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The last girl I met at alcohol meetings (state enforced) had the best pair of tits, gave blowjobs like phelps swims, and fucked with that desperate angst that could only come from having a shitty father. She was also *bat shit insane*.

Does she have a sister??

It really doesn't hurt. It's more psychological than anything. There's a brief prick, and then you're totally good. Tips from my past blood donation experience: * Don't drink a gallon of coffee before you go. If your heartbeat is racing, it freaks them out a little bit, and they can turn you away. * Do drink the Coke/eat the pizza offered at the end. I've felt find immediately afterwards and skipped this step only to find myself stumbling dizzily five minutes later. It's worth taking a moment to up your blood sugar. * Don't watch. There's no point in freaking yourself out. For me it all goes smoother if I just pretend it's not happening. PS - Good for you!!

I told them I got a body piercing a month ago. They told me to have a nice day.

Well, in that case, I'm gonna put one of them [anti-rape devices](http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2140,features,rapex-the-internal-anti-rape-device) in the old money maker. Also, I'm gonna have it custom made in the shape of a star, so I can poop star shapes *ala* play dough.

I don't need any 'device' for that. Just practice.

I'm the same way . . . but only w/ Contra instead of SMB.

I find the 30 lives cheat hurts the experience.

Turn your feckin' phone off at the start, like it tells you to then!

What are you, a conformist?

duh. pardon my ignorance but how is that racist?

Because, the whole concept is attached to a very unfortunate and sordid racialized history. This is an example of that history: http://www.myenglishnotebook.com/sitebuilder/images/0Watermelon-270x285.jpg

Ever read Brave New World? Every kid SHOULDN'T go to college, because then who would do acceptable, lower-class work? In the book, castes are created artificially by 'sabotaging' humans as they are developing. They are conditioned to like their caste, thus preventing class warfare.

Duh, robots.... remember?

Assuming you're watching on Blu-ray: Serenity really is great. It's one of my best demo-discs. It helps being one of my favorite movies too. Browncoats FTW. The DTS HD MA lossless surround mix is really mind-blowing too, if you have a good sound system. Some other Blu-ray movies I'd recommend from your criteria off the top of my head: **The International, i Robot, Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, all seasons of LOST, Push, Sunshine, Transformers, Watchmen, The Fall, Mad Men, Bourne trilogy, The Matrix...** Obviously the content of the movies isn't always as stunning as the picture quality, but I'll have you decide for yourself. I'll post more if you want later. **Edit:** Some more: **Planet Earth/Earth (little inconsistent due to filming techniques but still impressive), 3:10 to Yuma, Defiance, Speed Racer, Dark Knight (for the IMAX scenes, they botched this up by using the IMAX print for everything which led to stretched and filtered regular 2.40:1 scenes), Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Die Hard 4, Baraka, animated: Kung Fu Panda, Cars, Ratatouille, Bug's Life, Coraline, Corpse Bride, Monsters vs. Aliens, Simpsons Movie. An example of an old movie remastered right: How The West Was Won. Spider-Man trilogy, Hellboy 2, King Kong, Wanted, Kill Bill, No Country for Old Men, Slumdog Millionaire** Your mileage may vary. These are just some of my personal picks. Remember, movies are shot with many different kinds of equipment, so they don't all look the same. Some can look soft and it could be that way for various reasons. Filmmaker's intent, accidental un-focus when shooting, bad transfer, intentional meddling in the transfer process, etc. Most modern films have very good transfers. Grain: good. Filtering/sharpening/removinggrain=bad. Sometimes studios get this silly notion that we don't want the image like it originally was, and scrub out a lot of grain and detail and artificially sharpen the heck out of it. Don't buy movies like that. Don't stand for it. Also keep the original aspect ratio, don't zoom to fit your screen or any of that nonsense. Glad we are over the whole "full-screen" business with DVDs. In the end, it's all about the movies themselves and seeing them in a better light. Now go enjoy some 1080p goodness. :)

While The International, Pirates 2 & 3, Push and The Watchmen maybe be good Blu-ray movies...they're not actually good movie movies....

I have the same reaction. It'd be nice to run across an article on sex that treated it as something other than a sport, a currency, or a violation. What about the semi-sacredness of two people coming together to explore the profound significance of communicative touch? I'm not a prude, but I find the prevalent attitude towards sex in our society to be a real turnoff.

you are sooo uncool. but i have the same reaction. so i'm uncool too. let's be friends!

This is the best FFUUU I've ever seen.

Agreed 100% full on hyper drive yes.

that's not a random guy dude.... that's athene, the best paladin in the world

It's [true](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLYrFR9RT_U)

>...and use the bronze blades on the wheels to kill anyone who got in my way,... No bronze blades on the picture. Fail.

They're retractable, duh.

It's not true that they're fiscally conservative in the right-wing sense, but neither do they share the policies of the NDP. Rather, they're for moving to an ecologically sustainable economic model that encourages healthy business while providing financial disincentives for activities that are harmful, such as pollution. Many details of their policy take into account the principles of free-market economics, but like the social-democratic nations of Western Europe, they support social welfare initiatives like national healthcare, alleviating poverty and homelessness, and improving education. http://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/visiongreen/partone "Our fiscal plan is straightforward: Use the tax system to help meet societal and ecological goals. Get the prices right. Allow business to pursue profit, with clear signals of environmental and societal objectives." http://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/visiongreen/partfour

If we reduce activies that are harmful through taxation, to levels that are negligible, where do we get our finances to support social welfare initiatives?

How can there be more than one honest answer to the question: Do you believe X exists? You may not be sure, and you may not have a strong belief on the matter, but you certainly have SOME sort of belief. It IS a binary question.

i don't know if a deity exists. Period. There could be, there could not be. But I don't know, and neither do you.

Oh, I've seen where you've been. You're all out of internets to be giving away, pal. :)

Au contraire! I received more internets as part of the federal bail-out!

That is a completely self-defeating attitude, and completely incorrect. If tens- or hundreds of thousands of people stop buying something, it'll change things. If dozens of people engage in executive e-mail carpet bombing, it changes things. If people organize using the net, it changes things. Economies have always been massive and global.

The [Nestle boycott](http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html) has been running since 1977, without any signs of making any impact. Baby Milk Action claims the support of more than 200 affiliated groups in 100 countries, hundreds of businesses, faith groups, health groups, consumer groups, local authorities, trade unions, education groups, politicians, and celebrities. Nestle have denied everything and refused to enter the debate. I'm sure if the EU spoke to Nestle I'm sure they'd sit up and pay attention. edit: fixed link, thanks

They like Cake, but they *really* don't like Jennifer Aniston.

I like a nice bit of cake.

Run back to the classroom and stay out of the real world.

been in the real world long enough to see that you wouldn't know it if it hit you in the face.

Is this going to go through it's second reading and senatorial review before the election in early November? No? Then it will need to get re-introduced, so relax. If the Libs win, they'll just not reintroduce the CPC bill and it will die a quiet death.

I get what you're saying but what is the point of the bill in the first place? Do we really need to fill prisons with horticulturalists?

it will be interesting to see what this means for hulu. on the one hand it's a great way for comcast to get a jump on the competition with internet content, but will they only look at the short term and want to hinder its development because it competes with their traditional business?

If they do I'm just going to say fuck it and not watch tv. I already am down to about 2-3 shows a week.

I'm 42, and I look 42--greying beard, devilishly handsome, and I continually get carded by kids half my age. It's very annoying.

THANK you. My revenge: I ask them if they're flirting with me. Side note: I didn't get carded until I was over 30. WTF?

We're laughing at the Brits who can't get over the fact that they're no longer the most powerful nation on Earth.

If that "we" references Americans...

The whole 'flip-flopper' pejorative is a worthless method of attack that preys on people's necessity to view leaders as infallible and consistent. But people, generally, are not consistent; they alter their frames of thinking based upon experience, research and thought. People who hold steadfastly to their beliefs, even when presented with opposing evidence, are generally assholes. Yet, it's viewed as a sign of leadership. We need to get beyond the thinking where 'flip-flopping' is considered the most awful political insult. I'm fine with attacking Obama and Biden, but to resort to calling them flip-floppers is lazy and, if it isn't yet, should be irrelevant.

While I admit that "flip flopper" is much easier to type out than going into the myriad of things that he has changed his position on after bowing to media pressure and other influences, I don't think it's a lazy argument. I also understand that a person, as a true thinker always should, is consistently taking the environment of a situation into consideration when forming an opinion and taking action...however, and apple is an apple,and I'm just calling it like I see it. There is 'surveying a situation and seeing that upon closer inspection, you may have misjudged something' and then needing to make calibrations, and then there is bowing to pressure from outside influences to keep certain people and or politicians happy. Which by any measure is scummy. I stand by my statement. :)

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It means the stadium seats 64K but they only sell 30K tickets. I'm not sure why they only sell the lower bowl, it probably has something to do with their contract, but I have no idea.

Woah! Kick ass metal band Sepultura is so far to the right that they are off the chart! Sepultura!

I was about to make the same joke about the Wu. That chart lacks all legitimacy due to it's glaring lack of Ol' Dirty.

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every month or so it gets re-posted...sigh here is a link that shows its several previous post... http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpics.yemii.com%2Fswedish-dance-bands.html

I forget the name of this fallacy but he asserts that the properties of the group are the properties of the members. I admit to having engaged in this myself when young. But a state can have or not "rights" that individuals don't have just like I can have rights that my left finger does not have.

I'm not sure I can possibly agree with this, at least as worded. Your left finger has no will of its own... it only exists as part of you. It won't survive you after your death, it didn't exist before you did. That you'd so glibly compare it to the "individual vs. society" paradigm is worrisome... not from you, but from others who say much the same thing, I often get a vibe that makes it feel like they consider me nothing more than the left finger of society. I don't want to be a part of their hivemind. There is no argument that states have rights. Too many practical examples. But should they? And even if they should, are their rights being limited carefully enough?

Very little. Even if a person named "Jesus" existed during the time of the character's fictional lifetime, it would not mean that person was a deity - or, as the "bible" describes, "god" in disguise as "his" own son.

so then it does not come so much into the matter of "evidence" but rather "identity". If the historical evidence is to your satisfaction (and thus to your mind proving Jesus was real) then the real query here, both in your original statement and the development presented above, is: "What does Jesus mean to you?" What we must understand is that the historicity of Jesus is only half of the picture; the other half is issued by faith and faith alone. In other words, the statement that Jesus was real is of no concern to us; we can easily make the argument that he was real by virtue of the Gospels and also tradition. What we concerned with is, if we accept that Jesus was real, is Jesus "just" a man or God? To the man without faith, a man. To the man with faith; God. I'm afraid this cannot be clearly resolved because we are battling with one's conviction in something that is held in the heart, not the mind.

Move closer to your job. Maybe that's expensive; maybe the house is smaller than what you've got now. But the reality is gas costs this much and it's not getting cheaper.

What do you suggest for people in the following jobs: Building contractors Home inspectors delivery drivers restaurant owners etc All require tons of driving for their jobs. Often, these people own their own business.

It would have been even cooler if he was on a Green Machine and burnt out upon landing.

link for the uninitiated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RuPiK1wwN0&feature=related

It's only been 6 weeks?! How many times have I heard that fucking meme...

I bet you could hear a 100 memes YEAH GUESS WHAT I DON'T CARE.

I wanna pla

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If that is your lame attempt to deconstruct my idealistic notions, I truly believe you have failed miserably. I do not own my name, birth date or social security number. There are plenty of other people with the same name and birth date as myself. I do not claim ownership of either of those. My social security number, as a number which is 9 digits is really not all that uncommon of a number, I have no rights over this number, anyone can use this number for whatever reasons they like. It is in my best interest to keep it private, but I do not "own" it. My medical records are protected, private and protected by HIPAA, but I do not "own" them. My financial records can easily be subpoena'd under numerous circumstances. What about encryption keys? Are you saying that you can make up any number and suddenly claim ownership of it? Bogus! I draw the line when the data is child pornography or photos of my children. I think there are a number of cases where the line can be drawn, but those are representations of a person's likeness (particularly a minor), but I don't believe that protection should be extended to adults in the case of idiots like Kanye West who claim paparazzi have no right to photograph or video them. In this case, Kanye is wrong! On the other hand, if someone wanted to try to breach the privacy of my family, in a place where privacy is reasonably expected such as within my home or hotel room, in that case privacy should be protected. Therefore I have made a case that certain exceptions should be made due to a higher moral/ethical basis, namely "privacy" and protection of minors. I don't feel the same applies to music, software, etc.

I have found your two responses very interesting, and hope to see more comments from you around here. I do think that my "free" point could be split into: 1. free (philosophical) 2. free (subset of "perceived too expensive") But I don't in the end see a difference. If you believe that data is 0's and 1's (as a CS major and a practicing software engineer, I agree with you!) and that copyright is simply an invalid concept, and further that the people involved with the production of the music deserve no inherent renumeration, then you place the fair price of a copy at "free". I do think you overstate the proportion of pirates (I have been one in the past) who have such a deep philosophical understanding and motivation. Perhaps you hang with a much more interesting crowd. But also, with no copyright, there would be no teeth to the GPL. That might not trouble you (maybe you're a BSD guy, maybe you don't care, etc.) but it's one of the things I think about w.r.t. copyright. As someone who at the beginning of my career filed patent disclosures, etc., I fully agree that software patents are complete nonsense. And as someone who does some music recording, heh, if *only* I was good enough to be worth pirating! ;]

I dunno about anyone else but this is the only kind of porno that I actually enjoy anymore. Amateur stuff does the trick also. My penis is immune to big fake boobs and emotionless sex scenes. I might just be weird though.

It's all about the emotion. The poster is totally wrong. Why is this limited to my girl? Kind of stereotypical garbage in my opinion. I siphon through all those aggregate porn sites looking for some hint of emotion, and almost always it's not with the models and the studio stuff.

So it works as a low-pass filter... that's pretty cool.

Yes. If you know the equation for inductance impedance, it increases as frequency increases. These inductors are used as RF chokes (to kill high frequency signals) in pretty much every RF circuit used in any kind of technology today, be it in on chip circuits, a crystal oscillator on a board, or even on USB cables.

No monsters are overtly evil. But few people realize this. Which is why I think crazy is a better way to describe it to people, since it's more accurate in describing what's going on.

Topher is evil. He's only peripherally aware of it though, so it's a fairly unintentional evil.

I know right!? I could understand if I put it in the world news sub-reddit. I guess there are too many "Vampires" on reddit, plus twilight just came out so maybe they still haven't taken out their hot topic fangs yet. :)

Haha, just know that I wasn't one of the humorless twats that downmodded you. Apparently, the anti-humor brigade patrols these here parts.

Im fully capable of buying a helmet, in fact I can buy boxes full of them. I just don't see a point to do so. In 18 years of riding my bike daily, I have been hit once by a car, and it was entirely my fault. In fact. In Holland, it would be rare to find anyone riding their bike with a helmet…

What reason do you have for not wearing a helmet?

In [another video](http://youtube.com/watch?v=p0AE50NHsOc) she's just sitting there reading the newspaper.

This one clearly shows his break dancing mastery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

*SLAP* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6424258467693494613

Thank you.

I didn't assume you weren't a Canadian, I assumed you *were* an American. Subtle difference. Plus I've never heard a Canadian who has brought up this issue argue that the Americans didn't owe us that money. There are plenty of other examples but I don't feel like writing essays tonight.

I never said the Americans didn't owe us money, I said Harper did not give Canadian businesses to the Americans. I am a Canadian, sixth generation United Empire Loyalist, at that. I don't know how anything I have said would make me seem American. Do I have some drool hanging out of my mouth?

No - like all such things we'll hunt it, eat it (bushmeat) and drive it to extinction.

Using missionaries as a model, we can change that. If you're in a town that has rare primates within a 3-mile radius, we give donations. When they disappear, we don't.

tell that to the millions who died from starvation under the communist crop-share system in 1950's china.

There has never been a true communist society, anything that has ever been held under such a banner has been, at the very best, far-left socialism and at it's typically worst, a dictatorship with some social programs.

Cancel the charge on your credit card moron. This isn't our fucking job to be your ombudsmen.

but we like helping. or else we don't and are required to click certain links.

well if you hunt you can find a sony bluray for 120-130 after MIR at frys. so im not sure what else you can want from a blu-ray player.

Sony PS3 is [upgradeable for firmware.](http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080118-new-nlu-ray-2-0-spec-makes-ps3-the-most-future-proof-player.html) Currently, the most advanced standalone bluray player is 1.1 - the PS3 is capable of being upgraded to 2.0 when it comes out. None of the other players are. Therefore, the PS3 is the most "future-proof" of all the bluray players.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get out there.

I kind of like being a cold numb human being. Of course one that dresses perfectly normal and doesn't tell everyone about it. Hmm I like having no emotion but not letting other people know, I like that a lot.

I remember that well and also thinking that the LPC would be sure to take legal action against those media outlets for some kind of 'breach of trust'. When that didn't happen I began to wonder how Dion could be ambushed in such a manner without the collusion of Liberal Party insiders. The other really noticeable thing at the time was how Dion was having difficulty articulating his "Green Shift" in English. No Liberal heavyweight stepped forward to help Dion out with that. Just a thought.

The reason is that at the start of the leadership convention, more people wanted Ignatieff as leader than Dion. Dion only won because of collusion with some other member's supporters (can't remember whose at the moment). It seems as though there were some second thoughts on that.

$1.5 billion dollars a year in pure profit? (conservative estimate) With that figure, I'm sure blizzard can afford to easily pay their best and most influential designers 500k-1 million a year. Yet they don't. Comon guys, stop sucking blizzards cock. Look up the wikis of the aforementioned companies. There definitely was some drama that prompted top ranking executives and designers to leave in the first place.

Way to miss the point, *and* vastly overestimate how much profit Blizzard makes.

I picked up a girl to go on a date. Mind you, this was our first date. So I pick her up and open the passenger door for her. She jokingly responds, "You know, I can open my own door." Ha ha...funny...cute...whatever. We get to the restaurant and I open the door for her to the restaurant. She scoffs this time and tells me, "I told you I can open my own door." So I'm already hating this girl so I just decide to enjoy dinner. Halfway during dinner it starts to rain outside. I'm talking buckets of rain. So we're done with dinner and it's time to vacate. We run across the parking lot to my car and I don't have a key fob to open the door. So I run to my side and unlock the door. My date is wildly trying to open the door in vain. I hop in and turn the car on. My date is standing in the rain shrieking at me. So I go ahead and unlock the door and she gets in, looking like a wet cat. I asked her if there was a problem. She said, "Why didn't you open the door for me?!" I said, "Oh, I thought you didn't want me to do that." Needless to say I now have a gf that doesn't mind when I open the door for her and neither do I.

Well played sir.

You're basically camping in your home. So think about things that you would bring for a hiking trip. Breakfast: oatmeal, grits, granola bars, individual cartons of soy/almond/rice milk Lunch: chicken or tuna salad (pick up mayo/mustard packets from fast food restaurants) in pita bread, peanut butter & honey sandwiches Snacks: fresh fruit, jerky Dinner: pasta/rice - a roni, beans and rice, anything (such as chicken or meat) you pick up from the market on your way home that won't produce leftovers (i.e. small portions), couscous with herbs, polenta (from dry cornmeal not in "tube") Drinks: water, gatorade, wine, soda Things useful to have on hand for cooking that will be okay if kept cool: chicken bullion cubes to flavor water for cooking; hard cheeses (parmesan and cheddar will last at least 4-5 days without refrigeration if you keep them in a cooler); root veggies such as potatoes and onions; canned veggies such as tomatoes, corn, and beans of all types. Just google "camping recipes" in addition to what's listed above.

Good list. I would add: -- cookies (dry, not moist), hard candy -- evaporated milk (12 oz cans), perfect for making puddings (rice, tapioca, etc.) -- raisins (add to puddings, salads, or just snack on them) -- crackers to make quick salty snacks, with cheese on top, or any kind of topping you can make with tuna/boiled eggs/etc. -- Fruit: apples, pears, honeydew melons (will last 1-2 weeks). -- Vegetables: squash, sweet potatoes Most importantly: Don't forget **eggs**. They will easily last 4-7 days without refrigeration. Keep in the pantry or some relatively cool, dry spot. If you cook with spices, you can make food last much longer. Indian spices like cumin, coriander, turmeric, black pepper, etc. are preservatives. Food cooked with spices will last longer. FINALLY: If you have leftovers, don't toss them. Reheating is another way of making food last longer. For example, if you make stew for dinner, but can't finish it all, **reheat** it before you go to sleep. Bring it to a full boil for about 2 minutes, cover it up, let it cool. You can keep cooked food without refrigeration for 24+ hours at room temperature **if** you keep it covered and reheat at least once every 12 hours.

My wife would freak if she had two bellybuttons. She's a belly button afficianado. Always has her fingers in her own. Ever since she was a kid. She can even turn it inside out. (The only problem is that the skin around it is has that leathery look like a well used porn star)

im hard.

DMT vs Salvia. I'm curious, as I've had salvia (which was still legal, last I checked) and the effects sound very similar. Discuss!

Both drugs basically take you to the same building, but where salvia is the dank, slimy maintenance, plumbing and storage levels, DMT is the very bright, clean and high tech operations central.

My partner of 4 years is an ordained satanist priest. They're all very sweet, as far as I can tell :)

Sooo....what's Satanism all about, anyways? I mean, what's their "message"?

Die Hard. I love watching Bruce Willis kill bad guys.

Best Christmas movie ever!

...either we disagree, or you meant to say "former" and not "latter." This is a great illustration of my point. Any Christian who reads what you just wrote would be completely justified in claiming that you are entirely uninformed as to what Christians believe Heaven is like. "Blowing a stupid horn for all eternity." This is just as stupid as a Christian saying "as an atheist your life is meaningless." That is not a belief held by most atheists, nor is your description of heaven one endorsed by any Christians. A Christian heaven is defined by endless pleasure that never diminishes. I prefer people who argue like you to be on the other side of the argument; you make atheists seem thoughtless and stupid.

Unfortunately, I didn't edit my comment quickly enough to change "latter" to "former" before you saw it ;) - I had forgotten which I listed first when I clicked "comment." The Angels, mentioned in Isaiah 6, serve as the caretakers of God's throne and continuously singing his praises: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. All the earth is filled with His Glory." If this is what is intended for the most devout of followers, how is that not tortuous, over time?

yep. it just wouldn't be GTA if it didn't have popup issues. maybe they just put it in there on purpose to make it feel like the rest of the series.

Yes.. then would make me really sad if wasn't like the other GTA games. Although, I heard the PC version of GTA San andreas didn't have the issue, well it all depended on your Videocard. It's alright, GTA4 will still be a great game.

Glorification of killing then is still inane now. He killed 9 people, subjugated a woman, and bit a dog.

Ummm, you do know what those 9 people were doing around that time, yes?

WTF are you talking about? *Everyone* knows diamond is the hardest metal known to man. Here's something to think about: what if a car made out of diamonds runs into a wall made out of diamonds‽

apparently according to this [source](http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-hardest-metal.htm) a type of carbon steel alloy is...

This is a weak article. It uses the softened "personhood" instead of the stronger "humanity" as it still respects social contract theory. It just takes the given definition, which is wrong, and artificially extends it to meet comfort. What laziness. It's my position that humanity derives primarily from empathy. Sentience is not essential to empathy, nor is suffering. Humans (members of the species) can be dehumanized, as is the case in war.

"humanity derives primarily from empathy" Haven't there been a number of studies that have shown animals to display empathy?

Im sure you could make this for **a lot** less then $6,500. Its glass and glue, but its still cool. I would love [this](http://thecontaminated.com/pipeline-fish-tank/)

And that pipeline is sweet, but how the heck does he clean that!

Yes, it's true....This man has no dick

Arguably the greatest line ever written in any movie, ever, and furthermore, it is criminal that you haven't been upmodded to the moon and back.

Costco Pizza.

I love eating these pizzas raw. I'm not sure how healthy this is or how much ingredients are pre-processed, but it's too delicious for me to care.

Can anyone name the Magic Carpet Ride remix?

It's called "Steir's Mix" and it was on the soundtrack of the movie Go.

why is this getting downvoted? is he wrong?

Yes, he's wrong. You cannot answer the general question "does God answer prayer" by reference to one specific example of willful human stupidity.

My guilty pleasure post election has been visiting conservative blogs in order to witness the self destruction of their party. It really is interesting to see the sheer ignorance of the loudest right wingers begin to drown out the center right folks. Some people think existing repubs aren't conservative enough, some think abortion and gay issues are holding back the party. Some are ready to dump Palin and the image she represents, some want to parrot it around for 2012. Its a fun tug of war to watch.

For the republican party to become viable in 2012, they need to run away from Sarah Palin and the radical evangelical, backwards base she represents. Dunno if anybody else saw it, but there was a piece in the NY Times about how the southern states (and the widely religious vote that had so much sway in the past) are now largely irrelevant when it comes to an election. Thank the Obama guys for repainting the map like that and redefining the game. So you're going to see this small but vocal minority within the GOP become more rabid, and I think the sensible republicans out there will cut them off realizing they need to get back to legislating policy and not morality.

Uh, I'm sure thousands of insects suffer so that you can eat plants. The plants themselves do not suffer, but many organisms die so that you may live. So let me get this straight, you're for torture as long as you don't directly see what pain that goes on behind what you're doing. It sounds to me like you're just as bad as everyone else.

Plants and insects are both organisms. Neither plants nor insects suffer. So I don't know what you're talking about.

Just use a _bigger_ screen. Get a 24" 16:10, for instance. You'll get just as much vertical space and the ability to display two documents side by side, plus full HD resolution. For laptops, I would tend to agree, except that I use Creative Suite and the extra horizontal space for palettes is a godsend. Little tiny (like netbook) screens might be better in a 4:3 ratio, but anything big enough to be useful is probably big enough that you gain more room for palettes and other docs and stuff than you lose in height.

How often do you read two documents *at once*? Also, with a 24" widescreen I get far less area than a normal one. And maybe I don't have enough money for a bigger screen.

I hope the cabbie wins, I don't care if he speaks English or not. I don't care if he drives like a madman. I don't care if he drives the long way around just to charge you more money. Go cabbie go! But let's admit that if he was an educated white dude say a teacher with similar evidence the girls would have been charged. Four well dressed white girls vrs one foreign born cab driver. I hope he gets a good lawyer, Oh probably not. That costs money too. I'll be the girls get good lawyers. Ok he's lucky as shit he had a camera on or he'd be in jail now. They'd be doing some sort of waterboarding on his foreign ass.

what does it matter if he speaks English or how he drives. It's a matter of false accusations and how those false accusations can effect ones life whether true or not.

Good luck proving intent.

Don't have to. I'd bet solid money that he gets indecent exposure to a minor, doesn't go to jail but gets a few year of probation, kicked out of his house, looses his job and goes into the registry.

From the 60's: You like music? From the 80's: Yep. From the 60's: Who do you like? From the 80's: Anything with good guitar really; Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, etc. From the 60's: You must like The Yardbirds then. From the 80's: Who?

I'm from the 90's and I like The Yardbirds.

er.... ok..... HEI wasn't introduced until 1972. I never claimed HEI, I stated electronic ignition. It's a custom set up from Porter, of Maine. AC-Delco wasn't introcuced until the mid-70's, I think 1976. My uncle ran AC-Delco factory #2 after 1978, which was located off of Dort Highway, in Flint, Michigan. I installed the Ford valve-train to get higher revs. The old Caddy valve trains would "float" after around 3200-3400 RPMS. The Ford will run fly like a whistle up to around 5800-6000 RPM's. I re-worked the heads to make them fit. It comes down to the valve spring compression. I don't recall the exact numbers now (the engineering/paperwork is at the garage) but they will stand up as twice as strong as the stock Caddy stuff. I just had to weld in some supports in the heads and make sure the ports weren't compromised. The sound system, well, it's in a HEARSE. You really can't hear it if the windows are up (I live in Wisconsin, so they usually are). Maybe a little bump if you happen to be next to me at a stop light. But I hate noise pollution, unless I am at home and drinking the Stella. The jets for a Quadrajunk were WAY fatter than the 454 on a 472/500 caddy mill. I am running a Demon 850 cfm double-pumper with dual fuel pumps. I know a guy that shoe-horned a 500 caddy mill into an '88 Mustang. Runs 10's on pump gas. As far as the sound system, what state do you live in? I can turn it up with the suicide doors and rear open if you wish to hear it.......

...Chevy didn't make a 327 in '55, the 327 didn't come out till '62. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till '64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center

Stop going to war every second year and then you won't need all the goddamned expensive hardware. Stop trying to fuck over the rest of the world and then you won't have terrorists. Stop supporting Israel against the Palestinians and you'll stop terrorism. But, noooooo.... Let's call a spade a spade: you need all these weapons because you want to intimidate, subjugate and control the world, rip off other countries resources, nip nationalism in emerging countries in the bud (eg Chili, Nicuragua, Iran...). You want to give the world the idea that no country can defy the will of the US and live. (the only exception is Cuba, so far).

jealous much.

/tmp$ curl -s 'http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_22568300.html' | wc 726 2977 46026 /tmp$ curl -s -H 'User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1 (foo)' 'http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_22568300.html' | wc 938 3737 62633 Why isn't this enough for an *immediate* delisting from Google, 'referer' hacks or not?

No - remember that Google's rules are that the user and googlebot are to see the same thing. From a technical standpoint they're not breaking the rules. That's why you get the same thing as Googlebot if your referer[sic] is google.com

I'm against making animal cruelty illegal. I can't be convinced that if animals have a right to some agency over the way they're treated that it shouldn't be legal to kill or eat them. I find animal cruelty distasteful, but I don't see how it can fit into a coherent non-vegan philosophy of laws.

I agree, but think harming another persons animal should be very harshly punished.

The defamation this girl is being subjected to is terrible.

Not defamation.

May I be your female counterpart? I share this fantasy!

Of course. But it would have to be asexual, or somehow otherwise strained. I could be the alien-fucking manwhore, and you could be dismissive of my alien-lust, and I could tell you to shut up and you could tell me that I disgust you, but deep down we would know that we could count on each other. Just like that time we were stuck in the methane fields. EDIT: ... if you ever wanted to team up, of course. If not, that makes perfect sense. Some of are loners. Rebels.

This is probably the wrong place to ask but I'm curious who your other favorites were. I'm guessing Carlin was one.

Not to speak for grau, but in the past few years we've lost George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bernie Mac, and Mitch Hedberg... and yet Dane Cook still walks the earth. No justice I tell ya, no justice

There is no asterisk to the right of my previous post ("worth $4.2M"), though there is one for my most recently previous one ("Perhaps") because I had to edit the link. Peace.

Oh, is that how that works? I did not know that. Thanks for telling me!

Couldn't you also use lard?

Yes, you could use lard. Also use Pastry Flour. Much nicer result.

Wow. A drop that massive just from one company? o.o

MCColo wasn't actually responsible for the spam in either of the normal ways: they weren't sending it, and it wasn't originating from their network. They are (were?) a colo facility with a reputation for looking the other way when the abuse reports came rolling in, and sometimes even shuffling customers around to different IP space to pretend they'd taken action. Bulletproof hosting, pink contracts, whatever you want to call it. This behavior made them popular with various underground elements, and it turns out that several of the largest botnets out there had their master C&C servers hosted at MCColo. What's happened is that as a result of the depeering, the many thousands or even millions of compromised PCs that make up those botnets are presently unable to phone home. They can't get instructions on what to spam or where to send it. I'd say there's a very good probability that the botnet owners have the capacity to a) move the C&C servers elsewhere without too much of a delay, and b) instruct their bots to begin following orders from the new servers. Today was nice, but I don't think it will last very long.

Oh, [fuck yeah](http://www.jedichefs.com/jca/images/JCA295_Jewel.jpg)!

Well, there's one Jewel Staite fantasy fulfilled. 5,999,999 to go.

That's the *point*. They're sacrificing flexibility and featuriferousness for simplicity and ease of use. It still has iptables underneath, so if you *need* that flexibility you can have it.

Umm.. you misunderstood my post. It's a reply, not a top post. Colorred claimed the need for ufw shows that iptables is overly complicated. I disagree with that statement simply because ufw can't do everything iptables can. Only if ufw was simple without sacrificing flexibility would I agree with colorred's statement.

Are you a Scientologist? No, really, are you? Anyway, best advice I can give you: A friend of mine was raised in a cult and it fucked her up royally. If it's starting to worry you and your friends, I say get out while you can. You've had your fun, time to live life on your own. You're doing things that are against this organization's beliefs, so obviously you don't fully believe in what it teaches. Accept that you've gotten what you can out of this, and find a way to preserve what you've learned, treasure your experiences, and move on.

lol no, not a scientologist, don't have that kind of money ;) As I replied above, I am mostly a happy person, have great friends, have led an amazingly varied life, and am on track to making my way (financially at least) in society. I am my own person, ultimately I know that, but my attachments to various factions doesn't facilitate things.

You know, whenever I think of what the people leaving some of these comments look like, I kind of imagine a scholarly looking, handsome fellow, perhaps smoking a pipe and thinking of witty, relevant things to say. There's a fire burning in the fireplace, the bookshelf is full of Kurt Vonnegut, Thoreau, and Discover magazines, and there's a loyal golden retriever lying at his feet. At least, that's what I think when it's a comment I like. If it's a comment I don't like, I think "well he's probably fat, anyway." I don't mean to be so superficial. Just felt like explaining how my twisted brain works.

I only have a labrador and I'm allergic to tobacco :(

Psycho owner. Do you know if the motels are this bad in Biloxi, Mississippi? I'll be out there for a week in January.

Are you going to one of the casinos? The casinos are run by out-of-state conglomerates and their hotels are five star. I stayed at the Grand Casino the year before Hurricane Katrina blew all it away and it was the best hotel room I had ever had -- better than Vegas! The mainland, however, was a different story. All of the south-land stereotypes were in full force. I cannot vouch for what it all looks like now since the rebuild, but if you can afford the casino hotels, that is where you want to go.

Any regulations directly contradict the personal freedoms. Furthermore, what exactly would you say needs to be regulated, and why can't the "regulation" come by individuals simply choosing to avoid the company that needs regulating?

Pollution is a good example of something that needs to be regulated. A firm, acting only to maximize profits, is not likely to choose a more environmentally-friendly means of production that may be more expensive. I also think that mandatory ingredient and nutrition data labels on food products is important.

"Can you come in to my office? Close the door please. I heard that you wrote a comment on the internet and your spelling and grammar weren't up to par with company standards. I'm just going to give you a warning this time, but please, from now on, check your spelling and grammar before clicking comment. I don't want to have to fire you over this."

See, this is the problem. You're right, grammar and spelling don't matter on a web comment, but the original poster was the one bragging about ditching boring old college. Yet, the post was riddled with basic English errors. Who needs college? I are a web zuperstar! (and note that his friend who did graduate now makes more money… imagine that!)

heavy + a buddy as medic to heal you in a chokepoint works too. Its awesome mowing down 5-10 retards with flamethrowers homing in on you.

When defending, get an Engineer to build a dispenser near the point, and you (as a Heavy) have become a human turret.

I am 35 years old, and if I had stayed at home for college, I would have been you. Your mother is suffering from borderline personality disorder: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200707/borderline-walking-the-line. I can now have reasonable conversations with my mother, but only after many years of building walls to protect my sanity, a marriage to wonderful woman who is also another survivor of a borderline mother, and both of us working together to build the needed layers of separation. My wife taught me this, and you should follow it too. If your mother is talking to you and you are hanging your head in shame, you are being belittled. It's happened all your life, so you don't think about it, but that dejection is her source of power. 90%+ of the time you don't deserve half the abuse you receive. You feel guilty about not doing chores, you KNOW you should do your share, but you know why you aren't doing them? Because if you do, she wins, and it reinforces the pattern that she can bully you into submission. It'll be on to the next thing to hang over you head. You never win against a bottomless well. Here's how you break it. Do some chores, but only if she does not belittle you. Cease chores immediately if she tries any guilt trips. Your work must be appreciated for what it is, and not become a source of psychological power to her. Reward positive interaction with conversation and household help, but don't stand for abuse. You are better than that. Also, I would strongly recommend that you study outside the home, your college should have ample locations for this such as quiet library corners. Not only will the lack of distraction help you focus and finish sooner, but it affords you the chance to meet young co-eds / obtain a life. College gets easier over time, you'll get the hang. And lastly? You are not crazy, you're not a bad person, and you are not uncaring. But you have been manipulated into feeling this way about yourself. Borderline parents drive families apart, it's the sad truth. Just remember the goal of college is to start a career and life of your own. One you, and only you, are in charge of. Don't loose sight of that goal. I sincerely wish you the best

upvoted for awesome advice

I am a Vermonter...You can't have a silencer in VT. Other than that, just federal stuff...There is no gun license, just walk in, get a background check and if you aren't a felon and are a Vermont resident, you walk out with a firearm. No waiting or anything. Most of the gun violence here is domestic or hunting accidents... After all, we are still rednecks.

The crime rate must be incredible in VT. I mean with all those evil guns so readily available and all!

See, your last bunch of paragraphs just convince me that you're a loonie who's got himself wound up in conspiracy theories, and the fact that you don't see anything wrong with intimidating unarmed ralliers convinces me that your rant is just a rationalization so that you can threaten unarmed ralliers with your guns. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person listening to you who thinks of you that way. Why don't you go exercise your 2nd Amendment rights at a Police convention, or in front of prisons, or maybe during a military parade, where your point is actually somewhat relevant? Oh yeah, that's right - you get all excited by scaring unarmed civilians. You're so full of it, I can smell your bullshit through my monitor.

Listen, I don't care what you think of me any more than what anyone else who would take from me by force thinks of me. Your party pushes overbearing government in a nation founded by gun carrying citizens who had enough of overbearing government and revolted against them, don't be surprised at the outcome of that one. I don't get excited by scaring unarmed citizens, they are armed more heavily than I am by proxy of the government they contract to do their bidding on me. I'll say it again - if they want my earnings so badly they should come and get them themselves, not send the government after them. You're essentially standing at the edge of my yard telling me I'm full of shit because I won't throw my money out to you willingly? And that I'm the crazy one because I'm standing in my doorway with a gun so you don't force your way in? There is no credibility in your ability to judge my motives.

Softness (or hardness) is a separate physical property. Lead is softer than gold but is not as malleable or ductile.

Ah... I thought malleable just meant that you could easily mark it and so on. I've learnt something new now. Thanks! :)

Sorry, i was under the impression that red was offense. So in that case, i agree with you :-P

Oh, yeah. Agreed. Definitely a tough stage for an offensive pyro.

The subject of the piece is that GE corn may be deregulated despite evidence that a number of people may be badly adversely affected. I can imagine this shit becoming completely ubiquitous and then restaurants all of a sudden having to stop using corn products because a small but effective number of customers are having anaphylactic reactions. And all you do is whinge about how 'boo-hoo those nasty environmentalists misuse the word "organic"'. Way to be a fucking patsy for the corporations. By the way, Europeans adapted to potatoes 500 years ago. If families had found their kids keeling over from potatoes, they most likely would have stopped planting them. Besides, the natives of the Americas seemed to eat them just fine, or they probably wouldn't have been shipped back to Europe.

You're wasting your time arguing with this guy, though thank you for trying. I find some people have an absolutely religious attachment to certain things, and no amount of logic or reason or facts will dissuade them otherwise. In fact, the more you deconstruct their argument, the more abusive they become.

I doubt if a confirmed atheist would be convinced by *any* standard of proof. And if he were, he could always simply refine his standards, *ad infinitum.*

Well, the author is the one who brought the subject up. His perspective is simply interesting. I think that if God exists, he would put himself on the edge of explanation. That's the point of faith, right?

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Some of us don't hate ourselves that much.

On the contrary, the existence of coercive states involving themselves in the markets led to the poop the markets are in now. If you're not aware, the GSEs and the Federal Reserve (both quasi-government agencies) are largely responsible for the mess. Read about Austrian business cycles.

Well, you could argue the government is responsible for the mess to the extent business interests bribed them into regulating the way they wanted to be regulated. There is no "coercion". Business and government are mostly run by the exact same people. There's a revolving door at the highest level -- one day you're CEO of Halliburton, the next you're Vice President of the United States. Business only objects to government "coercion" when the coercion doesn't come from their own cronies.

What kind of pompous douche puts Beethoven as their favorite music on facebook?

Maybe someone who really likes Beethoven. I have classical listed, personally. Beethoven isn't my favorite composer, though.

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I disagree. For corporations to be competitive, they have to make profits their sole concern. That means absolutely nothing is off limits in the pursuit of market share or any sort of edge on the competition. Scruples and moral restraint are incompatable with a capitalist worldview. If you don't cross some line, you can be sure some competitor will. To avoid being eaten alive by the market, you must regard all things as secondary to profit. Human rights, environmental impact, even basic fairness and decency are all distractions or unfortunate externalities. Thus capitalism, by its very nature, breeds a worldview that amounts to: "look out for number one." This simply cannot be the best we can do as a species. Yes, we are naturally competitive, but we are also naturally cooperative. Why can't we organize ourselves in a way that encourages the latter instead of the former? As for the examples you provided... Even if that's the way the things worked (i.e. corporation does whatever it wants, which somehow creates jobs and helps the economy, etc) then the benefits are purely coincidental. The main goal for the company is always profits - if it is profitable to create jobs, then jobs will be created. But at best it's still just a fortunate side effect. Do you really think the war in Iraq was to "help the poor Iraqis?"

Who regulates the regulators? Who watches the watchers? Who controls the controllers ?

Nobody needs to 'regulate the regulators', we simply create a set of rules and regulations which ensure the system cannot be broken through corruption.