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What an ass. He insists on having everyone's name or ID number, publishes all the information online, and then blurs out his own. He can't even hold himself *to* the same standards of privacy he expects *for* himself.

Amen. Now what I can I do with the routing numbers from that check?

It was unstable before it was hit? Imagine what you could infer if the video was even longer than 14 seconds....

It's a reasonable speculation, considering the relatively low speed of the vehicle that hit it. Unless, you know, some dude just happened to blow up a stick of dynamite on one of the pillars off camera at the same time.

Oh, I wouldn't be so sure that doesn't happen already. Your daughter thinks so, too.

That's what your granddaughter said last night!

should have been whiskey instead of clocks

It should have been bacon!

You should leave some space between when you say SPOILER ALERT and when you type the FUCKING SPOILER because my eyes jump and i've never seen the movie.

Come on, the movie's eight years old. If you can't stand to have a movie's ending spoiled for you, maybe you shouldn't wait eight years before you watch it. (BTW: Darth Vader is totally Luke's dad, Bruce Willis was dead the whole time, and Kevin Spacey is Keyser Soze.)

Given the boondoggles Libs get into when money is around Canadians have every right to be suspicious of any new financial projects. Jane Stewart's Human Resources scandal, the huge cost overruns on the gun registry, the bold theft in the Sponsorship mess still piss off people on the street.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. The carbon tax would put undue burden on the poor, for many reasons. It would make the tax system more regressive. Furthermore, this would severely displace and disrupt the market, and the economic effects of this aren't being properly accounted for. It's pure foolishness based on at best specious scientific evidence.

Um, no I haven't. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=MATTHEW+6:5-15

I must have misread your post. Anyway, the passage is about praying as a performance to others and not actually praying to God.

If people keep building Obama up like some sort of savior Icon then it will only lead to sheer disappointment (or of course blaming everything he doesn't accomplish on everyone else.). He is just a politician, no more, no less.

certainly. but a very talented politician with a talent for drawing citizens toward a common cause which, in this case, includes the re-establishment of the constitution and the repeal of 16 years of increased power in the executive branch. but good luck with that cynicism.

Here is yet another ignorant, egotistical fuck to give Americans a bad name. This kid will likely be a prick-headed, middle-management "boss," forever mocking and insulting those smarter than him. Quite sad, indeed.

No, in the first place, it's an "honors" English class. In the second place his mechanics are exceptional. High points for imagination and use of hyperbole and sarcasm; low points for not "getting into the spirit of the assignment."

No, he's right. You said that coffee is not a drug, but caffeine is. Opium is extracted from poppy seeds - it's mostly plant material but contains about 10% morphine. Like caffeine in coffee, the morphine is doing the actual altering of bodily function. Interestingly, by the same logic you are negating your opening sentence. THC is the active ingredient in weed; so like caffeine, THC would be the drug but not weed itself. In fact, as long as a discrete active ingredient could be isolated, no plants could be considered drugs. I don't think this is correct; I don't think you think this is correct; and I think xoctor had a good basis for arguing against it.

Meh, I just went to some places online to make sure I was getting this right... We're all arguing the wrong point. The word "drug" has more to do with why you take it than what it's made out of. Drug has a different definition depending on how you're talking about it. Medical, law enforcement, and general public usage are all different definitions. Like beer to a doctor could be considered a drug, yet is not a drug to police or us. We're sitting here arguing the definition of an ambiguous word. Coffee being a huge gray area is not helping our discussion and analogies. Even doctors can't decide if it's a drug. The reason i said it's not, is that there is decaf and regular coffee beans. Some African coffee beans don't have caffeine... again, a huge gray area depending on how you look at it. (Some coffee is a drug, some is not)

And before you start thinking I am not listening with proper appreciation to this creation by Beethoven - I like it a lot and I have seen the movie too.

What movie? [Beethoven?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103786/)

I had a good laugh at this article. People say unnatural = immoral, you what know else is "unnatural"? Plastic. And with cloning, designer babies, etc, I don't see what's so wrong with that. Everyone is afraid of Brave New World/1984 scenarios, but they don't really that this slope isn't all that slippery.

The bigger problem is thinking natural = good. Or that there are gods that play god.

The *primary* goal of the fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu subreddit is to *square*ly address those little things in life that make one angry.

But, if there are new ways to advance the ffffffuuuuuuu art style to be used in comics, then I'm all for it. How else can he submit this so we can use it in templates?? I'm already thinking of ways to use something like this creatively.

Yeah, luckily our "executive" branch will never have as much power as in the south.

Pedantic poli-sci mode, *engage*: Our executive branch has significantly more power than in the USA, if, and only if, the party in power has a majority of the seats in the house. PMs with majority governments are far more powerful *domestically* than are American presidents. The PMO and the PCO reign supreme. And majority governments are the norm. Thank FSM the Harper govt only has a minority Pedantic poli-sci mode, *disengage*.

Metric - Imperial. ARGARHGARHAHRGAHRA

is that a faux pas?

a general response to the "boys aren't really hurt" camp: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/7yyjr/faq_9dont_all_boys_want_sex_people_dont_really/c07sbm4

Unfortunately, inane. To argue that "underage" (meaning under 18) consent is impossible is flat out ludicrous. If you want to put forward such an idea, you're going to have to present evidence that evolution placed puberty at the wrong point in life. The primary purpose of puberty is to develop the individual so that they want sex, so that people want to have sex with them, and to develop the emotional and intellectual centers of their brains - the parts that are used when forming intense emotional relationships with other people. This, of course, is in a "neutral" environment. In the environment of our current fucked up society where if the kid has sex, they will have already spent 12 years or so having it beaten into their skulls that sex is something they are not to know of, that all sex is rape, that their own desires are evil perversions that will lead them to inevitable destruction, etc. Yes, that fucks a kid up. If the kid gets laid and then is approached by his family as if he had just murdered a baby and eaten it, and is told that from then on he would never be a normal person ever again, at the point in his life when he is forming his own image of himself, yes, it's going to fuck him up. The sex doesn't fuck him up, society and his parents do that. Naturally, he should have had various curiosities about sex fulfilled throughout childhood, and when puberty hits he should be learning the rest first-hand. If you disagree, you simply have to explain how evolution managed to produce this creature that will go through a 6-year maturation cycle during which the best course of action is to actively thwart all attempts at maturation, during which they must be told that their desires are destructive and must be denied, during which if they do fulfill these desires they are to be told that their entire life is forefeit as result. And no, this doesn't apply to boys only, it applies exactly equally to girls. Puberty serves the same function in both genders - drive them to want sex and drive others to want to have sex with them (its called 'secondary sex characteristics' and it's their only purpose).

Ho-ly shit. Seriously, what's up your ass? All because I asked other gonewilders if this was off-topic? You seem... too fragile/unstable to post here. Just my opinion.

You are a waste of my time.

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What you seem to fail to understand is that he is not talking about Voodoo there. the only reference to voodoo is: "gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. But before many questions were asked it became manifest that something far deeper and older than negro fetishism was involved." He's talking about a Cthulhu cult that has merely recieved a few bits from voodoo because those types have joined the "heterogeneous" cult. I think when you read this: "the creatures held with surprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith.” you thought he was talking about Voodoo; he isn't, he is talking about the Cthulhu worship, which has only the "colourings" of voodoo. Now as for the other thing: Do you know how many stories Lovecraft wrote? All the ones that mention race are listed in that wikipedia and there are many many more that do not. And he disparages dutch immigrants, natural born germans, apparantly jewish people as well, and for the run of the gamut hispanics and africans/african-americans. So what is it, he's racist against all races? He has even trashed english descended people (I'm not sure where I believe in the Tomb) not because of their race, but because they have lost the old culture. So what I'm saying is; is he racist against germans for writing about a bad german man? Is he racist for saying primitive cultists have a race? Is he racist against fish because he trashed on people in Innsmouth breeding with sea demons? His writings deal with matters far above race. Humans are all cockroaches in the eyes(or whatever) of the ancients.

This is not a punishment... 15-Life for ATTEMPTED MURDER would be a little more appropriate.

You wont get murder for shooting someone in the ass!

That may be true, and maybe that's all this article is. But at least 2/3rds of what he's posted about are effects that we are learning about, and treating as accepted, in my biology studies in university. Primarily, the effects of fertilizers on water sheds, the effect of monoculture on topsoil quality, and the effect of CO2 on ocean acidification. Overfishing and global warming are things that many other sources seem to corroborate as well. I don't think dismissing all prophecies of doom as nonsense is a good idea. It depends on how much evidence they have pointing in that direction. And we're notoriously bad, it seems, at predicting when something might happen, but we can more easily tell when a trend is moving in a certain direction. For instance, I suspect that the price of gas will continue to increase well into the future. It might go up and down here and there, of course. And I can't tell you when it might hit a certain price. But I can feel pretty confident it'll go up. Yes, there have been a LOT of false alarms. It's easy to let that desensitize you. Kind of like the story of the boy who cried "Wolf!" one too many times. It does sort of seem that things are slowly building up to a terrible crescendo, but it's hard to tell how fast. I also believe we'll be none the wiser for some time, even after the shit hits the fan. It will be the less fortunate and third world countries who feel the effects first, and those will be the people who we can also ignore or dismiss most easily.

I'm just glad I'm from Canada. If there is a singular country to benefit from global warming and/or some other nature collapse Canada will be coming up aces. We have close to the lowest population density on earth, a massive amount of natural resources, a first rate science and education system and lots of room for your broke refugee asses. Global warming will most likely benefit Canada. Moving the green belt north frees up more arable land for farming. even raising just 20 - 30 kilometres would free up literally billions of acres since Canada is so wide. Global warming would make the growing season longer letting us grow a wider variety of crops that are less likely to fail. judging by the amount of rain we've been getting up here the past two years we'll be fine on water as well. Not to mention that we own the majority of the worlds fresh water. If sea levels do rise then what do we lose? the rocky mountains means the west cost will be fine. Vancouver isn't a big loss. the east cost can go for all I care, nothing out there but rocks and lighthouses. If shit really hits the fan I'm heading north away from the border where nobody is and there is a lot of land to live on and live off of. I'll come back down when 90% of the worlds population is dead or dying and we'll get this whole business of sustainable development worked out properly this time. Oh Canada! I'm sure I'll be mocked for this but it'll all come out in the wash.

cocaine

If you wanna hang out youve got to take her out.

IMO, Back to the Future has the greatest concept of time travel out there because people have free will to change time. None of this "you *have* to do such-and-such because its already been done by a future you" bullshit.

Hey come on, I like Lost.

Did it cost $262.50? http://store.stilettotools.com/Search.bok?category=Striking+Tools%3ATiBone+Technology

To somebody, somewhere out there, that is $260 well spent. I don't get it, but I'm happy for the person that uses this hammer.

Why curse it? What's wrong with thinking she is hot? She is. And she is also right.

Nothing is wrong with it, but it does take away from what she's saying. Or at least it is distracting. It is like if she said the same thing while juggling bowling pins on a unicycle. Also, it appears as if she is intentionally trying to look hot. I mean, the shot of her cleavage, the makeup, the hair. Did she just happen to do the video before leaving to go clubbing or something... into the camera she keeps on the top shelf of her closet?? As someone else here pointed out, it is interesting that we can always see her cleavage... at the expense of her eyebrows. It wouldn't have been annoying if she just happened to be pretty, but otherwise didn't try to emphasize it.

Fox and every other biased "news" organization will survive until the Fairness Doctrine is restored.

Any "Fairness Doctrine" wouldn't apply to FoxNews. Also, I think the whole concept of a fairness doctrine is terrible. Any law which comes from politicians saying "I'm tired of people being able to listen to the radio or television program of their choice and not hear what we want them to hear" is a bad idea regardless of its good intentions.

I second that.

I third that. I prefer this movie for the lush cinematography more that its story, which is very open to interpetation. Get a good copy, dim the lights, watch it on the biggest screen possible. It's interesting to note that this movie had to be shot a second time with minimal budget and in a short time after the original film stock was ruined by poor processing. The resulting second version is apparently completely different from the never seen original.

Absolutely agreed, but to have deleted ALL of the reviews? There is some fishy business going on with Amazon on that. :-/

Well, at the time I'm reading it, there are still enough reviews to give Spore an average of one star. Which is still allowing the game's rating to be held captive by the activism related to the DRM rather than a measured review of the actual experience. (Even with the shitty DRM and gameplay that didn't live up to the hype, I'd have to imagine it's at least a two-stars-out-of-five experience.)

Note that no race car will pass DOT standards, and I would prefer to wreck in one any day. Really though it looks to be a safe car.

I'm sure this car "looked" safe as well... but looks can be deceiving: http://youtube.com/watch?v=weFVM7K4Clo

I thought the centurions leaving was stupid. Every time machines and humans split, ignorance and fear mount over time until a war starts. It would be better if they had stayed together. The centurions could still have been freed. I see a nice outdoor cafe with a couple of centurions sitting at a table. The waitress stops by: How is everything? Can I get you any more WD40?

This also leaves the centurions with 150,000 years to advance and evolve... they never come back and check up on Earth? With the tech they had they should have spread throughout the galaxy.

No surprise there. All you have to do is look at the whole Churchill Falls episode to see where their reservations are coming from.

Can you provide more details about what is wrong with Churchill Falls?

I wonder how long a coat of paint would last on a typical city street. Most cities can't even seem to keep up with repairs to wear and tear on the asphalt.

See above comment- cement would likely work fine, with the right reinforcing materials. Cars would eventually blacken the surface with tire marks, to which the logical solution would be white car tires. Baller.

Some things should not be automated. Having a robotic bartender is like having a robotic therapist. Not a good idea.

So getting your drink made EXACTLY the way you want it EVERY time is a bad thing? Really?

Nixon?

I'd like to say "close" but i really can't ;)

when and where ;-)

I'm a dude and I can't really say I'm into ass tastings off of some other dude's dick.

It was a shitty photo, but no not really...it looks pretty good to me and I've seen some god-awful tattoos in my day. In any event, go fuck yourself.

I'm sorry, that's just just amateur work. Compared to the sort of detailed work you can get: http://www.checkoutmyink.com/assets/photos/0004/4828/escher_cicatrizadoMELHOR_MODERNA2007_large.jpg These aren't based on Escher's work, but have a similar feel: http://www.bmeink.com/A50124/high/bmegl012959.jpg (NSFW-female bum) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/2302509667_cafdc7518c.jpg

The long hair on the guy had me confused the whole comic.

Yeah, and no facial hair.

How is the culture going to change without challenging it?

I do not oppose such a fight, but it is pretty rude to bring it onto a flight where people are confined in a small space for hours.

Can you specify what aspects you didn't like?

I thought that the tone of the movie was uneven. The opening scenes had the audience giggling, even during what was supposed to be portrayed as a pseudo-fascist relocation, mostly due to Wikus' persona, which came off more as comic than clueless. The cat food thing (really? x thousand light years and...cat food?) really sealed it for me. Am I watching some kind of dark comedy, like Shawn of the Dead? There are several plot holes, or rather, convenient omissions, which are troubling. I think these have been elaborated on in other submissions, but the one that really got me was the fuel scenario. The need to turn Wikus into a hybrid was so overpowering that the writers were willing to gloss over some pretty bizarre logical leaps. They've been here for twenty years looking for gas? Okay. They find it in discarded alien artifacts? O...Okay. Why would they be on the ground in the first place? Nevermind that. So, this rare fuel also turns other creatures into prawns one bodypart at a time and was being stored in a booby-trapped hairspray bottle? No. Sorry. I thought the aliens did not look right. They seemed cartoonish to me, particularly the facial expressions which seemed to move one tentacle at a time like puppets, rather than as a whole, like a truly organic life form. Their bodies seemed to defy the laws of physics, especially vis-a-vis the principle of center of mass. Luckily, the movie was self-consistent, by having the mecha-pod disobey the same principles. Which leads me to... What the hell is this, Transformers? By the end of the movie, meek, mild, and comic Wikus has successfully and improbably morphed into Bruce Willis and has the uncanny ability to operate alien machinery without any training, in what seems like complete darkness, while being inundated with unfamiliar symbols and error messages on his HUD. Maybe they should have explained this by having some sort of "allspark" transfer the information into his brain. It's bullshit, and we, as thinking audience members, deserved a line or two of explanation. Come on, guys. That about sums it up for me. EDIT: Fixed a preposition.

not to distract from the entertaining theism/atheism debates here, but curiosity has gotten the better of me here. i think the perception is that all christians are an amalgam of ned flanders and fred phelps, but i know this is a false stereotype. i'm guessing there are more than a few here with a libertarian bend, but don't have any idea where this reddits stand on an issue that seems to get a lot of attention on reddit. any opinions? bonus points if you support your position by citing a bible verse.

I have the libertarian bend, but I will have to take a pass on the bonus points. Other than teaching to obey the law except where the law violates God's law, no bible verses jump to mind regarding how much of the bible's moral code should be codified into the laws of the land. I don't see marijuana as "a good thing," but I don't think it's any of the government's business either. My official position is that I don't *oppose* legalization. So, I'm not leading the charge *for* legalization.

Actually, you have to prove it WILL stimulate the economy, not vice-versa. The problem is the economy is bad, and the "solution" is to spend all this money. Why do I have to prove it won't work? I'd love for Congress to have to prove all of these things will stimulate the economy, but unfortunately they can add whatever they want to bills. How could spending $300 million to combat violence stimulate the economy? Is the stock market down because women are being battered? It's retarded.

Polar icebreaking ship: Our icebreaking fleet is 30 years old. extending the service lives of our coastguard's polar icebreaking ships for 25 years will cost about $400 million per ship. Or, we can spend $87 now and be done with it. That's a huge relief to tax payers. Digital-tv buying incentives: I assume the first one is a joke because it's pretty obvious NEA: Providing direct assistance to states through state education formulas has significant impacts both inside and outside the education profession. Not only will there be higher quality teachers, but education gives our workers the ability to compete globally, as well as insures the students will become a productive member of society. Obama should be giving much more than $50 mil for this labor union Anti-violence: Investing in social programs that prevent violence from happening is always a good idea; the long term remification is that it lessense police burden, allowing us to have the same amount of police protection with a smaller budget National Park: We really need to see what the plans for this is before making any judgment. I mean, if he just wants to plant grass, okay that's bad. But if it encourages youth activity, developmental jobs, etc, then that's money well spent Historic Preservation fund: okay I agree with you there, haha edit: clarifications

An homage to [another TV ending](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall) so mindblowing, they developed an entire [hypothesis](http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html) to try and explain it.

Jesus the entire Law and Order franchise is possibly the imaginations of a autistic child? What did he graduate from law school as well?

I use Foobar, but it isn't suitable for most people. People don't *want* to spend hours setting up their music player. I spent about six hours configuring Foobar, and it still has less functionality than iTunes. But it uses 30% of the RAM (35 megs VS 110 megs) and plays my music without any hassle, so it wins. edit: I feel bad that you are being downmodded because you are pretty much correct, so have an upvote.

Before the latest version of foobar came out, I felt that there wasn't a good solid all around music player. Not since winamps heyday did I feel this sense. Foobar really is an amazingly well designed piece of software and if you haven't tried it yet, I recommend you do immediately

I just want to know, do you understand exponential growth?

Actually I do understand what that is. But everyone is missing the last part...in order for peak oil to work, the world MUST RUN OUT OF OIL. As is it must be exacted into extinction. Peak oil is theory, like religion.

Ha, funny. I always blame 9/11 when my exes want to see me and I don't want to make the effort. What a coincidence.

Your executables want to see you? What OS are you using?!

Nobody loves anyone. Our world is built on lies, guilt and misery.

The moment you start loving you make yourself vulnerable. 9 times out of 10 you end up regretting it bitterly and for far longer than you thought you would.

I would have agreed with you completely in the past. In fact, I used to get upset when other people weren't as angry as I was, equating a lack of anger with a lack of caring. But this is what I've come to realize: Anger is a state of perturbation. So to be motivated into action by anger means that a. You will work to change whatever is making you angry until the perturbation subsides or b. You will remain perturbed constantly. Its really much more powerful and long lasting to have a desire to change things because of core principles you possess. For me, it has been like the difference between using gasoline and solar power as fuel. One runs out, the other is always there (at least for another 5 billion years, anyway).

I'm not replying to this specific post but your original title comment. If you got that from Meditations, let me also suggest some other good sources of philosophy: 1.) The Hagakure: This is the book for detatchment. 2.) Star Wars: This six episode saga, one movie combined, is purely about what happens to a man and the world(s) around him when he lets attachment rule his life. 3.) The Bible: This is where the downvotes come, but hear me out. Disregard if you can't buy Christian theology. If, however, you can to any extent this is the good stuff. Jesus, and may others in the Bible, discuss the downfall of attachment. There are many examples, but here are [some good ones to look at](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%209:57-62&version=31 "From Luke")

Having been a bouncer, I can assure you that drunk rich bitches like that stupid whore give staff the biggest problems at a bar, guys usually know the drill- but women *never* learn how to handle their liquor, or how far is too far, or that yes, I really will kick your dumb bitch ass out for being a cunt, and no, I don't care who your fucking dad is or who you know. Get the fuck out bitch, and don't come back.

How does one go about becoming a bouncer? I think it would be fun part time. I'm not very tall, but i'm quite strong and i have years of martial arts and football experience.

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.

I know! WTF Nintendo? This seems like a great idea, let's put out another "third system." Jesus. I've had my DS for less than a year, and it's already moments from being obsolete. All so we can have a built in Eyetoy. Great, now people all over the Internet can see up my nose. Also, let's make it even thinner and less impact resistant! Sounds good! And hey, let's take out the GBA slot! People will love that! God, I don't know what the fuck is going on with gaming anymore.

I've had a DS for four years. Why should I wait for your permission to get a new one? You can just wait three years before you buy a new one, just like you did last time.

I would like Internet supersight which would correct improper use of your/you're as well as non-possessive apostrophe use in plural(')s (I wouldn't mind it if it would autocorrect Micheal/Michael, Pheonix/Phoenix, and Jonathan/Jonathon, except, of course, in the case where some poor bastard is actually named "Jonathon"). This would help me to live with the self loathing involved in the realization that I am enough of a prissy grammar cunt that these things truly get under my skin and that despite being all up in arms over these grammatical sins I hypocritically and with no sense of shame write run on sentences while simultaneously feeling contempt for people who use your/you're improperly kill me now.

i know the feeling, i have issues with to/too

If the parties could agree to the extent of being able to actually govern, why would they not merge as the Alliance and Reform did? In the future, I suspect that an NDP-Green merger is not out of the question. Good luck in the election, by the way! Although I won't be voting Green this time around (my riding is contested) I am definitely rooting for the party. If you don't want to say what riding, can you say what region of the country you're in?

"If the parties could agree to the extent of being able to actually govern, why would they not merge as the Alliance and Reform did?" To me it makes perfect sense for parties to cooperate when necessary (to combat an enemy for example, or to govern, each side making some compromises) but to remain separate otherwise, and to re-evaluate things come next election.

That might be a bit of a mouthful. I'll see what I can manage.

ohh OriginalClone, you blowhard!

Where the hell is the submitter getting the number $3.74!? Best I can figure is it's about €3.6 and £3.4...

$3.74 AU :)

MIT develops???? What world is that in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#History

It wasn't that they developed the fuel cell, they developed a process to separate hydrogen and oxygen which could then be combined in a fuel cell.

I know right!? I could understand if I put it in the world news sub-reddit. I guess there are too many "Vampires" on reddit, plus twilight just came out so maybe they still haven't taken out their hot topic fangs yet. :)

Haha, just know that I wasn't one of the humorless twats that downmodded you. Apparently, the anti-humor brigade patrols these here parts.

I can't take a person's life when he never existed to begin with!

If I knew someone was planning to travel back in time and prevent my existence, I would consider that a plan to murder me, and would feel justified killing them in the present to prevent it. On an unrelated note, does anyone have any advice on getting rid of the bodies of 20 dead physicists?

like the [Foo Fighters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters#Campaigning_and_activism) for example

And one time, even mothers/mothering/mother (which was it? shit) magazine. Featured a pregnant aids positive woman who denies HIV causes AIDS. Made me sick. Orac at [respectful insolence](http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/) and he denialism blog, have taken aids denalists to task in the past.

My mom saw this website once, and instead of noticing all of the contradictions and how hard they would all be to disprove, just looked through the list for one that would be easy to disprove (something about Lot, iirc), and just said "son, that site is evil and wrong, look, this contradiction isn't really a contradiction" and wouldn't listen to anything else.

Sounds like she used the same tactic people use to claim the bible is false: ignore all the statements that could possibly be true and just find the few that are easiest to disprove.

Its amazing to me that adults would sit around and watch and cheer on the actions of these children. The boy doesn't even seem to understand what is going on. Sad.

What is worse is the girl does.

My Japanese flatmate and his friends always mix the wasabi and soy sauce together, in the little dish.

i put the wasabi on top of the sushi and everyone looks at me like i'm crazy. i prefer it that way but everyone tells me i'm supposed to mix it in with the soy sauce. even people who have lived in Japan. so i suppose even in Japan there's a disagreement on this, or perhaps it just comes down to what your preference is.

The same way many of us didn't hesitated to complain to them, we should also write to say that they did the right thing and that we appreciate it. I just did. Link for contact form: http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/contactform.html

I used your link as well, thanks.

I could go for some curved yellow fruit bread.

I prefer straight partitioned yellow fruit bread.

there is more mercury in the fish you eat than in that little light bulb. stop flipping out. no one is going to arrest you for using the old fashioned light bulbs, the law just prohibits sale of the old ones by 2016 (I think) -- the same way no one will arrest you for using freon air conditioners but you can no longer buy them.

But maybe I still want to have some in 2016? There are all sorts of reasons to have the old kind of bulbs in some (not all) of your lamps.

why would that stop you from having kids? i would think that would give you motivation to treat them better.

Lets say i come from a long line of dysfunctional parenting and i plan on ending the abusive torture with my generation.

You just implied that a single year change was a climactic shift, but now you're trying to claim that 150 years isn't. This is why you're having trouble understanding. Your dogma comes first - it makes you view various parts of the same data set completely differently.

No I didn't I was just pointing it out because in the scheme of things your 150 years is the same as my 1 year. The global temperature has been much higher than it is now. There are two different views as to what is happening. The left has decided that a few scientists are right so that is what we have to listen to. Unfortunately the whole picture is not obvious. Or we wouldn't have climate shifts that go in the face of their predictions. I agree we are mistreating this world and there is a great deal of work to be done to fix things. I just don't think global climate change is at the head of the list. Lets start with what we can control and is doing the most damage. Like overfishing the ocean or pollution worldwide. I think that if we take this one step at a time the world will be just fine. As a matter of fact with or without us the world will be just fine. It is just that it would be nice to keep it habitable.

Everyone has their own set of ethics and morals (or lack there of). As a software developer I buy every piece of software I use. It seems hypocritical beyond belief to sell software and expect people to buy it while you're stealing someone else's software. Yes I said copying software is stealing. I know most people don't agree. Fortunately mine is virtually impossible to steal SaaS :)

what software do you make?

And I don't get it: Why does McCain have to be dressed like a football player to shutoff the power grid?

*Whoosh!*

Quit having a moral philosophy or theory. Feel shit and do it. Works out remarkably well.

It's political philosphy. I can't do the "feel shit and do it" stuff in politics. If I listened to my uncontrolled, unrestrained emotions, I'd start with locking all progressives into prison :-) So I think it's better if I listen to my reason instead, and restrain and control my feelings, no? :-)

Yes. You are free to - and it's your right to - believe in zombie Jesus and the ethereal burning shrubbery that is "God." As for me, I'll believe what _CAN_ be proven.

There is more to reality than "science" can explain or "prove". And your comments are simply disrespectful of my own and others beliefs. I'm far from being a Bible-thumping evangelist, and you're free to not believe, as is your right, but belittling and mocking does little to bolster or gain sympathy for your views. You should check out a book written in the '60s, I think, called "The Existence of God in an Expanding Universe", wherein several scientists give their own reasons for believing. One of the best I can recall is water. The most necessary thing for life, this is the only substance that, when reaching a solid state, is lighter than its liquid state. If not, life would not be possible. Think about that. Then go [here](http://www.wikihow.com/Defend-a-Belief-in-the-Existence-of-God) and have a read. Peace.

A lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying.

Great song. Upmod for genius reference.

and now a pun ...brutal

I am just enjoying my dark humor.

My son's name is Anakin in real life. His name if Palin would have named him is Taupe Armageddon Palin hahah that's great.

What's your other children's name's? Cain and Benedict? :p Kidding, that's awesome. Taupe Armageddon sounds like something that happens after too many of those new ultrahot tacos at Taco Bell. "Man, I had the worst case of taupe armageddon last night."

Upvote for you, since you clearly have more sense than the OP.

I love Pendulum, but I was referring to the first song. In fact, it was THROUGH TF2 videos that I found out about Propane Nightmares and then the band Pendulum.

Starcraft is more akin to Quake World than CS in my opinion. Please name a game that has the perfect balance, the seemingly endless skill-roof that allows players to improve, the fast paced gameplay coupled with depth of different strategies and tactics. I'd love to play another game that is as good as SC but I have yet to find one, maybe SC2 will be. Keep in mind that I'm only talking about competitive gaming.

Seemingly endless skill roof? I don't see that in Starcraft. It's a basic RTS game, hell it still sticks to the 'old mine gold to make troops' grind gimmick that started way back with Dune 2. The game is based on a total false respresentation of war, people don't mine ore fields to make soldiers. The game is pure fantasy and about as strategical as my boot. Most new players just build up and turtle or rush with zerglings. Sure, older and better players do more but I'd hardly call a two tier system of newbs and oldies an endless skill roof. If you want to play a better game, play chess. In chess, you have limited manpower and geography (where you resources are places compared to the competition) matters. All RTS games running on the old DUNE format (mine, build, turtle, rush) are hardly strategical at all.

Nickelback.

I might go with "fomunda"

I haven't.

well then google ("planet earth" 1080p rapidshare) and catch up to the rest of us

I've always thought cellular automata were awesome, but that still blows my mind. So when is a Lisp interpreter going to be written for this thing?

Mind-blowing is right. Cliché to say, but after reading that article I feel like I just looked into/through the Matrix. The [illustrations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ca110-symbol-separator.png) are [so](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ca110-permitted-rule.png) [gorgeous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ca110-clock.png). I'm a (print) designer and, aside from having heard of Conway's Game of Life, math at this level is quite beyond me. It's thrilling reading though; inspirational even. [Wow.](http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/genaro/rule110/ctsR110/cts-8.jpg) Those of you who understand these tools enough to use and embrace them are pretty damn shiny.

You can't even calculate the cost of nuclear power, because the whole industry is riddled with subsidies. (The same could be said of almost all energy generation, which should give you some idea of the value of energy to our society.) Without taxpayer dollars, nuclear would not exist. Without being able to externalise costs and government subsidies, oil would be far more expensive. Instead, things like passive solar and insulation would be much more common.

Too stupid to live. Shut the fuck up about something you know less than nothing about which I've studied for hundreds of hours. You're like a child who insists the math prof is wrong and that 2+2 = 5.

One Foot in the Grave

"Some say I'm robbing the cradle, I say she's robbing the grave!" -Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

It's not chanting the litany that controls fear, it's the mental discipline and the confidence instilled by knowing you *can!* Pain control is what I value; I broke my neck in the USAF and they and the VA wouldn't treat it for 19 years, until I couldn't walk or work. I'm in pain all the time, but pain can be controlled once you know how. I've practiced for so many years I don't even get a normal flinch response when undergoing a neurological exam. When I stub the hell out of my toe I don't even tense up or flinch or yell anymore. Without concious thought, I immediately take a breath and all the *color* goes out of the pain and it recedes to the point it isn't even noticeable. Needless to say, that reduces the amount of blood loss from any wound, because my blood pressure, heart rate and respiration either remain the same or are reduced - the opposite of the *normal* response to pain. The learned response happens so quickly now that I don't even have time to get upset. Thank you Frank Herbert and Gordon Dickson! Oh, and thanks to my hatha yoga/pranayama breathing instructors.

You're making me think I should return to that meditation class I started taking. I've recently started realizing all of the little places where fear creeps into my life and I don't even notice it - all the times fear of failure turned into fear of success. I'm curious, as a USAF vet, how was your experience, and would you do it again knowing what you know now, besides the VA benefits not pulling through?

I thought we had 60 years worth left?

Sure, most likely much more. Just not at today's rate of production, but at an ever decreasing rate.

Ditto what Tuber said. Call Apple tech support. Do not settle for the runaround. Ask to speak to a supervisor. Document everyone you speak to (names, times, dates). Remain calm at all times, focus on describing the nature of your problem, and the resolution you expect. State that you would like a **Return Merchandise Authorization**, as your brand new MacBook was faulty out of the box. (It was new right, not a demo model you got a discount for?) It's been 4 months so your chances of getting an RMA are slim; but if you are on record as having reported the problem early your chances are better. Failing that, replacing the top case (trackpad) should be a given with your Applecare coverage. Additionally, I would recommend in the *strongest possible terms*, paying for the additional 2 years of AppleCare. Portables have so many more things that can go wrong, and repairs are more costly than for desktops. It's a way of preserving your investment until the computer is old enough to warrant replacing rather than repairing.

Thanks for the information. I would like to point out some things: I can't call Apple tech support because we don't have one over here, we only have a representative and they're really bad (as you see). I called Apple in the US and they left me high and dry saying there's nothing they can do. I doubt they'll give me an RMA, because they won't even **acknowledge** there's a problem, otherwise they would have repaired it themselves... (Btw yes, it was a brand new Mac). I've been trying to get them to replace the top case since I bought it, but no dice... I'm not sure we have AppleCare here, since there's no apple... Thanks for taking the time to reply, I will investigate those options.

Upvote this. The more folks who see this trailer, the more who will want to see the film and the better the film will do. Let's prove to the movie moguls that classy, intelligent science fiction can make money.

Classy and intelligent? It looks like part of the film has a simple theme of segregation = bad, and the other part is action. Am I missing something here?

yeah - this spamming bastard has multiple accounts. Whenever I see one of those london-airport-shuttle links I click on the poster's user account and downvote everything (yes - all spam). Whoever is behind it has been doing it for weeks now BTW: http://www.reddit.com/search?q=london-airport-shuttle&x=16&y=7 for the current sockpuppets

How about clicking on the report link?

Circles have one side.

Two, the inside and the outside. :P

I lived with a shia muslim family for 7 years, saying "you don't know what you're talking about" is all I'm going to say because frankly I'm not going to waste the time pointing out how every single thing you said was uninformed and incorrect.

That was staggering in its weakness.

And when the Soviets were losing the war, they traveled back in time to kill Albert Einstein, thus ensuring the rise of the Empire and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.

Is that seriously the plot of RA:3, did they just neglect all the technology Einstien invented for the allies. Example, going back in time and killing the person who invented the time travel in the first place. Way to go EA!

How are you altering the game?

That's not the point, you are using a third party program to attain items faster. Your appearance can technically alter the game because my game is different when I see your hat from MY computer. If it wasn't wrong the people who make the rules wouldn't consider it wrong and they would not punish it. Also, even if they "didnt have a policy in place" until recently, it is still common sense and a LOT of players saw it for the lameness it was and chose not to do it.

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I was talking generally, not about Nortel in particular. But if you want to go into specifics, why was the Federal government using a crown corporation to help the foreign buyers pay for their purchase? 300 mil of taxpayer's money to help a foreign company purchase Nortel?

I dunno, the head of my math department loves it to death and the happier she is the easier she marks.

upvoted for baconatedgrapefruit as your username

Wil Wheaton says it's going to be an instant classic. I haven't trusted that kid since he took over the Enterprise in their second episode though.

I'm pretty sure that Wil Wheaton is a redditor....

Samuel+Marvel/Disney= I am sick and tired of these magical flying snakes on this magical flying plane.

Damnit Tinkerbell!

I am not sure you can actually sue hospitals for malpractice in Denmark. We have something called Patientklagenævnet (Patient-Complaint-Board) where you can submit your complaint. Then they evaluate it and maybe award you compensation. I wouldn't trust it at all. It's like complaining about the police to the police.

I'm also unsure if they're liable for this sort of thing happening. Malpractice? I guess the question is if they did something out of practice? It's a quite odd circumstance after all, and I think not an obvious "mistake" on their part. I'm not sure I understand how else they would perform the surgery.

r00kies claim was: "a 0-60 less then half of that of the prius." A quick search shows that your 1986 Jetta GLI has a 0-60 of 10.4 seconds. Which (amusingly) makes it *slower* than a Prius. Now I know the close ratio transmission will help acceleration, but only a true fool would believe that it could get it down from 10.4 seconds to 5.05 seconds. r00kie was lying. I'm well-informed.

You assume his engine is stock. A simple engine swap can vastly increase one's acceleration. A quick search shows that an '89 Jetta GLI 16v has a 0-60 of 8.8 seconds. A more powerful engine could achieve a greater result.

Only on whiteboards. Do not try this on clothes.

Also do not try on ducks.

I likeed the book, but I agree that things that probably sounded clever in the authors head came off sounding slightly silly (Hiro Protagonist)

Exactly. That's a great example. I was pretty intrigued by a plot summary of the diamond age. I went to the book store to buy it, picked it up, saw it was by Stephenson and put it back. Not falling for the old banana in the tailpipe again.

Where, pray tell, does the Bible say that Acts 15:28-29 abrogates Galatians 5:19-21? Also if Acts 15:28-29 is the whole of the law it would seem that rape, murder, theft, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy and drunkenness are now permissible in the eyes of God.

Acts 14:28-29 doesn't abrogate Galatians 5:19-21. Galatians 5:19-21 doesn't actually claim that the Old Testament law is in effect. Also, Acts 14:28-29 needs to be read in context. It is a response to the claim by some that the gentiles should be circumcised. That is when the issue of which OT laws were still applicable was brought up. When did I, or the Bible, claim that Acts 15:28-29 was the whole of the law? Most of the sins you list are identified in the NT as sins. And ones that aren't are subject to [the Greatest Commandments](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mat%2022:36-40&version=NIV). Under the OT, we were told exactly what we could and couldn't do. But under the NT, the law is [written on our hearts](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews%208:8-10&version=NIV). You don't need to be told that rape, murder, theft, etc. are sins. You know they are sins. It is written on your heart.

I'm glad someone caught that.

explain?

Everybody happy now?

No, needs more tilde (~).

If reddit showed the number of upvotes and downvotes on each comment, that would be gold. I saw that on digg at some point (I was doing a google search and it hit on my term) and they displayed the ups and downs on each comment. I just checked a story on digg and they don't seem to have it anymore but it was a cool idea.

[Reddit commentroversy: Shows up and down votes for comments](http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31002) One thing that shocked me when I used it is how controversial my comments seem to be. Many are -1 through 2, and I thought I was probably just less interesting than other people because I comment a lot, but have "only" like 13k comment karma. Not that I value it, or even thought about it much until I installed the reddit greasemonkey scripts on a whim. I kept this one, because it turns out, I have a lot of comments that are +6/-6 or +15/-14. I'm not uninteresting, just controversial. Heh. :)