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syringe, door hinge, orphans, porridge...

At best those are ["near" rhymes.](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/off+rhyme) At worst... Orphans? I would like to see your attempts to rhyme "purple" and "silver" next.

fuck me, you've still got your own memories haven't you? do you really need to ensure everything remains recorded for posterity? the nature of existence is impermanence.

You don't have kids. My family photos are my most cherished possession.

don't know about that once I found out he was a fundamentalist and believed in creationism I see him as a smart GW Bush and we had wayyyyyyy to much of that fool.

That's a ridiculous reason to throw him out. He doesn't have a single policy that would force you to go to church or would kill scientific research (well, maybe his extreme fiscal conservatism). You severely need help with the way you make decisions.

Nah, brains are loaded in saturated fat, as in wring-it-out loaded.

still, it's not corporate food!

That are you have a serious anorexia problem.

Your sentence doesn't make sense.

Am I the only one that thinks Questionable Content is the least consistent of the more popular web comics... in terms of both art and level of humor. It will go through long stretches of being completely not funny... then be funny for a while... and the art... I mean hit "random" and you tell me if it even looks like the same comic. also... no matter how hard I try to like it, it just comes off as trying too hard to be hip... I dunno.

The whole strip has been a long stretch of completely not funny

Got to see a touring "robot wars" thing last year at Maker Faire Austin. I now understand how people get worked up over things like football and hockey..... I lost control and wanted blood.

I love the fights Where part fly across the arena floor Like Ziggo Vs Shike Or Nightmare vs Biohazard. Or Hazard Vs anything. I've only seen a few episode of robot wars when it was on TechTV but I love the house robots. I'm trying to remember that one house robot with the flamethrower I loved it when he toasted some poor robot. three cheers for Razor and Hypnodisk the best bots on the show.

So I've been looking for a new apartment. I've checked the paper, the phone book, and drove around for a few hours with little luck. I know there *must* be some awesome online sites besides Craigslist that I don't know about, right?

Where are you at? There are usually local ones that are pretty good. I'm in Southern California and used one called Westside Rentals. There are also apartment hunters that you pay to find you nice ones in your price range and area as well.

http://www.reddit.com/user/xkcd

Whoosh!

People here care about every single release *they* make?

Flash is like, the second or third most important runtime in desktop computing, right behind your browser.

How many DBZ characters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Only one, but it takes him 20 episodes.

I thought it took over 9,000?

Also [12 Monkeys](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=322uZ5OO-WE) by Terry Gilliam, but I prefer Brazil. ;-)

Brazil: If god was captured on film.

Well, for one thing a teacher can take steps to make sure that you have (or haven't) learned things their way. Testing, grades, etc. But so far as auto-didacticism is concerned, the big difference is that the auto-didact takes more responsibility for what they learn than the student typically will. Which means that a conscientious auto-didact doesn't learn from one book, but reads multiple books and reasons out from that the truest or most practical knowledge. A good auto-didact will be more skeptical of the chosen book than students can usually afford to be with their teachers.

I said attend, not enroll. That may be the wrong word, but what I meant was that you simply find some relevant lectures and then you sit and listen. No need for testing, and you don't have to care about grades. It should be possible; even if the university's management doesn't care much for it, the lecturers rarely care much about it. They usually realise that knowledge is a public good. When it comes to the argument that the autodidact takes more responsibility, and is generally just some kind of angel, that's just pure unadulterated rubbish. First of all because you qualify it with the word "conscientious," which you just as well could do with a student; a conscientious student doesn't learn from one book, but reads multiple books and reasons out from that the truest or most practical knowledge. In my experience, conscientious students take a lot of responsibility for what they learn. Most of the autodidacts I've met exhibit a lack of the ability to take a critical attitude towards what they read, and they also usually misunderstand all of it if it is convoluted in metaphor; they take the metaphors literally, and this is why so many people walk around believing evolution is some kind of semi-conscious force that "selects" the most worthy mutation, or why so many people have started babbling on about eleven spatial dimensions as if they were real, and as if we were able to know anything at all about them. Books, who are silent about their authority, have more of it than men who have to earn it. So I ask you again: What is the difference between a book and a teacher (or, rather, going to a lecture) in this respect?

Why is that logical? Are emissions due to human respiration at all significant compared to the amount emitted by human industry? Would such a system be practical at all? Or is it merely a useful fear-mongering device?

You raise quite reasonable objections to the scheme I've described above. But take into account that: more and more often CO2 is called an "emissions" and a "pollutant" endangering the Global Climate (even in the "The Noble Laureate" blog); and people emit CO2. How significant is an impact of people breathing is not so important, more important that once the out-of-control looters start taxing industrial CO2 emissions they might well proceed with taxing cars, gas ovens, cows, etc. That might sound like an over exaggeration but still... those looters have a bad history record behind them to trust them regulating even financial CEO bonuses, let alone the CO2 emissions.

Yes there are. Nothing wrong with us.

Me too. It's no work of art, but Friends was good clean fun. Also, it was one of the first gay-friendly shows on TV.

**Quentin Tarantino**

Overrated. His movies all feel the same just with different plots/actors. They're all broken up into chapters, have hyper-cool dialogue that just becomes obnoxious, feature gratuitous violence just to shock, and the list goes on. I'd be more impressed with Tarantino if he tried to make a film like Eternal Sunshine...and failed rather than just make another "Tarantino" movie.

this is reddit. we'd all move to Canada!

New Zealand for me...

first of all there is a difference between creationism and intelligent design (but im not going into that.) Secondly, at least the notion of a creator is logically consistent with reality. for example consider the Kalam cosmological argument, "everything that begins to exist has a cause, the universe began to exist, therefore the universe has a cause." if the universe has a cause it must have a causer. Creationism in that sense is consistent. Not only is there a problem with evolution in the sense that lifeless matter becomes intelligent, but that it does so with causal powers which are incumbent only with a powerful creator. Besides the problems of infinite regress (either concerning time or alternate universes) evolution has no logical consistent means of beginning with matter or transitioning from lifeless matter to intelligent matter. Thus, in that context the idea of some creator is not ridiculous

a) the universe might not have had a beginning. it also may be its own beginning. your premise is flawed. b) if the universe needs a causer then the causer needs a causer. ad infinitum. c) intelligent designers and creationists both deny evolutionary theory. why can't there be a creator/designer the used evolutionary methods to create a diverse spectrum of life?

I promised myself I wouldn't swear. Here it goes. This woman went through hell. She lost a baby. She lost her job. And all you can think to say about it is, "lucky she's a woman?" Her gender has nothing to do with it. She was convicted of bogus charges and when it overturned she still had lost her baby and her liscense to teach. That is horrible for anyone! Do you know what it's like to lose a child? How about losing a career? And all you can think of is "her". Her. Her. Horrid.

Sigh. I'm guessing that she wouldn't have gained so much sympathy had she been a man. That's all. Okay, do I have to explicate everything I say?

The maths in that paper is trivial. Basic algebra, and some not terribly complicated arithmatic. Nobody entering university with for a maths based course would have much trouble with those questions. It doesn't have any questions about calculus, for example. More importantly, most of those arithmatic problems are no longer very relevant, not when we have calculators.

The first algebra question, is the answer 15? I'm awful at maths, but unless I'm missing something, that's pretty easy...

He accidentally the verb.

The whole verb?

What a horrible website. It took me to a full page ad and then to the front page after I clicked "skip our stupid ad."

It doesn't do that the second time you click the link, but I agree; that is poor designing.

Victim? No, no, not a victim...

I feel both disgusted and amused...odd.

[This is what I see](http://imgur.com/XwAHD.png) It looks like that for me in Chrome and Firefox. Running Windows XP SP2

Yes that is what I see too. I was beiπg sarcastic about them lookiπg πothing alike. Iπ fact I even substituted n for π iπ the word "πothing" in my above comment.

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Thomas Jefferson

**"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."** This is the single most important piece of wisdom known to the freeman.

I think I've had enough L'il John for a hundred lifetimes. The crossover of his graphic sex lyrics into mainstream is annoying. You would not believe where his art shows up. I truly admire the production values of his ilk, the recordings sound great and they are very talented, but getting so much mileage out of what are basically pornographic penis and vagina and body fluid lyrics is wearing to me and I sort of fear for the less sophisticated who get their Lil John fix and then their art life is complete. Much has been written about the rabble and the vulgar herd. Today in the brainwashing climate of globalization, there is contempt for order, contempt for intelligence, real contempt for hard work at difficult university or those who have gone that path. The media keeps sending the messages to excite and entitle the herd. Meanwhile, ideas like "production" do not exist and people continue to lose their jobs and get demoted to survivalism and "service" industries. Yes, Lil John, make your bank and ride the country downhill. Some days I anticipate when the Lil Johners actually need intelligent services, like a doctor, and find there is none available. Basically... I mean.... it is enough to make one want to exist in private environments... far from the maddening crowd

Dear Friend, I agree; we must eliminate rap music to save the US health care system. I have already dispatched my associate Chicken Little to inform the president. Make haste little one!

The ferry range of an F22 is 3219km according to Wikipedia. The distance from San Francisco to Tokyo is 8286km. Maybe they stop in Alaska to refuel.

I would think either air-to-air like bonked said above you or they would land in Hawaii. Alaska is kind of out of the way.

The irony is that Seiken Densetsu was released in '91 on game boy. Also, I cannot look at any rendition of that character without seeing [unusually round-faced baldy](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Jerryholkins20090209.jpg) instead.

They could have meant its sequel, which was indeed released on the SNES... in 1993.

I've never understood the desire to partition, unless to dual boot.

It keeps your system stuff and your personal stuff separate. If you accidentally bork your operating system, you won't lose anything of any importance. Also allows you to do a fresh installation as opposed to an upgrade when you eventually upgrade your OS, without much fuss.

Return of the Instain Mother.

What was he actually trying to say ?

Well the title is Unification, so it's probably about the [Grand unification theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_unification_theory) considering that Abstruse Goose likes physics. I don't really know what S, W and EM stand for though. I guess the unification theory all works out until you start considering gravity (Mister G who comes to fuck things up in the comic) in the equation.

Strong, Weak, and Electro-Magnetic. Those three forces are all alarmingly strong when compared to Gravity; unfortunately, no current "grand unification theory" can actually mash those three together with gravity and still work.

I hate Mensa members who refer to themselves as Mensans and talk about what books Mensans should have on their shelves.

The proper term for Mensa members is "Menses".

Normally I don't think of movies as being "too smart" for someone, but in this case it is.

I like Primer (and own it), but it is painfully slow (especially before the time-travelling starts). Makes it hard to enjoy if you're not just *really* in the mood to watch it.

You only consider things that *seem* to exist? So where did you get the idea that you could be anything other than human? What *seemed* to exist more about that idea than Santa Claus? The point is, the only reason I can't prove you wrong is because there's no proof that you *are* wrong. Of course we could all be in a giant virtual reality booth, or you could be ruler of 10 dimensions. And a metaphysical race of unicorns could be moving our hands and feet like puppets while giving us the illusion of free will. But why would you even consider these to be possible? You can't prove *anything* is impossible, so why consider the ridiculous to be true? Again I ask, is your life so boring that with every interaction over the phone, you have to consider that the person may be a figment of your imagination presented by some other being, or a superpowerful version of yourself that controls reality? Hey dude, it's your mom. And she wants to know what you want for your birthday.

"So where did you get the idea that you could be anything other than human?" The fact that I have no way of knowing that anything exists outside of myself. "But why would you even consider these to be possible? " I don't. I don't know why you keep bringing up fairy tales and magical beings, it has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm saying. "Again I ask, is your life so boring that with every interaction over the phone, you have to consider that the person may be a figment of your imagination presented by some other being, or a superpowerful version of yourself that controls reality?" It has nothing to do with boredom, only higher intelligence. "Hey dude, it's your mom. And she wants to know what you want for your birthday." I want a Belgian Malinois. Oh forgot: "I can't prove you wrong is because there's no proof that you are wrong" Exactly.

Luckily, they don't live in the arctic.

How do you know?

Because iTunes is bloatware. You're in Steve's playground, so you gotta use his toys.

Since this is the top rated comment I'll reply to it to advertise for foobar2000, which is more lightweight and configurable than pretty much any other music player on the market can claim to be. Winamp, iTunes, and WMP included.

It's true. Exactly one week ago, I had heart attack (myocardial infarction) that almost killed me. And I mean that literally. I almost died. I'm an otherwise healthy 56 year old male. Last Sunday afternoon (4/19/09) I was cutting down a tree with my Stihl chainsaw, and moving some cut up logs with my wheelbarrow, when my breathing became really hard. REALLY hard. Then, moments later, I started sweating heavily. I say down and tried to assess myself... "Heart attack" came to mind, but it felt too - this can't be happening. A few minutes later, my chest began to tighten up, from shoulder to shoulder, it felt like a very heavy weight sitting on my chest and the pain started. I told my wife to call 911. We live in the woods of western NJ, but not "deep" in the woods, thankfully. She was scared terribly, but made the call. The operator asked the questions and told her to give me two baby aspirin to chew (we have them)and nothing to drink. The squad was on the way. I was on my back on the sofa gasping hard for breath. The chest pain was building 4/10... 5/10 and upward. One squad member showed up in his own car in minutes, checked my vitals, and a minute later a cop showed up with an 02 bottle. The EMT told me to try and slow my breathing, which I did. A few minutes later and the ambulance was there to take me to the hospital. I knew very clearly I might be dying. It hurt so bad I can't describe it. My body was shaking as if I had been dunked in ice water naked. Small details and delays aside, one hour later, I had a stent in my LAD (left anterior descending artery). They went in through the right groin area, and it saved my life. The doctor later told me that this is the worst kind of MI you can have. At the hospital, they call it the "widow maker". I was only in hospital 48 hours before I was completely stable and able to come home. I swear to you all, I was never afraid. I wasn't scared of dying. I just so very strongly did not want to leave my wife alone, I somehow fought and breathed my way through it all. Some of you who've "read me" before may recall that I was widowed in 1996 when my darling wife died from breast cancer. Credit me, credit the doctor, credit god, credit science, or whomever you want for sparing my life. I credit my wife for loving me. While I pretty much hate religion, I believe there is something going on more than pure science. Sorry if this pisses you off. I AM HERE, DAMMIT! And I can't wait to recover and cut down another friggin' tree and eats its bark. Thanks for listening.

Wow...that must have been quite the experience. Congratulations for getting through that and being strong the whole way through! Your wife must be very proud of you. I'm glad you're getting better :)

Why the fuck do people use tinyurl?

1. To obfuscate a URL to avoid dupe detection 2. Seriously? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014H16OM/ref=s9cartf_r1_img0-rfc_p-2814_g1_324683_18336_18336?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=1SEKD7FF7Z3XD4SQZBDX&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=358865301&pf_rd_i=507846

Do you make extensive use of the, "Upcoming" thing on the front page? It starts to show a second submission beneath the first submission after awhile, and then a second copy of that same submission, then a third, then a fourth, up to like 6 copies flowing down the page, and once you *get* to that submission, it won't move past it. It's not a big deal, but it makes me sad sometimes. I should report it some day.

I have no idea what you are talking about, do you have screenshots?

I've informed the Memery of this unforgivable infraction of §34 21:5 "No person shall posteth an antiquated meme, or otherwise old anecdote, unless on a presentment or authorization of the Superior Interweb Court."

upmodded out of pity.

This called for a techno remix. I call it [Booby Boob Vagina](http://micahpaul.net/crap/0907/boobyboobvagina.mp3). Enjoy! (Don't hate, that's all of 15 minutes of half-assed effort)

I installed gstreamer just to listen to that. Well worth it.

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Supposedly, it makes you less sensitive. Fellas, do you really want a more sensitive penis?

Just tell me who on earth never thought of banging his sister?

Sorry i never thought about banging my sister...not even once.

To anyone interested in this show - Please DONOT watch it in broadcast order. The right order to watch these episodes is here [List of Firefly episodes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_episodes) I think I watched the series 3 times before I ended up watching the movie. I seriously recommend watching the movie *after* the series. The movie is set 6 months after the series ends. A comic was also released covering the story between the series and the movie. Acting, effects, story, direction are all awesome. The characterization is beyond excellent and the dialogue fantastic. I am an unabashed fanboy, in case you didn't notice.

As soon as the baddie was kicked into the engine, I knew it was my kinda series. You know the bit I mean.

I was led to believ3 that that meme is a little old by now.

LOL, a meme get old? I know 9000 old memes and could easily do 100 memes a day.

I live in the UK and have never heard of this receipt checking nonsense.

They do it in PC World. The fucks. Well, they *try*.

I'll reply, even though it seems clear that you have made up your mind, no matter what the facts may be. It's funny actually; you've got very strong feelings about something that you seem to know very little about. I wonder why? Some very shallow research would answer your questions, but I fear that you'd just prefer your certitude, incorrect though it is, rather than revise your opinion. Remember, you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. It can be hard for us to tell the difference sometimes, especially when emotion is involved (cutting to close to the bone). I don't have any single organic standard memorized, or even available in front of me. As I tried to express, they are highly complicated, rigorous, and perhaps even baroque. I might even suggest that they are inefficiently so, but that's another discussion. They also vary by region, certifier, and sector (butchery is different than cranberry growing, obviously). But some examples: one may not put petroleum-derived or other synthetics onto crops for fertilizer. Organic-classified meat must be fed with organic inputs. You can't spray toxic pesticides on organic crops and then feed them to people. Water sources must be relatively clean. A controversial one: you may not feed anti-biotics to sick animals that are to be soon harvested or used for food (like milking a cow). In general, the burden of proof is for the producer to prove that the food is SAFE and CLEAN, rather than the other way, where the government has to try and prove that food isn't safe... which is harder, and of course more likely to be abused. Especially when industry lobbyists get enforcement budgets cut. Do I have reason to believe correlation? Yes. Though I think it's an imperfect system, and there are probably ways to game it, find loopholes, perhaps even to bribe the folks with the clipboards (none of which, by the way are in any way unique to the organic system) -- I still think it's on the whole better than not, all things being equal. I'm not sure why this is controversial to you... would you rather buy a sealed-in-plastic bottle of water from "Poland Springs" or a tin-cup of water from some dude on the street in Mexico City? You probably trust that there are systems in place to make sure that the bottle is clean and safe, whereas the dude might just be some dude. Same thing for organics: it's a regulated standard of trust. Organic is basically saying "this food is clean". It's not saying that it tastes better, or that the workers were more well paid, or that it is more nutritious, or that the farmer is a nicer person. There probably is a cultural and non-causative correlation on these things, which is strictly coincidental or secondary (nutrition does derive from clean and sustainable practices). But the cleanliness and "right-ness" matters, yes. I'm a city boy who has lived recently on an organic farm, and visited many, and have learned a lot. I saw the animals on organic farms and saw them on industrial farms. The latter made me feel awful and full of guilt and sorrow, the former made me feel ok about the enterprise of raising animals for our food convenience. I've seen scientific (and anecdotal) studies that show a human health correlation, yes. And the environmental benefits are pretty starkly obvious, too. Organic farms tend to increase fertility and vitality in the soil... they tend to be net value producers. Industrial farming tends to be metaphorically the same as strip-mining. Note again that I said that there is a middle-way. Non-destructive sustainable farming that does not happen to be organic. I'm totally cool with this and buy most of my food from this category... because I have other means to gauge the provenance of the food. If you don't (say, it's coming on a plane from CA) the label helps. So-called "conventional" agriculture is a convention that is about 50 years old. Sometimes younger. What is called "organic" is thousands of years old... it's not some kind of foo-foo hippy crap. It's the old way, the right way, the long-term-thinking way. And yes, it's good business. What you said in your second paragraph might be what some do, and no-doubt, that's what Dole will do when they get into "Organic" but that is not the purpose of the standards. At least not yet... but there are indeed powerful interests who would like it to become that. In my experience, there is nothing "minimum" about organic standards... in fact they're pretty difficult to achieve. As I said, it's expensive and exhaustive. Also, careful with that word "efficient". Factory farms are only efficient if you look with a strange set of pre-conditions. Sustainable farming is by definition efficient: it produces more than it consumes.

Wow. You took the effort to type a giant post attempting to refute my request for references - and yet you didn't include a single reference or concrete number, just vague warm-and-fuzzy generalities. Let me try again with another, more specific question: What makes you think that any specific set of "organic" farming standards leads to sustainable farming?

If you kept reading, you'd see that they cover that.

Which I did, and I did notice, but they dismiss the fact as though it doesn't matter. How can someone possibly provide a thorough analysis of dreams when most dreams aren't remembered? How do they know that most dreams are "nightmares" if people don't know what they even dreamt?

Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not a source, and it's a crappy storage medium at that.

For the immediate future, it's the best we have. Ethanol is proving itself to be, repeatedly, a bad idea. Solar for vehicles is far from practical with current technology. Natural Gas is a finite resource that's running out just as fast as oil. Do you have a better suggestion? I'd love to hear it.

A show that spanned 15 years from initial pilot to last movie is bound to have inconsistencies. Most of the production staff of the show had nothing to do with the movies, and there were probably hundreds of writers. If any of the comparisons in these clips surprised you, then it's proof that these inconsistencies were minor enough to not matter. Although, it always did bug me that Data's emotion chip in Generations looked like a [frosted mini-wheat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosted_Mini-Wheats).

Well the chip was damaged and data may have had to modify it in a very elaborate way to get it to work since even he has a limited knowledge of what the chips actual mechanics were.

If Jesus said: *"Clean up your room"*. And then you cleaned up your room and he came back and said: *"OK, now your room is clean, you can play Nintendo".* And then later after you did your homework there was stuff all over your room again, would your room still be clean? Cos, Jesus *said* it was clean, but then it got messed up again, so even though when he said it it was true... **it's not true now**.

This is a different concept of clean. The concept of 'clean' we are talking about in religion is probably more like what we would call 'appropriate'.

That video is what is wrong with politics.

Which one? The Star Wars parody *for* Obama or the Star Wars parody *against* Obama?

vote up if you think the poster is an intern from bugmenot's pr dept.

Not really, just a passive Internet moralist. But I'll give'em my address if they wanna send a check.

um,no. related but DISTINCT ideologies.

Basically, a civil libertarian disagrees with a libertarian on economic issues. Apart from that, we've got a lot in common.

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Upvoted - something is clearly amiss here.

That's so weird, I haven't celebrated Christmas since I was 10 and my family converted to Islam, but I've never quite felt like I was missing out on anything much. I enjoy the time of year because you get sappy movies, and that TV show that's just a burning log all morning, and Christmas carols and seeing people's lights, it brightens up the coldness of winter and I appreciate that. But Christmas day itself passes for me like... Wednesday. And then the next day is the same as the last.

Maybe because you've had the experience. Things always look better from a distance.

lets just run the whole "celebrity dead" thing into the ground, k? what next, CS LEWIS ON GEORGE CARLIN

Don't you think Edgar Cayce on George Carlin would be better?

Holy shit, this little bubble up on top with the answer in it blew my mind. Is it specific to this subreddit, some javascript witchery, or a new feature added to the reddit software?

New features launched today. The submit process has been completely redone. Now there are two different tabs; one to submit a link and the other for text. A text post is equivalent to the old self posts. When you submit as text the submitter also has the option to add a "description" as pOss has done here. On the front page you can also click the buttons that kinda look like [Aa+] to read the description without leaving the front page. Also, the "saved" link finally got promoted to it's own tab at the top of the front page, instead of being hidden in a drop down menu.

That's like all of the owners of the DS version of Call of Duty whining about not getting DLC. All two of them.

Seeing as how the Orange Box on the Xbox 360 is a [Platinum Hit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_Hits), and it takes a minimum of 400,000 sales to do so, that means there are at least 400,000 people still waiting on Valve to say yes (unlikely), or no (most likely) about DLC. Seeing as how they avoid the question all to together is not cool at all.

This is the first time I've ever heard of an adult attacked by coyotes. And in my home province! I've seen packs of coyotes up close in the woods at night, on numerous occasions and they never bothered me. This is very strange. They're not even very big animals.

That's the first thing I thought too. Apparently this is the second [coyote fatality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyotes#Attacks_on_humans) on record.

It's a sequel. Evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Maybe Starcraft 3 will see a break from the old, but not the second. The game is still about small squad supply and battle. One can make it more efficient by playing faster: is that not what RTS is all about?

By clickfest I'm referring to things like building queues no deeper than 5 units at a time, selection caps, powerful special mandatorily-micromanaged units and other such pseudo-features that keep clicks per minute a reliable indicator of victory. I see your point, but I still wish they'd bring in something more excitingly new than some unit types.

Obviously, or the obligatory obsolescence of oddities under this ovoid alien would orchestrate an orgy of outcries.

A particularly perplexing path we prod preciously upon. Pray, preach the pithy panderings and procure a preteen for pedobear.

Idiots, they can go back in time and all they care about is killing. On my first trip, I'd go rape a historically important beautiful woman, and when the guards come after me, I'd just jump into my time machine and escape. All your bases are belong to me !

I'd go back to 1 BC and impregnate the Virgin Mary. Either that or just go around to various starting civilizations and convincing them I am God. I'd come up with really weird traditions, then see if they stay throughout the years. The Egyptians won't be as kindly looked upon when they have a tradition of incestial daughter rape ordered to them by God. Should go along great with the French and their "feces and breastmilk" annual feast... also ordered by God. I'll then plant various doomsday predictions based on real world events. Nagasaki, 9/11, the superbowl nipplegate scandal will all be triggers in various branches of prophecy, and will all result in various cults hiding in caves. I'll also leave various notes to friends as traditions for various cultures. The booka booka tribe will have an ancient sealed text from 200 BC they must deliver to wakka wakka tribe in 800 AD, who 500 years later will bury it in a time capsule, which will be dug up 500 years after THAT by the chupa cabre tribe. 208 years later, they will deliver it to my friend Chris, who will be the recipient for the most epic rick roll in the history of the universe. I'd also influence name changes for various important historical figures. Christopher Columbus will be Skeety McButterDumpster, and so on. Besides all that, I'll prevent the death of Phil Hartman. Instead, on the same day, an up and coming comedian named Ned Holness will die in a freak "fall into the tank under a port-o-potty, and drown in liquid shit" related accident. No one will care

I'd love to see some figures on the actual costs due to marijuana prohibition. These two come to mind: 1. Actual cost of enforcement, incarceration. 2. Lost value to the economy (and thus tax revenue) of imprisoned workers, citizens with reduced employment potential because of criminal records.

I heard a report on the CBC1 radio driving awhile ago that it was an estimated $6 million annually exported from British Columbia alone.

What's wrong with religion in general? Honest question.

Religion (and other dogmatic belief systems) weaken one's critical thinking skills, sometimes to the point of non-existence. Such beliefs become more important to the believer than objective reality and ethical behavior. Hence the christian stalker blog. Religion isn't a necessary condition for moral or amoral behavior, but it often serves to justify amoral behavior.

It's the same Ron Paul that believes religion has no place in government.

And he also believes evolution through natural selection I not science. Why should I listen to a kook like that?

Who ever said someone was murdered? I just said the place got shot up. Also, this happened like 2 years ago. If I had anything to worry about, it probably would have happened by now.

Yeah, I was presumptuous... This makes it even crazier though! Did they ever catch the guy? How long did it take you to let your guard down and assume you had nothing to worry about? (I agree that you're probably safe at this point, but I think I'd have to move ASAP after something like that...)

Thank you for the kind words, sir. You are welcome to stay in my igloo any time you visit Ottawa.

Kbntly, I contribute by sending my finest Penguin drawn chariot to collect him from the Snowmobile terminal. The welcoming dinner will consist of Beavertails and poutine accompanied by the finest maple syrup wine as we watch hockey while ice fishing! (I think that covers everything?)

Even developers should be able to press keys on the screen.

Developers probably use SSH and aren't really using the phone's keypad when they're on the go...

I hope they never get into the EU. Infact I hope the EU passes legislation specifying that Turkey is not allowed into the EU.

Just for racist lulz?

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Was your opinion changed because of the arguments that Ronald Reagan was making, or because you find R.R. morally reprehensible?

Remember folks, you must always prioritize your to-do list. Just think, if he ignored the dog, it would have pissed all over that expensive rug!

And that rug really ties the room together.

In "Alien", the ore-ship "cab" is named "Nostromo" after the main character in [the book](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostromo) by Joseph Conrad, (about events in a town with a silver ore mine). In "Aliens", the ship is named "Sulaco", which the name of the town where the action takes place in "Nostromo".

the most interesting thing I've read today. thanks.

Woops, sorry. I meant Your mother fucks pigs, the pork eating, bacon masturbating, Jesus loving *whore*. Gotta work on my spelling.

Get to it, private_freedom. How come you change your nick so often btw?

Better yet, start a campaign for it. Paul/Puffums '12. I like the ring of it.

Grotesquea/Bacon '12, however, does not.

That would be new, like without all the bull-shit I mean.

touche

Since this really comes down to a question of 'do you think the fetus is human?'/'do you think abortion is murder?', the issue of it being safe or unsafe is kind of irrelevant. If it's not murder, then that pretty much settles the issue, and if it *is* murder, people murdering other people have no 'right' to murder under safe conditions. This line of thinking really does nothing to address the morality of abortion, and is really just an appeal to emotion that distracts from the real question.

Our society grants people the right to murder; ask a prisoner on death row, ask a soldier, ask citizens in the places our soldiers are stationed. So, either people sometimes DO have the right to murder and its a pretty complex moral issue, or else murder is always wrong and our society fails on this issue constantly. If abortion is criminalized, women will still get abortions. Look at drugs, alcohol, sodomy, and prostitution; all are or have been criminalized, and all continue despite the law. Women will still get abortions if they are illegal, but a lot more of the women getting them will die. That is not an appeal to emotion, it is an appeal to reason. And I don't want to hear about the so-called immorality of abortion from anyone unless that person is also a pacifist, opposes gun ownership, opposes the death penalty, and is a vegan. Otherwise, that person clearly only cares about birth, not life, and has probably been brainwashed into that position by their pastor.

Helvetica's got a rather interesting history as a ubiquifont. The film *Helvetica* tells its story, and is the only font-based film I've seen... so far.

That movie actually made me feel pretty ill, and started my hated for Helvetica.

Yeah. when I read it I thought I'd give it a shot on my Touch. But for now I'll wait it out. I'm still happy with my current ROM hacks anyway. Made some nice custom changes to my HTC Touch (not the dual though.)

Any worth sharing? I've got the Touch Dual and havent really done anything with it.

giving good head is awesome, and such a turn on. I love giving good head, and hate giving bad or mediocre head. It's so boring if I don't get into it. It's 1/2 technique, 1/2 performance.

It's like we're twins ;)

I saw this one and not the other. Not everyone is subscribed to all reddits, so if it fits in both, why not?

i am also guilty of this--by mistake but srsly, this joke is not funny at all

Most people don't *read*.

Most people who read are women. Women like to read about relationships. This is why romance is by far the best-selling genre and romance writers make a ton more dough than SF writers. [Men account for only 20 percent of the fiction market.](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14175229) Let's face it, a genre that focuses on machines and skimps on character is not going to do well. Edit: Apparently some of you have taken my comment "Women like to read about relationships" to mean that it is impossible for any woman to like SF. That was not my intent; my very existence as a SF-reading geeky female contradicts it. Thank you.

If you've talked about it with her, and she is entirely fine with have sex rarely, if ever, then you really just need to weigh your options. It sounds like you highly value a fuller sex life; if you two aren't sexually compatible it might be a sign that you should look for someone else.

That's my biggest issue here. She's fine with it, I'm really not. But is that a good enough reason to look elsewhere when everything else is good? I'm morally torn by this.

That was a stupid video. In a society where gun ownership is illegal, then the only people who have guns are the criminals. In a society where gun ownership is legal, then law-abiding people may also carry guns in addition to the criminals which don't respect the law, and so can protect themselves if they so choose. I'm just saying.

It's kinda funny that you pretend it's a matter of "what if". I live in The Netherlands, and almost nobody here has a gun, some cops don't even carry guns, and for some magical reason, we have almost no criminal activity involving guns. Nearly every time a gun is used by a criminal, it's used to liquidate another criminal. In the US, every criminal has a gun, and many criminals actually use their guns. Criminals are not less criminal in the US because other citizens have guns, they are by far worse than in The Netherlands, and they are forced to use their guns in their criminal activities. I'm not against guns per se (I have 3 guns at the shooting club), but guns do certainly not reduce violent crime.

Ron Paul at his best! I wish Stephen Baldwin would call him Dr. Paul, his medical training gives him a certain even small qualification that should deserve that distinction. I almost think he called him Mr. Paul to be a dick.

I'm sure Ron Paul would argue that Stephen Baldwin has the freedom to address him by either name. But I think [Hanlon's Razor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor) comes to mind. If if you don't know or forget that he is a doctor, which one is the safe bet?

should be standardized accross the us on scantrons.

Side note on "scantrons": I'm a male teacher in my mid-30s, and apparently "Scantron" isn't used anymore, the preferred term being "Bubble sheets" (because you "bubble in" the answers with a pencil). Whenever I say "Scantron" all the young female teachers at my elementary school look at me like I'm a sad, old man.

Why would anyone develop a major game if they weren't going to make their money back?

Ask Johnny Romero?

How can you prove #43?

Cause every damn person in the whole world knows about TreeSize Free now....

Only asking out of curiosity. I've never had too much trouble with women, but it's always been the case that older (and more intellectually mature) girls are more likely to take a romantic interest in me. This I've come to chalk up to immature stereotypes of guys with bright orange hair, like I have. I'm not too naïve, so I'm quite aware of the possible biases, but would like to hear opinions from a random sample of females.

No, really: what are people saying about redheads? I mean I heard about that South Park episode, but people don't like redheads? Has no one read Anne of Green Gables? ... That said, I love redheads. I said it up there -- redheads, freckles, and Jews. Redheads are hot.

That's what every redditor says when they step outside everyday. "There's us, and there's the public"

it's not just what every redditor says, it's what **everybody** says when they step outside. the key to not being a jackass is to realize that when you are talking to somebody else, you are their "public".

He told her to. You know how it's illegal for a professional to give false advice? Why is this any different?

I'm willing to bet her neighbor wasn't a professional gamer.

Damn! I'm not a Chiefs fan, but I hope he's OK. Ever since the trade, I've been hoping to see a Chiefs v. Patriots Super Bowl this year, especially if it was to be Cassel v. Brady. That would have been fun!

The Chiefs and Patriots can't meet in the Super Bowl.

I don't get people like this. Is THIS THE REASON why the libertarains are called "loosertarians"? Why knock Palin and Beck down, why not try to push these people further in the right direction. They have willingly took the first steps towards understanding libertarian ideas on their own. Is the only thing that matters is 'party purity'? Can't we at least try and have a few modern day Barry Goldwater types? Why does every libertarian have to be a quasi-anarchist to be accepted?

The problem, as I see it, is not that Glenn Beck isn't libertarian enough. It's that he's said so many goddamn anti-libertarian things in the past that it stretches credibility to breaking point when he asserts that he's now one of us. He supported bailouts. He supported foreign wars of aggression. He supported PATRIOT. I'm sorry, attacking the guy isn't about party purity, it's about realising that he couldn't possibly genuinely favour even a broad libertarian platform. Palin, I have mixed feelings about, given that she hasn't really had the choice to air such views in an extended fashion as she only came to prominence very recently, but she still ran on a full-on neo-con ticket and frankly even if she were the purest ancap in the world I wouldn't want someone that stupid representing me.

Tell me when it will support my 3 screen configuration correctly...

xorg.conf

If the outcome is considered undesirable, then the provinces could try to write legislation that forbids it. It would be tricky to write legislation which tells a company which stores it must continue to operate. Any criteria devised (e.g. you cannot close stores unless they are losing a certain amount) can be played around with. Internal costing / business unit profitability is notoriously easy to manipulate to give the desired answer. Edit: based on the responses below, I'm not sure my point got across in the first paragraph. I don't think that it's possible to write an effective law that would achieve the objective of keeping recently unionized stores open. If a company didn't want to keep a store open, they could make it appear to be losing money and then close it anyway.

I'd be a bit worried about any legislation that forces a store to stay open. I can imagine scenerios where a business is barely profitable, but not enough to be worth the owner's time. If there are no buyers and he is unable to close, he's essentially become a slave to his own creation. a. You've punished the guy who took all the risks and created jobs b. Corporations will be more cautious before opening shops in that province, holding back jobs c. All a business owner would have to do is sabotage his own business, then say "look, now it's not profitable, I'm closing"

We've *had* one for a while and we're still getting our asses handed to us. Show me again just **how** they are working again?

We're only being hammered because the Libs weren't willing to risk an election for their principles. If they had good leadership during this minority we would have been fine.

If a person is likely to save to the computer sweet sixteen pics of Angelina Jolie in her underwear, it's very likely that his (or her) collection doesn't stop there. Please name one person who has been forced to register as a sex offender for the smallest thumbnail that "*might look like*" it's possibly of an underage individual. Also, please name one teenager who was locked up as a rapist for getting his girlfriend pregnant who didn't deserve it. Seriously, you're coming across like a defense lawyer and/or sympathizer now.

http://reddit.com/info/6cs8c/comments/ This was on Reddit a few days ago. There was another one about two 16 year olds getting arrested for having sex with eachother, and a third story about a teenager getting arrested when his girlfriend sent him digital pics over email. And then there's always the Genarlow Wilson case. Suffice it to say, stuff like this crops up all the time when you have overzealous prosecutors.

When I was a kid, I once had a very realistic dream (the most realistic was a hallucination I had when I had the flu) that I had a lightsaber, but it didn't look like a lightsaber and actually looked like a glue bottle. Anyway... at the end of my dream I put it into my closet. I woke up and immediately went to searching for it. It took me a while to figure out that I had been sleeping and it was a dream. Yeah, I was a little slow, but for those few minutes, I actually thought that I owned a working lightsaber and it was pretty damn cool.

That would have been so cool while you still thought you had it. My 12 year old self's heart has so many boners right now.

but she looked at my clock! i mean wtf?! do i have 7 days to live now or what?

whew..mac users are safe.

I hate joining a 20+ player server and having 0 soldiers or demos on my team. This happens almost every time i play. I'd really like to get some sniper and spy time in, but i usually just end up going soldier/demo/medic just so our team isn't steamrolled. Since I reset a couple months ago I've got [under an hour played on the spy and sniper](http://steamcommunity.com/id/dircen/stats/TF2). I look to play those classes first, but I won't pick either of them if our team already has 1. Maybe I should stop being so nice. I can never understand how a team can end up with 4 snipers and no assault classes. Do people look at the class select screen, see we have 3 snipers and just go, "Maybe if I go sniper too we can win this." I can't wait for the demo/soldier updates, just so people will play those classes.

People on random servers rarely seem to care about objectives as long as they rack up points on their own, hence the overabundance of spies and snipers.