Race and culture are two different things. Culture often follows racial lines, but it's not race itself that causes that, it's the belief that race defines who you are as a person.
You show me "black culture" and I'll show you an army of black people that hate BET.
I used to be religious. I'm not anymore. Having been on both sides of the fence, I'd say that atheists don't really have much room to talk about theists' shortcomings. We're all human.
Very true. The real reason atheists get so pissed off, though? No holidays.
...it seems there's some Ayn Randian lesson there about the trouble with ruling honest people...
And then before you know it you're chasing after little girls with huge syringes that are protected by big dudes in diving suits with drills for arms. Slippery slope.
The AP classes at my school were notorious for being harder than (undergraduate) college level. Now that I'm in college myself, I've seen it's totally true. Those were some crazy freaking classes.
It even has fucking SONGS in it. God, anything but songs. They ruin any decent fantasy novel. Tolkien certainly didn't bother with any of that crap... oh wait.
Isn't it just a TAD ironic to complain about a Tolkien-derivative fantasy novel having songs?
And as someone who owns a 18-bits per pixel monitor, trust me, you can tell when working with static imagery. Maybe not when playing games or playing movies, but you can tell. Ironically, I first noticed the dithering effect when I was playing a first-person shooter in Boot Camp, not when I was doing image work. I thought I was imagining things (or that it was D3D doing the dithering) until I saw this article. The game was definitely running in 24bit color without dithering. Not cool at all.
In the US, we now spend a smaller percentage of our incomes on food than at any point in history. 2006 figures show that percentage to be 9.5%.
The problem, of course, is that people outside of the US are involved in the production of that food as well. Just because Americans work less to eat, doesn't mean that's true of everybody across the globe. Somebody always ends up feeling the pinch.
The last time I visited Chernobyl, it was a radioactive wasteland full of mutant dogs, crazed boars, and weird headless things running amok. What a nightmare.
Thank god I had my AK47, a case worth of Vodka, and an endless supply of metal bolts.
I have PTSD as a result of child abuse. I am always extremely self-conscious and paranoid around crowds, and especially around men who have authority. I wouldn't be surprised if I was a false positive every time I stepped foot inside an airport that staffs these guys.
This kind of "security" is completely uncalled for. Every new step they take in trying to increase airport security does one thing and one thing only: increase the *illusion* that we're safer, all the while creating unneeded hassle for ordinary people who just want to get on the freaking plane already.
"Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear" only applies if your government is 100% trustworthy, and has the best interest of ALL its citizens in mind. Is ANY government or authoritarian body in the *world* worthy of implicit trust? I don't think so.
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If you haven't heard of this game, then you're not paying attention. PS. If you do try it, spend the money. It's worth it.
That is, unless you take hormones or get a hormone imbalance. Then your scent can change dramatically.
This is like a lottery ticket for people who are both suicidal and seriously lazy.
Can I choose which words replace which swear words? Because that'd be funny as [the Mormon Tabernacle Choir].
Race and culture are two different things. Culture often follows racial lines, but it's not race itself that causes that, it's the belief that race defines who you are as a person. You show me "black culture" and I'll show you an army of black people that hate BET.
I used to be religious. I'm not anymore. Having been on both sides of the fence, I'd say that atheists don't really have much room to talk about theists' shortcomings. We're all human.
Very true. The real reason atheists get so pissed off, though? No holidays.
Because they are defrauding Google, Spamming US citizens and generally running a muck. That's what jails for for.
Way to hate on multi user chat kingdoms.
...it seems there's some Ayn Randian lesson there about the trouble with ruling honest people...
And then before you know it you're chasing after little girls with huge syringes that are protected by big dudes in diving suits with drills for arms. Slippery slope.
Really? Congress seems to be in a coma these days. Or the members could all go into one and nobody'd notice.
Your AP history class was very different than mine, then. Consider yourself lucky.
but classes like AP history are more like tangential trivia
It's true. AP history should be renamed "AP Jeopardy Prep". It's nothing but memorizing names and dates.
The AP classes at my school were notorious for being harder than (undergraduate) college level. Now that I'm in college myself, I've seen it's totally true. Those were some crazy freaking classes.
Isn't it just a TAD ironic to complain about a Tolkien-derivative fantasy novel having songs?
If there are any problems with the NSF, I'm sure Paul and JC Denton will take care of it.
In the US, we now spend a smaller percentage of our incomes on food than at any point in history. 2006 figures show that percentage to be 9.5%. The problem, of course, is that people outside of the US are involved in the production of that food as well. Just because Americans work less to eat, doesn't mean that's true of everybody across the globe. Somebody always ends up feeling the pinch.
Well, there's always cannibalism...
That news story is obviously a fabrication.
The last time I visited Chernobyl, it was a radioactive wasteland full of mutant dogs, crazed boars, and weird headless things running amok. What a nightmare.
Thank god I had my AK47, a case worth of Vodka, and an endless supply of metal bolts.
That's assuming that this is a personal trip, not business, and that I have a choice in the matter. Lots and lots of assumptions going on!
I'll just drive to Japan, then.
The entire article is about improving an ALREADY EXISTING security structure. There is no infringement here.
Of course not. They took care of the infringement YEARS ago. Now they're just improving it.
I have PTSD as a result of child abuse. I am always extremely self-conscious and paranoid around crowds, and especially around men who have authority. I wouldn't be surprised if I was a false positive every time I stepped foot inside an airport that staffs these guys. This kind of "security" is completely uncalled for. Every new step they take in trying to increase airport security does one thing and one thing only: increase the *illusion* that we're safer, all the while creating unneeded hassle for ordinary people who just want to get on the freaking plane already. "Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear" only applies if your government is 100% trustworthy, and has the best interest of ALL its citizens in mind. Is ANY government or authoritarian body in the *world* worthy of implicit trust? I don't think so.
Sounds like Punk Rock Hero to me!
Maybe they could throw some online dating site ads into CounterStrike as a humanitarian effort.
...a way around having to write better AI?