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Who needs a time machine? Just thrown on some silver spandex and make a bunch of shit up, no one can prove you are wrong.

Scientology, is that you?

No I am not saying we should ignore any atrocity but I am rather making the statement that the "legitimate" problems with religion that you listed (bombing, paedophilia,racism,homophobia etc) is not limited to any religious group. And the source of these problems are also not religion, but rather the fanatics within that religion. I do not know of any scripture in the Bible that says you should be a pedophile, nowhere does it say hate all people who are not the same skin colour as you, suicide bombing, I can only comment on Christianity, is not mentioned anywhere and the yes the Bible does say that men should not sleep with men however it does not say beat them up rather it says to treat ALL men equal.

And my point is that the people doing these things should be brought to justice. They should not be defended by the rest of the people that share their religion...the religion of the criminal should not defend them from justice for the crimes they committed.

This is a serious point. I saw a great argument on YouTube for global warming that goes like this: Situation A: We prepare for global warming and find out that global warming is not happening. We have wasted our money but life continues as normal. Situation B: We don't prepare for global warming and we find out that it _is_ happening. Global climates change, possibly to a point which makes many regions of earth uninhabitable by humans, maybe eventually leading to the extinction of most (or all) of humanity and wildlife. So it boils down to those two risks: the risk of unnecessary money loss or the risk of total global destruction. I mean, we invested literally trillions of taxpayer dollars to help greedy scheming thieves on Wallstreet keep their criminal companies open - if we invested even half of that into updating our energy systems, we could potentially save the planet from the worst man-made disaster in history.

Yea, but that's the same bullshit that fundies feed people to get them to sign up for god. "Well if there isn't a hell, then you have nothing to worry about, but if there is then you will burn eternally. So why not just cover all bases and get right with God?" The answer is, I don't want to follow a bunch of made up rules for some spiteful ghost in the sky. I also, wouldn't want to spend time, money, and effort on my green lifestyle if I didn't really think it mattered. Don't get me wrong, I'm *for* living greener. Just be prepared with a better argument than that when trying to convert people. There is plenty of evidence out there to cite, when it comes to convincing people that global warming is real.

They sent all these cars to celebrities. It is all a publicity stunt. 600/mo to LEASE one of a few dozen produced this year. This is the same thing as the EV-1, honda will destroy the project in two years. They only did this to look environmentally conscious and jump on the "green" bandwagon.

They are producing so few becaus Honda is likely losing a crap load of money on these. The last generation FCX was said to have cost Honda one million a piece to manufacture. The point here, however, is to advance technology, not to profit. So, yeah, there is a publicity element to it, but ultimately this is about finding future solutions to oil dependency.

I like aXXo torrents, but I don't prefer him over klaXXon or FLAWL3SS or FXG or LOL or any of the other dudes. I certainly don't worship him, or even wonder who he is! But, aXXo and his ilk represent reliability and quality on the open tracker sites like BTJunkie/ISOHunt for lazy folk like me who can't be arsed with the hassles of keeping seed ratios up to scratch on private sites in exchange for getting a movie an hour or two quicker. I leech like fuck a lot of the time for convenience, for instance if I want to play Xbox Live for an hour before I watch a freshly downloaded movie (in my defense I often overseed as torrents will be left uploading full-pelt overnight - I often set them up just before bed). One day all the free-downloady goodness will come to an end, it's inevitable, and the fact that the mainstream media is picking up on characters like aXXo is a surefire sign of that coming. Until then fill your boots and your hard discs with all you can get!

I seriously doubt that free-downloading will come to an end ever. It just keeps getting better and better for pirates as the internet gets better, faster, stronger.

TEAM IS CREDIT TO SPY

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Heh, upvoted for coming through, thanks!

Gimme money and I will :]

Karma?

I think I just had the feeling that I'm on /r/circlejerk.

Fuck you. This is what /r/self is for; take your bitching elsewhere.

Honestly I'd be happy to just have regular algebraic variables too. Currently most things are linear operators, matrices, N-dimensional vectors and such. Quantum sucks.

You could have at least tried it out for the letter E first!

Every explanation we have about the mechanics of the universe, and all explanations to come, fall under the laws of physics.

I know where you're coming from, being a scientist and atheist myself, but keep in mind your statement falls verrryyy dangerously close to that thing we call "faith".

Religious people lump themselves together. They're all religious, by choice. I thought this was obvious....

All people are not religious by choice. A large percent are indoctrinated in to their belief system as children. Children have very few choices when it comes to religion.

I hear he's Alton Brown. Really, what good is it to clump him (or anyone) together within a group like that? It only allows you to dislike someone based on association rather than individual merit, which he has plenty of. He probably knows more about science (among other things) than most people here, if that's what you're getting at, too.

That's exactly what I'm saying. Regardless of what he believes in, he's still the same awesome guy we see on TV.

[This one](http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/1150449467555xt4.gif) always got to me when I was watching that episode.

That episode and the episode about fry's nephew almost always get a tear out of me.

You guys are dicks. But really, tag your posts.

Oh come on, was that NOT fucking disturbing?

People on the left think I should be more willing to contribute to society. People on the right just want more and more of my money for themselves. I think they should all fuck off.

i'd love to live in a country where no one works together and we all "fuck off". That would be great. No roads, no sewers no cops.

Then your on acid.

I hate to be a grammar nazi, but...

When I was like 13, my cousins and I were on my grandparents farm. My cousin reached through the fence to the cow pasture and grabbed a hold of the electric fence [just a wire]... he was frozen by the electricity. I ran over to help and my grandfather who was running over yelled "Don't touch him!"... so I stopped right next to him. All of a sudden he jerked and touched his hand to my chest. The shock knocked me back about six feet. When he touched me it broke the contact and he was able to release the wire. He had a bad burn mark across the palm of his hand and I had a bright red hand print on my chest for weeks. Those things don't fuck around.

Electric fences need to pulse current as they use a compositor to store charge. All commercial units have a periodic shock every 5 or so seconds. Generally that's enough time for someone to say "get your hands off that!". Or after getting a bad shock, get the fuck away from it. The farm I grew up on had two units, a cattle fence and a less powerful sheep one. The Cattle was standard and the same model used on a large station nearby. It being one of the most powerful you could get, I got shocked by it a few times and never got burned. Either your grandparents rigged their own fence (I hope they didn't, as it would dangerous and a massive waste of power) or you're making this story up.

Oh please. For $1.5M anybody can fuck 100 really hot girls.

Yeah, but not for $1.5 million. Welcome to the logic of being wealthy.

That's deceptive. You can't know based on how the voting system operates, and you could make a similar argument against other parties, making them look even worse.

True, it's possible that every single Canadian fears and loathes the parties they did not vote for. But that in no way invalidates my point, especially considering all the other parties are left or center-left and the conservatives are the only right-wing party.

I mean this with all due respect, you need to buy a dictionary with an "H" section. You are either trolling or else you really just have no idea what words mean.

I meant it in the sense of [the practice of claiming to have standards or beliefs that are contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hypocrisy). The benefit of hypocrisy here is in not sticking to unrealistic premises.

its called living frugal, then later you can buy some nice things.

Thats some great budgeting. I make twice as much and am moderately good with my money but can't afford anywhere near as much stuff - but I guess living in London is expensive.

Show me a place without racism in the world, and I'll show you a place without diversity.

i read what you are writing, but why is it that countries such as the US and Australia, which were "new" countries, founded by inhabitants from all over the world, end up as some of the worst when it comes to racism? edit: these are obviously the worst offenders in the west, the middle east and asian countries are just as bad, only there it is based on what shade of black or brown you are

I think the best argument against God is the problem of pain. An atheist's most effective strategy is not to provide an argument at all but simply to steer the person away from considering God at all - and to encourage them to live an effectively atheist lifestyle.

can you expand on the "pain" argument?

That always strikes me as what people tell themselves so they can sleep better at night. Everyone wants to feel like they have taken the right path, so of course phrases like this (and "The unexamined life is not worth living") are trumpeted by those that have already asked the questions. What exactly is it about asking important questions that makes it "better?" Is there any real evidence for such a thing?

Good question

yes ofcourse, myth and fairy tell and story telling is vital for human cultures, like for a non-religious example 'the free-market' is a mythical beast.

The difference is that I don't tell my children that a true free market really exists (it doesn't), and threaten them with infinite punishment if they don't believe me.

Most Canucks connect AEC with blowouts on nuclear transfers to Pakistan and India. You could ask a thousand to name what ten Canadian institutions they're most proud of and not one would say Atomic Energy Canada.

Agreed. AECL is a sinkhole. The original plan was all the provinces would have multiple units and sell power to the US. Cheap coal, oil and natural gas killed their plans. They are top heavy with expensive management and can't sell anyone on their new generation design. It looks like the two new units for Ontario will not be AECL products and I'll bet the contract winner will buy AECL. They do have good engineering assets.

Yeah, real fans like us hate bandwagon jumpers. It's lame and often bandwagonners are the ones who really know nothing about the sport or team. If you want to watch more hockey, get the NHL package.

Could you please paypal me the money for cable plus the NHL package?

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Taste the Rainbow.

Yeah, but I think back 15 years and can't imagine having come this far, so I remain hopeful.

please do, but remember we are at war. http://www.friendsofccl.com/

She complains about you doing this IN A GAME or IN REAL LIFE? I realize for most of you parents its hard to tell the difference, and a lot of children catch this malady from you. If she is giving you a hard time about playing the game, you really need to have a serious talk with her about telling the difference between real people and digital characters. Also talk to her about how it is a disgusting trait in any human being to think their opinion on what another finds entertaining matters at all.

In game, obviously. She knows the difference full well. That doesn't stop her from being a 13 year old girl.

DO you know that for a fact? The charts I've seen show Obama way ahead of Gore, but I can't find one right now.

I know for a fact that I heard a fox anchor say it, so no, no facts there. But I did find this. http://books.google.com/books?id=uqqp-sDCjo4C&pg=PA338&lpg=PA338&dq=gallup+bush+gore&source=web&ots=CPzw-afjmt&sig=GgMVfKc_cQx2JXejmxOT4xJf7hw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result You can see Gore was up to 53%

He's a terrific guy in person. He's sarcastic and hilarious. I have met him a few times and I was impressed at his patience and enthusiasm for getting people to cook their own food. And you gotta love that he's an old Deadhead.

His blog is much more entertaining than his homespun folksy yarns in the front of every magazine: http://christopherkimball.wordpress.com/

"have issued at least 39 citations to drivers in the last three years" I personnally feel it is a result of crass xenophobia from the cop and its sadistic act-out. Langage is a sensitive cultural and personnal matter, it shouldn't be subject to ticketing by street cops. Guess what, I live in a place with "insane fascist language laws" that "discriminate and violate a minority's rights" and enforce a "national language policy" upon its citizens. Yet, there is not a single line in that law about drivers being required to speak it when pulled out by a cop. In businesses where you interact with the public, Corporations have to hire people who can communicate in the national language, yes. And yes, there are stupid rules about french in the workplace, but it simply isn't enforced (nor enforceable) if 90% of your office staff doesn't speak it and doesn't need to interact with a francophone public. Cops simply aren't there to enforce these laws. It is not of their jurisdiction. There's a government body for that : La Régie de la langue française, better know as The Infamous Language Police. And they are government bureaucrats, wearing suit and tie. No uniforms. No badges. No fancy cars. No guns. No tasers. No Batons. No right to physically touch you, not even the right to shout at you. There is absolutely no phoque-ing chance a regular cop would punish you for speaking your native language, even if you are in a situation where you are required not to (like working as cashier at the local grocery). The cops have to fill a complaint at la Régie. Just like anybody else, and they do it AS CITIZENS, not as cops. If they have to stop you and can't communicate with you, their job is to find a solution. Like letting you sit in a cell at the station for hours while trying to find an interpret.

?? The problem wasn't that she was speaking a foreign language in her car. The problem is that people who drive commercially should be able to understand, at a minimum, road signs, and special instructions from police. So some cop thought that meant all drivers, not just commercial ones. Big deal. Just rescind the tickets and refund any fines paid. It's an easy fix. And 39 citations in three years (ie over 1000 days) is pretty flimsy evidence of "xenophobia" and "sadism".

Monitor??

You could probably get a beige CRT for free on Craigslist, people are giving those away left and right. They aren't worth the price of shipping. I have 5 of them.

It's its.

Thanks. [Not my native tongue by the way, so it sometimes slips by]

You don't need to know how to bake a cake to decide if one tastes good or not.

It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake, after all.

You are not alone. In the rare case that I type a sentence in all caps, holding shift makes me feel like I am actually yelling. Caps lock makes the gesture feel empty and meaningless. Does that make any sense at all?

You’re on Reddit. Of course it does.

And YOU anti-nuclear zealots are the cause of this! If you're not willing to support nuclear yet you hate coal then I suggest you SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Oh, please - pour a few trillion of free govt and rate payer money into solar, wind and wave for a few decades and it would be far ahead of where we have gotten for the same time and money into the nuclear industry - the only thing we are burying in Yucca Mountain is billions of dollars. So please SHUT THE FUCK UP with the OMG THERE ARE ONLY THE TWO OPTIONS THAT RICH CORPORATIONS FORCE DOWN OUR THROATS; nothing else is possible because they have been fucking us for the past 100 years of centralized energy production. I and others say fuck "clean" coal and fuck "clean" nuclear and fuck the fearmongerers who try to keep pushing those as the only options.

Man, they knocked one out of the park with this one! ...Too soon?

More like: they knocked the bitch out in a parked car.

You're writing multi-paragraph diatribes on Reddit and *I* need a life? XD And it's really easy to call someone a pussy behind a computer screen, isn't it? You wouldn't dare say that to my face.

Oh yes...yes I would. I would say it to your face right before I beat you bloody. I'm accusing you of being a coward, remember? And yes, I'm writing multiple paragraphs on Reddit. And yes, YOU need a life. See, I'm married, own my house, have my own car, have a job...What do you have? That's what I thought, you pathetic pile of garbage. Besides, what you wrote there was a piss poor excuse for any kind of comeback, because you just aren't smart enough to come up with anything useful. Also, as a point of interest, how long were you using a thesaurus to come up with the word "diatribe"? Pathetic.

http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2008/05/maxis-responds-to-the-spore-drm-controversy.php Downmod me all you want, if any of you actually looked past "OMG EVIL DRM" and did some research you'd see that EA has recanted much of what made Spore's previously-announced DRM solution unpalatable.

Oh yes, and if you think EA's DRM is harsh wait until you see the new DRM that Blizzard is working on for S2 and D3.... ... :( I was actually going to buy these games. Why is it that when you spend money you get treated like a criminal and when you pirate you get treated like a customer?

But it will keep us buying gas for a longer period of time.

All this talk about high gas prices that they've been paying in Europe for a long time, but all they did was switch to mopeds, and micro cars. My girlfriend is in France right now, and her first comment was about all the mopeds and smart cars. Her second comment was about rudeness and a lack of respect for personal space.

Technically it's SFW. No nudity allowed... cause that's when the FBI comes a knockin'

Experience?

#2 and #7 are kind of getting at the same thing, aren't they? (BSD vs GPL) I've always had it on the back burner to give one of the BSDs a try. Can anyone speak to how the hardware support is?

FreeBSD generally has good support for common hardware. That means things that are extremely new or rare probably won't work as expected. But if you had a box from a few years ago it probably will work decently with the latest FreeBSD. As with anything, you should check the [hardware compatibility lists](http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html) to see if a sufficient driver supports your particular piece of hardware. For some drivers you have to read the man page documentation to see the hardware supported. For example the ata(4) driver doesn't have a list on the html page but in the documentation it will state most common on-board IDE/SATA controllers (Intel, nVidia, Promise, Silicon Image, etc). There is some wireless support but not as what you would get with Linux and ndiswrapper. The benefit here with BSD licensing though is that something like atheros which previously had proprietary portions are available for download as part of the ports system. That's unlike linux where you had to jump through certain hoops before the system would let you install the proprietary junk. On ubuntu it is as simple as restricted drivers, but previously on something like Gentoo it required installing a hard masked ebuild which could totally disappear from the repository the next day. I can't say much about sound or video support since I don't use those in FreeBSD. Everything I do with my FreeBSD box is through plain text and ssh. FreeBSD does come pretty plain out of the box. You don't necessarily get an X server ready to go and convenience things like bash and such. The system comes with a kernel and the basic command line programs like ls. There are options to install the bigger pieces of software during installation, but it is not clear how much of it will be configured correctly for you. If you want more of a usable desktop you should probably try PC BSD instead. I don't know much about the other BSDs like Open BSD or Net BSD. Unlike the article, I think the main benefits of FreeBSD vs any Linux distro are: * no GPL politics (examples: Atheros, ZFS) * the same community serves you for most of your needs because they work to service an **OS**, not just a kernel, a distro, or a program. Because of this, people on the (FreeBSD) mailing lists tend to be more helpful for a wider range of questions and the documentation tends to be more comprehensive.

Count me as one of the haters. My genetics did not wire me to taste/smell whatever is good about it. Just tastes like soap.

I genuinely feel sorry for you. Cilantro is the best taste ever.

THAT IS THE SHIT! I LOVE EGG!!

Reminds me of http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Pork/

Maybe because it's (rightfully) illegal?

As much as I hate to say it, yea. There is no reason at all it should have to be the copyright holder that reports the violation. That is saying only victims have a right to report crimes, which is just silly. Not reporting a crime you know is happening is what happened during Kitty Genovese's case. Now a better question is should YouTube (and similar DMCA-regulated organizations) be required to report violations to the real victim. Any entity should be able to report it, but the copyright holder should be informed so that they can grant permission if they desire.

Nor any Peter F. Hamilton.

Blast! Bested at my own game! Please disregard my comment elsewhere on page stating exact same thing 3 hours after you. Also, finished The Temporal Void last night, anyone else in here read it? Holy shit PFH really pulled some evil ass shit on poor Edeard near the end! oO Thought TTV was even better than The Dreaming Void, and can't wait for the last book (The Evolutionary Void) to arrive... in about... two years time... *sigh*

I think you shouldn't call someone who is a legitimate fighter a chump because they get knocked out once. Yes you can say that Fedor is a better fighter than Slice no one will disagree with you, but Slice is no chump. I hate people that sit on their couch all day and talk like they could come out and kick Kimbo's ass if they were in the ring with him. Not a chance.

Oh I'm not disputing that. I don't think he is a chump either. However, I don't agree that you have to step in the ring in order to critique an athlete. The best film critics certainly aren't out there winning oscars, the writers of rolling stone (bad example because they're always wrong) aren't out there making platinum records. etc. etc.

Damn, couldn't help posting (and annoyingly long) reply over there. It's just that i'm sick and tired of national healthcare being labeled as 'socialist' and therefore even 'communist'. It's cheaper and for everyone, seriously. I'm poster Dimi btw. edit: so much for the poster being open for discussion. My post was apparantly deleted (and no, it wasn't offensive in the slightest).

so you want the same people that handled the response to Hurricane Katrina (also not a legitimate govt function) to handle your heart bypass? Also please explain how taking money from me to pay for your bunions is not socialism?

The idea that reddit is incredibly unsympathetic to reasoned discourse is itself one of those "general reddit beliefs". It's not really that bad. I've managed to have several very civil discussions on here in which I successfully argued against a prevailing reddit-wide belief. People here actually read well planned and documented comments, and vote them up when they actually contribute to a discussion. The real problem is that redditors tend to be lazy and won't read through comments that get downmodded past threshold, so if your entirely rational post about how Ron Paul is wrong gets bombarded by five or six zealots, no one ever sees it enough to get the number back up.

Your right, every once in a while you get into a real conversation with someone who has a different viewpoint. If this didn't happen occasionally, I would've been long gone. However, I would say about 80% of the time you get either just downvoted, or else several insulting replies. What keeps me sane is the Canada subreddit- there you can get good discussions going no matter what your view.

You can leave change _if the server gave it to you_. She just finds it rude to pull out your loose change and leave her a 10% tip in dimes, nickels, and pennies. EDIT: Basically, don't give her your loose change when you close out a $25 tab. That's just a pain in the ass. If you buy a $2.25 beer and leave her 75 cents, that's fine.

Oh I see. Now that I think about it, there are lots of places that will tack on a quarter to a beer (i.e. $2.25) so that they will get 75 cents from people (like dreambucket and me) who would not give them an entire dollar for "pull(ing) a bottle of beer out of a cooler and hand(ing) it to me".

GamerNation (our competitive team) does host PUG tournaments every so often. They're pretty fun.

okey, what exactly is PUG? ;). Is it more serious tournaments you use to host or do you think some low skilled guys ( me and my friends) could play them?

You're missing two points: 1. PZ desecrated a cracker in support of a student who had innocently (?) take a communion wafer from a church and was subsequently descended on by Bill Donohue and a shrieking horde of Catholics who wanted him expelled from college - effectively ruining his education. 2. No belief should be beyond criticism - and the belief that a thin cracker *really* becomes the body of some dead Jew after a man in a dress mumbles some words over it, is ludicrous almost beyond belief. How can people still believe stuff like that?! It's crazy and anyone with a concern about how society functions has a duty to point that out - by discussion, derision or mockery. So, this is not a 'blind attack' - it's an effective protest against the madness that lies embedded in our society that no one dares criticise because of the very reaction Catholics have given: hysterical outrage. PZ receives a constant stream of emails and letters - a lot with some message of him burning in hell for eternity because of what he has done. He believes that is clear demonstration that he did the right thing. I, and many others, agree.

That case was quite a while ago now. Any show of support or solidarity is pretty late. No - this is being done simply to look cool or clever or to provoke a negative reaction. In what way is a it a show of support? It's not even a show of solidarity, as the kid(s) will not get in any trouble for this. Sure - the belief itself may be ridiculous. This has nothing to do with what I was saying. It's not so long ago that people believed maggots came from rotting food (and not from fly eggs). Since then we have discovered the principle of inheritance and nobody believes this any more. It is not an effective protest - it's a group of surly teenagers vying for attention on the internet. IMO this kind of thing just makes the secular movement look immature and naieve.

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Were you referring to the titling of my post? Ha-ha is correct punctuation when using it formally.

No, at how "genuinely" was spelled

**THIS IS FLAT OUT WRONG.** There were only [23 fatal dog attacks in 2008](http://www.dogsbite.org/bite-fatalities-2008.htm). 16 of those attacks were on children (who were all age 7 and below, though the next oldest fatality was age 24 a female killed by two pit-bulls she owned while sleeping). 8 of these attacks occurred to children ages 1 and younger. Of these none were by chained dogs. Of the 23 dog deaths, only two were by chained dogs (a 2 and 3 year old). [Number of deaths from 113 selected causes in 2006](ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/NVSR/57_14/Table10.xls) gives the number of deaths due to accidental discharge of firearm: * 0 under age 1, * 13 children age 1-4, * 41 children age 5-14, and * 193 children age 15-24. Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms killed * 6 children under age 1, * 42 children age 1-4, and * 237 children age 5-14, and * 4827 children age 15-24. So by an honest description of children as being under age 14, I have 54 dying from accidental discharge of firearms, not counting 285 additional children dying from homicide by discharge of firearms. This seems quite different from 2 children dying from chained dogs. Even if you assume all the dogs that attacked were "chained" dogs (which is not true), you still are comparing 16 children dying due to dogs to 339 dying due to firearms.

Unfortunately, your catalog of number of deaths from 113 selected causes doesn't differentiate dog bites, but they are lumped in with deaths in the "Other and unspecified nontransport accidents" group (ICD code W-54). I tried to find the CDC source, but closest I could find, a [report on childhood injuries](http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/images/CDC-ChildhoodInjury.pdf) details 6% of nonfatal injuries among children 0-19 years old were caused by "dog bites, insect stings, and other animal bites". Page 109 has a chart showing 5 gunshot injuries to 189 dog bites per 100,000 and 16 per 100,000 for both BB/pellet shots. So the article is wrong about deaths, but not injuries to children.

It is absurd until it isn't. However, as fun as it is to fear the government and military, few are actually protesting the government anyway, especially those who stockpile guns because they say they believe in the 2nd amendment. Also, don't believe for a minute citizen soldiers can't be convinced to fire on the citizenry. History is rife with examples and all it takes is dehumanizing the "enemy". Calling them socialist/communist/hippy/fascist/unpatriotic, etc is the beginning of this road.

I agree partly with what you say. I agree that a soldier could be convinced to fire on other citizens. I don't however think that it is somehow likely or more likely than civilian law enforcement members doing the same. Also, while one could convince soldiers to attack citizens, there will be voices within the military which say "this is a bad thing." I think your dehumanizing comment is very astute, but I think it also works the other way: calling the military "the biggest threat to America's freedom" is equivalent of calling a person a socalist, etc. In reality, they are simply Americans doing their jobs and don't present a larger threat to us than any other large organization.

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Intial (now deleted) post this was a response to: " You're not a precious little snowflake and your relationship isn't as unique as you'd like to believe. But please. Continue to discount mass-market paperbacks if it helps you to feel special. I guess it's not worth pointing out that the Bible is the most mass-market paperback of them all. Or doesn't that apply to your relationship, either? " Response: I didn't say I was a precious little snowflake, but I do enjoy how your "advice" can turn to condescension as soon as someone (graciously) passes on your invitations. All of these books treat men as basically the same, same with Women. Also, I find it HILARIOUS that you can judge exactly how unique my relationship is. You seem to be implying that these books are in any way similar to the bible, in which case I will flatly laugh at the absurdity of that statement, as should you, if you really believe what you seem to suggest you believe. Deleted response: "Pride, you're soaking in it" My response: yeah, I have pride. Because I pointed out you're condescending attitude towards someone asking for your advice? Or because I pointed out you really don't know me or my relationship? Or because I pointed out that you seem to be implying some book, but some guy, is comparable to the bible? How exactly am I showing pride? ---- Giving context to the discussion.

Agreed. Those police officers must be *really* proud of being in this line of work. OTOH.. When I read about people like Fox News Managers caught in such a situation, I can only think of them as hypocrites... (If those local Fox News people are as right-wing as the mother channel, that is.)

I don't think they are hypocrites, at least not in the obvious sense. Fox News is right-wing because it is chasing right wing audiences, not because of the beliefs of the producers. Hence Murdoch on one hand produces The Times and on the other hand produces The Sun. On one channel broadcasts Fox News, on the other channel broadcasts Temptation Island. Whatever Murdoch, or O'Really, or whoever else's beliefs, Fox is not about a moral or political alignment. It chases the full range of audiences, nothing deeper. If the staff believe otherwise then presumably they either don't know it, don't think it is relevant to their personal concentration of programming or just accept it as one of those things about business.

Reddit should be arrested for continual misrepresentation of events. Do something the reporter did not. **WATCH THE VIDEO FRAME BY FRAME** The cop asks him to get out of the street more likely than not.. he doesn't.. so then the cop puts him against the car.. at which time Ronnie, our Schizophrenic liar pushes the cop away.. that's when the fun begins. Ignore a command. Attack a cop get a beatdown. Then post it on reddit like it was because you had an unzipped jacket.. fucking brilliant.

I downvote and downvote and downvote and *still* you have a comment karma in the 300's.

That last one isn't that impressive. I have that one. Plus the xbox is modded. Plus Steel Battalion.

You built a separate room in your backyard dedicated to a personal arcade full of gaming collectibles? I think your idea of impressive is a little askew.

He'll go on to win a Grahammy.

And everybody will hear him with their grahonograph.

From where in his comment have you constructed his political leanings? From where in his comment have you realised that he's not an Atheist?

I've been an atheist all my life and been defined as such with that specific term pretty much since the mid-80s. With regard to my political stance, he's just being a troll. And, he's not even atheist. From his [web site](http://www.cygnus-study.com/): --- It is nearly a year since I wrote this piece and many of it holds true to this day. I do still classify myself as an Agnostic but I also classify myself as an Atheist, too. While this might not make sense at first, let me explain: Of all of the gods that I have read about and encountered its followers, there is not one that I believe exists. I believe that they are all contradictory to nature, science and logic on some level. Some gods, the Christian one, for example, are more contradictory than others. As this is my belief and because I do not have a system of theism, I consider myself an Atheist. I maintain my label of Agnostic as I have not been everywhere and do not know all that there is to know. While I believe that the possibility of a creator-god is highly unlikely, I do not have all of the answers and recognize that the possibility exists - however slim - that there is one.

Creed? of all the other good old-school metal bands to choose from and you pull Creed out? I think you might have to turn in your Rock. Edit: I dont mean to bust your balls or anything, but... Creed?

I just threw Creed in there...I did like their earlier stuff...if it would have been a Top 4 list, they would have never made it ;) How about replacing them with Slayer or Pantera or Megadeth? Can I have my rock back, dude?

That's not the punchline.

Might as well have been. It made it quite obvious what was going to happen before you got to that panel.

And one will have a goatee.

But Riker had a goatee before using the transporter! /head_asplode

Ancient joke.

Almost all jokes are old. There are very few good new jokes and they are usually variations on old jokes. In my opinion, what's important is whether or not they are funny.

I really want to talk at my son's funeral, he only lived two days after birth, but I feel the need to express my beliefs to an almost entire religious crowd, please advice on anything that would help clarify my position without being too rude/presumptuous, here is my rough draft: I would like advice on any edits to what I have prepared: Diana and I have never relied on anyone for anything. We never wanted pity, charity, and we actually feel guilty when people do offer help. A lot of that has changed this week and we want to thank all of you for you support, because at the end of the day it meant everything to us. To Weston, Mommy never got to see you with her own eyes, but of what she has seen of you in pictures she knows without a shadow of a doubt that you were the most beautiful, perfect, and complete embodiment of what the two of us always wanted in our baby. I was lucky enough to see Weston a number of times. Early on, I was the only voice Weston would respond to. I would whisper "Hi, my little baby Weston" and he would slowly open his steel blue eyes and he would gaze at me blankly. I also vividly recall placing my finger under his toes and he would squeeze his tiny toes around my finger. These visions are etched forever on my heart and mind. Diana and I saw everything in him that we see in ourselves. He was EXACTLY the baby we expected and wanted to see. We spent countless hours feeling and documenting his kicks and punches in the womb, we played him music, listened to his heart, and warned him about the 3 pug dogs that he was going to inherit after birth. It's funny now to think that we actually had a 5 hour debate on what color to paint his room. We also debated for hours on what clothes he would wear home from the hospital. It was nearly 10 months of preparation everyday to make sure Weston had the best home environment to live in possible. We did everything text book perfectly and yet we were dealt the worst hand possible. Diana and I are extremely grateful for all of your prays and well wishes, but we wanted to take this opportunity to allow you to understand our beliefs and how we've dealt with this most tragic event. Diana and I respect all of you deeply and that's why you are here today. We love all of you and hope you can understand our way of grieving and how we view our place in the universe. We do not mean to offend anyone and deeply respect everyone's belief systems, but we have held back our convictions for far too long and they need to be expressed. I have been a minority in many ways during my entire life. Since the age of 12 or so I have always had to respect and accept others beliefs without question, when in reality, I felt and still feel strongly against it. I accepted and will continue to accept others beliefs without exception, but Diana and I have held onto different beliefs for many years. We find it extremely difficult when we hear things like "Weston is in heaven", "It was God's will", or "Weston is with Jesus now". Personally, those words do not provide comfort for us they instead invoke opposite feelings and emotions that you would suspect. We are more than happy for those who do find comfort in such thoughts, but we do not share in that acceptance. For a lot of people the idea of a God as the decisive force in the world can give one a sense of control: "Although I am not in control of everything, God is; and God is good; therefore, everything that happens is for the good." When our lives are more chaotic than usual, when things seem bad, we need a little hope to help us keep calm and secure. Belief in a God can foster this hope: Everything happens for a reason and that reason is (ultimately) good. More so than anything else, the death of a loved one is a fast, strong, simultaneous source of stress, depression, and grief; however, most (if not all) religions provide comfort by saying, "God has a plan" and (most importantly) "the end is not the end." But I strongly disagree that saying and believing such things is the ONLY way to comfort and accept. Most religious people in the world would find their comfort in death by thinking that one day everyone will be magically re-united in some sort of alternate space/time. I came to realize that most of my family and many that I speak to and hear from are typically confused or appalled that someone could think otherwise, believing that their way is the only way to accept death and live a moral life. Even if there were no such thing as religion, denial of death would still occur. Traumatic events in our lives can cause us to react in irrational (yet very human) ways. Denial comes from within and while religion provides some people with legitimacy to the denial of death, it is still left to all of us in how we deal with death. Death brings with it questions of life's meaning and purpose. During discussion's with believers I've been asked such things as "If you die and that's it, then why do anything?" "Why go to college and get a degree, why accomplish anything if it's never going to matter?" I would respond to that by saying, "But it does matter -- it matters to me what my child, my wife, and what I do with our lives." Too often, people think that the finality of death makes life meaningless. It couldn't be any more false, for it is life's brevity and fragility that give Diana and I the incentive and purpose to make it mean something everyday. If there were no death, our lives would tend towards sloth and meaning would become meaningless. Comfort does NOT have to come from refusing to accept death as the end. The notion of some sort of Supernatural pre-determined written plan of loved ones life is an easy way to accept and cope with the loss of a loved one. To me hearing such things are insulting to my intelligence, science, and are best suited for fairy tales with happy endings. There is no God who would take a two day old life because there is a some sort of plan or some divine will. I've come to realize that grief is an expression of love and Diana and I don't need a belief in a god or gods to love one another, all of you, and most importantly today... love our son. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to share with you our feelings on such an unfortunate occasion.

That's beautiful. However I worry a little that you might get a negative reaction from some listeners. Some might still insist to you that Weston is in heaven, and you might find this upsetting of them. Others might be angry. I cannot give you advice on how to speak to your family and community, but with all my heart I wish you strength to deal with it pragmatically and with integrity. So sorry for your loss, and thank you for reminding me of life's frailty.

Well, no. Except when they're African, which is easy to tell.

no really?

System shock if you can get it to work I'm told. (I can't on current OS) Uplink if you can get into it. Dues Ex had a quasi everyday American shoot sequel called project: snowblind. Good, but not great. But saddly, nothing shy of bladerunner captures the universe that is DX. Even the FPS RPG elements have really only come to light in more games very recently.

System Shock 1, the CD version (you'll miss a lot otherwise). I guess you could use DosBox to make it run. System Shock 2, there are patches around the net that make it work on newer versions of Windows. You can find both on underdogs: www.the-underdogs.info

the definition of spirited energy

I've always said that 'Spirited Energy' is the native culture that is so hot right now, combined with the Hydro Electric dams built on native land.

I always thought that Ayn Rand was interesting, however you have to cull out the extreamism of the viewpoint caused by living in 1910 Russia.

You have to consider historical context and biases with any writer, especially someone trying to write philosophy, but I never found anything in Rand that was insightful or interesting. She has exactly one thing to say, and she takes 500 pages to say it.

I practice [fallibilism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallibilism). it seems to work the best with THC. you can dig real deep into yourself, and discard all the things you've been taught that were unprovable.

i consider myself a fallibilist too, but it can be hard; if you believe the statement: 'absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible,' you also have to believe, paradoxically, that the statement could be false..

I would like to **remove** this subreddit from the front page and have my peace back.

please please please .. its sick .. remove this ..

make your own!

If Alton Brown hasn't done an episode of Good Eats on it, I know I have no business tackling it myself. Besides, without any context, I would have no idea if what I made was even close to the real thing.

Wow... You really don't get what I am saying. Yes he payed a lot for defense lawyers. But it was failing of the prosecution that got him off.

Man, you just dont get it. If he had no money, then he would have public defense lawyers that would have been much worse than the public prosecuters.

Somehow SGU has a completely different feel that makes me think the Goa'uld and Tokra and Asgard and so forth are in no way a part of the continuity of the series.

SGU is more Battlestar Galactica + a little bit of The Office (Those faux-interviews...). It's not Stargate for sure.

I live in Tokyo and absolutely love it here. Sure, it has its downsides, but so does every other place in the world. It is such a lively city.

A couple questions: Are you a foreigner, and if so, where are you from? What are the downsides? I'd imagine that it's pretty expensive. Are you learning Japanese (if you didn't already know it) and how's that going? Just curious, I've always wanted to live there or at least visit.

As a gun owning liberal, I agree with everything you've said. And, perhaps more to the point, I find the entire "guns protect freedom" argument to be spurious at best. Maybe back in 1790 when civilian firearms were generally higher quality than military weapons that was true, but today? The best proof of this, I think, is Iraq under Saddam Hussein. During his rule you could walk into a gun store and buy a fully automatic rifle, no background check, just give 'em cash and walk out with an AK-47. You'll note that there really wasn't much in the way of rights during Husein's rule, so let's stop with the "guns protect freedom" stuff. If that was true than Iraq would have been free-er than America. Don't get me wrong, I like guns (wouldn't own 'em if I didn't), but mostly I keep guns because they're damn fun to shoot, not because I have delusions that they'll make diddily squat worth of difference if the government goes well and truly evil.

As another gun-owning liberal, I don't have any delusions that they will keep the government in check. I DO know that they will allow me to: A) Defend myself and my family from criminals when the government can't/won't. In Louisville, KY the power is still out in large swaths of urban areas, and the armed National Guard is in the streets directing traffic, and APCs are on the roads. Its a bit disconcerting. B) Allow me to provide food for myself and my family I live in rural Indiana, and the deer are an actual road hazard at dawn & dusk, if the economy totally tanks, at least we will have food. EDIT: I forgot to mention that I am from the Left Coast, and was able to render down the corpses of my highly obese neighbors, who were killed in the windstorm, for biodiesel. You would be AMAZED at the amount of valuable oil you can render from a few morbidly obese people. It should run our generator until the gov'mnt gets the power back on. Of course, we replaced the dessicated remains back where we found them, which is sure to amaze the snake-handling relatives who find them.... OK I'm done...

Assuming you're not trolling: I don't have a problem with furries, really. Furry sex is just one of those concepts, like clown sex or hentai, that I can't wrap my head around. This could just be a shortcoming on my part, but there it is. If it works for you, though, get out there and screw like bunnies.

I am a furry and was curious, not trolling. But I will bear the scarring mental image of clown sex for the rest of my life, thanks. Furries are pretty much roleplay geeks at heart. That's really about it, we roleplay being an anthropomorphic animal character. Just to put your mind at ease, furry sex (sex in fursuits) is actually very rare. It's hugely over-blown in the stereotype of what a furry is. I could go into the many psychological and physical reasons why, but I bet you would prefer not to know?

ah diablo II, its been a while. i was a hammerdin. i always pick the weakest class if i can, to stay away from the nerf stick. druid at the start of WoW, when they started getting good i quit :-P

"I played druid before it was *popular*."

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Santa Monica is quite far from Louisiana.

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Soooo...you would "smack the shit eating grin" off of an open carry Libertarian. Bold...bold and stupid, but that's why you voted Obama.

I had vsync off. It still makes you move your mouse a huge amount to slooowwwlllyy turn.

I must admit that my own experience with the game doesn't match yours and I used a trackball (!). Are you expecting it to react like Counter-Strike? It's not. Also note that it reacts differently when you aim your weapon. Neither of these things are the game's fault, mind you. It's designed that way and I personally thought it handled great.

There's nothing at all anti-liberal about owning guns. It might go againt liberal dogma to sell dozens of cheap handguns to known criminals, but owning guns is fine. It's sad that the right-wing hit squad have convinced people that "liberals" are anti-gun, when reality is that they tend to be "pro gun sanity".

It's not the right wing hit squad that convinced people, it is the actions and rhetoric of liberal *politicians* that helped some to make their decisions on the issue. Frankly, I don't see a nickle's worth of difference between Dem and Repub politicians on the issue anymore (at least the mainstream leaders of their respective parties).

What do you think would happen to the average citizen if he walked around shooting pet dogs because they growled at him?

Cops are above the law, most of the time, shame...

Hot Coffee.

Are you suggesting playing GTA in the car until the storm passes?

And PC still beats the two of them.

When is Xbox going to go after that business computing industry?

Halloween this year: [costume](http://imgur.com/vyH36.jpg) [battling](http://imgur.com/2IpyA.jpg) [lost my legs](http://imgur.com/9FOwp.jpg) EDIT: No I'm not toadstool as some speculated. I have no idea who that guy is in pic 1... he was just one of the awesome west hollywood costumes I had to have a picture with. Photos taken by my friend Sarah. I battled and won every jedi fight (except letting a little boy beat me).

Toad has a package for you

homesteading.

Hoesteading? And how would you control and protect that? You can't "own" an airwave, even if you created a pirate radio to operate on that band. Someone else can just boot you off the air. This isn't like claiming a physical property. Since you can't own an airwave, you can't sue someone from using what you claim is yours. Currently, you license the right to operate on a airwave from the FCC. Without this license, you have no control, protection or ownership of your airwave and no legal way to protect it. If there were no FCC, who would you get your license from?

True, but in a different way. Less Facist and more nanny state. I hate the govenment here too and would like to move out of the west all together. But until then, at least Bush McCain and the overly intrusive religious nuts arent here.

Sweden or Finland are my "backup" nations... they seem pretty unreligious and unnannyesque, and have a decent metal scene ^_^

That's so weird, I haven't celebrated Christmas since I was 10 and my family converted to Islam, but I've never quite felt like I was missing out on anything much. I enjoy the time of year because you get sappy movies, and that TV show that's just a burning log all morning, and Christmas carols and seeing people's lights, it brightens up the coldness of winter and I appreciate that. But Christmas day itself passes for me like... Wednesday. And then the next day is the same as the last.

Maybe because you've had the experience. Things always look better from a distance.

The difference being that "The Thin Blue Line" didn't pretend to conflate its subjects into a larger statement about an entire city or state's population. I took a few doc production classes in film school, and the laziest students (myself included) would just find themselves a rally or a board meeting of some kind somewhere, turn the camera on the crazies, let them jabber until you could fill 20 minutes, then add some self-important V.O. or intertitles about "What It All Means." I hope the students at least got a B+ on this one.

Thank you, for your clarification.

What planet are you living on? The New Testament is the direct application of the Old Testament. The Old Testament is the foreshadowing of the New Testament. I'm not cherry picking. What I'm doing is gathering up the verses that had to do with what YOU asked about, and giving them to you.

I'm living on Earth in the 21st Century. Obviously you haven't read either testament.

He's probably really into, you know, Sid Vicious' awesome bass playing. Because as long as you're popular the music is good right?

That's an awful lot to assume, don't you think? I don't think it's all that hard to be completely turned off by prog rock, especially if you don't have a musical background and are listening solely as an observer.

Yeah everybody knows Kanye West is the voice of our generation...

Even as sarcasm that shit makes my blood boil. His early stuff was great. He was good and he knew it and that confidence showed in his music. Now he's just a fat headed bitch whoring out the latest hip hop trend.

SP has gotten so tired :(

I love South Park to death but I can't help but feel they've been phoning it in lately. Familiar movie plot + current event + Cartman being racist = almost every single episode these days.

It sucks that if a story is really big, reddit can't handle it. A million duplicates crop up, spreading people's attention... and discussion is stunted as a consequence. Surely reddit isn't meant to be the place to only discuss minor / everyday news. What could make reddit work more effectively with these breaking news stories? The ability for the poster to redirect and close a thread? Voting takes too long for breaking news.

If I find duplicates, I generally downvote the newer ones, unless they had a better headline and hence more activity. If I find out I've placed a duplicate in the same subreddit I delete mine, (using the general same criteria as above). That's the best I've come up with so far. Reddit's search function has a lot to do with the problem in my opinion as well.