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There were other experiments in the field.

These creatures were featured on Doctor Who.

If you need a low dose of nicotine then I would suggest gum or patches would be safer than e-cigarettes but I doubt even then that it is a zero risk choice because in general there is no such thing as zero risk choice.

It's best to get your nicotine from healthy vegetables.

Of course they are. Neuroscience is also run by Discordians.

Who may, or may not, be a front for the Illuminati. Depending on your viewpoint and/or "in" status.

a pity they didn't make a series based on the kind of background that Tasha Yar had

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that hiding from rape gangs wouldn't be the family-friendly entertainment that Star Trek is known for.

Better than what they did do. However, that particular detail wasn't necessary to specifically feature, a fallen society was the real focus I was seeking.

To some extent, I think a certain show was an attempt to pursue that line of development, though Voyager obviously was a bit in that direction as well, just from an outside perspective.

a pity they didn't make a series based on the kind of background that Tasha Yar had

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that hiding from rape gangs wouldn't be the family-friendly entertainment that Star Trek is known for.

Better than what they did do. However, that particular detail wasn't necessary to specifically feature, a fallen society was the real focus I was seeking.

To some extent, I think a certain show was an attempt to pursue that line of development, though Voyager obviously was a bit in that direction as well, just from an outside perspective.

a pity they didn't make a series based on the kind of background that Tasha Yar had

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that hiding from rape gangs wouldn't be the family-friendly entertainment that Star Trek is known for.

Except it wasn't murder and Picard/the Federation didn't have jurisdiction.

Worf was a Star Fleet officer. By choice. By any rational understanding of organizational dynamics, they had jurisdiction over him enough to fire him, at the least, and more likely, to put him through whatever actual system of corrections that the Federation has.

Which is usually ignored in the Trek fictionverse, because they'd much rather exonerate the captain. Even Worf got to murder his own brother and ANOTHER Klingon Chancellor just for political convenience.

Here's a hint: If you're in the main cast, whatever you do, the writers will make it out to be heroic and rightful. Guest Stars aren't so lucky.

My point is the version of liberalism that Star Trek tended to embody was not of a separatist, relativist, identity politic-oriented sort. You said in your previous reply that this was because they've already achieved perfect equality, but this obviously isn't true regarding alien races (particularly the Cardassians and Klingons.)

The Ferengi are a better example. Of the writers, once again, failing to not fall into a trap of stereotypes. That's not liberalism, or any politics at all, that's bad writing.

And they did it TWICE over with the one group. Not that it's exceptional, but how many aliens exist in Star Trek just to be the problem of the week?

If Roddenberry wished his works embody the perpetual-victimhood and relativist narratives that have existed in one form or another at least since the mid-twentieth century, he could have done so. But he did not.

That's because that is your narrative that you're spouting off about, not his. If you want that, try John Ringo, he genuinely seems to believe that, based on my personal interactions with him. Go read his books if you want that. I'm sure there are others in that vein as well.

Roddenberry's failings are entirely different, though they are legendary. This has nothing to do with any real world ideology.

They've already done three genders and post-gender so why the fuck not 71 genders.

They've already done three genders and post-gender so why the fuck not 71 genders.

'member MagicCubes?

Burned myself on them many times. Those thigs put out a lot of light though.

'member MagicCubes?

Could it be... SATAN ?

No they are right that is exactly what the game was designed for. It just does a *terrible* job at that.

My games usually ended up in stalemates. As per the rules you need all 3 properties in a group before you can buy houses. So the mid game would drag out and out. After about 4 hours of going around the board with little change things get boring.

So parker bros is coming out with yet another edition of monopoly. Big deal. They have hundreds of them. http://monopoly.wikia.com/wiki... That does not even count the 'usaopoly' ones.

Hasbro seems to have succeeded in persuading news sites to write just the kind of headlines they wanted, lamenting the "replacement" of the "iconic" top hat and dog with hash symbols and emojis. This is just another silly rebranding of the same old game, just like the countless other editions.

You might be interested in a long Imgur post entitled How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends. It says that Monopoly was actually based on a game that was intentionally designed to be unfair and irritating in order to make a political point about the evils of capitalism, which is why many people play with house rules that make it more friendly but also drag it out into a tedious game of chance.

explaining the joke

Sprouting ammunition developed by the DoD (Department of Death) was an important plot device in Tim Schafer's renowned adventure game Grim Fandango (1998) . It is rather strange how reality takes after fiction, I wonder if there are Grim Fandango fans at the DoD.

Sprouting ammunition developed by the DoD (Department of Death) was an important plot device in Tim Schafer's renowned adventure game Grim Fandango (1998) . It is rather strange how reality takes after fiction, I wonder if there are Grim Fandango fans at the DoD.

It's a Lexx reference.

In 2372, Quark hacked into the communications systems aboard Deep Space 9, by using an encryption program to bypass the access protocols, and placed a short visual sequence promoting his bar. This was considered a class 3 offense according to Odo. As part of the same campaign, Quark had also tampered with the replicators aboard the station, such that beverages appeared in mugs advertising the bar, much to Worf's annoyance. Both the video and the mug included a jingle in the form of a simple song, sung by Quark, encouraging potential customers to visit his place. (DS9: "The Quickening")

They had advertisements.

What are your bets guys?

A Stargate, of course. Those silly things have a tendency to show up in the Antarctic.

et tu, Buttercup?

http://princessbride.wikia.com...

A decade later, plus or minus, but also most definitely a princess of our own making.

her

she

"her"? "she"?

I think the pronouns you are looking for are "his" and "he".

As Southpark well explained, a "sex change" operation doesn't change your gender any more than making you look something like a dolphin makes you a dolphin. Even the queer Mr Garrison went back to being a man once he realized as a "woman" he didn't get periods, didn't have a uterus.

http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Herbert_Garrison

"After she learned she could not have periods or get pregnant, Ms. Garrison realized she was not actually a woman"

Especially against men.

It's a sad things to see people hate one's own self like this.

Amazon + ten years = Buy n Large?

2. No, we drink it cold over here. Just not so cold you can't taste it (because our beer is worth tasting).

Don't lie. You drink it at room temperature because Lucas makes you refrigerators...

Actually, real ale is served slightly below room temperature this can be anywhere up to 8ÂC (yes C, none of that F nonsense, we'll drag your measurement systems in to the 18th century kicking and screaming if we have to) this happens to be room temperature in many places because a lot of pub landlords are too miserly to turn the heat up. It isn't flat either, ale is carbonated naturally rather than by an introduced gas like a Lager (which is the closest equivalent we have to American beer here in England). Ales are a traditionally made beer designed to be flavoursome.

Americans, you will be unfamiliar with the concept of Real Ale but it is a staple of English Drunkenness and lout culture. I dare say ordering that near frozen, over carbonated, low alcoholic, tasteless gnats piss that Americans call beer will get you turfed out of a Rough Pub faster than you say "Oi! Did you spill my pint", "Did you look at my girl" or "I'll fucking 'ave you".

2. No, we drink it cold over here. Just not so cold you can't taste it (because our beer is worth tasting).

Don't lie. You drink it at room temperature because Lucas makes you refrigerators...

Actually, real ale is served slightly below room temperature this can be anywhere up to 8ÂC (yes C, none of that F nonsense, we'll drag your measurement systems in to the 18th century kicking and screaming if we have to) this happens to be room temperature in many places because a lot of pub landlords are too miserly to turn the heat up. It isn't flat either, ale is carbonated naturally rather than by an introduced gas like a Lager (which is the closest equivalent we have to American beer here in England). Ales are a traditionally made beer designed to be flavoursome.

Americans, you will be unfamiliar with the concept of Real Ale but it is a staple of English Drunkenness and lout culture. I dare say ordering that near frozen, over carbonated, low alcoholic, tasteless gnats piss that Americans call beer will get you turfed out of a Rough Pub faster than you say "Oi! Did you spill my pint", "Did you look at my girl" or "I'll fucking 'ave you".

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki...

Basically the Western world wants to set up the Cardassian Justice system. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

Breed space cats to eat the space cancer. http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki...

Someone's been watching too much TV...
http://vikings.wikia.com/wiki/...

Huh. So it turns out G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate really does work.

You see, stuff like this is what I've been worried about. It doesn't matter whether Trump is literal Hitler, figurative Hitler, metaphorical Hitler, or fucking Mecha-Hitler. Yeah, we've seen presidents like Lincoln being the go-to example that have done things that aren't too constitutional. And that business about the Japanese internment. And no, it wasn't right. But America is great enough that it made it through. And while I'm starting sentence with conjunctions, I should point out that those two examples were actual fucking wars not a bunch of hysterical snowflakes freaking out about the (gay and vegan) Moooooooooooooslims. We've got so many snowflakes doing that it's turning into a fucking blizzard.

I want to live in a country great enough to treat criminals with justice, yes to treat them better than they deserve in shithole countries like, oh I don't know, what Daesh wants to build! 'Course, that guy's not a citizen unlike the flag burners Trump wants to strip of citizenship, just a legal resident. Deportation would be one appropriate response in this case, and I'm too lazy to research precedent or see what the moon matrix media has to say about this one. If the snowflakes demand that he be deported and set free without answering to us for his crimes, so be it. Why not? That's a great precedent there. Want to kill a bunch of Americans? Why, all you have to do is head on over, cause death and destruction, and all they'll do is send you back!

I want to live in a country great enough that its citizens can freely show disrespect to national symbols and traditions. I want to live in a country great enough that its citizens can freely show disdain for that country's religion. I want to live in a country great enough that its citizens can freely block the president on social media.

So are Trumpers going to finally bring an end to America's greatness?
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I suppose eventually, Germany did become great again. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, given enough time, everything changes.

Oh and, my sig! Merry fucking Christmas!

Oh fuck off with your PC shit. "So are Trumpers going to finally bring an end to America's greatness?"

Actually I am hoping that Trumpers bring an end to unworldly wankers like you.

Bottom line is that everyone does not like to be attacked by terrorists.

And although all Muslims are not terrorists. In the modern world all terrorists are Muslim.

So is the above statement hate speech or factual information.

You see, stuff like this is what I've been worried about. It doesn't matter whether Trump is literal Hitler, figurative Hitler, metaphorical Hitler, or fucking Mecha-Hitler. Yeah, we've seen presidents like Lincoln being the go-to example that have done things that aren't too constitutional. And that business about the Japanese internment. And no, it wasn't right. But America is great enough that it made it through. And while I'm starting sentence with conjunctions, I should point out that those two examples were actual fucking wars not a bunch of hysterical snowflakes freaking out about the (gay and vegan) Moooooooooooooslims. We've got so many snowflakes doing that it's turning into a fucking blizzard.

I want to live in a country great enough to treat criminals with justice, yes to treat them better than they deserve in shithole countries like, oh I don't know, what Daesh wants to build! 'Course, that guy's not a citizen unlike the flag burners Trump wants to strip of citizenship, just a legal resident. Deportation would be one appropriate response in this case, and I'm too lazy to research precedent or see what the moon matrix media has to say about this one. If the snowflakes demand that he be deported and set free without answering to us for his crimes, so be it. Why not? That's a great precedent there. Want to kill a bunch of Americans? Why, all you have to do is head on over, cause death and destruction, and all they'll do is send you back!

I want to live in a country great enough that its citizens can freely show disrespect to national symbols and traditions. I want to live in a country great enough that its citizens can freely show disdain for that country's religion. I want to live in a country great enough that its citizens can freely block the president on social media.

So are Trumpers going to finally bring an end to America's greatness?
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I suppose eventually, Germany did become great again. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, given enough time, everything changes.

Oh and, my sig! Merry fucking Christmas!

So much for the Japanese Miracle

The initials composing the weapon's name stand for "Big Fucking Gun", and in Irish, it is often called the "Big Fecking Gun"; it officially stands for "Bio Force Gun" in the 2005 movie. Alternatively, it also stands for "Big Friggin' Gun".

From a reputable source: Dr. McCoy noted that modern medicine was still searching for a cure for the common cold in the 23rd century. McCoy found a number of promising biological candidates on Omega IV that might lead to a viable cure.

Agreed. I even wanted the lizard person to win, but the human won and it's pure fantasy (!) to think that recounts would change that. It'd be nice from a perfectionist standpoint to do random recounts, and I think "electronic" voting is crap, but I mean come on.

The only nit I can pick is that vote weight disparity is kind of built into the system here in the USA. If you live in a sparsely populated state, your vote is worth more, which, if the federal government were limited and concerned itself mostly with the affairs of the states instead of the people, would be a feature and not a bug.

People are freaking the fuck out, but Trump isn't a dictator. He's honestly pretty moderate, and probably for the best (if you don't have a womb, but white women were the demographic that handed him the oval office lol, oh well). Personally, I find the Republican wins in congress to be more concerning. But we all voted, my county did go to the lizard person, but the rest of the country decided it was time to tell the elites to go fuck themselves. That in itself is worth something, even if we don't get to have advanced lizard person medical technology and free clinics as depicted in the documentary V!

Suicide Booths! Although they will have been invented a few years later than predicted...

My guess is IDDQD

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doo...

I was hoping for the Konami code myself.

Be careful with that

My guess is IDDQD http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doo...

But I fully support the creation of the California Free State. Just don't go to war with Tir Tairngire.

So this is how the NCR (New California Republic) gets founded.

I'm scared. Maybe Bethesda knows something

Try "Cycle of Fire" by Hal Clement.

Tyree isn't a black name, it's from the planet Neural..

I'm guessing Paterson was named after the city in New Jersey, and is probably black.

Chandra sounds like a black name.

Cornelius is probably black. White people haven't used that name in a century or more.

Felix Kumi is probably something non-white. I haven't heard of a white person named Felix in many decades, and Kumi isn't a white-sounding surname.

Keith McLeod sounds like he's of Irish or Scottish descent; it's pretty close to Connor MacLeod, of the clan MacLeod....

Rayshaun is definitely a black name. I've heard of it.

Junior is a Southern white nickname for boys named after their father; instead of William Smith, Jr., they just call him "Junior". Then when he has a son, he named him William Smith III, but his nickname is "Trip" (short for triple). White Southerners have some really weird traditions. "Junior Prosper" I'm guessing is black based on the funny last name, and my assumption that they actually named him "Junior" on his birth certificate (or else the police report would use his proper, full name and not a nickname).

Careful what you wish for. They might be Vogons.

You mean this?

It could be worse.

In fact, it could be far worse, and right here at home.

Careful what you wish for. They might be Vogons.

You mean this?

It could be worse.

In fact, it could be far worse, and right here at home.

Careful what you wish for. They might be Vogons.

You mean this?

It could be worse.

In fact, it could be far worse, and right here at home.

He's referring to this guy.

"...comes with 'incredible extreme' all-metal body..."
"The touch strip offers on-screen button..."
"Schiller, Apple SVP, said it was time Apple gotten rid of the dedicated function keys"
"Apple says, twice as larger than the older one"

Summary written by Tomik and Bellgarde: http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Tomik_and_Bellgarde