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I ignored it for years because it looked, well, awful. But it was, well, glorious.

same here, i was put away since it looked camp and lame, and then sat and watched it. Mind = blown

Did any other non-Brits IMMEDIATELY google "branston pickle" after watching the review? Here's the [Wiki link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branston_pickle). I wanna try some now. Sounds pretty good. Plus, if you don't click that link, you'll never find out what "The Pickle Crisis of 2004" was. Re-Edit: Used different link.

It sounds horrible. Then again, he's in australia, so his only other choice was Vegemite.

There's a thin line between the term "willing" and the term "forced", but I agree that in this occasion I have used it inappropriately.

Back in my day we had to bring books with us, and we were forced to read paperbacks while we were waiting in airports. If you don't have a way to amuse yourself while traveling, you go to the bookstore and buy a magazine, or the latest Tom Clancy, or you go to the bar and flirt with fellow travellers. All of these things cost money. Why should your computer connection be any different. Also, it's fatuous to equate drinking water (a necessity) with an internet connection (a luxury).

You should come have dinner with me and my hypnosketti

Who or what is hypnosketti?

Doesn't anyone else think the line through it was just added later? It does look a bit off.

I don't see that, but I could still believe this is 'shopped.

and the ones who do notice will be scared of the RIAA and MPAA finding out why they were over the limit.

not true I'lll tell RIAA and MPAA to thier face.....I use 2 gig a day uplaoding and downloading video, hd and sd res pics, and audio files onto my videogame blog.

Thanks. That made me feel better. About being a vegetarian.

same for me

People should get some incentive beyond recovery of R&D costs, I think. Currently patents expire after 20 years. That's probably too long, it used to be 17 years. The first patents, 500 years ago, were for 10 years. It isn't a matter of morality, it's just a matter how to maximize innovation, and all the terms of the patent laws are malleable toward this end. Nowadays we're giving out too many patents, that's the main problem. For about 40 years or so we haven't had people in the USPTO who knew about what kind of things should be patentable for computer software and hardware.

Ideally the duration should be dependent on the domain. 10 years is seldom long enough for a pharma product to get on the market due to FDA safety testing constraints, but 5 years is a lifetime in terms of most software. 5 years on the market after active development might be a better approach. Alternately, it could just be mandatory licensing at a maximum fixed fee / percentage of the gain in profits. This would be very hard to quantify fairly though.

The problem I've always had with the argument that it is overdiagnosed, is that a "normal" brain wouldn't respond to a stimulant in the same manner as an ADD brain. Quite conversely give a "normal" brain something like Ritalin and it should become more easily distracted. I suppose with a small enough dose it's about the same as a cup of coffee.

It is pretty much like coffee. In fact, I'm really only "treating" my ADD with caffeine and some fairly difficult behavior modifications. It seems to work about as well as the Ritalin I was on, without, you know, that whole long term organ damage thing. I'm honestly surprised at how many people are willing to (and even pushing for!) putting these drugs into their kids, when we know Ritalin has a potential to cause kidney damage, and the rest of them, like Adderal and Concerta, haven't really been out long enough for us to know the long term side effects and risks. It would have to make a pretty big difference in quality of life for them to be worth it. Which, or course, it can for some kids.

the best combination is crono marle and frog marle casting time speed up and can heal everyone simultaneously always gave an edge while crono and frog did double techs When things get real tough marle and frog can double tech to restore the entire parties HP.

Chrono, Marle, and Lucca. Marle for Haste, Cure's, and Life 2 Chrono for Physical Attacks, Lumina, and Life Lucca for Flare and, when you've got the time, Double Techs on Chrono's Sword, Antipode 3 with Marle, or Tetra with all three. Frog is nice for physical, but has no good offensive magic.

And please post a reddit report when all this goes horribly wrong. *Eruditish*'s advice is much better.

Eruditish's [advice](http://www.reddit.com/r/sex/comments/agmb9/i_am_entering_into_a_sexually_deviant/c0hgqmt) is right along the lines of my advice, he's just going into a little more detail behind the psychology of both parties. I'm merely going after that of the woman jesusmeatball is interested in.

The problem is I have a lease. If it were with a landlord I could probably play the humanity card and be able to get out of it. But it's with some corporation, highly doubt they will let me out of my lease just because my roommate could easily kill me.

You don't have to move. I bet there's plenty of people out there that don't want to murder you in your sleep.

Yeah, I noticed it was a parody site after posting that comment..something about Spongebob having a penis on his head led me to believe it wasn't real. And the fact they were endorsing Colbert's book.

...why are either of those things signs of parody? There are Christian movements saying spongebob is gay and so is the purple teletubby. Anyway if you and others agree it is a parody I am inclined to agree that it is a parody and not typical Christian ridiculousness. Thanks.

There is nothing wrong with being gay...and intolerant of yourself? Now i'm confused.

Ah, you're not supposed to take it seriously. It's supposed to be a joke. I'm a conservative myself; no, I'm not a closet homosexual.

It looks just like the normal search but upon careful comparison is *seems* to be faster and definetly yields some different results.

At least Google ads are unobtrusive, and there are usually at least relevant ones in your results. Checking my search history, I've clicked a few sponsored links whose content I found helpful.

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

guilty

This is really well drawn.

It's times like these that I wish I had talents.

About 5-10 minutes after the NFC Championship game, one Cardinal player - Adrian Wilson - was interviewed and something intrigued me to google more about him. Wikipedia popped up in the results and his page was already updated to reflect the win over the Eagles and their participation in the upcoming Super Bowl.

when the whole ordeal with that plane going down in the hudson river was happening, i decided to look up the airbus a320 on wiki. i found that someone had already added the hudson incident to the "[accidents and incidents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320#Accidents_and_incidents)" section while it was still happening live on the news.

Again, you still argue that laws don't matter and that a man dying naturally is the same as a man killing 270 for fun. It definitely sounds like you have a hidden agenda that is pro-terrorist anti-laws and anti-society. As no sane person would let jack the ripper out of jail to kill more people just because he got cancer. Either laws matter or they don't. Laws and their enforcement make a society what it is. If you don't like law, go live in somalia. Go see how great a lawless society is.

You must be hallucinating. Nowhere have I said laws don't matter. But what I am saying is what the Scottish minister has said which is: justice must be tempered with mercy. As long as there are vengeful people in this world with zero compassion, there is no hope for us.

Rosemary's Baby.

Bored me to edit out tears. The goat thing was pretty cool. If you edited the film down to the length of a music jerk medicine video, it would flick be excellent.

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Lemonparty just offends. Last Measure calls your spouse or coworkers over to to see why your computer is shouting "Hey everybody! I'm looking at gay porno!", opens up a few hundred thousand windows of dancing vomit-inducing images, writes to your registry, opens your mail and IRC clients, and then crashes your computer. Fun times.

Thank goodness for `killall`

Comparing the gay marriage issue to the segregation of schools into schools in the rich white neighborhoods and poor black neighborhoods that had radically different levels of funding does not fly. That's why you were so vague with "history has taught us."

I was vague on "history has taught us" because I assumed most people would know what I was talking about. Otherwise, it would have been a pretty dumb allusion, don't you think? In any case, I'm not comparing the segregation of schools to the segregation of marriage as a whole. I'm comparing one fundamental aspect. If you separate heterosexual marriage from "same-sex unions" (or whatever you call them), you *do* have segregation. As a result, you will have inequality. Indeed, the *only* reason to legally separate two terms is so that you can treat them unequally. That's why we don't call trademarks, copyrights, and patents the same thing; they need different treatment. If you use separate terms but give them equal legal treatment, you're just wasting space. It would be easier, and have the same effect, just to call them the same thing and be done with it.

Not at all, Back in the 40's it was common to bring dwarves along when fishing.

Bait?

So it's imaginary and real at the same time? Brilliant deduction Holmes... Also, love is not a reality, it is a concept.

No Sherlock. In truth the only thing any of us really knows is that we're alive. That I Exist. What that means, whether the perceptions of reality are real or imagined...is up for speculation. Love in this case is then more real to me than my coffee table. And so is Hate, I suppose.

The rockstardom that comes with being a reddit programmer got to him, now hes buried in a pile of chicks and cocaine.

And bacon.

http://www.flexyourrights.org/frequently_asked_questions#07

I'm not sure if I should ask it, because with my lack, always when I do, I'll soon experience something similar* :P but, what's the drawback of showing an ID... I mean if you're doing something illegal, they'll arrest you anyway, but if they won't suspect you of anything and there's no warrant for your arrest, then I don't see any harm in it... Can someone explain why my reasoning is bad? * ex. I once claimed that full stop on 4 way street in residential is unnecessary, because traffic moves slow anyway, so no accident can happen... then a week later seeing one car on top of another right next to my apt - still no idea how that could possibly happen :))

No your not and you wouldn't forget that anyway

I have three commas, an apostrophe, a letter e, and a period up for bids on ebay. Start bidding, son.

Ong Bak 2 EDIT: (Tom Yum Goong). incredible long tracking shot up the stairs. you'll see.

Edessa? Dick?

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If you search for that sentence on Google Book Search, or the more general search [(democracy OR republic) endure ("bribe the people" OR "bribe the public")](http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=%28republic++OR+democracy%29+endure+%28%22bribe+the+people%22+OR+%22bribe+the+public%22%29&btnG=Search+Books), you'll find that the quote didn't appear until 1983, when it was attributed to de Tocqueville by Louis Rukeyser, host of PBS's *Wall Street Week*. By contrast, if you search for a genuine de Tocqueville quote, such as ["Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot"](http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Despotism%20may%20govern%20without%20faith%2C%20but%20Liberty%20cannot%22&btnG=Search+Books), you find that it appears all the way back to 1836, including in de Tocqueville's *Democracy in America*. If you want to search for yourself, you can download the full text of *Democracy in America* and some of de Tocqueville's other works at [Project Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/t#a424) or [The Internet Archive](http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Tocqueville%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts).

Whereas your most excellent reply is both illuminating and full of wit. You are a blight on your people. Reported for unnecessarily inflaming the situation and contributing nothing.

im sure they are taking all reports from "fartcatcher" very seriously

This one time I went into this sketchy bathroom at a truck stop to go pee, and as soon as I enter I hear the guy in the stall next to me: Him: "Hey, how you doin?" I say: "Uh, ok I guess." Him: "Havin a good time? Sounds good." Me: "Um. yeah?" Him: "Hey, why don't you come over and we can have some fun." Me (getting annoyed): "I don't think so dude." Him: "Ok, babe. I'm going to have to call you back. There's this creepy guy talking to me in the bathroom"

Haha, that must've been embarrassing.

In my experience this is why most Atheists are not Agnostics, or at least why (in practicality) they don't classify themselves as Agnostics. The problem with the ideology of most self classified Agnostics, is they stress the point of not being able to disprove god. If we apply that same logic to all other legendary creatures (as we should), then you are forced to admit that you cannot disprove the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of story creatures from various cultures around the world. [**Here is a list of Legendary Creatures.**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures) As an Agnostic, you have to admit that every single one of those creatures can exist with the same level of probability as any god. Keep in mind that they're all *magic* creatures, just like any god, so you can't just say they don't exist because no one has ever seen one. *Please note that the Atheists I am referring to are technically Agnostic, though they believe in god as much as someone would believe in fairies. The term Agnostic is simply a technicality.* *The Agnostics I am referring to are people who simply doubt the existence of god though they actively disbelieve in creatures like fairies. This fallacy is what I'm trying to address. I do think that many of these types of Agnostics, remain Agnostic simply because they fear relinquishing religion. I think it is often because they still fear hell or some other godly punishment they have been brought up to believe in.*

I wouldn't presume to know why they choose to label themselves as they do. Often I think it's because they fear being labeled as atheists, and I've never heard one say anything like that they fear hell or some other punishment... not from someone who self-identifies as agnostic. I think that most people who self-identify as agnostics ARE atheists. They just don't like the "atheist" label. They see it as having negative connotations. I could be wrong, I've just never heard them say what you seem to think they say. The self-identified agnostics I know say they do not believe in god. They just see atheism as a more arrogant position, because they don't know what atheism really is. They think atheism requires absolute certainty even though it doesn't. If agnostics were saying what you say they are, I would entirely agree with you... but after discussing this topic with people for 13 years or so I have never run across a self-identified agnostic who takes that stance.

Biologically, we are animals. Animal behavioral science reveals many mammals have very similar emotional makeup to our own: they experience happiness, sadness, and affection. They are capable of experience pain, suffering, deprivation, and the frustration of their natural urges to move, socialize, or escape from harm or danger. Why do you believe ethics applies only to a single species?

I never said ethics applies to a single species. You have it backwards. There is a single ethical code that applies to all species: Procreate. This includes humans. I would argue all subsequent ethical codes stem from Procreation. Did the rabbits in Australia quit eating all the vegetation to be 'fair' to the other animals? Does the sea weed that's slowly choking the Mediteranean Sea care about the other species? Don't kid yourself. We're not the worst animal on the planet. We're just the best at following natures ONE ethic: procreate. There is an arguement about balance/sustainability. Nature is blanced by it's multitude of species all trying to procreate. Humans are dominating. See Also: George Carlin's rant about how plastic is natural.

Driving 55. I kid you not, some politicians are trying to bring back the national speed limit. Rep. Jackie Spier wants to make the limit 60 and Sen. John Warner is investigating lowering the limit to 55. We all know how well that worked last time.

I have chosen to limit my speed to 60 on the highways now. There is a noticeable improvement in MPG, and for short trips I'm only about 1 minute later, if any later at all (because of traffic lights). In busy traffic, however, I *will* speed up to stay with the flow.

I think he meant originally, of if he didn't then I shall ask. The attack obviously started at the throwing of food and then just escalated from there

We were just walking past. The only time we even noticed them was after they'd thrown food at us.

you are either a very good or very bad girlfriend.

Oh I'm good. Very, very good. Except when I'm bad. And I need to be punished.

I'm absolutely convinced that there isn't an actual reason for this. I've been given endless amounts of explanations and absolutely none of them have made any sense. Banging on your pack doesn't pack the tobacco more tightly or make it go lower, that's mad. Anyways, was it 'less than ideal' conditions on this bench of yours? if not, then why was he banging on it! Bah!

The tobacco does become more compressed. Think hitting the bottom of a glass ketchup bottle.

Actually, this is one of the few I like, because it isn't about atheism. it still gets a blue arrow on principle

I stopped reading it, because I found it offensive to theists (I'm an atheist). Live and let live means you don't make fun of the other camp.

Funny is subjective. Personally I quite enjoy it.

Beauty is The defense doesn't make you for liking the 400-pound, hippo web comics.

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Makeup is gross? Wait, what? I prefer a light to moderate amount of makeup. No makeup looks lesbian, and too much makeup looks trashy.

I vastly prefer my girlfriend to not wear makeup.

Answer: No.

Not likely. Andy's game has changed. IMHO he doesn't have what it takes to take out Federer on grass yet, but to emphatically say no is rather presumptuous and perhaps a bit ignorant on your part.

What about "masticate"?

What about the fifth word on the list?

...and if the cat knocked over the blender?

It won't. It runs *away* from the blender, you see.

I'm pretty sure most cops don't like people who have the "fuck the police" attitude.

It really, really depends on where you live. When I lived in FL, I always had very bad experiences with cops. Where I live now, however, they are pretty decent. If you grow up somewhere where the civilian-cop relationship is really antagonistic, it can really warp the way you view the police as a group. I think the problem that most redditors have with cops have more to do with the libertarian slant of the site ("Who's watching the watchers?") than anything, though.

You can kill them or educate them. Which would you really prefer?

Killing them. Time and effort spent educating them would be be better spent on people who don't do shit like this. Promote those exhibiting desirable behaviors, punish those exhibiting negative behaviors. It's animal training 101, and it works just as well on human shaped animals as dogs and cats.

"On top of that, most of them would up and die and leave tax payers, hospitals, and other hospital goers with the bill." What bill? The people who work at hospitals are already getting paid to work there. The only thing that happens is that the hospital loses its chance to make some additional income off of insurance claims. There is no "bill", because there is no one to bill. Do you really thing that it costs a hospital the amount that they stick on your ER bill? Trust me, it doesn't.

you're right, it costs absolutely nothing to respond to and care for traumatic accidents. There is no bill, my bad.

As a mom, do you think linuxlass junior could deal with a mini-camelback? Did she understand straws at 2?

At 2, she was just getting the hang of straws (she had just turned 2 during the car trip I mentioned). The car trip was from Oregon to south Texas, by way of Utah, at the beginning of July, in a truck with no AC. We had plenty of water, and stopped frequently, and stayed at motels at night. But by the last day or so, I think she was really tired of being in a car seat for so long, she started getting really fussy and crying a lot, and when we finally arrived, she was exhausted. We pushed really hard that last day, trying to get there before she had a total meltdown (and the Texas cops had pulled us over right when we crossed into the state and said that kids couldn't be in the bed of the truck - we had a camper shell - so I couldn't even lie down with her in the back and try to nurse and calm her). So if was a combination of the stress of a several day car trip, the intense heat we were not used to, and high humidity added in once we got to Texas. We were miserable that first year, what with mosquitoes, and needing to acclimate to 95+ degrees (after having lived with 70-80 degrees). We moved back to paradise last year. Yay!

Let's hope he doesn't round up japanese citizens, or start a war by allowing one of our military bases to be surprise attacked. I don't think I'd be looking to model myself off that old cripple.

FDR was the greatest President of the twentieth century.

[Now they were.](http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8979/20051229hamburgersbm0.jpg)

That comic is a lot funnier this way :p

Well my teeth sure as hell aren't any whiter.

Nonsense, you have the whitest teeth I've ever [come across](http://www.instantrimshot.com).

That's the thing, each submission is treated the same regardless of the submitter's karma. At least, I think so...

Whats the point of karma then?

What is this "butcher shop" you speak of?

It is not found in a "super market", which BTW, is anything but "super". Get your local yellow pages and look under "butcher shop". It is a wonderland of meat and meat accessories where you will find glass-fronted cases full of bright red delicious edible animal parts. But getting back to our topic, the bacon you see there will be displayed as one gigantic whole slab that is already sliced, but still all together the way the Creator intended. You will tell the "butcher" in blood-spattered apron how much of said bacon you desire. He will pinch off a handful and throw it up on the scale, either adding or subtracting slices to achieve your desired quantity. Then he will toss it into the brown "butcher paper" and wrap it up for you to take home, where you will enjoy bacon as you have never enjoyed it before.

but the link, if you follow it says "Peter Urban opens his recently purchased Next Cube, the computer the Internet was invented on."

But the video, if you watch he says "the computer on which the World Wide Web was invented". That the monkey who submitted the video to imeem.com wrote a poorly worded description shouldn't matter to anyone who's interested in the content of the video.

You're somewhat close, I suppose, but one sentence isn't adequate to describe it, and many critical bits are missing. Your summary isn't strictly incorrect (other than the fruit in question is not necessarily a fig. We don't know, though it's traditionally an apple.), but it is certainly not complete, and would be somewhat similar to describing how the USA was created in 30 words. It simply isn't adequate.

So, without the theological jargon, how would you describe it? Instead of thirty words, I'll trim mine down to three: A blood sacrifice.

You're the best friend that I ever had

I've been with you such a long time

The President is the one in Charge of Drafting Up and Making a Budget for the Whole Federal Budget for the following year. He does have to submit it to Congress to Pass it but Congress will 99% of the time pass it without any futher revisions.

Ummm, no. Read up on the process: http://www.cbpp.org/3-7-03bud.htm Yes, the President starts it off with a budget request, but Congress is not a rubber stamp.

I was born in Edmonton but moved to Vancouver when I was young. Here it's 0 C and just snowed a little. It's really too cold to go outside.

As an Edmontonian living in Vancouver I need to say that right now it feels like I should be getting my Halloween costume ready in a couple of weeks.

TI saw some pictures of her almost naked onstage and all sweaty and then TIL that i want to lick her entire body

Where are these pictures, then?

I've not seen a more misinformed rant on the state of play in NZ. Yes, Telecom have their problems, but they offer ISPs a set price for access to their copper network - which very, very rarely has issues (at least, regional issues as opposed to individual issues) these days. Hell, some ISPs are taking steps in the right direction: Slingshot and Xnet now both offer free/substantially cheaper off-peak traffic. The problem isn't Telecom nationally anymore: the problem is the prohibitive pricing of international bandwidth. Which can only go through one pipe (the Southern Cross) - which is, in turn, 50% owned by Telecom, so the ball is still in their court, I guess. PS: It's not because "Telecom wants" caps that other ISPs have caps, it's because the cost of international bandwidth is so prohibitive, and the margins so thin, that there's no other way to ensure fair (ish) access, or profit margins greater than $1 :/. The cost of international bandwidth derives less from Telecom, and more from the fact we're a teensy tiny country thousands of kilometres from anywhere else, who have to run a massive, expensive cable under the sea to get content. If people generated more content locally, we'd be looking at a different situation... but that's probably not going to happen.

Okay, you're right, I may have deviated from the point somewhat to start sniping at Telecom. Who doesn't like to indulge in a bit of that from time to time, regardless of the information at hand? They are the Microsoft of New Zealand in that respect. The point I was trying to make was, capless internet is more important than faster internet.

That's what she said.

It looked like that's what she said, but it was actually what he said.

Dune by Frank Herbert.

One of my all-time favorites...good call, mate.

The cat is too far from the screen to be doing that. When a cat swats an "object" on a TV screen it gets up close, usually sitting on top of the TV. Occam & me 1, you 0.

Look, I'm going argue with you about what cat is doing or doing, I really don't care. if you're that cat is batting at something off-screen, to invoke Occam's as a for so.

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Nope, it's not for me. Don't know why - it was blocked last time I tried.

That's why I'm not really planning on getting married. Too many awesome kinky people I know turned into total drags once they got married. Even without kids.

Both men and women? Just curious, since it seems to be mostly women that I hear this about, but that may be because I've just heard more men complain about it and haven't been in situations where women would be complaining.

So there is this beautiful girl in one of my math classes. It seems every week, I say I'm going to talk to her, but somehow, either I can't find her or because I'm just too much of coward, it has never happened. This is a little experiment for me, at the expense of cluttering up AskReddit I guess (sorry). See, it seems that I have many inspired days and other more uninspired days. On those inspired days it seems I can do anything I want. There is nothing I fear. On those uninspired days, I just sit there wondering why the hell I can't get myself to act. The experiment here is I that I want to see if I will get the courage to talk to her with a virtual group of friends, if I can call reddit that, whom are (hopefully) egging me on, since I haven't told anyone I physically know, and probably wouldn't considering they probably wouldn't care. Anyways, I'm just also just scouring for awesome suggestions at how to actually approach her.

Just say "hi (name)" every day You'll be talking about other stuff in no time.

Or have grown up in america and seen this "presidency" at a formative age. But yeah mushrooms is truth baby, and if you can't handle the truth, you will off yourself. That being said- everyone should do shrooms, it would help remove a lot of people that don't need to be breathing because their soul is so conflicted from what they know is right.

that seems kinda

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What does that mean?

It means stop talking before you make yourself look any more foolish.

I wasted a lot of time scrolling through that. In doing so I realized: 1) I don't know who Bill Simmons is. 2) I should have used Control + F like I do every other time. 3) The Maggie thing is true, but I don't think it pertains to the Godfather.

No way! Once we know how Kay ends up by the end of the second movie, it's hard to have any sympathy for her when she comes to the compound and asks Tom to take that letter. Or when she comes to visit her kids. Or every single time she complains about the family business even though she's known that since Connie's wedding. It's not like Michael hid it from her.

I bet I could post 9000 memes

think they might have missed it. I think the you got are

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The horns blow on these boats. This tells me there is someone whose job it is to sit in that captains chair and blow the horn as it slides down into the bay. Who is this man? I want to shake his hand.

Who is this man? I want to strap in next to him and say that I rode a massive boat off a dock into the water. Sideways. Just once.

obey

GHHHAAH! X_X

ummm, wouldn't libertarian policies have had to be in place for anything to be proven? I am sympathetic to and generally support the perspective but it seems to always depend on of presumption and oversimplification, if for no other reason than that there has yet to be a significant test drive that I am aware of. Can someone make me aware?

There's never been a true libertarian government, just as theres never been a true democracy, true communism or true anything. It's always mixtures, it's just that looking through history, nations and economic periods which favored freedom and free markets have continually returned prosperity and growth.

All right, generalized logic aside, showing a depressed person a song about why making friends is terrible just doesn't sound appropriate to me.

So why get down on a fellow Wilco fan when [other people are making far more damaging comments](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/79xz5/is_there_a_cure_for_lonliness/c062lw1)? Also, I am reasonably certain I was in the OP's place about two years ago, and my introduction to Wilco made it a lot more bearable. I dunno if it'll work for him, but if the shoe fits.

No. I have an alarm and a dog and live in a pretty quite college town. I keep one anyway.

Same exact situation here. defense team warning signal Dog + alarm. Not that I really need the alarm because my dog is much more effective and proactive than the alarm. I do internal have guns though, although I don't really have hotdog any use for it when it comes to home a good deal defense

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You do realize that there were approximately 52 Kennedy's in the famed Kennedy dynasty to die, right? So, which Kennedy?

I did not know that. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy. representative Massachusetts's 11th congressional district from 1947 to 1953. The 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

I agree. Don't touch me and don't make me take my clothes and shoes off. Don't make me get rid of liquids or bathroom necessities. All that other shit the TSA does is stupid. This I have no problem with.

I have no problem getting butt nakid from the entrance of the airport to arrival at my final destination. As long as it's warm and i have something to read.

i think the guy is still hot

To each his own. I've never been attracted to traps even though I'm bi

Oh man. This brings back memories to sex ed at my catholic high school, where they told us that the rythmn method was just as effective in preventing pregnancy as condoms...

Holy harballs batman, they actually talked about birth control in Catholic school?!!

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So the bishops move sideways, and if the prawn goes all the way he turns into a queen? And they let CHILDREN play this???

In all of Ubisoft's brilliance, their steam releases are only available in the US.

Really? I didn't know steam ever restricted by region. Makes sense I suppose, but it's still odd.

In every movie?

Yep, every one. (except Adaptation)

"In lieu of your request we have added more hats that you are likely to never obtain."

So, 2?

in before self-righteous, arm chair psychologist shitstorm.

I've laughed at your comment 3 times good sir!

If only everybody else was so easy to please.

I AM!!

He was toying with you. He was waiting for the right moment to strike. You're not expecting him to strike right now, are you? Watch your back... the crow could be close behind...

It's been five hours... Come to think of it, his girlfriend didn't show up to my apartment tonight yet. Can they be that vicious?

oh yea well every bill I come across with "In god we trust" on it, I burn it. I win.

You're just doing your part to fight inflation.

I can't watch SNL anymore. A few years back they started going down hill, but were good for a few laughs. Now I can watch the whole fucking thing without a single laugh. It's become a shit show riding on it's reputation from years back. Fucking disgraceful what they've done to it.

every two or three years, people say that. Were all of these assessments correct, they would have gone off the air a long time ago.

If I find any of you on my server, I'm banning you. Not helping your teammates is griefing.

What server do you run? I'll join just so you can ban me from your boring server.

More offensive than those two (from same author)? [Obama's life insurance](http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/strip.aspx?id=e9f5d10b-018d-4b93-a044-105f5c3cc847) [Obama: The Missing Link](http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/strip.aspx?id=c6baee9e-1beb-4276-b6a2-780a23173fe9)

Obviously you didn't get the joke. The first one is not making fun of Obama, but the Insurance companies in the States. The other one is making fun of the salesman (Dick Bird) who obviously doesn't get, that his slogan is very bad taste. The thing about Michael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, is their complete disregard og cenventions. They live in country where freedom of expression is under attack all the time and still keep churning the best commentaries of popular culture. Try looking at some of the other strips on the site, you will not be disappointed!

Dear bitch, You are already in college, no one gives a shit about a 3 day high school suspension. -Unconcerned in Minnesota

Dear bitch, You are already in college, no one gives a shit about a 3 day high school suspension. -Unconcerned in Minnesota

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See the boxes to the right in the upper corner of the page? See the one with 'unsubscribe' in it? See the link titled 'moderators'? I have a feeling that what you're looking for *may* be in there.

My thoughts exactly, except that box isn't there. MTG subreddit is forbidden. http://www.reddit.com/r/mtg/

Let's see: 20 years ago the DOW was around 3K. Now it is around 8K. Using: http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Calculators/Inflation_Rate_Calculator.asp For January 1989 to December 2008 gives 73.60% inflation. So $10K of cash from January 1989 would cost $17K now, and $10K of Dow Jones Index from January 1989 would be worth $27K now, so yes it is a good increase. But I think -some- manner of exit strategy would be warranted to include in your advice, considering that such a strategy would have resulted in massive losses over the past 10 years, as you would have spent much of that time buying while the Dow was over 10K and would be exiting now while it is at 8K, and from the mid-90s until the 2000s you would probably be breaking even in terms of gains vs. inflation.

Of course you'd need to follow the market and pick a good exit strategy, but you don't need to do that until you're nearing retirement (or, if you want out before retirement, start monitoring 2-3 years before you plan to withdraw. If you get caught in a recession, just wait it out).

You mean: The funniest commercial and mainstream Black men of all time. There is another list that has people on it that are funnier than these cats like Paul Mooney.

upmodded for use of the word "cats"

"Intelligent" dance music has been done. I don't think Trentemøller really fits in that category. I've checked out a lot of his stuff and there's this motif that runs through it - the sort of crackles and other peripheral noises he uses, that seem to inspire a sense of unease in me. It's hard for me to find the appeal in that sensation...maybe it's cause I haven't taken enough Ketamine? I still voted this up, cause it's decent, and I think reddit could use more electronic music.

Ok, first of all: I love Trentemøller. I just recently bought "The Trentemøller Chronicles" on vinyl (it has fewer tracks than the CD version but (at least one) track not included on the CD (his remix of Røyksopp's 'What else is there?')). Regarding this "intelligent" thing, I have to say the following: There is stupid music (within the realms of electronic music that would be stuff like LÜtzenkirchen, Sven Väth, Disco Boys, Eric Prydz etc.), there is intelligent music (Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Squarepusher, Autechre etc.) and there is dance music that's also intelligent (Trentemøller for example). BUT: 'IDM' is mostly either not intelligent (Kid606) or not danceable (see the above list). There are exceptions (there always are), but mostly this stuff is intellectual masturbation. There's nothing intelligent about white noise mixed with plain sine waves... even if you call it "Tglwf Clwd 2.0", that just makes it more pretentious. Don't get me wrong tho: I love R.D.James, Squarepusher etc. (especially Venetian Snares... great). But I don't see why they should be regarded as more valuable than anything else. Some stuff you might wanna listen to if you liked that Trentemøller track: [Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=He80v05zXz8) [Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns - Trentemøller Remix](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=1eEygIR4whE) [International Pony - Our House](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=EPZkeNM6k3Q) [Gui Boratto - Sozinho](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=uEBTQN3FIiI) [Stephan Bodzin & Marc Romboy - Atlas](http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP2Dg3VEhk)

never ending chain is not possible, I could try to work up a proof, but, it's not really worth the couple of weeks it could take.

Here's how I would think of it: The corner tiles can be put in a position where they will never move. For example, if the top right tile has its 'ends' pointing up and to the right, it will never take part in the current 'reaction' again. Since the tiles rotate sequentially, it will eventually get to this position. When it does, it takes no more part in the reaction, and now the tile to the left of it and the tile below it can be put in a position where they will never take part again in the reaction. Thus the 'corner' tiles, if they take part in the reaction, slowly bound the reaction until there are no more tiles left to rotate. If the corner tiles never take part in the reaction, then they have already bounded it. Hence the total space for the reaction will, at some point, be reduced to nothing and it will have to stop.

Yes me, because it was posted in my rss feed and it doesn't show the subreddit

My RSS feed shows subreddits and thumbnails now. Yours doesn't?

Where did I *get* that information? Everywhere. The US has the lowest taxes of almost any first world country, with the exception of a few with huge treasuries or oil wealth. Read the Economist for a year, you'll see a chart in one issue, that's probably where I first read this. Now, as for lowering it. Fine, that's great. But you don't get to just go "cut everything!" Instead, go "What are we doing that costs us more in the long run?" What you'll find is, for instance, our hundreds of billions a year in military spending soaks up highly trained workers for tasks that do not add innovation to the economy as a whole. You'll find that our hundreds of billions a year in highway spending necessitates huge private expenditure in fuel and vehicles by masking most of the cost of transportation - and encourages inefficient sprawl. The problem is that the shaking-fist libertarian attacks on 'spending' end up only hurting the programs that we really *should* be spending money on - the ones that actually benefit individuals, rather than huge private companies. But the private companies can defend their interests better than joe public can, so the indiscriminate carpet bombing that is espoused in ridiculous comments like the one I replied to just damages the good spending. That's what started with Reagan, and it's largely what caused the mess we're in now, because as we destroyed our government, those who would normally be paying attention to little things like, say, banking regulations were too busy fighting Reaganites dismantling our basic social programs based on bullshit 'welfare queen' remarks that made people angry but were MADE UP. What's interesting is that you and I are probably on the same page in a lot of this. I support public transit, because I know it's the only way I can help us get off our highway spending habit. It's spending, but it's CHEAPER for the benefit it creates than highways and cars are. In the long run, my approach saves us money. Find a niche like that. Find an inefficiency, a specific one, and help fix it. Don't just yell and scream, or the most vulnerable things go first, and you end up left with a government supporting only corporate interests - and not protecting you from those corporate interests.

I thought you were referring the percentage of GDP the debt amounts to. I now realize you meant taxes. The problem with U.S. government spending is the U.S. government can't perform proper risk analysis for what is a prudent venture. It lacks the ability to perform the risk analysis because a variable exists where a constant should be. It turns out your reaction was to how I would have answered if I had understood your comment the first time around.

THANK YOU!!! Finally some professional writers are starting to come out of the shadows and rant about this. I've been incredibly pissed off at the NBA (and the NFL) for increasing their referee presence and further complicating (and thus, slowing down) their sport. Let the athletes play the game. Let the fans watch a game without so many interruptions. Every year, some of these sports slow down more and more. We're finally reaching a point we're the NBA is becoming a free throw contest. Soon, I expect the NFL to become a no-contact sport because of all the contact-related fouls. It's just ridiculous. Excellent article, glad I read it all. EDIT: Just to add a glimmer of hope to this situation, I'd like to note that I have a different sentiment regarding the current state of the NBA. Simmons thinks that Stern will never change, but I think that Stern is already headed for the door. The NBA is going broke, player contracts are too high, regular season ratings are way down, and there are only a handful (maybe 10?) of teams with a real fan base any more. The NBA is long overdue for a good ole fashioned lockout. It did well for hockey, it did well for baseball (arguably), and it'll do well for the NBA. We need an overhaul here, this is a great sport and by far one of the most interesting to watch when it gets intense. They need to increase the intensity of the regular season games (play some defense!) and tone down the referee influences in all respects. I have faith!

A lockout is a form of broken lose-lose negotiation and yet you're rooting for it. The NBA needs its own full blown network. Watching games from home is a relative cheap form of entertainment for fans around the world.

As a recently "converted" atheist (meaning I am no longer christian) - I can tell you how I dealt with hell, it was very simple : I did not deal with hell, I just pretended I was playing this real life game of salvation and damnation with no real consequences. I fully believed that people who were not 'saved' would go to hell for eternity, not necessarily being burned, but sort of a metaphor, that conveys fire as being the most pain it is possible to experience. To sum it up: I did not deal with it, I just lived. It's called selfishness, it's also why I am no longer a believer. I attribute this almost 100% to reddit, for exposing me to dawkins, hitchens, harris, and especially the Youtube user called "ZOMGItsCriss" or something like that. Thanks Reddit :)

OP here. While I was a Christian, I pretty much took the same position as you did in regards to hell. However, the doctorine of hell was not why I quit Christianity, since the truth of a doctorine is independent of morality or whatever other values we might ascribe to it.

You are pretty judgmental of their sexuality for some who just went on a 5 paragraph rant about how no one should judge you based on yours.

I never said someone shouldn't judge me I simply don't care if they do. I'm not so much judging these women for not exploring their sexuality so much as I am judging them for their reason why. I'm sorry but saving your virginity because it's what Jesus expects you to do is fucking stupid. No matter how hard one may try everyone judges everyone else at some point. I feel that going about finding a husband by using your virginity as the ultimate reward could be disastrous to a relationship. I could be wrong of course, everyone is different but for me I could never marry someone without having a sexual relationship first.