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It never was cool. It is useful though.

Time will tell.

I disagree. American Football rules are based on a simplification of the rules of Rugby, and its far harder to explain the minutiae of the rules of rugby to an NFL fan than it is to explain the reverse. Yes the rules have expanded since their original writing, but there are entire areas of the game that are simply missing (in comparison to rugby) - contesting the ball after a tackle, for example.

I agree that Rugby rules are complicated, but I would not consider them more complicated than American Football. The illegal forward pass takes away half of the offensive rules right there. The distinction between fair or foul does take quite a bit of experience, however. Where the complication really lies in American football is the chess match of set plays that is missing in Rugby. As a watcher of only the Six Nations and the World Cup, I have had a much easier time understanding the minutiae of Rugby than my European friends who have watched the same amount of American Football. Granted, I still have trouble identifying when a free should be given, but I am never confused by rugby strategy, whereas American Football strategy is less clear.

It's not working for me, either. Hit refresh. Rebooted. Started my old 486. Hit it with a baseball bat. Nothing.

You have to delete your system32. Besides fixing this particular problem, your computer will also run quite a bit faster without system32.

what about stalking and death?

amd rape!

My grand parents also use to have a nice computer with a bird coming out every hour. It also gave the time. A very nice computer. (that mechanical thing is still amazing)

This takes an input and computes an output. Clocks don't.

If I ignore the fact that I feel it is sacrilege to remake this movie, and just give it a clean slate before watching the trailer, it doesn't look that bad. I kinda want to see it. But apparently my friends think I should be tarred and feathered for my taste in movies, so what do I know.

How does it look good?

The evangelists are of course one extreme, but the logic is sound and applies to most, if not all, Christians by definition. You believe God exists, and whether or not you're trying to push this fact on someone else, atheists just don't agree. The mere mention of God is, in many atheist's minds, directly translated to the Pink Unicorn, Flying Spaghetti Monster, a leprechaun, or really any magical creature that there is no evidence for. The first part is very accurate, at least for me. Just the basic description of the religion of Christianity translates to unicorns and promises of hamburgers forever to me. How much you personally believe is irrelevant, it's _what_ you believe that is so foreign to us. I've met a few Christians who were able to at least imagine the possibility that maybe there actually wasn't enough evidence to believe in God, but that they simply decided to believe anyway. These people are easy to talk to. Most Christians, however, live in a reality separate from the atheist's, because the existence of God is so obvious to them, that there is simply no discussion. It's like trying to tell them that their house doesn't exist, or that it's not really air they're breathing. I like to believe that I understand this, as an atheist. I get that religious faith is so strong in some people, that it is literally a part of their reality. I would just like more Christians to understand that the same, in reverse, is true for me. In my reality, it is so incredibly obvious that there are no such things as gods, or unicorns and leprechauns either for that matter. Trying to tell me that there really is a God, is like trying to tell _me_ that my house doesn't really exist, or maybe more like telling me that I really _do_ have that 1969 Mustang I've always dreamed of. I just have to imagine myself driving it, and I will be. However, in my reality, cars don't magically appear just because I have faith in them.

I find theology fascinating, and after reading about all the recycled "Russell's Teapot" analogies, I firmly believe, as you do, that the burden of proof lies upon the believer (the Christian, in this case). I'm currently reading Keller's "The Reason for God" to see if there's a good response to such parody religions as the FSM, but I may be barking up the wrong tree. Does anybody have a good reference to a theologian's response to the teapot? I don't have a lot of time to google it. In the meantime, I thought you might find this article interesting: "What is new about the new atheists? It's not their arguments. Spend as much time as you like with a pile of the recent anti-religion books, but you won't encounter a single point you didn't hear in your freshman dormitory. It's their tone that is novel. Belief, in their eyes, is not just misguided but contemptible, the product of provincial minds, the mark of people who need to be told how to think and how to vote--both of which, the new atheists assure us, they do in lockstep with the pope and Jerry Falwell. For the new atheists, believing in God is a form of stupidity, which sets off their own intelligence. They write as if they were the first to discover that biblical miracles are improbable, that Parson Weems was a fabulist, that religion is full of superstition. They write as if great minds had never before wrestled with the big questions of creation, moral law and the contending versions of revealed truth. They argue as if these questions are easily answered by their own blunt materialism. Most of all, they assume that no intelligent, reflective person could ever defend religion rather than dismiss it. The reviewer of Dr. Dawkins's volume in a recent New York Review of Books noted his unwillingness to take theology seriously, a starting point for any considered debate over religion. The faith that the new atheists describe is a simple-minded parody. It is impossible to see within it what might have preoccupied great artists and thinkers like Homer, Milton, Michelangelo, Newton and Spinoza--let alone Aquinas, Dr. Johnson, Kierkegaard, Goya, Cardinal Newman, Reinhold Niebuhr or, for that matter, Albert Einstein. But to pass over this deeper faith--the kind that engaged the great minds of Western history--is to diminish the loss of faith too. The new atheists are separated from the old by their shallowness." - from Schulman at http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110009482

LMFAO I just shared this around the office, the reactions from people were great. Seriously though, was he trying some kind of fancy hand rail slide thing(which I think was the idea?). Surly there's somewhere you can do it that does not involve spiked stairs moving beneath you =\ Epic fail, Up vote FTW =D

I dunno...I think major fails are funny if I can see that they're kind of ok at the end other than minor pain, but if there's blood and possible teeth knocked out (or in other videos, possible other body parts missing, or death when not clearly well-deserved), then this thing called "empathy" kicks in, and I cringe rather than seeing the humor anymore. But maybe that's just me.

Oh christ. The worst part is that I cant be sure that this is fake.

No kidding. You could have just gone to LJ, plugged in the appropriate URL for the user according to the picture (http://defenestrate-me.livejournal.com/), browsed around just long enough to find that it's a real person that's been posting for a long time, and then gone to the archives for the homeschooling forum (http://community.livejournal.com/homeschooling/calendar), looked for the December 8th 2006 post -- again, according to the information in the screenshot -- and found that it wasn't there, but that there was a 2006-Dec-11 post from the community admin noting that some new moderators had been added as a result of some of the recent posts there. Then, you could have logically concluded that the user in the screenshot was trolling the homeschooling forum, and decided that you'd move along because there was nothing to see here. But, y'know, you can't be sure.

Why are there subtitles?

I made them put them in so I could understand what was going on without making a bunch of noise.

Damn that sounds good. Wait, the french fries and cole slaw were in the sandwich? Where is this place?

The original [sandwich](http://philadelphia.grubstreet.com/0624primanti.jpg) idea came from the [Primanti Brothers](http://www.primantibrothers.com/) in Pittsburgh. I just recreated it at the restaurant I worked at for my friends. If you want one, you'll likely have to make it yourself.

He crows that fair has been imported into German while going out of his way to ignore the fact just and equitable are blatantly imported from French. He's a fucking idiot. Worse, he's being blatantly unfair in an article about fairness. So he's a fucking hypocrite. Also, you have to be some kind of psychopath to believe that "think of the other guy" will lead to decreased offers instead of increased offers.

Hrmmn? I thought that information was implicitly understood by an educated populace. That said, there was already a word in old English that is now known as "right," "riht" -- http://www.westegg.com/etymology/ That said, the American conceptualization of "fair" is something that I've noticed confuses people from other countries. "Fair" is wrapped up in a sense of entitlement for Americans, and in that sense is a cultural quirk. Consider the college student that fulfills all the nominal requirements of a paper but gets a "C" or "B" due to content. I've seen them argue that such a grade isn't "fair" because they "worked hard." Is such a grade inequitable? No, there is no sense of equality here. Is it unjust? Not by most senses of the word - justice does not imply a contract between perceived effort and a high grade, though one would consider the result unjust if another student receives a higher grade with equal output. No, "fair," as far as I can see in the American context, is a word that portrays the perceived entitlement that one expects in the given situation.

How very seasonal.

It's still Ramadan, isn't it?

Yeah, very true. I had struggled with what word to use there, and follow seemed best. Still not sure if it's what I meant. You had mentioned in your hypothetical that a proof of the absence of God would lead to despair. I'm not sure if you meant that, but I think I get why you said it. I was attempting to find the converse. Perhaps "awe", but I think it's more than just being impressed. Thanks!

You think that the belief system that millions of people have based their lives around suddenly being ripped away from them wouldn't cause despair?

This subject line is not representing the real truth to the link. First off, the page deserves deletion and at the most a merge to Laura's page. The incident alone can be summarized in about a paragraph max, it doesn't need it's own page. Secondly, Laura didn't kill the guy. It was a car accident. What, are we supposed to say that she's a bad person because a traffic violation at 17 caused her passengers death? They are called accidents for a reason, and I'm sure she lives with the knowledge daily. My advice to you, and to all of reddit really: STOP BEING SO PARANOID. You guys are some of the most paranoid people on the internet. This isn't about a bunch of Bush apologists trying to remove some less than perfect truth about the first lady, this is simply Wikipedian bureaucracy, it happens daily to articles on every spectrum.

A death caused by a traffic violation isn't just an accident, it's pretty serious. Or at least it should be.

Obama is the greatest Republican president ever!

Its like he was Bush's intern for 8 years.

So how do you show that men are equally fit parents without pointing out faults of mothers? How do you show that men make more money generally because they do different jobs without raising the ire of a woman who wants to get paid the same for an easier job? Sure some things don't need a juxtaposition such as the "dumb dad" on TV or other ways where men are belittled for some other perceived cultural value.

You show that a man is a fit parent by contrasting him to *his* unfit wife. Not some other unfit woman. Unfortunately, news stories tend to do the latter. That's what I'm saying.

Heat signatures, muzzle flashes (it was a target range that was bombed IIRC), and the whole thing had approval from higher up. It doesn't make it right, but it does add some color to your gross mischaracterization.

Except I wasn't blaming soldiers for indiscriminate killings per say, but the removal of reality that they face when using technology. If your not actually looking at a human being, seeing "the whites of there eyes", but are instead looking at a monitor it wouldn't feel real.

Pedant.

Sophomore.

>Contacting an internet company is only slightly easier than contacting an alien civilization. Funny Line in a not so funny article.

Not so funny line in a kinda funny article.

Do you hate Valve for doing the same thing? Ever tried to sell your PC copy of Portal?

Yes. I bought Portal and I can't play it now because I lost the password in a disk crash and apparently mistyped my email or something because I can't recover it. And they flat out refuse to reset it unless I produce a receipt proving that I bought it within 90 days. Let me repeat that more succinctly, I bought the game new with my hard earned cash, and now I can't play it. How is this legal? I pledge to pirate every single Valve game forever after.

Does this include Hawaii, from California, by train?

No, I said air travel.

Grammar nazi time. Between is for two objects only, e.g. "I imagined my face between Megan Fox' funbags". Among is for more than two, e.g. "My man sausage is unfortunately not among the world's largest".

Thanks for the explanation. English is not my native language, so I don't master all of its subtleties.

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How'd you do it? I've always had lucid dreams but they never last longer than 5-10 seconds. Any advice on how to prolong them?

There are a number of gaps because of nights when I didn't have time, back when I had a day job. One of these days I need to go back and fill those in. Also - expect a t-shirt based on today's comic soonish. HI REDDIT.

Welcome to reddit dude. You're comics are excellent. I'll think of something cleverer to say later rather than just kissing arse, but I'm tired.

This article makes me want to dig around for my C&C: Red Alert game and start building tesla coils and mammoth tanks.

wrong game, no mammoth tanks in red alert. i think you are looking for tiberian sun.

Needs more James Cameron and less (i.e. none) 'McG'.

I don't like the guy's movies but it pretty interesting what a name can do for you. McG sounds like a name a douchebag would make up for himself but apparently that is what his parents called him from the day he was born. Not very different from a Nick or Bill. I am guessing directing Charlie's Angels didn't help with the image either.

I worked on this! :D Well not really unless this is an abstraction of that work. But the University of Idaho's Advance Vehicle Concept Team was working on a hydraulic system designed to be fitted to garbage/dump trucks, I was on the team during 2004-2005. For those interested: http://seniordesign.engr.uidaho.edu/2004_2005/dumpsterdivers/index.htm

Maybe you can explain to me how this concept is supposed to work. I've read about it many times but the company always claims they store regenerative braking forces by compressing hydraulic fluid. AFAIK hydraulic fluid is incompressible, that's kinda how it works. So what gives?

I usually orient the teleporter to face my engy nest. * To ensure my Engy Nest Protection * To recognize spies * So other players can see the Sentry's attack range * So other players know there is a Dispenser up. * Upon teleport player sees how sexy I am with my wrench

anotehr point; by looking at your sentry they immediately see where they should turn :)

Or every personal watercraft a Sea-Doo. Or every tissue a Kleenex. Or every cotton swap a Q-Tip.

Except tissues and cotton swabs are the same thing as kleenex and q-tips. Coke is not the same thing as Sprite, apart from being sugar-water.

Circles have one side.

Two, the inside and the outside. :P

Sure it is. He died well under the statistical average life span for an American male. Statistically speaking, he died before he should have.

So why use the term 'statistically speaking' and not 'logically speaking'? Because it's not logic. Logic is deductive reasoning. Looking at the facts and making a judgement based on the evidence presented. Bernie Mac had recent lung related health problems and then got pneumonia - a serious condition for anyone who has suffered lung damage. There's nothing illogical about him dying at this age. If a guy had cancer and died, would you say that goes against logic? Downvote me all you want, but it doesn't change the fact you're using the wrong term. My dictionary even gives an example sentence: *"experience is a better guide to this than deductive logic"* - you're basing your comments on experience, which is exactly what the dictionary is saying is NOT logic.

Although for cost, efficiency, maintenance, longevity, and fuel efficient clean running, you can't beat an actual rake.

Yep. And people keep choosing the gas powered engine for the same reason, over and over : Speed and Minimized Effort.

I sometimes think that slavery was only abolished because of the advent of steam power, combustion, and industrialization.

I think your right.

"Lose" is somewhat anomalous, in that it should be pronounced like "close" without the "c", according to whatever passes for English pronunciation rules. Spoken English is not written English. The common breezy writing we see today is actually spoken English, written down. "Lose" is pronounced with an "oo" sound, so "loose" becomes the spelling, although the "z" sound of the "s" is lost. "Luse" would be a better misspelling, but people still remember the "o" being part of the word.

what are you talking about? there is no difference in the sound...it is just people too lazy to learn to spell.

I dunno, I really think that Anakin needs to be the stalwart hero, at least for a while, so that he can mirror Luke (or, rather, that Luke can mirror him) more closely. Except, like you said, when Anakin gets a chance to turn to the dark side through vengence, he doesn't turn down the offer. Perhaps, in the second movie it could be Maul who murders Anakin's mom, ordered by Sidius, who has seen the potential for Anakin's power. Then you could perhaps explore this, make Obi-Wan more of a hot-headed, hero (who is Anakin supposed to learn it from, after all?) who parallels Anakin until this turning point in the second movie. We get to watch as the future Darth Vader begins to turn from rash and impulsive to angry and vengeful, and shake our heads in dismay as his mentor is just too close to see what is happening. Of course, by the time Kenobi realizes his mistake, it's too late. He counsels Anakin on this, but the words ring hollow in his ears. So when the time comes to kill Maul, he gladly does it, and takes his place at the side of Palpatine, not because he feels like he's gone too far down the path of the dark side, that's stupid, but because he feels that the Jedi counsel could have done more. They knew that Maul was out there, and they refused to go after him, because they were caught up in their stupid war and their stupid politics, instead of protecting the people who needed it. If they'd only *listened* to him, to Obi-wan, his mother would still be alive. So he starts killing those "responsible". Of course, at this point, he's fully under the sway of the emperor and the power of the Dark Side, so when Obi-Wan finally confronts him, tries to talk sense into him, he sees him as just as much part of the problem for not taking up arms like he has. I mean, after all, Maul killed his own teacher. He should be just as angry as Anakin, right? So, he makes the offer, Obi-Wan refuses, they go at it, Vader is left defeated, mangled, but not dead, because Ben can't bring himself to kill his friend and student, which is ultimately his biggest mistake. Padme has the kids, Kenobi puts them into hiding, vowing to watch over them, in part to protect the universe from the Emperor gaining potentially two of the most powerful force users left in the galaxy, partly to repent for his mistake in creating the monster that is Darth Vader, and partly because he is still Anakin's friend deep down, and it seems like the right thing to do. That seems like a good place to start, anyway. Honestly, who cares about who the comic relief in the movie is? I mean, Jar-Jar was annoying, but with a little work (and the summary execution of whoever decided to give him that accent) he could be lovably-annoying, a bit like 3PO.

I like your approach as well. The main point here is that there was so much more than could've been done with Anakin besides "he killed a bunch of Tuscan Raiders, and Count Dooku, so, y'know - [evil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPLWbTh9_Nk)."

Louis CK is a jackass.

Scratch that, Lewis Black is a jackass. Louis CK kicks ass.

You sound bitter. Most likely you were not too popular in high school, and as everyone resorted to their old cliques you became angry and self conscious. 10 year high school reunions have been happening long before facebook ever existed bro. No need to come on reddit and be passive aggressive about it.

I can usually see every perspective, as Reddit's official "Nigga you love to hate," often agreeing with the unpopular opinions. That being said, I have NO idea where you are coming from. Also, I'm not your brother, dog.

B-B-B-BOLD BREAKER

c-c-c-caps breaker

What's wrong with a girl having sexual experience? Attitudes like these keep women ashamed of their sexuality.

You'd have to meet her.

soy sauce in mexican food huh? riiiight!

Uh, yeah... there was quite a bit of Japanese culinary influence introduced to Baja when Japanese immigrant workers were being used there. On a related note, the fried fish taco is believed to have been invented by Japanese workers.

He's left-handed.

He looks bi-dextrous to me.

Your argument falls apart here. You are able to scan a copy of the book, and take that with you. You won't be breaking any laws by scanning this book into a .pdf, and there are no anti-scan layers put on each page of the book to prevent that from happening. People get pissed because of all the encryption (which is a complete waste of time and money by the next version of anydvd comes out) put on DVDs to stop them from making this same backup copy that they could make of a book. No one is saying they are "entitled to a digital copy", but they should be able to **make** one at their own time/expense.

How is that any different from entitlement? If they should be allowed to make a digital copy doesn't that mean they are entitled to one should they choose to have it? Oh and copying books to .pdfs is still illegal, that's why libraries have to pay for distribution and rental rights.

So, here's my situation - apologies if it's tl;dr. I've wanted to work in the film industry since I was little. I love movies, and I loved escaping into them as a little girl with a semi-harsh childhood. I grew up in New Zealand, but have ended up here in LA - and yes, I work in the film industry. What I want to be is a writer, but that's a long and winding path. I'm working on it. I've been writing as much as I can, and never quite giving up hope. I work for a production company here in LA, and I like the people I work with (for the most part), but although I'm a fairly integral part of the office, I don't see my bosses giving me the real money and position any time soon. And for that matter, I'm not sure I'd want to be a producer/executive in Hollywood. It's so full of BS and I'm a terrible networker. I do still want to be a writer, and I do still write. They did give me a kind of token title change and extra responsibilities lately, but that was only because they realized I was actually going to leave if they didn't do anything. They like me. I know how to keep my mouth shut and do my work well. I have a metric shit ton of student loans that eat up most of my salary. I earn about $45k per year, plus overtime. But since the WGA strike I really haven't had much overtime to earn. $750/mth goes to my student loans. $610 goes to rent. I have $4k in credit card debt that I try to pay down (i put $600/mth on that bitch) but I always end up having to put shit on it (like my car needed new brakes and a bunch of stuff and that was $450) and so I never manage to get it down very far. Also, I'm not perfect and sometimes I put stuff on the card I really don't need... but never big stuff. Anyway. My job is basically going nowhere. Who knows if I'll ever have the career I want. I'm a female, nearing 30 (just over a year away), in a youth/looks obsessed city and I don't want to be answering someone else's phones when that birthday rolls along. So my question is: I have British Citizenship and could go live with my dad (I didn't grow up with him) who lives about an hour and a half south of London by train. I could commute (with a 12 month season pass it works out to about 14 pounds/day) to London and try and work there - god knows what I'll do, but hopefully something where I'm a little more autonomous. London is infinitely more interesting to me than LA, even though I'd actually have to live in Ashford, which is like the asshole of England from what I remember of it. I have a B.A. from an American University (not a prestigious one) in Film. Yeah. I know. I suck. I also have completed one year of a Bachelor of Business Science from Massey University in NZ by correspondence. I could potentially finish that in two years. Should I do it, move to the UK? Will I be making a mistake career wise? Will I be likely to earn enough to be in an equal or better financial position than I am now? (note, the majority of my student loans are in NZ$ now) Does it matter? Am I really about to pass my use by date? Should I just fuck it all and go back to NZ and find a nice dairy farmer in the Bay of Plenty to settle down with?

Look into technical writing

I hate Tim Burton movies. What other childhood fantasy literature is he going to rape next? Is he going to make Wizard of Oz go from color to black and white so it will be dark?

But no one likes Tim Burton movies after Mars Attacks! Ed Wood, though, is a *fantastic* film.

As opposed to another phone with the same type of subscription plan? The comparison is $499 to $199 with the same damn subscription plan. And anyway, I have a 3G iPhone and the data anywhere is worth it.

I wasn't saying anything about other phones. I was just saying that the $200 pricetag is an illusion to hide the real price of the device. Judging by what the iPhone 3G costs over here without a plan we're talking $8-900

It's a trap!

It'sa pizza!

These interlopers went through a security check for weapons. It's not like they crawled in a window or snuck in a laundry cart unexamined. The only danger in them getting close to Obama is if they were deadly ninja assassins. In which case I'd still put my money on Obama being able to take them.

"Ninjas? More like 'Non-Jas'. Terrible what passes for a Ninja these days."

This is in self though, so it's not like he's getting karma or anything.

"This is in self though, so it's not like he's getting some imaginary number ticked up or anything." So, what does Karma do? Do you get a free t-shirt at 10,000 or something? Then what difference does it make which number is ticked up, the one on your profile page, or the one on the article page? People who post this "vote up" shit aren't doing it to tick up a number, they're doing it because getting a story on the front page makes them feel good, like beating a level in a videogame. Making selfs not give out karma does nothing but provide an odd-logic excuse like the one you just gave.

"I just dread the day I have to tell my kids that 9/11 isn't real." Best line ever.

Let's see the Onion beat this, Obama personally reaches out to pregnant Bristol Palin, http://snurl.com/3lz2y

Why aren't you "(half) white", and how does this affect who you are?

Oh, and how does it affect who I am? I think as a kid I was more aware of having "outsider status" in life...that is, I don't look like my father's family at all, I'm not listed on my mother's family tree (she's the end of her branch, like i don't exist)... Where I live now, immigration is new, so I'm a bit of a novelty. The native population feels free to make racist comments & such around me, assuming I'll take it as "oh, we don't mean YOU, of course" because I'm a native English-speaker. But...I'm still asian too - so...it feels sort of dirty and icky. Knowing how people still feel about non-whites despite what they say in public forums.

I'd say that too if I dyed my hair.

I have blonde hair on my head, brown eyebrows, and a brownish/red beard. All natural colors.

Why don't you just hike it and drop back and hope for the best. Hope someone gets remotely open some how and hope for a jump play. Really -anything- because at an away venue, they are going to tick one second off any snap.

How would the wide outs or tight ends even know to do that? How would anybody have any idea what was going on? This isn't backyard football where people just run around and "hope for the best." It just doesnt work that way. I think he did all he could have. Valiant effort in my book. Great game.

my discernment.

my reply.

I'll give it a go.. The meme hits home because there's a nugget of truth in every one. It's funny because it's true, and we love them because we relate to the experience / situation / outcome. Even if we haven't personally experienced, we all know someone who has, or could imagine it happening. It's the experience of the common man expressed through MS Paint. Now tell me you've never been cock-blocked by some girls stupid fattie friends????

I guess it would make more sense if it all didn't looks so exaggerated. I understand that, in comedy, and more specifically, in cartoon, exaggeration is used to convey comical levels of reaction or mood. Every time I see this I see "Cathy" the comic strip. Oh well. I was just hoping to glean some understanding from people who like it rather than ask those who hate it to just go, "yea, me too!" Just my opinion. Thanks for the commentary.

Awesome, I didn't notice this was in humor... thought it was legit until the helmet remover

I thought it was odd ideas for siege weapons that people once tried and didn't realize its humor until you said it.

It's *SG:U*, dude. SG:U. The S and G come from *S*tar and *G*ate.

So what? Why do people get off so much over spelling? Two replies over the wrong acronym, but nothing on what I actually wrote? If the meaning of what I wrote was clear regardless, then what's the problem?

I made this video to show an even faster way to mid then the one in [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/9o97a/demomen_on_badlands_video_showing_the_quickest/) post.

From the spawn door to entering mid, just a quick look using the counter on youtube. Old video: 11 seconds. Appears to be a little slower in the start so maybe add a second. New video: 13 seconds, but you picked up the medium medpack. Still not faster though. Looks about the same, maybe even slower though I might be wrong.

Follow the Reaper by Children of Bodom was the album that really started my love of metal even though I don't listen to the band that much anymore. I suppose the same could be same for In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson, which did the same thing for me for prog. I would say though that my most important albums would be The Human Equation by Ayreon and The Silent Enigma by Anathema. Both have helped me through some tough times and both are just beautiful albums.

I love King Crimson! Court of the Crimson King was an awesome album.

Thst's the kind of smug, smart-ass publicity stunt I'd expect from a fundie atheist.

Thst's the kind of comment I'd expect from an ignorant creationist.

The other 91%. Their "logic" being that if you don't believe in absolute truth, then your belief in the Bible could be compromised by believing something else. They're right, of course. Belief in the Bible depends on a belief that there is absolute truth. But you're also right in that disbelief in the Bible does not require a disbelief in absolute truth. It just means you don't believe that *the Bible* is that absolute truth. A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square.

Well, I don't know if they're right. A belief in "absolute truth" doesn't really help belief in the Bible. For example, I belief that absolute truth exists (in an objective physical sense), but I realize I may not recognize it as such. Is there a teapot in orbit around the sun? Maybe NASA released it as a joke -- I can't really evaluate the claim. Accordingly, whether or not I believe in absolute truth, I should still be skeptical of the Bible. Acceptance or rejection of the concept of "absolute truth" should be distinct from acceptance of the Bible as such. But I see what you're getting at.

No, the Divine inspired men.

I am confused. I thought God dictated to those men. OK, so he just "inspired" them. So how come not one prescient statement of fact about the world in all of that inspiration and so many inaccurate ones?

Fucking ditto!

Well, it certainly illustrates the diversity of the word, doesn't it?

I think if you studied the Scandinavian model, then you wouldn't see things this black and white. Im not saying it could work in the US, but it does offer some interesting perspective on how you perceive government and a different sets of goals for a society.

I know literally zero about "the Scandinavian model". But the US was begun as the "Great American Experiment", we do things differently here. We try to solve problems without using the coercion of government. If your system works for you, that's great. But I still believe in liberty, if we could only get back to it. The biggest weakness of liberty is that people are so eager to give it up.

Wrong, I do give a shit, because I know how awesome a task that really is. Keep it that way, it's damn important.

My wife and I are hoping to buy a house in the next couple months. Once that's all gone through, we're closing the accounts. It'll hit our credit score pretty hard, but I don't give a shit about that bastardly number anymore anyway.

The biggest problem with Vista is the bloat. They did a lot of good things with the interface. They took a nice middle of the road approach to eye candy. Smoothed out some of the rough edges and organized things a little better. I also happen to LOVE some of the feature they added. But I HATE HATE HATE the bloat, OS memory footprint, and inclusion of DRM at the heart of the OS. So in short here is what you need to do Microsoft: 1. Optimize the fuck out of your code. 2. Get rid of stupid and annoying non-features 3. Ditch the love affair with DRM and TPM. But I get this feeling they don't give a shit what we want.

Well "bloat" is a word people like to throw around but it doesn't really mean a lot. So what do you mean when you use it? Disk space for Vista is certainly on the high side, but then so is that for OS X and no one flames Apple for this. I think a default install of OS X on a brand new laptop runs to about 12Gb, about the same as Vista. And in any case when you consider the cost per Gb then I doubt if the cost of the disk space lost to an OS install has increased for either OS. Memory footprint? FAIL. Vista uses memory in a different way from XP. Also, "free" memory, memory just sitting there unused is memory you wasted money purchasing. "non-features" - what does that mean? A "non-feature" for you or me might be the main reason for a purchase in someone else. Agree with the DRM comments though. Oh and for the record I prefer OSX to Windows, and of Windows versions, I dislike Vista and much prefer XP. You can't just dismiss this as the rantings of a "Vista Fanboi" but I would like to see us stick to the facts.

however, if you keep on discharging your gun, and people's deaths keep correlating with it, we might want to prevent you from further shooting.

If your ceasing shooting correlates with the cessation of deaths, we **can** assume a causative association at that point. Though it wouldn't be a *proven* assumption.

A word of warning, if you are like me and LOVE Jonathan Strange and the Song of Ice and Fire books, you may also be like me and really dislike China Mieville and Neil Gaiman novels. I've read a few of them because they are always recommended strongly in threads like this, but I find them dull. Both these authors do a great job fleshing our new worlds, but I guess this isn't what works for me narrative-wise. If you're like me, don't get your hopes up. I, like you probably, am struggling to find more fantasy that I enjoy. My top 20-book list contains a lot of Fantasy, but so does by bottom 50-book list. It's hard for me to wade through the pulp and high-concept stuff to find what grips me.

can you give us a list of a few from each side, then - to help pin-point what works / doesn't work for you?

after Snoop Dog and Big Lebowski, i think we have to start from beginning, therefore most wrongly neglected would be either Aristotle or Plato...:) My own choose could be Jacques Ranciere, Benjamin and Althusser.

Sorry, but Althusser confessed late in his life to being a total fraud who skimmed books and had hardly read any *Marx.*

Louis Riel is the dead man that I hate the most. More than anyone else. Not because I disagree with him or what he did. I can't actually remember, and don't care to. I hate Louis Riel because I was dumb enough to take a Grade 12 Canadian History course while living in Saskatchewan. Having just moved there, I was not aware that 'Canadian History' was code for 'LET'S OBSESS OVER LOUIS RIEL FOR FOUR FUCKING MONTHS' Fuck. That. Guy.

Welcome to french immersion in Ontario. Our history class in grade 8 was just a big Louis Riel circle jerk.

There would still be huge bald spots with no dinosaur skeletons, etc. where their cities used to be. Or there would be Dinosaur remains on the moon. Even if they got nuked, something would likely survive and the moon doesnt have an atmosphere, so nukes that make craters that large would in the tera-ton range. Why wasnt the Troodon skeletons found in every inch of the world like we would be in 65 million years? Seriously...

Considering that the number of specimens for troodon is maybe 20, while T rex is about 30 .... The number of skeletons that survive to the present a staggering low percentage to begin with. and I am uncertain as to how many archeologists have excavated sites on the moon. I don't know how much evidence would be present after 65 million years. I do not know that having cities all over the world is needed for a space going civilization, either. May it is. I do not know. And since I posted the link in the HUMOR subreddit, I am not going to try to seriously defend something tooth and nail that I took as an amusing read. http://farleftside.com/2006/10-27-06.html

What does this have to do with atheism?

Being atheist is the definition of being rational, having invisible friends is the definition of being irrational. I dunno if its gets any simpler than that.

The technology is just not there, and it is too expensive to justify.

So you can't upgrade to CFLs? Use the corporate car less? Find low technology solutions?