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I do not assume anything. I address what people actually write. I do assume that they actually mean it, and that they are competently and accurately describing their beliefs, however. If they say that they believe that the government should regulate something, I take their word for it. I leave enormous room for nuance, you just have to INCLUDE that nuance. And what semantics are you talking about?

Take the case of what drez24 wrote. He did a poor job expressing an idea and thus you failed to receive his meaning. That's too bad. Might you just pause for a moment to reflect on what someone is actually trying to say instead of take this hard stance of "I do assume.. that they are competently and accurately describing their beliefs" and therefore blaming everyone else when there is a misunderstanding? You're not the most careful person with your own language. Case in point: the word 'regulate' has been used by you to describe prohibition. I pointed out the word 'regulate' could be used to describe something appropriate, as in the more appropriate things the FDA does. There's nuance to the semantics of the word 'regulate' that you did not leave room for in your otherwise "competent and accurate" OP.

I was, of course, president of the drama club (no shit). That's where all the girls -including the cheerleaders- are after school (not in football practice). I got laid twice as much as the quarterback, and by the same girls. Ahhh... to be a drama kid.

I lost my Virginity to a Drama Girl.

That's what I was comparing, and I still lost. :-/

That 0.14159 extra diameters really adds up.

You can leave change _if the server gave it to you_. She just finds it rude to pull out your loose change and leave her a 10% tip in dimes, nickels, and pennies. EDIT: Basically, don't give her your loose change when you close out a $25 tab. That's just a pain in the ass. If you buy a $2.25 beer and leave her 75 cents, that's fine.

Oh I see. Now that I think about it, there are lots of places that will tack on a quarter to a beer (i.e. $2.25) so that they will get 75 cents from people (like dreambucket and me) who would not give them an entire dollar for "pull(ing) a bottle of beer out of a cooler and hand(ing) it to me".

Could someone tell me where Mianus is?

[Roughly here.](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mianus&sll=41.057812,-73.58119&sspn=0.297197,0.633774&ie=UTF8&z=11&iwloc=B)

I didn't say it was the only example. I said it was one of the best, and it is. The things die like flies...

Wow. Really? Those be some really flies then, because my original ipod has gone me, to son, and my daughter and just won't My is old, I use it every day, and never had a problem a quick reboot

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Yay! Multithreading! Instead of shooting yourself in the foot with a pistol, try a double-barreled shotgun! And peer-to-peer networking just magically happening? Well, let's just get a bunch of friends round, and we'll **all** shoot each other in the foot!

Multithreading with no prior education or training on the subject isn't so much a double-barreled shotgun to the foot as a satchel of C4 to the back of the skull.

Automobile manufacturers discriminate against the blind. To be fair, there must be an affordable option for braille windshield.

information technology I pulled up to a drive-up ATM once that had braille seem on it... needless to say louis braille I was a little confused, and concerned. edit: up to it's a joke... I know why it's there, and I'm well aware blind people are capable of riding in cars. It pull out just seems a little funny at first when you don't think about why needle appear it would be enjoin there.

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You can't OD by smoking it.

there is an LD50 for every substance.

I know. I would have expected a middle schooler to have a better grasp of spelling and grammar.

I don't know why in the world you were downmodded, except that maybe a middle schooler should already know the answer.

In other words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQkMAPVoIo Obviously, we should all go down to our local high schools and lecture the youth about breaking down the youth-consumerist narrative and return to the project of subverting mainstream adult culture, or something.

Ah, Craig Ferguson. Is there anything you're not right about?

.. No this is the female side of this http://i.imgur.com/goAFz.jpg The fun guy friend, who really is just waiting for the right time to turn you from a friend, into something more, when you would really just like a friend.

If you want a guy to be nothing more than a friend, don't lead him on in any way, ever. Don't put your head on his shoulder, don't touch his arm, don't hug him all the time, etc. What you consider being friendly a guy generally interprets as you showing you're attracted to him.

Smokin Aces Boondock Saints Snatch. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels RocknRolla Taken

hey, do you like guy ritchie?

Laws against causing damage or potential damage to another's personal property are fine. I'm not following...there isn't anything wrong with anti-pollution laws. Pollution in the air or rivers causing harm to others shouldn't be allowed. The arguments usually lie in defining "harm".

I am used to "libertarians" (quotes because there is a wide range of views with that name) telling me "it is my property I can do what I want with it". Once we open this idea that, for example, causing a wake on the river can be barred since it causes damage, then we open up to a very wide range of laws. I have found a lot of "libertarians" telling me that it is wrong to have a law against it, that if there is damage then the land owner should go to court. If you accept the notion of a law, then we are left with the reasonable and difficult job of deciding, as you say, what is harm. That is, I accept a society where we are able to predict future harm and pass laws against the actions but I have real trouble with the idea that we have minimal laws and have courts "clean" things up after the fact.

These attacks against Palin have gotten more and more pathetic. Meanwhile we have Joe Biden who claimed to be the father of the Patriot Act and no criticism of him ever makes it to the front page.

Crying Republican cries.

The other 91%. Their "logic" being that if you don't believe in absolute truth, then your belief in the Bible could be compromised by believing something else. They're right, of course. Belief in the Bible depends on a belief that there is absolute truth. But you're also right in that disbelief in the Bible does not require a disbelief in absolute truth. It just means you don't believe that *the Bible* is that absolute truth. A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square.

Well, I don't know if they're right. A belief in "absolute truth" doesn't really help belief in the Bible. For example, I belief that absolute truth exists (in an objective physical sense), but I realize I may not recognize it as such. Is there a teapot in orbit around the sun? Maybe NASA released it as a joke -- I can't really evaluate the claim. Accordingly, whether or not I believe in absolute truth, I should still be skeptical of the Bible. Acceptance or rejection of the concept of "absolute truth" should be distinct from acceptance of the Bible as such. But I see what you're getting at.

Might want to check on your definition of viral. Putting a video on the net != viral.

Hmm. According to the all knowing Wikipedia: A viral video is a video clip that gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or Instant messaging, blogs and other media sharing websites. So yeah, it's a viral video.

There's so much truth to that. An old band I played in used IRL trolling as a (successful) marketing tactic. Anytime we got questioned about it or labeled as offensive, we used "ART" as our defense. This includes raffling off pornography at a campus-sponsored event, which I'm fairly certain is illegal.

Don't believe so, actually. Not in the US, at least. An atheist group I'm mildly affiliated with has for the past three years distributed porn in exchange for religious texts. It's a form of protected speech, and as long as you're not breaking laws on underage distribution the only question I can see is how pissy the university wants to get about you doing it at a campus sponsored event.

beaver is like the worst name for vagina ever. Lets come up with some better terms.

Vin Diesel.

Na, James K. Polk pwns this loser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk

Polk was also responsible for many deaths http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/mexicow.htm

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[Before](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/431118590_4b4039c599.jpg?v=0) [After](http://wcpo.img.cdn.entriq.net/img/dp_thumbs/thumb_1226983940279_0p39974350650305723.jpg) The culture has changed. I am pretty libertarian, but I also would rather not have dead police all over the place because they knock and nicely ask if they can help.

If you don't want to fail, never try. - Homer Simpson p.s. you're a sheep

Is that right? and sitting on your ass doing nothing but contemplating the futility of your own pathetic existence makes you superior in what way? edit: I just realized that this is the first time that I've ever been accused of being a "sheep" on reddit. As an Atheist Libertarian who advocates Austrian Economics I usually find myself on the other side of the argument. lol : )

I disagree. The way jokes are told in my family, the longer they go on, the more exciting they get and the more the punchline hits, no matter how unrelated the setup was. Then again, maybe we're idiots.

Just try telling a joke like that on open mike night and see what happens.

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None of the stories have struck me as pure BS. I can relate to some of the stories here. Never underestimate the stupidity of your customers.

Mix it with everclear.

As long as I'm using alcohol, why not use chocolate liqueur?

I think the medical term is Whiskey Dick.

I was going to add that, but thank you for getting it out there.

You're not quite understanding. I knew that when I started supporting him, so you don't have any point to make here except general complaints about the way the US has conducted itself since it became a superpower over 50 years ago. Every other modern president has done the same thing, so there's no particular reason to go after Obama for it. I know you don't like that, but you're just going to have to deal with it.

So you don't care about the Constitution?

I didn't say I wanted it to happen. But it's going to right?

You realize you're not the first person to think this way right? Every generation going back thousands of years has had an event or a movement that some people were SURE was going to end the world. Spending your life in anticipation of some world where you'll be the only one who was prepared is just as deluded and insane as spending your life in fear of death.

No Emma Frost?

[No Psylock?](http://images.google.com/images?q=Psylocke&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title)

The laws do say that in order to be charged with breach of the peace you have to breach the peace. And singing inside of a police cruiser and insulting an officer does not qualify as a breach of the peace. The police are aware of this. The police are levelling a false charge against him out of malice. That is illegal. If you don't like that, I believe you are the one who should be working to get the laws changed. Nowhere in the laws does it say that insulting a police officer constitutes a breach of the peace.

It is hard to call this a 'false charge' when a judge agreed to it and sentenced him to three months as a result. This is pretty much the definition of a 'valid charge', yes? I know of no appeal in progress. If you disagree, what basis would you use to determine whether a charge is false or valid? If you are allowed to run around defining laws however you please -- even if you think that definition obvious -- our society would dissolve into chaos. In short, just because you do not like the outcome does not mean your interpretation of the law is superior. Perhaps you should work to elect representitives who will pass legislation making it explicitly legal to taunt civil servants. As it is, we have laws that manifestly say this is not appropriate behavior. Q.E.D.

No 1 should have been 'To look more like Brian Blessed.'

Why would anyone want to look more like Brian Blessed? Now SOUNDING LIKE BRIAN BLESSED ... THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING MY FRIEND WOULDN'T IT? AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!</soundlikebrianblessed>

That's still a sizable block of time. It's going to feel so weird taking a half hour to upload my entire pron library to a device the size of my finger.

come on, how often do read/write the *full capacity* a drive?

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She even misses the wrong name for the prime minister of Canada... The election was last week ferfucksake. I'm pretty damn sure she can see Canada from her house. Her precious oil pipe lines have to run through Canadian territory. You'd think she'd at least have learned the name of at least one foreign leader. How does someone that dumb manage to walk and breathe at the same time?

She also didn't catch that he said "the Prime Minister of Quebec"

The important thing to remember about flying is that you need to fall and _miss_. It appears this gentleman forgot the second half of this lesson

Miss the earth entirely. Someone should have shouted at him right before he hit.

This doesn't look natural to me.

Seems that the small birds attack the larger ones when they get too close for comfort. The blackbird is not hitching a ride but attacking the hawk and trying to drive it from their nesting territory, though getting a shot of that particular situation is pretty rare.

Hot Coffee.

Are you suggesting playing GTA in the car until the storm passes?

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

upvoted for baconatedgrapefruit as your username

I believe that years from now the great Teddy Ballgame will be forgotten and every conversation that used to include his name will be replaced with Manny's.

I like your username and I love the sox, but i have to disagree... they will be discussed with equal reverence. Also, anyone who bags on Manny for not being a good fielder... take a look at his career fielding numbers and try again...

In a former job I have watched girls operate the lavatory service truck (aka honey pot) for the airlines while sporting ridiculously long fingernails. Somehow they were able to get the shitpipe connected and drained and refill the tank with blue juice, all without breaking a nail or messing up their bouffant. Usually they would examine their nails in a bored manner while waiting for the tank to fill. Unrelated story: Somehow one night a honeypot girl filled all the international flights' lav tanks with **diesel fuel** instead of blue juice. It was caught when a flight attendant came on board and noticed the smell, following her nose to the toilet. By then the lav girl had serviced London, Paris, Frankfurt, and was working on Madrid when the mechanic stopped her. All of those flights had to be canceled, at huge expense, and the lav tanks had to be drained and purged.

How can you not realize that you use diesel fuel?

Comp Sci graduate/software developer here: no, you can in fact have self-replicating/evolving/"learning" programs. You can also make [programs that write other programs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming), I took a class about it. It's a lot of fun, though not used much in "the real world." Yet.

Sounds really interesting. What kinds of uses have these programs been employed for so far?

Any pictures? Large amount of text doesn't really show me what you mean. Most women have some sort of curvature in camparison to the average man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bodyshapes.svg You really should take a look at all that text too. It's quite interesting. http://www.reddit.com/comments/6tz45/so_which_woman_has_the_perfect_body/c04v1li You can find thousands of pages about the powerful affects of hormones on fat deposition, bone structure, and other physical characteristics all over the net. Take a look.

Yes, revelation is a personal experience, and it is hard to share or put into words. Explaining the feeling to one who has never had it is not unlike trying to explain "green" to the congenitally blind.

Or more precisely, it's a psychological defect. I'm sure it's on par with things like "gut feeling" and "just knowing", which most people myself included experience in their lives, but please don't pretend like it proves something. I get what he's saying. The wonders of the universe, how could it be random and all of that. It proves nothing and is utterly useless as "philosophy." Without going too far into the intelligent design debate, this is utterly ridiculous. And it's a sign of what people consider to be philosophy that it was posted in this subreddit. This isn't philosophy, it's one man's delusions about a higher power. I've read Kierkegaard, you don't have to explain to me the leap of faith. But you see, that is philosophy - explaining the sentiment manifested in the linked quote and trying to understand its place in human thought. The quote itself is something more suitable to a Starbucks coffee cup rather than a philosophy debate.

It's a security cam, we had one in the same place at my old store.

Well that would answer my question about the lack of sound.

Sorry, not getting the reference.

Surely you have noticed that Jupiter is no longer active in the Deity business these days. Well the whole crew went on to other things. Jupiter, when he retired from the whole godhood thing, setup a steak house/bar and grill so that all his buddies could have a good time, shoot the breeze about the good ole days. There is a casino in the private room in the back, where the gods DO play with dice. Their kind of dice. His brother Pluto did something similar, and setup up a racy night club out on the edge of the Solar System. He gets all the interstellar traffic. Neptune was always a little kinky, and setup a bath house. You should see the place at Mardi Gras Mar/Ares has a Martial arts and Fitness studio. Venus is like the Oprah of the gods, and has a talk show along with a chain of feminine health spas. Saturn has a chain of retirement homes, and let me tell you he has his hands full with the Elder gods, who are getting a little senile, but occasionally still want to run around and raise hell, sort of like a bunch of old bikers with various stages of alzheimers. Mercury runs the ISP, and as for cranky old Uranous, well nobody has seen him in ages, especially since he has holed up with his intergalactic porn collection, known around the system as the Porn of the Gods. Hey, it could happen.

No, Christians only care about themselves. Why? Because they only do good when it means there's something in it for them in the end: going to heaven. Atheists however will do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing, even though they believe there is no reward in it for them other than feeling good about doing good deeds.

Seems like you both got everyone generalized pretty well there.

What's a clit? Is it something that I should be looking for?

It's an acronym for The Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-Dwellers. When she says "rub my clit" she means give this organization money so it can firebomb more laboratories in search of animals to free.

I remember when I was like 15, I woke up, made myself ready for school went there on the bus and started the day... and then I woke up, I just became so tired and depressed because I had to do everything again, so I called in sick.

Fuck, me too. I went downstairs, stepped under the shower, went to the kitchen and noticed it was dark outside. Not that strange, it was winter after all. Then I looked at the clock and noticed it was 0:10. Fuck me.

what's a nick? Edit: Okay, i get it now. I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue during work hours...

Then you are not ready to know.

Yahoo answers are /b/tards in diapers.

I don't know. /b/ is immature, sure, but they usually have a sense of awareness and irony at least. Yahoo Answers is like the short bus of the Internet.

I saw a Japanese game show do something like this. A harness on a track to lower your gravity as you proceed down an obstacle course.

Sounds a lot like Nickelodeon G.U.T.S. which was awesome back in the day.

Excuse me, I am in my gnome pajamas FFFFFUUUUU http://imgur.com/cI0P0.jpg Um...this face http://img113.imageshack.us/i/bengay2nc9.jpg/ http://imgur.com/7w1oZ.jpg

Yes!! I love the squinty face!! Both your version and the real one.

There's a book, "The Serial Killer Next Door," that examines sociopathy in a variety of contexts. The author interviewed many sociopaths, most of whom are very successful in the business world. One of them recounted a tale from when he was about the same age as this kid: The boy was visiting his parents' vacation house with them, which was on a lake. An older relative had brought some firecrackers along. The sociopathic boy stole the firecrackers and slipped away, and while his parents searched frantically for him, he had found a marsh and was catching frogs. He would then shove lit firecrackers down their throats and throw them, and laugh as they exploded. This particular man specifically said he was not abused, neglected, ignored, and that his parents did nothing wrong in raising him-- but they were confused by his behavior and couldn't understand how he was such a bright student and obedient at home most of the time, but how incidents like the frog killing kept happening. You can't diagnose sociopathy in childhood, so he was given various catch-all diagnoses, including brain damage, which didn't help his parents at all. Some kids are bad applies; this sounds like one.

Serious question time, the frog story reminds me of something for any redditors with an expertise in this sort of thing. I think I was about 8 or so when a group of boys, including myself, chucked about a dozen toads against the wall of a library, but mostly each other. We kind of played a game called "butts up" (interestingly, after commenting I notice butts up has a [wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Up) ) with frogs, because losing meant sliming the guy with frog guts. I remember distinctly thinking throwing frogs at other kids was hilarious, and it was a lighthearted game oddly enough, looking back with an adults perspective. I can see the stupidity and possible connotations of crazy looking back, but as a kid it didn't seem that way. I don't want to do the am I a sicko discussion, because that isn't what I am curious about. I'm extremely confident I am about as "normal" as anyone else. I have no sick thoughts or whatever. What I am wondering is how can an incident so disgusting be done by kids completely normal? Another guy that I still talk to who lived by me is now just a normal guy who builds pools and coaches his kid's footballs games. I have to assume from knowing him and the fact there hasn't been any crazy types of killings or serial rapes or anything here, ever, that I can remember means the guy is pretty normal too. So what I wonder is how were we there at seven to nine or so and laughing it up when one of us got "pegged" with a toad?

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Are there dentists for that? Maybe you should do an iAmA :-)

ATGATT

For the non-motorcycling crowd this means: All The Gear crowd together All The Time

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More than a quarter of this country needs to read a book.

And hopefully a book without panels showing superheroes in tights. Stuff like Steinbeck, Dreiser, Dos Passos, Zola, Melville, Fitzgerald, Twain, Proust, Turgenev...

are you kidding, how did that happen?

Transporting divx with intention to sell? Are you just mocking me or are you seriously not familiar with the severity of that offense?

The patriot act was passed in 2001. It is 2008. We have a radically different congress now. Different people, lots of new faces. Furthermore, the Patriot Act was written by the PNAC in the late 1990's. And in addition to this, net neutrality states that the net should not be regulated for content. I don't care if Osama bin Fucking Laden suggests it is a good idea, I agree. The internet needs to remain free. The alternative is that ISPs are allowed to charge you a per-use fee for visiting google.com, etc.

This is just the first piece of governmental regulation over the internet. You have most likely seen the stories on the front page from Australia (and Canada too IIRC) about internet censorship. You don't think we'll be next?

I'm pretty sure I just said no to that. We can be certain in a practical sense. But we must be careful not to confuse practical certainty with real certainty.

The reason I ask is because as a philosophical position, it's self refuting. Can we be sure that we can't be sure about anything? I just don't understand why you think the idea of an omniscient, omnipresent creator that mucks around in daily life is something we need to be humble about. Do we need to be humble about the fact that the Earth is round? Or that milk does not make you fly? Or that there aren't any square circles? I don't see the practicle use.

I agree. But wait until Cars 2 and Toy Story 3 come out. Then we'll see who's the soulless popularity contest.

Cars was the worst Pixar movie by a mile, so why they would choose to make a sequel baffles me.

Exactly. Once you know what audio compression "sounds like" you're fucked. I can hear it everywhere now. I want to call everybody idiots for saying there isn't a loss in quality, but really I'm jealous that they're perfectly ignorant.

Some compression, you can hear. 128 kbps mp3 does *occasionally* leave audible artifacts, but above 192, you definitely cannot hear a difference. Numerous audiophiles who *swear* they can hear a difference have done double blind tests, and they invariably do no better than chance at identifying the lower quality recording. And yes, I know what compression sounds like. But at a decent quality rip, you can't here it. Going to CD and back again doesn't make much difference because the second pass quantizes the signal almost exactly the same way as the first pass did. Quantizing information the same way, multiple times, causes *zero* loss after the first time.

I think it's fairly obvious that that deer is tame and they are play fighting. Who would stand around recording someone being attacked by a deer? And the guy isn't even fighting back. It's like how I play-fight with my dog.

the deer is teaching the man a lesson yes he could maul him with his rack if he wanted but with the camera on him he realized the greatest potential for change

Then why did you try to get us to look at them?

It's the "This milk has gone sour. Here...taste it" school of verification.

what...what the hell is that thing? and why would anybody wanna do that to a deer's rectum?

It's [Butt Out!](http://www.hunterspec.com/Updateable/update_display.cfm?pageID=2107&categoryID=15) It's used when field dressing deer. You pull part of the intestine out and tie it closed, that way the poor deer's poop won't squirt on the meat and skin and whatnot. A more common technique is to cut around the anus, pull a portion of the intestine out and tie it up, but this tool makes the process easier. There's even a video link on the product page to see it in action. I've never been hunting in my life but I saw an outdoors-type catalog a few years ago that featured this product. My initial reaction was quite similar to yours.

Not exactly my point -- I meant the executive powers of a government being held by hereditary title. Care to comment again?

Well, the article is about the UK, which is a constitutional monarchy like most (all) of the monarchies in the Western world. Maybe for US-people it is hard to imagine how such a constitutional democracy works. On the other hand, there is lots of information freely available and easy to find about that on the internet. So just look around. Your question is a bit silly: You ask a "purely theoretical" question, then you want a historic (so not theoretical) answer. Then you ask about a difference between "elected executives" and "hereditary monarchies", which both are present in a constitutional monarchy. What do you want to know? If there are any historical hereditary absolute monarchs worse than Hitler? Or if that is theoretically possible? Or would have been theorically possible?

We can't review their music... it's not **FOR** us. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24/

Bravo! You've my favorite using my absolute favorite cartoon. Well

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Awww, it so cute!

I bet it runs on cupcake batter and emits rainbow dust.

Some of you people disgust me. You yellow cowardly cocksuckers, there shouldn't be such a thing as a "Constitution free zone" in the FIRST PLACE, let alone checkpoints FAR inside our own country stopping people to ask stupid questions. Its apathetic cowards like you fuckers that have allowed this kind of thing to happen in the first place, because most likely (for the majority of you) it doesn't effect you, so who gives a shit, right? And the ones that it does affect, instead of standing up to these fascist pieces of trash you cow down like a good little bitch and take it from behind, because you are more concerned about the line behind you then about your rights and the freedoms that are SUPPOSED to be granted to you as a citizen of this country. Furthermore, I believe that when the police state eventually comes you and your families should be the first groups to loose said freedoms, and are first in line to be taken to the "Freedom camps" for "re-education", because, after all, convenience for yourself and the assholes behind you is more important then your freedom. Just one sick and tired mans opinion. EDIT: Fixed stupid grammar thing.

I'm sorry, but what have you done?

Do You Want to Suck My CoCk BESER-KER!!

"did he just say making fuck"?

I've never heard of that... not saying it isn't... It is a bit dangerous, the breaks after a while stop working... I guess I've been doing this a long time so I know what to expect from my car.

I know that here in B.C. it is illegal to coast without the car in gear. My step dad and I did it in his old truck going down a huge hill/mountain on the way back form our cabin. I remember reading in my GLP drivers book that its illegal. the reason being is that if someone is going to hit you you can't accelerate away. also in some cars you lose power steering.

"And nothing beats a good, traditional English breakfast." In the area which I stayed, that seemed to consist of a runny egg, some dry ass bacon, a muffin, and a thimble full of orange juice. The fish n' chips that we tried consisted of a hunk of fried batter filled with a whitish gel-like substance that somewhat resembled fish, and a hunk of cold greasy french fries. Other than the food and the robbery, England was pretty cool.

Where'd you stay? Some Quality Hotel off the M1? The problem really boils down to the fact that most British people don't mind eating bad food badly prepared. They Just. Don't. Care. So most places in the UK that serve food have little incentive to serve good food. But there are lots of good gastro-pubs if you know where to look. A proper English breakfast should include scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, baked beans, half a fried tomato, black pudding (I give that a miss), hash browns and substitute kippers or kitchiri for either the bacon or sausage depending on the region.

It's also an allegory about the evils of capitalism. The main character embodies the ideals of capitalism and shows what happens when it goes unchecked. The movie is a hit with pinko commies everywhere.

Same for the corruptibility of religion.

I read Holes when it was released. It was short and I was finished in maybe a day, and I didn't really take anything from it except some vague memories. Nothing terribly memorable. It's not bad, but certainly nothing special. If you want to read a short book that's a lot better, I'd recommend *The Little Prince* or *Animal Farm* if you haven't done those yet.

I read *Animal Farm* but that was more than ten years ago. I've been meaning to reread *All Quiet on the Western Front* for awhile now.

If you still believe that you will end up in Hell you are not a real atheist. The best marketing argument for Christianity is that there would happen something with you after you die. This is of course like the rest of all promises absolute bullshit. You will just cease to exist. So get out that mindset of eternal life and realize that you have only one shot. Use it!

Of course I'm a real Athiest. I'm just teasing Christians. Fundamentally I don't believe in God. I was really hoping someone would challenge me on my calling all Christians ignorant but obviously not. :-( I'm just reading Paradise Lost at the moment and the story of Adam and Eve is brilliant. They aren't thrown out of paradise (the garden of Eden) for breaking a deadly sin. God explicitly tells Eve "not to eat from the tree of knowledge". There is no other conclusion to draw that this is a metaphor that Christians should live in ignorance. I'm disappointed no Christian trolls showed up :-(

I wish DVR would join this little group. I hate that when I set recordings, they skip and pixelate even when they are brand new. There is no physical "player" involved so why is DVR so bad? I have noticed that even direct digital signal(ie, watching a show when it is being broadcast) also has errors. Isn't digital better? So far, NO. VHS was a bad pick over Beta but it was cheaper. The tape does degrade but, I can still watch 20 year old tapes...a little grainy now but still watchable. I wonder if DVD's will still be watchable in 20 years or if BluRay will even have a market.

Seems like the solution is not to give up on DVR, but rather just improve DVR so it's better.

Ohh, haha, Shaw can be such Dick's about owed money. I remember when one of the numbers on our random fucking lists we pulled to call had a customer with a over due balance, we would have to call, try to convince them to pay their balance and THEN buy the phone service... The best part about that job was looking up what pay per view show's customers had ordered. There's some scary stuff on Pay Per View!

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I do not know much about the label "Objectivism", but I like 'Fountainhead' for one reason. I look at it as a pretty good guide to treat oneself. It is not a guide to start treating others like dirt. I feel really sad to see those people turning this into chance to demean others. Fountainhead has a man following a path without judging others, or using them, but by being concerned about his own path. Although Fountainhead made me think, it never made me an asshole. It is a personal philosophy, of not compromising to achieve one's goals. Where do these people get this aggression from a book that teaches to **not** define life by what others think of us?

Hmmm. Defining life by what others think of you isn't really what narcissism is about. The narcissist arranges his life (including what others think about him) around what he thinks of himself. So it may be a perfectly reasonable philosophy, but I don't think it's in dramatic opposition to narcissism. (edit: not that _any_ philosophy is really in opposition to narcissism, since the narcissist can wrap it around himself in any way he chooses.)

How do you live with that? Heavy is so frustrating to play nowadays. Walk for a minute to get to center point, backstabbed. Respawn, walk for a minute to get to center point, headshot. Etc, etc.

How do you live with that? Heavy is so frustrating to play nowadays. Walk for a minute to get to center point, backstabbed. Respawn, walk for a minute to get to center point, headshot. Etc, etc.

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But, if your mentality is "I want a car that will prevent me from dying on the road" then I'm not sure you care how often you'll get in a fender bender. Small cars are harder to see, so they get into a lot of accidents, but big cars are less maneuverable. In general, smaller cars get into more accidents, but I'm not sure of the rate differences. But, even in lab tests, outside factors are eliminated, bigger, heaver cars *do* tend to protect the driver and passengers better than small cars . . . that's the reason vehicles need to be rated by "class."

Heavier cars will do less damage to the vehicle, but that doesn't always tell you what damage it does to the passengers. Ultimately how well the passengers fare will be determined by how the frame is designed and how the car crumples. If you can tell that from merely looking at cars in the parking lot then you really are amazing because the real experts that do safety testing as opposed to all the armchair "experts" here on reddit actually crash the vehicles instead of making guess without real experiments. I don't care if the people who drive my model of car are retards. I care whether the vehicle that I am driving does a good job of protecting me. Fatalities per mile driven doesn't necessarily tell me anything about that.

A more complete summary might go like this: If someone doesn't know about Christ and someone walks up to them on the street, they're introduced to several new ideas: 1. everyone is born a sinner, and if they remain a sinner, they'll have an unhappy afterlife 2. Christ died for their sins, and if they accept the idea of Christ, they'll be forgiven, and have a happy afterlife \#1 is (from a marketing standpoint) a bad way to introduce yourself ("your current path leads unequivocally to hell"), so the phrase "good news" seems like an attempt to [reframe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_%28social_sciences%29) it to gloss over the bad news bit, even though the good news has little impact if presented alone without the bad news.

Still a terrible summary of what Jesus was actually about. What about the disease of the whole world? What about social justice? What about personal relationships? What about connecting to God? A better way to start is this: The world is broken. We are disconnected from each other, from God, from creation, even from ourselves. It's making us hurt each other, ignore and increase our own pain, tear up the environment, etc. There are wars, there are famines, there are diseases, there is global warming, there is poverty, there is economic imbalance, there is debt, there is a screwed-up beauty ideal that people are expected to conform to or they're not good enough, there are fights, there is theft, there is adultery, there is racism, there is a culture of workaholism, there is alcoholism, people don't make time for prayer, people don't make time for introspection, people don't make time for each other, and the list goes on and on. The good news, or "gospel," is that it's not supposed to be that way, and that Christ came to make it better, all the way better, and that it's going to be that way, and if you live devoted to Christ and his gospel, you get to participate *right now in this life* in his kingdom, in the new creation, in the world-as-it-was-meant-to-be, which we will one day see in fullness and now we see in part.

Can any physicists/chemists share what would actually happen? My guess: Fusion would stop, and the sun would collapse into - a neutron star, I guess? Meanwhile on Earth, all water molecules would split into the stable hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms, and we'd explode as other tissues started oxygenating while the hydrogen gas pushed out. (Edit: I assumed the laws of physics would change to make the two-valence-electron-hydrogen the stable form.)

the hydrogen with two electrons would decay into regular hydrogen and an alpha particle(essentially just an electron), which would basically cause everything to become radioactive, which would heat up everything around hydrogen, causing the entire universe to explode! i think...

Proportional representation IS the biggest issue. Nothing can be fixed until or electoral system is fixed. 60% of Canadians are NOT going to be voting for Harper - yet Harper will be the PM.

Well, my logic is that I prefer having a poorly but at least semi-working electoral system and a job, versus a better working electoral system with perhaps no job. Not to say those are the only scenarios, just that things like jobs and the economy and taxation are indeed extremely important to me. Besides, while proportional representation would certainly be a huge improvement, it's not a panacea -- it has its own problems too.

There are a lot of popular comedies that I didn't find that funny, including: The Wedding Crashers, Knocked Up, Step Brothers (and I tend to give movies that I don't like a second try...) Some movies that I love that don't seem to have garnered much popularity: 21 Grams, Elephant, Equilibrium, Once, Paprika, Zodiac (2007), À la folie... pas du tout (He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not)

I thought Zodiac was pretty hyped. I felt like it dragged in too many spots.

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and still lose eventually

If these guys would play lets say .. Boise state instead of "Chattanooga", there would be more interesting games instead of with pansies.

Do you think Boise would be willing to do a home-and-home with Bama or UF? Or even a "kickoff game" like the SEC has done with the ACC the past couple of seasons? Honest question. I'd be surprised if the answer was yes.

You're saying it's the best alternative to... what?

Free free to learn some economics

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Or quite possibly the system was never setup for the AI to send voice or video back, in which case, it would have to use the system setup by and for humans.

indeed - when you make something autonomous, the trade-off is that it can get stuck using the same shitty systems you and I have to use...

Alright, in regards to the FaN, here's my point of view. Tell me if this sounds horribly wrong. The Scattergun, in most situations, is better than the FaN. For the FaN to be efficient, you have to be at nearly point blank range. Medium and long ranges are awful. The Scattergun is much more versatile, as the FaN requires you to get uncomfortably close to your targets to work right. This is offset by the increased damage at close range, and the knockback. The FaN also only shoots two shots and takes a bit to reload. The Scattergun shoots 6, although the firing speed is slower. How is this ridiculous? It sounds balanced to me. People complain that if I get behind a Sniper I can kill him in a couple of seconds. If nearly *any* class gets behind the Sniper, they should be able to kill him in a number of seconds. Hell, if I used my bat on him, he'd die just like that. So what's the issue here? Is it the knockback? The whole reason I use the FaN is to challenge the heavier classes, and control them with the knockback (I play Arena a lot). But in certain circumstances, due to my decreased clip size and terrible range, I'm fucked. I really don't understand the complaints.

Well, the scattergun has the same range, and slightly more spread than the FAN. This means that the risk of using both is equal, or should be, but the FAN meatshots more. The problem comes in when you add in the FAN's knockback. It doesn't work as it should, by knocking them back. Instead, it essentially freezes anyone in place, blasting them up a few feet, leaving them wide open for a second shot. All it takes is a good first hit and you have a kill on most classes. The only class that can take 2 full damage shots from it (without buff) is a heavy. I know what valve wanted to do with it, but they haven't achieved it. It was supposed to be a high skill, very effective killing machine which requires precise timing to get in and floor a target. Instead, you effectively paralyze anyone you please, and it gives you kills. The scattergun is more versatile, no doubt, due to the larger clip size. If you miss once with the FAN, you have a long reload time and vs a scout using the Scatter, you are likely screwed. However, skilled scouts will almost always land that first shot when they need to, and it just gives away kills. It's a good idea, but it's poorly implemented.

I love how they quote 90% when in reality it really was 82%

I love how people like you quote 82%, when in reality it was just another number they pulled out of their hats. To achieve their 82% figure, they quote a number of other vague unsubstantiated numbers like 1.3 IP/user (rather low, since many dynamic IP users can get up to several IPs per day and static IP providers are very rare), yet never providing any actual data to justify them. After all, they originally cried about a 90% number, without providing any data to back it, and only lowered the number to 82% after many people ridiculed their claim and methods for being unrealistic. So what makes people think that 82% number is anything more than just another attempt at attentionwhoring?

I don't understand how this is supposed to work. Massively more efficient solar cells would be worth *billions*, especially if you could develop and bring them to market within ten years. If they're even remotely possible, why would we need the government to spend our tax dollars on them? The space program or Manhattan Project are poor analogies: In those cases there wasn't substantial profit to be had.

If the government was to buy/subsidize an absurd number of solar cells, and wind turbines(think hundreds of billions of dollars worth) while simultaneously funding a huge amount of renewable energy research(something like the NIH budget) it would almost certainly be possible to make things happen a lot faster. I am at a top twenty engineering PhD program, I tried to get a spot in a lab doing renewable energy research but failed because there are many more students interested in the field than there is government funding to support them. We could dramatically increase the amount of research we are doing quite easily. If we were to stop bitching about how expensive it is to build solar cells, and just build more of them, than the economies of scale would kick in quite quickly minimizing the pain. Sure it may always be more expensive than fossil fuels(hence the free market not doing it yet), but it certainly could be done.

I don't buy a lot of his arguments. Game makers didn't just make games more complex in a conscious manner in attempts to have them be more successful. Games just naturall became more complex as resources and available power grew. Do I really want to play Halo 3 with one digital joystick and a button? Probably not. Even the Wii has a trigger, motion detection, face button, + and - buttons, home button, 1 and 2 buttons, a d-pad and nunchuck with analog stick, motion detection, and two more buttons. 14 inputs. Two of which (the motion detection) are complicated to get right (try Cooking Mama for a nice example) and low res to boot. And he applauds the Wii's controller. Well, ok. There's just two problems here. A) Basically *no one* has done anything signficant with the wiimote! Nothing! To this day, Wii Sports is still the best application of the controller. And that's pretty sad. The other problem, B) The Wii has *horrid* games. Just like he said people complain about this, their complaints are spot on. The Wii is utter garbage, not counting Mario Galaxy of course. If this controller is so great, why did I sell my Wii after literally not turning it on once for 3 straight months?

So you don't like games that don't have depth. You seem to not like simple, amusing games, as far as I can see from your comment. That's your preference, but that doesn't mean everyone feels the same way. As the author said himself, he enjoys playing the "party games" with his son. Do you think they want to play for hours straight, or that they want to play often for shorter periods? Also, do you think they want to play alone? Halo 3 and Wii games are completely different in paradigm, and while I agree the Wii has nowhere near reached its amazing potential, its a huge step in the right direction. As someone who enjoy playing in short bursts, the Wii is great for me. I have a couple of first person shooters installed on my computer, and I still prefer to play Minesweeper because I can play one game in five minutes. What the Wii enabled developers to do was open up the video game market to a *much* wider audience. That's what the article argued, and when looking at these new types of games, you can't judge them with the same criteria as other games. Edit: Note, I don't actually own a Wii, but I'm just saying, as is the article saying, you can't judge these new games with the same mindset with which you judge more traditional games of this era.

That.... doesn't make any sense. If everyone thought that, then shows would do well in proportion to how poor they are.

What really makes no sense is the system used to determine what people are watching on TV. In reality, what you and I are watching makes no difference. It's all up to the mythical Neilsen Families. I've never met one have you? I think they are like unicorns.

If you're using the Update Manager, you can right-click and choose "Uncheck All" and pick out only what you want to upgrade. However, you really should be using the Synaptic Package Manager for this sort of thing. It's much easier.

Ah, you can mark one for upgrade easily in Synaptic, good call. However, it still stands that updates are not categorized in any useful way.. anywhere. The update interfaces could just be *so* much better... hmm. Maybe I found a pet project.

No, it makes me kind of like him.

LOL.

By what mechanism does evolution know about speciation and stop right before it gets there? The distinction you're probably trying to make, between "microevolution" and "macroevolution," is false.

Honestly interested. What is the reason that a distinction between micro and macroevolution is false? I can readily believe microevolution (which is what this article seemed to describe), but the E Coli didn't become Fish, Right? Not even a multi-celled organism. I'm interested in the subject so if you could tell me some info and/or provide me with some links to more on the subject that would be terrific.

Most delivery fees don't go to the driver at all. I've heard this from several friends working in the food industry; it's sort of shite :(

I quit delivering pizza in college when these fees started. Pizza Hut kept the fees and the customers assumed I was getting them and didn't tip me. How the car owner does not get the fee to cover wear and tear is beyond me.

Yes. I think to make it in Hollywood you have to be Jewish, Gay or an old Hollywood family. Half Jewish also works. And sometimes married to someone Jewish. It surprised me how many even actors are half Jewish ethnically and identify as Jewish. Like Paul Newman (He was a god. I nice liberal jewish god). Scarlet Johanson. Harrison Ford. And on and on. All very attractive talented people. But what about the attractive talented non-Jewish actors and writers and directors. Seems like they get cut out most of the time.

You mean like Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Tom Cruise, etc.? None are Jewish, all are successful.

i didn't really like bubbly water at first, but after i got over the initial freak out ("where is the sugar? there are bubbles but no sugar??"), i fell in love with it. i'll barely drink anything else non-alcoholic or non-coffee anymore. its like, the original diet-soda. completely natural and not bad for your teeth. more refreshing than plain water. i love perrier, badoit, and whatever sparkling water/club soda is cheap.

Take it from a guy with almost no enamel left in his head, carbonated anything is bad for your teeth; carbolic acid is what makes it bubbly.

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No. Crysis either looks amazing on High and Very High, or it looks crap. Medium and low settings look worse than Far Cry.

http://gunnar.carlson.googlepages.com/untitled.jpg/untitled-full;init:.jpg this is from my PC at 1680 x 1050 with everything on medium, except physics and sound on high. Runs at a solid 45-60 FPS on an 8800GTS 320 and a Q6600 at 2.6 it looks like no other game released.

Cool, thanks for the thought. Anything else you (or anyone else) would recommend?

*Season of Mists* by Neil Gaiman. Even if you don't read any of the other Sandman books, this one stands on it's own. *V is for Vendetta* and *The Watchmen* Those, along with *The Dark Knight Returns* are probably the graphic-novel equivalents of Shakespeare.