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He could open up a clinic this summer, if he chose the NFL. All you need is some money, not a medical degree to do so. As an NFLer, he'd have the profile to raise even more money and employ more doctors and staff. So by not going into the draft, he's actual delaying his goal and allowing the Bahamas to worsen in the mean time.

I think the point is he wants to be there helping.. not just opening up.. thus medical degree. If you want your clinic to have recognition.. you'd have someone there that also has a masters from Oxford...

Unfortunately, reddit seems to be heading the same way. It's just a matter of time before this very thread degenerates into fucktarded internet meme regurgitation and an orgy of indiscriminate upvotes.

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Nice list. Does anyone else think it was kind of a bad year for movies? I think 08 or 07 were better overall.

i feel this way at the end of every year, that this was the worst year for movies. can't really tell if movies are progressively getting worse, or if i'm just becoming more of a grumpy old guy.

I never claimed it did. I did however claim that a lot of it ran on Cisco's IOS. Your attempt to bring windows into this discussion baffles me.

You're right, Cisco was the topic. And speaking of Cisco (and most other companies that manufacture networking products), why is it, do you think, that they choose to embed FOSS so often in their products? [http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gpl-violations-cisco-big-one](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gpl-violations-cisco-big-one) [http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3777891/Cisco+Romancing+Linux+Developers.htm](http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3777891/Cisco+Romancing+Linux+Developers.htm) It's interesting that Windows Server powers approximately *nothing* that I've ever purchased or worked with.

Awww a butterfly!

only if you don't look too closely.

Is this some kind of sick joke? Everybody knows you put the cereal in first, then milk. And no, I won't participate in your upvote/downvote poll.

I downvoted, but it had nothing to do with the poll.

i wasn't serious, but actually it's the belief that there is no god. it's the belief that fits best with the observations - taking everything into account we know, the existence of a god seems unlikely. but it's still a belief. agnosticism is nearer to 'lack of belief'

It's hard to argue any point about atheism because many definitions are used. Webster agrees with you, but I've seen it used as a lack of belief in any particular theistic path. Meaning "I don't believe in Christ, or in any other religion, but I believe in a higher power, and therefore I technically believe in 'god'". Other people say this approach is agnosticism. But agnosticism is, according to Webster, a view that supernatural elements are incomprehensible to people - both unknown and unknowable. So any decent debate has to first establish a common understanding.

We have representation in the fact that we have to power to vote out those who represent us and replace them with others. There is a process to do that. If the majority in your riding disagrees with you, sit down and STFU. Just because someone doesn't represent YOU in parliament doesn't mean parliament doesn't represent the majority will.

Bullshit. We have no representation. I don't think I've ever voted in a Canadian election where my only choices weren't a) the really bad guy or b) the not as bad guy. We have nobody in Canadian politics right now that isn't in politics for the money or the power. The people be damned.

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[QtWeb](http://www.qtweb.net/update.html). It doesn't leave any traces on the host and it can run from a USB stick or even a CD. Unfortunately it's Windows only. I'm using it right now, this alternate account is subscribed only to the NSFW portions of Reddit while my normal account doesn't have any porn anymore.

I wonder how many devout nutbags from so-called "legitimate" religions *(cough)* will read that with a smirk and/or outrage, and not see the irony?

I don't think this store would ask the same from a Muslim woman who has her head and face fully covered. It is sad that you can wear something because of your irrational religious belief, but you can't because you just feel like it.

He wasn't the first person to do one, but he did them better than anyone else at the time. Rodney Mullen invented the 360-Flip along with every other flip trick ever done. The clip you posted is from Video Days one of my favorite videos. Maybe because it was made by an unknown Spike Jonez.

Rodney Mullen is the shit, and he has the same birthday as me.

I was thinking EDAX: http://www.edax.com/ I personally have always hated lead-free requirements when it comes to microelectronics. I mean, the quantities of lead we're talking about are insignificant . . . and they're generally encased in epoxy/ceramic. Then again if people feel very strongly about it (for whatever reason) serious research in alternative alloys will not really take place until lead is no longer an option, because as it stands, lead is really great.

My bad, I was thinking of the FEI in general. Lead is vitamin compared to what we put in lasers/solar cells/ photo resists... For that, acetone will kill you faster than lead.

All shit aside, Shatner is absolutely mesmerizing.

Love Zing! Portland?

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Exactly, and look at how well that has helped CLE. Oh wait, nevermind.

They were like one run away from a World Series in 2007, and that was without Brandon Phillips, who never really progressed until he got to Cincinnati, and that was far better than anything they did with Bartolo Colon as their ace. Toronto would kill to be in that position, or in the playoffs period. Basically, if you are team that doesn't reside in NY, LA, Chicago, St. Louis, or Phili, the best you can do it load up on young talent and hope all the pieces come together one year, and then say goodbye to them in 3 years when their contracts are up. And this is among the reasons I don't watch baseball anymore.

Notice I said go to another distro, if one doesn't meet your expectations. The original article is about Linux, while your problem is about a particular distro. No need to blame linux b/c of something Ubuntu did or didn't do.

You can certainly blame Linux for having three separate sound APIs that work "inconsistently" at best and "not at all" at worst. OSS was deprecated because Linus and company weren't a big fan of 4Front Technologies selling a commercial version of it. I can understand that. The latest version of OSS is now free software under the GPL. OSS is still the default sound layer on almost all of the BSDs and virtually all UNIX variants. In an operating system that focuses on interoperability, you'd think they would be jumping to go back to this instead of resorting to the horrible hack that is ALSA-OSS emulation. ALSA was added to replace OSS in the kernel. When it works, it tends to work spectacularly. When it doesn't work, however, it fails in new, interesting, and catastrophic ways. Even when it works, it's API can, at best, be described as "inconsistent" and at worst be described as "in various states of incompleteness depending on the underlying driver". It's an open secret that ALSA isn't exactly the easiest, most compatible, or most functional API for sound in Linux. So what does the sound community in Linux do? Introduce a layer of indirection that is PulseAudio. This will solve some problems in a way that isn't as much as a raw hack as dmix, but it won't make any hardware that currently doesn't work with ALSA work. These are all problems with Linux. You and I agree that it's the distribution's responsibility to straighten these things out. [Edit: Only you can stop the comma abuse!]

my favorite is http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Has_Lil_Wayne_shot_anyone&alreadyAsked=1&rtitle=Has_lil_wayne_shot_anybody

Y-M-E for young money entertainment.

Correct! Gold Babylon Silver Medo-Persia Copper Greece Iron The Roman empire and by extension Britain and America. Iron and Clay World Governments today including all the new ones created in the last 100 years. Knowing these things helps us to see how close to the end this system is!

Why would [a book written before the birth of Jesus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Daniel) (the NEW Covenant), refer to a time about 2600 year in the Future? What possible value would the book have had as a sci-fi novel? Why would the Jews add a book to the Torah that didn't speak directly to them? That interpretation is like finding the Vegan Cookbook tucked inside the Beef Lovers Encyclopedia--it would have been out of place and discarded as irrelevant. And, what value does the Book of Daniel hold for Modern Christians other than Historical Reference? How does a book dedicated to the Jews help teach the Message of Christ? Did the Scholars of the 15th century read Daniel and discuss what new countries would have to be created to fulfill this prophecy? Will Scholars 500 years from now decide that Britain and the US weren't the "Iron" after all? If you want to be a better Christian, pass over books from other religions and focus on the Books written about Christ for Christians.

Agreed that it's a great compression of his ideas, but the brevity of the thing really lacks duration for me. I have to go to his longer ones to get a nice satisfying romp through Heinlein-land.

Any recommendations? So little time this summer, so much to read!

1. Man surrenders citizenship and has passport invalidated 2. Man tries to use invalidated passport as a means of identification 3. Man is not allowed to use an invalid form of identification Therefore: All banks are evil tools of the state. Impeccable logic.

Where does he live if he surrender his citizenship? What country is he a citizen now?

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

haha ^^ this video is funny as hell.

Once upon a time when I was 22, I was at college party. There was chick that I seemed to have alot in common with (videogames, internet, politics, geekery!). As we were making out and heading out the door, her sister's friend stopped her (and by stop, I mean yanked her away - and gave me the most evilest look ever). I was told she was 16. She didn't look 16 to my beer googles and the fact it was at college party. (I scrammed out of that party ASAP.)

I guess you weren't in Canada.

That's the first PDF in ages that I don't regret waiting the long-ass load time for.

get foxit reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php extremely fast in comparison. Free too.

For losing weight try [HITT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_training). Building muscle helps a lot too, but without a gym it'd probably be fairly difficult. Remember that how you eat is probably more important than how you exercise.

I need to change my diet too. I currently eat out for every meal and know that's very bad me. What's a good diet? Lots of fruit and vegetables. No bread, pasta and sugar, right?

I hoped it would be (Jazz Jackrabbit)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_(game)] EDIT: trying brackets, then parentheses

[Brackets, then parenthesis](http://i35.tinypic.com/zw1c7b.png "and optionally a title"). \[Brackets, then parenthesis](http://i35.tinypic.com/zw1c7b.png "and optionally a title").

Greg Egan. Also, [Orson Scott Card is crap](http://ask.metafilter.com/132121/What-do-the-makers-like#1887320).

Yeah, Card is a homophobic asshole, and Ender's Game is [mostly Hilter apologia.](http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm) His only value is in getting a lot of people into the genre.

King of Queens, Home Improvement, According to Jim. I don't watch too many sitcoms so I'm sure there are more. EDIT: Oh, add Duckman, Flintstones, and SpongeBob SquarePants (if you count his squirrel friend.)

Hm, what about Malcom in the Middle? *Both* parents had some .. quirks.

To be fair, they're getting a tour of Harry Potter's movie set, not a cushy appointed position as ambassador to Narnia or something.

To be really fair, shouldn't he offer some poor disadvantage girls a chance to in be on the magic? I guess irony and the meaning of the books themselves are lost on Radcliffe. He just wants more powerful friends for when he is older.

This is a great starting point, as well as calling yourself an amateur rather than a n00b. WE'RE SERIOUS HERE (sometimes).

amateur doesn't suggest green/unripe in the same way though..

Yes, they are very different. High expectations: "That movie is going to be awesome!" Pessimist: "That movie is going to be crap." Low expectations, or actually, no expectations: "I'm going to see the movie." I'm not even saying "The movie might be good or bad", I'm just going to see it, with my mind blank, not making any judgements about its quality and just getting what I am given. Yes, it's very hard.

No expectations: "I might head out and grab a beer. I might even go see a movie." (father of four)

Dennis the Menace kind of encapsulates everything that is tacky and dumb about america: 1. the suburbs 2. I guess that's about it

Don't forget the fantasy of the hot babe married to the dork guy.

A transexual who has a sex change should not be referred to as their "new" gender. i.e. if a man feels like becoming a woman, and mutilates himself accordingly, he's still a man. He has a Y chromosome - he is a man; not a woman. And I find it staggering when people get offended by this. (I realise there are odd situations when a "woman" can have a Y chromosome, and a "man" can have two Xs. Those are birth defects - I'm referring to sex changes and personal image) * EDIT: I like how my unpopular opinion is being downvoted. Do I win?

Theres a grand difference betweeen the DNA. "Genetic Defect" is a polarity of interest :P Apparantly *someone* is interested in chicks with dicks. (I know I wouldn't mind taking a pounding from a chick once in a blue moon) <- just being bluntly honest ^_^

The morning after pills are abortion. Abortion is another word for terminating a pregnancy. The morning after pill is a more pleasant term for the pill RU46 which sole purpose is to terminate a pregnancy. I don't care about what other people oppose, just as I don't care about what other people choose to decide to do with their bodies. The time to prevent pregnancy is before it has taken place. I have only sons, but my sons all have seen the Life Magazine's images of life in the womb, they know exactly what abortion is, how a young woman becomes pregnant, their role in that pregnancy and the methods to prevent pregnancy. I did not have to tell them when life began, they saw the pictures and they knew. They also know if such circumstances should arise, they can come to me and I will raise their child. They know that I had cancer when I became pregnant with my first son and that I was told I should abort him because it was a cancer that could grow through the placenta to the baby and I refused to...and he is an amazing person.

The morning-after pill prevents implantation. It doesn't terminate a pregnancy. It stops one from beginning.

At least in the US they always give free water at restaurants and you don't have to ask for Leitungswasser and get looks of disgust.

Leitungswasser = Tap Water (for those few who are not sprechen sie Deutsch)

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Have you a webcomic of your own? Just asking.

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didn't mean to ruffle any feathers.

HEavys weapons are awesome, way better than the medics and pyros (Flaregun, I mean, come on!)

Hey, don't diss the flaregun. I like setting snipers on fire from a distance and igniting scouts when they run away from me. :)

What do you mean by "balance?" There are no specific rules in sci-fi that all films, books, and tv shows need to adhere too ... As for nuclear warheads, why not nuclear warheads? They're realistic. Nuclear power is one of the most universal and powerful technologies in the world. The fact that the creators didn't just pull some non-existent bs like electromagnetic pulse waves out their ass only makes the show better, not worse. New =/= improved. In fact, scientists have been playing around with the idea of launching space ships with nuclear power for several decades now, because of its longevity. As for the models -- it's clear to me you didn't watch the show. They were diverse in their appearance. Six and Eight were only two of the 12 models revealed throughout the series. You can look up the other 10 on your own. Hahaha, wow. If something like Stargate or FarScape is more "believable" to you than something like BSG that was based upon our own history and human behavior, then I seriously question what reality you exist in. BSG was one of THE MOST believable science fiction shows ever to exist because it spoke to the human spirit, and because its own science and technology was based upon true physics.

Stargate has its own internal believability, (farscape I have never seen) The technology was consistent with the characters. They fired typical earth weapons (those e90's?), they used alien technology at the level of the situation. They didn't use dial phones, or smoke cigarettes, yet they also didn't claim to be a totally different civilization as BSG did. Otherwise it wasn't that great a program, it had no overall plot direction, and all the aliens were humans in masks, and all the planets were Canadian forests. Sorry to upset a BSG fanboy, but it really wasn't that good at all, and that was reflected in its lack of impact and popularity.

I love airblasting pyros. I just shotgun them to death and save my rockets for hard foe.

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A YKK factory site in Macon, Ga., produces 7 million zippers a day, in a total of 1,500 styles in more than 427 standard colors. It's the largest zipper factory in the world.

If only they had explained to Bill Clinton that they zip up as well as down.

"Maybe he should wear a bonnet and go to church every sunday at noon so he falls right in line? Then he can grow up to cheat on his wife with a male hooker while smoking meth." You're right. That was sheer brilliance.

Thank you. If you can't see the simple point that acting like a kid wearing a T shirt with a cuss word on it will lead him to screw up his life is completely invalid due to the numerous people that have been perfect little churchgoing folk and turned out like that then I don't know what to tell you.

Stolen, scanned, and archived against the very explicit wishes of the author, for your convenience. Now you can literally take Bill Waterson's entire life's work in one shot, without paying him a cent. Amazing.

For those who own his comics in print, it's a very nice convenience.

I understand Nickleback production is on the rise. I think there may be plans in the works.

Maybe a Celine Nickleback duet? Surrender now!

Is it legal for a congressional candidate in one state to accept campaign donations from another state?

Of course it is. Why would we want it any other way?

Oh come on people!?!?! Independence Day (ID4) - a movie where the fate of the entire planet is saved ***because a freaking laptop computer is freaking plug-and-play compatible with a freaking alien starship***!!!!!

I like to think of it as all the current technology was developed from the first ship they found in the 60's... then the virus compatibility makes some sense.

John McCain obviously missed this one.

code? PRON? Old

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From my experience the central activity of Catholicism is celebrating the Eucharist. If you don't eat the bread and drink the wine that week then you die and go to hell. This is why this cram it down the throats of the dead or dying and why I have great conviction that their emphasis is put on more what you *do* than what you *believe*.

Okay, obviously everyone has had different experiences, but I'm a church-every-week Catholic girl, and you are sadly misinformed. The celebration of the Eucharist is meant to be exactly that--a celebration! I will be the first to admit that I do not know every bit of Church dogma word-for-word, and I don't always exactly agree with it anyway. But from what I have been taught throughout my life, every Sunday is a day of Holy Obligation, which means that it's a sin to skip Mass. Now, in the hierarchy of sins, it's not really one of the worst ones, and no one will ever say it means you will go to hell. You just repent before you die (or even after) and Jesus does that forgiveness thing. No Catholic I've ever met would "cram" the Holy Communion down anyone's throat, and your word choice seems rather purposefully offensive. I personally follow St. Francis of Assisi's advice--"Preach the Gospel at all times--if necessary, use words." Although I will admit that there are hypocrites in the Catholic faith, as there are in every faith, our beliefs are incredibly important. We're not little Catholic robots, in other words.

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Come over to my house! We'll have a marathon. All redditors are welcome. Bring popcorn.

I dont know. I grew up thinking the world was in it for the truth. Took a while to adjust to the fact that the world does NOT give a fuck what the truth is.

Sure it does! As long as truth = money.

I bet that hertz.

*yawn* Are we doing this again?

And I was mad at what they did to I, Robot!

I think they made it into an entertaining movie with a bit of intelligence instead of a really heavy science fiction movie with some intense scenes, which from a financial standpoint, is brilliant.

I have to agree with you whole-heartedly. Whenever somebody goes to read a book, they don't ask where they should start, do they? Of coarse, nobody reads books anymore, they just watch TV shows off the internet. Oh... I made myself sad.

Thanks for reminding me to put down the laptop and continue Heinlein's Friday where I left off last night. I'll see you guys tomorrow.

Oxymoron, much?

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Holy crap. I wonder if we'll ever be able to throw away all the layers (not just this input model, it's everywhere) and make *simple*[*] computer designs. For all the talk about the differing philosophies of Linux and Windows with respect to backwards compatibility, there's still a lot of (apparent) cruft. *as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Even though at first sight it may look like a "wtf", think carefully about why they exist in the first place, and it might actually make sense. First the kernel. It becomes immediately apparently that not all keyboards behave the same, so they need some kind of abstraction for the different keyboards. Hence, the first layer which translates the various scancodes to a portable (as far as Linux itself is concerned) keycode. Next, X.org. - It needs to be portable across multiple operating systems (Linux, *BSD, OS X, and even Windows), so it has its own input device abstraction. - It needs to work over the network, so it can't just read from the host system's input devices directly. HAL provides a cross-platform abstraction around the system's input device. But since HAL was created much later than X, X does not use HAL. Keymap/keysym stuff: I'm not entirely sure about this. But in X, it's possible to assign different keyboard keys or key combinations to different actions. For example, the "open web browser" key could be mapped to such an actual keyboard key (if your keyboard has one) or to a completely different key. This is actually part of the X layer, not sure whether it should be counted as a separate layer.

Strange version of organic you have there at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

I think compost counts as a fertilizer. So does blood meal, and fish emulsion, for example. As long as the sources for those fertilizers are also organic, what's the problem? I use beer as a pesticide. You can also use red pepper and ground horsetail as a pesticide. Coffee grounds, and eggshells, too.

I really like the trick at the end of what to do if you're not strong enough to lift it using those methods by yourself. Lie on the ground by the side of the road as if you're injured, so someone will pull over to help.

"Bring some fake blood capsules and break a couple between your teeth, then spread the excess around your ears, nose, and forehead. Stand along the side of the road and gently sway in the wind with a dazed look in your eyes, someone will stop to help." Or just play dead, then if someone stops to see if you're alright, you start screaming at them because they interrupted your nap.

Here they are: * Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. * Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity. * Unite humanity with a living new language. * Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason. * Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. * Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court. * Avoid petty laws and useless officials. * Balance personal rights with social duties. * Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite. * Be not a cancer on the Earth – leave room for nature – leave room for nature.

At first glance, I thought the first rule read "Maintain humidity"...

Julia Roberts.

This is one of the few movies I like her in, she's an ice cold bitch, she plays it well.

The way that I always understood it was that the 'agnostic' vs 'gnostic' adjective was an indication of *why* you are a non-theist. Meaning that an agnostic atheist doesn't believe because he doesn't know if there is a god (due to lack of evidence), whereas a gnostic atheist doesn't believe because he feels that he *does* know there is no god. Or to rephrase it more accurately in context, they are either agnostic or gnostic regarding whether theism is true, not about whether or not they believe it. Edit: One further point. There are agnostic and gnostic theists as well, but those terms don't mean that the person is unsure/sure about whether they *are* a theist.

That's certainly a fair point, but if we're going to analyze words on their prefixes and bases, taking adjectives and making them mean "why" instead of "what kind" (edit to conclude sentence fragment:) seems a bit off to me. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of other [adjectives](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective) which mean "why" instead of "what kind" but the vast majority of adjective use in English seems to me to be "what kind" and not "why" or "how it came to be". Of course, when there is this [other thing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism) which can be referred to by "gnostic" in the first place, it gets even more confusing. edit: and all this noise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_and_strong_atheism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_and_explicit_atheism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#Definitions_and_distinctions I don't get how using language definitions alone can make "weak atheism" and "strong atheism" mean such different things; ditto their older analogues, "negative atheism" and "positive atheism". Either constructed words can actually mean things in and of themselves, or they can't. If they can, then "atheist" can be defined however people want to define it, within some limits I suppose of its original composite parts. If they can't, then "weak atheism" or "positive atheism" (edit 2: or even "gnostic atheism") don't make sense being defined as they are.

What's up with your head?

his mouth is on the back of his head?

I didn't really get why they changed it to "we fear bees" in particular.

gaggity! TMI! .

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Bit of a spoiler, don't you think?

I think it's beyond the statute of limitation on spoilers.

Is it disgusting that I bought a new cell phone that had features that improved my productivity? It also happened to be the "latest gadget" at the time. Are you using the same computer you used 10 years ago?

Is your new cell phone necessary for your job? If so, then I would say that your purchase was probably warranted (although it's probably best not to get me started on the race for ever-increasing productivity). I can only hope that your employer has a cell phone recycling program in effect, that you were responsible about how the old cell phone was disposed of. You do realize, 'though, that there are plenty of people who use cell phones strictly for personal use and who are replacing their old phones strictly because they aren't leading edge. Witness the Motorola RAZR craze of a few years ago. And no, I'm not using the same computer I used 10 years ago. Until a few months ago, I *was* using the one I bought 5 years ago, which failed on me. So I stripped it for parts and sold those parts.

Yes. I also say "KART is not MOVING!" whenever I'm stuck in traffic. I want to start writing "YOU DID WELL!" with a little doodle of the heavy on papers I grade, but I don't know if they'd get it. EDIT: Alright, looks like doodles it is. I can't draw so tracing is the order of the day. I'm off to find some nice, traceable tf2 pictures. EDIT2: So, I can't trace either, it would seem. My new plan is to buy sticker paper from staples but that has to be out on hold until the end of the month, thanks car insurance!

Student is credit to team!

Where is the "moral example" in that explication? Doing whatever God ask from you isn't "moral".

It's actually the very definition of morality. If morality is some impersonal scale by which God's actions are to be evaluated, then whoever invented that scale is superior to God, and God is not God. Good is what conforms to God's character.

This is all explained in the 10th Anniversary Edition, actually, and the explanation is quite a bit simpler than any concrete interpretation which frankly doesn't hold up when you really consider the whole run of the strip.

Care to share?

there are no more "family farms." it's a myth.

You might want to visit the south some time.

Oh Mcsweeneys, [you never disappoint](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/7/24becker.html)

More gems: [Surgery is Easy](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/11/16molyneux.html) [As your manager...](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/8/28spiewak.html) [Musings Of Shuruju Umezawa: Junior Salesman, Ninja](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/7/24feezell.html) Many of these remind me of essays by David Sedaris, probably because of the writing style.

Well, when you are that hot, you don't really need to be smart, everything gets laid out in front of you. Then you turn 30, people stop giving a shit about you, and your life spirals down into pills and vodka and botox.

yeah, but then you get to marry john mccain, so it's alright.

Most non-profits are corrupt. Legally they can blow 80% of their charitable donations on non-charitable causes and still call themselves non-profit. The vast majority of non-profit organizations are fronts for people who live high on the hog while exploiting a charitable idea.

I object to your use of "most" and "vast majority."

Is that because you want the entire contents of the book in your brain immediately, and reading it takes too long? The times I pick up a book, I am more likely to probe the index, and when seeing some interesting item, checking out those pages. I can do a whole book that way-- but with no continuity.

I mostly read fiction, so I can't really skip ahead. Part of it is impatience. I just get bored if a book doesn't completely captivate me right away and it will take me weeks to finish most novels. But if I read several at a time, then I can switch over when I lose interest and come back later.

My personal suggestions, let me know if you like them. **Engineer** * Flame Turret with a limited range, but sets fire to targets. An upgrade adds an additional flamer to cover a wider area. Incendiary missles on the third upgrade that ignite enemies within the rockets splash area. * 2 Land Mines that replaces the Engineer's shotgun. The land mines are buried in the ground, but a small portion of them would stick out so they could be spotted. * An EMP Grenade that replaces the Engineer's pistol, causing nearby structures to go into a "sapped" state, draining health. A simple repair will return the turret to normal. This would add to the Engi's offensive usefulness. **Soldier** * A wired guided rocket launcher to replace the rocket launcher that moves similar to HL2's rocket launcher. These rockets would do slightly more damage, but can only be fired and guided one a time. * A Kevlar vest to replace the shotgun. The vest would reduce damage from any bullet type weapons, including sentry machine gun fire by 30% and reduce damage from melee type weapons by 10%. * Lucky Strikes to replace the shotgun. A Lucky Strike would take roughly the time it takes to eat the sandvich to smoke. It would temporarily increase the soldier's run speed to the base running speed of medic/pyro/sniper/etc and decrease his reload time by 25% for 20 seconds. It would also remove 10 health over the time it takes to smoke, Metal Gear Solid style.

You really didn't think that one through did you?

Social services are AWESOME... just not in the way we have it in the United States currently. Too many people who honestly need help can't get it because the parasites take it instead. This is what worries me about socialized healthcare. It's an awesome idea, since everybody will use the services of a doctor. (Or at least rationally should use those services.) I'm just really scared of what kind of system our government's going to force on us to achieve that socialized healthcare.

People like you are the reasons these programs remain "theories" and never even get the chance to 'try' and work something out.

Anyone else find the pictorial guide to 'Down low too slow' the most amusing part of the page?

She looks so sad she missed!

I am torn about this. I have often thought that this series needed a reboot, but I don't think I can trust Hollywood to do it right.

Outsource it to bollywood, instead of sword fights, you will have dance and singing sequences as two arch rivals square off again one and another.

Mediocre list, horrible interface. No Alien or Aliens? How about Close Encounters, or Metropolis? 300, what!? X-Men was a good movie, but was influential on Hollywood, not scifi. As for the "Not" list, well yeah, but it's easy to pick 100 movies that didn't influence anything.

They mention T2 and there is no mention of T1 which was a FAR better flick in so many ways.

What I realize about this is that if you put a linux boot onto a usb stick like this you have 128 GB of space which is a really good amount for an OS. It's weird thinking that in my freshman year in high school I was happy that I had a 512 mb usb drive.

I was happy with a formatted 5 1/2" floppy...

Seriously, those LucasArts games kicked ass, I wasted many days on Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle.

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These threads are so corny.

That is EGGSactely what I was thinking

Scent of a Woman was the kiss of death for Pacino- he hasn't actually acted in anything since. It's embarrassing to watch him now.

Are you kidding? Donnie Brasco? Hello? Brasco was made 5 years after scent, and is a perfect bookend to the Godfather. The glorius side of the mob, and the scummy not so glorious side. Also Glengary Glen Ross was a great play, and movie, and Pacino was great in that as well.

The thing that stands out to me in this video is that your fps drops into the 40s anytime there more than a few characters on the screen. What settings are you running and what cpu do you have?

I'm running it at ultra high setting and I have Q6600 @ 3.0 ghz Fps drop is probably caused by fraps, I don't lag at all in game.

"Thinking the fox was rabid, she wanted to make sure it didn't get away so she ran to her car, where she was able to pry open its jaws, wrap it in a sweat shirt and toss it into the trunk." I don't know about you but that turned me on! That's one hot woman!

I bet she looks like a man.

I didn't really mean 'should' as in that's the only correct behavior for 17 year old boys. I'm just saying 'should' as in 'that's *typical* behavior'. I come to that conclusion based on my experiences as a 17 year old, and how 17 year olds are portrayed on most movies. It's not always the case sure, and there's nothing wrong with 17 yr olds who aren't consumed with thoughts of sex - but I really believe that *most* 17 year olds do have that 1 thing on their mind above most other things. I'm sure I could look up some study about hormones in teenage boys to point towards a biological standpoint for my assumption, but I really can't believe that I would have to. Aren't most teenage boys horny as hell? I was.

Eh, yeah, but that doesn't mean we all wanted mindless sex. I do remember most were consumed with looking big in front of other guys and chasing relationships.

This does not surprise me in the least. So many stupid left wingers notice the glaring flaws in the Republican party but refuse to accept that their party is just as bad and corrupt.

That's why the primaries were so important... People throw around labels like 'stupid left wingers', 'fascist republicans' and 'socialist democrats' and as a result a bunch of informed independents didn't vote in the primaries because they say "I'll never register as one of them" or "they're all the same". They are not all the same. A Kucinich Democrat isn't a Pelosi Democrat. Vote the corporate welfare ones out, no matter which side you lean towards. "Democrat" and "Republican" are just labels... and in 20 years they could mean completely different things. Things will change only if we vote out the corrupt leadership of both parties.

Proof of natural selection at its finest.

Mulder! *tear

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Striking down a ban does not make gay marriage legal. It simply makes banning it illegal.

From my reading of the article, gay marriage will be officially legal in CT as of Oct 28. Whether it will be federally recognized is still an issue, I think. They didn't strike down a *ban.* They struck down the "straight couples get marriage," "gay couples get civil unions" distinction. The essentially called "Civil Union" a separate-but-equal institution and said that if straight couples can marry, so can gay couples.

Dude, this is the internet. Use the ancient hyperlink technique.

is the internet, but like most things, it's evolved, use search It's way to get said ancient

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PNG is lossless.

BLEND is a good format. am i doing it right?

Putting carbon restrictions on developing nations like China and India, or on underdeveloped nations like Africa and South America, will not make their lives better. It will make their lives much worse. Millions of people die in undeveloped nations every year from lack of electricity. Banning them from making fossil fuel burning power stations is a death sentence for millions, and a punishment of poverty for those who survive.

If putting caps on emissions leads to not building an electrical infrastructure, *you are doing it wrong*.

My girlfriend is very adventurous. Once, when trekking through the Lacondon jungle in Chiapas, she came upon a Maya village and was offered something to drink. She later learned that the way it was made was that all the women sat around a pot and chewed grain (the amylase in their saliva digesting the starch to sugar) then spit it into the pot, where the sugar would ferment. That sounds worse than any of the potions mentioned in this post. The next day she joined the women, chewing and spitting to make the next batch.

I'm sure your girlfriend is very high maintenance and likes a lot of designer clothes.

Only if you convert to metric!

At least we don't use [Imperial](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units). That system is even goofier than US Customary. 112 pounds in a hundredweight!? WTF.

Historically people have higher populations in warmer environments. That's some evidence the climate change could be good.

Historically people have been in warmer climates longer and more continuously than in cooler climates because colder regions have been glaciated.

I disagree, she is super cute and her body just screams feminine beauty. edit: that's a pretty shitty gallery as far as it works, you have to click on the last pic in the row to get the next set of pics, just in case anyone thinks there is only 5 pics or so. another edit: Anyone know her nationality out of curiosity? For some reason I have french Canadian in my head, any guesses?

Here's a better way to navigate the gallery. http://www.theskinarchives.com/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery&Itemid=14&g2_itemId=1912424&g2_page=6

One name stand to mind: YORDA. The game? ICO I'm amazed it wasn't on the list and that no one even mentioned it. She is by far more annoying than any other character. I used to imagine the character as autistic, just so I'd have a reason not to leave her useless ass behind.

Actually, Yorda was blind in the original Japanese, but apparently having a blind character actually do SOMETHING in a video game is politically incorrect (huh?) so they simply didn't mention it in the US version. The US got the absolute worst version of Ico, by the way- the Japanese and PAL versions had some nice extras, including translated Yordaspeak.

This is true, but there's always the chance you'll get one that WILL use the airblast/drop sandvich/throw jarate, and you can't say that that's not a good thing that they have the chance to help.

I always extinguish people, but I think I have seen 2 other pyros in total that have ever extinguished somebody.

[fffffuuuuuuuuuu](http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/9732/ffffuuuuus.jpg) and [everything went better than expected](http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/8831/betterthanexpected.jpg)

hahahahah I love the fffffffuuuuuuu one so much!

He lives in my neighborhood and is a total douchebag.

Got any anecdotes?

it is always good to find a rare open-minded soul these days, would you perhaps be interested in a [quantum age drinking water wand](http://www.quantumbalancing.com/stirwand.htm) to maximize your hydration potential for greater health? I can get you a 5% discount if you order it through me

Yeah right, because sharing an anedocte that goes against common sense is completely equal to selling a scam.

Who the fuck said it's hard? What's with all of these moronic arguments against my post? It's a simple point. Seriously guys, wtf. Who cares if it comes installed w/your version Ubuntu, not everyone in the world uses Ubuntu, that makes no fucking difference. The one thing I can guarantee you though is that pretty much any computer released in the last 10 fucking years comes with an OS installed and a web browser. Stop fucking nit picking. What a bunch of twats. Sit your dumb fanboy ass down on any fucking computer you can get to, open up a web browser and go to fucking google documents. It doesn't get much more convenient than that. Shit, you guys should form a religion or something.

I personally find google docs less convenient because it doesn't have certain features I need, say annotations. I don't use Ubuntu, I don't use an OS that has a pre-installed office suite, but the only real example that you gave for why OO is less convenient is the install. I'm not advocating OO, I don't use it, I'm just saying your argument needs a little refining.

Here in Seattle, our power is hydro and wind, exclusively. So that's about 4 million (urban area) vehicles that wouldn't be polluting. You CAN build replacement generating capacity. You CAN'T make a gas car stop emitting CO2. Solve problems as you get to them.

Call me old fashioned, but I've always found the bigger immediate problem to be that cars emit CO (carbon monoxide). But then, I live and (try to) breathe in NYC. When you say 'Hydro', I assume you mean hydroelectric, and not hydrogen- burning. I'm sure I would have heard about it otherwise.) Hydro and wind power exclusively? That is awesome. I guess the MSM has not done much to tell everyone of that fact.

Probably going to be downmodded for this, but the philosophy that made me what I am today is Objectivism. I was always a rational person, not religious, thus I found Rand's ideas to be very enticing. Everyday I try to stay true to her belief that in order for a man to live, he must have: Reason, Purpose, and Self-Esteem. I know many redditors aren't friends of Rand's philosophy, but I found it them to be essential to my mental being. Any fellow Objectivist?

I'll probably get downmodded for pointing this out, but you can break almost any reddit taboo by starting with "Probably going to get downmodded for this".