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This is off topic, but I'm happy to answer questions regarding veganism so here we go. Does what you said make it right to inflict pain and suffering? Humans are murded all the time. They are shot, so is it okay to shoot people? They are run over by cars, so is it okay to run people over with cars? Just because something happens doesn't make it right and just because one instance of torture is less than another that doesn't make the lesser instance right. Can you give me any reason it could be otherwise? How would you feel if someone treated your family the way the meat you eat is treated? Angry? Upset? Sad? Now, can you tell me what's different about animals that treated them that way is okay? Get really specific. Tell me EXACTLY what that difference is. BTW: Upvoted for asking a good question in a civil way unlike that other guy.

They are animals, and can't talk. As harsh as it sounds humans are omnivores and designed to eat both plants and meat. We cant socialize with any animal that we can with other humans due to not only the communication factor but evolution comes into play as well. Like it or not there was a time that humans had to eat plants and animals or they would die. This of course does not mean that we can not step away from this but it does mean that we do have an evolutionary disposition to eating meat. It's always hard to bring in ethics and morals into food mainly because we survive by eating living organisms. You could even argue that you should avoid eating plants due to the deforestation of the world and why would you want to accelerate the destruction of oxygen producing resources. Also, Meat is tasty and we are more powerful, simple as that.

What the fuck does it matter that this guy was Catholic? Does anyone actually think that being Catholic dove this guy to murder? Would it be *less* of a tragedy if he were an atheist? Why the fuck is there so much intolerance toward religion. With the exception of the fundies that would like to outlaw atheism, why do any of you give a shit about what other people think?

I defend the headline on the ground that it is an absolutely accurate statement of fact.

The documentary is, without a doubt, my absolute favorite ever made. However, I was impressed by what a great job they did with the movie. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was. I was especially intrigued with the way they showed the house as it really was before the decay set in. The director really tried to stay true to the back story and the documentary itself, so he was crushed when the current owner of the house, Sally Quinn, conveniently 'remembered' where she'd placed the trunks full of letters, photographs, etc. she found in the attic when she moved into the house only *after* he'd completed filming. Personally, I think she's saving them to publish herself. Which is fine and dandy, except I don't trust her as much as the director.

Yeah, Grey Gardens is my favorite movie, bar none, and I hated the HBO version. Not the way it was shot, or Jessica Lange, who was delightful. Drew Barrymore cannot act and will never be able to. Most of the time she doesn't bother me and I really like a couple of her movies. As Little Edie I wanted to slaughter her. It was like watching the fucking documentary in a funhouse. You've seen The Beales of Grey Gardens, then, as well? I like that almost better than the original. It's more scattered, but there is so much information there.

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We don't need your username to give us any hints!!!

That's canon, currently. When he got the adamantium ripped out of him, he still had bone claws. In fact, I don't think it was ever anything but an assumption that the claws were added with the adamantium to his skeleton. (I haven't read nearly enough of the comics to be sure of this, but that's the impression I have.) It wouldn't make sense any other way, would it? It seems like it would be a little difficult to add muscles to extend and contract the claws, especially with his body continually healing back to its normal state at a ridiculous pace.

I thought the bone claws were one of those things that happened in the dark ages between Chris Claremont and Grant Morrison that everybody kind of chooses to forget. And I always assumed the claws used some kind of spring mechanism, with that "snikt" sound they made, but who knows

I've had my own issues installing Flash on my Linux machines, but honestly, upgrading to Hardy Heron really reduced my problems. I struggled to install Flash on my FC7 box, but it was a live-without so I never really pursued it. I don't have an answer, but I can assure you that Hardy Heron was an easy trip.

Well, thanks I guess. I'm upgrading now. Where I see more user interface problems. Ok, start update...ok all steps are there, oh and it says it will restart at the end great..walk away to watch some Frontline...come back and the install has barely gone anywhere, with popups about ending support for blah blah. Geez, what a great installer...I mean, I don't want to be too down on a nice free product, but if I am supposed to use this thing to convince some non-techie friends/family to go Ubuntu, I can only chuckle and hope that things get much, much better. That said, at least I can browse reddit while the updates download.

My favorite part of that was the mid-90s joke.

the one i heard had "cindy you have sinned" as the punchline

I will upvote any reference to Quantum Leap.

[Is that a fact](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/8v20c/today_i_learned_that_some_people_will_upvote_any/)?

pro tip: I found out recently that the reason japanese tea cups dont have handles is to protect you from doing this. The Idea is that you shouldn't drink the tea until it is comfortable to hold in your hand. This apparently is also the temperature the tea tastes best.

I was going to come here and write this in a very douchey manner. Thanks for preventing me from looking like a total dick.

Exactly what point is it missing and how is it ironic? I think he HAS gotten rid of all the BS and traditions -- are you saying that you want it to be more cerebral and subtle vs. violent and graphic? I'm betting the fanboy-ish material is still there, but you're going to have to BE a fanboy to catch it.

I don't want silly little "fanboy-ish material" moments to satisfy my inner Star Trek fan. I was actually about to edit my original post and add "it could be that their idea of Star Trek is the warp sound". Star Trek has a mood, and this is far too cool for anything resembling the series. It's always been more detectivey, slow, and slightly tongue in cheek compared to, say, Star Wars. This feels more like Star Wars. And it's ironic because I was expecting something that felt like Star Trek, but pushed and updated the Star Trek norm, revitalized it from its boring modern state. And I got something that is just as traditional and boring, but in a different time period. It's like we jumped forty years forward into the same quagmire. The core element, the feel of Star Trek is very distinct and delicious, but this doesn't look like that at all.

I came here to post the exact same thing, I would sure as hell work for free if otherwise some kid was going to die because it didn't have enough money.

Yeah, and how many times would you do that? Every night?

God, reddit is creepy sometimes.

That's the point. The things we will have to confront will seem blasphemous and taboo, despite the fact that we pretend to be "progressive" and "open-minded".

So the Bush administration was successful in solving the immigration crisis after all. All we had to do is ruin our economy to get them to leave- as if it were a big party until someone brought out the stinkbombs.

RTFA

More accurately, something is wang with this diagram. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

It can't be the construction. It looks quite stiff.

When it's legal it is. When it's illegal, like kazaa supposedly is, you have to pay goons much much more to stay out of jail. There's a word for this.

Extortion?

It is real. http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/340399/rancho_cucamonga_ca/knockers_sports_rock_cafe.html

Well, [here it is on Street View](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=8411+Foothill+Blvd,+91730&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=125.394926,112.5&ie=UTF8&ll=34.108678,-117.621174&spn=0.011086,0.014119&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=34.104832,-117.621999&panoid=HzXDVlLY7ffvvZyc1qJaXg&cbp=1,142.63336948851548,,1,-7.871100379916837). I can't tell whether that's the same sign, though.

Obama said the surge wouldn't work, and he was wrong. They have both been wrong about the Iraq war. With that said, McCain shot out so many lies last night that Obama had to shoot down. It was incredible. McCain would continually try to twist Obama's words into something evil, and every time Obama would just shoot him down. I actually tend to agree more with McCain on the issues, but I absolutely despise the way he runs his campaign and the way he handles himself against Obama.

The surge didn't work. The reduction in violence had to do with the Anbar Awakening and the cease fire called by Muqtada Al Sadr. Both of which occurred BEFORE the surge. At the same time we were doing the surge the Brits were pulling troops out. The difference in boots on the ground almost didn't change at all.

Only if you're unimaginative.

Do you have infinite imagination?

More rational people would refer to it as a fetus or blastocyst saver.

What part of rationality includes using an arbitrary naming convention to decide the value of human life?

Why is that a mistake? I read the book and found it to be one of the more influential books in my life.

I read Fountainhead when I was 19. Was so influenced by it and went gaga over it for a month. Then realization struck. Its a piece of work for mass hypnotism. Same goes for Paulo Coelho's Alchemist.

A bench knife is also handy for bread-making, especially if the blade is marked with inch/cm rules.

Ah, a fellow bread maker. Do you have a [Danish Dough Whisk](http://breadtopia.com/store/danish-dough-whisk.html)? I do not, but it's on my list of things to acquire. I watched a video on that site where they used one, and it was amazing the way the dough just came together.

You're dangerously close to confusing capitalism with corporatism, there.

I don't see him mention capitalism at all.

Since when is whitespace punctuation? A typographer/designer will tell you what to do with whitespace, widows, justified text, ligatures, leading/line-height, kerning, etc. A typographer knows that an ellipse is not three periods, but a character all its own. A typographer knows what needs to be done when an 'i' follows an 'f'. The fact is laying out of type is not simple, and people quite literally dedicate their entire careers to this craft. Nobody is more qualified to speak to what laying out type means for readability, flow, and aesthetic than they are. To sit here and suggest you know more simply because you're ignorant of the trade is ridiculous. Do you have an art or design school near you? I highly recommend you take a beginning typography class, it will really open your eyes. Now granted, I'm having a bad day, so maybe I am being more abrasive than is warranted. But the fact still remains, there is a lot to know about type. It's not something everyone understands for free simply because we all happen to type words into computers everyday.

whoa, man. That's a lot of words to put in my mouth. You're not being abrasive, you're going off the handle on something I didn't say. For people who learned the "two spaces follow the period at the end of a sentence" rule, the number of spaces following a period communicates information about the semantic and syntactic structure of the document. This does indeed make it part of punctuation. I am saying that this is an issue of usage, and not type layout, and as such correctness in this matter is decided by usage panels (often conveined by, e.g. dictionary publishers.) laying out text for printing is a skill, but it does not include deciding if that text conforms to the rules of the language in which it is written.

And this is why Democracy doesn't really work, why Plutocracies always form, and why humanity itself is an endlessly repeating cycle of stupidity.

Well you could have the Chinese system where you have an elite -- the communist party. Who elect their own leaders and make their own decisions via internal party democracy. Interestingly enough... Most of the members of the central committee, which is the highest body in the country, are former engineers. In this system you don't really have money influencing politics because there aren't any campaigns that have to be won and the corporate controlled media's opinions of politicians doesn't really matter. If ypu read the speeches of Hu Jintaou and others it's made pretty clear that they are very wary of any person in the party exercising too much control or going off on their own with policy without consulting other organs of the party.

Wait... seriously? In the UK, you have to supply this type of information when buying a TV? What about a private sale? Is there a law mandating that you report this type of info?

No, not for a private sale. In fact it's only the big electronic retailers who sign up to this, I've bought TVs from small shops without having to give the info. However, it's all bollocks anyway. As I said in a previous post in this thread, you get the threatening letters just for living at an address without a TV licence being registered there.

[Melt Banana](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nusozpY536Q)

Melt Banana just barely qualifies as music.

He's lying. You try to make out with a girl, and she knees you in the nuts. You try to hit on a girl, and her boyfriend knees you in the nuts. For all intents and purposes, any attempt at sexual openness in New England will earn you a knee to the nuts. therefore: Any sexy time = knee to the nuts.

I hate New England

Mila Kunis, she plays WoW too.

Would be hotter if she played FPS.

So what he was saying was star trek was bad because it relied to much on tech, and what you're saying is BSG is bad because it didn't rely enough on tech? that's a fine line. Glad I don't write sci fi (for television) for a living.

No, what I'm saying and what he's saying are the same thing: in both cases, the TECH was just bullshit and had nothing at all to do with the human drama that was the real focus of the show. That the shows aren't *really* sci-fi because neither uses actual science as the lens through which the drama unfolds.

Ever seen Face/Off?

John Woo makes horrible movies, Faceoff was no exception.

I believe it's *she*.

Oh, yes you are correct I forgot about that. My mistake.

I have been in advertising and marketing for many years and one of the statements that has always tickled my funny bone is "1/2 Pound" of food. 1/2 pound is 8 ounces---2/3 of a soda can of food. How many people get excited over an 8 ounce steak? Not Many. But change that to a 1/2 pound burger and all of a sudden--it's HUGE! Lean Cuisine comes in 8 ounce packages too and I don't see anyone wondering if they will be able to eat it all at one sitting..... Being quite frugal, I make it a point not to buy any food that costs more than $2.00 per pound--It's FOOD not GOLD! That being said--these would have to be $1.00 a package to meet that criteria instead of the $2.99 I have seen so far. For $2.99/8 ounces, I can buy ground sirloin, good quality steaks, or even Johnsonville Brats with all the trimmings if I wanted to, instead of the nasty looking mystery meat.

The Hungry-Man dinners are over a pound of food, and the XXL dinners are over 1.5 pounds of food. These "XXL Sandwiches" are more of a light lunch. I'm afraid to try any of these products because I have some minimum quality requirements.

When i began my career in *1991* using Aldus PageMaker 2 on a Mac and Corel Draw 2 on a PC, Apple was addressing issues that MS wasn't even *aware* of. Apple met my needs. MS lost out. *7* years later, I held a job that required me to use a PC on occasion, just to open and convert an Adobe Illustrator 6 file. MS still hadn't got it right. It was hell. Again, Apple fit my needs. MS not so much. So you're right. I *am* ignorant of what a PC does today. and I could CARE LESS. Why should I? I found a better solution, and MS lost me 15 years ago. and I'm not even of the right *generation* to be a hipster.

Yay for you? So basically you left BEFORE WINDOWS 95, and your level of knowlege froze at that point. That's **anchient sauce**. Your opinion of what works better is no more accurate or relevent than a comparison between Hootie and The Blow Fish and The Spin Doctors!

I'll just say this. I think you are very wrong. Before we had social programs, people attended school and were not homeless. Second, more government is not the answer to bad government - eliminating bad programs is. Obviously your socialist "education" worked pretty well because you sound very brainwashed. And my ancestors came to the US from France in a stolen french naval ship. They were pirates.

>And my ancestors came to the US from France in a stolen french naval ship. They were pirates. A long history of isolationism and running away from problems then. ;)

really? I kinda liked it.

I think I react remarkably well to caffeine. Provigil was extremely useful once, on a long drive after caffeine stopped doing the trick.

Why would a D&D book be in an imaginary language?

Today's role players were lightweights compared to how it used to be done.

I tried compiling awesome, but was told I lacked the math library, libm...I can't find that library in the repository...

What distro are you using? If you join #awesome on irc.oftc.net they are extremely helpful.

That's both amazing and amazingly cute. Thanks for sharing. Did it push you towards the marine biology field? (that would be awesome)

I considered it, but I suspect a marine biology education would force me to dissect cuttlefish, and I couldn't do that anymore. I'm going for an Animal Behavior degree, actually, and with any luck I'll have the opportunity to work with marine biologists to enrich environments in which cephalopods are kept. There's a lot of movement in the zoo/aquarium world toward providing more mental stimulation for captive animals, and I would like to help with that, and perhaps assist with studies in decoding their language.

You are taking some crap you heard others say and applying it to me. I never said it was an epic tool, just a tool. Its use should not be taken lightly. I'm just watching these guys entering an altered state as idiots are laughing at them, repeatng "Are you okay??", and it is obvious that they are misusing the experience. To jokingly take it with idiot friends and post it on the net in a competitive an entertainment way is like taking turns sticking your finger in an electrical socket and laughing as people get shocked. They're doing it wrong. I think drugs are stupid, but if they're going to do it, at least let someone like me administer it in a proper environment where it can have some potential to be creative rather than a quick thrill like a roller coaster.

You aren't in any position to judge what is proper use. If you get your jollies tripping and painting a picture of what you saw, good for you. If they choose to use it shallowly, that is their choice. As long as they aren't hurting anyone else, I believe they have every right to behave as they have chosen to. You have absolutely no authority to say what is "doing it wrong", and your opinion is even more meaningless given your self proclaimed anti-drug bias.

I read once that the best defense for a woman to fight off a rapist is to PEE. The rapist is most likely to stop immediately and leave.

Seriously?? That's pretty wild.

Americans really need to get back to what "neighbor" really means. Not "psycho who is always nosing into my business," but rather, a friend and comrade who is there to offer help when it's needed, without scorn or derision. Then when you get a leg back up again, you do the same... everyone does it for everyone else, and everyone benefits. You start with nothing and they invest in you, so that later on, as a stronger part of the group, you yourself make the group better. That wouldn't work everywhere, of course...in many places, people are conditioned to scam and cheat with anything they're offered, but there are still plenty of people who will take a helping hand with every intention of getting back up so they can turn around and offer their hand to someone else.

People are really into neighborliness in Alaska. It's much friendlier there than my hometown, Orlando. It probably comes from necessity.

I need a friend :(

I'll be your friend.

Listen, I find the crap about Obama to be awful too, but in comparison to the amount of balanced or liberal content out there, it's relatively sparse, and obviously xenophobic tripe. The MSM is reading Kos, HuffPo, and all the rest. A lot of media has essentially come to rely on the blogesphere, because the news breaks there first. CNN's Soledad Obrien was questioning a McCain aide today and her line of questioning was lifted straight from an inaccurate Kos posted earlier in the day! Now, It just so happens that there's way more liberal/progressive content and blogs than conservative ones. This isn't a big secret and isn't anyone's "fault." But, you're not fooling anyone by saying there isn't a concerted effort to attack this ticket among them. Btw, how is making fun of styrofoam columns is a venomous attack? Seriously? It's a fucking dog and pony show. Take out the atmospherics and look at the substance. Look at his track record. That's the GOP message I got. I'm biased, but it wasn't that long ago that I voted for and donated to Obama becuase I truly believed that he was change agent but more so that it was all Bush's and the GOP's fault for all the shit we're in. It's not and he's not...It's the narrative being peddled by a totally complicit party that's enabled these shenanigans for the last 8 years too. John McCain has been really weird in the last year or so, but he's historically been every bit as independent from these "neo-con" bozos as was Joe Biden. If you guys thought the Republicans were hitting below the belt last night...I can't imagine how you think these guys are going to stand up to the real bad guys in the world. (and I'm not talking about some pre-emptive bullshit - I'm talking about old school, old world power politics played by people who hated the USA before Bush and the Neocons)

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the media and its influences. Two days ago none of them had any idea who Palin was and were grasping at anything to talk about. Now they've all flipped and grasped onto the "Palin is amazing" storyline. TV news is basically a gigantic waste for anyone who wants a substantive debate on anything. As for the speeches, they seemed overly nasty to me. They didn't to you. So whatever, I just think it's a good reminder of why we all need to step up for this country. Here's what the election boils down to for me: if you couldn't see that the Bush administration was lying and the Iraq war was a sham, you're a moron. I don't want morons running the country. That includes all the Dems in congress that voted to authorize the war (which also includes Biden, but I guess you have to take the bad with the good sometimes).

I don't know who Stephon Marbury is, but according to the article he's crazy. And the NBA is so fixed, even crazy people can tell.

Just because he's crazy doesn't mean he's wrong.

*however you lose the advantage of knowing how the hardware will perform in corner cases* That sounds pretty abstract to me. Why other system builders cannot offer the same? It's not like rocket science. As a side note, I'm a Russian and I know a little bit Russian market. 1. Corporate market: Dell is late to the game here. There are already other systems builders. Brand recognition is pretty low. 2. Retail: Virtually no brand recognition. People just buy a "computer". There are literary hundreds of system builders. 3. Government contracts: the government prefers local companies. Dell has little chance to win a contract. Dell just came across as a cocky, pushy salesman.

I worked for several years with a shop that does hardware installs and refurbishment for stores and franchised small businesses. (I can't name names). A franchise owner, say Failbucks, selects the hardware, say a Dell of whatever model, and then tests their custom code for whatever system they want in their franchise. Code gets tested, and then tested specifically with the hardware that will be in their locations. Additionally and probably more importantly there are ghost network installs which save huge amounts of time by just plopping the image onto the harddrive of the standardized hardware. If every store had a computer with a different processor, RAM, an extra IDE device here and there the complications would be insanely frustrating and *EXPENSIVE* to maintain. *Dell just came across as a cocky, pushy salseman* Yes he did, and I'm GLAD that he got a smackdown for it. I hate pushy salespeople, they make my stomach turn. And I wouldn't buy a Dell for myself, end of story (I smile as I type this on my Mac). The point that I was trying to get across, is that for businesses, especially, the franchise model there is a logical reason that people choose Dell or HP to keep their businesses ticking over at a minimum cost. What precisely Dell was thinking when he opened his stupid arrogant trap to Putin is beyond me, but I'm going to guess that he was thinking of "synergies" and dollar-signs.

Economics, indeed. And more specifically look at this: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0199a.shtml "The Concorde failed because it was too expensive to operate and could not compete with conventional airliners. Since oil prices continue to rise, the poor fuel efficiency of supersonic aircraft continues to hamper airline interest in developing faster aircraft." So as you indicated in your 2nd post, and as the history of the Concord indicates, "speed of travel" is not the only factor to consider when deciding whether the Aeroscraft is viable.

Yes it is. The difference between the travel time of the Concorde and a conventional airliner is half a day. This is tolerable to the average traveler. Only businessmen on an extremely time-sensitive schedule would care. On the other hand, the difference between a conventional airliner and a zeppelin is a week.

Act like a horny slut. Not trying to be offensive. Women expect romance and they have to get that shit out of their head. If you want sex act like a little slut.

That doesn't work for me. I like a girl that plays *hard* to get (to an extent). I stress the word 'hard' because while it should be a small challenge, it shouldn't be impossible. T-Rex doesn't want to be fed, T-Rex wants to hunt.

No access for you! You stay out! Your country? Bleh! Not available to. Not for you. Go away! Shoo. This is OurTube, not YourTube. Go to your country's youtube. This one's for Americans. My tube, not your tube, his tube, her tube, our tube, not your tube, their tube. This youtube channel is "Internationally Crippled" (ICed, iced for short) I prefer icecream to iscream. Iced tube tastes bad too.

I rant like this every time I click a BBC link for Doctor Who. Yankees go home! When did the internet cease being the "worldwide web"?

Arch Linux w/ Xfce

I do the exact same! Both work great without too much tweaking with settings.

Shades of Malkovich

We really, really need to get this to the front page....

This is has raised a question for me. I used to think that you should be ok to do whatever (sexually) as long as you're not harming anyone. Reasonable, isn't it? But how do you know, in this case, that you're not harming anyone? How would the 15 year old brother know he is not seriously scarring his 14 year old sister? I don't have any siblings so I have never could contemplate a sexual relationship with one. I have no ready-made answers and I cannot make a judgment.

When a single man loves a single woman, how does he know he's not harming her by enticing her into bed?

Dildos are fun even if they aren't "real" Not better, not worse, but FUN

They're not as good as they could be, because there's ongoing research and development to make them better. If they were alright, manufacturers would let them be. Sorry. Market conditions belie your position. You're wasting your time arguing.

Ehh Kynnel isn't a bad medic, but really that frag movie was unimpressive to say the least. Everything in it just every day stuff for medics - occasional bonesaw, few needle kills etc. Really it's nothing special.

I agree, there is nothing in there that anyone the play medic semi-regularly hasn't done. A good medic to say the least, but still pretty conventional. I've recorded a few matches on maps like ctf_turbine and dustbowl in which I go for 5 or 6 kill rampages with a Blutsuauger. Offensive medic is very fun.

> On a first date, women never order what they really want to eat. As a girl, I have never understood that. Male redditors - is it seriously preferable for a girl to order a salad over a steak?

If you are paying then it is cheaper.

The NFL by far. Despite all the jokes about the Lions/Raiders/Chiefs/Rams, there really aren't any creampuffs in the league. Unlike, for example, Penn State playing Akron. There really is no comparison.

Or like, Michigan playing Appalachian State... The existence of pushover teams makes their upsets that much more juicy.

I hate when people mix up think and thing. The letters aren't even close on a keyboard.

It's not a typo, it's a brainfart.

Just because this woman obviously shouldn't be teaching children, it does not follow that no one should be able to. Some of us want to homeschool because we are able to teach better and more throughly than our local public schools.

I don't see good in home schooling, of course you can say it's better for whatever reason you judge, but it don't show the child to live in society in a matter of fact it make him different for other kids

TV media loves to report on anything that's negative - it gets them viewers. While we'd be better off without these news stations, I'd much rather that we get rid of all the morons that buy into this bullshit.

Coming up: Jihadist propaganda - it may be in your house right now!

this is embarassing to anyone who wants to see open source succeed. i hope this is an issue of not eating their own dogfood or crappy management or something. do the developers actually think this is a shippable product and a competent answer to the iPhone?

I would rather eat fish for the rest of my life, if eating something besides fish required stealing from someone else.

Try this driver http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=37048 They make you pay or view ads. I viewed some ads for you. Hopefully this works http://rapidshare.com/files/98580406/davicom.zip.html

Thanks I'm trying that driver now, will tell you how it goes.

yeah guess I should pay more attention to Wikipedia and E! true Hollywood stories. Haha

So you are a lazy minded asshole that did not read the citation. This much is obvious, and is the core issue with you being a worthless piece of shit too ignorant to discuss this topic- your mental laziness and inability to read.

NO!!!!!!! FACEBOOK IS RUN BY THE CIA, WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha I don't know if your serious... or joking.. :(

The only way to save that would be to jump in and finish the wedding in the watah.

It is pronounced wooder

you will not get upvotes for announcing that you understand that vaguely clever reference.

well fuck you I was proud of myself! :)

"Also, a fine hack." So you call breaking the lock on the box and changing the message on the sign a hack?

What do you think he did to the lock to get it off? Really, don't be obtuse.

Glad you guys liked the comic. I will see about actually making the shirt. Its a bit risky but Ive gotten away with worse.

There's already a very similar shirt on Topatoco, but with Edward Munster.

MarkIII 1D-S?

Yep, 1Ds Mark III. It breaks a lot though. Canon has already released like two or three software updates and one hardware update. Everyone told me to get a Nikon, but I have too many EOS lenses just to give up on Canon at this point.

i agree, but words such as 'Why' and 'Too much free time' also come to mind

try words such as "tribute" and "nostalgia" maybe?

It's partly about power, but it's mostly about money. It's in the preachers best interest to keep people (and their children) going to Church, otherwise they'd have to get jobs that don't require reading from a book every Sunday.

Money IS power.

Um... Am I the only one who thinks this looks incredibly lame?

looks incredibly formulaic. but i will be checking it out.

Didn't Heath Ledger's daughter already inherit millions of dollars? I don't think her problem is going to be money as much as growing up without a daddy.

Actually, right after he died, there was some news that he had a will or something that sent all his money to his parents, which had been created before his daughter was born and superceded her claim to it. Also, there was some stuff about him not having the amount of money that everyone would have expected based on his success.

Hell no. Stay away from that tripe. The first book was wonderful, thoughtful and inventive. The first sequel was okay. The others were just wretched. Bad ideas, stupidity plots (where characters must act stupid in order for the plot to move the way it does), a main character that became more and more of a Mary Sue as the plot went along. Its been more than a decade since I read them and their intellectual rot *still* stands out in my memory. In fact, I'll spoil the books for you, at least what I can remember, so you will have no desire to read them and can save yourself many wasted hours of plowing through them. Rama II: new Rama craft enters solar system 50 years later, UN sends much better outfitted expedition to investigate. Bullshit happens, three astronauts become stranded on Rama as it leaves for deep space. Garden of Rama: Mary Sue the heroine has a bunch of kids with fellow stranded astornauts. Rama loops back into solar system after being refitted to ask for more human 'samples' for a starter colony. The genius leaders on Earth, in one of the the best stupidity plot contrivances ever, sends 2000 dangerous convicts to represent humanity to a super-advanced alien race. Everyone is for some reason shocked when they cause trouble and almost destroy the spaceship. Rama Revealed: Mary Sue and family runs away to live with aliens while the Rama robots spank the convicts and get them to behave. The ship docks with a megastation, and we get the big reveal: the Rama ships are emissaries of God. Seriously. Mary Sue dies. The end. Now we shall never mention these books again.

Thank you! Now I have absolutely no desire to read the last two books either, and I'm sorry for your harrowing experience.

1) Nothing. That's why I'd leave them with half. 2) I disagree entirely. Our tax code is so full of holes that when you look at the richest people, most of the time they've been able to figure out ways to pay virtually nothing. 3) They do not, their companies do. 4) It's not criminal if you legislate it. 5) Very true on them leaving, however they won't pull out the companies employing people as we are also their customer base. No customers, no money. 6) a) it's not discouraging it, they already have a massive amount of money, more than what they could ever spend, so they can keep making more, we'll take half, they keep the other. b) politicians already seeem to have no responsility, but I agree with you here. As for long term outcome... if GLOBALLY we all agreed to a value point of say.. 50 million, everything after that, you only keep half of... then there's no where to run with it, countries around the world have bigger budgets to spend on social programs, and we're all generally better off. /dreamland Back in reality of course, you're right, they'd leave, they'd threaten to close companies, and the politicians would back off and go back to spending our money and not theirs.

1) If you chop off a girl's boob, can you logically defend it with "I'm not against boobs, I left one on"? 2) Citation please. In the US you might be awful surprised how much of the tax collections [come from the top 1%](http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/MINT-TAXES-R3.png) 3) Companies don't do anything. They are a name on a legal document. People do things. My boss would be probably about number 150 if this list were a little longer. While everyone in my industry has been laying people off and hiding in terror recently, my boss has been on a hiring spree. He could easily have just retired, but likes his work and likes working with good people. He saw the recent economy as a chance to get some more good talent onto our team. 4) "Something for nothing" is criminal. I am not referring to any legislation. I am referring to simple ethics. 5) RIM could operate in China at this point and the faithfully addicted crackberry users couldn't possibly care less. Your statement would apply to some companies, but is hardly applicable to all. 6) It is discouraging. If at a certain point, you suddenly have your assets reduced by half, why would you ever go past that point? That's insane. I should add a number 7: A lot of that money they have has already been taxed, probably at HALF! So you probably have got what you want anyway. I applaud your desire to have a fiscally sound country and I am saddened at the seemingly ever-increasing divide between the rich and the poor. But I think the problems are at all levels: a) There are a damn lot of lazy people looking for a free ride, b) Politicians have no accountability and are overtly bought out, c) Corporations (yes including the rich running them) can easily skirt many legal and ethical lines in the name of profit, by buying out said politicians, d) The middle class are too busy trying to stay at or above middle class, and don't have time to really participate in leading how the country is being run. /my 2 cents anyhow

I pity you the structure of your relationship, then.

Uh, thanks for the pity? I dare say that most marriages are structured in the same manner, though. And I should mention that my wife is gorgeous and loving, so I was just referring to the natural 'ol 'grass is greener' feeling.

I've always thought *Star Trek - Serenity* could've been the name of the show, but that might just be because "Firefly" is the worst name for a science fiction western I can imagine. I love the show, but that is a stupid name, and is probably the entire reason I never gave it a chance when it was actually on the air. Picard is still a better captain than Mal, though.

Picard: 99% of adventures involve something unexpected happening while headed to a diplomatic conference Mal: 99% of adventures involve something unexpected happening while committing a crime ----- Picard: bound by the Prime Directive Mal: bound by his warped Confederate-era sense of honor ----- Picard: hangs out with a robot Mal: hangs out with a prostitute

Haha...sure, maybe if this thread gets a lot of upvotes :P

Absolutely gorgeous. Your curves, the size of your breasts...everything is perfectly proportionate. It will be a pleasure to see more images of your beautiful body.

it's

lupus.

Are you in advertising?

No, I'm in procurement.

Well them asking why we don't go to church, is god real, Grandma and Grandpa/friends go to church, my friend told me that i'm going to hell etc...

the same way you would respond to your kid asking questions about atheism, but without all of the lying.

Great shot but its not a self shot.. you can tell her hands are in front of her pulling down her panties. Someone else took this shot.. Still clever but not nearly as good as if it had been a self shot.

Someone needs to invent some kind of internal timing device that lets cameras automatically take pictures for you after a certain time... oh wait.

Yeah, nothing like using Blackwater propaganda straight from the horses mouth to make your argument. Prince was a SEAL officer, trained in intelligence. His VP is ex-CIA. You don't really think you're going to get the truth from those people, do you?

It disagrees with your speculation, so it must be a lie. Nice line of reasoning. Followed up by a nice ad-hominem attack and a complete lack of any facts to back up your original claim and a downmod on my comment proving that you were wrong. Brilliant.

No, no, no. The proper way to continue a pun thread is to ham it up with another pun.

Some people try to fry the thread with a combo breaker, though.

I saw this a while back and it was BS.

BS? Please explain. Seems fairly well documented.

The left is for more government. The right is for more government. I don't understand why people are up modding you.

The left is supposed to be for more government. The right is supposed to be for less government. In the US there is no 'left', there are only derivatives of right.

I'm not quite sure I understand what's going on there. With the red arrows pointing like that, it looks like the picture is implying vaginal penetration with a cigar.

Is that you, Captain Obvious? Or are you just too young to remember Clinton/Lewinsky? The odd part is that it seems to imply penetration with the *burning end of a lit cigar*. Yikes.

If this goes to court and the plaintiffs win the insurance company should face triple damages. There needs to be a serious financial disincentive to these kinds of legal maneuvers by insurers.

See, even rightards get it.

You found a celebrity who's happy with her body. Congratulations.

So is Oprah - BFD.

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This opinion is very "PC". Prettiness isn't welcome in the PC-land. :/

I know I'm probably going to disagree with someone when they bandy around the label "PC". PC isn't a very useful label because it can apply just as well to not calling your black co-workers "niggers" (very reasonable) as to office policies on swearing and slang (kind of stupid but relatively benign) and to being a crazed anti-everything activist (very ridiculous), depending on who's using it. It's kind of as stupid a notion as "common sense" - there is no common sense.

Once again I admire your honesty. Thank you for that and for the explaination.

I guess in some ways I'm an investigator into atheism. I think it has a lot going for it, and I think Christians will be surprised either at the lack of heaven, or the number of atheists that arrive there (in a "God actually loved logic" sort of way) but I have enough experiences with /God/ or something like it that I can't simply dump it all for a lack of understanding.

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

Pumpkin + rebar = unstoppable force

"This serves no other purpose than to increase the billable hours"

Yes, we all heard it. Well, except for the deaf. And for those without speakers.

I've been there a couple of times. Wasn't really all it was cracked up to be. :)

Intern picnics? That's why I was there. We didn't get to see much of the house, just a big stairway leading down to the backyard where the picnic was. Passed a couple of rooms along the way. Though at the bottom of the stairway they were handing out champagne - and I was under 21 at the time, so I even get to say that I drank underage at Bil Gates's house. :)

Seriously! The US needs a program that have "bait cars" for cops. Cars decked out with video cameras & volunteers who get pulled over on purpose just to test to see if cops are behaving properly. Have the odd volunteer give a bit of resistance (standing up for their rights) & see how police react. Resistance as in nonviolent of course. Hell! There is a department of weights & measures to help make sure merchants arent ripping people off.... why not have the same thing to make sure cops are not abusing their power?

I'll see your bait car and raise you a law requiring all police camera footage digitized and published online at the end of each shift.

If you can't recognize that others have legitimate disagreements, then you can't.

Sometimes people don't have legitimate disagreements. The contract will be in writing, but they'll want to pull out their thesauruses and try to redefine words that have commonly accepted meaninds (worse, it's impossible to think they misunderstood the contract). Even if there were no 2nd ammendment, there should be one. Responsible people can be trusted to own guns privately.

You guys are seriously like children, no wonder no one ever takes you seriously. This is you "WAAAAAA I WANT WHAT I WANT RIGHT NOW WAAAAAA" No one cares what you fools think.

Keep moving that goal post. Next year you retards will be saying the same damn thing. It's only been a year! Keep worshiping! Some day the sun will shine. It's been 262 days. That's 262 failures.

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Also mention that if you had not turned of Windows update this would not have entered your computer in the first place.

YES, WHAT A SILLY PERSON, IF ONLY HE COULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE DISCONNECTED SERVERS AS WE DID ARUDGICK. WE MUST ASURE HIS SHEER STUPIDITY IN THE PRAYER OF UPVOTES. OH HUMBLED JORSH, MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU WILL KNOW OF OUR WRATH. ONTO DIGG WE TRAVEL ARUDGICK, IN SEARCH OF SIMILAR PREY.

Sarcastic much?

Can't decide the scariest... [This one](http://d11885738.u33.surftown.nu/images/swedish-dance-bands-012.jpg) or [This one](http://d11885738.u33.surftown.nu/images/swedish-dance-bands-029.jpg) also, what happened to [the guy on the right?](http://d11885738.u33.surftown.nu/images/swedish-dance-bands-028.jpg)

I love the caplets!

This might just be the single greatest accomplishment. Ever.

or not...