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you'd think as they approached the poll, one would start to notice whats about to happen, but apparently not.

Who were they voting for?

What I don't get is the relative popularity of vampires. I mean there is so much artistic freedom to be had when making up demonic beings, why take the most stereotyped and frankly just boring all the time?

Here's my hypothesis. There supposed to be these beings who are bored, restless, and painstruking for having to leech off the very beings they consider themselves to be above. In all, it's a circle of hell for narcissistic people. So pop culture looked at them and said, "JESUS SHIT, these are all the qualities I aspire to."

And in one comment you summed up the problem with Google fanboys / M$ Haters. Namely, that it would be wrong if MS did it, but it's ok since you love Google.

It would be wrong if google made the most popular operating system, and had google as the default search engine.

What a hamfisted maneuver by an increasingly right wing government and bureaucracy. Sigh. Remember kids, and I've said this before, if you didn't vote in the election, this is 1/30000000th your fault.

Technically even if you did vote in the election isn't it also 1/30000000th your fault?

You forgot the Browns and Redskins and Bucs. That's about 25% of the league. Then throw in the Seahawks and Bills. Didn't Toledo beat Penn State at PSU a few years ago? And Stanford over USC? Creampuffs ruining a power programs' season.

If you want to talk about proportions of "bad" teams in each system, then I would argue that 90% of college football teams don't shake a stick at the top 25. Also, in the NFL, dramatic upsets happen just as regularly. See the Raiders v Eagles 2 weeks ago.

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

Upvote for System Of A Down soundtrack

I'm surprised that Mozilla was able of coming up with an exciting fundamental feature with all these extensions 3rd party developers are creating for firefox.

I can't tell if that's sarcasm? -- I'm pretty pleased with the extensions I've added. -- It's the difference between *laughing* at the idea of using Internet Explorer, and ***cackling*** at the idea... I'm not one for brand loyalty, but, yeah... Firefox (with extensions) rocks my free world.

And?

Its a excuse. And its hardly the case, robbing a liquor store isn't going to make you a millionaire.

You mom's vagina looks like bacon!!!!

So does yours, that's why I like eating it so much! *I have a feeling that this thread is going to go down hill very fast*

I love it when the first thing I think of after reading a headline is the first comment on the page.

Out of my head! BOTH of you!

Fuck. The dog's better at soccer than I am.

Everybody is better than you, it seems. That's a basketball.

What a colossal waste of money. I know I'm being judgmental (her money, she can spend it how she wants) but *damn*, I find such a display of blatant consumerism absolutely disgusting.

Oh, like you don't spend at least that much on weed. Anyway, I think she's cute. And she's got spunk. I'd spunk it.

Here's why I drink bottled water: I choose it in place of Coke or Pepsi. In the end there's no environmental, social or economic difference between drinking a bottle of water or a bottle of Coke, it's just that drinking the water is better for me. From a processing perspective there's all of about a 1 or 2 percent difference between that bottle of Dasani and a bottle of Coke. Funny how you don't hear people talking about the problem with soft drink bottles, especially when that industry is many hundreds of times the size of the water industry.

Why not just drink tap water? Even if you have to use a filter for better taste, what is the point in buying water for more than you pay for gasoline?

The guys with the guns are not forcing anything on an unwilling group, as the other group is attempting to do to them. They are simply standing up to a bully who is reeling back to throw a punch at them to get what they want from them. Taxing for structure of government is one thing, police, roads, possibly even schools fall somewhat into this area. But taking money from one person to give to another is thievery, and slavery and that's what this bill does, period. (Read on for explanation of this claim) We've all heard the bullshit claims from government before, like when AIG or Citi bought planes or gave their CEO's exorbitant bonuses after the bailouts. We were told bailout money wasn't used for it. Well, maybe not those exact same federal notes, but you know the bailout paid for something else thereby freeing up money to use on the other. In fact without the bailouts they wouldn't have been able to afford bankruptcy, so the bailouts made possible their purchases and everything they do from that day forward. It would be like saying, "we pumped 10 Trillion gallons of water into space", or ,"we dumped a trillion gallons of toxic waste in, but don't worry it's not the water the fish use." This is the same thing, we will be taking money from everyone to give to the lesser number to use. Money that I would normally spend on clothing for my kid will instead allow someone who would normally have to buy his meds to have extra money to buy an extra pizza, or carton of cigarettes, etc. It IS taking money from me, and giving it to someone else, it is taking food off my table and buying god knows what for someone else. I've had hard times in my life, I've lived w/o some utilities, I've gone without square meals a day, I lost a sister to MS. Never once did I [or anyone in my family] think of just taking what we 'needed' from someone else. We certainly never considered voting for someone who would do it for us. We made cuts, we worked, we went hungry, and we dealt with it, it was hard, but we survived. That's all this is about, "Life is hard, so I should just take what I want or need from someone else." So in the end, just like our bailout money was used to buy crap the companies didn't need, our healthcare tax money will be used as a bailout to buy crap for people that they don't need, may be immoral, and will likely buy things for people who live better than we do. I will not spend my family's food or clothing money to cover someone else's expenses so they can pay off their CC debt their new TV or snowmobiles are on. Bullshit!!! - I have more respect for the guy breaking into my house at 2AM (this has happened to me twice) and risking his ass, than I do for the people who would vote for someone to take money right out of my paycheck for their own pockets. And that is why I will bring my AR-15, .45, and my sniper rifle to defend myself from this bill, just as I would to defend my home from the guy at 2AM. The world I want to live in is the one where bullying is not tolerated. And the guys bringing the guns to the 'debates' are not bullying, they are simply standing up to the bully. They are not trying to get government to do their bidding, they are telling government not to do the bidding of others to them. Show me in the constitution where any of the actions such as bailouts, stimulus, cash for clunkers or any form of socialism is a power given to congress. Before you bring 'general welfare' to the table you better do your homework. Those who support this bill are thieves at our doorsteps, defending ourselves is what to do now. If someone comes to rob my home would you think I was acting ridiculous in defending it? Because that's exactly what's going on, the only difference is these thieves take our money before we even get it home. EDIT: Don't take me wrong. I'm not advocating we start shooting. I fact I would avoid any bloodshed I could even with the thief in my home. I'm going to do everything I can to avoid that, and give him every opportunity to to cease and desist, but he's going to see the hardware to know I mean business, and that his intrusion is not a negotiable act.

Do you have health insurance? If so, you are already participating in a plan where money from some people go to pay for stuff of other people. Specifically from healthy people to pay for sick people. Insurance is a voluntary program of wealth re-distribution. But often times when those healthy payers finally get sick, the insurance company does not honor the contract (or finds a loophole to escape it), and that's why most people actually go bankrupt due to health issues. Because they were ALREADY insured, but the insurance company did not come through. (And when people go bankrupt, society pays for it! More wealth distribution!) I've written about both of these claims in more detail to prove my case: http://cognitiveresurgence.com/2009/08/15/our-healthcare-system-in-crisis-the-evidence/ http://cognitiveresurgence.com/2009/08/24/the-american-free-market-healthcare-system-is-socialist/ So while people like you and Kostric have your views and may be willing to display or possibly use arms to defend those views, some of us think your views are wrong. And some of us have the data to back up those views. Data. Instead of threats.

No Country For Old Men

i couldn't finish the book. i think some of the scenes benefited greatly from being rewritten.

Should this be posted in either the main reddit or the askreddit areas? On one hand, this will bring way more people to the site but on the other, perhaps a massive influx of votes would make Aviva wonder if internet shenanigans are abound. I will mention to those of you who do not have a static IP address that if you were to remove the Aviva cookies, disconnect and reconnect and re-register another e-mail address, you could cast another vote in the name of your friend who you know would totally do it anyway so it's not really disingenuous at all!

I expect deception from someone with your username. hah. I thought about if there was an issue asking for team Reddit's help. but right on the Aviva site it encourages you to spread the word over FB and Twitter, so what's the difference? As for the main page. I would, but I think the IP addresses need to be from Canada, so I decided to put it here. With enough votes it could reach the main page though, right? ;)

I'd love to see your source for that. In KS, Nebraska and OK they are going up almost exclusively in pasture and range land. Nobody wants to take land out of production.

www.google.com. Go nuts. While you are at it you can look up how many birds nest in pasture and range land. Edit: farmers love wind farms where I am from. They get paid year round for the use of a small percentage of their land's use. The towers have a very small footprint and all that is needed are small access roads to each tower. That is why so many go up in farmland in the midwest. Loosing 5% of your land while gaining a year long income is not something that farmers shy away from.

No Country is also one of the best movies to come out in the last 10 years. Strangely, No Country and Blood were filmed very close together and at the same time.

TWBB's pyrotechnics from the oil well halted shooting of NCOM. /funfact

Breaking: The election isn't Obama vs. Palin.

Of course we all agree, but Republicans are the ones who've propped up Palin as the figurehead for the ticket. It's sad to hear all of the stories of people leaving rallies once she's done talking. I think everyone is really confused about how to think about her, including me.

would be if not for the fact were gonna get 4 eps then a huge hiatus which will kill the show abc is going to ruin this

I'm really worried about what ABC is up to with this. Rumours coming out of the hiatus is that they're desperately trying to play down the sci fi; they can't even use the word "alien" in the script anywhere.

Trust me you won't want to play it again.

Funny - I am really enjoying it. Yes, the DRM sucks, but overall the game is quite good. Not quite "deep" enough in some places, but very broad in its scope. And fun. Gamespot gave it 8/10 and IGN gave it 8.8/10.

I had been under the impression that the opposite was true.

http://www.giantbomb.com/fallout-3/61-20504/leaked-gameplay-videos-spoilers/35-18125/#12

I hovered for a bit, then pulled up the task manager to see what was hogging all the alt text-generating resources :-/

I pulled up the source code and searched for alt.

Are you sure there's an actual monopoly? I would think that a private operator would be unable to compete with a comprehensive public network of buses. Kinda like how HarbourLynx tried to compete with BC Ferries.

Yeah, I'm sure. There's a dozen or so condos right at the mouth of the Humber River. Anyone who ever takes the Gardiner Expressway into the city will know the ones I'm talking about. To take the TTC from those condos in to the city involves riding the unreliable 501 streetcar, which takes about 40 mins to an hour to get downtown. Driving the same route takes about 10 mins. Anyway, the condo owners tried to start up their own private bus service that would run express to downtown. The city stopped it from happening because of the no-competition law. They ended up working around it by making it a closed service for only two of the condos, paid for by their condo fees (so it's a condo amenity, not a private bus service). Besides, no private transit operator could make money running a comprehensive network of buses. There isn't a single profitable local public transit system anywhere in the western world.

denser cigarette = slower burn.

yeah I am not sure about this paper=easier burn bullshit

This has ALWAYS bugged me and no developers seem to care enough to improve it in most games. Best execution of this EVER for me was WoW. Alt tabbing was fast and never caused problems. Another great aspect of the window system in that game was that you could run it full screen but windowed. This allowed me to seamlessly move my mouse out of the game on monitor a into my music/homework/move/im on monitor B. Hugely helpful.

WoW was strange for me. I had an older computer that ran WoW fine and would alt tab without a problem. However, I got a newer computer that had a more powerful processor, more ram, better graphics card and then it would cause massive problems if I tried to alt+tab out. It ran fine if I ran it in a window, but alt+tabbing was a no-no for some bizarre reason. I'm sure that someone could have sorted it out without a problem, but it annoyed me and now I don't play WoW anymore. I'm not saying I don't play it any more because of being unable to alt+tab out, it's just a coincidence.

Does anyone understand how this game is played? The game text only gives "hints" about how to use the card...

I was wondering the same thing. It appears that the *idea* of the game seems a whole lot cooler than how they chose to implement it. Instead of conveying elements as mythical creatures or powers, I think it would be a whole lot more powerful (from a game mechanics perspective) to have elements and reactions (oxidation, reduction, ionic bond, covalent bond, etc...) more as "building-block" or resource cards where players amass many oxygens, hydrogens, and sulfurs, then tap certain reaction cards to create Sulfuric Acid (separate card) which would be the mythical creature card with different powers. The way that they (seemed) to have implemented it appears to be mostly arbitrary, and thus I think the game would be a bit boring to actually play. Still! Fantastic idea for a trading card game! I would like to see how it actually works, as I only have my own speculations.

That may be what you heard but that's not what I meant to imply. What I meant to imply is that all common sites like normal large scale sites (by that I mean sites that are known to download file sizes on a regular basis over say 500 meg) will be placed on an interior carrier listing so that these sites and associated downloads do not count towards your monthly cap. Sites like Pirate Bay however as well as other unidentified sites will.

I don't believe it. Someone will get greedy and try to funnel people towards their own content. Or else start charging other companies to be on this do-not-meter list. In the environment you're proposing, it's virtually inevitable. And the US broadband system will continue to slide backwards while the rest of the world moves forward.

Yes, I really liked *Firefly* and I am going to have to remember to mention it when I list libertarian entertainment. There are many libertarian non-profits (one list is [here](http://www.amatecon.com/charities.html)) but I don't know of any that fall in the 'charity' category. It's not actually even necessary to form a libertarian charity, a group could piggy-back off an existing effort as bikers have done with *Toys for Tots* and blood drives. It is going to be hard to address the logic v. emotion aspect but I think the work to be done is on the libertarian side. We need to realize that most people act on their gut, not their head. Once that is realized, the next step is to feed the gut the right food (sorry if the metaphor is getting out of hand but I couldn't resist!). EDIT: We also need a 'Woody Guthrie' or 'Bob Dylan' for the libertarian movement -- someone with a real knack for a catchy tune and whose words are philosophically libertarian.

Check out Marc Scibilia, he is an excellent artist and huge RP supporter (so I assume he has some libertarian leanings)

Quite possible. What I ran into was a bone fide clusterfuck.

I have seen it. I am glad you said something. It is up now with no problem although the bullets are screwed up. I made the latest post using scribfire and WP no likey so much.

It's a pretty different thing to say commonplace things are known when the minor technicalities of "knowing" have no consequence. Something like your scenario is dealing with an everyday, tangible thing that you can prove about as much as you could anything in your life is true. However, when you're arguing with someone who is already logically-impaired (like most religious people) about why they aren't right, you using the same fallacious arguments but in reverse isn't going to help us make any ground. When you say that your "I KNOW there is no god!" argument is valid, you automatically validate their "I KNOW there is a god!" argument. Even in university or anything if you get deep into sciences like physics, professors will sometimes say things like "And we know, and by that mean that it is completely consistent with all current observations of the universe, that...".

You are making quite a few assumptions here, Fen. The first is that I wouldn't know how professors in universities speak. I don't claim that my Philosophy degree from Columbia means my understanding of Epistemology is any better than yours, but it does mean I've spent sometime in the class room. The second is that when I say "I know there is no god" is that I am doing so to convince a theist to change their belief structure. However, that is not my goal at all. When I say "I know there is no god" I am declaring that until proven otherwise, my personal actions will reflect that I hold this proposition to be true. If you really care about this subject, you may wish to read a discussion of the matter here: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/theory.html

It's a gateway drug because it's illegal, people try it and realize the bullshit and get more curious about what else they were lied about.

Very true. And I'm also convinced that those people that feel paranoid after smoking the first time can be attributed to it's illegality as well. It's going to be your first time smoking cannabis with a friend, wow cool, I'm gonna be doing something illegal. You know when you get that pressing feeling in your throat like someone is gently strangling you .... then they take their first hit and that little bit of paranoia/excitement turns into full blown panic/paranoia. All because they know they are doing something illegal. People sometimes forget mind altering drugs can enhance certain feelings by a lot.

I do this a lot, and people get confused why I'd be so stupid to taunt while burning to death. There's a point when you know there are no medics nearby, no healthpacks, and death is arriving in a couple seconds. It's time to taunt.

I usually just kill myself. Soldier-Seppuku, I figure.

The answer is you light a match first, *then* you light the lamp. Then you burn down Chicago.

You save the cow?

How the fuck does this make it to number 1 on the front page without a single upvote? What the fuck? I have submitted dozens and dozens of good stories that never make it to one fucking upvote something is fucked here. Maybe I don't understand how this works or whatever but I assumed that a story had to get voted on to get to the front page. So why the hell does every single story I submitted in the years I been on Reddit never get to the frong page? Fuck the front page the 5th page the 15th page what the fuck!? Edit: I guess I really don't understand how the voting system works. Now this dropped down to number 11 on the list. The number 1 spot has 380 something while the number 4 has more than 1,000? How the hell does this work anyhow?

I'm bringing your votes back to equilibrium with an upvote. Not because I think your post was great, but you don't deserve to be downmodded. I also wondered why some stories make it to the front page without any upvotes. Thanks to your subsequent commentors for clarifying. Upvotes for them as well.

Define "intellectual property".

I am not a dictionary.

The [dead bird strip](http://n2.cdn.spikedhumor.com/1/525000/124169_deadbird_1.jpg) alone proves C&H was much more than just your typical comic.

Thanks for sharing.

You are confusing definitions of nature. Human nature is a part of nature. All beavers fell trees. It is their nature. All humans do not. A human can cut down a tree, but this does not make it the nature of all humans to fell trees.

But who are you to say what is "in our nature?" Humans need shelter, and if we use wood to make that shelter, then it seems pretty natural to me.

With limited resources, It would be helpful to know what country you live in so we can account for your travels as an expense.

El Salvador, C.A.

I saw a demonstration of something like it on the show How Do They Do It? on Discovery Channel. Totally freaked me out. That said, I know a number of people who've had it, and all are very happy. My dad has had cataract surgery, and some other eye surgery thing a long time ago from some injury. He tells me that while the thought of it is kind of weird, you don't feel a thing. There are apparently not so many nerves that send pain signals in your eyes. Irritation, sure, but not so much pain. Anesthesia is simple.

They use cocaine in some eye surgeries, for the numbing not for the fun.

Aeon Flux, Barry Lyndon, Dune, Showgirls, I guess I just have bad taste.

Barry Lyndon - isn't that considered a friggin' masterpiece o' cinema?

looks like we're looking at an age spread from 41 (paul giamatti, p.s.h.) to 48 (sean penn). will smith is just under at 40, as is ed norton (39). forest whitaker fits in at 47. kevin spacey is just over at 48. ralph fiennes is in at 45. jim carey's 46. done cheadle's 44. laurence fishburne's 47. russell crowe's 44. we're judging on: range, choices, quantity, quality, appeal. i would guess that most of the actors i mentioned edge out matthew broderick, at the very least.

Some of the best actors IMO were missing (alright, some of my favourite). Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi and agreeing with your list, Will Smith, Ed Norton and Kevin Spacey. I'd even put someone like Matt Damon ahead of Broderick

Okay, that's a neat concept and everything, but what was the point of it all? The movie takes itself very seriously and sets up this vast, epic scope and tone... and doesn't go anywhere with it. It seemed like they substituted a real, compelling narrative with this pretty plot device.

Wrong. Not only does it go some where with it, it goes every where. Thats the genius of the plot. The narrative could be watered down with lose plot points, but it takes the high road and embodies an insanely large scope. The parallel between the wife's story and real history, coupled with the questions of reality... The movie doesn't 'take it self seriously'. It is a grand scale incumbent a serious tone. Perhaps you think it was too serious with out delivering, but I see it different. If you dare to try and dissect the story far enough, I suspect you'd draw in on a better conclusion. The problem is that most people will avoid thinking at all costs, and while The Fountain seems to bludgeon you with visuals and auditory pleasures, some can't get past this and decided that its to 'convoluted' or 'pretentious'. Its easily in my top 5 movies off all time. I really don't like Aronofsky but that changes nothing about this masterwork.

Nah, not moonbases. Just a moonshot. As far as craft go, just how far away were they? And if not a moonshot, what about a Mercury-type capsule, just a few orbits? I'm only curious what distance they were, not suggesting they did it. (And that mostly, from some stupid Weekly World News article I saw when I was 8, even at that age I knew it was bullshit, but it did make me wonder where in a civilization's progress space travel becomes possible, which isn't necessarily the same point at which they start. The article itself was some baloney account of a secret moonshot financed by a robber baron in the 1890s...)

I really think they were a long way off. I doubt they were even seriously thinking about it at the time. Yes, they had Wernher Von Braun but rocket technology was in its very early infancy at the time. A lot happened in those 29 years

There are no _sucessfull_ experienced suicide bombers.

Experience in failure is not experience.

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VI survival guide: apt-get install eclipse Netbeans is pretty good for C coding, too. Some think it is better than Eclipse CDT.

vi survival guide: aptitude install nano eclipse && aptitude remove vi vim (vi and vim sit in an awkward place between being overkill for conf editing and underkill for development.)

Did anyone else notice that this picture is associated with biologists studying the mass extinction of amphibians? That really takes all the charm out of it for me.

I was going to say that. If OP had linked to the image directly, it would be funny. Ignorance is bliss. Sigh..:(

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)?

I guess you start with Megadeth's A Secret Place on Sitar Hero...

or Can't Lose You by Type O Negative

Me, too, though pink isn't *tactical!*

Unless you are fighting in a pink forest of candy canes, that is true.

I am very glad I have no idea what song we're talking about.

[Sorry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQp5l4-sfFA)

While you're at it, you should also learn that less than 10% of the trees used to create paper pulp in the world come from old-growth trees. The overwhelming majority of all paper pulp comes from plantation forests. The higher the demand for paper, the more trees must be grown to facilitate. This means that the more junk mail you get, the more trees there are in the world.

yeah, once we're a paperless society, those areas will be cleared for strip malls and housing.

This game sucks, I haven't even guessed yet and the guy is already hung.

..but not well hung.

There are valid reasons to vote against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. If I follow the logic of the only argument you have provided then I would have to believe, for example, that anyone that voted against the patriot act is not a patriot. I think that his reasons for voting the way he did are valid and you don't have a right to jump to conclusions and say the he is a racist for it.

So it's not racist to refuse to support equal rights for everyone regardless of their ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. Thanks for clearing that up for me. By the way, if you really don't think that he's a racist, I suggest you read his own words: http://www.tnr.com/downloads/sponraceterrorism.pdf

Were you referring to the titling of my post? Ha-ha is correct punctuation when using it formally.

No, at how "genuinely" was spelled

He does look a bit cockeyed, at any rate.

not funny

My best friend at the time.

Wow... just, wow. Sorry dude.

Isn't that like putting [pic] in the pic subreddit?

Well that would just be silly now woud'nt it?

We can't help others if our own economy is fucked. We need to help ourselves first.

The world would be a better place if we forced people to help each other by taxing them more, according to what you said.

Uhh lose the religious stuff and make it a guy jerking off and it would be almost decent!

The religious part was satire.

The tortoise represents your father, the diarrhea is your latent attraction to him.

I came here to say basically this. You beat me to it. haha.

dual boot into linux, use passwords. EDIT: even better, use knoppix on dvd and a usb thumb drive. http://www.knoppix.org/ You'll literally leave no trace other than network traffic, it wont touch the hard drive other than for swapping ram (encrypted). Also, use your own usb keyboard. If your parents are psycho enough to spy on you in the 1st place, you cant cancel out the use of keyloggers.

knoppix live touches the disk for swap? wtf? a live cd is not to touch disks for anything!

i first got a look at this years ago . in its first incarnation as a demotivator . and my first thought when i saw it was " how did that guy know to have a dildo on him " . was someone off to the side with a box of em selling them like umbrellas on a rainy day ?

It's just like when you go to the petting zoo and they sell feed pellets.

Try it when you only have one photograph. Fucked now, aren't you?

It didn't remove the people on the benches in the background.

ok recap for those that skim comments before viewing. this guy is talking about the future of humanity as a species. its very very cool.

you are indeed a hero to those with an innate tl;dr mindset!

Freud would not be surprised by the popularity of the term. According to him it's all about the MILF.

I like the way he thinks.

is it still funny to get all worked up about a girl on the internet?

uh....no?

That's assuming I'm reading my predictions for yesterday and say "wow!" which is not the case. I read for weeks in advance if I'm looking for something predictive. More than that I find it to be very accurate in describing people's personality traits, much moreso than predicting events, by far.

I hate to break it to you, but all the time you spent studying astrology was a total waste. Here's a test to prove it to you: Have a friend give you the astrological readings which are based on whatever method you think is "right," and also give you a completely random reading--without telling you which is which. Then pick out which one seems accurate to yourself. After time, you will find out that you picked the "right" one only 50% of the time.

Requiem For A Dream has that one tune that plays over and over. It's some amazing music, and it stays in your head for days. 'Lux Aeterna' written by Clint Mansell and performed by The Kronos Quartet.

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the thread title. It's really an amazing song and is used to well in the movie, changing subtly from scene to scene to fit the mood.

The best thing he said was that we dont need songs about the status quo but songs about the way it COULD be. I think he's saying, and i agree, that alot of hip-hop just talks about all the bad stuff and that means black people would get stuck in a never-ending loop.

Indeed. One thing I do like about Kanye is how different his lyrics are. He may be an insufferable prick, but he does tend to talk about complex issues. And Public Enemy...well, that's a power I just can't fight.

Here is the back of a pickup truck that perfectly captures reddit's [je ne c'est quoi.](http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8954/11661255674aba62c37abia0.jpg)

From California...how appropriate.

I love how medical truth is downmodded by stupid pig shit covered peasants. It's a testament to the installation of the new slave race nationwide.

Not as much as I love how someone can link to a post by some anonymous guy on an MMA forum and then declare it to be a "medical truth."

Yeah. One of the more interesting tidbits I read while taking my introduction to Islam class was a quote from the Qur'an that basically said that when God asked Jesus, he would deny that he ever told Christians to worship he and his mother.

I think it just doesn't make sense with the persona of Jesus as presented in the Bible and Quran for him to be a God. It doesn't make sense rationally either. Think about it. If Jesus was a God, then why would he be humble and put himself through that pain and torture and humiliation for the sake of humanity? If God's son (also God) can die as a human, then doesn't that make God NOT all-powerful? Doesn't that make God have a weakness? If God is willing to put himself through the crucifixion for his love of humans, doesn't that imply there is a weakness to God? That to defeat God, or make God bend to the will of humans, we can simply do so by manipulating his love for his creation? That doesn't make sense in the concept of God as I understand it to be viewed in Christianity. I just see a disconnect there that I could never reconcile, nor see reconciled.

http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm1303students/archive/2008/03/21/fat-or-thin-depends-on-who-you-are-of-course.aspx Closest thing I have found to an explanation " As seen in the video, the owl chose get into an aggressive mode when it saw the slightly larger barn owl. The Southern White Faced Scops Owl in the video raised its wings high and pumped up its plumage to increase its volume. This can be seen to be a form of warning to the perceived threat. The threat falls under the range whereby an aggressive stance can be more advantages, hence the owl’s behaviour. On the other hand, with the vastly larger Eagle Owl (please correct me if I’m wrong), the costs involved were too great and the Southern White Faced Scops Owl decided to camouflage itself as a tree branch. This is done so by stretching their body and contracting their plumage, as well as facing their threat with their side profile. This effectively reduces the size of the owl and in turn camouflages it." From the linked article

I think it just saw an American and an Asian, and decided to make fun of each. *Edit*: To downvoters: I'm not making fun of Americans and Asians...the owl is. Don't downmod the messenger.

Student suspended for answering phone call during class. That is what the headline should read. The article states that an exception had been made for this student to carry a cell phone in school because his father was serving in Iraq. That is fine and shows understanding on behalf of the administration. Now I also know teenagers, and I can only imagine this kids attitude when the teach legitimately questioned his action of walking out of the room to answer his cell phone. Nothing wrong with that, teachers are paid to teach and supervise teenagers. I'm guessing, however, that young Mr. Hill did not respond appropriately to his Teacher's questions. The article doesn't discuss this, and it's easy to figure that the article has some holes in it. The headline itself screams that this is a sensational scrip by local media.

RTFA

Ummm, first hand reports are that he yelled, "Allah Akbar" before he began shooting. I think we can start calling this what it is. It was the work of an angry, unstable Jihadist. Like it or not, the role of his religion is relevant.

So why is it that when a Muslim kills someone in the name of their religion, they're just being Muslim, but when a Christian (or other) kills someone in the name of their religion, they're just one crazy aberration in the Christian religion? If a kid wrote down in his diary "I am going to kill these people because I like playing World of Warcraft" before slicing a bunch of classmates up with a sword, would you blame video games, or would you understand the fact that the kid was obviously messed up in the head? Sure, being a Muslim had a part in what he did in the same way that playing violent video games can have a part in a killing if someone is completely unstable. Thing is, like millions of us play video games without killing people, BILLIONS of people subscribe to Islam without doing the same.

I believe the term you're looking for is layman, by the way.

I think lame man is better. I'm going to start using it from now on.

legend has it he once crippled 300 orphans to fuel an AIDS machine with their tears.

I hear he had a house fifteen stories high. And every story in that house? Filled with chicken pie.

how did people know about all those sex positions without porn videos?

Obviously they're struggling to do them comfortably

You know what a snuggie really is? A bathrobe worn backwards.

Except it's not as thick and warm as a bathrobe.

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

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

[This one has just brought tears to my eyes.](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28148)

"It's beautiful," Cassie said. "The cake is beautiful." I loved that line. And [this](http://monaafzal.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/many-onion.gif) made me tear up a bit, recently.

That you dismiss the argument on the grounds that it appeals to intuition only tells me that you have taken it as an appeal to intuition, and then intuitively dismissed it; if you had taken it as an appeal to thinking, you would have thought about it, and dismissed it on some proper grounds instead. You hint at laziness in not reading/replying to the article, and you confirm it in dismissing another article on unrelated grounds.

I've thought about it quite a bit, and my contention is that the entire method of argument is flawed, and is a distraction for a lot of really smart people. We are capable of developing formal models of thought. We have quite a few thanks to the field of computer science. Once a field gets to that level of rigor there shouldn't be appeals to intuition in serious arguments anymore.

Ah, that's because we have both a [funny] sub and a [humor] sub.

make it 3 times, since we also have a WTF section

There are a lot of people who claim to be philosophers or social scientists who really aren't. I think you would be hard pressed to find any of the sort of people Dawkins was discussing in the philosophy department of a decent school. Those sort of people are usually found in the literature or cultural studies departments. I think it is a shame there aren't more real philosophers who are writing books that are accessible to the general public- that might go a long way to demonstrating the difference between the Postmodern asses and real philosophers.

I think that if you dig deeper than the [agreeably uninviting] veneer of the discipline you might [and I might simply be drunk on koolaid here, but I like to think I'm not] just find that there *are* actually valid reasons behind the use of seemingly unnecessarily abstruse language and such. It's fundamentally about the motivation behind the discipline and in what sense exactly it is making claims of truth. I think the problem here is that the vast majority of reddit are coming from a hard science/empirical studies background. You know how annoying it is when people from what we think of as a "french" [continental] philosophy background start being dismissive of the study of science, but in the end it's obvious to us that they simply just don't know shit about what they are talking of? This is precisely the same thing. When you study a field you spend time around other people in that field, read the works of the major thinkers of that field, etc. It's inescapable, but the unfortunate truth is that it also isolates you--to a certain extent at least--from an in-depth understanding of other fields. But hey, we're intellectuals, we're smart, so we want to read the dense stuff. So we do, and it seems like bullshit, so we call it as we see it. It’s incidental snobbery, and it happens on both sides, especially when the very existence of a study depends on a specific [and very much trained] mode of thinking which does not necessarily lend itself well to interdisciplinary analysis*^*. I say this as someone who straddles the two worlds*^^*... I’m in a fairly empirical field of study at a very small school that specializes in critical theory. Most all my friends are majoring in subjects that fall under the umbrella of critical theory. And though I suck at it (I can understand what people are saying but… well… That’s as far as it goes. I never really come up with anything beyond that), I really do enjoy the discipline. As such I've a great deal of experience listening to both camps talk shit about the other, and in the end it seems that most all of the problems can be summarized thus: What it comes down to is the “hard” people expect the “soft” people to be trying to find the same kind of “truth” that they are, and very rarely realize that the definition of “truth” for the soft people might be different from the “truth” they are looking for. And when the soft people look at the hard people they most often make the exact same mistake. If anyone actually reads this (I seem to have come in after the initial flurry of posts) I’ll try and explain/defend a little more, but I just think that people here are succumbing to a bit of echo-chamber thinking. *^*In other words, the questions being asked, the means by which we find answers to those questions, and indeed what exactly it is that we even *consider an answer*--all things so fundamental to our discipline that rarely are we even aware of their existence, and further, all things for which that perception of fundamentality is reinforced every time we partake in an action that uses them--can sometimes be so different from the questions, means, and definitions of someone engaged in a different discipline that often we may simply be incapable of a complete understanding--and therefor a valid interpretation and analysis--of their conclusions... at least not without a hell of a lot of work on our part. *^^*I started out a hard science nut, but as I grew up I also realized I suck at math. So I went somewhere a little bit "softer" and got into Sociology... still not anywhere near as 'soft' as critical theory, but still a little bit to the left of physics.

Screw private health care.

Screw Public Health-care Nurses! SEXUALLY

Hey, it's the page full of guidos **again**! Sweet!

I thought we were going with 'Jersey Douchebags'?

Brocourse.

Is that a bromance language?

Any chance you can dig up a link to that Watts passage? I only recently discovered him (through [reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/8gmmo/alan_watts_in_playboy_december_1973_the_worlds/), of course), and would love to read it.

I know it's from one of his books, and likely one that can't be found online. I can't remember if its from Become What You Are or The Wisdom of Insecurity. If you just discovered Watts I highly, highly, highly recommend the latter!

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Is that the same Kate Beaton as [this one](http://www.barbariangroup.com/employees/kate_beaton?from=2009-03-01&to=2009-03-31)? Because then it is pretty creepy.

I thought I recognized you from page 6, "Man of the Month".

Ah... young love...

Actually, shapechanger makes a good point. We, as humans, want to stop other humans doing stuff which disgusts us. We think our version of what's right and wrong should rule over someone else's.

This is exactly what I'm getting at, but apparently it's being taken more as a personal assault on their beliefs, which I never intended it to be.

Hey voyager had 7 seasons. More to the point It still has many relatively young fans unlike TOS and has never gotten a movie. Or maybe I am just bitter.

A Voyager movie? What would they do, send them BACK to the delta quadrant? A DS9 movie, with the return of Sisko, and something a little more epic than your typical Star Trek plot would be interesting. But Voyager's movie was the series finale.

From a woman, because you seem kind of weird and have a need to affirm whatever any poster says. Which is weird. So. Weirdness might be keeping women away. It is keeping this one from posting, at least.

I generally hate the use of the word weird because I think most people are weird even if they wont admit it to themselves, but after reading through his responses I am going to have to agree with you.

they closed the open questions session fuckers

The first session... Did we ever have these under Bush?

Well, as loathe as I am to admit it, they are a better OS to use Photoshop on and, as a whole, seems to work better with Adobe products. I say this running Photoshop in Vista and having worked in OS9 and OSX for my last job. The dock is nice (of course, you can use Rocketdock to do the same thing) and the way it handles external drives is really nice. Expose is a nifty little trick. They offer products for free with the computer that you'd pay for on PC (or for an equivalent), such as GarageBand and the face recognition software for the photo archiving Mac offers. There's also TimeMachine and their battery charge lasts much longer than any PC I've seen. Since Apple's OS is built on FreeBSD it should be more stable and secure than MS. There really are a lot of little perks to Macs, of course, there are many perks for MS as well. While there are fewer games for Macs, that doesn't matter for some people as they use them for work and graphic design purposes only and there are some programs that are Mac only. Honestly, both Windows and OSX are great OSs that are pretty straight-forward and user friendly. Yes, Macs are pricier, but for some people it's worth it. I say all this, mind you, from a Vista PC that will soon be running Win7 and I love it.

I agree that apple products are superior with digital, video and music editing. From that point onwards it becomes basically opinion. I prefer Vista and XP to what Macs offer, I like my START button in place of a dock. I hope though in Windows 7, they'll have a feature to change back to the traditional Windows toolbar but I don't think they will... They may offer programs for free but just for the sake of argument there are plenty of open source programs for Microsoft products, and if the open source route fails, use the Pirate Bay lol. On the topic of stability, I do find Macs to be more stable but unlike what some fanboys like to say, they do freeze up and crash like every computer and every OS. Like I said up top. It's profession, opinion and preference that determine what people use.

I'm adamant about my old favorites, but I do think there are some cartoons today that are worth watching: * *Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends* - There's something about this show... it's filled with smart humor and enjoyable themes. I love it. * *The Fairly Oddparents* - This cartoon is filled with so many 80s/90s pop culture references; I really don't know how today's children understand it. I feel like the creators wanted to make a cartoon for themselves and had to pass it off to Nickelodeon as a show for the kiddies. * *Chowder* - This show is really odd. But that's what makes it funny. The "I'm not your boyfriend!" song will stick with you. :P The "textured" animation is pretty cool too! * *The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack* - Ridiculous!-- in a good way. Very unique in terms of writing and direction. edit: clarification

Total Drama Action. One of my favorite cartoons EVER, and I'm 21. It is so vaguely adult at times. Its pure canadian genius.

I saw the movie, but apparently I forgot this bit. What was the context?

Uncle Rico talking to Kip bragging about his football years.. "back in 82, I could throw a pig skin a quarter mile... hell, I bet I could throw this football over them mountains!" and later on they are talking about time travel and Rico says he would go back in time to win the state championship... good times...

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

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