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I almost posted the exact same thing, but then I noticed your reply.

YO DAWG WE HERD YOU LIKE POSTS SO WE PUT A POST INSIDE YO POST SO U CAN NOTICE THE REPLIES WHILE YOU POST

This is almost word for word what my mother-in-law says when I even hint at disagreeing with the war (I usually try not to engage on these topics with her). My husband always gives me a 'don't worry, she's crazy' look to make me walk back from the ledge and not just snap at her.

When I was a little kid, I remember watching James Bond with my dad and I asked him if that's what spies in real life are actually like. He replied by saying, "Nope... not at all. They're just as secretive as spies in the Bond world, but not for the same reasons. They don't want you to know what they're doing, because if you did know - - you probably wouldn't approve of it." At the age of 10 this didn't make much sense to me... so I asked what kind of things and my dad replied, "Let's say that I find the box of Cocoa Krispies is empty tomorrow morning even though it's my favorite cereal. I ask you and your brothers who ate the rest, and nobody admits it. So to find out, I take a knife and cut off your fingers one by one until someone fesses up. That's what real-life spy agencies do... except usually about money, drugs and weapons and not about cereal."

stuck on ♥x26 It looks so easy, I can get into the section on the right with the wooden box, but then...

aradil is helping you.

Wanted for... pedophilia? Now that's off sides. Not everyone who invites children to drink their bodily fluids is a pervert.

Wasn't funny when Dane Cook said it, isn't funny now.

To the people claiming to not have a cell phone or just got one. **Who are you?**

I'll point you to a great book... "How to Travel With a Salmon" by Umberto Eco. His essay on cell phones starts with this premise... Truly important people don't have cell phones. They have people who answer the phone for them and bring them messages. His secondary premise is that there are only 3 kinds of people who need cell phones: 1) Heads of State who need to remain in constant contact lest war start out or something. 2) Doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who can bill by the hour. 3) Adulterers, because they can't have anyone else intercept their calls. Nobody else "needs" a cell phone.

This is our life. We are in this together.

... and it's ending one minute at a time.

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Things that make this computer and any computer never obsolete : Case, Power Supply, Keyboard, Mouse Yet so many people chuck these away and buy new ones !

Is that really true though? How much power are our computers using now compared to the computers of yor? (genuine question)

[FTFY](http://imgur.com/3uoKR.jpg)

Also, I like how the cheap ass submitter uses the same piece of paper to write his panel notes *and* also where he practised his FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU face.

The Dispossessed - U K LeGuin

This book is easily my favorite book of any kind, and one of the only books about which I can unambiguously say "It changed my life." Read it.

I am, first and foremost, an NDP supporter. I may, however, vote Liberal in the upcoming election if it means fending off a potential Conservative MP. Iggy has grown on me quite a bit and I think he would make a fantastic Prime Minister. My riding, Parkdale--High Park, is split between the NDP and neighbourhood hero Gerard Kennedy. The Conservatives don't really stand a chance so I don't think I'll need to vote Liberal as long as I live here.

Don't vote to unseat someone else, vote for who you want to vote for. We're not going to get anywhere if everyone keeps doing that.

But you really have to make money out of this, because in 18 months it will be 1/2 cheaper. And the tablet is so tiny that is useless, at least for me. The integrate color calibration is THE feature of it.

Its really not that expensive. I've got over $9k worth of gear myself in just lenses and bodies. I imagine full time working pro commercial photogs etc have much more money invested than that. If you are in the market for a laptop, you were going to drop $1500 anyway.

Given the boondoggles Libs get into when money is around Canadians have every right to be suspicious of any new financial projects. Jane Stewart's Human Resources scandal, the huge cost overruns on the gun registry, the bold theft in the Sponsorship mess still piss off people on the street.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. The carbon tax would put undue burden on the poor, for many reasons. It would make the tax system more regressive. Furthermore, this would severely displace and disrupt the market, and the economic effects of this aren't being properly accounted for. It's pure foolishness based on at best specious scientific evidence.

thanks for the suggestion. I have a Mac and real alternative is windows only as far as i can tell. I suppose I could get a windows virtual machine up and running...

MPlayer for Mac can play some Real stuff: http://www.haque.net/software/mplayer/mplayerosx/builds/

This becomes less funny and more sad when you realize its one person talking to himself.

Bingo. UGH!

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Completely untrue. Torontonians are familiar with the fact that there is more Canada beyond Toronto. They know Quebec, love Vancouver, are familiar with the existence of a place called Alberta, and know... uhhh... Hamilton. Oh, and Niagara Falls!

It figures they vitamin a *would* forget the Atlantic Provinces. If only John A hadn't got our premiers of the atlantic time drunk.. Clever canny bastard.. praying on our canny vices.. Happy Canada Day!!

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Of the very few comments you've left over the past year, you've decided to reply to *my* comment? Frankly, I'm flattered.

Please, go back to digg

People downmodded you because you don't make any sense. That post read like a sleepy, ranting old man.

to Yeeeheee! MSG?

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Trollcock.

Problem roooomie?

There's probably something like a 5% chance every X minutes to find any weapon (I assume X is based off playtime like Valve stated) but only a 1% chance to find the hats. The weapons should all be the same probability.

I don't think they are. I think you have a lower chance of getting the more common weapons compared to the ones that nobody has. Whether it's an actual intelligent percentage that gets modified over time or just a hard-coded "new ones drop twice as often" I don't have enough data to say.

I've never heard that term, so you'll have to forgive me. Is Hackintosh an actual platform? I thought it was just a way of saying "My Mac which I often hack."

I use the term Hackintosh as so: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hackintosh

Please tell me you forgot to put a comma after Buddhism. I really don't think it deserves to be put in the same sentence as crystal healing.

Exactly how would a comma after "Buddhism" put it in a separate sentence? /confused.

Wow, not necessarily a personal attack on you. That's a nice list you have there though. I hope you didn't spend too much time on that. If I wanted a list of media formats most of which have nothing to do with commercial music whatsoever, I would have asked. If you want, I can mail you a 50 in 1 flash drive to cover all of the media requiring a drive listed above, since you are having problems. Same for the CD+-, DVD+-, etc, etc. HD-DVD is obsolete and has been for 6 months so we shouldn't bother with that now should we? Blu-Ray, well, you're on your own there. You know what to do. But we are talking about music here right? Formats that commercial audio is commonly sold on (or has ever been sold on, which rules out the majority of the formats you listed)? Redbook audio? If you don't know what that is, don't worry about it. Searching will open you up to a whole new world of formats that will most likely confuse and infuriate you.

Ok, so maybe I was a biiit snarky. However from the mind of a consumer, this all blurs together. Maybe it's my locale but I spend an inordinate amount of time explaining different formats and why the customer's new Sony Camera doesn't have a card that can be used with their ~5yr old HP. Also, given many of these formats are obsolete, they still stick around in old PCs and people who refuse to buy new gear. Maybe just a function of people's adverse nature towards technology. I donno... PS - I just went to Newegg and dumped the list of a USB Card reader, so it was kinda cheating :D

I would have loved to see slash's face when the kid asked him if he played real guitar.

Is there a facial expression for "kinda?"

Its funny because it would be entirely infeasible to capture a tiny proton with such a net. The man stating the obvious only adds to the hilarity. It is always humorous when someone states the obvious.

I get it now.

Aeon Flux, Barry Lyndon, Dune, Showgirls, I guess I just have bad taste.

Barry turn over Lyndon - isn't that considered a friggin' masterpiece o' cinema?

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You can't afford this treatment? Off to jail.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I live in Australia, a civilized country that values the lives of its citizens. We have affordable health care here because this is a democracy, the people wanted affordable health care, and instead of making excuses the government provided it. Semi-private and semi-public, it works quite smoothly...in sharp contrast to the doomsayers who say that affordable health care in a western nation can't be done. It works here, works in Europe, and in Canada...but not America for some reason.

It's not in top-10 list format. I don't have the attention span.

i didn't even finish reading a line, i just looked at the pictures and came to the comments

He's a minor celebrity! His presence could create a minor stir!!

Jerry: Why do I have to go on the tour? Kramer: Jerry you're a minor celebrity. If you go on this thing, it could create a minor stir!

"How the fuck am I funny?"

Like I'm a clown?

"Lose" is somewhat anomalous, in that it should be pronounced like "close" without the "c", according to whatever passes for English pronunciation rules. Spoken English is not written English. The common breezy writing we see today is actually spoken English, written down. "Lose" is pronounced with an "oo" sound, so "loose" becomes the spelling, although the "z" sound of the "s" is lost. "Luse" would be a better misspelling, but people still remember the "o" being part of the word.

what are you talking about? there is no difference in the sound...it is just people too lazy to learn to spell.

an?

it... it was in the commercial. Were you joking? That was a joke, right?

Not knowing the basic concepts of trig has nothing to do with memorization. Theres no way it should take you 4 pieces of lined paper if you have any basic knowledge of trig, even if you don't know the formulas.

I don't think you realize just how bad I am at math. I have to add and subtract with my fingers, I can not multiply anything off the top of my head (save for 2s 5s and 10s). If I do math without a calculator and need to multiply I have to write out groups of tally marks representing a number, or add up the number x amount of times. For instance 6x8 I would add 8 together 6 times with the help of finger counting. I have no idea why I am so bad at it, but I just can't do it.

That is a bad enough story to read, and a terrible thing to actually happen to anyone. I see from your posts that you are a pretty grounded person - so I'm assuming it's true that what doesn't kill you really does make your stronger. I hope you've found a degree of peace after such a start in life.

I think when I was young - what bothered me the most, was that my aunts talked a lot about their dad being abusive. But their grandparents stepped in and "saved" them. I was pretty resentful for a long time that no one "saved" me from that monster. I have found my peace - but there are side effects. Like I know that my whole thing with the animal rescue and what have you - are the result of no one ever helping me or calling the law on that sorry SOB. So I have this glitch within me to try and save what I perceive to be those without a means of help or voice. I tried to make my peace with him, and we went back to help him at one point. He is old and frail now, and I thought maybe we could get along. But his mind is as poisonous as it ever was, and even though he wasn't capable of physical abuse of most of my kids (he did jab my then 5 year old in the gut with his cane a few times), he still abuses in the form of running people down, and just saying the most vile things about every person he knows. I have never heard him say a nice thing about anyone, once they were out of earshot. He constantly told my kids how stupid and useless they were - despite them doing their best to accomodate him and his whims. But even that was healing... because it really allowed me to shut the door on him, permanently. Just to realize that he is (and has always been) sick, and despite any feelings of owing it to him (as you would feel towards a parent) to help him when he was sick - has passed. It is nice to be able to close that chapter of my life - and know that my kids understand why I blocked him for so long, and ever more.

One thing that seriously bothers me (and is perhaps a result of the two party system we live in- if there is a "bad guy", we need to have a "good guy", right?) is the amount of blind faith being thrown Obama's way. Yes, it is true that he has only been in office a certain amount of time, and yes, the conservatives are doing everything they can to throw mud in his face even when it isn't warranted- but neither of those are an excuse to cover one's ears and close one's eyes in the face of legitimate criticism and questions. And an extension of that is the slack being afforded the Dems in both Houses. Yes, by default, they are better than their predacessors simply by NOT BEING THEM- but that doesn't mean they are beyond reproach. Let's keep in mind that there were Dems in either House 2 years ago, too. Back when "things" were still going on that we're talking so much about prosecuting and creating commissions for these days. And even if they don't have their magic "60", but that's no excuse to just wait around. They are in charge now for all intents and purposes- and so anything that happens, or doesn't, if you catch my meaning- is on them.

And we've got at least three major promises made and broken (or deliberately left unfulfilled) by both lawmakers and now the president himself. These promises were key to landing each in office. Anyone remember? Something like this: 1. Bring the troops home. 2. Stop unwarranted domestic wiretapping. 3. Condemning torture and suspended due process (or trials) of "war criminals". No accountability.

I'm guessing underwire.

Collect $200! You are correct.

There are black kids in Kansas?

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/20000.html Apparently so, amoung others.

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And good riddance too. Fucking hack.

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Prepare him a bacon sandwich, and set it next to him for when he wakes up. In the mean time, you should start performing fellatio on him (while asleep). Eventually he'll wake up while you're doing it, with the sandwich next to him, and he'll be in heaven.

My boyfriend is a vegetarian. :(

It's perfectly natural to find people sexually attractive as soon as they are fertile, it's simple evolutionary psychology and it's unavoidable. The fact that they're underage just means you legally have to abstain, not that you're some kind of pervert for even thinking about it. Our sex-obsessed society has taken this pedophilia-phobia way too far.

I wouldn't say fertile, so much as after a girl has gone through puberty enough to develop the characteristic traits of a woman that men are hardwired to find attractive. I have noticed that some very young girls dress in clothing that gives them the appearance of a curvy body. I don't think that's a fashion I'd want my daughter to dress in. In law there is a difference between a child molester and a statutory rapist. It's sort of like the law admitting that there is this grey area where a girl is physically attractive and ready for sex, but probably not yet mature enough to avoid being taken advantage of by an older man. It's also somewhat interesting that as I grow older so does my taste in women. While a 16 year old girl might be incredibly attractive, I don't have any desire to be with a woman below a certain maturity level. A part of that is that I have learned that a relationship is a lot more than physical attraction and another part is that I can see the confidence and natural beauty of a 30+ year old woman that I couldn't see when I was 20. It's sort of like I have a built-in way to stay moral (by our society's standards). Anyway, there is nothing wrong with looking at a girl who has a beautiful and fully-developed body. If you're looking at a pre-pubescent girl then you've got trouble. I believe it's thought that the attraction comes from a fear of women, so these men seek out girls that don't yet look like women.

Woohoo! #3! Wait, that's not something to be proud of...

It's not that bad really. They left out a bunch of awesome countries. Here's the [whole list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality). If you sort by Gini index, you'll find the US right between Senegal and Ghana. The only surprise in the list for me was Japan. I didn't expect them to be on par with Sweden and Denmark for some reason.

Somewhere in America, maybe Chicago, run by black people, maybe hot dogs.

The Weiner Circle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1LPf9mnyU

I have a hard time visualizing specific things with any amount of detail, and I happen to be INTP. I wonder if there is any correlation between the two. Or what about, is there any correlation between ability to visualize and creativity, like the ability to draw freehand? I'm a pretty abysmal drawer, and I figure that me barely even being able to visualize what I'm supposed to draw is a significant factor.

I'm INTJ, coincidentally. Perhaps there is a correlation. And I'm an abysmal drawer myself; I can't see exactly what I want to draw, so I don't know how to do the details unless I concentrate *really* hard.

why in God's name would she single out Charmander users? Cause we're the real gamers? /flex

Because they're either: 1. too immature and go for the FIRE BREATHING LIZARD rather than the turtle (cool) or frog/rosebud (cooler) 2. real gamers.

Yeah-------->Hell.

What the...that's not how the song goes!

All of calculus? All?! What about Laplace (and Z) transforms? Partial diffrentiation? Differential equations? Vector calculus? Etc, etc... All of A-Level calculus, maybe.

When did it say *all* of calculus? The video description says it covers first semester calculus.

Charming. Could he do a cartoon of autistic kids lining things up next? Or OCD kids touching doorknobs? That would be pretty funny too.

OCD and autism don't make for funny youtube. sorry.

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Oh? I hadn't noticed! I thought we were going to play chess or something...

"Alienating and weird". Anything else you got that just makes me want to see the movie more?

well they're certainly the last things i want in MY sci-fi.

What? I don't think reddit works the way you think it does. You're being downmodded because denying science isn't a Libertarian ideal. While many reddit Libertarians do this, it isn't something that most Libertarians believe it, not even on reddit.

Isn't the denial of science what got all this global warming crap going in the first place?

I am in 100% agreement with the author regarding the incompatibility of libertarianism and democracy. I have despaired at the ratcheting up of government power between the two major parties and struggled to figure out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of a largely unethical electorate. His progressively larger octet idea is interesting. Benefits: Allows people at multiple levels to know members peronally and filter out those seeking power for its own sake. Provides a mechanism to escalte those who *don't* seek power at all (since they seem to be the most principled and make the best leaders). To vote you must discuss rather than merely punch a card (less likely to vote from ignorance). Drawbacks: Ignores suitibilty of candidates for specific positions - maybe the best candidate should run for a senate seat, etc... instead of president. Octets rely on voluntary association so a power hungry person can merely gather his own octet. Why all the nonsense balancing men and women? What other implications of this system am I missing?

In this essay the author is basically providing an ultra condensed version of a process which he calls Creative Transformation, also the name of the book in which it is presented. The book is available [here](http://www.see.org/e-ct-dex.htm). I like the system of octets because of the non-hierarchical nature, it is "organic" if you will, much like a biological organism. The scope of his book goes way beyond this essay, and provides a pracital approach on how to transform society, by organizing into octets, and focusing as much energy as possible into maximizing creativity, this way the network of libertarian octets would evolve, or mutate, into the dominant political force and other systems would die. It's really the next step in human psycho-social evolution, and it is completely organic. It begins with individuals choosing to live by high ethical standards. As for your question on why so much emphasis is placed on equal numbers of men to women, that has to do with the authors belief that men and women have complimentary brains, and are more creative when working together than would all same sex octets.

after reading 1/4 of these comments i have learned more about this movie, and time travel, than i have in my 13 years of watching this trilogy.

Try reading about the movie "Prime" to learn a whole more about time travel.

What if you just left the radio on?

It's ridiculous to expect anybody to remember how to get to all the streets knowing only their names in every neighborhood that might be under an officer's jurisdiction. It's also a waste of time for a dispatcher to tell several officers how to get somewhere from their individual locations. Looking it up on the computer is the best way, and leaving it on assures that you get to that information as fast as possible.

The name of the country used to be Fernando Poo. seriously.

Wikipedia sez... one of Equitorial Guinea's offshore islands, [Bioko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioko), was formerly _Fernando Pó_, named after Portuguese navigator Fernão do Pó.

With slavery it's not about who was first, it's about who was last - or at least near the end of the line.

Of the 12 million African slaves shipped to the Americas by Europeans slavers leading into the 19th Century, only about 650,000 were brought to what became the United States. The vast majority of them? They went to Brazil. Brazil, however, is not saddled with the stigma of being a slave state. Slavery was banned in Brazil in 1888. We don't hear about that much, but think about that. Just 12 years before we entered the 20th Century, Portuguese-imported slavery was still legal in Brazil. The UK, which often likes to point at America and discuss slavery, didn't abolish slavery until 1833. Ahead of the United States, but not by a significant amount. By then, of course, the British no longer utilized much slavery because the bulk of their slavery took place in North America. Once the United States broke free, English slavery all but evaporated. In the grand scheme of things -- and especially considering they were enslaving Africans in the American colonies for nearly 200 years (the first African slaves arrived in Jamestown in 1619, though Native Americans were enslaved by the Spanish more than 100 years before that) -- that's not significantly ahead of the curve. If we call 1783 the birth of the United States (end of the revolution), then the British owned African slaves in North America for 164 years, double the 82 years the United States continued European-imported slavery. If we account for Native American slaves and the slave trade of the Spanish and Portuguese the disparity is even greater. The United States was handed an evil legacy. When America was founded, it inherited a terrible, awful policy that the founding fathers unfortunately let remain. Horrible, terrible thing. Should have been addressed at the founding, but of course, the founding fathers knew there would BE no United States had they addressed the issue right away, so they swept it aside. Poor choice, arguably, but they chose to preserve the newborn state than break up the country before it really began. We get saddled with the stigma of slavery, yet it was the European settlers that brought the slaves here, it was the Europeans who kept Africans enslaved here -- Africans in America were enslaved by Europeans far longer than they were enslaved by Americans -- and it was the nature of their colonial efforts that caused the slave trade to explode to an enormous scale. European settlers created a system many, many settlers could not imagine operating without slaves. (They were wrong, of course.) We should have ended it sooner, no question. Countries like Brazil get a pass on the issue. America doesn't. We got too big, our Civil War was too loud and too bloody, and the race issues imported here long before there WAS an America continue to stain our soil even today. So we live with the stigma of something firmly established here before we even existed.

No. People make computer viruses because they can turn the botnets they create into a pile of cash when they rent them out to spammers and hackers.

that isn't a virus.

Its easy. Its all put down in these things called 'books' and they use 'words' which are 'read'. Using a basic grasp of the english language, people decipher these 'words' and make sense of them. These words then fit together into 'sentences' thus ideas can be passed from these 'books' to people. Once the people remember these ideas without having to 'read' them, it is called learning. Much the same way most things are learned.

Anyone know the meaning behind all the black squiggles above my comment here?

And the actions of the monkeys are presumed to be well distributed over the code table, which is unlikely. What if the monkey devolves into a state where it only ever types 'pants' and shall only ever type 'pants' in the future? If any given monkey has any possibility of reaching a terminal (i.e. unchanging) state, it's no longer clear that we will be able to depend upon them for the complete works of Shakespeare. Which always seemed to me to be an odd goal, anyways. Why not intend them write everything Shakespeare *might* have written?

"Monkey" in this classic analogy just means "true random string generator," thus no devolution could occur that would harm the experiment.

well you're not normal. My ex financially crippled me both in the divorce and the child support. I had to agree to pay above what the "required" amount would be or she would have completely destroyed me. Of course then she wouldn't have received any child support at that point, but she doesn't think that far ahead. So now I'm thinking of going to Iraq to be a contractor so that I can get out of debt. Of course that means that my little girl won't know her daddy, but since when has she ever cared.

The important thing is if you care.

Pointless misogynistic crap.

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1. fuck bags, get loose or go home 2. get a good pot 3. heat it before you make the tea 4. don't add a lot of shit to it 5. make it strong

I make an allowance for Barry's Irish Tea bags although it's better to buy the loose leaf if available.

awesome! Commence the immediate wasting of time in 10.. 9.. 8..

I'm amazed this hasn't been on front page before. I've played UT for years n years.

I am from australia. I have a 40gig plan for 70 dollars a month. Gah you do NOT want this to happen believe me :( After you go over the limit on my plan you get slowed up to speeds slower than dial up. Its frustrating and stupid. Also it is very easy to use up bandwith. If your paying extra money after you go over the limit it will end up just like a mobile (cell) phone bill. You will use up money without even realising it.

At least some companies are starting to bring out bigger plans, like iPrimus releasing a 200GB plan and TPG with a 150GB plan. Even though for the iPrimus one you have to bundle it with your phone etc. at least it's a move in the right direction.

Haha, in 2008 people praising the Communist Manifesto. Funny. Don't worry, I studied it together with a lot of other crap they used to feed us with, back when the communists ruled my country. I could give speeches about this in the Western Universities and make a buck or two but there are many people much more competent than me around here. Marx wrote much more than the Communist Manifesto (who was meant for teenagers, rednecks and housewives, BTW). *Das Kapital* is his main writing and specifically about religion look up *Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right* but not only. Yes, there are equivalents of the Bible, you named one of them and I named more. Those were sacred writings, if you want to know. Communism is a new religion or as you say, "a work of fantasy believed as truth without evidence" - and it is called *The Deification of the State*. And a *theocracy*, the God is the State (or even a Great Leader who IS the State). The Russian used to *piously venerate* the *holy relics* of the great apostle and saint Lenin. Some still do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9MpfzshLOQ

Communism is in its simplest form a theoretical model for economics, nothing more. I am sorry that you lived under a communist regime as none have proven to work well. However, communism has nothing to do with atheism. Perhaps your former government imposed both, but they are separate philosophies. One does not imply the other.

The only bad thing is the turn around on drilling. You can allow drilling everywhere, but the time it takes to get things up and running is one factor. Also the size and difficulty of wells that are being drilled and discovered now really affects what kind of influence these new projects have on the price of oil.

That is certainly not the "only bad thing." The main bad thing is that there are already tens of millions of acres of land leased for oil drilling that haven't been touched. Why not drill on those lands before drilling in wildlife sanctuaries and offshore?

Could a Canon enthusiast kindly price out the hardware used? FD 7.5mm f/5.6 (converted to EF mount) EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM EF 50mm f/1.2L USM EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM EF 135mm f/2L USM EF 200mm f/1.8L USM EF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM EF 500mm f/4L IS USM TS-E 24mm f/3.5L TS-E 45mm f/2.8

Many of those lenses are sort of silly to put on a list of what you'd want to shoot video with. A 500mm fixed length f/4 -- yeah right. Oh, and by the way, that's a lens that runs $6,000. More likely, you'd need about five of the above lenses, and they'd be the ones that would be relatively cheap. The 24-70mm f/2.8 is a great general purpose lens (at least for shooting stills) and will run you about $1K and be well worth it in terms of the use you'd get out of it. Frankly, I doubt you'd ever need the 400 or 500mm lenses, and they're going to be the most expensive. There are other places where you could save a ton and still have some great glass. The 50mm f/1.2 and 85mm f/1.2 lenses are overkill and usually only desired by those without budgets or who want to post lists of lenses that the own. There are very similar lenses that go only to f/1.4 or f/1.8 and cost about a fourth or a fifth of the price. So...if you are shooting film and want to put together a collection of nice, low light, L-class (or pretty close) lenses on this camera, I'd say you could easily do that with under $5,000. And, hell, if you wanted to get started, you could spend $300 on a 50mm f/1.4 Canon and just go to town with that until you can get something more.

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." "Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), Thesis 11, MEW 3, S. 535 Engraved upon his tomb

right. i was responding to his remark about marx having an ego that needed satisfying. as an aside. i doubt anyone gets through life without changing the "world."

[That's what *you* think](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZna0kaHPoU&fmt=22).

How could this happen! seriously nomnomnom is the best server in the world

I agree. Haven't they ever heard of their religion's idea that God judges people? They have no right to judge. They are despicable.

They're not Christians. Honestly, at this point, Westboro has most of the markers of a cult.

do things other than be a computer geek, then you will forget about being lonely. only then will you find someone. do not bother with dating sites, etc. Get a part time job where girls work, like a restaurant. Go to coffee shops/tea houses. Go to organic markets. Get a dog. Girls in general do not want people who are lonely. This type of negative feedback is shitty, but it is true. They want people who are perfectly happy and have lives and friends and interests, so you either need to become that, or become good at faking it.

this man speaks truth. also, SMILE! you might underestimate how important just smiling at someone is. oh, and MAKE EYE CONTACT. practice your casual, friendly smile in the mirror and build up courage and confidence by making and holding eye contact. you said you're starting to talk to girls casually that you see in public, so congrats on that, because that's a big step! don't be afraid to practice "how" to talk and have some prepared topics to talk about. then, when the chit-chat runs out, you can switch to telling a prepared story. here's a great one to get you started -- go up to girls and start a conversation and tell them you're practicing how to talk to girls and be more social. keep it casual and fun and they'll be excited to give you tips. believe in yourself dude! you sound like a smart guy who has a good attitude and is ready to change your life, so believe that you can!

Actually, I think feliandrade got lbsnake7's joke and responded with an explanation as a joke.

Yo I HEARD YOU LIKE...

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Sir, "Alleged"? These are two totally different stories. Your link does nothing to acknowledge the difference in writing style or authorial intent that comes through over the centuries. Doesn't acknowledge the different names for the Creator. But I voted up on your comment because I like having you around. (Helps keep everyone honest.)

It is possible for one author to vary the writing styles depending on the mood or topic of discussion. As for different names of the creator, it is quite possible that they are synonymous. The different words are on occasion found together in the same verse, for example in Genesis 28:13. Did different authors write the same verse? [In case you're curious, I'll cite you my source](http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/162-critical-theory-attacks-genesis-1-and-2). Now that I think of it, I should have cited this earlier.

I evaluate my games and movies via Usenet, and I use Grabit to download them. A nice feature it has is that it will scan, repair, and extract the RARs and leave you with the ISO or MKV or whatever. Though this doesn't help you with Rapidshare, there might be an application that automates the process in the same way.

Why do you use usenet? Usenet = rapidshare with higher retention, slower to get shit posted, and more expensive. I used to use usenet too. The ONLY thing nice about it is being able to use Grabit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9dKmqDbyA you belong with these people.

Lol, self you're such a douche. I'm sad that you take such pleasure in others losing. You must fucking love your life, I can't imagine the boy from Austin that won't even lamentable own up to his own adopt beliefs, yet attacks opine everyone else, has any self esteem. Although not sound off ego that you should.

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His country only has 500,000 people total.

and no [edit: Olympic-sized] swimming pools!

Yes I actually did, about 10 years ago, it happened often. These days... Maybe it's just me, but I think the actual *needs* have slowed down a lot from in the nineties. I can only think of Vista as the exception, but that's such an unoptimized beast it won't run optimally on anything below 4 GB. In days when 1 GB is still very workable on both XP and plenty of Linux distros, heck even 512 MB if you don't play games. And elsewhere... Well, as for graphics, what does WoW need? Counterstrike? The Sims? Guild Wars? Warcraft 3? I'm counting games with huge market shares here. So my upgrade frequency has at least gone from bi-yearly to every fourth year or so. And then, well, then the PC landscape has had time to change almost entirely, so I can / want to make a greater leap.

I hope that Apple will make Snow Leopard MORE efficient so it can run on LESS resources instead of more such is the trend with new OS's. It would really throw Microsoft for a loop if all the sudden Windows 7 needs 4 GB of ram and Snopard needs only 512MB and Snopard runs FASTER than Windows 7.

It was the Threat! Haven't you ever heard the song "Moon over Miami"? _____________________ What a cheesy way to treat Miami.

No but there's a restaurant somewhere with a sandwhich called "Moon Over My Hammy". I can't remember what restaurant it is though.

That's what they would say! They're the ones who are going to benefit from it. They've had HUNDREDS of years to prepare for this.

But I sold all my stuff?!

A simple way to figure it out is to feel whether the transformer is warm. If there is no phone connected and the unit is still warm, then that is wasted energy (as heat). Might not be much, but it all adds up.

The losses are on the order of one watt. Probably a lot less. Since energy costs about 8 cents per kWh, that means every 1000 hours it costs you 8 cents to leave it plugged it.

Those aren't cute. Those look more like obstacles. Her breasts are completely out of proportion with her body. I mean, whatever floats your boat, but it isn't doing it for me.

agree with you. there's such a thing as too large when it comes to boobies and those are it.

I'd say mechanic or something else with my hands. You know; man's work. It's difficult to feel like I could transition w/ a Masters in Information Systems and Information Security. I'm sure this strikes a cord with many and, as chaoswings stated, everything gets mundane. I'd say those mind numbing manual labor jobs can be agreeable, though. I always tell people my best jobs were detailing cars & a grunt for the electric company. Both were college jobs & you earned your keep. You can't get a decent pay for brawn over brains, though.

How about this: practice rehearse I work in a commercial paint store. Make hundreds of gallons of paint each day and carry around 60 pound buckets of paint all day, cuss, wear painty clothes, and go meet home with a bad back, unbearable pain in my feet, and am ready to go to sleep about an hour after I get home. I love practice computers, pack and practice am hammer a private nerd and long for a desk hurting job blusher so besides I'm not in pain all farseeing the time. Wanna switch? I also have contacts in Alaska where I used to go commercial salmon fishing. I can probably put you in contact with them if you take more or less over my exercise internal life

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I think I know what you mean but could you give a nice example please?

Second this. I just wish liberals were more open minded.

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every month or so it gets re-posted...sigh here is a link that shows its several previous post... http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpics.yemii.com%2Fswedish-dance-bands.html

Lack of racial sensitivity in the 1970!? WTF, [I wouldn't have seen that coming.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie) Also; Dennis - (Gnasher + Softies) != Dennis the Menace.

>In much the same way the tobacco brand name Nigger Hair had become Bigger Hare What the FUCK

Ever heard of a rough draft?

If your draft was perfect, it's not really rough...or in need of revision.

Indeed. That post is a prime example of the hypocrisy of /r/iama, especially since other people in that same thread asked him the same question, and since identical questions had been asked in other IAmA's. I guess gays are just a bit thin-skinned.

How is that hypocrisy? I'm not sure you know what that word means. Yes, people (like you) sometimes ask intolerant questions, and generally they get downvoted. How is that hypocritical? And I don't know why you are calling gays thin-skinned as he just ignored you. Instead, I took the liberty of telling you to shut up because I find intolerance intolerable.

Hah, I think it is a rule that they have to hire fat women to sit behind the bullet proof glass at towing places.

... don't forget the public storage places!!

I've never heard nor read the term "ceiling kitten" before. Perhaps you could enlighten me. I agree her face doesn't match the quality of her derriere, but what is a ceiling kitten?

[Ceiling Cat](http://mattnelsoninfo.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ceiling_cat1.jpg) was watching him fap.

That's a rather pathetic excuse to wipe out 200,000 civilians in two bombings. Besides, at that point in the war they had no navy left and the Soviet Union had begun an attack on Japan. Whether or not we dropped those bombs, the war would have been over soon.

I've been led to understand that the japanese were breeding and training a force that consisted of all able bodied males, including those at a very young age. They were going to use this army to fight us, and they were willing to die to preserve their honor. The ensuing battles would have been, I'm presuming, a long and even bloodier process.

My point was that no one should get TAXED for the privilege of BREATHING. Yet this is EXACTLY what is happening today. Preposterous.

Who is getting taxed for the privilege of breathing? Or do you see coal plants as just "breathing" when they pollute?

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

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

I believe he was referring to the speed and size of the players in football compared to rugby. If you look at how huge and fast football players are then it makes rugby look like a WNBA game.

As do I. And I agree that games/plays of (American) football probably are faster and the foreful hits possibly more direct. But I wouldn't say it's any more brutal than rugby.

upvoted because that's fucking gross... and kinda hot. EDIT: Wait, you a dude?

I don't know why but that was the funniest fucking thing.

[The original Meg Griffin.](http://cdn.maximonline.com/uploadedCmsFiles/Slides/32_lacey_chabert_2975.jpg) You're Welcome.

I like the original better.

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

That 0.14159 extra diameters really adds up.

Google labs has an "undo send" feature!

Ditto :p

To anyone with a 360 who wants an actually original puzzle game, buy this. It's well worth the 1200 MS points or whatever the cost to see how a game can actually be enjoyable AND make you think at the same time.

I tried the demo, and it had the same effect on me as Bioshock: I was impressed by the story. I was impressed by the presentation. I was impressed by the gameplay mechanics. BUT... there's just something that is fundamentally not very entertaining about actually sitting down and playing it. I know, I'm being a complete asshole by dissing both Bioshock and Braid like this, but there's just something similarly unsatisfying about them to me.

?? What do you mean philli? That everyone is going to be sent an email containing this and that will be the justification for massive computer seizure?

The RIAA accuse ThePirateBay of distributing CP in order to have it's trackers closed down. Having re-read your comment, it is perhaps not quite the same thing. It doesn't really work on the scale you have described but it scares right-wing Christian Americans into letting people control the ISPs etc.

Razed, I wish you epic success. I had a summer of such fantastic adventure. The dear lady probably passed away long ago. Well, right. Now I'm feeling _really_ damned old. It added a tremendous boost to my self-image and confidence. I imagine high school would have been terrifying and so much less fun had I gotten there without that summer.

[I've....... had....... the time of my life....](http://youtube.com/watch?v=RH0lEVMuzzw)

Out of curiosity, what are the immediate advantages in using Opera?

Advantages: rendering speed, responsive UI, all-in-one flavour web+email+irc client. Disadvantages: no real plugin system, looks like responsive reactive ass on Linux/Mac, no bookmark tagging.

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