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you're lucky if you can find it for less than $20 in vegas

I saw a $1 table at the Imperial last time I went (bout a year ago).

Really old

Classics never truly age, friend.

It is moot- I installed ad block and it completely blocks all advertising by default regardless if it meets your criteria. I hate to be the one to break this to you but... You != the internet.

First off, you rant against using AdBlock software, then use it yourself. Ask yourself why you are using it. That oughta end this thread for you. If not, keep reading. I said AdBlock subscribes to lists. This is correct. And lists can be edited. This is also correct. Therefore, *if I choose*, I can allow certain ads or ad-types through. This is what I've said above. I said nothing about default settings. I noticed you did not address the core point. That is, people install Adblock as a reaction to garbage ads. If people did not get annoyed by ads, they never would have a reason to block them. Yes, this is a generalization. Yes it does not apply to everyone. Obviously. Finally, ending with a snarky comment in what could have been a point-based rational discourse is a sign of poor debating skills.

There are a few sites that keep track of [really odd auctions](http://www.bizarrebids.com/).

Interesting that the child's face rock and the fish pancake have the same picture. What an eerie coincidence.

That's retarded. Except for a couple goth kids, I haven't seen many kids smoking those. Little cigars such as Prime Time, etc, were a lot more popular. (I'm basing this from my experiences working in a convenience store.)

It's my understanding that hipsters like them.

I get it... Jesus turns water into wine....

You missed the part where he stomped on their testicles.

Is that surprising? It's a valid glyph. Now, if you really want to find some oddities, how about ☃, or ☂, or maybe ☄? ☎☔☀☛☢☭☬☯ protip: increase the font size to really enjoy these characters.

[☃.net](http://☃.net)

Run back to the classroom and stay out of the real world.

been in the real world long enough to see that you wouldn't know it if it hit you in the face.

Seems like it would cover a huge amount of land- all those mirrors and the towers. It doesn't sound very environmentally friendly in that way. I would like to see how long it takes for it to be cheaper than coal, and if it would ever be cheaper than nuclear.

See, I was thinking about that, but this is in the desert. I don't know how vital sun-hitting-soil is to the area; maybe it sustains bacteria? I'm wondering because I don't see any plants to be concerned for. Secondly, it's not like this plant is going to prevent water hitting the ground and being absorbed, as it'd just run off all the mirrors. I remain unconvinced that there's such a huge impact to that, especially compared to the impact of say, paving over a moraine (which is done in my city).

Some people said that he probably was "hacked" and didn't notice since he's still recovering from health problems

My god, it was satire. SATIRE. Thinly veiled and maybe poorly executed, but not to be taken seriously. Look: " Q: What about dinosaurs? A. They walked the earth at the same time as man, but were wiped out by the Flood, whose turbulence buried their bones in non-sequential sediments."

I think most of us need guns as much as we need a hole in the head - and the two usually go together.

Are you saying that when you give a person a gun they're likely to shoot themselves in the head? That's a pretty blanket wide statement to make. I am still alive. I have yet to kill someone. I have yet to be unsafe with firearms and I will continue to do so. It is possible to enjoy firearms without ignorant people immediately assuming that they will be used to kill another human being. What a ridiculous thing to say.

This is silly semantics. You can be 99% sure of something. For example, it is perfectly valid (at least in everyday english) for me to say that I am sure that Ron Paul won't be elected president in November even though I am not 100% sure.

Wrong. I am one hundred percent sure that the sum of one and one is two. I am one hundred percent sure that existence is real. I am one hundred percent sure that I am conscious.

I am going to start playing WoW on the off chance that I encounter mila kunis.

I'm still hoping to run into Dave Chapelle...

THEY THINK THEY'RE INDIVIDUALS BUT THEY'RE REALLY SHEEPLE NOT LIKE ME. I'M NOT A SHEEPLE.

I AM NOT SHEEPLE EITHER, LETS BE NOT SHEEPLE BROTHERS.

It's probably more accurate to avoid attributing to malevolence that which can be equally attributed to incompetence.

I thought about that, and then I thought about the likelihood of hitting the "l" twice, especially considering it's location relative to the other keys that need to be pressed, and decided that it was probably karma whoring. If it's not, than the OP should be perfectly OK with resubmitting it correctly.

If we're going to censor ourselves to prevent hyperbole we might as well just stop using language altogether!

Well if you're not going to censor anything then why don't you all just vote Hitler to power?

[Would that it were so.](http://www.gallup.com/poll/108226/Republicans-Democrats-Differ-Creationism.aspx)

Wow. Ignoring the question of whether or not young-earth creationism is true or not and just looking at the question of whether evolution was a mechanical process that created life... Independents (non-Democrat, non-Republican) had the highest percentage of people who agreed with the idea of it being purely mechanical, and they still only saw 19% support for the idea.

Nitpick mode: The sum of (1/2^n) is equal to exactly 1, not some number worth slightly less :)

I thought the point of asymptotes was that they never reached that integer....?

Speaking as a redhead, this is probably true.

seconding as a redhead; this is definitely true.

Sir Bedevere: "Tell me, what do you do with witches?" Crowd: "Burn, burn them up!" Sir Bedevere: "And what do you burn apart from witches?" Villager: "More witches!"

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I wonder what percentage of debt (if any) came from those Enron a-holes.

Most of the debt is a result of Arnold cutting the vehicle tax when he came into office, (His first action). It brought in 6 billion a year. Cutting taxes and not cutting spending leads to a massive debt. In this case, it just happens to be the exact amount over his years in office and the debt.

One of the regional New Mexico magazines ("New Mexico Life," or something like that) has anecdotes like this in every issue. That's how frequently it happens. When I moved back to the rust belt from living in Albuquerque for four years, a friend's mom asked me if I ever drank the water while I lived there.

Ummm, that would be "New Mexico" magazine... :) The column is called "One of Our Fifty is Missing"

No you can legally own a handgun or semi automatic rifle in Canada.

To own a handgun, you must hold a permit, keep the gun locked in a case at all times, and the gun may only be transported from your home to the gun club in the locked case in the trunk of your car, and you must travel directly there.

I thought he wasn't the captain? Cycling confuses me, it has individual leaders and winners, yet it seems to be a team sport in many ways. At what point in the race do teams allow themselves to disband and let individuals run for the win?

There are many sub-races in the tour but you win the overall (yellow) by having the lowest cumulative time - there are no time bonuses this year so it's just your times added together on each stage. The teams usually have 1 guy that has aspirations of winning - the rest of the team will sacrifice themselves strategically for that 1 guy or just go for sprint points or individual stage wins. Lance's team just so happens to have 4 guys that could legitimately win the overall tour and as of right now, they're in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place overall. The individual time trials are just that, race against the clock alone. No drafting or anything like that is allowed. If you can't do a good individual time trial, you simply can't win the overall title because you'll lose too much time. The team time trial is when the whole team goes out together and get a single team time at the end. That time is added to the individual members' times. The team time is the time that the 5th guy across the line gets. If you have a weak team, you can lose several minutes in the team time trial and therefore you can't win the overall title. You will never see a team disband like you mentioned because that will give the riders a huge disadvantage. Even with the powerhouse team Lance is on, sooner or later they'll pick "the guy" and everyone will drop into form helping him win. The theory is that the choice will become obvious once they get into the mountains and real time splits start showing up.

Why wouldn't he?

Especially given that it was a stunt to get attention (i.e. he didn't actually do it)

He should have been upfront with her from the start.

Why? They hadn't made plans to have a child together. He isn't required to risk getting her pregnant or risk that she might try to get pregnant on purpose. She was obviously cheating on him with at least one other man too.

*Accelerando* by Charles Stross. Edit: I can't believe this got more votes than *Anathem*. It's good, but it's certainly not that good.

I also really likes glass house as it kinda goes farther into the story. But yeah "Accelerando" takes the cake.

No - pn6 somehow got raped by two girls when he was younger. I have no idea how or when, but it's true - he goes off on it about once every three months. Part of me feels for him a tiny bit, but most of me can't stand him. He is easily my least favorite redditor. EDIT: He narrowly beats out nixon_richard.

And now I'm curious as to who is your most favorite redditor (not counting the trolls because that would be way too easy of an answer).

Yes, because we all voted on that. 0_o

If you didn't then why teh complacency for the last 5 6 years?

innumeracy is so much sexier... ...in a dom-sub sort of way. And believe me when I tell you that the average American consumer is a complete innumerate despite getting a math lesson at the end of each month courtesy of the credit card companies.

Paulos' innumeracy is useful, but it's only half the case. People are proud to be innumerate but never proud to be illiterate. We need to make the case that mathematical and scientific writings are some of our civilization's finest literature. Math is poetry -- no stretch, and a serious claim. Pick up Newton's *Principia* and there can be no doubt.

Some of you people disgust me. You yellow cowardly cocksuckers, there shouldn't be such a thing as a "Constitution free zone" in the FIRST PLACE, let alone checkpoints FAR inside our own country stopping people to ask stupid questions. Its apathetic cowards like you fuckers that have allowed this kind of thing to happen in the first place, because most likely (for the majority of you) it doesn't effect you, so who gives a shit, right? And the ones that it does affect, instead of standing up to these fascist pieces of trash you cow down like a good little bitch and take it from behind, because you are more concerned about the line behind you then about your rights and the freedoms that are SUPPOSED to be granted to you as a citizen of this country. Furthermore, I believe that when the police state eventually comes you and your families should be the first groups to loose said freedoms, and are first in line to be taken to the "Freedom camps" for "re-education", because, after all, convenience for yourself and the assholes behind you is more important then your freedom. Just one sick and tired mans opinion. EDIT: Fixed stupid grammar thing.

I'm sorry, but what have you done?

Actually it takes you to whatever the *HOMEDRIVE* environment variable is set to. Edit: appears to be *%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%*.

I wonder why they didn't use ~. I see no reason to be different than UNIX in this case.

Summer Glau?

Actually, people more commonly say I look like Bjork. I don't see the resemblance, though.

There's a lot of houses down here that depend on constant air conditioning during spring, summer and half of fall.

No one *needs* air conditioning (ok, maybe a few people with medical issues). I'm willing to bet that the large majority of some of the hottest places on earth (India, for example) goes largely without AC, but they do just fine. Air Conditioning is mainly a comfort thing...

http://eztv.it/

Wow - great site - thanks!

Western Families are fucked for so many reasons. I am honestly envious of immigrants from collectivist cultures who have managed to integrate their family relations into Western society. It all essentially comes down to a concerted effort on the part of our leaders to break up the family unit and cause social discord on a mass scale. Parents are taught to have highly contradictory behaviors towards their kids. Kids are taught to be in complete paralysis by the contradictory commands of school, society and parents. We are told things like, "You can be whatever you want" at the same time as being told by the same person, "You're no Einstein, sit down and do what I say because I said it." It's basically complete disintegration of social relations. My mom tries to get me to stay in her house while she simultaneously tries to kick me out. When I used to live with my parents, one day they would be kicking me out to "force" me to be responsible, and the next day they would be demanding that I come live with them because "they want me around." They take their cues from fear-mongering news reports and Oprah. One day Oprah has a guest expert who says, "You have to be tough with your kids. Don't give them support, make them be responsible" and the next day she has a guest expert who says, "You have to coddle your kids." There is no consistency whatsoever. And underlying all this is a deep insecurity of the boomer generation, unresolved broken feminism that says it is shameful to be a mother/housewife while simultaneously saying it is shameful to go to work and leave your kids with a babysitter. It's just a really really broken society. The family-culture is in complete paralysis due to intentionally inflicted media brainwashing and fear-mongering. The latest attempt by the media is to literally make parents SCARED of their kids, scared that videogames like GTA4 are going to teach their kids to knife them in their sleep. Since Asian immigrants don't take cues on how to raise kids from Western News reports, they don't suffer so much. You have to realize how deeply dependent a typical WASP parent is on having the Channel 6 News tell them how to raise their kids.

Exactly. One thing I find very weird is the whole "move out by the time you're 18" thing. It is very strange for me to even comprehend that idea. In Hong Kong, families live together, (partly because of housing costs), but it's just tradition. Nobody moves out unless there's a reason to, and once you're married, the girl usually moves in with the guy's family (but still very close with her own). So in a typical household it is very warm family feeling and families go out together all the time for dinner and stuff. Once the parents get old, then it is their child's turn to take care of them to return the favor. It's very common to see 3 generations living under one roof. To me, that's perfect. Grandparents don't feel like their children banished them, and the grandkids learn respect and family values. Perhaps this is why asian families do not get divorces as much. Family is our #1 priority, so breaking it off is like... very very bad thing to do. Often when I read forums online Americans are complaining about their stepchildren, and their ex-wife is getting a divorce with her new husband, and they are going through their 3rd divorce as well. And I'm just like, what kinda family is that?

Psycho owner. Do you know if the motels are this bad in Biloxi, Mississippi? I'll be out there for a week in January.

Are you going to one of the casinos? The casinos are run by out-of-state conglomerates and their hotels are five star. I stayed at the Grand Casino the year before Hurricane Katrina blew all it away and it was the best hotel room I had ever had -- better than Vegas! The mainland, however, was a different story. All of the south-land stereotypes were in full force. I cannot vouch for what it all looks like now since the rebuild, but if you can afford the casino hotels, that is where you want to go.

I didn't even know SMBC had a forum until I saw the news update of the pics thread. You can tell instantly it's one of *those* forums. You know those forums. The ones where the people aren't really there to talk about whatever the purported purpose of the forum is. They're there because they're attracted by mutual loneliness.

Your comment made me laugh for some reason.

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i liked Snow Crash but it seemed a bit contrived after reading Gibson IMHO. (and since i put IMHO you kind of have to agree with me)

I actually hated the book. Gibson's prose is annoying, and his protagonists are too nihilistic for my tastes. A movie, on the other hand, might actually be entertaining. A lot of peoples expectations have been set by the Matrix though, and computer movies seen to either shine or suck balls.

Give Count Zero a try. I personally loved Neuromancer, but I preferred Count Zero.

Wow, this makes me... so happy.

I totally called this! http://www.reddit.com/comments/6q4tr/mega_man_9_exclusive_reveal_first_screens_hands/c04krfs Now if they only added a peripheral cart thing that you had to blow into to get the game to work right

That is not what evolution is about. There are many instances of things not fit to live that do live. Evolution works by letting those that have the best characteristics keep reproducing, but it does not kill off those that do not have the best characteristics.

Dude... Natural selection is all about those not "being fit to live" dying... If they die off, they don't get the chance to reproduce... that's how evolution works. It might not be the most effective way of saying it, but the fittest animals out compete the less fit ones, and they eventually die off. This is manifest through shorter life expectancy and higher mortality rates among those who have not yet achieved reproductive age. It's kind of why the Neanderthals died off...

To say his name properly, you must first cut out your tongue and sew it on to your bottom lip.

Just like Spock's last name! And so, in Spock's honor, I propose that the Reddit alien's first name be Speck.

that's a relief.. sort of i guess.

you are a sick freak and I agree with you.

Oh, bother!

Well I thought it was funny!!

The article itself says that the site was shut down after about 200 votes.

No, 200 views from each IP address. Slight difference.

That's easy. Any defender, particularly one sitting on the Supreme Court, merely needs the ego and arrogance to say that he can look back in time about 200 years and conclude with absolute certainty that the right to privacy was also meant to be placed into the Constitution by its authors.

That wasn't exactly the justification; the justification is that the right to privacy exists as a "penumbral" right that emanates from the other rights set forth in the Constitution. No sane or competent defender of abortion would defend it on grounds that the framers of the Constitution envisaged the privacy right upon which abortion has been sustained.

Upmodded for being the only one to mention gold's inertness - obviously that's a huge part of its appeal as a value-store.

At the same time, it explains why gold is such a hack, because people will prefer to store gold rather than to store wheat. When 7 years of famine arrives, every one realizes that gold isn't worth much.

...if he only ran for president instead of endorsing Chuck Baldwin. He would have gained considerable momentum and attention after the banking collapse. Instead, he just sort of faded away.

If he had, he'd be going back on his word. He said many times during the primaries that if he didn't get the GOP nomination he wouldn't run as another party's candidate. Part of the reason so many people--myself included--like Paul is because he's a man of his word.

I'm inclined to agree... there was a lot of pretty deep stuff in there which I don't think would translate well to film, let alone the ending **spoiler alert** **spoiler alert** **spoiler alert**. Somehow I doubt that many mainstream movie audiences will be satisfied with a movie in which the good guys get there too late to stop the evil plan and decide that maybe its better to just let things be (except for killing the one guy who still wants to fight the bad guy) and go their own separate ways. Maybe I'm being cynical, but I just don't think that the general public would be able to appreciate a comic book movie with so much moral ambiguity.

A similar thing happened with the end of "I am Legend." The real ending left you questioning what is really right and wrong and who the real monster really is when everything has changed. The movie had a typical tragedy with hope ending that wasn't nearly as profound. On the other side you have M. Night Shamakeshittymovies who tries to make every stupid premise into some sort of mind fuck. In my opinion you can't really hope to do all the same things in both movies and books. Some things work better in each but you can almost always count on movie studios and screenplay authors to mess up a good story. Of course then you have movies like Sin City and 300 which really are just the comic books with the movements between the frames filled in.

Forget all this talk about evaporating fuel. Your mileage actually goes down because the fuel pump uses a lot more energy lifting gasoline from the bottom half of the tank.

Gas is drawn from near the bottom of the tank (on almost every car made - ever), and, simple physics would tell you that as the liquid level goes lower, the fuel pump has to work HARDER, as every 10 feet of rise will make you lose about 15 PSI. So, no....just no.

The biggest argument against capital punishment I know is the justice system sucks. If you're poor or a visible minority the chances of you getting sentenced to death will increase exponentially.

I do agree that the imperfection of the justice system is another reason not to have capital punishment. However, even if the justice system was perfect, I don't think capital punishment should be allowed. I just cannot see the compatibility with revenge killing and justice. I think that societies based on the principle that individuals should not be killed unless they are immediately threatening another person's life are more free and fair than ones that don't. To me, that's the most convincing argument as it doesn't appeal to efficacy or industriousness, it simply appeals to logical morality. I think that the real strength of the United States of America comes from the moral foundation based on reason, not our ability to apply power or grow industry. Other people are convinced by other arguments, however. And "best" in terms of changing hearts and minds probably falls in your argument, I have to admit.

Correct.

Now you're seriously beginning to scare me!

Ha-ha, such a knee jerk reaction to what I found to be a rather amusing diagram. I think the reactions say more about the reader than the diagram tells you.

Wanna buy some cheat stuff? I'm giving up and moving to Indonesia you see and, well, the more stuff you have, the better you feel about yourself ya know. Cheat stuff... really.

It's called [Color Temperature](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature) and is different from the thermal heat the bulb generates.

maybe i'm getting old that keeps me from "understanding" new stuff... so, the heat generated is inverse to the "colour temperature" you had mentioned? I was also thinking till now the cool and warm colours were meant to show how it affects our mood and temperament... red was a hot colour because it was an "angry" colour, and blue was a cool colour because of its calming effect. (?) Please don't think i'm trolling you, i'm genuinely interested in learning about this... I don't want to explain things to my son like Calvin's dad did ;-)

Ok, come on, that [first one](http://www.quigmans.com/catharsis/2008/november/mf-11-28-08.gif) has a point.

Er, not really. Black people have been voting overwhelmingly for the Democratic party for decades; it is hard to attribute their vote for Obama substantially to racial issues.

Hang on a second. Why am I forced into buying options for these futures? I am talking about buying the actual contract, not call or put options.

Sorry, I jumped over to option terminology, just s/futures/options/. That is, there is just one underlying asset, and we're talking about futures contracts based on that asset. No second-order derivatives are involved.

People in Texas use Coke as a generic term for Soda in the same way people use Kleenex to refer to a facial tissue. Would Orange Soda have made sense? Anyone in Texas would know what you mean.

Yes, that would have made sense to us and the waiter. However, if you order a Coke up here and they're carrying Pepsi instead, 9 times out of 10 they will inform you that they don't have Coke and ask if Pepsi would be alright. Coke is such a specific brand name that asking for Orange Coke sounds like your asking specifically for something like the product that bardak is linking to abovr, not an orange soda/pop/soft drink.

Girls talking about hosts files gets me all hot. EDIT: But seriously, it's better than him cheating on you

U sure its a girl? Just saying...

Isn't this the plot of a short story called... monkey paw (or something like that)?

that involved resurrecting the son, not the father

Extremely.

Wow, that's fast.

Brick Top from Snatch. "In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary: Come Again?" Edit: Oh yeah also the "Operative" from Serenity.

Seriously, the Operative did an amazing job.

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you goddamn ignorant moron piece of shit. Pick up a history book and start reading you dumb fuck.

i think most of them look worse than the originals. :/

I love all of the Batman updates. Granted, actual Batman comics in those styles would be ridiculous, but if we're talking about something to hang on the wall, I'd go with the new ones.

The death star was an inside job!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

But is there any evidence of this Weapon of Mass Destruction?

LISP programmers hate when C++ poops all over their CARs.

Wow. Well done, sir. Well done...

How many web developers have actually read the [W3C CSS specification](http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/#minitoc) (an excellent read, by the way - illustrates the core concepts nicely and is not as dry and technical as one would expect)? It's easy to start hacking HTML and CSS with Notepad and a browser, but quite hard to actually become good at it. It's a craft. And so the cycle begins again. The new generation discovers: hey, we have tables. Hacks are simple, CSS is hard. I'm half expecting to see an article advocating the use of transparent GIF spacers on reddit.

Thus, CSS violates the "get the most done with the least amount of effort" heuristic.

What about Command and Conquer: Red Alert? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N21OGgS9No

"Hell March" is still one of my favorite video game songs of all time.

just downvotes, no arguments? lamers!

Just a quick comment comparing the two without offering any sort of reason behind WHY Spruance is better? Lamer! Besides, you don't REALLY like Trey, you just wanted to comment in here and rile up the Patton fans.

My bad, since I'm in Australia that means the DVD's I get locally are region 4. I believe the U.S is region 2. For more information, check out Wiki's article on [DVD Regions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd_regions) EDIT: Whoops, the U.S is region 1.

The US is region 1, as pointed out in your link...

Which Supreme Court are we talking about? The California one can't really do anything about it, right? It's a constitutional amendment? Am I correct on this? Which leaves the SCotUS, of course. And, right now, it's a 4-4 split from the gate, with Kennedy as the swing vote, and to get there, they actually have to hear a case (which, of course, they can choose not to do). So, while your statements are true, the outlook for Prop 8 isn't so great.

Actually, there's a legal argument that Prop 8 counts as a "revision" to the California Constitution (because it directly **changes** the interpretation of the constitution as opposed to merely codifying something that was unspecified) which requires 2/3 of the legislature to approve it first.

I haven't read comics in a LONG time but used to be a big Spiderman fan. I looked up "One More Day" on Wikipedia. That is just horrible .... Spiderman makes a deal with Mephisto to make his marriage "disappear" just so Aunt May will live? WTF? Isn't she like 126 years old now? Let the old bitty die.

It's a fucking farce. It came about because the current editor-in-chief of Marvel, Joe Quesada, was worried that Spider-Man, Marvel's biggest bankable property, had drifted too far from his "roots." After all, in his nearly half-century of being around, Peter Parker had gone from an awkward teenager to a married, responsible adult. In Quesada's eyes, the next generation of fans wouldn't be able to identify with him. So they decided the marriage had to go. And not only that, but many of the more mature touches that had characterized him in the past few years needed to be undone. Basically, they wanted to hit a big "RESET" button, sacrificing years of solid continuity to protect their money-making investment. Instead of coming up with some semi-plausible way of making this happen, they went with the easiest, blow-to-the-gut, thoughtless deus ex machina there is. He made a deal with the devil. Not even a sensible deal - he sacrificed his marriage to save his elderly dying aunt. A deal that no one would ever make. It's not worth getting as worked up over as I have been, but it is the lowest, shoddiest, laziest example of commercial storytelling I've ever seen. Transparently ridiculous. They didn't even try to make it make sense, they just put it out and hoped that everyone would forget it and just go along with the new, retro status quo. At least it hasn't worked. Sales of Spider-Man have plummeted from around 100k an issue to around 70k. They tried to cover that up by selling the title weekly so they could claim more in monthly sales, but per-issue sales are in the dumps and unlikely to change any time soon. But the long-term prospects of seeing it change are nil, sadly, while Joe Quesada is left at the reins of Marvel.

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You would prefer Trajan? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8

6 factorial...

120 is 5! not 6!

Not always. Some comments are counterexamples.

i make $300000 from this site last month go WWW.EAT-SPAMMERS.NET

You have no idea how thankful I am that the top comment is not some crappy joke. Also, I agree with your stance, but if it turns out that what we have been doing is negligible, I would be very suprised.

I thought of making a greasemonkey thing that would let people tag comments as 'joke'. I dont mean to be a negative nancy, but I come to this site for info, not humor. There are some crazy intelligent people on here and I hate seeing awesome comments buried under a huuuge string of "a b c d" - "a E c d" - "a F c d" - "a G c d"'s.

Yes the Americans have the most retarded date system in the world. Zero Logic. Month / Day / Year - what the fuck (medium / small / big) how does this make any sense? Everywhere else in the world it is Year / Month / Day or Day / Month / Year. Logical - Small to Big or Big to Small not Middle /Small / Big.

It comes from speech, people seem to say "it's July 20th" instead of "it's the 20th of July" when speaking.

Evidence.

Do you mean that Creationism lacks evidence? I agree 100%, but that's not what I'm attempting to point out. Try to think like a Creationist would. They are looking to discount the evidence that evolution has behind it. You finally convince them to go read notatheory.com and they actually do. They come back and say "See, evolution really ISN'T that strong. Even using the scientific definition of "theory" - one theory replaces another all the time - just look at gravity!" I just wish the page was a little clearer about the fact that it takes TONS MORE hard proof, studies, documentation etc etc to have an established scientific theory be replaced - and usually then it's usually not a completely different theory - more like a modification of the existing one. Edit: It occurs to me maybe you were just answering my hypothetical 'posted by a creationist' question of why Intelligent design can't do a better job explaining things than evolution. You have to remember that they are convinced that the Bible is a perfectly legitimate source of evidence, so pointing out a lack of evidence for intelligent design/creationism won't do much good. What this notatheory.com page attempts to accomplish is to stop the rather irritating claim that since evolution is referred to as a "theory" and since "theory" when used generally (not scientifically) means "unproven hypothesis" that even amongst scientists evolution is regarded as somewhat unproven. Stoping that claim is a very good cause, in my opinion, and I just wanted to point out what I see as a potential logical hole in the wording of their explanation that I felt would do well to be closed. That being said, I think shemule's response to my original comment says exactly what I think should be added (even if only as a footnote) to the notatheory page.

After Buffy, Joss Whedon said he would never work with Fox again. Then he made Firefly. After Firefly, Joss Whedon said he would never work with Fox again. Then he made Dollhouse. After Dollhouse, I'm sure Joss Whedon will say that he'll never work with Fox again. Do you think he'll actually learn his lesson this time around, or will I get to post this comment again with an extra paragraph in a few years?

Fox is a latrine!

FYI, I used to use BitTyrant but in my experience uTorrent is just as fast. Also, the BitTyrant project is old now and uses an outdated version of Azureus.

BitTyrant is really only useful if you're the only seeder and you have a low upload bandwidth (or alternately if there are just too many leechers on the torrent to satisfy) The idea is that when initially seeding a torrent, for example, BitTyrant will give out most chunks to the individual leechers who are most effective at in turn distributing those chunks to the rest of the swarm. It's for the swarm's benefit much more than the seeder's. It basically turns the high-upload leechers into "proxy seeds". They get most of the chunks, and the rest of the swarm downloads from them instead of you (the only one who really has a full copy of the data), so you can focus on giving all your data as fast as you can to your "proxy seeds", thereby making the torrent faster for everyone.

He is all about libertarianism and freedom for corporations but no so much for personal freedom. Its ironic because liberals fight for personal freedom and libertarians claim to fight for that but always tend to defend corporate freedom as a priority over personal freedom.

Yea, liberals supposedly fight for personal freedoms, but you'd never hear a liberal democrat that works at an auto assembly plant say "I deserve at least the pay that I currently get, but farm workers, line cooks, everyone who helped build my house, work just as hard as I do, and deserve at least the same."

I trust other scientist on the lack of evidence of corruption. Most scientist in other fields such as physicist for example are just interested in the objective, uninterested, and uninvolved truth such as physicist working at the LHC. There's no money coming from that, that is just a pure lust for knowledge. Climate science is heavily intertwined with politics and new financial markets and taxes so I think most information should be taken with a grain of salt.

Sure, everything should be taken with a grain of salt. Hopefully you realize that both sides of the global warming debate are equally involved in politics, financial markets and taxes, so hopefully you realize that you should distrust both sides equally. Do you agree with trabo's characterization of global warming as simply a scare tactic?

So did Lincoln, yet he's not considered bad for it.

Lincoln didn't say that the South had WsMD. :P

A Beautiful Mind. It's just not that good.

Ron Howard is the uberhack of Hollywood. His films are all about safe, mediocre scripts and safe, mediocre direction. I defy you to tell me a "signature" Ron Howard shot--they don't exist. All his movies might as well have been directed by a computer program.

I've seen this before, but every time I see it I think that whoever figured this out had WAY too much time on his hands.

The engraver figured it out. It was made by the guy's widow and his mistress. They did it together. There was a more complete article a few months ago.

"the purpose of your life is to achieve your own personal happiness" The purpose of morality is to achieve your own personal, earthly happiness for your own sake, by your own mind and effort, while neither sacrificing yourself to others, nor others to yourself. "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." --John Galt http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/happiness.html

Wouldn't you say morals are the rules-of-interaction necessary to achieve personal happiness within a group of people?

Why? Wild speculation is the only reasoning you have for this statement. Oil was at its current price only a couple years ago, so why can't it stay here? At a much more realistic price? Also, the world's economies have collapsed, in case you haven't been paying attention.

Actually, among all the other indicators that clearly show that these low gas prices are temporary, I was talking to a guy at Exxon who said the exact same thing. There is no way that gas will be under $2 this time next year.

How does GM corn break down fertility? I'm not saying I disagree, but scientifically how is that possible?

GM messes with the chemistry of plants. Something as simple as soy is already suspected to influence fertility by producing hormone-like substances. Also, plants produce deadly poison, rubber, sugar and a myriad of other chemicals. Edit: merely explaining how plants possibly could influence fertility.

He's left-handed.

He looks bi-dextrous to me.

I think you meant "bizarre".

Bizarro.

I wonder if he jimmy dean through the door?

What a strange M.O. for robbery. Sounds like he was just hot-dogging to get attention.

*"It's a blow to truth-in-labeling advocates, a blow to consumers and a blow to organic farmers."* Not to mention a blow to the First Amendment. How the fuck could this possibly be Constitutional?

No milk is hormone free. They can still say "not from cows treated with rBST", which is succinct, accurate, and completely informs the customer about the distinction between competing products.

That's a paraglider, not a skydiver. That guy launched from the ground, not an aircraft.

Every see a paraglider do that?

Thiiiiiiis suuuuuuummer, Rob Schneider just can't find enough time. Du derp du derp du derp derp derp. Derp de derp de derp.

Somewhere, Rob Schneider is calling Jack Giarraputo: "Jack, it's Rob. I just came up with something that's gonna knock your socks off!"

I'm getting a 404 error.

hahaha nice tr- Wait, hahahahaha oh wow, I'm pretty sure the site's down or something that's TOO perfect.

In BSG, it was more of a machina-ex-deus.

OMG. Greatest Reddit Response EVER.

I think the vokda takes care of the unsanitary part. The diamond will just create the nucleus of the most awesome kidney stone ever.

"I present to you a ring with the blood of African children and my urinary tract on it."

SO SAY WE ALL

SO SAY WE ALL, GODS DAMNIT

you must conceive before you can achieve

Inconceivable!

But come on man, 6 months? Seriously, after 6 months you were *that* in love? My girlfriend and I were together for longer then that before we even said 'I love you.' I guess I just don't understand how you can develop feelings that strong in such a short time without outright lying to yourself.

I know this will read like I'm bailing myself out, but I think everybody loves differently like everybody tastes, smells, and sees differently. If I were to ever feel how I do or did about her about someone else I would call it love without any hesitation. Spending time with her everyday certainly played a part in it, there's no doubt about that. Another thing I've thought about, is that if it's not love, what is it? Extreme attraction that is wrong? An amazing person I happen to be physically attracted to? Lust? I can't tie any other label to it. Just like tastes, love grows. The more you've experienced the greater your standard of definition becomes. It's certainly possible that there's a deeper love than the one I feel now, and if I were to feel that way, it would mean that I love that person more than I love this girl now. But I haven't experienced a deeper feeling than the one I'm experiencing now.