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Zach Weiner, if you're reading this, I think that several things that you have drawn have been funny.

But that's not one of them.

Please be aware that Prop 102 in Arizona, which passed, is essentially the same law. I'm hoping it also gets repealed.

And amendment 2 in Florida. Passed with 62%. shameful.

Now if we can just kick Glenn Beck out of San Antonio, today will be alright.

WTF is Glenn Beck doing here?

So if that proof were offered to you; unequivocal proof of the source of your own sentience in purely chemical/physical terms, woul dyou not only throw your money at me, but in fact renounce your spiritualism as fantasy? Or would there be some deeper, root of being layer behind that?

I would follow truth. Truth is the root of Buddhism. Yes, I would follow the absolute truth presented to me. This reminds me of when a particularly petulant neuroscientist asked the Dalai Lama during his conference at Stanford if he would like it if neuroscience could genetically engineer enlightened beings. The Lama's response was "Well, that would be quite nice. In fact, that would be terrific. Please work on that." People don't quite understand that the truly enlightened beings who dedicate that soul and lives to bettering humanity and stopping suffering aren't doing this out of want, but of a need. If humanity wasn't prone to rape and murder and genocide, then the Dalai Lama could enjoy a simple life of marriage and children and simple pleasures. Instead, he and those like him are forced to work against vice and destruction.

**OBAMA** *Illegal Drug War You can believe in too!* Obama does not favor any legalization of marijuana...

:( just found that out myself. What Change?

i *think* you're suggesting there is no "you" which is then made manifest as a physical being by being "born". That assumes you have a particular faith that precludes existence prior to being born. But being "born" could just as well represent the *creation* of "you", in which case it's valid. the parallel is the creation of the universe from the point where time did not exist. /arguing cos it's entertaining but doesn't want to get serious about it. edit: ... oh .. hang on .. by "in the first place" .. you don't mean in time, do you! .. or .. do you?

In reality every 'thing' or 'event' that appear separate are *one* (even *-one-* isn't a correct term but for the sake of argument lets call it so ;-) To the brain they may appear separate and real, but that is an illusion. The brain can only function in 'dualistic mode' because it needs some frame of reference, even if illusory. It creates a false sense of identity (and world-view) mistaking thoughts + memory for 'a mind of its own', but under examination it becomes clear that there is really no-one there. This doesn't mean there is not anything there, but rather that whatever is there is beyond terms like *existence*, *non-existence*, life, death, etc. There really is no separate 'self'.

Dude, it's a fucking sword. You won't even need to use it. When they see you coming, they'll run the other way.

If they have any sense they'll run away. When was the last time you saw a TF2 player that had any sense?

Gross.

Could you elaborate?

Meh.

I agree, it was a bit of a stretch but it popped into my mind as soon as I read the parent to it so I decided to run with it.

I like the homage to Rob Liefeld-style pouches. Edit - In the sense that such things are absurdly silly.

For example... Cable.

Care to share what kinds of things you experience day-to-day?

Just look at Reddit - there's a strong undercurrent here, for example. It's all over the web; I used to read gizmodo until I couldn't take it anymore - too much sexism and objectification, not to mention talking-down to women. I remember they once featured a specific *lady's gadget*. It was a Hello Kitty USB thumb drive. Worst of all, it was only 2 gb, if I recall. It's not *as* bad in person - although we are costantly talked down to or written off there as well. Eventually you either buy into it, which is kinda like Stockholm syndrome, or you get frustrated. It's rough.

Lately I've been telling people that don't want to eat meat (because animals have feelings and low quality of life) that if they don't eat it, then the animal died for nothing and this makes the animal's life and slaughter even more meaningless.

Are you aware of supply and demand?

via Wonkette (http://wonkette.com/404042/mean-lady-doesnt-give-candy-to-obama-supporting-children#comments): War Eagle: Oh, do you mean the Shirley Nagel who lives at 465 Belanger St, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI and whose telephone number is (313) 884-2598? With street view! http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=465+Belanger+St,+mi&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=44.388698,62.314453&ie=UTF8&z=16&g=465+Belanger+St,+mi&iwloc=addr

Congratulations. You have just lowered yourself to her level. Hope I never get to meet you.

One person, but I generally buy premade stuff (TV dinners, canned soups, etc) at the store. As I've said in one of my comments below, I'm sure I could bring it down to much less if I plan ahead (which is the purpose of this thread, to find recipes so I can lower the cost of my food shopping).

Banquet frozen meals: 10 for $10.

Oh this is great. I just read this yesterday and couldn't wait for a chance to use it. From "Heretics of Dune": There was this drylander who was asked which was more important, a literjon of water or a vast pool of water? The drylander thought for a moment and then said "The literjon is more important. No single person could own a great pool of water. But a literjon you cold hide under your cloak and run away with. No one would know." -The Jokes of Ancient Dune Bene Gesserit Archives

was this one of the captions on the top? I always reread those books and tell myself I'm going to read every one, and then I forget sometime along and stop reading em.

They should delve more into the back catalog. "Special Editions" of EPIC Pinball and One Must Fall would be, well, epic.

Pinball? Personally I think Jazz Jackrabbit is the best game Epic's ever made. That game was fun.

When you said "flat earthers" i thought you were referring to creationists, not actual flat earthers who are not only uncommon but may not even exist anymore. There are a few fixed Earthers, but that's a slightly different brand of stupidity. However one does not have to be Christian to be creationist, a great many Muslims are creationists as well. More to the point, your numbers are wrong. Most polling indicates that around 60% of the US population believe in young Earth creationism. If you include the "theistically guided evolution" subset, that figure rises to over 80% of the US population. Leaving only 20% of the population to advocate for reality. Yes, there are religionists who are not anti-evolution, but at last among Christians they aren't the majority. To the best of my knowledge Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism and Sikhism have no objection to evolution. Judaism, as a whole, appears to be accepting of evolution with only (as always) the Haredi and their supporters holding out for insanity and medieval thinking. Christianity and Islam are the only religions I can name where the majority of believers supports Creationism, and indeed will tell you quite bluntly that you are wrong and that it isn't possible to be Christian and disbelieve parts of the Bible. To the majority of Christians you're apostate.

The Catholic Church has no problem with evolutionary theory and most of their followers (from my experience, I don't have any statistics) seem to agree. Considering Catholics make up 40-50% of worldwide Christians, I don't think it's fair to say the "majority" of Christianity disbelieves in evolution. But otherwise I agree.

My guess is that it would be cheapest to leave the AB plant right where it is.

Oh I agree, at least in the short term, though there's a lot more to AB than just the plant in St Louis. I'd love to know the logic of the downmods against me.

I think you're missing the point where this is all *speculation*. You're also missing the point where the article **did not** blame the video game. You should be happy, not argumentative.

Happy doesn't seem appropriate. The kid is dead after all. It's good that this particular article is more about gun-safety than video-game danger, but for the Halo idea to have any credibility at all it seems to me that *something* more than a wild guess is needed. Other articles seem satisfied to blame it squarely on Halo, and this seems to be poor journalism and not something to be glad about. After all, i guess kids in the US played with guns before Halo was available. It may not be related at all. However, yeah, this article is better than the others I have seen.

Awesome, I didn't notice this was in humor... thought it was legit until the helmet remover

I thought it was odd ideas for siege weapons that people once tried and didn't realize its humor until you said it.

Why all the downvotes?

This video is positively ANCIENT

I'm tempted to just link you to other discussions because there's been a lot of debate about this recently on reddit. Atheists don't need to close out the remote possibility of god. They just don't think there is one and thus reject theism. A strong atheist will strongly reject the possibility of a god, but not all atheists do this. You can be an agnostic and an atheist at the same time. Agnostic is about what you "know" or don't "know" to be true. Atheism is about what you "belive" to be true, or assume to be true as a guiding principle. The two terms have multiple definitions and connotations.

I always thought an agnostic was a person who is still questioning and entertaining the possibility of a God, but an atheist is a person who already has their mind pretty much made up, they are quite sure they really don't believe that God exists, or a soul or anything else supernatural or spiritual for that matter. I've met agnostics who have told me they believe there is a "spiritual realm" and that we have souls, but they don't believe in a God, then I ask if they believe in angels or other spirits and some people say yes, and others say no.

It's nothing to do with the hardware, did you even read my post? It's the tying of the iPod to iTunes. This was a deliberate effort on Apples part to limit interoperability. Every time someone hacks it they issue an update to "fix" it. It is their intention that anyone who buys from iTunes will forever remain an Apple customer. That is abusing your position.

vendor lock-in is hardly the same thing as a monopoly. this is a common practice that I don't really like too much, **BUT** if Apple had not have done that, then today you'd have about 4 major online 'retailers' with a tiered rental structure (similar to cellular plans) allowing you to listen to music that you never really own. I don't like the lock in either, but they would've never broken the back of the recording industry without it.

A [comic artist](http://comics.drunkduck.com/KISS_4K_the_webcomic/pages/077107bd4c09e847cf7389afecfc7c2d.jpg), eh? How's that going?

It was going great up until they stopped paying me. :( I'm working on other things now, including a graphic novel version of [this movie](http://www.yesterdaywasalie.com), [this novel](http://www.elysianchronicles.com/AProphecyForgotten.htm), and a secret project with [this band](http://www.myspace.com/cockpit). I've also finally decided to restart my [personal project](http://locus.keenspot.com/), which you shouldn't read at work, or in the presence of small children or old ladies.

Well...yes, I am glad that /christianity isn't suffering from this problem. Enjoy. But posts like this are common in /atheism and we'd really appreciate less harassment. Just sayin'...

If you have to go looking for it, is it really harassment?

Well, I think it *is* going to cause some confusion. See...the monitor on your computer is already called the 'monitor'. Now if they start calling the computer 'monitor' as well, I think a lot of people will be confused about that.

Captain_obvious?

UPVOTE so the people know what's up

Clouds?

Did you know there's a [dr. who subreddit?](http://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/)

yay :D *added*

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_(scooter) ^ | WTF is this shit? -------------------------| Edit: Alright here we go [Razor Scooter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_\(scooter\)) A little history about this post, I originally started trying to do this the markdown way saw the issue with the parenthesis but didn't think to use a backslash. Then I just tried to use a standard link, then I tried putting backslashes in the link on its own and then finally heffocheffefer was kind enough to point out that that only works when you use the markdown way. My question is this, why oh god why was this such a chore? Surely there are simpler ways to handle this or even parse out which parenthesis are part of formatting and which are not (add one to a parenthesis count everytime you hit a '(' and subtract one whenever you find a ')') I don't know I didn't write the code for it so I don't know what's going on behind the scenes but seriously there are so many ways that this could be made simpler.

This has got to be 4chan's doing. Nobody really thinks that she's qualified, right?!

At least 3 gun forums that I browse have a link to this poll. It is rigged. All the republitard gun owners love the fact that she was seen with a M4 type rifle. Gun people think she's the best thing after sliced bread and that Obama is going to take away all their guns and give them to Muslims or something. Oh yeah, and I forgot -- raise everyone's taxes and give all the money to illegals. You can't argue with these people. I have given up on politics and how dense the majority of the US is. I still vote though. P.S. I am a gun owner myself, but I'm a libertarian and I will be voting for Obama in this election.

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Let us know if you hear anything -- and good luck in your deployment.

Wow and those fucking morons only gave him 40 seconds. Seriously, what can *they* do that is even remotely on par with his performance? EDIT: let me guess, they then went on to elect some 14-year-old who performed a song by Mariah Carey without hitting a single note.

The singers always win in the end. Other acts, however jaw-dropping they may be, get 'boring' after 2-3 times. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdgffnf8Hfw), for example.

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.

Those guys did AMAZING perfect harmonies long before there was autotune software that producers could use to put people in tune. The real deal.

You were listening to NPR the other day too, huh?

budum chsh.

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

Also according to fox, obama is a muslim terrorist and sarah palin is the most articulate, intelligent, savvy, and inspiring candidate ever in the history of politics. So yeah, I don't need an irresponsible blurb from fox regarding a presidential race eight years ago with incredibly seperate dynamics to give me the landscape of the election today. As far as I'm concerned, if fox news thinks this election is close than that's the best indicator it's a lock for Obama. Also, I do believe it turned out that Gore did win the most votes, by the way.

oops, that did come out a bit pro-Fox News/anti-Obama didn't it. I wasn't watching it on purpose, I swear.

Someone is going to say it so it may as well be me: correlation does not imply causality.

Came here to say it. After psych classes its almost a knee jerk to yell "CORRELATION ISN'T CAUSATION" at articles like this. thanks.

Have you looked at some of those PDFs in the file? Advocacy of certain scientific outcomes is not indicative of a good "scientist".

I haven't. Can you share anything that you found particularly critical of their methods? I don't disagree with your last statement, but, if a peer found that the speed of light was 80 mph, I would be totally within rights to advocate that he redo his experiments, to achieve an outcome more in line with the best understanding. Or to try to explain his *completely unexpected* results. Right?

Do you think it was jury-nullification? Everyone keeps telling me important that is.

I'm not sure if that's a serious question or sarcastic -- I'll treat it like it is, since lots of people probably don't know what you're talking about. Jury nullification is not a well understood right, to say the least, outside of the political geek community. Essentially, you can vote 'not guilty' even when you believe the person to be guilty of the crime if you believe the law that defines the crime to be immoral/unethical. In this case, I don't think most people would find negligent homicide to be an immoral or unethical, so no... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

Logged in to ask the same thing: **mid-December** ? What did they use -- a P4 ? What are they switching now to -- a datacenter ?

First they need to translate the downtime message into 16 or so languages. Then and only then can the work on fixing the issue.

Yep, only child here and I pretty much feel the same way. @squidelicious: Sure people should be able to do whatever they want with their genitalia but they should be aware that if she were to get pregnant their child would have an increased risk of birth defects (a.k.a. deformed/retarded) so hopefully they take the necessary precautions.

Actually, interestingly the birth defect rate does not increase much for having an incestuous relationship: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2008/05/19/incest-and-delayed-motherhood.aspx Although, that was a study of first cousins and not brother and sister. In addition to this, there's a whole island of people who basically committed incest and they are still thriving: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands Now, don't get me wrong, I don't agree with incest necessarily, but i think the old birth defect reasoning is a little antiquated. Especially when we add in modern medicine to the equation.

Never mind charging Mr Murray, give that man a medal

If he should be charged with anything it should be for not doing enough! Those kids will live to do this again, if you know what I mean.

People starve for political reasons, not because there's no way for them to grow their own food or buy it from elsewhere. For example, in [Malawi](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/world/africa/02malawi.html) the World Bank was preventing the government from subsidizing the use of fertilizer, so they famine problems. Then their new president said "Fuck that!" and started subsidizing fertilizer, now they have surplus that they're selling to the World Food Program. Just look at any place where there's famine, and you'll find some kind of government causing it. And a lot of times they'll be actively preventing famine relief from programs such as the one you're suggesting.

Famine isn't always a government thing. Long term droughts can cause food shortages. If there is no drought, then yeah, the famine is a political thing.

[One more](http://i.imgur.com/RIPUG.jpg)

Ooookay that ass is fantastic. Do want!

This extreme is not needed. If you provided free condoms/birth control/vasectomies/abortions to the poor, most people in poverty would be happy not to have more children. Also, a cash incentive for voluntary sterilization would be wildly popular, especially among drug addicts. Why go into the ethical murkyland of taking away reproductive freedom if you don't have to?

i like castrating dudes?

HD (720p) streams on veetle. Linked at http://atdhe.net/

Fuck yeah. Please take all my upvotes. I insist.

My old, similarly inspired ones: http://imgur.com/EayfJ.png http://imgur.com/HPLg8.jpg

Wow. These are some very artsy ffffffuuuuuuus you've got going. Kinda warhol meats pollack. Keep up the good work.

Why does everyone act like your a Nazi if you dare to suggest that illegal aliens are a burden on the healthcare and social services system.

This is in response to my comment above?

FOURTH.

No, [FORTH](http://www.flickr.com/photos/wearyourhair/349917567/sizes/o/)

Yeah I'd rush right back to return my canesword. Would be shitty to go through airport security with that thing though. I doubt they would believe you when you told them you didn't know.

Its a poor idea, Caneswords are worth more than regular canes. You are better off trying to sell or get a new one.

Why can't the Dragonball franchise do this.. that'd be so much better than the mediocre games they've churned out over the last few years.

Because it'd take three weeks to do one boss battle.

brilliant I wonder who it'll be for us... Oh my god, it's Rick Astley. Holy shit I died a little just thinking about it.

The sad unfortunate answer? Probably either spears or timberlake. They pretty much defined pop music for this generation. edit: I could also see either going off the deep end, a la Elvis or MJ

So the boss would not think he was faking it, obviously.

This is a perfect example for the following fact: *Explanation* does not equal *justification*. Just because someone has a reason doesn't mean he's not guilty.

I already said where you were contradicted, but this is silly: * You said: *"He is trying to take this kid away from the family that raised him"* * But in fact, *"A former girlfriend, unable to cope with the demands of motherhood, had handed the boy over to foster parents"* Enough of this nonsense! The Daily Mail *is* a published newspaper; it's been around for over 110 years and is the UK's second biggest selling newspaper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail Quit your crazy talk!

Those two sentences do not contradict. The mother handed the boy over to foster parents some time ago. Do you think that was a recent event? His mother gave him up YEARS ago. She didn't raise him. He has been in foster care for most of his life. "finally, in 2006, the couple who were eventually to adopt him came forward" He has been bonding with his new family almost 3 years now. (BTW, he is now 5, meaning the mother gave him up before he was 2, since that is when the adoptive family came forward. He was in foster care before that. The article doesn't say for how long.) The Daily Mail is a tabloid. Mail Online I'd call a webzine. Hey, you should read the "editorial stance" section of that wiki article for some information on their bias.

Did that comic just trick me into reading something completely useletss and stupid in the hopes that I will assign some value to it and upmod it? Cause I think it did, and it didn't work!

Yet it still made the front page :O

I don't like the pitch of your voice

And your voice makes me YAWn. I bet you're one of them fur-ners that wears a turbine.

ummmm this upsets you why? Do you also think that Ron White in constantly drinking alcohol on the BC comedy tour?

Yes. Ron White strikes me as a legitimate alcoholic, but I guess you never know.

use this term: socialist anarchism because that describes it; it has nothing to do with modern libertarianism, it has to do with the old french definition of libertarianism which meant anarchist. just as liberal has two meanings, libertarianism has two meanings.

so wouldn't the old usage be correct and the modern usage be a bastardization of what the term really means, why shouldn't you have to say anarcho-capitalist, why do you get to coopt the term libertarian?

Additionally Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the 3rd major party in the UK, is [an atheist](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7151346.stm)

Isn't Miliband an atheist as well.

Unapologeticly 'inspired' by Zero Punctuation, but with better visuals. Still funny tho.

Zero Punctuation does it better. This wasn't fast enough.

I find it hard to believe that they actually believe that it is a human. Just that it deserves human rights. The doctors and scientists who feel that way, probably just realize that there is no convincing evidence either way, and no clear definition of human. They would see the null hypothesis as the fertilized egg as human. I don't think that this idea is really that extreme, understanding that we really don't know shit about it. I believe that a fetus is probably not **a human**, although it is **human**. But my beliefs are irrelevant, we don't know anything about it. So, what do you guys think, what is the null hypothesis? Why?

I, along with everyone else, know that a unique living human is created at the moment of conception. It is not a matter of private opinion. It is called biology. This is the only conclusion the data allows. It has to do with 23 pairs of chromosomes containing DNA, the information that describes the development and maintenance of our bodies and our minds. In fact these chromosomes are how we can tell that a cell is of a human and not a cow. (Of course the bible denies this, in the bible someone isn't alive until they have a soul, which is when they draw their first breath, so we can but wonder at where these Christians are getting their ideas). Questions of personhood are, quite frankly, not open to anyone's opinion. *Godwin Warning*: As soon as someone or some group thinks that they can decide when a bundle of human cells is a `person' it then becomes a matter of personal opinion. And we've seen what happens when people decide that you are a non-person. All sorts of foolish `distinctions' have been made between a human with personhood and one without such as: Sentience. It's alright to kill someone if they can't feel pleasure or pain. Hell Yeah! Let's anaesthetise people and kill them! Consciousness. According to this measure we should wait until someone is in non-rem sleep and then we are free to kill them. Viability. If you can't survive in an environment for which you are not equipped you are not `viable'. A conceptus is equipped to obtain its nutritional needs from its mother's body and this will remain true for some time after birth, up until the human is `weaned'. If you put *anyone* in an environment for which they are not equipped they will die. All the other `reasons' can be similarly dismissed. That said I am pro-choice as well as pro-life. I support women's, (and men's), sexual and reproductive freedom. Those freedoms include **rights and responsibilities**. I agree with the Amnesty International stance. A woman should have the right, (and facilities should be provided), to terminate a pregnancy for health reasons, (both hers and the foetus), and in the cases of rape and incest. Outside of this I support a woman's right and responsibility not to get pregnant unless she wants children. (And yes, this means research on non-consenting humans is out of the question). PS. I am an agnostic atheist. PPS. One can propose that an embryo represents an `ideal human'. In this way rather than destroying embryos that are left over from fertility treatment one would ask, "If I was that embryo, (or if that embryo was an ideal human), would I want to help mankind or be destroyed for no reason?". My answer would be, "Use me to help and to heal". This is one exception that I can think of. There may be others.

They have a constitutional right to advertise under the First Amendment. That is something to be proud of. Even though on the fringes some speech can be harmful or misleading, I'd rather we all have the right, rather than just a select few.

You might want to look up the difference between free expression and commercial speech. There are plenty of restraints on commercial speech, and rightly so.

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

Indeed, in a TNG episode, Lt. Barclay remained conscious while completely disassembled and whirling around in the pattern buffer. The explosive philosophical implications of this fact seemed lost on all my (also Trek-fan) friends around me. I was stunned and bemused.

You and I are normally about as far apart on most issues as is humanly possible to be, but on this one, I fully agree with you. That sentence struck me as troubling as well.

Random searches of Citizens by Police = Police State. Our only protection at this stage: "so many people so few policemen". During recent discussions about Bill C-15, I had been arguing *for* MMS for drug and gun dealers, child porn and human traffickers. At the same time arguing for the decriminalization of Marijuana for the simple user. All of that was predicated upon the Police showing up in Court with cast iron evidence legally obtained. This ruling changes everything and I find that I can no longer support MMS for anyone. This is a surprise ruling by the SCC and I will need to find out more about it. It is wisely said: "Politics makes strange bedfellows" :)

Yes. Since those traditions do not hold a belief that god exists, they would be atheistic philosophies. You could call the ones that believe supernatural stuff like reincarnation religions even. But they would still be atheists.

So what exactly is this God entity that you atheists don't believe in? If I'm a pantheist, am I also an atheist?

Yea, but they *can't*—the only time I've seen a smoker actually succeed at incapping a survivor is when the survivor was already separated or the survivors were distracted by the massive influx of zombie and the two hunters who were ravaging their teammates.

They *can,* but a tight team of survivors will win every time.

so you're for the idea of one group to have a monopoly on the education of our children?

I'm for the opposite. Atheism is a lack of theism, it is a negative, not one group, no monopoly. Secularism is merely a seperating or compartmentalizing of religion from other things. Secular teachers don't have to be nonbelievers. Years ago, when my mother was a fundamentalist Christian, instead of relying on bibilical child-rearing advice, she took parenting classes, one of the rules of which was against mentioning religion. I doubt anyone in the class was an atheist. It simply kept the education educating, genuine, useful, on track, less shallow, & less biased. Religion is not a source of education. Parents may send their kids to private schools (preventing monopoly), but not religious schools (preventing miseducation & systemic idiocy).

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Link or it didn't happen

Everyone should learn to lighten up at an early age. Nobody really gives a shit about those around them so stressing it is ridiculous.

All the hours in middle school i worried about having public boners, when I should have worn them like a badge.

Yeah... where I live we have guns, and nobody is going to forcibly stick a needle into my arm without having a bullet stuck into their brain. Dude, forced blood drawing is some SERIOUS 1984 shit.

Are you willing to die for your beliefs? Because if you pull a gun on a police officer, you *will* die. If that's an acceptable outcome, then I applaud you for your bravery. If not, you might want to tone down the bluster just a little bit. (Before you ask, I mostly share your beliefs, but I'm part pragmatist on my father's side.)

If they were rich they wouldn't have to come up with stunts like this to get publicity.

Unless they were members of the Hilton family.

They both share the same script. Kanji, anyone?

Not 100% the same, and certainly doesn't make it the same language.

What I think I am looking for right now: 1.) RTS - I am a huge fan of RTS games like Command and Conquer Games 2.) Realistic Units - this is where some games turn me away, allowing you to advance to 'future' ages with robots and such 3.) A WIDE array of units - I have been playing C&C Generals: Zero Hour with the Cold War Crisis mod, which is fun but I am growing tired of that specific mod 4.) Excellent Skirmish gameplay - I don't really like playing through stories. I am more of the 'build a base and fight to the death' guy. 5.) I do love FPS games but I like 'Army' based ones, not ones where you are wearing a suit infiltrating the Governors Ball. 6.) Long enough interest value and replay value so I won't grow tired of it in a day Games I have installed: - Most of the Command and Conquer Games (RA, RA2, RA3, Generals, Tiberian Sun) - James Bond - Quantum of Solace - Call of Duty 4 (which I enjoyed the single player for but it ended too quickly leaving me wanting more, and the Multiplayer is just too repetitive) Some interests I have: - World War 2: I think WWII games are absolutely awesome, whether it be FPS or RTS - Choice: I love when I can make decisions in gameplay, like a wide array of weapons, vehicles, units, buildings, etc - Modern Combat: Battlefield 2 was a success in my book, I loved it. Games I have played through and loved: - Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic - Call of Duty 4 - Metal of Honor: AA - Call of Duty 2 - Command and Conquer: Generals - Jedi Knight 2 - Battlefield 2 - Saints Row and Grand Theft Auto(s) And here I am, wanting to play a game, wanting it to fit in what I am interested in yet not just be a clone of everything I have already played. Suggestions?

Right now I'm thinking of the Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2. Go look at it, I think you'll be surprised. Check out videos of version 0.8 - 0.7 and the rest don't stack up.

HEB is awesome. We don't have em in dallas, but my gf is in college station where there are a few. all we have is walmart

Central Market is the upscale HEB. I know there is one in Plano and likely elsewhere.

you know, in the grand scheme of things it really isn't that bad... it's not healthy, but it's not like a sniper shooting a girl in the heart. Cats are almost at vermin levels. would anybody give a shit if it were rats?

Wow there are a lot of assholes running rampant on Reddit, i see. Don't you belong at Digg or something? If I had to choose between the life of my cat or the life of a girl I don't know, I'm choosing the cat. Humans are vermin, by any definition of the word.

Yeah, maybe I should have. Oh well I really don't mind it all that much. Am downloading the new version now... (straight from the servers again, I've got my reasons for not getting it on torrent ;-) )

Not to be argumentative or nosy, but I'm curious: What ARE those reasons? I find with something like a Linux ISO, I almost universally get better speeds from the torrents.

Flipside?

Sorry, I should say; don't you think that's a bit of a silly comment?

So now you come back to poison the well?

You realize that is my very point about you, yes?

It's fairly common to find germinated seeds inside store tomatoes and it's b'c they've been held at cool temps for a very long time. The gold/red bicolors are also prone to germionating seeds inside the flesh. Yes, there is a germonation inhibitor in the gel sac around each seed but its purpose is in the natural life cycle of the tomato. Meaning, when fruits fall to the ground in the Fall that inhibitor prevents the seeds from germinating but come Spring when conditions are more favorable we see those germinated seeds as volunteers. Only a small percentage of those overwintered seeds end up as volunteers/ Carolyn [-Source-](http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tomato/msg101852437749.html)

1) Don't refrigerate your tomatos 2) if you do, and they get too cold, and then you take them out of the fridge, and let them sit for long enough, they will sprout.

You can write in anyone you want. Yes.

No. You can't. Only those who registered as a write-in candidate in your state can be written in. Any other names are not counted, the ballot is counted just as if you had double-punched it or otherwise invalidated it.

Body is nice, face is like a fucking camel.

I thought it was more like a bird, with that huge beak she has.

I need some advice from fellow christians. I grew up going to church, and I "got saved" when I was 8 years old while attending an AWANA club, and held on to my faith for years after that not really bothered by anything. I started questioning things a little more when I was about 15 or 16, and a vast number of things started to bother me, I still want to believe in God, but God seems dead to me, I get no answers to my prayers, I get no "feeling" like someone is watching over me, I don't really feel inspired when I read the bible, people in church talk about a "personal relationship" with jesus, and it seems laughable to me, because I haven't experienced any such thing. It really seems like the only reason I still go to church is because of my friends and family. I would be happy enough to believe in God if it would just sit right with me, but it just doesn't seem to work. Have any of you ever been in a position like this?

Read [this](http://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Revolution-Living-Ordinary-Radical/dp/0310266300). Its very entertaining as well. Speaks well to the younger crowd. (I basically mean it won't be one of those "boring ol books." Not that other suggestions are boring. It just might be easier to get into)

what power?

The power of voodoo!

He's got two dicks. So what?

Who doesn't?

Damn - when I saw them on the Lateralus tour in Tucson, they had Mike Patton (in his Tomahawk guise) up there in a police officer uniform drawing the mic next to the monitor intentionally making horrible feedback. I understand performance art, but it was painful.

Dude, I was at the Phoenix show! I saw them w/ Tomahawk as well. And while great...I really would have liked to have seen KC.

Seriously, how retarded do you have to be to do that? Good thing I have the memory of a goldfish and forgot it by the time I read all of it.

Gentlemen, gentlemen. (Ladies?) I had to post it that way to pique your interest!

This is something that only those from the VGA/Greater mainland will appreciate, but I think we need a specific subreddit for Surrey.

What's the difference between a Surrey girl and a man?

Are the Movyes goyng to get any better?

Hey, those terrible movies are important! They keep Lou Diamond Phillip's and corey Nemic's kids from starving to death. if not for those movies, where would Stephen Baldwin win new converts to Christ?! Have you even thought about Stephen Baldwin's feelings? You monster.

This makes me mad, but when I take a step back what's the alternative? Would we have all felt better if AIG had failed after receiving our bailout money?

No. I'd have felt better if the funds they received were very heavily regulated, along with the other TARP bailouts. This money should have gone to creating more lines of credit and more jobs, helping the consumer rather than people at the top of these failing companies.

*Solaris* (Tarkovsky version)

Best scifi movie ever, IMO.

Annnnnnd you've gone for the mass media characterization of gamers as kids. Good work.

Really, its about the gameplay style. Fallout was a PC from the ground up game, its controls, inventory, gameplay were all designed to maximize its use on a PC. The game would be horrible if you tired to play it on a gamepad. Fallout 3 is "kiddy" in that sense, it was restructured to make it console friendly, and . The big kicker is that it isn't an overhead game, making Fallout 3 a FPRPG is akin to making Halo 4 a third person shooter, the fanbase may take umbridge, and they did. So all you people who think that those who cared about the game for years should just STFU even though the spirit of the old game was sacrificed to make it console friendly need to have your heads examined.

You can assume that. But sadly, I'm not that creative. It looks like this: http://imgur.com/GxrLP.jpg

If I mail you a pipe-cleaner reddit alien or FSM, will you stick it on there?

If ya know what I mean.

Nudge nudge. Snap snap. Grin grin, wink wink, say no more?

It is round and red, and when you put your mouse over it it displays a bonus comic.

You didn't answer his question. I'll answer his question: yes.

THIS IS NOT FLASH. I HAVE BEEN LIED TO. CAPITAL LETTERS

Yeah, I was like: "Oglaf Flash Cartoons? Gimme that!"

http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/showthread.php?s=57a9f302181265f83cee2eb14b5e66f4&t=60265 Posted July 6th http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60028 Posted July 3rd

Good thing I didn't call you a liar, I would have felt silly then. In all fairness though it isn't really linkable news until the situation is condensed and posted on an actual news site. This appears to have happened around august 12th so a megagames article on the 16th isn't reposting old news. We all aren't privy to the information discussed on obscure forums for the games fans of which judging by your username you clearly are.

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Thank you. Please let's get the state out of our families and bedrooms.

But given the status quo it should at least equally be in everyone's families and bedrooms. While I agree that the state should not have the authority to grant and revoke marriage licenses, I think this argument has no place in the homo-marriage policy. Equal treatment is a separate issue from whether or not there is treatment. It's sad that Libertarians fail to see value in arguing both and turning a shoulder to equality leaves me turning a shoulder to Libertarians.

Good old quad penetration.

DVDA. Let's just hang out, you and me and my three friends.

I played The Oregon Trail on the internet the other day... my elementary school computer-lab pastime really sucked cocks.

'TheStripper' has died of exhaustion. I guess it is possible.