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Apparently they also gave the nobel economics prize to some dude who was talking about changing his car insurance to save a ton of money.

In addition to bestof and worstof there should really be a wtfcomments subreddit.

The problem with no restrictions on schooling is that - there's no restrictions. The (positive) right of a child not to be indoctrinated into nonsense falls apart when their parents can choose a religious education for them long before they can choose for themselves. A parent's 'right' to force their beliefs on their children doesn't exist; a child's right to make informed decisions supersedes privatized schooling.

So since you don't agree with my beliefs, I should not be allowed to impart them to my children? Well, I see your beliefs the same way you see mine, maybe we should make sure that your children can make informed decisions by teaching them the antithesis to everything you believe.

My white friends have been denied entry to clubs based on clothing before. If they could have gotten in with different clothes, they weren't completely denied entry.

They offered to change clothes and were still denied. Read, please.

Where *have* you been?

Since it's a trip with my wife, let's do where I've been with her: * London * Paris * Punta Cana * Sint Maarten * Anguilla * Rome * Florence * Venice * Madrid * Toledo * Lisbon * Sintra edit: Does markup hate me as much as I hate markup? edit2: Yes, yes it does.

I'm pretty sure that the court's not going to buy the truthfulness of that answer, depending on the encrypted content and your history of usage. Merely asserting a lack of knowledge is not sufficient, you also need to be able to convince a court that you're being sincere.

In that case you'd have to give them the 'duress password'. This lets them see the contents of the encrypted volume, which you have ensured are not incriminating. However within the encrypted volume you have a hidden volume, which is impossible to distinguish from unused filespace. Without the password to the hidden (and encrypted) volume, which is within the initial encrypted volume, they can't get at your private stuff. All this is possible using http://www.truecrypt.org/ , which is free.

It is funny because Macs now use Intel Chips.

Actually I needed that explaining. Thank you.

My maternal grandfather died of cancer surrounded by his loved ones. Despite the pain and death looming over him, he died happy seeing us and knowing we would go on after him. My paternal grandfather went the same way, by cancer, but also happy and surrounded by his loved ones. My maternal grandmother was dead to the world since before I was born, focusing on her ailments and bouncing in and out of hospital. She was a borderline recluse and in hindsight she wasted decades of her life before finally slipping away. Myself and some of her other grandchildren lamented that we barely knew her. She never gave us that chance. My paternal grandmother is alive and kickin' at 70. Her age and physical condition aren't slowign her down one bit. She is active in her extended family and with local groups like the CWA (Country Women's Assosciation). By comparison, she is far more 'alive' at that age than my maternal grandmother was in her entire life. Which of those scenarious would you fear most?

All of them. Maybe some can ignore age, althought I doubt this but I can not disprove it. I know that I and others can not. We can't switch of our fears so death scares us. I know there is no god but that does not make me sleep better at night. I know there is no Santa but I cried all night when I first learned that, and it still hurts a bit. When one wakes up and find out all the hope in his life was a lie, that nothing guarentees the kind and worthy a happy or fulfilling life, one gets scared. I'm glad your grandparents are happy but have they all said they don't get scared of aging at all?

People tend to make fun of and mock rednecks a lot. As far as i can tell, they have two things going for them, they have a good time and they are happy. Can everyone say that? Regardless, that picture is priceless.

I remember jumping off the roof of my parents house into their hot-tub and cracking it in half, but I never drove my truck onto the roof, am I a redneck?

My 99 camry, made in Japan, took a hit to the underside by a large piece of metal in the road. I looked under but didn't immediately see anything wrong so i proceeded to drive another 700 miles. About a week after that during heavy rains i went through a huge puddle and my friend said "holy shit the car is flooding". I took it to the garage and they put it up on the lift. The right underside was literally shredded. The assembly for the right tire was twisted like a pretzel. Overall the damage was $6,000+ dollars but up until that flooding it was driving fine.

Top gear's epic attempt to destroy a toyota http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrk6vsb77xk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc4Ksz3nHM& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk

I thought Digg used to be pretty good a few years back. Once its user base got so big the average quality of the submissions on there plumeted. Most of the stuff there now is garbage submitted by power users and most of the comments are pretty idiotic. I'm worrying that we might be witnessing reddit heading in the same direction as it grows in popularity. It seems like whenever I go to the comments to see what other redditors thought about a submission the hotest few comments are all stupid jokes or internet memes.

Yeah, I kind of agree, although as this submission points out, reddit's layout/design keeps some people out.

I would join with anyone to bring down Nancy Pelosi. Even Republicans.

Conservative here. I understand the balance of power. The left is in power, they get the speaker position, sure. But Pelosi is the embodiment of what is wrong with government.

I like to think they're downvoting you for your punctuation.

Whatever makes them feel important.

If you like it, I can post more.

Please do!

Would there be some sort of government department that decides who can and cannot breed? Would you have cops kicking open peoples doors at around 9pm hoping to ticket licenseless people mid-fuck. Your opinions are hideous.

This is the thing I always run into. I don't understand how we can discuss free speech but then want to put a limit on procreation. Then, the next step leads to "Who enforces" and "How do we pay for it." I've yet to find anyone that can realistically answer those questions.

The idea of setting up a google alert for your name is actually pretty neat. Can't do it for my name though, since I share the name of a gay porn star. edit: spelling.

Ben Dover?

There are a bunch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaTur4A1OU

I agree, let's all rick roll ourselves. If we all do it and bring it over 20 million, google will get to laugh in Viacom's face!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=related

they're adverbs modifying "going" or "go"

I say adjective. "Going" is a verb describing *your* transformation to the state described by the adjective. Like, "going crazy". "To Be" also works this way. "I am crazy". Crazy is an adjective in these cases.

Here, read this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFCS#Health_effects

How can I be sure that isn't completely regulated by Big Corn? Nevermind: *"In his recent book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, journalist Michael Pollan claims that the way that the body processes HFCS is different from the way it processes the glucose and fructose found in other sugars. Digesting sucrose requires the production of an enzyme called sucrase, which breaks the bond between the glucose molecule and the fructose molecule. Because the body regulates its production of sucrase, it can only digest sucrose at a certain rate. Because digesting HFCS does not require sucrase to be digested, the rate at which it is digested is not similarly regulated by the body."* Yay, my rumor is strengthened!

You're simply ignoring maintenance you need to be doing, substituting what is merely a nuisance now to what will become crisis management later. That's the problem with Mac OS. It keeps you in the dark with its lack of notifications and useful (sometimes any) error messages. Windows is a lot more proactive this way, it lets you know what's going on and what you need to do. You sound like the kind of person who'd rather not know they have cancer until it's too late to do something about it. Ignorance is not bliss.

Ok, except i have had the PC for over 5 years and the mac for about the same amount of time. I run regular maintence on the PC, defrag, spybot, antivirus, etc, etc, etc... I do NOTHING to the Mac, and after 5 years the PC is slow and clunky and the mac is fast and zippy, plug in an external hard drive and backups are automatic. PC... not so much, I gotta go install Acronis, do the drive imaging thing, clean it up. Sooo... MOST PEOPLE do not want to fiddle with the computer, most people don't even know how. Mac wins in this dept. I disagree. I think Macs understand how to maintain themselves. Do you even OWN a mac? Do you even understand what you are talking about or do you just hate macs because you don't understand them? Be honest.

So this is what /r/philosophy has dropped to, quoting the Daily Show?

Hey, they're greatest minds of our time!

IF the internet relied ENTIRELY on what you are talking about, then no. Think of a giant waterway, with a few small inlets, those proprietary devices are those small inlets.

Right, I'm just saying the direction we are heading are making those small inlets the only source to the waterway. For example my brother wanted to start a website for his COD4 clan. I gave him my "Visual Guide to HTML" book that introduced me to HTML via a bunch of pictures and a cute little monitor with a face. My brother basically through the book back in my face and said "I don't want to learn that crap!" I asked him how he presumed to start a website, he replied "geocities." Another for instance, my dad was looking to start hosting his work website on-site so he asked me to research a server for them. I told him I could just build one and run a LAMP stack on it using any number of linux distributions. He had a very puzzled look on his face and told me he didn't want to bother with all that and that I should just buy one from Dell running Windows Server 2008. Maybe my family is screwed up, but I can change that, as for the rest of the world and how they use the internet, I doubt I can put a dent on that. This is what the internet is becoming, a corporation saturated playing ground for people trying to make money and socialize using the "cool new technology." It should be a free, open source, network allowing people to communicate without having to spend exuberant amounts of money or being bombarded with advertisements. Don't let the corporations control our internet. Encourage open communication and exchange of ideas.

Don't buy apple. Their stuff breaks within a year.

My 1st gen 5 GB iPod with the actual scroll wheel still works fine. My 2nd Gen Nano also has no problems.

Man I really hate liberal logic. "Obama is doing X" "Well Bush did X^2, so Obama only doing X is great!" - "Dems blew $300M on vets in the healthcare bill." "But more is wasted on other stuff, so that's okay." - Liberals, the only people stupid enough to actually think they are doing you a favor as they ass-rape you once a day because the guy before them did it twice a day. Thanks but no thanks.

Please take you words out of my mouth. It's not okay. 300M is bad. But many other things are much much worse. In a burning forest you should not focus too much on one burning flower, however sad it is. This is a matter of practicality. Fix the big things first. Your ass rape analogy is not very fitting. In this case it is getting ass thousands of times per day vs once a year. Does that make the single ass rape a year okay? no. But given a choice as to which issue I'll work on first... it would be the thousands of ass rape per day. And in this case your doubly wrong, because Obama is signing defense spending bills that are larger than Bush did. I'm not arguing partisanship here, it's just raw ass-rape fact.

it's easy... Don't drink!

At bars!

But not Australians or Asians or Africans or South Americans or Antarcticans or sub-continent Indians or the aliens who watch over us in undetectable spaceships and monitor all of our actions which is processed through a complex, internet supercomputer the likes of which we can only guess at.

no, it should make them envious.

I went and saw it last night and I have to say I was really disappointed. After hearing a lot of reviews calling the movie a masterpiece I went in with high hopes. I left leaving unfulfilled and wanting more answers. SPOILERS - Being a big fan of anything World War 2 I thought the movie would of stuck to actual events instead of a completely fictitious story about the heads of the Nazi Party being murdered. Sure I love seeing Hitler and his closest buddies getting what they deserve but World War 2 has such great true stories that I think I would of enjoyed it more if the story line stuck to certain events that actually happened - As the movie was almost all dialogue I was a little pissed at the way the trailer misled it. I was going into this thinking the central focus would about a group of American-Jewish soldiers making there way through Europe. Don't get me wrong, the violent scenes with Brad Pitt's crew were extremely well done and fun to watch, it was just shitty that there were so few. Like take for instance the jail break and the ambush on the German jeep scenes. These were so great to watch but it pissed me off cause they were so damn SHORT! - The much talked about bar scene was very suspenseful to watch but the climatic shoot out was edited so fast that I had no ended who shot who. - I wish there were more scenes explaining the background about some of the characters. The characters were so fun to watch that I was hoping for atleast some back story. For example : How did the Jewish girl escape to Paris? How did the Bastards make there way through France without being captured. How did the British spy rendezvous with the Bastards? How did the the Jew Hunter make his way through the ranks becoming such a good 'Hunter.' I guess overall I still liked it but I was far from impressed. I still think his earlier films are much better and funnier(a lot less laughs in Inglorious). For a script that he worked on for ten years it didn't scream brilliance.

I thought it was pure genius: like Reservoir Dogs meets Hogans Heroes. The dialog was brilliant all the way through - there was not a single dud performance and you could tell that everyone involved was really enjoying themselves. What blew my mind later though was the clever way that he framed all the shots - for the Germans: very close, square and full-framed. The American scenes were all shot very like a Clint Eastwood film, or a classic western... and the French characters were shot with such artistic flair (red dress reflected in a window? My god!) that it blew me away. Standout for me though (and my pick for best supporting) was Mike Myers. He did a better job playing a British Brigadier than any legitimate Englishman ever could have. Outstanding.

Thats what she said.

Asked. That's what she *asked.*

*citation needed*

Every British person Ever.

haven't you seen zoolander? that look's blue steel!

Trademark violation!

You got a script for _[Bunker Hill](http://www.tvguide.com/News/Bridget-Moynahan-Joins-27449.aspx)_?

Sure did. o.O

He has a 2ghz not 4ghz machine ;)

¯-¯ dual core 2ghz what is 2*2? :The two cores run at 2.0GHz each and share 2MB of L2 cache.

Nah, this won't work for the types of calls I get. I'm on the Do-Not-Call Registry. I still get maybe three junk calls a day. Every single one of them disguises their ID with a bogus number. The calls consist of recorded pitches, then something like this: "press one to be removed; press 2 to speak to a rep". If you press one, they'll keep calling anyway. If you press two and speak to a rep, they hang up at the slightest hint that you aren't a buyer. I even tried keeping them on the phone and stringing them along, purposely wasting their time, and then telling them that if they call this number again I'll continue to waste their time. Even that had zero effect. I'm out of options.

I will always press 2. You need to learn to enjoy wasting their time. These days I'm most likely to try to convince them that their job is unethical. Before that I'd ask lots of illogical questions that made is sound like I was interested just to see where they go. Or try to make friends with them.

[Hmmm](http://finale.ocracy.org/files/autografo_frank_cho.png) he's on to something. (NSFW)

whos that girl?

I have no iPod. :( Am I still allowed to shuffle with Windows Media Player? 1. The Doors - Back Door Man 2. Detonate - Angry Video Game Nerd Theme Cover 3. Dropkick Murphys - The Auld Triangle 4. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends 5. Marilyn Manson - Untitled Track 94 (Antichrist Superstar) 6. South Park - Christmas Time in Hell 7. Rancid - Ghost band 8. KoRn - Open Up 9. Blue Oyster Cult - Tattoo Vampire 10. Silverchair - Tomorrow I practically feel the need to defend some of the choices up there, like you're not just strangers on the innertubes or something. "I don't REALLY listen to that anymore!"; "My favorite bands aren't even on there!"; "I sold that album, the files are just backed up on my computer!" etc.

Don't sweat it. I'm pleased with my list, but I was holding my breath the whole time (metaphorically) for fear that something embarrassing would come up. Dodged about a hundred bullets.

I remember that old school method. Classic.

I recall some game or other (SimCity?) that had a code sheet which was black ink on dark red paper. You'd find the code in one column, and the response in the other. Red so that it couldn't be effectively photocopied. We made a handwritten copy of it (no printer). There's an analog hole for you.

Rosebud.

Bobo.

UPS is also unionized.

That would explain why UPS can't seem to deliver my packages before 6:30 at night while FedEX ground and FedEx manage to deliver them by 3:00.

You stay classy, Reddit.

Sir? Would you like to use a scooter to navigate our Wal-Mart?

[This](http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/COMIX/Family/PAGE1.html) is the most depressing comic I've seen. Be sure to read the whole thing and not just the first page. Edit: The website seems to be a bit laggy, so I'll post mirrors here: [Page 1](http://imgur.com/QFU5P.gif) [Page 2](http://imgur.com/LpMzi.gif) [Page 3](http://imgur.com/qAiTy.gif) [Page 4](http://imgur.com/UDrKZ.gif) [Page 5](http://imgur.com/qV8UD.gif) [Page 6](http://imgur.com/1LVe9.gif) [Page 7](http://imgur.com/KwC79.gif) [Page 8](http://imgur.com/Vjr7L.gif) [Page 9](http://imgur.com/5OSwO.gif) [Page 10](http://imgur.com/Z3Agi.gif) [Page 11](http://imgur.com/qChtr.gif) [Page 12](http://imgur.com/YUyxC.gif)

The whole time I was reading this, I had this sickening feeling in my gut. Yep. Holy hell.

Oh what? you think Mr. Carbon Tax, who was rejected by his OWN PARTY just weeks ago should be the LEADER of our nation??

The Green Shift plan was a good one, despite the lies you choose to believe from the Conservatives. i.e. the Tories called it a "Gas Tax" when it was specifically designed to *not* tax gasoline.

No, you're thinking of the Cuntry Fist.

Cunning use of the English language.

For a second I thought the stick woman was a bearded man

Even for drawing stick people you need TALENT. Now everyone is a xkcd wannabe. Jeez...

Random picture with no context

That doesn't imply 4chan.

What's wrong with not supporting the party? The two party system is terrible - something the founders of our country warned us about. We should support policies and candidates who we agree with, but we should never be obligated to support a party. I think many of Hillary's supporters tend to be semi-conservative whites, not the classic liberal. What I like so much about Obama is that he transcends party politics. I have never seen so many moderates support a Democrat.

"Well I got news for all of you. McCain will be the next president of the United States." Like that's going to solve anything. That's the most juvenile reaction I can think of. It's like a little kid who throws a lollipop in the dirt and says "If I can't have the candy, then you can't either!"

This sucks. Imagine how it would feel to be immortal and yet be a retard. You couldn't possibly enjoy it. I always feel bad for those tortoises they say live 200 years. I mean, here's a frigging turtle that was alive before the War of 1812, and what can he tell us about the Battle of New Orleans? Dick, that's what.

What's blissful about intelligence?

I came across this [comment](http://www.reddit.com/comments/6uq7y/walmart_didnt_want_a_lawsuit_pic_lol/c04x3b2) from oduska a few hours ago. Looking back through their submissions, it looks like people consistently complain about weird scripts from [guitardemon](http://www.reddit.com/user/guitardemon/submitted/) and [necromancer's](http://www.reddit.com/user/necromancer1976/submitted/) sites. The two submitters of these sites can be seen commenting in this [thread](http://www.reddit.com/comments/6pbsc/how_a_hostage_situation_should_be_handled_lol/) together. Interestingly both of these submitters are submitting the same sites on the same time frame, but not the same articles. Edit: [Necromancer1976](http://digg.com/users/Necromancer1976/history/submissions) @ digg

And it's the same anti virus that is raising false alarms.

lets just run the whole "celebrity dead" thing into the ground, k? what next, CS LEWIS ON GEORGE CARLIN

Don't you think Edgar Cayce on George Carlin would be better?

After watching that fan-made [trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs) a couple months back I will not accept Green Lantern being played by anyone but [Nathan Fillion](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277213/).

I want the Green Lantern to be played by Nathan Lane, just to shake things up a llittle

I think you mean [High Fidelity](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/). Good movie.

Indeed, and far from a "shitty movie".

I was playing on normal. Normal should not be insanely hard. I have finished COD2 and 4 on veteran, so I know hard and the normal mode of any game taking such a new approach to things should not be THAT hard to start with. That's what expert is for. I'm not saying make the game easy, but normal should be a challenging but complete-able first run through. EDIT: You should read the counter strike reviews for the original xbox version. £40 for a mod? They were having a serious laugh. We have to factor in costs when we review a game, as they are seriously important when we take stock of how viable a game is in the market.

I found normal to be ridiculously easy, to be honest. Maybe you just had trouble with bad teammates. I know that on the servers I played, the motto is Expert or GTFO, so now Normal is a piece of cake.

BUT ITS A CUTE BEAR I THOUGHT ALL CUTE THINGS WANTED TO BE CUDDLED BY HUMANS

Apparently if they are young enough you can cuddle them. http://picasaweb.google.com/lewisandviv/GeckosTourChina#5124515987589352818

BIGGER NSFW!! Got the whole library still looking at me as if I'm some pterodactyleporn-loving freak. Also, this vid is pretty old, yet funny.

Dude, just turn up the volume and walk away, letting it play for all to hear.

wtf, he doesn't mention who dosed him. who would do that to someone against their will? man i remember playing unreal back in my experimental 'cid days it was amazing, i could beat the bots on the harder difficulties, it was like they were moving in slow motion. and it would make my real life voice echo whenever i was in a hallway or empty room.

>who would do that to someone against their will? Someone who wants to be able to say "I dosed Jay Mohr".

LOL i just read this and had to register. sup all! :p

I have to stop playing against you for a while, heh...

So the company that seems to put out a new Mac / PC ad every other week, has so many iPod ads out there that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one and revels in TV and movie product placements is talking shit over advertising budgets? Just wanted to make sure I got that straight...

lol. Heres the thing. Microsoft spends more overall on advertising, but its a lesser percentage of their earnings. What with the absurd market share and all.

And then no one can properly compete with the BBC, which is run by the government. Sounds like nothing can go wrong.

The BBC is bound by Royal Charter.

GOP = 45% increase in federal spending over 40 years. DEMS = 4% increase in federal spending over 40 years. Maybe math is not your strong suit.

It doesn't matter who was in the White House. It doesn't matter who held the majority in either chamber. The essential question is *could they have stopped the stampede?* Your petty partisan fingerpointing grants no one a pass. Refusing to lift the veto pen or block via filibuster is effective consent. Both have atrocious scores.

So? What's so bad about coke? Lots of people do it and don't have a problem with it. Lots of highly successful people. In fact, what's so goddamn bad about heroin? Honestly? It's the same thing that is wrong with coke: the price. If you look at history, lots of very successful people were dependent on opiates before they became the "scourge" that they are today. The only thing WRONG with it is the criminalization. If illegal drugs were readily available, of good quality, and cheap, we would spend less money treating the few people that actually develop problems with drugs than we do fighting a moral war against drugs.

the problem with heroin, the real danger, is administering the drug. smoking it is not so bad, but injecting it is the really risky option due to the adulterants and also not knowing what you are doing.

I've never left America. Part of a lower middle class family, and now I work full time for pennies while going to school... My family could barely afford a trip to the beach - a 5 hour drive away, theres no way we could afford plane tickets and trips =) One day though, I'll travel! Europe, Japan, Australia!

Become a flight attendant. You'll have to deal with cranky passengers and homeland security nonsense, but otherwise it's free travel.

Clerks.

Excellent choice .. you cock smoker.

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DO YOU HAVE PERMIT? Seriously, you need all kinds of documentation to do anything in Austria.

Enough people for a market to exist.

I'd love to see **that** store.

Funny how sometimes you get stuck on a shameful moment in your life and you can't think about anything else, but when the question gets thrown out there about what shitty things you've done, suddenly everything's a brick wall. Not that I mind. The only thing I can think of is this one, and I don't really want to remember any others: I played soccer in junior high and top of the dumbass list is when I accidentally kicked a teammate's shins pretty hard during practice. I didn't realize it until I had the ball pretty far down the field, stopped, turned around. I thought she was laughing from that far away so I forced a laugh too, not a nervous little haha but a nice big hahahahaha etc. I got some shit for that. I don't think very quickly so I didn't realize in time to defend myself that she was crying, not laughing. I never did manage to explain. The year after I graduated high school, that girl's sister, who was a year or two younger and also played soccer on the same team (and was there when I did the thing), was killed by a drunk driver with two of her friends. It was their senior year. They were going to school early to decorate for the homecoming dance.

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It's a bit of a trade-off. On the one hand, you have to pay a huge markup. On the other hand, the legal drinking age is at worst 19.

I've never understood the reasoning behind 21 being the drinking age in the states. You're considered responsible enough to elect the next President, who controls enough nuclear weapons to turn the planet into radioactive sludge, but not to drink beer. Then again, when I travel to the states, it still freaks me out how they sell booze in grocery stores.

My views are as follows: Harry Potter is entertaining, but not great literature. Twilight is a harlequin romance with some creepy overtones targeted at children. The Lord of the Rings are great literature, but not very good books. The Chronicles of Narnia are so preachy they make you want to sell lion Jesus to a circus.

The Lord of the Rings is great literature? I think everyone should read it but I wouldn't call it great literature. In fact when it was first published the no mainstream literature critics praised it and it was generally regarded as populist "pulp".

Aww c'mon we both know you'll be scouting out some skinny girls on Wednesdays.

When I think of eating disorders I think of someone eating 3 buckets of chicken, a king size triple whopper meal and a cake for lunch.

is cleveland worse than jersey? or is it an apples and oranges thing

Nothing is worse than Jersey. At least Cleveland has it's own sports teams.

Comment: Fantastic. Suggestion: More.

I agree and then some!

In what way? From what I've read, the storytelling and pacing was perfect, and conceptually was more inventive than a lot of comics today. The art was great too -- expressive characters, and extremely creative page layouts. For inventive storytelling I don't think you can have a better example than Eisner's personal favorite story, "The Story of Gerhard Shnobble", where the Spirit takes a back seat to the story of a poor accountant who realizes he can fly, but nobody notices.

I had Gerhard Shnobble in mind when I wrote about "flights of fancy" above. It's just impossible to reconcile that kind of whimsy, and humanity, with Miller's "Sin City" style.

Ever heard of ww1? Chlorine gas is what they used to melt peoples lungs. Sure it kills bugs but the long term effects are unknown, we've only been adding it for what, 60 years? Also, tap water has floride in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis Who wants their bones to turn to dust first?

Please learn more about water treatment. Chlorine gas is not used to treat water. It's been used in water treatment for at least 90 years also, in the form of hypochlorate. Though I can't argue that fluorine, improperly optimized can cause fluorosis, it is a cost/benefit trade off. How do you feel about salt being iodinized? It's essentially the same thing.

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Well, yeah. There's grooming for your own comfort/ self-respect. And then there's grooming because you feel you have to be perfect to attract women. Neither sloppiness nor obsession is attractive. This guy seemed to have been obsessed with his own perceived imperfections, in addition to having the general air of someone who could shoot up a gym.

My views are as follows: Harry Potter is entertaining, but not great literature. Twilight is a harlequin romance with some creepy overtones targeted at children. The Lord of the Rings are great literature, but not very good books. The Chronicles of Narnia are so preachy they make you want to sell lion Jesus to a circus.

I was lucky with the Chronicles. I was too young and naive to recognize the hidden Christian meaning. I just thought they were great books!

Yeah, but Dawkins was making the distinction between Allah and Jesus Christ. The muslims absolutely DO NOT believe these are one and the same.

to be fair, do christians?

Really Near Earth Orbit though, am I right? They'd have to go a bit farther in order to be officially in 'space'? Any NASA-nerds out there who can confirm this?

Not a NASA-nerd, but in the satellite industry... NASA gives you silver wings when you're named an astronaut (as opposed to an astronaut candidate), you don't get gold wings until you've flown over 50 miles above sea level. The Department of Defense also recognizes the pilots of the X-15 program that flew more than 50 miles in altitude as astronauts. The International "Space" Station orbits between 170 and 290 miles above the earth and is considered Low Earth Orbit. I believe we consider space to start around 60-70 miles above sea level, where the Earth's atmosphere ends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line

If ya know what I mean.

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

it'll be back

I see what you did there.

Let's not be smug. Yes, rationale is on the atheist side but let's not make a straw-men out of theists. Some of them say, "Please give me strength to lose this weight." What's wrong with that?

It encourages the mentality that people aren't control of their own lives, that they shouldn't take initiative to accomplish things, and that they should wait for God to do something for them. That is dangerous.

Then we do the President Dance! V-v-v-v O-o-o-o T-t-t-t I-i-i-i N-n-n-n G-g-g-g Vote, dance! We can vote if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don't vote and if they don't vote Well they're no friends of mine I say, we can elect who we want to A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind And we can vote

Is this to the tune of a certain song? Edit: Downmodded for asking a question?

MediaMonkey.

Ugly as sin, ghastly, cluttered interface. And, yes- that does refer to the latest version, even with its skins.

Thats not really the point is it?

Of course it is. If, according to encinarus, part of Google's reasoning is to avoid government requests for data, then one has to ask if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Seeing as I don't trust a single entity to hold that much data, no matter how warm and fuzzy their PR, my first reaction is to say, "I don't know that I trust Google any more than I trust my government." From my point of view, Google stepping outside the realm of regulation and/or national laws is not necessarily a good thing.

John Carpenter's "The Thing". Bar none. If you've never seen it, the suspense will freak you the fuck out.

[The original](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/) is pretty great too if you ever get a chance to see it.

Better yet, start a campaign for it. Paul/Puffums '12. I like the ring of it.

Grotesquea/Bacon '12, however, does not.

Be a man.

I agree. I'm going to start by wearing flannel and growing a mountain man beard.

I think the problem is that holding a stance of moral relativism breaks down the philosophical discussion. If someone does something "just because they want to" then there really isn't much worth talking about. It's pretty easy to understand this view-point, and there isn't any reason to continue discussing it. It's just a boring philosophical idea. I think also it's hard to ever encounter anyone that has made it to a prominent position in philosophy that can afford to truly live their life as a moral relativist. Just by participating in cultural norms you adopt (both consciously and unconsciously) many of the moral norms of that culture. If you really didn't care about morals, chances are you are going to be a bit of a fringe character and maybe not well suited to polite philosophical discourse at the academic and university level.

Do you think truly living as a moral realtivist means not caring about morals? Would a cultural relativist not care about cultures? Knowing that morals are fabricated doesn't necessarily mean that one does anything out of the ordinary.

Reveling in sheer Slackful BLISS, the Slackmaster by sheer force of SLACK will ride with the Sex Goddesses on X-day, and he WRITHES. And when they hold that Devival, THERE HE IS! Let that AntiMusic GRAB you! I'm here to tell you, the Master of Slack has no NEED to make "sense" and is NEVER wrong, because he grabs sheer Slackful BLISS and DISPORTS himself! YEEEE! The Slackmaster LAUGHS at the Norm world around us. Dobbs needs your MONEY! Every DAY, the sacred Bulldada (and the Master of Slack MUST believe this) is launched bleeding into the skies, is a mere shadow of reality as perceived after the Third Nostril is opened. Yes, it's Eternal Salvation, or TRIPLE your money back! Fight the Yacatisma! Remember, the "rantings" of the inspired Slackmaster operates by HOLY instinct. The inner certainty of the SubGenius protects our sacred ABNORMALITY which is as important to the Master of Slack as his SICK sense of humor!

uhhhhh

Uncle Fatih's is good sure. But, for some reason, I still prefer Megabite... It's at the same intersection. I think Fatih's is more deluxe and fancy but when I want pizza I'm usually drunk and I think that Megabites is more appropriate. Also Commercial Drive rules.

I love the ad on the side of Megabite with all the people being ridiculously happy with their pizza. I walk by there nearly every day but I've never been inside. Maybe I'll try it sometime. **Edit:** Haha, [someone actually took a picture of it](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/1318631698_f4afe7edc4_b.jpg)

Believe me, we try to all the time. But nutjobs of any faith (or none at all) are partially known for their inability to listen to reason.

I think you need to be more vocal, and less afraid to publicly criticize wing-nuts. I think there's a reticence to do it for fear of being ostracized and branded some sort of religious traitor.

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*flap flap flap*

James Cameron is the man, man...that's nuts, he got Aliens made by making the S a dollar sign!

They neglected to include that the producers were high on LSD.

Hello, I have a suggestion for you. Sometimes the reason it can be hard to adjust the water temp is because the pipes physically can't handle as much flow as you are demanding of the pipes. In essence you're trying to force 2 huge volumes of liquid (one hot, one cold) through a small opening. The hot/cold volumes have trouble mixing and then you can subsequently get them coming out all at once. Try this the next time; it has worked for me in the past. Turn on the faucets just enough so that the flow through the shower head is acceptable, maybe a little less pressure than you're used to. Once the temp is where you like it, you can either take the shower at those conditions or if you don't like the pressure, you can start increasing flow a little by little. Of course this is not a guaranteed solution, but depending on what the underlying problem is, it could help.

You are a useful person to hang around with.

this happened a few months ago - the driver actually survived because (he?) was able to move to the other side of the car before it got completely crushed. I know, I know, I'm trying to find a link to the new article... edit: I found it, but the whole thing is not available. It happened in Waterloo

Ah, good deal. That makes it a lot less horrific.

it's australia. we don't tip - the waiters unionised.

In Soviet Russia the waiters tip you.

[Here](http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=199521).

Oooh hope they don't mess it up. Thanks for the link.

I got a monitor for Christmas too, it has a "Works with Vista" sticker on it. Seems like a bad thing.

At least it's not "Works *like* Vista"

[here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6qWaJ-BG-k) :)

That was awesome! Thanks for find it.

That is why I dumped /r/politics off my reddit list.

Exactly, I've never seen a bigger echo chamber in my life.

How do you know?

Because they don't exist without a universe to exist in. If they exist, then at least some kind of universe exists. Set theory.

There is nothing wrong with polyamory. EDIT: I'm not saying that I have ever been in a relationship with more than one other person at the same time, nor do I think polyamory is something that everyone should do. I'm just saying that for some people it works, and there is nothing morally objectionable about it if they're fine with it.

A corollary: Attractiveness is a real thing, and attractive people attract more attention than those who are not. Especially in polyamory, less attractive people find less attention.

It's about $1.94/gallon in Denver.

It's $2.89/gal here. Welcome to the Third World.

Unless you have advanced gun training and amazing reflexes (and even then), you're going to get shot first. Just like the police can only react, you can only react also. If a bullet is already coming for you, all you can do is add another bullet to the mix; your gun can't cancel out others' shots.

Just like the Luby's massacre in Kileen, Texas; just like the Columbine shooting; just like Virginia last year... If the right person would have been armed, countless lives could have been saved.