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Yeah, doesn't mean I have to buy it. I never got that lie, that advertising makes me subconsciously have to buy something. Are people that weak willed?

Yes, yes they are. You are too. You thinking you can not be subconsciously swayed makes you their tool. The point of those studies was to expose our weakness. Assume you are also susceptible, stay self aware, and you might be able to stop being a marketers dream.

I've never really had the chance to compare, but just out of curiosity, why do you consider a show like this better in HD? Are jokes funnier when you can count the pores on a man's nose?

No, I really have no idea. It just bugs me. It's like, dude is in LA, in the same studio as The Price is Right. Get him an HD camera or two.

Probably the time I accidentally a fleshlight. I'll probably never live that down.

Probably the time I accidentally a fleshlight. what does this mean?

Congratulations! You have made it to the *Internet*! Now, please consider that while things may be new to you, the rest of us have seen them 1,000 times over the last *decade*. If you are unsure if the item is actually new because it lacks context or a timestamp, it's probably very very old and you should avoid posting it.

Congratulations. You have just outed yourself as someone who spends too much time online. I've *never* seen that picture before today.

So, as you can tell by my loads of commenting, I reddit a lot. Which implies a plethora of a freetime, which implies a lack of "a life". This worries me, not so much of what my family says or *vis-a-vis* my friends, but because I'm only this young once, and I don't wanna have pissed my years away doing nothing. I wasn't always this dull, but I don't like to party/go to bars since I quit drinking and graduated college. My friends either party or get high and WoW it up. I've had a couple jobs, but that just keeps me busy, it doesn't really advance anything. I've got an idea of what I want to do, but I can't get back into school until May or September, and my life is sorta like Dustin Hoffman in the graduate minus the milf sex and folk music. So what is a life? What do you do to occupy your time socially? What do you wish you did at this age (22)? What would you recommend doing?

Take calculated risks - it paid off for me.

Marxist theory says you need the mega-state before you can get true freedom - along the lines of "we'll just be a dictatorship long enough to set up the endless stateless utopia." This is a perfect plan with no conceivable flaws.

"Marxist theory says you need the mega-state before you can get true freedom" He never said anything about the 'mega-state', you literally just invented that term. Massive Nationalisation was a Leninist addition to Communist ideas. "along the lines of "we'll just be a dictatorship long enough to set up the endless stateless utopia." Marx never called for a dictatorship in the way you are using the word, centralisation of power was a Leninist addition (again) and at the time Lenin died he was attempting to restore democracy, so you could say the Dictatorship of 1929 onwards was a Stalinist concept. Marx called for a Dictatorship of the Proletariat where the Proletariat were the predominant class (rather than a Dictatorship of the Bourgoisie which, according to Marxism, we have now), he was also quite firm on it being democratic - more democratic than the 'democracies' we operate in the West now. So...none of what you said actually referred to Marxism.

That's a weird metric since only one person can really be "using" it at a time..

They make double-ended vibrators.

Edit 2: My invitation came through today. Unfortunately it seems that only the original [first tier] Wave users were allowed to send invites. Regretfully, I don't have any to send out at this time and I don't know when/if I will. Here is a tweet from Stephanie of the Wave team: *"Recent invitees do not get to invite others. We will grow from sign-ups and the invite queue. Active users might get invite wave later ..."* http://twitter.com/twephanie Original Post: Google Wave is a precedent in my thesis work, which I won't get into here. I would really appreciate an invite to try it out. I promised one other person an invite if I got them. I'll give the other 7 away to redditters. http://scr.im/z58 EDIT: elquesogrande sent me an invite (Thanks!), though he says it will likely be days before it activates. I will send mine out as soon as I can. Based on most up-votes (at time of first posting this) and sorting oldest first, the 7 redditers I will be sending invites to are: Synth3t1c ndbevan NextDoorBuddha bncunome tomj durdentyler popsicle Please let me know if you are on my list, but have already received an invite from someone else.

er, why won't you get into your thesis work? with all these ppl interested in google wave, could be interesting!

Yeah, and why wasn't James Harrison thrown out of the game for sitting on the AZ player and punching him, before getting up and throwing him to the ground? This was one the kick to the 1, and the punching happened before change of possession.

what a disgrace! both for him and the referees

this stupid site fools me every time

Yeah, this is the second time I've been taken in by them. Someday I'll learn, but probably not anytime soon. ;-)

Shaq would kick his ass...and I would pay money to see it.

That is false. What is with all these sports guys wanting to fight Hong Man Choi?

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer wait for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumes, "What's with these guys? We've been waiting for 15 minutes!" The pastor says, "Hey, here comes the groundskeeper. Let's have a word with him." "Say, George, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" the doctor asks. The groundskeeper tells them that the other golfers are a group of blind firefighters who lost their sight saving the clubhouse from a fire and that they come and play for free whenever they want. The group is silent for a moment. The pastor says, "That's so sad. I will say a special prayer for them tonight." The doctor says, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them." The engineer says, "Why can't these guys play at night?"

Probably cause that's when they sleep. This reply brought to you by the punchline over-analyzer.

They've now also banned the homeless from being on the light-rail. Buses are for the homeless, light-rail is for the affluent. Like an organic grocery store... Heaven help them if they can't get into the city to get to the soup kitchens and missions.

Seriously? I've been working out of town for about 6 months, so I'm unaware of this. How do they determine homelessness on the rail? Or do you mean the transit police run them off of rail property? It's a bit ironic that the only light rail in Houston runs from downtown to the Medical Center.

and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Lets see how long you can go for, bark doggie bark.

I applaud you for appreciating healthy women who are full-figured and curvy. Judging by the comments here, I just hope that shallow, insensitive guys aren't the only ones who like smaller girls.

Hold on a sec... What makes you think a guy that has a preference for heavier is somehow "deeper" than a guy that prefers thinner women? This is one subject that has always kind of irked me. A guy that prefers a heavy woman is not automatically a nice and caring guy who doesn't care about looks. Chances are, he does care about looks, he just doesn't prefer those looks to be "heroin chic" or "toothpick". Likewise, a guy that prefers thin women is not automatically "shallow".

You can unsubscribe from the atheist subreddit ya'know. Because right now you are "bashing a group" that you "don't understand".

...feelings...whoa-o-oh feelings

Good guess :-) I'll write out "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", too, so people find this... but we don't usually do that because we're all engineers/scientists (and a few artists and other random majors) so we can't spell...

How is RPI? I applied there but they rejected me =(

Now you're just trying to annoy me.

Well no, you defined probably as "without much doubt". The fact that there's nothing to suggest anything exists outside of myself is enough doubt. Btw, my position is the basis of the scientific method, as established by Descartes.

Your question smells like a troll, sir.

Difficult questions are troll questions?

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. You want people to go green? Put green in their pocket. When it benefits them directly and in visible/measurable ways to change their behaviors, then they WILL change VERY fast. From Ayn Rand's philosophy, selfishness works...and true selflessness is ineffectual.

So why aren't people doing the things like green renovations that pay off in less than a year, then keep saving? Sorry Ayn, real people favor laziness and habit over profit maximization.

So? is it legal to do that on a public beach in the states?

2 years in jail illegal or huge fine illegal? BTW: there was no intercourse.

I played this a year ago or so. It was pretty fun but got old after a while. Never had the chance to play it against any humans. Worth the download, though, for anybody wondering.

That's a pity. The game is definitely built around head to head play. The struggle between tentacles of rickity tiles festooned with tactical structures is great great fun. I am going to log on right now and see if any of this crowd has made it online yet.

What about the Spies and Scouts? How did they behave?

Valve has not made Spy/Scout bots yet

Care to explain what 3d ray tracing has to do with sound?

Current "3d soundcards" merely position sounds in an empty 3d space. But in reality something you hear bounces off things before it reaches you. For example the washing machine I hear now is not visible to me, since it's downstairs and then in a room separate from the corridor. It works much like light. The European IP-RACINE project seems to be about the only one working on this.

Weezer...? :/

Rivers has been on a quest to write the perfect pop song for many many years, I'm not at all surprised he wrote with this guy.

can it just die already? please?

I honestly don't mind twitter. As long as I'm not using it, it's not there to annoy me. What's your problem with twitter which can't be fixed by not using it? Or do you mean der Untergang parodies?

The card idea is excellent, but I think that, in practice, you are going to be even less enthused by it. Would you like an angry christian waving cards at you and your manager making you go through every religous book in the store, looking for these things?

In theory, no, but in reality that doesn't happen. The religious nutters have beat us to it: we find tracts throughout our store on a daily basis, and this is a notoriously liberal, godless city. Personally, when I find them I trash them. If I were to find a pro-atheist tract, I'd probably smile and tuck it back in myself. But of all the complaints I get to listen to in a day, I've never yet heard anyone complain about a piece of paper sticking harmlessly out of a book. Anyway, even if it happened, it would be easy to deal with -- you just apologize sweetly and remove it. That's a lot easier for me as a bookseller to deal with than a glowering Christian standing over me bitching because my leftist heathen bookstore has a million copies of that Satan-worshiping Harry Potter book, and not a single copy (that I can find, though the computer says we have three) of Behe.

As I said, quick google searches answer these questions, this is from the very first link from a search of "Jesus claimed to be God": http://www.godonthe.net/evidence/said_god.htm

In every one of those instances, he was referencing two people: himself and the Father. He even said in one of those that (paraphrasing because I can't be arsed to go back and quote directly) 'this isn't MY idea, it's the Father's idea'. So either he was discussing two separate people or he was severely schizophrenic and claiming that he, himself is NOT the one telling you this, but he, himself is. Since I'm firmly in the "Jesus was not a schizo" camp, I'm going to have to go ahead and say he never (according to those examples) claimed to be God.

Many of the ghosts in Scooby Doo were green, so it's up to artistic interpretation.

Slimer (from *The Real Ghostbusters* cartoon series) was the greenest ghost on the planet. EDIT: this artist has great dynamic range in artistic style. Check out his other stuff.

I guess CuntSmellersINC answered that! I tend to agree. It's not my plan. A guy called George Monbiot wrote about the idea in his book Heat. I think it's a very good idea. I also think no one will vote for the idea. Infact, I don't think anyone is even going to bring the idea to the point of anyone being able to vote for it. I believe that huminty is fucked and the average people are incapable of digesting how very fucked we are due to the limited capacity for humans not to destroy everything. Within the next twenty years bad shit is going to happen and the modern motorised consumer is going to watch their children drown. I am getting to the point of hoping the human population collapses before the ecology does and there is some chance for the other poor fucking beings on the planet to recover from our ignorant behaviour.

People like to throw around "Malthus!" as an insult, but I fail to see what is so illogical there being a limited capacity for man, even with technological innovation. All this talk about global warming treaties is laughable. No one is gonna vote to lower their economic standing. Demogaguery is gonna be abound. Sometimes I think I"m being a paranoid doomsdayist, other times I think not enough people care. Edit: Not that I pretend I'm better than other Americans. I'm just as bad.

You may want to consult an actual professional with this one.

Definitely. This is what psychologists who specialize in sex therapy are trained for.

You're absolutely right. There is not a significant difference between them.

There is a HUGE difference between them. http://www.whychooseobama.com

no, he did not. he is studying right now at a university and he is doing more sports than anyone else i know.

If he's doing more sports than anyone else you know, than how is he "watching way too much tv". You either don't know many serious athletes, or your definition of "too much tv" must be pretty small.

I've always wondered that. I'm white, people are black, wtf is up with redefining colors. Next thing you know, we'll have to rename green or something. In my language, Νέγρος is the word, and it's quite official and not at all offensive. Αράπης is a bit more offensive, but nowhere near how "nigger" sounds.

I know the Greek letters, we've learned to read and write in the Greek alphabet via the Orthodox Church then we switched to latin (French influence). That must be an American thing, only I see in our media that they mimic them. How can you say about a black dude who came from Angola in Romania that he is "African-American" ? WTF? P.S. Now they're calling the Gypsies "Roma". ??? Anyway, avoiding to say "black" is tantamount to saying that being black is a bad thing.

This list is bullshit, Reon Kadena is missing! Òó http://unplug.dk/index.php?list=20

thank you, thank you, thank you for that.

My penis is nicknamed Dr.Strangelove. My left testicle is "The Bomb". My right testicle is "Plan R".

Do you have a little Tex on lefty?

Upvoted for recognizing chivalry.

She's a man

By posting a negative review of the album online, you also decrease its market value. So what? "Business opportunities" aren't a god-given right; they are something you have to make for yourself and be ready to adjust with changing markets.

By publishing an opinion about an album you help determine its real value. By distributing it you change supply and demand, therefor you change its market value. The question is, have you the right to do that? I am not against file sharing. My gut feeling tells me its alright. I am searching for a rational argument to justify it. The opinions uttered in this thread are not convincing arguments.

Not entirely true. While battery tech can limit, nothing says you can't generate current on the fly. Any number of ways to generate electricity.

YES! like a combustion powered generator. Trains do this.

Fair enough. There is a terminal file manager that is popular called [Midnight Commander](http://www.midnight-commander.org/) ([Screenshot](http://www.gnu.org/software/mc/images/mc-panels.png)). You may have more luck getting used to that than cp/mv/ls

That looks pretty helpful - would certainly make it easier to see. My main problems were like, moving pictures when you have to manually view each one (easier with thumbnails), and moving lots of files without a wildcard to another place where you do want a wildcard - e.g. mass changing filetype, I couldn't work out how to do it with just mv. I might look at it again sometime though as I hate it when something defeats me.

I don't know... ...to me it just sounds like bad hardware design.

If it was a bad hardware design, previous versions of the kernel would have this problem. This sounds like a bug in the part of the driver that loads up the firmware. Simple enough to fix in the driver.

I would venture to guess that Lolbama is referring (at least in part) to 2fort's tendency to encourage turtling more than most other maps

That's what I love about 2fort. I know other people like to be all pro and get butthurt if people don't play the game their way. Whatever, I've had absolutely awesome 30 minute rounds of 2fort. It's relatively easy to defend, but that just makes it all the more sweet when you push through with some ubers. Or when everyone's concentrating on a sewer rush and I switch to Scout and have the intel away on my toes. I guess if you don't like 2fort, there are plenty of other maps to play on.

It's not surreal at all. It's pretty obvious that there's a problem. * We're #1 in spending but #37 in life expectancy. * There are 40-50 million uninsured people who cause taxpayer money to be spent if they need emergency room care.

More interestingly -- try turning the argument on its head. Currently, we spend 2x as much per person in the US than France or Canada does. And our outcomes are not as good as theirs. How many more times must we spend due to an ideological belief in free markets above all else, and libertarian belief that no such thing as a "monopoly" can ever exist in a society? 3x? 5x? 10x? When is it enough? Medical loss ratios continue to move down, quarter after quarter, bit by bit. It's like the slot machines at Vegas that advertise "98% payout!" to get you to play. Vegas would love nothing more than to start nudging that percentage down slowly over time. Slowly enough that you don't notice. That's what the health insurance industry *seems* to have done over the years. Pay less in claims. Deny subscribers for pre-existing conditions. When big claims come in, see if there is a way you can deny coverage or cancel that policy holder (rescission) after having collected premiums for years. As long as *all* of the insurance companies are doing this, and they are *all* reducing their medical loss ratios a bit by bit, one quarter after another (because they get pummeled by Wall Street if they don't) eventually this monster will consume every one of us - Democrat, Republican, Libertarian ... I'm not (necessarily) implying that any of the current proposals are the ideal solution ... but to pretend there is not a significant problem to address, seems ridiculous to me.

If Hitler had been born again, he wouldn't have murdered millions of people. Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, **murders**, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that **they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God**.

Ah, I see our old friend, the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, is back again. You need to understand that being a Christian does not automatically make one moral. It entails no magically transformation from sinner to saint. Many posters below have even said that no person, no matter how good they are or how ethically they act are good enough to get into heaven; that deeds cannot earn one a place by God's side. It's absolutely absurd to accept the claims of Christianity of millions of adulterers, murderers, and hateful bigots when they're not major historical figures, and then make up an entirely new set of rules for those that are well-known. I know that I'll be downmodded for posting this, but someone has got to start speaking out against this fallacy.

What would Jesus do?

Put the camera down, thank his dad, and crawl back into bed with them.

I do this in my Prius. I am always trying to keep the MPG meter maxed out

Gasoline engined cars used to have a gauge for this, called a vacuum gauge. Most cars with a Supercharger or Turbocharger still have them, and they're basically the same thing. Keep the needle to the left and you're getting good mileage, middle is average and right is bad. I wonder why auto manufacturers got rid of them???

It's not us against them. Fact is, the people I quoted above are almost certainly libs, would you disagree?

Going by the number of downvotes, it appears you do disagree. I'd be interested what party you feel those people belonged to then. Were they right wingers? Maybe independents? I don't think so.

thank you. What about when typing in the address bar, it freezes for several seconds (i guess its looking for matches) very annoying

Yeah, I'd like to know how to disable the "Smart" bar... it's annoying as fuck.

being fat= deserving ridicule that's right, fuck you, fattasses

She is sitting in a motorized wheelchair, right? I'm definitely speculating, but she might have been skinny before she became immobilized and gained weight after being unable to get even passive exercise such as walking. I think the ridicule is a little too harsh. Edited for silly errors. Thanks, alamandrax.

I'd rather watch trees grow.

However, reality TV doesn't get more real than really cutting down real trees.

It's already on Reddit, so: http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html

That was amazing. I never knew R2 D2 and Chewie were such crucial pieces to the Rebellion.

Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism really. Don't be the former.

Nah...it goes both ways. I* put my Trevor Hoffman in to end close games because he's good at it. They call it a save. Now, I put my closer in because it will get him a save and the crowd expects to hear Hells Bells. *Hypo: assumes I'm Bud Black

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Didn't you get the memo? Rodeosmurf's the new ffffuuuuuu CEO.

can someone give a me a fucking clue what this is about? bear in mind i'm not a braindead retard who understands your cunting gay rounders-lite hobby. it looks super fucking shit to me.

It is like a game of Cricket hat trick except it is made by a man.

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

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

oh man, if you turn it off at the temp tattoo part, you'll miss the part about when a cop car walks up to his windows, he revs it up to 7000rpm just to show the cop whos boss.

I got up to 7:20 about how the rads don't work on waxed cars then couldn't resist clicking [Your-messing-with-the-wrong-girl-Dude-takes-an-ass-whooping](http://www.videosift.com/video/Your-messing-with-the-wrong-girl-Dude-takes-an-ass-whooping)

My point was more that most people do, or another controller they're comfortable with. It's only Microsoft that has made an overpriced official adapter for their controllers. Most other controllers have USB adapters available for under $10.

"Just a tip for any xbox 360 owners."

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.

When pubmed peer review is performed by fellow psychology "scientists", what do you expect?

Yeah, you don't know anything about Pubmed. Suprise! There are psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, Surgeons, MDs, and RNs of any specialty you'd care to name. In short, pretty much the entire health sciences community's publications are indexed by Pubmed.

Is that even legal??

It depends. If you're a Catholic but you don't let it interfere with your job, and your posts online don't say [Paul Hill is an american hero](http://www.armyofgod.com/) (he bombed abortion clinics and shot a doctor point blank with a sawed off), then probably not. However, considering I have indeed seen people claiming that Paul Hill is a hero, I would not hire them and enjoy any attempted lawsuit on this basis. Luckily, there's no Affirmative Action for religion yet. I can't wait until people are complaining about how they have to hire at least 5% muslims or something like that (I'm sure Muslims are probably the most discriminated against, especially for employment).

Yea, this is just ridiculous. I was at a skatepark one time just skateboarding and there was a dude with some fancy photographic equipment taking photos of people skateboarding. Mind you this was on a Saturday, where all the mothers take their kids to come and skateboard (really hectic and not worth it) so there was kids around. After about 5 minutes of taking photos two cops showed up and took the guy away. WTF?

(photographing) SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME

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Are you confused about transjordan? It was incorporated with Palestine into the British Mandate of Palestine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transjordan But the Arabs that currently live in Palestine have done so for over 1000 years. Here is the history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine#Islamic_period_.28630-1918_CE.29 Palestinian Arab residency in that region predates the formation of Jordan or Transjordan by hundreds of years. Thus your claim that they came from Jordan is just nonsensical. The link you posted doesn't stated that they came from Jordan, rather that the region was called Jordan. What has been called Jordan has changed. Thus the Palestinian Arabs still came from the same location they are in now, it is just no longer called Jordan.

Oh no! A flight attendant asking me to cover up!

On a plane, what else are you supposed to do? Feed your baby in the bathroom? I mean, smothering it with a blanket while you're feeding it is a bit counter-productive.

There would still be huge bald spots with no dinosaur skeletons, etc. where their cities used to be. Or there would be Dinosaur remains on the moon. Even if they got nuked, something would likely survive and the moon doesnt have an atmosphere, so nukes that make craters that large would in the tera-ton range. Why wasnt the Troodon skeletons found in every inch of the world like we would be in 65 million years? Seriously...

Considering that the number of specimens for troodon is maybe 20, while T rex is about 30 .... The number of skeletons that survive to the present a staggering low percentage to begin with. and I am uncertain as to how many archeologists have excavated sites on the moon. I don't know how much evidence would be present after 65 million years. I do not know that having cities all over the world is needed for a space going civilization, either. May it is. I do not know. And since I posted the link in the HUMOR subreddit, I am not going to try to seriously defend something tooth and nail that I took as an amusing read. http://farleftside.com/2006/10-27-06.html

That was stupid, how about we just ignore them?

I agree. Fuck censorship.

Have you seen the size of Japanese homes? They're tiny. The amount of solar needed is minimal to say the very least.

Have you seen the number of electronics in Japanese homes? It's huge! We're talking about people who have toilets equipped with LCD user preference displays, infrared thermometers, and waste analysis.

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That's reasonable enough, I just read that sulfur was one of the trace elements and starting imagining what 1.2% sulfur over 5 years could do to you (yes I know, not necessarily a bad thing, or bad at all really). I'll try it out, if it gives my kids brain cancer I'll let you know.

I can't recall seeing someone admit to being a troll before. I really wish you would explain the psychological motivation for trolling, since you obviously have first-hand experience with it. I've never been able to comprehend it.

I'm not a full time troll, which is the only reason why I'm even admitting to it. 99% of my posts are mostly sincere, although a fair bit of them include a fair amount of sarcasm. At time, it becomes tempting to leverage Poe's law and do an entire nonsensical post out of the blue. It would have taken very few changes to tweak that "troll" post into a rant that'd mock religious concepts as they relate to consciousness using the quoted text, but that'd have made the post weaker in my view. So I chose to preserve my integrity rather than pander for upmods. I suspect that, should I choose to delve deeper into trolling, my underlying motivations will subtly yet consistently change over time, until I become a full fledged bridge dweller. As such, I don't believe I can give a true first-hand account of true trolling. Only maybe that sarcasm and mockery may be gateways to it.

What do you mean by "wait list"?

I mean, if you want a rig to drill and you order the lease today, be ready to wait 2-3 years. Of course, if you are a major producer, people move things around based on preexisting conditions. However, these days everything is way, way backed up, even for the majors. Everything in the Oil Business is subcontracted like you wouldn't believe. All oil producers lease equipment from various oil services companies. These oil service companies can be huge and varied (as far as the services they can provide), like Halliburton (logistics, concrete hole lining, downhole geophysics tools, etc.), or they can be single person enterprises (one man, one truck doing a hotshot run to an oil rig 100 miles away to drop off a new drilling bit, or water, or fuel, etc.). There are literally tens of thousands of companies in the Energy business, allowing the diffusion of responsibility and liability (down to almost zero). It allows the majors to have the best of all worlds: The big bucks, the oil under the ground (better than any bank, as it will stay there for millions of years), and all the intellectual capital needed to find and analyze the oil and gas (and the chemical engineering subsidiaries and partnerships to make whatever they want). Yet they carry almost none of the burden for all the damage and accidents they are ultimately responsible for. It is a fascinating industry that is far too deeply embedded in American culture, both political and societal. Bringing about a new era of renewables will be very hard in the short term, as dislodging the hold the industry has on us will be extremely difficult, but worth it in the long run. Mostly because it is a nasty, nasty business all around.

Yes, an argument from authority is generally a poor argument, but that isn't what this is. This is an argument against a particular statement made by Obama. Read the quote again: "Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is **beyond dispute** and the facts are clear." CATO's answer is perfectly fair game: these people dispute that statement. They're not saying the listed scientists are correct, and they're not saying the other ones are wrong. They're simply saying that there is contention, and Obama can't just sweep that under the rug as if it does not matter. His statement is a lie and he only made it because he doesn't like what the other side has to say.

Is anything beyond dispute?

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Read the question again. I think you'll find the key phrase is "too much".

You understand that the infinite monkey theorem isn't used as a justification for a many-worlds theory, right? This postulation doesn't make much sense.

The infinite monkey thing is an example of parallel infinite regression. In essence for the monkeys at typewriters, the existence of Hamlet depends on the existence of every possible text. In the same way, the Multiverse and similar theories say our existence depends on the existence of every possible universe.

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That's really sweet, do you know is it possible to download, delete and then redownload a game? I'll have to check out and see if there are any securom issues w/ this.

Nope. You can download, redownload, download on other pc's, whatever you like. As long as you log in with the same account, you can download it wherever you like. (obviously, you do need to log in before you can start the game, you can't download it onto 50 pc's and then have a LANparty ;-))

Yes he is.

LIAR. YOU CAN'T SEE HIS SHIRT

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How do you know?

I thought the new Emergency Services had a new number... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rjtiTk1KiTA

I have it memorized. I like to sing it in the car.

The guy who calls in afterwards cracks me up: "Oh, you've smoked marijuana before? Then you're not really objective, are you?" So someone with first-hand experience inherently lacks credibility over someone without? "I don't care if you've been to New York fifty times, you shouldn't go! I read in a book that it's *dangerous* there!"

I know. That cracked me up too. Her response though to the guy's second question however, epitomizes for me my frustrations with many people on the left. She's intelligent and logical all the way through, until she starts talking about economics. Then, suddenly, she start spewing nonsense about how America's economy is "the worst it's ever been in" and how she doesn't like the way unemployment numbers are calculated.

I really wish he would have let this play out somehow to the point of him being prosecuted (if that's what it came to), and only then let the tape surface. It would have so much more impact.

If I were the cabby I would have told them to say that under oath and then file charges of perjury against them after showing the video!

Ok so how is the proper way to spell that: tuttles, or toitles?

TONIGHT I DINE ON TUTTLE SOUP!

Sales figures aren't a perfect measure of popularity. Before the most recent movies, Spiderman had a very low profile outside of the comic book community itself. Batman was probably second only to Superman in "characters even people who don't read comic books know about."

Um, no. Spiderman has had at least 4 different cartoon shows between 1990's and the first movie. Not to mention a boat load of toys and video games. The only reason why people new about Batman was because of the early 1990's movies. (And if they were really in the know, the great Batman cartoon from around the same time.)

hating halo= internet cool guy

SOMEONE SAY COOL?

I have CS experience at one of the best universities in the nation. So when you attempt to talk about the state of academia, I naturally have first say.

In *a* nation. And I don't know whether your university, good or otherwise, has a particularly good CS department. And even if it did, that would only make it *less* representative of common practice in CS departments, not more. But I'm sure when all the trolls get together, you naturally have first say.

No, the more rallies the better! Ideally Canadians all over our country would be willing to stand up against such petty and subversive maneuvers.

Exactly. I suggest protesting at whatever government building is closest, whether it be municipal, provincial, or federal. We need to make a big stink about stuff like this or Harper will get away with it every time.

agreed, i smoked non stop every day for like 6 years then stopped and had no problems. mind over matter my friends.

15 years. All the time. Took me 2-3 days. Symptoms i felt were depression, can't sleep, having weird dreams when i did, and irritability. What's the difference i see now? More money and wayyyy more productive.

... then go snowboarding? British Columbia has its share of ski hills.

my wife is also coming, she rides, but is not as hardcore as me and wants to see some of canada for a week or so. so im looking for good restraunts, stuff in vancouver for our last night there (it is our honeymoon sort of)

As a simple case, consider just the head (a sphere). Surface area is proportional to r^2, but volume is proportional to r^3. Increase the size 6-fold, and you have to cool 216 times the volume with only 36 times the surface area. The brain cooks.

So the ratio of surface area to volume in a sphere is not constant? Oh. Still seems counter-intuitive. Let me digest this. Edit: I can't see how this could be true!

Your logic is worthless. You have no idea who Benny Morris is. If you did you wouldn't come up with a thought as dumb as Benny Morris joining forces with Israeli establishment to spread propaganda.

Are you saying that if Iran gets nuclear weapons, it will use it against Israel?

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Oh, sarcasm, I get it :)..

A proper ending wouldn't save that movie. Not by a long shot.

I dunno, if they stuck much closer to the book plot it would have been significantly better. The Golden Compass books are good, but they're not (horror - watch the 'fan' down mods pour in) the amazing timeless classics like Potter probably will be, or Tolkien arguably is. Like Lewis and Narnia the GC books ironically preached a little too much.

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This guy is a douche! Why does he have *reason* to mention that night pretty much everyday? Have you ever pointed out that if it was such a great night, maybe he shouldn't have been such a turd the next morning?

It's not strange at all. The only real enemy of modern science is the Christian zealot, and we here on reddit are a real science-loving bunch. We like truth & facts and they go building not-museums and teaching bible stories in school. Fuck all that. Fuck the Christian zealots up their stupid asses with satanic carbon-dating equipment. I think we're all aware of the average Christians we know who aren't complete nuts and don't want the bible taught in school, but when it comes to politicians like GWB who commit unspeakable acts that are arguably treasonous in the name of God, well you can understand some apprehension of Christian politicians on our part.

Really, the **only** real enemy of science is the Christian zealot? Not lack of funding or roadblocks put in place by existing business to prevent competition? We'd better get rid of 75% of the United States, so that the 15% of it's citizens that have no religious affiliation and the 10% "other" can progress science. Most Christians are moderate, or else no Democrat would ever get elected. The majority should not be blamed for what the minority does. Statements like "all Christians" or "all Atheists" or "all [whatever]" (or, as you put it "Only Christians") only serves to divide and drive the subject of your scorn to the other side.

I just came in here to say I don't really have a problem with this.

You will once you find out what those hamburgers are made of ;)

did anyone else notice the yoda frame at 30 seconds?

Looks like he was going to a Halloween Party.

So, because he normally uses Macs, and in this case wasn't, and I commented that it was 'odd', you downmod me? Interesting.

I doubt very much Trent had any control over the hardware that the roadies used... Besides. You made a comment about Macs, and your name is The Mac God...

It's too late for that. This is the way Obama has always been from day one. Thanks to the ones who voted for him, we are ALL fucked!

Please explain how anyone else would have been different, really.

So what type of humour is it then, Mr Humourhater McCategorynazi? *If that's your real name*.

Coincidental. And it's *Ms.* Humorhater McCategorynazi, tyvm.

How do you do it, when linking in reddit?

[Link text] (http://link.com "Title Text") That is, without the space between the ] and (. The space is just to break the link so it shows as that text rather than as [Link text](http://link.com "Title Text").

Every panel looks a lot like Palin. Well done by OP.

I'd wager that if Palin saw this cartoon she'd demand to know which photo shoot the pictures were taken from.

Well I suppose I was a little vague, stealing from others solely for your own benefit is wrong, for the benefit of others is debatable.

John Val Jean stole for his own benefit. He didn't even steal from the wealthy. And he was punished quite harshly.