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Well, thanks for the compliment, but I'm actually independently skeptical. I don't expect you to believe me but as an Atheist Libertarian, questioning Authority has become second nature. I wasn't really interested in the climate debate until I was recently labeled a "Denialist" for daring to question "The Consensus". The religious implication caught my attention, so I did some research in order to provide a decent response. Long story short: a climate skeptic is born.

Note: taking up a position that presumes a viewpoint opposing a given conclusion is not exactly skeptical. I'd be interested to not how your skepticisim was applied when you read the overtly political piece you just linked to. For example: did you fact check references? Were you concerned at the reliance on a handful of "experts" several times throughout the piece, whose views were unchallenged? Did you question how few of them were actual climate scientists? Did you seek to challenge their views? Did you check to see if there was more recent work addressing concerns they raised? Did you examine their track record and find if they had a history of contrarianism or questionable opinions? Did you question the interpretation of the Wegman and NRU reports, or simply accept the author's framing of their findings? Did you question the omission of the important distinction between the MWP being a regional phenomenon, and the reconstruction of global temperatures? Did you question the relevance of some points, wondering if they were in fact fallacious reasoning along the lines of "we don't know everything, therefore we know nothing"? Did you check the story about Peiser being refused publication, and find that he had in fact owned up to several errors and retracted his criticism? Did you wonder at the constant references to Al Gore, a political figure and one who is irrelevant to findings of science? Did you check to see if the claim that there had been no statistically significant warming since 1995 was true and robust across multiple datasets? Did you wonder at the choice of 14 years, instead of the standard 30 year period for assessing climate trends? Did you investigate the background of Singer's claims about Revelle and find it to be far from clear cut? Did you look into the frequent implications that papers that rebutted positions contrary to AGW were somehow questionable, dishonest or unsound? Or did you just scan it, think "yup - that's anti-AGW, I'll go with that"?

Intellectual honesty. Thought that's why we're better than religious people in the first place.

Intellectual honesty. Thought that's why we're better than religious people in the first place.

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I understand your point. You want me to display a sign on my house inviting crime. Cool.

Well then you just possession admitted having criminal a gun does prevent crime. sign The fear the criminals have that you might have a gun in your house since sign on felonious you don't display a sign that says no guns PROVES gun show ownership is valuable in a society.

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If technology doesn't improve quality of life, why does anyone use it? And housing would be much more affordable if the government was not fucking it all up encouraging everyone to buy houses they can't afford. There is absolutely nothing wrong with renting. As for college degrees, this is not the mainstream view, but I consider them a total waste of time, note that some of the richest people in the world have either no college or are college dropouts.

forgive me, wall of text incoming. I guess I misspoke. Technology does seem to improve quality of life, but your point was that the poor can buy last generation technology that still functions for a fraction of the price. This is applicable to things like cell phones, computers, and video games, but not applicable to things like health care and education. I said technology when I was thinking of toys. I agree that renting is the correct option when you don't have enough money to afford a house, but I'm not aware of how the government is "fucking it all up by encouraging everyone to buy houses they can't afford". The mortgage crisis was a problem of the bank making as many loans as possible, then selling the rights to collect on those loans, then making more loans and doing the same with those, absolving the bank of any risk (since the banks had already made their money back). This puts the bank in a situation where they make money on even the most absurd loans and pressures them to find people for these loans. That (I think) is predatory lending and the responsibility for these terrible loans is just as hard to place as the blame for addiction in the crackhead/crack-dealer relationship. It's also a different argument. as far as college, those who dropped out or didn't attend college and succeeded fantastically are the rare few. I think one of the oft-reference examples is bill gates, and he grew up in an exceedingly wealthy and competitive family and got at least some education from harvard. He was going places no matter what happened to him. 4-year degrees may not be for everyone, but I hope you won't disagree when I say that American high school education DOES NOT prepare one for the workforce. Hell we barely know basic algebra when we get out. Some sort of vocational training, like a certificate in HVAC or IT or plumbing should be part of the education that we give out; I believe this quite firmly. thank you for reading.

Because if you talk about inequality and strip away the concepts of race and gender, you will eventually talk about class struggle, and that makes you a dirty commie

Better dead than a red, right? /s

Point taken, Joe. Again, I'm so sorry for the alarm.

Clouds?

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It sounds like an emotional problem, you either are not used to getting yourself to orgasm while you are with a partner(very likely) or you simply are not feeling close enough to your partner to enjoy having sex with him. You could practice by bringing yourself to orgasm while he is lying in bed with you so that you get used to doing it with somebody else nearby. edit: and his refusal to go down or finger you indicates that you two aren't emotionally close enough for you to feel comfortable with him. You have to be comfortable enough to focus on your own enjoyment rather than his.

I can masturbate to orgasm while giving him a blowjob, so I don't think its anything like that. *sigh* Thank you for the quick reply though. I'm suprised how fast people reply to threads on subreddits.

I wonder what a zombie would be like high.

I wonder what a zombie would be like high.

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I'd like to respectfully decline. While working there, I thought I was going to write a short story based on all of the stories I had. But I got older and decided against it. There are much better writers capable of doing the same thing, especially because, as theg2 said, it's just like any other job. But thank you. Seriously.

You could always just do a /r/IAmA thread in the meantime. I'm sure there are tons of people who'd be interested in asking questions about it.

wow. i wasnt alive in 1972 but by this im guessing that McGovern was some sort of child rapist vampire?

actually mcgovern was the best democratic candidate between jfk and bill. hunter thompson wrote a book called "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" chronicling the entire election. it's actually one of the greatest political histories of the past century, i highly recommend it. mcgovern is still considered to be an important elder statesman of the democratic party. he was on the radar not too long ago when he endorsed obama over hill-bear. there are possible comparisons to be made between obama and mcgovern. both were fringe candidates in their party (mcgovern took out the heavily favored 'big' ed musky to clinch the nomination), both ran on an anti-unpopular-war platform. more importantly, both employed an 'idealistic-let's-bring-about-change' rhetoric, and so drew tons of support from younger and independent voters. however, the similarities end there. mcgovern was running against a sitting president who was not nearly as unpopular as history has made him out to be. furthermore, after the defeat of goldwater in '64, the republican party had licked its wounds through the LBJ era and emerged as the truly modern GOP with the first election of Nixon ('68-after LBJ refused to run). its new brand of pragmatic conservatism rallied the right, which was already threatened by left-counter-culture's (read: the hippies') adulation of mcgovern. nixon crushed him and thompson wrote, mournfully: "four more years, four more years." obama hasn't so far fallen into the mcgovern trap of liberal populism. that is, yes, of course he is a liberal populist, but he has refrained from flaunting it. hence the mccain ads painting him as a celebrity (they are trying to box him into the role). the '72 election is a nightmare for democrats because it fairly accurately documents why overt liberalism, no matter how well-intentioned, is a political liability in the US. sorry for the long winded post, you could probably just have read this on wikipedia, or in the comments below. also, i realize you're probably kidding, but, hey, being serious is fun too. to answer your question, no, he was not a child rapist vampire, but, to support moogle516 (who has been downmoded unfairly), yes, his VP was pretty much a loonie, at least as far as political image goes.

The init configuration system takes maybe 5 minutes to learn and understand. It is really simple to understand. If you want to load a daemon, you add it to the DAEMONS array. Simple as that. Although, I suppose most ubuntu users don't even know how ubuntu does the daemons, so they would need a complete education on what a daemon even was.

Honestly, i consider myself fairly knowledgeable (my idea of an easy-to-use distro is Slackware) and i have only a very vague idea of how Ubuntu does daemons. I'm probably going back to Slackware (or something) when i get a new hard disk...

Natalie Portman. Harvard psych degree, and has co-authored two scientific papers that have been published in journals. If for nothing else, she should be revered for [Natalie's Rap](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMPFGBtE7Q).

told her call me back her met or exceeded 100 pounds.

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Uh. never smash a *flaming* WD40 can. Avoid smashing the non-flaming kind. They will make a mess. THE MORE YOU KNOW!

Yeah, important distinction. Sans fire/spark, you are unlikely to get such a spectacular explosion.

That's awesome that the kids walked out like that.

Indeed. I am surprised and pleased that the student body has the cojones to rally for their fellow student; no doubt THEY are aware who is the bully and who is not. I am displeased but unsurprised that the school permits and encourages bullying and that both the school and the local police department are now busy punishing a kid who defended himself.

I think letting viewers vote on whether or not they like a show would be the most amazing development in the history of television. Just imagine what shows could've been saved, or which ones would have ended before they started getting painful to watch...

Cable/satellite operators sell the data they log from your DVR to marketing companies and networks. They know how long you paused, what you fast forward through, what you replay, etc...and they know your age and zip code, so they have a very precise demographic to sell to marketers. Big $$.

Make that 30.

Yes, Virginia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_cars

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For the first time in years, I feel like *I'm* in control of my computer, not some third party. I think I learned more about Linux just in the process of reading the wiki (which is freaking fantastic, btw) and installing the system than I did in the previous year of running Ubuntu, although the process was significantly more involved than I had anticipated.

Ubuntu always seems to me like a cheap miniature Compaq/HP/etc computer case. Sure, you can open it up and tinker with things, but you'll likely have trouble putting it back together. On the other hand, Arch is more like a large computer case left open. It's easy to spill water in it and screw something up, but you can do pretty much anything you want with it. Of course, OSX is pretty much just an Apple computer (big surprise): use it how it was intended, and you'll be fine; try to add to it, and who knows how it will respond. Windows, however, is like a typewriter: while in theory you could do pretty much anything on it, in practice, it's impossible to do much beyond the most basic tasks.

Slightly? What measurable difference is there?

Well, there was the difference between the budget surplus we had under Clinton, and the budget deficit we have under Bush. That's measurable.

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

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Many of these bacteria have not been studied because they cannot be cultivated in laboratories. There are thousands of different species in the intestine alone, and many of them probably cannot live as solitary isolates. So if a person has Crohn's, and is missing one particular bacterium (about which we know nothing) out of thousands of species... tough to figure that out.

OK, that's fair, but still.. this isn't a new problem. Like I said, Crohns has been around a long time, $millions have been spent on researching this and it would seem like getting a good handle on understanding all of the bacteria in the digestive tract would be the underlying foundation of the research. I wonder if this disease only occurs in humans or if certain other animals such as any of the apes or pigs can get it too. If so, perhaps they could do animal testing. Which I disagree with, but they do it anyway. I wonder how long it will take them to be able to create either a completely synthetic bowel replacement, or grow one from stem cells, etc.. I wonder how much advanced bio-medical technology there really is, but is being held back by the government and other shadowy powers that be. It seems like there should be more that we should be able to to with technology, that just isn't happening. If this sounds like some whacko, nutjob, conspiracy theory, it's a well known fact that Intel held back CPU development and limited speeds so that the NSA could catch up, they didn't want consumers to have advanced encryption technology that they couldn't crack. They are still holding back personal computer technology. A lot of governmental powers did not want the Internet to happen because it would empower the people too much outside of the control of the government, but fortunately, Al Gore and his buddies made it happen, thank you!!

Ah my favorite part of Halloween; internet pics of the best costumes! *Click* ...*sigh* or not.

Well, you didn't have to watch it either. vigil There's thousands of other links. Just vigil so you know.

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not yet... consider the chinese gold farmers

ha ha yeah, but in an ideal world gameplay wouldn't be improved by gold farmers. Also they can only do that because Chinese labor is so cheap.

Back in high school we had a student who had recently come to the US from the Philippines, I think (though honestly I'm not sure of where beyond that it was tropical and asian). In one of our classes together, he talked about how he had eaten the family dog as their family's last meal before heading over to the united states. He didn't understand our reactions of shock, horror, and disgust. For him, that last night in his home country, he asked what they were eating and the mom simply said it was the dog. That was it. His reaction was just an 'oh, okay' type of thing. He argued with us that when they moved to the US they would have had to leave the dog there and it would have been eaten or otherwise seriously screwed anyhow, and that it just seemed like the logical thing to do. But I think it's just completely fucking crazy. I remember he became even more of an outsider at school after that, labeled as the kid who ate his pet dog. I think I remember hearing some crazy stuff about him a couple years after school ended, and in retrospect I think it's directly attributable to the psychological effects of spending so many hours shunned, mocked, teased, and ridiculed by his peers. But oh well. He ate his fucking dog, man!

An animal was more than likely loved an well cared for, fed a healthy portion of your table scraps, and then eaten. Replace the word animal in the above statement with plant, does it still bother you? The only fucked up thing I see here ethnocentrism that led to that kid being shunned as an outsider for a normal practice in his country of birth.

John 20:27 is the relevant verse there. I'm quite familiar with the book thanks you very much.

Where does it say he stuck his hands in his wounds? The whole point of the story is that you should believe Jesus without proof.

Most excellent! Reason and rationality for the win!

I suppose if you like an hour and a half of constant condescension and people patting themselves on the back for how much smarter they are than *those* people, it's a great podcast. I listen to it on occasion, but almost every host is infuriating - Rebecca Watson probably being the worst. Want to stop the spread of creationism in public schools? My guess is insulting those you're trying to teach isn't the best method.

Yeah, Disneyland is entertaining.

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I agree, they should get the vote. Laws are created and abolished using government. Having a voice while incarcerated may serve you your freedom. Laws are not innate.

I know this article is about the UK, but I definitely don't agree. In the US each State decides whether prisoners get the right to vote. They don't in my State, and I don't think they should. I'm as appalled as anyone at the number of people in jail for crimes they didn't committ - but the vast majority of people DID commit the crime, and regardless of laws being innate or not they are still laws. I don't smoke marijuana, because it's illegal - I don't agree with it being illegal, and if the vote comes up then I'll vote for it to become legal. In the meantime, I choose not to break the law. The same goes with any other crime. Fight the power through legal means unless it comes to a point when you have to take back the government by force. Then be glad you fought for second amendment rights.

Cheer up emo kid (//_-)

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I'm 24, and I've moved around a lot in the past few years, from Customer Service, to IT Helpdesk, to print production / direct mail, and now I do general "tech work" for a Real Estate company in Manhattan. I have my current job, because I volunteered with the owner for Ron Paul. Now I have a dilemma... Although I have to commute daily from Long Island to Manhattan, I don't have "set hours". I do need to put in my 8 hours a day, but if I get there at 11 that's ok, I just have to stay until 7. When I want lunch, I get up and go get food, no big deal don't even have to ask. The other thing I love is that there isn't a big hierarchy of management. It's a nice open environment. So all this is good, only the actual work I'm doing seems to be mostly "busy work" ... kinda BS stuff. And that's a problem for me. Since I've been working in this atmosphere, I would dread going back to a "regular" 9-5 job. I also feel the need to be doing work where I feel some kind of accomplishment, and not busy work. Sure my job pays the bills, but the lack of "accomplishment" makes me feel like I'm sitting idle in life. Ideally I'd like to start up my own company doing tech work for people. Charging reasonable prices and not Geek Squad prices for my services. I'm just having difficulty making the transition to having my own business. My fear failure is kind of keeping me back. I know it sounds like I have "cryabetes" or something, I just felt like sharing/venting.

As an non-IT worker: What's an example of busywork that can't be automated?

And you were expected to *like it*.

You know if you don't like vaginas, you could always try switching to dudes.

I have a live grenade with the pin pulled, an open barrel of deadly acid, and an angry kitten. You can choose which one I throw at you, and I will oblige, or you can leave the decision up to the population at large. If you select something not in my list, I'll ignore your choice and let the population select something for you. In this scenario, would you also "not vote at all"? Voting for the lesser of evils is always more reasonable than not voting at all, or voting for someone/something that has no chance of winning.

My point wasn't that I wouldn't vote. My point was that that shouldn't be the only reason why I'm voting for him. I want to know, for sure, what I am voting for, even if he is the only "correct" vote.

I don't know if you realize this, but our genetic make-up is pretty much the same as it was 10.000 years ago.

Then how is your distinction between someone doing it for sport vs. eating it valid? I don't know if you know this, but a lot has changed socially in the last 10,000 years.

You know what, I'm don't really know exactly what the point cap is, and I don't know soccer or little-league bureaucracy well enough to guess. I just know this little girl's parents. Anyhow, whatever the cap is, it *is* at an absurd amount of points, but still.

Actually that I believe that rule exists at all level, even the English Premier League. If a game is one sided enough the ref can call the game to prevent it becoming even more farcical. 20-0 scorelines please no one but those who like trivia

fuck that, porn stars bring in their STD test before a shoot. If you and your sexual partners are all tested regularly and honest, STDs are no longer a problem and condoms aren't necessary. I don't watch gay porn, but I heard that bareback gay porn is actually taboo though.

Even though I agree that the feeling is totally different, and in theory you can be safe even when not protected, the quantity of porn made with no condom use is probably reducing condom use to some extent, and influencing people's habits more than they'd like.

I knew this would fucking happen. I just bought that exact box set at BB 2 weeks ago. Naturally I paid full price.

if they don't honor their own price matching, which you should actually get an extra 10% off because of, buy it again on sale, and return it with your full price receipt. booya

Huh. Who knew that telling a bad story took so many words.

Seriously. I have no clue what this story was even about. Why is it in humor? Why was this written period?

I could go for some curved yellow fruit bread.

I prefer straight partitioned yellow fruit bread.

Die Hard. I love watching Bruce Willis kill bad guys.

Best Christmas movie ever!

Shallots, ubiquitous in fancy recipes and restaurant cooking, are underrated? I don't think so, Tim.

Holy crap, I completely forgot about "I don't think so, Tim"! I'm so gonna start using that regularly.

How old is this? How many times does it have to be resubmitted?

I remember seeing thins about....5 years ago the first time I saw it. I hate resubmitted things as much as the next guy but just as long as I don't see it again 4 (or 5,000,000) times in the next month its cool.

My old roommate (who happens to be Catholic, strangely enough) says much the same thing. He was a History major, and always said that the fall of the Roman Empire and the destruction to the library at Alexandria set us back hundreds of years and into the dark ages. Hell the Romans at least had plumbing of some sort, something foreign to medieval citizens whose sewage flowed in the streets..

*Remembering Hypatia* (the librarian at Alexandria) is a pretty interesting book on the subject if you can find it, but yes, the destruction of the Library in many ways marked the beginning of the Dark Ages and essentially put human progress on hold for the next thousand years (not necessarily the destruction of the library itself, but the sort of religious totalitarianism that was being ushered in). When you consider what survived from that time period as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, it is heartbreaking to think about what we may have lost and how much of that lost knowledge we spent the next 1500 years trying to recover.

Bonus: even if you don't care about climate change a lighter roof will save you money on air conditioning by reflecting heat rather than absorbing it!

Right which makes sense if you live near the equator. What makes more sense for this is large, deciduous shade trees on the south side of a house. In the summer the leaves cast a shadow over the house. In the winter, the leaves are gone and what sun there is helps warm the house. Plus, trees!

I thought the Colbert was pegged to a bar of comedy gold?

Ooh la la!

Also, they don't have White Castle down south, my friend's friend came over from texas and i took him to the one that's like a block away from my house, bought him some jalapeño cheeseburgers, i think i saw tears in his eyes. He got out of the car and took a picture of wc and asked us to take a photo of him standing in front of it

Wish we could get some Five Guys and In-N-Out on the east coast.

***Big Trouble in Little China***

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yes sir, the check is in the mail."

The microbes translate into a language you know, so you actually have to learn a language, and then every language you hear will sound like that. At least that's what I'm telling myself. STOP POINTING OUT PLOT HOLES IN ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS!!!

Hey, at least Farscape addressed the language issue... quite unlike Stargate that never did any such thing!

What's this? The ads for The Escapist's other, much crappier programs at the end are gone?

It was probably an oversight. They'll be back next week, making up for this weeks loss too.

dude it's 3d. 3D cake. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Eaten a lot of 2D cakes lately? :)

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there you go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9-KkUH8yt8

A lot of them are just things I haven't finished reading, or that link to more potentially interesting things. I find it difficult to browse the internet linearly, it's a lot easier to just keep branching off. Unfortunately that can lead to a sort of exponential explosion. I spend a *lot* of time reading.

I end up doing something similar. At the end of the day I have about 20-25 tabs which may go to 50-60 in a few days. Reddit is increasing serving as the gateway to the web in addition to google reader and some upload sites. I try to reduce unread stuff by bookmarking into google notebook or del.icio.us marked as toread. I download a lot of books at the same time, and yes Im on IRC with a vPowerGet to which I keep adding new lists to be downloaded. I got a 750 Gb HDD a month back which I plan to use to store mostly books + a few vids and some music. I serve if possible on IRC.

This will be fixed.

It has been fixed! Thanks!

Spielberg blew the ending with AI. Kubrick had it fine, and Spielberg had to add just a little extra and it ruined the whole flick.

I could be misremembering, but didn't Spielberg say that the ending of A.I. was entirely Kubrick?

The reporter did not even touch how she was eating too much for most of the report. It was all "her weight ballooned" and "her weight doubled", as though it happened all by itself. Look, she it seven years old FFS. She only gets to eat what she is given, surely...?

Dude you need to get out and meet more seven year olds. That was like the age of 'i dare you to eat it'. When i was seven i recall eating sticks of butter like they were candy bars at midnight after my parents had gone to bed, mostly to just see if i could do it, but mostly because butter was the shiznit. I also recall my sister taking the bacon out of the freezer and hiding it under her bed until it thawed...then she would eat it raw, still says its the best tasting thing ever. I mean it wasn't like our parents weren't watching what we were eating, au contraire they were both marathon running excercise philes. They just consumed food at a rate where they assumed the other had eaten it. I do not deny i was a chubby child...they used to call me the michelin kid because i had rolls like the chubby white cartoon michelin guy. However, as an adult I am quite thin and healthy (low chol/tri included). HOWEVER, if you dared me to eat a stick of butter...i would probably do it.

what about when it's really, really funny

I admit there is a sort of utilitarian argument to be made, there.

It died :(

It went to a better place. :<

Yeah, you would be an idiot to straight up delete it. The best bet is to go through your profile and purge it first. Delete all the images, delete all linked images, put in completely false data into every entry point and then let it sit there for like a year so it repopulates into the backup database. Now considering its Facebook they probably have unlimited backup space but if you let it sit there maybe, just maybe, they will repopulate what you have over your old backup so now the live and backup version have completely false and garbage information. That delete function doesn't actually delete your account, it just deletes the address linking to it and hides the information but its still there. Thats why you have to purge the account.

Putting in false information goes against their [terms of use](http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/terms.php?ref=pf). Even neglecting to update your information goes against their terms of use. *In consideration of your use of the Site, you agree to ... maintain and promptly update the Registration Data, and any other information you provide to Company, to keep it accurate, current and complete.* Also, why I no longer post my own photography: *By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.*

What leads you to the assertion?

I'm more interested in where you came up with the assertion Warcraft RTS doesn't have "the Horde".

Really? Isn't it on 4od?

It is on 4OD, as is the Daily Show which used to annoy me in its non-availability.

Your writing has an Irish accent!

Scottish.

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

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

Looks like falcons parents are *put's on sunglasses* Jail birds after all. *YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!*

You can't YEAH yourself. That would be like giving yourself a hi-five, it's just sad and wrong.

It's too late, he's seen everything.

just in case some poor soul out there hasn't seen what you're reffering to; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IURfntimnlA

Whenever I tell people my political beliefs, I usually get a look suggesting it. I would venture to say that most people believe that Libertarians are either: A) Crazy B) Rebellious Young Folks Whatever happened to people believing in personal responsibility?

A lot of people are fair weather libertarians. They like the idea of libertarian philosophy but they don't really understand it. They firmly support libertarian ideas until it's about subsidizing something they think is a good idea or about enforcing some idealized version of morality.

EDIT: It's a story, 'Help' was probably a bad title, I edited a bit. I moved to Chicago from New Jersey with a foster father. I went to college for a bit, gave up, moved in with someone (girlfriend) who was very sweet but also very insane. I moved in with her, we broke up after quite a few years when things went south. I had a great job and I fucked it up due to alcoholism. I then met a new girl, who took me for what little I had left(afterward, sorry keep reading), *begged* me to pick her up in Ohio, her knowing my not-so-well-off predicament, because her boyfriend would beat the shit out of her, and I can't tolerate that. So I did and I took care of her just to have her revert to her old habits or mindset and want to be taken back to her old boyfriend. So nearly pennyless I drove her home just to get rid of her. I went through a fucked up childhood, beaten, transferred from relative to relative, accused of molesting my cousin by my psychotic aunt. Charged with a DUI when I was around 18 then charged with another when I was 22, which I wont dismiss as other's fault, but the first had some influence (yes, I think I'm alcoholic anyway). So now I'm pretty much a recluse, agoraphobic, with many legal issues (you get a second DUI, and they reject your license and you cannot work with a record let alone get to an interview by public transportation, it's a real downer), been suicidal with no motivation with all these court office bitches harassing you when you have no way of making ends meet let alone fulfilling all the requirements they shove at you. It's overwhelming. **Maybe 'Help' was the wrong title for this post.** How about *'Any suggestions from anyone that has been in a similar situation'*. Thanks

If you are stuck in your ways, then it's likely nothing we say here will make any difference. Best advice I can give? Change scenery. Go far away, to a different country, if possible, or at least a different culture. it is all about getting out of your comfort zone. Whether it is moving away, getting a bike, stopping the booze - ultimately it is the change that makes you grow. Stop being stagnant and move on. That's all the advice I can give.

Yes, the change timeline was such a convenient plot element for J.J.

Resets can be healthy for a stagnating series. It's worked out wonderfully for Batman and James Bond. Abrams just did this reset in a way that actually fits into the previous continuity rather than overriding it, which to me makes it better, not worse.

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Firstly, thank you for such a comprehensive overview of an IUD experience. the insertion sounds excruciating (I'm 22, never had children, and can barely deal with period pain, let alone the prospect of CERVICAL pain. it makes me VERY squeamish.) I normally have very heavy and painful periods, so that's another drawback of IUD's, which puts me off. How did you/have you found sex after insertion? are you prohibited in any way? is it painful? did you find there were certain things/positions you couldn't do?

I could make exactly the same argument about everything you write, I think somebody should chop off your hands so you can't write more nonsense which certainly doesn't do any good to society. Ah, how fun and easy it is to advocate censorship of things we dislike or disagree with! As long as we don't bother to think about the real consequences of such way of thinking...

But I don't understand how you could begin to support these monsters' rights. You're like some crooked lawyer defending anyone no matter how sick and depraved they are. It hurts society. Since you are not advocating it's censorship, do you agree with it then?

I'm an atheist myself, but I totally understand where they are coming from. All of the other options are either there from birth or childhood indoctrination. If you're an atheist, odds are you consciously left a religion at some point. That indicates a clear difference in thinking that can definitely be used to judge a person. I'd think "She able to overcome presuppositions through logic," but someone else might say "That guy an asshole who thinks he's smarter than me because he doesn't believe in god."

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I've been getting the emails from Africa for at least 6 or 7 yrs. 3 or 4 times a yr.

huh.

Worst. Date. Ever. Just imagine his world collapsing in around him... *Oh god did she just say that?* She did. *FUCK* Maybe no one heard her... *Oh god he heard it* Maybe she'll shut up now. *Shut up!* Oh god this is on tv, be cool bitch, be cool! *gaaah*

no it would have been worse if she wrapped that 375 pound curry soaked snatch around him after the show. **Joe Rogan's blog** has the worst date ever..and this ain't it!! http://blog.joerogan.net/archives/101

I remember reading somewhere before that it isn't real. Not to suggest that the church doesn't sometimes provide these services, but this particular example, a far as I am aware, is fictional. However I think that the GP's observation is in some ways a little disingenuous. Atheists by their nature don't tend to come together into organized groups as they have no religion telling them to do so. No group means no meeting place. No meeting place means no organized activities or help groups. Furthermore atheists tend not to contribute large sums of money to a central organization such as the church, which allows it to accumulate vast amounts of wealth and own a lot of property. If anything, a non-religious community center is even more admirable than a church organized one, simply because people came together through their own volition, rather than being told to do so by their religion. They raised the money together despite their independent means. And they organized group activities together despite not belonging to the same church.

I don't know, here in Sweden we have plenty of secular meeting places. The local sobrierity lodge and all the associations/clubs (sports, hunting, roleplaying, political parties and so forth), local trade unions etc all have their own meeting spaces. Usually the muncipality tries to encourage association/club life by having a few of these places to let temporarily for events etc.

Sorry, I don't believe that. It says "275 servings" with no mention of exactly how large a serving is and how many calories it contains. It doesn't say "275 meals", which is what you've used in your math. You have simply calculated based on 3 servings per day. Most people have 3 servings per meal, say mashed potatoes, an entree, bread or pasta, etc. A serving is not a meal, a serving of average stuff like pasta is about 150-200 calories. 3 servings (500-750 calories) won't get an adult through a day. The easy way to look at it is simply by weight. The bucket weighs 23 pounds, so if you stretched it 13 weeks you'd get less than a quarter pound of food PER DAY. Even given the fact that the food is dehydrated and addition of water will increase the mass, this is simply too little. The food would need to be 100% pure fat to even provide all the calorie needs per day, and obviously it's not pure fat, as you can see if you check the serving list. Not to mention you're not going to survive very long if your entire diet consists of drinking cooking oil.

I own it, and the average serving is ~150 calories (give or take 20) meaning you need somewhere around 10 a day min for survival if you are staying put. I figure it would last me as a 200lb male about 2weeks in an emergency. I also cracked one open to try (ala king) and trust me, this EMERGENCY ONLY! the stuff tastes like crap. So while it is good for it's intended use, it is not good for anything more, and you would probably need to supplement the nutrition as well.

I think you underestimate the fragility of the average male's ego.

I upvoted your comment.

That's great but I can't possibly get by without at least 512GB's ... :)

You use magnetic media for [low-priority] data, and SSD for OS + high-priority data, truth be told 128GB is probably enough for most people - yes, we all have multi-TB of disks, but how much of that is avi and other stuff where streaming isn't much of a speed issue ?

You'll probably be happier with your life if you stopped trying to control other people.

Yes, I'm so tyrannical for *wishing* it would happen. Wow

Shotgun on 1st and 2nd down. This is what Northwestern, WVU, etc. have done for a while. No one calls it a pro offense.

You do not watch enough OU football. With two 1000 yd. backs, we do not run shotgun on first and second.

It doesn't gain momentum by dropping off a cart, since that cart has to be stopped afterwards. Think about it, if a train is coasting on the tracks with the engine off, would releasing a car cause the rest of the train to go faster?

It doesn't gain momentum by dropping off a cart, since that cart has to be stopped afterwards. Think about it, if a train is coasting on the tracks with the engine off, would releasing a car cause the rest of the train to go faster?

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Sorry brother I'm keeping this one.

Where can I find hot mexicans that like gringos? Honestly - I live in LA, but all my circles run white and asian.

Stupid people are easier to sue than smart ones, that's why.

You can't be sued for **watching** a copyrighted video online. You can only be sued for **distributing** (or, in specious cases, 'contributing' to distribution) copyrighted content.

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Are you SUUURRREEEE? How about after some cake?

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Or a hat with a mustache!

Perpetual motion machine isn't impossible if you put some effort into maintaining it. For example, current will flow indefinitely in a superconductor (by definition) without any loss. This requires maintaining the conductor in a superconducting state. The only reason why such a subway wouldn't work would be air resistance.

The animation implies that the braking effect only happens after crossing the center when in actuality it will begin the moment you start falling underground. Before you even reach the center you will have the gravity of the thousands of miles of mass you just fell through trying to pull you in the opposite direction. It only becomes strong enough to stop you once you cross the center but it will most certainly slow you down before you get there. And who knows what time dilation effect there is at the center. As for perpetual motion machines. If you have to maintain it, it is not a perpetual motion machine.

Reeeaaaalllllllly?

I'm negating the premise of an incredibly unfunny post. Leave me alone.

Hairy. And terrifying.

does it look anything like a grown-ass man?

Portal was included with HL2:EP2 as part of training for EP3, which will include the device in gameplay. So all of you salivating over this just need to wait for EP3's release, which should be sometime in the next 7-13 years.

Um, Portal wasn't originally created and designed by Valve... Valve bought it. The references to the Half-Life universe were probably added in later on

Maybe you should read the comment again? He never said that both statements are true. He is actually implying that both statements are equally false.

Meh, it wasn't that I didn't read it, I just misinterpreted. I see what you mean, my bad.

That doesn't always work when water resources are scarce because then everyone uses the water and it is all gone.

Well, if you want to be *SERIOUS* then let's devise a solar-driven device that generates potable water from seawater and lets also devise uses for the residue.

"I'm not afraid of dying, because I honestly believe it will be like getting out of one car and getting into another." -John Lennon

At least 5 people are upvoting this quote which sounds like it supports reincarnation. Do you guys *actually* believe in what they quote is saying or do you just think it sounds cool?

Attention Citizens: It's now OK to break into other people's cars as long as you report anything "bad" to the proper authorities. Next month, we'll be covering turning in your neighbors for being unpatriotic. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!

Uhm, this is old hat. They cut a deal for his testimony. This is not new.

You may think the stuff that Ice T has done is bad, but I heard that Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Elton John didn't let the sun go down on him.

Why would anyone want to?

Because haggis is extremely tasty? Because some people aren't completely disconnected with the source of meat and believe in using offal?

The scary part is that there are idiots in positions of influence who probably will kill the world some day with some sort of pollution... but these jackasses will have cried wolf one too many times.

You realize that no actual scientist has cried wolf, right?

Yeah. Big, long, purple-veined dick jokes.

Yep, let's all parachute down to Dick Joke Island...sigh.

That's only if you can catch them before they do it. Pretty much impossible if the custom office isn't down the street from you.

Nope, refuse delivery, go to the UPS facility and request to handle customs yourself. Even if they've already done it they cannot refuse this request.

Well if we think that is good what do we think of http://www.ictsc.com/visibility.htm

n/m I see it's just javascript showing what site's I had visited, not the server receiving the list.

tragic but at the same time, I want a BILLION ZIMBABAWE DOLLARS!

http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZzimbabweQ20dollarsQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZR40QQ_mdoZ

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I can't post in drugs anymore.

Is reddit deleting them or is he deleting them? It seems like it's only those posts that are missing, his newer ones are still around. And based on the fact that he hasn't replied to any comments asking him to justify or retract his threats, I think he just deleted those to try to take the heat off of himself.

Protecting private property makes a police state?

at a certain point, past reason or justice, it certainly does. i'm not saying that specific prosecution was the final nail in america's tawdry coffin of crimes, but - yes.

Not everything on television is "noise," just as not all movies, or for that matter books, are brilliant. If you cannot control your television watching, it may be best to rid yourself of your television. If you cannot control your drinking, it may be best to rid yourself of your drinking. If you are in control and can moderate your intake of certain elements, there is absolutely no inherent harm in indulging.

Yup! $6.90 Huzzah!

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We'll let you in on another little secret, when we have to go through some registration thingy where they want your state and zip code, we always tell them we're from Beverly Hills because the only postal code we know is 90210.

I use 12345: Schenectady, NY