a children's hospital. I solicited donations for the cause and people from around the country sent me boxes of great stuff to add to the auction. I was overwhelmed by the response. It took months of hard work cataloguing and translating some of the obscure titles that were donated. It was amazing to see such an outpouring of generosity on the part of complete strangers. Problem was: most of these games from around the country were stored in people's attics and sheds, so my apartment quickly became overrun with exotic spiders that weren't native to my state. I got a couple of bites from a brown recluse spider that caused the tissue in my foot to start degenerating. I had to go to the hospital a couple of times to have the wound painfully scraped out and I paid hundreds of dollars in bills and prescription antibiotics. When I finally posted the auction online, the first day of bids went terrific. The price kept shooting up by thousands of dollars every couple hours. Then someone noticed that two or three of huge amount of games listed happened to be Hong Kong knockoffs of obscure 8-bit NES games. They reported the entire (explicitly labeled) charity auction to ebay and they shut the whole thing down. It scared off a lot of buyers and when I was finally able to repost the auction, without the unintentionally questionable items, it sold for thousands of dollars less than it was worth due to the whole auction take-down scandal. Meaning less money for the children's hospital. What's the moral of the story? I don't know, but I compulsively share it anytime someone brings up karma.

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Well said. Can you explain how a gold-backed currency would enable people to destroy other's liberty, though?

Money is power, regardless of what that money is backed by. It could be something as blatant as hiring a couple of thugs to break your legs, or something as subtle as manipulating you with an advertisment.

Wait, so you're Michael Bolton?

i love you [michael bolton](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY)!

As I always said, the biggest problem in the third world is insufficient laptops.

Basic necessities over laptops!