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But he paid for 6 bars!

[But this amp goes up to 11!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVKWCpNFhY)

And [this](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/supplement2.html) for some skeptical contrast

Well, [heres an essay which refers to empirical data.](http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html)

"On the issue at hand, the rules were formulated in an authoritative fashion in 1950 in a letter by Sir Alan Lascelles, then the secretary to King George VI, who wrote that no “wise Sovereign” (and Canada is a constitutional monarchy, with the Governor-General acting for the Queen) would deny a dissolution unless: “(1) the existing Parliament was still vital, viable, and capable of doing its job; (2) a General Election would be detrimental to the national economy; (3) he could rely on finding another Prime Minister who could carry on his Government, for a reasonable period, with a working majority in the House of Commons.”"

Exactly. Perhaps Harper is actually unaware of the system he governs under. Makes ya think.

I thought the waitress story was quirky and belonged in wtf, but you said that I should try and submit something 'different' than everyone else in 'news', so I thought why not? It was one of the only repeats. 'Even though I've been here only five months, I only started submitting about a month ago because it served to occupy my mind when it most needed to be occupied and I foolishly thought I was being helpful. I mean, some 'power' people submit like 10,000 items a month. So I'm not understanding your take on that part. But thanks for taking a look and sharing some more helpful advice. I do see what you mean about it not being a generic news aggregator. Actually, I was feeling *obligated* to pass along some of the really boring stuff that still seemed newsworthy. Like I said, I just started doing this. And though it's neither here nor there, I'm a dudette, though I'll answer to "dude". Who wouldn't?

Ignore the power people. With few exceptions, you do not want to emulate your fellow redditors. This is a place where most of us come to kill time and blow off vitriol so that it doesn't interfere with our real lives. (Which is what I was doing initially, so I apologize for my previous obnoxious comments.) If you find something interesting here, then follow it into real life and make it actual and worthwhile. You seem to have a serious interest in the news, so you might get a kick out of http://www.seed.com , which is AOL's new grassroots journalism venture. If you can crank out a 400-750 word item on any of the various topics they've got listed, you can make a little extra spending cash, hone your research and writing skills, and get some publishing credits. Good luck!

He must be a libertarian. I hear that's all they do!

We are thinking of changing the party name.

Then why is Comedy Central SO LOUD! The commercials on ComCen are softer than the programming. I switched from a nice quiet program about deep sea exploration to ComCen and it happened to be during a Lewis Black rant.. I nearly shit myself in fear.

I watch Comedy Central all the time and their commercials are just as loud as every other channel. They all do it because they all get away with it. At last years CES I heard there was a company working on a set top box that knows when to turn the volume down because of ridiculous commercial volumes. Can't wait till it's mainstream.

re: 1) Dead Ringer + same-team disguise can be very effective. Disguise as one of your own teammates when infiltrating, and you look MUCH less like a DR spy when you die.

THIS. So many people don't do this. I don't know why. On red? Disguise as a red scout. When they shoot you, you will drop a red scout corpse. And you will be free to stabby stab stab.

He's left-handed.

He looks bi-dextrous to me.

I wasted 9 years of my life in the friend zone. It's the cruelest thing women do to men, and they rarely know they are doing it.

http://www.laddertheory.com/

Anyone else have the urge to install X so the box would go away?

What, you mean like Cygwin/X?

meh, I don't like how Verizon is raping their customers with the early termination fee… especially since you know a new and better droid phone is no doubt just around the corner.

"especially since you know a new and better droid phone is no doubt just around the corner." Haha that's what the comic was talking about. But isn't that the sad part? that we'll always say that, when the "newer better" version comes out there will also be people "holding out for the NEXT one" wow... doctor who shit....

Grrr these articles piss me off. You can have 100 scientific articles stating global warming is serious, but then article like this affects public opinion much more and undoes the good work.

Grrr indeed - but this is just a rant from one idiot in their 'debate' section. Surprisingly, the Mail (aka 'Fox UK') is generally reporting [the scientific facts about climate change](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?searchPhrase=climate+change) - although mixed with their usual distortion and stupidity. I'd guess that anyone who relied on the Mail for climate science would just be a bit confused - much the same as they are with every other issue. EDIT - P.S. A taster of the journalistic integrity at the Mail - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/83fdv/reddit_stop_linking_to_the_daily_mail/c085duu

You can believe in the general applicability of the laws of physics without believing that they are absolutely binding.

Well the laws should be modified then to include the word "usually". The laws are meant to describe the way the universe works, and if they don't do that in their current state, then they should be modified. Come on Christians, I don't believe you can have this one both ways.

No, I go through that for any torrent I download. it just takes a few minutes to set up initially, and after that it's painless. even if I only use it to download "legal" torrents, that adds obfuscation for the people the RIAA are going after.

In the name of every oppressive government in this world, I wish to express my gratitude for helping to jam those pipes. Please PM me for voucher codes good for a traditional meal in any restaurant, should you ever come and visit.

A lot of people who write these chicken-little articles are losers. Despite the very real concerns mentioned in this article, this guy doesn't seem to be an exception.

It is irrelevant if this guy is a loser or not. You admit yourself that these are "very real concerns." Tell us how this "loser's" reasoning is flawed? Ignore tigerthink's appeal to authority because I think it isn't a fruitful avenue of inquiry. All sorts of inadequate articles are published by all sorts of journals with various levels of prestige. The source is worth considering, but it isn't by itself a legitimating fact.

Not everything needs to be a fucking business.

I'm sure they could make a *very* serious business.

Please. Just fire all of SNL and give full reigns to Andy, Jorma and Akiva: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnvQjXxO4NE

The cast is still good. What they need are new writers, and to shorten the show from 1 1/2 hour to one hour so they can focus on quality. Edit: I saw last nights SNL, John Malkovich was the host, and it was actually really good.

As a projectionist, you should know then, that the aperture plate in the projector actually clips off a whole lot of the image in order to make the edges of the image on the screen look sharper, and in the process, cut off a lot of the image. Also, when you watch a movie that isn't done in Scope, you have a large amount of the top and bottom of the image not get displayed on the screen at all. Clipping of the image is very standard, even when watching the "widescreen" edition.

But don't the filmmakers take that into account and frame what they know will be shown on purpose?

Perhaps the original intent was to draw people out of their PC closets so we could have some sort of honest discourse. The goal of trolling often times it to draw out people true ugly nature.

Right. And my point is that, regardless of the original intent, the only actual result of this kind of inane tribalism is that it creates an echo chamber for members of one tribe to safely attack members of the other tribe, knowing that their hollow prejudices will be met with nothing but supportive cliches from the others in their clan. Once you start actually believing what you're saying, it ceases being trolling and just becomes stupid. Lowest. Common. Denominator.

Well, are you?

and who is strangely?

But being cold can weaken your immune system!

And this disproves my point how?

* Django Reinhardt * Milt Hinton * Ray Brown * Charles Mingus * John Coltrane * Blind Lemon Jefferson * Cab Calloway * Charlie Parker * Dizzy Gillespie * Jimmy Smith * Kenny Burrell * Leon Redbone * Tom Waits * Squarepusher * Igor Stravinsky * J.S. Bach * Bjork * Radiohead * Slim & Slam * The Monkeys * The Velvet Underground * David Bowie * Tribe Called Quest * Kool Keith * Beastie Boys * Early King Crimson * Early Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett) * The Beatles EDIT: I can't believe I forgot [Caribou](http://www.caribou.fm/).

Slim and Slam!!! Did you see the documentary series that Slim Gaillard did in the early 90's (if my memory serves me)? Lovely!

st. anger was a good album with a few major problems, the main one being it was about twice as long as it should have been. it could have been edited down to one, good, super heavy 30 minute album but metallica has this notion that their albums need to take up every bit on the disc

The sound mix on St. Anger is certainly interesting. It has potential. I do think that St. Anger is the weakest Metallica album so far, but I appreciate the fact that they went out on a limb and did something totally different from what they've done before. Some Kind of Monster was an awesome track (though the radio edit sucks). There were a few other pretty good songs on it. I'm still excited for their new release.

People are probably downmodding him because they probaly think that peta is a fucked up organization. Peta believes that one one should be allowed to own a pet. They also believe that humans should not be able to use any animal products, insulin included. I guess they think that all the diabetics should just go ahead and die. I'm all for ending cruelty to animals, but I think they go way beyond this. So, fuck peta.

insulin isn't an animal product - they've said that they opposed pharmaceutical research on animals (big surprise, doesn't work half the time anyway), including insulin. considering how old a technology synthetic insulin is, it could very well have been modeled digitally and in vitro, which is what they're pushing for.

1. It's White, not Black, who moves first 2. The pieces are on the wrong ranks (H1, the bottom-right square from White's point of view, should be white) In conclusion, either Alien and Predator cannot play chess properly, or the artist's depiction is not an accurate representation of reality.

A friend from high-school was one of the artists for this and he wasn't really the chess playing type. I guess no one else on his team was either.

This blog author writes in some sort of bazaar hillbilly speak. I just glanced a few more articles and I feel like I stepped into the Grapes Of Wrath.

Which, when fermented for the requisite period will become the Wine of Wrath.

And I've just discovered that water is wet

The thing with religion is that it functions under the disguise of tolerance and forgiveness when most of the followers are anything but. That's what got me. Now you tell me if water had a dry side.

What city is this?

Boston.

What is the husband to do then in those situations? Would you be willing to let your husband have a mistress? This also isn't a post criticizing you or those other mothers. Just a question to see where you stand. EDIT: Fixed wording.

yes, by all means--mistress to his heart's content. i've begged him to find someone, an 'f' buddy. just don't abandon the family.

Not really hilarious, but I found it neat that it points out that the only important thing happening in the original cover is Cyclop's lasers being blocked by magneto. Everyone else is just being silly.

Actually, it's just a change of camera perspective. All that "dynamic" action just looks stupid in a wider angle.

Hopefully he moved back home to the US.

This is a B.S. attitude. Most successful Canadians have had to leave the country for a time, and it has even been said that to be a successful Canadian you have to leave the country. Margaret Atwood went to school in Britain (they still consider her British over there,) Mordecai Richler lived in Europe for many, many years, Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka and lived in Britain for many years. But, not just literary figures have done this, Trudeau attended the LSE in London and even went to school in Paris, Kim Campbell also attended the LSE, and John Turner wasn't even born in Canada (not to mention Sir John A. himself.) This is the same stupid attitude that leads to remarks like "maybe we can have a Canadian born GG for once" (as opposed to an immigrant.) Just because someone hasn't lived in Canada their entire lives is no reason they can't participate in public life. Your Conservative talking points have no place here.

What? Invisible lard? Or are they drinking hot lard out of those cups? Either way, lard rocks!

Martinis garnished with little balls of lard. Quite the rage in the early '50s. But [I'm beginning to suspect that the British Lard Marketing board might just be a prank](http://www.britishlard.co.uk/) http://slackerpedia.com/british-lard/images/uglybaby.jpg

Mr. Foreskin, will modern science ever give me a working foreskin? At one point in the future will it be possible to just grow a new one from stem cells or something like that? I feel so ashamed when people talk about how much penis organ I am missing.

I think that would be like the fifth organ they figure out out how to grow. After livers, kidneys, hearts, and lungs, you know?

quotes.txt? that's an awesome idea.

There should be a notepad widget where what ever your write is always saved. I hate having to hunt down my text editor and wait for it to start up and find what ever file I want. I want to just be able smash a button on the keyboard and start writing down my thoughts instantly.

I can handle tension too.

It's a great way to fulfil your potential

omg.. that made me laugh. They could wear those same goofy smiles.

Oh.. forgot to mention.. Not only does it fit perfectly in your hand, but my arms are just long enough.. there must be a God, and he must want us to touch ourselves.

Ditto, but it amazes me how seldom the other side of the debate quashes that nugget of absurdity as readily as they could. If "God exists" is an objective claim - if God would still exist if nobody believed in him, if He is a deity and not just a social construct, if you're seriously arguing that He created the universe and all things in it directly or indirectly - that's a scientific claim. All claims of objective knowledge are scientific claims. If you want to say it's a nonscientific belief, then you have to be prepared to drop that uppercase G, because subjective ideas don't found planets or turn water to wine.

I think the reason he has an uppercase G is that that's his name, or the best approximation we have in English.

the mods of the gaming subreddit are douches

As a hard working mod of gaming, thanks. I'm glad I'm volunteering my time to help such a lovely community.

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I thought it was baby-blood...

I actually was thinking something similar while reading Dan Simmons' The Fall of Hyperion. There was a reference to Winston Churchill that was really jarring because I had a hard-time believing that thousands of years in the future, when people have discovered FTL travel, teleportation, all manner of hijinx involving time and human evolution, someone is going to remember a moderately famous 20th century politician.

I didn't have a problem with that at all. We're still making movies about greek politicians and warriors. If a movie today about King Leonidas could be one of the biggest blockbusters in years, why's it so hard to believe that future people would remember Churchill? I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that, a thousand years from now, people would still be studying and delivering "We shall fight them on the beaches," just as we do the writings of the great leaders of our distant past.

Jesus Christ, the crazies really are coming out of the woodwork. Is this going to be our punishment for electing a halfway progressive president? Four years of right-wing loonies shooting people because they're unable to cope with a changing world? These are fucking weird times.

Its like the loosing side have gone insane for the last 4 months, and it is fucking weird. Apparently Obama is the Anti-Christ, Hitler, a "Wealth Distributor", and of course reverse racist. But finally after 4 months I think the right-wings have finally just snapped. Probably to the realization that they have another 3.5 or possibly 7.5 years of this left. Imagine what the US will look like in 3 years let alone 7, hell we might even have some form of universal health care coverage .... the horror. They all better start holding onto their muskets extremely tight.

There is a difference between STV and IRV. You are thinking of Instant Runoff Vote, where there is one elected representative for each electoral district. In that case, you'd be correct in saying that the Liberals would win a landslide almost every time because of the left-to-right or right-to-left tendencies. In STV, there are multiple members elected from each district, which means that you get better proportionality overall. In other words, if 20% of voters vote NDP, then the NDP would get around 20% of seats, and so on. This is a "fair" result, and the only predictable result is that no political party would ever wield unchecked power with less than 50% of the vote again. And actually, there are quite a few conservatives who are in favour of electoral reform. Andrew Coyne is one, Rick Anderson, Patrick Boyer, Hugh Segal are some others.

Ah yes, you are right. I was indeed thinking of the IRV. I'm still a little confused about the STV, as I'm sure many are.

1.) Morality, to me, is the art of seeking the least harm. Being an art, and being such a subjective and fuzzy one at that, there's a lot of room for people to disagree, but at the same time still some fairly "absolute" truths. 2.) I don't believe in it. I think it's one of those things where, in order to function normally, you have to operate under the assumption that it does exist. Kind of like how you cannot continually imagine the hot dog making process, or how animals get slaughtered if you don't want to barf while eating. I think that everything we do is ultimately a result of our environment, and that our minds produce the illusion of choice. 3.) Not sure. To be honest, I sort of resent theists' implication that they've got this issue "won" because (IMO) you've all pretty much made up an answer even though you don't know either. I'm not even sure there has to be a "why." What inherent property of the Universe makes you think that there does? Seems like "why" is a made up human question that we come up with simply because we have reasons for doing the things we do. 4.) I'm not sure. I've been thinking a lot about this lately: What if our brains simply cannot actually handle physics for what they really are? I think there's strong evidence that that's the case. We think of light as being a particle and a wave, when it's sort of both and neither. We've defined the four fundamental forces, but what the fuck *are* they, really? They're magic for all we know, and we've just described their properties. 5.) I actually wouldn't go so far as to say it's impossible. I just see no evidence to beieve in it. Even if you're going to say that the supernatural is outside of the natural world and therefore cannot be discovered by science, I think that's a bunch of hooey. If it interacts with the natural world, there's going to be evidence, which can be used to prove it. You take a look at pretty much every "supernatural" phenomenon and they've either been proven to be natural after all or have plausible natural explanations. 6.) I'm hesitant to say *all* without thoroughly thinking it over, but based on my definition of morality above, I'll give that a shaky yes.

i appreciate your thoughtful answer 1. how do we know what is absolute? cannibalism? incest? there are cultures in which these practices are not considered wrong. they certainly "feel" wrong, but moral philosophers have created thought exercises where in certain situations most people would not consider these practices wrong 2. i agree 100% 3. its one of those questions that just does not have a good answer, but blows the mind to think about. "to praise god" is certainly unsatisfying. and yet to ponder the fate of the universe, as it expands forever in every direction until every atom in it is seperated from every other atom by an empty space the size of the universe, is more unsettling. all this was for nothing? 4. my hunch is - an gorilla cant learn algebra and we cant learn the mysteries of the universe. just think of the leap from newton to einstein. quantum physics? uncertainty principle? a single particle existing in two seperate places a universe apart. the universe is just so weird, and it only gets weirder 5. what ever caused the big bang is by this definition supernatural, but it existed before time and space 6. i dont think they do. certain acts of heroism defy the limits of reciprocal altruism or empathy. they explain much of our moral behavior, but not all ... imo

[C'mon](http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=egg+nog)

Hmm, that actually sounds pretty nice. I always assumed it tasted like raw eggs. Just never looked nice at all.

Good advice, *Gunner*.

Haha I'll give you the upvote. Mine is a silly nickname having nothing to do with guns.. the closest I've ever come to a gun was the Nintendo zapper. =)

Major upvote for the Hyperion Cantos. The last book got an emotional response out of me, which is very hard to do. Possibly my all-time favourite series. Do not pass this one up! Culture stuff is great too. While, like another commenter, I do enjoy Excession, it's a bit heavy to start off with. Start with the "first" culture novel, "Consider Phlebas". Basically, get all of [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_The_Culture_Novels.jpg). ...after Hyperion ;) Edit: Definitely start with Consider Phlebas. It's a lot more accessible than the other Culture novels, (especially Feersum Endjinn, which is itself pretty awesome), and you'll notice it could probably be converted to a movie without much editing. Methinks Iain M. Banks was looking for some Hollywood moolah!

Fuck you are so fucking stupid. The Hyperion Cantos is garbage, and Dan Simmons is the worst writer who has ever lived on this planet. You dumbass.

Yeah the bulging eyed clerk is a little perverse. Guys who goggle over kids are pedos.

You were not downvoted for your comment, but rather your name. (I didn't do it, though!)

The content doesn't really talk about any conspiracy? Are you sure? "Bush knocked down the towers" is repeated throughout the song; I'm sure that's referencing a conspiracy.

Well, I'm not sure that the phrase "Bush knocked down the towers" refers to Bush specifically, but to the military-industrial complex which funded bin Laden & co. in the past. Immortal Technique in [this interview](http://www.playahata.com/pages/interviews/interview_immortaltechnique.htm) says that "I think that anyone who calls me a conspiracy theorist just is trying to marginalize the audience that listens to the music I make. The CIA really did give Al-Queda billions of dollars in the late 80's, and the early 90's. The Taliban were trained by Israeli agents, Halliburton built a pipeline to get natural gas that it couldn't have done if the Taliban was in power. The president is really trying to revoke abortion and frees speech. What is so conspiracy theory about that? I invite people to disagree with my views but look up the historical facts for yourself son." I'm not saying anything about the conspiracy theories or the rappers or anything, just that the message of this song seems to be lost on most people here...

This does not surprise me in the least. So many stupid left wingers notice the glaring flaws in the Republican party but refuse to accept that their party is just as bad and corrupt.

Since when is the Democratic party the party of left-wingers?

It was a picture book for 4 year olds. It was 32 pages long. I think he's looking for novels that compare to their movie adaptations.

Oh, alright. How about the Princess Bride? Was that based on a book? It seems like there *could* be a lot of movies that were based on obscure books. Also, I have a hypothesis as two why so many **popular** books turned out to be crummy movies: Because of the [law of regression](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean). If my hypothesis is right, that implies that a book or movie's plot isn't necessarily the most important factor in it's popularity. It could be that you need both a solid plot *and* someone who takes the time and gets all the little details right. Writing unreadable dialogue is very easy.

I disagree. Pokemon is popular, but doesn't have the *depth of lore* that makes exploring it's world in an MMO format compelling. Could it be created? Maybe, but there isn't this sense of coherence to the world of Pokemon as there is in any of the other MMOs or properties I was talking about. People playing WoW *want* to meet, fight, and defeat Arthas. People who would play a Harry Potter MMO *want* to live in the rich fantasy world that Rowling created. Is there really that sense of storyline in Pokemon beyond "catch monsters and battle them"? Is the narrative strong enough for people to spend 20-50 days in that world? I don't really think so, but don't really have a lot of exposure to Pokemon other than playing one of the original games for a while...

I've played WoW for a long time and... of all of the people in the many guilds I've had across two servers... there hasn't been a single person that I've met who had any clue about any sort of WoW lore. I realize that there are 3 RTS games, a board game, TCG, and various novels, but other than the few very very hard core WoW-fans, I don't think that very many people go out of their way to study WoW lore. I think that a Pokemon MMO could do very well though. There are lots of people out there who are very "goal oriented" and would spend a lot of time going around trying to catch all.. 450 pokemon (or however many they have now). I see problems though in how they would deal with the legendary pokemon (of which there is only one in the world) and with things like being a gym leader and so on.

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"Bazooka Joe's got deep pockets"

Corporations are nonhuman entities with government granted rights. I don't advocate the existence of government sponsored corporatism.

what about free range corporatism? libertarians seem to forget. mmmm say the 1800s when the rise of monopolies was huge. FREE MARKET = END OF CAPITALISM. Capitalism needs constant monopoly breaking and playing-field leveling.

What's up with this? CNBC (and Forbes) have had all kinds of weed shit up on their sites too lately. Both had web only-features on "the best" strains of various medicinal herb and CNBC also had a prominently displayed slide-show web only feature on the top selling porn DVDs (!?!) I guess you know we're in a depression when...

things start looking up?

Moi http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30009108&l=77344&id=1236660116 Yeah, my bangs are in my face, but peripheral vision is overrated anyways.

i love ur eyes :D

An atheist creationist would believe that the world was created, just not by a god. [Aliens, perhaps](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F).

That would sort of be a god though, wouldn't it? Aliens would be our higher power.

I think jealousy is a natural emotion, so I view polyamory as impractical unless all participants somehow don't feel or are able to repress their feelings of jealousy. I know for certain that I do feel it, so I will stick to monogamy.

Poly-sexual-partnery (as opposed to just loving other people but not having sex with them), often attracts people who are avoidant attachment, or near the autistic end of the spectrum of emotional range. Poly is very popular with geeks who are more fond of their code and computers and words than people, but who are indeed still human and have urges. :-)

the oil sands are a canadian treasure, FUCK all you assholes trying to stop us from using it, they just want to hold Canada back, well it won't happen.

Um, I am Canadian and completely disagree. We already supply the US with more oil than just about anyone. Tar sands from what I understand are twice as bad for the environment as regular oil plus it is more expensive to get out of the ground and then refine. I would rather the country spends all that money on coming up with whatever the next fuel tech (electric, cells etc). Bigger pay-off in the end...

No, the richer goto cottages. Which, if you havn't been to in Canada, is absoloutely amazing

cottages fucking RULE.. Muskoka, tobermory, Algonquin

why not?

They'll start talking to us again.

grammar supremacist?

grammar separatist.

Canadian = American

Candadians, like Mexicans are American. As are Venezuelans, Argentines, Brazilians, etc.

What I have a problem with is the TSA going through my luggage and pulling shit out. I live overseas for grad school and I have to bring a lot of stuff from back home, including cans of compressed air (air duster cans). They don't sell them here and everything gets covered in a light layer of dust in about 2 hours. I have to clean out my laptop's fans every other day. I had no problems bringing packs of these in the last 3 or 4 times, but this time they confiscated it and left a little sticker about how 'TSA screeners have removed any lighters or matches discovered in your baggage' and referred to the appropriate rule/clause. Then someone wrote in by hand '12 CANS DUST SPRAY - NOT ALLOWED'. Oh I'm sorry, where's the reference to *that* rule and clause? I'm just worried they'll try to take something more valuable next time.

I feel your pain man. I could use some canned air and WD-40 as well, but can't get anything in a compressed container shipped from the US, can't check it in and can't carry it on the plane either. I don't think they normally open your check-in baggage to rummage through it unless they spot something suspicious on the x-ray. I think there was a fire that was once started by some combination of items that included some flammable pressurized containers and malfunctioning plane equipment, so they decided to ban all pressurized containers from planes. This is pre-9/11 and doesn't have anything to do with the terrists. You know what else sucks? I used to have a cheap old vacuum cleaner that had a "blow" mode so you could use it for various applications like blowing the dust off your motherboard once or twice a year. I went to look for a new one when the old one got fubar, and guess what, none of the modern ones have a blow mode. That's progress!

I thought of that too--just before I clicked the link to the photo and got the atheism sermon on the sign in the foreground.

And speaking of Nihilism...God was an atheist!

It's funny how a little puppy, which doesn't have a sense of self and is greatly less intelligent than a human gets more sympathy than all the people suffering and dying.

Puppies also haven't done any wrongs in their life, they are the innocents of this world. No matter what you do in your life, you will have done something bad to someone if you live long enough.

One or the other, not both.

The writer of the title can obviously spell, so I gather it was of a more innocent mistake.

I know how many people will say it's a cruel punishment, but if they did this to every guy who threw acid on a woman (especially in Afghanistan lately), these attacks on women would probably end.

[Beccaria](http://www.constitution.org/cb/crim_pun.htm) might disagree.

I hate it...downmodded.

And so do I. At least I upmodded you.

Here's the rest of the set. http://imgur.com/XdKjZ.jpg http://imgur.com/YCOqx.jpg http://imgur.com/4T3eM.jpg http://imgur.com/GZmA4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XdKjZ.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/4T3eM.jpg are the stars of this set. You're real cute and you have great body, hope to see you post more. Don't be afraid to show off your ass if you do. ;)

Bummer... and the dude died falling through a skylight even though his hobby involves messing with extremely large amateur rockets. Goes to show that it's the little things that always get ya.

That sucks. It looks like [this](http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=2101%20Corporate%20Center%20Dr%2C%20Newbury%20Park%2C%20CA%2091320-1417&encType=1) is the building where the accident occurred, but I can't see anything that looks like a large skylight. I wonder if I'm looking at the wrong building, or if there's something I'm not seeing. To Mr. Gates friends and family, my sympathies. Thoughts and prayers.

**There needs to be a hockey version for us Canadians. The objective is to score, and just look at the penalties!** *Abuse of officials* Aggressor penalty Attempt to injure *Boarding* *Butt-ending* Charging *Checking from behind* Clipping Cross-checking Delay of game *Diving* Elbowing Fighting (*Fisticuffs*) Goaltender Interference *Head-butting* *High sticking* Holding *Holding the stick* *Hooking* *Illegal Equipment* Instigator penalty Interference Joining a fight Kicking Kneeing *Playing with Too Many Sticks* *Roughing* Secondary Altercation Slashing Slew Footing *Spearing* Starting the wrong lineup Substitution infraction (Illegal Substitution) *Too many men on the ice* Unsportsmanlike conduct

I like the scoring euphemisms too: 1) 5-holing the goalie (Could be anal or not) 2) Going top-shelf (titty fucking?) 3) Putting the biscuit in the basket Then there is the plays: 1) Give-and-go (booty calls?) 2) One-timers (one-night stand?) 3) Wristers (handjobs?) It goes on and on... "Going to the sin bin" for penalties. "Poke-checking".

Nice, but is it because people are switching or that new internet users prefer FF?

Could be both.

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

was 2006 a really great year for porn?

I'm afraid that the universe is infinite, and so essentially can never be entirely boring. You'd either learn patience and go exploring, or insane.

I think this is sort of like arguing that eventually we'd learn to enjoy solitary confinement if given the opportunity. I mean, maybe we would, but I don't think I'd choose that over a finite life.

Text fields and other form controls capture keyboard input and they don't fuck up the rest of the browser.

That's because they aren't external plugins. They are the browser. You'd feel pretty stupid playing a flash game walking forwards by hitting W and then jumping with CTRL only to close the tab. There is no way around it. Either flash programmers would have to know the shortcut keys for every browser ever, or the flash plugin itself would have to know the shortcuts to every browser, even if you customize them, and send them through to the browser causing unexpected behavior.

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUCK NO!!!!!!!!! WTF ARE THEY DOING!!!!!?????? ARRRGGGG Bunch of rich fags destroying valuable things in the internet just to get "famous" The thing is that i been trying to save money to buy a piano I wouldn't even care if it couldn't be "re-tuned" I just need it to practice (its not the same on a keyboard)...

Go on craigslist. I see them given away for free on the DC craigslist all the time.

"Griefing", as the article explains, is about having fun by spoiling the fun of others. In other words, a "Griefer" is an asshole. Period. "Griefers" shouldn't be patting themselves on the back, referring to themselves as "psychotic". They should just recognize that they are assholes, pure and simple.

People call too many things "griefing" though. Corpse camping isn't griefing (you chose to play a PvP game/server), controlling a market isn't griefing (it's taking advantage of the economy to create gains), flying penises through an interview isn't griefing (it's funny). Some griefing is little more than harassment, but the term is so overused that it's hard to take seriously.

Ambivalence towards god is also atheism, as well as rejection of god. Acceptance of god is theism, so in the Venn diagram of belief, everything apart from acceptance is a-theism.

I think Dr-No is saying it's not the right question, it's not a valid question. He's saying it's not right to force the matter into a binary equation that's either on or off - it's neither on _nor_ off. That reminds me, there was a guy on Yahoo Message boards once who said if God were all-powerful, then He should be able to do _anything_. So He should be able to both exist _and_ not exist. And if that's true, then both theists and atheists are equally correct in their beliefs - or equally wrong, depending on how you look at it.

I'm not disputing that it is influenced by previous data and emotions, I just don't see how "choice" can play a role. If I clone you and ask you to do the button press, and put you in the precise same environment, both you and the clone will make the same selection. I realize this experiment doesn't show precisely that, but let's say it did, would that prove determinism, or am I not quite in touch with the terminology?

determinism cannot be 'proven', it is not a question of 'true or false'. determinism is a philosophical attitude, it is metaphysics.

Only on reddit can you encounter geek elitism. It's the place where all of us who weren't the cool kids can be the cool kids. I love you people.

A nerd, a geek and a renaissance man walk into a bar. The nerd orders the froofroo drink de jour and tries to play a popular tune on the jukebox to impress the pretty waitress, but then whines because the 'box is not working. The renaissance man suggests it's easily fixed by someone as talented as the geek. The geek orders a micro brew from the pretty waitress, sneers at the nerd for his taste in music and examines the 'box, brags to all that "Of course!" he can fix it, then plugs in the jukebox, making sure that all within range know of his wicked 'box fixing skills. The renaissance man asks the pretty waitress what she suggests he might like to drink, orders her suggestion with a wink and a singsong "Thank you" then compliments the geek on his repair skill and the nerd on his music choice. When the nerd and the geek see the pretty waitress give her phone number to the renaissance man, the nerd and the geek become upset. "But I'm up with the trends!" claims the nerd, grumpy that the pretty waitress is ignoring him. "But I have arcane knowledge!" claims the geek, also grumpy that the pretty waitress shows no interest in him. "And I have the waitress and friends who can fix things and who know the trends," says the renaissance man as he offers a toast, secure in the knowledge that knowing and liking people is the most direct route to happiness and contentment. You all should know this too. Edit: Fixed a spelling error. Added the two links below: What Makes Us Happy: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/happiness New York Times Editorial on the above: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/opinion/12brooks.html?_r=1

Movies ?

...certain kinds of movies...

I think he is done with the bullying.

For now, I think he is. But what if he looks at the polls and thinks he can finally win his long sought majority? Does he bully on and hope the GG calls an election? Does he act conciliatory for a month or two then switch gears? Harper is a cobra who has been cornered. He will attack.

Transferring more data on the routers and switches that are on anyway does not consume more electricity so it does not cost hugely more in electricity to move more traffic. So don't make people think it does and metering of bandwidth $1 / gigabyte ... 95% of that dollar will become pure profit and hell no they won't improve the net then they would lose this cash cow once it has been established.

The point of going to metered access is then instead of the current everybody-is-equal system, people will pay for the resources they consume. With metered access, if many people use lots of bandwidth, the company will have extra money to install new fast equipment. Incidentally, aecarol's comment was humourous, not trying to link router electricity consumption to your internet bill. Try this on for size: your electric bill and heating fuel bill (if applicable) are currently metered. If the power companies changed to the internet's current model, would you be happy about paying for your neighbour who air-conditions his house to 64 Fahrenheit in the summer, and heats to 80F in the winter? Or how about you paying for the guy who runs a BBQ business in his home, but gets charged the same rate for his fuel consumption as you do?

For those who don't get the joke: Gordon Freeman is the protagonist of the games Half Life and Half Life 2, in which an experiment goes awry in a top-secret underground facility called Black Mesa. Dr. Freeman, in the game, uses a crowbar (or as kn0thing pointed out yesterday, a *wrecking* bar) to fight off the extradimensional beasties that pop through the rift that's created. The reason this is coming up is because the activation of CERN is as close as one can come to the sort of fundamental physics experiment the game fictionally depicts, so the joke is that we need to get a real-life Gordon Freeman to CERN in order to fight the creatures from Xen. I hope that helps. Also, if it does help, you *need* to play Half Life. It's one of the greatest games I know of. EDIT: I get it, commenters. You don't want me explaining the joke. This is the 3rd Gordon Freeman joke in 2 days. Not everyone plays games. Plus, it's not exactly giving too much away-- "GORDON FREEMAN LOL" is not a good reference. I'm not giving away the stuff about the Gman, or Kleiner, or any of the longer quotes. Those are better inside jokes than just saying his name. At least by explaining the basics, people understand who this Freeman gentleman is, and if they want to get the rest of the jokes they can play the damn game. Conclusion: STOP COMMENTING AND JUST DOWNMOD ME IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY COMMENT. Or at least read other people's comments to see if they already said what you're about to. Thanks.

I want to thank you for explaining this. While I do play computer games, I have never played Half Life. Suddenly, several recent articles and headlines make sense. Like the one about sending a crowbar to CERN. I didn't get that one at all until this comment. Thank you again.

It is a copyright violation.. They're using GPL licenced code without making the source available.. http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2008-December/058044.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/7kwx5/the_pirate_bay_launches_a_free_mobile_video/27oe

Ignatieff has made a very foolish blunder. The Con supporters will now see him as weak, like Dion, though perhaps a better talker. Liberal supporters will be disappointed, though will hide it. NDP and Bloc supporters will think he's a power-hungry fool for not going for the coalition, but rather holding out for a future shot at governing without them. Green supporters (~1M in the last election) never trusted the Liberals anyway; this just confirms it. I could live with Ignatieff supporting the budget if he had wrung some serious concessions from the Cons. But all he asked for was some vague promise about accountability, to which the Cons will say "*Of course*, we're the most responsible party there is, remember?" He should have pushed for major spending on green energy and infrastructure. This would have identified him with Obama's direction and that of the provinces and what is known to work in other countries. Instead, he has been heard pronouncing that the tar sands are integral to Canada's future, not green tech. I am sure he wants Harper to bear the brunt of the economic downturn, but that is spineless and will backfire. I suppose he has just managed to reinforce that the Libs are a corporate party just like the Cons.

I enjoyed your analysis.

If these lyrics were in Arabic or Persian, would it still be considered awesome and funny?

What does that have to do with anything? Has someone recently bashed persian folk songs?

Every girl is like one or a mix of these descriptions, therefore the person who wrote this list must not want to date girls. And who cares if you date a girl who is a DJ that makes you listen to music you don't like. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to be with a girl you care about and listening to bad music isn't much of a sacrifice. There are so many stupid nit picky points in this list that I shouldn't have even commented on it. I know it's all in jest but still.

It should have said don't date a Girl DJ that scratches she will fuck your heads/stylus

I know I'm going to be hated for this but.... That's just fucked up, Reddit shouldn't be used to extract revenge by putting up private pics to the public of a private person. There's enough porn on the net, that we shouldn't have to humiliate this poor girl just because you're bored or jilted. This should be removed.

Captain Save-A-Ho to the rescue!

...and if the cat knocked over the blender?

It won't. It runs *away* from the blender, you see.

"*lowered* their reproductive fitness" The point isn't whether or not some people broke their vows. The point is that on the margins, those who took orders had children less often than otherwise.

Your image of medieval life is a bit too rosy, they were in positions of wealth and power.

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That's the most massive user interface disaster I've seen in a while.

uh... that's *legal* immigration...

Yes, and: 1. It assumes that the only end worth achieving is citizenship status, when I would assume that having a green card should be sufficient for most things an immigrant should need to do in the US. 2. It ignores the fact that many of these rules are in place for good reasons. Why should America hand out green cards to those who are likely to be a drain on society? 3. The person that made that sucks at designing flowcharts.

Dear rawstory, please embed videos from [thedailyshow.com](http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=167006&title=indecision-2008-mccains-sweet&byDate=true), as they have a better player and more bandwidth.

The video player from thedailyshow.com is horrible. It frequently resets the video stream for no reason. If they served up flv files this wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, they don't.

I appear to be the only one here who finds this fucking scary. Ok I don't live in a gun centric country, but if I did..Gulp. "Dad I want more pocket money ...Click/clunk ... now!"

Not the only one. This is the reason we Europeans have a warped view of what the US is all about. So much Gun-love is scary to us. The nearest any child of eleven would get to an AR-15 in my country is seeing it on television.

IQ as in the score. Apparently the average IQ has increased by 12 points over the last 50 years, meaning that an average person (IQ 100) today would score 112 on an IQ test from 50 years ago. I probably should get a source for this but I couldn't be bothered.

I suppose the issue is that I read the study to imply that smarter people (defined by IQ) have a higher tendency to not believe in God. However no such cause and effect is necessarily stated or implied. Education and training that has improved steadily over the the past 100 years may be the root cause of both higher IQ scores and a tendency towards atheism, and not necessarily that people have become inately smarter and innately smarter people have a greater tendency to be atheists. This is why I wanted to know what the prevalence of atheism was in populations of high IQ that do not have substantial academic training. Also, to what extent does the increase of the acceptance of atheism in academic cultures feed into more people becoming atheists? There are also a lot of very smart people at the upper orders of religious institutions (akin to the upper orders of academic institutions) and I'm guessing the prevalence of atheism there is pretty low.

Well, to put it simple, modern cryptography is supposed to be impossible to "crack", meaning deciphering the ciphertext without having the right key. In theory, it is possible to determine the key using bruteforcing methods, meaning "guessing" it, by trying all possible combinations. However, doing that takes an amount of time equal to a multitude of the lifespan of the universe, depending on the equipment used to try the various combinations and the algorithm used for encryption. Even with the very best "known" computer architectures, it would be practically impossible to bruteforce even one sheet of paper containing encrypted data. I say "known ", because unless you work for the military, NSA, or something like that, you have no way of knowing what technology they have access to. One example might be quantum computers. Now, a regular computer architecture can only do one calculation at a time, so when bruteforcing a key, it can only try one at a time, which makes it quite slow. Now, a quantum computer could in theory try a multitude of keys at the same time, speeding up the procedure quite a bit and making it possible to guess the key in a timespan where the data is still relevant. However, even if they do have quamtum computers, they can't be quite sure they ever got the right key. You see, when you decrypt a ciphertext using the wrong key, you get _some_ data back. It might be the right - decrypted - data, or it might be garbled, meaningless trash data. Or it might be data that makes sense in some way - even though it isn't the data that was originally encrypted. So, as i hope you can see, "cracking" Butler's encryption _should_ be very close to impossible. Bottom line, something seems fishy with that detail.

It's possible, though not likely, that the Feds have access to one of the major botnets, like Storm or Kraken. It's been said that the Storm botnet has more computing power than the worlds 500 most powerful supercomputers combined, and Kraken is even larger, meaning they just might have been able to crack a 1024 bit key. In Butler's business, though, it surprises me that he's use a key any less than 4096 bits. Also, RSA key cracking is not done by bruteforcing, it's done by prime factorization. Here's how a regular computer, using the general number field sieve, factors a large semiprime: First, we select two low-degree polynomials f (of degree d) and g (of degree e), so that f(m) = 0 (mod n) and g(m) = 0 (mod n), where m is any number and n is the number we are factoring. Now, let's say Zr1 and Zr2 are rings created from the roots r1 and r2 of f (mod n) and g (mod n) respectively. This means that multiplying or adding any two members of Zr1 (mod n) produces a product that is still in Zr1, and similar for Zr2. (also, multiplication is commutative, but that should be pretty obvious). Now, we choose a prime p, forming the set P of all primes less than or equal to p, this is our "basis" of primes. We look for numbers a and b so that r = b^d * f(a/b) (mod n) and s = b^e * g(a/b) (mod n) can be completely factored by P; i.e. they have no prime factors greater than p. We need to find such pairs with r*s equal to the norm of a perfect square in Zr1 and Zr2. Now, since m is a root of both f and g, we can map Zr1 and Zr2 to Z mod n (i.e. the set of integers mod n). The "square roots" of our r*s can be mapped to Z mod n both from Zr1 and Zr2, so that we have x and y in Z mod n such that x^2 - y^2 = 0 (since x^2 and y^2 are both equal to r*s). Then, taking the greatest common divisor of x - y and n, we have a reasonably good chance of finding a factor of n. The long step here is finding a and b: there's no quick way to do it. Quantum computers have a completely different (simpler!) method: First, the problem of finding a prime factor is reduced to finding a period. We have a^x mod n, with a period r: a^x = a^(x + r) mod n. If r is even, and a^(r/2) = 1 mod n, we have factored n: (a^(r/2) + 1)*(a^(r/2) - 1) = a^r - 1 = 0 mod n, and the gcd of those first two factors will be a useful factor of n. To find the period, we let f(x) = a^x mod n, where f(x) operates on qubits; then we put the values of f(x) into the "registers" of the computer (let's be fair here: I don't get it) and we take the quantum fourier transform - replacing the normal f with it's periodic equivalents. Then we do some crazy shit, and the idea is that the representation of two values x and y will be resonant with each other if they are separated by a multiple of r, and will show up more easily, and x-y is a candidate for r. GAH QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE WEIRD STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF. However, since you can check if you have the right factors of n, you can indeed determine if you have the right key, which was the point of that tangent. SO NERR.

> 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.

Yes, you said /kwh which means per kilowatt-HOUR you fucking moron. Guess what, turbines don't come rated in kilowatt-hours, they come rated in kilowatts!! They can't come rated in kilowatt-hours because that's fucking nonsensical. That's like claiming speed comes in meters per second per second.

why don't you go to a turbine manufacturers site and see what they are rated in? I'm finished discussing anything with you because you obviously haven't a clue what you're talking about.

Hey, Ottawatonians, how's it going?

I'm pretty sure our demonym is Ottawantonianiters but fine, thanks for asking. How are you?