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There were some words in his post, but not a lot of ideas. Nothing he said really highlighted why the Republicans are a better fit for him than the Democrats. Everyone wants their child to have access to the best schools and safe neigherhoods. (It seems to me that the Republicans truly believe that any enterprise funded with tax dollars must be inefficient.) And aside from giving himself a label that sounds ridiculous, what was his point? That there are some black people that will vote for McCain? We knew that. Just like we knew all women weren't going to vote for Hillary just because she's a woman. I don't know. Perhaps someone could explain it to me?

Let me try: the Republican Party is grasping at straws to avoid irrelevance, so they're planting ideas in non-traditionally Republican communities that the Grand Ol' Party might be right for them.

Unless that guy was trying to kill me, and you never know with a mugger do you? The minute someone threatens me with a weapon then all bets are off.

There seem to be a decent number of people who were mugged and are still alive. I see it as a little paranoid to assume that someone will actually kill you after he gets your money. Guns as a deterrent makes a certain amount of sense, but then that's an argument for mandatory carry rather than wide availability.

\*shrug\* - Google's probably hired or funding some of the best. And capital is not a problem for them.

Solar thermal has been funded and experimented with for over 30 years, and it has yet to see enough improvement to make it viable. The largest solar thermal in the world is SEGS, and they've had the benefit of labs like Sandia doing research into its optimization. How do you top having leading research facilities backed by the deep pockets of large countries doing research for you? Google covered it's facilities in San Francisco with solar PV, but I'll bet you it was heavily subsidized by local utilities, the state, and the fed. It's a tax write off. My local Costco was the first of several to have it's entire roof covered with solar panels. It's a tax write off, it's good for their image, and they don't have to pay for the full cost of it. I'm not merely trying to be a negative Nellie, I'm concerned about the waste of resources on impractical green technologies at the expense of much more viable and practical solutions.

Really? What did you win? I didn't know this was a contest to win stuff, otherwise I would've tried harder.

I won the argument. I am right and you are wrong. I win smugness and the right to feel smarter than you. Boy does it feel good!

Excalibur.

Excelsior.

I have a hard time understanding how this is a win. All it means is that if Carriers cannot filter by protocol then the only thing left is usage based pricing to keep large non buisiness users from choking their networks. All this means is that carriers are now more prone than ever to make it very expensive to do any kind of large scale downloading and uploading.

Do you actually believe that 'the tubes are clogged?' My understanding is that a certain proportion of network capacity is dedicated to critical services. The remaining proportion is used for things like torrents. Increases in this type of usage would not have an effect on other protocols. And if there is such a high demand for increased capacity and speed... why are the suppliers capping supply, instead of increasing it? Because if they pretend that bandwidth is a limited resource, they can charge whatever the hell they want for it. Just like with diamonds. Limit supply to drive up costs.

I wonder what they are referring to...

The pickle

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.

I'm pretty sure this was "favorite barbecue joint", not "best". I've had better barbecue in other places, but Fette Sau is damn good, gets all their meat from small farms, smokes it a long time, and has won several awards. Don't jump to conclusions...

Yeah yeah, I was just being snarky, in the style of barbeque enthusisasts... I'm sure they're fine. I moved from the southeast to the Pacific Northwest. These heathens have NO idea what barbeque is. Every time I talk about wanting barbeque they tell me Home Depot has good prices on them. o_O

You have to be kidding. Eckhardt was terrible.

I'm not knocking your opinion (as I can see how arrived at it frankly), but there is a sense that "The Dark Knight" is actually about Dent the man-- it could have played entirely from his perspective, and Eckhardt carries the "average citizen DA" role effectively-- he *is* bland until he transforms. He is a blank slate (everyone else is not; not Rachel, not Gordon, everyone is / was transformed, even the people on the boats!) With his performance, you can see that the actor is gone, and *a guy* remains, then goes crazy. The only actor I saw acting (kind of substandardly) was Bale. Yada yada, sorry, getting that off my chest. Just sharing.

i guess no one else has the balls to say it: this seems like a thinly-veiled attempt to get people on the internet to get you a new camera. let the downvotes begin.

I actually guessed somebody would say this. And I really don't want somebody to get me a new camera because: a) how it would work with me staying anonymous? b) It would feel as if I were being paid for doing this, which is absoloutely beyond the point. c) I'm not that manipulative, if I say goodbye, I mean goodbye. d) Have you seen anybody actually seriously offer me a camera, and me seriously accept? You clearly have great faith in people. But maybe there were some people who believed this. So , thanks for allowing me to explain myself.

This is absolutely appalling, and there are various instances of this occurring, _none of which are being reported on_. Dealers being closed down by the government with no compensation for their inventory, or in the worst instances, dealerships being confiscated and given to someone else, it is suspected, due to political support. As far as I'm concerned if this happens to one business owner, that should be enough to spark national outcry. It is getting airtime on conservative radio talk shows (not sure if on TV since I get my fill of politics from the radio). The government is so fucking inefficient and bloated, I can't imagine why so many of my countrymen have been brainwashed into thinking that the solution to all of our problems is its expansion. Has anyone been to the social security office lately? Medicare is bankrupt, social security is bankrupt, what makes _anyone_ possibly believe that the entity which for decades now has been doing it wrong consistently will finally get it right? Alas, I preach to the choir.

That the major corps are failing too doesn't exactly help the Libertarians prove their point either.

Bit of Trivia: with Leach being fired, that means that this season, we have lost 1/2 of all the division 1-A coaches that never played college football (Leach, Mangino, Weis). (The other three are Johnson from GT, Cutcliffe from Duke, and O'Leary from UCF)

You forgot Chip Kelly at Oregon. Unless I am mistaken Kelly didn't play college ball either.

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the woosher has been wooshed... it's vizio

Very cool. This is how I've thought of it for a while. Our brains are mostly just antlers. How cool is that?

This is the kind of stuff that really makes me take a mental step back and consider society from a more neutral perspective. gst: this is absolutely great stuff, thanks for posting it.

It really was. The NHL, as well as the fans, has to be licking their chops at the thought of these two teams meeting almost every year in the playoffs.

It is the NHL's fault. They signed contracts with Versus and the NHL network. No one gets these channels, and even if they do, they don't know that the games are on. The NHL needs to get on ESPN or ABC for the playoffs.

Here are some of my favorites: **PC** - Septerra Core - Fallout 1 & 2 - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion **SNES** - Shadowrun - Illusion of Gaia - Secret of Evermore - Chrono Trigger - Secret of Mana - Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - Final Fantasy VI (released in the U.S. as III) I tend to prefer the classics. In an era of gaming when most 16-bit games were only a handful of stages long, it was nice to have long RPGs with content that could really be stretched out.

Oddly enough... I'm such an RPG freak that I have not only played ALL of those, but I still have copies of them! (Some original some emulated.) Have you played the older Shining Force (1 & 2) games?

Feeding wild animals, and letting them know that its okay to eat domestic farm animals. Not exactly the sharpest sword in the cadaver, are you?

Hey when I see a pack of 10lbs coyotes taking down a 200lbs calf, then I'd worry about that problem, till then...

It's a corded hammer drill with a 9/16"'s metal drill bit.

I disagree. That's clearly a half inch bit.

It keeps growing...

That's what she said... (sorry)

more accurately, a sad name for a realtor

Actually, a sadsad name for a realtor.

I'm confused, are you arguing that sensible businesses *don't* create [artificial scarcity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity) by competitively pricing their products? Because then I would direct *you* to the nearest community college. Do you even understand what the term means?

pricing drives prices *down*. Goodnight.

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It's *so*, like *sew*, "a needle pulling thread".

Nope, it's usually spelled sol, even though it's pronounced so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfege

Drilling may not be enough. But that doesn't mean we ought not to drill. If enough affordable alternatives don't spring up then the lack of oil will be even worse and we'll wish we hadn't listened to those who said things like "*we can't drill our way out of* this".

We CANT drill our way out of this. Even if we drilled everything we could, the US only has 2-3% of the world's total oil supply. (oil shale not counted as "oil") I'm not against drilling, but we need a better plan than just to drill.

I see what you did there.

At least someone's paying attention.

Why don't the estate just offer the guy enough money for him to part with the domain? I would like to know how many cybersquatters made how much from this a few years back.

Because that creates an incentive for registering domain names you think a company would buy. I'm not sure but I think that used to happen a lot years ago and an end was put to it?

Serious question time, the frog story reminds me of something for any redditors with an expertise in this sort of thing. I think I was about 8 or so when a group of boys, including myself, chucked about a dozen toads against the wall of a library, but mostly each other. We kind of played a game called "butts up" (interestingly, after commenting I notice butts up has a [wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Up) ) with frogs, because losing meant sliming the guy with frog guts. I remember distinctly thinking throwing frogs at other kids was hilarious, and it was a lighthearted game oddly enough, looking back with an adults perspective. I can see the stupidity and possible connotations of crazy looking back, but as a kid it didn't seem that way. I don't want to do the am I a sicko discussion, because that isn't what I am curious about. I'm extremely confident I am about as "normal" as anyone else. I have no sick thoughts or whatever. What I am wondering is how can an incident so disgusting be done by kids completely normal? Another guy that I still talk to who lived by me is now just a normal guy who builds pools and coaches his kid's footballs games. I have to assume from knowing him and the fact there hasn't been any crazy types of killings or serial rapes or anything here, ever, that I can remember means the guy is pretty normal too. So what I wonder is how were we there at seven to nine or so and laughing it up when one of us got "pegged" with a toad?

Are you a vegan?

No, they use z-buffering. (Well, it's actually a lot more sphisticated, but that's the core difference). Take all the polygons, and draw them on the screen, starting from the ones at the back. Then, at the end, you have your rendered screen. Some obvious additional parts: Skip drawing concleaed polygons ('backface culling'), change the brightness depending on the light at the point where the polygon is, and drawing images rather than solid colours (texturing). The rest is just details. Where by 'just' I mean the past 10 -20 years worth of innovation...

No they use rasterization. You can't compare ray tracing with z-buffering. Z-buffering is just to make sure that the right pixel gets drawn when the buffers flip. Backface culling isn't about not drawing polygons that you can't see. You can cull a polygon which is within the frustrum and not concealed. It's just about culling polygons that aren't facing the camera. Raytracing is about following the light from the light source and drawing pixels as the light ray travels and scatters across surfaces. Rasterization is about for each pixel on a polygon calculating the light that interacts with that pixel and generally use simplified models to calculate the light that would directly hit that pixel. That's why stuff like reflection and shadows are "free" with ray tracing. *edit* Poromenos is also somewhat correct. Plenty of games do ray tracing already but mostly for things like collision detection.

Can you prove it?

He's proven it already by being [Michael Ian Black.](http://www.reddit.com/r/humor/comments/7kdvq/hey_facebook_what_the_fuck/mng)

Yes! I only found out about a month ago that not only could you blow away stickies, you could blow bombs back towards the enemy and they become your own bombs!

If a Medic Kritz's you as a Pyro, any projectiles you reflect become crits, too.

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It is genuinely sad that people cite wikipedia and yahoo answers rather than original source material.

Christ, it looks like a fat guy. Can't they feed it something to increase the structural integrity? Then maybe use that on fat guys.

Pumpkin + rebar = unstoppable force

Big Fucking Deal. Most of those links go to non-existent sites.

You're in the UK aren't you? 'non-existant' is how the IWF blocks sites that are on it's censored list.

You know, if he brought back Pizza Girl he might feel better.

Sheldon?

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That is not counting all the Katrina homeless families, all prior years of homeless children and victims of disasters in the past five years, which can be counted as over 13.5 million homeless children in the entire U.S.. That is along with the fifteen million unemployed. Close the thirty million people can actually be ready to haul off and hunt down every last living member of the Bush administration and appointees. That makes for one huge ass angry mob and I'm telling them where to hunt down those pieces of garbage. Let's plow 'em into the earth.

So... if there are 74 million [children in the US](http://www.childstats.gov/AMERICASCHILDREN/press_release.asp), you're saying that nearly 1 out of every 5 children in the country is *homeless*? Think about that for a second - it's ridiculous. It's either using a very loose definition of "homeless," or more likely it's just flat-out bullshit. No doubt the government has failed plenty (or most) of the population, but it doesn't help the case to make nonsensical claims.

Does anyone have the time to list the answers. I got 71 right but would love to know the answers to the rest of them. I'm too cheap to pay for it though

I'm not sure how this formatting will come out: 1 jurassic park 2 vertigo 3 cloverfield 4 silence of the lambs 5 metropolis 6 30 days of night 7 valkyrie 8 american history x 9 walle 10 alien vs predator 11 open water 12 evolution 13 rosemary's baby 14 stepford wives 15 the howling 16 death proof 17 the fly 18 who framed roger rabbit 19 tootsie 20 little miss sunshine 21 king kong 22 fear and loathing in las vegas 23 walk the line 24 shaun of the dead 25 daywatch 26 ghost ship 27 lost in translation 28 escape from new york 29 alien 30 a clockwork orange 31 casablanca 32 The Phantom Menace 33 lolita 34 mad max beyond thunderdome 35 the people vs larry flynt 36 quantum of solace 37 man on wire 38 punisher: war zone 39 office space 40 titanic 41 the devil wears prada 42 waterworld 43 dead snow 44 blue crush 45 ice age 46 borat 47 american beauty 48 fargo 49 the birds 50 blood diamond 51 kill bill 52 THX1138 53 forrest gump 54 dirty harry 55 chinatown 56 showgirls 57 the matrix 58 the exorcist 59 saving private ryan 60 finding nemo 61 monsters inc 62 cars 63 city of god 64 home alone 65 close encounters of the third kind 66 hard candy 67 the rocketeer 68 unforgiven 69 dr strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb 70 300 71 the dark knight 72 breakfast at tiffany's 73 secretary 74 sunshine 75 ichi the killer 76 iron man 77 transformers 78 v for vendetta 79 the eye 80 star trek 81 the aristocrats 82 hercules in new york 83 untraceable 84 the descent 85 sin city 86 s1m0ne 87 almost famous 88 diamonds are forever 89 attack of the 50 foot woman 90 the graduate 91 dracula has risen from the grave 92 harold and kumar escape from guantanamo bay 93 anacondas the hunt for the blood orchid 94 the godfather 95 the empire strikes back 96 the day after tomorrow 97 chicken run 98 final destination 99 pearl harbor 100 bullitt 101 fast and furious

What's up with V? They shoulda gone with [this](http://www.onision.com/photos/commercial/v-for-vendetta/v-for-vendetta-movie-x1.jpg) And N is a copout, though I can't think of anything, even though I've said "n" a buncha of times trying to.

Why not [[v]](http://www.v.co.nz/assets/img/contentImages/v2.jpg)?

Siemens Washing machine, from 4500. I think?

so all this elaborate expensive production just for a washing machine sale?

I wouldn't want to be in a high noon situation with you guys... I didn't get beyond Bobbing bobcat. *sigh* Sign of age?

energy drink and sound put me to rocketing effectual rabbit (I drank the energy drink pose earlier to play counterstrike, rocket although that's still pretty lame)

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Exactly... and don't you think that the administration has bigger problems than growing a fucking vegetable garden?

so much for national security, the economy, etc

I keep my records on a shelf near the turntable, alphabetized by band name, then by date released.

I find it very difficult to my records They've just morphed into, I listen "Things listen to rarely."

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Saying "Conservative Wunderkind" is a bit like saying "Dog Genius."

"military intelligence"

Yes it's quite intelligent to pour billions into dying industries that produce products no one wants to buy. (lol, exaggeration, I know, but when prices are low, firms should scale back/go out of business; will should these billions go to pay assembly line workers to do nothing, to build stock that won't sell? IOW how will the money be spent?)

Ok, so here's how it would go if you were leading the country: 1.Industry is working well. Makes the country richer. 2.Oh noes! Rough economic times! Industry receives no help! Thousand of jobs lost! Productivity down! Bankruptcies! 3.Whew! Rough economic times over! Let's spend a few billions to rebuild our completely screwed up manufacturing sector... Or let's not, and enjoy our miserable economic power. The moral of the story is that it's much easier to prevent the manufacturing sector form dying than it is to rebuild it after the fact (which we will have to do, unless we aren't fans of prosperity).

Holy shit, that is probably among the most terrible movie lineups I've ever seen.

Airplane's are always a good excuse for watching bad movies. You can claim you've seen a movie, then quickly follow up with "I saw it on a plane" and all is forgiven. The choices they gave me on this flight were slim, all the decent movies I already saw.

It's hearing stories like this that make me hesitant to help people... ...that and I'm kinda lazy...

Helping people is a good and necessary thing, but stay away from cops if at all possible!

I've only got two semesters left of school and I think this will be my "niche" for the next couple of years. I was just wondering what some of the skills were? What skills are most helpful on the job? What companies hire Linux admins fresh out of college?

Some tips: 1) UNIX != linux. As mentioned, most *nixes are broadly similar but if you're used to bash on linux with vim you're going to be sorely confused when you end up on ksh on aix with vi and you can't find top or sudo or bsd ps. Or the first time you type killall on solaris. It's not easy to get real experience with the other unixes but if you can find an internship or a very low grunt job for a bit it would help. Solaris at least is free now. 2) Know how to get onto a box you've never seen before and determine what it's doing. Where are logs? How do you find new logs? What's NFS doing (yes people do use NFS in reality)? Why is the load so high? Get in the habit of df and ps auxwww to see what's up. 3) Know enough perl and awk/sed to munge arbitrary plaintext into something useful.

Absolute best: hearing Shostakovich played by the philharmonic in DC. It's easy to forget that classical music is still far more badass than most pop music. The solo violinist was insane. Worst: probably seeing some wasted band during Bamboozle NJ. Streetlight Manifesto was the only decent band there.

Are you referring to [this one](http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=NICSO)? If so, I'm happy to say I was there and it was indeed incredible. I'd never even heard of Shostakovich had no expectations. 30 seconds into the first piece I was literally weeping. The only other time I've ever experienced anything similar was seeing Neil Young solo in Vegas in '97. We drove 500 miles to get there and it was a small venue (Hard Rock Hotel), very intimate. He started out with "Tell Me Why" and it just washed over me like a wave. I've seen a lot of great shows, but those two are in a special category.

I've found recently many anti-libertarian arguments are founded on a class-war agenda. How do you convince someone wealth redistribution as a general idea hurts those it's intended to help? That belief requires both an in depth conversation and an open mind most people lack.

It may be true that a society which redistributes wealth will have lower GDP growth over time than a society which does not. I'm 100% convinced that this is true, yet I still support a guaranteed minimum income for my country. How do I reconcile this apparent contradiction? Because my values differ from yours. I value social cohesion and equality of opportunity more than I value liberty, although I value liberty a whole lot.

Not willing? You are just scared There's no way you can do it

More people get away with bank robbery than you think. It's usually just done with a note though. I'm sure there's a lot of armored trucks that get robbed. I know for a fact, that they have to worry about armored carrier *employees* getting cute.

for tl;dr, scroll down. So, here I am. It is Thursday, at 2:10pm, and I am sitting in a linux lab / computer room in the basement of my engineering faculty. I am a 1.5 year engineering student, trying to get into software, but hit a couple bumps in the road along the way, hence the point five. **My internet addiction has recently gotten a hold of me, and I am looking for a solution**. Hopefully there is somebody out there who can help. I am 19 years old. I was a digg user for 3.5 years (sounds like a drug now that I type it out, but really, it was). Shit hit the fan, so I left, and have now been on reddit for 2 months. A year or two into my digging, I noticed my addiction, and saw that whereas before, I could go far into upcoming, because I got bored after reading the entire front page for the day (yes, I didn't miss a single front page story for 3.5 years). After about 2 years, I had to stick to just the front page, and as of a couple months ago, I'm not even sure if I would have the time for even that. Why am I bringing this up? To relate it to **my reddit experience. F5 F5 F5...** but little new content. I love reddit, and I actually love that there isn't as much content, but what I'm saying is that my wasted time viewing reddit isn't even productive, *because* there is no new content. I guess that was my rant. Not all that relevant, I'm just procrastinating at this point. But that is what this is all about. My brain has been turned into ADHD mush, and my level of procrastination has been increasing faster and faster. It's not even about the election. I'm in Canada, and although I do semi-closely follow the day-to-day happenings of the election, it isn't the reason why I've been skipping school this past week. It's my mind. Mush, I said. **I would LOVE to be able to just unplug a network cable**, and go into withdrawal, then get over it at some point. I'd also semi-enjoy going to the disability resource center on campus and say that I have an internet addiction. **But there is one problem**. I need the internet for small crucial tasks. Email. Blackboard (university course postings. Assignments and such). Facebook (I get quite a lot of attention on there, and is also a large part of my addiction). Reddit, I could technically do without. Not the rest. I actually do use facebook to stay in contact with engineering students from across the country, for 'business' purposes. So, what am I looking for? I think I would most benefit from a firefox extension that blacklists everything (and has some sort of emergency access, with password, or something), and only whitelists specific sites during a specific time of the day/week. That way, my 'internet time' would be something that I schedule on my 'IRL schedule'. Why am I asking here? Because I have so many assignments to catch up on (and sleep!), that I don't have time to search around for specifics. Also, there are plenty of people here, I'm sure, that have knowledge and/or experience in this area. I am a **windows** user at home, but use **linux** (Scientific Linux distro, I believe) in the lab at school, so best solution would probably be an FF extension compatible with 3.0.2 (also, I'm the firefox campus rep **;)** ). Note that the OSX comment from [*stoichromance*](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7adga/askreddit_internet_addict_in_desperate_need_of/c063rvh) was before I posted this comment. I am serious, and this is not a joke. If I don't get this solution within about a week and a half, I will 55% chance have to drop out of engineering... and with my level of involvement, and passion, that is just not an option. I *could* try to just do it all mentally (45% omitted above), but I have done that in the past, and here I am asking for help, so it isn't the best solution. If you know of FF extensions with similar capabilities, **PLEASE** let me know. If somebody considers making one themselves, I am sorry, but I don't have a credit card, and am also broke, so I don't have the ability to pay you. It should be quite easy to implement, by the sounds of it. ***TL;DR***, looking for firefox extension that whitelists specific sites on specific time(s) of day/week.

Sorry if you've heard it a million times before. I'm speaking as a 21 year old who has been going to a community college for several years and, although I may not be able to give the best advice in the world, I think I can help show you an alternate view on what you're going through: First off, **if you are on the verge of failing out of a major that you are showing little interest in, perhaps you should really sit down for a while and think over why you are doing so poorly in that major**. You are in college to become prepared for a specific field of work. **If you spend all of your time slacking off to avoid that field, I think it's a definite warning sign that you probably wont be happy with any job you get after you graduate.** At 19, it should **not** be shocking if you do not have any idea of what you want to do with your life. I, myself have tried out the following majors: Music Recording, Humanities (Music preformance related), and (currently) Game Development. I am **still** not completely sure if this is what I want, but I'm having fun with it, and although I don't spend every moment of my day devoted to it (you can probably tell by this post), I still manage to get the work done, and get alright grades. The whole reason why I am mentioning that I changed my major so often is because, when I was in those music related classes, **I often would find myself playing WoW, watching TV, etc, simply so I could avoid doing the work.** It took me a much longer time than it should have to realize that, **I was trying to blame entertainment for me failing in so many of my classes, rather than blame myself and find something that I was more interested in.** I'm certainly not trying to say that I don't believe that your addiction is real. I'm simply trying to say that I think that the thing that started your addiction may well be the only thing that is fueling this addictive behavior. I would highly suggest that you spend the time to shut off all outside distractions, sit down and think about this honestly with yourself. *If you get this degree, and you are around computers constantly in your dream job, will you be able to control your urges with your own will power, or do you think your preformance will suffer? Could you be fired for doing so poorly?* I think that when people try to **completely** shut out something that was controlling their lives in a negative way, **they usually end up substituting their desire in some other way**, usually which is equally as destructive. **I think that the best way to get your addiction under control isn't to completely remove the internet from your life, I think that the proper solution is to learn some fucking self control and turn off the computer if you aren't getting any work done.** Study for a subject that doesn't involve the computer, and if they all do that day, then go for a jog to clear your head and come back in an hour or so and see if you are interested in getting your work done. Hope some of this helps.

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

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

Actually, those 4 years have made a huge difference, as unit-body construction is now pretty much the standard even for large SUVs, and SUVs are now kicking ass in crash tests.

Even if they weren't, the list in the article is biased since it stacks the list by total deaths. People driving in an SUV are intuitively more likely to have passengers in the vehicle than those driving a truck, a sports car, etc.

Apparently some people think all Chinese people look alike. Even the guys have different facial hair. One of them has a little fuzz on his upper lip.

i was fooled once by some twins that weren't even identical. They had the same hairstyle and looked close enough. If you don't know that there are two of them, you fail to notice the subtle differences. Its kind of a big stretch to assume that it's some other person that looks just like the person you met at a club the week before.

I think what he is saying is will this create unnecessary restrictions on farms that is possibly underhandedly aimed at bankrupting farms or some other more devious tactic. For instance, the "reasonable" space restriction could therein cause smaller farms to lose a portion of their livestock because they could for example only have room for 50 cows under the new guidelines. If they have 200 cows currently and need 150 to be profitable, and if the guidelines are providing an unreasonable amount of space (more than any realistic person would say is necessary for a cow to have) then some fringe environmentalists/PETA members could be bankrupting farms this way. I of course am for animal rights, as long as I have the right to still eat meat :) [and as long as it doesn't cause unfair and unnecessary pain on American farmers] If the aim of this proposition, as well as the execution of it by 2015 really is to ensure that animals can turn around, then I would support it. However, if it can not be guaranteed that that the scope of the law would be limited in this fashion, it's right for some people to express animosity.

A fact rarely mentioned when this topic comes up is the fact that meat that has had some exercise actually tastes better.

Jesus christ how the fuck do these get to the front page every week? These are so fucking dumb

agreed. judging by the most comment the leading douchebag applaud you women blah because these guys and think period are edgy.

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That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. Philly is the 6th biggest city in the country, not a tiny city. In New York the wind goes between the buildings and causes wind. It's on AN OCEAN, not a river and you need to wait outside for cabs. In Philly you can drive EVERYWHERE if you want and you can easily find a cab or get to a train. Look ... you've made it clear that you're a new yorker and have already talked about how horrendous philly is for things that are worse (or at very least as bad) in new york. Philly is bigger than Bologna or Rome, yet Philly is tiny. Your entire argument is completely bias. I'm bias for philly, but I don't try to bring down your city because of it. you're a typical new yorker.

You're not understanding and I doubt you're capable. The only part of Philly that's inhabitable (for professionals) is only a 15 block radius. You walk everywhere. It's a small city. I had no need nor desire to go to the outskirts. I guess you live in South Philly or something so you wouldn't understand.

There's nothing comic about those strips.

Given the numbers and the hints from the text, I think these are snippets from a larger series. Edit: Google confirms. Part of a 12 panel strip. http://images.google.com/images?q=Gustave+Verbeek+-%22Tiny+Tads%22

Touche!. . . I do see the argument that most of these so called "preachy" atheists are making, and it does have some validity. I for one as a Christian refuse to say "Under God" when I say the pledge. . .While the majority of Christians feel that it is a good thing to have God everywhere, I would have to disagree. While the majority of Americans ARE in fact Christian. . .Our founding fathers designed our nation to be one of law, and freedom of as well as from religion, not of Christianity. While many will say we were founded as a Christian nation, there was no "In God We Trust" on currency until later in our history and "Under God" was not added to the pledge until the 1950's. So. . . while constant preaching and complaining can get a little old. . . they are fighting against a lot of theist intrusion into their lives, and for that I can understand their POV.

thank you... for being you

Well that video explains everything. *"Carolyn didn't realize excessive eating was putting her daughter's life dangerously at risk."* One look at Carolyn, and it becomes painfully obvious why.

The reporter did not even touch how she was eating too much for most of the report. It was all "her weight ballooned" and "her weight doubled", as though it happened all by itself. Look, she it seven years old FFS. She only gets to eat what she is given, surely...?

Not only that: people don't know why geeks go on about IE being bad. The average person (I'm going out on a limb here) doesn't even know what you're talking about when you say "browser". And yes, tech-savvy hipsters who give my poor old grandmother a hard time for using IE are massive wankers.

my grandmother uses IE7. yeah.

travelling - extended holiday for spoilt middle-class brats.

Umm, no. I traveled doing volunteer work overseas. Then later, I traveled as a tourist by not having to have a new car or a nice apartment. Travel was more important to me and that's what I saved my money for. When I did travel, I went with an 'adventure' company which basically meant you camp out instead of having room service. No one paid for me to travel and I never made much money. Now I'm disabled and I'm running multiple shops online to survive, but I hope to again travel. It's what keeps me sane.

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I read that same edition, with *On Civil Disobedience* at the end. Crappy turquoise cover. Really small type. That was a doozy, for sure. It's a very sublime work. I fell in love with that pond, through him. That's the power that it had.

Definitely. I really like that she showed the right size the garlic should be minced to. I wish more foodie sites were more like that.

Browse through some her recipes- she's pretty like the photography well- I have no idea how she has time to do all it, it very well. I think they've just up their ranch guests, so if ever to take a foodie in the I'm going.

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What a load of bullshit. Microsoft gets yelled at because it's the only one that has such a lengthy and sordid history of taking "openness" and perverting it, of deliberately violating open standards to lock people into their product, of corrupting the international standards process, etc. Most of the other companies are willing to play by the rules when they're working with open stuff (standards, code, etc.)

**JUST SO YOU KNOW, I'M AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY YELL-ER. I ALSO AM available AVAILABLE FOR HIRE.**

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More like a 6 of hearts.

Let your pancake batter rest 10 minutes after mixing it before you ladle it onto your griddle.

Couldn't disagree more. Under mix it, leave the lumps. Cook 'em right away so the baking powder doesn't run out of bubble-production power. They'll sit taller and be cakier. Unless you like them flat and lifeless, that is.

How did this shit get front page?

mine kekekeke Chimera

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I might have misunderstood IConrad's point. When I say 'computationalism,' I'm referring to the computational theory of mind, which asserts that the mind is best conceived as an information processing system and that thought is best understood as a form of computation. The theory emphasizes the *utility* and *accessibility* of the computational model. IConrad's distinction between 'binary computer' and 'adaptive neural network' seemed to imply that the same piece of hardware can't be analyzed as both. My point was just that 'binary computer' is a functional model of information-processing that isn't an inherent property of any particular variety of hardware.

I could have clearer, allow me to restate. You're absolutely right: you can apply computationalism to any information processing system. Unfortunately, you can't use information-processing theory to diagnose whether a problem is software or hardware. The hardware/software distinction only yields results when you're thinking about binary computers. That approach does not apply information processing theory in general, or in the particular case of the human brain.

Rand's logic is hard to argue with: "I am not called upon to disprove a negative" is an eloquent way to describe her belief. I admire how she states her belief without attacking the sensibilities of a mostly religious society. It is interesting how much the second interviewer reminds me of a talking head of today.

OTOH, "I have no proof that something exists, therefore I am certain that it DOENS'T exist" doesn't seem very reasonable, either. I don't want to get into the whole atheist/theist debate (since neither I, nor anyone else truly knows the answer), but I've always felt that the agnostic approach was perhaps the most sensible. And yes, yes, I know about the flying spagetti monster and invisible dragon arguments, but I'm talking about agknowledging the possibility from a deistic, even scientific perspective; as opposed to a religious one.

Can anyone explain the difference to me between J and a P? I've never known which one of these suits me better, and I always come out very close to the boundary.

- J tends to view things in Black or White/Right or Wrong/ True or False. - P tends to view things in greyscale. INFPs tend to view things in 32bit colour. I'm an INTJ, fwiw.

[Offence](http://philosophtly.blogspot.com/2008/11/offended-is-choice.html) is something that can only be taken, never given.

Really? [Then I give you this link.](http://www.reddit.com/r/hurts_my_eyes/)

Why does everybody hate the backburner so much? I can get a hell of a lot more kills sneaking up on people from behind than I can running at them W+M1 style, and if I'm sneaking up on them I don't have to worry about airblasting away rockets or nades

Most of the time it is because users of the Backburner don't try to flank or sneak up at all and only suicide W+M1 style. The air blast is also handy not just in deflecting projectiles, but for blasting away stickies, wasting enemy Ubers, and putting out teammates. Some would also argue you can take out enemies almost as quickly if you use the regular Flamethrower in combination with the Axtinguisher, but I've not gotten any good at it. In the end most people consider the pros of the air blast to outweigh the pros of the Backburner, especially considering the majority of the Backburner Pyros don't use it properly. I do admit if I can flank effectively I can take out an entire team quite quickly, but I stick to the Flamethrower.

But what is decay without time?

Entropy.

It would be healthier without the cake

Perhaps a congratulatory *salad* instead.

Somehow, I believe Childs's side of the story.

Me, too. And I believe Hans Reiser.

budum chsh.

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

Uhhhh, the Bears are not in the AFC there bub.

Where did I say that the Bears are in the AFC?

Any the naysayers said the F-22 would have a use. Idiots, we need this fighter, the F-15 even with updates is still based off a platform that's over 30 years old.

It'd be kind of cool if we had adversaries that we required such advanced aircraft to deal with.

One has to wonder, if that was his reasoning, would a legalized prostitution industry have averted the tragedy?

probably not, this guy was a fucking pussy, he wanted to kill himself but could not do it without first of all making sure that he had no option of turning back. he was probably just as scared of women hence his failure to form any sort of relationship, or even get laid, in almost 20 years. I hope the world remembers George Sodini, remembers him as a pussy, a fuck-up and all-round retard. The world is better for him being gone, the gene pool decidely better off, the only shame is he felt he had to take others with him.

I was just chatting online with my dad, who missed the first installment of Brian Williams' interview with McCain and Palin. I sent him the link so he could watch it online and this was his response: "No thanks, we have our fill of that crap and we do get really angry at it now. McCain out and out lies and presents falsehoods that a retard can spot and his idiot partner is an idiot and thinks we are if she expects us to vote for her." My dad is awesome.

Agreed, Obama/Biden are much smarter, and their falsehoods are a good deal much harder to spot!

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Do you own a DVD player?

That's quite a coincidence that you should be asking this question right now, because just *right this very hour* I have spent a lot of time googling, trying to see if anybody out there sells region-free DVD drives (for the computer; I don't have a TV and don't want one, so I don't need a standalone DVD player). DeCSS has taken care of the CSS shenanigans, and VLC for instance plays just about any DVD your player can read just fine, but much more worryingly, the region code system artificially cripples user choice, thwarts user rights, and interferes with the free market. The limitations during the VHS era were chiefly technological ones, and largely had to do with TV standards (PAL/SECAM/NTSC; no longer much of an issue with multiscan/combo-TVs, and not an issue on PCs). In the DVD era, the technological issues were largely resolved, *but then they went and artificially crippled the technology* with that region code crap. If you know where I can get region free DVD drives (must be able to read all DVD/CD formats, including double layer, but burning capabilities optional), give me a shout; I'd very much appreciate it. But to answer your question: The only DVD drive that I currently own is one I scored for free by saving it from the skip. Sadly, it appears to be damaged, or slightly out of calibration: It can read CDs just fine, but with some (not all, possibly just dual-layer) DVDs, it will not even recognize that there is a medium in the drive. That's why I'm in the market for a region-free DVD drive; yes, I know I can buy a shackled drive and flash it to freedom myself, but doing that would not include the voting with your wallet part, and I'd rather not buy a crippled product, if I can avoid it. All that said, IMHO DRM-laden *appliances* are still acceptable in a cinch. Not nice, but still acceptable. It's at the downgrading of the PC to an appliance (=compulsory and permanent inclusion of DRM into a PC) where I draw the line. The inclusion of DRM into appliances connectable or (semi-)permanently connected to a PC, and even into PC peripherals is also a grey area in my book; it's not nice, but not nearly as bad as the cardinal sin of making the PC no longer be a truly Turing-complete machine, but an appliance to the taste of remote entities who take a dim view of fair use rights. (Yes, I know this has become another wall of text just asking for a ["tl;dr"](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl%3Bdr), but [SCNR](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SCNR); the eradication of digital rights --does "rights management" sound right to you? You wouldn't accept your meatspace rights to be \*\*cough\*\* "managed" \*\*cough\*\*, so why accept in in the digital realm?-- again, the eradication of digital rights by technological counterrevolutionaries and [oligarchical](http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=oligarchical) [luddites](http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=luddite) are things that I have strong feelings about.)

Honestly, he lies all the time. It's a great way to exaggerate the potential downfalls of something. Although my eco-fetish side was *extremely* disappointed in how he handled the car, by the end i had to admit that he was quite fair in his review. It did look *awful* around the track. Also, by the end it was clear that, although it has its faults, he really enjoyed the car. EDIT: edited to ruin the relevance of the posts below.

It looked awfully around the

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This isn't Digg. Why does every XKCD reach the front page, no matter how bad it is?

This. Is. REDDIT! (That's why).

why would you do that?

Because anything interesting on CL tends to get "flagged for removal". If a copy is made here, then after removal, people can still read it.

Downvoted, just like everything else you post. Please give it a rest.

You smell.

How does one use a dick camera?

For the record, I didn't censor it, I just quoted it.

Shouldn't it be "X Girl**(s)** Y Cups" ?

What about "X Girl**(s)** Y Cup**(s)** ? No cup love?

So assume first it's a crack in a pipe - a flaw, and not an intake of somekind. Pipeline is carrying something, let's assume it's oil or something "bad". The people who designed the pipe would want it so that if the pipe broke for any reason, whatever was inside shouldn't spew out everywhere, creating an environmental catastrophe. So the pipe is "negative pressured" - it's lower pressure inside than the outside so if there was a break, water would get sucked IN rather than whatever is in the pipe spew OUT. It still can be at high pressure inside, but it is less than the pressure outside. This is the pressure differential. Another reason could be, water at that depth is at very high pressures. Some substances that are fine everyday at 1 atmosphere (room pressure) start acting funny if you put them under a bunch of pressure... some become harder to pump, like molasses ("higher viscosity"), or it could even turn into a solid! ([Pressure-Temperature-Specific Volume graph](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_diagram#3D_phase_diagrams)) It all depends on the specific material they are putting through the pipeline. Bottom line is, they have to keep the pressure inside the pipe at "some" sane level, not really really high like the sea floor. So now it's down to the issue of water seeping in - why it doesn't "equalize". If they indeed designed it as a negative-pressure pipeline, they would have massive pumping stations at regular intervals along the length of the pipe - on the sea floor - to allow it to go up the seabed to land: basically up the side of an underwater mountain. So even though water is leaking into the product in the pipeline, the pumps are designed to have a "factor of safety" of around 1.5 (minimum) - meaning for every 1 unit of product, if something went wrong, it would be able to pump 1.5 times as much to keep up and not have oil spill out (keep negative presure). Since this crack is tiny, I'm guessing it was more than able to prevent stuff from leaking out - but it "kept sucking" through the crack to make sure that didn't happen. One big thing to keep in mind is that this isn't like your household vacuum cleaner. That at MOST can pull 1 atmosphere of pressure. Air at room ambient level is only at 1 atm, and you cannot pull harder than 0 - that's it, a total vacuum. But on the sea floor, the ambient pressure is about 5000 psi / 210.5 atm (approximation). Meaning the largest pressure differential that could exist is 210.5 atmospheres, not just 1. So let's say that even if the pump started straining and the pressure started weakening, and the pressure differential was "only" 1000psi... a 1 cm^2 area crack would exert about 155 pounds of force! That crab didn't stand a chance. At least whoever got their oil got it Crab-Scented...

Thank you for your detailed answer and reminding me why I come to the Reddit comment section.

As a layman, I'd just like say "Huh?" I think all specialists should have a layman assigned to them to show them what it really means to not know what you guys are talking about. I understand the problem, as I've tried to describe very simple things, like using iTunes, or the internet to my mother, and realized just how much 'specialized' info I come with, pre-equipped, like which way to hold the mouse in the first place. I've also had programmers try to help me with some of my ideas, only to have them greatly overestimate everything from my programming knowledge, to my mathematical background, so I understand how difficult it is to know what someone doesn't know. What would really help would be a concrete, and most importantly, simple example, just to get the ball rolling, of what these neighboring elements could be, in what way they could connect, what the something (playing field) is, and what exactly a global flip, or phase transition might entail.

Here's an example that might not directly relate to the paper. Lets say all of the spins (little magnets) are pointed south, except for a few random ones pointed north. But lets say there's a really week northerly magnetic field. How many random ones need to be pointed north to get them to align with the field? It may depend on percolation. If enough random spins are pointing north so you can walk all the way across the field of south spins to get to the other side, then boom! All of the spins can start madly flipping until they're all happily pointed north. You can guess roughly how many you need pointing north for this transition to happen, but it's usually never exactly the same number of north spins before they can go through (hence percolate) the spin lattice.

::double facepalm::

What's so ::double facepalm:: about it? (You can see that I'm prepared to continue this *ad infinitum*.)

Bonus punchline: Mom: ...I did. Multiple times.

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[When deer fight back](http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/7804/When_Deer_Fight_Back/)

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"Do you use the words "racism" or "racist" in every sentence IRL?" Only when I am responding to racist comments. I call a spade a spade and I try not to ever let that shit slide. If you find racism and substance addiction funny you are a seriously fucked up person. I am well aware of the social problems up north and on reservations across the country, but I don't think that your sweeping negative generalizations of all non-whites are acceptable and should be left unchallenged. edit: lets make a deal. If you stop making racist comments, I will stop calling you a racist. Okay?

subreddits is a broken concept. There are so many that you can't even peruse them all to add some to your customization. there's no one page listing, no way to view them all without descriptions to reduce the page count and they're not even alphabetical. Someone needs to do some work.

subreddits should be tags.

I don't know how mean / warranted this is, but it looks like the little house on the prairie lady's face started growing forward and left her eyes behind

It's just a comment people, why downvote this? That said, there are two ladies from LHOTP there, I'm not sure which one you mean, because I don't really see what you mean.

S.906 : A bill to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, and export of elemental mercury, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 3/15/2007) Cosponsors (3) Committees: Senate Environment and Public Works Latest Major Action: 3/15/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. S.976 : A bill to secure the promise of personalized medicine for all Americans by expanding and accelerating genomics research and initiatives to improve the accuracy of disease diagnosis, increase the safety of drugs, and identify novel treatments. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 3/23/2007) Cosponsors (1) Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 3/23/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. S.1067 : A bill to require Federal agencies to support health impact assessments and take other actions to improve health and the environmental quality of communities, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 3/29/2007) Cosponsors (3) Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 3/29/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. S.1068 : A bill to promote healthy communities. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 3/29/2007) Cosponsors (2) Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 3/29/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. S.1084 : A bill to provide housing assistance for very low-income veterans. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 4/10/2007) Cosponsors (10) Committees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Latest Major Action: 4/10/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. S.1151 : A bill to provide incentives to the auto industry to accelerate efforts to develop more energy-efficient vehicles to lessen dependence on oil. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 4/18/2007) Cosponsors (None) Committees: Senate Finance Latest Major Action: 4/18/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. S.1181 : A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 4/20/2007) Cosponsors (6) Committees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Latest Major Action: 4/20/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. S.1222 : A bill to stop mortgage transactions which operate to promote fraud, risk, abuse, and under-development, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 4/25/2007) Cosponsors (1) Committees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Latest Major Action: 4/25/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

S.1271 : A bill to provide for a comprehensive national research effort on the physical and mental health and other readjustment needs of the members of the Armed Forces and veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and their families. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 5/2/2007) Cosponsors (4) Committees: Senate Armed Services Latest Major Action: 5/2/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. S.1306 : A bill to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to classify certain children's products containing lead to be banned hazardous substances. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 5/3/2007) Cosponsors (9) Committees: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Latest Major Action: 5/3/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. S.1324 : A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuel sold in the United States. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 5/7/2007) Cosponsors (2) Committees: Senate Environment and Public Works Latest Major Action: 5/7/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. S.1389 : A bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to establish a Climate Change Education Program. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 5/14/2007) Cosponsors (3) Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 5/14/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. S.1430 : A bill to authorize State and local governments to direct divestiture from, and prevent investment in, companies with investments of $20,000,000 or more in Iran's energy sector, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 5/17/2007) Cosponsors (26) Committees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Latest Major Action: 5/17/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. S.1513 : A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize grant programs to enhance the access of low-income African-American students to higher education. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 5/24/2007) Cosponsors (None) Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 5/24/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. S.1574 : A bill to establish Teaching Residency Programs for preparation and induction of teachers. Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 6/7/2007) Cosponsors (None) Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 6/7/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Reeeaaaalllllllly?

I'm negating the premise of an incredibly unfunny post. Leave me alone.

In America, we don't call a man who sleeps with a lot of women a slut. We call him lucky.

That's kinda my point. Semantics shouldn't apply to sex, Wolvie's a slut.

I don't recall meeting you and judging by your description, you obviously have the wrong person. Lazy people who choose to eat improperly are just as much a burden when hospitals are forced to treat them. Informed people who choose otherwise deserve all the consequences of their choices.

I don't recall meeting you and judging by your description, you obviously have the wrong person. Lazy people who choose to eat improperly are just as much a burden when hospitals are forced to treat them. Informed people who choose otherwise deserve all the consequences of their choices.

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