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I could've sworn you were quoting directly from this Pearls Before Swine comic.

This could be the one you're thinking of

http://www.gocomics.com/joelpe...

http://www.gocomics.com/calvin...

Boston is a geometric paradise compare to Pittsburgh, That's where you go once you die, according to the noted urban planner Bill Waterson.

True. I'd like to add that another problem that is quickly ramping up in the U.S. is the militarization of the police force. We are heading down a path where the civilian police force will have near equal capabilities, technology, and weapons of the military. And if you don't think that's bad news, just ask Admiral Adama:

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

http://www.gocomics.com/pearls...

I like the implication that Batman got that way when he was bitten by a radioactive bat...

Oh, did you hear? Opus caught rickets from cats!

I'm not the A.C. you replied to.

Someone once pointed this out on Slashdot.
What if it's a big hoax?

Og is wise. Find a rock. Fast.

Let's assume the premise that global warming is NOT happening, and even if it were happening, there is nothing we can do to reverse it.

Now, assuming the above regardless of truth...

We just need to convince people that cutting down on pollution will give us clean water, air, etc.

Someone posted this on Slashdot in another article and it demonstrates my point: http://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13

Exactly. Calls to mind one of my favourite takes on it: http://www.gocomics.com/joelpe...

the pen is mightier than the sword as they say.

In english you can verb nouns if you want. However, like Hobbes said, verbing weirds language.

Reminds me of all the jokes when the "iPad" name was announced (and before!).

And Bloom County's chartreuse flame thrower.

Obligatory Pearls Before Swine.

Money doesn't influence anyone! Also the gumdrop trees in Candy Land are great! ;-)

Speed Bump

... if you nest [satire]...[/satire] content?

This. (Thank you, Bill Watterson.)

Relevant non-XKCD comic:

http://www.gocomics.com/tomthe...

http://www.gocomics.com/pearls...

http://www.gocomics.com/calvin...

The article is about removing natural selection from the books. We can observe natural selection happening in a matter of days with some bacteria in a petri dish - it's an extremely well established scientific theory. We know it happens.

In fact, here's a nice picture:

http://www.gocomics.com/doones...

When the other idea is based on "I have an imaginary friend who told me he wrote a book that said so", I dare say that teaching that as science is about the same as teaching cthulhu mythos as science.

Marigold will be quite upset to hear they're offering bounties on unicorns. She might take it as a personal affront.

The red / blue map could have been worse.

It all depends on how you count it. This comic isn't really related but kinda helps explain it: http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2003/03/08/#.UrMtOdJDuQA

Brazil pays Boeing $5B for plane, Boeing pay Alcoa $4B for metal, Alcoa pays Rio Tinto $2B for Alumina, Rio Tinto pays some mine owner $1B for Bauxite. You'd count that as the same $5B, but Economists count it as $12B of economic activity.

It's not like there are no other verbs that are also nouns.

Verbing weirds language.

giant killer bee

Calvin and Hobbes -- as is often the case -- said it best many years ago: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/10

Obligatory Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/05/25

The word is progeny .As in child progeny

Cow and Boy Have a "whale" of a good time this weekend.

Only posting AC because I modded (didn't mod any of this thread, as it didn't, in my opinion, need any. I like to mod+, and there was a lot of good stuff elsewhere in the comments).

After I read this, and got my giggling under control, *TEE-HEEE-HEEE* -oops, I figgered that this deserved a bit of an answer.

The answer is:

I'm here all week, folks. Tell your friends.

or:

Better killfile me, bucko. This ain't gonny stop.

I actually have a fairly good grasp of vocabulary (not perfect, but I'm also not a professional wordsmith), and usually deliberately veer from pedantic snore-generation in order to make reading a bit more, well, FUN.

A lot of folks think that writing should work this way.

I'm not one of them.

The "un-cheap" crack was deliberate. I do that kind of thing fairly often. The original inspiration was, indeed, Orwell's twisted book, but that was a long time ago, and I never really think "Doublespeak" when I do that. It's just a habit (Sadly for you folks, an annoying habit, but there are certainly worse habits).

The reason I thought the story was interesting, was because of the UX/HIG angle. I grew up overseas, and saw more horror by the time I was 11 than a lot of folks see in their entire lives. <shrug /> I survived (although a lot of my playmates didn't). I'm fortunate as hell, and never take life for granted.

For example, I like to play with words. I often deliberately descend into vernacular, use profanities and mispel on porpoise. I often spel wurdz using phoenician tense.

Think of me as Tik Tok, with a haircut and a dental plan.

You can always dedicate yourself to being my mod stalker, enacting your fiendish revenge at every chance. Making my life on /. a living hell.

Or, you could just shrug, shake your head and go on with a life that HAS to have more important things that being a comment-section grammar nazi.

You are hereby encouraged to experience a diurnal period, free from unpleasant experiences and unencumbered by misanthropy.

In udder woids, have a nice day.

Instead of the oblig. xkcd:
The walking dead

The earth isn't round. It's shaped like a burrito!

http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1982/02/06

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur

I used to go with friends and shoot at ranges for fun. I've grown up since then.

Oblig Dilbert http://www.gocomics.com/dilbert-classics/2013/01/05?utm_source=google&utm_medium=gadget&utm_campaign=gadget_clickthrough

Exactly what type of "horrible shit" are you talking about?

Basically, standard big business horrible stuff. This is behavior that lots of megacorps engage in, Monsanto just uses a new set of tools.

I don't consider their GM stuff to be evil, but Monsanto's predatory practices are pretty shameful, and organic farmers do tend to take it in the shorts, more than most.

Monsanto is certainly not alone in these types of scandals.

This is one reason why I think that classifying businesses as "people" is ridiculous. If people behaved the way that corporations do, they would be locked up. However, corporations are rewarded for that type of behavior.

He picked the wrong battle.

Whenever a Mr. Natural starts lecturing me about how we need to all return to hunter-gathere lifestyle, I counter with "No problem! We just need to exterminate about 90% of the human population on Earth. Would you like to start?"

Whether we like it or not, the future is here, and we can't survive without factory farming, container transportation, nuclear and fossil energy, farm fishing, etc.

There's just too damn many of us.

The only answer to "too damn many" is "culling the herd."

http://www.gocomics.com/lostsideofsuburbia/

Good art, but more importantly, amazing stories. Suspense from comics to comics on one hand, but with story lines with a beginning, middle and an end. Whenever a story line ends, there is a pause, after which a new story begins.

The site is down right now (gocomics getting slashdotted?), but I would recommend reading from the beginning.

Shachar

1.) Pearls Before Swine ( http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine?ref=comics )

2.) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( http://www.smbc-comics.com/ )
Examples:
* http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2835#comic
* http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2560#comic
* http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2674#comic

3.) Romantically Apocalyptic ( http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/ )

4.) A softer world ( http://asofterworld.com/ )

Very clever social and political satire: Tom The Dancing Bug

The best clown of a clown show is still a clown. Yet they got 48% of the popular vote. Seriously, what kind of victory did they throw away by not running a serious candidate? By running a serious candidate they could have had a major landslide.

I think this comic is relevant here.

Oblig Doonesbury strip, Oct 14, 2012: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury

As this decade-old comic strip puts it, it's only double taxation when it happens to rich people:

http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2003/03/08/

Hey! It's only fair!

In a lecture if I just sit there and listen and there's something I don't understand, that point is lost forever since I don't have any notes to review later.

Or if you don't understand, you could raise your fricking hand and ask a question. That is why lectures are useful in a way video is not, you know; two-way communication is possible. (Yes, even in a large lecture hall. Sit up front, ignore the stenographers masquerading as students behind you, and engage the teacher. They will most likely be thrilled.

Are you sure it was him? See here. [grin]

More to the point, as another poster pointed out, is that God could have done all His work through Evolution - end of story.

So why doesn't the Bible say so then?

It seems like a fairly basic error not to have explained this, but instead made up the frankly laughable Genesis account of the creation of the universe and of life on Earth.

Hey, I'm with you, but was just offering some alternative explanations. Though... explaining evolution way-back-when would have been challenging. Cells were discovered in the 1600s and germs/viruses in the 1800s. Seriously, some people *today* don't believe in Evolution - though, for them, having it in The Bible would probably help.

(It boggles my mind to no end how people will put unwavering belief in a work of fiction, with no (or very, very few) references or verifiable facts, seriously edited and manipulated by Men and The Church over time, and completely discount rigorous, verifiable, reproducible scientific works by biologists, archeologists, geologists, bacteriologists, etc...) Unless, of course, it's convenient to believe in Evolution... Doonesbury

Crowing achievement? No. That would be Calvin.

More like this.

Damnit, I miss Bill Watterson's comics.

(And you thought only XKCD was relevant to Slashdot) http://www.gocomics.com//culdesac/2012/04/04