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What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity?
CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?' being just a selection of the truly baffling — and disturbing — questions Google is regularly forced to answer."
Now my curiosity is piqued. WHY can't I own a Canadian? Or at least lease one for a year?
Why is the peroxide question that stupid? The only thing I can think of is that the person probably meant 'hydrogen peroxide', and then I think it's a pretty reasonable question.
"Why can't I own a Canadian" in the summary actually makes this particularly suck troll relevent. Probably the only time you will ever see it happen.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
"How is babby formed?"
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Can you put peroxide in your ear?
Why is this disturbing? Pouring peroxide in your ear bubbles like crazy (and feels rather nice), and supposedly helps remove built-up ear wax. But some sources say it does more harm (drying and/or irritating the ear) than good.
Either way, it's about as disturbing as asking whether I can put a Q-tip in my ear.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
I can imagine "why can't i own a canadian" being a joke.
I once many years ago went to Google HQ to interview for a part-time job. In the lobby, right above the receptionist's desk, they had a big scrolling LCD thingy that shows actual searches that have been sent to the search engine.
The list was censored so that nothing NSFW would pop up, of course, but it was far from perfect. So me and my friend got treated to a good one: "voir les culottes de filles."
Are you adequate?
Juts for kicks I used to enter strings of random words into google just to see what sort of associations popped out .. it made for minutes of harmless fun but it always produced interesting results.
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Hydrogen Peroxide in your ears is a way to remove ear wax buildup.
Idk what is so worrying about that.
'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?' is a perfectly reasonable question if you're asking about false negatives.
A radio personality named Dr. Laura Schlessinger, an orthodox jew, once said on her show that homosexuality was an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and could not be condoned under any circumstance. "Why Can't I Own A Canadian is the title of the letter in response to her comments.
What? I can't assume Occam's Razor was a slick fold-up scooter?
(No, not World of Warcraft.)
I just tried the little experiment in TFA with the phrase "What are..."
Google's #1 suggestion: "...these strawberries doing on my nipples I need them for the fruit salad"
I boggle. I boggle at google.
There's an amazing untold story there. I hope it stays that way.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
"Scots are pigeon-hating perverts, but want to own monkeys, probably to fetch them fried food. No wonder we built a giant wall to keep them out of England."
Who wants a cockpunch?
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Many of the "inane" questions in the article illustrate the stupidity of the journalist who wrote the article. Most of these questions are legitimate, with a legitimate answer.
Some examples :
Can you put peroxide in your ear?
Actually, you can use it to remove earwax and to disinfect your ear if you went swimming in dirty water. It's a perfectly safe, legitimate use.
Am I going in labour?
Actually, other pains can be mistaken for labor, and it takes hours to develop in many women. Perhaps you're a woman, and you want to know if that abdominal pain was your first contraction or just a GI problem.
Am I having a heart attack?
Again, it's possible to mistake heartburn and cracked ribs for a heart attack. Maybe you should see what the symptoms are before you blow $300 at the Emergency Room.
Why can't black people swim? Why can't white people dance? Both must be stereotypical behaviors, and maybe there is a reason why it can seem like both are true.
Can you drink your own urine?
Again, a legitimate question. In a desperate situation, drinking your own urine may extend your survival under some environmental conditions. It's commonly mentioned in media.
Why would a pregnancy test be negative?
Yes, it's possible to get a negative test and be pregnant.
Can two women make a baby?
Yes, it's possible with newly developed technology to create sperm from stem cells. However, it has never been demonstrated in humans and may be quite unsafe.
Of course, if you just look at the suggestions they're funny, but if you actually search them there's actually context beyond just total retards googling shit. For instance, the "Why Can't I Own a Canadian?" question is in reference to this letter: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html
Breaking news: things have context!
The "Why can't I own a Canadian" question comes from this joke: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html
In regards to "Can two women make a baby?":
http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/02/02/0244213/Sperm-Made-From-Female-Bone-Marrow-Men-Obsolete
fukung tag search for 'google'
They're a lot more fun when you see screenshots.
Why Can't I Own a Canadian is an article satirizing fundamentalist Christian condemnation of homosexuality (aimed at "Dr." Schlessinger in particular). This is the problem with taking searches out of context - you assume the person is asking a legitimate question when it could mean a number of other things.
Me:
what is the
Google:
date today
meaning of life
population of Canada
name of bo and luke dukes 69 dodge charger in the tv series the dukes of hazzard
population of the world
sum of days in a week months in a year hours in a day
largest city in canada
canadian dollar worth
best laptop
capital of california
I don't know how their system works, but I don't think it's based on actual searches that people have done. I mean, how many people who google for the name of the Dukes' car would actually type a full sentence like that?
Another one I just tried:
Me:
what's worse than
Google:
a pile of dead babies
http://answers.yahoo.com/
and the end all most awesome/ most depressing question ever asked there:
"how is babby formed, how girl get pragnent"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Reminds me of the "thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters" thought experiment.
As a side note, I think that this confirms my pet theory concerning time travel: any attempt to do it will change the past, which changes the conditions of the travel slightly, which changes the past, and so on, until the travel never occurs and the past stops changing. In other words, a spacetime where time travel happens is unstable and decays into one where it won't. Quantum uncertainty would, in this interpretation, be there to allow causality to "stretch" enough to allow such decay; a hypothethical universe without quantum uncertainty but with sentience and time travel (which is an inevitable outcome of the Theory of Relativity, which in turn is an inevitable outcome from the laws of physics being the same for all observers) would tear itself apart. You can thus deduct the Uncertainty Principle from the Anthropic Principle (we are here, so this universe must be able to support sentient life).
I wonder if you could calculate the minimum required amount of uncertainty for spacetime to stay consistent, and how it would relate to observed/otherwise calculated values? Assume that the first singularity formed at t=0, and has been moving infinitely close to lightspeed ever since, and connects to every other time period through a wormhole, and go from there. The math is beyond me, does anyone else care to try?
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How can I nail...
I expected Google to suggest, "a hot chick." at minimum, but instead it suggested nothing.
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Of this piece is the same issue that plagues the "Dear God, look at Yahoo Answers, and weep for humanity" articles.
Obviously, the internet is, in fact, filled with fucktards; but it is also full of people searching for jokes, people trolling for the lulz, satire, google bombing, etc. Without reasonably solid statistics munching, you can't really say whether a given query is common because people are searching for it in seriousness, in jest, because they are mocking the people who were searching for it seriously, etc, etc.
We typed: 'Why can't...'
Google suggests: '...black people swim?'
Answer: There is no answer to this question. It's demented to even ask it.
In fact, not quite so stupid, black people can swim, just not as well as white people, and it is all due to average density and skeleton formation.
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So there is an weird and funny effect here. Apparently a lot of the google suggestions are funny and it may be because when people search for something and something else comes up which is funny, they wanna go look at it. This way the funny result keeps climbing the rankings. At some point the result for what are these strawberries doing on my nipples was not the number 1 result, but it seems funny and so people end up clicking on it and this is how its become number 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/3558343796/ Case closed.
Since when is it now laughable or stupid to ask questions to relieve oneself of ignorance? I'd say it's stupid to want to stay ignorant.
Basing your actions entirely on one or two less than credible sources might be stupid. I wouldn't put peroxide in my ear for instance without making sure I had plenty of credible sources to back that action. However asking the question on a search engine which might lead me to such credible sources is anything but stupid.
Whoever came up with this tripe is the one that's stupid. We don't need to praise willful ignorance, when knowledge is just a google query away...
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Why wont my parakeet eat my diarrhea
Ow... my head.
Search: I am One of the suggestions: "I am extremely terrified of chinese people"
Seems like slashdot is becoming a place for morons to post all kinds of stuff here!!!
Because they got sk1ll5, and you are a n00b.
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Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
WHY can't I own a Canadian? Or at least lease one for a year?
Because Canada's right wing sob (son of bush) douchebag Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs a majority government to get that bill passed. He just needs to fool a few more voters into thinking he's not the anti-christ and we should be go on that.
Anything can seem disturbing when taken out of context.
Why can't a pregnancy test be negative? It's called pregnancy test for a reason, not "Still a Whore" test.
Everyone knows the holiday Easter came from the three wise-men scouring the desert looking for the egg of Jesus.
So I tried a few of the searches myself, I wanted to see what these pages actually said. After reading the article here, I found myself in a world of hilarity. The web is an interesting place.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
Google may be the only immediately available source of information someone can get to. The author of this article obviously had nothing to do but sit and play with the suggestion feature and figured he could burn a work day with an article to justify how he wasn't actually wasting his time. If someone is having problems with chest pains, you can imagine they are getting scared, but it's not like they know exactly what a heart attack is supposed to feel like so they don't want to take action in case they're wrong. Someone who doesn't have insurance for example, should definitely check google for possible symptoms. Obviously if the case were serious enough, you probably would just go to the hospital regardless. However, many cases of heart attack patients actually turn out to be heartburn or acid reflux. The same goes for the "Am I going into labor" question. Instances of women getting pregnant is rare, but happens much more often than you'd think. The experience of going into labor would be extremely frightening if you had not been expecting it or learning about it several months in advance. The article seems to be written with an elitist point of view with no actual insight towards real world situations that would bring these searches about. Granted, there are definitely some listed that are stupid, the author could have done a better job finding far, far better examples. Like, "why is there a dead pakistani on my couch?" Although, perhaps if there was one on my couch, I may ask the same question.
Pindostani as a personal assistant for one year? The question, obviously, presumes that Pindostanis are capable of working.
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You can't own a Canadian because we're an extremely well-bred population here in Canada. We can't just sell ourselves to any dirty foreigner who offers us money! Especially Americans.
Unfortunately, most nations these days are hardly civil enough to own Canadians. It's really quite disgusting. We had high hopes for our ownership by the United Kingdom at one time, you know, but then they had to go and declare us an independent country... such a disaster. The politicians were really quite depressed about that one.
Personally, I'm holding out for an advanced alien race to arrive for all our purchasing needs. I just hope they aren't the human-eating kind, as most Canadians would prefer to be part of a long term investment, not a short meal.
We typed: 'Am I going...'
Google suggests: '...into labour?'
Answer: There's an easy and reliable way to test. Is there a brand-new human poking out of your lower body? If yes, then congratulations, you're going into labour. More accurately, you're already in it.
I'm amazed that these guys make fun of a question, act like wiseasses who know the answer, yet did not read the results of the search! The early stages of labor can start DAYS before birth, and false labor is very common.
How the fuck is "am I having a heart attack?" a stupid question to google? Many people are far too shy to inconvenience a doctor or dial the emergency services if they are unsure they are sick. Old people brought up with different values especially (at least here in Britain). No doubt at least a handufl of lives have been saved by this question.
To me googling something seems like the perfect way to ask a dumb question you are not quite 100% sure about or embarassed to ask. Is the internet despite its anonymity now just another place in society we have to wear a veneer of perfection and infallibility?
I assume the writer of the article knows the answer to every single rudimenary question that could possibly be asked?
It's no longer the case, but in the first few days of Bing, typing in "Microsoft Sucks" would suggest "Microsoft success stories"
OK, this is kind of dumb. As others point out, most of these questions have reasonable explanations. But I think this (http://i.imgur.com/EYY9.png) is actually interesting.
The way someone words his question appears to be correlated to how educated the question actually is.
One of the sites I like to look at from time to time is a blog of webmasters who post some of the more bizarre search requests that have led people to their sites. A recent one: "masturbate with armor all". http://www.disturbingsearchrequests.com/
I own a Canadian. Cost me everything I have, and everything I ever will have. Worth every penny.
However, independent observers may conclude she owns me. ...sorry, gotta run, being paged...
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
FTFA: "Why would a little girl in Yorkshire think Jesus was born in an egg?"
Raptor Jesus meme has finally gone mainstream?
Thanks for that link. It is fantastic.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Google's auto-complete is a great source of idle amusement. Just type in "Why does" and peruse the questions from people whose vote counts just as much as yours in every election. (My favorite is "Why does my vag smell". Something about the slang term used... it's just... I dunno).
In fact, in the category of typing just part of a phrase and letting it take you where it will, I'd have to say that typing "why does" or "how does" into google comes in second only to typing in "goes wrong" in YouTube.
But to answer your original question about what it tells us about humanity: It tells us that most of them are pretty dumb.
There are probably some other questions where you can swap a gender pronoun and see similar differences.
Although the article seems to suggest we are all complete idiots, it does highlight something that the author was too stupid to pick up on (or simply chose to ignore).
These are all questions that might be embarrassing to ask another human. It is far easier to ask a non-judgmental computer such questions then run the risk of humiliation by one's peers.
As a tool designed to provide knowledge, it does precisely that, and does so without ignoring those "grey areas"...subjects that might be socially taboo or something to that effect.
In short, it answers questions that otherwise might not even be asked due to social pressures.
Sure, some of us are stupid, but the real problem is that the rest are judgmental jerks.
Ok, I suppose I should have realized this is Idle so your results may vary, but I was hoping for some actually interestingly-strange questions. What we got was a list of, yes, some strange questions, but then a bunch of not-strange questions that the author was trying to be funny about. I don't know. Did I miss something? I actually spent time reading TFA thinking it was going to get funny.
I will shred my adversaries. Pull their eyes out just enough to turn them towards their mewing, mutilated faces. Illyria
... a proctoscope as a tube with an a$$hole on each end. It's applicable to the process that created this article
Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
Shouldn't this be modded informative?
So why is this Digg shit showing up on the front page?
Serious question.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Google suggest phrases combed from other websites (with fairly high pagerank) and not some 'best of' type questions people are typing directly into the google search box? If so, it's *other* websites, not google which are getting (and presumably answering) these questions, and the article is misleading about them being "popular searches".
I believe it was the great pastor William Renick had the Idea that if angels having wings they must, therefore, have feathers. In many faiths, Jesus would have been of the highest choir of angels and would have wings as well. If he had feathers, he would be part avian and part man. Avian species come from eggs. With this bit of logic I would say that Sweet Feathery Jesus was born in a egg.
Either that or he is one of those aliens from Ork that travel in a giant egg.
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At Google there is this giant projection on a wall of random current searches, favourite query so far "my period is 2 months late, what is wrong?"
Also the "Why can't black people swim" one.
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A WebKit-based browser will allow you to resize the text box.
So, the last batch of suggestions: is it legal for a Scotsman to marry his widow's sister? Wouldn't that be kind of hard, you know, because he's DEAD? How else would he have a widow...?? (did the author's miss a joke?)
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine -- Robert C. Gallagher
Maybe God jused used a date-rape drug on her.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
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As far as I know, Gideon International, famous for their distribution of bibles, only distribute the New Testament. Not sure what the reason is, but I am sure efficiency plays a big role if you are going to distribute more than 1,5 billion copies...
Firehed - Unfortunately, thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was.
404 lulz not found..
I think the author thinks of himself as more humorous than he really is.
I mean, that's a question I have asked repeatedly over the years.
I've always wanted my very own Canadian, and I'm not particular, as long as she has great tits! (And once again, size doesn't matter as long as they are natural!)
Geez......
www.stereotypefinder.com - a buddy and I wrote this back in the day to take advantage of google's "auto complete" search queries. The numbers correspond to the # of websites that will answer the query.
..."Why are there school"
Do yourself a favor and type "engineers are"
I'm still laughing. Also, this may have become my new hobby.
I wonder why they didn't bother to check what Google had to offer as links for the mentioned searches, or why they didn't tell us. Surely they must have felt great to find out how smart they are, or do they want to give us something we can feel smart about.
Do the authors maybe even want to make us feel superior over the typical CNet journalist?
Also, why should we follow their eclectic mix of links? Maybe they were offered money for our eyeballs and didn't know how to get our attention other than through our intellectual vanity (darn safe bet).
Anyway, my mind boggles. Do you have any better ideas?
Je me souviens.
Nobel prize winning Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore quipped..."whatever you think of India is true, and its opposite."
Tat Tvam Asi
but it also means those that want to mock Judeo-Christian beliefs can't uphold the silliness contained within the 613 Mitzvot either.
Point taken. I will instead mock Judeo-Christian beliefs on the sheer lack of evidence of the existence of divine beings, the inability to demonstrate miracles, and the similarity of their beliefs to fairy-tales.
And I will mock their insistence on the importance of faith by pointing out that Christians do not actually put their faith in God, but rather in the things that other humans say about God, and hence they are really just putting their faith in other humans (or, more specifically, human reason, which is the very thing they decry as being unworthy of faith).
I just can't believe "How to kill..." doesn't return any suggestion!
Why can't i see my reflection in the mirror on a television?
Are you f'n *kidding* me? People are asking this question? Wow...just wow. I don't know what's sadder, the stupidity of people or the fact that I haven't been able to find a way to get rich off of these stupid people.
...my poop green?
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I see a few amazing ones, but I don't get what's amazing about "Can you put peroxide in your ear?" I do it all the time. It makes perfect sense. *shrug* of course, calling people stupid has never made sense to me. The adage "There's no such thing as a stupid question" applies here very nicely...
If you type in "why is" one of the first suggestions is "why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?"
I just poked my head in the living room. It's actually a pretty good question.
The question is talking about the Labour Party in England.
how to
- tie a tie
- kiss
- get pregnant
- lose weight
- lose weight fast
"but if" has nice suggestions as well
'Suck' is not an adjective. Perhaps if you'd learned to write you'd not be living in a cardboard box.
I played around with Google's auto-complete feature for a while one day and what I discovered was that the most common topic that I kept running into was pregnancy. How does one know they are, how does it happen, how do you know when you are not, what do you do if it happens. These questions seem to be a major concern.
You'd think that for something that has occurred more than 6 billion time in just modern times, the phenomenon would be far better understood. Apparently sex education is woefully lacking.
Strangely, I never had auto-completion suggest something like "how to be abstinent".
It's not necessarily an obvious question. There is the issue of dilution. The peroxide you get at the drug store to put on cuts might be fine, but I'd definitely be cautious about putting concentrated H2O2 as found in lab stocks, rocket fuel, and hair salons anywhere near the thin membrane and small bones that allow me to hear and walk upright.
http://www.heavy.com/post/google-hates-everyone-810 - A bunch of Google suggestions for the various races, nationalities and ethnic groups.
The question isn't why can't you own a Candadian. The question is why would you want to.
"Everyone knows that Jesus was born to Mary after she immaculately conceived him by receiving God's seed somehow."
Whilst simultaneously being of the line of David.........Work that one out.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Here's the guy (mister_playboy) that does it... he forgot to hit the anon button a while back... what's the point?
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1391719&cid=29633239
If you can read this... 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011
I know you're joking, but as a public information service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_conception Not what you seem to think.
Not really funny at all, since it's all BS.
Just something I learned today. Try what google suggest gives with these prefixes:
- how do i get my
- why does my
And continue with words such as sister, mom, dad, girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, dog, cat, ..
Could it be that we often repeat repeat ourselves in midsentence?
If you post it, they will read.
Right on. Asking Google an embarassing question is far easier for most people than asking their friends or peers (or even random strangers).
Why is the peroxide one weird? The 3% solution at the drug store is commonly used for removing excess or clogged ear wax. They even have inexpensive plastic ear syringes to do it yourself. I've done it a couple times. Works like a charm.
Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
An egg. LOL.
Moron.
An egg. LOL.
Mormon.
Fixed it for you.
The subject is all I have to say.
read the label on those cute little bottle that you can buy in the pharmacy.
turn your head so that the effected ear is pointing up, squirt in the dilute peroxide, listen to the foaming sound of peroxide dissolving wax, tilt head over and flush with water.
humanity is...
humanity is the devil
humanity is a virus
humanity is overrated
humanity is doomed
humanity is the devil lyrics
humanity is a parade of fools
humanity is the devil blogspot
humanity is a cancer
humanity is an ocean
humanity is good
humans are ...
humans are dead
humans are dead lyrics
humans are aliens
humans are omnivores
humans are a virus
humans are inherently evil
humans are apes
humans are mammals
humans are carnivores
humans are herbivores
to be human ....
to be human is to err
mankind is ....
mankind is obsolete
mankind is no island
mankind is your mask
mankind is obsolete lyrics
mankind is obsolete torrent
mankind is your mask achievement
mankind is my business
mankind is doomed
mankind is obsolete myspace
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cnet is ....
Google suggests: cnet is down
google is.....
google is going to takeover the world
google is skynet
google is your friend
google is watching you
google is hiring at home workers
google is making us stupid
google is a number
google is broken
Other fun things to try: windows is... (Hint: the first suggestion is an error message)
vista is.... (first suggestion is slow)
windows 7 is ...
linux is.....
...
linux is better than windows
linux is distributed by several different companies whose versions of linux are sometimes called
linux is illegal
I suppose google suggest is not to be trusted (EG)
It's a legitimate question. I saw the VMAs. All I'm saying is if they could hide that many blood packs in her costume, they cold hide a dick.
FTFA: "Why would a little girl in Yorkshire think Jesus was born in an egg?"
HAHA. What a stupid little girl. Everyone knows that Jesus was born to Mary after she immaculately conceived him by receiving God's seed somehow.
An egg. LOL.
Moron.
Nah, God and Mary had sex, God just wasn't big enough to break her hymen.
"a Canadian" is a Molson's Candian Lager Beer. I suppose you could own as many as you could afford.
Do what is right. You will please some and astonish the rest. --Mark Twain
It almost makes you wonder if there are other cases where less than full sentences taken out of context might be misconstrued.
I put peroxide in my ear. Seriously. It fizzes too, which means its eating up some organic matter. Which makes me warm and happy inside.
The stupidity of the article may not suggest much about humanity in general, but it certainly suggests why the mainstream media is losing out to Google.
Another 30 seconds of research on the part of this author could have made it a much more interesting article. But instead of using a braincell, he went for shock value and FAIL.
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That's a good one. Thanks.
Help I'm a rock.
Years ago, I worked for a natural language based search engine start-up, and the most frequent question was "sex". Yes, just three letters. Every day again. We also had a dedicated search engine for a bank, where clients could ask banking related questions. And even there people typed "sex", although it wasn't the most frequent question.
So I wonder, what did Google do to filter out the questions that I would expect most? Or did anyone ever encounter anything stronger than "make a baby"?
Dude, my nigger drowned. WTF?
In french:
Me: est-ce que... ... Google nous rend idiot?
Google:
(Does... Google make us stupid?)
> It's disappointing to many that the New Testament doesn't explicitly say "Free all your slaves"
But that'll be silly. If ALL the slaves were freed where would they go? How many slaves owned land to sow crops, and have places to stay and do business in? Many of the freed slaves would have to sell themselves as slaves to get food and shelter. Whoopee.
I'm sure not all the masters were that rich to give enough property to each and every one of their slaves so that all slaves and masters could survive independently.
So I think Paul did the right thing - tell masters and slaves to treat each other well see Eph 6:5-6. And leave it to them to figure out what should then best be done given the circumstances.
Sure it doesn't seem wonderful, but you have to consider the full implications before writing stuff that you expect everyone to try to follow and follow for a long time.
I find that most people who make fun of stuff in the Bible don't actually use their brains. They just go about looking for the slightest excuse to mock or ridicule it. They're not really trying to understand things, and how things were in the "bad old days". So it's usually a waste of time talking with them.
Good luck trying to get the Assyrians and Enemies together to sign something like the "Geneva Convention". Or abolish slavery, or the popular practice of genocide. Yes that's right, if you were a young guy caught in war, the typically the only way you're going to _live_ is as a slave. In later ages, victors probably found that taking massive numbers of personal slaves didn't scale and didn't help the economy, so they just "enslaved" your country and made it pay tribute, supply resources (slaves, soldiers, money, food etc). But when nations were smaller, killing thousands and taking the rest home as slaves was doable.
Bootstrapping a computer is a process that involves messy compromises. Bootstrapping humanity and human civilizations, cultures, societies and norms, is unlikely to be so easy and "obviously clean" either.
the real issue here is the average person's ability to form a sentence. (or lack thereof). formulating thoughts into cohesive constructive bits of language has obviously lost priority to more important things (like bong hits and xbox)
A couple years ago while looking at my apache logs, I noticed some ridiculous searches. And indeed, after doing a quick grep "^who|^what|^when|^how" I was able to compile a pretty damning selection of searches. I should do it again.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
I always see what people "define". Type in "define" and the first suggestion is "define love". The rest are usually interesting- during the 2008 elections, I got "define maverick", "define socialism", etc. I've also see "define god" etc.
From LOST, Hurley's mom says "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?" when Hurley brings an injured Sayid to their home.
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
Two of the ones I tried seemed very bizarre at first, but when I actually followed the link, they made sense. ... these strawberries doing on my nipples, I need them for my fruit salad ... there a dead pakistani on my couch
What are
It's a book.
Why is
Something to do with "Lost."
I would like to point out that going into labor is not very clear cut, and using peroxide in your ear is a common method to help loosen wax buildup. You can also gargle with it (peroxide, not ear wax).
Leinster foresaw this only 63 years ago. Go look it up; it's a good and amazingly prescient story.
First I did not attribute who prevented ownership only why ownership was not possible. However a lot of those involved in the fighting on the British side were Canadians. True back then Canadian was not a separate nationality but the concept of Canadian still existed. Although I am British, I regard myself as a Yorkshireman since that is where I am originally from despite "Yorkshire" not being a nationality (yet!).