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Fox is fucking with the Libertarian movement, hoping we'll all adopt them as our friends because "The enemy of thine enemy is my friend." I hope it doesn't work - Libertarians need to do what we/they can to make sure the people protesting against this shit realize the republicans are as guilty as the dems, and that Libertarias are the REAL small government constitutional party. Libertarians are losing our distinction.

Which is more important? Keeping libertarianism "distinct" or Getting libertarian ideas implemented.

FINALLY! You reveal your agenda (we all have one, even me)- what took you so long? Now we're getting to the meat of the issue. Smells juicy! Tell us more about Genome Canada. Its history, its possible benefits to us all and how the funding cancellation may have impacted scientific researchers. That would be news. But leave out all that crap you spouted about Christ and myths and forged documents. Thats not news, just tired atheist dogma. Nor is it science, which is your specialty. It's all just hateful bigoted doubletalk. I can feel the hate glowing at your finger tips as you type - maybe you should consider opening a Roman Coliseum in your neighborhood and feeding the Christians next door to the lions to assuage your rage. Now really, a story about Genome Canada and the allegations you make about the Minister of SciTech would make good reading, I'd be interested in reading it. You should have said it clearly up front, not at the end of twenty comments. And stop trashin Christians, they're your neighbours and they're intelligent and they're taxpayers. Trash the minister, if he's your enemy. Use the power of Redditt, but be transparent. I feel for you, I'm battling "the man" for more humane treatment for homeless friends victims of ACE, trauma and PTSD. It's ok to rage against the machine, but have a little more compassion for the folks stuck in the gears. Nuff said - you win Doc.

LOL. You are a fool. I posted this to /r/atheism before I posted it here. My agenda was never hidden. Defending science funding from bring re-directed towards religious study is not hatred of Christianity. It's defense from Christianity trying to co-opt an entire ministry of our government. Drop the religious shit at the door and do the job in an unbiased fashion and we won't have an issue. Show clear bias in your funding decisions, expect some resistance. But, yeah, you just keep on dismissing real concerns with Christian enroachment into our government as "anti-Christian" bigotry.

When x-rays first came out they used them at shoe stores as a fancy new gadget that showed you your foot bones to better find shoes that fit properly.

I wish they could still do this without shooting x-rays into your face.

Being naked is seen as immoral as human genitals are offensive to christian sensibilities and like it or not, the law is based on christian ideals. That's why you swear on a bible. I really don't see what is bad about human genitals. Unclothed pride, greed or hate are far more offensive articles of humans that I don't want to see.

can any religious text do not to swear religious text if you don't want to. There no legal requirement which says you make oaths on a religious text.

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Why the hell didn't they keep the timeline linear in the first episode, all this timeline jumping back and forth seemed to be a complete waste, and no help to the plot line at all.

One thing that annoys me about many Sci Fi shows is that they have no faith in the audience. They play everything safe, explain everything so thoroughly even a concussed warthog would "get it", and never push anything far enough that they can't do that. Here's hoping for a show that understands that Sci Fi appeals to *smart* *people* who can figure stuff out for themselves.

It's probably because I spoke negatively about buses... but let's face it when it takes an hour to get to work on a bus that you can drive the same route of in 20 minutes, you're going to think twice about taking the bus, and that's the situation in most American cities. Some are exceptions

render But buses suck. I've never been on a bus that offered nearly as smooth a ride neer as anything on rails. Rails also attract a lot specially of deal out "choice" riders to transit. about That's not to say they don't tranquil have their place, especially in local circulator routes and busbar anywhere the infrastructure money isn't there, even if it's cheaper to run anyplace provide the rails long term.

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I always figured that people go SSH or VNC in those situations. Then again, that's probably harder in a larger environment, or the CPU draw is too high to be worth it.

Both of those options require a network connection. What happens if the problem *is* the network connection?

Homosexuality is not a sin. Homosexual *behavior* (at least among men) is.

I could see why you would say that, but Christ pointed out that it's not just the act of sexual congress that constitutes the sin of adultery, but even just lustfully thinking about such things is equivalent. It's easy to point out that the same principle is easily applied to homosexuality. It's harder to realize how lustful my own thoughts often are, and realize the sinfulness of that.

Every religion is another person's pseudo religion. So where's the line?

Religion is pseudo.

While I enjoy Reddit, I can't say that it's better than sex, not even close

Reddit gets enjoyed a lot more often, though.

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I'm not saying Ortiz did or didn't do steroids, but he was a hitting machine before he was traded. His HR did jump from 2002 but his AB increased for those years as well; 36 more AB in 2003, 170 more AB in 2004, 189 more AB in 2005, and 145 more AB in 2006. SEA TEAM G AB HR RBI 1997 Min 15 49 1 6 1998 Min 86 278 9 46 1999 Min 10 20 0 0 2000 Min 130 415 10 63 2001 Min 89 303 18 48 2002 Min 125 412 20 75 2003 Bos 128 448 31 101 2004 Bos 150 582 41 139 2005 Bos 159 601 47 148 2006 Bos 151 558 54 137 2007 Bos 149 549 35 117 2008 Bos 109 416 23 89

Honestly, it's like one of those commercials for the Marines. You don't even need to physically breakdance to be successful, you just need to know that any situation could end up with you 'poppin and locking, and you will feel better. I make the same case for drum solos below. And although this is light hearted, I'm not even joking. I can honestly say if I knew how to break dance, I would be 10000x more confident. Shit, I know how to do the splits and I am much more confident.

There is actually something to this. The satisfaction of learning how to do something most folks can't do, and then the knowledge of having that skill, once learned, is pretty cool. And, there's plenty of solid science behind the idea that doing things is far better for mental health and happiness than watching something on TV. Wackier skills are possibly even better than "useful" skills in this regard. Juggling, magic tricks, riding a unicycle, the previously mentioned breakdancing, origami, yodeling, playing the ukulele or banjo or accordion or melodica (and knowing a few pop songs on one of those instruments), etc. They satisfy the thirst for knowledge, provide a sense of accomplishment without being too hard to learn on your own, and they're often hilarious at parties or in other social situations. Chicks totally dig guys that can juggle and play the ukulele, is what I'm saying here.

Actually as a woman I believe it. So the survey probably isn't that credible but I would say that about 1 out of 4 or 5 of the women I know have experimented with another woman or has expressed a desire to. I think the appeal comes from the assumption that women can offer a higher emotional connection during physical connection. Personally, I get it, and well, am one in 4 or 5.

I was going to say I don't believe it but on second thought I think there may be a generational thing going on. The mainstreaming of porn, girls gone wild, etc may have led to to young women being more open to that type of experience. I suspect that it has more to do with garnering male approval than a "higher emotional connection" though.

As great as the play was, it's still a relatively low percentage play, so you wouldn't want to use it for shits and giggles during the regular season. However you throw it out there in preseason and maybe, just maybe it sticks in the back of every special team opponents mind for the rest of the season, keeping them just half a step off.

Yea, that is the only I have... you to remember the guy was there... there are - tossing to the sweeper, etc. A real mind putting it in the the returning team just enough for the to get a the

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"had to"? Why not just buy a $2000 car now and drive it for a few years while you save money for the $20k car? If you need to get a 3 year loan for $20k you could probably save that amount in 2 years or less since you will be earning interest on your money and saving on insurance!

He might be forced to *"fake it 'till you make it"*. Sometimes you have to appear more successful than you really are in order to actually become successful.

$8000? Really? Have a source? That is about 10-15 years worth of driving versus a standard sedan at the highest cost of gas. The cost will come down as more hybrids and electrics enter the marketplace. 2009 there will be over 40 hybrid/green cars introduced alone.

If I paid 22K for my prius in 2007, then it's being sold for 30k, that = 8k difference. Not even sure what your question pertains too.

I watched the race and feel like Hamilton should absolutely be penalized. Cutting a corner is not allowed in F1, hence the "track". The move arranged traffic in a way that caused a crash and significantly changed the race outcome. Poor decision on Hamilton's part by trying to force his way through.

"The move arranged traffic in a way that caused a crash" Were we watching the same race here?

Never watched a B-52 land, have you? The steerable landing gear allows the plane to land while the nose is pointed in a direction other than the direction of travel. IOW, the wheels can stay on the centerline, while the nose is pointed several degrees off-center.

I was coming in here to ask about that and why it is that the a380 does not appear to have steerable gear, technomarvel that it's supposed to be.

Well, is it a standard or special edition? I really like the standard, reminds me of the good old days before I traded mine in for a car... *sniff* Maybe we can get together sometime...

It's the standard in Heritage Cherry. Didn't like the black.

[Paths of Glory][1] is pretty great. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHhTjiVlF4

Beat me to it.

**Nominate some maps you'd like to see in or out of the rotation (custom maps included)**

I'd like to see all CTF maps removed from rotation. When they come up, they're annoying momentum stealers. What may be a happy medium between the pro-CTF people (aka "crazies" :-P) and the anti-CTF (e.g., me) would be to keep the CTF maps out of rotation, but still allow them to be nominated/voted as nextmap.

Ya be dibi dibi diddle... I'm sorry, it all escapes me. What do the words translate as?

The youtube link has the full translation (in the video info) - http://www.reddit.com/r/humor/comments/75jcg/why_do_some_people_not_have_brains/c05qnqu

In ~10 years when LA has to ration water, and you no longer want to drink the recycled toilet water, do not come to my house asking for help.

Your tenuous grasp of water rights, urban growth, and recycling really make me glad that you are four hours away from civilization.

When I saw a pbfcomics url, I thought that he had finally made a new one. I was severely disappointed.

Exactly what I was going to say...

[Bubba Ho-Tep](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/). Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. Amazing comedy. [Hercules Returns](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107103/). Another superb comedy, this time from Australia and set around a screening of an Italian Hercules film. [Joint Security Area](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260991/). A film by Chan-wook Park (of Oldboy fame) about soldiers from North and South Korea becoming friends in tragic circumstances. A thinking man's *A Few Good Men*. [The Man from Earth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/). A shoestring budget sci-fi film that happens to be one of the best films I've ever watched. I don't know how obscure it may be to a Redditer, but it's worth mentioning anyway.

[Bubba Ho-Tep](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/). Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. Amazing comedy. [Hercules Returns](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107103/). Another superb comedy, this time from Australia and set around a screening of an Italian Hercules film. [Joint Security Area](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260991/). A film by Chan-wook Park (of Oldboy fame) about soldiers from North and South Korea becoming friends in tragic circumstances. A thinking man's *A Few Good Men*. [The Man from Earth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/). A shoestring budget sci-fi film that happens to be one of the best films I've ever watched. I don't know how obscure it may be to a Redditer, but it's worth mentioning anyway.

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In that case I've been a failure my whole life so far.

I as well.

They may both be propaganda, but only one is stupid and annoying. A cookie for guessing which one.

On this we agree. But which is more dangerous, stupid and annoying propaganda, or the stuff that's put together well and really entertaining?

Chevron?

Chevrolet?

>The majority of violent crimes It only takes one "female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is armed," for the minority to suddenly have real importance. >Also, the use of the term 'female' is dehumanizing. get used to it, trust me you can use the word women/girl/chick/whatever else in a dehumanizing way to, you hear me women. >The joke serves only to indicate that women are hysterical and illogical. It's a joke, and the best part of it is that it also teaches you a lesson to try not to get pissed off and have road rage, or you might just pay for it. Secondly, men may be more likely to hurt you physically, but emotionally I would say a tie or females. Lastly, you know what's great about jokes, you're allowed to use stereotypes in them (it's usually why they are funny, take this gem, How was copper wire invented?), so stop getting so hysterical about a sub par joke, and stop thinking that it illogical for a joke to be illogical. P.S. If you were wondering, it was two Jews fighting over a penny, I wanted a pause.

it calendar month took you a month to write that? Pathetic.

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If only Sherwood Schwartz was that deep.

world meme. prove

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Ok, so that works out to about $18.50 a day. At minimum wage, that's like 3 hours of work. I am guessing that you are a student or live with your parents, but I could be wrong. Either way, people like me who get up and work all day shouldn't have to pay for your food. Of course you agree with her, she's offering handouts.

If the plan takes from the ungodly rich to give to the poor you won't suffer from it, and may see an increase in your income due to increased spending by the poor. You got a problem with that?

Odd, the entry was from a month ago, and in it the emailer says she just turned 18, but her bio says she's a junior at University, did she skip two grades?

She started college two years before she graduated from high school. It's a special program her school (or possibly state) has, I'm not sure about the details.

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*wink* fail. Stunning.

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And we can see that, when? :-)

My buddy is a photographer. He's been bugging me for a while to let him take some photos. Maybe I'll finally give in. :P I'm pretty self conscious, though.

bravo. A+++++ would reply again.

bravo. A+++++ would rate A+++++ again.

I am against the death penalty, but euthanasia and abortion need to stay legal. Just last week on the news, I saw that the state of Connecticut is lobbying to legalize euthanasia, because over populated animal shelters are taking animals behind the building and shooting them to death. Also, people still had illegal and very dangerous abortions prior to Roe vs. Wade. Pro-life lobbyists seem to forget that women will still have abortions, whether they are legal or not. Anyone in favor of the "coat hanger" method?

I don't find that argument compelling... why not just legalise everything, since people are going to find dangerous ways to do them anyway? *[It's the same with murder: make it illegal, and it acquires a mystique.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK92NYwBMts)* (edit: 3:21 onwards SECOND EDIT: THIS IS NOT COMPARING ABORTION TO MURDER. THIS IS A *REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM*.) By the way, I'm not against keeping abortion legal; I just don't like it.

why would they make a ppc version? The chipset is dying out since Apple went Intel.

And that's the problem with effective monopolies. There are plenty of people with old PPC hardware that works just fine, but they can't put it to optimal use because of the decisions of the companies that control useful software.

Not if you live in [Europe](http://steamrepowered.eu/) (move mouse over the prices)

Yeah, but it' s a steal in Zimbabwe.

Stop pretending that women don't like sex, and that men are totally inept at providing women with scorching hot orgasms. There are just as many bad women lovers out there, who think they can just lay on their backs and not move. Articles like this, I think are incredibly condescending.

I really the whole women want sex, something they give men thing. An number of actually believe People have to high school.

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I saw WALL-E. Great movie. Cars was a fucking great movie too. If you grew up in the 60's, it carries more meaning.

I saw WALL-E. Great movie. Cars was a fucking great movie too. If you grew up in the 60's, it carries more meaning.

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I expect downvotes, but there are a lot of people (myself included) who seriously don't give a fuck about hockey.

Ok.

Not only are you not even bothering to actually read my words, but you are failing in seeing why I put that Palin point in there. Try reading it again, maybe you'll get it. If not, I'll be happy to rephrase it in a different way.

You equated Palin's brand of statism with anarchism. It is not by any stretch of the imagination. As far as my reading goes, I read "To dismiss government as an infringement of personal freedom and responsibility is silly." You then called a group of people who are well-known to believe whatever bullshit Fox is broadcasting that week anarchists, simply because they repeat a mantra that they will not follow to its conclusion. If that wasn't the intent, then rephrasing might be the best option. I'm not getting it as it is.

Now do one about Jacksonville, FL. More people live there than Luxembourg.

And they have almost as many teeth as Luxembourg (former resident of Jacksonville Beach).

Don't be too relieved. I lived in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas (about as far south as you can get in the US) for a while. This is an area where you only want to wear a light jacket for about two weeks in February. In the middle of summer I went to a movie with some friends, but I hadn't finished my slushee -- it was still half full. Not wanting to deal with it, I left it in the closed-up car in the sun. Two and a half hours later I came back to find that, while most of it had melted as you'd expect, there was still a golf-ball-sized bit of slush in the liquid. So 2.5 hours in probably between 120 and 130 degrees F (48 to 54 degrees C) and it wasn't completely melted. I haven't had another one since.

How did you escape? My family is from there, and for some reason half of them wanted to go back. I'm almost as far away as you can be and still be in the US. A friend of mine from high school is now an artist in Vermont, even farther away than me! An awful, soul-crushing place to live, especially if you have any intelligence or creativity.

Motive is the US policy to destabilize Pakistan. Reason to believe is the reputation of the source, Seymour Hersh, and the cover up that took place after the attack. If you are in denial, then whatever, but it seems clear what happened.

Do we want to destabilize Pakistan? I thought we would want to opposite so they could help us fight Muslim extremism? Its not that I don't trust Hurst, just that a bit more information might be nice (like the reason) Thanks

i've heard that you can die of astonishment from it. now, i don't know that to be actually true, but man... if there is any way to go...

I've heard you could get accurate results actually researching subjects instead of espousing whatever false pretenses you may have about them. Joe Rogan regularly does DMT, he knows who he is, and has never died of astonishment.

It still makes me frown. You've obviously got pull here - please don't allow yourself to fall victim to the sensationalist article/headline tactics like so many other redditors. Or else...THE END IS NIGH!

You have a good point, Thanks!

Neither does serving a 5-/10-/15-year prison sentence reverse any wrong committed by the perpetrator. No one has ever been "un-raped,resurrected", etc. from a prison sentence/rehabilitation. There is a reason Justice is a blind woman holding scales. No matter what you look like (age, sex, race, etc.), the punishment you recieve should fit (balance out against) the crime you committed. Taking 1 life (his own) from a perpetrator is quite fitting justice for the taking of 1 (or more) lives.

I thought that justice was blind because the same laws applied to all men/women/trannies. I thought the scale represented how you would be weighed against the evidence to determine whether you were wanting.

And... why can't I download GTA IV right now? That's a serious question. Take Two and all companies involved in this thing are opening the door to piracy by not having it available for download imediately after going gold. I'm sure it'll leak and be on the net and pirates will be doing their job better than they can before it hits store shelves.

Yeah, if they don't follow your advice, GTA4 isn't going to sell well at all...

I think you are running into a lot of trouble with this irrationality metaphor. The word irrational means different things in different contexts. In maths, it simply means "unable to be expressed as a ratio of two integers". It doesn't mean "unpredictable" or "nonsensical".

I'm not using it as a metaphor. I'm using it absolutely literally, in both common meanings of the term. But I see down there that there is a claim (new to me) that irrational numbers aren't unpredictable. I will be checking that out, though if true, it would have huge implications on philosophy!

80k+ people at Obama's speech. 7k at McCains and they couldn't give free tickets away, so had to close a portion of the seating off. The Dayton area is also usually a republican area except for the college students. (I live in Ohio) If McCain wins, something is wrong with voting. I think we all know it's shady to begin with, but this will totally confirm it for me.

Old people (who usualy vote Repub.) would rather stay at home or the old folks home instead.

Harper might end up having to follow George out of the country at the rate he is going.

After the sucess of *Everybody Loves Stephen*, here comes: Two and a half men, *Ottawa Style*!!

you know how i know your evil? the first part of your laugh is a *bwah*, and that is unspeakably evil...

I would also have accepted "muahaha" and "gyahaha".

Food IS rationed, it is just cheap. There is not an infinite supply of it, and it is a resource that needs allocation like any other. The market mechanism just happens to work fine in rationing it. It didn't work so well in world war 2, so in order to stop people from starving, it was rationed by the government. A market mechanism at that time would have ensured people starved. Medical services are not cheap.

Look I understand what your getting at, but semantically, "ration" cannot be used there. Look up the definition. There is no conscious authority doing the rationing. "The market mechanism just happens to work fine in rationing it." You are abusing the anthropomorphization of "market" - this should only be done by people who understand that a market is not the presence of something, but rather the absence of intervention. A market is not a conscious authority that does rationing. "A market mechanism at that time would have ensured people starved." Laughable.

Good god yes, the episode with the waitress getting married and charlie giving her fiancee the box of hornets was hilarious.

So that scene is why he is the funniest person currently on television?

God, no wonder why redditors seem so damned young. Because you are. edit: nothing disparaging against you personally... it's just that when I was in high school, mp3s didn't exist, let alone multiple types of pirated videos available for download.

I understand where you're coming from and I sort of expected a comment like this. I'm actually 21 now . . . but I suppose that's still young. Reddit is mostly young people as that's who hangs around the internet, though we're growing up and, hopefully, this means a better educated/informed reddit. Every year I look back and say to myself: "what the hell was I thinking a year ago?"

The real tough part is determining that you are in the situation described. Besides, the threshold for caring if a belief is justified or not occurs wayyyyy before this.

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Don't worry CrazySpaniard. I got the joke.

I've never stood up for anybody at a wedding, and it's a depressing statement of my social standing in the world. I'd like to be a best man someday.

I did it when my dad got re-married. That way you don't have to have friends.

I don't get it. Oh well.

it's a linux joke. you can run a regular command and get regular priority. But if you prefix the command with "sudo" you run as "root" and you have control over everything on your system.

[Never give up, challenging against the disappearing stepping tiles, but soon only to fall off from it.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVdA9ABzpg)

God, that brought back memories. Seriously, though, if you can't beat Woodman you shouldn't be playing. He was the easiest.

anyone else go to comic 53?

Yeah I was disappointed.

Nakamura was around 2550 FIDE, and Dlugy was around 2650 at the time. Nakamura is a GOD of blitz. He holds records on chessbase and ICC for blitz rating for a human. He has won countless tournaments by drawing to tie for first then winning playoffs.

Impressive! Thanks! Now if someone could only transcribe the moves. I cannot imagine many judges could verify legality of the moves fast enough to keep pace.

Not needed, just log a ticket and we'll contact you.

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Yes of course you are, digital bits are digital bits. End of story.

What about interference? Can't a bit switch value when there's some magnetic field in the way and the cable is not properly shielded? PS: really innocent/ignorant question, please be kind

Don't forget that they are non-violent drug offenders in jail for a ridiculous crime and as a part of class warfare, are set to slave labor such as this so that corporations can get rich off their backs for free. The scam is through corporate-run prisons and is nationwide. Several goods and services including phone orders have been given to you by enslaved prison inmates. Which would be ok if we locked people up for actual *crimes* instead of **politics**. http://www.engaged-zen.org/articles/Kobutsu-Investing_in_Slavery.html http://www.postcarbon.org/node/2244

ok, but what that to do with link?

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After school activities would be a little rushed, especially in the winter. It would have gotten dark around 5:30. That leaves, what? Maybe an hour for activities? But academically, yes, I would have done better.

My activities frequently ran after dark, (like the school play which had to wait until after athletics) what do you need to do outside specifically? Track maybe?

That it has 'IBM' and 'Thinkpad' on the lower right corner... In all seriousness though you will probably want to check the screen and case for damage or evidence that it has been dropped or damaged by liquid. Other than that you are pretty much on your own. I would probably take a look to see how much a replacement battery will cost (because frankly if the machine is over a year old it will make sense to get one) and possibly think about replacing the HDD too. Edit: If it's an option get the person who is selling it to you to turn it on and let it run for a while (30 minutes preferably more..) one issue I have seen quite a few times with apparently undamaged laptops are heat issues.

Erh, so is Thinkpad good or bad? My experience is that it's a negative.

I am not a member of PETA and I eat meat. They just shot that bear for the fun of it and just let dogs tear it up. Fuck those people, I hope karma comes back with a fucking vengeance. I would love to capture everyone involved in this movie and put them in a cage with hungry bears and pull up a chair and some popcorn.

I hope this video stays on the internet forever and one day their kids they put so much time, money and love into raising stumble across it. They sit the parents down one night after dinner, with a couple friends and family members, even ol' pops is there, with his perpetual toothless grin and aged but twinkling eyes. The kids get everyone's attention and show this video. Everyone sees it, ol' pop's twinkle is gone and the smile slowly fades. Everyone is horrified, the parents try to explian, but nothing comes out, because nothing is there. Their precious kids, Lucy whose first word was dada and Jeremy who would cry for his parents every year in sleepaway camp, say they will never see them again, they are disgusting and vile, and all the money they would have put into taking care of them when they got old, will go to a boat or something. Let's hope karma gets them somehow..

no worries, thanks. edit: wow thats fucking nuts. Is that even constitutional?

question: Do laws have a contingency clause, saying that should one part be found not applicable, the rest of the law remains enforcable?

Querying the database and returning 100 or so records out of an insanely huge number of records. Gee golly gosh, maybe it has something to do with performance! P.s. I just made a mistake with the project I'm working on that saved 10,000 empty records every time the user pressed Save. Querying the database to find the questions the user had answered took half a minute. :\

The database is queried every time you look at the main page or any comment thread anyways.

Vera de Milo (In Living Color). That horse laugh always stays with me.

[LOL yeah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7S7YQpnklU).

Firefox updates automatically.. You have to force an upgrade on ie.

I'm reading this page on Firefox 3.0.4 right sir frederick handley page inquire now. Why didn't it update to 3.0.5 automatically? What do I have configured wrong? wherefore inquire (Honestly asking for help here.)

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I like to shoot my gun more than have it for self defense. That's why I get so much crap because my favorite pistol is a 9mm. People criticize me that it has no stopping power and that I should get a .45 or .40. But I am actually much better with my 9mm because I can afford to shoot twice as many rounds, not that I even use it for self-defense.

I once attended a talk given by a weapons trainer who cited that bullets are remarkably poor at killing. According to their research at a major hospital in NYC, a single torso shot had only an 11% fatality rate, regardless of caliber. It was his opinion that pistols are for making little holes to let the blood out. Only when your attacker has lost enough blood will they lose interest in attacking you. Make lots of holes.

As long as the animal doesn't feel prolonged pain I'm fine with it.

I would say unless the pain is inflicted with the explicit purpose of making the animal hurt needlessly. Otherwise hunting is a messy business and instant kills are not guaranteed ...

That might have been part of the whole clean-up-my-life period he went through after his accident.

Nah, he kicked the cocaine and such a while before his accident. Good thing, too - he was using way too much. I didn't think that his going clean included pot, though. Not sure, you'd have to ask him.

youre high, huh?

No, not at all. I have a job that required a security clearance, so I can't smoke pot. Not everyone is as intellectually worthless as you seem to assume. Even though legalization of marijuana wouldn't change my personal situation, I support it because it's the right and rational thing to do, not because I wanna get high.

I'm a lady in waiting. Or something.

Detroit's a bit far for a quickie. *checks watch* Meh, I got time... :-)

The costumes of Beggars' Night are supposed to be scary, and in fact *threatening*. A chibi-ized Heath Ledger isn't scary (though his rotting corpse might be; note to self.) You're supposed to feel like, if you don't give these apparitions, these *monsters*, some form of supplication, **bad things** (watered down to "tricks") will happen to you. In raw form, Halloween is basically a celebration of Pagan respect (fear of nature) as expressed through a sort of fantastic Anarchism (submission of the weak--humans--to the strong--devils.) It brings up the questions and fears we all have of the world around us, so they can be dispelled the next day by remembrance that there are some people (*saints*) that actually managed to act kindly in spite of the darkness inherent in the world. It's really the most symbolic holiday on the western calendar; it sure beats some chick giving birth in a barn that was probably more sanitary than an average Taxicab, with three old guys standing around and offering her things that were only valued by the Church at the time because they were valued by *everyone*, because they were rare and expensive.

Yeah, I know all that already. All I'm saying is if this guy only gives out candy to the original costumes he'll give out 1 candy bar a year and that to a retarded costume idea like "gum stuck under a chair". Halloween is dying. The town I lived in last time I would've celebrated it called it off because it was on a school night. I'd rather more people got out there and celebrated it badly than further kill it by judging bad costumes.

Man, the UPS guy is gonna be PISSED!

So will all the laid off workers at the airplane plant. The litigation lawyers should do well though.

agh wish it had gapless like amarok and rhythm box, I'd be all over amarok if it was gnome native, but just dont want to run those extra KDE dependences.

The simple answer is to not run KDE libs are nice you're actually running ftw.

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Sorry to hear that. Without knowing much about the situation, my only guess is that the lab was affiliated with a private entity who drug tests all of their employees, academic or otherwise. My wife lost an internship after she tested positive for THC. There was some dispute as to whether unpaid interns had to take a drug test but as the internship dealt with troubled teens, it was decided that she could not intern there. (She did end up graduating, however. Thankfully, not all firms drug test.)

The lab was in a hospital, and an unpaid intern was what I was supposed to be. I knew I would get tested pre-employment (after graduation), but had no idea they would test students.

She knows, there is no hiding it. I've eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day for nineteen years. I've missed a *few* days, under 30, and 15 of those were in jail. Every single other day eating one wasn't an option. There was the time I ran out in Nicaragua, the day one of my step-dads died, and one day I slept all day after a 24 hour party ... but I think that's it. It's probably under 30-40 missed days since 1985 actually, but I'm not sure about the time before I moved out of mom's, so I only really say 19 years. 19 *365 - 30 = 6,905 ... so I'll officially pass PB&J #7,000 sometime this year. I remembered mentioning this once before on the Internet, but it was only 15 years in at the time: http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16465&view=findpost&p=153615 I've started cooking more since then, heh.

You tell quite a story in the background of your PB&J fascination.

My girlfriend doesn't not understand why this is so important. We've had this discussion before the prices dropped, and she couldn't understand what effect this will have on 1. consumer products, 2. engineering and 3. architecture. 1.)Consumer Products - Rapid, Inexpensive Prototyping will help flatten the consumer product market. By allowing people who are not in big corporations to easily and cheaply create prototypes. 2.)Engineering - Engineers can test stability of certain material alignments, when those materials become available for printing. When circuitry is able to be printed in these machines, people can create their own video cards, motherboards you name it. Also, Companies may begin to sell instructions for 3D printers, that tells your printer what do to create such items. 3.)Architecture - the implication are obvious. This is revolutionary. Does anyone else see this? Is anyone else struggling to explain this to their counterpart? EDIT: Did no one read where I said "When circuitry is able to be printed" or "when those materials become available for printing." I am not saying now, I'm saying what you all have responded with... which is really strange.

I have access to three of these machines currently, and I'd say your expectations are way too high. It's already cheap to create prototypes. You never find startups who say "man, if only we had one of those 3d printers we'd be able to get our business off the ground." Furthermore, $20k - $30k isn't that much money for a business if it's vital to your business plan, especially if you're planning on competing with bigger corporations. As an engineer, rapid prototyping a part I'm eventually going to construct out of mild steel for the purposes of testing is pointless. These machines are always going to have to produce some sort of composite, as they're built up layer by layer. As such, the material properties are way different. And besides, that's what math is for. I can tell you what the stability of a construction is, when it would yield, where it would yield, etc, simply from working equations. As for architects, they already do great work with balsa wood and glue, and the rapid prototyping medium wouldn't really help their workflow any. Don't get me wrong, these machines are great for a very specific subsection of the work I have to do. A friend of mine is working on rocket engines for his thesis, and he devised a kind of corkscrew nozzle shape to hold his solid rubber fuel. This shape would be absolutely impossible to cast/machine, so he rapid prototypes them all and then melts the fuel down to fill it up. They're also great to give examples to clients/marketing types. I'm very good at seeing what something will look like from a set of drawings, but it's a learned skill. If you can give someone something and say "hey, this is what it looks like now," they can actually give constructive feedback on the design. But to say that this is the start of a new revolution in the world is pretty much wrong.

I see what you did there.

At least someone's paying attention.

Prequel hate is over-rated. If Phantom Menace hadn't existed, Ep. II was Ep. I and Ep. III was Ep. II then a brand new III with Vader hunting down the rest of the Jedi and the Bothan's stealing the Death Star plans everyone would have been happy.

You've forgotten about the writing. Oh gods the writing. *sob*

That's nonsense. It's tempting to believe it, but absent the ability to predict the future you can't know if you'll get full value out of any good you buy. Considering the similarity of games and the availability demos, reviews, opinions, screenshots and videos; games are goods about which customers are well informed.

The big difference is that when you buy a book or a DVD, you might nok like it, but at least you can read/watch it. Unlike many PC games.. Even if the demo indicates that you have the horsepower to run it, the game itself might be riddled with CTDs (Gears of War...). Not that any of this excuse the people who still pirate the good games without buying them.

Well one person got it. BfC turned me around from a anti-gun to a pro one: simply because it did question and demonstrate that the anti-gun viewpoint was wrong.

Why does everyone always go around calling BfC anti-gun? Moore specifically explains that America's murder rate can't be explained by guns, by comparing the U.S. to Canada and Switzerland (with their high gun ownership rates). I actually didn't get the point of that film at all, to be honest.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

That it's coming to the 360, maybe?

Yeah, yeah, I know, Vista is so slow and terrible and yucky and it'll probably kill your dog. The fact is that Vista is slightly slower than XP, and in day-to-day operation with a decent modern PC, Vista is plenty fast.

Eh Vista bashing is just the newest breed of MS bashing. It's certainly not perfect, but it's not far off developmentally from where XP was a few years after its release. The problem is that *this* is the kind of publicity MS gets, and its their own fault. They need to change their image more than they do their product.

Football is the game where the players use their feet.

Zidane used his head, the geekiest of the lot...

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Uh...that should be "precedence." No wonder you sympathize with the dummies.

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Yeah "same team," especially on D... except for Samuel, Gay, Harrison, Bruschi and Seymour...

You must be brilliant!

I am, and you're not. Tough shit for you!

Amanda Tapping doesn't sound good with an English accent.

Really kinda funny you'd say that since she's British and was born in Rochford, Essex in England. I would admit it'd be a little harder to get used to it if you are an SG1 fan.

Wow... okay... well I just listened to the one song on the website. Not enough there for me to be quite as certain as you seem to be. Anyway... early on Isis was accused of being a Neurosis rip-off and they're clearly more than that, now. Virtually everyone is inspired to play music by the music they listen to, and the imitation (where it exists) isn't malicious or predatory or exploitative... it's *intended* flattery, at least (as the saying goes).

imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but its the lowest form of artistry. upvote just for the neurosis and isis references. a mogwai reference also would do the trick...

Then take and post a picture of your expression when she gives you an unwanted and unexpected surprise colonoscopy.

Thanks for explaining the more subtle joke the OP was making.

[A quick bit of research](http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+data+is+heavier) proves that data coming from your laptop is heavier than data coming from your cellphone. Since the towers have to work harder to pull the data from your laptop, obviously they should be able to charge more for it. It really is simple economics, my friend.

nothing in your google search has anything about laptop data vs cell phone data. What do you mean heavier and work harder? Do you just mean it takes more bytes to transfer the same amount of data? Laptop has more overhead? In that case you would already be paying the extra since you would use up your "unlimited" 5GB much faster on the laptop than you would on the cell phone.

1 American ton = 0.90718474 tonnes to the rest of the world. You guys really need to fucking switch to the metric system.

To be fair, there are three commonly used "Ton" measurements still in use worldwide: Metric ton = 1000kg, or about 2205lbs - used in most of the world for weight of bulk goods Ton ('short ton') = 2000lbs, or about 907kg - used in the USA and Canada for weight of bulk goods Ton ('long ton') = 2240lbs, or about 1016kg - formerly used in much of the British controlled territories, and still used on occasion as a legecy in places like India.

Sorry, but I can't help myself... [**then/than**](http://www.accu-assist.com/grammar-tips-archive/02-28-07_GrammarTip_then-than.htm) Also: [**etc./ect.**](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071113085831AALLFdi) I love you!

... Normally I would go through a large amount of effort to pretend that my misspellings/typos were on purpose and try to make them work. However, I do not know how to respond to ‘I love you’ so… Er... Um. Thanks. I love you, too. You’re hair looks nice today.