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>They can sue the US for BILLIONS in international courts
PFFT Ahahaha ha HA H-HA

Oh wait
You were serious?
Let me laugh harder!

>They can sue the US for BILLIONS in international courts
PFFT Ahahaha ha HA H-HA

Oh wait
You were serious?
Let me laugh harder!

Cyber-bullying... Tough shit. Stop treating your kids like everything they do is 100% right and they could never do anything wrong or be any better and that there are no losers, just winners. You are not teaching them self esteem and to be happy with themselves. You are teaching them they can do no wrong and everything in life is perfect as long as you give it your best. They are unprepared to go out on their own, they do not know their true weaknesses or strengths You held their hand as they grew up and "protected" them from wrong and negative with a shell but once they hit the teens, they venture out of that protected parent zone you've had them in and they meet the real world unprepared to handle a simple everyday failure and some name calling. Some see the new freedom as a chance to pick on others, some are the ones picked on. They start failing, they are confused, they start listening to others telling them they have failed because they thmyselves do not know what failure is or have not experienced it before. You continue to tell them everything is fine, you are strong, you are great but their friends are telling them something completely different. Now you the parent is seen as not knowing what they hell you are talking about and you can't possibly understand what your child is going though, the one "friend" they had that understood them went out with another friend last night and was talking about them and now your kid has "no friends" and everyone hates them. OMG the stress!!!!!! What can they do to fit in? The teenage girls seem to post pictures of themselves in the mirror with as much cleavage and provocative poses they can possibly come up with (refresh http://photobucket.com/images/recent/ a few times and you'll see them) and then they go out partying with some older kids on a school night while you think your perfect kid is at their friends house watching Disney movies and eating pizza in a family setting. Those older kids don't "like" your kid either, they want to see what they can get away with.

Okay, I got off the subject but I just went through this phase with two teenagers. Bottom line, let the kids fail and stop telling them everything they do is 100% right and perfect. Watch and let them fail and let them find what they are really good and bad at.

looking at the page loading times, you can learn about the psyche of these browsers

- everyone REALLY loves hanging out at Google more than anywhere else. they probably have a van with "FREE CANDY" painted on the side.
- Opera has a YouTube addiction
- Internet Explorer does it's "book learnin" at Wikipedia and buys all kinds of stuff on eBay
- Opera is still terrified of the craigslist killer and quickly hides in Amazon's library instead
- Chrome is the only one that thinks the Huffington Post is worth reading

There is absolutely nothing in the OP to suggest any sort of humor. It received four insightful mods, and not a single funny mod, so it's pretty clear that most people who read it agree with me.

THAT'S THE JOKE!

Accordion Hero: TMBG Edition!

You're using that word, straw man....

He said that it wasn't on the same scale as Chernobyl because by all measurable data it isn't worse than Chernobyl.

Other than the measurable data that says that the Japanese reactor will leak more radioactive material than Chernobyl, of course. Which means it will be measurably worse, of course. Which means Fukushima will be worse than Chernobyl, of course.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/gears%20of%20war%20dan%20hsu%20review/scytherage/1upreview-gears.jpg

A kill.switch clone with crappy Unreal engine graphics.

Yeah, PS3 owners are really kicking themselves over missing out...LOL!

That was very catastrophic. This is what it looked like, so no, I don't think they got it back. The one they're putting on display is "probably" a model that was never supposed to fly in the first place, just a test article.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/hikari_corgan/Jimmy_Leeward_Do_A_Barrel_Roll.jpg

Hes a real trooper that one

http://media.photobucket.com/image/successful+troll+/Daveed75/Memes/successful-troll-is-successful.jpg

I fed Cleverbot lines from an Oatmeal comic : http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww8/dndisturb/300357_10100258986610720_16925457_48060671_616704987_n.jpg This is how the conversation went : >>Why hello there, good sir! Um my name is Cleverbot kinda of a cool name eh? >>I'm chuffed as nuts to see you looking as humbly jumbly as Her Majesty's watermelons! What planet are you from? >>I remember my days at Oxford. We'd often dabble in a little rumpy pumpy before dingbangling a fresh todger, haha! Oh wow, that would tear me apart to! >>We really knew how to sack the 'ol throbbing wobbly on a saucy twat crumpet! Depends, are you a girl?

There's a reason people love Minecraft even though it looks like ass

What ass might look like.

Go ahead, click on it. You know you want to.

Minecraft dat.

There's a reason people love Minecraft even though it looks like ass

What ass might look like.

Go ahead, click on it. You know you want to.

Minecraft dat.

Ok, that was good. You win sir. Here is your internet.

Sorry, dropped the image link. I snapped that photo in the HSBC in downtown Bangkok last August.

It looks sort of like this one: http://media.photobucket.com/image/enterprise%20destroyed%20model/modman06/Crop3a.jpg ...it was a real model, it was used in filming. I wasn't allowed to take pictures in there though, lots of confidential stuff in there.

Hell, I'd love a car that goes 8 years without maintenance.

Ah yes, but you forgot about the 10/365.25/86400 OnStar support contract with guaranteed 1e4 response from the OFD (original fine designer) if the PhD answering on the first ring doesn't buzzer out a fix faster than God on Jeopardy.

Or maybe you're entitled to the freebie after gifting the JPL enough to found an entirely new campus.

Get this straight. MLK was not a "fee-good, let's all respect each other" civil-rights version of Barney the dinosaur.

No, Marchin' Lootin' Kong was a huckster and a trouble-maker. He should just be plain forgotten.

There's something not quite right with that statue.... here, this'll fix it!

Obligatory graph. That shows the different climate forcings, their medians, and their error bars. What the current study is working on is cloud formation. You'll notice that cloud formation has a pretty huge error bar; we're not very good at modelling it, and there's a lot of research to try to improve that. But note that even if you assume the best-case cooling effect from clouds, rather than the median (or the worst, for that matter), you're still not cancelling out the other forcings. Note the error bars on the net result at the bottom.

Yes, but the way she just suddenly "realised" the gun was there was weird.

You mean "just suddenly" after spending days testing different parts of the wall? Pulling on the exposed pipes? Days looking at the same panel over and over and over again before she thinks to tug on it?

This was a short film, yet that was more than enough handholding for even Cardinals fans.

That picture is selective. Not all tablets looked like that pre-ipad. For example, take a look at my old visionplate: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/tibman/VisionPlate/DSCN0921.jpg

Looks almost exactly like an Ipad.. except it predates the ipad by many years.

If that site doesn't ring an alarm, them perhaps you should teach your children right-way to stay away from vans like this one as common-sense doesn't seem to be in your genes.

Maybe you're being a bit unfair. The messanger maybe unsavory but at least part of the source does appear to be reputable.

......scientists from the University of Oulu will present new findings on human brain's photosensitivity at the Scandinavian Physiology Society Annual Meeting 2011, August 12-14.

I think it would be prudent to hold off on judgment until the paper is actually presented. In any case, photo sensitivity of brain tissue is not unheard of.

On a less serious note, Star Trek did it first.

Only since idiot xkcd fanboys read the strip which declared it and now change every page which someone has pointed out doesn't comply.

Notice how wherever there are 1st-generation IMMIGRANTS and NIGGERS, then the death and thief rates are high. Even if you look at the arrest reports wherever thre is a crime done by a white, just consider the fact that the FBI conceals Hispanic crimes (immigrant population) under the demographic as WHITE ( http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/mywesttexas.com/content/tncms/assets/editorial/d/7b/3a0/d7b3a084-c5fd-11df-8a00-001cc4c03286-revisions/4c997f34907f7.preview-300.jpg ). The United States of North America was a place where your defence against being killed and burgled was in your hands depending how you patronized the sporting-goods store or hired a privateer such as the incorporated hoodlums known as the local police bureau. That has not changed, because The United States migrates more 3rd-world scum into America than anyone else because the nature of their currency and defaulted debt crisis is eased by the fact their currency is fabricated from the future interests of the people pledged to pay the debts. Thus, to pay-off the existing debt The United States must migrate more foreigners into America just to collateralize their birth certificates with the Federal Reserve System. Given the fact that 9 of 10 rapes are Black males against White females ( http://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww15/TempJim2009/DOJ_Homicidedata.jpg or by analysis http://www.library.flawlesslogic.com/rape.htm ), it's not much different in all the other venues. Blacks simply aren't native anywhere outside of East Africa where is evidence of them existing longer than Mediterranean Africa-North where they and Moors had pillaged.

It's either that or get bought-out, like what the China Bank of Reconstruction and the IMF has been doing to Americans all this time, while The United States just sits-back like a mis-managing trustee blaming all the problems on Americans despite being hired and well-payed to fix the problem in a calculated skillful manner that has been over-simulated in countless scholastic scenarios. There is no excuse for how The United States has caused all it's own problems: they are intending to sell-out America and ruin the existing culture of 1492 Americans ever since 1776.

(accidentally posted as AC, posting again under my account)

He represents the minorities. You know, the same minorities that get offered scholarships based on their race or gender;

The overwhelming majority of those "minority" scholarships (including the United Negro College Fund) are actually open to all. There are a few scholarships that are limited to various demographics, including those of European ancestry.

the minorities that get hired in order to fill a quota,

Sounds just like "welfare queens driving Cadillacs" in that it doesn't exist. Quotas are illegal (in the USA at least), it's been that way since the 1970's.

with no regard for their actual qualifications;

Which would explain why minority unemployment in the USA is less than that of white unemployment, amirite? Oh wait.

the minorities that can say whatever they want and play the discrimination card when someone calls them out, while the rest of us are told to shut up and be tolerant; the minorities that never seem to be at fault for anything, always shifting the blame to the persecution of the majority.

Remember the time when Al Sharpton picketed the Colleen Pageant? Yeah, neither do I.

This being the internet, I expect some of you may interpret this as a specific attack toward blacks and Latinos

This being the internet, I would have expected that you would have backed up your rant with some, what are they called again? Oh yeah, facts.

He represents the minorities. You know, the same minorities that get offered scholarships based on their race or gender;

The overwhelming majority of those "minority" scholarships (including the United Negro College Fund ) are actually open to all. There are a few scholarships that are limited to various demographics, including those of European ancestry.

the minorities that get hired in order to fill a quota,

Sounds just like "welfare queens driving Cadillacs" in that it doesn't exist. Quotas are illegal (in the USA at least), it's been that way since the 1970's.

with no regard for their actual qualifications;

Which would explain why minority unemployment in the USA is less than that of white unemployment, amirite? Oh wait.

the minorities that can say whatever they want and play the discrimination card when someone calls them out, while the rest of us are told to shut up and be tolerant; the minorities that never seem to be at fault for anything, always shifting the blame to the persecution of the majority.

Remember the time when Al Sharpton picketed the Colleen Pageant? Yeah, neither do I.

This being the internet, I expect some of you may interpret this as a specific attack toward blacks and Latinos

This being the internet, I would have expected that you would have backed up your rant with some, what are they called again? Oh yeah, facts.

The platinum coin will be stamped with a design that looks like the coin version of this paper money, with a few extra zeros.

I haven't tried it, so I won't knock it. I will however, stand over there uncomfortably when others are discussing MLP .

That's how it starts with everyone. It's OK.

The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to corrupt it, but the point of Remix Culture is that the listener/viewer is no longer sure as to what's corrupting what.

To that end, I've actually never seen more than a few seconds of the actual show, but who could resist Weird Al Yankovic doing 80s pop songs? Polkas on 45? 30 years later, someone drops a new meme on it, turns a parody into a parody of a parody, and suddenly it's funny all over again.

Just yesterday, Pinkie Pie herself showed up in the as an example of how not to do software testing on the GitHub Bumblebee thread on software testing, I think it's OK to admit it. I think the MLP viral fad is funny. I enjoy it. There, I've said it, and I feel better.

After the Presidential Press Conference announcing the long-overdue demise of OBL, watching the trailer for Serenity, the lead single and polka track off the new Weird Al album, Reggie Watts, Wu-Tang, or Rebecca Black (just kidding) sung by ponies, you won't care.

All links SFW graphics, a few naughty words, and thoroughly NSFS (Not Safe For Sanity).

The Democrats nominated Al Gore in 2000. Everyone remembers how Florida results were within the margin of error for their stupid punch card ballots. But nobody seems to remember that Gore lost his own home state (Tennessee)

Bush didn't win his home state, either. He's from Connecticut, not Texas. Same thing went for Poppy Bush.

Morans.

By and large when I trust other people, they fsck me over, so I can't really blame the gubberment for feeling the same way.

These people used to trust people and governments, look what happened to them. If you can't trust anyone, you might as well as live like a hermit, that way you can only be disappointed in yourself.

all we really need is maybe a metal detector, and on the other side, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs

Yep. That worked real well in 2001.

Dude, don't be such a tool! The planes weren't even normal commercial aircraft. They had pods attached to the bottom of them and you can see the flames of a rocket or missile launch right before the plane hit the buildings. No security would have stopped it when it was done by inside forces.

But I guess you will be happier just rolling over and letting your freedom be taken from you in the name of Freedom.

Looks like I previously responded to the wrong comment.. Anyway, you're close..They did use to spin the whole engine back in the day

A relevant cartoon.

I think there was a niche generation that really really got into MD in a big way. Here in Europe there was a pretty sizeable take-up of it but it was largely word of mouth. I got a portable recorder in '96, within a year about half a dozen of my friends had similar machines. Far smaller than a portable CD or cassette player with great rechargeable battery life. The discs were small enough you could pocket dozens of them for sharing and swapping.

Over the years the portable players got smaller and smaller. After picking up a deck perfect album duplicates could be made, and with CD multichangers you could preprogram a 'mix tape' and let it run and record. My last portable player was my beloved Panasonic SJ-MJ70 which is one of the most beautiful electronic products ever put on this earth.

This was all reasonably affordable. My deck was £100 as were all the portables in the local Richer Sounds. The discs got to be really cheap - under £1 per disc as the format got more popular. I had shoeboxes full of discs, hundreds of them. Never had one fail. Cloning the TOC could get an 80m disc from any 74m disc!

Granted we were all into our music. When an album was £10 you didn't really want to carry it around or lend it out and MD was a great way to preserve the originals. The hardware costs are far more reasonable when you consider the lack of wear and tear on original media. I think the downfall of MD wasn't just the rise of the mp3 player but the movement away from the album format that came along with it. No longer would the MD be seen as one or two albums per disc, but more as a twenty song hard limit. When an mp3 player could take 100 albums and play anything in any order the argument for discrete chunks of music over different media was a losing one. Even though 128kbps mp3s didn't sound nearly as good as SD MD ATRAC it was mostly unnoticed.

But in the 90s the use of MD as data storage would have been a revolution. It would have undercut the cost of Zip and Jazz drives hugely and was durable and consumer friendly. Had Sony not been so beholden to their entertainment division they would have cornered the removable media market.

The format's lack of impact in the US tends to mute widespread online celebration of the format, but in some markets it did really well. In my class of '99 I would guess about 25% of people used it. Personally the death knell was when my new SACD player refused to do a digital output for me to make an MD copy. CDs were fine but not the few SACDs I'd invested in. Adios Sony and soon I was on a G2 iPod.

I haven't even touched on studio use. But I remember fondly the days of a player in one pocket, bunch of albums in another, and meeting someone at a prearranged time (no mobile phones!).

While we're on the subject, and to frighten people in this thread a little more, behold the map given to learner drivers in Swindon in the (many many) months before they're ready to take their test:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/magicroundabout.jpg

Take a look at this graph, from this article about solar price trends.

That graph is misleading, as it looks like the pace of improvement is actually slowing (which is what confused the AC who replied to you). It would be better plotted as Watts per Dollar, which shows the trend clearly. Here's that same data presented that way.

This graph is instructive (note, Michael Mann had no part in its construction). What do you notice about temperature (left hand side is most recent)? Yes. It's not only highly variable (sampling error?) but that variability is not unprecedented. In fact current changes in temperature as measured over the last few hundred years are well within the bounds of natural variability.

There are official MS OS Anime personifications, and there have been for quite some time.

I see that although you are not new to the net, you are new to this topic, so I'll link you to one list of the OS-tans. I'm sure you'll have no problem finding the other less NSFW places yourself to see more and better quality pics/fics, if you are so inclined...

There is indeed slash fiction. I read one not too long ago about XP-tan having an affair with Windows7-tan, Vista-tan was quite upset (her abandonment issues surfacing yet again); The always compassionate Linux-tan tried to console her, but it made the needy OSX Leopard-tan very jealous (apparently consoling a rival is a grave transgression on her home planet).

There are OS-kuns (males) as well... My girlfriend told me of the new yaoi slash she was reading where OSX-Kun fell in love with the heroic and savage XP-kun who had rescued him from the lair of the evil scientist Dr. Mac-Defender. In the heat of their passion OSX-kun had unknowingly infected XP-kun with a virus; Thus, both OS-kuns were soon on their way to see the comically bungling Dr. Norton-kun.

Fear not my friends, Rule 34 can not be denied.

sugar, eggs and peanutbutter does not turn into a cookie when you bake it. It turns into FIRE.

Wasn't there a kerfluffle where some magazine ripped off recipes from somebody's website and then barefacedly tried to tell the blogger they owned the recipes ? I can't find the story right now, my google-fu must be waning.

Here you go. (SFW)

You're not kidding. Teratomas are strange and creepy, particularly the fetiform ones.

...somewhere out there.

Perhaps this image of an old man trying to be cool would work? http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv282/videogabe/cool_old_man.jpg

That's not a katana. That's a piece of shit stamped metal blade likely forged from 4210 leaf spring off of a truck, it's not even folded steel.

This is a real katana and THAT is what the blade should look like.

That's not a katana. That's a piece of shit stamped metal blade likely forged from 4210 leaf spring off of a truck, it's not even folded steel.

This is a real katana and THAT is what the blade should look like.

...and how has that economy been created? What, exactly, have merchants been told that has convinced them that Bitcoin currency has actual value?

An economy is created through individuals specializing, trading with each other, and investing the resultant savings. Merchants haven't been "told" anything other than the Bitcoin exchange rate, which they can easily see for themselves just as with any other currency.

Some people just aren't comfortable with controllers that aren't XBOX HUGE. And y'gotta admit, the N64 controller was pretty big. I could see how a 360 gamer would feel, y'know, less alienated than usual on an N64.

a bunch a pictures of twits?

Yes, and here's the first one.