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I don't there there are many 13 year old girls at MIT.

1) See above, then come see me after class -- Your ESL teacher
2) You didn't get it - even the guys at MIT have the minds of 13 year-old girls. They just know how to play with engineering Ph.D daddy's expensive toys.
3) Oblig - a - tory!

I don't there there are many 13 year old girls at MIT.

1) See above, then come see me after class -- Your ESL teacher
2) You didn't get it - even the guys at MIT have the minds of 13 year-old girls. They just know how to play with engineering Ph.D daddy's expensive toys.
3) Oblig - a - tory!

Ah, come on.

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2009/ga091120.gif is an absolute classic. And the mice sequences are consistently good. http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2009/ga090324.gif

Ah, come on.

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2009/ga091120.gif is an absolute classic. And the mice sequences are consistently good. http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2009/ga090324.gif

Here's a solution.

Or how about this.

'cause I'm afraid that might be the end of those poor creationists.

clicky!

See here. Pwned!

Google Android in the future.

Crap. Forgot the link that makes it a lot less Kaczinsky sounding: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2008/nq080606.gif

Instead I decided to take a more philosophical approach.

Enjoy :

CEO responsabilities

When your weapons are used against you, you have to wonder if you really needed that weapon in the first place. And people should question why we let you have that weapon. Of course this all assumes that people have an influence on the government, which seems like we haven't for quite a long time, if ever. But I digress, this can all be summed up by a child in a cartoon:
Calvin and Hobbes

what happens when the bugs become resistant to these two drugs as well?

But that would imply that these organisms evolve. That's impossible!

Stunned that no one linked to a recent Doonesbury strip about this:

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I recently stumbled across his book God's Debris (Free PDF file) at http://images.ucomics.com/images/pdfs/sadams/godsd ebris.pdf. I'm not real a big fan of Dilbert and only read a handful of the comics but this book is very interesting.

Reminds me of the a Calvin & Hobbes classic where "6.30 Calvin" has to do his homework and "invents" (a.k.a turns the duplicator box topside up), and travels to the future to meet the "8.30 Calvin" and pick up his homework. However, both the Calvins find out that its too late and "8.30 Calvin" has to go to bed. So, they decide to go back to 7.30 and get "7.30 Calvin" to write the story.

The genius of Bill Waterson but not related to Bram in anyway.

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I stumbled across a novel my Scott Adams recently called "God's Debris" (Free e-book found online at http://images.ucomics.com/images/pdfs/sadams/godsd ebris.pdf ) which spoke abit about ESP and it can be mistaken for pattern recognition.

The idea that a person can perform complex calculations to form conclusions based on probability in the subconscience where the outcome feels like a "gut feeling" or "intuition".

Consider how the average person would treat a Sherlock Holmes type person's ability to solve a crime where others fail if he didn't explain his logic. Now let's go a step further and say even he didn't understand how he came to the conclusion he did. Say he just "felt it" and that all the logic was processed in his subconsciene and he was made to believe he solved the crime by some mystic ability. How many times have you gone on a gut feeling but weren't actually aware of what caused you to come to your conclusion?

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The Nintendo system isn't even out yet and you're already burned out on Wii jokes? Oh my - you're going to have a long rewarding ownership experience. I can tell:

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I'll foist over few extra bucks to avoid this in the future.

Machine, eh? Wiley already knew... http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/

I think Jason would disagree. http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/index.phtml

If you learn political ideology from the Daily Show, you are an idiot.

I used to joke that I got all my news from The Daily Show, Doonesbury, and The Onion, but it's not really true. I actually do learn things from these, but mainly I like them because I am well informed about the news.

My alarm clock is set to NPR at 6:00 a.m., and I continue to listen to it during my commute. I read at least the headlines in my local paper and the New York Times every day, and of course, I read Slashdot obsessively. At least for me, the reason I love shows that make fun of the news, like The Daily Show, and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is because I am liberal, intelligent, educated, and informed.

On a side note, and totally seriously, I'm not trying to troll, can you recommend a conservative pundit that isn't an idiot? For instance, I read the comic strip Prickly City which seems to me to have a conservative slant. Sometimes it aggravates me, but I keep reading it because sometimes I agree with it, and sometimes it's worth it to see another person's point of view. All I know about conservative pundits is O'Reilly, and Limbaugh. I agree that it's not worth it to listen to idiots. I think Al Franken took the wrong tack by trying to bring his views to their level. So, I would like to see conservative arguments presented intelligently, even humorously. Maybe I would enjoy them too.

In God's Debris, Scott Adams discusses how and why the Human brain is an illusion generator. A good read, nonetheless.

Heh, check the comic Nonsequitur on Sunday for some good advice that Obviousman gives to the studios.

For slashdotters, it says this.

View FoxTrot cartoon and figure out its Easter Egg. I suck at math, but at least I knew it was binary and had to decode it. You can view AQFL for the analysis and answer. :)

Yes, now it is used as an expression of discrimination against those who support Intelligent Design. But that's acceptable, right? Please tell me it is. I mean, that's the whole purpose of the monkey anyways, isn't it?

You should go see Brokeback Mountain instead. It's a cowboy movie, so there's none of this muscled men running around in tights nonsense. Just some tough guys on the plains.

I've heard it's very manly.

Did the lobbyists look anything like this? http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2005/10/31/

I believe you mean Foxtrot.

http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2005/10/14/

Some things are just so topical.

On a related note check out today's foxtrot comic.

Must see Fox Trot on point Nigerian Scam

The nice thing about this game is that it can appeal to gamers and non gamers alike... Nintendo is really trying to reach out to the people that typically wouldn't pick up a gaming system, which is smart IMO. An untapped sector of the market.

Last week, the comic strip Foxtrot dealt with the mom and her wanting to play Nintendogs... it was pretty funny. Here's the first day's comic, click "next date" to read the days following.

And does racist speech = hate speech?

I would say no. As for examples?
Jeff Foxworthy the Comedian. "You might be a redneck if..."
Newspaper comic strip Boondocks
Chris Rock black stand up comedian. Link to quotes

From what I am told by my elders, everyone back in the 50's/60's told what today is considered racist comments. The jews would talk down about hte italians would talk down about the polish would talk down about the germans would talk down about the irish would talk down about the jews.
Pretty much everything was about what country you were from or you religion instead of the color of you skin.

Only thing was, none of it had any hatred behind it. Or at least for just about all people it had no hatred behind it.

The point at which it becomes "hate speech" (to me anyway) is when someone starts putting some venom or anger behind it.

Idiot.

It was an "in joke" for fans of a comic strip, not a spoiler.

I doubt that stating a comic strip penguin finally finds his mother (anyone remember when he raided a Mary Kay testing lab in search of her?) ruined the end of the movie.

It may not have been a funny joke, and you may have found that idiotic. That, I accept. But if you think I spoiled the end of the movie, any cred you may have as a "trivia geek" could be in jeopardy.

- Greg

Do leader in the West? http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2005/08/01/

I once had to explain to the QA department who this "chobbes" fellow was whose name kept appearing in the change history comments.

Total lack of humor...

"Yes America, we would like very much if you would teach your children religious dogma instead of science."

Once again the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has struck a blow for our rights online. We can email each other peanut butter and jelly sanwiches without fear of lawsuits.

This just goes to show how liberal activist judges are legislating from the bench. How would a real judge- like Judge Scalia- handle this? He knows the Constitution is a "dead document", and would have invoked the original intent of the framers.

Peanut butter didn't even exist until 1890. The original framers of the Constitution lived in the 1790s and would have been completely befuddled by the creamy tasty goodness of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Ergo, it is nonobvious, patentable, and the court was unjustified in rejecting Smuckers' efforts to patent the device.

The answer is in having a multidimensional ethical system. One such previously published system suggested these dimensions (paraphrased)

1. personal self interest/survival
2. sexuality
3. family
4. tribal/group/national
5. ecological/cross species
6. expressive/artistic

The situation re: the tsunami is easily resolved as the many contributions are pro-survival on a pan-tribal level, and there are few if any political quandries tied into the situation.

Working with robots raises interesting questions because here we are dealing with creatures who have the potential to be our equals, or possibly our superiors. This is scary to folks who normally are used to handling people and things on a commodity basis. what is the things they dispose of start fighting back? See this Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon

Alternate fuels in the newspaper. Well, the comics pages at least...

FoxTrot had a comic today along those lines...