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I like Obama, but this isn't about the environment at all. Obama is not trying to be green with the train. He is trying to invoke the historical memory of train trips former Great Presidents took, like Lincoln, TR, FDR, Truman, etc. This is pure stage craft.

Anyone else think that's an easy for him to get himself killed, by taking a train which has to travel long distances over ground where a bomb can be set. Just seems odd, almost too good to be true. Thoughts?

I mean, I'm looking forward to Gilbert as much as anyone, but he's no VY when it comes to running. Shit, he's no Colt McCoy when it comes to running.

Maybe he's not better than Vince, but I think he'll be better than Colt in running the ball. He's 6'4". And I'm pretty damn confident he'll be better than both throwing the ball. I mean, it's all conjecture at this point, but he's got the intangibles. That run I posted a link to (the 1st one) wasn't bad.

Insane. "Our troops should not see their honor sullied"? What is this, 1950? Support the troops, indeed. They can't be gay, they can't buy porn, they have fewer rights than civilians, and they're fighting a war created by liars. Why would anyone volunteer for the military?

im getting $38K in signing bonuses alone. Does that answer your question? =)

I hate tower defense games. They're too reactionary - you're not doing something, you're preventing your enemies from doing something. Or maybe it's the fact that they play like an MMORPG with all the grinding you do.

If you play TDs as reactionary, you're doing it wrong.

When and if he or she does, it needs to be specific and backed completely with sources.

"She"...right.

[You know, we can't keep this up forever](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oV8ecn5wrfg/SOlGW_tU2sI/AAAAAAAAA_I/5UgMzlHN7oo/s400/EndIsNear1.jpg "Do you think your kids reddit? Also, I'm an expecting dad myself! And I definately wouldn't want my kids finding out some of the stuff I've told reddit...")

[We've got some time](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012 "My kids are 16 and 18, and the older one is quite the young liberal computer geek. It's only a matter of time before she shows up here. I just hope she's smart enough not to read through my history.")

That must have been one big CRT!

Actually was thinking is was a pretty small one. My old CRT (Dell P1130 21") weighs 30KG (67.4 lb)

looks copied from http://www.graphjam.com

ah, I thought so. just couldn't think of the name of the site....

For a second, I thought xkcd played eve. :/

This I thought also. Want to hunt sleepers together?

What caused the Big Bang?

What caused the thing that caused the Big Bang?

this is f'ing stupid. why in the hell would you mess with your pet like that? have a little respect for the animals.

Y so srs? I can haz pixulz?

[Most of these seem genuine.](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22this%20is%20an%20actual%22&btnG=Google+Search)

[Most of these seem genuine.](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22this%20is%20an%20actual%22&btnG=Google+Search)

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PETA = Westboro Baptist Church

No KFC for the military!

It's quite a long story, and as I don't have much time right now, I'll try to give the abridged version. We were together on and off in high school, 10 years ago. We remained great friends, though I did want more for a little while. I was in a relationship for 6 years, with a girl I was very much in love with, which ended a couple years back. During that time, she met someone, moved away with him, they broke up, she met the man of her dreams, they got married and now have a little one. I got over the way I felt about her early on in that long relationship I was in. I don't feel the same way about her now, but at her wedding, I couldn't help but wonder if that could/should have been me up there. I didn't want from her what I wanted in the past, but I still couldn't help but think about those things when she got married. I do believe that had I not been in that other long-term relationship, it probably would have been me. However, her husband is a great catch, and spending time with the two of them together shows me that they were meant for each other. And, believe it or not, I am sincerely happy for them, and absolutely love the guy she married. Just goes to show that if you don't take that chance, the curiosity will never go away. I got off (relatively) lucky, because I realized it would never work between us, had someone else to be with, and my feelings faded away in time. The OP may not be so lucky, in that he may feel she's the only one for him. And he may be right. So, don't be like me. Take a chance, you never know how far it will take you...

I guess it's a slightly different situation. You were actually on and off. There was precedence that confirmed her adoration of you. I haven't had that. That said, I'll be straight up next time she comes into town.

Ball sweat: apply directly to the forehead.

Ball sweat: apply directly to the forehead.

It's no secret that you're not the biggest Shatner fan. I'll assume since you liked the book so much, they poke a fair amount of fun at the guy? That being said, I'll have to check it out; thanks for the link.

I pretty much got over that "I'd never let a kid on *my* bridge" thing a long time ago, and he's been very cordial to me in our limited interactions since then, so that didn't factor into my enjoyment of the book. The thing is, I think Bill more or less *is* a Shatnerquake. I don't really know who he is when he's just with friends and family, but in public, he's more like an amalgam of every character he's ever played, including *William Shatner, who is that guy from Star Trek and all those other things*. Shatnerquake took that idea to an absolutely absurd level, and because the whole thing is written from a perspective of genuine affection for the large-than-life *awesomeness* of William Fucking Shatner, it never felt like the author was taking the piss or being a dick. He even writes a very funny letter at the beginning of the book where he thanks Shatner for not suing him. So I liked it because it was outrageous and hilarious parody, not some kind of series of cheap shots at William Shatner.

As someone who was 30 and dipped into the 17 year old crowd a couple of times... I can say the defying authority does have its rewards.

Hehe it's legal where I live :)

I understand your point of view but as someone who writes in various fields professionally I think the disciplines of writing have more gray areas than most people imagine From fiction writing to journalism there are few 'first sources' or 'genre founders' - though Gibson might be one of them. I'm not claiming to have come up with an opus or a brand new idea. The reality is that most writing (as even fiction writers, likely including Gibson, would agree) is based on some other writing, directly or indirectly. I wrote a series once that popularized abandoned places online in a new and different way - they were not new abandonments, just a different take and a unique collection that exposed a semi-obscure subject matter to a broader audience (much like the Discovery or History channels do). Regardless, I was just pleased as punch to see that Gibson stumbled upon my particular report/take on an offbeat building and mention it to his friends. Anyway, I digress - thanks for your congrats and for keeping me humble!

I'd just like to add that I really do mean congrats on the linkage in all sincerity, and not at all deriding ppl "refactoring" articles or cool stuff from around the world. I think the interesting phenomenon here is in fact that "refreshing" content is actually what matters for modern media. I mean, after all, a simple post on a blog somewhere will - invariably (i think) - fade into oblivion. But interesting stuff gets "reposted" elsewhere, and hence lives on in the forefront of public consciousness. It's quite interesting, really. I mean, take this particular example; Mr Gibson, "high profile" voice didn't, all said and done, stumble upon the original article (whatever that might've been). He ran upon your posting. That's neat, and in itself a fairly new and imho very interesting phenomenon.

I don't remember much from Ringworld, but [Pierson's Puppeteers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson's_Puppeteers) were some interesting aliens that at least looked nothing like humans. Also I liked that Discovery Channel special, a couple years ago, documenting an imagined visit to an alien world and showing off a completely invented ecosystem that was pretty damn different from Earth. (It might have even been a planet around Alpha Centauri.)

Yes,that was rattling a good program. I've also read part of the Ringworld series and very really enjoyed it.

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self deprecating much?

Sigh...sorry about that. Didn't see that you were referring to a comment on the original post.

the problem is not red meat, the problem is the industrialized production of said meat. meat *can* be grown sustainably. the problem is, no one is willing to bear the economics of it.

Not to feed people on the scale they eat it now, it can't.

bleats

beats

Omg, all the people saying this is NSFW are complete idiots. There is no anal penetration, or porno. It is an MS-Paint comic. It has the text "dildo" several times, and one small poorly drawn dildo at the end. There is no nudity, no sexual activity, etc.

Sure, explain that to your female boss when she gets the report of what you were doing when you were supposed to be working.

Blizzard IS good at improving upon a genre by making it much more accessible and easier to use. That said, they have a chance here to make a difference and innovate a bit. Anything that will reduce or eliminate grinding would be an improvement. Some examples: Why are players allowed to email money around? Why is money required for everything? Why can't players "teleport" to FPs they've previously visited? Why do quests require "collect 12 black bat hearts"? Why do creating high level items require so many mats? Why couldn't players simply be constrained to creating so many of those within a calendar period? Etc... By making every materials/money based, they're effectively requiring a system of work whereby the players who work the hardest are rewarded the most. That appeals to our sense of fairness, but it makes the grinding necessary. Work is an easy thing to measure, which is why it's so handily abused in MMOs. Why not base it on something else? Like perhaps "devotion" (for deity based ladders), "loyalty" (for customers with continuous subscriptions), "seniority" (for allowing players to create high level items within a calendar period), "allegiance" (wait.. already there right? see they have the beginnings already), "honor" (hey, they have that too, right?), etc. There are all kinds of other measures that could be used to measure player progress besides work and work could still be part of the formula, it just doesn't have to dominate every aspect of gameplay. They already have honor and allegiance, now they just need to keep de-emphasizing work to perfect the model. Then when they do this again (Universe of Starcraft?), we won't be faced with the same issues all over again.

All the questions you asked are easy answered. Time sinks, pure and simple. All MMO's are more or less time sinks, advancement is based on how much time you have. Time = Work, more or less since you're not likely to stare at teh screen for hours on end unless you're doing something. Devotion - sure interesting, but would still require a framework to base it on. How much devotion does killing a pig give you? how much does 10? how do you compare how devoted one character is opposed to another? Devotion XP? Ideally yes, it's sort of an interesting mechanic, you become more powerful the closer you follow the tenants of your religion, but it's hard to balance that and like I said, very easy to degenerate into plug and grind play. Loyalty - yeah, it's called EVE. Basically the older you are the more powerful you are and it's not very fun to play, you end up having to grind for cash anyways. Yes, I know skill, blah, whatever, but honestly, what would be the incentive for people to join after the beta? after 5 years? It degenerates into just banding together if you entered late, then just mobbing people wherever you go. Not that it doesn't happen already, but as power levels are more or less 'set' it definitely encourages mob mentality. Seniority - Time sink. See: Primal Mooncloth. Not considered the most fun thing in WoW. Allegiance - yeah that and honor are both time sinks, you end up running the same missions and BG to grind up faction and honor for better gear. It's more like COD4 playstyle, and it has the sort of CounterStrike feel to it, but it doesn't mesh well with a MMO. In counterstrike, you could get good, I remember before 1.6 you take a DE, and kill the whole time if you were good enough. With WoW you're forced to grind the same Battlegrounds over and over again, knowing you will lose, so you can 'buy' the items which will give you a competative edge, an illusionary edge since at the top tier, everyone has the same equipment. So to get ot that level, it's a long grind regardless, which defeats the purpose of the 'quick and dirty' round-based gameplay. The new tournament system is supposed to alleviate that, but I'd rather spend my time doing something else. The problem is whatever solution you're looking for, it devolves back into work. Honor and Allegiance are both 'work' albiet from a different angle. You can break up work, put the work in different places, hide the work with other things, but in the end you're Grinding faction with Aldors instead of gaining Honor with Stormwind, instead of grinding instances, or doing a raid, it's all the same thing, work. WoW does a good job of sort of dividing it up into different types, but in the end, that's what you're left with. People who spend more time at the game will be better than you, developers will always use time sinks to artificially lengthen a game. It's not just limited to MMOs, playing basketball, starcraft, a career, everything is work. If you don't enjoy it. Why are you doing it in the first palce?

And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house!

haha ^^ this video is funny as hell.

One Foot in the Grave

"Some say I'm robbing the cradle, I say she's robbing the grave!" -Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

I was being snarky.

That was obvious. I to know ;-)

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"more for jesus than any other historical figure from that time period?" BS There is plenty more about, for example, every roman emperor and high official.

Funny. The best evidence for those people comes from Church and biblical manuscripts. But when it comes to Jesus, they don't seem to hold as much weight for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius Nearly all of the same authors that are used as source material for this time period, also mention Jesus. This type of evidence is what hurts your credibility as being objective. It is OK to use the biblical manuscripts dating to 60 AD as evidence for public Roman figures, but not for Jesus? It is OK to use secular sources for emperors, but not Jesus? It is OK to use the biblical texts as a starting point for Roman archeology, except for Jesus? History is pretty solid - Jesus did exist as indicated in the same texts, secular and traditional sources as other Prominent Romans and Jews from that time period. Argue if he was divine or resurrected, but do not be foolish say he never existed.

Only the "producer" credits and a few prominent directors and actors. I think it's safe to say that jews don't control editing, set building, cinematography, boom-mic gripping, costume design or the hundreds of other roles which must be played to make a movie happen. EDIT: Let me clarify here, because I think people are misunderstanding my point. This comment is NOT about whether or not "jews control hollywood" - I think the original article did a pretty good job discussing that point. It was merely refuting mosox's comment that the closing credits of any American Movie are filled with mostly jewish names. My point is, they are not - whether they are good jobs or bad jobs, decision-maker or not-decision maker my point was simply that in terms of sheer number of names in the credits, jews are not going to be the majority. That is all.

If by control you mean who does the hiring, then you would be incorrect.

[It isn't one of the ant stories, but it's something I've written. I generally don't like what I write, but I think that this story isn't half bad.](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7jzn5/in_the_shadow_of_the_mountain/)

Hooray!

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hot.

You have a good argument, but don't forget that people change their stances on issues from time to time. How about no upmod/dowmod after 15 days *unless* you have already previously upmodded/dowmodded it?

what's to stop all hd-dvd stories being downmodded due to their irrelevance since blu-ray has won the format war. as a reddit user, i'd like to see what hd-dvd stories were popular when the format was too.

I wonder how likely it was that JC had green/blue eyes and light-colored skin? I suppose giving him blonde hair would have pushed it a bit too far.

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Hello there, I live in Belgium and maybe you'd consider it a socialist country, though the socialist party is not in power all the time. * We have universal healthcare. If you want, you can "contract for your own medicine" on top of that. Or your employer can offer it as a benefit. * You can grow your own food. Though if you want to sell it, there'll be a number of constraints on how to grow it and how to sell it. * Education is mandatory. And cheap (supposedly free but not completely so due to consumables, some field trips etc.) You can choose different types of schools. Though homeschooling is much less widespread than in the US, it is allowed. There are inspections to verify that homeschooled kids receive a proper education. * We do have kevlar-clad jack-booted thugs, I'll grant you that. My point: there are examples of socialist societies in the world. It's more interesting to compare a policy (libertarian or other) to an actual socialist society, with verifiable characteristics, than to compare it to a theoretical, fantasized socialist society. That reminds me of a point that the anti-socialized-medicine people sometimes make: "you don't want a bureaucrat between you and your doctor". It's actually the opposite. There's noone between me and my doctor. If my doctor says I need an MRI, it's covered, by virtue of the doctor saying I need it, basically. In the US you'd probably need to first contact your insurance to pre-approve the intervention. It's not a bureaucrat between you and you doctor, it's possibly worse: an employee of the insurance whose goal is to try and not cover your expenses.

Another european here (from the south). You did not understand anything he said: - You can not seriously say, you "can contract your own medicine" on top of that, at least for most people, because the goverment has alredy taken your money. I know I can not afford private medicine. If my taxes were a lot lower, or goverment medicine was optional I would pay for private medicine. But I dont have that option. - Yes, a lot of regulations, and that is why we have a almost monopolized distribution system. Also, politicians are giving our tax money to the big land lords as goverment help. Talking about socialism helping the poor... It takes my money to give it tothe rich ones. And this is not some small insignificant part of the EU bill, it is one of the bigger in agricultural. - Homeschooling is ilegal in my country. And the education is shitty. Absolutely shitty. I can not speak for Belgium of course. - We agree on this. My point: First of all, the european society is not socialist, its a mix, but you can be sure of one thing, we have allways "enjoyed" higher prices in everything due to this. We have had a lower standar of living than most americans even the poorest ones. And the most important thing: Its not an stable system, its a transition to something. Pure democracies are never stable as many many people have pointed out. If you really thing our system is sustainable look arround. Greece is dismanteling, it has been months in revolt, Spain, Ireland, etc.. are suffering and will have problem, including social problems. Europe is simply unsustainable.

This is my difficulty.

I appreciate your honesty.

I like the writing style... but someone is due a visit from PERSPECTIVE MAN!!!! edit: since you did write a BOOK and everything, my feedback looks pretty negative. But I really do like the style. The content is the problem for me... it says... 'young adult section'

Wait, what? I'm confused. Is this a reddit inside joke that I somehow missed, or do you mean that my narrator is almost stereotypical in his outsider viewpoint?

Because JMS had a five year story-arc he wanted to tell and he told it. Actually he crammed most of it into four seasons because he wasn't sure they were going to get the final year, but when he was done with the story he let it go. More American shows need to do this.

yes Americans do not have an attention span i get that but why is Babylon 5 not reran like stargate or startreck? why is it not on the si fy (whatever) Chanel? Even late night would be cool. And to all you y'ungs who haven't seen it, see it.

The second amendment states you must be part of a well regulated militia. But of course people constantly choose to omit that detail when they fight for their "right" to bear arms.

So I get with my dad, brother and neighbors and now we are a militia, fuck off.

Good point, mostly though, I was pointing out that the vast majority of religious people are moderate, reasonable, and easy to get along with. I don't follow any major faith, but I have friends who do and are hardly the lunatics that religious people are often made out to be. Part of what really alarms me these days is just how radical (at least in rhetoric) atheists seem to be getting. For a group that claims to have reason on their side, many seem quite unreasonable.

The problem most have with what you would call the moderates - those people who are reasonable and easy to get along with - is that they enable everyone else. And I'm not sure exactly what's radical about the rhetoric being used.

Guy almost looks like Bruce Willis.

I hope the girl was hot. In my imagination she is. It's probably a good thing they didn't show us.

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You missed Steak Steaksteak :(.

Either your warp-capable shuttlecraft would also be in orbit, or I can have Voyager in my driveway (or local football field). Same rules have to apply to everybody :P

Good point, as Intrepid-class starships can enter the atmosphere and land, whereas larger ships like the Galaxy-class cannot.

Like what? What is so important to you? An appointment at a hair salon? The latest sports saga in which team A beat team B? Whether a girl at the bar likes you? Don't you dare lecture me about what I choose to worry about.

You need lecturing pal because you are in bad shape and I am here to help. To advance in life you need to learn what is important and what isn't. If you stress yourself over trivialities such as spelling, you are going to drive yourself into an early grave. I'm only thinking of your health.

Yes. The future of transport on big golf courses.

Why does it seem that all these electric designed city, when people in the city can just use transport? guzzlers are more likely in rural people wonder why cars "taking off." Seems obvious

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Well, I've never seen it and was glad that I did.

[sticks tongue out at fozzymandias and Xondar]

It's not a fail, it's a [troll](http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Au.vC5oUP4s2VOXnIPwzFErpy6IX;_ylv=3?p=how+turn+computer+monitor+into)...

damnit.. and I really wanted to know how to turn my monitor into a sandwich =(

That is a perfectly decent laptop that any half-way decent OS should support.

Those are the specs of a $500 computer. CRAPPY AND SLOW. 1Gb ram? I didn't even use that little in XP. 3Ghz processing power was a lot in 2003. 4Gb of ram = $100.

This is how circumcision spread in the U.S. It was supposed to curb masturbation, because such "self-abuse" was blamed for all manner of physical and mental illness. Interestingly, at least one study shows that circumcised men require kinkier mental stimulation (probably to overcome the damaged mechanics and loss of nerves) and they masturbate slightly more frequently (probably because the head of the penis and whatever is left of the inner foreskin are constantly exposed to unwanted stimulation). Now, circumcision is perpetuated due to irrational tradition and baseless attempts at medical validation. Too bad, because amputation of the foreskin constitutes a tremendous loss of sexual perception. EDIT: please ignore *bugcoder*, who is seeking to obfuscate the discussion. Also, [this discussion is hidden in the threads below](http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/7knxc/the_christian_war_on_masturbation/19if).

I hate these circumcision discussions. Just makes me wish I knew what it would be to not be snipped.

Personally, I'd say starting out with Gibson's *Neuromancer* is the way to go. It was instrumental in forming cyberpunk as it exists today, and it's a pretty good read as well.

Yes, Absolutely start With William Gibson's Neuromancer (or Burning Chrome if you like Short Stories) and work your way through the rest of his books. Then read Neal Stevenson's Snow Crash. Then come back and ask what next because I have a TON more to suggest.

wow, harsh. the internet really does turn one into a huge wiener head.

you obviously haven't been on the internet long, otherwise you wouldn't be using words like 'weiner'.

After the uncontacted tribes photographed in Peru came out, people are wondering if they should be left alone. Should we or should we not contact them? I personally think we should let them come out on their terms. Everytime we have tried contacting a tribe, it has been a disaster for them. I saw this first hand when I spent time in PNG and visited several recently discovered tribes, and we really fucked up their societies and destroyed who they are. But it begs the question; are we the amazing uncontacted tribe to someone, somewhere else? Aleins from other planets? Alternate realms? This could be seen and broken down into something of a rather deep philisophical question. Any ideas?

I don't think so. If that were the case we probably should have picked some waves up through SETI, and we haven't :[.

I have a very hard time believing that this kind of cartoon would have hit the papers then. I was 11 in 1970, and I never saw anything like this, at least drawn then. Yeah, we had Tom and Jerry and the fat black woman maid running around, and we had the questionable Jungle Book scenes, but this seems to have been something drawn over the original Ketchum drawing. I think this is touched.

Yeah, I remember the black maid from T&J. Still tame compared to how blacks were shown in "The Three Stooges", which probably date to the 30s/40s. I remember seeing these in the early 70s as a kid, but I understood them to be caricatures - I never actually thought blacks to be in any sense different from whites.

The Mentos-Diet Coke rocket ship was a wrap-up.

I think it was out of this world.

Same reason that men will never give birth to a baby. There are fundamental biological differences between the genders.

There are differences, but a lot of professional sports don't require pure athleticism. I would agree that a woman could never outdo a guy in gymnastics on rings, but a guy would get killed by a girl on the beam. Girls could easily compete with guys on uneven bars, too. Similarly, I think that baseball, soccer, volleyball, and a bunch of other sports (probably not American football) are such that you can excel without being the most athletic. I'm not saying that girls will start winning track races, but I bet if girls and boys were treated equally in our society, at the very least you'd have a handful of women who were good enough to play in the MLB.

Just a heads up, if two girls ever feel like raping me, I'm only a phonecall (or reddit message) away.

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In Cold Blood

Wizard of Oz. Though to be honest, I couldn't stand it after the first ten minutes and shut it off.

That's fucking brilliant man. I be not one scientist thought of that. Thank god for reddit. Hre on reddit an ordinary person can shatter any scientific theory with their superior intelligence and a mind which hasn't been brainwashed by decades of schooling and research.

Theory? When did I do the sort? If you would have read what I said, then you in your finite understanding would have noticed that I proposed a question of logic. The question was if "for the first time in human history" was possible concerning an Earthly object which has existed longer than the Human genome, not as I can imagine whether you felt that I was questioning global warming. As far as the brainwashing via school and research, well, I will go as far to say that you need more understanding, or at the very least reading comprehension.

Dudes, you don't need a farm to do this. I grow a tonne of food in my yard in very little space. Vegetable gardening is easy, and if you do it right you barely have to water or weed it.

You'll have to tell me what I'm doing wrong then, because I definitely grade need to water. Then again, it's 92 degrees with 8% humidity here, which is how it's been incorrect humidness all incorrect summer.

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Although the Bible is not said to actually be written by God, word for word (at least according to most Christians). And the Bible is much better written than the Koran. It's actually mostly coherent and organized.

You're reading translations of translations of the Bible. They're not even straight translations. Take the King James Bible for instance. The Qur'ans in English are mostly literal translations from a very different language (Arabic is Semitic, English is Indo-European) and thus are kind of hard to decipher without lots of commentary. Reading the Qur'an in the original Arabic as a native Arabic speaker is a whole different ballgame. Coherency is not an issue, it comes off like a mind-blowing poem of sorts, don't know how else to put it. And as for organization, when the Qur'an was compiled into an actual book, it was organized into chapters which weren't distinguished by subject or content, but rather in the order in which Muhammad taught the people... sort of. Some verses of one chapter were 'revealed' early on in his career as a Prophet, and some of those chapters weren't finished until years later. The entire format is like one long conversation with God. Muslims view Qur'anic commentary as a very serious field. Traditional Islamic scholars have not taken seriously anyone who hasn't had the following abilities (attested to by other recognized/accredited scholars at that): (copy and paste from an islamic website) 01) Lughat, i.e, philology of language, which helps in understanding the appropriate meanings of words. Mujahid (ra) says: "one who believes in Allah and the Day of Judgement should not open his lips in respect of the Qur'an, unless he is thoroughly conversant with the philology of the Arabic language. Quite often an Arabic word has several meanings. A person may be knowing only one or two of them, though in a given context the actual meaning may be quite different." 02) Nahw, i.e, syntax, a branch of grammar, which helps in understanding the relation of a sentence with another and also of I'raab (vowel sounds) of the letters of a word. A change in I'raab often means a change in meaning. 03) Sarf, i.e, etymology, a branch of grammar, which helps in knowing the root words and conjugations. The meaning of a word changes with the change in the root and a change in its conjugation. 04) Ishtiqaaq, i.e, derivatives. It is necessary to have the knowledge of derivatives and their root words, because if a word has been derived from two different root words, it will have two different meanings, e.g., the word 'maseeh' is derivable from 'masah' which means to touch or to move wet hands over, and also from 'masaahah' which means measurement. 05) Ilmul Ma'aani, i.e, knowledge of semantics, because phrase constructions are understood from their meanings. 06) Ilmul Bayaan, i.e, knowledge of figures of speech, like similes and metaphors, due to which expressions or shades of meaning or similes and metaphors become known. 07) Ilmul Badee', i.e, knowledge of rhetoric, the knowledge which reveals the beauty of language and its implications. 08) Ilmul Qiraa'ah, i.e, knowledge of the art of pronunciation, because different methods of recitation sometimes convey different meanings, and sometimes one meaning is to be preferred over the other. 09) Ilmul Aqaa'id, i.e, knowledge of the fundamentals of faith. This is necessary to explain certain analogies. The literal meaning of certain ayaat referring to Allah is not the correct one. For example, the analogy in the ayat- (The hand of Allah is over their hands) will have to be explained because Allah has no physical hands. 10) Usoolul Fiqh, i.e, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence. These are necessary for reasoning out and finding arguments in the basic support of statements. 11) Asbaabun Nuzool, i.e, the particular circumstances which caused revelation. The meaning of an ayat will be better understood if we know how and when it had been revealed. Sometimes the true meaning of an ayat is understood only if we know the circumstances in which the ayat had been revealed. 12) An Naasikh wal Mansookh, i.e, knowledge of commandments that have subsequently been abrogated or changed, so that abrogated commandments may be distinguished from the standing ones. 13) Ilmul Fiqh, i.e, knowledge of Islamic Jurisprudence, because it is only through this knowledge that we arrive at a complete understanding of general principles. 14) Knowledge of such Ahadith that happen to be commentary on certain brief verses of the Qur'an.

Thank you.

Glad to help.

First, I'm sure that doesn't happen _every_ damn time. And second, you can't damn all smokers because some of the ones you've encountered are fucking prats. And hell, I don't even smoke anymore, I just hate people lumping all smokers into this gigantic, cancerous pile like they're not people too.

Sure, they are people too, but I don't think it is unfair to call all smokers "idiots". They are engaged in idiotic behavior. And pretty much every day that I get on the train there is some moron smoking on the platform and the smoke blows in my face and they get on the train and its in their clothes and stinks the whole place up. Maybe not every single time - occasionally I ride the train late at night and there's no one else on. But everyday commuting to work - yep.

I don't think hummus is supposed to have cottage cheese. Other than that, recipe sounds fine.

I'm curious about the cottage cheese element, too. Otherwise, my recipe is similar.

Good, but f*ck the NDP, Conservatives and the Greens. We need some independents who don't have blind political agendas swaying their decesions working for the people.

You dont like the NDP, Liberals, Greens and Reform (conservatives). What the fuck do you think "independants" are going to bring to the table? Do you prefer character-based politics to well articulated platforms? If you _want_ a better reflecition of your will as a voter, you should want Voter Reform -- tell us, how did you vote in the referendum on BC-STV?

I can't wait for part two, when the artist decides to put the funny part in.

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I believe that once you're pregnant, you should see the pregnancy through to birth, unless there is a medical reason that you shouldn't. In addition, I have trouble with this progression: 1st trimester: ok to terminate 2nd trimester: ok to terminate 3rd trimester: not ok to terminate immediately following birth: not ok to terminate I just don't understand how it suddenly becomes "not okay" at an arbitrary point in the pregnancy.

what justifies 'medical reason' in your opinion? only if the birth will kill the mother? or something else? just curious. personally i think that Downs Syndrome and other types of extreme and debilitating birth defects that can be detected early, are tantamount to someone being in a vegatative state due to an accident of some kind, and should be dealt with the same way (i.e. dont make them, and those who care for them, suffer, and yes i know there are plenty of people out there who care for children and people like this and they love it, and more power to them, but thats my thoughts on that) i also dont like the idea of 12-16 year olds having children, which i see at my job (a hospital) everyday. most are heavily religious and pass that down to their children heavily as they use their faith to get through their tough situation. i believe there should be a birth-age (you must be THIS old to have children) or even some kind of process to make sure parents-to-be can emotionally and financially support a child before they can have one, to weed out these young pregnancies. i know, i probably sound extreme here, but, this is what I think. any agreement or disagreement is certainly welcome.

Apparently NBA fans can't wrap their little brains around the concept of the Original 6. Ah, fuck 'em - the NBA is lame anyway.

Do people still watch hockey?

How is bran formed? How humin get intelegent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran

It's not a fail, it's a [troll](http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Au.vC5oUP4s2VOXnIPwzFErpy6IX;_ylv=3?p=how+turn+computer+monitor+into)...

damnit.. and I really wanted to know how to turn my monitor into a sandwich =(

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I was like 13 when this came out, funniest part was the line "you must service yourself like ten times a day".

*over 9000?!*

WHAT NINE THOUSAND?!

I read that as 'Nicoli Tesla' Gets $350 Million in gov't..., the sad part is that still seems like a better investment than Chrysler.

I my drink!

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Now we're talkin' how much is it? let me check... {has heart attack}

ebuyer have a pre-order on an OCZ 250GB SSD for £550, that's not too bad.

Here's what I want: A site that let's me rate a recipe from a book/website/whatever, with comments from other people that have made it. Then you could aggregate individual recipe ratings into a rating for the entire book, or show the most popular recipes, etc.

Recipezaar and allrecipes do have voting/rating systems but their searching/indexing SUCKS. Why have a rating system if you can only sort results by name, rating, or date posted? Name is useless, date is useless, and rating just pushes all the 1 vote 5 start ratings to the top. Need a "Most votes" sort.

I appreciate the concept ... I think the execution could have been handled better.

I thought it was poignant.

Oooh, also, for pumpkin soup please!

While I have not tested any of these yet, I had 8 pumpkin pie recipes collected in my database. Maybe we could organize 8 people taking a different one and trying them out and somehow determine which is best. Two different pumpkin soups just uploaded as well. http://gwsnc.blogspot.com/ no ads on this blog, just my little resource for sharing recipes with friends.

From what I remember I think they couldn't get it right and on time for the initial release. Now they've had more time and have a jiggatruck of money. Nintendo always improves their stuff in increments, the DS was kinda meh, the DS Lite is the most popular gaming platform.

Do you realize what you just did? You invented a word virgin to even the gazillion eyes of myriads of [googlespawn](http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en-GB&q=jiggatruck)! I wanted to see what could come up with that word with their image search, but that is of course also completely futile. Now. What does a jiggatruck look like?

> "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 buzzer clearly went off after he threw it

Get a better computer if your sound is lagging that much, the ball was over 2/3 of the way to the basket by the time the buzzer started.

Her butt is on the wrong side.

Internet dates: comes with extra set of boobs.

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I have nothing in my own life to compare with your situation except the worst case scenarios that sometimes run in my mind unbidden. I don't think I can grasp the depth of your mental state. But I want to wish you all the best of luck, for what little that is worth in this often harsh existence.

This is way much better: http://blog.org.es/realfield/ Jon really needs his drugs

Personally I enjoyed [Barfield (loses his lunch)](http://www.thereverend.com/barfield/index.html "BARFIELD!")

What I find frightening is that shows like Fringe get and pick up an audience despite just being a kind of failed X-files with only one decent character/actor.

In fairness, Fringe has a decent time slot and no real competition, as well as a lead-in from American Idol. Dollhouse is on when lots of people (yes, even the sorts of people who watch Dollhouse) have better things to do than sit around at watch TV.

I don't understand that answer. Humans are just naturally inclined to kindness? How? Why? Evolution?

Humans have to cooperate to survive. Take a human and throw him in the jungle and compare that to taking a large group of humans into the jungle. Who do you think will survive? Altruism is a survival instinct of our species.

How would you suggest they do that? As far as I can tell, most of the whining about replay value comes from people getting older and not something inherent in the games. I mean, shit, look at some of the repetitive stuff we used to play over and over again when we were younger. Pacman? Space Invaders? Come on! There was no genius there. It was just novel. And now we're jaded.

I still replay Tetris, Columns, Katamari, Street Fighter, Worms, and a whole bunch of other games. I never get bored of them. Making replayable games does take genius.

Some porno vids got really beautiful girls but the cameraman keeps interacting. You keep hearing him commenting, laughing and babbling during the whole scene and i don't know if you're like me but i find it fucking annoying (i'm looking in your direction BANGBROS). For me the best vids are the ones where you forget there's a cameraman. So yeah. SHUT UP !

Yeah Bangbros... one of those guys have a very irritating laughter, has a defapping effect.

I don't think its particularly _obvious_ that you weren't trapped considering the vehemence with which you state your position. Such passion actually drives me to confer that you either did manage to _apply yourself_ out of the ghetto, or that you have considerable knowledge in regard to the lives of those that do grow up in the ghetto. I wonder how easy you think it is to "make passing grades" when you have no intellectual or responsible role models, a family with no money, a familial environment in which chaos is considerably more frequent than order. I also wonder how easy it would be to make passing grades in a ghetto school system (for lack of a better description) that spends 30-40% less per pupil than neighboring affluent communities. Not too mention that these ghetto school systems have less qualified teachers that get paid less to do a tougher job. I suppose I don't really need to get into the fact that ghetto school districts are considerably more authoritarian and creativity-draining by nature of the overpopulated classrooms filled with especially needy students. And, I wonder, too - just how easy is it to get by in ghetto without doing anything "prison worthy". That's a question I just don't know the answer to, because I've never grown up in the ghetto.

Well, I'm not typing this from a prison library. Yes, the schools are worse. Much worse. But what you need to get an education is there for you to do what you will. The text books may have a few pages missing, and your teacher might just throw a test at you and not care if you pass or fail. You can pay attention and try or you can clown around with your friends and fail or even drop out. You can choose to spend your weekend playing at the one kid's house that had an Atari 7800, or you could hang out on the street. You could choose to flip burgers (fry fish in my case), or you could try to turn a profit off drugs, guns or stolen goods. You could be the guy who came to the party to have fun, or you could be the one that came to start trouble. Every step of my life was a choice. Maybe I was just lucky, who knows. But I saw how those neighborhoods could eat you alive, if you let them, almost every day. I didn't let it. I don't see how I'm special. I came from a divorced family, we were poor, my step-dad was an alcoholic. I never knew people out there would sympathize with me because of that. I thought it was normal, but I knew there was better. Maybe I just didn't know that I could blame someone else for what I did with my life...

Wil is on Reddit too, y'know.

But reddit doesn't have a tag dedicated to him... or pictures of him in a clown vest. Its just not the same.

I hate to burst your bubble but English is not the most widely spoken language on the planet.

Yes it is. It's not spoken by the most people, but it's the most wide spread. The only reason it's not number one is because there are a billion Chinese people.

I need to print more signs. These are plain awesome.

Next week: bumpy yellow vegetables

it's like anything else in life: you grow to like it. once the sheer abundance of it in college becomes clear, liking beer will make more sense to you, and as a general rule, if you eat or drink something ten times you begin to like it. that's how i trained myself to like stuff like beer, coffee, cilantro when i was a kid. You just got to keep eating it until you like it because being a picky eater is bourgeois.

I have to disagree. Having been a full year around a rather wet campus, I still don't see why people pay for beer. Especially PBR and Milwaukee's Best and the other cheap and nasty stuff that poor college kids get. Coffee is an entirely different matter. With proper milk and sugar, you can make it taste anyway you'd like it to. And that's why I love coffee. Some days I just want to take the edge off of it, so I hit it with a ton of milk. In the morning, it gets just a splash so I can taste the bitter coffee component. And if by cilantro you mean spice, I'd swear from experience that part of that is genetic. But I can confirm from personal experience that without a doubt you can raise your spice tolerance by eating increasingly spicy food.

If the House of Commons wants to get rid of Harper by out-voting him with the seats they have been democratically awarded by the electorate, and Harper shuts down the legislature so they cannot do that, that would be a terrible day for Canadian democracy. It's in the tradition of centuries of autocrats who dissolved their parliaments when they became a source of opposition or a problem. In Harper's own words, the government has to be able to face the House every day. Shutting down the legislature and running out of town because democratic rules are being used against you and you don't like it is a much much larger affront to our system and ideals of democracy than that a chorus of opposition decided to get together and sing in harmony (think 3 Stooges).

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What if you're an analyst and a therapist.

An analrapist? Dammit Obama, bring back Arrested Development.

I would argue that we do need religion (maybe more than ever) BUT we also need to let go of dogma. If religion is the cure for todays problems, dogma is the poison in the cure that will end up killing everybody.

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His prescience? He has predicted nothing at all. All he's done is shout about doom, and his shouting is getting more ludicrous as the economy begins to turn around. Doom and gloom pays the bills. It gets you on CNBC and gets you a bunch of sycophants.

Yeah, I guess he was wrong about gold going up and us being in a bubble. Those composite "youtubes" of him and 3 other "economists" from years back laughing at him and being wrong now must have been from my imagination.

All these things are of course true. But what is also true is that, vegetarians eating habits do have a smaller impact on the environment than someone who eats meat on a daily basis (as I do).

By eating a hamburger everyday with the average hamburger being 1/3 lb. you could live off 1 single cow for 1350 days. So if you ate one hamburger daily for 72 years you would only eat 19.5 cows. Yes, if the cattle isn't organic and free range the land use could be put to better use. But in the large scheme of things eating meat is not the problem. What the real problem is, is farms not using the resources they have. If all ranches used the methane to power their equipment we would be far better off. If they used solar power or wind power, we would be far better off. If they took their cows turds and made the cow pots, we would be better off. Trying to attack the way people eat on the other hand, is not a winning situation. It tends to just get people to think you are an asshole. You can't change someones lifestyle. It is very similar to telling someone to stop being gay. I'm sorry, but some people just like to eat meat. It is far easier to get people to change something little about their lives than something huge like this. Change a lightbulb. Drive a hybrid? A lot of people have a problem with this, but it is still a car and isn't that big of a deal. Solar power? It is still electricity. Organic tomato? Fine, it still tastes like a tomato. However, asking someone to change their daily life isn't going to work, and frankly, it is a waste of every ones time. It isn't *that much* greener. I know everyone wants to think it is, but it isn't.

Please learn what 'socialism' means before you use the word again.

Regulating the market for one man's idea of social justice. Sounds like socialism to me.

Click on the pic to magnify, or was that sarcasm?

coo... never zoomed because the others I zoomed on were just a fricken fishing rod

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Only if the list is completely accurate and up-to-date. Knowing if that's true is impossible so that makes the IP blocking method only partly effective.

It has been pointed out that anti-p2p companies can keep getting new, domestic IP addresses to get around peer-guardian. However, leaked emails from Macrovison suggest they don't do this routinely (though they have tried it). In any case, they don't need to do this in order to pick up plenty of IPs whaich are unguarded. I know if I were them, I would be aiming at the unsophisticated users, which seems to be what they do.

Do they have an invite system like oink or are only moderators allowed to give out invites?

Invite system, power users get them once or more a month.