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Geohashing on a date is guaranteed to get you laid.

Geohashing for a date is guaranteed to get you laid.

RE:"hey Google, why don't you just get it over with and remove the content right now" I agree, I would like to see Google call his bluff, I bet the old skinflint would be eating crow for a long time if Google did that.

No, let Newscorp change their policy first, then they have to get together enough political will to change the policy back (probably a week or less), but then, when they're about to change things back, Google can block them.

I gave your wife TMI right out of the blue. ...and by information, I mean genetic information.

What’s all this? People insinuating they have had intercourse with my spouse without my knowledge? What unexpected and razor sharp wit this is… Truly, there is nothing I can say to answer such high comedy….

Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat.

Buffalo.

Okay I'll convert it to white guy for you then, but it may not rhyme any more. ---- My name is Notorious BIG I've entered into rap competitions since the tender age of 13 I used to steal automobiles, but I was not widely regarded as a thief until I started regularly engaging in illegal activities on Fulton Street I earn a lot of money, and additionally have significant amounts of heterosexual intercourse People like to pass me the microphone because I am a perfect battle rap competitor I own many jewels, and the rhymes I offer in battles such as these are often compared to said jewels I find your choice of wardrobe comical Your naïveté in accepting to enter a rap battle with me has ensured that your reputation will be severely damaged, as it is inevitable that you will lose I, Notorious BIG, am able to provide incisive and original insults when engaged in battle raps I also maintain profound respect for my associates and am quick to dispatch inexperienced opponents such as yourself Please inform your mother that my skills are superior to yours in every conceivable way I believe you to be homosexual, additionally I am compelled to say that I think in homosexual relationships you would assume the role of the "bottom", which I hope you find somewhat insulting You are easily compared to a pubic louse, particularly in that you are considered by many people to be irritating and cause people to itch I am eloquent whilst rapping; some draw comparisons between myself and Martin Luther King Jr. Once I have settled into my natural rhythm, I enter a trance-like state, similar to that of a trooper about to enter a theater of conflict You are bested easily in battle raps; I will dispatch you as easily as I scoop ice cream from the tub, which is quite easily, as can be inferred from my portly stature I enjoy performing raps in a relaxed, casual manner, but be warned that when I unholster my sidearm, I am not one to be trifled with So, what will be your response to my superlative commentary? I will best you in a physical altercation, and that is not an idle threat Like an object which surges only forward, my battle rap skills are unassailable I am not a conceited person, but hear this: My own mother is aware of the assistance that I have provided you Additionally, your mother is both aware of my skills and is a vocal supporter of mine I am Notorious BIG. I have just dispatched you in this battle rap thusly; I will now continue to bow to the crowd, drink some fine liquor and partake in the consumption of marijuana. Good day.

I have to tell you... this made me giggle.

=D

Your Cuil Theory changed my life for the better. Thank you. If I can ever find a way to repay you, it will be with a raccoon and some condiments.

we do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQPd6ojZgI8

That really doesn't count, but it was still pretty hot.

Hrrmmm...I meant splitting the total bill among everyone minus the "birthday boy or girl" So I guess it would be Per Person Share = total bill / (n-1 guests). No?

Why would you pay for the mixed drinks of someone else at the party when your drinking beer? Why would you expect someone to pay for your mixed drinks if they are drinking beer?

Obligatory clueless comment questioning the validity of the entire theory of global warming, based on this one outlying data point.

Obligatory reply noting that most people educated in the process refer to it as climate change, rather than global warming, precisely because of events like this

I actually worked with [Linda Lovelace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace) for a few years at a mortgage company in Denver, Colorado. Her son was in charge of the warehouse (which I worked in), and she was in the finance department. She was using her second husband's name at the time, and looked nothing like Linda Lovelace, the actress, or Linda Boreman, the activist. I had never seen *Deep Throat* before, so I never made the connection when I delivered mail to her department. Someone she worked with figured things out and passed around copies of *Deep Throat* to all of her co-workers. A serious asshole thing to do... She quit the company not long after, and about 2 years later, died in an automobile wreck.

I'm just wondering what a mortgage company would keep in a warehouse. I'm assuming it wasn't mortgages. :)

C&H went downhill ever since the Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber left the cast.

They have a cast?

second sentence: "The malware, which BitDefender dubbed "Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A" sits in Firefox's add-ons folder"

That's just what BitDefender calls it. The question is, how can it be identified *without* BitDefender? It's not like someone would write a trojan and the filename would be "Trojan"

Whatever, the 300C is pimp and you know it

Y'all quit h8n, quit h8n... dayom...

Up arrow should be ffuuu face; down arrow should be trollface.

YES

Then is the mind-blowing sex more important, or a long term relationship? Perhaps just enjoy the physical until something else supplants the priority. It's bound to change eventually. Seven months isn't a terribly long time.

I'm getting to the age where I'd like to have children within the next 2-3 years. And I'd ideally like to find someone to be with before then.

You know, texting while driving is awful, but for fuck's sake, it's a *public* service announcement. I don't think I would have been cool with this at the age of eight. I don't know that most other people would have either.

at what magical, arbitrary age does it become appropriate?

There is a solution that gives the best of both worlds in news reporting. A service like Bloomberg should definitely pass news along as soon as it hears it, but it should put a status icon next to each item showing its credibility. For instance, a completely unvetted unverified news item would have an orange question mark next to the title, a news item confirmed true by its editorial staff would have a green checkmark by its title, and a news item its editors have determined is false will still remain in the article list but will have a red X mark by its title and will be written in a strikethrough font. That way people know if its just an unverified rumor and they will quickly know if it's proven true or false by actual editors instead of it just disappearing off the headline list and people continuing to assume it's true.

Be honest; Two weeks ago you had never heard the word vetted in your life.

... and huge cumshots.

Hysterical. I really never knew anything like that was ever even in the bible and I've looked at it for years. I guess I never read the whole thing from cover to cover or if I did, I was too young to have a clue what I was reading.

He still has not paid for his actions. He hid like a coward in another country and wont come back to the states because he know he is toast. Now decades have passed and the only question should he pay an additional price for all these years of cowardliness.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7ywd2/whitewashing_roman_polanski_the_truth_he_drugged/c07sdr8

I'm starting to notice a pattern to the various Stargate series: In SG1, they explore different planets, fight bad guys, help good guys, invent things, get in and out of trouble, etc. In Atlantis, they have a base from which they explore a distant, unknown area of space, and face off against an enemy that threatens the galaxy. In Continuum, they are apparently stuck on a space ship on the other side of the galaxy trying to find a way home. O'Neal == Kirk == Riker Teal'c == Worf Carter == Scotty == Geordy Jackson == Troi etc

Worf < Teal'c < Dargo

a fine woman. and her children seem to follow her values. Kudos.

O RLY? >Sam (One of her daughters), left, runs an upmarket sex shop in London ...

[this](http://www.kirbysrainbowresort.net/kirbypedia/index.php/Copy_Abilities) + [this](http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/395479/do_you_know_whats_in_that_hot_dog_youre.html?cat=22) = the joke

Thank you

ride bikes

Err.. as in bicycle or motorcycle? I've thought about this, riding my mountain bike around Stanley Park in Vancouver but for some reason just can't seem to do it.

I've sometimes thought about how crazy it would be if Greek Mythology were true. And, honestly ... I think it would be much cooler.

It's still interesting to read about Greek/Roman mythology.

Methinks someone holds a grudge...

I dislike those who try to stop others from talking. It is my opinion that those who try to suppress information are cowards who can not defend their beliefs in a rational way.

Cool thought -- but unfortunately the mack-truck-sized hole in this theory is the rather ludicrous notion that the brain could pass through significant evolutionary changes in just 3,000 years. In 1976 when the idea was proposed, it might not have seemed goofy to imagine substantial structural changes in the brain within a space of just 3 millennia. But now we know that's about as likely as water spontaneously transforming into wine.

"Self-awareness, or consciousness, was the culturally evolved solution to this problem." The theory does not propose genetic evolution was responsible for this shift. In fact one of the main criticisms cited later in the article is that: "the idea that consciousness is a cultural construction is hard to take seriously[9]" I have to admit I'm sort of intrigued by the idea that consciousness is learned and that without culture we would still experience this bicameral mind. Reminds me of this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

Carrie Fisher did look great in the metal bikini, but I suspect Natalie Portman would look even better. :)

Nat doesn't have much of a body though she is cute but short and not very curvy.

One of my friends in college used to use that thin paper as rolling paper for joints. It was his ambition to smoke a whole bible.

Now that's crafty.

When my father was a kid he'd make little airplanes out of gum wrappers (the paper-and-foil kind) and set them on fire.

My father blew up mailboxes.

it will be massive deflation since each $1 removed from a bank subtracts $10-12 from the money supply

clearly you don't know what the money supply is, and are confusing this with the economic chain of activity

Bloated with what? The ENTIRE system, once installed, takes up a little more than 3 gigs of HD space. The Windows folder in Vista takes up 10 gigs.

It doesn't matter what Vista is doing. Ubuntu is enormously bloated. By default consumes massive RAM and does in fact take up a great deal of disk space. Look at archlinux for instance, that thing on a default install doesn't exceed 1 Gig.

Without anything to back you up, I don't believe you.

Yeah, 'cause a well drawn head on a Liefeld cover would never stand out and be highly suspicious... Edit: spelling (see below), before being downvoted by the OBGs in here.

Hammering something into the wall is annoying, and they do it a lot for whatever reason. However, I understand that they are doing it to enjoy their home. I watch tv because it is something I enjoy doing in my home. I don't expect them to put up with me being obnoxious, but we share a wall and we both hear each other at various times doing things that are disagreeable. I realize I am the one causing them more grief, and thus why I am attempting to resolve the situation. I am not dictating that my neighbors have to listen to my bass, I am trying to work with them. However, it sounds like you think that they have a right to dictate how I listen to music or watch movies, plain and simple. Obviously quiet hours were instituted (they are an addition to the original lease btw) because the soundproofing is not sufficient in this place. So I will conform to quiet hours, and try to find a middle ground with my neighbor the rest of the time, but I'm not going to sacrifice my quality of life because they like to complain.

You are being selfish and not really trying to solve this. Watching TV and making your living room into a home theater are two different things. You have said that the soundproofing in this place is so poor that they had to write in a quiet hours policy and you still think there must be and acceptable level for you to use a sub-woofer? Have you actually watched TV with no exterior sound system? If you did try that did they complain then? It isn't about them dictating things to you or about their desire to complain it's about you being to loud. I'm sure they just want to live in peace and quite and probably where until you moved in. Also if they really are hammering on the wall that much and it really does bother you that much then you should ask them to stop. It works both ways.

That if smoking is a form of slow suicide that still gets you into heaven, there are plenty of other methods of killing yourself that do as well.

You are equivocating the term and concept of suicide here. Suicide is a conscious ending of one's life based on _the desire to live no more_. If that is someone's motivation for smoking, they're in for a long process. I am baffled as to why you are trying so hard to establish this case, particularly with your pill analogy which doesn't address the complexity of smoking (or any behavior people enjoy but is bad for them). One of the most dangerous behaviors is driving a car. There is a relatively high probability that you will be in an accident (possibly fatal) every time you get on the road. Are you really willing to argue that driving is a form of Russian roulette, or that those who die in accidents committed suicide?

oh no youuuu dint

whutcha gonna do about it?

Nine-Eleven was an inside job.

he's on my friends list. His posts are, with few exceptions, the highlight of any topic.

expectations? I know people with masters degrees who expect more money than their BS counterparts just because they have a masters. They don't understand that it's all about what you add to the company, not some piece of paper. In fact recently two friends were offered a job with the same salary doing the same thing at the same company. Both are straight out of school but one has a masters. The masters laden friend was _angry_ and _felt cheated_ because both were offered the same money and declined the offer. Her argument was essentially "on average, people with masters degrees make more money, therefore I am entitled to more money."

To a point, she is right. In theory, her master's degree will make her better at the job than her friend without one, because she has deeper knowledge of the subject. It theory.

Yeah where can I enter my coupon? Who the hell buys zaa without a coupon? Not anyone in thier right mind.

In addition to coupons, it should support other vendors that have online ordering, such as Pizza Hut and Papa Johns.

Subscription method works to prevent piracy. If I have to login to your system to play the game (like WOW) then I'll have to pay. But if it's all on my system. It's crackable, perhaps more work to crack then is worth it but crackable still.

You can download WoW and run a private server. Next example?

No, you are wanting to change the behavior of someone else because you think you know better than them how they should live. Your motives are completely, totally, and incontrovertibly irrelevant. It is still an effort to exert control over someone elses life, and yes, it is disgusting. It is the most immoral and repulsive type of impulse that human beings can suffer from. The only life you can control is your own, and if you merely WANT to control someone elses, merely want to change someone elses life, whether you believe it is for the "better" or not, is a severe personal flaw that will do nothing but cause you and everyone around you pain and frustration. I'm not trying to insult you, I'm just trying to impress upon you that you should stop and consider that whether your friend plays lots of games and has fun and is happy or not, he's still a good person. If he does things that you believe are a "waste of time" by making himself happy, you have absolutely no place to tell him to change, not even if you talk to him kindly about it and eventually persuade him to change his behavior. That's just trickery and he will end up resenting you for it. Trust me, if you stop thinking about how other people live their lives and concentrate on your own and no one elses but your own, you and everyone around you will be better off.

No, I am not offended. I see what you mean, however I think friends have a role in advising people how to lead their lives. "you have absolutely no place to tell him to change" Ofcourse I do! He is my close friend and he expects me to care about him and give him advice on how to live. This is what friends do. My friends advise me on what to do and I don't resent it at all, regardless of if I agree or not. It gives me insight into ways I can lead my life. "That's just trickery and he will end up resenting you for it." Maybe you have had poor friends that don't appreciate your advice and the fact that you care about them. However this is certainly not my situation. I mean, yes, if you are tactless and insult their way of life, you won't get anything except hate from them. However there are ways of doing it without hurting anyone's feeling and getting the other person to think. (You can read Dale Carnegie’s *How to Make Friends and Influence People* if you have problems with that, a fantastic read) Think of it sort of like talking to a psychiatrist, except you know the person even better and can help him out more. Every person has problems and is dissatisfied with his life in some way. As a friend I'm here to help and give advice. This isn't something I do with all my friends of course, but only with my closest friends who respect my opinions (and vice versa). It's not immoral to change the people around you at all. It's natural, and integral to social behavior. People talk politics for example because they want to change the other person’s opinions. There isn’t something wrong with that, it just enlightens you about other people’s views even if you disagree. "if you stop thinking about how other people live their lives and concentrate on your own" That is just selfish (which is okay, most people are). Why do people become counselors, priests, teachers, community leaders, etc.? To help people change their lives for the better. I think it takes a certain personality to want to help people around you. It isn't some kind of sin to change the world around you. People write books that change the way people view the world. Is that bad too? EDIT: Kinda ironic that you are trying to change my opinion =) No, I don't mind, I think this is a fascinating subject, and I think it is very valuable to discuss.

Band that doesn't do well, who sold their copyright, has no rights to their music. They sold it. There is no gray area. Band that retains its copyright, can sell their product, they can give it away, they can license it, they can waive their copyright, they can allow it to go open domain. No gray area. Individual who wants music but isn't sure they will like it. Find the band online, or perhaps one of the sites like Pandora.com free radio. No gray area. Individual who downloads copyrighted music without the approval of the copyright owner, whether it is the band or some company, and doesn't pay for it, is stealing. No gray area. Where is the gray area?

Labels don't always release the contracted album. Thus, the band/artist cannot make money. Or, the label does not always keep the album in print but still retains copyright. Band/artist still can't make money.

Poor **zed**.

Who's Zed?

I was, of course, president of the drama club (no shit). That's where all the girls -including the cheerleaders- are after school (not in football practice). I got laid twice as much as the quarterback, and by the same girls. Ahhh... to be a drama kid.

I lost my Virginity to a Drama Girl.

A surly blonde fighter-pilot in space, you say...

What'd'ya hear?

I had never heard it before.

That's fair enough, I'm just letting you know vinnythekidd wasn't the author of the phrase.

You should watch The Prisoner. It's about a British agent who tries to resign, and instead gets abducted and held captive in this bizarre isolated village. The kinds of mind games they play on him ... wow. I never thought I'd be afraid of a big white floating ball, but The Prisoner made me terrified of one. I can't really describe this, it's too weird to be believed. Just watch it. You'll be glad you did.

1967.

I humbly beg to differ. Acid is an *excellent* addition to any raver's party kit.

In my personal opinion there is much too much going on at a rave to being able to handle blotter acid and not sufffer from Tardonautmyalgia after several minutes of said experience.

And you won't hit an X until... *head explodes*

six.

He's the son of the other Iron Chef host, isn't he? I haven't seen the original sadly :(

And I haven't seen the American version. All you need to understand my excitement is in the [original intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TdA_yP8sV8).

What! Say I *love* you? What the hell do you think I am, a homosexer? **EDIT** CAUSE I AIN'T

Oh man, I wish I registered that account.

They need those things for adults.

there is actually something quiet similar, but I can't remember how it's named :-/

She's all goy I tell you. Vote for Obama you tell me I should? The skinny one, she has hutzpa that I will give her. She needs to eat. What, would a sandwich kill her? And her mouth. Don't get me started on her foul mouth. She speaks to her Mother with this mouth? The shame she must bring to her Mother. It would kill me. Dead I tell you. Kill me on the spot.

^ Jewdar says: Not a Jew (As if I needed magical powers to detect that. Oy vayzemeir!)

i've heard that you can die of astonishment from it. now, i don't know that to be actually true, but man... if there is any way to go...

I've heard you could get accurate results actually researching subjects instead of espousing whatever false pretenses you may have about them. Joe Rogan regularly does DMT, he knows who he is, and has never died of astonishment.

You squeeze *my* tears out

No, no, I'm not crying... it's raining... selectively... on my face.

Trying to choose just one album to start on seems like such a daunting task! I'd recommend basically anything by Zappa, including 1SFA and some Joe's Garage, really ANYTHING :) RIP

When we're talking about Zappa, are we including The Mothers? Because I get chills when listening to *Absolutely Free*, and I think it's a great starter album.

To have them offline at their leisure. The other end of that question is, what's wrong with torrenting them if they're freely and legally available online?

The website allows downloading too.

Buy jeans and khakis that fit. Buy a few dress shirts in solid colors and a few sweaters to layer over them. Some polos and fitted (long and short sleeved) tees wouldn't go amiss either. Also, get a fitted jacket to wear for casual evenings out. The most important thing is fit -- even if you hate shopping, don't just grab something that sorta fits and buy it. Take the time to get the right size -- you'll end up getting more wear out of the item if it fits, and it's a really simple way to look good. Once you have some relatively nice clothes, keep them that way -- separate dark and light clothes when you do laundry (I'm not being condescending -- you'd be surprised how many people don't know to do this). Wash whites in hot water and darks in warm or cool water. Pay attention to the care labels on your clothes. If something says dry clean only, you can get a Dryel kit and do it in your own dryer. Don't ever put anything made of wool in a dryer. It's not a bad idea to put your nice clothes in the dryer for five or ten minutes and then take them out, put them on a hanger, and let them air dry the rest of the way. As for standard fashion advice, here goes: Black, brown, white, navy, gray, and tan are neutrals, meaning they go with any color, but not always with each other (black and navy, for example, is a no go). If you have dress shoes, your socks should match them. Don't mix patterns -- if you're wearing something with a pattern on it, everything else should be solid. I know it's cliche, but black looks good on everybody. It's hard to screw up a white tee with jeans. That's all I can think of at the moment. There's little I love more than giving fashion tips.

Out of curiosity what do you think of what I presently am wearing? * [These shoes](http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/31790550/c/359.html) * Loose fit blue jeans * Black T-shirt * Brown hoodie, it looks alot like [this](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001A41E78/). I am an 18 year old guy.

Yeah, but he said explanation.

*whoosh* You failed to realize that my comment was intended to attack the explanatory power of the OP. "The driver was above 40 years old" would have been a similarly worthless explanation.

good one.

Though his reply was not the most thought out, he does have a point. I'm not entirely sure where you pulled that from, I've never read or heard a political theorist ever put them in that order. Would you mind explaining exactly by what attribute you are ranking them?

On a very basic level I have to ask what for? Why do some homosexuals want so much to have their union ratified by an organisation that believes that their way of life is a sin? An analogy for you: if African Americans had the legal right to participate in KKK activities would they really want to?

Ok, African American have a total right to participate in KKK activities. They choose not to for moral reasons. Gays don't want to marry for some form of acceptance. They want to marry so that, after years and years of co-habitation, one can do things such as inherit without a will, be allowed to make medical decisions for their spouse, and other legal things they are denied. And since THE GOSPELS themselves say NOTHING AT ALL about homosexuality, who are we to say secular government cannot offer a legal union to gays and lesbians. If your church chooses not to accept it, so be it. But we, as Christians, have no right to impose our view of morality on the secular government.

Reality is the measure I am using.

Well me too! So now it is just my word against yours. Who wins?

Dude, BoC rocks. Seriously, thanks for that. I had never heard of them before. What else would you recommend? I'm all ears!

They have more albums....

Since when did Apple's players just let you treat them as a mass-storage device? I am talking about what Apple does next time to ensure you only ever use iTunes on the PC side with it.

Why would you use a PC? Last time I looked though there was open source stuff to transfer things to iPods etc. iTunes works though, and as I said, you don't have to buy anything, or use any DRM.

I find myself always hearing [George Carlins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChUO4TLjnY) words echoing in my head, he said it all before, but only a few were listening.

Part of me wishes I wasn't an atheist and that there really was a god and heaven and all so I could see this guy in heaven.

They are one being when they're not three beings, and vice versa. This would be the instance when they're three separate beings. Make sense?

It never has.

Right, and they're going to badmouth a famous author while doing that. Get real, it's a bullshit story.

The textbook industry is filled with teachers since the industry knows who their market is. And teachers like to gossip.

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Cuil?

Where is the "moral example" in that explication? Doing whatever God ask from you isn't "moral".

It's actually the very definition of morality. If morality is some impersonal scale by which God's actions are to be evaluated, then whoever invented that scale is superior to God, and God is not God. Good is what conforms to God's character.

Wally*

This has always bothered me... where is he known as Waldo? Here in Australia he was always Wally. I had to check it out on wikipedia and now I wish I hadn't... Not only does he have a different name everywhere, but also a different personality! What the hell? The likeable, goofy nerd is a hipster in America? Why? Must you people corrupt everything?

Hell no; F.P.S. video games are serious business. No fucking about allowed. -Red Rider Fancy Pants

If a '68 Cadillac is your red rider, what are your fancy pants? -Cabbage

This was a good read. Interesting how different porn stars retire, and why. You should crosspost this to r/sex. Now I'm headed over to empornium to look up "Penny Flame". For perspective, of course. (Edit - 5 minutes later: wow. Penny's *(ahem)* done a few movies. One with Lexi Belle, and another with some huge sex machine...) (Edit 2 - 20 minutes later: God, Lexi Belle is soo hot. Now, what were we talking about...?)

Penny's Guide to Rough Sex is a keeper.

Which is why you, as a KDE user, voted it down?

I didn't vote it down, and I'm a GNOME user. I don't like sideways text :)

Sure; one is socially acceptable because we rationalize it, the other is reviled because the victim is cute and fluffy and thought of as a "pet" instead of "food". Just like considering black people as "dumb brutes" and "barely more than animals" made slavery easier to rationalize. But choosing to eat animals when you can easily choose not to (and still enjoy great tasting, varied foods), is a deliberate act of cruel indifference to the hundreds of millions of animals raised in captivity and slaughtered each year to bring you chicken nuggets, burgers, and bacon.

You pious twit. You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for your ancestry eating meat. Show some respect to your roots. Things die so others may live. Animal torture has nothing to do with being carnivorous.

I'm an introvert too. I don't like to be lonely. There are two types of loneliness. The first one is having no friends, no family and absolutely nobody you can turn to. The second one is simply enjoying a more private, solitary existence but still appreciating your friends and family and seeing them from time to time. I'm in the latter camp. I don't like to be alone. It's nice to know I'm sharing a house with somebody but am still afforded lots of privacy and time to myself in my own room. However, I am not the most social person and being around others for prolonged periods of time will end up draining me. When alone I can do things like draw, write and listen to music I wouldn't be able to enjoy with somebody else in the room. It's my way of relaxing and I consider it recreational. Nobody likes to be alone all the time and like anybody else I will gladly go and spend time with my friends, but only if I know I'll get to go back to my "lair" at the end of it all, restore my energy in the privacy of my own bedroom and continue my personal projects. May sound strange since I've never been good at explaining things, but I don't think there's anything wrong with being introverted. Nobody is 100% introverted (as in they never want contact with another human, period), but alot of people choose to be alone more often than not when given the choice, even people who are married and who have families.

I think that your second example more closely describes the majority of introverts. As humans, we have a built-in need to be around people. Introverts prefer to be alone most of the time, but we still need relationships with other people. I don't think anyone could live a happy, sane life without having at least one person in their life they could talk to. I consider myself an introvert - I like to spend time by myself doing things I enjoy, I appreciate my privacy, but I still need to see my couple friends regularly. I still talk to my mother a couple times a week. Contact with others is something we can't live without, but I think us introverts can make more with less.

Dude. What if you went back and told yourself to stop 9/11? I mean, like... *dude*.

Like, how? Get on the phone, call the FBI. Hey, they're gonna take down the WTC next week... uh huh... yeah, just giving you the heads-up here. I'm sure that would work like a charm. Hey, if you tried really hard to sound credible, they might park an extra police car or so in front of the building on 9/11.

Why are there churches? Why not offer the Koran literature classes in addition? Why not offer a skeptics class? Why not offer Buddhist literature classes? 160 last time checked is not a majority of 1200 it is about 13 percent. That leaves a 87 percent minority. The attempts of the Christian Right to impose is beyond their belief.

well unfortunately higher lower levels of education rely deeply on the history of the west and therefor of Christendom. There are parts of the bible that are probably historically accurate and the bible is the most referenced book of all-time so even though I agree with you that this is really just the Christian right trying to force religion down our throats there is actually some pretty relevant aspects of the bible. I'm an atheist and don't like when the Christians score any points but I think anyone that takes themselves academically serious should have read the bible by college. It is truly referenced constantly and is alluded to in so much of the literature students will be exposed to.

Besides, doesn't the combustion of hydrogen produce water vapour which is _the_ most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere?

Water precipitates out within weeks at most. CO2 stays in the atmosphere for centuries.

No one inflicts brutality in the name of Theism -- they do so in the name of *God*. It takes a certain type of theology to reason that God cares about matters that would lead to the injury of other human beings. Just as many people believe society is good, but it takes a special breed to say that the state should rule. In other words, the theists who commit atrocities in the name of religion are doing so based on their particular theology, just as the communists were doing so based on their particular sociology.

There are some good points here. We have to look deeper than religion for a motivation to mass violence but recognize the many ways that it can help war, pogroms and such along. I think of religion in this context as more of an excuse, one of several available to a head of state or a common soldier. It also makes an effective coping mechanism for victims and perpetrators. While it may offer comfort in the present, perhaps it takes the edge off peoples' feelings about violence and bloodshed, which would make it rather a lubricant for the machinery of war. Another thing that is pernicious about certain religions, especially those that emphasize the "afterlife", is that while simultaneously condoning the violence that causes death, they devalue life by offering an antidote to death.

I think you mean [High Fidelity](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/). Good movie.

Indeed, and far from a "shitty movie".

You don't need an extension to bring back a closed tab. Ctrl+Shift+T or History|Recently Closed Tabs.

you used to

YES, I saw these at 7-11 about 3 months ago and instantly thought; I MUST SHARE THIS WITH REDDIT! But I forgot about it, and alas it has made its way here.

[I was gonna share this on reddit...](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305vRNoofr8)

I'm surprised my Baseball Reddit isn't growing more. Sad.

Baseball is dying slowly. They keep doing it to themselves (like the NHL).

I've finally proven, once and for all, that men and women are equal: http://google.com/trends?q=gay+porn%2C+lesbian+porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

was 2006 a really great year for porn?

People downmodded you because you don't make any sense. That post read like a sleepy, ranting old man.

I gotta be honest, I can see your point. lol

Star Trek's transporters don't work like that. They disassemble your body and reassemble it with all of its original matter intact at the destination. You are fully conscious and even able to carry on conversations while being transported.

It's not the original matter, or else how did that copy of Riker get stuck on the planet when his transport beam get reflected off some clouds or something? They ended up making two Rikers from one transporter beam.

your wife has a slammin rack.

hahaha, i thought those were crossed-arm elbows

I have 8GB of RAM with an intel Q9450 and I'm running Windows 7 x64. This test was done about 3 months ago with several RARs that contained a single .mkv file.

I can't imagine compressing an .MKV file (or any type of file with built-in compression, like MPEG4 video, MP3 audio or JPEG images) would decrease the file size much.

Don't hate on Spongebob.

At first I was like nah, Spongebob is coo, but then all was forgiven because the end panel.

Trailers are NOT made by the directors. They are made by people who know how to get as many seats filled in a theater on opening weekend. Everything this guy complains about are all the Hollywood things that get put into EVERY trailer (like all the explosions).

Getting basic canon facts wrong (Kirk knowing how to drive, *Enterprise* built on land) shows that the movie makers (whoever is to blame) don't really care about making a movie that continues the Star Trek concept. It looks like a continuation of what made the *Enterprise* series so horrible.

Are girls out there actually giving their BFs shit about not being like edward?! wtf, can u cite examples?

you

One of my regrets in life is having paid Delta $50 in a similar situation. In my defense, I was totally exhausted and jet-lagged, but I should've just taken the time to shuffle around my books and duty-free liquor and get all the bags under the weigh limit.

I was traveling with my family -- 4 people, 3 large bags. We could have had 4 bags, but they wanted to charge me because one of the 3 bags was a few pounds over... genius.

It was also unintentional that the USS Liberty, a well-known, easily-identifiable, intelligence gathering ship flying the US flag, was bombed and strafed for hours by Israeli jets on the afternoon of June 8, 1967, while in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. Thirty-four crewmen were killed and 173 wounded. [Edit- In total there were 294 crew members so 11.56% of crew were killed, 58.8% were wounded, thus 70.4% of crew was either killed or wounded.] The Liberty continued to send out IFF (Information Friend or Foe) messages saying the vessel was a US Navy ship. Crewmen painted USA in large letters on the deck but the Israeli planes continued their deadly attack. The attack which was obviously NOT unintentional has never been explained. With friends like the Israeli military the US does not need any enemies.

That was one air attack followed by one naval attack later (poor communication). Both broke off after realizing that something was wrong, both could have sunk the *Liberty* if they had chosen to press the attack, and there was no rationale for Israel to intentionally attack the ship. It wasn't long ago that we bombed a British convoy in Iraq with very visible bright orange panels that the pilots could even see and rationalized away. Not all incompetence is malice.

If I could walk into a record store and buy 20 of these things for £50, and they all looked really tiny and neat and japanese with little pullouts and stuff, I would be all over these. But what I'm really after here is the artwork and I doubt they're going to alleviate the nostalgia I feel when I see pictures of beautiful artwork on large vinyl sleeves.

And I doubt they'll be low-priced.

I'll usually jump in if there are at least two or three other people playing.

I'll often be the only one there, but it gets others to join.

Shut the hell up and let people express themselves however they please.

you see, like, when people, like, try to say something coherent, the people listening, like, can't really, like, understand, like, what you have to, like, say

What's the difference between America and England? In England, 200 miles is a long way. In America, 200 years is a long time.

Too true, I was pretty amused by the recent creepy/ghost story threads with all the Americans saying how old a house was - a hundred years old! Hah, *my* house is over 140 years old & wouldn't consider it old by a long shot - it has nothing on some others in the town.

300gb/month seems likely a reasonable cap for my own needs, but disconnecting is a crap way to deal with overage. you mention your bill is doubling, can you give some detail there?

300/Gb is just *the* cap, anything over 60 is charged by the gigabyte. On top of that... the whole point of this is to come up with arbitrary numbers you can deem 'within reason' and then when they're finally forced to give you higher speeds, and everything goes digital distribution you'll be trained to think 60-300 are good downloading requirements. It's not a small coincidence that most big internet companies are also suppliers of television/phone services. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the prospect of Television networks streaming all their content online, or people all switching to internet telephony services have them scared shitless. These people have an end game, and you're buying it hook line and sinker.

I read all of them. Anything that's been in front of me all these years. Seriously, though, I like to read more than one newspaper.

Wow, you read propaganda from multiple sources.

OMG we are using a resource to get something we need to sustain life? FUCK FUCK FUCK

RTFA

A science fiction writer afraid of the future. Who would have guessed?

Do you know what their issues are? Google isn't just asking to scan things, they're getting rights out of this that won't be available to others and that many argue they can't legally receive. Take a look at what the Open Book Alliance is asking for in revised settlements- * The settlement must not grant Google an exclusive set of rights (de facto or otherwise) or result in any one entity gaining control over access to and distribution of the world’s largest digital database of books. * Authors and other rights holders must retain meaningful rights and the ability to determine the use of their works that have been scanned by Google. * The settlement must result in the creation of a true digital library that grants all researchers and users, commercial and non-commercial, full access that guarantees the ability to innovate on the knowledge it contains. * All class members must be treated equitably. * The settlement cannot provide for competition by making others engage in future litigation. * Congress must retain the exclusive authority granted by the U.S. Constitution to set copyright policy. * All rights holders impacted by the settlement must have a meaningful ability to receive notice, understand its terms and opt-out. * The parties that negotiated the settlement must live under the terms to which they seek to bind others, rather than their own separately negotiated arrangements. These are not unreasonable. Why should Google be granted a monopoly, which is what this settlement would have done? Keep in mind Google wasn't offering to scan these books and keep them open for anyone, they are planning on charging for licenses to their database and the original agreement meant it would be the only such database. Please, everyone, before taking a side on this make sure you're informed- there are a lot of issues here, some of them very subtle. Its very clear that there is a problem with the current situation (particularly orphan works), but that doesn't give Google the right to make their own laws regarding copyright.