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I think it would be hilarious if we went to all this trouble and expense, and then ended up with a version of Bitch Stewie that we weren't allowed to unplug.

Wow... perhaps there is some hope for Doom 2600 after all...

I found that it is best to collect all four if possible. http://monopoly.wikia.com/wiki/Railroads

Colbert is no a doctor though...

Of course he is! http://wikiality.wikia.com/Dr._Stephen_T._Colbert,_D.F.A.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice

The Merciless Peppers of Quetzalacatenango grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum. Add sliced Tomacco.

What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand?

I dunno... why don't we ask Howard Wolowitz?

I don't know if you've thought this out.

By way of example, let me toss out a hypothetical outcome of your plan: "mutant zombie patent laywer".

Or picture one of these with a list of BitTorrent leecher IPs and a contract from the RIAA.

Yeah, I heard you scream like a little girl. You know exactly what I mean.

It's a bad plan. Lawyers are the only thing likely to out-survive cockroaches. Lifting off and nuking them from orbit won't be enough.

Boasting and exaggeration of non-existent criminal acts are pretty common in rap—especially of the gangsta variety. In fact, probably just about every rappist has a song claiming that his rhymes be real while all the others be artificial bullshit—oops, I mean (expletive) (don't want to offend anyone now). For example, see Eminem (nsfw).

Hard to do, with free will and all...

This technology definitely has me thinking about the sentinels from the Matrix. http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Sentinel

...when your country completely discounts nuclear as the best option for an environmentally friendly energy source.

Welcome to the 21st centruy from your Coma.

Solar and wind can never be primary energy sources

And yet - Are Traditional Utilities Becoming Obsolete? The next time youâ(TM)re driving around town, observe the community and see how many homes and businesses have installed solar panels

So some in the "business" of making and selling power don't agree, and that would be something you'd have missed while in the Coma.

(A fun fact they didn't teach the oldsters: That oil and coal - that is the result of Solar power!)

Frankly I'd rather live next to a modern, safe nuclear power plant.

Until your book deal pays off about your time in a Coma you might want to look into land next to Chernyobyl or Fukushima. Modern Nay-sayers would claim its a bad idea, but why not allow the pro-nukers to show how wrong the Nay-sayers are by getting the land at a low price?

You fix it, you evolve the design, you move on.

Yes fixing. An inside source gave Team 10 a picture snapped inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) showing plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks used to stem a massive leaky pipe. [...] Modern "fixing" doesn't do that kind of thing, a fact you would not understand having just rejoined humanity from your Coma.

Before you entered the Coma the Brittish were replacing the bones of the dead with broomsticks as part of a radiation coverup plan but the rest of us learned of it while you were still in that Coma. So there has been no upgrade in Broomsticks-as-radioactive-repair technology, and yet you'd think Engineering might do a better job with say an Inanimate Carbon Rod?

Best of health to you and recovering from your traumatic brain injury.

You're welcome : ) http://4changboard.wikia.com/wiki/Falcon_Guide

actually, this brings up an issue that's common with all simulations that have an economic or political model - including the sims, sim city, civilisation (and clones), and so on.

they serve as a form of propaganda for particular sets of economic, political, and cultural rules, that players internalise as they play the game.

if you program the economic rules so that piracy will ruin your businness then that is exactly what will happen in the game. it says little about the real world....and it's only really obvious in a situation like this where it is a deliberately released piece of overt propaganda.

a slightly less obvious but more troubling one is the rule in Civ (etc) that democracies aren't allowed to declare war, or that military units can force workers to be content in communism. or that corruption is universal under communism but non-existent under democracy.

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Government

on the one hand, these are just the rules of the game. on the other hand, they're political propaganda about the pros and cons of particular economic models.

it's not limited to computer games, either - the earliest version of the game that was ripped off to become monopoly was actually propaganda about the evils of landlords and capitalism....at least that was the author's intention. the rules, however, taught players that monopolies were a good thing because that's how you won the game.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2986/was-monopoly-originally-meant-to-teach-people-about-the-evils-of-capitalism
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/09/how_monopoly_turns_us_into_uncreative_capitalist_vultures_partner/

facepalm

LOL. Spot the difference.

I wonder if they could remaster old films to use this technology. I can't wait to experience the Bog of Eternal Stench from Labyrinth in 4DX

Let's take the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He's made of spaghetti and two meatballs.

Wait...
J. Michael Straczynski was a Pastafarian???

one Walter White, described as a mild-mannered, former High School Chemistry teacher.

Of course it was. There are two Mooninites, after all.

Okay, lets stop 'going back and forth for the sake of going back and forth'. I will explain in totality because it seems like you simply don't get what fracking is properly and are attempting to attack my credibility to justify yourself. It is very VERY logical that is it harmful to human health in the same way that smoking is. I.E putting dangerous chemicals into the human body.

1. Look at this. http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/unpacking-health-hazards-in-frackings-chemical-cocktail/graphic.

Now granted, over 90% of fracking fluid is water and sand, but that 1% is still a hell of a lot when you pump millions of gallons per site.10,000 gallons of chemicals per mil of fluid remember. And most of that fluid will be absorbed by porous rock whereas I very much doubt kerosene distillate and many of these chemicals have that luxury.
More info about how it gets from the site to the water supply, lawsuits etc:
http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fracking+lawsuit
http://www.dangersoffracking.com/

2. The Sabatier process makes methane, and uses hydrogen. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here, because that's just carbon neutral, not actually green. When you consider that most of that CO2 is not going to be collected from the atmosphere (due to the cost of doing that) then you realize it's just the same as hydrocarbons pollution-wise. If you're talking about doing that in reverse, that is just a form of electrolysis and has the same problems I mentioned before. Namely, it's not green, it just shifts the blame from the car to the pump.

3. In case you haven't noticed, banking is a cartel. Stop living in dreamland. If one bank raises it's rates the other banks will do the same universally because they can and it's profitable. In reality if a bank gives out too many bad loans, it is bailed out by the state. You should know all too well about that seeing as we and the rest of the West are sitting in a recession as a result of that right now.

4. The iPad didn't need to be subsidized, most of the R+D for the tech was done by Xerox/PARC in the 80s and 90s, it was also lead by a huge giant in an industry next door to it; computing. It's a poor comparison for anything but the point I was making but if you want to beat the strawman I will show it's a pointless comparison. GM, Dodge, Ford and all the other US car companies make some of the most uneconomical cars in the world. Fact. Even Honda looks bad next to it's eastern rivals because of it's Americanization. None of the above companies would seriously make EVs their main business focus. It would be a life threatening decision for them and would frankly require them to make an about turn on lots of their marketing, policies etc etc. There is no truly 'green' US car company that is large enough to fab it's own components and design it's own cars so the DoE had to finance the creation of a new company to carry out aforementioned goals. So it's like the DoE seeing a public need for iPads but there being no Apple and no Xerox PARC. So the DoE makes it's own East India Trading Company to do the work for it.

It's all well having businesses like the AC Propulsion that do engine conversion but actually making real EVs that are normal enough to be embraced by the general public is not something that has been done before. (Look at this list http://ev.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_EV_companies and I bet you can call every car there too quirky for general tastes except the Tesla without talking about their power-train or fuel tech.)

Did you even read what I wrote? I already explained why the Tesla was priced out of most people's range, the tech needs to come down in size, but to do that it need

Thunderbird shows will also be canceled

Well these Thunderbirds from International Rescue were cancelled in the sixties. Looks like just in time that we sent that pillock David Milliband to restart the whole thing.

http://aqua-teen-hunger-force.wikia.com/wiki/Unremarkable_Voyage
I'm sure the source was something else.

It could count as an in-app payment and I have no idea if the in-app purchase patent you're talking about applies, nor am I going to go take a look at it:

http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Treble_damages

Our experience in this area, after looking at lots of patents, is that they tend to be badly written and/or easily easily worked around. We did file provisional patents for the technology in 2004 to establish prior art for the express purpose of ensuring that nobody else could patent the technology and that we could offer it patent and royalty-free in a Web standard.

http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_watch_Netflix_(Watch_Instantly)_in_Linux

As per finding a legal DRM-free film, your chances are zero for 99% of everything you'd like to watch, and just highly unlikely for the remaining 1%. Any sites that would advertise such are most likely priating the movies and then selling for profit.

The Windows-firefox-with-silverlight-on-wine option seems to work for a lot of people, but unfortunately it does not work well on AMD Radeons.
Mine has a very noticeable drop in framerate.

http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_watch_Netflix_(Watch_Instantly)_in_Linux

As per finding a legal DRM-free film, your chances are zero for 99% of everything you'd like to watch, and just highly unlikely for the remaining 1%. Any sites that would advertise such are most likely priating the movies and then selling for profit.

*gasp*

That's so sexist!

The BBC should sue Oracle.

This actually works really well:

http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_watch_Netflix_(Watch_Instantly)_in_Linux It uses WINE, but the ppa sets everything up for you (if you are using Ubuntu). For things like TVs and Rokus, they have special, non-silverlight DRM built in that Netflix has specified. The problem with making truly native Linux client is that, like most things for Linux, the market share isn't there to make it cost effective.

They used one of those, citizen.

Here, enlarge it to poster size and stick it in every primary school

heh, props for the fundie book burning mobile.

Since you don't understand the anger, let me, or rather Charles Schulz, draw you a picture.

IMO it's never OK to "twitter shame" someone [...]

I don't know about "never". If the person is a public figure, or the remarks were made in a public manner, then I can see the argument there.

I think the woman in this article was slightly overcompensating due to suffering "Impostor Syndrome". It's totally understandable, given the position of women in tech. So she triggered and went a bit too far, and that's grounds for her to be FUCKING FIRED by her male boss? What is Impostor Syndrome, you ask? I'm glad you asked, it's a chance for you to become educated with what the rest of the world thinks.

Impostor Syndrome describes a situation where someone feels like an impostor or fraud because they think that their accomplishments are nowhere near as good as those of the people around them. Usually, their accomplishments are just as good, and the person is being needlessly insecure. It's especially common in fields where people's work is constantly under review by talented peers, such as academia or Open Source Software.

Women experiencing impostor syndrome may be less willing to put themselves forward, feeling that they are not qualified, by eg:

• not applying for jobs, promotions, and other employment opportunities
• not submitting papers to conferences or journals
• disclaiming or understating their experience/skill when speaking or writing
• nervousness about talking to others in their field, especially if those others are perceived as highly skilled/experienced
• feeling like a fraud
• worrying that someone will find out their lack of qualifications and fire them
• having higher stress
• overpreparing for tasks
• attributing successes to chance or luck

For hiring managers, conference chairs, etc.

• Reach out individually to women in addition to making a general advertisement for a job/CFP/etc. Telling each woman that you would value her application.
• Avoid asking "please rate your experience/skill" questions during early recruitment phases.
• You may want to do background research about potential Women speakers/job applicants/etc and gain an understanding of their experience/skills separate from how they advertise/present themselves.
• The questions asked in job interviews may help you see past people's impostor syndrome. For instance, if someone says they worked on a project, ask them what they actually did on the project; it may be that they led it, or otherwise had a key role that they won't mention unless nudged in the right direction.
• See also: Impostor syndrome and hiring power on the Geek Feminism blog.

One woman's story about Imposter Syndrome and how it affected her geek career. This is serious stuff, people. If we can't overcome this, then women will never be accepted as equals in tech. :(

I think the woman in this article was slightly overcompensating due to suffering "Impostor Syndrome". It's totally understandable, given the position of women in tech. So she triggered and went a bit too far, and that's grounds for her to be FUCKING FIRED by her male boss? What is Impostor Syndrome, you ask? I'm glad you asked, it's a chance for you to become educated with what the rest of the world thinks.

Impostor Syndrome describes a situation where someone feels like an impostor or fraud because they think that their accomplishments are nowhere near as good as those of the people around them. Usually, their accomplishments are just as good, and the person is being needlessly insecure. It's especially common in fields where people's work is constantly under review by talented peers, such as academia or Open Source Software.

Women experiencing impostor syndrome may be less willing to put themselves forward, feeling that they are not qualified, by eg:

• not applying for jobs, promotions, and other employment opportunities
• not submitting papers to conferences or journals
• disclaiming or understating their experience/skill when speaking or writing
• nervousness about talking to others in their field, especially if those others are perceived as highly skilled/experienced
• feeling like a fraud
• worrying that someone will find out their lack of qualifications and fire them
• having higher stress
• overpreparing for tasks
• attributing successes to chance or luck

For hiring managers, conference chairs, etc.

• Reach out individually to women in addition to making a general advertisement for a job/CFP/etc. Telling each woman that you would value her application.
• Avoid asking "please rate your experience/skill" questions during early recruitment phases.
• You may want to do background research about potential Women speakers/job applicants/etc and gain an understanding of their experience/skills separate from how they advertise/present themselves.
• The questions asked in job interviews may help you see past people's impostor syndrome. For instance, if someone says they worked on a project, ask them what they actually did on the project; it may be that they led it, or otherwise had a key role that they won't mention unless nudged in the right direction.
• See also: Impostor syndrome and hiring power on the Geek Feminism blog.

One woman's story about Imposter Syndrome and how it affected her geek career. This is serious stuff, people. If we can't overcome this, then women will never be accepted as equals in tech. :(

I think the woman in this article was slightly overcompensating due to suffering "Impostor Syndrome". It's totally understandable, given the position of women in tech. So she triggered and went a bit too far, and that's grounds for her to be FUCKING FIRED by her male boss? What is Impostor Syndrome, you ask? I'm glad you asked, it's a chance for you to become educated with what the rest of the world thinks.

Impostor Syndrome describes a situation where someone feels like an impostor or fraud because they think that their accomplishments are nowhere near as good as those of the people around them. Usually, their accomplishments are just as good, and the person is being needlessly insecure. It's especially common in fields where people's work is constantly under review by talented peers, such as academia or Open Source Software.

Women experiencing impostor syndrome may be less willing to put themselves forward, feeling that they are not qualified, by eg:

• not applying for jobs, promotions, and other employment opportunities
• not submitting papers to conferences or journals
• disclaiming or understating their experience/skill when speaking or writing
• nervousness about talking to others in their field, especially if those others are perceived as highly skilled/experienced
• feeling like a fraud
• worrying that someone will find out their lack of qualifications and fire them
• having higher stress
• overpreparing for tasks
• attributing successes to chance or luck

For hiring managers, conference chairs, etc.

• Reach out individually to women in addition to making a general advertisement for a job/CFP/etc. Telling each woman that you would value her application.
• Avoid asking "please rate your experience/skill" questions during early recruitment phases.
• You may want to do background research about potential Women speakers/job applicants/etc and gain an understanding of their experience/skills separate from how they advertise/present themselves.
• The questions asked in job interviews may help you see past people's impostor syndrome. For instance, if someone says they worked on a project, ask them what they actually did on the project; it may be that they led it, or otherwise had a key role that they won't mention unless nudged in the right direction.
• See also: Impostor syndrome and hiring power on the Geek Feminism blog.

One woman's story about Imposter Syndrome and how it affected her geek career. This is serious stuff, people. If we can't overcome this, then women will never be accepted as equals in tech. :(

I think the woman in this article was slightly overcompensating due to suffering "Impostor Syndrome". It's totally understandable, given the position of women in tech. So she triggered and went a bit too far, and that's grounds for her to be FUCKING FIRED by her male boss? What is Impostor Syndrome, you ask? I'm glad you asked, it's a chance for you to become educated with what the rest of the world thinks.

Impostor Syndrome describes a situation where someone feels like an impostor or fraud because they think that their accomplishments are nowhere near as good as those of the people around them. Usually, their accomplishments are just as good, and the person is being needlessly insecure. It's especially common in fields where people's work is constantly under review by talented peers, such as academia or Open Source Software.

Women experiencing impostor syndrome may be less willing to put themselves forward, feeling that they are not qualified, by eg:

• not applying for jobs, promotions, and other employment opportunities
• not submitting papers to conferences or journals
• disclaiming or understating their experience/skill when speaking or writing
• nervousness about talking to others in their field, especially if those others are perceived as highly skilled/experienced
• feeling like a fraud
• worrying that someone will find out their lack of qualifications and fire them
• having higher stress
• overpreparing for tasks
• attributing successes to chance or luck

For hiring managers, conference chairs, etc.

• Reach out individually to women in addition to making a general advertisement for a job/CFP/etc. Telling each woman that you would value her application.
• Avoid asking "please rate your experience/skill" questions during early recruitment phases.
• You may want to do background research about potential Women speakers/job applicants/etc and gain an understanding of their experience/skills separate from how they advertise/present themselves.
• The questions asked in job interviews may help you see past people's impostor syndrome. For instance, if someone says they worked on a project, ask them what they actually did on the project; it may be that they led it, or otherwise had a key role that they won't mention unless nudged in the right direction.
• See also: Impostor syndrome and hiring power on the Geek Feminism blog.

One woman's story about Imposter Syndrome and how it affected her geek career. This is serious stuff, people. If we can't overcome this, then women will never be accepted as equals in tech. :(

Shoop Da Whoop: Imma Chargin' MALAYSIA!

Unfortunately for the environment of Texas, concern and awareness does not equal to actual effect. For instance, Austin has about the worst carbon footprint in Texas and the nation, ranking 55 out of 100. It is clear why when you look at the basic conservative nature of the city and the lack of infrastructure. For instance, Houston with over three decades of increasingly liberal mayors, has actively adopted renewables, and reducing the cities use of electricity overall. Light rail is increasingly allowing us to get around. For instance over spring break there was times when I did not have to drive at all, and when I went to the rodeo the trained dropped me right there.

Austin wants to believe it is cool, but the reality is that most other urban places in Texas are much more diversified, much more culturally relevant, and musically interesting, unless you like listening to the same type of women or men singing the same things over and over again.

And, to quote my techie friends, SXSW specifically schedules things so all the geeks are out of town before the hipsters arrive.

No. This is bullshit:

"That's bullshit right there. Strength training is done for short periods of time and large amounts of weight. If it takes you that much time, then you're doing it wrong."

10 to 20 minutes will not get you in the 'large amounts of weights' arena. If you are just starting SL 5x5 or SS's novice program and are at beginner's weights you might be able to finish in 20 minutes. But once you get to an intermediate level you'll be spending that 20 minutes on just one of the major lifts, let only two or three. And this doesn't even incorporate any accessory work to help your core lifts (squat/bench/dead lift/overhead press).

But the OP wasn't asking about getting strong. The OP was just asking about getting fit. That is a pretty general term and needs further explanation as to what the OP's goals are. That would be my recommendation for step 1 - what are you trying to achieve. All else follows from there. Without goals what can motivate and push you to stick with it? A couple other suggestions for addressing the lack of motivation would be to get a workout partner and/or join a site like fitocracy (it's free). If strength training interests you then checkout: http://startingstrength.wikia.com/

No. This is bullshit: "That's bullshit right there. Strength training is done for short periods of time and large amounts of weight. If it takes you that much time, then you're doing it wrong." 10 to 20 minutes will not get you in the 'large amounts of weights' arena. If you are just starting SL 5x5 or SS's novice program and are at beginner's weights you might be able to finish in 20 minutes. But once you get to an intermediate level you'll be spending that 20 minutes on just one of the major lifts, let only two or three. And this doesn't even incorporate any accessory work to help your core lifts (squat/bench/dead lift/overhead press). But the OP wasn't asking about getting strong. The OP was just asking about getting fit. That is a pretty general term and needs further explanation as to what the OP's goals are. That would be my recommendation for step 1 - what are you trying to achieve. All else follows from there. Without goals what can motivate and push you to stick with it? A couple other suggestions for addressing the lack of motivation would be to get a workout partner and/or join a site like fitocracy (it's free). If strength training interests you then checkout: http://startingstrength.wikia.com/

In order to really understand this story, you need to Google Denise Milani.
Here are a few results:
http://www.denisemilani.com/
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Denise_Milani's_breasts
http://www.fhm.com/girls/covergirls/denise-milani

I know things I would do differently in my life. I'm not entirely confident in my ability to force some other person to do them, even if it was a clone of me. For reference: http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Duplicator

Every now and then you find a radical misandrist—or, more likely, someone who has lost sight of their objective and can no longer tell the difference between defending women's rights and assaulting men—who does say something appalling or across the line.

Ugh, been there.
And as soon as you point it out, they whip out the Tone Argument card and get even bitchier. Ugh. Frankly if the broads wouldn't get their panties in such a twist they'd notice I'm very much the egalitarian.

I'm getting tired of "Violence against women" being portrayed as a special case worthy of special laws at the expense of everyone else.

Violence in general is the problem. All violence has victims. Violence typically occurs where society needs new rules and new norms. Right now there is lots of violence against against women, more in some cultures than others. It's ugly.

Still, when we start getting laws designed to combat violence against group X that end up doing violence to the rights and freedoms of people outsideof group X, we're doing it wrong.

By all means, let's make rules that discourage violence against everyone - childredn, the elderly, women, men, pets, gingers, neckbeards. Short of widespread deployment of G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate, though, humans will keep bashing each other. There's a limit to prevention.

Government out of control is magnitudes greater a problem -- just ask your grandma.

I thouht our US "Commerce Clause" being misconstrued to grant carte blanche was bad. It's a tight little lockbox compared to tying legislative authority to issues of people's "dignity".

There is nothing less dignified than having your own decisions trumped by someone else who's stopping you to preserve your own "dignity".

I'm getting tired of "Violence against women" being portrayed as a special case worthy of special laws at the expense of everyone else.

Violence in general is the problem. All violence has victims. Violence typically occurs where society needs new rules and new norms. Right now there is lots of violence against against women, more in some cultures than others. It's ugly.

Still, when we start getting laws designed to combat violence against group X that end up doing violence to the rights and freedoms of people outsideof group X, we're doing it wrong.

By all means, let's make rules that discourage violence against everyone - childredn, the elderly, women, men, pets, gingers, neckbeards. Short of widespread deployment of G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate, though, humans will keep bashing each other. There's a limit to prevention.

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Birthday_Song

That's not true, they're not entirely generous to Chinese or Romanian ones either.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Tell_the_Difference_between_an_American_and_a_European_car

Boots in the Imperial Palace without an order from the Emperor.