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Well, also discredited are the whole idea of dialectical materialism and the labor theory of value, which are critical. While I'm sure plenty of people would like to fish in the afternoon and write poetry in the evening, I doubt many think that some kind of anarchist utopia is going to be set up after a socialist dicatatorship of the proletariat takes over in a world wide revolution after we all realize we're being exploited that will allow that to happen. The proletariat has spoken, and they prefer American Gladiators. I would agree that taking all of history into account religion has accounted for more suffering and crimes, but I can't think of anything any religiously motivated group has done since Marx wrote that can compare with the crimes of Stalin alone. Again, this often devolves into the 'not a true marxist' discussion, so I'll just repeat that the OP wants to know why Marxism is a pejorative and it's because it's associated, rightly or wrongly, with guys like Stalin.

Sorry, I don't mean for you to explain all anti-Marxist thinking in a Reddit thread, but is there a link you could point to where the discrediting of dialectical materialism occurs? That would be very nice of you. Thanks.

I made the same joke as the #1 comment in the thread 29 minutes after said comment.

"I double-clicked the upvote arrow." *(c) 2008 Willis77. All rights reserved.*

I *am* trolling ;) Sorry.

Funny troll is funny.

Its a bit disrespectful. But funny.

Not really to the spanish it's a tradition http://www.lifeinbarcelona.com/blog/archive/christmas-crapper/ that was the only article I could find on it but it sorta explains

Ah crap. It's really shit? I love Fallout 3 so much I went ahead and bought it. Damn. Guess I will know better next time. It better be damned good next time Bethesda, or there will be horse armour to pay. I bought that as well. God, I'm a consumer whore...

So I'll buy the Pitt DLC and later if I feel like it, I'll buy this one. No biggie. The $54.95 I paid for this game was a steal for those moments when you're utterly alone at home and in the game and you get that "sunset-plus-new-desolate vista" moment...right after you killed someone you didn't want to kill *but they were fucking shooting at you like a dumbfuck so you had to blast them* moments. And then Three Dawg comes on talking shit and startles the shit out of you and you're totally elated and *relieved* he's on the air. You know what I mean. Right?

Hopefully it'll be safe to subscribe back to the politics subreddit now.

I think you should wait a year just to be safe.

Likewise, I'm fairly certain that sweeping generalizations like "90% of overweight people can control their own weight" serve little purpose other than to rationalize pre-existing negative thoughts. Never mind societal influences and economic limitations...even if 90% of the fat population could exert _full control_ over their own weight, surely anyone in their right mind would still feel like an ass for attacking the other 10% for no damn good reason. The issue is incredibly complicated, and to see people grossly oversimplifying it for the purpose of dehumanizing a group of people seems like an eerie page out of society's past. We should really be over this by now.

You stated in your first post that "Every few weeks, someone submits a story chiming in about what they think we as a society should do about fat people. They always offer a solution in blunt and rude terms that would be wildly offensive if anyone replaced 'fat' with 'black' or 'gay.'" The difference is that obesity poses a serious health risk to our society. So trying to figure out "what to do about fat people" is more than just judging a group of people for their physical characteristics. Is it also a very avoidable condition if our society could ever week itself off of McDonalds and the couch. While I don't want to blame individuals for not controlling their weight, there are things that can be done to try to improve the health of our society.

Surely I'm not the only one that frequents Reddit...

So you're all hiding in reddit?

"If God does not exist, everything is permitted." - Fyodor Dostoevsky In other words, there are no objectively true values. This being the case, act in whichever way you choose, but realize that through your actions you create your morality.

Did you miss the point of the site? It's specifically culling -subjective- values. Hence why it's interesting, some items have unanimous rights and wrongs. Others have very mixed results.

That's made me horrendously curious to listen to that album.

Nevermind. Context: http://mesh.chattablogs.com/archives/011152.html

"You're not fixing to feign a guilt trip on me, are you? 'Cause if you are, I'm going on home and read _Finnegans Wake_." "You desert me in my hour of need, I'll follow you home and read _Finnegans Wake_ to you." "Oh no you don't!" Bobby exclaimed, [...] [...] "Uh-huh!" Bobby crowed with a triumphant smirk. "There you go. Attracted to purity. Switters, I rest my case." "Case, I rest my Switters," [...].

I'm curious and wholly ignorant.

Likely Players response to EA response. 1. You have no proof that piracy hurts sales, that's unfounded conjecture. We see that it helps sales. 2. We're more interested in playing casually, aka, people who just borrow the disc from a friend or family member. We need DRM totally eliminated in order for the game to be worth buying.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that EA has a helluva lot more information about their games sales than the players or pirates do. Securom costs them money, they don't just throw it in their products for the hell of it.

Some grinders work well. Aluminum grinders are where it's at. Plastic and pin grinders are crap. The thing is if you're rolling blunts, the weed you have is most likley full of seeds. In this case I would recommend using your fingers. Grinding up even 1 or 2 seeds will ruin the taste and may end up giving you a nasty headache. But if there are no seeds in your buds (God willing) get a little glass piece. There's no need to make any decent bud taste like grapes. Oh, And if you're grinderless, try a shot glass and scissors.

I roll blunts with good weed, I don't like the aluminum grinders, it just gets sticky and doesn't turn. The plastic/wood/glass and pin ones work great.

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I think some [ass-clown](http://www.reddit.com/user/illuminatedwax/) banned my post.

That Eliza is one fine looking woman.

Good thing, too, 'cause she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag. **Update:** Really? Y'all downmodding me think Eliza Dushku can *act*? Because she can't. And no amount of fanboy wishing will make it so.

yap http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HouseChamberBusiness/ChamberVoteDetail.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&Vote=82

Well all of hamilton is a Nay, Somewhat lucky to be in a NDP stronghold but it doesn't change the results. :(

People don't seem to realize why this is an issue. In many, MANY parts of the world, it's rather common for middle-aged men to pursue teenage girls. Here's the really fucked up thing: in Africa, there is a common myth that having sex with a virgin is cleansing. You have AIDS? Fuck a virgin, it'll clear you up. At the same time, young women are often happy to accept the affection and gifts of an older man, and they figure, "hey, he's older, he's married, he's probably cleaner than the guys my own age!" This is a terrible cycle which has helped to fuel the astonishing AIDS rate in Africa and elsewhere.

Yes, but that pic was not in Africa.

Windows (even modern versions) has the worst text rendering.

Cleartype is pretty nice, I've found. It is more opinion than anything else. The hinting in linux (freetype2?) is fucking *awful* unless you set it to a minimum. The anti-aliasing is nice, though. Still, every windows UI since 95 has felt far more solid and consistent than KDE, or even gnome, for that matter.

I like the guy who played the bad guy. Solid character actor.

I liked him in The Rock, he's a great character actor.

This is all sour grapes to me. Even at $100K it's still cheaper than many other HD or 2K options, and since it uses standard equipment, a production house that already has monitors, lenses, tripods, etc. will only need the body and maybe the hard drive system. It's like if I wanted the Nikon D3 SLR right now. I very well could buy just the body, because I already have all the lenses, tripods, SD cards, software, etc. that I'll need.

Really, it's not. The one thing I don't like about the Wired article is that it says that only the Red delivers film-like DoF. A Canon HV30 records at HD, 24p/30p/60i and costs $800. It's a consumer camera, so you won't get the low-light performance or good DoF, but it's big brother, the Canon XH-A1, is a $3200 camera with 3CCD and records at 24p/30p/60i and since it has three chips, you've got the good low-light performance there. To get short DoF on either of these cameras, you'll need to mount a lens - for that there are accessories for both the Canon HV20 and XH-A1, for about $1100. Add $50 for a prime lens (meaning you're sacrificing zoom for DoF, or add $400-600 for a zoom lens, and you've got some funky DoF (you do lose some about half an f-stop from the adaptor and whatever you'd lose from the lens.) The RED is a very good camera but it is still in the realm of "independent filmmakers" like Quentin Tarantino, not the realm of "independent filmmakers" like Joe380 on YouTube.

Jazz is older than rap, and it didn't have nearly as great an influx of shitty musicians as rap seemingly has now. Rap is much more vulnerable, because as it's going mainstream a lot of terrible musicians are coming out. I might give hip-hop a try, but I don't have high hopes. I've never heard a hip-hop song that sounded like anything akin to good music, if you know what I mean. I don't think the writing is good, I hate spoken poetry (it's killing good poetry), and the music itself is pretty bland.

Smooth Jazz? Lite FM? Hacks cranking out poor takes of standards? I'd say most jazz isn't great, just like any other genre of music. And, forgive me for being blunt, but you discredited yourself in another post saying you couldn't name more than two hip-hop artists, and in this one you state that, "as it's going mainstream a lot of terrible musicians are coming out." If it's not your bag, that's cool. It's not your bag. But to say that there's so many terrible ones without doing your homework and only knowing the names of two artists doesn't really seem credible. If you are interested, check out the artists I mentioned above. There's plenty of musical hip-hop, too, like The Roots. But, maybe it's just not your thing. If that's the case, I don't think it's fair to complain about the "influx of shitty musicians," **now**, unless you're into EPMD, Slick Rick, Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Eric B. & Rakim, et c. But I'm guessing you don't even know who those guys are.

How about Children of Men? A brilliant movie that got a lot less attention than it deserved.

Children of Men was alright, but the fact that Clive Owens has one liners like in Sin City or Shoot em up was very off putting for a serious movie.

i'm just going to slowly back away from this entire thread.

can I join you?

The whole entire fucking point of his art exhibition is to see if anyone will feed and/or take care of the dog. The dogs "death" is art, because it shows how people see something suffering but don't do anything about it.

Putting death in quotes implies that the dog's death is somehow fictional or symbolic. It is not.

It's sad that I've been getting downvoted here since it's really a common mistake. If I were to say that 50% of the population is below average height, I would obviously be wrong since more than that are below the average height since the distribution is skewed. Here's an example: we have 4 numbers, 10, 10, 10, and 290. The average of these 4 numbers (320/4) is 80. Would it be correct to say 50% of these numbers are above (or below) 80? Clearly not. That is exactly what is happening here, we have a vast majority of people who are of low intelligence (the 10's) and a very small number of people with high intelligence (the 290). It should be very, very clear that claiming 50% of the population is below average is a baseless claim.

As I said, that is only true if you regard intelligence to be a discrete value, he didn't mention any score (like IQ) with what he said, so he wasn't wrong, he was just giving a example.

We need to wait until the average judge was born after 1970.

At which point they'll make sane rulings about computers, but they'll be making a *complete* mess of our rights regarding Quantum Meta-Puppetry, or whatever technology has moved to by then. It seems to me that back when, on a good decade, you might get an innovation as profound as the cotton gin, the legal system was fairly able to keep up with the times. But as technological development has accelerated, the law has become, at times, completely incoherent. Technology doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon; if we don't fix the way our laws are written and interpreted, this problem can only get worse. That said, I have no idea how we can fix it.

Even if there were a way to achieve it without mass murder, a world with only 500M people would suck. The rest of the rules seem to come down to being an asshole. Instead of coming to a consensus, everyone is too virtuous to ever make compromises and they now the Truth without listening. I despair people who hate dissent, but I think even that type of inflexible thinking, where the majority is always right, is preferable to a reliance on virtue that refuses to acknowledge that any good can ever come from consensus.

1B would be a more reasonable number imo, but otherwise these commandments are spot on. Props to whoever came up with them.

The free market is people.

The free market is FREE people.

Totally rad! See kids, reading the bible is [cool](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1010/1010_01.asp).

I loved this part: "Jesus had to do something for us, it was Awful" This started to sound like a bit weird to me. Then the dog started praying and that is when I literally felt sick to my stomach.

[Hai.](http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/user/2/2471-59830-1197780961897jpg-noscale.jpg)

pyro is the same.

It seems a bit late to be suffering from Y2K bugs.. curious.

If that's a Y2K error, then that's even worse... their site thinks it 2108!

haha... so let me get this straight, you admit that you couldn't determine the intent or tone of the comment, and rather than 1) ignoring it or 2) give it the benefit of the doubt you choose to assume that it was a snide or incendiary rant and choose to rebut it with a wise-ass comment... ok I get it... I still don't see how one could see anything negative in the comment, even if one were to take the first two fragments as glib or sarcastic, I still don't see how you could make a logical jump at interpreting the third fragment as a smite against obama, not even a little... i don't get it... and i don't like the idea of namecalling, it in itself is moronic... but I must confess that it was my first thought after reading your comment, do I think you are a moron, no, i give all redditors the benefit of doubt... you'd be hard pressed to find many examples of dickery around here, but you reply would be cited as one, if even an example in its mildest of cases... and enough with the ellipses already! this topic has been covered ad nauseum here, we get it... but this isn't a dissertation, and ellipses do a wonderful job of illustrating breaks in thought especially in an informal format as internet comments... how about concentrating on the concepts... the bite-sized fragments make it easy to digest!

He really has a point about your use of ellipses. You're just simply using them wrong and it makes your posts look less intelligent. From now on, just use a period whenever you feel like putting an ellipses in there. Since ellipses means "incomplete thought" for most of its uses, you read like Jeff Goldblum talks, and Jeff Goldblum talks like he has brain damage. Quit it.

I believe this is actually the perfect time to use the phrase, "douché"

Is that like a combination of 'douche' and 'touché'?

I made this link and posted it here and I sent her the link in an email. The guy this happened to is my best friend. He called me sobbing on the phone after this happened and I wanted nothing more than to fucking HUMILIATE her. Here's a little extra information. They were talking together for about 6 months. She was deceiving him the entire time and even went so far as to create a fake Facebook page with more pictures of the original friend who let her use her Steam ID photo. Anyone who thinks that physical attraction has nothing to do with a healthy relationship is either ugly or an idiot. And for those of you that think it's mean... downvote and keep moving.

Nice try with the 'friend' business. Nearly got me tricked there. Let me chime in with the others : she is a stupid woman but you are not much better.

I'm not gonna have them watch those @ CHRISTMAS I'm not against showing this movie to my kid when I have one. But I'm not going to do it at Christmas.

Right, Easter is the holiday of death!

Google can't make an add-on and scripting system that is incapable of blocking ads. Adblocking is built upon the most basic operations...

Yes but they could find a way to stop developers from creating adblocking extensions, although the consumer backlash from that would be pretty severe I imagine.

I am endlessly amazed by the breadth of information that IT professionals *simply lack*. For example: Apparently in my office we aren't allowed to use OpenOffice anymore... *because it is incompatible with .doc/.xls file formats.* (This is patently false: Mind you, notice I did *NOT* say .docx/.xlsx).

To be fair, he was "I.T. oriented" which may mean that he's the guy who talks to the real IT employees when they come fix things.

My girlfriend attended L&C for all of about seven weeks a little over a year ago. She has nothing but the worst things to say about that college and is now happily attending PSU, for a fraction of the cost. I am neutral on the subject (haven't gone to either), but hope you have a better experience than she did.

Actually I am debating between LC and PSU at the moment. Honestly leaning toward PSU.

In that case I'll need to run out and grab a twelver...

Don't bother. I win.

*golf clap* Nicely done.

Indeed. Well played sir.

lol I have that book.

you should check if it's still in your room.

YTMND has an education council?

obviously

When I was looking for laptops two or three months ago, all the cheapest ones (almost all laptops under $900NZ) matched this spec. Celeron with 1gb ram. And having looked at Dick Smith's site (the biggest electronics retailer over here), it's still true. Vista's been out for a year and a half, and that's what they're selling it on. So I think it's fair to see it run on a real world configuration.

By Celeron, you mean Pentium M, then? (As, for all I know, it is a Celeron derivative.) Or perhaps "Centrino", as they sound similar? I thought you were referring to the Pentium 2 and 3 offshoot Celerons that topped off their lineage at 1GHz or so, which gave me a little chuckle. I actually ran Vista on my 500MHz 7-year-old Celeron a while ago, with all the graphical acceleration turned off; everything worked pretty well except for a few amazingly long, and completely unpredictable, delays that I was never able to work out the cause of (they came mostly when I had left the system idle on the desktop for a couple of minutes.) Vista works pretty well on my mother's year-old Pentium M 1.8GHz laptop (which does have 1GB RAM, if I recall.) I never noticed any particular slowdowns while I was setting it up, but I never ran any games on it, either.

That's why there's an [XKCD subreddit](http://reddit.com/r/xkcd), the discussion.

I hate you.

Cool, any idea how to break the outside lock? it's no fun if you have to break the window.

you don't need to. Bring a door stop, a rubber mallet, and a close hanger with you. Wedge the door stop in between the door and the post, near the top of the door, and give it a couple pounds with the rubber mallet. It will crack the door open far enough to use the coat hanger to either catch the handle or pull up the lock. Edit: if you get good at it, you can do it without harming the car, and open the door in about five seconds.

What a divisive debate. War will ensue.

In AD 2008, war was beginning.

"May the Force be with you." Yeah it's the most known. But a classic is a classic

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

Holder might have brought a new attitude to the case? The Obama DOJ may have made a political calculation about who gets hurt the most by this.

Agreed. Its strange but last night DOJ and FBI threatened to continue gag order, and this morning they completely back-down. It seems like last night someone check-mated someone else. Possibly they were risking her just breaking gag order and talking straight to the cameras live from courthouse steps. Probably Obama admin decided it just wasn't worth the political capital to fight this, probably better to go into CYA mode.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reportthespammers

Thank you!

forgy

Jizzed in my pants

This is a conservative tax grab. You see, even though they have driven Canada into a horrible deficit, they can't actually raise taxes because that would "look bad" so they will claim out of one side of their mouths that they are the party of "low taxes" while raising the EI premiums that will hit average working Canadians. Meanwhile the tax breaks for the rich and corporations continue.

Which is the baddest part of it all. It's a tax on the first $42k of income - a tax grab on the poorest Canadians. Those who earn $100k a year will hardly feel the pinch compared to those who earn 42k a year. Fuck the NDP for going along with the tax increases part of this. The GST should have been raised to 6% - it's the fairest way to increase government revenues.

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

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

Um, romanticize doesn't mean what you think it means.

Oh really? I was using the definition from Merriam-Webster. Is there another one you're thinking about? Maybe encyclopedia dramatica, or the urban dictionary?

linux ftw!

And mac os x too.

No shit? I lived in Divide.

Now I know why you thought I was a city slicker. Anyone outside of Divide with internet is a city slicker by comparison :) I don't remember really quite where the cabin was, but I remember going through Florissant, and remembering what a strange name for a town it was. I'm one of those idiots that wants to do all 54 14'ers. For me, I guess doing stupid stuff like that is in my blood. My dad was a pretty active member of the Colorado Ghost Towners back in the late 70s, 80s. I have one of his old tshirts, "Ghost Towners Do It In Ruins." He used to pan for gold too.

Nowadays the hot thing is the skinny Asian girl who has the body of a 12 year old boy.

Oh I'll get downvoted for this, but I think one of the allures of Asian chicks is their relatively strait and sparse pubic hair. It makes a mohawk when they dry off after a shower.

Not cool to call atheists foolish, dude. Unless you can show me a way to experience what you experience, don't go around blaming people for not perceiving the same shit as you. You assert something to someone who's never perceived it, and to them--if their convictions are different than yours--it's just your imaginings. That's the way my own mind works, at least, and I'm pretty sure that other people's minds are work the same, too.

Being an atheist might make a person almost immune to extrasensory perception. He might not be receptive to anything he simply refuses to believe in. I'm not sure exactly how it works. But a start has to be that you're open to new experience.

Nice idea but the studio has the rights. The best would be a subscription channel, but with a more democratic model so subscribers can put a wish list of favourite shows and the channel then has the possibility of commissioning episodes. The problem is that given costs, sets cannot be retained for long or actors retained on contract. Generally both are lost within weeks of production stopping.

_Nice idea but the studio has the rights._ That's why it's piracy. Lots of thing will probably happen first: internet-funded original shows, then lookalikes to popular canceled shows, then... Well once that happens people will be putting up torrents of the lookalikes spliced with the original openings anyway.

Well in this case, I need to get my mind off my ex. Looking for new sexual partner, a female between ages of 18 - 99 year's old!

that is quite the age range.. I don't think I would want to sleep with anyone in the 35-99 category (im 22).

Couple of questions a. how does offshore drilling "destroy" environments? b. china is already diagonally drilling in many of these offshore oil fields, essentially stealing our oil, and "destroying" our environment. Do you suggest we let them exhaust these fields, without taking any for ourselves?

China is drilling diagonally off Florida?

I am highly skeptical that hundreds of people work on the investigation of a small private jet crash. Nor do I share your enthusiasm for the perfection of such investigations. Particularly when there is no in-fight recorder, it seems like it would be very difficult to know 100% what happened based entirely on exploded ruins. It would be helpful if you could point me to cases where the FAA found there was wrong doing. I am aware of no such cases. Should we conclude that no one in America has ever tried it, or that investigations occasionally may miss it? Isn't it at least possible that an expert could design a method that is rather undetectable? You seem to think that everyone out there is courageous/foolish enough to whistleblow. When whistleblowers tend to often be ignored by corporate media and have an alarming suicide rate, are you really surprised that not that many people speak up? Let me ask you, do you find any political deaths suspicious or is the government word true in every aspect? Do you, for instance, think the Anthrax investigation was thoroughly concluded? Or does America just have this wonderous magical property, the only place in the history of the world where no man is killed for political reasons?

Let me quickly address some of your points. Exploded ruins are meticulously collected and sorted and are the most important factor in determining what happens in air accident -- generally more important than a data recorder. If no cases of assassination by airplane explosion have been recorded, perhaps it is because it is an expensive, risky and unreliable method of killing someone compared to a "bungled robbery" or "suicide". As for whistleblowers, if White House staffers are willing to disclose their superiors' misconduct regarding sexual matters, then a suspect staffers disclosing cold-blooded murder is not out of the question. In any case, these are all interesting arguments. What they're not is positive evidence of wrongdoing. As is usually the case with conspiracy theories, that's what's wholly lacking. It's a good reason to believe that conspiracy theories come about by seeing agency where there isn't any, just like any other superstition. Evidently, the perception of agency increases with decreasing control over events. Nothing can be proved either way, which is why I'm stressing the likelihood assessment. That Karl Rove assassinated Connell by blowing up his airplane is fantastically unlikely. You are of course free to speculate that a crack CIA operative was personally employed by Karl Rove to construct and plant a bomb without leaving any trace of evidence to assassinate an American citizen who posed a minor political threat to the Bush administration. But it is and should be considered foolish.

Seriously ladies, can you please wear a uniform "I have a boyfriend" designator? Perhaps a bracelet? A t-shirt?

Reply: "That's cool. You'll have to tell me all about him after I fuck your mouth."

**David Lynch**

He fucked with dune. I can't forgive that.

I tried it last weekend, took it at 8pm, went to a birthday party at a bar, did a little drinking and a little dancing till 3. I was still good to go but sitting in the cab I noticed I was tired, but had not compulsion to go to bed. I got home surfed the net for an hour and half, I was really tired but still no compulsion to sleep, I decided to go to bed anyways since I wasn't doing anything productive. Slept like a frikkin baby, till the lack of drapes in my new bedroom and the sun's insistence of rising consistently south of my house woke me a few hours later. Was able to function normally through out the day, no caffeine required.

So.... This stuff makes the sun rise in the south?

could you elaborate on how you feel a public option would be worse than the status quo?

Upmodded you for asking an honest question. A public option, like insurance, creates a commons. Any commons has to be regulated to work, otherwise it will be overused, abused and eventually fail. The problem with the public option is that, even ignoring the fact that it is arguably immoral to force me to effectively do business with anyone that I do not wish to, it will suffer the same ill effects as insurance. So assuming it is the same AND more tyrranical, why do it? The reason insurance is perhaps superior is because it is supposed to be all about *risk*, not routine. If we were using it properly to mitigate risk instead of providing a common good, prices would be lower across the board. It is a fault of government attempting to turn insurance into something it is not well disposed to that prices are now so high. Medicare is a good example of this. Compared to the 2.2% growth in consumption of GDP per capita of health insurance, increasing medicare expenditures make it look like a joke. If the government really cared about costs, the least they could do would be to stop taxing this industry and eliminate the compulsory subsidies. Where you might see the government trying to help people, others in big business will see $$$ with less accountability and they will milk it for everything it's worth. Look at how the taxpayer is being absolutely sucked dry by private industry in Iraq. Do you think the people themselves would create such ludicrous profit incentives? Why is it that prices are far more reasonable in unregulated markets and that all the "screwing" being done by corporations is in those highly regulated industries? Could it be because the regulated industry attracts the very type of greedy rent seekers who want profit without responsibility, and know more about getting around the regulations via loopholes than their actual trade? You put an honest businessman to such crafty ends, and you shouldn't be surprised that he becomes a dishonest one in short shrift.

It's the intro for POLICE SQUAD! (in color). Naked Gun came six years later, and was actually subtitled "From the Files of Police Squad." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Squad!

[Nope!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm_t3g4RhpY)

This, but I find a mug of boiling water works better. I've flushed a bastard flea down the toilet before and it's somehow still been in the bowl afterwards wriggling around.

Just a half hour ago there was a wasp in the window. I opened the window hoping it'd fly out and then left the room. I came back and he was gone so I was all happy that he'd gotten out. I'm taking a sip of my espresso and a big old mushy pile of grinds hits my lips and I'm like 'ew gross wtf' and I look down and **holy shit** the wasp was there in my coffee. I almost swallowed the bastard! So I dump the (still really hot) espresso out the window and a few minutes later I look out and god damned if that wasp wasn't gone. I believe he dried off and was somehow still alive and flew off! Insects are hard core mother fuckers.

Subscribing now as well. Reddit has seemed to be evolving very quickly in recent weeks though only time will tell if it's in a good direction. I truly hope it is but will remain cautiously optimistic.

Do you think so? What other signs of evolution do you see?

Yeah, I've definitely been a lurker for about a year now but rarely comment on things. I like to just check the site daily but usually don't talk much. Kinda sucks, I guess I'll have to spam comments to get an invite.

opposite for me, I need to AGE!

budum chsh.

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Fine. Let me revise that statement. Actually, I think it's good the way it is, since "every bloody post" was hyperbole. They're still pointing out to everyone that they're women, like they think it's some big deal. Do you know how many times I've seen the phrase "as a man" online? Zero times, that's how many times.

[as a man](http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%22as+a+man%22): 7550 hits [as a woman](http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%22as+a+woman%22): 10800 hits

Ok.. I realize that some people might have sensitve data (Credit card info, friend and family stuff.. I dunno, Financial stuff).. Why are people worried about being searched? Then I also realize that people have some basic rights.. like don't search unless you have reasonable doubt etc.. I'm just a little confused here, someone help me out?

To me it's a matter of principle. Most people could just leave their laptop at home but they shouldn't have to. People shouldn't have to worry about government basically stealing their private information without cause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

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Cuff him to a chair and shart on him.

That's one session that you can get through stone-faced.

Provided you're experienced enough to perform a one handed removal of her over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder.

WTF you want a SPOILER ALERT or something?

No, I just don't understand why this is being upvoted. He quoted the comic. That's all he did. We already read the comic. Why do you need to read a quote from a comic you just read?

In the US perhaps. Civilised countries like Canada and Sweden rarely, if ever, use this barbarism. ECT is like hitting a broken-down car with a hammer and expecting to make it go.

Obviously you have never seen it done. I watched a few ECT sessions in nursing school. The patient is under general anesthesia and doesn't feel a thing, other than a little groggy when they wake up, and results are actually really good. I spoke with a few patients after their sessions and they felt a lot better.

That's because our paper comes from the US, Asian TV manufacturers think Canada = USA, so they should use inches, there are a lot of old people who don't yet know the metric system, and Starbucks is American.

I believe TV screens and car tires are still expressed in inches world wide, maybe bike tires also.

I'll grant you that he made a bad choice in trying to talk to that giant douchebag Chreighton, but beyond that, I'm waiting on this 'makes stuff up" and "keeps storming out" The walking out on Chreighton happened because he continuously called into question Suzuki's scientific background, whereas good old mike is a FICTION writter. I will say again, it showed poor judgement for Suzuki to agree to that.

the interview was with John Oakley. Also a giant douchebag but not a fiction writer. I'm baking muffins now but maybe later I will hunt for the bs article i read by him (or maybe it was just by someone at his foundation) about Colony Collapse Disorder.

Next it will be the lolcats weighing in...I can haz bailout?

http://lolfed.com/

Wow...I feel like a moron. "Is Odyssey spelled wrong? Is that the joke?" *google Odyssey* "Hmm, no. Maybe the teacher is wrong?" *google Telemachus* "Nope, right on that count. Maybe....oh..." *facepalm*

Oh God.. For the whole time I assumed the teacher was just wrong or something, until your comment just left me confused. A minute later I still hadn't gotten it, until I reflected on your *facepalm*. Then I looked back at [my comment](http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/9bxl1/epic_fail/c0c7cdv) that I just left, and... wow. Just wow. I feel way too slow now

Were you referring to the titling of my post? Ha-ha is correct punctuation when using it formally.

No, at how "genuinely" was spelled

I think you misunderstand constipation...

Yeah, but it wouldn't have fit any other way.

n=1583? really? That seems incredibly small to make any sort of judgement. It should be like, n=50,000!

It comes down to statistics. If the basic statistical assumptions are met (random sampling being a key one) then according to this calculator: http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm a sample size of 1500 in a population of 33 million (or 20 million voters), means that people answering a question 30% in favour will be within 2.3% points of being accurate 95% of the time and within 3% of being correct 99% of the time. However, the results of individual regions or provinces are subject to a larger error because the sample size in any given province is lower. So for Ontario, this survey would be within 3.4%, 95% of the time. Results from this survey limited to Nova Scotia responses would have a range of error would be more like 9% (plus or minus) because the number of Nova Scotians surveyed would be much smaller. Typically, if you are surveying less than 500 people from a large population, the results can have a large potential error.

just like its not stealing if someone leaves their door open right? Edit: So, in a word, yes i have :P

Bad analogy, this one is more like "Its not trespassing if someone builds a sidewalk through their yard"

Old I know, not a FFFFFFFUUUUUUU but still most certainly a rage comic

I could care less if it's old. I've seen a dozen times and I still cracked up whilst eating my blueberry muffin.

You've given double payout for the tails case by repeating the bet only when tails is the result. This surely is a weighted bet and the optimal wager does not necessarily square with the odds.

I'm not sure I understand your argument (my English might be broken). Could you point at where I've gone wrong in my code?

Either way, the score of NE vs. Miami will still be something along the lines of 52-7. Miami wouldn't have beaten NE. Not possible.

You never know. Some amazing things can happen in sports. Not that it's very likely, but still :)

One I found in a bathroom reader long ago: Some friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise the funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, the rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. He asked his mother to go and ask the friars to get out of business. They ignored her, too. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town, to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close shop. Terrified, the friars did so, thereby proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

ha ha ha that one gave me a real hearty laugh. 1 internet for you, good sir!

What was the kid to chaperone ratio? What day of the week was it? 60 unsupervised kids on a normally busy day could easily be a problem. These kids were probably running wild and not respecting the other people trying to use the pool. Race may have made them stick out easier, but most likely it was the behavior of the kids that caused the problem.

I can't comment for Pennslyvania, but Washington state law has a max of 15 kids/1 chaperone for groups like this.

And they'll get this magical new internet into your house...how? The cable companies and telcos own the pipes; if they don't want the internet to be neutral, it's not like a new one can just spring up in its place.

In Canada, the people who own the pipes are required to sell access to third parties who then act as competition. It's designed to prevent exactly this sort of monopolistic practice.

You wonder what my point is? I said it loud and clear: marijuana is not "harmless", "safe" or "never killed". You cannot say that about any drug so stop using those words. Use words like "safer than (alcohol)".

Actually, in the not kill category, I beg you to find one case of a medically conclusive overdose from pot. Doesn't exist. If your going to argue getting high and getting in a car and driving, well, that's as stupid as alcohol or any other means by which you impaired and unable to operate machinery, but we're not going back to alcohol prohibition either. Also, pot does not cause cancer, not one case has been linked, ever, and in fact THC has early indications that it is works much like anti-oxidants as an effective free-radical killer within the body/lungs. The number one effect caused by pot usage in the form of smoking, bronchitis. Do the research, it's true.

Depends on what you mean by "good" -- more artsy? Popular? Die Feuerzangenbowle, even though it's pretty vapid and dated, is still very popular and funny. Some more popular ones (not really sorted by age or genre) that I really liked: - Lola Rennt - M - Goodbye, Lenin - Das Boot - Der Untergang (gotta enjoy a love story with a happy ending) - Nosferatu, Metropolis (you won't get around subtitles :-) - Stalingrad - Die Blechtrommel Most of those should be readily available with subtitles. Not seen Himmel über Berlin but I'm told it's pretty good. The thing to remember about German flicks is that an equal proportion of them as in the U.S. are, to put it frankly, pretty awful. It's just that the German film industry is smaller, so the real stinkers don't make it to release as often. Amazon has a cool list here: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Mans-Guide-German-Films/lm/1RESW6WN20PNJ

* Haven't actually seen it, but I hear "Das Leben der Anderen" (=The Lives of Others) is supposed to be good. * I've heard good things about "Das Experiment", but haven't seen that either. * The same goes for "Sonnenallee". * Then of course there's ["Nach Fünf im Urwald"](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nach_F%C3%BCnf_im_Urwald), a stoner flick if there ever was one, featuring the actress from the first two Bourne movies. * The ["Comedian Harmonists"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128133/) movie is pretty good, and it's based upon a true story. * Also, don't miss ["Coming Out"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Out_(1989_film%29), probably East Germany's only film openly addressing homosexuality, shot before the fall of the iron curtain. * The first truly mainstream German film about homosexuality was ["Der Bewegte Mann"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_bewegte_Mann), a comedy which was a nationwide block-buster in Germany in 1994. * * As an aside, "Der Bewegte Mann" was a film adaptation of a pair of German gay graphic novels. The same comic artist also created an even zanier comic book called "Kondom des Grauens" (The Killer Condom), which was [also made into a film](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Condom). That film is much edgier, pretty trashy, located firmly in the so-bad-it's-good category, with quite a bit of porn chic. But hey, H.R. Giger was consulted for the artwork/design of the killer condom. Your choice. * For the straight male peeping Tom, there are of course the [Schulmädchen-Report](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulm%C3%A4dchen-Report) films. They really are soft porn though, so avoid if that's not to your taste. * The somewhat quirky ["Herr Lehmann"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr_Lehmann) was a decent enough film, ironically and sardonically capturing quite a bit of the zeitgeist in West Berlin when the Berlin wall came down (though it's chiefly not about the fall of the iron curtain). * I can't believe I forgot to mention [Schtonk!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schtonk!), a black comedy based upon the [Hitler diaries scandal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries). The same director had also previously made an (unrelated) iconic [TV series](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090465/) that's hilariously over-the-top. * [Der Schwarzfahrer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzfahrer) is a German short film which won an Academy Award in 1993. When I think of film and Germany, I also think of the vastly underappreciated "Max", but Max is not actually a German film, though it is about a *\*\*cough\*\** uniquely German subject. *[Ceterum censeo](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ceterum_censeo) I want to get the sorting feature for my comments back, and I'm pissed that reddit ever took that away. [Pass it on.](http://tinyurl.com/pastebin)* PS: I got a lot of the above from [this list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:German_films). PPS: [Bonus flick](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3934788900154749704) from the German satirical TV show [extra drei](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_3) (aka "extra dry").

Why does just about everyone who says "hear hear" instead say "here here"? On the same note, why do so many people confuse their theirs, they'res, and theres?

Phonetic speak has taken over English; and we're teaching even less grammar than usual. I used to think I got my schooling early enough to avoid the worst of the damage, but even I had to travel abroad and see English-for-French-speakers texts to learn about things I didn't know existed (as named entities), such as "phrasal verbs". For example, "to set up" is a phrasal verb; it has a completely different meaning than "to set off", or "to set upon". And the prepositions are working with the verb, not as prepositional phrases. And since native speakers are unaware of this grammatical term, they don't have the tools to learn details like "set up" only occurs as a verb, and "setup" only occurs as a noun. There, I've ruined you. Now you'll be seeing these sorts of mistakes everywhere, even in supposedly well-edited newspapers. Aaargh! On a side note, I've noticed that I make more phonetic-based spelling mistakes as I get older. I'll be typing, and think, how could I have done *that*?? So my theory is, you achieve a certain level of proficiency, and once you pass 30, you start losing ground from whatever your high-water mark was.

You are wrong on most of the statements you made. I was once a Mormon, no longer am (I'm a very outspoken atheist and opponent to all religion and religious superstitious thinking). Having said this let me clarify where you're a bit off in your accusations. Native Americans: Mormons don't believe they are the children of Satan. Mormons don't believe Satan can even have children because he doesn't have a physical body. They DO however believe that they are dark skinned because they were cursed by god to become a "loathesome" people. The reference for this is found in 2 Nephi. Look at verses 20-25 http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_ne/5 Most Mormons, like other religions, ignore this verse these days and consider it an issue of the past that no longer holds any relevance despite the fact that there are still dark skinned people in the world. The reason why Blacks are black: You're kind of right here. It's not openly taught but many of the early prophets in the church did say that they are born into black families because of their actions in the war in heaven. The reason blacks are black follows the same reasoning as the passage about the American Indians. Someone was bad, god cursed them and their decendents with black skin. As for becoming minor gods. There is no mention of becoming "minor" gods. They believe they will become every bit as god like as "god" himself (This is a major theme throughout their temple ceremonies). There is no mention of sex in the afterlife although it is implied. The method by which spirit children is created is a total nonissue to Mormons. They're more interested in becoming like God and doing what he does. It's clear you've read a few things here and there and have a general notion that you kinda think you know what mormons believe, but to someone who actually knows and has studied it his entire life (up until about 10 years ago) you don't know as much as you think you know.

I know as much as I know and that is all I know. You know?

i dont get it. can someone help me out?

Gabe Newell is fat.

Grow a pair? I'm sorry for not being an alarmist and accepting that, within a reasonable distance of an international border, border patrol may operate. The stops jon_k mentions are excessive. But are chiefly the result of reactionary jingoistic nationalists and often the result of the bush admin tasking local authorities with for enforcing immigration laws. This guy in the video is generally being a jackass. He's yelling through a closed window, taking pictures. If things were really anything as drastic as he (and you?) wishes, he would have been forced from his vehicle and arrested. You may want to see if you can find where this video was posted here several months ago, some other border residents make some very valid points about this guy and the legality of these stops.

That's the point gerbal, we need to treat our law enforcement with suspicion. This is how tyranny is avoided, and is a great way to exercise the people's check on the government, and the executive specifically.

Pretty much the only comic on the site that's SFW. Browser beware.

I dunno what you saw, but the two previous comics were AWESOME.

Oh. I was looking for something a little more sophisticated than that. I should have realised that explosm and sophisticated don't go together.

Quite.

Well, can't argue with your taste, but as far as submitting; if you try to submit a duplicate link, it tells you that it's already been submitted. Don't you have any particular interests that you could submit about? Like geology or movies or photography? Those could all be submitted to a sub-reddit and would reach people who are similarly interested.

Perhaps... maybe I should start submitting things.

I do not debate children. Good day.

cause God knows someone who's worked in a law school on copyright issues at phd level is a child. edited to include link to relevant legal case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985)