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I'm kind of sad about that, I really wanted it to be true. :/

Should've been TX, not WY

Common typo.

Should've been TX, not WY

Reference: Monkey Trap.

"A trap to capture various monkeys used around the world which consists of a staked container with a hole cut into it just wide enough for a monkey to stick it's empty hand into. The container is baited with something attractive to the monkey. Monkey reaches for bait and then will not release the bait and cannot pull it's hand out of the trap with bait in hand. It is then captured."

Tanking, tanking, tanking, tanking, tanking, tanking.

Tanking: an awful, indistinct slang word totally inappropriate for an article headline.

Or if you prefer:

Tanking: (verb) to tape a cardboard tube to one's nose and pretend to be a tank or other similar self-propelled gun.

Riiiight... That's why the term "rocket scientist" is used as a synonym for intelligence - because the engineering is so easy anyone can do it...

I've heard that the pinnacle of intelligence is to become a "rocket surgeon"... a risky chimera of rocket scientist and brain surgeon! Although at the Urban Dictionary it can actually mean the exact opposite.

Interestingly enough, Iranians have educated some successful neurosurgeons.

I wonder if a magnetic tornado would cause pandelerium, and in that case, who would have your casserole dish?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Weegie

It won't block popups if you cause the popup by clicking on something.

Try going to urban dictionary and clicking an image.

WHARRGARBL is the sound dogs make when they attempt to drink from a lawn sprinkler.

WHARRGARBL is also defined as a representation of what fundamentalist religious ranting sounds like to unbelievers, which is more likely the correct meaning in this case since the story is the kind of thing that right-wingers can get worked up about nowadays.

sorry... very obscure. The reference was def 1 from here. Having to explain it makes it not funny, but if it wasn't funny to begin with then nothing is lost.

"Mulatto" is not PC. He is our first "Halfrican American" president.

it got plutoed http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plutoed

Please tell me you didn't just call Perl "nice" or "clean".

The fact that you believe Perl is "cleaner" than Javascript tells me that you are already a victim of Perl Syndrome, and should report immediately to your local sanitarium.

The mother of all beta-to-live failures. I should know, I was an alpha and beta tester. Flagship had roughly half the game done when they released. As a result, everything that WASN'T in the beta (the entire last two acts) was a cut-and-paste of the first three acts with some of the details randomised and the difficulty turned up.

The storyline was there, but that was about it. But what killed Hellgate was the truly horrendous launch: massive billing problems (people were billed mulitple times) followed by some of the worst customer service in recent memory (example: they billed you **5** times for your subscription, so you cancel the account to stop the fiscal bleeding. . .Flagship's INITIAL response was to close your account immediately, even though you were billed for 5 months at that point.) THEN they denied problems existed.

To add the cherry on the top of their sundae of pain, they ran Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day events with bugged items that could not be deleted, with limited space per player. There is a REASON "Flagshipped" has become a verb

Compared to Hellgate, TR ran SMOOOTH. . . .

Shut the fuck up, you goddamn idiot! I'm trying to read this diccussion and I'm not interested in your pissant pedantry. One wonders why the fuck you're allowed to post that many times in a single discussion anyway.

CuloCulo, you're just a stupid first-year law school dropout. NYCL gets all the pussy while you're stuck beating your shrivelled, uncircumsized needledick on weekends. Even your own dog hates you.

This is the link you were looking for.

Just great... so we can look forward to Congresscritter Baca using the Chewbacca Defense to justify this bill? It seems oddly appropriate!

nope.. i'll quote the relevant text which makes your fallacious reply ironic:

nope, i've worked in the NE too.

I don't hear "dittoheads" spewing ...pseudo-intellectual fallacy....

Okay, I'll bite. My statement is ironic because I'm apparently a follower of Rush Limbaugh (this was the only definition of "dittohead" I was able to find using Google)?

As for the "pseudo-intellectual fallacy" part, I'm fairly certain that this just means "any viewpoint that contradicts my own". There's no point in arguing with me on this "static property", as I'm holding as firm to it as you are to yours regarding the boorish & unintelligent nature of everyone outside of the bubble in which you live.

just keep being intellectually dishonest.

nope.. i'll quote the relevant text which makes your fallacious reply ironic:

nope, i've worked in the NE too.

I don't hear "dittoheads" spewing ...pseudo-intellectual fallacy....

Okay, I'll bite. My statement is ironic because I'm apparently a follower of Rush Limbaugh (this was the only definition of "dittohead" I was able to find using Google)?

As for the "pseudo-intellectual fallacy" part, I'm fairly certain that this just means "any viewpoint that contradicts my own". There's no point in arguing with me on this "static property", as I'm holding as firm to it as you are to yours regarding the boorish & unintelligent nature of everyone outside of the bubble in which you live.

I'm the Mayor of Hiroshinma, you insensitive crod!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=RDF&defid=1134528

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=For%20all%20intensive%20purposes

erm, just a friendly pointer, your signature makes no sense :)

I always thought niggers' computers were slow because they didn't know how to use 'em but now I guess it has a lot more to do with the fact that niggers are loudly hootin' and hollerin' all the damn time.

I would never hire an overgrown chimpanzee to work with me at my Pixar rendering farm, that's for damn sure. Good CGI depends on Maya, not on mayates .

for all intensive purposes

I believe you mean, for all intents and purposes

*whoosh* ?

surely you mean ... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=g+had

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=retirement

Did you mean bluetooth? (see p.3)

No, he's making a statement.

For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?"

I took a lot of flak as a Californian who went to college in Terre Haute, when I made an offhand remark that I was surprised to find "Hoosier" the official term for a resident of Indiana, as I had grown up thinking it was similar to "hick."

Way to go, you hoser!

If you think that actually means you'll get chicks then I suggest you remember where it is that you are posting ;)

Clearly you've never heard of Tech Goggles

A social experiment done for the lulz!

Love is what keeps human communities together.

I'd dispute that simply on the basis that a community contains a few people we love, fewer we hate (if you're well-adjusted), and a large number we don't have any real opinion of one way or the other (unless you live in a village small enough for everyone to know everyone else, but that isn't true for the vast majority of humanity). We group together in communities for protection and for economic advantage; love is found in our families first, then as our social circle grows we find other loves in friends, husbands, wives, [insert appropriate relationship here], who are all part of our community, but by no means all of it.

Everyone else we treat with a modicum of respect because it benefits us to live in a civil society. For example: the guy who delivers my newspaper is part of my community. I don't know his name, he doesn't know mine but we're polite to each other because (a) I want my newspaper intact, dry and not on the roof; (b) he wants to keep his job; and (c) being a jerk is too much effort for no gain. "Good morning" is just as easy to say as "fuck off", and you actually feel much better for saying it.

This is courtesy and mutual respect driven by pragmatism and "enlightened self-interest", not love. To claim that any of us love a complete stranger who happens to be in close geographic proximity merely devalues the word to the extent where we might as well say Marklar instead.

Other emotions mostly direct people to act for themselves.

Clearly you've never had a psycho ex-girlfriend. My point here is that an excess of almost any emotion can be destructive, even love. Possibly the only non-destructive emotion is sympathy, and sympathy requires understanding more than love (in fact, love determines how much sympathy we feel and for who; in that regard it is an unintentional limit, though I think it is entirely natural that we care about family and friends foremost).

Rules may be created to more or less force them to act in the interests of the community

Generally speaking, those rules reflect the standards of the majority, which means most of us don't so much consciously obey them as act by them naturally. Those who break the rules are the minority, so you're concocting a social theory based on the aberrent behaviour of a small fraction of the population. I should think the problem there is obvious.

but if long term stability is a concern, there is not much that is better than love.

As I've pointed out, it isn't possible to know everyone in an average modern community, let alone love them, so if you're talking about love of the community as an abstract you're talking about patriotism and it's ugly cousin nationalism. Judging by the number of wars in the last century that were driven by nationalistic fervour, I would argue that in the 20th century, that brand of love's triumphs over pragmatism cost in excess of 100,000,000 lives. Perhaps that's a twisted view (and definitely hyperbole), but no more twisted than crediting love with all that's good in the world.

No single way leads to balance; people aren't complete without both a heart and a brain, and being made of people, neither is society.

the movie was released in the late 60's -- 1968, one year before the Summer of Love.

I know they say that if you can remember the 60s you weren't really there, but for the sake of historical accuracy, I have to point out that 1968 was one year after the Summer of Love; perhaps you are confusing it with Woodstock, or maybe you just took too much of the brown acid.

Flamebait? I think one of the mods has been listening to clerics a bit too much.

I didn't know the term precious snowflake. I think that was started with the boomer generation. When I was a kid, there were lots of parents doing that at my school, and lots of teachers complaining about it.

Most of the people who graduated from my high school could barely read at a 3rd grade level. Now they've done the same thing with math. No wonder they no longer teach anything, too many people would complain!

Though it is also wrong teaching techniques. Whole word reading is for ancient Egyptian and Chinese. "Discovery Math" was supposed to be a logic program supplemental to a real math program, it was not designed to be a math program. In fact, when I heard about it ten years ago, I looked up the publisher's website, and they said exactly that.

I probably learned much more from programming books than from any schooling. It isn't Americans who can't be taught, it is the schooling system which does not teach. In fact, most teachers seem to think they are just babysitters.

More on topic, I played and watched plenty of violent video games and movies as a teenager. I had two psycho abusive parents. (One bipolar and one unknown because she won't get treatment for her condition--probably psychopathic personality disorder.) I've been thinking for a while, and I probably had HUS and my first stroke as a child because countless times they force fed me undercooked tainted meat (among other things) and wouldn't take me to a doctor when I was rolling on the floor in pain and vomiting. Yet I haven't killed anyone (but probably should have).

Not caring about others makes a person a psychopath, not video games, movies and such. People can play blame games, but censorship is not any answer. Parental and personal responsibility are the answer.

i think i spelled it right the 1st time!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fap

So Vista is handi-capable?

Finally, he'd insist on calling it a GNU/Sandwich.

Well, wouldn't that imply something about what's in the sandwich?

I wonder if it tastes like Buffalo, which is pretty much substitutable for beef.

Maybe there's a difference between a Gnu sandwich and a GNU/Sandwich (the latter probably tastes different).

I Agree With You Completely.

Um, nickle?

:p

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dutch%20oven

For non-native speakers like me: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hotboxed

Urban Dictonary:

First used by the ignorant for the word "scapegoat" but it is now commonplace to use it tounge-in-cheek, just as the word "Internets" is used referencing Dubya's plural addition to the singular item.

Just because someone uses Escape Goat doesn't mean they believe it to be correct. Most of the time they are messing around.

hinky: 1) Something as yet undefinable is wrong, out of place; not quite right; 2) "I've a bad feeling about that": something out of whack, wrong, off-kilter; 3) a state of being vaguely suspicious.

source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hinky

this definition fits my previous (vague, contextual) knowledge of the term. some uses color towards sleazy, some towards kludgy; but they all have the general sense of something suspicious in some way.

It may be a cop thing, but I recall it from "The Fugitive". The search for "hinky" brings up the movie on the first page. Tommy Lee Jones' character ordered his marshalls to stop saying "hinky" because he didn't want them using words that didn't mean anything.

One who indulges in 'dogging'.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dogging

I think that you are mistaken. Smoke up and smoke out can mean the same thing in this context, but smoke up is more specific (smoke out can imply smoking until you run out).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smoke+up
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smoke+out

I think that you are mistaken. Smoke up and smoke out can mean the same thing in this context, but smoke up is more specific (smoke out can imply smoking until you run out).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smoke+up
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smoke+out

Also, I'm not seeing where I have been rude or irrational in this thread, and I'm sorry if you've felt yelled at.

You haven't been rude or irrational. I'm not upset. The quote I inferred the ranty-arm-flapping from is this:

Saying "Oh, everything and everyone is corrupt and it's unfixable oh noes!" is worse than useless.

The mental picture "ohnoes!" has a story that I associate. I've said that in the past on purpose, complete with arm flapping along with something about stoleded megahurtz.

Although we disagree in outlook, and philosophy to an extent, its been an enjoyable, thought-provoking discussion from my point of view.

Damn you Rule 34!

Actually, I rely on both... having had one relatively minor road-rash once in my life and found that it hurts like an SOB having your leg brillo-padded in the hospital to get the grit out.

I wear a full-face helmet, gloves, a jacket and riding overpants... oh, and boots. ATGATT. I know from experience that the padding in good quality gear will protect you from the relatively minor impact you suffer when low-siding a bike... or even rolling off the hood of a car that just pulled out in front of you. I also know from all too good experience that said gear is unbeatable for its abrasion resistance. Had I worn the pants as well as the jacket, I would've not had the road rash! Don't kid yourself... jeans don't work so well when being worn down by asphalt.

I don't feel I look like a motocross or crotch rocket rider. I ride a sport touring bike (Kawasaki Concours 14) and feel I look like a sport-touring rider in my Tourmaster Transition 2 jacket and Tourmaster Venture pants. OK... yes... a minor slashvertisement... but although I haven't put either of these to the test, yet they provide fantastic all-season protection from the elements and have wonderful armor throughout.