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I always thought that Ayn Rand was interesting, however you have to cull out the extreamism of the viewpoint caused by living in 1910 Russia.

You have to consider historical context and biases with any writer, especially someone trying to write philosophy, but I never found anything in Rand that was insightful or interesting. She has exactly one thing to say, and she takes 500 pages to say it.

Until this generation gets more solid RPGs, this war is still a tossup for me. Frankly speaking there is nothing good yet in this generation, the best RPGs are still coming out for the PS2. FFXIII coming out on the 360 just muddies the pool even more, splitting the hardcore RPGers. There is still nothing compelling on the 360 or the PS3 atm.

Lost Odyssey wasn't compelling to you?

Long time NSFW reader, but I just signed up for a reddit account just to post on this thread. 1-4 times/week. Rarely (though occasionally) more than once a day. 25 years old, own my own home. Married for a few years to a hot girl I'd been dating for 8 years. We have sex a couple of times a week or so now that we both work from home full time (yay telecommuting!). Used to be more like once a month because we had seriously conflicting work schedules. Incidentally, quality of married life appears to be directly proportional to frequency of sexual encounters with each other. When I was a teenager, I asked some older IRC friends who were married if masturbation stopped when they got married. They all laughed. I didn't get it. Turns out they were right. I realize now that I hadn't even perfected my technique until I'd been married for a while. Wife doesn't masturbate and doesn't orgasm. Says she likes sex better than masturbating. We've tried to do something about the not orgasming thing, but nothing seems to have helped: therapy, various toys including a [sybian](http://www.sybian.com/sybianindex.html) (which she doesn't much care for) and a [body bouncer](http://www.bodybouncer.com) (which we both enjoy. Seriously, it's like having sex with a flying vagina.) She's been with other people and had the same problem; I've been with other people and haven't, so we're pretty sure it's her. She blames it on being molested by the babysitter's boyfriend as a child.

That body bouncer thing is ingenious.

That's why I didn't include the "source", because I read somewhere that Mark Twain is a quote magnet :) Thank you!

Yes. fact: tend be a quote magnet." -- Mark Twain

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Well, you would need motivation for that. Why would they *want* it to be gamed? You must have a theory on this. Please explain.

Only the top dogs at Digg know the answer to that. All I'm saying is Digg could easily change its current system for something more like fudged71 was suggesting, but they're not even trying. My guess is it has to do with money. Lots of money.

Bradbury has explicitly said the book was *not* about censorship, but more about the pernicious effect of television.

I wasn't commenting on what Bradbury intended, that's why I said, "I think..."

Bush 2012

bush-palin 2012?

Abrahamic religions, not men, have deprived women of their rights. Don't lump all men in as women abusers because a few theists 2000 years ago thought women were unclean. Put the blame where it really lies, the religious institutions that continue to preach women are evil because Adam blamed Eve for taking the apple.

Native Americans were neither known for equal gender relations, nor faith in Abrahamic religions.

*L-O-L-A Lola* *Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola*

Lookin' for my Lola, she's a little rock 'n roller, party down, paint the town again. She drinks too much, she keeps it hid, everybody says she's a hell of a kid, but she ain't no kid when she's cuttin' me apart. That's OK, I told her from the start, 'Don't stop 'fore you get my heart.' (How cool is it that there are at least two songs named after women named Lola?)

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Mightier than the sword?

*Anatomy of A Human Gnat* by Yoh Jo Kim

Two good choices there, some more: - The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers - The Digging Leviathan, James Blaylock In the really weird catagory: - Perdido Street Station, China Miéville - The Scar, China Miéville Also, for just visual sake, check out Katsuhiro Otomo's animé [Steamboy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQRc1AYuOlg)

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Considering time has not no this does not happen. Yet.

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Voted up because I got Chrono Cross because it was the "sequal" and am still angry about it.

a good deal Chrono Cross was AWESOME. immobilise But if you incorrect were expecting to see Chrono Trigger in it, you were most likely going to face capable disappointment. On enjoin its own though, the storyline and immobilise the whole Lynx/Serge thing was pretty unique and awesome on its own. Not being able to tell your displace own Mother that break up your not the monster she thinks she you are. And the a deal out good deal whole frozen in time world part was just eerie. Most people didn't like the whole 40 character thing but I loved the idea, so deal out many side-quests and exploration it made the game so unequaled much incorrect more amazing immersive. Plus the music was AMAZING. Sure it was the freakin wrong moment in my life but pianissimo the piano song at the transverse beginning of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITRZK8z0ek a good deal was so transverse moving it brought some waterworks.

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I don't give a fuck who you are. I don't give a fuck what rival school you go to. You don't boo the greatest golfer to ever live unless you're a complete tool.

What if he was also Hitler then could we boo him?

Ha Ha Now that is the most helpful response I've received yet... And coincidentally will be my mindset towards the whole issue effective immediately.

I am female.. I have given oral to 5 men. None at the same time. And I was with all of them. I see nothing wrong with being sexual with people as long as one is safe and honest about it. And the way I see it. If it's good. Why complain? Now if it was bad... then you can complain. But if you enjoy it. Just kick back and pop the zipper. Women are always set as a "whore" if she has a certain number of sex partners. But I guess since America is so uptight on the standards and plain issues of sex it doesn't surprise me when a man is surprised his gal knows how to please someone. I personally think it's a good quality. It keeps it easier on the relationship. Which admit it. Most tend to crumble when the sex is bad. You can only talk so much to a single person. If it wasn't for sex you would grow bored and tired of each other. So good. Don't worry. Just enjoy your relationship with her. If you're both happy. Fuck standards.

Here's a gem from their show: http://www.5min.com/Video/How-To-Steal-Computers-Software-934713 What a laughably useless/stupid thing to do.

Well, physically stealing software is really stupid (torrents...), but it would be a discreet way of stealing hundreds of Gigs worth of business secrets if you had physical access. For most things, a thumb drive is all that's required, though.

You had me until "hot divorcée". Ew and ew. At the ages of 23 to 26?? And she's from work? Never fuck anyone from work! If you replaced that with "hot college girl you met at the local bar", I might be with you. And of course you're downmodded. This is reddit. How could guys here EVER root for a cool guy who actually succeeds with women? It's so self-selectingly pathetic. It's the exact same thing as jocks kicking smart guys because they'll never have the math or reasoning skills.

He's downvoted because no one cares. His post wasn't humorous, it wasn't insightful, it didn't make anyone think, it was purely "hey, look at me everyone!"

my favorite is http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Has_Lil_Wayne_shot_anyone&alreadyAsked=1&rtitle=Has_lil_wayne_shot_anybody

Y-M-E for young money entertainment.

Handing out cash to every man, woman and child was more of a solution than this non solution disaster you're creaming over. They literally could have paid off every loan. The "solution" would be a sick joke if it weren't criminal. The solution is to let them fail, like they're supposed to. Bullshit on your theory about evil Republicans(tm) causing an "unnatural bubble."(showing your belief in the false left-right dichotomy again.) The cause is the fed, which has been deliberately creating these "unnatural" bubbles since its inception in 1913. The solution that needs to happen there is end the fed.

I agree the bailout money should have just bought off people's loans. Because it was not, the situation isn't as good as it could be. Cash4Clunkers was pretty damn good. Give money to the industries that need help, but do it via the consumer. It forced the companies to keep their workers employed since they can only get the money via making product and the consumer directly benefits. Same money spent, but much more people benefit. Obama created c4c. That was his bailout. Bush did the ones last year. Who's do you like? As for letting banks fail, that is not the solution. The republican government let them become way too big. The solution is to do what needs to be done to prevent collapse and then break them up and pass a law to prevent them from merging into "too big to fail" sized companies again. We did step one, because both parties agreed with step one. Republicans liked it because it's corporate welfare and democrats liked it because it was necessary. But without step 2 all the money will have been completely wasted.

For years I had this fantasy, until I acted on it (met someone online). I was pleased I went through with it because I learned alot about myself in the process. Turns out I wasn't gay, just open to sex with anything

Same here. After years and years of fantasizing about the idea of doing this I finally acted on it. Really odd how I could suck a dick but the idea of kissing a guy has less than no interest to me. Found out as I suspected that I am not gay, not attracted to men, but am capable of enjoying a wider variety of sex acts than I realized. I haven't done it again (though I would love to be part of a MMF threesome but that is unlikely). You should go for it. You won't stop thinking about it til you do (take it from me) so may as well try it and see what it's like.

"the product of 10 years of research by German academics Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans" yes. 10 years of someone's life was dedicated to the determination of how Van Gogh's ear was cut. Now I don't feel so bad about wasting all that time on WoW

"the product of 10 years of research by German academics Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans" yes. 10 years of someone's life was dedicated to the determination of how Van Gogh's ear was cut. Now I don't feel so bad about wasting all that time on WoW

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I keep the pickle jar after the pickles are gone, so I can drink the brine.

I find that a few ounces of pickle brine before bed after a bender is an excellent hangover preventative.

/facelick

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Have you seen the yellow sign? IA!!!

It's *iä* you infidel.

I can't even take your opinion seriously, since you didn't seem to notice that the person who wrote the article is a girl. Did you look at the actual, full size picture? It's so bad.

I'll agree with you that the full sized picture is quite bad, but some of her gripes are a bit overstated, (the concrete floor is entirely possible).

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every month or so it gets re-posted...sigh here is a link that shows its several previous post... http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpics.yemii.com%2Fswedish-dance-bands.html

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And youd pay the same amount at the better uni too.

Both you and the Bloc are wrong but obviously for different reasons. You are confident that those organized criminals caught for 'trafficking children' will invariably be punished most severely. I posted this also elsewhere and I beg your indulgence in my posting it again here. This is an extremely important issue and I think it is crucial that we understand what we are dealing with and what Judges and Juries are really up against. Minimum Mandatory Sentences didn’t come about only because some right wing politicians wanted to look 'tough on crime' as many here seem to believe. Judges and Juries are obviously composed of fallible human beings who can be bribed, intimidated, addicted, compromised and blackmailed. Organised crime cartels have vast resources and fire power at their disposal and have no qualms about using that power. [organized crime "jury tampering" Canada](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=organized+crime+%22jury+tampering%22+Canada&btnG=Search&meta=) [organized crime "judges"](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=organized+crime+%22judges%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=) [organized crime "judges" Canada](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=organized+crime+%22judges%22+Canada&btnG=Search&meta=) Mandatory Minimum Sentences carry the advantage that neither Jury members or Judges can be blamed and punished by organised criminals for the outcome of a trial which results in a long jail term with no possibility of parole. I sure hope everyone has their settings clear of numbers so that they get to read this because I may get downvoted to hell.

Let me preface my comments by saying that I want to try to understand your perpsective. It is a novel argument that I haven't seen before on this issue. Posting those Google links is making me work way too hard to understand the point *you* want to make. Can you point to any academic literature, reports of journalists, or other reputable sources indicating that there is a problem in Canada? I found some blogs containing unfounded allegations in that link stew, but that's about it. EDIT: typo :(

Dude! S is the 19th letter, and X is the 24th letter. If assume vowels start counting at zero, then E is vowel #1. Then, if we add consonants, and subtract vowels we get this: 19 + 24 - 1 = 42!!

I want to upvote you but can't because you have 42 points right now.

i always want enterprise to be good. i convince myself that with such an awesome concept for a show, it cant be **that** bad... but it always is that bad, usually worse.

The only thing I liked about enterprise was the intro.

3-way. If that is too much. Bacon.

I really am all about the three way. But, it's really difficult to find another willing girl. Bacon is always a good standby.

I told my son he couldn't drink alcohol until he can do differential equations. He's a baby, so I'm thinking it is still a long ways off.

I can do differential equations and I don't even want to drink alcohol. Obviously, I'm great at parties.

The idea of no god doesn't cheer me up. The simplicity and grandness of the university does, though.

I like to look at the stars and think that the star closest to us (after the Sun) is 4.3 light years aaway. That means if the next closest star to us were to blow up at the moment I saw its light no one one earth would see it for, well, I don't know. Thinking of stuff like this really makes my problems seem small.

Great. So simply present your proof and the discussion will be over. Unless, of course, you are talking out your ass...

How can we know anything? The answer is that we can observe the world, develop theories to explain what we see, and test those theories to make sure they match observation. We do this in rigorous ways, by applying formal tools such as logic and mathematics, and subjecting our theories openly to verification and empirical tests by many people, to guard against bias and deception. Any knowledge that we *don't* gather in this way is suspect. We've been doing this for thousands of years, and over that time we've developed a pretty good picture of how the world works. And that picture is simply not compatible with the conceptions of deities promoted by the major religions. Scientifically, the most obvious conclusion is that deities are imaginary - they can affect our lives because people believe in them, but they do not have any objective existence in external reality. If a deity did have such an externally real existence, it would be possible to develop scientific knowledge about it: observe its behavior and/or impact on the world, and develop theories about it. But so far, there has been no verifiable (i.e. repeatable) evidence of such an entity. Many religious leaders recognize this. For example, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, says that the god of his church is not a "fact in the world" that can be empirically investigated. What this means scientifically and epistemologically (i.e. in terms of theories of knowledge) is that O'Connor's god has no externally real existence - it is imaginary. Scientifically, we also know that your god - whichever one it is - is also imaginary, just as we know that Zeus, Apollo, Thor, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are imaginary. The consequence of an imaginary deity, of course, is that it didn't actually create the universe or the Earth or the animals or humans, no matter what anyone would like to believe. Instead, to find out about such things, we need to use the knowledge-gathering techniques described above. Using those techniques, we've found out a lot about the creation of the universe (over 13 billion years ago), about the creation of Earth (over 4 billion years ago), about the development of life on Earth, and the development of humanity. We've done this using well-established knowledge-gathering techniques that we know we can rely on. These techniques tell us beyond any doubt that the Earth is much, much older than the 6,000 years or so that young-Earth creationism proposes. The problem that young-Earth creationism has is that it has not used these established knowledge-gathering techniques, which means we cannot trust what it says any more than we can trust that a Harry Potter book describes a real-life boy who can do magical things. Can we answer every question using these knowledge-gathering techniques? Of course not. There are many questions, particularly about the origins of the universe, and about the human mind and heart, that cannot yet be answered this way. Some of them may never be answered this way - in particular, where did the Universe come from? But that doesn't mean we can just make up answers to keep us happy - that would be dishonest, and against the principles by which we know we can trust our knowledge.

You remember reading a movie review from 18 years ago?

It's true. I had just seen T2 in the theater and happened to read the Ebert review in that Sundays' paper. damn, has it been 18 years?!?

Ah I see that you aren't up to speed on how jokes work, which would explain why you didn't enjoy the comics. Thank you for inadvertently clarifying that.

Look, I'm giving you my honest opinion. If you didn't want criticism, you shouldn't have posted those comics. The artwork is copy/pasted and overall rather poor, and the jokes aren't very good and seem like they were written by a kid with Asperger's (not an insult, because I know a lot of people with Asperger's and these are the kinds of jokes they think are funny). Here's some randomly picked jokes from your collection: 1. Yellow Guy is wearing headphones. Pink Guy tells him to turn them down. But uhoh, he can't hear him because it's too loud! This isn't that funny and has been done to death. 2. Pink Guy is reading Yellow Guy's letters for some reason. One is a reminder to "let the cat out of the bag". Yellow Guy rushes off as if he has a literal cat in a bag. Pink Guy sighs and facepalms, as he seems to do in many comics. This isn't really that funny. 3. Yellow Guy is using a bunch of Pink Guy's stuff and calling it "gravy this" and "gravy that". Not really funny. 4. Yellow Guy tricks Pink Guy into believing they've been evicted and misuses a few idioms along the way. Then he claims to literally have shat in Pink Guy's pants. 5. Yellow Guy thinks some slutty girl band was actually a troupe of whores. Not really that funny. In all of these comics, the setup is too long, the artwork isn't varied enough to be interesting (in fact, it's BORING and distracts from the jokes), and the jokes themselves are usually just Yellow Guy being too literal about things / being weird and Pink Guy being exasperated by his antics. These are not very funny jokes to people who don't have Asperger's Syndrome. For one thing, the fact that the characters are shapeless blobs immediately takes away from any sort of expectation that they should act like normal human beings. After the first few comics, this is apparent, but even then, they're not interesting enough as characters to make the terrible jokes any better, and if anything, they detract from the overall funniness of each comic. These jokes seem like they came out of a joke book, and those jokes are only funny to little kids. Another comic. There was a spider, so Yellow Guy burned down the couch. This isn't that funny by itself. It COULD be funny if the artwork was interesting and not just one frame copied and pasted over and over again with a few minor details replaced each time. As for the I'm sorry bit, here's an example from Merriam Webster: I'm sorry, but I'm afraid (that) I won't be able to come to your party. In American English, at least, the whole "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that" construction can be shortened to "I'm sorry,".

That's never how it works. Conservatives don't cut taxes and then cut military spending. They never have, and they never will. They cut taxes, increase military spending, and recoup funds by cutting social programs. The CPC's current plan calls for a tripling of the Canadian military budget by 2027. Defunding overseas military adventures will be the last thing they'd ever cut, after women's equality programs, welfare, environmental protection, food inspection, education and on and on. This isn't just true of Canada's CPC, it's true of conservatives of this nature in every country in the developed world.

Canada's military funding is pretty pathetic right now. Tripling it is pretty much required if we want to stay a respectable force. We could of course greatly reduce the size of the military and save a lot of money, but for whatever reason many Canadians are not that fond of the idea of gutting our already small military, so... For the record though the statement that Conservatives don't cut taxes is blatantly false. Harper has given multiple tax cuts, both to everyone in the form of GST and to income and business taxes. Granted you may not think GST cuts are a good idea, but it is still a tax cut, and making false statements about politicians does not help intelligent discourse.

The Quebec government has to face their voters every few years and justify the invocation of the notwithstanding clause. I don't actually agree with Bill 101 but then again, I don't vote in Quebec. I agree with your last statement. It's Canadian culture and tradition that makes a police state unthinkable, not our laws. We operated without any rights legislation at all until 1960, and the Charter as a law superseding other laws was not created until the Constitution was patriated in 1982. Our system of government (constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy) has proven to be highly successful and resilient, even without entrenched guarantees of rights. I do fully realize that these examples are specific to Canada, and might not be true in other countries. I also think (if I may say) US bureaucrats, politics and politicians might be less deserving of public trust than Canadian ones. We don't have quite as many Sheriff Joe Arpaio types up here as you folks seem to. This makes me more sympathetic to the views of US small-government conservatives and libertarians than one might think, because I think that just might be a better answer for the US than it would be here.

I wonder if Europe might be in a similar situation to Canada in that their legal framework isn't where the resistance to a police state really takes place. Which makes me think Eurpoeans and Americans are really talking past each other when they argue about how laws should be written. While I do think the U.S. is freer than most European states, European states should be horrible police states by my reckoning yet they aren't. Of course it it much easier to observe written laws than it is to observe cultural norms and how they operate.

I'm considering getting a Garmin IQue device. I assume that I'll need some kind of account if I want to receive emails on the thing? Where do you go for this and how much does it cost per month? Thanks.

The IQue does not have wi-fi or cellular technology built in, so email will have to come via autosync with a Windows laptop or desktop PC via a cable. The last iQue, the iQue M5, does however, have bluetooth and is SDIO compatible, so it may possibly work with a wi-fi SD card (extremely doubtful though), in which case you may be able web-based email for free, assuming you are in an area with wi-fi coverage, or you will have to tether it to a laptop or cell phone via bluetooth to receive email and/or web surf, etc. I'd also like to point out that Garmin no longer makes these devices, and has discontinued all support for the iQue, and no longer offers repair service, so unless you find one *really* cheap, I'd find another GPS solution. Finding any accessories (cases, antennas, mounts, etc.) for the device will be difficult Not to mention the fact that Windows Mobile 2003 is really clunky, and developers have stopped developing for it long ago. The odds of finding new solutions, such as drivers or software updates and other things are nil. As I said, unless you can find one *really* cheap, or if you are just interested in getting one so you can play with it, then fine. You can probably have a lot of fun with it. But, if you're looking for a GPS unit for your car or the field that you can really count on, you should look elsewhere for a little more modern device.

So, from a certain moral standpoint I can almost see it, but from a freedom of speech/thought standpoint this is abhorrent.

No H? LUCKY!

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Dual Class update? Did I just cream my pants? I think so...

..they HAVE done it before, you know.

Pointless misogynistic crap.

fap fap fap

Suck in the sense that they suck. It has nothing to do with how good or bad they are at baseball, it has to do with the fact that they suck. And these days, they suck in *both* the literal and abstract sense.

Jealous Mets fan.

i don't see why the 1st floor is the 2nd floor in french? this does not make any sense. in some cases the ground floor is the same as the 1st floor. but then the 2nd floor is always the same regardless of language/custom. like, the elevators in a french building don't have two separate numbers on them depending on which language you're using as a reference. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

I thought premier meant groundfloor.

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That doesn't mean it's not applicable to humor. Flipping through some of the top humor links, you see many things which might go in other subreddits. Comics in the comic subreddit, music in the music subreddit, etc. A submission can fit in multiple places.

...That is my opinion. just because something can fit in multiple places doesn't mean it is right.

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

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That c is constant is basically an empirical result, which fundamentally falls out of the [Lorentz covariance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_covariance) of [Maxwell's equations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariant_formulation_of_classical_electromagnetism). It is counter-intuitive to some extent, but it's just how things go, and redshift necessarily follows as a result of length and time transformation; [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect) has a decent derivation.

How???

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I don't really agree with it either, but she's probably under serious financial pressure, and nobody is going to help her. She probably did it out of desperation.

That doesn't make it right. If she couldn't afford kids, she shouldn't have gone to a sperm bank, anyways.

It's always been like this. Large companies have always had regional manufacturing plants. Apparently most greentards don't understand that economy of scale is greener than their way of thinking. A tractor trailer gets about 6 miles to the gallon, but it would take dozens of full sized pick-ups or vans to haul the 40,000 pounds that a big rig carries. Sorry, "eat local" greentards, but produce gets delivered to your local Costco using less resources than the produce delivered to many of those farmers markets that give you eco friendly feelings.

The eat local movement is not entirely motivated by ecological concerns. Eating local can result in better food security and a stronger local economy. Produce can be grown inside buildings. Potatoes and tomatoes grow easily... even in NYC.

Ok, show of hands, who else jumped back at reading the filename?

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Goatse, now in glorious 3-D!

Redditor delivers: http://sam.zoy.org/goatse/stereogram.jpg

I wonder how long this can go until some big jerk ruins it..

It can go on forever. Because anyone can create another account just like this one. The point is that it's disposable.

Can't we all just get a bong?

Sounds like that guy hit his joints pretty hard after he fell off that F16.

That's the problem. Homeschooled kids are required to take those tests and the vast majority fail them. That's why the state is trying to get parents to be certified if they wish to teach their children at home. It's bullshit if some drugged out wacko tries to 'homeschool' her kid just as much as it is crazy that a ultra-religious parent tries to teach their children everything they need to know via the Bible.

Homeschooled kids, as a group, regularly *exceed* public school children in IQ level, standardized tests, required state exams, SATs. I encountered these statistics on a regular basis as a high school teacher. The one-on-one teaching and the efficiencies in time-on-task may be supportive reasons for these consistent results. Most of the home-schooled kids I know were able to start college about a year early.

It really could've been a commercial success but they weren't interested in trying. Most people's commutes would've been well within the range of the EV1, and it could've been a second commuter car for many families. The EV1 was a failure because GM wasn't forced into it anymore.

Let's be fair: Toyota scrapped the Rav4 EV, too. I know it's fun to pile on GM but there's a rabid fanbase for the Rav4 EV; after Toyota lost the ability to use nimh batteries, they gave up on the project all together.

Oh dear god, I know exactly what you mean. I feel like an awkard skinny kid, but then I look in the mirror and see a grown man that really isn't so bad looking. It's a strange feeling to realize that the shortcomings you're attempting to compensate for aren't there anymore.

Yes, yes, that is it exactly!

And just as a preemptive strike: "Get your mind out of the gutter, you perverted fuck. Not THAT kind of role playing!"

Doctor?

here's [30 seconds of cat yodeling](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM_soUJ9In0)

Someone, please, make a midi instrument of that cat.

AFAIK no money and energy has been used to promote the event. It's debatable if all the lights, TVs and computers that were turned off saved energy. Regardless, it was not the point - as I've already said - see point 1 above. Earth Hour was about energy use and climate change and telling world leaders we want urgent action on climate change. It wasn't about bottled water or plastic waste - those issues are totally insignificant in comparison to global warming.

To me Earth Hour is as pointless as an internet petition. Do you honestly think world leaders will do something because a bunch of people turned their lights off? And yes .. time and energy went into promoting this. News agencies reported on it. People are talking about it. I would much prefer all this effort went into things that make real change. Encourage people to compost. Ride public transportation to work for a week. Do things that encourage people to CHANGE! Turning off your lights for an hour doesn't do anything.

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Interesting... I've had issues with bipolarity and related problems in the past, nothing's stuck around though. On a tangent, I grew up with my great grandmother of 102 who was once a performer in vaudeville. As she got old she started seeing things. Once she was alone in her room, Screaming "Where's my shoe!? Does anyone here speak English?" Another time she was having a joke competition with an imaginary friend. She'd tell a joke, crack up, then it was his turn. After a few moments of silence, she cracked up at the punchline and went on with her next joke.

In the original study 3 people had seizures from the stress they were under. I'm pretty sure they believed what was going on.

The people administering shocks? If that's the case, and they were actually given the option to leave whenever they wanted, I don't even know what to say. Not even thinking about the apparent pain they were causing, I can't imagine why someone would willingly keep themselves in such a stressful situation (stressful because of their own actions, no less).

No offense, but I have trouble taking this seriously. It cites no sources, and fails to take into account the future effects of India's huge population on the world environment as the country's infrastructure (and its accompanying facets--industry, technology, et cetera) rapidly expands. But most importantly there is the fact that this article is clearly not about the environment, or about the effects of population growth on the environment, but is much more concerned with female reproductive health. In fact, I'm not sure why the environment is mentioned at all--as opposed to say, overcrowding, or any other of the negative effects of overpopulation. It seems to point to an agenda, is all I'm saying.

Fish.

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If you order now, we will add 2 Palins for FREE!

what about the cup?

American Indians would herd deer toward a lake until it started swimming. Then they'd just canoe out and bop it on the skull with a club. Smart.

Before Europeans brought horses, all the Native Americans had to cover long distances was running. And, man, they [ran](http://140.247.102.177/mcnh_running/).

I was musing that maybe havesometea1 is Penn Jilette. He supposedly lives a polyamorous lifestyle. Hope Teller's not a bottom.

Ahh. Well, I assumed the reference was just some random thing thrown in, because I didn't expect it to refer to a commenter more than one step up. Carry on.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1422/?PrintableVersion=enabled *Besides the efficiency of its workforce, another reason Costco can afford to pay more is that it cuts the fat from executive paychecks. The overall corporate philosophy is that workers deserve a fair share of the profits they help generate — not just a pat on the back or a new job title like “associate.”* *For example, while CEOs at other major corporations average 531 times the pay of their lowest-paid employees, Sinegal takes only 10 times the pay of his typical employee. His annual salary is $350,000, compared to about $5.3 million awarded to Wal-Mart’s Lee Scott.*

i bet he has a very good stock plan :)

Haha, yeah. Have you seen [this?](http://www.worthalaugh.com/2008/06/29/pleasing-15-women-in-one-day/)

UGH i clicked it. now i hafta kill myself.

One night I was in a bar raving about how my friend has bad karma because he can be a jerkoff to people sometimes. For reasons unknown, I balanced a pitcher of beer on a salt shaker and I wisely stated "It's all about karma", as I hit the table with the bottom of my fists. Right on cue the whole pitcher of beer spills directly onto my lap and I looked like I pissed myself for the remainder of the night.

That's not karma, that's just retarded.

I don't go there, that's too gross. What makes guys always want to try that?

Lay on stomach, have vaginal sex that way, squeeze buttocks. It's fucking amazing. He isn't necessarily talking about anal.

A lot of what you've written is inconsistent. If you truly believe what you've just said, you should, then, enjoy the majority of the sadomasochistic porn out there, because the women supremely enjoy being handled roughly. If they are acting resistant to what's being done to them, it's often a (badly) disguised plead to go further. Their orgasms are indescribable, because all of their senses have been overwhelmed and dealt with in a manner so thrilling that they're nearly unable to control themselves. All they can experience is a rush. *A very, very good rush.* If a woman's orgasm and 100% pleasure is what you're into, then you should have no problem getting off to content from, for example, publicdisgrace.com or all of the other material from that company. It's entirely consensual and, for the women in those videos, almost a favor for them to be featured, because of how greatly they desire to be treated that way, and the unfathomable amount of pleasure it brings them. I'm going to assume, however, that you can't get off to these things, and it's not at all because "*it's degrading for the woman*" and "*the woman doesn't actually like it*" -- it's because sadomasochistic porn simply isn't your cup of tea. Which, again, is perfectly fine, but your behavior is... reminiscent of those who aren't into gay sex, and therefore try to conjure up reasons why gay people are terrible human beings and how everything about their sexuality, and perhaps even their personality in general, is despicable, rather than being mature about it and accepting sexual differences.

You are repeating a theme in which you express a sense that I have insulted people who are into S&M. I haven't done this, and I request that you give me a quote which backs up your implication. I am not discussing BDSM porn. I'm not discussion watersports, or fetish porn, or anything of the sort. And even if I were, I haven't written anything which in any way disparages people who have such interests. If you are taking offense, your skin is too thin. But on a purely analytical basis, the psychological profile to be treated poorly is consistent with a sense of inferiorty, and therein also oversensitivity to persecution. Again, I don't begrudge you who you are or what you're interested in. But you've projected animosity where none exists. I am talking about porn found in fairly standard venues and which fills the venues where more... friendly... porn was once found. I wholly endorse people enjoying whatever sexuality they like. You are leveling remarkably baseless assertions against me. If what offended you is the reference to women who are amrt, funny, and horny, you should ask me what I meant. I am happy to try to expand the idea. Horny: if you don't notice a glut of bad porn with dreadfully insincere people in it, you are probably a fan of such cinematographical masterpieces as "Drumline" and Paulie Shore's entire catalog. It is rampant. There is some where the people are really getting joy out of it. I am requesting more of that. Funny: Much as you seem tpo prefer to be roughed into submission, I prefer the woman I'm havign sex with to display outward signs of joy. Smiling, laughing, joking, playing. While I've repeatedly expressed a lack of concern with what you are interested in, you seem to be at ease indicting me because I like sex to be warm, and friendly. One of us is certainly showing disdain for the other's sexuality. I don't think it's me. Smart: I find that the smartest women that I've known have been interested in being more than a pin cushion and spittoon in bed. If this offended you, I apologize. It is perhaps an overgeneralization. It is still my experience and my request was about what *I* like, not what *you* like. To sum up, go do whatever the hell you want. I wasn't talking to you. I was offering feedback in a public forum, hoping to reach some people who might be in a position to make porn which treats women the way *I* like them to be treated. There doesn't appear to be a shortage of the kind of porn you like. Why are you threatened by my request for more that I like?

If McCain wasn't at death's door, he could've probably become President after Obama.

Biden's drooling for that privilege.

You can make your own wind generator. I've seen projects where people did that. Or just buy one, and you're still generating your own power.

With the number of wind generators that a person would need (and the land to go with them) just to run a household on non-rationed energy, I don't think I'd be wasting any charging up a half-assed car. This is still a solution for someone who believes that the only problem is oil/gasoline, and that the fundamentals of our infrastructure are still sound. When I can afford it, I will be buying one or more diesel cars, a diesel tractor, and all the land that I can to grow the oil for them. Mind you, it's not a solution that scales... the entire country cannot do something like that, but then I'm thinking purely about myself and a few loved ones. The rest of you are on your own.

"some people have a thing called integrity" -girl on set of bukkake film.

Bukkake? This was a pissing fetish film.

The reason people aren't using Vista is because it isn't as good as XP. This has nothing to do with RMS and has everything to do with Microsoft. I love open source products and I try to use them in my environment when ever I can. But his statement that "we'd all be running Windows Vista" if it weren't for RMS is hyperbole.

There is a very distinct reason why MS has not forced the end of life on XP and continuously pushed the date back. It's because they know that there are now alternatives which, if they force the issue, their customers might consider. Were not it for Free software which both gave a free alternative and a better cost option and also invigorated Apple, they would have simply used their monopoly to force everyone to switch. EDIT: Microsoft has never had superior products so don't delude yourself by thinking that quality is a stopping point for them. They've managed to overcome all the big players with medium quality products in the past leaving the tech experts scratching their heads.

You've completely misinterpreted everything I've said, but that's OK. My vague, half criticisms of Torchwood will never stand against your steadfast, misguided assumptions of what I'm *actually* talking about because obviously your *opinion* is more correct than my own. You just need to calm down, little buddy, no one cares about this more than you.

Thank you for the clear and concise explanation of the reason why "they should keep the sex and lose the drama" is your carefully reasoned and logical criticism. I apologize for my failure to realize that you truely had valid reasons to criticize such a terrible show. As I am truly your little buddy, I feel utterly terrible for not being as calm as you are.

Holy Crap this guy is like Hume only 1000 years earlier. The argument about miracles is almost exactly like Hume.

This is in the age that the Arabs basically kept civilization and maths, astronomy and medicine running while Europe went completely feral.

In her sister?

In her uncle?

A battery must look like a solid block on an x-ray. So how do they know it's a battery and not a block of C-4? They make us take our shoes off... BTW, let's not think about ceramic knives, okay?

How about sharpening 13" alu-macbook battery-lid?

Once they turn into Ayn Rand Assholes, they are gone forever. My condolences.

The technical term is randroids. I may have enjoyed her literature but a lot of her theories were just plain flawed.

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http://www.sadtrombone.com/

That's pretty sad, but nothing compared to [Nana's Everyday Life](http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php), which is (possibly objectively) the saddest comic ever (once you get past some of the earlier weirdness and into the latter 2/3 of the comic). (Warning, NSFW)

Nana-san! <3 It's from the manga/anime Elfen Lied. Do look it up- it deals with some of the darkest themes imaginable. Have yet to read the manga, seen the anime and makes anyone with a heart cry.

http://imgur.com/A3UHO.jpg This may be addictive. I'm a bit of an exhibitionist I guess! (thank you for the compliment)

I love your curves. The dimple between the crotch and hip is my favorite part. (the panties are covering them in the picture above, but it is still amazing)

Dude, nothing wrong with being stingy. You can pick up a PS2 for $100 or less and it's got the biggest library of games of any console still on the market - with many of the best in bargain bins for $5! It's easily the best value out there if you don't care about being on the cutting edge. Hell, my wife and I didn't bother picking up a PS2 until, oh, about two years ago.

I still never owned a PS2, but I am seriously considering picking one up sometime in the next few months for those reasons exactly.

What does this have to do with britain, english, or the police?

What does your comment has to do with choosing toes?

Your points are valid, but I disagree somewhat. Look at what has happened with the whole patriotism movement following 911. People were fired from their jobs for suggesting we not invade Afghanistan, wearing a flag pin was as required apparel as shoes, anyone who suggested anything out of line with the powers-that-be as un-American, Freedom Fries, the whole concept of being soft on terrorism, the list goes on an on. There were plenty of anarchists, socialists and other anti-fascists in Italy and Spain during the 1930s, though unlike us they dared not voice their opposition openly. Also unlike us they tended to make their voices heard with violence and terror. But I see that less as a fundamental difference in nature and more a difference in time. Give it another 10 years - God help us. My main hope for the resistance of fascism is the ingrained American quality of liberty. That is our only tonic against both the fascist and police state threat.

Sure, and that lasted for what, a couple years? Look around now. Bumper stickers which say "no more war on Iraq," "end(this)(less) war," "BU** SH**" etc. far outnumber yellow magnetic ribbons (at lest where I live). America may go through phases of patriotic or nationalistic fervor, but they are fleeting at best and certainly not fascism.

That was actually "Welcome Home" and I don't say that as some Guitar Hero fanboy, C&C are one of my all time favorite bands

is being a c&c fan better than playing guitar hero?

My favorite part of that was the mid-90s joke.

the one i heard had "cindy you have sinned" as the punchline

No, no, the picture on the right! **She's wearing $30 million worth of diamonds.** *What would you do with her and the $30 million she's wearing?*

How about linking [here](http://utubelaughter.blogspot.com/2007/06/worlds-most-expensive-bikini.html), then? Way to go. But since I assume Molly Sims wouldn't be up for woman-on-woman play in my bathtub, I'd probably just invite her out to my kitchen for coffee, then give her some clothes and a map of the city and advise her to get on her way. Never hurts to ask, though.

Why do people hate me so?

[Here is a mirror.](http://www.ashleysbathrooms.com/images/rosco/large/cassio50blue.jpg "This has never been so appropriate.")

I like saying quark. Quark quark quark.

Don't bork or I'll kick your dork.

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OK, this is a complicated situation, and you need some support. You don't say anything about the girl. How serious is your relationship with her? What sort of support will her family be? I don't just mean financially, btw. You sound like you could cope - untold thousands of people do - 20 is young but not uncommon. You would need a secure job, for sure, if you possibly can. The actual "being a father" bit - well of course you can, and you will love your child. But can you see a long-term future with your girlfiend? I don't have to elaborate on the complications that arise if that falls apart in future. There are often family/relationship counselling services that can help you to think this through. I think you should shop around for one that you can talk to about the whole thing. They will have dealt with this scenario many times. It can work - friends of mine had a baby at 19, followed by the next only 18 months later. These days, Simon is regularly off on motorcycle road trips with his 2 sons and all their mates. They are more like good friends than father and sons. Even in his mid-30's, he had regained many of the freedoms that some of his mates were only just losing. Best wishes.

She will have some support from family in all ways, as will I, just maybe not from my parents. Our relationship is fairly serious, but we have no idea if we could make a marriage work and both be happy. Thanks a bunch for the input.

gleam - to briefly appear, a notion "A puzzling notion gleamed in his mind." I scanned the article and gleamed an idea, too disinterested to bother with thoughtful analysis. glean - gather "After the harvest, the children gleaned the field of all that remained." The grammar student trolled the comments, gleaning apparent errors with glee. ;)

Technically that would be a usage error. And a usage student might also point out that the primary definition of "disinterested" is "unbiased."

and this is why we're fat. on a separate note, i'll be there!

I just realized there's not a Denny's where I live. (Moved here six months ago.) Nooo!!!

Why couldn't he make his donation with his turban? That's stupid. If this is the United States, you should be able to wear whatever the fuck you want.

I think he was in a building where the dress code required that people remove their headgear. Maybe they thought he was a terrorist with a bomb strapped to his head.

This is strong evidence that the farmer is actually the reddit alien.

*Wink wink*

Why would it be too late?

They would have you in their subscription-based grasp.

I wonder what they are referring to...

The pickle

getting laid IN THAT APARTMENT...

I have heard kinky things about female Klingon cosplayers...

So all the billions of believers and the church has been just ignoring this 'inescapable conclusion' for the past two thousand years collectively? Honestly, if it were that easy to prove the *entire Christian faith* vacuous- by assessing it's dogma critically and all the sudden coming to this 'inescapable conclusion' you speak of- then how would there even be any Christians left? I mean, I understand some cultists hanging on for whatever reason, but really? All these people, then, and now? All those years? A two *thousand* year farce would be pretty impressive, I think, maybe more impressive than your trolling.

Look how long the Jews have been deluded about Yahweh. Or the Hindus about the Sanātana Dharma. Christians had it easy the moment the Romans made it the only legal religion of the state. Of course Western Civilization was going to be influenced. Open a history book. "Troll".

Indeed, the e-mail response even explicitly says that the disabled account can still be used to authorize playback of the tracks.

All the deal situation out comments on the _other_ site point that out. I guess show that says a lot about how many redditors read articles.

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