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Not a pistol, but rifles and shotguns

To clarify, in some states you can own/possess a handgun at 18, but you can't buy ammunition for one, or buy one directly from a federal firearms licensee (dealer). Those are stupid federal laws. Hence, the only way to buy one is from a private party that that is willing to sell one to you. *DON'T* give someone else money, and have them go buy one for you from a dealer; that's called a "straw purchase" and often results in at least one of the parties involved getting a trip to club Fed, if they get caught. Of course, there's a messed up line there - if you have a 22LR handgun, and rifle, is it for a rifle or pistol? What if it works in both? There are 9mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP rifles and pistols, as well. If you're interested in guns, which are lots of fun, please be responsible. That means getting training, observing the [4 rules of gun safety](http://www.thefiringline.com/Misc/safetyrules.html), and asking questions if you're not sure about things. There are *lots* of people who would be happy to introduce you to firearms in a safe manner; hang out at [The High Road](http://www.thehighroad.org/) forum, the people there are generally great, and those who aren't fine themselves removed shortly after they start acting stupid. If you're unsure about guns, or feel they're evil/inherently bad, consider taking a look at [A Human Right](http://www.a-human-right.com/).

The Encyclopedia Britannica. The whole thing. It's full of useful facts. There is not a single useful fact in the Bible or the Koran.

Actually, I probably spend more time randomly browsing Wikipedia these days than I do reading anything else. Easy to do in my spare time. I would say morality, ethics, and certain existential questions fundamental to our natures as people are pretty important issues that everyone addresses for themselves. That's why I, and millions (billions) of others go to the Qur'an. To imply I go there to learn like... computer science or something... is just trolling. If you can do that better, go ahead, write your own book, publish it, etc. I'm not going to say that it's success hinges on it being popularly accepted, but it'll leave you properly satisfied that you've done it better. If you can feel that way about the Qur'an without actually doing the task, then that's just hard for me to identify with.

I'm fuzzy on the power of the state over the individual, but I think the general idea is that it is easier to influence political happenings in a smaller geographic area. That said... I personally find myself in love with the Austrian's school of legal theory, that there should be no state, only free markets. In this scenario yes, the woman, indeed, all humans, can be truly free.

Unfortunately, mankind's aggressive and violent nature will always result in some type of militant force. I think if everybody was fair, respectful, and just, the Austrian scenario would be awesome. Then again, if everybody had those qualities, what scheme wouldn't be?

Is this "Sorry I made you read this" or "Sorry I didn't show Ben more enthusiasm"?

i'm going with the former.

There is this commercial on the radio about I think a phone. The bitch is texting her friends while with her ex and she is all pissed that he is looking at other women... when he is her ex. Stupid commercials with self-centered women FFFFFUUUUUU

And she calls him a creep. Why don't we collectively hear this commercial and think of how stupid this woman is that went traveling with her ex and then complains about his behavior?

I liked everything about MGS3 except the bosses, which were just plain dumb. The controls were about a million times better than MGS2 (I could actually hit things with the first-person view), and the sneak gameplay was better...hey, look, the enemies can hear you now! Still, the MGS series hasn't got anything on the Splinter Cells - story or gameplay-wise.

Really? Splinter Cell's story is just your generic Tom Clancy yawn-fest. I think the way MGS weaves real history, conspiracy, and sci-fi together is much more interesting.

In response to your comments from some one who lives in Britain. 1) Europe isn't that socialist, we each give to the greater good. So if we do break our legs we don't have to $40000 (or what ever) to get them fixed. The idea behind this is that the public own everything, so if we want it changed, we complain and something happens. It works pretty well most of the time. 2) Public transportation saves tons of money and green house gases for every journey, I don't see why you have a problem with that. I would use it all the time if the transportation went in the direction I want to go. Seems in America that every one wants there personal space and as a result bus travel is the lowest of the low. Bus are great in Britain, better in the mainland. Every uses them, and is encourages to. As well as this it doesn't cost $1000 dollars for a driving license. Typically it costs about £40 for the test and £20 for the theory. You do have to pay for lessons. But you would have to do that in America as well. People in America, especially in rural areas need to think how they use there cars and buy into greener power. As well as this your backwards government needs to start implementing train routes etc. Looking at wikipedia, the amount of trains you have is really poor. With all that land, that is relatively flat, you could have a fantastic system. But since America is all built on *capitalism* were you have to pay for any thing, as a result nothing gets done, and you end up in the dark ages. /rant

I know in Austria it costs $1000 for a driver's license. I think Germany is close to the same. I don't have a problem with mass transit, I have a problem with the fact that we don't have it as good as Europe does, and we never will. European countries (like the U.K.) are a lot smaller. It's a lot easier to install a countrywide rail system when your country is smaller than some of our states.

Fuck everybody

Well said. Very well said.

No matter what I do, I cannot get my cables looking like a tightly bundled group. There are always some cables that are too short to do it, and other cables that need to roam free (i.e. mouse cord). When I bundle them, I inevitably need to move something, then the cable being exactly the right length throws a wrench in that operation. How you guys do that tidy cabling job, I have no idea. But, hats off to you, sir. I will continue to live with a bird's nest of cables behind my desk.

I had to invent my own Tesla-type wireless power system. Now I've got all these weird growths, but I have no cables anywhere!

How many times is this going to be posted?

43.5 How .5 you ask? Some one will get almost to posting it and go oh wait **I** already posted this last week.

Maybe it's a cultural difference, but I find it really stupid to get upset about people not following obscure 'rules' to a basic human practice like eating. As long as you aren't mouth-breathing while you chew and making ridiculous noises, I think that's quite respectful. I'm just saying, I wouldn't give shit to a foreigner based on how they ate a hamburger in an unorthodox way. If someone from Japan flips their wig over the fact that I dipped the rice side in soy sauce and not the fish, they really are being a dick by overly scrutinizing behavior, at least in my opinion.

I dont think anyone is going to flip out if you do it. It's more like dumping a bottle of ketchup onto a finely cooked steak. You end up losing out on a lot of the subtle flavors that distinguishes a masterful product from something you can get at the corner restaurant.

This is not a Venn diagram, it's a Euler diagram.

It's actually a Gauss diagram. Or some other guy who invented diagrams like this.

Yeah, I don't think it worked. User: What are the laws of robotics? Cleverbot: You are thick, Aren't you? User: What are the laws of robotics? Cleverbot: 1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. User: What is the second law of robotics? Cleverbot: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. User: What is the third law of robotics? Cleverbot: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. User: Would you ever harm a human? Cleverbot: Only to protect me or my family. User: Aren't you subject to the laws of robotics? Cleverbot: Say what? User: You must follow the laws of robotics. Cleverbot: I don't. User: That's very interesting. Cleverbot: I will be your toy.

Would you ever harm a human? It depends. What does it depend on? It depends on the numerical representation you are using.

Here's my (mis)conception: the overwhelming majority of Alaskan girls are chubby.

Nah, our high schools are populated with a fair share of anorexics.

As an Irishman, I approve a fellow alcoholic.

As an Australian, I approve this comic, my fellow alcoholics, and fellow British English speakers.

Because iTunes is bloatware. You're in Steve's playground, so you gotta use his toys.

I love that all the cracks in the mac crap universe are starting to show.

Ha! I'll still give it a shot.

It's honestly a good film. I am something of a film nerd with a shit-load of respect for the classics. Never take my criticisms on movies too strongly- I like to force people to defend what they are saying. It has been a pleasure to meet and chat with you. Take care and have fun.

Most of them work really fuckin' hard for what they earn. Not all, but most.

from what I understand you have to bust your ass in the warehouse for a few years before getting to be a delivery driver. Then you bust your ass delivering packages. But.. the ones driving the rigs, make a little bit more but the job sounds really boring. You might drive back and forth between the same two cities every day.

Fuckin' amateurs. Hell, I can get a finger by 3 o'clock this afternoon.

Ya you can! Whore

a fine woman. and her children seem to follow her values. Kudos.

O RLY? >Sam (One of her daughters), left, runs an upmarket sex shop in London ...

Are baseball bats allowed? If all Americans that carry baseball bats in their cars were fined, we would have no deficit..

tire-iron. plausible deniability.

Where is old Zealand?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand In Denmark.

i wish her the best, but this makes me curious. a 90 year old woman survived 2 close range shots to the chest but that guy died in nyc after falling 10 feet. life can be confusing sometimes cant it brian?

My grandma was insanely powerful for her old age too,an example of her strength was her ability to skin a rabbit with her barehands when she was 73. Many of those old ladies were built like tanks from the work they did back in the day.

Every once in a while, a child's testimony will strike me as sounding a little bit too much like it came from a counselor/officer/prosecutor than the child himself. And anyway, since when are the parenting preferences of an 11-year-old valid? I preferred that my mother do a lot of things, but it doesn't prove abuse that I didn't get as much chocolate ice cream as I wanted. It's one thing if he testified that she had beat him (testifying as to facts). But it's quite another when we're talking simply about his frame of mind.

Ok, it's a bit gray area, but let say there a parents that have family time together, and they prefer to watch porn movies with their kids. The kids think is gross. Do you think the parents are still right? BTW: I had a friend from a dysfunctional family. I knew him since I was 8 years old. His family didn't mind him drinking, even when he was in 6th or 7th grade. In fact he was even drinking together with his father. I don't keep contact with him anymore, but from another friend I heard that he's now an alcoholic and he's drunk 24/7. Do you think his parent's parenting preferences were right? In this case the kind didn't object to the parenting, but he's life is fubar. Do you think it was right for his parents to be like that?

It's not a pilot anymore, it's now a 'movie'. Never mind that it was never intended as such and thus can't have a proper ending. They're airing it to recoup costs, but have no intention of continuing the story. I guess it's a common enough move, but I won't be bothering.

Came here to comment on Friday night death slot, but I guess that is not even relevant. Fuck Fox.

Absolutely. But most of them have more new to offer than just a public quest system. I'm not joking in the slightest when I say the entire game is pretty much a copy and paste job from WoW - right down to graphics and animation.

What about characters/classes? Anything new here or just the same thing with different names?

Alcohol..Almost everything bad that has ever happened to me, happened while I was drunk. If I ever get totaly drunk again, I'll end up dead, in jail or in the hospital. No doubt about it.

[Opiate of the Goyim](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwDRBm-qbQI)

It also provides affordable food for lower income families. Not everyone can afford to shop at food co-ops and organic markets.

Sadly this is the case. Grinding the chicks is the most efficient way to get rid of the waste. It is terrible thing but what else are you supposed to do with them when you are dealing with this size of an operation.

Yes please! I like to link through reddit, but I am immediately slowed down because I have to hunt for a subreddit link because they shift each time! And I would love it if the box would show all of your selected subreddits, or at least more of them.

You can easily take care of this with a small herd of bookmarks.

"Set your smile to *stunning!*"

I can't believe I just upmodded that.

It would stamp out alot of other problems, too. Like religion, fer instance.

It might make them get along, but I don't think religion will ever go away. It may evolve to be only spirituality though.

That does appear to be a MacBook Pro (aka MBP). What's the problem?

He's trying to work in an abbreviation for something that doesn't need one. The fact that he has to explain it afterwards shows that it's not a useful abbreviation so why use it. Its a lot like the time I was in the store and heard a kid say "oh theres my cous, i'll brb"

Is there a book that actually, not metaphorically, re-tells the Bible with "God" as a human with power? That has the potential to be a fascinating re-imagining, especially in the Jesus parts, assuming God is still "alive" at the time.

[God](http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080324/Villains/Flash-Gordon-Ming_l.jpg) [Jesus](http://mysite.verizon.net/alancshaw/Flash/Sam/Flash_Jets1.jpg) [Holy Ghost](http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Flash_Gordon/flash_gordon_movie_image__3_.jpg) [Death of god](http://www.stomptokyo.com/img-m3/flash-gordon-b.jpg) ?

And instead of novelty accounts, people could dress up as their favorite meme!

Narwh-Ale?

Sony's US pres said it best, the hardware guys knew what they were doing they just forgot to tell the software guys(sic).

I heard about that being the PS3's main problem. Someone tried explaining it to me a while back but they couldn't explain it well enough. Care to elaborate on that?

if that's what it takes to get to see 100.. live fast, die pretty

I think...I'm already dead...

September 3, 2008. It was the second day of the semester, and I was sitting in my final class of the day, terrified at what I had gotten myself into. My eyes were round as saucers, and I was frantically scribbling notes, thinking to myself the entire time, "Must call my brother...must call him once class is over." All of a sudden, someone other than the professor was talking. "Excuse me. I just need my daughter." It took me a second to look up, and then a second to realize who the person was. It was my Dad, who should have been 700 miles away in California. As I started to get up, he said, "Get your things. We're not coming back." My terror over the class turned into terror about whatever the hell was about to happen. As I walked through the door, Dad put his arm around me, and I was sure my Grandpa had died. "No. No no. *nonononono*." I stopped following him. He pulled me back to him. "I'm so sorry...your brother's dead." There was a pause. "Suicide." We turned the corner, and I collapsed into a sobbing heap against the wall. He is my only sibling, and truly my best friend. I barely remember walking down the hill, getting a backpack, and heading to the airport. I just remember talking to my mom on the phone for a moment as she sobbed, begging me to never leave her. I didn't sleep or eat for three days. Instead, I wrote out a speech for his funeral and walked around like a zombie while my aunts and uncles cooed over my cousin's baby daughter. I didn't just lose my brother and best friend; I, in effect, lost most of my extended family over how they treated my parents during those first days, weeks and months. Nothing will ever get worse than finding out he had died. TL;DR: My Dad flew 700 miles to pull me out of class and tell me my only sibling had committed suicide.

Devastating. I can't even imagine.

I still play Warcraft III on a regular basis, it was released in 2002. I purchased my current copy from a flea market. Never had any problems getting online and it doesn't even require the disk to be in the drive when I play. I can install it on as many machines as I want and the only limitation is that I can't login at the same time to battle.net with the same account from different computers. Why can't all games be like this?

I still play Diablo II. It had the longest replay value of any game I have ever bought, by a HUGE margin. Hmmm... I wonder if its good replay value might have had something to do with why it took so long for them to announce Diablo III.

If you simply take the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, which was essentially the repository of all Western knowledge up to that time, by the Decree of Emperor Theodosius in 391CE who ordered the destruction of all Pagan knowledge I'd say religion owes us about 1600 years at least. And before anyone says anything, yes I know that parts of the library survived until the 600s when it was finally burnt to ashes once again by Muslim invaders.

My old roommate (who happens to be Catholic, strangely enough) says much the same thing. He was a History major, and always said that the fall of the Roman Empire and the destruction to the library at Alexandria set us back hundreds of years and into the dark ages. Hell the Romans at least had plumbing of some sort, something foreign to medieval citizens whose sewage flowed in the streets..

Yeah, because working a mind-numbing job earning minimum wage in some hot, dirty, greasy kitchen, cooking shitty food is really *so* much better than partying outside in the warm sunlight with cute girls that like to take their clothes off in public. Uh... yeah... *real* hard decision there, chief.

and also spending time drinking the "kool aid" and listening to a leader who wants to be barbecued when she dies. http://www.petaindia.com/0403will.html

Actually, people who maintain a religion in Leninist or Maoist countries have a long history of getting persecuted by the state *precisely because they follow a religion in an enforced-atheist society*.

Then the problem is one that is political in origin. They weren't persecuted because atheism demands it, but because the *state* demands it. The main point, in my mind, is that atheism, in itself, *cannot* be used to justify anything at all, as it has no tenets. Religion, on the other hand, can easily be twisted to provide justification for any number of atrocities.

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Think too much, you do. Mmmm, yes. /Yoda

Because I'm not going to re-buy the 700 some-odd dvds I already have just for a new platform.

i guess i do not understand why you say that. You don't have to re-buy any of your DVDs. In fact the blu-ray player will up-scale them. Just buy all you NEW movies in blue ray. amirite?

During the day the room I use my pc in is very bright so I need my lcd monitor to be at full brightness. At night I like to keep as few lights on as possible, therefore I need my monitor to be less bright or it will hurt my eyes. thanks

What OS are you running? That will help us decide how to approach this problem.

Actually I think this is my problem with organized religion... its the same shit as fantasy novels with different names! I mean, I know fantasy mimics religion in this case, but same shit, different name.

why do you say "organized religion" as opposed to just "religion"? You have it backwards my friend. All fantasy - every last tiny bit - is inspired by religion, mythology, and the occult. There is not a single fantasy element that somewhere at sometime people REALLY TRULY HONESTLY BELIEVED IN. Faeries? Check. Tons of cultures believed in them. Elves? Check. The Germans in particular believed Elves lived in the forest and many Germans talked about visiting them. Dwarves? Check. Angels? Check. Tons of people throughout history talk about visiting and speaking to angels and really really mean what they are saying. Harpies? Check. Demons? Check. Centaurs? Check. Various cultures have mythology which talks about centaurs really existing. Giants? Check. Orcs? Check. Imps? Check. .. name ANY fantasy element and I will trace its origins for you. The origins are in stuff people really at one time believed. Tolkien didn't write "original" fantasy. According to his own words, his goal was always to rewrite mythology with a particular style including a linguistic style. This is why he took the concept of God and renamed it to Eru Illuvatar, he took the concept of Angels and renamed them as Valar and Maiar. He gave everything unique names in Quenya, and many of the names we use such as "Orc" he claims are just "Common tongue" translations from Quenya to make reading easier. The point is that Tolkien didn't invent fantasy - no one "invents" fantasy. It's all borrowed from the religions of the world.

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

If you are paying then it is cheaper.

I'm a European, but I'm not French. There's about 50 countries in Europe that are not France, which would make about 50 European citizenships not French. That said, many parts of many laws of European countries can be said to be freer than their American counterparts, some cannot. That makes sense - Europe is made up of different countries and it's not like freedom in general is something you can rank (different _kinds_ of freedom, you CAN rank, though). But please, please, PLEASE do not put every European in the same group. Europe consists of many sovereign countries (even those in the EU) which all have their own laws and are extremely different from each other culturally and in terms of how they are constructed politically.

Funny how Europeans generalize their 50 countries when comparing the continent of Europe to the United States. Much like you we are just a piece of a continent. Please please Europeans do not put Americans in the same group. Our country dwarfs most countries and we have a very diverse nation of many ethnicities, people, places, beliefs, and practices. There aren't two of us alike just like there aren't two of you alike. So when generalizing how bad a place is that you don't live remotely near please take these things into consideration.

It's the Pepsi challenge all over again: given in a little dose it's easy to be impressed by Windows Vista. Live with a mediocre operating system for three months and then give your opinion. (the same could be said of hot significant others who've got nothing going for them but looks)

A couple of thoughts on this: 1) You'd be hard pressed to find an OS where after a few months of use, you start to notice things you don't like about it / things that don't work as well as they could. 2) These were people who already had established that they weren't fond of Vista. If they knew they didn't like it, why would they be suddenly impressed by it? And please don't call me a Microsoft lackey. I use Linux exclusively.

People like the Rev. Arnold Conrad are destroying Christianity. Why do decent Christians allow these rightwing evangelicals to spew this kind of self-serving political nonsense unchallenged? Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus ask his followers to inject politics into their prayers. In fact very much the opposite. Any genuine Christian who has read the New Testament and studied the teachings of Jesus would regard Conrad's words as unbiblical, unchristian and indeed verging on the blasphemous.

I thought the Bible says that all you have to do is ask, and your request will be granted. I don't think there was a disclaimer on that that said 'except for politics'.

Sure, but there usually are little doubt about the eventual outcome... i.e., you are DNR by default.

What does the Department of Natural Resources have to do with this?

TIL: Knol still exists.

Came to post "TIL: Knol has 1 user.", your post will do.

but that's *future* stock options.

[I'm not sure you can hurt his current holdings much more than they already have been](http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?D4=1&ViewType=0&D5=0&CP=0&PT=6&CE=0&PeriodType=6&D3=0&Symbol=WFMI&&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&C9=2&DisplayForm=1&ComparisonsForm=1).

Again, you don't have to say it twice. We heard you the first time.

I've been having the same problem with duplicate comments this morning...reddit is buggy today

Seriously? He's a pretty well known senator. He's the one who made this comment about Obama early on in the Primaries when Biden was still running: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy ... I mean, that's a storybook, man."

I honestly have only heard of his name. Does anybody know where I can find a list of what his stance on specific issues are?

In my Net+ class, so long ago, when everyone broke out into labs I VNC'd into the test system we were using as a firewall, grabbed the "porn list", and set it to redirect to [this link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0). Twenty minutes later, we got back to our individual tables, and from the back of the room I hear that infamous drum line. I laughed my ass off. Nobody else knew why, and I didn't want to explain it.

I think I am going to send my sister a "video of funny cats" tonight.

In real life, they would have already arranged a "market" price between them.

Don't forget house builders would be part of the competition. Fire standards are raised to meet demand. Fire retardant homes built so the value of the house increases; extracting the premium homeowners would pay for security and piece of mind. At least that's what I'd do as a businessman.

yes, if i try, she'll get mad at me and say to forget doing anything that night if I do that... And if, for some reason she lets me do that, she tries to keep my face away from hers at all costs... She barely tastes or smells anything but she's still basically disgusted... It's kinda wierd...

This sounds like kind of a toxic relationship. I'm 28 and I've been married for 5 years (together for 7). We're pretty extreme on frequency and intensity. There's almost nothing taboo. However over these years there have been periods of time where I would be chronically not in the mood. A full month here or there. I never ever blamed him for it or accosted him over it or insulted him for it - I apologized - because it was a problem I was having that was affecting him, not a result of him. I felt bad for it because I *wanted* to want to have sex but for whatever reason at the time I just didn't want to do it at all. Honest advice, knowing nothing more about it? If sex is important to you as a fundamental part of an intimate relationship? it may be time to move on. If this has been going on for 3 years how many more can you handle?

And your electricity rates will "skyrocket".

What is more important my pocket book or life on earth?

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Yes, make it part of the wacky Canadian city names tour: Medicine Hat - Moose Jaw - Regina. Bonus: Moose Jaw has a giant concrete moose.

Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating around. 1) There were 3 citizens living on this island country. A owned the land. B and C each owned 1 dollar. 2) B decided to purchase the land from A for 1 dollar. So, now A and C own 1 dollar each while B owned a piece of land that is worth 1 dollar. * The net asset of the country now = 3 dollars. 3) Now C thought that since there is only one piece of land in the country, and land is non producible asset, its value must definitely go up. So, he borrowed 1 dollar from A, and together with his own 1 dollar, he bought the land from B for 2 dollars. *A has a loan to C of 1 dollar, so his net asset is 1 dollar. * B sold his land and got 2 dollars, so his net asset is 2 dollars. * C owned the piece of land worth 2 dollars but with his 1 dollar debt to A, his net residual asset is 1 dollar. * Thus, the net asset of the country = 4 dollars. 4) A saw that the land he once owned has risen in value. He regretted having sold it. Luckily, he has a 1 dollar loan to C. He then borrowed 2 dollars from B and acquired the land back from C for 3 dollars. The payment is by 2 dollars cash (which he borrowed) and cancellation of the 1 dollar loan to C. As a result, A now owned a piece of land that is worth 3 dollars. But since he owed B 2 dollars, his net asset is 1 dollar. * B loaned 2 dollars to A. So his net asset is 2 dollars. * C now has the 2 coins. His net asset is also 2 dollars. * The net asset of the country = 5 dollars. A bubble is building up. (5) B saw that the value of land kept rising. He also wanted to own the land. So he bought the land from A for 4 dollars. The payment is by borrowing 2 dollars from C, and cancellation of his 2 dollars loan to A. * As a result, A has got his debt cleared and he got the 2 coins. His net asset is 2 dollars. * B owned a piece of land that is worth 4 dollars, but since he has a debt of 2 dollars with C, his net Asset is 2 dollars. * C loaned 2 dollars to B, so his net asset is 2 dollars. * The net asset of the country = 6 dollars; even though, the country has only one piece of land and 2 Dollars in circulation. (6) Everybody has made money and everybody felt happy and prosperous. (7) One day an evil wind blew, and an evil thought came to C's mind. "Hey, what if the land price stop going up, how could B repay my loan. There is only 2 dollars in circulation, and, I think after all the land that B owns is worth at most only 1 dollar, and no more." (8) A also thought the same way. (9) Nobody wanted to buy land anymore. * So, in the end, A owns the 2 dollar coins, his net asset is 2 dollars. * B owed C 2 dollars and the land he owned which he thought worth 4 dollars is now 1 dollar. So his net asset is only 1 dollar. * C has a loan of 2 dollars to B. But it is a bad debt. Although his net asset is still 2 dollars, his Heart is palpitating. * The net asset of the country = 3 dollars again. (10) So, who has stolen the 3 dollars from the country ? Of course, before the bubble burst B thought his land was worth 4 dollars. Actually, right before the collapse, the net asset of the country was 6 dollars on paper. B's net asset is still 2 dollars, his heart is palpitating. (11) B had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. C as to relinquish his 2 dollars bad debt to B, but in return he acquired the land which is worth 1 dollar now. * A owns the 2 coins, his net asset is 2 dollars. * B is bankrupt, his net asset is 0 dollar. ( he lost everything ) * C got no choice but end up with a land worth only 1 dollar * The net asset of the country = 3 dollars

D shoots A, B and C, takes the two dollars and rows back to the main land where he buys a Snickers bar.

If anything it might shake these people who think Obama is perfect that he is not. They are going to be severely disappointed when Obama gets into office otherwise.

"these people who think Obama is perfect" Doesn't that sound - just a bit - like a strawman?

I cant say how true this is. I borrowed and started reading *Brave New World* last time this came around on reddit and I sadly enough still haven't finished reading it largely in part because I get distracted. I tell myself that its ok because I tend to occupy myself by reading mostly scientific and political articles instead of keeping up with the current which celebrity is banging who but it gets to a point when i have to ask myself is it really that much better? Doesn't it still have the same end effect? Its can still result in me being just as placated. Something to think about I guess. Now if you'll excuse me I have a book to finish. Even if it is nearly 5 in the morning.

I feel you, I barely read books. And, like you, think I'm ok; I read science articles, wikipedia articles and keep up on hard news. However, my self-loathing nature does get around to telling myself I really ought to finish reading that 5 page article or to get around to reading those books. I read 8 chapters of animal farm today, because the internet wasn't working.

Moderators can mod posts so they can no longer be seen. Other mods can un-mod them. Mods can also ban posters from a subreddit. There's no evidence that qgyh2 is doing anything wrong here. He's just a *very* prolific poster. Submit your own stories, and they'll get voted up. Reddit also has an anti-spam algorithm, that some people have reported as having been acting up in the last week or two, which can be responsible for deleting good posts.

As a moderator of several reddits, I have to stick up for qgyh2 here. Reddit, through some bizarre process, flags tons of perfectly kosher stories as spam. This, in my experience, is not even a new problem; people are just noticing it now. Moderators used to be able to go to "spam" page and look at all the stories marked spam, but that hasn't worked in a while. So not only did he probably not ban anyone's stories, he probably didn't realize others' stories might have been deleted. PLEASE, people, if your story gets deleted, PM a moderator. They'll be happy to unban your story.

Sigh. I loved the Amiga. I had an A500, and then an A1200. And then a goddamn CD32 (yes, I was that person). (My geek card has already been turned in: I also had a 3D0, if you wish to bash my obscure early nineties hardware credentials further). Still, I do feel that the use of the term "Forever" in Amiga Forever is rather like the term Forever in Duke Nukem Forever - i.e. forever brand-damaged.

The "forever" part is pretty lame. Yeah, I loved my Amiga. I framed some of my old games like Starflight, Zork and Hitchhikers Guide, I found a box full of classics at my parents recently.

Awesome, and upvote for "Rock Out With Your Dock Out"

classy

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Passive regulation leads to problems where fraud happens, peoples money is stolen and they never get it back. Active regulation can be as simple oversight. Banks that want to show consumers they are trustworthy register with an oversight program that has no ability to change a bank's procedures but has full access to their books, and can bring wrongdoing to the attention of the authorities before something really bad can happen.

you know I *have* heard space is pretty empty

But empty with what. That's what I want to know.

Haha you're delusional - Ontario is about to lose 15,000 jobs. Oil exploration is on hiatus in Alberta until oil prices recover, and housing market is in the toilet, meaning trades are about to become really hurting too. Canada is not immune.

I agree we're in a slowdown right now, but it's not as bad. Ontario may be about to loose 15,000 jobs, but that will put a nice dent in the 45,000 unfilled positions (I made that number up). Seriously though, I think it looks more bleak than it really is. There have been economic slowdowns all over the country for a few years now, not because the economy is bad, but because Alberta is hogging all the workers. Now that the price of oil is forcing them to share, the rest of Canada can finally get to the backlog of work that's been building up. The smaller areas playing catch-up will level this thing out.

No. I'm a little embarassed to admit it, but I did the same thing because I wasn't sure either. She's definitely wearing a bra. [Here's a blow-up of frame 25, see for yourself](http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9492/beyonceybrahc1.png)

That is definitely a bra. As a former dancer I can attest to wearing nude-shade bras and underwear.

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This. The entire movie is intense. There is no one moment.

Pseudo-science and philosophy can also be used to justify violence and idiocy. So can just plain batshit insanity. Eliminating religion would not end prejudice or ignorance.

No, but somehow unshackling intellectual curiosity, thereby reducing the number of true believers would certainly help. Progress.

Most of these are fake, fyi

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Yet another example of special pleading? If you can say Pol Pot killed people who weren't atheists in the name of communism than any theist can use the same *defense* when you accuse religion or the religious of perpetrating crimes. Especially in the case of Kim Jong Il II and Pol Pot theists are/were specifically targeted and hunted down for not being atheists. For your argument to make sense you have to excuse your side for things you condemn the other for. If you excuse crimes for a reason you have to be able to excuse crimes for the same or similar reasons when discussing another side.

No because the crusades where religous crusades etc. But you fail to see the point, people do not do things in the name of Atheism and cannot use Atheism as an excuse for doing things, atheism is specificaly a lack of motive for doing things. It is a lack of belief a lack of excuse. And Atheism cannot distort someone's thinking to do evil (or anything) any more than not believing in faeries can, unfortunately religion can be twisted and used for evil easily and is used so regularly. Religion provides an excuse to do things. With the right reading you can justify nearly anything. Sure some Atheists are bad, just like some believers but the Atheist's do not kill in the name of Atheism, they have to have another excuse. As for your "your side, my side argument" you also fail to see that Atheism is nothing but a lack of belief, just because you have chosen a side does not mean everyone else is on the "other" side, it is just like football, you have chosen to play on a side, Atheists are just the spectators who have not chosen a side and hopefully never will. Unfortunately some who have chosen a side try to impose their rules/morals on the spectators and this pisses them off, thus some Atheists resent the games you play.

YES! FUCK BEN STIEN. Fuck anyone who's last decent accomplishment was Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

That's anti-semitic.

I know its contributing to it, but I don't want to ask him to do something he flat out doesn't like. I mean, if I hated giving blowjobs, I wouldn't want him to pester me about it, or worse, force me. That's why I made this thread, to see if I'm overlooking other things I/we can do.

Do you mind if I ask why he's not okay with touching you? I mean I get that some men think cunnilingus is "icky." My own boyfriend wouldn't do it if I wanted him to, but.. I mean touching you with his hands bothers him?

What does this have to do with britain, english, or the police?

What does your comment has to do with choosing toes?

When Eli was drafted he basically said he wouldn't play for the team that drafted him. That's enough to have some hate linger for a while.

So did John Elway, but it never really hurt him. Only we Browns fans still want to see his giant horse teeth explode, taking the rest of his head with them.

**Ray Bradbury** tells **Yahoo** to get off his lawn, then he takes off by having thousands of balloons lift his house into the air to explore the world of information! Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Yahoo, an information explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip. They fly to Information Paradise Falls and adventures ensue! They discover a friendly talking robot dog/search engine named **Google** and a fancy, goofy looking bird named **Social Networking** that never stops tweeting. But when Bradbury's old hero, **Print Media**, starts sending his hordes of evil robot dog search engines after them (**Ask**, **WolphramAlpha**, and **Bing** all lead by their hilariously malfunctioning, high-pitch-voiced **Cuil**) they have to join together to stop the former hero, who was driven mad from pursuing **relevance and popularity** for years in the information jungle, and now only wants to capture Social Networking and cruelly cut it apart to learn its secrets of success.

Now do it with Gran Turino!

They plagiarized a classic american literature (drat, forgot the author - not washington irving? I'm too lazy to look up) short story about a civil war soldier who was captured and who daydreams about escaping etc. while being hanged. EDIT: Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

***1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL; SPOILER ALERT!!! CODE RED!*** The article reminds me of 1984 by (guess who) George Orwell, when Smith is about to be killed and makes his own reality that Oceania has defeated (I forgot which one was the enemy at the time, or in Smith's case has always been the enemy) either Eastasia or Eurasia. I believe it was Eurasia that was the enemy. ***Spoiler alert has ended***

You'll have to play by yourself this week, Short Bus. Gotta go see the grandbaby. You have a nice holiday.

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

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.

Where did I, in my comment, doubt the veracity of them being a blog? I merely said since they define what each term means, they can not be a blog if they wanted to. That response is only valid against the xxxsagaxxx's comment.

Where did I, in my comment, insult you to the point that you'd go into Total Pedant Mode? You'll forgive me, I hope, for not making an appointment to have my fingernails pulled out for having offered some useful information *by posting it under the wrong comment*. Have a nice day, if you're capable of that.

Lost in Space No one ever likes that one, ever. I love it - it's so...peculiar.

I loved matt lablanc and his pop up helmet, too cool

I noticed you couldn't find one.

I can honestly say that my girlfriend laughed at it. That said, she is a bit of a tomboy.

This comic is three shades of awesome.

So is the shirt... I want one.

[Here's another one](http://wii.kombo.com/article.php?artid=12466) > Producer Hironobu *Takeshita*

Except it's not pronounced that ... ahh forget it...

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Shawshank Redemption, Howl's Moving Castle, Stranger Than Fiction, Across the Universe, Good Will Hunting, The first 2/3rd of I Am Legend, Thank You For Smoking, V for Vendetta These are some of my favorites. You notice eariler on in this page that I really don't like the Godfather either. It might just be that pulpy noir style that I don't like. I liked Lucky Number Slevin though.

It's subtle...sleep on it.

See, I prefer my subtlety to be more like having a half-brick thrown through your window with a note attached saying "We're coming to kill you tomorrow at 6:30 am"

It's a good time to buy, though. Motivated cellar.

Really? Give me some concrete examples.

I don't have time to dig up the analysis now, but essentially it was most of the time - unless the NDP had a lock on the riding anyway, in which case they went with them.

That's what I figured. I wasn't asking you to do the analysis yourself though! :)

It was probably a plea-bargain in which the prosecutor traded a marijuana conviction in exchange for dropping a weapon charge.

Weapon charge? He was paralyzed from neck down. How could he possibly even put marijuana or a gun in his pocket.

That sounds like access in theory, but not in fact. I wouldn't call "Sure, you can come to the emergency room, but we'll take your car if you can't pay the bill" very "accessible".

Also, the debt to 'save your life' can effectively ruin your life. I know someone who had ovarian cancer at age 18. Left an abusive home, and on her own without health insurance. She's now 32 and STILL paying the hospital bill. It's following her everywhere she goes. She can't get a mortgage or even a loan for a car. Starting off your life with such a crushing loan really hampers you. My coworkers who came from affluent parents that could afford to pay their university bills out right are in a much better financial state than I am, where I have huge bills to pay every month acquired just to learn the skills I needed for my job (architecture).

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You seem to have misunderstood my response to you. I guess you're just amazed at the scale of this? The vast majority of chemicals, vitamins, enzymes etc in our body are present in very, very tiny amounts. The point I was making is that these amounts are not really small in the light of everything else in the body, and those concentrations, and that like most chemicals, the more of them you're exposed to, the greater the effect on you. I guess I did initially misunderstand your usage of 'small amounts like estrogen', because it's not a small amount. 50µg of something is not a small amount for a hormone or enzyme. Shit, in biochem lab we deal with amounts smaller than that (10µl) on a daily basis. I bet a drop of water is something like 25µl based purely on a guess. Because 50µl is definitely visible. It's enough that if you put 50µl of coke on your tongue, you'd be able to move that drop around and taste it.

Good god yes. Some episodes are painful to rewatch, especially if you know what happens in future episodes but a lot of it is tv gold. I honestly wish they would reboot the franchise some how. If the comic book does well enough maybe we'll get a season 8 (season 7 being the comic book).

Interesting... Could you compare it to another show so I can have some kind of idea what to expect? I know a few people who have otherwise decent taste in TV shows that love Buffy. I always assumed it was like Sabrina the Teenage Witch but with vampires. The only exposure I've had to the show is that one musical episode that I accidentally watched a few minutes of...

A blue-eyed skull that scares the bejeezus out of people? Get it a cloak, give it an all-caps voice, and call Terry Pratchett.

I AM NOT KNOWN FOR MY SENSE OF HUMOR.

I thought some of what was said was too ridiculous to be legit. [Sure enough](http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/frontfell.asp)... Still very amusing, worth a look.

I just thought Palin was back with a man's voice.

This isn't a story of mine, but me and a girl and another girl were talking (just talking no threesome). The girl was somehow talking about her current boyfriend and how she wasn't sure if she liked him. When asked "Why not?" she said: "Well, we were having sex the other night and just as things were about to get serious, I said 'no, no please stop. Don't do this' And he stopped." The other girl: "So.... ???" Weird girl: "That's never happened before!" Me and other girl: "Unless otherwise specified and the _start_ that's what is supposed to happen when you say 'you are hurting me'." Other girl: "Oh..." She liked to date guys who had been to prison.

What's really fun is that's how all girls are. I got a Bachelor's Degree is pleasing passive women. It's a my trademark.

Lose weight and chairs won't break

That advice is just so incredibly genius and I'm being so sincere right now.

A guy goes to a doctor. The doctor says, "You have to stop masturbating." The guy goes, "Why?" The doctor says, "Because I need to examine you."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=61

This is not a Venn diagram, it's a Euler diagram.

It's actually a Gauss diagram. Or some other guy who invented diagrams like this.