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Dell Inspiron 15"/5.4lbs/2.0GHz dual core/3MB RAM/320GB HD - $599 $400 cheaper faster everything. WTF Apple? The line is same price or more expensive for the same memory and processor (and for MBP same graphics). With inflation, processor increases and RAM prices Macs just got a lot more expensive.

The $400 (in my opinion - I could be wrong) comes from the software suites that Apple computers come with.

Ctrl-Z stops the process. It does not send it to the background.

Wow, I'm going to fail this technical interview I have coming up. So what does Ctrl-C do

Did the deer survive?

That depends on if deer have souls or not.

A couple of hints if you're try to be low pro: Get the cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels and stuff it full of fabric softeners. Blow your hit through there. Don't smoke joints or blunts, they smell 50 times stronger and it seems to linger more. A little ventilation goes a long way, like most people here said, a fan and a window is fine for most circumstances. Bathrooms usually have powered vents. If possible, have two windows or doors open across the room to create a draft. Pay attention to wind direction. Don't pack huge bowls, and try not let the cherry burn. The smoke coming straight from the nug smells a lot stronger than what you exhale. Use your thumb or lighter to snuff the bowl between hits. Wash your hands when you're done. You can tell when someone just smoked from ashes on their thumb, pinky, or center of their palm (from packing the bowl down with the corner of the lighter, then using the lighter). Obviously anything that puts out a strong smells will help cover it. Candles, incense, air fresheners, flatulence (unreliable in most cases). Axe body spray worked great for me, and I once used a stink bomb to avoid getting caught in my high school bath room. The longer you hold the hit in, the less it smells (and the worse it is for you...) The pipes that unscrew and you pack the bowl in the center are the most covert and least smelly, but the hits are harsh and they don't always taste great. When I was younger I used to get a kick out of smoking in places I wasn't supposed to. Not sure if any of this applies, but if there are any James Bond Stoners out there, hope I could help.

Never use the bottom of the lighter. It will get black in the groove and show against the white of the plastic. This is the FIRST thing the police will check if given the chance. It will give them probable cause to search further. If you want to see the inside of a cell, tamp your bowl with a lighter.

[Leaning back](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2435/3812271699_30ece6e8ae_b.jpg) [Leaning back 2](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/3813079462_89caf8030e_b.jpg) Can you spot the change in the two above pics? :) [this alien has a great sex life](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3813079092_fd90b2b961_b.jpg) [And finally us guys' favorite thing...](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3577/3813078910_73b4e0651c_b.jpg)

Do I get a prize if I spot the difference?

tweeeeet... unsportsmanlike response to an insensitive american joke.... 3 game suspension.

heheheheh nice- actually smiled before coffee...which i spilled on my keyboard.

Fire code violation: code for "We don't have shit on you, but we want to raid you anyway." It's used to break up all manner of things from parties to things like this protesters' get together.

Because Fire Code violations call for armed raids with guns drawn.

I bet we wouldn't being saying *y'all* either.

And we'd probably conjugate "be" correctly.

How do you pronounce that?

/Noo Inglund Klahm Chaudu/

why do people link to cracked instead of www.daisyowl.com/

This question keeps popping up with every one of these cracked links. From what I understand, cracked is advertising these comics, yes for their own benefit, but also in conjunction with their authors to get more exposure for them. So I'm personally okay with it. *shrug*

Like a democrat hates guns.

Untrue! I'm a democrat and I own guns. In fact I make a pretty nice living running a hunt club in Texas. Twice a month we hold a canned hunt for republicans. On a good day my clients can bag 2 or 3 good size repubs.

*Americans* are hung up... (fixed)

Not all Americans. Mostly it's just the religious ones.

It is the only plausible explanation.

yes, it's difficult to believe it's not some belated April Fool's joke. I've never (as I can recall) seen such an incompetent launch of an Internet company.

the main page has been up for at least four years. I should know... I used it as a reference for TLAP day in '04. Besides that... your claim of >the Wikipedia page provides better context and history is seriously flawed since the "Background" section of the article on the Wikipedia page sites the official TLAP website several times. The only information in the background section that doesn't come from the TLAP website isn't about TLAP day, it's about Long John Silver. Being that the wikipedia page is essentially an annotated version of talklikeapirate.com, your argument is flaccid. Yarr.

Well you make good points. To me, it's a question of "brand" I suppose. I send lots of information to people on a day to day basis -- both here, on blogs, via email, etc. I've been burned by resources going away, or changing in a big way. Wikipedia isn't perfect of course, but they have established a "brand" (in my mind anyway) that equates to a certain level of quality.

[Cube](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/) - Vincenzo Natali

Can't believe this doesn't have more upvotes. Cube is one of my all time favorites. Apart from a very few special effects and the basic premises of the cube itself it's almost entirely character driven. It's one of only a handful of movies where I actually bothered to watch all the DVD extras and the commentary, after re-watching the movie 3-4 times... Just don't confuse it with the prequel and sequel... They're watchable, to some extent, and does tie up some lose ends (though one might argue that the lack of answers and explanations is one of the appeals of Cube), but to me at least they don't have any of the same feel as the original.

Ok, I'll admit that the word "coup" is a bit of hyperbole on my part, but I'm generally dissatisfied with all the parties and our entire political system. I am also getting quite annoyed at the current Liberal policy of opposing anything and everything and being willing to do whatever it takes to gain power. The Canadian people spoke at the last election and they should all just get along and work with it instead of playing political power games.

Anything to get to power? Come on ... that was Harper in opposition in a nutshell. He even stooped to having talks with those dreaded separatists and socialists so that they could potentially form a government together if the Martin government fell. What you are describing is a flaw in POLITICIANS, not in any given party and a flaw that Harper has in spades. What else do you call it when they put the confidence flag on every single piece of legislation in order to try and goad the opposition into an election? That's some of the worst partisan politicking this country has ever seen.

what if you desire hotter people twice as much as other people desire hottter people, but you have 1/4 less desire for average folk then other people? Theoretically, you would have higher standards and higher sexuality, right? See, it's possible...

But if you average sexual attraction stays the same, you don't have a higher sexuality.

meh, he's still better than the alternatives in my opinion, especially sicne the NDP, LIBS, and the BLOC agreed on Dion for PM. We voted the torries into office in march and all of a sudden the opposition is going against the will of the ppl, let's do another election albeit the $300 million down the drain

OMG NO MORE ELECTIONS! I live in Quebec and oh my goodness am I sick of going to the polls and we are going back on the 8th. Recently we have had more elections than competent leaders from which to choose. How can any politician in Canada do his or her job when they are constantly running for reelection?

Reddit is a blessing among internet forums. Even the mainstream ones. I browse a lot of video game forums (IGN, Gamespot, etc.) and you would not believe the level of immaturity they have. Not to mention the huge demographic differences (reddit has a much older, intelligent, less religious user base). Most other forums don't.

Well, you're on mainstream video game forums, what did you expect? More than half the userbase is probably aged 8-14 years old.

I wish movie theaters would play stuff like this before the previews instead of the garbage they have there now.

Now, before the previews start, I have to sit through lame-ass slide shows talking about how I can rent a room at the theater for my kid's birthday party, or a slide on "come to this Mexican restaurant". CRAP! All of it. Show stuff like this, especially other behind-the-scenes stuff and watch appreciation levels go up.

Are they really that bad? I was afraid to read them.

It's not that they're bad, it's that they're just normal. None of the depth of plot or language flourishes that the father had. I enjoyed them while I read them, but when I come back to the originals there's no comparison. I read the last two books (Hunters and Sandworms) more like a really well done fanfic than as a true ending to the story. The story is still open-ended as far as I'm concerned. It also annoys me that either Brian or Kevin have a big fixation on violence and gore. They seem to enjoy having at least one instance per book of describing a horrific occurrence in excruciatingly bloody detail.

are you implying that there being no reddit is something you look forward to?

Yes but not just Reddit - I have a vision for the whole world. I want to see a world where there are no nihilistic distractions for the proletariat. Marx said that Religion was the opiate for the masses. Yet today we have millions of atheists complaining on Reddit about religion – yet they themselves fail to see that they are simply the slaves of another opiate – Reddit. The world has become meaningless – without any substance and reason. We type comments that may be read and by tomorrow forgotten. We are hoping for a little comment karma - yet we can not see that we are simply conditioned by the mass media to become useless servants to our own desires. Real emotion gives way to fake emotions, culture gives way to reality TV and opera is replaced by Oprah. Is this the demise of Western Civilization? I propose that we throw of the shackles of suburban oppression and escape from the cage that we built for ourselves. That we destroy television, sport, porn, McDonalds, Goatse, LOLCats and other incarnations of Lucifer at the source and send them with the dark lord back to the hell they came from.

This? Again? *Sigh.* It's been covered to the point of absurdity already. There seems to be a high school drama fest in quite a few subreddits today.

To be honest, I never really posted anything there. That is the funny part of it.

imagines hot girl with blow pop in car..

I think I have a new fantasy.

Um, borken.

Just add the ). I can't figure out how to link to a page that ends in ) on reddit.

I've noticed this too. My theory is that if you have tons of stuff, you can purposely not scan a few items and cheat the store. Otherwise, I can't figure it out.

i dont know where you are, but in the UK when you scan the item it has to be placed in the bag which is on a scale so when an item is scanned you add it to the bag and it makes sure nothing extra has been added, so any unaccounted for weight means a cashier has to come fix it and check what "has not scanned" so there would be no benefit to trying rip the store off in this way.

First, I don't have a problem with non-profit organizations; I find them vitally important in a free society. I have a problem with *coercive* and government run programs because unlike private non-profits, they take from everyone to benefit a few whereas non-profits use voluntary donations. Second, investors took the initial risk that comes along with starting an enterprise; without the freedom to keep profits and use them as they see fit, *you would never see someone undertake that economic endeavor.* Further, not all of the profits need to be reinvested; hiring 50 unnecessary workers and buying tons of unnecessary machinery is wasteful; instead of using it to satisfy more pressing needs, that labor and those capital goods don't get put to their most productive use. This benefits no one. Third, prices aren't meaningfully negotiated with the government; the state can simply say, we won't pay any price over X. Further, market prices can only be set by two entities willingly exchanging based on their subjective valuations of various ends. You won't get an actual price with government paying; politicians and bureaucrats most highly valued ends--staying in power--aren't the same as health care consumers most highly valued ends--getting healthy.

"Further, not all of the profits need to be reinvested" couldn't the company decrease the price then? Oh wait then you will get an increase in customers but not an increase in supply. This means you now have "shortages". In the end the same amount of product was still being made. However shortages are for some reason bad. So before you had people who can't buy a product because they can't afford it. Now you have people who can't get a product because they weren't first in line. somehow the latter is morally wrong, while the former is perfectly fine. Why?

Uber-drunk at 11pm is nothing- I do that once or twice a week! Maybe you're older than I (pushing 30), but I find taking some ibuprofen w/a couple glasses of water and getting to bed works just fine...

Same here, and I am pushing 30. After a usual night of life enhancing whiskey I drink a pint of water for every 2 ounces of liquor. If I'm lucky I wake up at 5am to pee. Then I pound another pint of water and take 2 advil. Then I'm ready for work at 8:30, no fuss, no muss.

I'm an ice eater. My favorite is the ice that's clouded up, because it's softer and has more taste to it. For some reason I love the freezer taste. I've eaten freezer frost before too: I'll just take a butter knife and pry off whole bricks of it, put them in a bowl and break them up to eat.

Have you had yourself checked for an iron deficiency? Apparently it's not uncommon for people who don't have enough iron in their diets to like to eat ice.

If aliens have made repeated contact over the past 60 years, I find it hard to believe that the .gov across the entire planet has covered up every single encounter. That said, if this guy is not crazy and is telling the truth, we should be hearing about this way more often. In this day and age, it will be literally impossible for an alien to reveal itself without the mass populace finding out.

Unless he/she/whatever forgets to bring the taser with him/her/whatever. Nothing like a tasing alien to wake up people to this matter.

Nope. That's not correct. *Do* stop trying to impose your standards on the entire community. It's not just nudity. It's art, "bad" language. bikinis might be iffy in some cases. My employer is not "lax"... they're European thus they have other standards for what's NSFW. There's a whole wide world out there that has different standards than your workplace; perhaps we should cater to *their* standards instead of yours? Do you get the idea? It's a _Community_. Lots of different people - lots of different points of view. No straitjackets. And we all put up with each others' idiosyncrasies.

I might just be a moron, but I really didn't understand what you're trying to say here... your post could really support people on both sides of this issue.

This bus has just crossed Westminster Bridge, which means it just passed [St Thomas' Hospital](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Thomas%27_Hospital). Also the 150 bus doesn't go anywhere near Westminster. I'm available for parties.

<3

I love how the goddamn title is BEST DIVORCE LETTER EVER so goddamn fake

Seriously. He wasn't even trying.

Same shit, more money.

That is suddenly worth a hell of a lot less than it was before.

Tokyo has been the largest city since the Edo period.

So you're saying that when it was a small fishing village 400 years ago, it was still bigger than Damascus, Istanbul, Delhi, Beijing, Rome and even Kyoto? Just to mention a few...

still love this one http://i.imgur.com/PfVPA.jpg

david beckham's net worth is probably higher than the sponsor on his jersey. in the states, its fucking soccer.

I feel so bad for his parents - its awful enough to lose a son but I'm sure they're replaying that moment over and over where they watched him leave, and wished they had stopped him.

Teen life in America is a hellhole. Driving everywhere, not studying what you want, no responsibilities or dignity of work. Fantasy through gaming is the only thing teens have left. Taking it away is an unbelievably aggressive act, and we shouldn't e surprised when they react this way. edit: I'm a 28 year-old teacher who lives in a city but grew up in the suburbs. My children will never be forced to ride in a car to do ANYTHING. Those things are evil soul-cages.

My penis is nicknamed Dr.Strangelove. My left testicle is "The Bomb". My right testicle is "Plan R".

You can't fight in here... this is the War Room

I have a huge family and I am the only one who fix computers. It's truly a nightmare when they all start calling me. What's frustrating is that most people won't go to a computer shop to get their OS reinstalled because "50$ is expensive". Then they go to the garage and pay 750$ happily for some random shit that broke on their car.

If it is frustrating, then you need to be honest with your family. Explain the situation to them and charge them.

Ideally, I like to be able to feel her ribs, but not see them. Also, a bony ass is a real turn-off.

That's the perfect way to put it.

You, you're my best friend. Track 7. "Don't Stop Me Now" (from Jazz, 1978) Writer: Mercury 3:29

Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time

Because, unlike medicine, the Internet is boring.

well done sir

You should feel another girl's vagina if you really wanna know for yourself. And let me watch.

Pics or it didn't happen.

I've always liked Baltar. They made him the universal human- cowardly, looking out for number one, but really not all that evil.

I second. Favorite character in the show. Back in the first season, his tense encounters with other characters while trying to manage his conversations with angel six were great.

People already rake leaves under trees every fall, would it be much harder to rake the fallen fruit as well? We already water, prune and care for our ornamental trees; fruiting trees aren't much different. Fruit trees can also be quite beautiful and provide lovely shade. Rather than thinking of this as an agricultural initiative orchestrated by municipal bureaucracies think of it as a social safety net provided virtually free of cost by society itself.

In Florida, many yards have fruit trees and many of those trees have piles of rotting fruit beneath them. Yet throngs of homeless people pass by and panhandle instead of utilizing the free fruit. (full disclosure: I have been denied fruit when I asked an old fuck if I could pick a couple of his many grapefruit - grapefruit which he let fall from the tree and rot in the yard)

God I hate Canadian providers so, so much. I wish I could hate them to *death*.

American providers have been doing this ALL ALONG!

....who would actually BUY this? simple coding, lots of other similar free programs

Most virus scanners will detect some keylogging software.

Only problem with that is, i'm like captain planning and honestly i had this all kinda planned out 2 weeks ago (asked her out last Saturday) and got a map of the exact location, menu printed out and already know what i'm gonna order and everything. I'm not one for changing plans lol. Hence why i was thinking maybe date #2. However, i never thought about googling that and i'd probably pick some small cozy place. Not a fan of Olive Garden.

Go forward then, my friend. Your fellow redditers will be pulling for you.

I have an *autographed* Bill Nye the Science Guy book on my shelf not 5 feet from me. It's about the ocean. He wrote, "Brian - the ocean is big! Check it out! Bill." One of the better birthday presents I have ever received.

Mine's the Ocean and Dinosaurs! It's autographed, but not personalized though... :/

all right, what about something like "enlightenment"?

Are we talking "Aha" light bulb moments or transcendental experience? Probably if such a state of being exists, it can only be experienced to be understood, just like anger. If someone does experience it can also be studied, like the tests performed on buddist monks which show some changes in their brain patterns.

After 45 minutes of the ridiculousness that was the wind down of that show, I was starting to feel like maybe, just maybe, I could accept the ending as being OK. Then they did that last scene, in the present day, with the two angels and "Mitochondrial Eve." Not only did it break the mood, but it was completely obnoxious and unnecessary. Do they really think I didn't figure out they were on this planet when they called it Earth and landed in Africa? Frakin' angels.

hera was the shape of things to come, thats why they had to say that.

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

Woops... I forgot to post a link. Thank you. :)

Kinda weird how he made Adam out of nothing and Eve out of Adam, and then all of us were made from them. Shouldn't we all be inbred?

Yea, that question always got me in trouble in Sunday school. "If Adam and Eve had 2 sons, who did their sons marry?"

Find a more recent example than that and you'll have a leg to stand on. It wasn't until the early 2000s that sampling/royalties and the like got worked out. Granted from time to time something will get sampled and the original artist isn't compensated, but that gets caught pretty damn quick nowadays, and they thieving artist/label are made to pay. Occasionally something will get sampled without permission/compensation and released for free, generally through quasi-official channels at best however.

The reason a lot of hip hop songs use samples from pre-1960s is that there are many cases where they are not required to get permission. But I suppose in many other cases the hip hop artists label is also the owner of the sampled music. Doesn't really change anything, it's not new music.

One point for the Hobgoblins reference. I'll see your Hobgoblins and raise you a "Manos" The Hands Of Fate and a Puma Man.

Manos will win hands down against almost anything... Puma man was pretty terrible, the flying scenes were just awful. I'd add "future war" into the mix though, the plot was genuinely insane. PS, if this doesn't ruin your faith in humanity, nothing will http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0962728/

I can't wait till The Trials, and to see him hang.

Keep dreaming.

Because there can be only one!

But friendly fire is off?

I don't gloss over the shitty things the US has done. We have plenty of embarrassing stains on our legacy, but glossing over the good that we've done as well just makes you a libertarian tool. You still haven't proposed an alternative form of government, you just keep rambling about the tenth amendment.

The tenth amendment is the alternative form of government. That would bring an end to almost all federal programs, but that's not to say those programs can't be more effectively replaced at the state level. I also support amending the constitution to end the income tax and returning all ability to draw funding to the states. Then? The perpetual military machine would go down the toilet (if we ended the Fed too, which is unconstitutional). The ubiquitous wiretapping would go down the toilet, the CIA - gone, the empire other than an economic empire, GONE, the corps of engineers, replaced at the state level. The only thing reinstating the tenth amendment would do is cripple the federal government and shrink it back down to its intended size. Then we would be back to a system of state competition where the liberal states could institute social programs like medical care, and the right-wing states could just lower taxes. Which state sucks to live in? Bam, you have a free country where power rests in the hands of the people, instead of corporate oligarchs in Washington DC that have been bought and paid for for the last three decades.

Because cultural signifiers are always indicitive of arrogance.

Well, [Jante Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law) is not against cultural signifiers, but it seems to be against them on some level. That said, as a man with a foreign name, i know exactly where the autor comes from. Most people i meet mispronounce my name. Thats why i usually tell people i go by a shortened version of my name, which is simpler to pronounce.

In the 8 years since I got my degree I never found work in my field, went through a couple soulless jobs, got laid off, tried to get a 2nd degree and hated it, got stuck being MrMom, on and off did job hunting for something to fill in around my other concurrent responsibilities that was at least rewarding without any success etc etc all of which contributed to stress and depression. Now all I want is to be happy. I'll take that. I'm sick of waiting for something to go right in my life to be happy. I just want to be happy now and to hell with the rest.

Word. Don't wait to be happy. That's not to say, "give up on the future", but don't set conditions on your happiness.

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Where are you with understanding the plot? It seemed very simple and understandable to me, I'll explain (although I have no idea if you'll see my version as trite and obvious, no offence is intended).

well this pretty much destroys any chance of getting my lost wallet back. it was filled with cash, BK gift cards from my birthday and a hand-drawn map of Burger Kings in my area.

McDonald's did this and the Ronald McDonald's license # is funny The golden arches will give you a golden shower treat from ronnie. http://flickr.com/photos/endquote/180465583/

Make sure each of them has at least one ring at all times. If they get touched by a robot without at least one ring, they'll die.

What.

Ah, I'd rather have my girlfriend too. But I can't bring her to work everyday.

See, it's great working from my home/studio. :)

Where in Canada do you live?

Toronto, actually. You thought it would be somewhere cheap? Here's how I do it: I'm single, and I don't own a car, TV or a landline (and make minimal use of the cell). It really is that simple. I basically pay for rent, food, TTC and internet, and everything else is insignificant. (Although I really should revise my wardrobe one of these days).

The problem is that it presumes that God has no morally sufficient reason for allowing the evil to happen. If the evil is gratuitious, then yes, that would be a problem.

Could you posit a morally sufficient reason for crib death?

He was in Mexico, not Col**o**mbia (where the greatest number of kidnappings take place). But yeah, I saw "Man on Fire" too. Edit: **Fixed.** Thanks to the guy(s) below.

It's Colombia, not Columbia.

damn, I just checked and it's only playing at 1pm and 3pm. I haven't been following this, is there a reason that it's not really being "released"?

What theater is it at? I want to go see it. I live in Long Beach.

Why the hell are you still using torrents? Just go to one of the many web sites like this one http://iwillsearch4u.com/true-blood-s02e10-hdtv-xvid-notv/#more-9765 and download from one of the many links posted.

or even better, [http://forum.tvfreeload.com](http://forum.tvfreeload.com). links go online within 20-30 minutes after airing, and are constantly maintained by the community (dead links re-upped, etc).

Screw private health care.

Screw Public Health-care Nurses! SEXUALLY

Final Fantasy VII

This game has not held up to the test of time at all. Besides the now-atrocious graphics, its nonsense story and sluggish, uninventive gameplay padded out to 70 hours by pointless random encounters reveal it to be an exercise in excess.

an *internet* survey, even

According to the internet, Rick Astley is the best entertainer ever.

Edit: Thanks for the explanations. I'll upload pictures to IMGUR in the future. I honestly didn't know.

Use Imageshack. It's faster and more reliable than Imgur, and they aren't pricks. Plus, there's the handy Imageshack toolbar, and there's a dandy OS X upload widget. EDIT: I didn't mean to imply that Imgur = pricks, just TinyPric.

Not really. I was thinking this would be good for up to 20 people, but even if it was just my wife and a few children, I'd probably want 100. A largish orchard. A few dozen acres just to grow lumber on... hell, wouldn't even get to start harvesting that on a rotating basis for what, 25 years? Here's something I learned just last week. It takes 1000 lbs of burned beech wood, to give you a pound of lye. A pound of lye will make something like 1 gallon of liquid soap. How much soap do you personally use per year? And don't forget dish and laundry detergent. You'll need more than shampoo and bath soap. Now, multiply that times however many people. And then muliply it times 0.5 tons of lumber. Per year. And that's to make soap. Clothing's a little easier... a single acre of cotton can bring in up to 1200 pounds, and very little of that is waste. But, once you're reliant on only natural fertilizers and no pesticides (and the boll weevil is damnable, it wiped out cotton production in some places for decades), figure it will be more like 500 lbs. So, maybe 1, 2 acres tops for that. Then, it's not the most fertile place. I probably need more than 1 acre per cow. I would want several of those (enough to breed my own... if you live without money, you can't go spending $1000 on livestock every few years). I also need enough livestock that I can turn the manure into methane. This isn't clear (pigs will work for this too, btw). An adult cow does about 100 lbs of manure a day, which should be enough for 100 cubic ft of 60/40 methane/co2. 100 cubic ft would be approximately 1 therm, if it was above 90% methane. So, a cow is good for 2/3rds of a therm per day, in theory. That is, if you go scooping up cow turds, and don't miss any. Really, you'll only get the stuff when it's in a stall, so what, less than a third of that? The climate I'm in right now is about the same as that I want to move to, and my samll condo with 2 people in it uses 17 therms a month for cooking and hot water. The hot water will either be solar or electric, so much less than 8 therms per person in the summer. A stove without a pilot light would reduce that further. But in the winter, I use 50 some therms a month. And none of that is waste. A few acres each of wheat, potatoes, and so forth. Then double or triple all of this, because I will need to rotate crops and let things lie fallow for awhile. Maybe your idea of subsistence farming is one of savagery, but I expect a few comforts, myself. Hell, the electrical generation will probably require 1 acre alone.

If you don't put the manure back in the soil, you'll slowly deplete your land. Leguminoses help, but only with nitrogen. And I'd take exception with your idea of savagery, which you seem to conflate with lack of modern amenities. I grew up in a ranch without electricity where we had to boil the water for our baths in a LARGE pot over the wood oven, but at age 6 I had read the Illiad. Well, at least parts of it, because I was scared to death with the battle descriptions.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had a horrible ending

...and a terrible middle, and especially a terrible beginning.

You realize that's actually a rather common phrase that carlos decided to use for his catch phrase, right? He didn't invent it, or even coin it.

I'd never heard it before having the misfortune of seeing his show. Where did you hear it?

Yes, when they fuck up, they fuck up for good. I spent about 30 hours on the phone fixing my internet connection, but at the end, they gave me the 50Mbps service for $49/month which in real life means downloading 1GB in 8 minutes... I forgave them.

1 GB in 8 minutes is just below 18Mbps. You should finish that GB in 2 minutes and 52 seconds if they were actually serving you 50Mbps internet. I am with verizon Fios on a 20/5 plan and i download faster than your 50/? plan.

Ugh... okay, fine. If she watches Star Wars some time within the next week she can come back and breed with us.

Or she can come to my place and kill 2 birds with one stone! ;)

Solaris - Steven Soderbergh P.S. I don't care about the original.

Absolutely. A brilliant, quiet, tense film, not unlike 2001 and 2010...

Despite the risk of others in the thread now telling us to get a room, I will respond. I have never advocated any such thing as the abandonment of philosophy, only *bad* philosophy, which to me is a synonym for postmodernism. I (and others) believe that philosophy has concise analogues in science - specifically, the possibility and ease of prediction being a marker of the theory's validity. Take Descartes (lackey that he was): following the Meditations brings us to several proofs of god. Of course, the proofs are anything but sound, but they do put us in a spot to test the hypothesis. Take Chomsky: we can test (and copiously have tested) for the effects of a Universal Grammar. And while the jury (whoever they are) is still officially out, all falsifying cases have been shown to be invalid. Hell, take Fodor, whose Extreme Nativism, while ridiculous (and I hope you note that by this rejection I disavow a hardwired innateness), it presents testable cases which we can actually experiment upon. Compare that with postmodernism, which offers us nothing, save a solipsistic illusion which none can externally verify, and has never, I repeat, never been properly defended in experimental research. The initial basic notions from which it grew were certainly valuable in that they fleshed out relativism, which works *up to a point*. But then along comes Derrida and the rest, taking it to such absurd extremes that make it not only impossible to test, but quite impossible to understand a thing about human cognition at all. And it becomes ever more impossible, the more of it you read, to escape a growing dread that the main reason the authors espouse these positions is to justify, nay, sanctify their own difficulty of understanding. I cannot accept such defeatism. Indeed, the point can be made - admittedly belaboredly (although not because the point is unsound but because any sort of pomo proof is labored) - that it is this very relativism which has brought liberalism low, which has made liberalism take on the notion that we cannot ever have external criteria upon any culture or individual because, hey, it's all just conjectural fiat anyway. And where has that brought us? To defending beheadings and genital mutilation and countless other horrors. Thankfully, such acceptance is nearing its end, but for a time, we let it fly on the basis that perhaps we simply do not understand. Such abject defeatism is insufferable. I will take a possibly erroneous, but at least brave and optimistic, materialist "positivist" stance any day, if it yields us such things as, yes, MRI scanners or immunosuppressants. I have not ever, not for a moment, suggested a rejection of morality or a discussion thereof. I understand that the pain of animals (to take an example) cannot be blithely ignored in the interest of research. But to state that it is better for humans to die than for even an ape to suffer is beyond what I can accept. These are of course very complex issues, and they should be discussed very thoroughly. But in the end, it is more important for Aunt Flo to live than for Sparky to fetch a stick. A true discussion of this is beyond the nature of this medium, but I trust you understand the point, despite the obvious vulnerabilities my forced terseness exposes. There are but a few things I enjoy more than staying up all night arguing philosophy. But in the end, I believe in getting up in the morning and going to work. And I cannot shake the feeling that postmodernists, at least the ones I've suffered through, are trying to get a free lunch by spurting out volumes of nonsensical gobbledygook in an effort to coast through life, hoping that no one will notice, an accusation supported by the Sokal hoax and others. To change my mind, I would have to see at least once a single viable, *testable* hypothesis from the authors, along with an ego healthy enough to admit they were wrong should the experiments not go the way they wish.

I see your points, and I don't disagree with a lot of them. I still think, however, that you fail to see a distinction between *one* kind of theorizing (for lack of a better term) -- science, i.e. a synthetic *method* of experimentation and verification whose foundation (though mostly unimportant to it) consists in basic analytic first principles -- and *another* kind of theorizing -- contemplation and philosophic discourse, i.e. an analytic activity of thought. Both discourses inform one another, but the latter, logically speaking, serves as a basis for the former; for, scientific positivism cannot tell us *why* or *justify the belief* that a human being is more valuable than Sparky, nor why we should care about science at all. Science is the *how*, philosophy is the *why*. Science gives us MRIs to extend life, philosophy tells us why we should. Do you catch my drift?

I'm having a bit of trouble getting my grades up, so I was hoping you'd tell how you study... My main method right now is reading the same subject until I memorize it but it's obviously not working. : /.

The key to getting good grades is to match your study style to the test style. Some subjects and teachers test over learning concepts, others on memorizing facts.

If they don't want bottled water, then they just have to stop buying it. Why would a shop devote valuable space to an item that doesn't sell? This is the only fair way to state your objection to a product - don't buy it. Bans and government action is dictating to everyone else what they are allowed to buy according to your noisy selfish values.

RTFA. The stores are discontinuing the sales in solidarity with their customers as a protest of the waste involved in the commercial bottled water industry. Some government offices are now refusing to buy bottled water for the workers. If the workers want bottled water they're free to bring their own. Otherwise, they can drink the tap water. *You're* the one dictating here: that taxpayers should buy bottled water for government workers and that towns situated on top of good groundwater should support trucks coming in to pump it out, take it to a bottling plant, and ship it back to them and charge them for all that.

-Prayer is the most important part of our relationship with God. It astounds me that more Christians do not get excited about prayer. -It is best to hold most aspects of our theology weakly. The immense diversity within Christianity dictates that we should always be looking to expand our understanding rather than cling to the parts that are familiar to us. It bothers me to no end when Christians are quick to discount ideas WITHIN Christian thought that conflict with what they already know. -Using drugs in moderation is acceptable by the same token that using alcohol in moderation is acceptable. -We should spend as little as money as possible on ourselves (I wish I could live this out better). It saddens me that this is even mildly controversial as well.

Agreed, for the most part. Drug use, I think that should be OK for things that aren't highly addictive (as with alcohol, a Christian should not place anything in lordship above Christ). But with the caveat that this should not take place in places where using drugs is illegal (or owning / buying, what have you). I think that Christians should obey every law, except those that go against God. And then those should only be defied if the Christian is willing to accept the full punishment for doing so. Well, and #2. I think that idea is patently ridiculous. ;)

See also: The wonders of [Valve Time](http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time)

Thank you! I *knew* that I had seen this before, but I wasn't exactly sure where.

You have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk. I always picture decriminalization as a stepping stone to legalization.

Decriminalization involves supporting the idea that marijuana is a drug that is so dangerous it warrants throwing people in prison over. Nothing makes that OK.

5 and half months federal time for my ex-gf using my cell phone to make a drug deal. Key West was bad - real bad. Bunch of black dudes sitting around talking about how many people they had raped and killed. Miami was the best, great food and chicks standing outside every night showing us their tits. The councilor never came... so no phone calls for me. Bank robbers and drug dealers in Miami - and every single one of them would give you the shirt off their back. Atlanta was the worst... no matress, no pillow, no cup... four guys in a cell, sleeping on the cold concrete and 12 TB tests. A small box of cereal and a milk for breakfast, crackers for lunch, and I couldn't figure out what dinner was. I didn't eat it. Guys yelling and screaming all night... nobody goes to the infirmary at night in Atlanta, no matter what the problem is. Then I had a 16 hour diesel shuffle flight from Atlanta to Oklahoma City by way of New York. No food, no drink, feet and hands shackled to the chair the entire time. No restroom breaks, if you had to piss they made you piss in your pants and then sit in it for 12 hours. The guy beside me wasn't happy about that. The Marshals would hit people on the collar bone with a flashlight for talking. One guy started yelling and screaming - they took him off in New Jersey and drug him across the run-way by his ankle shackles. Oklahoma City - had to trade my breakfast for a cigarette every day. Food was good, otherwise and we had a basketball court for 30 minutes every day. Denver sucked bad. Real bad. Some crazy dude walking around naked every day with soars and puss all over his body. 60% of the inmates only spoke spanish. Crips and bloods... those cats fight hard. Three guys with positive TB tests were walking around for three weeks before they took em out. Had to trade food for everything - a toothbrush costs you your chicken, shampoo costs three chicken pieces. Shower shoes cost breakfast for a week. If you don't give the laundry guys your chicken, they die your towel, underwear and jumpsuit pink which is a flag for everyone to beat the shit out of you. When they have something like ribs... half the guys go through the line three times and take the food to their cells, so 2/3 of the inmates don't get to eat. The minimum security guys take the dessert half of the time, and they are too lazy to ever bring soup or anything like that. There is no protective custody anymore - they put you in a small cell with two or three other guys - I hear they are the crazy ones. I was in there with several cold-blooded murderers. If you rat on someone they send notes through the legal library to the other areas and you get jacked. Some of the guys in there are doing life, and they just don't give a fuck. The law library was especially nice... all the pages are gone for all the major crimes. You have to pay for everything. They give you 12 cents per hour for working, and you can only work four hours a day. If your attorney's number is not registered, you can only call him or her through the councilor, who comes in once or twice a week for two hours. The line is long, and unless your in the first ten, you don't get phone calls. You can't call anyone who is not on your phone list, and you can't leave messages on answering machines. If you write a letter and the envelope isn't just perfect, they hold it for a month before giving it back to you. It took 45 days for them to put money on my account for commissary. Then another two weeks to actually get commissary. I didn't get a phone call or commissary for three and a half months. Out of 60,000 pages in my discovery, they gave me 13 pages. I had to trade my chicken to other guys who were also on my case so that I could read their discovery. I didn't find out what the exact charges were against me until my bond hearing four months into it. They called my brother from the court room to ask if I could stay with him and he said "yea, for awhile...", so they denied my PR bond and took me back for another month and a half. I had to file a motion with the court to get my discovery from my public defender. All the guys in there bitch about their court appointed attorneys non-stop. They just don't give a crap anymore. They only file motions because they get paid for every motion they file. Most of them won't even know what the charges are against you half of the time. They lie constantly. They don't do anything you ask them to do, they just ignore you. They get $1500 for every court appearance, so you get to sit through 20 wiretap hearings so all the attorneys can line their pockets - nothing gets done in the wiretap hearings. It's just a bunch of lawyers sitting around collecting their government handouts. I lost everything... my home, all my personal stuff, my photo albums, my software, my computers. They auctioned my car after 30 days, with my notebook and my DVD's in the car. I never got any of it back. If you use your cell phone memory all the time, you won't remember anyone's phone number - and they have no phone books, you can't call information. You have to trade your food to get someone else to call their people to have them get the number for you - which is against BOP policy, if you get caught, it's 30 days lockup. If you can't remember someone's address... or phone number, your completely cut-off from the outside world - except for your lame assed attorney, who doesn't give a shit about anything but the money. I fired my public defender, filed motions to withdraw all his motions, learned the criminal justice system, withdrew my plea of guilty, withdrew my plea bargain, and set the case for trial - at which point the federal prosecutor filed a motion giving me time served w/ three years probation, which was a lot better than the 3.5 years in prison that my public defender had negotiated. It took me three and a half years. Six years of probation, and now days if you get busted for drugs - you can't drink alcohol either. It's a condition of your bond... so that when you piss dirty for alcohol they can send you back to prison anytime they want to. Out of 60,000 pages of discovery... thirty pages actually applied to my aspect of the case - most of which were criminal reports on my ex-gf and the two guys she had met one time to do a drug deal. She got off scott free for her testimony about the dude she delivered drugs for. She spent six days in jail total for delivering 1 kilo of cocaine exactly 1 mile down the street. The evidence against me was pen registers of my old cell phone calling one of the guys, and my ex-gf's statement that I arranged the deal. That was it... no wiretaps, no witnesses, no nothing. They had blanket wiretap authority from the attorney general. They traced every single phone call to the main drug guys. Anyone that called them was indicted regardless of the circumstances. Some guys were in there over a year because their girlfriends used their cell phones to call their girlfriends - who were using the cell phones of the main dudes. The main dudes had ten cell phones each. Prison is bad... you don't want to go to prison these days. The government is all jacked up - they just don't care, none of them give a crap. They will throw your drivers license in the garbage can and laugh in your face... when you get out, you'll be walking to the half-way house in your shower shoes, a t-shirt, and a pair of canvas cut-off shorts. They don't care if it's snowing, and you only have four hours to get to the half-way house or you go back to prison. Then you have two weeks to get a job, or you go back to prison - but now you have no ID. They count every two hours - all night long with flashlights in your face. Wherever you go, you have to call the half-way house when you get there, and when you leave. The Feds will march through the office where you work two and three at a time. They'll question your co-workers, the managers and the owner of the company. You have to give them copies of every paycheck and you have to log your time for the probation department - plus two or three piss tests every week - across town. Your setup to fail in every possible way imaginable - so you can go back to prison.

I, too am very sorry. But on the bright side, your browser didn't crash right as you hit the comment button, right?

oh come on downvoters, that was pretty funny.

Uh...nope.

its not that it was more brutal than it is now, I'm sure it's way more brutal now because players are bigger and stronger. It's just that back then they didn't have all the safety equipment we have now.

They actually changed a lot of rules so that it is less brutal now. In 1909, you could use the flying V (like in the Mighty Ducks movies). Imagine red rover played by football players except both lines run at each other all at once.

Hrrm, I think I'll continue to telecommute from my home in the country, where I can raise chickens, have a garden and grow much of my own food, not to mention see the stars at night. High density city living has some environmental benefits, but so does living in the country. Using one narrow metric like carbon emissions from transit isn't going to tell the whole story.

For the benefit of the world, can you please reproduce as much as physically possible? Thank you.

This blog author writes in some sort of bazaar hillbilly speak. I just glanced a few more articles and I feel like I stepped into the Grapes Of Wrath.

Which, when fermented for the requisite period will become the Wine of Wrath.

total cost (from pdf on site): $3500

What's that work out to in $/Gflop? $3500/186Gflops = $18.81 / Gflop, a bit high if you go by Wikipedia that has a figure of $0.20 / Gflop but that's a huge supercomputer built by a large company. edit: that should have been 20 cents per / Gflop

Every time I go through Fremont, I see Afghans having picnics in the median of the highways.

I used to be one of those afghans.

Could you elaborate?

I just wish everyone could have a "well-padded fallback" in the form of "other assets (business, real estate)", while the star portion of their portfolio over performs. **sigh**, nothing against you personally of course. I guess "I wouldn't advise people to follow my example..." just reminded me of people who live in a bubble, and don't understand what most people's lives are like in this country.

Wow, I didnt know that.

citation? a cool "fact" but any proof

Err. I'm missing where the controversy is. The New Testament contains multiple references to the resurrection on the third day being previously set out by Old Testament prophets long before Jesus' time (biblical scholars would likely point you to Psalms and Hosea, and you'll find those references by Jesus and Paul in Luke and Corinthians), which would be a pretty stupid thing to write down if you wanted your story to hinge on it being "unexpected" or as-of-yet not thought of. Additionally, such claims would actually make the discovery of such a stone less of a surprise, if anything, because they would indicate an acknowledgment that the scholars of the day might have an expectation of a third-day resurrection. Someone 'splain to me why this is such a boat-rocker.

Especially since this is written in *Hebrew* ostensibly coming from a *Jewish* prophet. If _anything_ this confirms Christianity's theology of the resurrection rather than disproves it. Way to spin it, Reddit!

Yep - I'm in complete agreement with you. Unfortunately, for whatever reason - in general doubters are not welcome in society. I've always been a doubter and am very agreeable when someone calls me out on taking something on faith. It caused much problems in school where my naturally inquisitive nature was not welcome and even resented. Probably another evolutionary adaptation of our minds - it's easier to get something accomplished as a small tribe if most of the members just accept what the alpha leader decides to do rather than doubting everything.

I suspect that's far more of a sociological adaptation than an evolutionary one. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources a behavioral scientist would need to test that hypothesis. Given the lack of data, I'll have to remain in doubt.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/99pyu/why_you_shouldnt_internet_date_without_video_chat/ So you post this TWO MONTHS AGO and nobody cared. You guys are *still* on about this? Are you kidding? That's pretty fucking pathetic. Not to mention the fact that you sit there all self-righteous, making fun of some girl because she's fat *while trying to claim it's because she lied*. Is this because you feel shitty about your own appearance? Does this make you feel better about yourself?

He first posted it in WTF, where it didn't get much response. He gets some response for it in this 4chan-inspired offshoot. Makes sense.

*NOOOOOO!* Still not getting up.

P-Dubs homework, cause I know I would never be disturbed.

What are the two most important questions when considering inventions that help with the developing world drinking water problem? 1) Can people plausibly make or maintain the devices themselves once the international aid is gone? 2) How much do they cost? The answers in this case appear to be "no" and "we're not telling you".

A related question: Will this improvement contribute to sustainability issues in future? For example, if there are already starving people, lowering the death rate by disease may exacerbate a food shortage.

Um, where did you get THAT piece of news from? Everything I've read is that he fought the studio tooth and nail to keep it intact...

Edit: People should probably downmod this comment, as it contains spoilers. Apparently they did change the ending, you can read about it [here](http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/10/19/watchmen-ending-changed/). It should be obvious, but I'll state explicitly that the article in the link above will completely spoil the ending to the movie. Ya'll have been warned. **Spoilers ahead**, but I'll be as vague as can: I'm not sure I mind the change. The essence of what the villain is trying to accomplish remains, even if the means is different. So long as Dr. Manhattan's actions towards Rorschach aren't changed, and the other characters' reactions are left alone as well, I see no reason to quibble, aside from fanboy purism. Don't get me wrong, I understand that motive very well, but the outlandishness of the original story always struck me as out of place. It was so odd it broke the 4th wall immediately for me. What's odd is that they apparently put effort into creating the squiddy, but didn't use it. Maybe the director wasn't satisfied with the quality of the creature they came up with and decided that mushroom clouds would be more acceptable? The one thing I will say, is that changing the squid into a nuke does remove the *otherness* of the attacker that the villain is trying to create, which was a requirement in his plan, since he wanted everyone on the planet to unite together. Nukes are an earthbound menace, squiddy was supposed to be otherworldly. I guess we'll just have to see how it works out. I for one am cautiously optimistic. It looks good so far.