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yo, ho, ho, A Pirate's life for me. :)

tell you what; 14gb of data is really quite a good anti-piracy tactic.

Hey man.

My school day's insane.

In the 8 years since I got my degree I never found work in my field, went through a couple soulless jobs, got laid off, tried to get a 2nd degree and hated it, got stuck being MrMom, on and off did job hunting for something to fill in around my other concurrent responsibilities that was at least rewarding without any success etc etc all of which contributed to stress and depression. Now all I want is to be happy. I'll take that. I'm sick of waiting for something to go right in my life to be happy. I just want to be happy now and to hell with the rest.

Word. Don't wait to be happy. That's not to say, "give up on the future", but don't set conditions on your happiness.

It's my fave Heinlein too

Can you say more about what it's like? One person's stick in your mind good is another person's can't get this out of my head it's so bad.

Actual studies have shown that the most efficient method is for both lanes to merge by alternating at the obstruction, - and not before. The car labeled Jackass, is actually doing the right thing. People who merge too early cause the unobstructed lane to be slower than the obstructed lane. People have a natural inclination to be in the faster lane (the one with the obstruction) and so will pull into that lane to get around what ever is causing the other lane to go slow. So to repeat: Merging before the obstruction slows traffic down more than merging at the obstruction - and is the wrong way to drive! Get the word out! Oh, and intentionally going slow - is really being a jackass.

It's not so much that the "jackass" guy is being a jackass for politely merging at the last second. If there's a space for him, then there's no problem. The problem occurs because that jackass guy has no remorse about cutting you off, forcing you to either hit your brakes or else get into a collision with him. Originally I just thought these jackasses were thinking "I'm in a hurry, so I just don't care" but now I know there are people who actually rationalize cutting people off and labeling everyone else as being wrong. In essence they (you) think you're smarter than everyone else. Well here's a fact for you, no studies required. Cutting in line 5 car lengths in front of your current position does not get you to your destination significantly faster, but it does piss people off quite effectively.

And what is the problem with their not wanting to read the bible? It's boring. Genuine question...

There are parts of the Bible that are boring, no doubt. But there is plenty that can be exciting when you care about patterning your life after Christ and getting your life on God's plan. And for Christians, there is nothing more productive we can do to become more Christ-like than study the Bible. If you don't, you're pretty much destined to have a very unfulfilling spiritual life.

But that's the bible, a collection of stories wrote by humans. I've yet to hear of anyone growing up to be Christian without any Christian influences on their childhood.

Appeal to ignorance.

what...what the hell is that thing? and why would anybody wanna do that to a deer's rectum?

It's [Butt Out!](http://www.hunterspec.com/Updateable/update_display.cfm?pageID=2107&categoryID=15) It's used when field dressing deer. You pull part of the intestine out and tie it closed, that way the poor deer's poop won't squirt on the meat and skin and whatnot. A more common technique is to cut around the anus, pull a portion of the intestine out and tie it up, but this tool makes the process easier. There's even a video link on the product page to see it in action. I've never been hunting in my life but I saw an outdoors-type catalog a few years ago that featured this product. My initial reaction was quite similar to yours.

I love reading /r/atheism makes me happy to know not everyone in this world is a fucking lunatic :) On a side note- shouldn't humans consider themselves aliens? Just because we haven't found proof of other life doesn't mean that we aren't aliens right?

I think that "alien" is usually used as a relative term: a Martian is as alien to me as I am to him. If you mean that the something organic from elsewhere landed on Earth to form the beginnings of life here, it's definitely possible. Look into [panspermia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia) and the related [bukkake](http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Bukkake).

I did that with my WoW playtime when I quit, it was a huge motivator. 120 days = 2880 hours = 22325$ @ $7.75/hr. Sadface...

Wow, your WoW playtime is eerily similar to mine, +/- a few days . . . on just one character. Luckily I felt nothing when the new expansion came out, didn't wait in line for it. Well . . . almost nothing. I feel a slight tug on my keybindings to level my two 70s to 80, and then quit, just to see the new areas/questlines.

"A" hero. You only use "an" with words beginning with the letter h if the h is silent. Since you don't pronounce "hero" as "eero," you use "a."

Oh god, talk about a meme going over someone's head.

You wouldn't shoot a police man and then steal his helmet! Piracy is theft!

Yar.

Bans on export would mean the oil can't go into the Canadian pipeline. When we buy oil off the pipeline in the lower 48 we can't tell which oil in the pipe came from Alaska and which came from Canada.. it's the same fucking oil, so why should we care If we're selling to Canada and then buying it back for the same price, what's the difference? An export ban would only work if we had our own pipeline Canadians couldn't use, but then that's also dumb for the same reasons as an export ban. There was a thought there, she just really sucks at articulating, you know... anything.

interesting point...but how many of the people sitting in the audience she was addressing have any knowledge of this process? I'd venture a guess at < 1%

What does this have to do with atheists? Biologists would be more helpful.

This whole Reddit doesn't have much to do with atheists. Biologists aren't used to tailoring their arguments against YECS.

There's a rather long comic, in the same series I guess, that probably takes place before this, kind of explaining the whole thing. It starts off with Clarissa not wanting to eat pancakes at breakfast or something and then you find out a bunch of panels later through a conversation with her teacher and her kindergarten drawings. It's really good, I hope someone can find it. edit: spelling

It's titled Family Portrait. That talented rascalion JaSon teases me that I will never possess a page from that series. Please write JaSon and convince him to give it to me. Okay I'll pay, well not alot I'm saveing money to buy a hand generator and lots of rechargable batteries. To read this or other tidbits read Deep Fried. Go to www.whatisdeepfried.com then to his store for this and more.

Frankly, if all reddit assembled for the international reddit day, I think we'd all be surprised.

There's an international reddit day?

Travel (real travel, not off to Disneyland for the week) creates legitimate understanding of other cultures and other people. When you're told by others, TV and even the internets what the wide world is like you know how to put it in context, and even ignore the lies. It helps you go deeper within yourself by opening your eyes to possibilities you would never have considered before. There's also no reason it needs to be particularly wasteful. No matter where you are in the world you can share transportation, without flying, and spend little money to go far and wide. All you need is the time, I mean months not weeks, and I highly recommend you make it. You can't learn everything from those little screens inside your house.

You could make the same argument for taking heroin. At least that would only hurt yourself. As far as the "value" of meeting others... I value the true diversity of the planet. That is what will keep us (well, some of us) going in the long term. We need less Americans spreading their "culture" for starters. Stop the homogenization of the world and cultural genocide due to unnecessary travel. Pick a city already and stay there.

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Wow. I need a few moments alone. Thanks for sharing. Very hot.

Since the self-destructive path they've chosen often crosses the line into violence, it behooves all of us to stand up for what's right, which is reason and honesty, in order to thwart Christian indoctrination, dogma and organization.

That path also crosses another line into humanitarianism. Battling Christianity as a whole is throwing out the wheat with the chaff. Stand up against the violence, the manipulation, the corruption - but don't dilute your message by lumping all of Christianity into one package.

95%! rock on

same here

God I miss the 90's when I was a kid. I'd rather have been a Gen. X-er from the '90's than whatever my generation is now.

[Generation X is a term used to describe generations in many countries around the world born from 1965 to around 1982.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X) Gen-X was out of school by the 90's. EDIT: I just did the math and I guess the last of Gen-X graduated in 2000. THIS Gen-X was out of school, but I'm middle of the pack.

hope ohio state doesn't face a SEC team....

You don't know how the Rose Bowl works.

I know way more decent, intelligent Texans than idiots. The only state we should pigeonhole in this way is Kansas. What the hell is wrong with Kansas?

Well, everyone has different experiences. My Texas experience was mostly from a hospital in Houston for 7 months last year. Some of the people were great, but more of them were idiots - as I said. Have you ever read the "Houston Chronicle" - that city's newspaper? Fox News *really is* fair and balance compared to that pathetic excuse for journalism. Everywhere I looked, people were intentionally delusional to a degree I haven't seen in some of the other states I've lived in. And I'm talking about states like Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. The people in Texas (outside of Austin, anyway) are by and large unimaginably stupid. It's fine if you don't believe me, you're entitled to your opinion, and I'm only stating mine. But I think that this article we're commenting on lends some evidence to my position.

Bullshit. If a pharmacy said it didn't want to sell sudafed because people were using it to make speed would you say they are no longer a pharmacy. A moral stance is commendable only if it aligns with YOUR morals I suppose.

Selling an OTC medication that has potential for abuse and refusing to fill a prescription written by a Doctor and then refusing to return the prescription are 2 TOTALLY different things man. Good straw-man though.

Great message here. Anyone complaining about the verbosity have missed the point entirely. It's about thinking too much... so naturally there's going to be a lot of writing. Almost everyone can identify with this, because it's instinct for protection. As cavemen, fucking up your social life meant death. So even today, people obsess over little things like this even though the worst possible scenario is that the girl says no. But if you don't play the game at all, you can't win. So stop thinking and just play.

I completely get what you are saying. I'm rather interested in becoming romantically entangled with a specific woman. Problem is, she and I are friends. Really good friends. We were really good friends before I developed feelings for her. It isn't that I'm afraid she'll reject me (although that is a concern), it's that if she did or things didn't work out between us, the friendship could become so awkward that we wouldn't be able to pick up where it left off. So in the end, at least for now, I'm still willing to play it safe. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. I already have a good relationship with her, but I'm not yet willing to risk it in an attempt to have something more with her. It blows.

After that, when it got dark. That's when it happened.

Yeah but I thought nobody saw them because they each stuck their heads in the sand. Oh wait a minute. That's what ostriches do; not giraffes. Never mind.

We go to my wife's family gathering on Christmas day. This is her aunt & uncle, their three grown children with spouses, and those couples' children in sets of 2, 2, and 4. The aunt and one of the couples (can you guess which?) are Catholic, and the rest are undeclared as best as I can tell. However, before we can eat, we have to hold hands in a circle and listen to a prayer given by the husband of the catholic couple. This is usually something like "We celebrate your birth even though we know in a few months you will suffer and die for us on the cross" along with some other stuff. One year another adult had passed out drunk in one of the bedrooms, and we were not allowed to eat until somebody had dragged her out of bed so she could stand in the circle and do the thing. I find this situation very uncomfortable, but really don't know what to do. I have a hard time with confrontations.

I wouldn't fight it if I were uncomfortable with confrontation. But just before the circle is broken at the end of the magic spell, I might utter a quick crack like "And may the Force be with all of us" just to signify how ridiculous you find this. They get their say, you get yours.

I assumed it was run by the government because the television license goes to them. How is a private company able to enact a thing like the television license? Sorry for being ignorant, but I don't understand.

The license is enacted by the government, but it is used to fund an independent organisation: the BBC World Service.

Did somebody mention botflys? Obligatory link http://youtube.com/watch?v=23eimVLAQ2c

Also, [this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQQkc6xtDc)

yet he gives out billions to charities.

One does not have to be religious to be charitable.

http://www.reddit.com/r/slackerrecipes

Woops... I forgot to post a link. Thank you. :)

His argumentation is all over the place and consists mainly of anecdotal evidence and emotional appeals. A college freshman debater could tear him to shreds.

Exactly right - he doesn't have a coherent thesis. He's just pissed, and he voices that displeasure, and he makes money doing it. He doesn't have a clear plan to solve it, or a set of foundational principles that he suggests we operate from. He's just pissed. It's like your friend Vinny when he gets drunk. He sits at the bar and just moans about everything. On one hand Moore complains about the tax burden in the US. On the other hand he says it's wrong for college students to have to take out loans to pay for their own education. He does not imagine there is a conflict between these two things. He wants the government to pay for college, and he wants the tax burden to be lower. Well, which is it, Mr Moore? He is definitely an American Icon, though. *I'm **Mad as Hell**, and I'm going to make money because of it.*

Japanese don't wrap their xmas gifts. Their shops wrap all their purchases all year round. Seriously, when i went to japan shops don't take "don't wrap it, it's for me," for an answer.

I bought some sweet snacks for a family I was living with and every bite sized morsel was individually wrapped, in addition to the box being wrapped. Pretty wasteful, although it does seem like everyone recycles.

It's not bad, but the mirror universe nonsense needs to go, just like the time travel bullshit. That was a shitty plot device introduced simply because writers ran out of ideas. Worse than holodeck episodes imo. If the Federation is going to war with the Borg, then the Federation needs to do this on its own, and win this on its own. I want to see the Klingons leading the charge on behalf of the Federation. This is their moment to truly shine and build bridges between the other races in the Federation, and reclaim their lost pride. They should be soley responsible for saving several other worlds, and Vulcan should be one of them - at a *high* cost to the Klingons. The necessity of creating advanced technology to fight the Borg should be used as a driving force to bring Vulcan and Romulus back together. There's a lot of great potential for drama there. The end result of the story arc should be a Federation that has, by sheer necessity, set aside all of their differences and become exactly what Roddenberry wanted anyway... only instead of getting there through diplomacy, it's through threat of annihilation from the Borg. The diplomacy keeps it together after they win. I like the idea of using Omega to tear up subspace. It brings a naval combat element into space battles that could be used to great effect. They should also get some space-folding weaponry in there at the end as the 'final solution' - even the Borg can't survive having a supernova dropped right into the middle of their home base. We need to see truly epic Federation technology, where they finally surpass the various other races like the Dominion. Solar system scale engineering projects should be created, on the order of ringworlds and dyson spheres, and at least one of them should be the space-folding weapon. The Borg have never fought an enemy like the Federation, with at least as many races, perspectives, and technology as they have themselves, plus the spark of individuality to act independently. The Borg are used to taking on one fight, one race at a time. It should become apparent to the characters over the course of the series that the real threat isn't the Borg, it's bad blood and petty bullshit between the various races.

I like the idea of the Klingons playing a major role in a new series. In fact, why not make the whole series focused from the Klingon point of view and how they handle situations as members of the Federation separate from the Federation. Or even just give them a whole series starting from *before* joining the Federation and giving their perspective on the Federation and interaction from/with other species? Same could be done for Vulcans or Romulans, but the Klingons probably have the most material and culture development (i.e. language, etc.) than other species in Star Trek.

...The beginning of the subreddit wars.

I'm not schizophrenic. I'm moderator of both subreddits and I'm not gonna fight myself :-) I just wanted to make a niche for more quality and more varied material. I named and founded NSFW_NoSpam before NSFW was moderated and Spam free (almost). More recently I also founded BDSM_NoSpam for even kinkier tastes. So please join and help it grow.

You haven't told your parents you are an atheist? WTF?

I live in the Bible-Belt (Texas/Oklahoma border). I have the possibility of getting completely ostracized from my family, which is not a risk I am willing to take right now.

What makes more sense: charging people for what they use, or charging everybody exactly the same amount? The wheels of capitalism should be working against you here. Getting out of this unlimited internet trap should be quite easy for an ISP. Simply introduce new, cheaper metered plans. Most of the (profitable) customers who use little will swap to these on their own accord (as long as you inform them properly) and be thankful that they are now getting cheaper internet. You'd be left with medium to heavy users on your now unprofitable unlimited plan. Raise the unlimited price, and introduce a new metered plan at the original price point that caters for the medium users. Repeat iteratively. Losing all the (unprofitable) power users to other networks is good, because it saves you money and costs your competitors money. Most businesses would loathe to offer someone $20 internet access if they were already happily paying $40 (prices are completely made up and thoroughly inaccurate). Where's the business sense in that? Well they'd have a more sustainable business model. And they could attract the profitable customers from other networks, further enhancing the bandwidth crunch on their competitors.

Economics can be a strange beast and the most simple answers do not always apply. It is common for instance to see that double packs of sweets costing a few pence more than single versions. How does this make sense? Simple, people have three considerations when they shop - Quality, Time and Price. Kids have plenty of time and little money so they look for the deals for a while and find them, saving what little they have. Adults tend to have less time and just want to get something quickly so they spend the extra 10c without noticing. The shop can therefore sell the product cheaply and keep the poorer customers whilst gouging the rich. This also works on the Internet. I believe comcast offer cheaper deals but you have to ask for them by name or they won't let you have them meaning the nerds get what they want and comcast get to gouge others. It might be another US ISP, but I have heard people moan about it on reddit. They definitely do that over here in the UK. The problem with net useage is this - we are mostly nerds. We are educated, young, and easily outraged. I am sure the older generation get gouged to hell but they don't care as they will never use their 1 gig monthly download limit, even though we will go well over that in a week. The companies will gouge the older and richer but I assure you they can't fool the younger and more knowledgeable generation. If they tried to do what you have just described it has already been predicted by you and dozens of others on reddit alone so we would see it coming a mile off. It would only take one company to break the monopoly (say a small start up founded mostly by nerds - worked for Apple and MS, IBM used to run the computer world and look how far they fell!) for everything to fall though and the companies to lose money. For your plan to work EVERY company would have to offer cheaper plans with less useage and raise their unlimited prices at the same time which just won't happen in an open market. They also can't raise the price if you have a contract that says they cannot, at least for X amount of months. Economics is complex but a free market can be understood and exploited. It also protects us for the reasons stated above. The real problem comes if one company gets a significant monopoly due to location or political control like say in China, where they are at risk of getting butt-fucked comparatively. Yes, they have faster infrastructure but they probably pay more than they need to. The free market is a good thing.

I'm Canada.

O' Canada

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6 minutes, actually, and I watched the whole thing. It was depressing but all true. When will more people wake up and start demanding that this stuff gets put away? For me, if I ever see police brutality in my town, I'm going to stand up for the brutalized.

Hey what's wrong with Minnesotans :(

At least they're not afraid of the dark.

The meet the spy video seems to indicate that the scout's mother is still alive, so I'm inclined to believe that he shot the spy.

The meet the spy video also seems to indicate that the spy is still alive...

i'm not sure what you guys are talking about, but that ass is fucking delicious

Hells yeah!

Even if such an app was readily available, most ethics information does not exist as most companies are reluctant to provide it. And that makes me think... eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable companies should be encouraged: not merely for creating a value-added production process that's better for the environment, but for *actually be willing to publish this information* !

That's why the app is to use third-party sources.

So did I - but you won't see me admitting to it on the internets.

I liked Voyager, and I'm proud.

Augustine uses the same idea in City of God. Chapter 19 is especially useful for this. Your blogpost looks interesting. I'll take a look. Would you consider yourself a Straussian, and if so, how do you define the term? The political science department at my school is composed almost entirely of them.

What school is this? It's been a while since I read City of God, you're gonna have to spell it out for me - you mean the "polis" as a question, or individual cities devoted to individual virtues?

Preparing to get downvoted into the nether regions... Stupid. Stupid. Downright freggin stupid. When you have a wife, a child and another en route you must stop doing dangerous shit. Your obligations are no longer to yourself. You have a duty, an obligation, to take care of yourself and to provide for your family. You days of needless risk taking are over. No skydiving, cave exploring, hang gliding, bungee jumping, rock climbing, no more binge drinking with fellas etc. Two kids are fatherless because he felt the need to be adventurous.

You pretty much summed up why I'd rather not have kids.

No I modded you down because your comment is whiny (no offense). If you don't realize the relationship is superficial, well that's your own damn fault. Maybe appraise relationships as you begin, and continue, them? It can only "wreck" real life relationships if you, through your own weakness, allow internet relationships to be shallow (inherently, they must be more shallow than face to face interaction) and replace your real ones. If I seem too harsh, sorry, but I have been *there* and back again.

No... The internet also allows your wife/girlfriend to have a lot of free converse with whatever unscrupulous and raiding asshole who comes along on the internet. You might not think that something that magnifies temptation is a bad thing but I do. Temptation is hard enough to resist as it is, but the internet ups the opportunities and abilities for all sorts of deviancy.

Calling yourself a "Christian" and actually choosing Jesus as your Lord are very different things. I think a lot of people who grew up in the church are just part of their local social club.

If they are calling themselves by the title of Christian, then they are publicly stating their faith in Jesus Christ as God. What more is really necessary to "choose" Jesus?

I live in Texas and this is nothing new to us in the summertime. A lot of cities have had lawn watering restrictions for years. No watering the lawn anytime between 8:00am and 9:00pm. The lawn loses most of the water in the heat to evaporation and is a waste. Water it at night and the grass keeps the water it is given. Water minimally so that we do not have shortages. Just common sense. The cities enforce this rule usually when we are in a drought. BUT we just got a good couple of days here int he DFW area so we are looking good.

We have similar watering restrictions in Vancouver BC ... so ya the restrictions aren't a big deal. Patrolling is kinda novel and so are lakes down below half their level, turning up stuff nobody has seen in decades. Mexico is also facing severe draught right now. There is another article on reddit somewhere about their 10 month strict water rationing. Bottom line is this is extreme weather - it can't and shouldn't be downplayed.

Vera de Milo (In Living Color). That horse laugh always stays with me.

[LOL yeah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7S7YQpnklU).

I would like to spookyspooky all over your mewmews.

I think I second that motion.

Also to be fair: the autopsy report says the cause of death was "due to acute psychosis," but it doesn't say *whose*.

According to an AI estimate, from 2001 to 2007, 280 people have died after being tasered by police in the US. Taser International sued an Ohio coroner for suggesting in her report that their device was a contributing factor in the death of two men. They also sent out legal demand letters to 60 news organizations/outlets after that Polish man died at Vancouver International Airport. There is lot of psychosis around, it seems.

Reading that made my day.

Mine too. January 26, 2007.

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His·pan·ic (h-spnk) adj. 1. Of or relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America. 2. Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture. n. 1. A Spanish-speaking person. 2. A U.S. citizen or resident of Latin-American or Spanish descent.

I hope the lad took a case against those involved.

I was googling to try and find out, and there is nothing about any kind of action against the officers.

what? that makes no sense. what other sport doesn't allow the best athletes on its biggest stage? anyways they didn't look so great in the all-around which was won by an american.

Most professional sports require an athlete to spend a year in college.

Parmesan cheese. the real stuff, not the graded Kraft crap

mmm reggiano - yum!

Lame satire.

Walking satire?

The media is making N. Korea look like a backwards dictatorship, rather than that being the fault of the backwards, megalomaniacal leader of that country? What power they must have!

This is a country that has successfully tested it's own nuclear weapons. That is far from backwards. We are witnessing political propaganda. If you want the truth, go find some South Koreans that have not been living in America (talk to those that live in South Korea). Even they are bombarded by propaganda, because South Korea is a puppet state of the U.S. (and has been since the Korean war), but they are much clearer on what is really going on. I have done this; the South Koreans that I have talked to have all said that they are the same people as the North Koreans, with the same culture and same values. The leader of North Korea may be a real pain in the ass, doubtless. But my point is that *people* are usually genuinely good everywhere in the world. Our media paints these fucked up pictures of other countries and gets us all stirred up into blood-lusts; then we go slaughter innocent people and the psychopaths on both sides profit. Shame on us for listening.

Everybody has similar things to say about Rorty...

Not Fish.

no pointer to object here

I'm sort of on the bubble about these puns.

I like to believe that the aliens knew these things about water and were coming to save us from this water-infested planet, but it just becomes a comedy of errors and lost-in-translation/clash-of-cultures type of story. PS, I don't really believe that. And yes, dumb ending for a somewhat intriguing movie.

If anything it's just a ripoff of war of the worlds, aliens killed by the common cold.

Funny you should say that... got two wrong numbers today actually.

Really? I haven't gotten a wrong number call in years!

i don't think anyone can deny that "Dancing Queen" is one of the greatest pop songs of all time

I don't know about denying it, but I can't agree with it. Too many songs out there that are much better.

You'll be seeing the second half of that video live in 2012. The neo-cons are *BAD* losers.

Barnie Bush/Palin 2012!

Yes, all of that! Here's what I *didn't* like about it: * They all suddenly agree to give up their entire civilization and spread out across the world. * They think that by giving up their technology and entire civilization is going to break "the cycle". It seems like a good idea at first; a chance to get back to nature would have to be very tempting to a civilization that spent years in space fighting robots n' such. However, they completely miss on what the *cause* of "the cycle" actually is: human nature. Therefore, by giving up their collected knowledge and experience and wisdom they are pretty much guaranteeing that "the cycle" will continue, and obviously it did. * The whole religious crap in general. But I guess it's ok because it was a sci-fi show anyway (boom, roasted).

The one thing that killed the ending for me was them populating prehistoric Earth. Even giving up the modern technology, dumping 39,000 some people with all of that knowledge on a planet would radically alter civilization. Someone will build a water wheel, someone else will build a windmill, another will build an irrigation system; all to make life easier. Then, technological innovation happens way to soon and civilization is no longer our civilization. If they had found any other planet and settled there it would have been fine. It just bugged me that they chose Earth.

I never said he should be ridiculed. Just that he shouldn't be comfortable with himself. It is not bigoted to say someone is fat. I made no assumptions about the kid. I have a friend who is fat and the nicest guy the world. I have ugly fucked up teeth. So what?

Again that is not for you to say. You have absolutely no right whatsoever to tell someone what they should and should not be comfortable with, and yes what you are saying is tantamount to ridicule. I believe that you are insincere and merely trying to save face at this point, I will not attempt a rational discussion with the likes of you.

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You mean like Harper, Duceppe, and Ignatieff? Sure, I agree.

TIL Opera 10 also handles CMYK just fine. Thanks for the example

Why is it that every time some complaint is made about browsers it is found that Opera doesn't suffer from said complaint?

My girlfriend is very adventurous. Once, when trekking through the Lacondon jungle in Chiapas, she came upon a Maya village and was offered something to drink. She later learned that the way it was made was that all the women sat around a pot and chewed grain (the amylase in their saliva digesting the starch to sugar) then spit it into the pot, where the sugar would ferment. That sounds worse than any of the potions mentioned in this post. The next day she joined the women, chewing and spitting to make the next batch.

I'm sure your girlfriend is very high maintenance and likes a lot of designer clothes.

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.

He should be aware that, outside of the internet, his last email translates to *please fire me*.

thats what made me think the whole thing was fake. Surely no one actually sends an email like that.

Like employer and employee. ;)

Not really. That was a bad joke if intended to be one, also.

Proportional representation IS the biggest issue. Nothing can be fixed until or electoral system is fixed. 60% of Canadians are NOT going to be voting for Harper - yet Harper will be the PM.

Well, my logic is that I prefer having a poorly but at least semi-working electoral system and a job, versus a better working electoral system with perhaps no job. Not to say those are the only scenarios, just that things like jobs and the economy and taxation are indeed extremely important to me. Besides, while proportional representation would certainly be a huge improvement, it's not a panacea -- it has its own problems too.

A Prequel to "Downfall" called "Springtime for Hitler", it would basically be a lot like the orange mocha frappuccino scene from Zoolander, except it's everyone else who dies in a fire.

yet more evidence that you either really work in hollywood and you mean this with a straight face or are a an awesome comic genius.

you mean... you readit on reddit.

you mean... you reddit on reddit.

If you decide to, let us know when the episode will be airing. :D

He only gets one phone call from jail and you want him to call you???

Funky riff, rap over riff, new riff and scream slogan 12X, rap again, scream again, weird guitar noises, rap again, scream again. Yep, rage were pretty consistent over 3 albums.

Pizza? That's just tomato sauce, cheese and dough. A stand up comedian? Ugh, it's just some guy up there telling us stuff to make us laugh. You are right, but at the same time, [you're just engaging in greedy reductionism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_reductionism) Personally, I think RATM never released a perfect album, they've jsut got 3 albums full of good songs. I think Evil Empire, the second, might have been the best one too.

Never fry a cold egg. The white will cook (or burn) before the yolk sets. Putting the eggs in a bowl of warm water for 10 minutes helps. Better yet, put them on the counter the night before you're going to use them. Pro tip: Take your time and use low heat. High heat will leave you with burned eggs. My saying is: **If the eggs turn brown, turn the temperature down!**

Wow, I never thought to do this, but to compensate I always use a lid to steam the upper parts of the egg as it's frying, for about 15 seconds or so. I've grown to like it that way, but I'm curious to try a room-temperature egg, now.

My brother in law is a fruitarian (well, at least he is for breakfast and lunch) he made me a smoothy using 6 bananas, a little ice, about 1/2 cup of water, and an entire container of salad greens. I know this sounds gross, and it looks green and not appetizing, but surprisingly it just had a mild banana flavor and was ok to drink. The problem is, he made an entire blender full, and said that is for ONE person. It wasnt easy drinking it all, I didn't quite make it. It definitely held me over for the morning though. The greens give you a lot of nutrition. My brother in law said he adds other things, but the bananas and greens are the base. Strawberries, pineapple, etc. Bananas are they key, if you don't base a smoothy around bananas, you won't get enough calories to hold you over. True fruitarians eat around 30 bananas a day.

That's incredible. I had no idea fruitarians existed. Does your brother complain of any detriments to the diet outside of the lifestyle costs? Does he get enough fiber? Does he have to eat large volumes? Can he gain muscle mass easily?

The average body temperature of a human is 37 degrees centigrade.

Actually, for many people 37 is already "a little ill". Here (former USSR) medical norm is considered to be 36.6. Slight deviations are acceptable of course. Edit: former USSR, not US o_O

"The only field where Firefox beats all competitors is when it comes to extensions" I agree. I bitch about Firefox everyday on various sites. Its memory management is horrible, on both Win32 and Linux. Its integration with flash and javascript is horrible, especially on linux. Sites will cause my browser to crash at almost random intervals. Sites still doesn't look at as good as Internet Explorer. ----- I still use it because it works 90% of the time on Win32 and Linux and possibly Mac. Portability is a big plus. And there are little web development enhancements that are way better than Internet Explorer. (E.g. firefox is more compliant than IE). But, if someone showed me something that is a little better than FF, I would jump in a heartbeat.

Play around with Opera for a week, dig in on the possibilities there. I think you'd be quite surprised at how much you miss at the usual cursory glance.

Buck. Buck naked. There is no expression known as "butt naked".

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=butt+naked&word2=buck+naked Unfortunately not.

As far as looks go, I dig scrawny fellas with beards and glasses. Chest hair is good. Back hair is bad. Still, I wander outside of this kinda type way more often than following it. I have been completely turned off by super attractive dudes if they open their mouth and a word-vomit waterfall of stupid pours out and have hooked up with guys who I didn't necessarily find physically attractive just because they were goddamn kickass awesome. Basically I wanna fuck your brain.

This. When I got to college, and found out that smart boys existed? Oh my goodness.

The funny part is how the average winnings on the show are about 30% lower than they would be if people just randomly picked a case and stuck with it till the end. At the same time though, the standard deviation is earnings is way lower.

They're not always lower. I was paying attention during one episode. One of the offers was actually higher than the expected winnings. Edit: This is a response to something other than what you were saying. This was caused by poor reading comprehension

This will be the first federal election I'll be eligible to vote in. The Conservatives are scum. The Liberal are cowards. The Greens are just edging towards getting their first seat. The NDP get seats and are pro-legalization. Guess who's got my vote? I hate the first-past-the-post system we use, though. Mixed-member-proportional addresses many of the concerns that people have with proportional representation, it's sad that it failed so badly in the Ontario referendum.

Well at least you have 4 parties to choose from...

Yeah, okay, but I rather think it failed Tim McLean more.

Exactly. Li knew he was schizophrenic, he refused to take medication, he packed a knife, and a bunch of little plastic bags for body parts, sold all his possessions, and went looking for someone to kill. Under our system he will be a free man in 2-4 years.

I've finally proven, once and for all, that men and women are equal: http://google.com/trends?q=gay+porn%2C+lesbian+porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

was 2006 a really great year for porn?

Yes I saw that in the article. I was saying in my experience it has only been theists using the term. Sorry if that was unclear in my original comment.

No worries. I'd say that it's largely theists using the term. I think that the occasional use in the scientific community is due to bleedover from the creationist usage. I think there's no real reason for those in the scientific community to use the term since it amounts to special-casing an uncontroversial (within the scientific community) branch of science. It'd be like referring to themselves as gravitologists, thermodynamicists, or something.

BidenBingo is more alliterative. We could make a grid of phrases he will plagiarize!

We don't have to worry about Palin doing that, because you have to *read* something in order to plagiarize it.

I know it took a while for my wife and I to settle into living with one another. We were in similar circumstances - in our 30's, dating a couple of years beforehand, etc. As a guy, at least from my perspective, one of the things that I needed to learn at the beginning was that she wasn't a guy, and I couldn't joke around with her like she was. Prior to this, I had lived with other guys for years, and guys being guys, we often inserted a lot of humor at each other's expense when talking to one another (all good-natured though). My wife didn't understand this, and would get offended, and I finally got it through my thick skull that she didn't like to joke around like that (and, correspondingly, she got a little thicker skin in the process). From my side, I didn't like the fact that she left the place a mess all the time. I liked things neat, in order, and easily findable. With her, stuff just went everywhere. Eventually, we talked about it, and she made more of an effort to keep shit picked up, and I made more of an effort to not be so anal-retentive about the state of the living arrangements. In the end, it comes down to talking about the issues though. If neither one of you ever confronts the issues bothering you (or worse yet, neither one of you feels like you *can* confront the issues bothering you, because of how the other person might respond), then there's a problem. If you can't talk to one another about these things, then they're not going to get better on their own. You're both grown ups, so you *should* be able to do this, but sometimes it's difficult. You just have to trust that the other person is still going to love you, and bring the issues out. You also have to compromise. Your way isn't the right way, your spouse's way isn't the right way - there's a middle path that you all need to walk together. Talk about the issues, find that middle path, and you can both be much happier, giving some here, taking some there, but in the end, working together to live happier.

My wife and I like to joke about how men and women speak different languages. For example, a woman might say "Do you want to go get something to eat?" to which the man might reply "No". Now what the woman was actually saying was "I'm hungry, do you want to go get something to eat?" And what she heard was "I don't care about your needs, I don't want to go out". What the man heard was "Do you want to get something to eat?" And since he wasn't hungry, the logical answer, as he sees it, is "No".

Stalin? Mao? Try suggesting to one of them they were infallible. They weren't exactly Bible-thumpers, either.

Actually, they kind of were. The difference were that they replaced the Bible with different books (Mao's little red book) and various propaganda books and pamphlets. God and Jesus were replaced by the leaders and the state respectivly. And let's not forgot that Hitler was a Christain. And on the whole, the number of people who have had other's killed on (man-)god's word compared to a simple human is a very convincing ratio.

After Buffy, Joss Whedon said he would never work with Fox again. Then he made Firefly. After Firefly, Joss Whedon said he would never work with Fox again. Then he made Dollhouse. After Dollhouse, I'm sure Joss Whedon will say that he'll never work with Fox again. Do you think he'll actually learn his lesson this time around, or will I get to post this comment again with an extra paragraph in a few years?

Extra paragraph...couple years.

phil@linux.com I offered Demonoid invites on Reddit... Share the love and I'll share all 8 of then right back.

http://scr.im/10s9 Demonoid invite if you would be ever so inclined :)

Shit, they blocked pandora back in April.

ME too.

His country only has 500,000 people total.

and no [edit: Olympic-sized] swimming pools!

It's a promotion where you get a robot pet. You get the pet, then you get fuel for the pet, and if it encounters a robot pet of the opposite faction in the game world, they duke it out and everyone can "[kek](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kek)" about it. [EDIT: If you are interested, register at http://mountaindewgamefuel.com ]

zug! ZUG!

Some people are gonna say "You have to approach them!". This is true, but you'd be better off somewheres else, where there's a higher chance she is actually attractive instead of "OMG LETS GET DRESSED UP AND GO TO THE BAR". Who knows.

I prefer women with some intelligence and a little more emotional maturity than "wow, he's hot" or "ewwww". Won't find that at a bar. In fact, I'm not entirely sure where you DO find that.

"A fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others." Don't be a fool.

Nonsense. His becoming a fool will make all of Reddit wise. Classic example of self-sacrifice for the greater good.

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I just tried going through your comment history for clues but the fact that you post a new comment every 3-5 minutes makes this a daunting task, frankly. I know from this post it's probably Northern California though. I've been to SF once, but I haven't really been anywhere else in northern California yet. Do you do tours?